It was rough. We didn't find out the gender, and I think the combination of the two, not knowing the gender and therefore not being able to refer to it by name, plus the ongoing fear that we'd lose him, kept me from feeling as connected to him as I did with my first two before they were born. And it was exhausting, of…

This is awesome.

I sent out baby announcements at 14 weeks. Then was diagnosed with early onset preeclampsia at 16 weeks and told the baby might be born around 24 weeks when it had a small chance of survival. I wished mightily I could have the announcements back, let me tell you. Side note: baby made it to 36 weeks and 5 days and is…

Time for my favorite bad manager story! This was a terrible workplace, really awful. I was in a car accident once and had a concussion and couldn’t get permission to take the day off to go to the doctor. Like, it was a terrible workplace. One day they held an all staff meeting and the manager said, I shit you not this…

I assume for the same reasons mine isn’t. Mostly because I don't have the money to have the best freaking skin care available. :/

Sweet lord almighty, that's way too far to drive.

Are you anywhere near close enough to a bigger city that you could take the munchkin to, find a specialist that way?

I'm still on house arrest as part of my c-section recovery. No fun here, either. The highlight of my day so far was addressing baby announcements. Later my neighbors will terrify the dog with hours of fireworks.

I had recently read the book when Hunchback came out and I remember thinking that Disney kept the character names and not much else from the source material. Which is actually the only reasonable choice for a children's movie.

If I remember correctly, it all happened off camera and was only implied and not explicitly stated.

Anastasia, with Meg Ryan. Because when making a movie aimed at children, the Russian revolution and Rasputin are the first thing that come to mind.

I need to question the inclusion of tomatoes on nachos. I know it's a popular practice in some areas, but still.

It’s probably at least partly the postpartum emotions, but I've been crying off and on since I heard he'd passed. His words were so incredibly powerful. He changed lives. May his memory be a blessing.

No kidding. It makes me so furious, shit like this. There are people who would love to be able to have a baby of their own, who would love it and give it proper care, and seeing people like this treating their children with this level of carelessness and stupidity....it's such a terrible thing. Hopefully this baby…

I said, I hope the dragons can fish. What are they going to for food that whole trip?

This is somewhat unrelated, but I do have documented Native American ancestry, specifically, my great grandmothers sister was listed as full blooded and lived on a reservation. But my ancestry.com DNA test shows zero Native American anything. So that DNA test that Scott Walker is so excited about is not actually the…

I had that same question early in my pregnancy. The answer was, there's one guy in my town who can do it. My doctor can't, because he has admitting privileges at a catholic hospital. I'd be subject to the time restrictions, which would mean that I'd have to try to get that appointment done within 4 weeks of the…

Gareth. We’ve already had a million conversations that go like this: Gareth. Like Garrett, but with an h. It’s Welsh. No, we’re not Welsh, we just like the name. Lol. We’ll have that same conversation his entire life, I can see it coming.

That’s the truth. I was, of course, chained to my hospital bed for the first 24 hours and my husband (of the zero baby experience) was responsible for keeping the baby alive. I remember coming out of the pain meds briefly to see him staring at the baby in its crib. Apparently he was under the impress that one of us…

I think of my triggers the way I think of food allergies. They aren't my fault, but I need to be vigilant.