Meaghan O'Connell @meaghano Twitter profile

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2 years

who's gonna tell them

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@EmilyGouldNYmag maybe he meant our collective inner child

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7 years

@Schieslmynizzle @NatBurner89 @pattymo cracker people

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2 years

my son asked me if our dog's veterinarian was a dog or a person

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3 months

remember how all those Alice Munro interviews and quotes circulated about how she worried she was a bad or absent mother and we assumed it was because she was WRITING SO MUCH and just one of the necessary sacrifices because women just can’t have it all 🤮🤮🤮🤮

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8 years

weird he didn't respond

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6 years

always bodes well

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10 months

is in a time of great shift we must respond in kind. The media industry needs a new genre: gift guide criticism

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7 years

I'm like...scared to go back to New York for this reason. Dinner is at 6pm, 5 if I'm honest, 7 if I'm trying to be cool for you.

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7 years

I keep rereading this paragraph from @alexanderchee 's Le Guin interview and it keeps making me cry. "after the kids were in bed" 💔

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7 years

@Nicole_Cliffe playing Madonna's Take a Bow for my 8th grade english class, with the lyrics up on the overhead projector, supposedly as a presentation on figurative language, but actually to stand in front of the class and stare pointedly at the guy who just dumped me

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6 years

yeah sex is great but have you ever told a male editor at abad website your typical freelance rate is twice what he’s trying to offer you to create garbage self-help content and then deleted his taken-aback reply

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5 years

My con artist Portland son is trying to delay bedtime by claiming he doesn’t feel “safe and supported” alone in his bed

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17 days

fun fact: trimesters arent real

A Supreme Court Justice Invented Trimesters As We Know Them

The origin of the pregnancy trimester is not in our biology but in 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision.

www.romper.com

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3 years

we made a big, servicey package about C-sections (before, during, and after) with all the judgment and stigma taken out, which, believe me, is HARD TO DO

Best C-Section Ever: Your Guide To A Super Common Way To Have A Baby

A practical guide to the before, during, and after of an incredibly common way to have a baby.

www.romper.com

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3 years

parents with kids under 5 are NOT OKAY. (Not related to the pandemic, little kids are just a massive pain in the ass)

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5 years

it’s should I go to grad school season 😩

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1 year

my little mom book came out five years ago today! it did not make me rich or famous but it was such a surprising, joyful moment in my life and I will always be proud of it 💜 and all the books it made room for

'And Now We Have Everything' Charts The Emotional Extremes Of An Ordinary Pregnancy

Memoirs now tend toward the unique and superhuman, recounting experiences most of us will never have. But Meaghan O'Connell's wry new book is brutally honest about something commonplace: pregnancy.

www.npr.org

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4 months

feeling very WELL WELL WELL about this one

Epidurals Could Decrease Severe Birth Complications By More Than A Third, Study Says

A new study from the British Medical Journal has found that women who received epidurals during labor were less likely to experience severe maternal morbidity.

www.romper.com

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6 years

I guess I should have known better than to title my book I Speak For Everyone When I Say: This Is How It Is

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7 years

women have spent millennia learning to be fucking mindreaders, actually more than ready for men to take on the task

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6 years

I have very little anxiety with this baby but I do have a four year old who calls out “I don’t see his tummy moving, mommy, he’s like a statue, he’s very still,” from the backseat

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2 years

what makes me and most people who have been there so sick to their stomachs re: the formula thing is the firsthand knowledge re: how far new parents will go to blame themselves and feel guilty instead of feeling rage at corporate greed and regulatory breakdown

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3 years

picturing hundreds of postpartum people bleeding in their disposable underwear, dragging their screaming newborns and swollen sticky sewn-together bodies onto Joe Manchin's HOUSEBOAT which for the record is called Almost Heaven

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3 years

I think the "parents just hate their kids" people are realizing for the first time that their parents hated them a little bit, too, sometimes. it's hard, sorry guys. but yeah. your mom told me she hates you.

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5 months

my 6yo has requested a poop-themed birthday party

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7 years

roses are red metal is conductive

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6 years

just doing a little casual remerchandising at my local B&N

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4 months

in other personnel news i was promoted to SENIOR features editor, so watch yourselves

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9 years

I'm writing a book! And @littlebrown is going to publish it! OR SO THEY SAY. http://t.co/smMmE2EinZ

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3 months

So in an, um, effort to create more efficiency across brands, our beloved @romper is going to be operating at a really reduced rate with a limited budget. I'll still be publishing some features and Romper still exists but it's the end of an era. 💔

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6 years

did a map write this headline

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4 years

"im just doing my job, pushin the long button" -- my 2yo mashing the space bar in what is I guess an impression of us lolol

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6 years

how I learned my book excerpt went up on the Guardian

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6 years

“You’re not terribly forthcoming so do you want to take some pain meds or do you want to continue to stew in your little world of misery?” wow I feel seen by my nurse 😅

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3 years

A thing I want to hold onto post-pandemic is crossing the street to get away from people

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6 months

Six years later, MY BOOK EARNED OUT, BABY

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7 years

GOOD MORNING 😱

Cheryl Strayed

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7 years

What have you all been reading lately? I just devoured this book by @meaghano (which will be out April). It’s smart/funny/true in all the best ways and it made me ache with recognition of what it felt like to be a new mom (and a human). Also recently (an…

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3 years

I get rejected from every writing residency I apply to — probably because I'm TOO good and they know I don't need help??????

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6 years

in honor of world breastfeeding week, I’d like to share that I hate and resent breastfeeding even though it comes fairly easy to me and giving him formula when I’d rather die than pull out a boob is a revelation!

