Comments for Exploiting My Baby : A Blog by Teresa Strasser

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Mich

Mich — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:10:53 +0000

Music appreciation class for my boy is watching The Lawrence Welk Show on PBS. We’ll graduate him to Neil someday.

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Mary

Mary — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:51:01 +0000

Go here if you want to know what you have to look forward to…

Love the blog and podcast, by the way.

http://paradigmthrift.blogspot.com/

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Mary

Mary — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:20:09 +0000

I KNEW IT- thank you for attending that hellish baby music class so I don’t have to. I just knew it would be stupid and horrible and pointless for a 2 month old- hello, he doesn’t even know he has hands yet!- but felt a little guilt about not going, after listening to the other moms in breastfeeding class talk about it.

I hate forced group anything with a passion!! I suspect there will be more of these things as our babies get older- LETS RESIST WITH ALL OUR MIGHT!!

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:59:51 +0000

Hey T! I saw a clip of you on youtube. You look great! How’d you lose all the baby weight so fast? I think that would be a great topic for your podcast; how to lose weight after having a baby. You look fantastic.

Comment on Nathaniel James by Alyssa

Alyssa — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:31:14 +0000

Teresa, I’ve been following your blog at the advice of my brother, and have appreciated, so much, your wit and humor throughout my own pregnancy. I just had own baby – William – two weeks ago, and like you, can’t believe how dopey in love I am with him. Like Buster, he was born via C-section (unplanned), and again, like you, I can believe how gnarly the surgery was and how long recovery is forecast. I hope you are healing well, and that nuzzling your baby’s fuzzy head continues to help. It certainly does for me. All the best, and many congrats!

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Mary

Mary — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:26:05 +0000

Did I misspell experiment? What did I say about being a ‘tard?

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Mary

Mary — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:24:04 +0000

I don’t know if I’m doing this right – I’m kind of a ‘tard when it comes to tech. But I love The Parent Experiement, live days with Adam (although it seems like you and I are the only women who love Adam), and your blog.

So you should check out my site! You may not be there with the thrifting, and your Buster is younger than my kids, but I think my blog rocks.

http://paradigmthrift.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-just-dont-get-it.html

Comment on The Rabbi, My Mother and the Bag of Crap by April

April — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:04:51 +0000

I have so much in common with this blog it’s ridiculous. I have been estranged from my father and had a lot of issues with reconnecting. My son, David, made it easier. He is the buffer, as much as I try to deny it. But it’s working itself out, and I am okay with that. I too had a difficult delivery, and while I didn’t have a c-section, I did flood the toilet with extraordinary amounts of crap, and my husband also had to come to my rescue with a plunger and towels. My son is two years old and I literally forgot to have him baptized. I don’t take tons of pictures and I am allergic to keeping a babybook and tumbling class. You may very well be elected Mayor of the commune I eventually want to build. Love your words. Well done.

Comment on Name Napping is So Wrong, But I Got Nothin’ by Libby

Libby — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:06:10 +0000

Our daughter would have been Duncan James had she been our son, so feel free to use it.

Comment on Using the Term “Celeb” Very Loosely by Russ

Russ — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:30:51 +0000

Teresa,

I just started listening to AC podcast- it never occurred to me that you might be a babe… I guess I just had it in my head that you were some old married mom. So glad I saw a picture of you while poking around the Ace network page. You give me one mega boner- keep up the good work.

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Andy

Andy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:05:47 +0000

Though I have no kids, I’d have to agree. All it takes is to think about
1. How long these classes have existed and
2. Whether being a kid now is really any better developmentally than ever before.
To realize they are unnecessary except for the person teaching them, to make money because no sane person would hire someone who thinks they’re creating the next Mozart or Rembrant out of a 6 month old by giving them fingerprint and a tambourine.
By the way, big fan since the radio show, and you are definitely the best looking woman I have spent more time listening to than looking at hah. Kind of a shame really.

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Andy

Andy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:56:46 +0000

maggie-
if you felt tortured, you should’ve stopped. Real torture is when your strapped to a table with a hot poker in your ass and you have no choice but to lay there and take it. You chose to listen to it and you couldve just turned it off at the mention of vicodin and had a wonderful day. I’m glad your recovering,keep it up, but don’t blame teresa for this.

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Michelle from Six in the City

Michelle from Six in the City — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:12:12 +0000

Just found your blog after watching you on Dr Phil. Loving your blog and your honesty about parenting!

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Ri

Ri — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:50:27 +0000

Please. No more Melissa Rivers. She is so strident and tiresome.

Subscribe and loved the first 3 episodes.

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by AlysonO

AlysonO — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:59:12 +0000

TERESA!!!! OMG I just saw a clip on youtube of the Parent Experiment – YOU LOOK INCREDIBLE!!! HOW DID YOU DO THAT!?!? You look like you didn’t even have a baby!!!!! I AM SO WICKEDLY IMPRESSED and JEALOUS because I have a feeling I WILL NOT be that lucky!! Just had to tell you- LOOKIN’ GOOD!!!

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Wade

Wade — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:31:51 +0000

Hey T,
Was listening to you on Adam’s podcast and heard you describe this blog and your podcast. Let me just say I LOVE The Parent Experiment podcast. It made me laugh all the way to work today and everything was soooo true. I’ve even tasted the milk.

Once at work, I passed my Iphone to my partner (Police Detectives) who is currently pregnant and watched her laugh the entire time. Now she demands I burn her a disk of all the episodes because she doesn’t have access to podcasts (?).

Can’t wait to share all this with my wife tonight at home.

KEEP UP WITH THE TRUTH!

Wade.

Comment on Why Julia Roberts’ Ass Has Cultural Significance by Greta Koenigin

Greta Koenigin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:32:16 +0000

I have opted to go tat-free since the presence of one would pressure me to make the rest of myself cool. My not-so Angie physique would look weird wrapped in leather. So it’s Ann Taylor for me, on a good day. Good for you that you can resist, because time and Ann Taylor happen to a lot of us, even when Oprah does not.

Comment on People I Want to Punch II: My Least Popular Opinion by Greta Koenigin

Greta Koenigin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:21:41 +0000

Pregnant women want to control EVERYTHING that relates to THEIR unborn messiahs, so they, as the carefully selected purveyors of God’s kid, will control how much enthusiasm everyone gets to have. Not caring about the design and cost of the final round of diaper bag options=’Can you believe that?’ Touching the bump=’Whatever! Loser-asshole.’ Not wanting to touch the bump in first place=unforgivable.

Just WAIT til you get to the PTA. You’ve never know the desire to punch until you’ve ratified the installation of a $75 bench.

Comment on Did Not Appreciate Music Appreciation Class by Diana

Diana — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:13:57 +0000

you are the best mother ever.

Comment on Are Breast Feeding Classes For Boobs? by Fearless Formula Feeder

Fearless Formula Feeder — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:04:57 +0000

Thanks a lot, Teresa. My sides are killing me right now. That was farking hilarious. We need more humor about this subject, and thank god people like you are seeing the idiocracy (is that just a mike judge term or an actual word? I’m too lazy to look it up) in the breast vs bottle debate.

I felt the same way as you did – that there was no middle ground. So I started blogging about it. Not sure what you ended up doing as this blog was written awhile ago, but if you did end up formula feeding (and even if you didn’t), you mind find it interesting. I feel strongly that while breastfeeding can be a great thing, we have been grossly oversold the benefits, and basically guilt-tripped into it. (And I know guilt. I’m Jewish.)
It can be great, but only if it is something that a woman chooses to do regardless of the propaganda.