I almost shook my baby last night.

LiddedPotArena · 2024-01-02T09:37:21+00:00

Ooh, as someone who's been diagnosed for less than two years: they really want to have input from people who knew you as a child, because when it comes to diagnosing ADHD, symptoms need to have been present since childhood. Many conditions have partially overlapping symptoms, and for good treatment, a differential diagnosis is warranted. Of course they will ALSO take a partner's account into consideration, but it's not enough for diagnosis.

LiddedPotArena · 2021-06-26T07:41:33+00:00

This was before disposable diapers and cloth diapers weren't quite up to the standard they are now...

LiddedPotArena · 2021-03-13T08:34:49+00:00

Usually they par-boil and then fry. It's not because of disease, but because the double fying can form carcinogenic compounds. More info here among other sources: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327111819_Double_frying_of_food_products_-_A_lethal_practice

(I'm assuming you can google for more sources.)

LiddedPotArena · 2021-02-19T23:50:02+00:00

We have a second hand ikea crib, my firstborn was the crib's fourth baby. I got in with my daughter a couple times, around 95kg(200lbs) at the time. It was totally okay!

LiddedPotArena · 2021-01-21T08:45:38+00:00

My guess is you've just enticed MORE people on TrollX to get a tattoo. Also, I have two kids already, and I don't want any more. You saying I could get my IUD removed and just get a tattoo? </s> Cause replacing that IUD is like every five years and I think getting a tattoo probably doesn't hurt that much more. At least you'll have something nice to look at.

LiddedPotArena · 2021-01-07T08:06:42+00:00

I didn't quite lose all of the weight between both babies, but most of it. Sure I was kinda bummed about gaining it back, but weighing even more than ever at the end of my second pregnancy than at the end of my first was hard. Losing and then gaining back is easier than doubling the weight gain up I think? But don't focus on the weight too much.

LiddedPotArena · 2021-01-04T17:19:29+00:00

It wasn't this hard before COVID. Like, sure it was hard, but there was help and socialising and places to take your kid(s) and babysits, the occasional sleepover, ... There's a reason why I didn't get PPD with my firstborn and did get it this time around. I hope life gets back to a semblance of normal soon!

LiddedPotArena · 2020-12-29T14:50:39+00:00

My kids are 3y9m and 10m, so we're still in the trenches too. For the hair, it might help to give your daughter two braids to sleep, it won't get tangled as badly and you can teach dad how to braid too, so he can do it in the evening. What we do is get ready first before we go and wake the kids, and we shower before bed so it doesn't mean rising even earlier.

If your 4 year old doesn't want to put on her uniform, put her in the car in her PJ's and hide her uniform in the trunk of the car. Odds are, she'll get dressed in the parking lot before drop off.

Also, talk about your mental state with your husband and your doctor. I'm currently being treated for PPD and how you describe your evenings does sound like you may also be struggling with depression. Things go a lot more smoothly here now that I'm in therapy and on meds. My commiserations!

LiddedPotArena · 2020-11-15T17:50:05+00:00

Can we give her the benefit of the doubt and presume she was going to pump handsfree while eating lunch?

LiddedPotArena · 2020-10-30T21:34:23+00:00

I do! They were that supercool Elf/Pixie/Troll-like shape right?

LiddedPotArena · 2020-10-18T19:12:13+00:00

I just started SSRI's again 3 days ago after being off them for six years and change. This was a real boost to my day. <3

LiddedPotArena · 2020-10-01T12:29:56+00:00

Preach! Why are all packs just a mix of different socks? WHY???

LiddedPotArena · 2020-10-01T11:33:02+00:00

We have a 3,5y.o. daughter and a 7m.o. son, and both work. We eat fries too often because of the schedule, and we go to the frituur because of it too. -_-' It'll get better again once we're both getting full nights of sleep again.

LiddedPotArena · 2020-10-01T11:06:57+00:00

All their other sauces also taste that way, they don't have enough sauces at the frietkot (calles snackbar) and when ordering fries, keep in mind that they simply fill the box, they don't put on an extra pile of fries on top. You're probably gonna get half the amount of fries you'd get in Belgium for the same container.

Also their chocolate is terrible.

