Totally understood.

Me too. We have nowhere to go. My husband is a citizen of another country and my daughter is a dual citizen.

Yes. Placental abruption, accreta, etc. make the risk of death for 3rd babies (and there’s a related, if less-risky trend line for mothers) as high as the risk of death by uterine rupture (rare and usually non-fatal) from a VBAC for most 2nd babies. IOW, VBACs are lower risk than 3+ C/S. But they’re de facto banned in…

Bob Woodward is still there.

A professional? Like a homebirth midwife? Mine, like many, were CNMs.

She’s such a ringer, and I am so here for it.

Thank you for this brilliant idea!

One certainly hopes that’s the gender Alexis recently told the family Alexis identified with. Otherwise, that would suck.

I kind of disagree, though. As a counterpoint, I have made it a point to teach my daughter the word “vulva” from birth— and made my husband use it. My daughter, at 3.5, uses it very confidently and accurately, and I can tell you both from hearing my husband squeak it out (at first— now it’s second nature) and from…

NOW THAT SONG IS IN MY HEAD DANG YOU TO HECK

Second verse, same as the first:

Their pumpkin beer is the best pumpkin beer.

Me rn:

Thank you for this reference. Filipino Mr. Dorothy and I can’t hear the word without making a dark joke about it.

I want to go on record as saying I SWEAR I only noticed the grammatical error because it was part of a thought so excellent I read it several times, but...

This will sadly be lost at the bottom of the comment pile. 10/10 would read again

This dude commenting at 538 was like, “Hillary’s hair looks terrible! When will she release her health records?” And I was like...

I have a late-70s fetish and I need to be IN THAT LOVE BOAT PIC RIGHT NOW

This. It’s not her first materni-rodeo. She already had the extra skin (subtle though it may have looked).