It’s not gross per seach, but my favorite medical moment happened just after my daughter was born. We had some complications which meant she needed to make a fast exit. That required forceps and I ended up with a healthy baby but a 3rd degree tear.

My first thought when I read that was, “This guy does not have kids or spend time with small people.”

I have a copper IUD, got it after my (planned) child was born. I’d done various hormonal birth controls for over a decade and while I never had major problems, they did all eventually kind of go wrong on me - I’d have break through bleeding at inconvenient times.

I think this gets so very lost in sleep discussions but is VITAL. We sleep trained a lot for my child, she was sleep deprived, it’s an important skill, but we did it a LOT for me. Cosleeping was awful for me. The baby was waking up every 2-3 hours and I was waking up IN BETWEEN her wake ups as well. For 6 months. …

Addressing it early is more about getting the right developmental window and before kids develop bad habits. Independent sleep and connecting sleep cycles is a skill, much like learning a language. If you want to pick up Cantonese, it’s easiest to do it when you’re little. It’s not that you can’t do it when you’re…

It is.

Stared for the pic of the original Harley Quinn out of my deep and abiding love of BtAS.

Even a blind squirrel gets a nut sometimes.

I needs the science cross stitch! Needs. It.

$12,732 not including fundraisersome, activity fees, and field trips for full time care of a 3 year old.

I love the hyperbole of proclaiming something like football uniforms and abomination unto the Lord. There just isn’t a satisfy secular equivalent. I assume the language will continue to evolve though if wet keep trending more and more secular.

Welp.

Same. I feel like she is counting down the DAYS until she is done with this first lady nonsense. She probably has one of those event clocks that counts down days, hours, minutes, and seconds until she’s done. As amazing as a first lady as she is (and is she ever amazing!) I’ve always gotten the feeling that it’s a…

That might be the most baffling part. It’s so transparently manipulative, she knows it, I know it and it still melts me into goo. The fact that she’s trying to manipulate me may even make it more endearing.

The St. Louis Magic House is Amazing! They have a vandegraph generator, and shadow photography and a 3 story slide!

I have one that’s almost 3 and I am consistently amazed by how, even at this tender age, she seems to know exactly when I’ve reached the point where I’m ready to send discreet inquiries to every circus within 100 miles to see if they’d like a deal on a preschooler. She will then declare, “I love you so much!” Or…

HOLY SHIT WHAT IS WRONG WITH US? IT’S THE FUCKING PRESIDENCY WE SHOULD WANT SOMEONE AS PREPARED AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. I CAN’T EVEN MAKE A SCORNFUL ANALOGY, “IT’S THE PRESIDENCY NOT A ___,” BECAUSE I LITERALLY CANT THINK OF ANYTHING AN ADULT WOULD DO THAT THEY WOULDN’T PREPARE FOR. IMPROVISERS FUCKING PREPARE. …

I have a small person and we’re working hard on enforcing physical autonomy (you don’t have to touch other people and you can say they can’t touch you) but it’s not incomparable with teaching manners.

Your stuff is lovely!

I’m so sorry you lost your brother. Condolences to you and your family.