SSRIs in Pregnancy

Salon.com Life | Bad chemistry? Here's a hysterical mom worrying that she ruined her kid's life by taking SSRIs in pregnancy. "I didn't drink coffee, I went off ahi and gorgonzola, I avoided the products of both Napa and Humboldt counties. It never occurred to me to stay on the meds."

Well, I went off my meds for baby Biscuit, and regular readers know what a disaster that turned out to be. But I found it impossible not to eat raw milk cheese (is it my fault I had to attend a wedding in France during my pregnancy? Could I possibly have been expected not to partake of a nice Pomerol and actual Camembert while in France? Bad enough that when presented with a plate of homemade fois gras, my pregnant stomach was unable to appreciate the gift...) I lost my taste for coffee, and had never thought giving up playing in kitty litter to be particularly difficult. I knew someone who wouldn't even drink herbal tea while pregnant. (Even innocent herbal tea, like, say, Sleepytime.)

I am not sure what my point is here. C'mon lady, raise your kids, and quit obsessing about what you could have done differently. Of course, in retrospect, I wish I'd stayed on my meds. I certainly will next time I get up the guts to get pregnant. ("There may well have to be roofies involved," I joke to Mr. Biscuit.) Maybe I have no point. Really, this whole post was just an excuse to admit publicly that I ate forbidden cheese while pregnant. Take that! What to Expect When You're Expecting. I piss on your sanctimonious prohibitions.

Mother's Day Tennis Bracelet

As usual, Max presented me with a fabulous diamond-and-sapphire tennis bracelet today to thank me for giving birth to his child. This gift allows him to ignore my maternal sacrifices the other 364 days of the year. Whenever I get tired of chasing after the two year old, I just put on my tennis bracelets and flash them around at the nannies on the playground, and everything's peachy again.

I jest, children, I jest. Really, some of you are so gullible. Actually, we've spent the day drilling large holes in the wall of the laundry closet so that we may install wire shelving on which to stack towels. I am covered in romantic drywall dust.

PBS

PBS Unplugged - President Bush gives us a new reason to wean public broadcasting from the government teat. By Jack Shafer

Hmm. So, if all public funding for public broadcasting was cut off, then in what sense, exactly, would public broadcasting be, you know, public?

Can people please just say "Down With Public Broadcasting, Up With NewsCorp!" and be done with it?