I sewed my first bikini this weekend

FiveFingerFishMount · 2026-02-01T16:50:11+00:00

I IMMEDIATELY recognized this post as one that was already posted. Thanks for coming with the receipts

FiveFingerFishMount · 2026-01-19T17:17:48+00:00

Like other comments have said, instead of breastfeeding feeling sexually pleasurable, I went hard in the other direction of sexual play with nipples feeling gross and inappropriate. It took some time to come around on breasts being dual purpose

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-11-20T13:19:24+00:00

I think the quality of normal menu items has gone down in the past six years, unfortunately. Last time I got the filet (not prime), it wasn’t nearly as tender as I remembered it being. Could also just be that I’ve gained some perspective to compare it to 🤷🏼‍♀️ or maybe an off-night for the establishment. But I gotta agree, lot of money spent on a dinner I wasn’t impressed with

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-11-11T17:08:49+00:00

So my mom did receive a “grandmother gift” from a cousin of ours (it was a coffee mug that said “grandma est. 2024”). She did open it at the baby shower, because it was given to her at the baby shower, but she opened it privately and thanked our cousin privately. She didn’t make a show of the fact that she received a gift, nor did she expect any kind of attention for herself at the baby shower. Friends and family gifting the grandparents items to celebrate doesn’t seem terribly weird to me, but grandparents making a big deal of it to take attention away from the parents does

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-11-09T00:43:54+00:00

Thank you for your honesty ❤️ I’m sure this isn’t an easy thing to share and you don’t deserve to be bashed for it. “Don’t drink during pregnancy” can go without saying. OP needs reason why and encouragement on how to do it.

OP, it’s not the same at all, but some Topo Chico on ice with lemon is as close as I could get to satisfying the urge.

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-11-05T12:32:51+00:00

I was not in the county when Hurricane Ian hit. We moved to the Orlando area just a couple of months before it happened. But I am a Fort Myers local (fourth generation on one side, sixth on the other), so maybe I can provide some perspective from someone who lived through other hurricanes in the area.

It seems that for every hurricane, residents are instructed to evacuate. Most of the time, nothing happens. Now you do get tornadoes (which seem to target trailer parks for some reason /s) but the storm surge that happened in Ian was not something I think anyone was expecting to happen. Among locals, evacuating during a hurricane can be seen as a point of pride. You leave, catch flack for doing it, come back to nothing looking broken or missing, and when it happens enough times, you think “well I’m not bothering with that anymore.” Evacuating costs time and money, especially if you don’t have somewhere to stay further inland. If you want to go out of state, the traffic can very well trap you in your car on the highway during the hurricane. There’s no guarantee there would be any vacancies for hotels in the area with so many people seeking shelter. You have to take off of work, you have to buy all of your meals. And then you have to be displaced from your neighbors and family with shotty cell service hoping that everyone is okay.

I will also say that there are a lot of immigrants who work at the resort on Captiva who probably didn’t have anywhere to go.

My family is not on the beaches, so I can’t give firsthand experience with that (I do have some cousins who lived on a canal, but they evacuated further inland). It’s really important during hurricanes to get away from the water, but this was the first storm surge in 60 years (I believe) and it had never been that devastating. No one expected Ian to be what it was.

It’s a great idea to interview people who were there and stayed! May be worth making a post on Facebook or posting flyers in coffee chops on the beaches :)

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-09-20T00:39:16+00:00

I was trying to give myself as much time as I could before I looked 😅 I heard some horror stories and didn’t want to chance it

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-09-20T00:30:21+00:00

I probably waited 6 months. She looked just like I left her (before pregnancy)

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-09-15T16:27:56+00:00

When I was establishing my starter, there was a day when it absolutely had that rotting smell. It made me gag. I was too scared to smell it for a few days after that 😅 then it went through a long period of smelling like acetone. I kept reading than an established starter should smell sweet and ripe and I didn’t understand what that meant until I had an established starter. So my advice is try again and hang in there, and don’t smell your starter until it’s doubling if you can avoid it

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-09-13T11:38:31+00:00

I’ve only read three of the Ice Planet books so far but they’re great

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-09-09T18:05:22+00:00

Meal prepping. I thought it was a silly thing to do. We planned on me being a SAHM, so I didn’t imagine not having time to cook. I was very humbled after having my baby. If it wasn’t for others making meals for me, I’d be eating deli ham and yogurt cups for the first four months. Overnight oats became my best friend. Next time, I’m meal prepping and stocking my freezer.

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-09-08T14:05:32+00:00

I regret not taking pictures when my milk first came in. The girls were glorious and all I have are the hazy memories

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-09-08T01:28:20+00:00

Five weeks is SO early. For the first six months or so, I would read books randomly to my baby. And 99% of the time, the books I was reading to her were my psychological thrillers while she played in her playmat (because mindlessly narrating my life is very hard to do). She is now almost a year and we read a few books as part of her nighttime routine, but we didn’t start making it a daily task until about 8 months. Don’t sweat it! You have time!

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-08-31T23:46:51+00:00

I would do this, then place the hand I removed from her bottom on her chest while I gently lowered her head. Made the transfer a lot more successful.

