I will eat your brains!Whenever I mentioned that I was tired during my pregnancy, nine times out of 10 it was met with the response, "You think you're tired now? Wait 'til you have the baby!" And similarly, whenever I mentioned that I felt out of it, mentally, I would often hear, "Wait until the baby gets here. Then you'll have Baby Brain!"

Baby Brain? What the hell is that? I always wondered. And then I had my daughter and went, Ohhhh. Once an incredibly organized person, with checked-off to-do lists as far as the eye could see, after I became a mom, I became forgetful. Disorganized. Frazzled. Some chalk it up to iron deficiencies. Others to the surge in hormones. I kind chalk it up to a little bit of everything. But mainly a lack of sleep (yes, you were all right), and the fact that you have less time for minutiae than you had pre-baby.

But now a study has come out that says actually motherhood may make you smarter.

Order food online a lot? You may be starting to see a difference and I'm not just talking about your bank account. A new study reveals that people who order food online are much less inhibited. In other words, they're less concerned about what they're ordering, and too busy fantasizing about whatever that may be ... being in their mouth.

Errrrm, so let me get this straight: Ordering food in makes me a fatty no friends? Shit.

If your Thursday nights have been missing a little Jersey Shore action, fear no more. Nicole Polizzi and Jenni Farley are stepping in to fill the gap with their new show Snooki & JWOWW, which premieres Thursday night. 

I got a sneak peek at the show, and while it's not packed with any of the drunken drama we're used to associating them with, it does showcase their sweet-but-strange friendship, and manages to throw in a few surprises too.

I'm not sure there's a whole lot to "spoil," but if you want to be completely surprised when the show airs, then stop reading here, as there are some "spoilers" ahead.

There's nothing like hitting the road for a summer vacation. Although I'm sure that as a kid, I loathed all that time in the car, I do have really sweet memories of my family's two-hour road trips from the Chicago 'burbs to the beaches of Lake Michigan. I remember passing certain landmarks, singing silly songs and playing goofy games, and always feeling like the time spent stuck in a seatbelt was well worth it once we found ourselves beachside.

Now, however, being the grown-up and currently planning another two-hour-plus excursion -- this time from the New Jersey 'burbs to the beaches of the Hamptons -- it's a whole different ballgame. Mostly because now I have to worry about boring things like whether my Jeep needs an oil change before we go or where the honey and I are going to fill 'er up on the cheap. Thank goodness we both have iPhones! Here, five apps that can help you locate your nearest, most wallet-friendly gas station when you're "on the road again" this summer ...

Taking care of kids around the clock can be hazardous to your mental health. It's a fact!

A Gallup survey of 60,000 women discovered that stay-at-home moms are more likely to have depression, sadness, and anger than working moms.

Sad, but not exactly a big shocker. It's a grueling existence. Something -- or someone -- always needs to be changed, cleaned, and preened. All it takes is a 10-week maternity leave for a new mom to realize that taking care of kids full-time is literally the hardest gig in the universe. It's no wonder so many woman are excited to get back to the grind. Basically, working moms are getting off easy.

Inasmuch as the U.S. likes to consider itself a good ol’ fashioned family-oriented, home-comes-first kind of country, statistics have a little trouble matching up to that claim. A lot of trouble, in fact. The National Partnership for Women & Families has released a new report that grades each state according to laws and resources benefitting new parents including paid parental leave, paid sick days, and accommodations for breastfeeding mothers. And it ain’t pretty. Like a kid who swore she studied for a test and then bombed the thing in its entirety, we did really, really poorly as a country.

We don't need a reality TV series to show us that life for a teen mom is tough. The conventional wisdom is that teen pregnancy leads to poverty -- especially if you never finish high school. But are we looking at this backwards?

Maybe it's not that having a baby makes teen moms poor. Maybe it's that teen moms have babies because they're poor.

That's the idea researchers Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip Levine considered when they took a close look at teen pregnancy. They found that it's when a teen sees that her prospects in life are dim that she chooses to become a mother.

We all know that what we name our babies basically creates the life they lead. Don't believe me? Read Freakonomics. There is no doubt that what we name our children affects not only their future success, but also says a lot about us and who we are.

Our backgrounds -- social class, education level, and cultural influences -- have everything to do with the names we choose for our children. A recent article posted on NPR reveals that even our political parties can have quite a bit to do with our naming choices. Liberal babies might be Abigail or John while Republican babies might be Paislee, Liberty, or Rykan.

Makes sense, right?