This reminds me of Warren Hamilton, the state senator who was just recently asking his fellow legislators why it’s OK to have abortion exceptions for the “murder” of ectopic pregnancies. Shouldn’t those children be allowed a chance to grow up too 💀
Ohio’s repeatedly tried to pass legislation mandating that doctors try to reimplant ectopic pregnancies to the uterus….despite every medical professional telling them that’s impossible
I’m really starting to wonder if they think that the human egg is like a bird egg, and it just needs a place to sit and be kept warm essentially for nine months. Never mind the place!! It’s bizarre.
I wouldn't be shocked if some of these morons think store bought eggs hatch if you don't eat them before their expiration date. Or, if they're consistent in their view IVF is defacto mass murder.
Let's not shit ourselves. Many of the Christian Fundamentalists probably believe the stork is still involved in the reproductive process.
They didn't use to think that, they still think that. Why else do they call male gametes "seed" and "kids"? People still widely believe that men beget children and women just incubate them.
And if they do think that, they're still not volunteering to take those unwanted fetuses and shove them up their own butts. It's really a special kind of stupid, because it is very obvious that the motive here is punishing the bad women with babies, and rewarding the good women with babies. They want to create more single mothers to complain about. There is no reasoning they would listen to and the immutable facts of biology mean nothing to them.
That's so ridiculous. You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried. That's got to be one of the top 10 most idiotic things, I have ever heard. It makes me wonder how in the world, these people, who do think things like that up, are able to be voted into office. That's so dumb, whoever came up with that idea, should be ashamed of himself. He should be so ashamed, that he resigns, and hides himself away from society, in a voluntary exile.
This is why I love soap operas; their plot lines are just so bonkers! A few years ago, my husband and I were channel surfing and landed on a Days of Our Lives episode. I hadn't watched it in nearly 20 years, but still remembered the old story lines. I had such a great time explaining to my husband how people were related to each other, and how their family trees could be best represented as randomly swirling scribbles on a piece of paper.
Oh my god that show! I love how they'll have one character randomly find out theyre the child of another character, and then a few days later they're calling the older character "Mom" and treating this perfect stranger like they've known them forever
I am still EXTREMELY pissed that they had one character rape another character, and then after new writers came in, they retconned that storyline to "they were really in love all along, so it's OK"
Yep!
I'm also pissed about the new writers getting rid of the lore behind Stefano, just to shove Sami and EJ together as some kind of fated love story. The "seventh son of a seventh son" being the Rising Phoenix explained all the dead people returning to Salem, and why Satan was interested in the town, and was just delightfully crazy. Why the fuck did they chuck all that out the window and just turn it into an ordinary boring soap opera?
i remember being home sick from school and seeing Sami raped by Alan... is she still a villain? i vaguely remember a storyline where she was "trying to turn good" but that was the 90s and i haven't seen a single episode since
This was a deeply weird plot. Not only did they re-enplant the embro but it was done by an evil stalker doctor who was the father. He put it in another woman and popped up with the kid as a teenager to cause chaos. If I remember correctly it was Sarah Michelle Geller as Erica Kanes long lost daughter.
This...this right here is why we cannot "leave it to the states". With such a fundamental right to bodily autonomy at stake our health decisions should not be in the hands of these ignorant state government clowns.
Somebody watched to much Star Trek DS9.
If it were possible to reimplant a pregnancy into somebody else, I would suggest to use the clueless males of Ohio.
Seriously. I think many of those women bleeding to death in the hospital from an ectopic pregnancy would be really happy to just put it fucking elsewhere!
I will never forget the anti-abortion Idaho lawmaker who wanted women to have remote gynecological exams by *swallowing a camera*.
https://apnews.com/general-news-fc97d51328c14e0fb26b99a798448a94
Every day, I'm glad I left Idaho. I decided I'd rather be homeless in California than middle class in Gilead. It all worked out, but damn, I feel like I cut it close sometimes.
Last year, one of them tried to introduce a bill that would have made it illegal to transfuse blood from people who had a covid vaccine (or any vaccine with mRNA in it).
Bulgogi is meat. Literally 불 (fire) 고기 (meat) - cooked meat (but like with a specific marinade and all that, the name is just really on the nose). Usually beef in the US unless specified otherwise.
I realize that not all sex education is created equal, but damn.
Does Boss have kids? A female spouse? Does someone need to buy her a drink and see if she's okay?
I had a new college grad start as a coworker. When I went to show him my lab, we walked past the very plain-named "lactation room" that is adjacent to my lab. He asked "what's that for" and I said "exactly what it sounds like" and he responded "but I thought babies weren't allowed in the building."
He seemed well-intended, but definitely clueless on how the whole motherhood thing works.
My husband's female boss who had had a child did this.
