At least one of my baby’s nurses has nails this long and she’s totally fine! (She wears gloves for diaper changing but still, they never get in the way). I usually don’t let mine grow because they’re bendy and tend to crack/rip at the very base of the free part, but when I have, it’s also fine! Changing a baby is not…

I was cheated out of a normal pregnancy, delivery and first year of my child (so far) by preeclampsia, and I feel this kind of bitterness from time to time. As I’ve made my peace with it, I usually feel happy that other women don’t have to go through this because it really fucking sucks. THAT SAID I’m sure when she’s…

As my baby is in home care most of her diapers are changed by the nurses and not us. I think I’ve changed her three times this week. I don’t mind doing it (yet!!!) but it’s great not to. I will miss that when this stage is over! I don’t even know if we’ll be able to afford even a regular nanny later.

I think I watched up to the season 5 finale (what happened??? I have no idea, but I remember this insufferable priest?). Then I gave birth 15 weeks too soon to a baby barely heavier than a pound, and saw a lot of blood and stuff and faced death every day, and I could never ever watch the show again. My husband did a…

Re: tulle wars, Di Mondo did it better here in bumfuck South America. He was magnificent.

Thanks :) as my baby was a tiny micropreemie it was really important that she got whatever milk I could provide, as she missed the whole trimester when babies get antibodies and stuff. I managed half an ounce a day for about four months, then quit. I think my guilt was more “I couldn’t carry her to term and now I…

Yep, it’s standard protocol to help women lactate, too. I took domperidone, sulpiride and metoclopramide to produce more prolactin - I think none of these are approved in the US but are easily available overseas. It didn’t work for me but I didn’t MUCH feel like a failure because we don’t have hordes of lactivists…

This is a wonderful recommendation!

I’m not American so I can be excused lol but really, I want to watch it. I’ll try.

I mean, I want to but I heard/read it’s a scary movie and I really don’t like scary movies. I last saw The Woman in Black in the theater and it was very generic scary movie stuff, and I had a horrible time. Please tell me otherwise (maybe it’s a regular thriller and I misread?) so I’ll woman up and watch it.

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Good luck! The right medication makes a world of difference. I had to up my meds about two months ago as I was still falling further down into the hole, but I seem to have stabilized. I mean, I’m not better, but I’m not getting worse so that’s something. I hope you find the correct medication/combination soon!

Hi! I haven’t checked in in a long while but I thought you guys would want to know how Catalina is doing! Info and pics to follow!

Mine is: this guy spent $300 playing Pokemon Go even when his family is super poor at the moment because of assorted medical bills, so his partner made him sleep in the couch and is considering kicking him out for good.

There’s this prof at my university who left his longtime partner for a student, then married said student, and a couple years later left her for a freshman in my class (10 years ago). Last I heard he married this one too.

Where did you get singular aspiration from? One can want motherhood but that doesn’t mean one doesn’t want other things, too. I had always wanted to be a mom. Always, and the urge got worse after 16 or so. It didn’t happen for over ten years and in the meantime I went and got a degree and a Master’s, bought two…

Pregnancy sucks and can also kill you. Having been there at death’s door I am scared shitless of getting pregnant again (I kinda want to do it at some point but right now, terrifying.)

Best tip in the history of the world right here!

I loved this post. I took Latin in college as part of my Linguistics major and it was always great fun. Then we had a course on the history of Spanish (my mother tongue) and it was fun writing down all the subsequent phonetic changes that gave us modern words from Latin ones, eg. going from lepore to liebre (rabbit).…

Counterpoint: many people, me included, look like shit before 25.