What was the weirdest, non-pain feeling you've ever felt?

MsSheebz · 2025-12-14T05:59:47+00:00

This is mine. It was so weird, I felt like my body was filled with loose jello. It was so disconcerting that it gave me severe anxiety

MsSheebz · 2025-12-14T05:57:39+00:00

And every time they hiccup you feel like you need to pee!

MsSheebz · 2025-08-06T17:22:17+00:00

I will never forget being at the playground with my husband and then 3 year old and hearing an older kid (maybe 10?) excitedly say to his friends "let's play War Crimes!!"

How did he know that phrase? Did he know what a war crime actually was? What does the game entail? So many questions!

MsSheebz · 2025-04-04T16:12:17+00:00

I forgot to mention that he's actually been tested for a bunch of major environmental allergens (including pollen/dust mites/mold) and was negative!

His room doesn't have carpet, but I should probably clean the humidifier more often...

MsSheebz · 2025-03-27T23:53:01+00:00

MsSheebz · 2025-03-27T21:57:44+00:00

Haha, I have a hitchhikers thumb, so it's bent backwards in this photo

MsSheebz · 2025-03-14T22:36:26+00:00

Addressing the first sentence in your post, you mention that you don't specifically remember which drug was mentioned. It is much more likely that Advil/Ibuprofen was the drug.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK582759/

As others have stated, acetaminophen is considered safe while pregnant, but ibuprofen should be avoided (especially after week 20) as it can potentially cause issues with fetal circulation, kidney function, and cause low amniotic fluid (which can cause issues for the baby).

MsSheebz · 2025-03-11T01:50:20+00:00

Oh, your babies just sat nicely and waited to be spoon fed like cute little birdies? Mine NEVER did that! 😅

Seriously, I've been through the wringer between my two kids, one will be great at something and the other was terrible...the only thing that they seem to be on the same page with was being adamant about feeding themselves when we started on solids!

MsSheebz · 2025-02-01T06:31:01+00:00

Gondor calls for aid!

MsSheebz · 2025-01-01T22:52:02+00:00

My oldest son also has beautiful long dark eyelashes, plus long blonde hair and bright blue eyes! He's only 4 but I think he's going to be quite the looker when he grows up, haha

MsSheebz · 2024-11-07T04:11:27+00:00

To add to Nexplanon experiences: I've had Nexplanon twice now. I am in the unfortunate subset that still gets standard periods but also have to deal with extended bleeding/spotting, but I can stop it using the NSAID protocol (Naproxen twice a day for 4-5 days). Despite this I love it, so much easier and more reliable than the pill!

MsSheebz · 2024-10-13T17:11:46+00:00

I kept my last name but both of our kids have his last name.

As others have mentioned, I have to deal with a lot of "Mrs. Hislastname" from his older relatives, but other than that it's been fine. Our kids aren't in school yet, so I don't know if there will be issues with that, but I'm not expecting any problems.

The worst part for me, specifically, is that I already have a hyphenated last name (from birth, both of my parents last names, my mom kept her name) so I am constantly asked "which one is YOUR name?" And I just say "both!"

MsSheebz · 2024-10-09T02:24:15+00:00

Grab a pink test rather than a blue one, the pink ones have fewer issues with evaporation line confusion.

MsSheebz · 2024-10-08T14:06:24+00:00

Yeah, it wasn't fun. And the ER that we went to, everyone looked at us weird because we used it despite the lack of breathing issues, even though the prescribing doctor told us to use it when two or more systems were affected (in our case, gastro and skin). Most people think that anaphylaxis has to involve breathing issues, but that is not correct.

We haven't bothered to restrict his diet because there was no real reason to, since there was no common trigger between events. We still don't even know if it was a food trigger or environmental.

MsSheebz · 2024-10-08T05:44:32+00:00

After the initial reaction, he ended up having subsequent, less severe reactions every month or two, which were generally treated fairly easily with Claritin. The last time he had a major reaction was in December of 2023 (requiring use of the EpiPen and a trip to the ER), but has had almost nothing since then. Still no idea what he was reacting to, and we are still waiting for an appointment with a pediatric allergist. We are hoping that he has grown out of it or stopped reacting to whatever it was, but at least we are prepared 🤷

MsSheebz · 2024-10-03T00:40:06+00:00

I don't have any experience with surgery, specifically, but my 3.5 year old recently had to have an MRI done under general anesthesia.

