#miscarriage mention

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for dumping my job responsibilities on a random customer?

Okay, so, I work as a cashier at a local video game store. The other day, I was working a shift, and got a phonecall telling me that my girlfriend was in hospital - sensing an emergency, I immediately rushed out of work, asking a random customer to cover the remainder of my shift for me.

I got to the hospital, ran right through the doors, and asked the receptionist for directions. She then pointed me to where I needed to be, and I had a brief talk with the doctor attending to my girlfriend. I then walked into the hospital room where my girlfriend was, and found her inconsolably sobbing in a bed. Unfortunately, she had suffered a miscarriage.

Now, here's the conflict - on the one hand, I feel like under the circumstances, I was justified in abandoning my shift to attend to my girlfriend in a dire situation like this. On the other hand, I feel like it was somewhat unfair of me to dump my work responsibilities onto a random customer who had nothing to do with any of this. I'm really not sure how to feel about it. AITA?

[allgremlinart]

I cant remember if Spock being a genetically engineered tube baby is actually canon or not but, either way, I DO see him as being a very canonically planned and thought-out baby (like Sarek and Amanda weren't good at parenting emotionally but they WERE baby-prepared. In my mind.) However. In my au where Spock is a terrifying accident baby.....

Like the concept of accidentbaby!Spock has a lot of baggage with it like ok A) outs Amanda and Sarek's xenophillic sexual relationship. LOL. B) possibility for complications during childbirth because like how does that work if your baby HAS BLOOD BASED ON A DIFFERENT ELEMENT. (could just be complications or miscarriage or death of mother depending on how dark u wanna get...) C) Spock health complications as a child and/or for his entire life. Whoopsie this hybrid is unplanned and now you have to figure out if its gonna survive infancy. And then childhood. Etc etc. I won't lie I mostly thought of this au because my "Spock has chronic pain" trutherism is soooo strong. I just think a really interesting Spock Avenue to explore is, like, hey. what if his body hated him? Its fresh it's relatable its now. Its my accepted worldview.

I saw that scene in "Operation: Annihilate" where Spock insists on working through the intense pain McCoy is registering in him because according to him its "something of the body that can be overcome by the mind," or whatever. And I was like wow Mr Spock this is just me working an 8hr shift with back pain.....

[tea-and-secrets]

My partner had a miscarriage very early into pregnancy and it's just now hitting me that I lost my fucking child. I'll never know their favorite color or movies.

I'll never be able to teach them to play platformers, or watch Bluey with them, or take them to school. We're trying again but it just isn't the same.

I wish I could have met them, I wish I could watch them grow, I wish I could dance with them.

We're both hurting so much.

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[dr-fizzovich]

"objectober" this, "inktober" that, "goretober" this, "oscctober" that... but i can't do any of these. school comes first 👍

[froody]

My mom was the cutest kid ever. She was just adorable. Which was probably in no small part due to my grandmother who made sure to dress her in the cutest outfits the 70s had to offer, bought her the coolest toys and put her hair up in pigtails. But she was a cute kid all on her own. My dad, however, there aren’t many photos of him as a child and he looks evil in all of them, he’s grinning at the camera like he’s planning something diabolical. Unlike the pictures of my mom which were taken fairly candidly on a home camera and have that warm film 70s glow, little windows into a comfortable middle class home with a happy little girl, the few photos of my dad were all taken at the Macy’s photo studio and they lack charm.

My mother’s mother didn’t always protect her from the evil in the world but she loves her and she was so happy to have a child after years of marriage and a previous miscarriage. My father came into this world under very different circumstances. He was conceived at a party and his parents had a shotgun wedding when grandma was about 3 months pregnant. I know my dad’s mom loves me but I’m not sure she loves him as much as a parent should. It shows in the photos. It shows in the careful way my mom’s mom packed away baby mementos and little outfits belonging to my mom but my dad doesn’t have many toys from his childhood and all of the photos of him are so impersonal.

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

This will keep happening without any end, America voted for this.

[fred-erick-frankenstein]

my official stance is a pregnancy is whatever the pregnant person wants it to be. if it’s a 4 weeks old clump of cells and they wants to call it a baby it’s a baby. if they're 20 weeks and they want to call it a parasite it’s a parasite. if they're 39 weeks and call it a fetus it’s a fetus. “why are you so sad about miscarrying at 6 weeks it was literally just an embryo” because that was their baby. “how can you get an abortion at three months” because that wasn’t a baby. hope that helps.

