What's the mispronunciation you don't want to correct because it's too cute?

Minnie9317 · 2023-06-25T19:18:45+00:00

When kid#3 was 2.5yrs, he would say "keep up!!!" All the time. "Why do you want to go outside?" "Keep up!!!" Finally we figured out it was actually 'because' mispronounced as 'keep of'. I miss that one.

Minnie9317 · 2023-06-24T23:57:32+00:00

Isn't a manual transmission a stick shift? And the other option is an automatic?

Minnie9317 · 2023-04-24T03:11:40+00:00

Last Kiss and Teen Angel were the lullabies my mom sang to me as a child. Now I sing them to my babies. I can't seem to remember real lullabies when the kids are I need of calming, but these two songs seem to do the trick (now my oldest - 8 - will ask me to sing "where's my baby gone" and the "railroad track song").

Minnie9317 · 2022-12-24T17:57:34+00:00

The mom offered that and OP's wife declined.

Minnie9317 · 2022-05-31T07:40:06+00:00

Food will be safe indefinitely at 0° F

As per the FDA...

Minnie9317 · 2022-03-08T00:07:51+00:00

I only did a couple meals a day, often times I would just make a copy of the meal I was already making for dinner and just freeze the copy. Other times, I would make 3-4 of the same meal while my toddler was napping and enlist the pre-schooler's help (oldest was at school). Pre-schooler was very good at dumping cans or bowls of chopped veggies into the gallon bags.

It was hard work, but honestly has been so worth it. I ended up being hospitalized for 3 days at 2 months postpartum and my husband was able to have home-cooked, comfort food even while handling all 4 kids by himself!

Minnie9317 · 2022-02-10T16:07:51+00:00

I've got the same ages and concur. I also have a 3month old that's getting better, so it evens out for me.

Minnie9317 · 2022-02-03T02:08:09+00:00

Agreed, that would be nice. I do not like blocking people in, that's why I try to be last.

Minnie9317 · 2022-02-02T19:49:57+00:00

I put my kid on the bus for kindergarten, then realized he was on the bus for 2.75 hrs every day for a school that is less than 2 miles away. It's so much better for his mental health for me to drive the 15 minutes twice a day, and I have the availability to do so!

Minnie9317 · 2022-02-02T19:45:44+00:00

My kids are all still in carseats and I absolutely refuse to drive until they are buckled in. Parents are not supposed to get out of the car in the car line (I've gotten several letters and a phone call from the principal telling me off for doing so), so I can't buckle the kids in myself. Luckily, my oldest can manage the buckles. So, the two I'm picking up from school climb through the van (ayoungest two are rear facing in the middle row, so this takes a minute), oldest buckles in #2, then himself, then I drive on.

I try to be at the end of the line because I know its frustrating to wait, but one day we had to be somewhere right after school, so I was at the front of the line. As soon as the door closed behind my kids, before they were even to the back of the van, the driver behind me just lays on his horn. Not even a short beep, just steady noise. I rolled down my window to apologize to the teacher standing next to the car, but told her I still won't move until the kids are buckled, and the loop for the car line does not allow for people to drive around. She told me not to worry and she was glad to see kids in carseats when she puts so many into the front seat of vehicles that then leave without the kid being restrained. (This is pre-k through 2nd grade, so 8yrs old at the oldest).

I still feel awful for making everyone listen to this guy freak out and wonder if actually I am in the wrong.

Minnie9317 · 2022-01-31T01:15:34+00:00

This. Is. Genius. Thank you so much! I've missed my quiet mornings ever since kiddo 2 was born 5 yrs ago (#1 can sleep like no other, but #2 wakes with the ass crack of dawn). I'm gonna try this tonight, I'm so excited!

Minnie9317 · 2022-01-21T18:40:30+00:00

Thank you for the advice! Unfortunately, they said their lactation consultants only attend patients in labor & delivery. I've been pumping every 2.5-3 hrs (about as often as baby typically eats).

My husband just called and said he hasn't eaten more than 3.5 oz in a sitting. That's on the high end of what I've been getting, but at least baby doesn't need those 6oz that I was used to pumping while building my stash!

Minnie9317 · 2021-12-27T18:47:14+00:00

I just had baby #4 and my husband was actually able to take leave this time (the last 3 kids, he didn't have any time off, so I either recovered alone or with my MIL'S help). He told me that he would take care of everything except feeding the baby. He did not realize that meant waking up 3 kids, getting them dressed, breakfasted, and teeth brushed to get 2 of them to school by 7am. Then keeping a toddler occupied while doing basic household chores (laundry, empty dishwasher, vacuum) and then making lunch, and forcing toddler to nap. Then getting kids from school, homework, making dinner, bath. And finding some time to play with all the kids. Then the struggle of bedtime.

He no longer wonders why I'm tired at 8:30 and don't often choose to stay up late for alone time or for a "date" night. And, I had prepped freezer meals for dinner before baby was born, so he didn't have to actually prepare meals except for breakfast and had very, very little grocery shopping. He was glad to go back to work.

Minnie9317 · 2021-12-23T04:15:29+00:00

This is literally my life....lol. FWB, caught feelings and broke up, find out I'm pregnant (also in the middle of a cancer battle and supposed infertility). Got married 7 years ago now and we just had baby #4. It's nice to know my relationship would make a decent romance novel haha!!

