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Vanity Fair Helps Me With “Exploiting My Baby”

Teresa Strasser — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:11:30 +0000

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.

Nathaniel James

Teresa Strasser — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:41:02 +0000

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 [...]

Babymoon in Vegas: Bet on a Crisis

Teresa Strasser — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:43:31 +0000

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 [...]

Inner Child, Meet New Baby, Please Don’t Smother It

Teresa Strasser — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:27:36 +0000

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. [...]

News About Pregnancy That Doesn’t Suck, But Suggests That You Do

Teresa Strasser — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:29:40 +0000

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 [...]

Exploiting My Meltdown

Teresa Strasser — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:16:13 +0000

Preggisode: Week 11 from Teresa Strasser on Vimeo. If I’m going to exploit my baby, why not start now, by exploiting my pregnancy-related emotional problems? In this video, my husband tapes me freaking out during my first trimester. Someone told us to keep a video diary. Self absorption meets hormone surge and they get along [...]

Name Napping is So Wrong, But I Got Nothin’

Teresa Strasser — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:32:28 +0000

I know from that stupidly catchy viral “Pregnant Women are Smug” song that pregnant women don’t usually share the names they’ve chosen for their babies. That may be a smug choice, sure, but I think I get it now. You let the name cat out of the bag, and everyone judges the cat, they [...]

People I Want to Punch II: My Least Popular Opinion

Teresa Strasser — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:24:31 +0000

Sometimes, other pregnant women work my nerves. Mainly, I love them. I am collecting pregnant women right now because together we share what some might call “acquired situational narcissism,” but what I prefer to think of as “it’s all about us!” Who else would even bother pretending to give a crap about [...]

My Chemical Romance: I Miss You, Toxins

Teresa Strasser — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:30:06 +0000

Even someone like me who isn’t particularly good with babies, who looks at them and says things like “Hey, buddy. Look at your little face,” before resorting to peek-a-boo and than running of out material, even I try to err on the side of caution when it comes to most chemicals. After years [...]

Bad Move: Calling Nancy O’Dell a “C-Word”

Teresa Strasser — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:44:27 +0000

Almost every idiotic thing I do can be traced back to one basic flaw: trying too hard. This explains how I ended up calling Nancy O’Dell a “stupid c-word.”

That’s right. I called America’s sweetheart a “c-word” on the Adam Carolla Podcast and I may have done it more than once, although it’s all a bit of a blur now, except oniTunes, where it screeches out at you with perfect clarity.