A Change of Direction
Has anyone watched the new show Surviving Motherhood on TLC? It comes on at 3pm EST. I expected to hear more people buzzing about it. If you’ve seen it, what do you think? I’m undecided. I need to watch it a little more.
What about todays A Baby Story: Where are They Now? Anyone see it? They had this woman on who, when she was on a couple years ago, announced that she was going to have an elective C-section because “This is the new millenium. Pushing is so primitive.” Apparently, she is still causing controversy with that remark after all this time as people are still talking about it on the TLC message boards. But she must know, in retrospect, that it was a pretty dumb thing to say on national television. Maybe since she wasn’t a mom yet, she had no idea how passionate we can can get about things. She definitely wasn’t reading mommy blogs.
I actually think it was just her poor choice of words that caused the uproar. I totally understand the desire to NOT push out a baby. I wanted a C-section with my first baby (huge mistake) because I was terrified of an episiotomy and I doubt that would really piss anyone off. But if I told ya’ll you were a bunch of primitives for delivering your babies the old-fashioned way…I’d be running for cover. It just sounds kind of asshole-ish, even if she didn’t mean it that way.
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I don’t fall back on the old Google searches all that often but after saving the really good ones in a Word doc for a few months, I felt like I might die if I didn’t get to share these with you. They really are the crown jewels, the best of the best of all the cheesy, sleazy and just plain odd searches that bring people here:
God Damn those Tapered Leg Pants I know, right? I wish he would, too.
boob shaped building Sorry. I’m fresh out of boob shaped buildings. Try HGTV.com
forced to smell my mom’s feet Is that a problem?
exploded babysitter Dude, I *told* you her braces weren’t microwave safe.
she was young and attractive and loved to dress up and go to the mall to smoke How did you find me?
latest hair styles for the older woman Just what are you implying?
baby dolls burned Dude. Seriously. WTF?
Lyndsay Lohan Cup size Before or after she became a human lollipop?
mommy’s slick thighs Ahhhh yes…the miracle of Nair.
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As the hypothetical spouse in question felt he was a bit unfairly represented, I decided to replace my original post with something less likely to cause me any further aggravation on the topic. Thanks for your comments!
I think that he/she is right to be a little bothered. It isn’t really the type of thing someone would space. It’s the type of action that allows the imagination to kick in (rightly or wrongly), which isn’t pleasant.
OH BOY! Yeah I would be mad. Just take a deep breath, and it will all work out. Hugs from here!
I view situations like this as carte blanche for the non-pubbing spouse to procure for him/herself a fun little present.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
I agree with Arabella. Non-pubbing spouse gets a girl’s (or boy’s) night out. No questions asked.
Ack. I have been in situations like this. In my case it went like this: he decided to go out with some work friends after work. Didn’t call. Shut off his cell phone. Then, coming home 3 hours later with me thinking he had been killed on the freeway (and having left several messages on his voice mail), says “What? What are you so upset about?”
As Arabella says, it is really enough to make a girl go out shopping for some really cute shoes and earrings with her girlfriends. For a lot longer than planned. While he is home with the kids.
I’m with Arabella. Non-pubbing spouse has free reign for a night out. Preferably a night when the kids have been active outside all day, hopped up on sugar and deprived of naps. Perhaps then the pub-hitting spouse will remember to tell their spouse if it happens again…
It always depends on my mood and how good he has been to me. I could see myself being VERY angry if the kids were being tough, or not caring too much if I was preoccupied.
I would be slightly POd by the finding, but like most of the other wise women have posted, just use it as an excuse to go out and have a little fun. I think I would have been more angry about the fact that he was having fun drinking with his buds while I was at home. You need equal time for the Mama.
The fact that my husband would have a fit if I went to a bar somewhere and didn’t tell him, he better sure as hell tell me if he does.
You would think it would have come up, being that most people do not actually make stopping off at an Irish themed pub a part of their daily routine. I would be pissed, I have to admit. I always find D has spent $40.00 on lunch on a random Tuesday. Why is it o.k. for him and his friends (I mean,business associates) to blow it out on lunch when all I ever get is Chik Fil’ A?
Hypothetically…Duh, Yeah. He/She or She/He.
@ Hipstermom - I love Chik-Fil-A
Chik-Fil-A is manna from heaven.
