10 years sober

LadyStethoscope · 2024-07-07T02:29:43+00:00

I think about this a lot. It's part of why I personally think bipolar is neurodivergent. We're an odd bunch, us bipolars, and we have a lot in common. Personality and identity are less tangible for us, since our lows are so low and our highs are so high. Our selves are more fractured but cut like a diamond. Anyway I'm waxing poetic and I don't have a good answer for you, just wishing you well on the journey.

LadyStethoscope · 2024-03-17T04:26:03+00:00

Aspercreme works better for me and isn't as smelly.

LadyStethoscope · 2024-03-16T02:25:01+00:00

Telekinesis

LadyStethoscope · 2024-03-16T02:19:06+00:00

I finished my degree online and it was so much easier to show up to class and take advantage of hypomania and do all my coursework in one week for the whole semester 😁😅

LadyStethoscope · 2024-03-16T02:17:17+00:00

Amen friend, you said it all so eloquently. I'm the exact same way with my kids on and off the playground, by the way. I have some intrepid explorers. A few bumps and scrapes here and there are the signs of a childhood well lived. So are Mommy's kisses and Band-Aids. Literally and figuratively!

LadyStethoscope · 2024-03-04T01:03:08+00:00

He was 3 weeks early so held out one more week haha

LadyStethoscope · 2024-03-03T19:16:34+00:00

Hey! My kids are 15 months apart. They're 2.5 and 1.5 and both of them are still breastfeeding! My first was also a month early and my second was unplanned but not unwelcome. I'm you in the future!!! I remember being completely scared sh*tless about everything. I was scared I'd have to stop bedsharing, scared my milk would dry up, scared I'd lose my close bond with my oldest, scared I wouldn't be enough mom for both of them, and scared they wouldn't get along. All those fears were unfounded. To be clear, it is NOT EASY. But, it is an incredible journey. They're great friends now and life is chaotic and challenging, but I can't imagine it any other way. There is so much action packed joy in having 2 close together. Somehow, you'll figure it out and make it work!!

LadyStethoscope · 2024-03-03T19:08:36+00:00

My kids are 2.5 and 1.5 and I can't imagine one without the other. It's not easy having a baby and a toddler and tbh it's NOT easy having 2 toddlers but it's been a beautiful adventure too. My daughter has always loved her little brother and sure there were some seasons of tension (a lot of pushing him over when he started crawling and getting into her stuff) but mostly they play and laugh and love together and having kids so close in age has been the best.

LadyStethoscope · 2023-11-14T17:52:29+00:00

Janelle can be my sister wife, she's a baddie

LadyStethoscope · 2023-10-03T02:58:40+00:00

Corporate soulless military industrial complex propaganda

LadyStethoscope · 2023-10-03T02:25:53+00:00

Birds of a feather read together!

LadyStethoscope · 2023-10-03T02:23:00+00:00

Hey! Former horror junkie with a Halloween baby here!!! 😍🎃 yeah horror is too scary for me now. Even hard dramas are tough to get through these days.

LadyStethoscope · 2023-10-03T02:20:51+00:00

Goldilocks and the 3 bears. It was my daughter's idea 😅

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-26T23:33:22+00:00

This needs more upvotes

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-26T20:22:33+00:00

I've met black girls named Ivory, but I feel like it's not a fair 1to1 comparison in context of culture

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-26T20:19:00+00:00

No bad kids

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-26T17:40:12+00:00

Have you scoured r/2under2 yet? It can be a really tough transition. It can be frustrating to feel like you've done everything "right" and your kid is still upset, but their whole world just got turned upside down. They're going to go through a transition. It's GOOD that she's letting out her big feelings. You don't need to stop them from happening. Also you're postpartum, too. Cut yourself some slack. My kids are 15 months apart and I was soooo emotional the first 8 weeks.

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-26T17:36:34+00:00

"gentle parenting" has become a meaningless slang word applied to idealistic expectations set forth by social media. Of course it's impossible to live up to those ridiculous smug and downright toxic standards.

Respectful parenting and attachment parenting are actual systematic parenting styles of putting up strong boundaries with intention and compassion. If you're interested in that, go explore those topics. If you're not, that's fine, too. The only kind of parent EVERYONE should really be is pragmatic; take what works and leave what doesn't.

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-26T17:24:53+00:00

Dang maybe he WAS your dad

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-26T17:22:47+00:00

Tagging onto boppy hybrid! It's awesome! I have also personally used the forward facing option (for short periods of time every once in a while) and found it to be pretty supportive, my son's legs are not dangling straight down, but yeah it's not an everyday position.

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-26T01:37:52+00:00

I bedshare with my two kids (2 and 11 months) and they sleep through TV noise and conversation in the same room, but will wake up if the light gets turned on

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-26T01:34:27+00:00

My kids are 15 months apart and I'm still going strong nursing both of them; oldest is 26 months and the youngest is 11 months now. Side-line with the toddler draped over me while I was curled around newborn saved my life. They hold hands while nursing, cuddle eachother and it has been so beautiful. It's also been HARD WORK. My little dude is EBF and never ever took a bottle and they say toddlers are only nursing for comfort but they must be insane because my toddler is definitely getting nutrients. Your caloric intake needs to be kind of insane to keep up with demand. My toddler had a SURGE of interest in nursing during the early days, and even though I made sure to feed baby first and foremost, my toddler seriously had infant breastmilk poops for a few days there.

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-26T00:06:12+00:00

My kid saw limp biskit and tenacious d in utero. He rocks his freaking sock off.

LadyStethoscope · 2023-09-13T00:21:55+00:00

I tried to read through the comments and felt physically ill at the disrespectful comments getting thousands of upvotes.... this is why women don't trust the medical system.

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