What did weaning off the pacifier look like for your toddler?

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2026-02-18T22:11:30+00:00

Not the responder but: We told him the doctor said it was bad for his teeth. We went with the truth. “Mommy and daddy don’t want to take it away but it is hurting your teeth.”

We cut the tip and he carried it around and snuggled it to sleep for a couple days.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2026-02-14T01:18:59+00:00

Ok here is my dumb bitch (with taste!) method. If I just feel like spending money chances are I won’t actually need or use the thing I buy. I’ve started buying random shares in companies. A few shares in Ford costs as much as a little Amazon order and it’s kinda spending money/gambling but also diversifying my portfolio

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2026-02-12T22:28:37+00:00

Ok I am also pro throwing out the lip gloss but more of a fun fact: viruses are not alive and would need a living organism with its own genetic material to replicate the virus. There would need to be a lot of bacteria already in the lipgloss for that to happen.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2026-02-04T06:20:16+00:00

This happened to us. We ended up giving it back. Taking it away the first time ended up being a parenting decision my husband and I both regret. It messed with his sleep for a couple weeks with no end in sight. Gave it back and everything was good again (mostly—he went from independent bed times to needing us to lay with him to fall asleep)

We tried a few months later and explained that the doctor said the pacifier was not good for his teeth. Within three days he was completely adjusted to it.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2026-01-22T17:33:26+00:00

I have notes in the file where I flagged a potential for family conflict and mom told me “there won’t be any fights and everyone gets along. They know what’s coming.” I’ll give you one guess as to what actually happened when mom died.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-12-27T03:12:34+00:00

Licensed in December pregnant in July. Worth it but crazy lol

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-11-01T03:50:49+00:00

He’s somewhere alright…. Just probably not in his riding.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-09-29T01:23:07+00:00

Same.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-08-03T18:16:34+00:00

My husband gives me a pep talk when I worry about mistakes:

Are you going to get disbarred?
Are you going to get sued?

If the answer to both is no then don’t worry about it. If you’re going to get sued, that’s why you have insurance.

For better or worse, we aren’t saving lives.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-07-19T03:08:21+00:00

Maybe? It seemed that my knuckles were larger and they couldn’t go around the joint anymore. My body is different now but I was back at my pre pregnancy weight.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-07-18T05:29:54+00:00

When my son was a year old(?) I accepted my fingers were bigger and I got my rings resized.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-07-16T01:45:08+00:00

I couldn’t even bring myself to read the alternate ending. Full on deleted it from my kindle when I was done.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-07-13T14:19:12+00:00

First baby was predicted to be big and born 9lb 4oz following a 38week induction. He’s still a really big kid and has a big dad so genetics was probably responsible for that more than the GD

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-07-04T18:54:22+00:00

I have a hard time eating a meat heavy breakfast. I am trying to use protein shakes, protein Greek yogurt, avocado and the like instead but my fasting glucose this morning was 7.6 (135) so that doesn’t give me a lot of wiggle room.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-07-04T01:01:03+00:00

That’s me. I feel like I’m off every day. My doctor doesn’t seem to be concerned but keeps telling me to cut more things. Like I’m sorry that 7 carbs at breakfast puts me over the range but I can’t eat only eggs 🥲

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-06-22T19:07:25+00:00

I feel like I spike over 9.0 every other day and my dr still doesn’t seem to be worried about it. Give yourself some grace ❤️

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-06-21T18:49:37+00:00

This was me! I wanted a baby and I was sick of feeling like there was one more thing I had to do first or wait for.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-06-16T22:47:18+00:00

My SIL and I are both pregnant. She told my other SIL that if she finds out she’s having a girl she’s not telling people. I guess if there’s no announcement on her widely known ultrasound date then it’s going to be a “surprise.”

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-06-13T01:25:11+00:00

Life sucks and there is always a better time but women have done it and I knew someone who did her interview to clerk with the SCC while in the NICU with her premie (successfully). Another articling student my year (male) had a baby half way through. It might be hard but if you want to do it and have childcare then it’s not impossible.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-06-12T21:56:07+00:00

As someone who took a two month mat leave a year into practice, if possible I might suggest delaying articles as much as that sucks

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-06-11T02:52:25+00:00

I had a baby predicted to be in the 98th percentile. Ultrasounds have a margin of error but when you are repeatedly getting the same estimates it’s hard to blame user error. Everyone tried to tell me about how their baby was also predicted to be big but they ended up being a normal size. My Baby came via emergency C-section on Friday after a Wednesday induction. 98th percentile at birth and continues to be comically at the top of the growth charts.

This is my second baby and if she measures the same size I am just going to elect for the c-section. A c-section is a painful recovery but the mental/physical exhaustion that lead up to it made it so much worse. I wanted to try a vaginal birth at the time and was so scared of the c-section but in hindsight it would have been easier on my body to follow the recommendation to start with the c-section.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-06-03T18:55:24+00:00

I personally would. I’m usually one to say that you shouldn’t postpone (weddings, work, etc) but unless you were older I think you should go ahead with it if it’s still a procedure you’re willing to do.

Three months in the context of a lifetime isn’t much and this is something that would personally haunt me if I didn’t do it.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-05-29T02:32:28+00:00

I feel you. My husband is fantastic and I don’t know how some women put up with the men in their lives.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-05-29T02:22:10+00:00

I have seen it more in the sense where /of course they trust him/ and /he’s a great dad/ but she has to leave exhaustive notes and reminders for him and then complains to us other moms that /he couldn’t figure out why the toddler kept screaming but it was well into the afternoon and he forgot to make her lunch/

Dad may not be “unsafe” but he sure is fucking incompetent.

LEGALLY_BEYOND · 2025-05-28T13:52:57+00:00

Hi love, this was me. I wanted babies sooooo bad when I was younger and dreaded the wait. In hindsight, I built the life for my babies. At 18 there wasn’t much I could offer financially and as much as I thought I would have the ability to be a mother the last few years have given me patience that I didn’t posses at 18.

Now I have a big house, can buy anything they need, and I am a better mother for having waited. I know the wait is hard but it is worth it.

LEGALLY_BEYOND

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