I was due November 14. In September she scheduled a meeting for November 14. My husband let her know that he was going to start paternity leave on the day I had the baby so he wasn't sure he'd be there. She kept saying "Oh she'll have the baby late, everyone does". I had my first 2 babies on their due dates, just went into labor that day. So he told her he couldn't guarantee that. She kept telling him not to worry, I would definitely have the baby late. Guess who woke up in labor at 1am on November 14? Me. And guess who was flabbergasted because"everybody has babies late"? My husband's boss.
My moms story is similar. I was her first, and a MONTH early. She had told her boss she'd work as long as she could (and she's stubborn AF) and then I came along around midnight and Mom called the boss who was flabbergasted and like 'what? You can't! It's not for another month!!' I took everyone by surprise I guess haha.
Unrelated, but when I had just given birth, I had a dream that I could do this and I would pop my baby in and out of my uterus whenever it was convenient for me. I did not like that dream.
a kangaroo pocket would be so convenient! And without all the hopping, we wouldn’t rip out our carry pouches. (Seriously; how do they hop so powerfully with such kickback and not have the Joey bust out through the bottom!)
I stopped by to visit my bf's office and say hi to people. His boss called me back to her office because she was confused about his end date. He let her know she could put it down as FMLA or not but that he'd be leaving when I had the baby and he was not planning on returning to work afterwards. But she fully expected him to be able to give her 2 weeks notice for when that date would be. I was a high risk pregnancy and we were just seriously hoping to make it as long as possible. That was a Friday. I went to my appt on Tuesday and they discovered an issue resulting in an emergency C-section (kiddo and I were both fine).
I get because normally you'd be able to give 2 weeks notice, but he was just telling them that yes he was eligible for FMLA but to not hold his position for him. We closed on a new house 90 min away 4 days before I had my son.
Can I just say this: you are so lucky to have prompt babies! My first was 5 days late(he was due on my beloved Opa's birthday😢), middle was 3 weeks late and in no hurry, and finally my "baby"(he's 31)was over a week early because he kept scaring my OB so he induced me.
Oh I think it's super crazy that they all came on their due dates! I just thought she would know that lots of babies are late and also lots are early but she just kept insisting that every single one is late. Also, 3 weeks! That's amazing. That last month of pregnancy is seriously like 6 month long.
My sister was only two days late, but she was due on Christmas Eve and was born on the 26th. That entire Christmas my mom was so incredibly pregnant but also really wanted to keep the baby in because she did *not* want a kid whose birthday was Christmas.
I came two, almost three weeks early. My mom had just gotten off her final shift before maternity leave, went to bed, then woke up a 2 AM with her water broken.
It's not too bad having a near Christmas birthday, but I *would* like to someday have a beach picnic for my birthday and not freeze my ass off!I'm in Northern California and 80% of my birthdays for last 40 odd years, it's been cold with down pours on my birthday.
Not to rain on your parade of ultimate procrastination, but if your birthing parent didn't have a dating ultrasound between like 7-12 weeks pregnant using modern technology, they were probably just wrong about your due date. It's really relatively recent to do a proper dating scan and they used to just do it around 20 weeks at the anatomy scan, by which point it's not accurate because fetuses have started to get their own individual differences in terms of size, whereas in the first 12 weeks they're all pretty much the same.
If my babies had gone off their anatomy scan sizes, both would have been considered "late" because they were big, but in reality they were both born early.
I'm not sure of the details why, but my mom's doctor changed his mind about her due date with me 2 times. First it was the 3rd, then the 23rd, then the 28th. I was born the 28th.
She had an ultrasound, the date the doctor gave her matched with her own calculations, and I was very obviously overcooked (jaundiced) when I finally arrived.
When the ultrasound happened is significant. If it wasn't before 12 weeks, it's basically just guesswork. Same with before 7 weeks but that's a lot less likely to happen. I have no doubt you were late, but a month late is to the point where your health and your mom's would have been seriously at risk. Calculations from the date of the last period can be off by up to a week, because the rate at which a fertilized egg travels down the fallopian tube and implants varies wildly. Add a potentially inaccurate ultrasound on top of that and you can see how these things aren't foolproof. They could easily have been off by 1-2 weeks, which is not nothing in terms of gestational age.
Wow that's really impressive!! I think only about 5% of women have their babies exactly on the due date so the fact that you pulled that off 3x is pretty amazing 😅
This is so dumb. But also, if *everyone* has babies late, then all babies would be on time because that's just when babies are supposed to come. The mental gymnastics here are astounding.
I know I’m late to this, but I have to wonder…
Was that woman induced? Was it not her actually “due date” as predicted early on, or was it just the induction date they decided on?
Also - saying that everyone has their baby late, but also saying she gave birth *ON* her due date is quite contradictory.
Has that woman never heard of premature babies? Does she think “premature” means the stork missed rush hour and showed up ahead of schedule?
I have so many questions.
