My kids were nine days less than a year apart, the second in spite of two concurrennt forms of BC, determined little brat. I never had a period between pregnanies. And we white-knuckled it to the first period after the second birth so they'd install an IUD.

Which, 16 years later caused major problems, but meanwhile, no 16-18 kids. I sympathize with people who have difficulties concieving, I do. But the opposite side of that coin is no picnic, either.

Thanks. I don't really need hugs. Everything I've heard so far is that our division makes money so...

It wasn't the news itself. Just much like a few people around here must feel when MS is getting bashed, I get hurt by my friends excitedly linking to stories about it.

It's funny too (peculiar not haha), because when I speak up, they say, "Oh I'm sorry I didn't know you worked for them." And you know, I get that, but at the same time would it be okay to excitedly link to something about the prospect of a bunch of people losing their jobs if you didn't know one of them? In this economy?

Oh, yeah, Bev. My friend Kelly's mom is like that she says "Michael was my condom baby, Kelly was my IUD baby, and Steven was my Pill baby"

DJ, I never get the urge to corporate schadenfreude -- as petty as it is, there's totally a satisfaction when some individual asshole gets what's coming, but "woo-hoo, GM/MS/BB/B&N is flailing. HAR!!" is just. Dude. Actual people are gonna get fucked by this, no matter how much you like to snark at the corporate entity.

"Michael was my condom baby, Kelly was my IUD baby, and Steven was my Pill baby"

One of my mom's friends was like that. She had 5 kids and could name each failed birth control for each child.

Before I had CJ, I really wanted my kids to be close in age. But that ended up being a 6.5 year gap. My cousin has a ten year gap between her two youngest.

Facebook was up for me long enough to read that a friend from high school just got a Trisomy 18 diagnosis with her child but not long enough for me to send a supportive message to them in response.

Fucking Facebook FAIL.

My mother has five siblings. There are five years between each of them, and they althernate boy/girl/boy/girl/boy/girl. By the end of the run, Miss Mary was just doing the birthing, not the raising. Youngest girl thought oldest girl was her mother.

Slowly approaching sanity. Good god, y'all.

I know at least one woman who got pregnant while breastfeeding a new baby.

I'm pretty sure at least one of my older siblings was conceived while my mother was nursing, given the birth dates.

I was the opposite - a menopause baby.

Facebook was up for me long enough to read that a friend from high school just got a Trisomy 18 diagnosis with her child but not long enough for me to send a supportive message to them in response.

What is that?

I've been talking about it in Bitches, but I'll share two things over here.

1) Today is Emmett's birthday! He's 14. Matilda's birthday is on Sunday.

2) Matilda got accepted into Grattan Elementary pre-school, after something like two years on the waiting list. She already goes to the UCSF preschool where JZ works, but this is much cheaper. Also it would give her a priority to select that school (a highly rated one) for kindergarten next year. It will be a tough transition for her since she loves her teachers and classmates but there are too many benefits for us to forego this opportunity.