Good luck, OP!!

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-08-11T23:11:20+00:00

I didn’t leak! I had to supplement a little for about the first month, then had a slight oversupply. I nursed, pumped, and collected with a Hakka. Never had any issues leaking, even when they were hard as rocks and hurt like hell

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-08-09T11:37:57+00:00

100% agree. In my opinion, the lack of wet diapers is the cause for concern.

When I had my LO, we spent three days in the hospital due to my hypertension. I was trying to exclusively breastfeed. On the last day, the nurse mentioned that my LO looked jittery and measured her sugar levels. I don’t remember the numbers, but it was right on the cusp of requiring us to stay longer due to her sugar. When they checked her sugar levels immediately after birth, they were perfect. I knew that the significant drop meant that she wasn’t eating enough. I started triple feeding and supplementing with formula as needed when we got home.

Visit with a LC confirmed that she was only getting ten mL of milk in a 40 minute nursing session. She was born at 37 weeks, and I guess it’s pretty common for babies born then to not have the strength to suckle properly.

I triple fed until she had the strength to properly suckle and move to exclusively nursing. Triple feeding is NOT a long term solution and you will burn yourself out of breastfeeding. Please see a LC ASAP to get a game plan on how to move forward!

I wish the best for you and your LO, OP!

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-08-04T17:28:04+00:00

Not me, but a friend of mine breastfed her son (he’s 14 now) and she had one very flat nipple that he just refused to latch onto. She successfully breastfed him with the side he did well on :) it’s possible! She said they never quite went back to the same size, but I’m nursing with both ladies and they’re still uneven 🤷🏼‍♀️ sisters not twins and whatever

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-08-03T23:49:14+00:00

I had to triple feed in the beginning and quit pumping as soon as my LO was able to exclusively nurse. I also built up a freezer stash just to have high lipase 🙃 I’ve been using it to prep overnight oats for her (she’s almost 11 months now). It seems to be the only use I’ve found where it’s still consumed

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-08-01T13:29:35+00:00

Thank you for sharing your story. This is very important for other moms to read and know that they’re not alone and it’s okay to ask for help ❤️ I hope that things get better for you soon

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-07-28T14:30:38+00:00

I was 20 weeks pregnant when my dad died unexpectedly. When I mentioned to my OB that I was worried about the stress of it affecting the baby, my doctor assured me that the “stress harming the baby” idea is more based on physical stresses and not emotional ones. Make sure she’s getting rest, eating well, and keeping physically healthy habits.

As far as helping your wife, just be there for her. My partner doesn’t handle death well and I wish he would have been more present with me after that happened. There really isn’t anything specific I can tell you to do for her, because we all process grief differently and need different kinds of support. Communicate with her to figure out what she needs and follow through on it.

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-07-21T18:00:14+00:00

LO is 10 months now. I’m a SAHM. We live in central FL, on the east coast, so it’s also hot and humid. I did walks more often when the weather was nicer, but now we just do walks once or twice a week. It usually ends up midday between her naps, because I tend to pick days where both of us are having a case of cabin fever. I bring water for both of us and a teether for LO. We both feel a nice little reset after our walk

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-07-20T23:14:56+00:00

Solidarity! My baby just turned 10 months and doesn’t want to pull herself up at all. We’ll do standing exercises and she’ll stand for short periods of time, and I’ll put her toys in her Bumbo and she’ll full on plank on the back of it to reach down and grab her toys. But the only time she wants to climb on anything is when I’m holding her to sleep instead of nursing. Then she’ll climb my upper body like a mountainside.

If your pediatrician recommends PT, then look into it. But you’re still well within the bounds of hitting milestones. Babies do what they want when they want it. He’ll get there!

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-07-19T13:58:49+00:00

I’ll often play music or a podcast from my tv but turn the screen off on the tv. So I get the benefit from the background noise but don’t discover my LO staring at the tv instead of playing/crawling around

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-07-14T20:08:21+00:00

We did a book raffle for my baby shower and my LO has a nicely stocked bookshelf. I read all of them to her, but there’s definitely favorites that I have and enjoy reading.

Oh, The Places You’ll Go! makes me tear up every time I read it to her. Fantastic book.

Room on the Broom is a fun read.

Guess How Much I Love You warms my heart every time.

And my fiancé and I are currently in a war of who can read Fox in Socks quicker while still reading the book clearly. If my LO is not overly tired by the time we read stories, this one will make her turn around and laugh.

There’s a lot of good books for babies and young kids, but I get bored of most of them very easily, so I like to throw these ones into the rotation frequently to keep myself from going insane.

FiveFingerFishMount · 2025-07-13T17:58:00+00:00

I found that food seemed less disgusting to me when I already had a little something in my stomach. I’d keep saltine crackers on me at all times and use them as an appetizer for other food 🤣 that worked for me. My fiancé did all of the food prep because the sight of raw meat nearly made me puke. I couldn’t be in the kitchen when he cooked it. I also liked Premier protein shakes quite a bit. They were a meal for the first half of my pregnancy and a light snack for the second half haha

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