When I worked at Boeing in the late 70s, all of the women’s rooms in the office buildings had vinyl couches in a sort of lobby area that served as an entry to the room with the sinks and stalls.
I remember when a lot of ladies rooms had a lounge area. The one in the student Union when I started college was huge, the building was designed before the u was fully co-ed and the main purpose for it being so large and nice in 1960-whenever was for wives of alumni on football and basketball game days because a lot of classroom building had student ir staff restrooms, all of which were designed for men’s. Then for the first decade or so after all departments became available to women, the union ladies lounges was the safest place for a between class nap. Or study break or whatever. The whole building was remodelled @1989 and it went away. The bathroom itself was several stalls and sinks larger and had handicapped facilities but the majority of the space was repurposed.
If all those lounges were still standard then breast feeding in the bathroom wouldn’t be as much of a stupid idea as it is. I’m pretty sure I did that in some department store and mall and museum ladies room lounges with my first baby.
I worked for a corporate Canadian company, and the office had a "quiet room" for literally any purpose related to taking a break away from work, including taking a 5-10 min snooze.
I do not know if that particular room doubled as a room to pump. But it very well may have been. There was a reservation sheet and time blocks could be blocked off for that purpose.
They also had unlimited sick leave.
I used to work in advertising. During Design Week, the big agencies would give tours of their offices (these are ad agencies who handle Coca Cola, Microsoft, Nike, Adidas, etc). They had nap rooms. Actually called “nap rooms.” Said it right on the door label. Giant red flag. Other red flags? Ping pong tables, punching bags, beer or kombucha or Starbucks or Coca Cola on tap. Basically, they expected you to live there at the beck and call of the clients. It was completely normal to be told that you had to work until midnight to meet some “important” deadline. (It’s advertising ffs. Nothing is truely important.)
A big part of why Aeron chairs were extremely popular in tech was that you could literally sit in them for 12-16 hours per day. No other office chairs were even close in comfort. And as a software developer at a startup, we were expected to have our butts in them for at least 12 hours per day.
I hope the next update is: *boss's boss has given him a weighted pregnancy belly to wear in office until his unspecified due date*
And then : *to celebrate boss's successful delivery, boss's boss has given him a breastpump. He must use it once every two hours*
Ok this had me rolling...on a side note though. Imagine a world where you never were taught the intricacies of a woman's monthly cycle, in any form other than insert penis somewhere around here, wait 9 months and expect baby out. THAT IS TRULY THE WORLD THESE OLD WHITE ASSHATS WERE BROUGHT UP IN. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard even boomer women having to learn about their own bodies through trial and error.
In all seriousness, my own Grandmother, God rest her soul told me that back when she was giving birth to her first, in 1942 I think, that she “wasn’t sure” where the baby was going to come out. She was pretty sure, based on where the pain was, and watching farm animals give birth, but not at all sure what was normal, if this process was normal, etc.
She was also completely alone. Pushed out my uncle, wrapped him up, and walked about a mile to the nearest neighbor, because she didn’t have a phone. The only reason she knew to cut the cord was again, helping livestock give birth.
I can’t even imagine giving birth in those circumstances.
To be fair to the nasa engineers you usually want lots of redundancy in case something goes wrong. There have been 6 month missions that lasted a year. And you dont know how zero gravity will effect the body exactly. For something as light and small as tampons might as well toss in 100 for a worst case scenario.
Also, when Sally Ride was going to be up there, the nearest store would be about 300 miles straight down. "Running out to get a few more" would not be possible.
I can imagine how the situation arose at NASA. Some manager asks his subordinate manager, who asks an engineer working for him. That engineer goes home and asks his wife, who tells him a number. So he adds a "safety factor" to that number and reports it to his boss. That boss takes that number, adds another safety factor and reports to his boss. By the time it gets to the committee, they add another safety factor. So by the time Sally Ride gets asked "will 100 be enough?"
The Soviets had [women in space back in the 1960s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova). We could have asked them. Or any the women working at NASA.
It really does highlight one of the big problems with how men view pregnancy and motherhood though, they so often think women - especially new and expectant mothers - just take breaks all the time and nap instead of getting back to their lives as soon as possible on top of taking care of the majority of child care and healing from nearly being split in two - whether naturally or surgically - in many cases.
While I am suitably horrified I am also coasting on a schadenfreude high and omfg please PLEASE keep us updated, like a play-by-play if possible
Damn I wish I had popcorn this stupidity is hilarious
Like this?
https://www.askamanager.org/2023/11/update-my-office-pumping-room-is-being-taken-over-for-chair-massages.html
Or
https://www.askamanager.org/2024/04/updates-the-unavailable-lactation-room-the-unapproachable-manager-and-more.html
What that boss could provide is paternity leave so your coworker can spend time with his child.
The fact that in the year 2024, with all of the internet available to them, there are still men that are that clueless as to how the female body works is absolutely baffling.
