This may seem like an odd question but here goes ... How paranoid are you about SIDS for your little one once they enter the world bc of your family history? I only ask as my older brother died of SIDS. I am not a nervous or paranoid person in anyway shape or form but I have a three month old and am terribly terrified…

Eat mashed potatoes.

You can acknowledge the loss and grief associated with a miscarriage without conflating it with the death of a child. They are generally two very different experiences with very different impacts.

The grief is different. A miscarriage of a wanted pregnancy is difficult, and painful, but the death of a child is the worst grief you can face. They don’t mix miscarriage support groups with parents whose kids died in car accidents or from drowning or in shootings for a reason.

I think of it as a special kind of awful, but not murder in the same way that pulling the trigger on a living person is murder.

You can be horrified at the tragic loss of someone’s pregnancy and not insist that the fetus be called a legal person, which it is not.

To Todd (cause I sure as hell ain’t ungreying him)

There have definitely been people in your life who’ve told you that you’re not funny. You should’ve listened to those people.

It’s horrible but statistically women are much more likely to be murdered by husbands, boyfriends, or exes than random break ins (or terrorism.) So it’s the natural thought. Of course the federal government is now gutting DV programs.

I strongly suspect that he was doing hard drugs in the bathroom. I really hope they have had the good sense to take a blood sample of him and get it tested.

he was snorting cocaine or meth or something in the toilet. that was not “road rage”, that was some drug-fueled paranoia and delerium.

I love it in that I like to look at photos of it. But living there would give me anxiety. I like my place to be calm and relaxing and that much colour would just be really aggressive after a while and not conducive to calm.

This hurts my brain to look at, but she’s definitely living her best life.

Painting brick should be a crime.

I...I can’t think anything but “spiders. spiders, spiders, spiders. Spiders in the poppies.”

That is not ok. The airplane bathrooms have changing tables. It’s tight, but totally doable. I’ve even done a change with Hordeling the first on the changing table, and Hordeling the second strapped into the Baby Bjorn. So I have zero patience with people who do gross stuff like that.

Breastfeeding in food areas is a-ok, that’s food. Diaper changing should be done in poop areas, that’s poop. Seems obvious?

I changed my son’s diapers in the car more than once. Nobody but my husband and I signed on for his diapers, so why subject them to that. And never on a table that staff would have no idea would need anything other than a standard wipe down. That is truly disgusting.

Yeah, I love kids (and work at a children’s hospital) but that’s just nasty. No excuse for that. Impolite, unsanitary, etc.

Only idiots make that argument, I have absolutely told those kind of people to go elsewhere. If you can’t tell that breast milk is clean while feces is not I don’t want you touching my dining room. And that’s pretty much a quote.