Brunch Granny! Please do an AMA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's shocking how many allegedly grown and college-educated parents don't comprehend what a mortality table is. Do you think you and your husband have a 100% chance of living to the age 78 average life expectancy? Or even 58 or 68? Do you think you both have a 100% of being of sound mind and body at 78? Or even 58 or 68?

You think you have a 100% chance of living until 22? Or 42?

Women on both sides of my family live very long and are very active into their 80s/90s. No one is “diminished” in their 70s.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand Brunch Ganny's attack on SATC. Out of four women, 2 didn't want children and didn't have them.

Two did want children and had them, along with all their alcoholic brunches.

I mean brunch lasts a couple of hours on the weekend. I am pretty sure you can date and have brunch, marry and have brunch, get pregnant and have non alcoholic brunch, have kids and have brunch.

I mean the comments in the other thread were silly. It's such a waste of time is it, what seeing your friends for a couple of hours on the weekend, who cares, I'll do brunch and lunch and dinners and enjoy the alcohol too. Its crazy to bring brunch into the same conversation as fertility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brunch granny has definitely struck a nerve. The only other (non-Politics) threads that display such rampant defensiveness involve the exhausting SAHM v. WOHM debate.

Are you new here? College forum, which Ivy is at the bottom, soccer, private vs. public school, redshirting, breastfeeding, size 8 is fat, fake eyelashes etc. etc. This is nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the ticking biological clock thing is so overstated. I got accidentally pregnant from one time unprotected sex at 38. And I know sooooooo many other women that have similar stories from their late 30s and 40s. I only know two women who had fertiility issues—one had issues starting at age 25 because it turned out an ovulation problem she never knew about. The other didn’t start trying until late 30s—so very well may have had the same issues if she had started earlier.

Also, I’ve done a lot of geneological research reviewing census records from the 19th and early 20th century. A certain percentage of women were just infertile or had low birth rates regardless of the early marriages and lack of birth control. For women that were gererallt fertile, if they didn’t die or have catastrophic gyn problems from chldbirth, they were generally having kids into their 40s. Elizabeth cady Stanton had her last at 44 (feminism not having dried up her ovaries).

Basically every mother I know who gave birth after age 36 had complications; either with the pregnancy, delivery and/or the child is on the spectrum or has food allergies that could kill them. You folks live in delusional la la land if you think every woman can be on birth control for decades and booze through their 20s and early 30s, maybe even an abortion along the way, and then pop out healthy babies. Trust the science.

“Trust the science, which I am declining to provide, because it doesn’t exist.”

Unless, of course, “science” = “basically every mother this loonie poster knows”.

Oh my God, is this the same poster who went off on Cecily Strong for being a useless spinster who had an abortion? I bet it is. Excuse me, I’m getting stupid chills.

[Anonymous]

Where is the cecily strong thread?

[Anonymous]

Oh, PP, you are right—it does sound just like the Cecily Strong critic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the ticking biological clock thing is so overstated. I got accidentally pregnant from one time unprotected sex at 38. And I know sooooooo many other women that have similar stories from their late 30s and 40s. I only know two women who had fertiility issues—one had issues starting at age 25 because it turned out an ovulation problem she never knew about. The other didn’t start trying until late 30s—so very well may have had the same issues if she had started earlier.

Also, I’ve done a lot of geneological research reviewing census records from the 19th and early 20th century. A certain percentage of women were just infertile or had low birth rates regardless of the early marriages and lack of birth control. For women that were gererallt fertile, if they didn’t die or have catastrophic gyn problems from chldbirth, they were generally having kids into their 40s. Elizabeth cady Stanton had her last at 44 (feminism not having dried up her ovaries).

Basically every mother I know who gave birth after age 36 had complications; either with the pregnancy, delivery and/or the child is on the spectrum or has food allergies that could kill them. You folks live in delusional la la land if you think every woman can be on birth control for decades and booze through their 20s and early 30s, maybe even an abortion along the way, and then pop out healthy babies. Trust the science.

“Trust the science, which I am declining to provide, because it doesn’t exist.”

Unless, of course, “science” = “basically every mother this loonie poster knows”.

Oh my God, is this the same poster who went off on Cecily Strong for being a useless spinster who had an abortion? I bet it is. Excuse me, I’m getting stupid chills.

Probably also the same person who tears apart older female celebrities in Entertainment for either not having kids or having them after 30. Like the poster who was practically cackling with glee that Priyanka Chopra’s infant was born prematurely because apparently she should have had her child at age 23.

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So has she not made an appearance on this thread yet?