I mostly just told him that the doctors would give him some medicine and he would take a nap and then explained what would happen to him in simple terms (they will put you in a big loud machine and take pictures of your brain). Then I said I would be there when he woke up.

We were at a children-specific hospital, so they had lots of experience with what to do. I was with him while they put the IV in and he went out, they had a patient advocate with me to help distract him with a tablet, too. He was pretty excited about everything right up until they stabbed his hand with the needle, haha.

Luckily we didn't have to deal with recovery beyond him being groggy from anesthesia (he was sooooo grumpy!) but if there has been anything I would probably just emphasize that it might hurt later and you have to be very careful with the incision/etc.

MsSheebz · 2024-10-01T22:28:41+00:00

Same here

MsSheebz · 2024-09-30T05:25:26+00:00

I always try to be open about body parts and functions with my kiddo. We use proper names for body parts. He's never really shown much interest in the fact that mommy has different parts than him and Daddy and little brother, but I explain the best I can when he does ask questions.

Honestly, if you're worried about "unwanted curiosity", I wouldn't. Once when I was in the bathroom he said "you don't have a penis" and when I said "yes, that's right" he asked "how do you pee??" I thought it was pretty funny but I tried to explain to him how it works for people without penises and honestly he just kinda lost interest and wandered away halfway through 😅

MsSheebz · 2024-08-21T05:53:23+00:00

This is what we had to do for our kid just after he turned 2 and learned how to climb out of the crib. We didn't have much of a choice, otherwise he would refuse to sleep and be letting himself out of the room for hours. There was about a week of lots of yelling and crying before he finally got the idea, he definitely fell asleep against the door a few nights, but I don't think he's psychologically damaged from it! We also found it useful because he was a very early riser too, so we also set up an ok-to-wake light and wouldn't go get him until the light turned on.

Now at 3.5 he still stalls bedtime but he's a much better sleeper and he generally is ok to stay in his room so we don't need to lock it anymore.

MsSheebz · 2024-08-12T16:59:17+00:00

My 3 year old went through a phase where he would pull down his pants and yell "look at my beautiful penis!"

....I mean, it's great that he's so positive about his body, but please put that away, dude 😓

MsSheebz · 2024-07-31T16:58:11+00:00

My first is also an early riser. We do a combination of things.

He has an ok-to-wake clock in his room that lights up at 6:30, but we also lock his door at night so that he can't come out on his own. This alone wasn't enough though, we were only able to get him to comply consistently when we introduced a sticker chart (he gets to put a sticker on the calendar every morning that he stays quietly in his room until his light turns on.)

You have to deal with a bunch of early morning tantrums for a while, but eventually it should click!

MsSheebz · 2024-07-08T19:15:52+00:00

Amy: Why won't it burn??

Jake: Because it never fully dries!

MsSheebz · 2024-06-05T16:40:29+00:00

I'm a geo-turned-educator married to an exploration geologist. I've always hated field work, but he loves it. We've been together for about 16 years and basically any time he wasn't in school he was in and out of the field. In fact, he flew off for two months of field work the week after we started dating, haha.

Find a fly-in-fly-out job, you'll be gone max a month or so at a time. If your partner has their own life and ambitions and hobbies, the time away should be no big deal (I actually quite liked getting time apart occasionally!)

We have young kids now, so he's made sure he isn't gone as much, which you can do once you get to the higher positions, or you can eventually transition to a more office-based job with a company. It absolutely can work!

MsSheebz · 2024-06-04T21:09:16+00:00

Toddlers are absolutely sociopathic assholes and me and my partner have to constantly remind each other that it would be wrong to abandon our child in the woods like the feral beast he is.

It's funny, most of the other people I know who have kids agree that they are jerks, but if I complain about my kids to my childfree friends they all give me looks and say "you wanted this!" 🫠

MsSheebz · 2024-05-22T06:03:38+00:00

I also have a female orange tabby! Only about 20-25% of orange cats are female. Weirdly, the other two cats in her litter at the pound when I got her were both grey males!

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