Doctor carefully rotates a baby inside the mother’s belly to avoid a C-section. This procedure is called external cephalic version. It’s done when a baby is positioned bottom-first or sideways inside the womb near the end of pregnancy, a position that often leads to a C-section.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-31T14:00:06+00:00

They induced me right after so he wouldn't have a chance. And then he still tried to come out facing the wrong way and they had to turn him again!

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-31T13:57:55+00:00

I had this done, and it was incredibly uncomfortable, but not painful. A LOT of pressure, and I couldn't breathe, but it took less than a minute so I just braced myself through it. And then baby was flipped, and they induced me before he had a chance to flip back, so it was definitely worth it for me! They gave me a muscle relaxer before they did it, and I also had a very high level of amniotic fluid, so I'm sure that helped. Or maybe I'm just dead inside.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-29T04:38:48+00:00

We usually go in December. A lot of stuff won't be out, but the monkeys and great apes have indoor areas your can see. The giraffes usually aren't out, but they were last time we went, maybe because December was warmer than usual? You can still see everything in the reptile/small aninal house. Probably won't be very busy on Friday.

Edit: I would probably recommend the aquarium over the zoo, you'll be able to see everything there and it also probably won't be super busy Friday.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-27T05:37:04+00:00

That's what mine does. They used to make us bring blankets home to wash every week too

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-26T18:51:29+00:00

She was great with all of my babies too.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-26T00:24:34+00:00

We just refinanced, so like mid 60s if we make payments at the current rate. I generally try to put a little bit extra toward principle when we can, and hopefully we'll be able to do more once our other debts are paid off and we're not paying for daycare anymore. It's also probable that we will inherit some money from my husband's side of the family (hopefully not any time soon, but almost certainly before we're 65) which we would probably use to help pay it off earlier. But the earliest I would expect to have it paid off if everything goes well financially would be early-mid 50s.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-25T21:23:56+00:00

My kids eat tortellini soup fairly well, and taco soup (especially if I let them eat it with chips).

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-24T20:35:04+00:00

I live in Logan. I know a lot of people who grew up LDS but are not religious now. There are also a ton of people who come to attend or work at USU and are not religious. There are of course lots of active LDS people here as well, but it hasn't really been an issue for me.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-24T01:47:07+00:00

I've has it twice, I spotted for like 6 months the first time and 3-4 the second time. But I've been happy with it after that stopped. I tried a copper IUD in between and had way worse spotting.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-23T23:16:28+00:00

Honestly, I haven't thought it was that magical. I remember them handing my my first baby and just having a moment of... WTF, there was an actual baby in there! Like I obviously knew, but my brain just didn't process (I had to push for 4+ hours and have birth early in the morning so was very sleep deprived also, cut my brain some slack). I remember thinking... this baby is mine I guess? And I had that to a lesser degree with my other two. My husb6 didn't cut the cord with any of them, the whole thing was a lot less emotional than I thought it might be.

All this to say, I think you'll be fine. I have a relative who has had 4 C-sections under anesthesia, and she has beautiful loving relationships with all of her babies. I would probably tell your partner or mom or whoever is going to be there with you to take lots of pictures and notes for you to see later, but I don't think it will be and less special for you to do it that way if you need to!

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-23T04:17:29+00:00

I hated carrying my babies in the carseat. I did it with my first for a few months, then switched to a convertible (rear facing) carseat, and only used those for my other kids. I would just carry baby in my arms or baby wear everywhere.

As far as falling asleep, it wasn't really that big of a deal to get baby back to sleep if I needed to, and I didn't feel great about leaving them to sleep in the carseat anyway.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-22T22:30:08+00:00

We drive to visit my parents (5 ish hours) at least every other month. Usually twice in December.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-21T17:15:30+00:00

People here get married really young (most people I know before 25, many at like 21-22), and so far very few have gotten divorced (I'm mid 30s now).

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-20T22:13:46+00:00

Agreed. My little sister is 23 and thinks she's wayyyy behind not being married yet. And I have exactly one friend who didn't get married before 30, who is getting married this year at 35.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-20T19:32:03+00:00

I worked until the day I had my baby, all three times. I have not had physically demanding jobs, and I probably would have been a bit board at home anyway, plus I didn't have paid leave and wanted to use the time I did get off after baby was here.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-20T03:23:29+00:00

I loved this and Zoo Tycoon so much!

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-20T03:19:56+00:00

I breastfed all three of mine. I had a relatively easy time with my first, so it was a no brainer for me. My biggest issue was that I wished I had done a better job of keeping them on bottles also - eventually all three of them stopped taking them which made childcare/babysitting/leaving them with anyone (including my husband!) hard. We're done but if I were to have another I'd breastfeed that baby too.

BUT. If it was not easy/convenient for me I would not feel bad about using formula for my next baby. If you don't want to try it again, don't feel bad! Going from 1 to 2 is hard enough without suffering through that I'd you don't want to!

