Exploiting My Baby : A Blog by Teresa Strasser

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 [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

      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 [...]