“This water was HOT AND CLEAR when I started.”
Dear Parents: Please Clean Your Kids Pack ‘n Play Regularly
I Got A Burn From A PLANT Comparable To A 2nd Degree Chemical Burn
“My hope in posting this unfortunate news is to create greater awareness for what WILD PARSNIP is.”
‘Umm… your mom is sitting on the floor. She tried to get up by herself.’ ‘I’ll be right there.’
“It is now 11:00 p.m. and I am tired. I crawl in bed, and as I put my glasses on my nightstand my phone buzzes. NOOOOO! I lift it up hoping, just this once, I’m wrong. Nope, I’m right. ‘Hi Dad.'”
‘You are NOT a widow.’
“It might be meant to be funny and it might be catchy, but if you are saying it and your husband is still alive, you are using the term wrong. You are not a widow.”
‘Overnight, our 15-month-old’s personality changed. A once easy-going child turned aggressive, OCD’ish.’: Mom learns of son’s PANDAS/PANS diagnosis, ‘There was ZERO doubt in my mind he had this’
“He would scream bloody murder to get in the bath tub, and became obsessed with wearing ‘soft’ clothes. It was like walking on eggshells since an explosion could happen at any moment for no reason. I chalked it up to him being a toddler, with a new baby brother and all the changes military life brings. Over time, I knew this was not the case.”
My Best Friend Donated Her Eggs To Me
“Never would I have ever thought of using an egg donor, let alone a known donor.”
Dear Society, Remember Every Heroin Addict Is Someone’s Child
“My heroin addict never hangs up the phone without telling me he loves me. My heroin addict thanks me with tears in his eyes when I visit him in jail. My heroin addict apologizes when he can’t control his addiction.”
When Your Delivery Is The Dreaded Unplanned C-Section
“I mourned the loss of a ‘natural birth’ for months, for years.”
It’s Time To Let Moms Sleep
“You’d never get into a taxi with a sleepy driver, right? Or trust a life guard who is dozing off by the pool? Or hire a security guard who is constantly yawning and too exhausted to react in a crisis?”
‘I was told I have a heart-shaped uterus, but I’m not feeling the love.’
“I did what most of us do, but know we shouldn’t. I Googled ‘heart-shaped uterus’ and its risk factors. What I found on the internet gave me a panic attack. Why didn’t I know about this during my first pregnancy? If we had known, could we have saved him?”