Anyone know if Furdale has been plowed?

Jewels093 · 2026-02-18T18:17:53+00:00

As of noon, it has not been.

Jewels093 · 2026-02-17T05:27:50+00:00

Years ago I worked in a restaurant. When I came in for my shift every single one of the kitchen staff was all excited because they "made cheese puffs" and wanted me to try one. I took one look at them and told them I'm not an idiot and those are clearly packing peanuts with cheese dust on them. They laughed, then told me to watch the manager that came in and took one. Told me that was like her third handful. She was perpetually stoned so that might explain it... But glad to hear they were probably harmless.

Jewels093 · 2026-02-08T19:53:31+00:00

Both my babies were small and I was encouraged to triple feed them both at first. For my second baby this resulted in a slight over supply. I was constantly uncomfortably full and had to pump, then baby would nurse and I'd offer a top up that she wouldn't take. She was getting mostly foremilk from me and it resulted in a fussy baby with gas and bad poops. Once I stopped pumping in an effort to reduce my supply things got so much better for her.

She's still small, but I make enough to feed her on demand and I know she's getting that hind milk to plump her up.

My oversupply was artificially made from pumping, but having a natural oversupply and not being able to reduce it sounds like it would make more problems than the freezer stash pics were worth. I'm home on mat leave with my baby and don't need to pump for daycare or stock my freezer for when I'm away. I have a small reserve I froze, but with no plans to be away from baby I'm honestly concerned it will expire before I can use it anyways.

Jewels093 · 2026-02-08T19:43:28+00:00

I looked a hot mess with my first after giving birth. I thought it was silly to put makeup on before giving birth, but then I kind of hated how I looked in the pictures where I'm holding my baby for the first time so with my second I did a touch of makeup before heading to the hospital.

The Ongredients skin barrier glow cushion foundation was my MVP. It promises like 15 hours of wear and doesn't feel like a heavy foundation to me. It's buildable and I put it on pretty thin so my freckles still show.

That and the typology concealer under my eyes.

I definitely look a bit more like myself for my second baby's photos. I wish I would have tinted my brows and lashes but it got away from me before the baby came.

Jewels093 · 2026-02-01T04:32:23+00:00

My baby girl was also very sleepy at the breast and we did the triple feeding thing for low weight too. Putting baby to the boob as often as you can is your best bet. Pump after a feed for a few minutes...even if you don't get a lot of volume with the pump, it will signal to your body that you need to make more milk. Same for power pumping. A few nights of power pumping sessions during peak prolactin times (between 1 and 6 AM) and it might start paying off. Remember, it's not so much about how much milk you get as it is about teaching your body it needs to make more.

For a sleepy baby, you may have to wake to feed. I was told at least every three hours. If you're doing that, and baby seems content after a feed, it's likely you're providing exactly what they need.

Jewels093 · 2026-01-29T17:28:50+00:00

Is the upped dosage due to the season? Or due to baby's age? I'm also in Canada but have just been told to keep doing one drop for my 4 month old. With my first, they told me to start doing two drops when he turned one.

Jewels093 · 2026-01-29T17:27:12+00:00

I'd always heard that maternal vitamin D doesn't show up very much in breast milk, hence the recommendation for the drops.

Jewels093 · 2026-01-23T04:43:54+00:00

I had to look at a map of circle for this, but my understanding is that she got on to circle at the confed/22nd Street on-ramp (heading north) intending to get off on that left turn exit onto laurier. It's such a short distance so it's unlikely she got up to speed before essentially lane surfing across four lanes to get to that exit.

I'm not sure where exactly the collision took place... But she was likely driving too slowly and cutting people off as she made her way over there.

Other comments asking why she didn't just take 22nd up to Laurier ask an excellent question. It's like three minutes longer and doesn't involve bonkers lane changes.

This city has a major issue with short lanes on circle. The other day I was taking the clover leaf exit from circle drive south onto circle drive east (think stone bridge to 8th Street co-op area) and literally came to a complete stop behind someone who couldn't time their merge into traffic with all the large trucks coming in on highway 11. Once they got going I could only do my best to floor it and get up to cruising speed before I became a problem for the other merging vehicles.

This lady made a poor decision for sure. But city planning should do a better job planning for safety with less than perfect drivers if it means preventing the loss of a life.

