On the drive home, as we just started out from Santa Monica, I announced, “I have two great ideas.”
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getting pregnant with michelle tea
As scary it is to know we don’t have complete control over the creation of our little family, I think it’s a blessing. Really no one has control over their families, or over anything.
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Do I know anyone with a good dad?
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getting pregnant with michelle tea
Donor kids suffer from a higher rate of depression, addiction and crime, regardless of the economic standing of their family.
getting pregnant with michelle tea
Smoking is for single people. Now that I found Dashiell, I want to live forever.
getting pregnant with michelle tea
I am bizarrely proud of myself and immediately want Marina to hang out in the room praising me for nonsense all day. The best patient!
getting pregnant with michelle tea
Maybe I can’t have nice things. A healthy uterus is a nice thing. So is a baby.
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“We should just get in there and look inside,” she says, agreeing with Dr. Waller. There for sure is something at the top of my uterine cavity, quite possibly a freaking fibroid.
babies
You guys -– I KNOW that this whole getting pregnant thing, and hence, this blog, is taking forever.
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I’m having one of those happy, delusional moments where I love science so much I wonder if I should finally go to college and study to be a neurophysicist.
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This crowd is a bunch of middle-aged heterosexuals tired from their 8 hours at the J.O.B., a little exhausted by their pregnancy fails, a little scared and nervous and hopeful and overwhelmed by what they are about to step into.
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It’s frustrating when something is just a fact and you can’t call it out as anti-feminist propaganda.
prince
I knew that women had sex by putting a penis up in there somewhere, so I figured that’s what Nikki was doing with the magazine -– she’d rolled it up and was, like, doing herself with it.
entertainment
It was haunting, the way Kim Gordon murmured. She sounded like she knew everything, you could hear it in her voice. She knew everything but was too bored by it to tell you.
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Dashiell mostly wants the baby to look like a mini-us, which I understand but I know that my own beauty can be improved upon, and as a mother I just want what’s best for our baby!
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Does it seem like I am trying to genetically manipulate myself a strikingly beautiful baby? Because I am. Is that creepy or what?
record collecting
As a teenaged alcoholic, I would cringe when my mother would say things like, "What, you can’t have fun without alcohol?" Because I couldn’t.
music
Introducing a new column from Michelle Tea, who is angling for the title of "Column Queen" of xoJane.
family drama
Because I am a drug addict, I get sort of excited when I get to have a freelapse and legally take a pill. But, because I am a DRUG ADDICT, I forget that taking pills actually is not fun for me anymore.
getting pregnant with michelle tea
“I’m not going to press charges,” Candy says, “But a lot of people would. You should know that. Your dog could be put down for this.”
pregnancy
At 41, I am in a stable relationship. I’m financially stable. Thanks to my meds, I’m emotionally stable. It’s crazy that now, when I am most suited to have kids, my body is over it.
getting pregnant with michelle tea
The thing is, the fertility racket is (confoundlingly) heterosexual.
insemination
In Dr. Waller’s office, we learn how IVF works.
family drama
People making rules to make a certain group of people feel falsely safe at the expense of another. I say falsely because -- hey, there are babies in the world! Leave this clinic and you’re likely to bump into, like, a hundred of them.
