She handled that with so much grace. I would not have been able to get through those words in front of a crowd like that. She could have easily prerecorded a message, but she pulled her shit together and did it live. That right there is grit.

Everyone wins when we play Who Has It Worst!

I just keep getting rejected! I send unsolicited nip shots to all my friends, and somehow, they don't like that.

Dang it! Then what is the correct nipple to have? (Please be enormous purple pregnant nipples!)

*sigh*

I like your support group and am wondering if I need to submit a photo of my non-conformist nipples to join.

Yaaaay! The nipples came out all wrong, though. I'm gonna have to send them back to the factory.

I just want to make sure I'm clear on the rules of owning boobs:

I am dead from that.

Run! It's a tiiittt! RUUUUUUUN!

Sorry, bud. You're out.

Get your fat ass here every day. Do you want to die?

She sounds wonderful. I'm always heartened to hear when doctors act more like advisors to their patients. Too few do, especially since they have to remain busy enough to turn a profit. So many just say, "take this and let me know if it's not fixed."

Ha, thank you! It's pretty excited, and only a little terrifying. And you're right - there are so many factors right now that won't be in play when Tiny Future Internet Commenter arrives, and vice versa.

I like that approach. I got rejected by a midwifery practice at the hospital for being too complex a patient (other, potentially complicating health factors) but I definitely would have gone with them if I could have.

That you lost a child due to his negligence is utterly infuriating. We count on our doctors to be the experts, especially with something so foreign and weird as pregnancy.

It's directly related to how scared you are of having a baby. If you can't wait to hold your baby and have every last detail managed well before the due date, your pregnancy will go on for eleventeen months. If you're terrified at the prospect of being responsible for an entire life, your baby will develop Miracle-Gro…

I'm sure to a certain extent that's true, but there are also a lot of risks with post-maturity. You need only read the other comments.

I'm so terribly sorry. Love and peace to you, mama.

Honestly, I would SO much rather my doctor induce me at 42 weeks than let the baby cook awhile longer. The risk of stillbirth or meconium aspiration is so much worse than the downsides of induction. At least being induced is a known quantity. At that point, doctors are doing some risk management and I am not about to…