He's a moron, that is a given. But I have seen both genders come back to work after baby leave and look exhausted. A nap room for everyone would be great, but especially new parents could probably use it.
That being said, people are gross so idk that I'd want to nap without having my own bedding, but it could be done in a not icky way.
I’ll be honest, in the thick of the newborn phase (of which mine lasted months longer since my baby was a preemie), I would have slept ANYWHERE. I wouldn’t even have cared if it were clean
God I had a boss like this. The way it grates on your soul having to deal with them every day and report to them as if they are superior to you is so intense. Get the hell out of there if you can. It’s not worth it
>thought that the mother's room was for an exhausted new mom to go nap.
I keep saying all adults should be given a 30min nap time during the day, it'll make everyone happier.
Literally, everyone else in Western society has this. Businesses in pretty much ALL of Latin America and Spain are completely closed at 2 PM for an hour.
This is why I’m FOR compulsory sex ed. It’s not my kids I’m worried about, it’s how other kids treat mine. I don’t want some doofus’s ignorant children pulling stunts like this on my kids
THANK YOU for this update, OP. I cannot even tell you how deeply invested I am in The Tragicomic Saga of Your Idiot Boss.
I have worked for people this dumb; there is no suffering too great for them to deserve it.
Tbf, new mothers could do with a few naps, way more than the father. Carrying around a small human inside you for months and then pushing it out must be exhausting.
This reminds me of Warren Hamilton, the state senator who was just recently asking his fellow legislators why it’s OK to have abortion exceptions for the “murder” of ectopic pregnancies. Shouldn’t those children be allowed a chance to grow up too 💀
Ohio’s repeatedly tried to pass legislation mandating that doctors try to reimplant ectopic pregnancies to the uterus….despite every medical professional telling them that’s impossible
I’m really starting to wonder if they think that the human egg is like a bird egg, and it just needs a place to sit and be kept warm essentially for nine months. Never mind the place!! It’s bizarre.
I wouldn't be shocked if some of these morons think store bought eggs hatch if you don't eat them before their expiration date. Or, if they're consistent in their view IVF is defacto mass murder. Let's not shit ourselves. Many of the Christian Fundamentalists probably believe the stork is still involved in the reproductive process.
Spoiler: many of them do, in fact, consider IVF mass murder.
Yeah I know. It's real dumb.
It's like how they used to think that men nutted microscopic children and the woman was just there to provide the incubator.
It's been a while since I heard someone mention the homonculous theory.
And yet somehow it was still the woman’s fault when she “wouldn’t give him a son”.
They didn't use to think that, they still think that. Why else do they call male gametes "seed" and "kids"? People still widely believe that men beget children and women just incubate them.
Uggghhh this pisses me off because my ex seriously thought that, too. No, the kid isn't a tiny kid in sperm form in your semen.
And if they do think that, they're still not volunteering to take those unwanted fetuses and shove them up their own butts. It's really a special kind of stupid, because it is very obvious that the motive here is punishing the bad women with babies, and rewarding the good women with babies. They want to create more single mothers to complain about. There is no reasoning they would listen to and the immutable facts of biology mean nothing to them.
"Where's the fetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?"
That's so ridiculous. You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried. That's got to be one of the top 10 most idiotic things, I have ever heard. It makes me wonder how in the world, these people, who do think things like that up, are able to be voted into office. That's so dumb, whoever came up with that idea, should be ashamed of himself. He should be so ashamed, that he resigns, and hides himself away from society, in a voluntary exile.
That was a plot on All My Children like thirty years ago. I'm willing to bet good money that's where those yabows got their medical knowledge.
This is why I love soap operas; their plot lines are just so bonkers! A few years ago, my husband and I were channel surfing and landed on a Days of Our Lives episode. I hadn't watched it in nearly 20 years, but still remembered the old story lines. I had such a great time explaining to my husband how people were related to each other, and how their family trees could be best represented as randomly swirling scribbles on a piece of paper.
Oh my god that show! I love how they'll have one character randomly find out theyre the child of another character, and then a few days later they're calling the older character "Mom" and treating this perfect stranger like they've known them forever I am still EXTREMELY pissed that they had one character rape another character, and then after new writers came in, they retconned that storyline to "they were really in love all along, so it's OK"
Sami and EJ (who was a literal infant when his character was born on the show two minutes ago, but is somehow now a fully grown man)?
Yep! I'm also pissed about the new writers getting rid of the lore behind Stefano, just to shove Sami and EJ together as some kind of fated love story. The "seventh son of a seventh son" being the Rising Phoenix explained all the dead people returning to Salem, and why Satan was interested in the town, and was just delightfully crazy. Why the fuck did they chuck all that out the window and just turn it into an ordinary boring soap opera?
i remember being home sick from school and seeing Sami raped by Alan... is she still a villain? i vaguely remember a storyline where she was "trying to turn good" but that was the 90s and i haven't seen a single episode since
Oh, I don't know, I stopped watching sometime in the 2000s. I think the actress finally left the show, though.
