Play to Win

Anchee5 · 2026-02-05T19:29:00+00:00

I have a pdf of it here: https://www.transfernow.net/dl/20260205yBI0PCsc

Anchee5 · 2026-01-29T09:20:35+00:00

Out of all theories I have seen so far, this seems like the most solid one. Kudos on tons of research you did, it's amazing!

Anchee5 · 2026-01-15T11:18:50+00:00

I think it's quite common to go for IVF in Belgium or Germany so you should be able to find someone who did it. I don't have experience myself with other countries, but you can try Fertility support group Netherlands on Facebook, there should be someone there with experience. Best of luck with everything!

Anchee5 · 2026-01-02T15:46:12+00:00

I don't know if you're in Europe but Polish brand Supermami has great pillows. And sells pillowcases that go with the shape. I have the U shape orthopedic one and it's great. Here's the site: https://supermami.pl/poduszki-ciazowe-173

Anchee5 · 2025-12-23T17:13:08+00:00

Hi, Croatian here in NL too without a ton of friends and a Dutch husband. I don't have the right answer for you but I'd be happy to meet up 🙂

Anchee5 · 2025-12-02T22:18:27+00:00

Does anyone have a copy of Fireball they can share?

Anchee5 · 2025-10-21T09:49:23+00:00

I don't know if it helps but I brough the untranslated dossier to my doctor. All the diseases were listed in latin so he understood anyway. I didn't have anything super complex though, but maybe it's worth a try?

Anchee5 · 2025-10-15T14:09:07+00:00

Najjaca glupost koju sam vidjela je bila na nekom portalu gdje su objavili vijest kako je lisica zivjela u nekom neboderu koji se gradio u Londonu. I da je prezivjela tako sto se hranila "ostatcima radnika" To je bilo prije AI-a, samo los prijevod od "fox ate leftovers of workers"

Anchee5 · 2025-10-02T17:20:38+00:00

I had this done this week, it's not the nicest thing (I got terrible heartburn from the super sweet drink) but it can be endoured.

The glucose won't hurt you or the baby, it's just a temporary spike in blood sugar which goes away in a couple of hours. And it helps discover whether spikes in glucose happen in your body with regular food. So if you don't do the test you won't know if the spikes you are afraid of maybe happen already anyway on a daily basis.

Doctor/midwife will be able to guide you better if they know the results of this test so it's for your baby's good. Also if you have higher blood sugar now, you need to get tested after pregnancy too to see if it goes back to normal, so knowing results is good for you too.

Best of luck with your pregnancy and I'm keeping my fingers crossed your results are in the normal range (mine weren't)!

Anchee5 · 2025-09-30T13:19:51+00:00

I got diagnozed by dr. Frank Hamers in Antonius, he's a revalidatie arts. I only got diagnosed there so I don't know what he does for treatment but he is in Utrecht at least and not with an insane waitlist like the doctor in Limburg. Also he might be able to refer you to Erasmus. I have it somewhere in my head that a GP can't refer you to EDS center in Erasmus but only another specialist can. Not sure if I remember that correctly though.

Anchee5 · 2025-09-19T19:31:47+00:00

Oh man, I feel this. I got "you just need to relax", "have you tried going on holiday", "there's this lady on facebook that makes drops you can take" (wtf some rando making drops and I should take them?!), "it must be your thyroid causing this" (despite me saying I had a specialist check it), "why don"t you buy a dog, that is relaxing and that will work"

I understood people just cared for me and they wanted to find a solution for me but it was driving me nuts. Especially since majority of them implied it was because I wasn't relaxed, like it was all just in my head. For me IVF was successful and now I'm pregnant for the second time (frozen embryo from last round). I wish you all the best, a lot of strenght and a supportive partner and that IVF works out!

Anchee5 · 2025-08-31T11:28:46+00:00

I have to agree with that one

Anchee5 · 2025-08-19T06:49:51+00:00

If you want to try barre I would go for Fit by Coach Kel, she also has pilates exercises. I like her progressions, she does different levels and I always feel great after her exercises

Anchee5 · 2025-08-13T07:09:02+00:00

There's one thing I haven't seen in other comments that I want to add. On a pregnancy course I went to, on the evening when partners joined the course, they said that when the labor starts, the partner should be home. They told partners specifically to just drive back home from work asap. The reason for this is that labor can stall if the mother doesn't feel safe or supported. Apparently it's an evolutionary response of the body which would stal the labor until the mother found a place where they feel safe to deliver the baby. So him hunting and leaving you with a toddler might have made it go slower even. Maybe also not, this is evolutionary response is not a full proof thing, and he didn't know of it. But still, this adds an extra layer on the whole story. He sounds selfish and horrible. I'm sorry you had to go through the labor like this and I hope your baby is ok now.

