Somebody gif this immediately. Thank you.

That's a bit different than starting a business from the ground up, though. I do understand what you're saying (okay, I didn't have a job before the baby, but I did have to do my normal mentally-challenging things to feel sane) though.

I watched the entirety of a few terrible TV series on Netflix while pumping during my son's first month of life. But yeah, it was the only way to cope.

There's this weird hormonal/biological head fuckery that tells your entire body and mind that "OMG A BABY IS CRYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIX IT NOW."

The mother literally walked in on her stabbing herself in the neck.

But Business of Being Born! Also US Weekly told me that so and so had a c-section at 36 weeks to avoid stretch marks, and she got a tummy tuck at the same time!

A shit-load - that seems like a really specific number. After a lot of digging the most generous estimate (by the NIH) of maternal request, non-medically-implicated c-sections (aka "because they want to") was 4% to 18% of all cesareans, which is why I objected to this commenter's implication that c-sections are…

I feel like I'm in cuckoo crazy town over here. Thanks.

I just moved out of Oregon, and they didn't pass a law, it was an agreement among major hospitals in Oregon (particularly the Portland area). They agreed to not do non-emergency c-sections/inductions before 39 weeks - non-emergency meaning stuff like repeat c-sections, c-section due to breech, etc.

Yes, let's see if their doctors actually allow them to have c-sections for no other reason than wanting one.

THANK YOU. Jesus.

A lot that have zero medical indication? Could you give me some approximate percentage here? I find that difficult to believe. Is there some reason you're so hostile? I do know some things about what I'm commenting on, not only having had the surgery myself but having done a good deal of reading on the subject - I…

Approximately 2% are elective. I think it's pretty ridiculous to assume this poor woman was someone in that relatively small number.

The fuck? How many women have you seen actually have c-sections because they want to?

The difference between the two scenarios is that even donating bone marrow is less invasive and time-consuming than donating one's eggs.

If people in the US are getting paid for giving blood, then I am owed a lot of back pay. Unless by payment you mean a single store-bought cookie and a sticker.

I believe that was in Denmark, and it was because they had a lot of folks from Mediterranean countries coming to the sperm bank because of a lack of sperm banks (or maybe some legal issue) in their home countries. Those customers didn't want red-haired children, presumably because the parents are mostly dark-haired,…

Uhh hold up there. I think I'd pay extra for a ginger baby.

That's just cruel!

Halloween is a very strange holiday for me, because my parents were into that whole Evangelical Conservative Christian thing, and thus Halloween stuff was just a big no. We'd shut off all the lights and go to our church's "harvest party" which was not only boring and pathetic, but netted me about 15 tootsie rolls in a…