Status Updates From Second Life: Having a Child...

I have cried so many times while reading this book. I love it. It makes me feel so incredibly seen.

Given that five of my dear friends are having babies this year, I thought I’d get a glimpse into what the online experience might be like for them.

One PDF featured a series of impenetrable bar graphs charting my pregnancy's risks. At the time I received it, it had felt so reassuring, so precious in my inbox. I did not consider that it only ran the odds on a small band of conditions and that it had nothing to say about an obscure genetic disorder with a name I had already forgotten how to spell.

This book is really affirming my hatred for the period tracking app Flo

on the chapter about all the gadgets associated with a baby, and it’s simply a wild time.

“There was no such thing as neutral information” (54).

got a chance to listen to more at work yesterday! it was really interesting to hear about the genetic testing part