I woulda yelled “WHEN MY BODY DECIDES TO STOP KILLING ALL MY BABIES.”

On a related note, invasive questions about people’s family planning can be hurtful on many, many levels. I have one precious and glorious daughter, and recently at a play place, a woman asked me several rude questions about my pregnancy until I said, “Little Miss Pinwheel was born via surrogate,” and the woman said,…

My bf growing up always had foster brothers and sisters and she now fosters. But it’s not like you can walk into a foster home and point at a kid and say “this one, this is the one I want.” The ultimate goal is reuniting them with their bio parents and if parental rights are terminated, it takes forever to adopt from…

I know of many men who have strong urges to have biological children. In fact, the men I know seem to have stronger urges than the women, who mostly would be happy to adopt or foster if it was simple (it’s not) and they had amenable partners.

Also, it’s kinda besides the point that other options exist. It’s important…

First-this is an incredibly insulting and dismissive point of view. “Just adopt” is maybe the least helpful thing you can say to someone struggling to conceive, and there is nothing wrong with wanting your own, biological child. Second- yes, there are children that are in need of homes through fostering or adoption,…

Seriously, if one more person tells me to eat macadamia nuts or drink POM juice I’m actually going to punch them.

I’m incredibly sorry for your struggle, and am so glad you now have your child.

There are very few children who are true orphans with absolutely no family who need to be adopted. Adoption is expensive and traumatizing. Adoptions are open now. It is not in any way equivalent nor should it be viewed as the consolation prize for infertility.

I’m not a woman

This right here is why it should be considered an etiquette breach of the highest order to ask someone if he or she is trying for a baby. Best case scenario, you’ve invaded someone’s privacy that does not intend to have children and is fine with it. Worst case, you deeply hurt the feelings of someone who wants…

Been there, done that, got the tee-shirt. When people ask me how many miscarriages I had before we ended up with an actual baby, I just say “fewer than 10.” Had them with fertility cycles, I had them between the fertility cycles. This is the way I know, at a gut, experiential level, that a fertilized egg is not a…

Respectfully disagree on the show’s aging. My experiences watching it as a 20-something and then again as a 30-something were completely different. Example: Charlotte’s fertility issues were that much more poignant for me when I was going through them myself. And now, despite the stupid terrible ending where Carrie…

You can buy a house, you know, Bieber.

Honestly, I’m just waiting for the scary stories thread to begin.

Hefner’s friend designer Marc Jacobs has been stalking a talented young girl since she was 16. He harrassed her. Read the truth STYLEANGELIQUE

why is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s opinion important? I know he’s of Puerto Rican descent, but he’s not there.

And then the breakdown in the car after she finds out her necklace is fake and realizes Judah didn’t tell her about the offer from VIM. Like, that’s how it happens, at least for me. Infertility stuff happens and I’m fine, but it all comes out once something else bad happens.

I have never heard of a children’s museum that doesn’t allow non-parents. I am so glad the one in Indy isn’t that way! I’ve gone many times with family and friends and their kids, and I would be so sad to be excluded. That rule just sounds way too extreme, in my opinion.

The restaurant “Miss Carry” puns really hit home. Becasue that’s what it was like, these little things, people’s unrelated comments, that just dug into your loss in ways no one else knew was possible.

you know what, good for her! She wanted to have a baby for a long time. She is a grown woman who has lived her life and can afford it.