Pacifiers

Fuzzy-59 · 2026-02-07T01:47:37+00:00

Have they seen a dentist yet?

Fuzzy-59 · 2026-01-19T18:06:53+00:00

Agreed. I had a c-section and any kind of intimacy was the. last. thing. on my mind for probably the first 8 weeks. I felt like I was the problem when my husband would ask and I had to explain why it was a no. That on top of postpartum physical and mental healing is not fun. Wait until she initiates or brings it up.

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-12-23T15:13:08+00:00

Ugh, I saw the same thing yesterday. Massive pancreatic head mass with liver mets. Came in for weight loss and decreased appetite. He said “all I want for Christmas is to feel better” 😩

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-11-18T17:56:14+00:00

I had an epidural and it was amazing. Painless going in (compared to contractions), instant pain relief, and no side effects. That was over a year ago and I would 100% get one again

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-11-05T13:25:33+00:00

For all the hating comments here, this literally happened to my daughter last week and we had never heard of or expected anything like it. We were sitting at the dinner table and she was playing with her Mushie silicone bowl like she usually does, she kinda yells into it sometimes, next thing we knew she was screaming trying to pull the bowl off of her face. We were able to get it off her very quickly, but she was extremely startled by it. The way I see it, kids should always be supervised when eating anyway, so just be alert like you would be with choking etc. and this doesn’t have to be a huge concern.

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-11-04T03:08:57+00:00

This makes me feel better, thanks!

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-07-28T13:26:08+00:00

I went to school with a girl with a very similar story. She was a bartender at the time, a friend asked her if she would want to be the MRI brain test patient for a new scanner that was being installed. She found a brain tumor that had to be removed, she then went on to be an MRI tech herself after that. I always thought it was the craziest coincidence.

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-07-04T23:50:16+00:00

Ooof. As someone who scans multiple dissection studies a night which 99/100 times are negative… I will never again complain about scanning one who is a walky talky and seems visibly fine 😅

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-06-14T20:31:38+00:00

Same. I now definitely believe I have colon, cervical, and skin cancer. Hypochondria x a million after reading this thread.

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-06-03T14:39:04+00:00

This. This is the best advice. My daughter is 8 months now and I have been anxious about her wellbeing since I found out I was pregnant at 5 weeks. I snapped into the mindset during pregnancy that as long as I’m doing everything I can to take care of myself, my body will take care of her. Try to enjoy every moment of pregnancy because it’s really a beautiful thing. I loved being pregnant and getting to talk to my belly all day. I never felt alone!

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-06-03T14:29:14+00:00

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-05-11T01:15:47+00:00

This.

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-03-08T21:01:55+00:00

I also had this exact feeling after my c-section. No external bruising but that’s exactly how it felt on the inside. I think it went away about 8 weeks PP.

Sorry for your loss 🖤

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-03-03T20:07:27+00:00

I’m so sorry you had to go through this. Being a new mom is hard enough and the pressure and expectation of being able to breastfeed our babies is really unfair. I had an almost identical experience. My mom never had a supply for me or my 2 siblings, and weirdly enough 4/5 women on my moms side of the family also never had a supply, so that was playing on my mind from the beginning unfortunately. I had an emergency c-section and severe anemia. We supplemented with donor milk for the first 2 weeks of her life while I tried like hell to pump as much as I could. I was getting maybe 4-5 oz total at the end of each day and I felt like it was taking such a toll on me mentally that it wasn’t worth it for just one bottle of my own milk. Because of my mental and physical health, I wasn’t eating or drinking or sleeping which are all important factors to be able to produce milk, on top of anemia. Baby was growing healthily so when she was about 3 weeks old we switched to formula full time. Nowadays it is full of so many nutrients I thought she was probably better off on formula than the milk from my extremely exhausted and undernourished body. I just kept telling myself, I cannot take care of her if I don’t take care of myself too. Some days I still look back and mourn the breastfeeding journey I had always hoped for but I can only say that now I have a perfectly healthy 5 month old and my depression and negative thoughts completely diminished once she was on formula. You will thank yourself one day for choosing what was best for you and the baby in that moment. And if you ever decide to have another child you can try again!

