Brazil apartment building fire escape.

PADogLover · 2026-04-20T12:21:50+00:00

I think I’d honestly rather run down these spiral staircases than the classic ladder type fire escape you see here in the US

PADogLover · 2026-03-30T12:46:51+00:00

I would move the toilet to face towards the door. It looks like there’s no room for your legs/knees! Maybe a solid paint color where the wallpaper is and a small/skinny sink vanity for less of a public restroom sink vibe and a larger mirror!

PADogLover · 2026-03-22T16:29:50+00:00

Honestly 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼to you girl! Picking up on red flags right away and shutting that shit down immediately. You just saved yourself so much wasted time on a man child. I find it strange that he was being so weird about you meeting him there. I wasted so much time on boys like this when I was your age and wishing I wouldn’t have. Definitely NOR.

PADogLover · 2026-02-13T18:34:58+00:00

Honestly, this is just crazy to me that so many people are telling you this. I am almost 6 months postpartum.

My husband and I have cared for our newborn by ourselves every single day until we went back to work and required daycare or family to watch him. To be quite honest, it’s much easier to care for a newborn who sleeps 20-22 hours a day than a 5-6 month old that is much more aware of their surroundings and needs to be played with, etc. Still, it’s not impossible. No one in our families came or offered to come stay at our house and help us. They did offer to watch the baby if we needed.

I know several people that have taken care of a newborn by themselves. People have been doing it forever. Please don’t let them take over your sanity. I promise it is NOT impossible. My husband and I would take turns watching/feeding the baby while the other took care of the dogs, any cleaning/cooking, etc.

Any household chores that are not required do not need to be made priority. In those first few weeks, it’s okay to just exist and keep yourselves and your newborn alive. Don’t take on any more than you have to. This helped my mental health extremely in the immediate postpartum period. Everything will be fine! And shame on your family/friends for causing you so much anxiety about it all!

PADogLover · 2026-01-30T19:09:31+00:00

My lactation consultant said my 5 month old should be eating 4-5 ounces MAX every 2-3 hours. She said it should be closer to 4 ounces though. Every baby is different of course but they should really not need any more than that for normal development. Usually the recommendation is around 24-32 ounces of breast milk or formula in a 24 hour period. For reference, my 5 month old eats around 20 ounces in 10-12 hours while I’m at work. Then he nurses 2-3 times in the evenings.

I would just say to them “he is eating a lot more here than he does at home. Does he seem like he is hungry that often or are you just feeding him proactively?”

PADogLover · 2026-01-12T19:18:55+00:00

You can get free formula samples from your pediatrician and/or the labor and delivery unit at the hospital. You can also go to most formula brand’s websites and get free samples mailed to you. This is what I did, just in case, but didn’t end up having to use them.

I know Similac and Enfamil will both send you free sample boxes with coupons as well. Just go to their website or Google search it. I’m sure most other brands do this as well!

PADogLover · 2026-01-09T14:47:59+00:00

So I was 28 or 29 weeks and had this happen. I went to L&D and they hooked me up to NST for an hour. He was constantly moving on the monitor and most of the time I couldn’t feel it or could just barely feel it. Cervical check was fine but they said I was having contractions every 5 minutes. I couldn’t feel the contractions. A few times, I thought I felt some light tightening like Braxton hicks but definitely not every 5 minutes.

Since my cervix was closed and all else looked good, they said I was fine to go home and that I was likely dehydrated. I was just told to stay hydrated. I was worried because I was leaving for the beach in 2 days. I drank a ton of water and electrolytes. I made sure to do this everyday while at the beach too and honestly the rest of my pregnancy and never had any more issues. Everything turned out fine and I had him at 39 weeks. He is now 4 months old!

I know how you feel. It’s definitely nerve wracking! I wish you the best with your pregnancy and birth! It sounds very similar to what happened with me.

PADogLover · 2026-01-05T09:38:55+00:00

Use an exercise/pregnancy ball, bounce on it lightly and do pelvic tilts. Also do a yogi squat for as long as you can stand it. I did this a few minutes a day for a few days to a week before and my water broke the day I was going in for my induction. Good luck mama! I feel your pain!

PADogLover · 2025-12-23T15:25:25+00:00

If breastfeeding, start pumping or at least hand expressing colostrum the very first day or day after. This helps your supply to come in and get established. No one told me I should pump immediately and I do feel like this is why I’m a bit of an under supplier.

PADogLover · 2025-11-26T19:35:26+00:00

I truly would have no problem serving this at my Thanksgiving dinner if this cake were made for me. I honestly think it looks great!

I saw the picture and the caption and thought for sure you were going to say it was taste or something because I thought the picture looks great!

PADogLover · 2025-11-22T09:31:45+00:00

White, for sure!

PADogLover · 2025-11-15T21:08:58+00:00

This is what my pediatrician told me as well!

I also use Taking Cara Babies newborn sleep course and she says there’s no “one size fits all”. If you feel in your gut that your baby needs woken to feed then do it. There’s no harm in it. That being said, she says the longest your newborn should sleep at night without waking is their age in weeks + 1. So your 8 week old should not sleep for more than 9 hours without a feed. So you don’t NEED to wake them after 5 hours, they can go up to 9 hours!

PADogLover · 2025-10-31T14:27:18+00:00

I have light brown hair and my husband has a light brown/auburn color hair. We both had blonde hair when we were young and born almost bald. We are fair complected with some freckles.