[citruscore]

scam’s pregnancy announcement

[wolfsummoner]

People are saying that the voice in Moonpaw's head may be the twin she "absorbed" in the womb

But like what does that mean for like

Miscarriages in warriors

When does a cat become sentient enough to have a spirit

[onepinkline]

I don’t know when pregnancy loss stops hurting.

It didn’t at their due date, or the one year mark of having their presence in my life. It didn’t at the first “birth” day, or second, or fifth.

It didn’t when I got pregnant with their sibling. It didn’t when I lost them, too.

It hasn’t on those random Tuesdays, when I’m hit with the sudden grief that I never heard them cry.

It hasn’t every Mother’s Day, every Christmas wondering how different it would’ve been than the last, when the school year starts and I realize they’d be off to Kindergarten.

When I pass the children’s activity center in the museum, and I wonder if they’d be eager to go in or shy because of the other kids.

I know it shouldn’t stop hurting. I tell my friends, your baby matters, I support other loss parents by reminding them your baby existed. I convince myself that mine do not. I close my eyes to see the images of the positive pregnancy tests and pretend that they never existed.

Coping, avoidance is (negatively) coping.

Someone, who was barely a something, can’t hurt this much. Maybe they never got to be my baby, but they were my dream. My future, love personified. Never anything tangible to attach it to, a vision of someday.

Someday left too soon, too soon to be tangible. Too soon to grieve. Too soon to understand. I was still processing that they existed, when they did not anymore.

I don’t know when pregnancy loss quits hurting.

I hope it never does, because it is the only reminder that I ever had them at all.

[ashleybenlove]

"I didn't marry you for your cooking."

This fucking line.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if she was already pregnant when they got married?

(Yes, with Hiccup. Though I'm firmly of the opinion that Hiccup was not the only pregnancy they had. Just the only one to make it out of infancy.)

[emphasisonthehomo]

My Half Assed Predictions for the Next Episodes of 9-1-1 on ABC

Eddie is presumed dead when in reality he was kidnapped by the [spins a wheel] Russian Mafia for some convoluted reason. As Buck is now Christopher's guardian, there is prolonged custody drama between him and Eddie's parents. This is treated as the resolution for the whole "my dad was cheating on his gf w/ a woman that looked like my dead mom” debacle. It is narratively confusing and does not satisfactorily tie up any loose ends.

I'm gonna go w/ a helicopter crash for Buck and Tommy. They have a vague discussion about their feelings and moving too quickly afterwards in the hospital, along with another Glee mention. Tommy is clearly on pain meds and probably too high for the conversation. They make out and all of the machines beep and there's a 'funny' scene were a nurse rushes in to make sure that Tommy isn't dying. Oops. This happens exactly one episode after Eddie comes back from the dead. There seems to be no lingering trauma about anything, except Tommy has a cast on his leg next time we see him.

Miscarriage plot line? Maybe? I'm just saying we all know something is gonna happen with Maddie and Chimney's baby. Anyways, it isn't handled well. Maddie is back to work and acting normal within two episodes.

Hen and Karen have another argument about work life balance. This time Hen's entire family is now somehow in danger again. Maybe it's a bank hostage situation. Maybe several cars crash into the house. Everything explodes. She and Karen have a tearful conversation about love and life and Making Time for the Important Things. They plan a family vacation. Next episode there is no mention of any turmoil, just Hen talking about National Parks that would be fun to visit.

Bobby wakes up in a cold sweat from an upsettingly vivid dream. Or was it a nightmare? It's the wrong side of midnight. He is an Olympic Gold Medalist for Figure Skating. Now retired, he's one of the skating coaches for the Minnesota Wild. His beautiful wife (Angela Bassett in a red wig) is awoken by his movement. She asks if everything is okay. "I had a strange dream," Bobby says, "I was a firefighter." "Sexy," Says Angela Bassett in a red wig. They kiss passionately. The screen fades to black. It's the ending scene of the series finale.

[life-take]

Bloodborne: Menstruation and Ministration

Just some thoughts I had about the parallels of Bloodborne's Healing Church and real-world Catholic/Levantine teachings.

In Bloodborne, every Great One loses their child. The association of childbirth, miscarriage, and menstruation with blood in the real world is also made in the game. (The Blood Moon heralds miracle pregnancies, the "Mensis" ritual, e.g.) But also consider how the discovery of the Old Blood led to the foundation of the Healing Church and blood ministration, which is meant to heal and transcend the people but instead causes a scourge and rampant chaos.

