TBH she should have left him somewhere where people were immediately on hand. It must have been important for her not to be seen but not a great choice for the baby considering it’s entirely possible for a newborn to go unnoticed for quite a while when noone is looking for it. But yeah, a little baby basket is…

Love Sinead forever but when someone has that many children who won’t speak to them... it tells me that she has put them through an awful lot. I hope she gets the help she needs but this is certainly not their fault.

Of all the spots inside the church she could have chosen to set her baby down she probably chose the nativity scene because nativity scenes include a little baby bassinet for the baby jesus. It’s not rocket science.

kool-aid is one of those things that is inexplicably associated with black people, like fried chicken. I don’t think anybody knows why, and the association itself is not inherently offensive, but it is a stereotype so if someone sees you and thinks you eat a certain way it just goes to show that they are looking at…

Agreed but isn’t it normal to ask for well over what is expected?

Ha my bf kept trying to comfort me and I kept screaming “DO NOT. FUCKING. TOUCH ME!!!!!!” at him. at my friend. at the nurses.

When I was transferred to a hospital during my first birth I had been having contractions every 2 minutes for several hours and they left me in an exam room upon arrival for a REALLY long time, I was screaming so much people were poking their head in to see what was happening. I almost destroyed a monitor. Nurses were…

No, wrong. She was not polite. Someone who has decided firmly in their mind, “I do not want my children to be around gay people”, does not enroll them in anything, let alone a theater group, without checking out the staff beforehand. She sent this note AFTER meeting him and it is therefore a DIRECT response to HIM. In…

advil???? what’s the point

Helminthic therapy is the future!

And based on my experience with midwives it would have taken them like, an hour to realize something was wrong and they needed to do something. Ugh.

I did prenatal with midwives and they monitored my labor and I went to the birthing center at 5cm. The way the midwife on hand treated me that night is one of the most upsetting experiences of my entire life. The hospital I transferred too was miles and miles better, more competent and compassionate. It’s not a sure…

Having been in both, I can say I see no advantage either. If it’s advocacy you want, you can get that in a hospital center. You can’t manage unforeseen risk in a birthing center however. While it is true that most births go smoothly, it’s also true that the stakes could not possibly be higher when they don’t. It’s not…

I don’t think anyone on here is advocating for compulsory hospital births, I think there are a lot of us who regret our decision to use a birthing center and feel compelled to share our story to prevent other parents from experiencing the close calls that we did.

I must disagree. My birthing center had a transfer arrangement with a local hospital in the case of complications but they mishandled my birth so badly that it almost wasn’t enough to save my son. You can get infections anywhere, but you can’t get emergency intervention at a birthing center. My pregnancy was utterly…

This happened at my second birth - I tried to go for it med free but came to my breaking point and asked for the epidural. The doc called the anesthesiologist but he thought I had longer to go and they took forever to come, then when they arrived, the lady was a student and it took her more than 10 minutes to put it…

Thank you I completely agree. My bf had a child ten years before we met and his hospital experience was terrible, complete with injury to the baby... so he was very gung ho about a non-hospital birth and I was into it too. I went to a birthing center for my first birth and as a neophyte I found my prenatal care to be…

If you’re willing to make that kind of sacrifice I’d wager you’re also not the type who wouldn’t know to screen out these types of men. You should be free to date but here’s a few rules of thumb I’d follow if I were in your shoes (I have kids but am still with the dad): don’t introduce your kid(s) to people you date.…

All too common unfortunately. Luckily I was a scary angry kid and nobody ever got near me physically :).

I think it’s pretty clear that many species understand and fear death. Obviously they can’t say “I understand and fear death” so people continue to parse it endlessly. But it’s not hard to spot when you’re not looking to come to a particular conclusion.