The Other Mothers Blog

Your baby is the size of a what?

One of the fun things about pregnancy is looking up how big your baby is each week. The problem I have with this is that they use things like bananas, avocados and kumquats. First...

Medieval Time-Out

This weekend, Gwen to her first (of many) conventions! Spooky Empire’s horror convention was an excellent introduction to the world of freaky fandom. Gwen even got a chance to get tortured in the most excellent...

6 Pregnancy Symptoms WebMD Won’t Tell You About

Decreased Tolerance of Bullshit Your sister is telling you yet another tale of “that asshole at work.” Your friends are fighting and vaguebooking instead of communicating. Your dog pees on the floor. This kind of stuff...

Newborn Bingo

From the makers of Pregnancy Bingo! We’re back by popular demand with Newborn Bingo. I think I’ve got blackout on this one.

That face.

When you’ve had a shitty day, and nothing’s gone your way, there’s that face. That baby face. Her wall-eyed open mouthed smile of supreme happiness is better than all the drugs in the world....

Pumpin’ Aint Easy

I’m a pumper. I breastfeed too, but usually I pump. It’s partly because I’m a bit of a control freak, partly because breastfeeding takes a lot of time and makes me very sleepy. Since...

It’s Negligible

Now that I’m a parent, there are a few things that should bother me, but somehow don’t. I think about things I would not have tolerated before creating life, that now just don’t seem like a huge...