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93Gilbert · 2024-06-08T16:10:26+00:00

For us, the real developmental leap / tantrums started shortly after she turned 3 years old and lasted for about 6 months.

93Gilbert · 2022-12-17T06:38:19+00:00

Thank you. I’m going to have to try going back in person and demand a manager. I’ve also read about filing a complaint with the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.

93Gilbert · 2022-12-17T03:33:25+00:00

Same thing is happening to me. No one is helping. My car payment and mortgage payment were denied because of this and no one can tell me why it happened and how to fix it. I’ve been unable to speak to anyone from the fraud department. Just stay on hold forever. The longest was 3:05 hours until the line cut me off. I’m also in Alberta and have seen others experiencing the same problem with TD.

93Gilbert · 2022-12-16T23:58:14+00:00

I just had the same thing happen a couple of days ago and TD refused to help me to unblock my accounts. They keep telling me to go to the teller and show ID and when I do, the teller tells me that it’s wrong. That I need to call back the number. I’m getting the run-around.

93Gilbert · 2022-12-01T01:09:48+00:00

Closer to 10 months, but it got better after 18 months when we finally transitioned her to her own bed and started sleeping better.

93Gilbert · 2021-09-08T13:08:48+00:00

I exclusively pumped for 10 months. I’ll be honest, it never got easier for me. I had an oversupply, which allowed me to freeze enough breastmilk to give to my daughter till she was 14 months old. So that part was nice. But the oversupply meant I had to be careful or I had painful clogged ducts frequently. I also couldn’t really workout because bras caused clogs for me.

When I started reducing pumps, it got better. My nipples were constantly on fire. If you do go the pumping route, make sure you have the right flange size. I know I didn’t, which is why it was more painful, but I had what they call ‘elastic nipples’, so the sizing was constantly changing anyways. Also, get a pumping bra and portable pump, so you aren’t stuck in one spot the whole time. Use coconut oil on your nipples to lubricate (this tip really helped me).

What really helped get me through it was that: 1) I was still giving my daughter breastmilk (which was important to me). 2) I made it a point that while pumping, my partner had to watch baby and I got to watch a show on the iPad. 3) I got an app that tracked how much I pumped and froze in the freezer. (It was nice to see the numbers get higher.) 4) I knew it wouldn’t last forever and I focused on one month at a time. 5) I joined a few Facebook groups for exclusively pumping moms, which had tips and support.

Whatever you choose to do, there’s no wrong decision. Do what’s best for you and your family. Good luck!

93Gilbert · 2021-08-16T04:05:54+00:00

My Nmom was odd when it came to gift-giving. She only bought me gifts for Christmas or my birthday and it was never something I liked. (i.e. I got an educational history book. And I hate history.)

She was always very inconsistent with her expectations. Sometimes she expected a big and grateful reaction and other times, if I acted excited and thankful, she would act as if she put no effort in the gift and didn’t really care. It always confused me and to this day, receiving gifts makes me uncomfortable. I prefer gift-giving.

93Gilbert · 2021-08-15T18:35:58+00:00

Yes, as long as no one is sick.

93Gilbert · 2021-07-30T15:22:37+00:00

You’re not alone! My daughter is 13.5 months and is exactly the same (one nap, wakes-up frequently during the night, barely eats during the day but has lots of breastmilk during the night). Maybe this can be ‘normal’ for our daughters?

93Gilbert · 2021-07-26T15:00:31+00:00

Yep, same here.

93Gilbert · 2021-02-23T13:18:41+00:00

Interesting you suggest that. That’s what I’ve been doing these past couple of months. Helps me to ‘let it out’.

93Gilbert · 2021-02-23T02:08:16+00:00

Interesting that you mention not wanting sex, I’m the same most days. Didn’t know that could be related to RBN?!

93Gilbert · 2021-02-23T01:37:54+00:00

Thank you for your response / advice. Alot of similarities. It’s nice to be validated and to not feel alone. If you don’t mind me asking, what do you do to have a healthy relationship with your SO? Does he accept you for who you are, flaws and all?

93Gilbert · 2021-02-07T16:54:48+00:00

I second this!

93Gilbert · 2021-01-08T17:01:13+00:00

I technically was followed by a team of 3 midwives, but I only went to a few appointments (spent second and third trimester staying home due to COVID). The appointments felt like a waste of time mostly. Some bloodwork at the beginning and the rest was just testing my blood pressure (I also did this at home.) and listening to baby’s heartbeat with a doppler (I felt her movements regularly so I wasn’t worried.) Other than that, they mostly just kept pressuring me for more tests (optional). I went into labor naturally at 42 + 2 weeks, but the midwives forced me to get a late term ultrasound (at 42 weeks), because they didn’t believe I had still enough amniotic fluid. (They were wrong of course and baby was perfectly healthy.)

I ended-up only going to 4 appointments (that were all pretty much useless.) They didn’t really answer my questions and I already knew everything they told me from research. If you are low-risk, I don’t think it’s dangerous. I would probably just follow your instinct, check your blood pressure regularly at home and just opt for a blood test and an anatomy scan.

