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No. We adopted. The day kiddo arrived, we posted a cellphone picture on Facebook and sent texts to a couple non-Facebook-users. We weren't about to document every second of the process leading up to that moment, because it's not anyone's business, and we weren't going to dress our kid up in some costume or something, because it's not all about us, and we saw no need to objectify our child or our child's story.

These pregnancy announcements are just overdone and reek of self-centered white straight people with too much time and money. When did people start sending out a pregnancy announcement? Were birth announcements not enough? It's really revealing that these seem to be coming only from one type of family constellation and one socioeconomic group. Yes, most of the world does something to mark celebrating and welcoming a new family member, and that's a beautiful thing. But that's not what these are; these are people acting as if they're the first one to get pregnant, or their expanding uterus is new and trendy and different from everyone else's. I feel bad for these kids who are coming into a dynamic where it's clearly all about the parents and the kid is just some fashionable accessory.

People aren't closing their kids into closets. These would legally be an alcove in an existing room.

Where's the picture of the nursery? Did I overlook a link?

Yeah, I agree that this is lame and possibly a bit offensive. It doesn't affect me in the least if other Jews don't observe Passover, but then just call it a tasty drink that you happen to be having next week. This is not a Passover drink, since someone observing Passover can't drink it.

And really, you couldn't, like, find someone Jewish to come up with a Passover recipe? So you had someone just pretend to know what they're talking about and actually be way off base? This just sounds like someone wanted to appropriate our holiday, without knowing the most basic thing about it. Is Passover suddenly trendy or something?

Try emailing the rabbi at your local synagogue and I'm sure they'd be happy to help with your feature.

This is amazing and full of personality. The woman is really cute too!

Childhood doesn't have to be a competition! If you're considering waiting because your child is a little immature, it could likely be helpful. But if you're thinking in terms of what you as a parent can do to artificially control your child's success in the world, you may be a helicopter parent and might want to let your kid breathe a little. Your kid will be much better off if you instill skills and values such as not gaming the system and not growing up thinking that he or she deserves better than other kids and that parents will find a way to make it happen.

Have none of you privileged people's kids gone through a major trauma or loss? Really, shielding them from negative images? Not letting them see that sadness exists? My kid would be really draw to this sort of reflection of how she feels quite a bit of the time.

Agreed with all the comments regarding comments; there are some really immature and rude comments that manage to stay posted, but then there are also some commenters who don't seem to want to see anything posted that's remotely critical.

WTF?

I didn't see any mud-slinging. I saw people raising awareness that this is an organization that has discrimination as a central tenet of their mission, and suggesting that people give their money and donations to other organizations that value all people. I think this is entirely appropriate to point out when someone is asking whether they should give money to support discrimination.