Unfortunately I have the opposite experience. When I’ve been offline for a week and get the Many Such Takes recap, it mainly just makes me regret that I wasn’t online to witness it happening in real time.
history nerd me can't unthink of JD Vance as Cesar Borgia saying "Daddy Trump! we finally did it! we finally poisoned the Pope to death!" while fucking the couch named Lucrezia lol
Seems a little strange for the midwives to wang on about the importance of the birthing partner and then make you sleep upright in a chair so you enter day two with three hours' sleep and a crick in your neck.
Exactly, it’s a pretty minor hardship in the scheme of things, obviously. But it’s just so unnecessarily terrible. The average free couch pulled off a driveway is comfier.
An underrated additional bit of suck is how much they encourage you to try to get some rest on the terrible dad bench and look at you accusingly if you haven’t. It’s like they are mocking you.
It's a minor hardship if you are only there for a few days but my son and I were in the hospital for 10 days. I was having a hard time getting good sleep due to the medical emergency that resulted in the stay and it didn't help that my husband also couldn't get any decent sleep there. He was a trooper and never complained but I did send him home a few nights so we weren't both just totally sleep deprived.
Yeah this is a good point. I was there 4 days and that was probably the upper limit I could have handled. 10 sounds awful.
The “well it’s worse for the woman giving birth” rejoinders annoy me because of course it is… but the whole point of having a support person is to have someone who isn’t exhausted and in pain that can help out. Mutual misery is not supposed to be the goal! That’s lost if the poor guy has a messed up back and is running on fumes because of the dad bench - he can’t be effective in his “job” on the team.
"The average free couch pulled off a driveway is comfier." And also bigger! My 6'3" husband can fit on the average driveway couch and definitely looked squished on the dad bench.
Is there some regulatory reason or something? Like, to prevent idiotic and/or sleep deprived parents from suffocating their newborn in comfy cushions, the AMA mandates that these things be hard as bricks.
I’m guessing it has more to do with being cheap and easy to clean? Mom gets a regular hospital bed that is a lot comfier… and more dangerous to the newborn if that’s what you’re actually worried about.
The bench chairs obtained for doctors to take opportunistic rest on during night shifts are also ridiculously uncomfy in my experience - one explanation offered was that it was a hygiene thing.
And IMO it's actually really important for the dad to be able to sleep in the hospital because otherwise he's already wrecked when everyone goes home and he has to keep taking care of the mother and baby without hospital staff to help.
The one man, one woman, one rabbit photo makes me think of the classic film Harvey, and I am wondering if Trump has an invisible faerie companion who really likes tariffs
While you're right about "Vladimir Stop" likely not having legs, I think it's probably got more legs than "Everything is computer" considering I had to stop and think to remember that one even existed.
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I feel it’s fair to give the father a break for a dad joke that didn’t land in the first try. He’s a new dad, takes a while to get into dad joke groove.
But I also think upgrading the sleeping arrangements for first timers seems anti American. Keep the lux suites for the returnees with some way to gain access through an Amex spending challenge and people will say “honey, I think we should rawdog it tonight, the moon is in retrograde and since it’ll be our fifth kid we can get the suite with the gold toilet and gain gold status on delta in the process”.
On an unrelated (or somewhat related) note, there’s a new baby hospital being built in Denmark and I am looking forward to using it for our next kid. The current hospital does show its age
These weekly posts have been my saving grace in reducing screen time and avoiding online FOMO thank you for your service
Unfortunately I have the opposite experience. When I’ve been offline for a week and get the Many Such Takes recap, it mainly just makes me regret that I wasn’t online to witness it happening in real time.
God damn it how is Trump so consistently funny
history nerd me can't unthink of JD Vance as Cesar Borgia saying "Daddy Trump! we finally did it! we finally poisoned the Pope to death!" while fucking the couch named Lucrezia lol
Liz Truss remains such a fever dream of a PM. Comes in, Queen dies, crashes economy, leaves, all in just 50 days.
