CW: Death and illness in children. This week I talk to Alex Pemoulie about her baby going through open-heart surgery (he is fine). Alex and I met when her first child and my son were babies and got along because we were utterly traumatized by motherhood. We had a short-lived feminist mom podcast (one of approximately one trillion feminist mom podcasts that 'keep it real') called Just Moms and in this episode we do a round-up of everything we discussed back then. We cover SO MUCH ground, including how Alex's fear of her children dying led her to obsessively reading every story about the death of babies, including the saddest story we've both ever read: the news story about the woman pushing the dead baby in the swing! Please check out patreon.com/hairybuttholepodcast for bonus content!