Here are some questions I have for her or others who know:

1. How many kids do you have?
2. How many grandkids do you have?
3. Do you feel guilty about being on DCUM when you could be giving attention to your child and grandchild?
4. Was your life miserable before you became a mom?
5. Have you ever had really good eggs Benedict?
6. Can you concede that some dogs in strollers are cute?

Thank you to the OP! I genuinely want to see more posts from anti-brunch grandma!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha! Now brunch granny is wishing an early death upon the mimosa slurping sluts!
This thread doesn’t disappoint!

If you have ivf babies at 40, you're going to be at least 62 when they graduate from college, and around 70 before your husband can walk them down the aisle, and at least 71 before they have their first child (your grandchild). Nobody is wishing death on anyone, just fascinating to see the anti-science delusions being trafficked in these threads. In addition to having low-energy and being the "old" parents, I hope all of the bellinis were worth the very high likelihood you or your husband pass away or are in a diminished state for all of those milestones. Nobody I know who waited to have children admits they are glad they waited; it's unanimous that they wish they had them earlier, and wish they had the fertility for another one or two, which is why I suspect these threads are full of spinsters in denial.

I always only wanted two kids - too selfish to have more. I'm one of two. I would have been happy having kids in my early 30s instead of 34 but it didn't work out that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's shocking how many allegedly grown and college-educated parents don't comprehend what a mortality table is. Do you think you and your husband have a 100% chance of living to the age 78 average life expectancy? Or even 58 or 68? Do you think you both have a 100% of being of sound mind and body at 78? Or even 58 or 68?

Do you understand that we don't plan our childbearing around seeing our grandchildren being born and celebrating milestones? How weird to live through future generations instead of living your own life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the ticking biological clock thing is so overstated. I got accidentally pregnant from one time unprotected sex at 38. And I know sooooooo many other women that have similar stories from their late 30s and 40s. I only know two women who had fertiility issues—one had issues starting at age 25 because it turned out an ovulation problem she never knew about. The other didn’t start trying until late 30s—so very well may have had the same issues if she had started earlier.

Also, I’ve done a lot of geneological research reviewing census records from the 19th and early 20th century. A certain percentage of women were just infertile or had low birth rates regardless of the early marriages and lack of birth control. For women that were gererallt fertile, if they didn’t die or have catastrophic gyn problems from chldbirth, they were generally having kids into their 40s. Elizabeth cady Stanton had her last at 44 (feminism not having dried up her ovaries).

Basically every mother I know who gave birth after age 36 had complications; either with the pregnancy, delivery and/or the child is on the spectrum or has food allergies that could kill them. You folks live in delusional la la land if you think every woman can be on birth control for decades and booze through their 20s and early 30s, maybe even an abortion along the way, and then pop out healthy babies. Trust the science.

“Trust the science, which I am declining to provide, because it doesn’t exist.”

Unless, of course, “science” = “basically every mother this loonie poster knows”.

Oh my God, is this the same poster who went off on Cecily Strong for being a useless spinster who had an abortion? I bet it is. Excuse me, I’m getting stupid chills.

Probably also the same person who tears apart older female celebrities in Entertainment for either not having kids or having them after 30. Like the poster who was practically cackling with glee that Priyanka Chopra’s infant was born prematurely because apparently she should have had her child at age 23.

It's definitely the same person. For someone so satisfied with her life, she manages to make it onto every Entertainment Forum post, every Pet Forum post, and a lot of others shaming women in a really vicious way about their reproductive choices. It's honestly kind of deranged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had one child at 35 and then took my remaining eggs and slathered them in hollandaise.

Served with a side of placenta, I hope!

[Anonymous]

Brunch granny needs to go to Disney to really get her panties in a twist. Lots of arrested development going on there. Childless 20-35 years olds prancing around in Disney costumes or Disney bounding. Most of the day is spent taking pictures for Instagram.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brunch granny needs to go to Disney to really get her panties in a twist. Lots of arrested development going on there. Childless 20-35 years olds prancing around in Disney costumes or Disney bounding. Most of the day is spent taking pictures for Instagram.

Sad that they are likely going to be in their late 40s brining their kids to Disney, and being too tired to enjoy it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brunch granny needs to go to Disney to really get her panties in a twist. Lots of arrested development going on there. Childless 20-35 years olds prancing around in Disney costumes or Disney bounding. Most of the day is spent taking pictures for Instagram.

Oh, this will totally be my oldest kid. Her interest in cosplay far exceeds her interest in having children. Luckily, I am not going to measure my worth by my status as a grandma.