28 Min Released Mar 31, 2017

Is it OK to Take an Uber While Giving Birth?

E.J. Dickson, who last visited Sex Lives while pregnant, returns with her two-month-old baby in tow. She recounts taking an Uber to the hospital while her water was breaking, and feeling her uterus lifted out of her body during the C-section. Demanding a shot of whiskey after returning from the hospital, and giving up on breastfeeding. Watching her son be circumcised by a rabbi, and then tossing his foreskin out with the trash. Motherhood is wild. Call to leave voicemail for Sex Lives.



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New York Magazine writers dish about sex, lust, dating, technology, coupling, porn, fetish and freakiness.

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