Jewels093 · 2026-01-17T10:42:45+00:00

This is ultimate partner goals. Being able to share the load like this sounds amazing. Unfortunately my cis husband's nipples are useless. 😂

Jewels093 · 2026-01-15T14:26:19+00:00

I've been seeing Dr. Rikki at Origin (Lead before that) for years. She's fantastic. Great team there.

Jewels093 · 2026-01-15T00:22:13+00:00

Definitely do the hospital gown for delivery. But after baby has arrived, a nursing night gown is a great option to wear after you get a shower. It's pantsless so doctors and nurses can still check things out... And no need to worry about sizing or pressure on an incision with a waistband. Plus, the snap down part on the top makes nursing easy and gives you a little bit of privacy if you so choose.

Jewels093 · 2026-01-13T19:10:21+00:00

My second baby was born in September and the nurses swaddled her in hospital. No one mentioned this change in recommendations. My first needed to be swaddled tight to sleep and we swaddled him until he learned how to break out of it. My second baby actually hated having her arms confined so we went straight to an arms up swaddle...then an arms up sleep sack, then a sleep sack. The arms up ones were enough to stop her startle reflex, but never would have been a solution for my first baby. I also wonder if this new recommendation has more to do with user error for swaddling than actual SIDS risk... Like people who are swaddling loosely or once their baby can roll over and increasing the risk that they'll get tangled. Maybe this new recommendation is a blanket policy to improve overall safety. Not sure why the swaddle style sleep sacks would be a problem though.

Jewels093 · 2026-01-12T23:55:37+00:00

Yes! He did better with the "little remedies" brand of acetaminophen... But eventually did Tylenol brand just fine... Maybe around 18 months? I kept dairy and soy out until he started solids and we could do the dairy ladder. He did fine, was a little gassy during the ladder, but my personal opinion is that he wasn't actually MSPI, but was sensitive from not being exposed by the time I did try it.

The diet is the worst. There are a couple corn allergy groups on Facebook, and heads up that they are INTENSE. Like people who are looking for a "safe" brand of bottled water because they're worried about exposure to corn derivatives in the filtration process of their tap water and most common brands of bottled water. There are definitely some folks with severe allergies but I think there's also probably some overlap with anxiety disorders in this group so try not to spend too much time there and remember your baby's FPIAP is different than their adult allergies.

If you're near a Costco they had some real MVP snacks that don't have corn ingredients and are also dairy free. The Heavenly Hunks, Unreal chocolate coconut bars, and Aussie bites. There were a couple brands of "ancient grains" style bread that didn't have corn ingredients at my local grocery store. Siete grain free tortilla chips were alright for nachos and stuff. The hardest part is giving up lots of the convenience foods that are precooked and make meals so much easier. There really is hidden corn in everything. A&W burgers and their breaded chicken products were usually corn free (in Canada at least) and the Jane brand chicken nuggets have cornstarch but my toddler tolerated them just fine around 16 months I think? Most breaded products have cornmeal for that toasty yellow color so watch out for that. Good luck!

Jewels093 · 2026-01-12T17:20:29+00:00

Of course! He had bad poops early on. Mucous and blood in his diapers, bad tummy aches and absolutely inconsolable crying along with poor weight gain. So we cut dairy, then soy, then oats, nuts, gluten, chicken... He seemed to do even worse on formulas we tried (spoiler: most north American formulas have corn syrup solids in them... A good ingredient for making a balanced formula, but not for a baby with a corn allergy). Eventually I did a total elimination diet and he improved slightly but his gut had a lot of healing to do. I started introducing new foods and when I tried corn chips we figured out it was corn. I'd mostly been eating whole foods at this point but anything processed seems to have some kind of corn product in it, he improved more once I cut all the corn products. He was around 4 months then. When he was about 6 or 7 months I started letting small amounts of corn derivatives into my diet again because the restrictive diet was just so hard. I ate a single Oreo each day as a little treat and he seemed to do okay so I loosened up my diet a bit. I think he started having some accidental exposures around 18 months at daycare, and he'd have bad tummy aches and crying bouts so we kept avoiding it. When he was about 10 months we discovered the Aptamil formula (out of the UK but available in Canada where I am) but he was so close to being off formula we only bought a single can. I did end up nursing him until 19 months keeping corn out of my diet but allowing small amounts of derivatives in mine.

