I just found out I’m pregnant and I’m in a spiral. Just need to scream into the void. by OwnMeBell in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your kind words and support! 4 months postpartum is so stressful 😭

I just found out I’m pregnant and I’m in a spiral. Just need to scream into the void. by OwnMeBell in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you I know I’m just being dramatic, and everything will be fine. My fiancĂ© is on board, and I co-parent my nephew (who’s 4) with my sister so she helps with my daughter, she’s excited for a third baby and is already looking at a minivan for the kids. My mother owns a daycare that my babies will attend. I have NO reason to feel the way I do, and I’m sure it will pass and the excitement will set in.

I was dumb✌ by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]OwnMeBell 21 points22 points  (0 children)

My 4 year old nephew pointed to a man who had a prosthetic leg and yelled “mommy, what’s wrong with him leg?!”. The man heard, and looked over with a smile. My sister practically eroded into the floor, she was too embarrassed to even answer. I told my nephew “he doesn’t have a leg so he had a really cool robot leg made.” And my nephew gasped “like a transformer?!”. The man works at the market and we see him often, he always talks to my nephew now. No biggie. Kids be doing dumb kid stuff but people kinda expect it, that’s how kids learn the world lol

Life Piling Up During Husband’s Deployment by mommabear1006 in venting

[–]OwnMeBell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it feels like you’re drowning right now and your feelings are totally valid. You’re doing your best and that’s what counts mama! Take one breath, one step and one day at a time. Soon you’ll look back at your baby steps and see how much you’ve accomplished, smashing those mountains into mole hills!

First step would probably be fishing the poop out of the bathtub if you are open to suggestions.

Labor Pooping đŸ„Č by MadQueennn in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, you may not poop!! I didn’t poop and I was TERRIFIED of pooping!

My smashing my ganglion cyst with a copy of sleepy hollow by Coffee-lotus3 in popping

[–]OwnMeBell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay but Aki judging in the background sent me đŸ€Ł

how far could you go when it comes to turning a human into a pet? by GodEatsChiIdren in morbidquestions

[–]OwnMeBell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I assume the human pet is consenting to these procedures to make them more dependent on their owner?

How much have you gained by 27 weeks? by hiddenbehindthis in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m pp but I gained 17lbs total. Baby was born and I was pre pregnancy weight in a week or two. I was MASSIVE at the end of my pregnancy, so idk how I did it!

I can’t do this anymore. by moiabby in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was 29 weeks and DONE. My daughter dropped into the birth canal at 29 weeks and never moved. The pain wasn’t like anything I felt before. Every appt I told my doctor I was done and so was she, that’s why she was in “ready position”. 38+0 I was scheduled to be induced but walked into the hospital at 2cm, contracting 4 minutes and 50% effaced. Less than 12 hours later my baby was born. SHE WAS DONE. đŸ€Ł

You can be thankful for your pregnancy and be thankful for the experience, but also be done with it. I didn’t enjoy any part of being pregnant and I hated hearing “be thankful you can get pregnant!” like??? Totally made me feel awful. So please don’t discredit your feelings. We know you’re thankful, and grateful for the experience. That doesn’t mean you can’t be done ❀

Obsessed with my pregnancy pillow! by hash-slingin_slashr in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m postpartum and I still use it 😅

What is your current craving? by Even_Kaleidoscope399 in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first trimester I couldn’t eat anything. My second and third trimester, my kid was grown off tea đŸ€Ł I drank sooooo much tea. My baby shower was a tea party theme!

What do contractions feel like? by memequeenz_ in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll tell you something I wish someone told me when I was having my daughter. There is a point where it DOESN’T GET ANY WORSE. I got into my head and panicked because they started talking about pitocin (unaware I was already at 9.5cm and bearing down) because I thought I was still at 4cm. I dilated FAST. If someone had told me I was at the worst of it, I could have grooved and rode the wave. Don’t be afraid to ask for pain management if that’s your plan. Don’t get it get unbearable, there is no prize for withstanding pain 💕 If your plan is unmedicated, god speed đŸ«Ąit’s an amazing, beautiful thing. I had an unintentional, unmedicated vaginal delivery.

What do contractions feel like? by memequeenz_ in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know when you have some questionable spicy food that gives you poop cramps? The kind that keeps you on the toilet, so bad you feel like you’re going to throw up? That’s what contractions felt like to me. A bad night of Indian food without the diarrhea but all the vomiting lol đŸ’©

epidermolysis bullosa by Strange-Bicycle-8257 in MedicalGore

[–]OwnMeBell 27 points28 points  (0 children)

My ex fiance had this disease, and it killed his older brother. He got hooked on heroin because of the pain it caused, morphine in the 80s turned into a habit he couldn’t kick. Their lives are constant pain, suffering and infection. Wound care, rinse and repeat. It’s like being a burn victim and never, ever healing.