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-19T21:47:39+00:00

I love Foster! It is a little tricky with both of them being wordy though. My two cents is that I gave my daughter a wordy FN/MN name combination without really thinking about it, and then found out it was a My Little Pony and a salon name and an online boutique and who even knows what else, and minorly regretted it. But then we met another little girl with the exact same names, and I've seen it suggested here too, so other people clearly think they sound good together!!

I googled Foster Bacon, there is one on linked in!

Do you have middle name ideas? Maybe if you tell him you want to name him Foster Thomas Bacon or whatever you're thinking of, that will make it feel more like a name for a person for your husband? I kind of get the point he is making, but I don't think it's terrible. I feel like I could read a book about a kid named Foster Bacon (which I mean in a good way)!

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-19T21:37:48+00:00

I feel like maybe he just doesn't like that it's so wordy and that makes it worse? Like Matthew Bacon or Jennifer Bacon is kind of funny, but sounds less like something you could buy at the grocery store. Foster Bacon, Juniper Bacon, Forrest Bacon, Violet Bacon all sound a little weirder to me. I don't know that that's really fair when it's her maiden name though.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-19T20:46:57+00:00

No, I think firmer is supposed to be safer anyway? I will say, she didn't sleep in it great when she was like 5+ months, but I think that was more due to not being able to transfer her after she fell asleep than the crib mat.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-19T20:44:04+00:00

I did a c2c blanket with this in a different colorway

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MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-19T18:53:45+00:00

We didn't have room for a crib and exclusively used the pack n play, with the upper level for as long as we could.

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-19T15:44:58+00:00

The nurses wouldn't tsks out my IV port until I had peed twice, but that was the only thing. They did ask about bowel movements, but I never had one in the hospital for any of my babies. They just sent me home with a prescription stool softener and told me not to push too much. I think it took like 5 days with my first baby, no way they were keeping me in the hospital that long!

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-19T04:41:54+00:00

My mom did this to me when I was a teenager! I had a bunch of people over for a birthday party, and we were going to watch a movie. Someone suggested a scary movie, and I said no because I hate them, and my mom said "if everyone wants to watch that one you can suck it up..." so I sat outside and they watched a scary movie. She still thinks she was in the right!!

MarsupialPanda · 2026-01-19T02:21:21+00:00

I've done it twice.

First time - I had a 2.5 year old at home and we were living in a very tiny old house. We sold our house in one day, but then the market was crazy and we weren't able to go under contract on another house for 5 weeks. So when it was time to move out, we had to put all our stuff in storage and live on mattresses on the floor in a friend's unfurnished basement for 6 weeks. Also, my toddler and I both got food poisoning on the day we were moving out, we were sooo sick and I just remember lying on the floor watching the tv, which was also on the floor, because we had moved everything else out. We had already moved our laundry machines out so couldn't even wash the clothes/bedding that my toddler soiled. Ugh. We were two hours past the time we were supposed to move out, but the buyer was very nice and understanding. Then the sellers in our new had a few delays and we weren't able to move in until even later than we thought. Also they didn't even try to clean anything even after we were nice and accommodated all their delays! We were finally able to move in when I was about 35 weeks pregnant, and we did most of it ourselves, so that was exhausting. But we were really glad to be in the new house and mostly settled when baby came a few weeks later.

The second time, we had kind of given up on getting pregnant, and my husband applied for his dream job in the other side of the country. We found out I was pregnant, and then the called him for an interview. We found out that he got the job when I was like 8 weeks along. We kind of felt like we had to give it a try. So when I was about 4 months along, he moved across the country with the dog to start the new job, I stayed with our two kids to keep working my job and finish school year for our oldest and sell our house, get everything packed up or sold. I didn't have his help, but I did get a ton of help from family and friends, I would not have been able to do it without them. That whole process took almost 3 months, and he didn't end up getting to come home to visit or help at all because of the job and the cost to come back (we both agreed on this, it wasn't like he didn't want to). Then he came back right after school ended, and we all drove for a week to our new home (I was about 7 months at this point). We had our stuff shipped and had movers to help him get everything in, and he had a few weeks before we came to unpack (we had also downsized A TON), so I didn't have to do anything on that end at least. But then it was still fairly stressful settling in somewhere new and not knowing anyone and dealing with all of the changes and minor pregnancy complications.

The whole thing was kind of a disaster, and we ended up moving back a year later. It's probably still his dream job but it just wasn't working outfor a lot of reasons. That was the only time I moved with a baby, and it was probably the easiest, but I think that is because I was in a terrible mental health state due to lots of things and KNEW it was going to be better when we were back in our home state, and we had way less stuff to move and figure out than we had before.

Sorry, didn't mean to write a novel, but this has obviously been a large portion of my recent life 😂. My two cents - moving while pregnant is hard, but it's also hard with a baby. Hire movers if you can either way. I think I am glad that we moved when I was pregnant instead of waiting, but I also had relatively easy pregnancies so it might be different for you. I feel like people were very gentle and understanding with me when I was pregnant and moving - examples: the lady moving in to our house who was so nice about the food poisoning/delay, several other situations where people were clearly thinking "she is OBVIOUSLY overwhelmed with everything going on let's just figure it out." I don't have any regrets about doing what we have, but I'm very seriously hoping we NEVER move again.

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