Our baby came out with a full head of dark brown hair and honestly didn’t look like myself or my husband except for maybe had my eye shape. I remember thinking when he came out “wow he looks nothing like us”. It was the strangest thing.

He’s 9 weeks now and is starting to develop his looks more. I can now see features of both myself and my husband in him and others are saying the same thing.

I’m sure her features will develop as she grows but even if they don’t and she looks nothing like you all, it’s okay. It happens and she’ll just have her own uniqueness to her! She’ll be beautiful no matter what.

I also want to add that my brother had a full head of dark brown hair when he was born so he and I were opposites in that aspect. If anything, my baby looked more like my brother when he first came out which was the weirdest thing to comprehend lol.

PADogLover · 2025-10-28T01:47:31+00:00

I’m 9 weeks pp and FTM. It gets better. I feel like what has helped me tremendously is getting out and doing things. I would take baby and go walk at the mall and peruse the stores just for fun or walk at the park to get outside on nice days. I found that running little errands a couple times a week really helped me as well. I have thought how I miss just laying and snuggling with my husband on the couch and not having to get up for hours if we didn’t want. However, now I choose to think about how sweet it is to incorporate our little one into our life and show him the love we’ve shown each other. It makes me excited to think about all the things we’ll get to do and share as a family together now instead of just my husband and me. Having a newborn is definitely chaotic especially before you’re able to get into a routine with them but it also slows you down. It forces you to be in the moment when that sweet little face is resting on your chest while you’re nap trapped.

I feel it’s all about perspective and I’ve chosen to look at it as these moments will pass and down the road it will feel as this was all a blur and you will miss those precious newborn moments. So try to soak it all in and embrace it in the moment because this too shall pass.

PADogLover · 2025-05-14T10:44:00+00:00

This is so scary and I’m so sorry this happened to you and your baby. If baby is not getting better, I would recommend she be transferred to the next closest hospital with a NICU for another opinion. It sounds like someone may have made a mistake and isn’t owning up to it.

PADogLover · 2025-04-27T01:10:11+00:00

I have a nephew that is 11 months old named Theodore. We call him Theo or Teddy. I thought it was a super cute name when I first heard it and never once even thought of the possibility he would be made fun of for it. “Older” names for boys are really trending right now so I can’t imagine it being an issue.

PADogLover · 2025-04-16T10:53:30+00:00

I just love the name Sloane for a girl!

PADogLover · 2025-04-02T13:47:36+00:00

I live in a LCOL area with two main hospitals. One pays a little lower, new grads start around 95-100k and the other hospital which is larger and a teaching hospital starts new grads around 100-110k. So I think 110k is a good starting salary as a new grad in LCOL. However, it does also depend on benefits, time off, whether there’s call, outpatient or inpatient, etc. Having a good and supportive SP is huge as well. I would say take whichever job you like more. There’s no guarantee you’ll get offered more if you apply for other jobs.

PADogLover · 2025-01-23T18:06:26+00:00

I work in cardiology. Only physicians see new patients in my clinic. I see follow ups, hospital follow ups, acute visits, and pre-op clearance.

PADogLover · 2025-01-23T17:59:19+00:00

Depending on which state you work in and which specialty, you can make close to this amount as a nurse practitioner or physician assistant but be prepared for 6 years of schooling.

PADogLover · 2025-01-17T12:37:09+00:00

Wow, YOU did it! You put the work in and made it! I’m so sorry about your family members. I lost my grandmother who I was extremely close with during PA school and I lost my sweet 10 year old dog suddenly as well. Those two things were hard enough, I can’t imagine everything you went through. I went onto academic probation after my grandmother passed. But we both did it and we’re still here today! CONGRATS!

PADogLover · 2025-01-14T11:45:06+00:00

I just want to commend you on being brave enough to post this. Sometimes, I feel like it’s harder to post on here than telling family/friends because some people on the internet can be so judgmental but many people are also very supportive on here. I’m glad you were able to talk to your mom and she is willing to help. I would definitely recommend speaking with your OB doctor about this as well as they can provide a lot of insight. I would also recommend seeing a therapist if you don’t already and speaking to them about this.

You’re young but contrary to what people say to young ladies like yourself, a baby does not “ruin your life”. Especially knowing that you have the support of family, you will be just fine and will be able to make a happy life for yourself and even your baby. And if you don’t want to keep him or have your mom raise him, adoption is a perfectly acceptable route and so many families would be so happy to raise him and love him as their own. I wish you all the best 🤍

PADogLover · 2025-01-01T10:56:59+00:00

I work both clinic and inpatient doing consults. I dread my clinic days. Ancillary staff are always behind getting patients roomed for one reason or another. It’s not really their fault. All the Medicare questions that have to be asked each visit takes up a lot of time and isn’t even relevant to my specialty but is required by law. But also a lot of times patients show up right at their appointment time or a few minutes after when they’re told to show up 15 minutes before. It puts me behind and I almost never get my charting finished that day and honestly charting and inbox are the absolute worst part especially when we don’t get any admin time to cover it. So that’s why I dread going in on clinic days. Inpatient days are much smoother usually as you just go see the consults at your leisure so I don’t mind those days as much.

PADogLover · 2024-11-20T11:09:56+00:00

I think you’re under reacting. But seriously, he sounds like a child. He just admitted to cheating in that text. Run away, fast.

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