Tiny baby chicken legs!!!!!!

It’s so fucked up.

That’s awful. My stepmom had my brother at a hospital where the general policy is, barring some sort of crazy illness for either mom or baby, baby stays in the room with mom, which makes so much sense to me on a lot of levels, most of them just being practical (i.e. if you’re trying to nurse, you don’t have to ring…

That breaks my heart.

OK, I’mma need baby pics to accompany all your stories here, people. I got to see my coworker’s squishy baby yesterday and I need another fix STAT.

HIS FACE AND HIS STRIPEY SHIRT HOLY SHIT! So damn cute.

My parents only had to wait about 30 minutes, and my mom was in decent enough shape to be able to chat calmly with my dad as he did his best to “coach” her but yep: they waited to check in until midnight, but only because a kind employee told them to. They were so freaked out/excited about the birth of their first kid…

Maybe I’m not representing this well enough, but she’s not claiming that parenthood is no big whoop three months in, but that she’s enjoying it a hell of a lot more than she thought she would, given all the messages about what a slog it is the first few months. And she fully jokes that this means he’ll be robbing…

Don’t feed the trolls! :) And good luck with your IVF - I know it can be a rollercoaster!

Ugh. Apparently I was a colicky baby and it suuuucckkkss. I’m so sorry but glad she’s otherwise healthy! I think you proved the point though that there’s some good even when there’s a shitty, rough patch. And you were able to recognize that, and it sounds like you didn’t view your baby as some sort of Bond villain out…

I haven’t seen the trailer, but the way a coworker described it was that the “bad moms” are actually doing their best and are just fed up with the sanctimommies who think they are bad moms because they let the kids have a cookie. So it’s the dealing with other parents, not actual parenting, that is the worst part. :)

Here’s the thing though: if every other kid is on those traveling teams, then your kid won’t have other kids to just hang out with. It’s a ridiculous cycle! But you can limit your little ones to one activity per season/quarter. It seems to work for a lot of families I know, especially if they have more than one kid.

Yeah, she won’t be well-equipped to deal with anything major. And I don’t wish ill on people who are fortunate enough to have everything they want! But then they better start appreciating it.

I am so sorry for your mom - losing a parent so young is awful. I think that perspective is key. I mean, if changing a diaper is the worst thing you’ve ever dealt with, then you should be fucking grateful.

That, and if you’ve been taken care of all your life or had things handed to you and now you have to be the grown up? Holy hell. So. Much. Complaining. The sacrifices! The sleepless nights! NANNIES WHO GET SICK. The struggle is real.

I think it varies from woman to woman, but I think that’s the usual concern.

Yeesh. Apparently my mom is super fertile - she thought she might be getting close to menopause and asked her doctor about going off the pill. They tested her hormone levels and the doc said she could probably get pregnant right then if she wanted. She most definitely did not. She was 51 at the time.

I thought that was Frank Sinatra? ;)

What did she win a Grammy for???? I need to know this NOW.

I’ve had people COME AT ME whenever I’ve commented on “older” parents so I’m not touching this. :)