Pregnancy Blog Spotlight: Exploiting My Baby

Teresa Strasser is exploiting her baby. How? By penning a super humorous, very fun and must read blog, Exploiting my Baby. Her posts are well written and executed. They are thematic and give a reader just enough fodder for a good peek in the life of a first time mom-to-be and her roller coaster ride called pregnancy. The blog features a belly growth progression page but not the typical one we've seen on most pregnancy blogs; she's wearing the cutest and most stylish maternity clothes ever. And as an example of her witty, down-to-earth, bare bones, tell-it-like-it is writing style, check out this excerpt from her "about me section":

Now that I think about it, as a writer, I guess I’ve “exploited” all of my subjects: my step-parents, my boyfriends, my beat up cars, my jacked up apartments, my landlords, my Hebrew school teachers, my grandfather, my girlfriends, the dude at the dry cleaner’s, my therapist(s), the guy I met on Myspace, my dermatologist, everyone.

Sometimes, when you’re scared about how something is going to be perceived, you have to look the bogeyman right in the face.

So when I randomly searched for the domain name Exploiting My Baby.com and it was free, I grabbed it.

And after all, the kid is exploiting me.

If that didn't convince you, Teresa Strasser is also an Emmy-winning writer (Comedy Central’s “Win Ben Stein’s Money”) and Emmy-nominated television host (TLC’s “While You Were Out”). Radio audiences know her as the co-host of The Adam Carolla Show, syndicated on CBS Radio stations throughout the West Coast. You can read more about her extensive TV and media bio here.