There were at least 15 people in the room when she was born - I was there so long that there were shift changes and it was a quiet night so everyone seemed to meet me at some point. I was told that I had become a little famous for being in active labor longer than anyone that year, for screaming for longer than anyone…
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Fast labors are overrated. You want to be in labor, at minimum, four hours. It’s hard on the body, the baby and your brain when they shoot out of you. Signed - someone whose last kid came out in 33 minutes, start to finish.
Well. My active labor with my second child happened in less than two hours. If my husband hadn’t broken the speed limit and blown through a couple of red lights (this was at 2am, nobody on the road, fortunately) the kid would’ve been born in the car. As it was, I was in the ER for all of five minutes and the OB on…
It must have something to do with the air pressure. Or something. The same thing that causes me to get a massive zit in the middle of my face that I definitely didn’t have when I boarded.
“I’d replied that his generation was the first one to have grown up completely under the false emergent, purpose driven, emotional, romantic, mystical model.” My AP US History was a decade ago, but I think this has been a complaint since the Second Great Awakening. Probably earlier!
It’s odd to see so many replies—-on Jezebel of all places—-questioning the mother’s right to breastfeed wherever she damn well pleases.
If you wait, sometimes even ten minutes, you get mastitis. Mastitis fucking sucks. Also when you have a kid their crying triggers engorgement and milk flow- which hurts if there’s not a tiny hot mouth getting the milk out. Also it hurts a mother’s soul and is extremely distressing. Nature!
It has nothing to do with babies “starving.” As a matter of fact, I’m nursing my daughter right now (at home), but I have no qualms about nursing in public. I don’t use a cover, either (I’ve tried but she hates it and I’m not going to wrestle a baby who has my nipple in her mouth). And while sure, the baby CAN wait,…
The baby will just be crying for those ten minutes, nonstop. A baby’s needs and its wants are the same thing. Crying is their only form of communication, and they don’t understand waiting because they don’t understand time. So the baby won't starve, but you can't explain that to him, because he's a baby.
Eight more of these, on the other hand...
This type of compassion and decency doesn’t even come at the expense of the letter of the law; it elevates the law.
Absolutely not. We her, and need more people like her, in lower courts, where day-to-day decisions get made.
Amber Wolf for SCOTUS
When you sit in a court of law day in and day out, it’s easy to forget that your litigants are human beings with lives outside of the justice system. Good on Judge Wolf for not forgetting and for not being afraid to sometimes let common sense prevail over the black letter law. She is a credit to the bar.
The horor!
My ex worked at a hotel Prince stayed in and a memo came down that when the purple one came through, no one was allowed to look at him. Not even his direction. And he still ran through with a jacket over his head.
I’m surprised because, for one shining moment, he didn’t have the smallest hands in the room.
They’re cute. I still prefer the historical aspect of the traditional American Girl dolls though.
LOL @ the durable hair part. My sister fucked up her American Girl doll’s hair so badly that my parents had to send it to a doll fixing shop place in Ohio to get it fixed.