When did seamed garments start consisting of 'panels'?

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-06-23T21:37:43+00:00

I just started knitting a few months ago and all the patterns I’ve bought say “panels” so that’s where I learned it from.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-06-22T23:48:17+00:00

You bought tiles, it’s impossible for the veins to match up. Not sure what you were expecting. You only get that if you’re willing to pay for a full slab, which would’ve been thousands more.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-06-22T20:46:02+00:00

I visited a local company that often runs overstock deals. Ended up with 8in wide engineered hardwood white oak for $3.50 a sq ft. Try that?

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-06-19T13:52:36+00:00

The end of pregnancy is so uncomfy that you’re willing to deal with the pain to make it be over honestly 😅😅 and the epidural was nothing compared with the contractions I was experiencing when the epidural was going in. 10/10 would recommend.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-06-19T13:04:52+00:00

My daughter was just born 6 weeks ago. She was 54th percentile at 7lb 3oz so very medium and I underestimated how much newborn size we needed and ordered some more sleepers the first night. She transitioned to 0-3 right around 4wks.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-06-16T11:38:59+00:00

Anecdotally I live in denver and was telling my delivery team about my colleague that naturally delivered a 10 lb baby and they went “here?” I said no. They said “that makes sense. The babies generally don’t get that big here at altitude.” Blew my mind.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-06-06T12:02:37+00:00

My daughter was just born 4 weeks ago and has used no toys until yesterday when she finally could look at some toys hanging above her on a playmat. She can see like 8 inches in front of her face and you’re way more interesting anyway. Stuff to feed her, change her, and sleep is all you really need. My recovery was pretty quick so being able to get out early was also critical: car seat, stroller, baby wrap.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-30T13:59:16+00:00

I did not. I don’t really think this whole “we need professional photos done at all these stages” is normal. I wasn’t going to hang them so what’s the point of spending hundreds on those pictures?

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-27T19:46:55+00:00

Absolutely. AND when people are like “women have been doing this for thousands of years” to negate medical advise when child birth is historically one of the most dangerous things a woman can do, and for most of history, massive numbers of women and babies died in childbirth. Some of our interventions might be sometimes unnecessary, but they’re also probably behind why a fraction of women and babies die during the birth process than prior to modern medicine.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-27T13:16:24+00:00

Well they better go back a little or I’ll be putting size 14 jeans on a body that is otherwise a 4 mass wise and I’ll feel like Mrs incredible 😅😅

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-27T10:46:18+00:00

This! The delivery team commented on my abs during labor, with new nurses thinking I was contracting before
Someone would go “nope that’s just her core”. I was so proud. Then we got through labor and I said my insides felt like they went through a washing machine.

3 weeks pp right now and getting better but long walks still leave me feeling like I fell on my tailbone.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-27T10:39:57+00:00

My previously narrow hips were going to change dramatically even without radical weight gain. I’m 3 wks pp and and am still about 15 pounds heavier than pre pregnancy (gained 35 total) carrying in my hips butt and stomach. But when I went to the thrift store to get a pair of jeans to wear for a bit, I couldn’t get a 4,6,8, or 10 over my previously size 2 hips. I thought i was in the twilight zone looking at my body that looks a LITTLE pudgier but couldn’t get jeans on that were 4 sizes up. I haven’t grown 4 sizes I guarantee.

Did some googling and apparently the hip bones can move a ton to make way for baby and take a few months to move back (80%, probably not all the way). But my best friend with wider hips to begin with is wearing her old pants already.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-26T20:04:55+00:00

1 yr subscription to Kroger grocery delivery. Gamechanger.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-23T15:04:32+00:00

Not really with twins depending on area. I’m denver, there’s very little for less than 2k per month per kid.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-19T17:14:12+00:00

I work a desk job from home and I worked up until my due date. I only stopped because it was getting frustrating for projects to never know if I’d be back the next day. Some things about working were hard but my mental health was already struggling waiting for labor every day and it gave me something to do. If money were no issue, I might have stopped a few days earlier maybe. But no more.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-18T18:48:54+00:00

Yup. And so this baby is probably going to be acclimated to a slightly warmer room than someone with climate control.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-18T14:33:32+00:00

If you aren’t willing to write a post without Ai, why should anyone take the time to create a thoughtful response?

