Lauren Hallden
laurenhallden.com
Lauren Hallden
@laurenhallden.com
Product Designer, mushroom hunter, creator of Philly Day Hiker and a bunch of other things.
At least you probably won’t need to learn cursive badly??
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Imagine "going to the gym" lol
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This episode was a wild ride and I can't believe how popular this book was.
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I have found the post and unfortunately it was on the book of face, and it was a video animation, but still very adorable.

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November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Oh lord the end of this article is extremely bleak. Horrible stuff from brainwashed people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I feel like mine WAS a bit traumatizing. But it would have been 1000% worse if I’d attempted a “free birth” with untrained “friends” I met through some internet class I paid $399 for, Jesus. The odds that works out for me feel like zero.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
For sure there are some hospital horror stories in this article, and I’m sympathetic to wanting more control over the process. But I think we’re being sold a lie that there’s a way to guarantee your birth will feel empowering. Some births are traumatizing. Hospital or no.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Like this woman, I also had a “1% of births go badly in this particular way” kind of delivery. Bad baby position, cord up at the neck, stuck shoulder, big head…we broke a clavicle getting him out, but he’s fine today because I was in a goddamn hospital and people knew what they were doing.
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Update:
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It's entertaining but I'm also averaging a heart attack every 20 minutes
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We gave him a push walker with wheels, but because of the balance thing he has to lean into it pretty hard...which makes it roll really fast. So my evenings are just this baby RUNNING through the house with it, screaming in fear and delight.
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM