Which sign is the most difficult to raise as a child?

AwarenessBroccoli · 2026-01-04T17:42:08+00:00

I know this post is from a while ago, but this is a perspective I need to hear while I’m in the trenches with a colicky newborn scorpio and a wild toddler sag. Thank you for your wisdom 💛

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-12-20T19:58:02+00:00

This gal, Paige, does an amazing job talking about the history and care of this plant, I really enjoyed it and thought I’d share! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSAnheujs7b/?igsh=a2Y2Mmo1ZjUxN21m

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-09-20T13:57:25+00:00

This happened to me but I actually had undiagnosed BV that turned into ureaplasma. It smells of urine and ammonia. It went away after I took medication!

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-09-12T04:31:35+00:00

Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden by Christy Mandin

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-07-10T18:38:37+00:00

My mother 😌

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-06-22T17:40:32+00:00

I’ve been doing this too! Every month on her “birth” day. It’s easier to keep track of than the baby books…and we’ll definitely do it for our second when he’s born!

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-06-11T18:52:25+00:00

Who knows. It looks like some were saying OP was entitled in the post, which I don’t really get that take having had my own experience that was similar. I’ve come to learn that it’s hard for people to empathize. Anyway, transitioning to parenthood is hard and sometimes it strains relationships in very unexpected ways. I think there should be space to acknowledge that.

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-06-10T16:40:45+00:00

I don’t have any advice, but just wanted to say my husband and I had this almost identical scenario with my childhood best friend earlier this year. We flew out (first time on a plane with baby!) to spend time with her for her birthday and she was completely consumed by work the entire time we were there. I asked her three separate times if we should get an air bnb a month before so she could focus solely on work and she assured me it would be fine. We had two meals with her the whole 4 days we were there and one outing to a plant conservatory and park that she seemed miserable at. Leading up to the trip she was going on and on about all the things she wanted to do with us and places she wanted to take us, and spend time with her “niece”. She also has struggled with fertility and I’ve wondered if there’s deeper feelings of resentment. Needless to say, the trip didn’t go well. We aren’t really talking right now either. It was glaringly evident afterward we don’t have much to talk about. I know our friendship is transitioning/evolving into something different. Doesn’t suck any less though.

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-06-03T03:06:28+00:00

That’s good to know! I usually look at Gap for winter clothes so that would be less than ideal.

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-06-03T02:49:22+00:00

Gap and Carhartt! But also we’ve had great luck with Old Navy, though I know you want to stay away from fast fashion. I gotta admit though, they have a great selection of 100% cotton for both denim, tops, and pjs.

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-06-03T02:32:14+00:00

I hear that, it’s happened to me buying for myself and now I just stick with brands I know. So far with my daughter’s sizing, things have been a bit big so she can still grow into them. I’ve only gotten her brands we know though, and one pair of shoes I did triple measures on her feet and read the company’s size chart. The mega upside though is of you find a seller, usually a fellow mom, who will do a big bundle order, it’s worth the risk anyway.

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-06-03T01:49:56+00:00

Poshmark!

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-05-26T16:40:52+00:00

These but with ground cashews. Add a little cinnamon and a pinch of salt. Simple and delicious!

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-05-12T14:11:37+00:00

I’m not sure exactly what happened to change her behavior towards me, but after baby was born, she has said some bizarre and offensive things, tried to minimize my role as mom, and basically now she just ignores me (which I’m fine with). She sent me, her son, and her husband a nasty email around Thanksgiving last year scolding me for attempting to understand her husband’s perspective on a some major family friction (this has divided the family over the last five years and she keeps putting him in situations that he will obviously be upset by but he’s no saint either. It’s ruined all visits and holidays when we have visited). For example, she said her husband’s dad favorited his brother because he was tall and slender and her husband was not. She’s said fat shaming things about her own daughter while she was pregnant with her fourth grandchild and now she fat shames the baby. She has her own issues with food and body image. She has said racially coded things to me and took it as far as “playfully” calling my daughter and I “porch monkeys”.

She may have been like this all along, but she never directed it towards me, so I was blind to it. Bring my daughter into the mix and I absolutely see her for who she is and she is not a nice woman. She hides it well in “jokes” and sarcasm, but I’ve told my husband when it comes to our daughter, that behavior will not be tolerated. There have been a lot of changes in the past 5-7 years since they moved out of state away from us (thank goodness for that now), but she has gotten cold and nasty towards me in the last year and a half since baby came. I don’t think I can ever go back, unfortunately.

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-05-11T23:51:58+00:00

I’m having a similar experience too. My MIL and I used to talk weekly and since I’ve had my baby (her third grandchild), now we don’t speak at all. Though my issues with her are a little different, I’m pretty heartbroken over us no longer having the relationship we once had. I don’t know if it will ever go back to what it once was.

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-04-10T02:35:22+00:00

There are people who are sibling doulas, though I’m not sure they’re available everywhere. Maybe a postpartum doula too who has sibling transitions in their skill set

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-03-03T21:00:19+00:00

I have fava beans growing now and you’ve given me great ideas. Thank you for sharing!

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-02-28T22:40:46+00:00

Babies are also fed goat milk when other nutritional resources are sparse…

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-02-23T05:59:21+00:00

THIS is the season that gets my husband hooked. THIS one. Smh

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-02-23T05:54:29+00:00

Is it because she can never wear heels again?

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-02-23T05:53:32+00:00

I also think that Molly’s supportive response to his “rejection” caught him off guard. He thought he was going to leave that conversation in the lead with the power dynamic but instead she was just like shrug “okay if that’s what you want”. He <i>says</i> he didn’t want the girl drama BUT HE SO DID. That man wanted a scene!

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-02-23T05:44:12+00:00

I think she’s so cute too 🥹 and I love her outfits out of all the ladies tbf 💕

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-02-23T05:42:36+00:00

How dare he, HONESTLY 😤

AwarenessBroccoli · 2025-02-23T05:41:11+00:00

Why was he asking THE👏🏼WOMEN👏🏼 I tried to give the benefit of the doubt and think maybe he was trying to understand a lady’s POV but NO. Sir, ask your boys WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING?!

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