At the risk of sounding to sincere and corny CTH is one of the most friendly communities and the only one I regularly post or engage in. I have made the transition from the reddit to the discord to here. I go here because not only are your politics good but everyone I interact with in the community is great. Sure we are all under so many layers of irony moments of sincerity can be hard but I’m very excited and scared.
Haven’t told anyone else yet but I’m gonna be a dad. I’m terrified of the state of America but I really felt a resurgence yesterday when I found out. I want to give my kid a fighting chance. And we need more dirty leftists in the world.
I’m telling her this evening. It was hard to put the stick under her sneakily
sir ... is this a bomb?
nooo no what nooo thats my Gender Revealer 5000 XL-Bushido™️, it pops out a bunch of confetti that says if my kid will be a strong and masculine child, for the party!
...yeah okay head on through.
this would be a funny time to re-listen to Virgil's cold open about anti-natalism
Congrats! I will fight the capitalist pigs for the sake of your child’s future.
Also, if you have to formula feed, do it. Sometimes you don't produce enough milk, sometimes capitalism demands you go back to work too early—and quite frankly breastfeeding is the hardest work on the planet. If anybody tries to shame you for your choice, they can go fuck themselves. You do what you gotta do to keep you and your partner's mental health afloat. Being a new parent is really fucking hard.
congrats. for future reference the much cheaper non-digital tests are just as accurate as the expensive digital ones. if you crack open the one you have you'll find it's just the paper strip on the inside and a sensor that reads it for you
We used a cheap one at first and saw a very very faint blue horizontal line. I saw it and said it was positive but it was so faint my wife asked if I would go purchase a digital one to be sure. So it was kind of a waste of money but it reassured her.
Yep - even faint means pregnant. Basically the digital versions exist for the exact reason you ran into - for some reason people don't believe that faint = pregnant and so they spend $20 for for a $0.25 piece of electronics to tell you the same thing, and then it spends the rest of its days in a landfill
they're just as accurate so long as you can correctly interpret the paper strip - read the directions or find out online to be sure you're reading it right.
MORE OF US MORE OF US MORE OF US YOUR KID IS GONNA CALL YOU A LIB WHEN HE GROWS UP AND HE WILL BE RIGHT, congrats king
HELL YEAH! Kids are awesome and know that things should be fair!
Tragic thing about these digital birth tests is they put all this plastic and circuitry around a strip of paper, which you could just look at the strip of paper for the results if you have a brain. So it's not only marked up for no goddamn reason, but now we have a bunch of single-use silicon, plastic, and metal for a device meant to be thrown away. I hate these things.
That said, congratulations!
