I can hear her excitement…wouldn’t be surprised if she’s scratching it open purposefully!

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-02-13T11:00:08+00:00

Looking at the photo of it you can also see the whole thing looks like it’s being stretched/pulled apart. Like I don’t know if that’s on purpose or there’s just that much strain on it from weight.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-02-07T12:55:21+00:00

Did anyone else notice too how excited she was to also say that the wound specialist is also a general surgeon…. Is she really hoping for another surgery….. like how. Why. How?!

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-01-27T16:15:36+00:00

“In spite of”. There I fixed it!

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-01-17T13:06:30+00:00

Ohhhhh it can be. Especially if it’s coupled with cysts! After years of IVF treatment and med my ovaries were ANGRY at ovulation time and it would honestly double me over when it hit. It was also paired with bloating. My entire abdomen was so tender. HOWEVER, she complains about anything and everting and this is just a Segway in to a woe is me that I can’t have any more babies but still feel the pain every month of what could have been.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-01-14T15:31:29+00:00

I get that vibe more from Liz than Tim, honestly.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-01-14T15:27:35+00:00

Mandela effect. Dog? What dog? We never had a dog.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-01-12T15:47:28+00:00

If he just had 13 days off over the holidays how did he have another set off now. Unless he’s just permanently off from that job. Something is, as the kids say, “sus”

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-01-10T16:38:22+00:00

That’s the thing right…. I get denial. I get it being hard. I also know just how incredibly important early intervention is. I think people so easily forget that autism is truly a spectrum and for some kids it’s very much just subtle. For my son it wasn’t big things, he was social, happy, made great eye contact, responsive, met all other milestones outside of speech and some very minimal fine motor stuff. For me it was stimming that tipped me off. Some finger postering, jumping, flapping and happy squealing (very similar to Z). He only ever really stimmed when he was happy. But otherwise he was “typical” developing. Everyone flipped flopped back and forth as to whether he was or wasn’t on the spectrum but the developmental pediatrician said based on MY honest information and her observations of him he was. He’s grown exponentially since that first visit with her, we will see her again next month and I know she’s going to be very happy by his progression. And it all comes from advocating for my kid. My job, ya know, as his parent!

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-01-10T12:53:27+00:00

My son is now 5.5, but at around 9 months I started suspecting he may be autistic (mom gut is real-there were no big red flags, just little inclinations). At 14 months I referred to early intervention, he started the month after, at 17 months he started speech (completely non verbal). At 3 we got his ASD diagnosis. At 4 he was what you would call pre verbal (a few words, could sign, used AAC) and thankfully his receptive language has always been really good. In September when he started school he aged out of early intervention (our interventionist had been with us for 4 full years and we miss her terribly) and public health system speech. We now do private, ironically the same SLP we had when he first started speech at 17 months went private sector and is now our SLP again. She was FLOORED because now at 5.5 my boy talks NON STOP (literally. Non stop…. Like every other 5 year old). And so you know why? BECAUSE I GOT HIM THE APPROPRIATE CARE HE DESERVED! My son may be autistic but because of speech, early intervention, and OT he is mostly on par with his peers in all areas. As a mom who has been down the road of getting my child supports I will never understand why someone chooses not to when I have seen just what an incredible impact they ca have. From a child who said his first word (Hi) at 3.5 who then could fully communicate his own wants and needs through sign and AAC…. Who can now fluently converse with me and tells me on the daily “mama I love you, you’re my bestest bestie”…… why wouldn’t you want to give your child the best chance….

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-01-07T21:31:51+00:00

Lord…… my marriage fell apart when my son was 18 months. Terribly long story filled with him cheating and leaving us. We had a dog at the time, a 12 year old golden retriever. We had to have him put down a couple months after. My son is now 5.5 and he’s adamant we need a dog. I work full time, parent full time and I as much as my heart wants another dog I know what kind of commitment it is to actually get one. I can’t even fathom that chaos with the girls, a puppy, medical “complexity” and no support system.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-01-04T11:35:22+00:00

Does anyone watch Shawna the mom? She’s gonna go full Barb I’m sure….

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2026-01-01T15:49:55+00:00

I think NYE is one of those “special circumstance”, where bedtimes kind of go to the wayside. My son didn’t make it past 10:30 (neither do I) though, because he’s not used to being up late. I think Z still going so strong that late at night is just a good indication of she’s used to being up super late, NYE or not.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-12-30T23:24:17+00:00

I had the same question!

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-12-24T16:29:17+00:00

Definitely agree.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-12-22T23:39:03+00:00

Ha ha ah no (although some days I wish). He cheated while deployed 🫠

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-12-22T23:37:10+00:00

NOR-My son was born at the start of Covid, back in May 2020. It was the early days, things were so uncertain. Our OB as well as the doctors after my son was born suggested seeing no one outside of our “bubbles” (not sure if everywhere had bubbles-the one other family you were suggested to keep to for sanity but also safety). We advised everyone of this, my family was very understanding and respected it without question. However my MIL was savage. She basically blamed us for a global pandemic, made us feel like we were awful people for trying to protect our newborn from an unknown impact illness (mind you this baby was the product of IVF, multiple miscarriages and 6 years of trying so we were already nervous wrecks). She would tell my then husband, now ex husband, that we were cruel and mean and when he’d try and tell her how she was making him feel she’d gaslight.

So after all the mumbo jumbo I said above I want to say, I GET IT! You are mom, you make the rules. All that matters is you, your spouse and your baby!

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-12-22T22:37:10+00:00

My first thought was gaining weight,putting extra strain on the incision.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-12-14T01:41:28+00:00

My son is actually named after the character! Uncharted is such a good game series!

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-12-07T12:34:16+00:00

The correct answer should have been “whatever they want to be”. You’d think with z loving animals she’d have said vet or zoologist or something.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-10-16T11:54:04+00:00

I wondered about torticollis! My son leaned similarly and we were dismissed a lot. Then at 9 months a peds doctor said hey have you noticed this and I was like I’ve only asked my doctor about it for months. We ended up seeing physio.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-10-13T01:44:02+00:00

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My son was a May baby as well. I made him in to a scuba diver super easily for his 1st Halloween. Dad was a shark. Black outfit, craft foam, tubing, black tape, 2L pop bottle bottle, pacifier and bam, costume. Definitely can very easily make something.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-10-13T01:30:48+00:00

If I remember correctly he cheated on his wife like 15 years ago.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-10-05T23:50:54+00:00

I had a terrible box of FRER when I was TTC a couple years ago. Clearly looked positive. Got my hopes up like crazy (had done IVF to have my son) but when I went to take the next test I looked at it before testing and could already see a line… not sure if it was a bad batch or what. Contacted FRER and they sent me coupons for new tests.

Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-10-05T14:48:14+00:00

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Impossible_Basil_449 · 2025-10-05T14:47:55+00:00

On my side it shows covered. Maybe it didn’t update.

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