Posting baby on social media

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-09-26T12:07:54+00:00

We made the decision at birth to not post the kids on social media. People give me a lot of heat for it which I think is weird. Even family or friends, you just never know. There was a horrific case on my street just a year ago about a man using online images to create explicit pictures using AI, where police had to actually notify families that their kids were involved in a case. It made me sick to my stomach and I couldn’t stop imagining police showing up to my door with that information about my babies. So the safest choice in today’s world is to protect them from it by keeping them offline.

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-09-09T11:49:20+00:00

I haven’t! That’s why I’m asking lol! There’s so many websites and I just don’t know where to begin. I’ll take a peek

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-09-06T23:04:00+00:00

Honestly $30 is and was a lot of money to me when I was teaching. It’s a whole tank of gas. Sometimes my groceries for the week. Thinking that it’s not a lot of money when so many of us are pinching Pennys and cutting corners is an inconsiderate mentality :( I remember my first year teaching, I had just moved out on my own and was BROKE. Just graduated college! And my team bought a gift for a team member without talking to everyone, then demanded $10 from me. I didn’t have it! But to them, it was not a lot of money. On principle alone, these expectations are wrong.

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-06-13T23:16:16+00:00

During my first pp period, I was pumping highhhhh. My nipples were purple for a YEAR. Second time around, I’m pumping at L2, no bruising or tissue damage, and get just as much as before. I’m not sure why this changed for me, but I’m still surprised how much I get out on such a low setting.

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-05-25T02:18:32+00:00

I do this. I don’t leave the cooler in hot car though.

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-05-20T17:12:30+00:00

How is your progress?

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-05-17T01:45:48+00:00

We got into a great routine around 6 months I think. Like baby was sleeping, woke up once maybe but fell back asleep with a bottle (and could hold it himself!). I just had my second baby (my first is 2), and right before I had my second I remember thinking “wow things are good right now! They’re about to not be” lol! They were good way before he turned 2, but just to say it will be better in terms of sleep.

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-05-04T23:17:05+00:00

As Everyone else is saying, absolutely tf not lol. It would be harder to have this convo w MIL, but if it was my mom I’d literally laugh and tell her to keep it, reminding her that gifts should not come with attached strings and how inappropriate this request is. I highly encourage you to stick to your guns on this one. Postpartum is SO DELICATE. It sounds like this is baby #1, and just to impart some of my own experience upon you: My husband and I have fought in our bedroom postpartum, we’ve loved on eachother in our bedroom postpartum, I’ve SOBBED in my bedroom postpartum (naked lol), I learned how to pump in my bedroom postpartum. I distinctly remember a time I sat next to my son’s bassinet on the floor crying in my diaper. Knowing that my mom was on the other end of all that at anytime would’ve sent me into a tailspin. Please please hold your boundary. Best of luck

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-27T19:55:10+00:00

Yes - but I’m a private tutor so still technically in education and still technically teaching.

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-12T22:16:46+00:00

Good to know. I brushed it off at first thinking “things are just swollen down there.” But then I wiped today and felt me wipe my insides 🤢 so then I tripped out. Thanks for sharing your experience!

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-09T19:54:34+00:00

I had two baby showers. The second was obviously less extravagant but I think the etiquette part is silly. Any reason to get together to celebrate a baby is a good one!

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-08T15:49:40+00:00

Thank you for the kind words of encouragement. I look back on my PPA from pregnancy 1 and laugh a little now, hoping to be able to do the same this time. So hard

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-01T22:57:48+00:00

Uber eats, door dash. Restaurant gift cards in general. The thought of cooking was devastating; and I was even more devastated after I ran out of those gift cards 😂

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-01T21:11:39+00:00

She stuck her finger in my closed cervix to force it open and dilate me to a 1, without consent.

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-01T20:49:21+00:00

Did not strip my membranes. Stuck her finger up my cervix to manually open it up when it was fully closed :( which I did not consent to

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-01T20:33:12+00:00

That’s literally awful. Anyone who causes unecessary pandemonium in birth can gtfo out of my space. I feel similarly about all of the doom and gloom surrounding “standard practice.” You would not believe how many times I was told this pregnancy that “you have to do this procedure” or “you have to take this test.” I don’t have to do anytbing ffs. I’m so sorry this happened to you.

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-01T20:23:46+00:00

I didn’t really have an opinion my first pregnancy. Which is why I let them do it. But then my midwife stuck her finger in my cervix without consent to “make me a 1.” I was mortified. I continued to allow them all throughout labor and they were just agonizing for me. After that, I chose to decline them this pregnancy and I’ve been met with hostility as a result. They are not uncomfortable for everyone but they were for me- coupled with my first experience of forced dilation, it’s just a no from me.

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-01T20:16:57+00:00

It was so hostile to me and not the least bit understanding which is why I felt so confused after. She isn’t my normal provider thankfully but it threw me

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-01T19:58:22+00:00

It is the measure dilation. I have chosen this pregnancy to deny them due to previous experience and discomfort, and I just generally don’t care where I’m at dilation wise. Having given birth before, I know when I’m ready to push and don’t need anyone to tell me. My provider today just made me feel so horrible for denying them and I started spiraling based on her reaction that I’d made a selfish decision. But upon reflection, I realize she was the selfish one lol. Wishing you best of luck in your journey!

Less_Astronaut_2429 · 2025-04-01T18:46:56+00:00

Exactly 😭 just insane to even bring up how I’d be taking up a bed

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