Of all the weird debates parents get into, the one over little girls breastfeeding their baby dolls is always sure to get heated. AND always sure to leave me wringing my hands. Alert the media! Call out the National Guard! You guuuuuuys, it's time to freak out!

Or not. You know, we could just be rational about this.

Monday was my 7-year-old's last day of first grade, and yet last Friday was a prescheduled no school day. I've never quite been able to understand the logic behind non-holiday-related no-school days, all I know is there sure are a lot of them. Inservice days, professional development days, budget reduction days, grading days, conference days. I read somewhere that here in Oregon, there are something like 175 school days in the year.

Most parents, however, have 250 working days. That's a pretty big gap that has to be covered in some way, not to mention the days when kids are too sick for school. Add in classroom events, after school sports, doctor's appointments, and various other extracurricular activities, and here's what I'm coming to realize: I don't think I'm ever going back to work full time. And honestly? I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Never ones to be outdone, Beyonce and Jay-Z gifted Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's unborn baby a crystal-encrusted chair. An expensive, flashy crystal-encrusted chair that will soon be a crystal-poop-spitup-and-pureed-squash-encrusted chair. Bey and Jay apparently have one for their daughter, Blue Ivy (natch) -- which is why I'm surprised they gave one to Kim and Kanye.

As much as we're all dying to see them, it doesn't sound like we'll be viewing Kristen Bell's baby photos anytime soon. (What a bummer.)

Unlike other celebrities, she and her baby daddy Dax Shepard have opted against putting their precious little Lincoln's image out there for the world to see. For now, they're keeping her all to themselves, and their reasoning for doing so not only makes total sense -- but it also may make you think twice about how much of your baby you're willing to show off.

Another day, another study on the benefits of breastfeeding released. New research from Brown University has shown that breast milk boosts brain development in babies by up to 30 percent. Babes who are exclusively breastfed for at least three months apparently can have extra growth in the parts of the brain that control language, emotion, and understanding.

Scientists took brain scans of the babies who had been fed a diet of breast milk from very early on and compared them with those who had been fed formula. The results showed that babies fed breast milk alone had the quickest growth in the tissues packed with nerve fibers that link different parts of the brain that are used for learning. The babies who were fed formula had less of these tissues.

But! By no means does that mean babies who are fed formula are dumb! Not for a minute!

Some moms have natural births. Some moms have c-sections. Every baby is brought into this world differently. Some women simply prefer giving birth that way. Some women have c-sections out of necessity. The thing that matters most is that mama and baby are both safe and well taken care of.

But, as you know (and as with all things parenting), there seems to be a lot of controversy surrounding how women give birth. It sometimes can seem as if it's not their decision to choose. It sometimes can seem as if women are ... shamed for not giving birth how someone else wants them to. Not cool. And to be honest -- weird.

Here are 10 celebrities who gave birth to their beautiful babes via c-section -- and who are proud of it.

When it comes to discipline techniques in America, timeout has become increasingly popular ... thanks, no doubt, to the increasing number of us who refuse to follow the spanking route of our parents' generation. Personally, I'm a hardcore fan. It's been my go-to for tantrums for years. So I'm always surprised when parents insist that timeout just doesn't work.

I'd beg to differ. 

Timeout does work! Even better ... if you're doing timeout right, you end up not needing timeout at all. But only if you're doing it right!

Every mom's worst nightmare is something being wrong with her newborn baby. A mother's instinct is the most powerful tool we have in our arsenal when it comes to our children's health, but we don't always trust ourselves enough to go with it.

This is a powerful lesson that new mom Kate Gugliotta learned firsthand last year when she and her husband Branden Koch brought home their new baby Felix. He started to display signs of liver problems that went beyond the "newborn breast milk jaundice" their pediatrician kept insisting it was.