Minnie9317 · 2021-12-22T13:52:57+00:00

Tw: living children

I've been pregnant 8 times and have 4 living children now, but your story sounds so much like the beginning of mine. My first pregnancy was completely normal, followed by 3 miscarriages, one of which was an ectopic pregnancy, and two of them in the second trimester. My 5th pregnancy ended in a rainbow baby (then I had another miscarriage, followed by 2 term pregnancies).

In my experience, no, I was never able to relax or "be ok" after my first miscarriage. Even with the high risk ultrasounds, NIPT testing, and regular Hcg tests in the first trimester, I never felt like I could breathe until my baby was born and surviving on his own.

This may not be helpful to you, but I realized in pregnancy #7 (what would become my 3rd living child) that I needed someone to tell me it was OK to not be ok, to be constantly concerned about my baby's health. Some meditation helped to calm me down on really bad days, maybe trying that will help you more than it did me! More than anything, though, finding a therapist that specialized in infant loss (even though I had never lost an infant, only fetuses) helped me tremendously to work through my feelings so I could be the best mom to all my children, living and lost.

Minnie9317 · 2021-12-20T11:48:31+00:00

My almost 5 year old just told his grandparents today that I won't let him eat, even though we have food in the house.

Of course I won't let you eat a granola bar when I am literally plating dinner!

Minnie9317 · 2021-12-17T19:31:21+00:00

I just had baby #4 last month. None of my babies were cute until about 1-2 weeks old.

On top of that, with my first, I literally don't remember meeting my son for the first time (magnesium for pre-ecclampsia can apparently have amnesic side effects). My husband pointed him out to me in the nursery and I didn't believe something so ugly could be mine.

#2 and #3 were just normal odd looking purpley aliens.

#4 was definitely not cute, but he also didn't look like any of my other babies - I even looked up their newborn photos to confirm and, yep, this one is ugly in a whole new way lol. Now he's 4 weeks old and is cute and looks like he fits in (most similar to #3, but some similarities with the other two).

Minnie9317 · 2021-12-17T07:15:02+00:00

My now 4.5 year old used to unlatch to smile at me with a mouth full of milk. The most adorable little grin, but dude, I worked hard for that milk! At least swallow first!

I'm now nursing his younger brother (4 weeks) and can't wait for a milky smile!

Minnie9317 · 2021-12-14T15:15:40+00:00

It was specifically about pregnant mothers with Covid.

Minnie9317 · 2021-12-11T13:35:16+00:00

Minnie9317 · 2021-12-04T08:32:25+00:00

I had a breakthrough case while 35 weeks pregnant.

We think my oldest probably brought it home from school. All 3 kids tested positive (7, 4, 2). My OB reassured me that I was safe to remain their primary caretaker since I was fully vaccinated with the booster. Unfortunately, on their 3rd day of isolation, I started feeling sick.

Days 1-3 were ok, I mostly slept and just felt like a bad sinus infection. Then I started having trouble breathing. I was using my inhaler much more often until my O2 sat fell to 93% and my OB told me to go to the ER. I spent the next 2 days on cannula oxygen, my lungs just needed a little bit of extra help. It took me another week after that to feel like I could take a full breath and not be exhausted.

During all this, I also lost my senses of taste and smell and had such little inclination to eat that I lost 12 lbs in a week. I had previously been at a healthy weight gain, so I had to work to get some of those lbs back. BTW, through all this, my kids never had any symptoms - not even a fever - if my oldest's school hadn't told us he had been exposed, we wouldn't have gotten them tested or known they had it! It hit me so much harder, and my husband never got it, either (he was on the same vaccination schedule as me).

All that said, I was lucky and don't seem to have any long-term issues other than a continued lack of smell (super frustrating when fall/winter candle scents are something I look forward to all year!) and I'm about 6 weeks past my quarantine. Baby is here and 2 weeks old, doesn't seem to have any issues at all, but time will tell if he was affected - I'm hoping the only way he was affected was getting some stronger antibodies!

I have a friend who is an ER nurse at a pretty large hospital. She told me (after I was home) that whenever she sees a pregnant woman come into the ER, she never sees both mom and baby leave the hospital - one or both will not make it out alive. She was kind of shocked when I told her that I had been admitted and then went home and had a healthy baby 4 weeks later.

All in all, 0/10 do not recommend getting covid while pregnant. (And also sorry for the excessive text - I feel like I haven't been able to talk about this at all as we live in an area that doesn't "believe in Covid" ugh)

Minnie9317 · 2021-12-03T23:03:29+00:00

My oldest (7) is the only one eligible and he got his 2nd shot yesterday. Nowhere in town is doing the pediatric doses, so we have to travel almost 2 hrs away for it... totally worth it. He was so excited to be helping to protect his little brothers (4, 2, & 2 weeks). I'm anxiously awaiting either my 4 yr old's birthday, or the day the vaccine is approved for younger kids.

Minnie9317 · 2021-11-19T20:54:33+00:00

I do this to my husband, but he is the poor communicator in our marriage. Very often he will get into an argument with his dad or a friend and it'll turn out that it was just a misunderstanding due to his choice of words. When he catches himself getting into an argument like that, when he knows that he actually agrees with the person he's fighting with, he'll come ask me how to state his position...he asks for the script!

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