Definitely! As in me yelling to my kid "don't you make me cross!" It'd just be weird to say "don't make me cross, Cross!."

Strap on your skates, Gordie, you're going in!

Hah! I have the same thing, only replace "Muslim communist gonna destroy our country" with "don't wish me a happy holidays it's CHRISTmas" (from someone who is on her 3rd divorce, and hasn't seen the inside of a church in years and "vaxines will kill you and your babys!!1 it's all a big farma conspeeracee!" and "i…

Ok now I feel like a complete asshole, this was taken at their stillborn daughter's funeral.

I'm all good. My infertility was secondary so we have a 5 year old boy and we now have a 4 month old girl to close things out. It isn't what we imagined our life would be like but we are definitely making the best of it and so appreciative of what we have.

Ok I've read 20 weeks, you say 17… and the blog (in the comments) says they found out at 19w1d and that ultrasounds dated the pregnancy to being about 16 weeks (at that timeframe it's hard to tell exact sizing, depends on how good the radiologist is. That'd make it technically a miscarriage I concede, I just think…

No, I'm sorry I came off as some weirdo internet shamer, that's not cool at all. I just mean to say that her early arrival due to preeclampsia and her late loss aren't necessarily because of her age (though at her age it is a pretty high risk operation and egg quality diminishes with age and so does preeclampsia risk…

Awesome. I was going to go with "can't we just get the BDSM stuff out I ordered for once? I think you'd look great in a ball gag" but yours is totally better.

Boys too when you don't stomp them into being boys who do boy things. My son regularly steals my phone and throws the best dance parties to daft punk in the living room.

It's so you don't tempt men to rape you I believe. They're so feeble minded that if they can see more than a flash of ankle or wrist they re unable to control themselves, and it'd be an awful shame if you caused yourself to be raped or sexually assaulted and caused the family shame.

I'm in my thirties and had a still birth and several miscarriages - should I quit? Women of all ages experience stillbirth and chromosomal abnormalities that lead to fetal death. Sure, it's more likely when you're her age because eggs have a finite life span but it isn't just older women this is happening to. (I'm…

After 20 weeks gestation it's a stillbirth. It's a lot more difficult to go through than your standard run of the mill miscarriage.

Actually she had a stillbirth. When you lose a baby after 20 weeks gestation it's considered stillbirth. (and I don't care who you are, it is really effing brutal to go through)

I love lee valley! I could spend a fortune there!

Hah! The midwives were there less than an hour before my son was born… the first who visited said I wasn't in labour and told me our son wouldn't be born for at least another 24 hours, and had better toughen up if I wanted a home birth.. he was here less than 4 hours later. My husband didn't believe me that he…

Meh wasn't scary for me, I lost too much blood to be conscious to I was delightfully unaware of the whole mess. Definitely no need to defend a section to me (or anyone really), lots of mums and babies truly need them and I was expecting to have one myself. Too much of motherhood is being judged by others, which…

Hah too funny! I was induced and barely made it to the hospital from home - my first was a planned home birth with midwives.

Good for you! I have friends who didn't have that experience, and really had a hard time recovering. My second kid was delivered naturally but I spent her first 7-8 hours in surgery for placenta problems (it's a first world privilege that I'm here typing and didn't croak) and it took a full day before they would let…

I can imagine - I'm sorry. To be fair I'm not saying it's not all sunshine and roses on the other side (one of my kids was born doing the superman pose with his fist above his head creating what I'd call a "triangle of doom.") Still overall a good experience as I love being a parent more than anything and I'd go…

I dunno man, the recovery time kinda terrifies the bejeebus out of me. That's some MAJOR surgery. Nearly had to have a section with my 2nd and am glad I didn't have to.