Yup. I went completely into the black. When they gave me the epidural, I became a different person. I could talk and open my eyes, for one thing. Before the epidural, the contractions were the whole world. And I do not have a particularly low pain tolerance.

I had the ooey gooey I love this baby feelings immediately, but I will never ever forget how I felt the first time I changed her diaper. It wasn’t that I was scared or unsure how to change her- I babysat infants in high school- but it was the realization that *She’s MINE. This is MY JOB now. I’m her mother.*

My high school best friend, a woman I’ve known for nearly 20 years, was my birth coach. Our original plan was that she’d stay at my head and just be there to support me emotionally. By the end, she was holding one of my legs back and watching the baby come out. I also ended up totally naked by the time I actually…

Yeah, it sucks at times, but WIC is set up differently from SNAP/food stamps. If you meet the income qualifications for WIC, you get benefits based on family size and a couple other factors. (I get a little bit more food because I am solely breastfeeding; if I was feeding formula I’d get less food but I’d get coupons…

I’ve been on WIC in Georgia and Minnesota (moved at 5 months pregnant, what fun!) and in those states they do fruits and vegetables by dollar amount. I get $11 worth of qualifying fruits and vegetables each month, for example. Which has nothing to do with anything else, but I just thought I'd clarify.

I look less “masculine” now, but when I was in high school and my early 20s, I regularly got harassed in public bathrooms because angry old women thought I was a dude.

Duncan (Bowie's son with his ex Angela) is 44 years old.

ugh, something similar happened to me. I was dating/FWBing with this guy who was actually pretty cool. One day he was all pissed off because he said his former roommate saw a picture of me and wanted to fuck me and Mike said no, dude, I doesn’t work that way.

Tylenol can actually be pretty dangerou

oh ffs. Goddamn phone.

In college (circa 2004), i took a belky dancing classI

my ex-husband was Bill in high school. I didn’t know him then (he’s quite a bit older than me), but I’ve seen photos and heard stories and...yeah. He was Bill. To the degree that watching that show makes me miss him.

I think the 8 pounds worth of candy confused me more than anything, because I am no currency-conversion whiz, but that seemed like a fuck of a lot of candy. Also, I thought maybe the candy came out of the fruit machine, so I thought that sounded neat.

My boyfriend met him when they landed in Maine after one of his tours in Iraq.(Bf's tour, not King's.) King was buying coffee for the troops, hanging out, talking to them. He sounds like a stand-up guy.

this is my absolute favorite comment because, despite not understanding 90% of what you wrote, I can picture the scene perfectly.

Planned Parenthood was my only health care provider for a brief time. I had applied for Medicaid but could not get it (despite having an income of less than $10k/year) because of the state I lived in. Therefore, my only affordable option was Planned Parenthood. They operate on a sliding scale, so that even I could…

I recently started a new job working for a nonprofit. I get paid an hourly wage- 40 hours a week. Last week, my boss told me to be careful about my clock in/clock out times because I went over 40 hours the week before. When I got my paycheck last Friday, I was amazed to see that I actually was paid the correct…

Unless guidelines have changed (or I possibly misunderstood the question at a young age), anyone who has had sex with a man who’s had sex with a man is banned from donating blood. Which means I’ve technically been barred since I was 17. Which is super fucked up if I am remembering accurately.