Such a situation would be so out of character, for either one of us, that I’m not sure how I would handle it (or how Kyle would). We are each free to go out, but we let each other know beforehand. It’s not an “asking permission” kind of thing, but a “letting the other person know where I am” kind of thing.
This is pure conjecture on my part, but if either of us were to NOT MENTION an outing, it would probably be because we were hiding it. I’m not saying that’s the case here - not at all - just how it would be interpreted at our house.
I would have been mad.
If the beer drinker was me, I’d never be able to keep it in. But I’m blabby that way. If it was my partner, I’d be annoyed because if I think Chris is due home in a general range of time and he is significantly delayed, I start to assume he’d been run over by a truck.
I don’t think that would upset me, unless the debit charge was like….$50 or something! :) A $5 charge would say to me that he/she only had one beer….. I would probably find it a little odd that it wasn’t mentioned, but I would hope that it just slipped his/her mind and that the info was not withheld PURPOSEFULLY.
If it is out of character for him to not mention it, yes I would be a bit bothered. But, with Sean and I, things that come up like that on the spur of the moment aren’t a big deal and not worth mentioning, or are so mundane that we forget as soon as we leave the establishment.
I hope you find resolution!
OK, good that you just replaced the post, b/c I thought I was going crazy for a moment when after my comment was just posted, something entirely different came up. You must have done it as soon as I submitted! I am not losing my mind!
You gotta wonder what some of these folks think when they search for something that they apparently think is normal and they get “us”!
I posted something about the Minti giveaway too. And of course of your KINDNESS via Sue. Damn, you guys are cool.
Uh, “mommy’s slick thighs”? Yeah, sorry, I think that was me….
j/k
I’ve been saving my weird google searches for a post too, but mine don’t come close to the freakiness of yours. Exploded babysitter???
damn, I missed something, didn’t I? You get up from the computer for an hour or two…
But yeah, those are good. My googlers are so tame so far. Sigh.
My favorite google so far is “Men pooping pictures.” And the same person kept searching “stapler apart” over and over. Maybe what he/she needs is “stapler together” or “purchase stapler”.
I haven’t watched that show on TLC, but you now have me interested.
Oh, and you must have been reading my mind - I’ve been considering a post of Google searches, too! Boob-shaped building? Too funny.
And I must have missed the conversation about the husband, so I hope all is well!
Imagine the google searches that find you when you have “poop” in the title of your blog.
I’m really confused…but the TLC “pushing is so primitive” lady cracks me up. I think she just might be my sister-in-law.
Personally, I find food and drink sort of primitive. I just will calories through my body via my advanced mastery of virtual telekenesis.
I’ve never seen that show and I try to avoid a Baby Story. Something about it rubs me the wrong way. I can’t explain it.
Those searches are too funny. Much better than some that I get. I recently got “Right way to slit wrists.” Eek.
damn i wish i would have gotten here earlier to read what your original post was. because i have a story for you on what i ASSUME the subject was. i’m from the “dead in a ditch” school of thought. and if you’re not dead in a ditch, you’re gonna wish you would have been! so off to check the google searches.
hmm missed the first post!
I so never get the chance to watch daytime tv, but the new show sounds interesting.
I loved wacthing the baby story when I was pregnant then had a preterm baby!! I felt so ripped off!
now you’ve added stuff - gah! You are confusing me!
But have you not all heard the expression “too posh to push” about the elective c? I think if I opt for another child I will go the elective c route for two reasons, though:
a) because I had an emergency c with the first one so already have the scars and know what I am getting into, and
b) because then I can get my tubes tied at the same time and be done with it. Two birds with one stone and all that.
a) there would’ve been a lot of no-talky-no-acknowledge-y from this lil lady if he’d ’surprised’ me in that manner. well, no-talky, as in, the calm before the storm.
b) I miss cable. *sigh*
Damn, I missed the original post– and I have a feeling it was juicy!
As for the TLC-sectioner, well, any time you categorize ANYONE as primitive, you’ve got to be ready to deal with having spears chucked at you.
It’s hard to feel sorry for her.
boob LOL shaped LOL building LOL
I love it. And hell, there should be more boob shaped buildings. We already have so many penis-shaped ones. Girl power!
