My husband and I have a rule for dealing with familial conflict: it’s your mother, you deal with it. Aka if his mother pisses me off, he has to talk to her about it and resolve it. If my dad does something that he thinks is unacceptable, I fix it to husbands liking. It has worked really well for us and shows our…

I had an ear drum burst due to infection. I have also delivered a baby without medication. Delivery wins, but only by a hair. Eardrum damage is gnarly.

Oh man, that’s intense. I was given propofol to bring down my insanely high blood pressure at 30 weeks pregnant, but I was so stressed out that I was 90% lucid (and thankfully my bp lowered enough that between propofol and mag everyone was less stressed). The nurses said they had never seen anyone get such a high…

SAME

INSTANT POT FOR SURE. Pressure cooker, slow cooker, sauté pot.....AMAZING!

INSTANT POT FOR SURE. Pressure cooker, slow cooker, sauté pot.....AMAZING!

My (awful) SIL insisted her babies/toddlers be vegetarian, because she couldn’t commit to the lifestyle but she *could* manage to force them to follow it!

That is hilarious! I went for a run near the waterfront when I first moved to Bordeaux, and people were baffled. Someone thought I was a shoplifter? Another guy ran alongside me for a quick minute looking very confused. This was nearly 10 years ago so maybe things have changed, but I only jogged in parks after that.

Yeah, the conspiracy people are bananas. I used to live in France, and the whole no one bothered to point the security camera at the buildings entrance is such a typical French move imo. There’s quite a bit of half assing in a way that’s amusing and baffling to Americans. Living in it was equal parts amusing and…

Such a great thread idea! My almost 3 year old daughter just started saying, “I love you mommy” to me every day. She’s always loved me fiercely, but having her tell me unprompted and usually with a giant snuggle just melts my heart. Also, my one year old is now saying “mamamamamama” when he wants me, which is pretty…

I can’t believe this but SAME. Yikes.

That guy is such a piece of shit.

VEEP!!!! It’s amazing because it’s so so so so funny (just, like, nonstop hilarity) and every single character is terrible so you don’t even care when bad things happen to them.

Me when I saw the car photo: NO

The Huggies diapers exclusive to Costco are amaaaaazing. We paid way too much money for pampers swaddlers for way too long (our first was in the hospital for a long time and they used pampers so we just kept with it for a while), and were truly amazed when we made the switch. Also, shitting oh Mickey Mouse is also…

I was always given a spot on the subway when I was pregnant and visiting NYC....maybe because I was riding during non peak times for touristy stuff instead of during commute times? Bordeaux, France was a whoooooole other story though. Young men would not give up their seats for elderly disabled people, let alone my…

He’s your sex idiot. That’s okay.

I’m kindly fighting the good fight down thread. I cannot believe the amount of shit you’ve received from wishing you could eat in peace at a restaurant and pay for the privilege of doing so.

Literally everything you said fulfilled my expectation for your level of being simultaneously entitled and aggrieved. Sorry that people are sometimes awful and you decided to not only assign their failures to every parent ever, but to also whine about why it is harder for a mother to show up for unreasonable work…

Another ride or die breeder for diclegis. That stuff is a lifesaver.

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