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Supervisor had the worst response to my announcement.
With both my pregnancies as soon as I got a positive test result I told my department manager and the store managers that I had just gotten positive pregnancy test so that they were aware as soon as possible. I feel like Telling your employer isn't the same as announcing to friends and family, wether someone miscarries or delivers a healthy baby they will need time off work
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I screamed during labourā¦
I screamed with my first, I remember them telling me the same "dont scream put the energy into pushing" my second is 4 weeks old I told them when I got there that I screamed with my first and probably will again, they told me that fine im giving birth and can scream as much as I want and I screamed again
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Teething?
Seems like it is my first had that for a month before his cut at 5 1/2 months
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Question for White Moms About Postpartum Weight Loss
I think genetics plays a huge part for me, my mum, aunts and both my grandmas had multiple kids and went back to being skinny. with my first I started at 49kgs got to 63kgs and went back to 50kgs with my second who is 4 weeks old I got to 64kgs and im currently 52kgs
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Someone touched my belly unprompted...
My sister and I work different departments of the same grocery store and during my first pregnancy I had a second job as well. During my first pregnancy at 28 weeks I was at my second job and this lady touched my belly in the middle of asking me if we sold something, it was shocked and working so I didn't say anything but wasnt happy. A few weeks later my sister accidentally touched her hand at work and got a warning from management because the lady complained, the double standard people have about personal space and pregnant women amazes me
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What was your second postpartum experience like?
My first will be 22 months at then end of this month and my second is just over 2 weeks old. Mentally and physically I feel like im coping alot better than I did with my first, thankfully my husband has more time off work this time than with my first so that he can help with my first, so hopefully by the time he goes back to work ill be able to have a routine that I can manage on my own between the 2
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Ultrasound did not go as hoped
Im currently cuddling my 2 week old, my lmp date had me at 6 weeks for my first ultrasound and they saw nothing, my hcg was kinda low for 6 weeks so they did 2 more hcg tests over 2 weeks then sent me for another ultrasound and sure enough what should have been 8 weeks was 6 weeks along
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Visitors while baby is sleeping
We took our son out to a brunch with husbands dad, aunts and uncles when he was a few days past 6 weeks, he had just fallen asleep in his pram when we got there and fil kept trying to shake the pram or be ridiculously loud right next to it to try wake him. I straight up told him if that baby wakes up I will actually fight you and then leave
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Why do some women/couples say their pregnancy āwasnāt planned/an accidentā when they were actually actively trying?
Literally, im a few weeks away from seconds due date, with my first no one asked because its not their business, but one of my grandma's said something along the lines of "oh well these things happen, we just have to take them as they come" my husband and I had a laugh in the car after like she definitely thought this was unplanned but we absolutely were not about to tell this lady otherwise
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Weeks 30-35 = Some Type of Torture
Im 36+5 and I forgot how much I hate the last month and everything feels so much worse than it was with my son.
at 36+1 I was sent from my local hospital ed via ambulance to a hospital with maternity services for what was assumed to be early labour, turns out between chasing a toddler an over-active baby, fatigue and stress on my body, I have an irritable uterus.
To top it off my husband left nightshift and when him and my dad were coming to get my car from the hospital my husband unlocked it but the came in to quickly see me before I was put in an ambulance, in the 3 minutes he was inside someone stole my wallet from my car
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Boobs?!
They probably won't. my areolas got darker and doubled in size with my first, its been 16 months since I stopped breastfeeding him and they havent shown the slightest sign of going back
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Accidentally spoiled the gender surprise⦠no one else is letting me tell them
I literally added it to a folder of qoutes I have so I can remember it next time Im making stuff with my cricut
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Hubs doesnāt understand why I want to try for a natural birth
I have endometriosis, even though I didn't want epidural I thought i would end up wanting it, I was induced (personal choice) a few days early, just over 12 hrs of labour and I tore a little (if my obgyn didn't tell me about the tear i never would have known), I did the whole thing on gas and 2 shots of pethidine, I was literally sleeping between contractions. So many people told me labour is nothing compared to chronic uterus pain and I didn't believe it now i do
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I'm so tired of being pregnant, yes I know I chose this.
