Hmm. that seems odd. My coworker had an inversion with her first baby... we go to the same OB practice and they do it all the time. The factor really is whether there is enough amniotic fluid, but at 35 weeks, you should have more than enough. It’s not comfortable, but it worked fine.

So I can’t watch it. I just, can’t. But I’m curious, did the boys end their time with Jackson by choice? Or did they get to “old” for him and he sent them packing? (shudder)

I wrote above that I also have only encountered helpful people and people who were not visibly bothered when I’ve flown with my kids. I had help, and still people would talk to them and make faces. I don’t know who all these assholes are...

no, please, please. do it. It helps. You are a new face, and so long as they are secure with their parent, your new face is interesting, and enough to distract. If you EVER got negative feedback from a parent when doing that, they are 1) and asshole and 2) the minority, I promise.

Honestly, I can say that the two times I’ve traveled with my kids, once with my oldest when she was 2, and then when she was 4 and the baby was 10 months, I got no bad vibes. Not sure if I didn’t notice, but it was actually more of the other. People who thought they were delightful. It was more obvious with my two…

Did you lean over and say um, “please don’t do that?” I tend to not say stuff when people recline (though I hate it and think it’s one of the worst things you can do) but, I know if the seat does it, I can’t in all reality ask them not too. But throwing shit, uh uh.

When i flew with my then 4 year old, she had little toddler earphones to watch Elmo. Also, i was obsessively watching her feet. If she so much as twitched a foot I’d grab her leg. Anyone who lets their kid kick the seat in front of them is an asshole.

my spouse never did. I wanted him no where near them. The last thing i wanted was another person on my boobs who didn’t need to be there.

My brother in law is in recovery and he made his first foray out to a wedding, a family wedding (and the family has a problematic relationship with alcohol.) It was hard. I wasn’t drinking either because I was not feeling well, even though normally at a wedding, and not having my kids for three days would be a free…

I didn’t modify my drinking while nursing... I guess because I only drink on weekends, and it takes me 5 or 6 hours to have 3 glasses of wine.. I think the amount of alcohol that gets into the infant is not much, I never saw any indications of it. I guess i say this because I know moms who want a glass of wine or…

I’ve seen it once as well. And I guess I’m a sociopath too, cuz not one tear was shed. I hate tear jerkers, when its fake and manipulated I can keep a stiff upper lip. Yet when I watch cute commercials of soldiers coming home to their little kids or dogs I get teary. 

I HATE THIS. it makes me so ragey. This woman I was in school with used to do it, for no reason. I understand others fashion choices should not matter or impact me, whatever whatever. I HATE IT

It’s so weird how this works. I’ve been afraid of flying for years. Like, forever, yet I do because I have too. Though my irrationality is so different. So, I take xanax, lots of xanax. It works, until it doesn’t. I must have an aisle seat. I will only take the center seat if I have too, or if my husband or a friend…

Thank you. I’m tired of this. It is all well and good to think capitalism is horrible and needs to go, it is quite another to think that it will go away in a country that was founded on it. Like, one of the main reasons, aside from religious freedom, this country was even founded was because the framers believed in…

This is my thing. While I agree with many progressive positions, and maybe I’m just old and jaded, but I don’t believe capitalism is going away ever. We like the European model but we forget that those countries are much, much older than ours, nor were they founded on principles of capitalism and individualism. The…

The Popsecret homestyle popcorn is actually great! It’s pretty low calorie, so there isn’t much to it. Probably a good option to satisfy right before a meal.

So I’d encourage you to research that. They are finding that even with metabolic issues, the predictor of health is physical activity. In other words, its no the fat, its not moving. A sedentary thin person can probably get away with it better than a sedentary fat person, but movement and rigorous exercise limits the…

I think because the saying is being said by a conventionally thin white woman at the gym. I totally agree with you, and I myself also exercise because otherwise I don’t feel right. But a good way of explaining it is that I actually worked out 5 days a week after both my kids were born (starting when they were about 7…

You know what? You’re right. That is the only way that privileged, conventionally pretty people won’t take it over and use it to sell shit. Because it’s still the hated word. I still have friends who refuse to use it, even though it describes them. Hell, I hate using it, it makes me cringe, still to this day.

So I have been told by everyone that I have very expressive eyebrows and general expressions. You can read everything, especially the judgement, like a book! Even in front of a judge, which in my line of work is not a great idea. So, I did botox out of vanity, and i can still express, but it is a bit hampered, i’m…