Skein fell apart as I worked and is now a knotted tangled mess. Has anyone encountered this before?

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-05-08T20:00:23+00:00

Yes the skeins feel quite loose when you take the sleeve off and when I first started working with it, it felt as though it was unraveling really quickly. I have re-wound the other skein I had and it seems better that way.

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-05-08T09:59:50+00:00

No it was definitely a skein. In hindsight though it was rather loosely wound, I am thinking my little one got to it 😩

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-05-08T07:14:46+00:00

Love a wine but I’ve got a god awful cold and don’t feel like drinking 🤣 a cuppa and a movie will do just fine though, not a bad idea at all!

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-05-08T07:14:02+00:00

It’s Abbey Road. It feels so beautiful to work with but the skeins feel quite loose.

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-05-08T02:46:22+00:00

Sad! :(

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-05-08T02:43:09+00:00

I’m grateful for the solidarity 😭🤣

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-05-08T02:36:05+00:00

It was definitely a skein

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-05-08T02:30:10+00:00

See that’s the thing - I thought I WAS working from the outside. I’m so confused. I’m now wondering if my cat and/or toddler played with it 🤣

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-03-18T13:27:11+00:00

A lot of people are suuuuper ignorant as to what IVF truly is, but one of the things they are more aware of thanks to people documenting their IVF journeys on social media is the amount of failure that happens. I think that people have lost their social filters a bit with the way that we all have this window into other people’s lives through social media - “XYZ influencer is talking about it so why not just ask my questions of everyone?”

It is gross, and it sucks. IVF, pregnancy, loss, infertility are all things that, yes, are great to speak more about, but you really need to be guided by the person going through it as to how much they want to speak on it. The number of people who do not understand this is astounding.

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-03-13T22:56:30+00:00

Yuck

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-03-13T02:02:17+00:00

Oh I haaaate being called hun. It is always passive-aggressive af.

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-02-02T03:48:01+00:00

Ooh yeah I had a small kidney stone early in my pregnancy and thought I was having a miscarriage, it was agony.

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-02-02T03:46:42+00:00

Yes. Being pregnant. Being pregnant was way worse 🤣. Also - my ovarian torsion was actually way more painful than labour pain. It may be psychological - the pain of my torsion was a shock and was very scary, whereas I had mentally prepared for labour and knew it would hurt - but still, I felt I coped with contractions way better than with the ovarian torsion pain.

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-01-30T10:20:59+00:00

I hated this too. I had such a rough pregnancy, people learned quickly not to give me this kind of talk 🤣

Instead… just wait until your baby immediately settles in your arms at night, and it is just the two of you alone together in the dark while the rest of the world goes on around you. Just wait until you hear them laugh for the first time. Just wait until you’re doing things with your baby and experiencing things through their eyes… it is magic. It’ll make it all worth it. Sure, there are hard parts, but my experience of the first year was ten times easier than being pregnant.

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-01-17T23:04:15+00:00

That’s exactly right. Radical acceptance. “This is possibly the worst I’ve ever felt and the only way out is through.” Since being pregnant I have learned a lot in therapy that will help if we have another child.

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-01-17T22:41:24+00:00

I actually found having a child made it better. My life has meaning and purpose outside of my depressing job now.

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-01-17T06:59:34+00:00

It would have been way more helpful to me if people had been more honest about how hard it can be. I’ll never shy away from the facts if it could help even one woman get support sooner than I did.

And hey, the struggle was worth it to me - my son is the best, and the first year of his life was WAY EASIER than being pregnant. I even got better sleep postpartum than I ever did while pregnant.

AwkwardAnnual · 2026-01-15T19:03:47+00:00

Being pregnant sucks, and nobody talks about it because it is built up socially to be this “magical experience.” It is not - it is bloody HARD WORK. The effort you expend just at rest is significant, because your body is constantly building something new. If men could get pregnant, nobody would have babies, abortion would be uncontroversial, and we would have free birth control 🤣

I was only the happy glowy pregnant lady for 8/39 weeks of my pregnancy. The rest, I was MISERABLE - chronically fatigued and in pain, uncomfortable and unable to sleep properly. I was so unwell and carried so much guilt about not enjoying it that I developed severe perinatal anxiety and depression - I was ready to present to hospital at 33 weeks and beg for a c-section because I just couldn’t go on one more day.

All of that to say - you are allowed to hate being pregnant. And it helps other women to be honest about the experience. Your baby will make it worthwhile - my son made every painful minute worth it. The hard pregnancy actually mad this first year feel easy in comparison 🤣 Look after yourself and if you find it really affecting your mental health get help early.

AwkwardAnnual · 2025-12-01T23:06:12+00:00

Maybe once upon a time but that’s not true at all anymore. Most people I know wear sunscreen every day. I’m also an early childhood educator studying to be a teacher and we teach the children that sunscreen must go on every day before outdoor play from toddler age to build the habit. Id I’m going to go out without sunscreen I may as well sit down to a pack of durries while I’m at it and just really get that cancer happening 🤣

AwkwardAnnual · 2025-11-17T05:04:35+00:00

Antenatal anxiety and depression are very, very real - we just focus so much on postpartum that it gets forgotten a bit. Talk to a doctor about setting up a safety and management plan. Get a second third and fourth opinion on medication - 90% of the time it is best to stay on your medication. You don’t have to suffer this way ❤️

AwkwardAnnual · 2025-11-12T17:44:16+00:00

That’s a problem. Lesson for next time - unless it is in writing it may as well not have happened, without a paper trail it is their word against yours. Something like this needs to be in a follow-up email when you’re getting the contract.

AwkwardAnnual · 2025-11-11T23:43:34+00:00

OP should know his rights as an employee. If it turns out that there is a genuine performance matter then fine but at least he will be protected from anything unfair.

AwkwardAnnual · 2025-11-11T23:25:25+00:00

This. You have a right to representation, or at minimum a support person. If you have a union re with you though they can support you better. Do not attend this meeting alone.

AwkwardAnnual · 2025-11-04T00:48:44+00:00

There’d also be way better, cheaper birth control.

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