‘Geriatric’ Coffee Convos: We’re Just Living On The Headlines This Week!
Join Sonia and Jessica for this Geriatric Coffee Convos filled with current motherhood news stories! They share their latest toddler mom stories of bathroom spray and ranch dressing mishaps, and weigh-in on a variety of topics including the docu-series trending on Netflix, “The Man With 1000 Kids,” a pregnant woman’s reaction to her sister sharing her baby’s incredibly odd name, and Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s latest announcement… SHE’S PREGNANT! Enjoy, Mamas!
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The Man With 1000 Kids on Netflix review: a story to chill the blood
This is a story to chill the blood: a cautionary tale about the perils of the modern age.
The focus of the documentary is Jonathan Jacob Meijer, who has made headlines recently for being banned from donating sperm. Yes, he is the man with the 1,000 kids in the show’s title – though it quickly becomes apparent that he has no idea how many he actually has.
Though it could sound funny, this new three-part series quickly shows us it’s actually anything but.
One after the other, we’re taken into the lives of the people he affected – from couples Suzanne and Natalie to Joyce and John and solo parents including Vanessa.
They all had one thing in common: they were longing for a baby and unwilling to pay for an expensive clinic in the Netherlands, where they lived, for multiple reasons. “I want to look the sperm donor in the eye and see if his personality fits my personality,” says Natalie: something anonymous donations wouldn’t have let her do.
Parents give their kids weird names sometimes. It all started when Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin had to go ahead and name their kid “Apple,” didn’t it? That was the beginning of the strange, out-of-the-box naming of children. We couldn’t just stick to Jennifer or John. We had to start looking around the room and naming our kids after household items (ie. Blanket Jackson).
As a society, we may have gotten used to a strange name here or there, but one woman on Reddit believes her sister may have topped them all.
In the “/namenerds” Subreddit, a woman asked for affirmation that she is not in the wrong after her big reaction to her sister’s pick for a baby name. Let’s just say, something’s fishy!
The OP begins by explaining that her sister is 7 months pregnant with a baby boy. Another important detail to know about the OP’s sister is that she loves the ocean, sea, and marine life. When she called her sister to catch-up, she asked her about a name for the baby-to-be.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard Is Pregnant With Her 1st Baby After Prison Release
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