I got a combo whooping cough/tetanus shot a month or so ago as a fuck you to this crap. Best sore arm ever.

My neighbor, who doesn't believe in vaccinating her kids, is freaking out about Ebola. Doesn't give a shit about protecting her kids from very preventable, very common illnesses but is worried about something there is less than a 1% chance of getting. Ugh.

I find it telling that so many people are comparing abortion to open-heart surgery and tumor surgery. It's not surgery. Still, I'm not saying people aren't emotional. I'm saying there isn't an assumption that they are for other standard medical procedures, whereas there is a huge myth that the emotional reaction to an…

Yeah, to me it rises to the point of giving me the creeps. She is doing something she finds difficult, and apparently consoling herself by telling herself that she will . . . get pregnant with the same fetus again one day? It's a bizarre line of thinking, bordering on delusion.

Over-emphasizing the emotional aspect of getting an abortion is a direct response to decades of anti-abortionists insisting that women who need to terminate a pregnancy, and do so, are all flighty little bubbleheads who have no idea what they are doing, and are too cavalier about it to be entrusted with the right to…

I totally understand the trepidation, but at the same time it kind of makes me mad. A woman shouldn't have hold back or curtail her feelings or thoughts or how she made her decision because it doesn't align perfectly with one agenda or another or because she has to fear her choice will be used against her and other…

It's a medical procedure. Some people get scared, some get sad, some don't care, some are over-the-moon when it's over. The fact that everyone is always emphasizing the emotional reaction strikes me as very sexist - no one doggedly asks men for their emotional reactions after their medical procedures.

While I'm certain this individual feels legitimate stress over her decision, I take HUGE issues with this pervasive narrative thay abortion is always a massive decision with overwhelming emotional consequences, and this is why we should always respect a woman's right to choose.

Same for me with the two miscarriages I had. I was blue for a few days, but not devastated. I know people in similar circumstances who were paralyzed with grief. The way I see it, I lost two pregnancies, not two babies.

Sometimes it is an easy decision. Sometimes there are no emotions involved at all. I feel for women that struggle with it.

Actually, his wife has a daughter from a previous relationship. No baby Twitches just yet. STAY STRONG.

Yeah, that's kind of my go to for every time my sons snivel over a little cut. "So you severed a tendon in your hand, whoopdie friggin doo! I pushed a 7 pound baby out of a tiny tube without anesthesia and I didn't cry, I just threatened to kill the nurse!"

The fact that people can't tell if you're joking or not is fucking delightful.

I would agree with you, but having a c-section for things outside of one's control isn't even failure. Failing is doing everything you can to succeed but not being able to manage things within your control (IMO.) It's not getting a passing mark on an exam because you didn't study well enough.

I found birth to be over rated. Don't get me wrong...meeting your baby for the first time is an indescribable moment. But everything before that? Overrated. Its painful and then it is over. Months out it usually doesn't matter how your kid was born. It's like focusing too much on your wedding vs. Your marriage. The…

Well, this is just ridiculous. the Internet has taught me that when properly performed, motherhood is unceasing toil and self-sacrifice, and the only joy to be found is in loudly proclaiming other mothers' efforts to be inferior to your own.

The "birthing experience" seemed like a means to an end: the end being a baby, who is awesome, and who I was very excited to meet.

Her doctors should be brought up on charges. 96 hours!?

Yes yes, all of this is true, but...

I kind of love you. " When nature wants you dead, fuck nature". Yes, I am happy to be here and to have my alive children. I have three whereas my good buddy Nature would have left me with one.