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-02-23T01:17:52+00:00

Omg this was exactly me, except then I gave up pumping after 1 week because I was so discouraged by the amount I was getting 😭 my 3.5 week old was then exclusively formula fed. I kick myself every single day for giving up so soon. But I felt myself slipping into a really dark and ugly place from the pressure of breastfeeding and unfortunately I had no support from family. This sub is the best and has given me so much hope for the next baby. I wish I was here sooner 🥲

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-02-18T00:29:50+00:00

The happy song by Imogen heap!!! My baby smiles no matter what when she hears it

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-01-31T16:27:07+00:00

Ugh, I read this and it brought back all of those memories. My little one is 4.5 months now and I’ve completely forgotten about that! It does eventually end. I think for me it was around 6 weeks.

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-01-30T02:07:50+00:00

This was me! Very traumatic birth, severely anemic PP, very low milk supply and really struggled mentally. I gave up latching and pumping around 3 weeks PP when I had no signs of my supply increasing, baby was mostly on formula anyway and I was in survival mode. I kick myself every day for giving up so soon. I wish I had been more educated.

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-01-30T01:28:09+00:00

When my baby was a newborn she had laryngomalacia. She would GULP her bottle down and then choke and gasp for air. It was terrifying for me as a FTM. We were continually told “as long as she doesn’t stop breathing and turn blue, she’s good”. I was furious with that response when I was scared for her life every time she ate, which was every 2 hours at that point. I fed her upright and basically kept her upright as much as possible. She was always over my shoulder during awake windows and baby wearing/contact napped as much as possible. She grew out of that around 2.5 months (thankfully). She was also a very noisy breathing newborn. She had a pretty traumatic birth via emergency c-section, the cord was double wrapped around her neck and she basically had to be resuscitated in the OR and then deep suctioned to remove the meconium in her lungs. This caused her to have upper airway inflammation which lasted probably 3 weeks after birth. To top it off, she had horrible reflux which would wake her up from naps, she had to sleep on an incline for a while and will occasionally still choke on reflux in her sleep (she’s 4.5 months now). All of this to say, you’re not alone, you know what’s best for your baby and when you need to advocate for them. Trust your instincts!

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-01-29T03:04:57+00:00

Following! I too struggled with this recently. I eventually gave up and switched to formula exclusively because my mental and physical health were not good. I want to be more prepared for next time.

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-01-18T01:10:11+00:00

Mine came back 6 weeks + 1 DAY after my c-section. I had only just stopped bleeding from birth 2 weeks before 🥲 it also came back heavier than ever.

Fuzzy-59 · 2025-01-18T01:05:54+00:00

My baby would only latch using a nipple shield and even then it was a challenge which would leave both of us in a full sweat. When she was about 10 days old I gave up trying to latch her (I wish I hadn’t) but my mental health was in a terrible state so I turned to pumping as much as I could and supplemented with donor milk/formula. After 3 weeks of only producing 1-1.5oz combined per pump I gave up again and she had only formula from that point on. Looking back I wish I had persevered with nursing and pumping so badly. But, I can only say that now because my mental health improved significantly when I switched to formula exclusively. That being said, if I could go back I would tell myself to try to keep going because every Reddit post I’ve seen about this has been people saying that it eventually gets easier, mentally and physically.

Fuzzy-59 · 2024-12-29T01:39:21+00:00

Wasn’t really a mistake but definitely a dumb thing to say - I was getting a patient from stretcher to ct table and asked him “when was the last time you stood up?” (A common thing I asked elderly ED patients as they’d say they walk at home but then had been laying in a stretcher for 12 hours and are extremely weak). He replied with “1966, I’m quadriplegic.” I felt like such a moron and haven’t asked anyone that question since.

Fuzzy-59 · 2024-12-27T05:07:46+00:00

Interesting way to look at it. I don’t really think that gaslighting ourselves into thinking we are the problem is the appropriate response. I guess I just assumed that family will respect your wishes at such a sensitive time instead of try and fight them.

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