Yes, statistically my child is not likley to be injured or killed by a firearm. But she is far more likely to be killed by a firearm than she is to die from the flu and I still get her a flu shot. I wasn’t proposing anything specific so to characterize what I said as making a knee jerk proposal is inaccurate. I said…

You know what, I can imagine that. I know people who are responsible gun owners. But unfortunately the other thing I can imagine is one of my children being gunned down in her school because it has happened. Enough to make me think it’s not a fluke. A few days after I had visited a department store in my hometown a…

A D&C can be a procedure used for abortion so while her characterization of D&C isn’t technically correct since the pregnancy was already lost, it’s not “far from an abortion.” Actually isn’t it kind of close? In all seriousness? I’ve had two miscarriages and one D&C (which then resulted in Asherman’s Sydrome and…

Don’t shoot the messenger, the local talk is that the reason the jury recommended such a light (non) sentence is because the victim is black.

A friend’s daughter was on a basketball team that David coached and my friend has never seen the show and I was wildly excited at this news and said “oh, Shannon is crazy.” And my friend said “oh, I know.”

I have twice in the last 6 months traveled with a baby who came down with rotavirus the day of an air flight. What’s worse than traveling with a baby, you ask. Well, traveling with a baby who has diarrhea. Not just any diarrhea either. Rotavirus diarrhea which is super rancid. AND said baby actually got the damn…

I didn’t have any bruises from doing the shots - and I did IVF 4 times. I don’t think it would be super hard to hide it if you were so inclined.

I’ve got some shoes that need peeing on, the cat previously assigned to that duty went to kitty heaven a few months ago. We’re also going to need one to throw up on our furniture pretty soon, the one assigned to that job is pretty elderly.

This is why my husband and I, my parents, and our nanny all had TdaP boosters when our babies were newborns. The week my oldest was born someone with whooping cough was on a materity floor in another hospital in our city and exposed all the newborns. All adults should have regular boosters. If you don’t know how long…

Well I just finished reading the Arkansas Times article and I don’t even know what to say. Tragic doesn’t even begin to desribe what those kids endured, I hope that as the article indicates, they truly are in loving and safe environments now.

Me too, I watched their reality show and thought they were a good couple and she was very likable.

I love too how people act like women are using pumping as an excuse to get out of work and have some fun downtime, like a smoke break. I just finished a year of breastfeeding and so my baby would have enough milk when I was working, I had to pump 5-6 times a day, for 20 minutes at a time. Not counting the time getting…

Thanks, I just spent about 30 minutes down the rabbit hole that is Christina Fallin’s Instagram.

Before I got married I remembered a married couple I knew telling me that their therapist told them that 50% of the time you will probably hate your spouse. So I thought, oh well that sounds about right, because there was plenty of time I was annoyed by my then boyfriend who became my husband. 7 years and 1 kid into…

I’ve actually tried to do it and I can approximate it by slumping my shoulders forward then speaking from lower in my throat - sort of more guttural than regular speech. It does seem like a fair amount of effort though which makes it even more confounding.

Here’s a good article and some samples. There are 2 people in my department that have serious vocal fry - one man and one woman and it drives me insane.

Vaccine injury is a real thing. Some children have severe reactions that can be attributed to a vaccine. Not unlike how some people have severe reactions to certain prescription drugs. The government established a National Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund to compensate vaccine injury victims and to encourage…

Trace amounts in 2 vaccines is what he’s going crazy over. Thimerosol was removed as a preservative from all other childhood vaccines in 2001. Despite the fact that there is no evidence that they cause harm.

Not that long ago, I saw an article about a child who had a vaccine injury and ended up severely brain damaged from the MMR when she was 12 months old. This was a few weeks before my baby was turning 1. Despite the fact that my 8 year old is fully vaccinated, I admit, it kind of freaked me out. I read about vaccine…

What bugs me is the bullshit about parental choice. They absolutely have a choice, they can vaccinate their kids and send them to school with the rest of the kids whose parents don’t want them exposed to vaccine preventable illness or they can choose not to vaccinate their kids and home school them. They only care…