It’s not domesticated. It’s tame. There is a world of difference, starting at the genetic level.

Yes, I’m sorry to say he has daughters, too. It’s beyond sad. One can only hope that some of these kids rebel later in life. It happens. The bad part is they are still fucked up for life.

I live in Boulder CO. I have seen some world class women policing other women competitive pregnancy/delivery/parenting crap.

With interest - he had genuinely never heard of those terms. And I was complaining to him about someone else, not him. One of my colleagues thinks that he mansplains (but never about work stuff), but to me it comes across as dad or grandpa-splaining, where he genuinely wants to help, so it doesn’t bother me.

I’m so glad at least one guy stepped in because I doubt these highly evolved men would have listened to a little old women. I had an epidural for each of my totally normal births after pretty good pregnancies and my husband still was thanking God that I was alive and made it though. Because it is painful and he was…

I’m pretty sure if a baby comes out, it’s “actually labor.” But I don’t have kids and am not a scientist so I could be wrong.

And I hope you told them to avoid anesthesia when they go to the dentist, because it isn’t really a root canal if you don’t feel it.

Sorry you are having such a bad time. Hope when that lil baby comes out it is so cute you forget all the misery!

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

Oh honey. I am so sorry! I had a high-risk pregnancy (and fainted in prenatal yoga, after which I was too embarrassed to go back) but you are really getting the sharp end of the stick. I hope you don’t have too much much longer until you are due?

Give me their names and addresses and I will cockpunch them until they see the error of their ways.

Bless your hyperemetic little heart. I’m so sorry.

I fractured my tailbone during birth! Avoid that if possible! And I had a bunch of people telling me that epidurals are the worst, but if I hadn’t had one I would not have been able to push after my tailbone broke. Just get through it, okay? I’m sorry you are having such a rough pregnancy.

Jeezus fuck if anyone had offered me hyperemesis meds I’d have downed them like crazy. NOBODY who hasn’t experienced hyperemesis knows what it’s like.

Oh my god I am SO sorry. May your epidural “take” immediately and may your delivery be sweet and painless. All I can offer is, after 40 weeks of nausea and puking during two pregnancies, it stopped IMMEDIATELY after birth, and I was starving! Maybe get that great husband of yours to have snacks on hand, just in case.

Holy moly. The therapist wasn’t mansplaining though, right? Just general dudes at work, etc? I hope therapy guy was supportive.

Oh hell. Take the epidural if you want it! For shit’s sake!

Fuck those dudes.

Wanting pain meds during labour does NOT make one a wuss.

My last two pregnancies were atrocious. I had given myself thousands of injections, weekly US’s, all that goes along with gestational diabetes and a blood clotting disorder, “advanced maternal age”, yada, yada, yada.

My best labor was with my middle child (even though it was also a godawful experience for many…