New Things To Panic About!

It’s been an exciting week at Let’s Panic HQ! We’ve added two new stories: one for pregnant people, and one for post-pregnant people, as has become our weekly tradition.

For those of you trapped in the soft, pillow-strewn existence known as “bed rest,” we have put together a helpful selection of coping strategies entitled, rather straighforwardly, Surviving Bed Rest. Our list of suggestions may also be useful for those undergoing any sort of bed-staying-in condition, from modified flu to Proustian angst and everything in between. Go have a look!

Our other new post is entitled Braving the Outside World. It’s directed at parents of newborns who are doing just that, breaking through the sterile barrier of the natal homestead to explore the fresh, germ-strewn pastures of the world — you know, that thing you see on TV. It’s not a bed of roses out there, you know, but you’ll be able to handle it once you’re armed with our thought-ammunition!

We’re in the midst of developing some new features that we’ll let loose on you soon, mostly of the contest and giveaway variety. It will be fun! And only a little bit humiliating. So stay tuned!

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Welcome!

Welcome to LET’S PANIC ABOUT BABIES! If you’re new to the site, you may be wondering several things:

How did I get pregnant?
What is this thing inside me?
What’s a “baby”?
What in hell is this web site and who do these people think they are?

There, there. We’re here to answer all your questions. Hold off writing us that all-caps angry email and just read for a bit.

We all know that pregnancy and the motherhood that ensues can be a strange, confusing time in a woman’s life. To watch your body construct a virtual stranger inside itself is alarming enough, but then to survive the inevitable and dramatic birth (spoiler alert for you pregnant ladies: there will be screaming) only to find that you now have to take care of this teeny red-faced creature whom you find yourself loving beyond all ability to reason?!  WHAT SADIST CAME UP WITH THIS PLAN?

Here’s your answer: God. Or Nature, for you free-wheeling, godless types.

See? We’ve already answered one of your most pressing existential questions, and you’ve only just begun to explore this fascinating, fact-clogged website. As our “About” page explains so well that we want to quote ourselves, “Alice Bradley and Eden M. Kennedy have created the only website that accurately explains the journey from morning sickness to third-degree tears to keeping that baby alive for a year — or more! LET’S PANIC ABOUT BABIES will serve as a salve to the mystery and degradation of this most female of challenges. Its authors may not have “science” on their side, but what they do have is far more valuable: a heady mélange of female intuition, sentence-forming know-how, and the achingly vivid memories of their own gestational journeys and unending motherhoods.”

God, we’re good.

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