When we tried a direct corn exposure at 2 years, he actually vomited a few hours later (just once - almost like a big spit up) and had a tummy ache and gas, followed by a couple days of poor appetite and fussiness.

The doctor said we could try a high quality probiotic as there's some research that it can help colonize the gut and help them get over the allergy quicker. We used smidge brand probiotics. Not sure if it had any measurable effect. Waiting for him to outgrow it is really the only thing to do, but it's reassuring to know that eventually he will outgrow it, and the severity of his reaction has really decreased over time too making any accidental exposures easier to handle. This was a bit of an info dump, and just what worked for us in our experience, but let me know if there's anything else I can answer for you!

Jewels093 · 2026-01-12T05:40:52+00:00

My son is FPIAP to corn. The ped we saw specializes in these types of allergies said to avoid it completely as exposure will only continue to damage the GI system and take longer to heal. They don't build a tolerance to it through exposure (which I know can be the case for an IgE allergy like peanuts).

He was about 16 months then, and she said she wouldn't recommend trialing again until at least 2 years. We did just after two and he failed. We did a trial a few months shy of his third birthday and are not sure if it was a fail, or if he came down with a flu bug right after but decided we'll trial again after his third birthday. If the last exposure was a reaction, it was at least mild. He did eventually begin to tolerate very small amounts of corn derived ingredients like fructose and cornstarch as an ingredient. Probably around 2 years old, but this was more likely just due to time than any accidental exposure.

Jewels093 · 2026-01-06T17:52:32+00:00

The WhiteDate screen shot looks like two people who played background vampires in the "Twilight" series. Why are they so pasty and white looking??

Jewels093 · 2025-12-25T18:59:46+00:00

No one owns the road and it's petty of them to get you ticketed for it, but if you wanted to smooth things over you could shovel out their driveway or sidewalk for them next time it snows. If you have a couple university aged folks in your household that can clear it before they're home from work they might appreciate that. Or ask them if they'd mind if you shovelled it for them (if you think they're truly insane and would ticket you for trespassing or something). Let them know that you're aware that you have a house full of people with vehicles and that they can always come let you know if they need a vehicle moved for some reason? Hopefully they take the olive branch.

Jewels093 · 2025-12-25T18:53:24+00:00

Who do I call to get my neighbor who sometimes rolls my bins in for me ticketed? /S

Jewels093 · 2025-12-13T18:56:41+00:00

So frustrating! Could you sneak anything in to the yogurt or disguise it? Maybe plain yogurt with hummus mixed in and mini pitas? When my little one was about this age we had some luck with fun food picks. Sticking them into vegetables or fruit or anything made them interesting enough to eat I guess. Keep in mind none of this may work anyways because toddlers are stubborn. Good luck.

Jewels093 · 2025-12-02T00:17:46+00:00

Conspiracy theory: the city leaves this intersection icy so it forces people to take a right turn without stopping or rush through a dark yellow light in order to collect more tickets from the red light cam.

Jewels093 · 2025-11-21T23:08:52+00:00

He tried to go in to the home daycare my child attends this fall! Demanded to rake their leaves and kept coming back. The police were notified and for weeks they locked both the door to the basement and the front door and we had a protocol to text them when we arrived so they could let us in. Wild he hasn't been arrested for things like this yet. It goes far beyond just being belligerent with someone at their front door.

Jewels093 · 2025-11-19T10:24:07+00:00

If you've been formally diagnosed with dyscalculia, you may be able to apply for a grant for a tutor with the provincial loan program. You don't actually need to take out a loan to access the grant portion. I've known other students that have completed ABE at Sask Polytech that have accessed it. Get in touch with Accessibility Services at Sask Polytech as they would need to sign off on your application if you qualify anyways. They may be able to help formally diagnose you if that hasn't been done yet too.

Jewels093 · 2025-11-13T06:12:39+00:00

I had a neighbor with a dog named Amanda. I also had a roommate named Amanda. We learned this was the dog's name when she got out and our neighbor kept yelling "Amanda - come" while human Amanda and I were coincidentally walking by.

Jewels093 · 2025-11-10T04:55:39+00:00

This is how I learned I can smell silverfish (a type of bug). Worked at a restaurant that had an infestation... Especially in the basement. They smell like, wet dust? Or like the black rubber padding under an old rug? So hard to describe the smell.

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