Do we know if the baby had an older toddler sibling? Older toddler siblings can be mean little bastards.

Mental illness isn’t something to be ashamed of. It’s like if Rosie told everyone Chelsea had diabetes or epilepsy. People who make it something shameful are mistaken and those who perpetuate the idea that it is something to “tell”, or not, are part of the problem.

There is a very fine line between asking for help with your mentally ill child, and over sharing about their condition. When you are frightened for your child, that line disappears. when my child’s illness took a terrifying turn last year, I asked for help everywhere I could. Because I’m not a celebrity, I didn’t have…

When my adult son goes off the rails the VERY FIRST THING I tell the authorities when reporting him missing and/or a danger to himself is that he is struggling with mental illness. It’s a smart move when you’re trying to protect your child.

I feel like neither of those thoughts demonstrate either empathy or compassion for a fellow human being and her family who are, it seems, going through some rough shit. I like a contrarian as much as anyone else, but come on.

I’m 9 weeks pregnant and just dry heaved over the toilet for 15 minutes because I looked at a picture of food. 😷

He can’t...he can’t jsut learn the name of one drink he finds tolerable and order that?

Male here.

This is a former governor and Fox television host. He’s not making some crazy rant on the internet. He is the Republican party. He is not a moron. He is a cruel, calculating man in a position of power.

Wow. For a post mourning the loss of a beloved TV show - a show that helped teach a lot of us how to be decent human beings - there are a lot of dickish responses here.

Whether for good or for spurious reasons we’re limiting our daughter’s daily screen time, so I see this as a positive change - we don’t have to spend a whole hour if this is what she wants to watch.

Those parts are awesome. I came for the high seas adventure and stayed for the detailed descriptions of blubber removal.

Yeah it’s not so much the episiotomy that scares me but the overall pushiness of other medically sometimes-but-not-always-necessary stuff. Like, if I have to have a c-section because my kid actually in danger, ok fine. But it’s surgery and freaks me out, and I don’t want to have one just because that’s what the doctor…

Haha - yes I get that! But forgive me this not-so-humble brag: I prepared for my first childbirth like an athlete. Doc and others new there would be no episiotomy, we took our time and well, little one hung out in my birth canal for so long she looked like a mini beetlejuice to be honest but my parts looked…

Theres a photo of me about..3 hours or so after giving birth: My husband is lovingly holding our son. I’m in the background, looking on from the hospital bed with a box of Cheez-Its in my hand and a mouth full of Oreos.

True story: there is baby poop all over my chest at this point. They had to get me a new gown.

I like how I look in my first post-childbirth photo because I look like myself and my baby’s in it.

My eldest daughter was born about 1:15am, this is us shortly after. Hers was a great birth and I felt like I had just kicked all sorts of ass. :)

We told our 3 year-old junkie the binkie fairie would come and bring him presents.

I used my pacifier (also known as my “mimi”) until I was four and a half.