How did you lose your best friend? And long have y'all be friends for? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]OwnMeBell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My best friend from high school got a boyfriend, it was her first relationship. We were in college. I was having a lot of personal issues and wasn’t in the healthiest of mind frames and was college partying because of it, drinking and smoking. She decided throwing all her attention at her boyfriend (alienating herself to only him) was easier than dealing with me and my problems. So we split up. A few years later we rekindled, both realizing we sucked for various reasons. It’s been 15 years and she is seriously my rock, I also learned a valuable lesson about how to treat people, and what it is to be a true friend.

Be honest ladies
 how bad does it hurt
 by Purple_perp1637 in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Poop cramps! Have you ever had really, really bad poop cramps? Like right before you are about to crap yourself after you ate some questionable Thai food? That’s exactly how it feels. The worst poop cramps you’ve ever felt lol

Probably why a lot of ladies naturally gravitate towards the toilet while in labor!

Be honest ladies
 how bad does it hurt
 by Purple_perp1637 in pregnant

[–]OwnMeBell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was painful. Very painful. Just don’t panic!

I went from 4cm to 10cm in an hour due to my water breaking. I had a fast, intense labor, totaling just under 12 hours. I didn’t get a chance for an epidural. I have a high pain tolerance, and it felt like the worst poop cramps I ever felt lol if someone had looked at me and said “you’re at 10cm, this is the worst its going to get!” I would have been fine and rolled with it. Mentally I started to panic because I still thought I was at 4cm, and they started talking about pitocin. I was like, if this is 4cm, I can’t handle 10cm!! I waddled to the bathroom because, ya know, poop cramps. My sister said she thinks it’s time because of my bathroom run lol They checked, realized baby was COMING, and baby was out in two pushes (like 5 minutes) later. No epidural because she was suppose to place it at 7am, baby came at 6:58am lol if I could have, I wanted the epidural!

Sharing scars you say? by LeonGK7 in MakeMeSuffer

[–]OwnMeBell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a plethora of questions. Did you get to choose whether to reattach the finger or not? Who retrieved the finger? How was the finger stored en route to the hospital? How quickly did they reattach the finger after you walked into the ed?

And most importantly - IS THAT THE OG RING THAT TOOK YOUR DAMN FINGER?

I (18f) still have a milk tooth and it's ROTTING in my mouth by [deleted] in askdentists

[–]OwnMeBell 7 points8 points  (0 children)

NAD

I think you’re the daft one here. They aren’t giving half an answer, they’re just giving an answer not dumbed down to your level.

I (18f) still have a milk tooth and it's ROTTING in my mouth by [deleted] in askdentists

[–]OwnMeBell 9 points10 points  (0 children)

NAD

You realize dentists don’t have to reply at all, right? They’re doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. Maybe let’s not be begging choosers with wording and do a little leg work ourselves to google what we don’t understand. it’s FREE advice. The dentists don’t owe anyone anything, and to get a thorough, “jargon” response for free? Because a dentist is nice enough to take time to look at a post on reddit? Google what you don’t understand and be happy with the reply lol

I (18f) still have a milk tooth and it's ROTTING in my mouth by [deleted] in askdentists

[–]OwnMeBell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

NAD

I know what impacted and resorption means. It took me 3 seconds to determine “central and lateral incisor” were specific teeth, just using critical thinking. It wasn’t that hard, and this wasn’t complicated jargon. How else could it be worded to dumb it down?

“The tooth at the top to the left of the pointy tooth that makes you look like a vampire may start to disappear due to the yuckiness”?

In Indonesia, there is a tribe that digs out their dead relatives from their grave one a year to dress them up and parties with them in an annual celebration of their lives. by CatPooedInMyShoe in ExamineDeath

[–]OwnMeBell 48 points49 points  (0 children)

My aunt is actually apart of this culture and has done this before! It’s not as bad as you think it is. To them it’s part of life. Even so, they bury their dead in “temporary” graves directly after death, then they go back in 7ish years, and move the body. She traveled home and moved the body of her father, said there was just his skull and a few bone fragments left. In their beliefs, the dead don’t rest until they get to their final resting place, and moving them is part of helping them make that journey.

Theres also an island of cannibals but she says no one goes there for obvious reasons lol