I think it's interesting that it is a healing church, and delivers blood by ministration, and not administration. Hospitals administer medicine, but churches have ministers. Blood transfusions in Bloodborne are framed as a religious act in this way. In the real world, a well-known religious ministration of blood is the rite of the Eucharist, wherein taking in the transubstantiated blood of Christ is a representation of His covenant to absolve humanity's sin.

Ok, so there's some parallels between blood ministration and the Eucharist. Let's now think about childbirth. In the story of the Fall of mankind, woman's curse for Eve's part in the Fall is the pain and difficulty of menstruation and childbirth, both of which involve losing blood. Woman's blood loss is a curse, while the Lord's blood offers absolution from the original sin that precipitated that curse.

It's not known why Great Ones always lose their child. But this is something that happens regardless of the existence of the Healing Church or the beast scourge. It is not a punishment for sin. In Bloodborne, the Catholic story is reversed: humans bear a curse for the act of blood ministration, while gods themselves bleed for their children.

(Notes: This is simply my interpretation of what I have experienced of Bloodborne and not a commentary on intended themes of the writers. Also, apologies if I used any religious terms or ideas incorrectly. I was raised in the catholic church but am no longer practicing, nor am I a religious scholar. This post is simply, Hey based on my lived experience, here's what Bloodborne makes me think of.)

[here-lie-the-sinners-au]

What was their first night as new parents like? () and what new traditions do they start as a family? (CherriSnake)

OOOH! (Just a warning for the mention of miscarriage 🩷)

So, their first nights as parents was filled with an abundance of complex emotions. For Pen, he had been a father back when he was alive and he was very much hands on - odd for a Victorian Gentleman but he hadn't never been ordinary. Since Bash was born during a fight with some rogue demons, Pen obviously was extremely protective. Not just of his newborn son but his wife. One thing he had regretted when he was alive was not being a good husband, he fully intended on changing that with Cherri. He carried Cherri and Bash back to the airship - since they were still enjoying their adventures in Hell - and barely left their side. He had been excited since they found out about Bash, he knew they were in for a wonderful new adventure together.

Cherri on the other hand, although she was delighted to finally hold her baby boy, couldn't help but be nervous and anxious the whole first night. She was annoyed at that since she built up a tough girl persona. She had quite a few miscarriages in life, and death too, so she was very protective of Bash since he was the first baby she hadn't lost. She didn't want to let him go but she trusted Pen and was finally able to go to sleep.

They both appreciated that no one knew about Bash until they returned home so they could enjoy their newfound parenthood together.

One tradition they began after Bash was born that every year on his birthday they would go and have a turf war with Overlords they weren't allied with or demons they found irritating. Bash soon became as explosive and inventive as his mama and papa.

(This was a super fun ask! Please send more!)

[just-antithings]

Not an anti thing, but I feel like this blog will appreciate this.

I have always been a pop girl, but there is a not-insignificant part of me that enjoys the entire spectrum of rock music. One of my favorite concerts I ever went to was a dual header of Blondie and Garbage.

Garbage (the band) is the subject of this, because I come to them from maybe the strangest interaction I ever had regarding music. I and a few other kids from my church were on our way to the local Christian summer camp, to clean up the grounds before summer. The male parent driving the car has let us listen to some radio music, of which the 2000s version of "Lady Marmalade" and Uncle Kracker's "Follow Me" were played nearly back-to-back. The parent was not wrong when he pointed out that those songs are about prostitution and adultery, respectively. What boggles me is that he though Garbage was...Idk? more wholesome music? as that's what he switched over to after voicing those exact criticisms, which was the first time I ever listened to the band. I only found out later when I went back to listen to them when I was a bit older what their whole deal really was.

Go back and listen to them. Listen to "Only Happy When It Rains" and hear the line "I'm riding high upon a deep depression" and tell me that doesn't glorify some unhealthy mentalities. Listen to "When I Grow Up" and the bit where she talks about getting pregnant and drinking to drive a miscarriage and tell me that's any better than "Follow Me". Don't get me wrong, I love the band, but I sometimes wonder if this guy only listened to their Bond song ("The World is Not Enough") before picking them up.

Suppose their whole discography could be put on the problematic playlist, if one is so inclined.

Side note: ruined "Follow Me" for an ex-bf when I told him it was about adultery, bc he had never listened to the lyrics of the verses before and missed the whole "I'm not worried about the ring you wear" bit. Not my fault he didn't pay attention to the song; it was always about that.

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[hometownrockstar]

why does every post about some serious topic like disability or something inevitably have people in the notes going Wow cool writing reference! #save for later. Its so tone deaf sometimes and inevitably leads to things like. This