fun fact: I have a close family friend who attended one of Trump’s weddings (I guess maybe Ivanna?). he was the date at the time of someone who had... whatever connections you needed to get an invite. he said it was the most overt display of pointless, tasteless expenditure he’s ever seen, and yet the food wasn’t even…

that’s actually the worst—I’m sorry! if you like gatorade but can’t keep it down, sometimes it can help to freeze an ice-cube tray full of it, and eat one cube at a time.

I appreciate them announcing this with enough advance notice for me to thoroughly avoid all Southwest flights in the future.

ugh. and the even worse variant: “you would be so pretty if you just smiled.”

doing this to people at their place of business is a whole next level of power-play. I’m sorry you’re in that position. (and thanks for the reminder that this happens to men, too!)

seriously.

I thought this too—my first reaction was “throw hot coffee at it!” Though I’m sure that in the actual moment, I would have been too surprised/frozen/alarmed to have thought of that.

THIIIIIS.

oh, great point! it would definitely depend on whether the previous sections were scheduled or not. (my first labor was 44 hours before things turned and I was rushed into the OR, so in that sense I was lucky going into the VBAC bc my body considered it as a second labor, not a first.)

My understanding is that uterine rupture is made much more likely when there’s that scar from where the previous baby was MacDuff’d out of there. The likelihood of rupture is still low (around 1%), but if there is rupture the mother could bleed out, and the fetus could die or suffer serious brain damage from oxygen…

I’m not a medical expert, but I am currently pretty well informed about the risks of VBACs, since I had one a few months ago (successful, thankfully!). I feel like we don’t have enough details from both sides of this particular story, so I’ll just say some general things based on my experience & my research:

I got it from my mom’s Trixie Belden books, which is basically the same source.

but they are only the contents distributor, not it’s producer.

last lines of the shooting script:

I’d give you more than one star if I could, but instead let me just thank you for an impressively insightful and fair breakdown of the situation, especially given that I’m assuming* you haven’t been in that position yourself. I’m glad for your wife and sister and SIL that they had someone like you supporting them,…

Risking your life for a dog is flat out stupid human.

so, foxes typically live in dens or burrows. Foxx has a superfluous (yet, I would argue, awesome) X, and Holmes is really an L away from homes, so to be true to the spirits of both names the only real option is #Burrowwls.

yes! I kind of think of him a little like Bart Simpson: he’s written for us to enjoy his irreverent antics, but where Bart is on a show where he can stay a 10-year-old forever, Jim gets older, and so his schtick gets old.

seriously, that performance completely changed my understanding of Henry IV.