Yeah and that iconic lettuce too lol
A disaster you can truss in.
Seems a little strange for the midwives to wang on about the importance of the birthing partner and then make you sleep upright in a chair so you enter day two with three hours' sleep and a crick in your neck.
I do want to know which medical furniture company has the monopoly on the "dad bench", it's so unnecessarily shit.
Exactly, it’s a pretty minor hardship in the scheme of things, obviously. But it’s just so unnecessarily terrible. The average free couch pulled off a driveway is comfier.
An underrated additional bit of suck is how much they encourage you to try to get some rest on the terrible dad bench and look at you accusingly if you haven’t. It’s like they are mocking you.
It's a minor hardship if you are only there for a few days but my son and I were in the hospital for 10 days. I was having a hard time getting good sleep due to the medical emergency that resulted in the stay and it didn't help that my husband also couldn't get any decent sleep there. He was a trooper and never complained but I did send him home a few nights so we weren't both just totally sleep deprived.
Yeah this is a good point. I was there 4 days and that was probably the upper limit I could have handled. 10 sounds awful.
The “well it’s worse for the woman giving birth” rejoinders annoy me because of course it is… but the whole point of having a support person is to have someone who isn’t exhausted and in pain that can help out. Mutual misery is not supposed to be the goal! That’s lost if the poor guy has a messed up back and is running on fumes because of the dad bench - he can’t be effective in his “job” on the team.
"The average free couch pulled off a driveway is comfier." And also bigger! My 6'3" husband can fit on the average driveway couch and definitely looked squished on the dad bench.
I’m only 5’7” and I could *just barely* stretch out without hanging off the end.
Is there some regulatory reason or something? Like, to prevent idiotic and/or sleep deprived parents from suffocating their newborn in comfy cushions, the AMA mandates that these things be hard as bricks.
I’m guessing it has more to do with being cheap and easy to clean? Mom gets a regular hospital bed that is a lot comfier… and more dangerous to the newborn if that’s what you’re actually worried about.
The bench chairs obtained for doctors to take opportunistic rest on during night shifts are also ridiculously uncomfy in my experience - one explanation offered was that it was a hygiene thing.
And IMO it's actually really important for the dad to be able to sleep in the hospital because otherwise he's already wrecked when everyone goes home and he has to keep taking care of the mother and baby without hospital staff to help.
I guess it's no surprise that Trump wasn't smart enough to set a safe word with Putin ahead of time.
If someone showed up to my wedding in that SpongeBob dress I would be so delighted I might even shed a tear.
I maintain that the main thing about things that are wrong to joke about is that we acknowledge honestly both that it is wrong and that it is funny.
(That said my dedication to universal decency wavered when I saw MTG tweet an antipapism which felt like an admission that anything goes atm)
“Vladimir, STOP!” seems to me that it’ll specifically have legs on natsec twitter/bsky but not elsewhere
The one man, one woman, one rabbit photo makes me think of the classic film Harvey, and I am wondering if Trump has an invisible faerie companion who really likes tariffs
Most will never really forgive dads for not being the who gave birth, and let that color whatever pretend offense they had
Yeah the bench probably sucked !
While you're right about "Vladimir Stop" likely not having legs, I think it's probably got more legs than "Everything is computer" considering I had to stop and think to remember that one even existed.
How is the Spongebob dress so expensive (and tacky)?
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I feel it’s fair to give the father a break for a dad joke that didn’t land in the first try. He’s a new dad, takes a while to get into dad joke groove.
But I also think upgrading the sleeping arrangements for first timers seems anti American. Keep the lux suites for the returnees with some way to gain access through an Amex spending challenge and people will say “honey, I think we should rawdog it tonight, the moon is in retrograde and since it’ll be our fifth kid we can get the suite with the gold toilet and gain gold status on delta in the process”.
On an unrelated (or somewhat related) note, there’s a new baby hospital being built in Denmark and I am looking forward to using it for our next kid. The current hospital does show its age