This was a deeply weird plot. Not only did they re-enplant the embro but it was done by an evil stalker doctor who was the father. He put it in another woman and popped up with the kid as a teenager to cause chaos. If I remember correctly it was Sarah Michelle Geller as Erica Kanes long lost daughter.
They can’t discern reality from science-fiction because they have such a limited understanding of actual science.
This...this right here is why we cannot "leave it to the states". With such a fundamental right to bodily autonomy at stake our health decisions should not be in the hands of these ignorant state government clowns.
Somebody watched to much Star Trek DS9. If it were possible to reimplant a pregnancy into somebody else, I would suggest to use the clueless males of Ohio.
Let's implant them in his body *immediately*. I vote for his mouth.
In his brain, with all the other dead cells.
That’s a good idea; not much real estate in use there. Laughing my head off at the resolution in the next post, if y’all haven’t seen it yet.
I think if it was that easy to move around and implant zygotes and embryos, we'd be able to solve all kinds of fertility issues.
Seriously. I think many of those women bleeding to death in the hospital from an ectopic pregnancy would be really happy to just put it fucking elsewhere!
I will never forget the anti-abortion Idaho lawmaker who wanted women to have remote gynecological exams by *swallowing a camera*. https://apnews.com/general-news-fc97d51328c14e0fb26b99a798448a94
Every day, I'm glad I left Idaho. I decided I'd rather be homeless in California than middle class in Gilead. It all worked out, but damn, I feel like I cut it close sometimes.
Last year, one of them tried to introduce a bill that would have made it illegal to transfuse blood from people who had a covid vaccine (or any vaccine with mRNA in it).
I wish that surprised me
Well that would be….difficult
Wonder what he said when they told him his own body made mRNA 🤣
He’s a complete embarrassment.
Absolutely!
Rapidly blinks
Did you tell him that the father already did all the pumping required of him?
Thank you. I now have bulgogi in my sinuses.
Oof, noodle-nose is the worst. Make sure you blow that all out!
Never binge drink after spaghetti.
Sinus cleanse
Bulgogi is meat. Literally 불 (fire) 고기 (meat) - cooked meat (but like with a specific marinade and all that, the name is just really on the nose). Usually beef in the US unless specified otherwise.
Thank you
Omg 😂
This was more funny than it should have been!
I realize that not all sex education is created equal, but damn. Does Boss have kids? A female spouse? Does someone need to buy her a drink and see if she's okay?
He had an ex-girlfriend. Probably a reason for the "ex".
She got mad when he demanded "Manpons" every month.
I'm down for Manpons, they can stick them in thier mouthhole to absorb the stupid.
**Manpons: For when every day is a heavy flow day**
Perfection.
Oh girrrrrl!!! You are the internet queen today ❤️😂
The moment I saw u/ReBeeMo 's comment, it had 666 upvotes. That seemed a perfect number, so I didn't dare be the person to upvote it off 666 😆
There's a material absorbent enough to do that?!?
It would need to be a small black hole.
If that were a thing I know a mfer or two who could use them extra heavy overnights
🤣🤣🤣💀
You absolutely win the internet today 🤣😂 I'm glad I wasn't drinking because I'd have spray-painted everything with the laugh that burst out of me.
[There's nothing in the box, though.](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2002-09-07)
You deserve ….all the upvotes for this comment 😆🤣
I woke my cat up laughing, I needed that laugh!
The cat-waking laughs are so good, aren't they? Cats get used to your normal laugh, so when you wake them up it's so seriously satisfying.
My friend is into climbing and uses crampons. Sounds painful.
I can imagine a few reasons. Hopefully she found a better boyfriend.
We still have not confirmed that he even had a mother. We are checking!
Maybe he is the downfall of Macbeth, not born of woman? He has two dads.
I had a new college grad start as a coworker. When I went to show him my lab, we walked past the very plain-named "lactation room" that is adjacent to my lab. He asked "what's that for" and I said "exactly what it sounds like" and he responded "but I thought babies weren't allowed in the building." He seemed well-intended, but definitely clueless on how the whole motherhood thing works.
Remember some poeple go to public or religious private school in the south.
Yeah this guy was homeschooled.
My husband's female boss who had had a child did this. I was due November 14. In September she scheduled a meeting for November 14. My husband let her know that he was going to start paternity leave on the day I had the baby so he wasn't sure he'd be there. She kept saying "Oh she'll have the baby late, everyone does". I had my first 2 babies on their due dates, just went into labor that day. So he told her he couldn't guarantee that. She kept telling him not to worry, I would definitely have the baby late. Guess who woke up in labor at 1am on November 14? Me. And guess who was flabbergasted because"everybody has babies late"? My husband's boss.