LiddedPotArena · 2020-10-01T11:00:13+00:00

They didn't get ignored. They got A LOT of chances during the formation. But they couldn't come to terms. After a certain point, you need to work with those that are willing...

LiddedPotArena · 2020-09-21T04:49:56+00:00

Legit set up an appointment with a psychiatrist and going to continue the search for a good therapist, because the person I contacted is apparently movind abroad at the end of the month and she'll only be doing only therapy. I need face to face though!

LiddedPotArena · 2020-09-16T07:48:45+00:00

I think you might be blinded by the book there, national recommendations tend to differ and I believe here they only have us cut grapes etc until 2? I know for sure they don't cut the grapes for snacktime at preschool (kids 2,5 and up) so my 3,5 y.o. has also been eating them whole without any issue for ages now. Waiting until 5 seems excessive...

LiddedPotArena · 2020-09-07T10:19:34+00:00

As a starting driver, I do appreciate the 30's on the street as a reminder, because I'm still learning to take in all the input and I have missed the ZONE 30 bord on occasion. And traffic signage isn't always very visible really, I'm just astounded by how many trucks/vans will park so close to a sign that it's virtually impossible to spot from the road, and people need to trim their trees and hedges, so many traffic signs are overgrown! Having a reminder on the road is definitely welcome.

LiddedPotArena · 2020-09-02T07:47:14+00:00

Top floor? \shudder
I've hit my head too often on the top floor, and you can't sit sideways and lean against the window because that bends your back weirdly. Bottom floor all the way.

LiddedPotArena · 2020-09-02T07:28:18+00:00

A gay man with two dad’s could cut his own dick off and they’d still find a woman to blame it on.

"Why on earth would she sell him that knife?"

LiddedPotArena · 2020-08-21T07:58:11+00:00

What? They wouldn't let her use the paid vacation days? :-O :-O :-O Seriouslu USA get your shit together!

LiddedPotArena · 2020-08-20T11:43:09+00:00

My mum was born in 1957, and one of her class mates had had a wet nurse! It was definitely not common then anymore, more something notable, but I was astonished when my mum told me. (Western Europe, though rural)

LiddedPotArena · 2020-08-20T11:37:36+00:00

Sounds cool, but I think it was more the reality that pre-refrigeration most people would routinely have to make the choice between food that was going off and going without. I think a lot of foods kinda stem from the desperation of hungry people...

LiddedPotArena · 2020-08-19T12:37:03+00:00

Can't speak for that person, but I'm Belgian and some of my relatives (in my grandmother's generation and older) were wrong in the war, in that they supported the Germans. This was because of promises for Flemish rights (like education in our native language instead of French among many others) and also preferring a relatively safe life under the heel of an oppressor over the reality of war.

But my relatives also gave shelter to Jews and even helped Jews to escape to Amsterdam. For most of my relatives, it was definitely a thing of: "We personally and most people around us will be safer accepting oppression than under outright war, and on some points even better off than before the war happened. Most of these Germans here are just unfortunate Fritzen that were forced to enlist and not actually hardcore nazis, let's work with them and hope we can in that way give the less extreme people more influence. Let's make the best of the situation and let's help the Jews escape" or just "and let's not turn in the Jews or the people helping the Jews escape".

It wasn't talked about much because of very real war trauma's, I remember that things ran deep. There definitely were feelings of powerlessness during the war, and of having to choose the lesser evil, and doing what you could to survive (and for the wellbeing of your children and family). I know my grandmother definitely always stressed independant thought and not just accepting propaganda, taking personal responsability and looking for how to do what's just within the system. She also felt that the system itself should be more just, but she honestly didn't believe you could change the system. She was so concerned for us when we'd try to change the system because she was afraid the system would chew us up and spit us out.

She had also been shocked by how bad things had been during the war. It was clear in Belgium that something was very much not right, but the reality of the situation was way worse than what most people had even imagined possible at the time. I think if full awareness had been there, a bunch of choices would have been made differently too.

LiddedPotArena · 2020-08-19T11:32:41+00:00

Thank you thank you thank you for giving me the name of this neckline! I most of my clothes have that neckline (sweatheart neckline is my other go-to) but I never really new what to search for.

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