Panic About Your Baby

Let’s Panic About Babies! How to Endure and Possibly Triumph Over the Adorable Tyrant who Will Ruin Your Body, Destroy Your Life, Liquefy Your Brain, and Finally Turn You into a Worthwhile Human Being is an excellently titled new parenting book by bloggers Alice Bradley and Eden M. Kennedy. Here’s an excerpt from a long interview they gave with Time, and then here’s where you can buy the book, if you want to panic.

Q: Is there something about the way we get pregnant, have babies and, well, panic, that needed some satire?
Alice: Yes. NEXT QUESTION… Eden is writing something smart. I’m making fart noises with my armpit.
Eden: I think getting pregnant or trying to get pregnant or finally getting pregnant after trying (or not trying!) just automatically produces anxiety, and that internal pressure needs to be released somehow.

Q: Men can relate to that phrasing
Eden: YES, MEN LOVE ME.

If you click through and read that interview, and find it amusing but frustratingly devoid of jokes or facts about pregnancy and/or sex, here’s an excerpt from the book.