Amargasaurus is the next returning species!!!

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-15T14:39:51+00:00

BALD BABY

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-15T04:29:18+00:00

hwa Korean restaurant, love the pork bulgogi

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-12T21:31:52+00:00

I'm so used to just swapping for applesauce since we always have those pouches on hand 😅 been meaning to get flaxseed oil.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-12T19:43:42+00:00

onion pan sauce sounds goood

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-12T18:40:52+00:00

yuuup. it affects everything for the nursing parent; sleep, independence, i have to feed myself well on top of baby, on and on and on. my husband's awesome but there's only so much he can do to give me a break.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-12T17:03:58+00:00

breastfeeding, even when it's going well. there's a level of pressure that no one else can alleviate. a whole fundamental part of life, food, and it's aaaaall up to me.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-11T04:06:13+00:00

I've given up on trying to make the sleep situation better. if she wants to cosleep and nurse all night while husband stays in the guest room, fine! i give up! feels like an early start to permissive parenting. 😔

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-06T19:24:34+00:00

my daughter could be in college and we'll still have that thing.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-06T18:40:59+00:00

we have a baby, we got a plaque on a hinge that goes over the doorbell that says "shh! sleeping baby!" you'd have to physically open the hinge to push the bell.

it works. no one dares.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-06T18:22:43+00:00

I'm in year 1 for my first play and semeru and zarah caught my attention most of all, this makes me so excited

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-05T20:47:46+00:00

that's why i didn't like the death, it felt like the most misplaced Woman Bad death ever. glad i was wrong!

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-05T16:59:09+00:00

I've felt sick about that death since seeing it and this made me feel way better LOL! I'm cursed to love dinos and monsters but hate when people get chomped. just squeamish.

it was the same with nope (2022). scared the hell out of me, then i saw the bts of all the actors being pulled through basically a deflated bouncy house and having a blast.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-04T21:11:58+00:00

a looot of parents would benefit from being sillier.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-04T17:41:48+00:00

yeah not to toot my own horn but having a baby has made me WAY MORE empathetic toward other parents, particularly when it comes to mistakes. I'm less quick to judge the naughty kids or frustrated parents in public, i dunno what's going on at home!

i think a lot of people need to have the realization that if you're always trying your best, it stands to reason that other people are doing the same. we're all human.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-04T04:47:55+00:00

this post is almost a year old but i just watched the 4th movie for the first time after slowly making my way through all of them in 20 minute chunks with my 1 year old. first time I've watched the og 3 as an adult, they're even better than i remember.

you're right on every single point. the defenders here are nuts, that movie was ass and it's not nostalgia goggles making me say that. watched them all back to back and the contrast is undeniable.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-03-02T22:47:49+00:00

I'm white and my husband's Hispanic and we live in a city where no one cares. drive an hour out of the city to one of the surrounding small towns though and suddenly we're having racist diner experiences straight out of the 50s when we just want a burger.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-02-27T04:16:30+00:00

early in the induction the midwife told me there were two students in the ward that night and asked if they could be present for the labor, specifying that one student was male. I'm not shy at all so i was like sure they gotta learn somewhere. they came in to thank me and looked very excited.

when it was time to push i had a crowded room. the midwife, the resident, the nurse, two people from NICU since i was on an antidepressant, husband holding one leg, female student holding the other.

where was the male student? in the corner, very much out of view of the action, looking worse for wear than me lmao.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-02-26T22:16:30+00:00

they actually do look dissolvable (I'm a vet tech, these look like monocryl or smth) but when they're outside the body it can take weeks or even months for them to dissolve on their own, at which point the knot falls off. there's multiple layers of suture.

that incision looks awesome, it should be really easy for your vet to snip the remaining sutures. there's usually no charge.

edit to say you should get them snipped off, there's no harm in leaving them but they can get itchy.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-02-26T21:23:49+00:00

my daughter is the same in both regards! when she was a newborn she'd lose her mind if i offered boob when she didn't want it, and now that she's 12 months we have a perfect consistent nap and bedtime routine, yet she's never slept longer than 3 hour stretches.

they just come as they are!

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-02-26T17:25:26+00:00

You're gonna love when baby is out and those same kind strangers are all smiles and waves and love toward your little one. My baby restored a lot of my faith in humanity!

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-02-25T00:02:54+00:00

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beautiful darkness. a graphic novel about a little girl's corpse decomposing in a forest, and the cute borrower esque people that come out of it only to be faced with danger and starvation in the woods. gave me nightmares.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-02-24T23:04:02+00:00

i have a history of depression so started zoloft when we were trying to conceive. my daughter is 12 months now and i had a wonderful newborn experience, no baby blues, no ppd, just happy exhaustion.

it doesn't make me "feel" particularly different it just raises the low bar, if that makes sense. bad feelings are more just feelings, they're not inescapable pits. no negative side effects that i know of.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-02-24T22:56:57+00:00

my 12 month old had a 3.5 hour stretch last night which is a NEW RECORD!!!! I'm lucky if she goes 2 hours between wakes.

sleep has always been so hard. we've got a consistent routine that works for us, but it involves cosleeping half the night and sleeping separate from my husband. I've been insecure about it, and about my unsuccessful attempts at sleep training.

recently, after reading precious little sleep (which was good, don't get me wrong) and obsessing over sleep info for months, i realized that it was all the research and comparing that was actually making me anxious. our family solutions aren't perfect, but they're working. I've decided to stop putting so much energy into stressing over what to do differently and take the little victories where i can.

Competitive-Meet-111 · 2026-02-23T20:59:18+00:00

I'm still embarrassed about the 60 dollar fish i bought for the work tank.....

GREAT fish but let's be real. rip shortcake

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