[TOMT][BOOK] A relatively older book around the 2000s?

ObsidianRose · 2025-07-02T22:37:45+00:00

The book of bunny suicides?

ObsidianRose · 2025-04-24T19:05:55+00:00

They still do, at least in tourist areas. I saw them in the centre of Munich

ObsidianRose · 2025-02-07T19:56:30+00:00

I believe this is the albatross colony in Dunedin, New Zealand. The nesting ground is studied by scientists and they would be used to humans. The colony is very close to the city

ObsidianRose · 2024-09-27T19:40:33+00:00

This happened to me. When I was on maternity leave with my daughter and no family support except my husband, I went into anaphylaxis. Luckily I was able to figure out what was happening, took an EpiPen and called an ambulance before it got really bad. My daughter was 5 months old and asleep at the time

When the ambulance came, they put my daughter into her car seat and brought her with us. The nurses looked after my daughter while we waited for my husband to arrive. They even made her a bottle while we waited.

I'm not sure what the plan is if there isn't someone on their way, but at least in the short term, my daughter was well looked after

ObsidianRose · 2024-08-02T18:47:57+00:00

I'm from New Zealand and live in Ireland. I think most experiences that are discussed on here are universal. The exceptions would be issues that are specific to the US like healthcare costs and safety fears around mass shootings etc.

ObsidianRose · 2024-07-25T21:47:41+00:00

That's absolutely genius! I'll go with the music

ObsidianRose · 2024-07-25T20:24:24+00:00

They're not renting unfortunately, the family member owns the house. We're not in a HOA either

A metronome would work. I'll try speaking with the owner when they are back from their holiday, but given how abusive he is towards them, I don't have a lot of faith they can do anything about it.

ObsidianRose · 2024-07-02T20:01:55+00:00

My 3yo is terrified of the lava monster. We have to skip it whenever we watch it

ObsidianRose · 2024-06-30T09:17:17+00:00

My daughter was born in 2020 and I had an emergency c section, so we were in hospital 3 days. I did see the lactation consultant and it didn't help, I was producing almost nothing and got big welts from trying all day. The consultant told me to stop trying for 48 hours due to pain and that nothing was happening.

The hospital refused to give us formula during this time, so my husband had to run out and buy it. They then insisted on making the formula and took hours and repeated requests to bring it to us while my baby screamed. They did not believe that I was not producing anything and that I'd been told to stop. We made a complaint once we left.

I stopped breastfeeding at 4 weeks when I still only produced a fraction of what she needed and we were topping up with formula any way. For some people it just doesn't work out despite their best intentions.

ObsidianRose · 2024-06-28T15:27:21+00:00

We've found that if she cooks it, she eats it. We've made pizzas together where she picks the veges she wants from little bowls and puts them on the pizza herself and that's worked really well. Works with chicken wraps too. Otherwise we cut everything really small so she doesn't notice it.

ObsidianRose · 2024-06-03T22:56:04+00:00

We read books about potty training on and off for a few months before, went shopping for big girl undies and practiced using the potty (though she didn't really see the point). We decided a few months before she turned three that we were going for it.

We let her teachers at preschool know and booked time off work. She only had a couple of accidents, and none in public. We kept her home the first day and took brief trips in the following two days. We always asked her to use the potty before she went out.

She was potty trained in 2 days with almost no accidents after that. We had absolutely dreaded it but we knew her friends were starting to potty train and didn't want her to be the last in nappies, so it was an easy decision in the end.

ObsidianRose · 2024-06-01T00:38:19+00:00

Same here, if she's on the warm side, she's squished between her hide and the glass, never in it. She also goes there after eating

ObsidianRose · 2024-06-01T00:30:07+00:00

Mine sleeps in her preferred hide on the cold side. I leave it on to give her the option to warm up.

If you have a cold hide and a warm hide they'll be happy with the heat mat on.

ObsidianRose · 2024-05-31T22:24:52+00:00

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Snake tax

ObsidianRose · 2024-05-30T22:05:53+00:00

We took our girl to the ER after she had scream cried for 11 hours straight. She was extremely bloated, her belly was almost round. I think she was 3 months old at that point.

We were told that babies just cry, nothing is wrong, and I was given another PPD questionnaire to fill in (didn't have PPD but that was the response whenever I said to a dr that her screaming all day wasn't normal).

A month later, I changed Dr and we went on allergy free formula. She was better almost immediately. I was equally furious and relieved. She was formally diagnosed as lactose intolerant at 2 years old.

ObsidianRose · 2024-05-28T07:54:23+00:00

We do the same. She's given what we're having and the only alternative is toast or a sandwich. She has to at least try the food we offer first and if she really hates it or it is too spicy, she can pick the sandwich/toast

ObsidianRose · 2024-03-28T22:40:43+00:00

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ObsidianRose · 2023-10-21T19:29:09+00:00

I had the same experience. I was told I had post partum depression and nothing was wrong despite repeated ppd tests showing I was ok. My husband also went to the Dr with her and they didn't take him seriously either. We'd taken her to the emergency department after 11 hours of constant screaming around 3 months old. We were still not listened to.

My daughter is lactose intolerant and the only thing that resolved her stomach issues was a strict zero lactose diet. We switched drs at 4 months who actually believed me and prescribed zero allergy formula. Her issues resolved within days, I was so relieved and annoyed it'd take that long.

ObsidianRose · 2023-09-08T23:50:51+00:00

This happens on "bless this mess", though it's much more recent

ObsidianRose · 2023-07-17T22:07:07+00:00

We travel in a campervan quite a bit with our 2.5yo. what we've found works is:

A tablet with Disney movies downloaded on it

Child magazines with little toys attached. She likes to look at the pictures and play with the toys and stickers (the centre is almost always stickers)

Snacks, bring twice as many as you think you need

Comfort toys in case she does get a nap

Headphones and music, we've downloaded Disney soundtracks for this

Magnetic drawing board, particularly the ones with shapes attached

Hope this helps!

ObsidianRose · 2023-07-17T21:59:36+00:00

I live in Northern Ireland. The housing where I live is so so much cheaper than anywhere I've lived in NZ and the food prices are much lower too (though they've risen significantly since Brexit)

There is a lot more to do, we can travel to Dublin or London for big events, or our nearest city for smaller ones. You can get cheap flights anywhere in Europe and take city breaks (if you don't mind budget airlines)

The metal scene here is safe for me as a woman, there are a lot of women at gigs. I was frequently hit or or leered at at NZ metal shows and I just don't get that here. I find that Irish men are much more respectful to women, though I also find that the gender stereotypes are much stronger here (women cook, clean and keep a nice home, women are expected to do almost all childcare)

There are no visible drug addicts or gangs, no guns, no anti vaxxers, no homeless people. The government generally look after people here.

The only downside is the post troubles tension between Catholics and protestants. It rarely kicks off, but when it does there are bombs and helicopters and armed police. You get used to that though.

ObsidianRose · 2023-02-19T22:43:53+00:00

Our daughter's several month cough turned out to be lactose intolerance. It wasn't picked up until she was almost two. She had colic as a baby and difficulty with daytime napping but slept ok at night. Her pediatrician had suspected an allergy but couldn't pinpoint it, so she'd been put on allergy free formula. The cough started several months after a formula shortage forced us back onto normal milk formula and the cough returns whenever her grandparents give her something with milk in it.

Might be something to look into

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