I think it’s mostly people who don’t have children. It’s oddly commodifying, but I see their thought process. If you lose one of a thing you have three of, that must be better than losing one of a thing you have one of. Losing a family member is better than losing a family. etc.

There is a letter from a lady at court during the reign of Queen Anne, who birthed and lost 17 children, and she says that not even the lowest servant would change places with the queen when her last child was stillborn, her grief was so terrible. I can’t find it, but it was very moving to read.

My cousin had a lot of drug problems when she was pregnant a couple years ago, and she ended up having a stillbirth. She had the baby cremated and proceeded to carry the urn around for months. She would talk to it, and strap it into the car seat she had gotten. I don’t know if she went so far as to try to feed it, or…

Absolutely. Everyone else is bringing up horror movies and all I can think about are the extras from ‘The Pianist’.

Crazy as it sounds, I envy that woman’s ability to totally check out in the face of such overwhelming grief. If anything were to ever happen to my child, I kind of hope that my brain would change channels, too. I couldn't handle it otherwise.

You think there is a point where a child “ages out” of inspiring hysterical grief in a parent?

HA! Liv is gonna fucking OWN this episode.

That’s what I was thinking. Something tragic happened and she just needed to do this. The dissociation from reality is what frightens me.

This isn’t the least bit creepy to me. Maybe because I’m a mom? The second I read the headline I had the deepest, nauseating heartbreak for that woman. My kid is 5 and if he died... I legitimately think I might have a similar break with reality, lord knows I deal with disassociation and such as it is. I have no, no,…

This was exactly the kind of thing I thought might be going on here.

Season opener of SVU: The older daughter of a popular reality TV family known for their strict family values is found pushing her deceased infant brother on a swing in new York (they’re in town to be on a morning show). Girl admits that she had a mental breakdown after remembering that her brother molested her for…

That was my thought. Something happened to him and she literally could not deal with the fact that he passed away and her way of coping was to basically shove the idea out of her mind completely. :(

Yes. Single mom with bad circumstances (Amish - so you can imagine) I called social services and stayed with her through a drawn out, but surprisingly compassionate, police and medical investigation and intervention.

Sadly it’s not even close for me. I once did a postpartum home visit to find that the infant had died several days before but the mother was still bathing and dressing the little body and frantic because “She just won’t eat.” I suspect this will turn out to be something similar. Grief can do some powerfully tragic…

This isn't that uncommon actually. Losing a child is a unique loss that isn't comparable to anything else. Nobody knows how they would react after they lost their child. Lots of women go into shock and don't hand over their child's body right away when something happens to them. I just hope she's getting help and has…

I totally just thought he was calling the kid’s hands really fat.

As someone who doesn’t eat pork either, there’s a much better way to handle it than that. I would have said, “Would you mind changing your gloves? I don’t eat pork.”

Are you in middle school? Every year one of my middle schoolers brings this up and we spend an intense class period looking at pictures of concentration camps and discussing the power of symbols and context. You are more then welcome to join my class next time we have this discussion since it seems as if you would…

THIS SEEMS LIKE THE MOST REASONABLE EXPLANATION TBH. NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS MYSTERY SOLVED.

Jesus Christ. Stop. We all know what a swastika means in American society. Regardless of what it meant before, it has come to mean a specific thing. It wasn't meant as a Tibetan good luck symbol, and that's not the connotation it carries. I truly could not give less of a shit what it meant before — it means something…