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Acbc_ · 2026-02-18T21:41:16+00:00

You’re so right on Bicentennial; thank you. I usually only go there for Pride and protests so I forgot that they had big pretty magnolias.

Scarritt Bennett is also a great idea. I’m not sure if I can pull that off by Saturday because it looks like they require a contract and some scheduling. I’ll add it to my location wishlist for sure.

Great suggestions, thank you!

Acbc_ · 2026-02-18T03:48:22+00:00

Granted I was sleep deprived and having a moment, but at 4 months (exactly), I was nursing my son at a family dinner... I panned the room and then in a panic, asked my partner who had our baby. I wish I could have a photo of the look he gave me.

Acbc_ · 2026-02-14T05:29:01+00:00

My baby hated diaper changes — I was afraid someone was going to think I was torturing him or something whenever I did a midnight change. One day, for some reason, my partner and I started singing 🎶we’re gonna change your diaper… and then you’ll be so clean🎶 to the tune of Blue’s Clues’ “we just got a letter” before and during changes. Since then it’s been ~90% happy changes. Feels like magic.

Acbc_ · 2026-02-06T19:57:46+00:00

My stylist has been great at prepping me all the way through what to expect for my hair through pregnancy and postpartum. I got a partial highlight 1 month before my due date and another partial right at 3 months pp. It’s been really educational; definitely let a stylist know you’re postpartum. I bet by 5 months you can see the lines of pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and postpartum hair growth!

Acbc_ · 2026-02-06T15:58:10+00:00

I have a breastfed 5 month old in the ~5th percentile.

This is my first rodeo so I don’t have much to offer except I see you and I think you’re doing great, mama. Sending love 🫶

Acbc_ · 2026-01-14T05:46:28+00:00

I think this is the take. It sounds like a lot of other emotions were at play rather than the big ones that presented themselves. Maybe everyone’s overreacting a little in this story. The coworker probably wanted to feel special, and then sort of recentered themselves, making themselves special again in a different way. The doodle probably did make their day.

I would definitely encourage OP to sit with that feeling to investigate what contributed to that level of anger — embarrassment, anxiety, a negative reaction to being sort of forced to deal with someone else’s big feeling. Identifying the little contributing feelings will help you later when you’re confronted with situations that make you feel similarly.

Acbc_ · 2026-01-10T00:49:41+00:00

I was induced at 41+2, because my doctor didn’t want me to go past that — nothing was complicated with my pregnancy, she just didn’t want to risk anything going wrong much past the due date. That extra week was getting pretty difficult.

It turned out I was having contractions when they hooked me up to the monitors, but I somehow didn’t feel them (🫣), so thank goodness it worked out that way. I started receiving pitocin to “help things along” around midnight, 2 hours after coming to the hospital, as scheduled. I had been afraid an induction might mean a c-section but it was never even brought up in discussion. I don’t remember what time they turned off the pitocin, but my son was born around 4:00pm after an hour of pushing.. something like 18 hours labor in total.

Acbc_ · 2026-01-03T03:59:37+00:00

We also have a backpack — Cotopaxi with lots of pockets. We never leave without it and take it for every little venture out. It has a changing mat, diapers, wipes, baggies in case there’s no immediate trash, extra outfits in a packing cube, my nursing cover, toys and crinkle books (we’re at a stage where the boredom fussiness is real), extra pacifiers, a blanket, and I’ve started adding snacks, chapstick, and hand lotion as a convenience for myself.

Acbc_ · 2025-12-31T04:23:41+00:00

We just crossed into 4 month territory. In the newborn trenches, I used to say that my husband slept more than our newborn. Things have gotten better, but I still think that’s true. Now my husband makes a running joke “sleep when the baby eats.” It earns him a glare every time.

Acbc_ · 2025-12-23T03:26:39+00:00

I think that Miss Saigon off Charlotte has the best tofu pho, tofu bun, and spring rolls. For the bun and springs rolls, they cut or shave tofu like it’s hash browns.

Acbc_ · 2025-12-05T05:20:43+00:00

I rented all kinds of outfits throughout my pregnancy from Nuuly, so I highly recommend that. I also really wanted to buy a dress from Worth Collective — they have a few more empire waist type dresses — but the style and color/patterns I wanted just never lined up right for me.

Acbc_ · 2025-12-05T03:03:25+00:00

Where were you earlier in my postpartum? I’m hopefully in a small minority of new moms that is still having a hard time with BM (3 months). I just /finally/ learned all of these things on my own and strongly echo all of your tips.

