You know, that post, coupled with your user name? Kudos.

Ugh, I hate people.

Yep. My own son was a preemie too, but hadn't even been conceived at that point, or else I would have lost my shit on her.

Yeah, I hope it's not a wide-spread position. March of Dimes is great, and they have done so much for the babies these jackholes profess to care so much about.

Ha, fine on the genetic abnormality front (though we definitely had a rough few weeks trying to figure out if he had CF), but born at 31 1/2 weeks due to a totally unrelated heart arrhythmia and has some neurological complications related to the prematurity. This kid has been a troublemaker from day one. He's cute,…

Yeah, we had abnormal nuchal translucency results, and so we did the MaterniT21 test, which came back normal. We then had an echogenic bowel at the anatomy scan, and had blood work done that showed my husband is a carrier for Cystic Fibrosis. It was very strongly emphasized at all stages, by all of the medical…

Disturbingly enough, some of them are actually against these tests for that reason. I defriended a girl I went to high school with because she had a Facebook rant about how the March of Dimes facilitates abortions. Her whole argument was that March of Dimes supports prenatal screening, and some people will choose to…

Not sure, I wondered about that too.

Not sure what the deal is with Baby Pratt, but The Littlest Prickley was born 8 1/2 weeks early and suffered brain damage as a result of a brain bleed. One of the manifestations of his condition was that his eyes crossed and wandered because the muscles that control them ended up too tight. He had surgery a few months…

As I just mentioned to Zachary, Burr developed that article into a full book, The Perfect Scent. Well worth the read!

Burr actually ended up developing it into a full book, The Perfect Scent. It's amazing, and I've worn Jardin Sur le Nil since reading the book a few years back.

Ladyheatherlee's comment only reads that way to people who don't know what precipitous labor is, as evidently you do not. She was saying that if she did not have the c-section ahead of her due date, the odds are that she would have another very fast and very dangerous birth, likely before she would make it to the…

You forgot "decorum." I always think of Kristy getting in trouble and having to write an essay on proper classroom decorum in the first book when I see the word decorum.

Truer words...still love mine, but I learned my lesson about why I should always use the finger guard.

I didn't know that there was such a thing either, and over medium eggs are actually my favorite method. I learned that semi-embarrassingly in a restaurant when I complained to my husband that I wanted over easy, but slightly more done than over easy, but that since there wasn't a good way to explain that to the…

I was in the ER with my husband, a huge baseball fan (Red Sox), a few years ago when they put him under to reset his elbow. He looked at the doctor who had just walked in, dazedly asked, "Sooo, do you follow the Rockies?" and then promptly passed out. All the doctors and nurses in the room looked at me for an…

Oh, those beeps. My son has a heart arrhythmia, likely the cause of his prematurity, so we heard more than our fair share of them. I got used to them, and yet I didn't. My heart still stopped every time one of his monitors went off, and my mind closed in around the noise until everything was back under control.

Oh god, reading this brought so many emotions back to the surface for me. My son was a 31-weeker. Hearing him cry faintly from across the room was honestly the biggest relief I've ever felt. He turned 11 months this week, and I've been having flashbacks to his birth day and time in the NICU for the past week or…

Right? I didn't want to be obnoxious about it, but that was probably the funniest part of the whole thing.