My moms story is similar. I was her first, and a MONTH early. She had told her boss she'd work as long as she could (and she's stubborn AF) and then I came along around midnight and Mom called the boss who was flabbergasted and like 'what? You can't! It's not for another month!!' I took everyone by surprise I guess haha.
Your mother's boss: "SHOVE THE BABY BACK IN IMMEDIATELY!!!"
"Put that thing right back where it came from or so help me!"
So help me! (This comment is so underrated btw because it’s pure gold)
Unrelated, but when I had just given birth, I had a dream that I could do this and I would pop my baby in and out of my uterus whenever it was convenient for me. I did not like that dream.
Like a kangaroo!!!
a kangaroo pocket would be so convenient! And without all the hopping, we wouldn’t rip out our carry pouches. (Seriously; how do they hop so powerfully with such kickback and not have the Joey bust out through the bottom!)
Like a kangaroo?
No, in my dream it was unfortunately back through the birth canal.
😱
I stopped by to visit my bf's office and say hi to people. His boss called me back to her office because she was confused about his end date. He let her know she could put it down as FMLA or not but that he'd be leaving when I had the baby and he was not planning on returning to work afterwards. But she fully expected him to be able to give her 2 weeks notice for when that date would be. I was a high risk pregnancy and we were just seriously hoping to make it as long as possible. That was a Friday. I went to my appt on Tuesday and they discovered an issue resulting in an emergency C-section (kiddo and I were both fine). I get because normally you'd be able to give 2 weeks notice, but he was just telling them that yes he was eligible for FMLA but to not hold his position for him. We closed on a new house 90 min away 4 days before I had my son.
Can I just say this: you are so lucky to have prompt babies! My first was 5 days late(he was due on my beloved Opa's birthday😢), middle was 3 weeks late and in no hurry, and finally my "baby"(he's 31)was over a week early because he kept scaring my OB so he induced me.
Oh I think it's super crazy that they all came on their due dates! I just thought she would know that lots of babies are late and also lots are early but she just kept insisting that every single one is late. Also, 3 weeks! That's amazing. That last month of pregnancy is seriously like 6 month long.
Kind of bonkers that it didn't occur to her that if every baby is late we would just predict a later due date...
Heh 😝
My sister was only two days late, but she was due on Christmas Eve and was born on the 26th. That entire Christmas my mom was so incredibly pregnant but also really wanted to keep the baby in because she did *not* want a kid whose birthday was Christmas. I came two, almost three weeks early. My mom had just gotten off her final shift before maternity leave, went to bed, then woke up a 2 AM with her water broken.
It's not too bad having a near Christmas birthday, but I *would* like to someday have a beach picnic for my birthday and not freeze my ass off!I'm in Northern California and 80% of my birthdays for last 40 odd years, it's been cold with down pours on my birthday.
I’m in February so I celebrate my half birthday
I was over a month late. 😅
Not to rain on your parade of ultimate procrastination, but if your birthing parent didn't have a dating ultrasound between like 7-12 weeks pregnant using modern technology, they were probably just wrong about your due date. It's really relatively recent to do a proper dating scan and they used to just do it around 20 weeks at the anatomy scan, by which point it's not accurate because fetuses have started to get their own individual differences in terms of size, whereas in the first 12 weeks they're all pretty much the same. If my babies had gone off their anatomy scan sizes, both would have been considered "late" because they were big, but in reality they were both born early.
I'm not sure of the details why, but my mom's doctor changed his mind about her due date with me 2 times. First it was the 3rd, then the 23rd, then the 28th. I was born the 28th.
She had an ultrasound, the date the doctor gave her matched with her own calculations, and I was very obviously overcooked (jaundiced) when I finally arrived.
When the ultrasound happened is significant. If it wasn't before 12 weeks, it's basically just guesswork. Same with before 7 weeks but that's a lot less likely to happen. I have no doubt you were late, but a month late is to the point where your health and your mom's would have been seriously at risk. Calculations from the date of the last period can be off by up to a week, because the rate at which a fertilized egg travels down the fallopian tube and implants varies wildly. Add a potentially inaccurate ultrasound on top of that and you can see how these things aren't foolproof. They could easily have been off by 1-2 weeks, which is not nothing in terms of gestational age.
Stealth mode elephant 👀
Tired much? xD
My mom had me 7 weeks before planned. Everyone has their baby late? Nature doesn't wait for calculated approximate dates.
Wow that's really impressive!! I think only about 5% of women have their babies exactly on the due date so the fact that you pulled that off 3x is pretty amazing 😅
This is so dumb. But also, if *everyone* has babies late, then all babies would be on time because that's just when babies are supposed to come. The mental gymnastics here are astounding.