Your search hits are great but the “she was young and attractive” one just made me snort coffee through my nostrils.
Your google search hits are so much more creative than mine. But they are illuminating. Because after reading your hits, and looking at mine, I have learned I have a bit of a potty mouth. Which may explain why the pervs come out in droves to see me. And it may be why the nice moms tend to avoid me….
I have not seen either of those shows. However, I would be willing to bet that the woman who made the comment about the C-section might think twice if she realized that a C-section requires ABDOMINAL surgery…gee, what is wrong with her?
I have not watched the new show yet. And it has been years since I watched a baby story.
I posted a few pictures on my blog. My first body shots. I am wearing what used to be my favorite jeans but now seeing how I look, I am not sure I like them anymore lol.
Hah I’m with the people who want tapered jeans to be danmned. I Have a pact with the boy that if he EVER catches me in mom jeans he is to pants me, right then and there, and run. Hopefully it never comes to that.
I saw that episode of A Baby Story and that woman was nuts. I can’t believe she went on TV again and rehashed the whole thing but it proves that is as vain and self-absorbed as she seemed.
Hey Izzy, popped over from Blog Explosion. It was a little frustrating reading these comments since I have no idea what everyone is commenting on!
Thanks for linking to Mary’s piece over at BlogHer. I was completely surprised to find that I was a topic of discussion! Reading all those comments about myself was sort of like walking into a room and realizing everyone is talking about you. Which NEVER happens to me.
What’s with c-sections being so popular? I had two of them. My first was an emergency and I tried desperately to VBac my second birth but she was laying transverse.
I just can’t understand how having a scheduled time that you’re going to have your baby with no surprised and then going in for a surgery, having them cut 8 inches across your abdomin while you’re awake and pull your baby out could possibly be more desireable than having a vaginal birth.
The grass is always greener, I suppose.
Those google searches. . . you wouldn’t believe the ones I get. I’ve been compiling the good ones too. I’m going to set a record for number of perverts to come to my site when I do finally publish it. I never realized “black mama sex” was so popular!
I just talked my hubby into the whole Blogher thing. And now I find out it is SOLD OUT. AHHhhhggg.
Can I sign up for next year’s conference yet?
My husband works with a guy who (with his wife) was on ‘Baby Story.’ We never saw it, and haven’t been able to convince him to give us the video, either. Apparantly it was a pretty traumatizing experience - he told us about the camera crew sleeping in his home office, and the ‘lipstick cam’ they set up in his bedroom. He said by the end of the whole thing he wanted to kill everyone involved, including himself.
(Search words: my strangest recent one - “insults involving cheddar.”
Forced to smell my mom’s feet. Nice. :)
So here’s a stupid question…how do you find out what search words led people to your site?
Well, I missed the original post, so I’ll just have to comment on this one…
I think the c-section mom’s comment was (even if unintentionally) very insulting to the legions of women who go for regular childbirth. Pushing is “primitive?” Please. Why couldn’t she just say, “I prefer the c-section” and leave it at that?
Forced to smell Mom’s feet. I just can’t get my head around that one! LOL! I have gotten some pretty wacked out Google searches myself. I, too, have been saving them into word - how can you not? :)
I missed all the Baby Story controversy. I belonged to a message board a few years ago with all of that “I’m a better mom than you” type stuff. It was nuts.
Where is the post about the boobs and building??! Man, I need to have a lurk through your archives!
Boob shaped building - I love it! And the “young and attractive” search phrase surely counteracts the “older woman” one, yes?
I don’t watch those baby shows. It was torture enough to sit through the Alpha Mom ones for post research purposes.
you are the coolest blogher, ticket, giver, away-er face, ever!!! i will squeeze you when i see you!
I didn’t even realize you could type that many words into the entry field for google searches. Too funny. I wish I could be a SAHM or WAHM so I could schedule my working hrs. around TLC genius. I might schedule a mental vacation day soon to check out their new lineup.
Thanks for mentioning the blogher tickets we are giving away IzzyMom :)
– Clay
my newest favorite searches:
how the lady urinate normally at toilet in real pictures?
and
ok to bury cat in the backyard?
‘mommy’s slick thighs’
Buahaaaaaa!
You naughty, naughty girl.