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6 years

whom

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7 years

Finally got the name for my buddy comedy abt 2 guys on the shitty media men list who must leave town to start their lives anew: QUID PRO BRO

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7 years

4/10/18!

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7 years

my friend is a surgeon in Australia and just sent me this photo omg

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3 years

I got my second Pfizer at table 69 on 4/20. Nice

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3 months

It’s almost like… that debate is a distraction from upholding power structures that protect abusers aka the patriarchy ok bye bye

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3 years

in the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf 🐛🍃

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7 years

SOMEONE OPTION THIS

Both Sides of a Breakup: He Wanted the Wedding Planner

Exes explain why it ended.

www.thecut.com

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6 years

W O W

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6 years

*dies*

'And Now We Have Everything' Charts The Emotional Extremes Of An Ordinary Pregnancy

Memoirs now tend toward the unique and superhuman, recounting experiences most of us will never have. But Meaghan O'Connell's wry new book is brutally honest about something commonplace: pregnancy.

www.npr.org

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7 years

some personal news, American style

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7 years

just a casual wednesday google

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2 years

I got up at a mom panel w a shaky voice and asked the h*llo s*nshine ceo how she squares the environmental implications of the blockchain 😬

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9 years

A lot of equal parenting is figuring out which job is the job and which job is the break

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6 years

remember when @theunread took a job on a tropical island working, ultimately, for a tax-evading billionaire who made his fortune on styrofoam, so that I could finish writing this goddamn book, which is finally OUT TODAY?

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3 years

tell me your MacArthur ran out and your kids' tuition is due without telling me etc etc

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3 years

Indulge me but I started editing features for @romper a year ago today! very very grateful for the women on our hilarious, supportive team who've taught me EVERYTHING w such grace, & the writers who continue to show up + go deep as the world unravels... it is such a consolation.

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3 years

2-5yo vaccine trial failing is really just the news we needed today

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3 years

normal country where the Walgreens cashier tips you off to when exactly the BinaxNow truck arrives tomorrow with rapid tests

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4 months

at @romper we are hiring an extremely online staff writer! open to remote, a union position - come hang

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8 years

first woman president or first president with "real" at the beginning of their Twitter username hmm

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6 years

BOTH parents at the playground with one kid, in this economy??

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7 years

i did my amazon author page and feel like such a rebel

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6 years

“Did your book get the most stars? Is it on top because you’re the winner? Did people buy your book the most?” Never let your three year old see goodreads dot com

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8 years

thanks for writing bill now fuck off

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7 years

I read...so many damn parenting books 😅 some are actually good!

The Only Parenting Books You Should Actually Buy

Worthwhile reads about raising a kid.

www.thecut.com

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6 years

yeah I’m participating in nanowrimo Nah NO I don’t Write anyMOre

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1 year

hug a mentally ill terminally online mommy blogger today, we are fucked up

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3 years

@mariskreizman

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3 years

I want to know about the psychological journey to becoming a sign mom, like one day you don’t hold up a letterboard sign in Instagram photos, and the next day you just…do

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4 years

"all those paeans to foreign parenting do little more than reveal our cultural tendency to turn to self-help instead of demanding policy changes designed to benefit American families."

Stop Telling Me To Parent Like The Swedish and Give Me Childcare

It's now a regular trope in American parenting culture: they’re doing it better over there.

www.romper.com

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3 years

When God closes a door...He opens a Spirit Halloween

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2 years

I don’t know how to properly convey the surreality of what I just experienced so I’ll just give you the facts: I got out of my cab and as I was going into the hotel, Blippi was coming out. in full Blippi regalia

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6 years

this birth was 40 min not 40 hours and yet, the word count remains the same

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6 years

Model is 5′10″ Wearing size 00 helpful

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6 years

feels like a scam that we had a baby so we get to hang out at home all day watching tv and our friends work for 10 hours then bring us dinner

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1 year

"Abortion funds give someone $500 — or $750, or $2,000, or $443.68, or $20 — and in doing so they create whole futures, whole people, whole lives, whole worlds." @hannahmsays ' gorgeous book is out today. here is an excerpt!

Abortion Creates Futures

The funding that paid for my abortion came not from my government or my health insurance company or my employer. It came from people, like you and me.

www.romper.com

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7 years

@Nicole_Cliffe thing I think about the most is when I was a YOUNG TEEN at the GYM and a random middle aged man approached me and said "your face is way too pretty to be carrying around that weight."

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3 years

I ordered a Pfizer tee in my dose two stupor as some kind of misguided souvenir but now I’m just??? Wearing a shirt with an evil big pharma logo ??? I threw it on before pickup and now too embarrassed to get out of the car, is this girl boss culture

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7 years

I'm fatter than that woman and my husband is cuter so what do we win

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6 years

i suggested he try counting sheep and my child told me that when he closed his eyes and tried to imagine them, all he could see were sharks biting through his mother’s body. 🆒

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3 years

I don’t want to wear a mask at the playground but what can I do, approach every parent and be like Um did you see the latest CDC recommendations

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2 years

got the news every mother dreads today: my son is going to do comedy in the camp talent show

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2 years

omg the shame i feel when I get hit back w the publishing politesse after emailing someone i thought i could be jokey and normal with 😵‍💫

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3 years

When I make my kids chicken nuggets in the oven and not the microwave

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3 years

A long-held dream of mine, something that shouldn't feel as radical as it is: an essay about quitting breastfeeding because the writer simply didn't WANT to do it anymore, by @mirandarake