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" Have you all checked out Babble.com? It&amp;amp;#8217;s Nerve.com&amp;amp;#8217;s baby. Nerve is geared to, er, sex, and Babble to, coo, babies&amp;amp;#8212;they go hand in hand, ay? I started reading Babble.com when I was about two months prego and I never stopped reading Nerve.com&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;amp;#8217;s smart, sexy, entertaining smut&amp;amp;#8212;the kind you can read in your cubicle at work (on your lunch break) without feeling dirty. Anyway, back to Babble. Last night while JD was making weird faces and baby bubbles were collecting on his bottom lip I caught up with Babble.com. A little self-promo here, Babble likes me, check it out. Seriously though, I loved them before they loved me, and now I am even more obsessed with the website. Check out, Fatherless Brooklyn By Jean Railla, Why today&amp;amp;#8217;s women are choosing to have babies alone. I found this excerpt interesting: In 2004, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, 36% of babies in the United States were born to unwed mothers. In cities like New York, the number is close to 50%. A significant percentage of these single moms were not stereotypical disadvantaged teenagers (for whom child-raising would be a deep financial burden) or high-powered executives (who could easily absorb child-care and other costs), but rather typical middle-class working women. This new breed of single moms make their decision to have children neither as a grand political statement nor as a last resort, but because they don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to miss out on the emotional experience of giving birth and raising children. It got me thinking, I&amp;amp;#8217;m a typical middle-class working woman. I chose to have my baby because I wanted to be a mother by or around age thirty&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;amp;#8217;ll be 27 next month. I wanted the experience of holding a brand-new shivering baby still gooey and blue from the womb. I wanted my tee shirts to smell like my infant&amp;amp;#8212;all warm and milky. I wanted this most incredible experience and no, I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t want it all to myself, but that&amp;amp;#8217;s how it ended up happening. I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t think I wanted the experience at twenty-six when I was BAM, in the middle of an amazing career, carefree life in NYC&amp;amp;#8230;I wanted to keep on traveling with friends, keep on drinking top shelf bottles at fancy events where rubbing shoulders with celebs isn&amp;amp;#8217;t random but a reality! Seriously though, my career is still h-o-t, my life in NYC transitioned to a life in NJ with a great sidekick and as for celebs&amp;amp;#8212;I really want to have a playdate with Bridge Moynahan (Glamour editors&amp;amp;#8212;hook us up!) See, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve adapted. I relate to Angie in the piece when she talks about financial hardships. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not easy (remember, SD told the lawyers he wanted NOTHING to do with his son, so I say, the hell with your money&amp;amp;#8212;I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want it!), but I manage. I budget and I don&amp;amp;#8217;t buy boots for $400 anymore, but thankfully my Cole Haans from last Fall are in pretty good shape and I&amp;amp;#8217;ll be rocking them again this Fall. But, it&amp;amp;#8217;s funny, they don&amp;amp;#8217;t even suit me anymore. I spend most of my days in socks and leggings with dried baby mush all over em and it&amp;amp;#8217;s cool. I know I seemed like a bit of a label whore in the beginning posts and God knows my Gucci diaper bag is pretty hot, but it&amp;amp;#8217;s all BS&amp;amp;#8212;the only thing that really matters is my healthy baby boy and his happiness. I can&amp;amp;#8217;t remember who I said this to, but I recall saying: If there&amp;amp;#8217;s formula in my kitchen, diapers in the bathroom and clothes on JD I&amp;amp;#8217;m as rich as I need to be. This kid has really changed me and I love him for it. I mean, I&amp;amp;#8217;m currently in wacky pink leg-warmers, black flip-flops, some cut off grey sweats and a chunky sweater. I also have a pacifier around my pointer finger&amp;amp;#8230;and I can&amp;amp;#8217;t wait to wrap up here and make some laugh-inducing raspberries on his belly. So, check out the Babble piece&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;amp;#8217;s full of goodness and let&amp;amp;#8217;s open it up for some TGIF conversation. Have a great weekend! We&amp;amp;#8217;re going to the park on Saturday! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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