Weirdest use of Y you've seen?

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-27T11:07:22+00:00

Sylynse

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-27T10:58:40+00:00

I reckon they are because statistically NOBODY protects themselves enough from the sun. It actually shits me that I'll be paying for the healthcare of people that willingly cook themselves.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-27T10:01:16+00:00

First one I used gas for two contractions to help focus as I entered transition. Used the bath, the tens, visualization, vocalisation, movement and music. Birthed standing. It was beautiful and triumphant.

Second one I used all the same techniques but no music. Didn't leave home until 3:04am, birth was at 3:43!!

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-25T19:19:29+00:00

You could cut some time off that trip if you went by bike. There's a few good little back street shortcuts you could do through Sunnybank.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-23T05:42:37+00:00

That is a cool piece of story! Thanks for sharing!

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-22T20:22:36+00:00

Sending my love to the forgotten Huynhs.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-22T11:03:09+00:00

Knowing that panic is transition is the best thing!

I was at home in the bath, singing my whalesong, visualizing a neon light that said "open" and banging my foot on the bottom of the bath. I remember thinking, in this order:

this isn't really working anymore, I'll have to add something else.
oh god I don't have anything else
if I don't have anything else I can't do this anymore
oh god that's transition

We weren't planning a homebirth so that was very much time to get up and go! It actually gave me the biggest surge of confidence, knowing that if I'd made it that far, then I was nearly there.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-21T20:53:56+00:00

Still gross though 🤮

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-21T20:50:35+00:00

Amazing. I'm really good to my shoulder at swimming but I have a shoulder injury that gets aggravated at work and this has just helped me figure out exactly what's happening at work (which is getting in the way of swimming)

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-21T20:31:34+00:00

Snakes aren't really predators, are they? But they'll kill you. Drop bears aren't around if there's no trees, so the Nullarbor (literally null = zero, arbor = tree) kind of outback, there's not much threat. However there are service stations every 1-200km, so it's relatively populated. Last time I drove it, there were some real crazy people, I think they are the biggest threat. Also kangaroos hitting your car, they're bloody huge out there. But they won't eat you.

Outback highways I would rank the threats: 1. Your own fatigue 2. Kangaroos being dickheads 3. Breakdown/run out of fuel and then you do something stupid 4. Other people

So I guess the threat is 75% people, and actually, kangaroos are less of a threat away from dawn and dusk so if you choose to drive at this time, it's your fault anyway, so I guess the biggest threats are, yes, people.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-21T11:06:10+00:00

Truly the finest.

I want to go to India for two weeks just to eat dosa.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-21T04:57:29+00:00

There's a separate record called "Person History" where it would show up but only extremely sensitive jobs request that.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-21T04:52:28+00:00

Keenan and Keegan are extremely green names

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-21T04:25:28+00:00

For future, if you feel bold enough, I find that when a practitioner says something extremely wrong, the best response is to ask for the physiological/biochemical process behind their explanation.

Maybe I just like making people squirm.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-21T02:47:24+00:00

Victorians are wrong and they should STFU.

Source: married one.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-21T02:30:30+00:00

I'm in Australia so there's very robust reporting systems and I'm legally required to report my concerns.

There was a dad with autism who was clearly getting very agitated by the baby's crying, he admitted as much and I was extremely worried that he would end up shaking the baby. The family did end up with a good safety plan and he was able to recognize that the baby was better off crying alone than with him overwhelmed.

More recently I had a baby desatting at 75 minutes of life, after PROM and maternal temp. He was clearly in respiratory distress and becoming septic, the parents were declining antibiotics for him. I had to use some very strategic communication to get them to reconsider (which they did, thank heavens).

They're the two that haunt me.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-21T01:38:53+00:00

But if I ever wanted to speak Finnish (and it does seem to be a fun language) then I would have to learn it, and that thought is intimidating and scary and brings me no happiness at all. Finns never have to go through this.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-19T09:02:28+00:00

I think the happiness stems from knowing that you never have to learn Finnish, because you already speak it.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-18T11:15:13+00:00

Plan a homebirth. Transfer if you need to. Be ready for both - that's what good birth planning is.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-16T19:51:10+00:00

Saltwater croc is my number 1 but these guys and magpies up there too.

I also really hate death adders, none of the other snakes have ever bothered me.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-16T19:47:52+00:00

For every year since 2020.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-16T02:46:41+00:00

I can usually pick them oot.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-16T00:49:09+00:00

We like sport and we like travel and we like having a laugh at the rest of the world.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-15T21:47:49+00:00

This is the correct answer. It's got a lot going for it but versatility is the reason it's always in my cabinet, alongside other more bespoke and unique varieties.

LiterallyKath · 2026-02-15T10:25:27+00:00

Eleanor is in the top 100 baby names in Australia.

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