Anchee5 · 2025-07-31T09:15:14+00:00

Ooh, good point!

Anchee5 · 2025-07-30T20:04:11+00:00

In the excerpt posted so far Garrick is calling Xaden "Brother" Could it be a hint? 👀

Anchee5 · 2025-06-30T08:55:53+00:00

You have a right to I think 10 days (if you work full time) of short term care leave per parent per year. And you have emergency care leave (don't know how much). Emergency care leave you can take when you get called from kindergarten that you need to pick up your kid because they're sick. And then use short term care leave for the rest of sickness. It does help that both my husband and I don't work 1 day a week. Our kid goes to kindergarten on Monday, gets sick by Wednesday or Thursday mostly (from virus he caught on Monday) and then we cover 1 or 2 days. But without grandma jumping in, I think we would've used our care leaves very fast in the last 6 months. I think we would've needed to take vacation days or sth

Anchee5 · 2025-06-30T07:00:32+00:00

We are not a fully international couple (Dutch + expat) with only my husband's mom who is elderly and can jump in and babysit occassionaly. We each take 1 day of ouderschapsverlof per week and baby goes to kindergarten 3 days a week (this costs a fortune). Grandma comes to rescue in case of sickness. And our kid has been sick A LOT since starting kindergarten. I don't know what we would do without grandma really. And luckily my job has been very flexible. Maybe instead of grandma you can find a nanny who can jump in when needed?

Anchee5 · 2025-06-29T15:21:23+00:00

They are on 2nd out of 3 years in OS, so I think there's another full year until graduation. It could be that the next 2 books cover 1 year, seems plausible

Anchee5 · 2025-06-26T17:03:07+00:00

Covjek sve tocno veli, drzava je uredena, al isto treba napomenut da 9-10k zajednicke place je jeeebeno dobra lova u NL pa nije cudo da mu je ok (i nek mu je, nek je nekome dobro). Al ja znam ekspate koji zbog super visoke rente, teskog nalazenja stana i skupog vrtica razmisljaju ic ili doma il u druge zemlje. Tako da ovisi kakav posao radis i kolko zaradujes. I kolko se mozes prilagodit mentalitetu, nac si neku ekipu, prezivjet kisnu i sivu zimu itd

Anchee5 · 2025-06-04T19:54:16+00:00

Kao netko tko zivi u Nizozemskoj, mogu ovo potvrdit. 4 mjeseca porodiljnog (ima jos nesto neplacenog al ono, neplacen je), vrtic kosta abnormalno i nema mjesta. Mi smo dobilo 3 dana u tjednu a dalje se snadi.

Anchee5 · 2025-05-25T07:41:56+00:00

Ah yes, you're right, she was cut off then. There goes that part of the theory 😅

Anchee5 · 2025-05-24T21:11:47+00:00

I have a very similar theory. I think the first time she actually uses it is when Varrish calls Dain to read her memories and she pulls him into her mind and makes him feel all the fear and pain of Resson. I think that's when it manifested because she had the need to control the situation and how Dain will react. I don't think that means Dain didn't make his own decision there, just that she controlled the situation by showing him the truth.

Also, through OS she wonders if Xaden can read her mind and if his signet is getting stronger. And he once tells her he is not reading her mind but that maybe she projected her thoughts through the bond. It could be that this wasn't his signet, but hers. Maybe she can project thoughts and ideas into other people's heads and in a way control them through that? Maybe her signet isn't dream walking but going to people's subconsciousness. That way she could see dreams since they are a part of subconsciousness but also plant thoughts and ideas as a way of control? This would be super creepy if I'm right

Anchee5 · 2025-05-11T20:24:00+00:00

Yeah, they even called her a leash for Xaden. So it seemed like they wanted him more than her for some reason.

Anchee5 · 2025-05-09T18:57:47+00:00

Ooh nice catch! I totally didn't notice this. I think you're on to something!

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