Jessica Delfino
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New York, NY, United States
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I Just Had A Baby At 46, And It Was Freaking Awesome
"When I was searching for encouragement and answers, I found so much doom and gloom." → Read More
How To Use CBD In All Your Holiday Anxiety Baking
Are you baking to cope with anxiety? You're not alone. Here's how to incorporate CBD into your pandemic-inspired creations. → Read More
When Times Get Tough, The Tough Gets Funny: Here Are 42(0) Weed Jokes
"How much weed does it take to help moms and dads relax when the kids are quarantined from school?" → Read More
The Fellowship of the Ring Finders
A website connects people who have misplaced their rings with metal detectorists who know where to look. → Read More
Do Women Really 'Forget' the Pain of Childbirth? Because I Sure Didn’t
Anecdotally, many women report not being able to recall the actual pain of their birth experiences in detail after the fact—so SELF explored why that might be. → Read More
Remembering a Miscarriage: How 9 Women Commemorated Their Pregnancy Losses
Writer and comedian Jessica Delfino asked women how they remembered their pregnancy losses, and how she commemorated her own. → Read More
9 Incredible C-Section Stories—and the Scars That Go With Them
Writer Jessica Delfino and her husband, photographer Alex. M. Smith, interviewed and photographed real women to showcase their C-section experiences. → Read More
I Had A Baby At 40, And It Was Awesome
One doctor had the gall to call me a “geriatric mother.” I wanted to punch him in his kidney. I think he could tell, because he followed up with, “I know... → Read More
Baby's Fingernails: A Guide on How to Clip Them in 300 Steps
A baby's fingernails can double as a weapon if left uncut, but how exactly are you supposed to trim those little suckers? Just follow these steps! → Read More
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Is your birthday coming up? Stoners always know how to throw fun parties, bake wonderful birthday treats and are especially down for high times! Several fun ways to incorporate marijuana into your special day include: infused birthday cakes (you can’t buy those at the grocery store—YET!), blowing pot smoke into balloons and letting people shotgun them, arts and crafts as party games, nature… → Read More
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We’ve been basically inundated with a number of intense storms in what some are calling an unprecedented and record-breaking hurricane season. Seems like a pot-portunity if you ask me—one to smoke, consume or vape record-breaking amounts of weed. Let’s face it, like 3-D movies, most storms are better experienced high. As long as you’re in a safe place, it’ll help you sleep, calm nerves and, duh,… → Read More
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What kind of stoner are you? Do you get high and then go to work? Or get high at work? Or get high immediately after work? Or get high and call out of work? Wow, turns out there are so many options. Have you ever been called out for being stoned at work by your boss? Or worse, fired for showing up to work stoned? Tweet your worst “stoned at work” story with hashtag #StonedAtWork and let’s see… → Read More
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It’s back to school season, that time once again to return to end-of-summer high; to get blazed one final afternoon while the days are still long and warm, and before we head face-first fast into fall. Do you have a favorite late-summer spot to indulge in your kindest of kind bud? Will you have to get your shit together for autumn and maybe can’t get high again for a bit? Or will September be a… → Read More
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People got high and watched the eclipse.Well, what did you expect them to do, watch it sober? Weed is like peanut butter to the world’s various forms of jelly, including any and all celestial events—eclipses of the century, meteor showers, definitely close calls with asteroids. Did you get high and watch? Wait, don’t tell me—I’ll just go read your Twitter feed and find out myself. Here is this… → Read More
Healthy Food for Breastfeeding That Keeps Milk Supply and You Happy
If you're breastfeeding you have to keep your food up to keep your milk and well you're hungry. Here are some options for healthy food for breastfeeding. → Read More
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It’s pretty incredible what you can find on Twitter, which is one of the reasons I love it so much. A quick perusal will offer artwork, music, jokes, poetry, photography, thoughts, information, news, recipes, charts, memes, even the president unraveling. I mean, you can pretty much find anything on Twitter, often without really looking too hard. This is what happened when I searched the hashtag… → Read More
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What pairs better than weed with a fine wine? Are there sommeliers yet who have made it their business to match the perfect chardonnay with the dankest sativa? When I used to drink and smoke back in the day, I never knew how to balance the right amount of pot and the right amount of weed, and I’d just end up getting the stupid god-awful spins. Now, I know to combat the spins: you should lie down… → Read More
Pregnancy Pillow, a Letter of Love From Me to You, Boppy
I had no idea how much I would grow to need and love my pregnancy pillow, but Boppy is still one of my most loved treasures today. → Read More
Mothers-in-Law Attack and This Is How You Defend Yourself
Mothers-in-law can be scary, but before you find yourself in front of one, learn how to defend yourself from their attacks. → Read More
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To be or not to be… stoned? Are high people into Shakespeare? I bet they are. I mean like, not en masse. But to generalize, the Shakespeare kids were the good kids in school—the ones who brought teachers gifts and did volunteer work by choice, or to bolster their resumes, not because it was a way to get out of study hall. They didn’t seem likely to fall down the rabbit hole into Alice’s weed… → Read More