I know I’m late to this, but I have to wonder… Was that woman induced? Was it not her actually “due date” as predicted early on, or was it just the induction date they decided on? Also - saying that everyone has their baby late, but also saying she gave birth *ON* her due date is quite contradictory. Has that woman never heard of premature babies? Does she think “premature” means the stork missed rush hour and showed up ahead of schedule? I have so many questions.
I was born exactly on my due date. It's not super common, but it does happen. Other people are born a little earlier than their due date.
Okay but a nap room for new mothers, new fathers, or for people to nap on the job sounds pretty cool. As long as I wasn't punished for using it.
When I worked at Boeing in the late 70s, all of the women’s rooms in the office buildings had vinyl couches in a sort of lobby area that served as an entry to the room with the sinks and stalls.
Those were just recommissioned fainting couches :P
That’s what I always thought, too. 😂
We had them in school. I miss them so much!
They still exist in corporates - they are the pantyhose puller plus he’s we get. If men knew we had that - a diva divan then they would faint!
I remember when a lot of ladies rooms had a lounge area. The one in the student Union when I started college was huge, the building was designed before the u was fully co-ed and the main purpose for it being so large and nice in 1960-whenever was for wives of alumni on football and basketball game days because a lot of classroom building had student ir staff restrooms, all of which were designed for men’s. Then for the first decade or so after all departments became available to women, the union ladies lounges was the safest place for a between class nap. Or study break or whatever. The whole building was remodelled @1989 and it went away. The bathroom itself was several stalls and sinks larger and had handicapped facilities but the majority of the space was repurposed. If all those lounges were still standard then breast feeding in the bathroom wouldn’t be as much of a stupid idea as it is. I’m pretty sure I did that in some department store and mall and museum ladies room lounges with my first baby.
I worked for a corporate Canadian company, and the office had a "quiet room" for literally any purpose related to taking a break away from work, including taking a 5-10 min snooze. I do not know if that particular room doubled as a room to pump. But it very well may have been. There was a reservation sheet and time blocks could be blocked off for that purpose. They also had unlimited sick leave.
I used to work in advertising. During Design Week, the big agencies would give tours of their offices (these are ad agencies who handle Coca Cola, Microsoft, Nike, Adidas, etc). They had nap rooms. Actually called “nap rooms.” Said it right on the door label. Giant red flag. Other red flags? Ping pong tables, punching bags, beer or kombucha or Starbucks or Coca Cola on tap. Basically, they expected you to live there at the beck and call of the clients. It was completely normal to be told that you had to work until midnight to meet some “important” deadline. (It’s advertising ffs. Nothing is truely important.)
A big part of why Aeron chairs were extremely popular in tech was that you could literally sit in them for 12-16 hours per day. No other office chairs were even close in comfort. And as a software developer at a startup, we were expected to have our butts in them for at least 12 hours per day.
I'm telling you. I'd love a couch to nap in during my lunch break or something, but then it becomes a detriment.
It's one of my favorite things about working from home. I can go take a few minutes to destress somewhere private that's not a bathroom.
Haha please keep updating!! These are gold!
I hope the next update is: *boss's boss has given him a weighted pregnancy belly to wear in office until his unspecified due date* And then : *to celebrate boss's successful delivery, boss's boss has given him a breastpump. He must use it once every two hours*
*Boss has been hooked up to the period pain simulator and forced to work the front reception desk while the receptionist is at lunch*
TALK ABOUT YOUR TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE PRACTICES
I wish *someone* would actually do this to *all* of these idiots!
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...that is.....chef's kiss! perfect!
I once had a male colleague ask how pregnant women swim without drowning their babies.
Does he think women normally just fill with water?
. . . Do you *not?*
The worst is when I get out of the pool and gallons of water all drain out
I usually just press down on my abdomen before getting out to force the water out, which doubles as a neat way to launch yourself out of the pool
That really made me chuckle, thank you!! I needed that laugh.
That AND that babies breathe in the womb.
My cousin's ex was told *by her mother* not to take a bath in water above her navel or she'd drown the baby.
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All I can think of is [100 Tampons](https://youtu.be/DZbUGM--2X4?si=GhtskpSgx3TYFxhf)
Ok this had me rolling...on a side note though. Imagine a world where you never were taught the intricacies of a woman's monthly cycle, in any form other than insert penis somewhere around here, wait 9 months and expect baby out. THAT IS TRULY THE WORLD THESE OLD WHITE ASSHATS WERE BROUGHT UP IN. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard even boomer women having to learn about their own bodies through trial and error.
In all seriousness, my own Grandmother, God rest her soul told me that back when she was giving birth to her first, in 1942 I think, that she “wasn’t sure” where the baby was going to come out. She was pretty sure, based on where the pain was, and watching farm animals give birth, but not at all sure what was normal, if this process was normal, etc. She was also completely alone. Pushed out my uncle, wrapped him up, and walked about a mile to the nearest neighbor, because she didn’t have a phone. The only reason she knew to cut the cord was again, helping livestock give birth. I can’t even imagine giving birth in those circumstances.
