No, we only like to wallow in self-pity and discuss childbirth and our periods.

Good response :)

It’s such a time commitment, I understand why it wouldn’t be at the top of everyone’s list. Yes, you’re a mom and need to spend a lot of time with your child, but you also need freedom, because you’re a person, not just a baby caregiver. Some babies become so into the boob, they won’t take a bottle, so you’re stuck…

Common chimps do that, because females nurse and care for their young for so long, they’re off the market sexually for quite a while, and a male chimp’s natural instinct is to spread his seed.

He was hanging out back there, holding my hand, then the nurse told him to grab a leg. He freaked out, but it was a nurse on one leg, my doctor in front of me, and him, so he had no options. He’s about to go through it again. Maybe he’ll be spared this time.

I’m sorry!

That was my thought, but I didn’t know if it’s considered rude to do in the US. Here, everyone speaks English, but with the accents, the locals don’t understand us and we don’t understand them very well, so pointing to menu items is the norm.

Michelle probably breastfed, but I guarantee she hid away in a room to do it, for fear her kids might see a nipple, so the boys never see a breast until they’re married. And there’s no way there was co-ed bathing, like in normal homes.

I’ve been told that the hospital where I’m delivering automatically hands you a “doggy bag” with your placenta, so you can take it home. I guess that’s a thing in SE Asia? Yuck. I’m going to let them know ahead of time to toss that fucking thing.

Not at all. They’re really easy.

The only good thing about childbirth (besides the obvious... the baby!) is that I didn’t have to see a single thing going on down there. My poor husband had to see it all.

If you’re breastfeeding, they bring the baby in and wake you up every time they cry, anyway, so having them in the room really is the same thing. If you’re not going to nurse, though, definitely send them to the nursery and get some rest. Every single inch of your body hurts and you need to sleep after going through…

Just my opinion, but C-sections are more expensive (hospitals in the US are for-profit) and they’re easier for doctors when a problem arises. Obviously, they are necessary in many cases, but they’re also far too often used when a vaginal birth could be possible.

I think it’s a combination of him having serious issues and being raised in a fundie household. I don’t think most sexually repressed teenagers growing up in fundie families would resort to what he resorted to. I think it takes someone particularly depraved to do such a thing. Normal, sexually repressed 14-year-old…

Most “curious about girls” issues would go away when he’s a toddler and asks why he has a penis and his sister doesn’t - if he lived in a normal household. I wouldn’t be surprised if a the basic knowledge of anatomy that most children have wasn’t even discussed in their home.

From what I’ve read about her, she doesn’t fully embrace creationism, either. She doesn’t think either “theory” can be proven. However, she’s a Bible-thumper, who’s proven that she’s leaning towards the stupid side of things.

She homeschools...

Nope, we were in Newfoundland... WERE being the key word there, because fuck that place. I hated it there. They call it “The Rock”, I call it “The Heaping Pile of Shit”. Full of idiots.

Wait, she really talks about all of the money spent to build the Field Museum?!?! It was built in the 1920’s!

I didn’t get that far. I couldn’t handle her for more than about five minutes. My husband managed to get through the entire thing, but I think he must have a high tolerance for stupidity, which I don’t possess. I may give it another go, because I remember it being funny (in a completely terrifying, “People really…