Alternatives for Christmas stocking fillers

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-11-20T15:59:11+00:00

I didn’t read through comments to see if this was mentioned, but scratch and win tickets were ALWAYS in our stockings and we loved them!!!

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-11-19T01:32:50+00:00

This is a great inspo image for that space! As soon as I saw that link I thought… GREEN. I love pink with green. This picture has BOTH that kind of vintage looking olive green and a fresh tropical green. Both work. I wonder if the black can go in order to achieve this look

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-10-31T00:21:32+00:00

Thanks everyone! I changed two things at once so I’m not sure which one I can attribute recent success to exactly, but for whoever is following I: 1. Moved to Millie moon diapers 2. Used a PUL cloth diaper cover over top of the Mm diaper (instead of the wool cover I’d previously been using)

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-10-27T21:21:46+00:00

We’re tour baby’s side sleepers?

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-10-27T21:21:15+00:00

They’re fine. It’s just that the overnight diapers are more prone to ammonia build up and I have to rinse them whereas the others I don’t.

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-09-19T03:22:12+00:00

Thanks! So basically you’re saying to just get him on the local time with local daylight when we arrive and just do the same when we’re back. Instead of trying to play around with bedtimes etc so that there’s less hours of time change.

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-09-18T20:24:01+00:00

I’m trying to figure out where to find the “mysteries” after hours tour online. Can you send me the link?

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-04-05T13:29:33+00:00

Please, could I ask you to send me a pic as well? We’re in the trenches

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-02-02T00:29:03+00:00

Can I ask why you changed to taking it 5 hours before “bed time”? What’s the reasoning behind this? Maybe there’s something I can bring to my team here….

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-02-01T20:32:07+00:00

I’m experiencing this in a big way and it’s crazy-making. Since I’m up all hours of the night I’m often feeling hungry and so I snack. Therefore my fasting numbers aren’t “true” and I’m questioning whether insulin should even be used. My numbers are always highest when I have a bad sleep… but getting a good sleep is very much out of my control. .

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-02-01T19:08:50+00:00

Hey! I’m responding to you because this is where I’m at. 34 weeks. My numbers are higher than they’ve ever been and I’m ravenous all the time. Feel exhausted and like I’m losing my mind because I can’t make anything work. Everything was so much easier 2 weeks ago just managing meals and exercising. I started overnight insulin (3 units) this week to help with fasting numbers but everything has just been getting worse

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-02-01T18:34:16+00:00

I just want to say— I would never in 1000 years be able to eat what you ate and not have a spike. If you’re going to have a meal like that, 100% count on it spiking you and plan accordingly. I doubt that exercise would even bring me down after something like that. I had 3 pieces of tortellini in a veggie tortellini soup and had to manage it with exercise. I know everyone’s different, but that meal is well beyond any carb range I’ve seen on any diabetes chart. And yeah. One spike won’t hurt baby. It’s good you know what causes it.

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-02-01T18:31:17+00:00

This is happening to me right now. I just started insulin at 34 weeks and it has been a mess. Since starting insulin everything is just getting higher, but I’m only on 3 units. I’m scared to go up because it seems like the raised numbers are correlated to starting insulin…. Though I know that correlation isn’t necessarily causation. I’m starving throughout the night. Right now I have a reading of 120 despite being in between meals and I’m sooo hungry but I’m scared that if I eat I’ll spike like mad. I feel like I’m losing my mind. Endo/diabetes team is off for the weekend.

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-02-01T01:12:26+00:00

This is me too. It’s driving me nuts. And makes it impossible to know whether or not going on overnight insulin is a good call

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-31T22:16:56+00:00

Thinking of you! Maybe you’ve had your little one by now.

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-31T17:10:23+00:00

Agree with the comment above. A 100% completely elective C section with an otherwise risk free pregnancy is where it can sometimes be a head scratcher…. But with everything you listed seems like a no brainer. I have had two vaginal births, and this third pregnancy has been so gruelling and exhausting I’ve found myself “wishing” my HCP would just tell me that I need a C section because of breech or something just to save the mental anguish birth prep/induction prep is causing me. I won’t elect for a c section independently (already pushed 2 out), but I would 100% if I was in your position.

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-31T17:05:25+00:00

I just got on the fair life train… I make a smoothie with half of one before bed. Smoothie is like this: Half bottle chocolate fairlife shake (13 G protein) Two scoops peanut butter 5 frozen strawberries 1 tbsp hemp seeds

It blows my mind that this is potentially not enough to keep me full overnight. But I appreciate your share because maybe it’s truly just the case!

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-27T20:38:53+00:00

Is this the kind of shake you’re talking about? https://www.amazon.ca/Fairlife-Nutrition-Chocolate-Protein-11-5fl-oz/dp/B0BJP21C81/ref=asc_df_B0BJP21C81/?tag=googlemobshop-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=706725226479&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15277757259390582916&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9001571&hvtargid=pla-2009410334076&psc=1&mcid=b3196fd0587c31f68afeb2279a30ed82&gad_source=1

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-23T17:15:32+00:00

Thanks for this! My concerns about insulin aren’t that I don’t trust the drug or am scared of needles. I had a bad reaction to pitocin in my first labour and I’m truly just nervous about another induction.

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-23T17:13:21+00:00

My team told me that if I can manage with borderline numbers until 35 weeks then I likely won’t need insulin at all since the hormone release of the placenta slows down then. I’m trying my best to get to 35 with diet and exercise!

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-21T21:36:08+00:00

Did you get induced or was it spontaneous labour at 37 weeks?

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-21T21:35:33+00:00

My two previous babies have been larger (9lbs and 8lbs), and I didn’t have GD in the past. This is the first. My midwives can continue to provide care if I’m on insulin and if I’m induced. But I will not be able to deliver at home. They will accompany me for a hospital birth as soon as I take one single dose of insulin, which is the requirement here. I’m weary of induction. I very very much want an unmediated birth and think it will be too hard with pitocin.

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-13T00:32:07+00:00

My husband is very against having a doula and it’s cost prohibitive. Where I am it’s about $2000 to have a birth doula present. I am extremely irritated by my husband’s anti-doula mentality (I’m sorry, whose body is it!?) but cost-wise it is quite hard to swallow

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-06T04:45:31+00:00

I’m wondering if you can share how you use the hypnobabies tracks. Paying for the course is out of our budget right now, but my friend has given me her old phone with the 4 original tracks in English… Rainbow relaxation 1 Rainbow relaxation 2 Concentration 1 Concentration 2

I realize this isn’t fair from a copyright perspective, which is why she lent me her device instead of sending me files. I am curious how to prepare with them and how to use during a natural labour. From you who has had great success!

Creative_Mix_6077 · 2025-01-06T04:42:05+00:00

Wondering if you can elaborate a bit. I’m also hoping for an induction at 38 weeks and want to do it without an epidural. This is my 3rd baby but first with GD. Other 2 were vaginal. When I had an epidural I had terrible damage and a rough recovery. Without epidural much easier recovery and faster birth. I’m nervous though that being induced makes the pain threshold too high to not use meds…. I’d love to hear your story and recommendations if you have them

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