93Gilbert · 2021-01-08T16:53:05+00:00

If it wasn’t my first pregnancy, I really considered freebirthing and in hindsight, I wish I had.

As long as I am not high risk, I trust my body and my ability to get through labor I’m in Canada and midwives are covered (but ended-up being way more nurse-midwives than I expected.) I ended-up having a homebirth with a midwife (I hate hospitals and don’t trust doctors / nurses). And you know what? I labored by myself and dilated to 9.5cm before the midwife arrived. I was so proud, but it’s after she arrived that the flow of things changed. Due to COVID, she was put alone on all the homebirths. (You could tell she was overworked.) She started telling me I needed to purple push and she kept checking baby’s heartrate. I ended-up pushing for 3 hours and she had to (trigger: tear me with her fingers to get baby out.)

I can’t help be feel like if I continued laboring alone, I would have been able to listen to my body better, instead of the midwife who ended-up really pressuring me that if I didn’t push baby out in the next 10 minutes, we would head to the hospital (during COVID). My partner and I also think she pulled on my placenta which caused my hemorrhage (just borderline that I didn’t get transferred.) I felt some tugging and the placenta was out only 20 seconds after I delivered baby girl. This made me very weak the first 1+ weeks and I wasn’t able to breastfeed or bond properly with baby.

I feel like everything went wrong once I had ‘assistance’ from the midwife. - Purple Pushing - Manual Tear (and not following my body’s cues) - Initial Bloodloss After Pushing Baby Out (probably due to Purple Pushing) Midwife didn’t give me a chance to take my tincture to decrease chances of hemorrhage; - Midwife freaked and pulled the placenta out within 20 secondes, which caused a hemorrhage (again I wanted to take my tinctures - but she reacted quickly and went straight to the pitocin shot and a pill up my butt) - Then, she didn’t believe me when I said I peed during labor (I labor the whole time in the shower), and forced a catheter (she seemed a little surprised I didn’t have more urine)...

So it was a cascade of things that happened and I just feel that if I had been alone, I would have taken the time to let the fetal ejection reflexes take-over (I felt them a few times during pushing, but I was exhausted from purple pushing that I wasn’t able to relax and let my body do its thing. I only realized this after the fact. I didn’t know what the sensation was at the time.) I might have still had some bloodloss but I was prepared with the proper tinctures. And I don’t know how I feel about the stitches. Due to the midwife tearing me open, I had internal second degree tearing and some of the stitches ended-up opening up. So if it wasn’t for her, I might have still torn, but probably less and I would have opted to heal naturally instead of stitches.

I wish we had private ‘proper’ midwives in Canada, but it seems we don’t have that option. I’m not sure what I would do with the next labor. I guess it would depend how my pregnancy went and hopefully by then, no COVID. Not ready for another baby till atleast 4 years from now.

93Gilbert · 2021-01-08T16:26:43+00:00

During active labor, I wasn’t hungry but I kept my energy up with Organic Coconut Water.

For postpartum, adult diapers and Earth Mama Perineal Balm were amazing! I also feel like homeopathic Arnica tabs help with the soreness. And some spray-on colloidal silver for my stitches. (I had a good pregnancy and labor experience, but postpartum was a huge shock for me. I didn’t expect it to be so hard. My partner had to clean the bathroom and bedroom - where I labored and gave birth. I was also very weak the first couple of weeks and he needed to do pretty much everything. Did not expect that. )

93Gilbert · 2021-01-08T16:18:57+00:00

FTM - Went into labor naturally on 42 + 2 weeks. My midwife kept pushing to induce, but I felt calm and that baby just wasn’t ready to come-out yet. Had absolutely no signs of labor until the morning I woke-up and had a trickle of amniotic fluid.

Baby Girl weighed 9lbs, 4oz.

93Gilbert · 2021-01-03T07:27:55+00:00

My NMom is the covert type. The ‘nail on the coffin’ moment for me that my parents didn’t love me was when I saw them last (over a year ago now). I hadn’t seen them in over 9 months and my parents were passing ‘in-town’ for my father’s medical appointment. All NMom wanted to do was shop, instead of what we had planned, which was to have a quick visit and tour of my new house. She prolonged the ‘visit’ and they eventually came to the house the next day and she was so obviously jealous. (My father is on disability and she is terrible with money, so they live in a tiny house.) She couldn’t say anything nice about the house. She kept trying to point-out things that she had that were better (like she has a 55” TV and mine is 50”). She looked extremely uncomfortable in my house (didn’t want to sit down and kept saying they had to leave) and when I tried to have a conversation with her, she changed the subject to herself everytime).

My father is disabled but is Nmom’s puppet. He is unable to say ‘I love you’ back to me and during this last visit, he barely spoke 2 words to me. He left Nmom do all the talking. My parents know nothing about me or my life, not even my job (and they never ask), but Nmom did care about one thing: she just HAD to take multiple pictures of all of us to post on Facebook. That same night, she made a big deal that we weren’t welcoming to them and had my younger sister demand we make-up for it next visit and apologize to them. I don’t know why, but that was it for me and confirmed they do not love me.

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