Omg pregnancy puking. Ugh. My midwife misdiagnosed mine as ‘severe morning sickness’ and just told me to try ginger (like I wasn’t already mainlining ginger paste). I puked at least twice a day every day of my pregnancy, and then for another 25 days pp. Took my kid’s pediatrician to casually diagnose fucking…

ok, everyone officially needs to chill it out re: breastfeeding. this has become a violent swing in the opposite direction. the truth is, we mamas love our babies and are doing what we can do. there is no right way-just trendy ways, it seems...

Like Virgina Is for Fighters I absolutely understand where you are coming from.

I want to bring you out with my new ‘mom friends’. I have a 3-month-old, and the vast majority of my friends are not having kids/not having kids yet so I feel like a kid at summer camp trying to find pals to hang out with at 11:30 on a Tuesday. I joined my hospital’s mom-and-me group and hit the jackpot. One woman…

I see we’re talking on a couple of threads...BUT...I am a huge proponent of meds during pregnancy and postpartum. Taking care of a mom’s mental health is just as important (if not more) as the baby’s health.

OK. I had prenatal depression and severe postpartum depression. I hated being pregnant the whole time. It was scary and really hard.

I hope you punched your “friend” in the boob after she said that.

exactly that is why it’s just MEAN. I’m sorry you’re going through it. My sister in law had to do the same thing, and while she was actually okayed to breast feed she felt she wasn’t getting enough milk so she decided not to. While I don’t think I would have made the choice I support it completely because it WORKED…

you really don’t. If there is something that has been made clear to me, the kind of person that can’t bother to be around when your life changes wasn’t really a friend.

that’s so awful I’m sorry you’ve gotten that reaction. Sometimes it’s not a choice, and also even if it was why would someone let that keep them from being friends? I could see if you were an antivaxxer or something but come on.

People are turning you away for not breastfeeding?!?!?!!!!!??? What the actual fuck? They sound like pretentious assholes that would be awful to be around. I will be your long distance buddy and I don’t care how you feed your child! :)

I didn’t breastfeed (had a reduction and couldn’t produce) and my genius kid is starting Kindergarten early and is never sick. Most of our more vocal and judgmental breastfeeding “friends” are parenting special snowflakes who eat dirt and act like jerks on the playground while giving my spouse pneumonia. Let’s see,…

I have a two month old. Best piece of advice I got about cloth diapering was to put him in a long-wear disposable overnight because the cloth aren’t as absorbent and they’ll wake up more frequently. So that’s what we do, cloth all day and evening and then one disposable gets us through the night to the morning. And…

lol, if by a snowball’s chance in hell I actually have kids, I will bottlefeed them strictly out of defiance

Geez, people are nuts (not you, in case that isn’t obvious). Who cares how you feed your baby, as long as you are feeding him/her?

I understand the medical stuff completely. I can’t breastfeed—boy never latched, but I do pump. Honestly, at this point, I pump because I’m cheap and stubborn and the milk is free (and my pump was free with Obamacare). Everyone tells me that I’m so dedicated but it’s not that—I’m just too damn stubborn. But I also…

Jesus what @ ‘do the right thing’

I know you don’t need it, but:

Do you have a postpartum support group in your area? I go to one of those and I find that it’s a pretty chill environment because we all had horrible pregnancies, most of us stopped breastfeeding because of hormones and we are not exactly the crunchy crowd.

I hope your shitty friend changes her mind and does the right thing