My wife is expecting our first, due tomorrow (!!!), and is sitting on the couch next to me as I write this. Things are happening “down there” and we’re sort of shocked that the baby might actually arrive on his due date. I like to think that us seeing Captain America: Civil War this afternoon might have gotten the…

I’m 9 weeks pregnant with my first (after an IUI and a year and a half of trying) and although it’s super early I’m already anxious about the whole “giving birth” part. These stories, some of which are a bit harrowing, have made me feel a bit calmer!

If it weren’t for Forza, maybe he would have learned not to drive so damned fast in the rain.

The police don’t have scuba equipment on-hand to stage a fucking night-time rescue at night in 15 feet of water in the dark with zero visibilty. It’s Florida, there’s alligators everywhere, and the headline of this story and the police demonization is mis-guided and ignorant.

why don’t you steal cars and run from police

Because no one has overcome a life of crime? Nah, fuck the idea that their lives were worthless. Even the shittiest person has some value and dignity asjust being a person.

They might have taken off their seatbelts to you know. Try and escape the car?

Deserve doesn't mean we care any less either. Like I said to the other guy, judging them because they were criminals is wrong especially because they were so young. We don't know what kind of life hey had to have made them go to a life of crime.

Of course you can't blame the officers. If they hadn't ran they wouldn't have went into the pond. But at the same time like I said, a lot of people on here seem to be fine with the fact that 3 kids just drowned. Mistake or not, bad behavior or not that's wrong.

I guess it’s only a matter of time before an actual one in a million case comes up...

This fails to account for how often survival instincts are stupid things that lead us towards making the wrong choice in a given scenario. ‘Stay in the shelter, it’s dangerous outside’ is a survival instinct. It just happened to the be the wrong one in this situation, but the guy couldn’t get past that until…

Yeah, I don’t understand that either. Is shooting hoops by yourself depressing? Is playing guitar without a band depressing? Is cooking a nice meal for yourself depressing? Nope, nuh-uh, and not at all.

Many hobbies are things people usually do alone(model building, reading, art). Boardgaming is lucky enough to have human interaction most of the time, but why is the fact you can still do the thing you love, even if you have no one else to play with at the time, depressing?

Last week one of the girls from Teen Mom made headlines when she had her hair styled into dreadlocks. As soon as there was an outcry that this was cultural appropriation the masses of the internet came out to say there’s no such thing as cultural appropriation/ she was just admiring black culture/ PC culture has…

My mom is physical therapist and her old practice used to have tons of patients coming in who had been screwed up by chiropractors. To this day she practically spits that they are allowed to refer to themselves as “Doctor.”

I don’t think that’s what the quote was saying, they were just pulling examples from that idea. I am completely on conventional medicine’s side, but I would like to try natural childbirth when I have a kid. I like the idea of being present throughout it and letting my body do the awesome things its capable of doing.

lol fair. It’s just.. I’m a googler. I research everything. I just want to be able to reach out to people who aren’t nutters about whatever weird shit my body or my kid does and hear “Oh no, that’s normal, relax” and not “You should really be drinking a tincture of tea tree oil for that”. I don’t really have parent…

My old boss told me a bizarre story about when his second kid was born. His wife went into labor maybe a week before the due date and in the middle of the night (as seems wont to happen). When they showed up at the hospital, they wanted to know when the appointment they’d originally made was. This was such a confusing…

Ugh, my sister’s friend recently had a baby at home with just the services of a ‘natural midwife’ who I have to believe is a charlatan. When the mother was informed that her baby was breech and there wasn’t enough amniotic fluid to turn the baby safely, she and this fucking monster of a midwife ‘did some research’ and…

I fucking hate the term “natural childbirth.” What you want is an unmedicated vaginal birth. There’s nothing “natural” about giving birth in a hospital under the supervision of doctors and nurses or in a manmade bathtub. Truly natural childbirth is fucking dangerous and traumatic, and medical technology has made it…