Yeah, they were super into "natural family planning" (which was good, because they were a clear sign that it doesn't work).

A stroke could also explain why he once again railed against SNL this past Sunday....though the episode in question was a repeat from December of 2018....that he had already bitched about after it had originally aired...again back in December 2018. Damn, syphilitic dementia is a bitch!!! 

I’ve been trying to figure out for two days why the fuck Donald is all of a sudden railing against McCain again. The only explanation I can come up with is that at some point, he had a stroke, and now is under the belief that McCain just “thumbs-downed” Obamacare repeal YESTERDAY.  Anyone else have any other ideas?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I just involuntarily clutched my thighs together and would’ve shrieked, but I’m on public transit.

Thanks. It’s been over fifty years, but it’s still very raw spot for Mom.  Which is why I’m glad for the ambulance story.  Everything else went wrong, but for one shining moment my parents were in a sitcom. 

So sorry for your mom and your family. That’s a tragedy.

I’d have to end it differently, though. I think I’d lose the audience after the stillborn and sepsis. 

I don’t know how I feel about this. I had a rough birth, and it probably was one factor for why I didn’t have any other children. I was not prepared for how rough it was, and I wish I had heard more stories in advance. I live in a hippy dippy part of the country and the stories that I hear are all “I gave birth in a…

Were your teacher and his wife super religious? Because I feel very confident (from my childhood religious brainwashing) that there are some sects of conservative evangelical Christians who don’t think that husbands should see their wives in such a state. Kind of like pooping with the bathroom door open, but for…

My wife and I were just talking about the “horror” of our firstborn’s arrival. I will preface by saying when we arrived at our hospital after her water broke, there were not any rooms available at the time. A lot of babies were ready to make their entrance for Star Wars Day/Cinco De Mayo 2015.

When I was in high school, the teacher of the human sexuality class’s wife was pregnant while I was taking it. After the birth, he said that they probably weren’t going to have any more kids (they had 9), and when we asked if everything had gone ok, he was like “Oh, yeah, that was the first one where I was there for…

TOTALLY AGREE that there is really not a lot of information about giving birth out there that exists between “there will be no pain if you channel your goddess strength!” and “omg the doctor won’t know your name and you’ll be forcibly sedated and miss the entire birth of your child!”

I think you should develop a TV pilot based on this story.

My mom’s first birth story is a mosh pit of malpractice and despair, but she did get one amusing story out of it. At the time my parents lived in Cambridge in England and it had precisely one ambulance. Mom was in a bad way and needed that ambulance, but it was currently occupied by a babbling man in a straight…

You’ll be fine! Just plan and prep. I have no idea, I’m a gay man who adopted a child...but I’m on your side!

Men need to read these stories, too. My husband was aghast when I told him that one of the main reasons I was considering adopting children was because I didn’t want to blow out my vagina. He completely missed that part in Grace and Frankie where the daughter gives birth to her third? baby in the leg of her…

got to the word “ribcage” and started shrieking

(We might want to redirect our terror away from birth itself and toward the medical system: the U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world.).

I wish I had my fainting couch at the ready before I read this.

I don’t like to terrify people, but I also think it is useful to say, “You might feel like there is no way you can survive the horrifying pain in the moment, but don’t worry, you probably will.”