Exploiting My Baby : A Blog by Teresa Strasser

Here’s what you need to know about exclusively breast fed babies: they can levitate. That’s what I learned last night during a three-hour breast-feeding class. They also have x-ray vision, are immune to disease, are more likely to win Nobel Prizes, recycle, live meaningful lives, understand James Joyce, love fully, donate to NPR pledge drives, [...]

The Mr. and I head down to the mall to get my ring removed after my hands swelled to corpse-like proportions. Perhaps my wussy attitude toward ring removal does not bode well for childbirth. I always thought I had a high pain tolerance, but this is not a rugged display. Preggisode Week 35: Lordy, These [...]

Hey other pregnant ladies, quit avoiding my gaze. All I want to do is chat you up, and find out how many weeks pregnant you are and maybe talk some shop – you know, where you’re delivering, what you take for heartburn, what you think of cord blood banking and the new iPhone app that [...]

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 [...]