Pregnancy news alert!!

[lagizma]

As always, Madeleine is here to bring pregnancy conversation to the table:
As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies-more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year.

Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for

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I already plan to purchase your kid rub-on tattoos and a drum set.

[lagizma]

Oh, it's true. Your baby even came up in therapy. I told Dr. Wittenberg that my cats were awesome and I loved coming home to them and they'd made the last year of my life very happy, which led into me declaring I was never having children. He was really taken aback, and questioned why I didn't think I'd have children. And I was like, dude, no, I'm not working on the fact that I don't want to have children. That's just a fact and I don't need therapy for it.

He told me children bring great things into your life. I was like, no, Brad and Jenn have much great joy but also no sleep, franticness, fear of ruining a living human being, worries about keeping this fragile thing alive, parents who think you could be more motherly in some way, strange in-laws who don't help, dogs who need to be walked more, a million freakin' bottles to wash instead of books to read, no time to enjoy food and drink alone, life away from their office, and...

He kind of laughed at me. He told me that it was only really bad for the first few months. Whatever.

So, yeah, I DO love your kid and I want to nibble his extremities and he's fascinating to study. I even like him for extended periods of time. I'd just rather he's ultimately your responsibility, but I am totally up for rolling my sleeves up and pitching in. Plus he's really freakin' adorable.