I discovered the police registration requirement for newborns by accident when we went to apply for Z's visa. Mrs. Imagethief and I had waited a while to do this because we hadn't applied for the passports right away. We were, as you might expect, a bit overwhelmed by the presence of a newborn and didn't have any immediate plans to travel.

99 out of 100 women have enough milk, less than 1% of mothers have problems, but it's so rare. We're mammals. All mammals feed their babies with their own milk. There are more than 400 nutrients in breast milk that no milk powder can imitate. But no melamine. But there are pediatricians and health care professionals who say outrageous things in the media in support of baby feeding formula.

Maybe, one day, ChinaBounder— as well as all the other foreign men in China just like him—will grow up enough to fully appreciate the emotional harm they have caused, not only to some of these girls who have been used but to all the other foreigners in China who are judged and responded to on the basis of the actions of just a handful of extremely immature, base, and poorly-behaved Westerners

If ever an argument needed to be made for watching less TV, then the groups of Western Free Tibet protesters that have snuck in to China are it.

Every city in China seems to have one or several Expat forums. This class post highlights really stupid questions some have when arriving in China. For example "Toenail Clippers:
Just go to any damn market! It's not that hard to find something so simple as toenail clippers. Are you that helpless?"