um it’s a shame we didn’t meet when I was pregnant

I hear you.And then I have to go and cry because a tiny person with my baby’s face was in pain or danger and I didn’t stop it. The mothering hormones don’t fuck around.

I am interested in your dad’s opinions and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.

Ugh yes. Joji Obara (killer of Lucie Blackman) managed to kill two women this way, after all, and he might never have been caught if Lucie ‘s death hadn’t become so high profile.

To quote the every-wise Rupert Giles, “Tea is soothing. I wish to be tense.”

Yeah. All having gone to Cambridge means is that he’s pretty smart - or, if you prefer, that the admissions tutors thought he was pretty smart.

FWIW, having gone to Cambridge doesn’t mean anything about how privileged (or otherwise) he grew up. It costs the same as every other uni and lots of people from non-privileged backgrounds go there.

feeling you on the huge cup/tiny band/no time to give fucks thing

I’m going to share with you my unfiltered tthoughts on reading your original post: “this sounds like an elaborate form of self-harm using a man as the tool”.

I’m pretty sure that was the Greeks.

I know, right? Women of all ages, WOC, PWD, all rocking their bodies because they’re strong and it FEELS GOOD. I love it.

Yes, but that IS exactly the way it feels, and even the way midwives will tell you to think about pushing.

I love this sports promotion video for the same reason; it’s women of different ages and all kinds of bodies enjoying their bodies and moving.

Here too, in the small country that you lot used to be a colony of :P

My husband does the week’s shopping with our baby son on a Saturday morning while I have a lie-in, and the checkout staff fawn over him and treat him like he’s practically magical. I have yet to have this happen to me in Tesco.

Her Asperger’s is self-diagnosed, though (and she’s super-fond of amateur-diagnosing other people). She also has at least one editor on her blog.

Not to mention the thinly veiled implication that since women SHOULD be taking care of the family, Sandberg KILLED her husband. I seriously could not believe what I was reading.

Yeah, I’m with “don’t read any books or go on any sites”. They all contradict each other wildly and it’ll drive you crazy. Neither I or my husband had ever changed a nappy or had any experience with a baby before our son was born, and we’ve done fine. Your instinct will kick in and you’ll get to know YOUR baby, not…

Eh, I walked from the birthing suite to the postnatal ward 3 hours after giving birth, and they would have let me walk right on out of the hospital if I hadn’t chosen to stay to get help with breastfeeding. But Kate and I are in the UK which I think is less litigious about this stuff.

I could’ve been discharged from hospital 3 hours after giving birth to my first, but I chose to stay in overnight to get help with breastfeeding. For an uncomplicated vaginal delivery, you really don’t need to stay in after, especially if it’s your second.