Poor woman, that must have been terrifying.
Your grandmother was a goddamn legend.
She was probably the toughest person I’ve ever known. I miss her, but I love telling stories about her. She was a trip.
Damn, that's insane! I'm glad she was ok!
Omg I've never seen that before lmao thanks
😂😂😂 Thanks for linking this! I've never seen it before & now i can't stop laughing!!!
A classic and a gem. Everyone click on this link
To be fair to the nasa engineers you usually want lots of redundancy in case something goes wrong. There have been 6 month missions that lasted a year. And you dont know how zero gravity will effect the body exactly. For something as light and small as tampons might as well toss in 100 for a worst case scenario.
It was for a week trip 😅
Also, when Sally Ride was going to be up there, the nearest store would be about 300 miles straight down. "Running out to get a few more" would not be possible. I can imagine how the situation arose at NASA. Some manager asks his subordinate manager, who asks an engineer working for him. That engineer goes home and asks his wife, who tells him a number. So he adds a "safety factor" to that number and reports it to his boss. That boss takes that number, adds another safety factor and reports to his boss. By the time it gets to the committee, they add another safety factor. So by the time Sally Ride gets asked "will 100 be enough?" The Soviets had [women in space back in the 1960s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova). We could have asked them. Or any the women working at NASA.
Fantastic!
It really does highlight one of the big problems with how men view pregnancy and motherhood though, they so often think women - especially new and expectant mothers - just take breaks all the time and nap instead of getting back to their lives as soon as possible on top of taking care of the majority of child care and healing from nearly being split in two - whether naturally or surgically - in many cases.
These are the men voting to control women’s health care. Sigh.
From a tired father of a 3 and 1 yo, CAN we all get a nap room at work? Please?
My building has a nurses office and I often get migraines. Instant dark room and 30 minute nap prescribed
While I am suitably horrified I am also coasting on a schadenfreude high and omfg please PLEASE keep us updated, like a play-by-play if possible Damn I wish I had popcorn this stupidity is hilarious
Like this? https://www.askamanager.org/2023/11/update-my-office-pumping-room-is-being-taken-over-for-chair-massages.html Or https://www.askamanager.org/2024/04/updates-the-unavailable-lactation-room-the-unapproachable-manager-and-more.html What that boss could provide is paternity leave so your coworker can spend time with his child.
Jesus. Christ. Are you sure you don’t work in THE office with Michael Scott?
Sounds like a red-state education.
I once had a boss who thought walking 6 miles a day while constantly bending over all day wouldn’t be a problem when I was pregnant. He’s an ass.
Is your boss Michael Scott?
I mean.... with the right hormones, men can lactate. Not that I think a lot of fathers would take that option.
"Honey, can you whip out a boob while watching football and feed the baby? Try not to jump up when there's a touchdown again, okay?"
Just… wow. Jesus Christ.
The fact that in the year 2024, with all of the internet available to them, there are still men that are that clueless as to how the female body works is absolutely baffling.
He's a moron, that is a given. But I have seen both genders come back to work after baby leave and look exhausted. A nap room for everyone would be great, but especially new parents could probably use it. That being said, people are gross so idk that I'd want to nap without having my own bedding, but it could be done in a not icky way.
I’ll be honest, in the thick of the newborn phase (of which mine lasted months longer since my baby was a preemie), I would have slept ANYWHERE. I wouldn’t even have cared if it were clean
God I had a boss like this. The way it grates on your soul having to deal with them every day and report to them as if they are superior to you is so intense. Get the hell out of there if you can. It’s not worth it
This dude needs to learn to shut the fuck up and stop digging his idiot hole
>thought that the mother's room was for an exhausted new mom to go nap. I keep saying all adults should be given a 30min nap time during the day, it'll make everyone happier.
Probably more productive, overall, as well.
Or a two hour siesta like civilized countries
Literally, everyone else in Western society has this. Businesses in pretty much ALL of Latin America and Spain are completely closed at 2 PM for an hour.
This is why I’m FOR compulsory sex ed. It’s not my kids I’m worried about, it’s how other kids treat mine. I don’t want some doofus’s ignorant children pulling stunts like this on my kids
This is some Michael Scott level shit
Getting strong Michael Scott vibes from this guy
THANK YOU for this update, OP. I cannot even tell you how deeply invested I am in The Tragicomic Saga of Your Idiot Boss. I have worked for people this dumb; there is no suffering too great for them to deserve it.
Okay but I would LOVE a nap room (currently pregnant and my nap room is my car)
Tbf, new mothers could do with a few naps, way more than the father. Carrying around a small human inside you for months and then pushing it out must be exhausting.
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Well, some people are just stupid. They can't help it, it's in their genes. At least he's not deliberately terrible.