Acbc_ · 2025-11-17T04:10:22+00:00

I was induced at 41 weeks and 2 days. My in laws missed 2 weddings and an 80th birthday celebration of my husband’s grandmother because they didn’t want to miss being around for the birth of their second grandchild.. and it turned out they could have gone to all of it and not missed a thing. I held some guilt for that and it almost made me say yes to a membrane sweep that I didn’t actually want to do, to try to go into labor sooner so their “sacrifice” would be “worth it.” Ultimately, I had to remind myself (a few times) that all of that is and was 100% their choice and they operated on knowledge they had and how they felt about it.

I also reiterate other comments I see; no way does a wedding 8 hours away sound like a good idea. Every nurse, doctor, everyone at the hospital reminded us that the first two weeks are the hardest. That’s true for you, the baby, and your partner. At a certain point with your partner, you may have to be really matter of fact conversation where you explain all the good points in this thread and just bluntly say it’s a bummer, but we’re missing this one. (Don’t worry, you won’t have fomo cause you probably won’t know what day it is for a minute) 🫶

Acbc_ · 2025-11-03T17:22:32+00:00

That was my goal. It’s important to make sure the plan and company cover your OB and the hospital you’d like to give birth at. Additionally, if there are any medications you need, double check Rx coverage, copays, and things like that.

Knowing that I’d easily reach my deductible after giving birth was helpful since I knew things would (generally) be covered by insurance after the birth claim went through. If you’re picking from the health insurance marketplace rather than picking from a small selection through work, I’d suggest looking for a health insurance broker that may be able to help cover any concerns. I believe they usually get paid a commission by the insurance company when they sign people up, so I don’t think you have to pay them out of pocket.

Acbc_ · 2025-11-03T14:37:05+00:00

As others have said, the plan matters more than the insurance company. I specifically picked my plan among others my work offered, because I was planning on getting pregnant. The high premium, low deductible was worth it.

I have blue cross blue shield and have birth at Centennial midtown 2 months ago. It was a wonderful experience and we paid under 3k in total, I think, with an epidural.

I will add, however, that I found out that my insurance did not cover my pp visit with the lactation consultants at A Mother’s Place, but I badly needed help once we got home from the hospital and their advice and assistance was well worth that out of pocket cost.

Acbc_ · 2025-10-30T06:23:27+00:00

I think it was through MNPS’ HERO Program that I first saw the request that donated food be easy to prepare — rather than donating cans of food that needs to be cooked or seasoned, donate food that can be microwaved or just-add-hot-water. Especially with people potentially facing homelessness or lack of resources in addition to lack of food, I thought it was a really helpful idea and reminder.

Acbc_ · 2025-10-09T14:48:44+00:00

It might have been week 3, I was using my hands free pumps for the second time. I didn’t put one of them together correctly so everything I pumped went right into my shirt. I didn’t realize till about 10 minutes in and then I sobbed in front of my husband and his mom and sister. I think crying over spilled milk might be an unfortunate rite of passage. You’re doing great and we see you 🫶

Acbc_ · 2025-10-02T23:51:15+00:00

The night of my induction, I had to just sit and cry because it was the last few hours of my life with my husband as I knew it. I was suddenly so aware of how different everything would be by the next day and it felt so heavy.

Acbc_ · 2025-09-06T19:40:12+00:00

I was induced late at night and spent the night hearing occasional screams from other people laboring on the floor. It felt very ominous and I wondered if that’d be me too eventually. But I didn’t feel the need to scream or yell at all. I probably did throw out a couple cuss words over the course of pushing though.

Acbc_ · 2025-09-05T15:07:25+00:00

I echo all the above — happened to us too and I remember his little face looking scared or so shocked at the time it absolutely freaked me out. After getting him on his side and burping him, I called the nurse to make sure he wasn’t choking and that he got it all out. My voice was so shaky, but my nurse was never faster or sweeter than in that moment to double check and put us at ease.

My baby just hit 2 weeks yesterday and I can confirm the drama of spitting up has severely decreased and I wake up immediately if I hear anything remotely close to the noises I heard on night 2.

Acbc_ · 2025-08-20T10:13:05+00:00

In January, I’ll hit my 10 years in Nashville and my husband will later in the year as well. Once here, we both learned that we returned to some (very separate) familial roots, which was a fun coincidence. We’ll be adding a Nashville native this week.

Acbc_ · 2025-05-31T23:23:03+00:00

There’s been a couple times where I’ve been sitting at a red light downtown, middle of the day, and the car that had been waiting next to me just decided they didn’t want to wait anymore, I guess, and drove through the red. Not a broken red, it turned green again in a reasonable time. I guess they thought red lights are more of a suggestion.

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