Right?? Thankfully, most the divorces in my extended family were all pretty healthy and amicable, so my heart kinda went out to the free range examples you'd see where the interactions seemed to scream Court Mandated. I'm sure there was still a lot of parental love there, but they'd lost the ability to be natural…

I mean, I wanna say coke. It's coke, right? Because that's just way too many happy meals.

(hee) In my pretend acceptance speech for this award, I must (sadly) mention all the Awkward Divorced Parent/Kid tableaus I've seen at mickdees.

she claims her custody has gone up from 4% to 50%

Oh please oh please oh please....

The female hat is shaped like a vulva.

And do you know of many people who stop heroin because a stranger loudly shames them? Or a true anorexic who doesn't immediately self harm when someone tells her she physically looks like shit?

So, is it the plain you like, or is there another especially good flavor? Asking for a friend who is also me.

I have not tried their cream cheese.

Oh man, I either read somewhere that placental and bleeding issues are random and not likely to re-occur in the same woman, or it's just a comforting fiction I told myself. Either way, grossly unfair that you had to go through that twice. A million hugs.

I'm really impressed by that. It's so at odds with the "cover our ass/admit no wrong" impression I have of hospital administration... which is gleaned almost entirely from watching House and ER, admittedly.

urgh, hugs from a fellow hemmorhaging sister. That post op compression care is some FUN SHIT, huh? They don't tell you about that one at the baby showers, heh.

Thank you, I really appreciate that insight — never too late!

I'm sorry you had a tough go of it, too. It's great that you're considering therapy — what do they even call this in the psychology community, I wonder?? There's a lot of discussion and awareness, thankfully, about postpartum anxiety/depression etc caused by hormones, or sleep loss etc. I wonder if the psych…

OOF. I'm really glad she wrote this book, and hope she doesn't gloss over the hard parts. I had related birth shenanigans and ... I'm still conflicted about the birth all these years later, and unsure how much my reluctance to have another is due to my birth experience (which had a happy ending thankfully).

Is the answer John Mayer?

Ugh, I must have my being-kind-to-myself filter on my brain today, because I hadn't entertained the uglier possibility you raise (given her age — I would have gone there if she were older). I really would like to think that their retaining her is an indication that their story is true: they took the girl in from a…

I mean, you/we're probably not unhappy so much as uncomfortable and hemorrhoid-y. What with all the thumb-sitting, and such...

The impression I got when reading a few links on this is that there were not actually any other children present, and that the many "births" this woman was supposed to have had were paper births designed to defraud. (I don't consider any of these facts, but it could explain why there are no photos — i.e. the kids…

"He spent 20 minutes regaling us with stories of the numerous plane disasters he's been in."