Hannah Loewentheil

"It used to be for the masses — but now is totally out of reach for most people."

"My sister-in-law — who is pregnant for the first time — said it about my kids."

"It's very simple, but the number of people who don't realize you can do it is wild."

"Turns out I had a small scratch on the front of my scalp. That's it. I scratched my head and got an infection that would have killed me had I ignored it for too long or had I lived 75 years ago."

"A friend of mine is in a dual-income-no-kids relationship and does what he calls 'star collection.' If I were rich, I'd do this too.

"I was in the US the first time ever a couple of weeks ago and it blew my mind. I wish I could have brought some back home with me."

"Nobody tells you how hard the early days will be. It's OK if you feel this way. It doesn't make you a bad mom."

"It's the devil's vegetable. It's in SO many things, but I'll taste it and spit it out every single time."

"At Target we have a 'code yellow' for missing kids. When it happens, the whole team drops what they are doing and we all help. Usually, the child is found within minutes. In one case, on a slow night, the missing boy (ten years old), could not be found. The parent was frantic and getting more frantic. 'Would he have gone to the car on his own?' I asked. This question got me screamed at. 'He would never. He's been kidnapped, and you're not taking things seriously,' the parent said. Turns out, he had gone out to the car on his own."

"This was almost always my parents' reaction when I told the truth, so their behavior taught me to keep secrets and tell lies."