My husband is a stem cell research scientist, and people always find this impressive. And yes, I definitely find myself bragging about it whenever everyone else is talking about their husbands' work in private equity or whatever. But secretly I find most topics around stem cell research to be kind of boring, or at least too esoteric to enjoy in my current sleep-deprived state. Unless of course
autism
Older Dads More Likely to Have Autistic Kids
It's hard to not worry about autism as a parent or potential parent. When I was pregnant in 2009, one in 120 kids was on the autism spectrum; earlier this month, we learned that this number has jumped to one in 88. Autism is particularly rampant in boys (affecting roughly one in 50). Is my baby "on the spectrum"? When Felix was a newborn, I wondered why he didn't gaze at me the way all the books