Exploiting My Baby : A Blog by Teresa Strasser

Being pregnant for the first time I’m scared and I want my mommy. I just don’t want my mommy. My mom hates babies and kids, always has. She didn’t put her cigarette out on my arm or throw me in a pit of snakes, but having kids just wasn’t her diaper bag, and it showed. [...]

If you’re thinking about conceiving, or certainly if you are already pregnant, there is some pretty convincing evidence that instead of just swallowing, say, folic acid, you might want to swallow something else. Let me be delicate about this, if I can. As far as I can tell, not only should you be having lots [...]

When I first found out I was having a boy, there were the stages of grief. You know, shock, denial, numbness, staring paralyzed, mouth slightly agape, at all the racks of cute girlie shit in the baby store until the clerk probably thought I was having a mild stroke. Now, that has all gone away. [...]

  I just lost my job. You can even read all about it in the papers, which gives it an extra sprinkling of shame. On the other hand, if you work in TV – unless you work for “America’s Most Wanted” or “60 Minutes,” your show will eventually get cancelled, as did my deep cable [...]