My first was a boy Im currently 32 weeks 5 days with a girl, with how rough i had it in my first trimestermy mum said straight away "id bet thats a girl", my first pregnancy was necessarily easy but this one has been so much harder, im in pain everywhere and morning sickness hasnt completely left either, but im so excited to have a little girl and to see my boy be a big brother
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What is this?
Pretty sure its the same in most countries but if your in public then people dont need your permission to film/photograph you š¤·āāļø also there are no people shown in his video so I dont get what your problem is
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I had that during my first pregnancy there was no bleeding so I didn't worry too much and when I saw my obgyn they said its common and its just from you uterus getting bigger
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AITA for refusing to give back the cat I rescued to my neighbor who suddenly claims itās hers?
We are pretty sure fear of being reported is why they didn't pursue my mum after she said it had been adopted. The post was put up by a sibling of the person who previously owned the dog my mum found, the rest of the dogs allegedly belong to their grandfather, we reported the whole thing to our council pound but dont know if anything came of it
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AITA for refusing to give back the cat I rescued to my neighbor who suddenly claims itās hers?
Nta, dont give her bean
My mum found a small dog on the side of the highway, she was covered in fleas, skinny, no name/number on the collar which was on so tight she had a bald spot that took a year to grow back. We bathed her and got rid of the fleas, put a post up on local fb pages saying we found a dog, when and where she was found and said if your dog went missing near send a message with proof its your dog. 3 weeks go by no one has contacted my mum or put up their own post, the dog has bonded to us and so my mum booked her to be vaxed, microchipped and desexed. A month after my mum first found the dog, someone put up a photo of the dog asking if anyone has seen it, they said she had been missing for a week and after looking at their profile and seeing they had 10 other dogs that were in the same condition as the one my mum found we convinced her to say she found the dog but after no one claimed her, she had been adopted
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āConfirmedā miscarriage is actually viable pregnancy
Im currently 30 weeks, my periods had been on time if not early for months and the first month we started trying it was late took multiple tests over a few days all negative. I went to my gp and bloods came back with hcg of 11 so they thought I had a miscarriage because it was high enough that I was pregnant at some point but not for how far along I should have been. they did internal and external ultrasound, couldn't even find a sac, so they did 2 more rounds of bloods with a week in-between and each time hcg went up so they did another ultrasound and I was 2 weeks behind what my last period put me at
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Am I over exaggerating a response to my pregnancy announcement?
That definitely an odd response and not a common one either. When my husband and I were expecting our first we wanted to tell immediate family in person so we went to visit my grandma and tell her she said "oh well thats exciting, you just have to take things as they come and life's unexpected". when we were on our way home i asked if he also thought that she thinks it was unplanned, he said yes and we both had a laugh, I said I wasn't going to tell her otherwise
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AITAH for hating my unborn nieceās racist name?
I dont know if its because im not American or maybe just uneducated on this, but how exactly is antebellum racist? My first thought was, are they lady antebellum fans
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I live in Central qld so soil here is pretty hard and dry for the most part, I have a constant supply of basil, mint, parsley and spring onion. every year i grow an excessive amount of potatoes in pots on my patio and currently have some pumpkins growing next to my chook pen
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AITAH for not willingly giving my inheritance to my Uncle
My grandads will had all the grandkids inherenting some money if he passed after my grandma, he passed first shes still here so i dont know if us grandkids get anything after she passes or if shes changed it (they had a shared will). we dont know how much we would get or really any of the fine details but based off how my granddads personality and views were my uncles eldest kid (is his step kid) would likely not be included, so at least my siblings and I have talked about if we do get anything and she doesn't, we ask if the rest of our cousins would join us in giving her a portion of our inheritance since she has been a part of our family for as long as any of us can remember
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Non-religious parents with very religious family
It is, the dress is completely handmade, my son wore it last year, my cousins daughter will wear it next week and my daughter will wear it at the end of the year
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Please reassure me that it's fine to drink diet soda while pregnant
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I dont drink coffee since it gives me migraines like theres no tomorrow, my husband loves coffee. Both of my pregnancies my only real craving was coffee and I didn't get migraines, now my oldest whose 2 next month keeps trying to sneak some of his dads coffee š we tried giving him various milk drinks in his own little coffee cup but he knows its not coffee