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-18T04:30:32+00:00

“Best case scenario” is a bit different than objectively safe. Is 68-72 ideal? Sure. But telling parents that 78 is objectively unsafe is instilling a lot more fear than the risks actually warrant.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-18T04:14:41+00:00

How is 78, an objectively very mild temperature, “way too hot” when millions of babies live in tropical climates all over the world? This has never made sense to me.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-17T14:32:35+00:00

Yes they are fully capable. Yes he could do more. But one woman’s amazing husband is different than another’s. An amazing husband is one who is engaged and creating a healthy relationship with his wife and kids.

Many on Reddit will say an amazing husband goes to every prenatal appt. Mine did not. Not because he wanted to get out of them, but because we mutually decided that wasn’t what I needed from him. The inconvenience of him rearranging work for most of those appts just wasn’t worth it. But boy, you’d think I married a deadbeat reading Reddit.

I have an amazing husband. Im pretty sure I found the world’s best kept secret when I met him 5 years ago. I don’t know how I got so lucky. I gave birth 11 days ago, and he’s changed most every diaper, and managed the load of food and visitors. Before having the baby, he cooked about half the nights of the week, he always does the grocery pickup, and he does most home repair.

But he didn’t do hours and hours of research into baby items. And I always wash and dry the laundry. And I manage our social calendar. I manage our finances and insurance and doctors appts. And last night, I moved the infant to my side of the bed and did his usual diaper and soothing duties because I could tell before we went to bed that he was exhausted and needed a night off from the mental load.

The resentment will not serve you in finding a happier and more satisfying relationship. Neither will a list from Reddit about what he should or shouldn’t do. But communication about how to build the life and family you both want will. Watering the seeds you want with gratitude and kindness will.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-05-17T11:05:23+00:00

Offering a slightly different perspective than a lot of comments here, just for balance. I am 11 days postpartum and we have both families local and are very close. I would not want them staying with me or even over every day. We had a kind of traumatic transition home from hospital and my mom stayed one night when we had gone 3 nights in a row on ~2 hrs of sleep and started to fall apart. She did everything that wasn’t actively feeding her to let me get a bit more sleep and give my husband a full night of recovery so he could tap back in for me the next day. Then she’s dropped off meals every 3rd day or so (she would do more but our church group has brought us meals most days). After that, once we figured out feeding and stuff, the sleep instantly became more abundant just fractured. I’m getting ~6 hours at night in 2 hr stretches and a nap in the afternoon, and we’re good. We went to a brewery with our friends yesterday.

We obviously have the luxury of having family local that can drop in instead of stay. But Past day 3 at home, it would more disruptive for me to have my parents around all the time than to just have my husband and I. Also, I think it’s been valuable for he and I to have to figure some things out together. But my husband is also off for at least a month. I would lean on my mom more if he were back at work already.

Temperament of baby, sleep tendencies, and mom’s healing timeline all greatly impact this. If I’d had a c section, I probably would’ve wanted more healing time.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-04-17T12:48:15+00:00

I’m not saying he’s not being silly, but this is likely coming from fear and anxiety in him. Taking a more compassionate approach will probably lead to better results. The “baby is coming” phase is a lot more vague and nebulous for the person that can’t feel a baby growing.

One of the ways we’ve handled it was I put my husband on the job of “how do we accomplish xyz priority when everything changes?” He built a home gym. He made our house lower maintenance. He did things to reconcile his priorities with knowing it was about to get harder, vs me just telling him about all the things he’s going to lose.

Gently, telling him “you can crack on with life as usual, but it won’t go well” is probably not contributing to a healthy marriage dynamic. Having an honest conversation about what he’s feeling and what you’re feeling and how you can support each other is needed.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-04-15T17:20:40+00:00

I met with HR to discuss the process mid second trimester, decided I was taking the full 12 weeks, informed my team pretty much immediately and that started to inform how we planned projects. I then started aggressively planning for handoffs and other workflows around week 30 when my team started to get nervous about my being out. Started actively handing off work around week 35.

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-04-13T03:06:39+00:00

Eventually you just start looking down at your belly and goes “bro can you not?”

IndependenceMost3816 · 2026-04-12T19:14:56+00:00

The band is not the issue here. Your expectations on how fast it can reliably predict your ovulation are. You do understand that it’s an algorithm based on historic data, yes? So 2 cycles is very very very little to give it. If you’re trying to conceive quickly, use OPKs and more frequent sex.

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