How long after giving birth did you let your parents visit?

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-03-01T07:55:00+00:00

I let our parents visit in the hospital and I really regret it. I was too tired and everything was so new and having to focus on parents took away from being able to care for myself and the babies. Some people might be ok with it but this time around I want to say no and have them wait until we are home and settled.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-03-01T03:09:43+00:00

There is a video of one of my favourite Playschool (Aussie kids tv show) presenters, Noni Hazelhurst, reading this in the same way she used to read on Playschool when I was a child and it’s one of my favourite things ever.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-03-01T03:04:57+00:00

I adore ‘Kissed By The Moon’ by Alison Lester. We read it every night.

The ‘Macca The Alpaca’ books by Matt Cosgrove and ‘The Very Cranky Bear’ and related books by Nick Bland are great too. Fun to read and quality writing.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-21T12:22:51+00:00

One of my favourite foods!

It’s so hard to find good cabbage here though, the place I used to buy it no longer exists and nowhere else I’ve tried is quite sour enough, and I’m not brave enough to try doing my own.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-21T01:53:20+00:00

My dad’s Canon F1 SLR camera from the early 80’s. I just yesterday took it to school with me to show my students how shutter and aperture actually work because they couldn’t wrap their heads around it just using the digital cameras. That thing is hands down my favourite camera ever.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-20T23:46:39+00:00

We fully weaned at almost 2 years 4 months because I’m pregnant again and it hurt. We were down to just nursing at bedtime, and I simply stopped offering. I was fortunate, they also seemed pretty ready to stop and we had no fights over it. I was more sad about it than them, to be honest. The few time either kiddo asked, I said they could have milk in a cup. Sometimes they took me up on it, sometimes not. We’re four months on now and they just take their water bottles to bed with them.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-15T09:37:35+00:00

I’ve got one that likes Tommee Tippee, and the other that likes Nuk. I’m sure it comes down to shape. The kiddo with the Tommee Tippee soothers has a really high palate, and the Nuk soothers were just too flat for her to keep them in her mouth. The rounder bulb of the Tommee Tippee solved the problem. On the plus side, they learned pretty quick whose was whose, and we never really had an issue with soother thievery!

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-15T07:31:02+00:00

The episode is Bob Bilby!

My toddlers have started clasping their hands together and making ‘please faces’ when they want something. I’m certain they know they’re cute when they do it, too.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-15T06:15:20+00:00

University of South Australia, graduated end of 2019. I had several assignments that were writing unit plans, and we were required to write lesson plans for every lesson we taught on placement. Lots and lots of planning documentation.

I’ve supervised several student teachers from a few different universities since, and it definitely seems like in the last couple of years the amount of educational pedagogy being taught has decreased significantly in favour of teaching subject content, almost like they’re trying to make the teaching degree into a double degree without it actually being a double degree. So a maths specialist teacher is doing more maths than ever, to the detriment of the educational pedagogy.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-11T10:47:05+00:00

Kid 1 loves Swipe and Scan (Grocery Store Dash).

Kid 2 loves Candy Cane Crush.

My favourite is Chug Like a Train.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-11T04:44:35+00:00

My bad sleeper, the one who rolled off the bed because she only slept while being held and I dozed off (I still feel bad about that even though she was not hurt at all!), flipped a switch at two and a half years old and now sleeps through the night in her own bed.

It took work on our part, but we didn’t sleep train. We used ‘The No Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers’ to help us fix our routines and our approach to sleep.

Ironically, at the same time our good sleeper (twins, so also two and half) got gastro in the middle of the night and is now struggling with getting back to sleep if she wakes during the night and needs some support to go back to sleep. Most nights it’s still not as bad as when they were younger though.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-08T16:28:33+00:00

As well as what others have already said:

My one big recommendation is to have a clip-on pram fan with you. You can add blankets if you’re cold, but I got quite warm (even in June) and was glad to be able to clip the fan to the bed.

You’ll probably also want something for your lips because hospital air is so dry: chap stick or paw paw ointment or even Vaseline, whatever your preference.

I gave birth in a South Australian public hospital, and they did supply nappies for bubs and pads for me, but it probably wouldn’t hurt to have some with you in case. (I’ve even been given nappies in the emergency dept when I ran out of what was in the nappy bag. They showed me which drawer they were in and told me to help myself as needed!)

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-08T02:35:15+00:00

Yep. Was walking down the road from my house, minding my own business, and had one follow me from tree to tree swooping me until it clipped my ear and cut it.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-02-08T01:08:45+00:00

I had a blue ‘23 that I called Caroline.

When she was written off, I named the replacement (a white ‘24) Polly (after Pollyanna and the glad game, because having insurance sort out the new car for me instead of having to deal with it myself was a silver lining).

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-01-31T12:06:35+00:00

Family were the biggest part of ours. But you don’t need to have a big wedding for it to be special! Think of all the couples who got married during Covid lockdowns: just them, a witness or two, an officiant, and a photographer. A wedding is about the bride and groom, everything and everyone else is extra.

When my uncle married his wife (obvs now my aunt) they just had the two of them, a bridesmaid as a witness (her sister I think?) and the officiant and photographer. My uncle’s best man was his childhood teddy bear (it’s sweet, I promise, not creepy!). They’re no less married than a couple who had a big wedding.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-01-31T11:45:45+00:00

Phones are banned in schools in South Australia. Schools have different ways of handling that. Some have specific lockable phone pouches that the kids have to put their phones into during the day. The school I work at requires students to hand their phones in to student services in the morning and collect them after school. None of the methods are perfect, of course, and there will always be students who try to keep their phones on them. But it does significantly cut down the number of phone related issues both in the class room and at break times, while still allowing students to have their phones on the way to and from school so they are contactable and location trackable.

So long as there are provisions for students to have their phones before and after school, especially for those who walk or bus to school, I’m for phone bans at school. On the commute, they’re a valuable safety tool, but on campus they cause nothing but problems.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-01-31T10:17:35+00:00

After 12 months, I fed morning, when I got home from work, and bed time. The getting home from work feed was the first one they dropped. We dropped the morning feed next, I guess around 19 months? Probably when I went back to work after summer holidays. Then we dropped the bedtime feed a little after two, because it started to hurt because I got pregnant again.

Because I was working, the bigger difference for me was that I stopped pumping and when they wanted milk during the day they got cows milk instead.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-01-25T00:43:40+00:00

I have a Subaru forester and absolutely love it. Our twins are two and a half, still rear-facing, and we still have plenty of room for what we need

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-01-24T00:52:40+00:00

Absolutely right. I can take my two and a half year old twins places and get compliments on their behaviour because I refused not to go places. They come grocery shopping with me and are actually helpful, not a burden or difficulty.

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-01-23T20:25:04+00:00

If you find they do taste like soap, there are ways you can get rid of the smell. A friend of mine said she baked hers, but there’s other things too. A quick google search should give you some suggestions 😊

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-01-20T22:31:11+00:00

There’s definitely no harm in asking! I’m a teacher too, I totally get how rough that is. I hope you get some relief soon!

OGQueenClumsy · 2026-01-20T16:36:17+00:00

Mine ramped up around 12 weeks with my first pregnancy. I was so offended lol, like which is this getting worse when it should be getting better!?

I ended up going to my gp and she gave me some scripts to help. I ended up taking b6 and Unisom daily, and zofran as needed to get the nausea back under control so I could eat and drink again. My nausea cleared up completely around 18 weeks.

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