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Momto6inIN last won the day on April 26 2019

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  1. I'm good at encouraging and emotional support and reading between the lines. I can keep kids alive, but not plants, so hopefully someone with a green thumb would need a lot of emotional support in this scenario 😉
  2. DH for sure. He says he likes hearing all the interesting stuff going on in my head and is disappointed when I keep quiet. I have several other friends/family members who - divided among all of them - probably know everything worth knowing about me (the good, the bad, and the ugly)
  3. My female GSD came home at 3:30pm after being spayed last month and instantly ran around the yard and was back to normal. I have no idea if that's normal or not.
  4. We spent a week in the Cancun area and scratched snorkeling off our bucket list.
  5. I had a half German shepherd half Golden Retriever who was black with short hair and looked a lot like a black lab.
  6. I did exercises prescribed for several weeks after 1 in person consult. The consult was ... weird and involved things like "squeeze my finger" 😬🤪 The exercises actually made leakage worse for me, so I stopped doing them and never went back.
  7. My 4 year old frequently says, "Mommy, I want you!" even when she's on my lap or otherwise getting my attention. Usually it's her expressing a desire for more closeness and comfort with the only words she has for that need. She doesn't say it repeatedly though.
  8. Me too, except in my case it only took about 5 days lol DH took a week off work to spend with me and as soon as I realized that he was going back to work and I was going to be left entirely alone with this tiny human who I loved desperately but had no clue how to keep alive and I hadn't slept more than an hour at a time in a week, I called in reinforcements. Luckily she had a flexible job and could take off at a momen't notice. She stayed for a week til I felt a little more on top of things. She did laundry and cooked and cleaned and enjoyed looking at me holding her grandson and gave me adult conversation. She also cooked several meals and put them in the freezer for me to get out after she went home. She held DS of course and probably changed a diaper or two but she didn't really do "baby care" as her role. She did recognize the signs of postpartum overwhelm and sent me outside for a walk when I looked like I was almost ready to panic. Each subsequent baby she did the same, adding in child care for older siblings to her job description. I was always very grateful, even though by baby #5 and 6 the older kids were old enough to help a lot more with laundry and cleaning and I didn't need her as much. As for DH, we both regarded his role as doing whatever it took to make me able to mother. That first week when he was off work he heated up meals that people from church had dropped off and bonded with me and baby (and older sibs). We are also very fortunate that our church family sends meals - usually there are enough people to send meals that I don't have to cook at all other than pulling things out of the freezer and warming them up for the first 6-8 weeks.
  9. I can totally commiserate with you being annoyed. I would be too. My parents do a lot of things for my brother (financially and otherwise) that I don't think are wise. It's not because I'm jealous. I just think it's a bad idea. But unfortunately I don't think there's much to be done about it. So I guess just say "cheers!" 🥂 and smile and grin and bear it.
  10. The Wingfeather Saga has been a huge hit here in addition to many I've seen mentioned above.
  11. Bombas are expensive, but they are so comfortable that I'm kinda spoiled and won't wear any others
  12. Mine weren't frequent but were spectacularly heavy and I was anemic. They did an ultrasound and I had very thick endometrial lining and they suspected a polyp underneath. They did a D&C and then an ablation (they were right about the polyp and removed that too). Now they are less heavy but not gone. Frequency hasn't changed but flow has.
  13. Your first is always hard because your world is rocked and you have no idea what you're doing. For us #3 was the hardest. I joke that we had to switch from a man to man defense to a zone defense and that transition was difficult 🤪 After #3 the rest just folded in to the family routine easily, even if they were individually difficult babies. If you can have 3, you can have 6. My sil who has 12 agrees and says if you have 3 you can have 12.
  14. I use Forever but you have to buy/download their software called Artisan. They used to be Creative Memories back in the day when paper scrapbooking was a thing but now ut's all digital of course. You don't need Historian (their photo editing software) unless you heavily edit most of your photos before putting them in a book. Artisan will do light photo edits.
  15. It looks about right to me. Kids may push back but I always remind them that the more they complain they longer it takes and if they do it with a good attitude it goes faster.
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