The ring betrayed him. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend, legend became myth, and for two and a half thousand years the ring passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, it ensnared a new bearer.

"Oh my god. Oh my god," he repeated, looking up at his intended— a vast horror building behind his tear-filled eyes— wondering how it could have all changed so suddenly; how it would never be like it was; whether he could ever love her again. "Oh my god," he said once more, softer, before slipping away beneath the…

I think it speaks volumes about gender inequality in our country that there are exactly zero Women's Ership Rums out there. What is this, the 1940s? Get on it Hilary!

DOWN WITH THE MEN'S ERSHIP RUM!!!

My favorite Russian cheese is a nice Tsarmigiano-Romanov blend. Unfortunately, they don't make it any more.

I de-pantsed and showed my partner what that description meant and he clenched for thirty minutes. The good ones, girl, they can almost know our pain.

I told a little bit of this on the article about male gynos.

I DIDNT KNOW THAT WAS POSSIBLE AND NOW I DO TAKE IT BACK TAKE IT BACK

[Husband] also made the mistake of saying "But it was only 40 minutes!" I offered to stab him in the crotch for only 40 minutes.

When I give birth, I will have that cued up with instructions to play it as soon as the baby crowns.

Your Mom is awesome. The neighbour is a fucking shit head.

I went to all those hippy classes to and when it came time for my second all that went out the window. My little dude was a flipper, 40 weeks pregnant and he kept flipping, head up, head sideways, head down, head back up. So we had to schedule a c-section because he was sideways, which makes even a breech birth…

So this is my mother's story, but I must share it with you all. My mom was pregnant with her first child, my older brother, in the late 1970s. Her due date was in January, and she lived near Buffalo, New York, which gets legendary lake effect blizzards in the winter. I'm talking total white-out, feet of snow at a…

For my second kid's birth, my epidural failed. Yep, apparently this is a thing that can happen. I had been in labor for about 12 hours and was exhausted. I got it just as things were getting intense, and was fine for about an hour. Then all of a sudden the pain came back full force, just as I was transitioning - the…

I mentioned some of this on another article recently. And this is really more of a full scale pregnancy horror, story, but here goes. So, it took me 3 years to get pregnant with my son. That included the indignity of a plethora of infertility tests and treatments. I ended up getting pregnant while we were on a short…

someone here is defs going to have eaten placenta

I was induced due to complications, the nurse ruptured my sac w/o asking, they did internal fetal monitoring without asking, and after 30 hours of NOT letting me up to move, I developed a clot that went to my lung. They didn't do an u/s even after I told them about the pain, etc, and I ended up being sent home and…

Gah. Last time there was a horror story thread about childbirth on Jezebel, I was on the bus on my way to work, reading along on my phone. Then someone mentioned buckets, and isn't it crazy that the same supplies you buy at Home Depot can be used in delivery? NOPE. In horror, I shut my phone off, shut my…

I had a really problematic pregnancy. When I delivered, I tore. Forward. This is apparently kind of rare, but I split up the middle toward my clitoris. I cannot explain how painful that was.

I caught a 24 hour stomach bug from my husband. Lolled in bed all day, feeling miserable, then threw up. I was 34 weeks pregnant with twins and I felt like I was giving myself the Heimlich maneuver! Wretching and heaving so hard that tears were being squeezed out of my eyes. I thought I had peed on myself but the…