Babies/fetuses are a lot more resilient than we give them credit for.

Happened to me. I was on birth control that messed with my cycle, never got morning sickness, never really got weird cravings (no more so than usual - I once went out in a snowstorm for the sole purpose of feeding a craving for Honey Nut Cheerios and I was not pregnant at the time, so.) and because I was very active,…

Me too! I work from home and having some coffee in the pot is like a security blanket for me. I know it’s there if I need it. So the next morning I’ll just brew some fresh coffee on top of the old stuff. I even scoop the new coffee grounds on top of the old coffee grounds still in the filter from the day before (you…

I remember being a server once and having to redo a party’s checks because I put one woman’s $2 soda on someone else’s check.

That’s exactly what I ended up doing with my first! Seriously, he basically only came out of the wrap for feedings and changing for the first six weeks of his life. Most of my isolation was due to my depression - I had one incident where he had a meltdown at the grocery store and I felt like everyone was glaring at me…

What a kind comment to read first thing in the morning, thank you! You sound like a great sister. And yeah, “cute larvae” about sums it up. Cute only gives so much entertainment value before you’re like “... ok now what?” If it helps I’m sure it was a lifeline to your sister to have another grown up to interact with.

Yep, people talk about tantrums as something that needs to be shut down immediately because “they need to learn that it’s not acceptable behavior or else they’ll be throwing tantrums as a teenager,” so they spank their kids or put them in time out over it. Uh, that’s like punishing a kid for not being able to do…

For me, the rude surprise was that you never relax 100%, even when you do get to read or binge-watch TV. You’re on edge wondering if that was the baby just making noises in his/her sleep or if she/he’s waking up, keeping an eye on the clock to make sure you’re home before nap time, etc.

Yep, babies and puppies both. The cuteness wears off fairly quickly and then you just have to basically stare at it all day so it doesn’t shit on the carpet.

Like, as much as he wants to talk about how this is way too tough for him to do, she’s so much better at it and that’s awesome, go Mom, I wonder how much that carries over when, say, his co-worker goes on maternity leave and he has to pick up some of the slack because his employer won’t hire a temp? Or asks for a more…

My apartment was never as clean as it was when my son was a baby, because he loved being in a carrier and walked around so I’d basically pop him into a sling and then clean the apartment every day. We also went for walks all the time.

Alternately, the mother who does do all those things and basically treats being a mother like her “job” is mocked as being a “helicopter parent” because GOD, it’s just raising a child, it’s not rocket science!

YES YES YES YES. I haaaate when people tell new moms with small babies “it only gets harder!” because it is so incredibly unhelpful and not (necessarily) true. I had bad PPD with my son when he was a baby but now that my son is three I am honestly relishing this time with him. Maybe for the person who just looooves…

Having a baby is simultaneously extremely draining and extremely boring. Draining because you have to be focused on the baby all day because otherwise s/he will get grouchy and cranky, but boring because there’s only so much you can do with her/him. And you can’t get out very much because babies need to nap every 2…

Oh Lord, the “is he hungry” people. Flashbacks to when my son was an infant, anyone who knew I was breastfeeding would tell me he was hungry if he even fussed a tiny bit.

My son called his an “uh-oh.” This came from when my husband or I would take it away and put it somewhere out of eyesight, when he spotted it and point at it, we’d mutter “uh-oh.”

My son did the same thing right before he turned 3! I had this big plan that on his third birthday we’d explain that he was too big for pacifiers anymore and he had to trade them in for big-boy toys. Then one night he was mad about having to go to bed so he chucked them out of his crib and yelled at me when I tried to…

This is my fear, too. Hillary is considered the antichrist as far as Republicans are concerned (as moderate as she truly is) and Bernie Sanders is too far left for any of them to vote for. They’d vote Trump over either of them and convince themselves it was the lesser of two evils.

BUT MICHAEL BROWN WAS TRYING TO KILL HIM.

I burn easily and haven’t even had one that bad, and just thinking about the misery I’ve been in from the sunburns I’ve had makes me so furious for those poor boys. Poor babies. I’d be on an absolutely goddamn motherfucking warpath if that happened to my kid.