Exploiting My Baby : A Blog by Teresa Strasser

How about a reason to buy my book on Wednesday, January 3rd? Vanity Fair just named it one of their HOT PICKS for 2011. Now me and Depp have even more in common.

He was known as Frank Breech, but after a C-Section and a few days of toiling over his official name, Frank “Buster” Breech became Nathaniel James. He was born 7.7 pounds, and when he came out, he looked purple like a bunch of grapes held up at a Sunday farmer’s market. I don’t know who [...]

On the way to Vegas, things start to go wrong, as they so often do, at the Mad Greek. Within a couple of hours, I will be trying to locate the nearest hospital, but now I’m just waiting for the beefy, sunburned guy in front of me to stop yelling at the clerk about his [...]

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. [...]