Good! And good luck. The whole system is so nuts, from the short maternity leaves to the shortage of affordable care!

I am an attorney who works a lot and is on partner track etc - but I am fucking burnt out. My dad is dying and I now cannot believe that I didn’t visit the past 2 summers because of work. I just had a kid and am desperate to find an in house job because the thought of not spending time with him in order to do the shit…

Love DermaE’s hyluronic acid line, especially the serum and the night time moisturizer. The moisturizer feels heavy but I can somehow use it year round!

Minor panic attack this week - my husband handled contacting daycares after we found out I was pregnant. Baby is six weeks so maternity leave is half over (ahhhhh!). He told me he had confirmed a spot at this daycare two blocks from our house. Last week, I saw that a licensed in-home day care that families really like…

I started a bedtime routine with my five week old not expecting it to have any effect on his sleep patterns at all - it’s mainly for me to get in the habit for a few weeks from now when he can differentiate between day and night AND to prompt myself to take an evening nap before I am up with him at night. But it’s…

If you have an irregular cycle, then the apps are garbage. I used an app for six months, no luck, got pregnant the first month I used an ovulation test strip.

I am so sorry for the loss of your dad.

Thanks! I actually ended up in the hospital briefly with dehydration. It was causing contractions. No labor and feeling significantly better after the IV fluids. Went home and caught a 4 hour nap, which was glorious. That’s the longest I have slept in weeks.

I am on night two of the worst stomach flu or food poisoning I have had in over a decade. I am almost 39 weeks pregnant. Whyyyyy is it worse at night?!! I am so miserable.

I accidentally grew pumpkins one year after my mom threw our painted pumpkins into our garden patch instead of the trash. We only got two big ones. I would recommend remembering to turn the pumpkins periodically so the ground side doesn’t rot on the vine.

My grandma is sort of the same. She’s mean and religious and abused my mom and uncle horiffically. I don’t speak to her, not intentionally - it’s just that neither of us makes the effort. I would go to her funeral to be there for my mother, but that would be the only reason why. I couldn’t stand the church friends…

I went on Zoloft while pregnant. I had s stomach ache for about three days and was a little sleepy, but I took it before bed so that wasn’t an issue. The stomach ache went away and didn’t reoccur when I stepped up my dosage.

My clients are emailing me wanting all this work and I am almost 39 weeks pregnant. My boss keeps asking me how involved i want to be while on maternity leave, and I finally sort of snapped at him that I have never had a baby before so I have no idea what my life will be like, so I really don’t know.

I am an attorney - been here for years. I am really good at what I do. Partner track. All that. Admitting that I had depression felt risky, but I had to. My performance had declined so precipitously over the past two months. My concern was that my workplace, which has few mothers, would associate the decline with my…

People who have serious symptoms and post on the boards instead of calling their doctor concern me. It makes no sense to me why anyone would trust an internet stranger’s medical advice especially during pregnancy, which is pretty dangerous.

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Sorry! And thank you!

I KNOW.

I am the highest level woman on a team of mostly men, and I had to tell my boss today that my performance is suffering because I am depressed and had not recognized the signs / symptoms until it was really, really bad. His response was positive, which felt good, but I still feel somewhat isolated being the only woman.

As someone who is about to pop a baby outta her vag and has spent too much time on pregnancy message boards, you’d be amazed at some of the questions on there. And the pictures. Imagine posting a pic of a blob that just came out of your vagina on the internet and asking strangers if they think it’s your mucus plug.