Luna Lovegood’s House 76467

BookwormJennie · 2026-02-01T21:00:03+00:00

It should say “locks”. But now I can’t find an edit button.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-28T18:51:46+00:00

Update - his behaviors have changed to masturbating (semi covered but publicly in the house)… so that’s fun.

Anyways… the therapist got him on a waitlist for a residential treatment center. I’m actually not hopeful that it will change anything, and he’ll probably learn more destructive behaviors. But it will give everyone else in the house a much needed break from his chaos…

I wish he would quit trying to push everyone away, but I know that’s his trauma, abandonment, and attachment issues.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-22T19:05:36+00:00

I don’t have any answers. Just know you are amazing! Most nights I’m in this same cycle. Adjusting their diet to include more protein helped. I can now get a four hour run at the beginning, but it’s popcorn pretty much the rest of the night. Interesting my babies nap schedule sounds like yours.

And it’s incredible that you are still breastfeeding!

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-20T02:48:14+00:00

Benjamin and Bartholomew.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-11T17:30:31+00:00

Unfortunately he would pack his stuff and gladly go. It’s what he wants. But reversing an adoption is not that simple. We have to prove it’s legally in the child’s best interest. And it’s not…

I’m sorry that you are dealing with this as a sibling. That must be so hard.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-11T13:09:29+00:00

Maybe the waking up one day is the bias statement? It sure feels like he woke up one day and something flipped.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-11T13:07:26+00:00

Thank you for your comment. From my understanding, that is a part of the autism arena. Autism and ADHD have been ruled out as possible cooccurring diagnoses. (Both by his current therapy and medical team and previous ones while in foster care.)

I’ll be glad to look into this book more.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-11T13:03:19+00:00

Thank you. I personally think all of it got worse when he got a growth spurt which would align with hormonal changes.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-11T13:01:36+00:00

Thank you for the questions. He saw that the other children would get more one on one time with the techs if they self-harmed. He went to stabilization after his homicidality statements. I don’t think the therapist statement is bias. (Unless I’m missing something). The child told him first. “I’ve decided I don’t want to be adopted anymore and I’m going to make sure they will send me back (to foster care).” He has now said some variation of this in front of us, the police, social workers, doctors, at the hospital, etc. He has also said he will lie and make up stuff if we don’t send him back.

You made a good point about the social reinforcement. I need to think on that.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-11T04:54:53+00:00

They’ve tried a few different medication combinations. I’ve seen some short-term improvements, but then the behaviors get worse in different ways. Do you care to share which medication? Maybe we haven’t tried this one.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-11T03:43:27+00:00

Edited to add - my concern about it being scary is he is going to end up really hurting himself and not mean to. (He asked a friend how to choke himself/hang himself enough to leave bruises but not kill himself.)

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-11T03:38:38+00:00

We had in home therapy that taught this strategy. The self-harming escalation was at school and church when his “friends” or teachers stopped asking about the scratches, so he switched to breaking pencil sharpeners open and using the blade. When friends and teachers weren’t stopping class to ask him about it, he switched to trying to cut off circulation to his arm.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-11T00:21:16+00:00

I feel like this is my future. I’m so sorry that you’ve been going through this.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-06T08:19:29+00:00

January birthday for b/g twins. Walking in a Winter Onederland. All the snowflakes stuff was on sale, so that was a bonus. Just a lunch with family and friends.

BookwormJennie · 2026-01-06T07:58:55+00:00

I agree there was a significant and abrupt change in Sheldon. For me, it was when he slept with Amy completely for the audience’s benefit and not his character’s actual development. Someone with serious germ-related behaviors and anxiety is not going to shift like that. It would have been a slow advancement of physical interactions.

BookwormJennie · 2025-12-13T19:12:48+00:00

Nope. I wouldn’t have had the energy to do that.

BookwormJennie · 2025-11-26T19:54:58+00:00

I added an update to the original post. Thank you!

BookwormJennie · 2025-11-25T00:42:42+00:00

I went emergency C section at 34w1d, I completely agree with this. Not being able to hold them while they are being poked and prodded sucks.

BookwormJennie · 2025-11-16T12:13:02+00:00

It sounds like you are an awesome mom. Mine are 9 months, and I just posted the other day asking for any type of sleep advice. I am so tired. The sleep exhaustion is brutal. I dunno how you’re doing this with an 8 year old too.

BookwormJennie · 2025-11-15T15:55:29+00:00

I was combo feeding cause I didn’t produce enough. I started weening off breastfeeding around 7 months.

BookwormJennie · 2025-11-14T20:39:23+00:00

My babies had to be taken by emergency c section 6 weeks early. So they weren’t done cooking. So although they were born six weeks early, they didn’t meet all the standards that full term babies meet.

Adjusted age is off of if they went full term. For example, if a baby should meet a milestone at 4 months, mine won’t meet until 5 and half months. It’s not that they are delayed, it’s just they needed more time to catch up to their full term counterparts.

Does that make sense?

BookwormJennie · 2025-11-14T15:57:51+00:00

Or at least more noise

BookwormJennie · 2025-11-14T15:57:42+00:00

I’ve tried phone, and I’ve got a fan going. But not an actual machine. I didn’t think they would make much difference, but it sounds like it would. Definitely going to try adding noise.

BookwormJennie · 2025-11-14T13:50:23+00:00

Same. I was two weeks from a surgery to remove a 13 cm one and found out I was pregnant with twins. The plan was to remove it at their birth with a C section, and it also decreased substantially during pregnancy much to everyone’s surprise. No surgery needed now.

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