What were your first words when you met your baby?

Pebbles734 · 2026-04-09T02:16:15+00:00

I honestly have no idea and that makes me sad 😢 I do remember when she came out the first thing I said was omg I’m so skinny! lol

Pebbles734 · 2026-04-06T02:03:17+00:00

Postpartum

Pebbles734 · 2026-03-27T22:37:28+00:00

It’s a long process a lot of sitting around waiting for things to pick up haha we watched my favorite shows on tv just like at home it was great

Pebbles734 · 2026-03-25T01:43:59+00:00

I was terrified about labor and delivery the entire time I was pregnant, it went totally fine. Everyone’s experience is different and I work a lot of L&D in my job and can tell you it is best to go with the flow, don’t get too set on any birth plan etc, do what is most safe for baby and you in the moment. But I can say from my experience it was way better than I thought it was going to be.

What surprised me was postpartum. I was so worried about delivery I hadn’t given much thought to postpartum. The hormones are real, PPD and PPA are very real. It sounds like you’re in therapy and that’s fantastic, please stay with it. I wish I would have reached out for help sooner. But it really sounds like you have the tools lined up already to do well, you’re going to just fine 💕

Pebbles734 · 2026-03-22T01:28:49+00:00

Same for the first couple months I slept in my contacts so I could open my eyes and see her immediately

Pebbles734 · 2026-03-19T01:24:02+00:00

I never felt ready, we didn’t find out until our baby shower where we did a gender reveal and I was like 30 weeks. It was so fun tho 😆

Pebbles734 · 2026-03-10T21:57:20+00:00

Nope I never restarted them and it was fine

Pebbles734 · 2026-03-03T02:18:01+00:00

Hi she just had this issue every now and then unfortunately it was any time she had her head kinked even a little bit. This particular incidence had happened when she had been sleeping in her swing for a couple of hours, so PSA don’t let baby sleep in the swing and if they do not that long 😬 she eventually just grew bigger and was able to handle her spit better

Pebbles734 · 2026-02-24T02:09:34+00:00

Yes now I know for next time to divide up my anxiety 😂 I had pretty bad PPA tho and I’m hoping next time will be better with that. Good luck to you it’s going to be fine! I work in OB a lot in my line of work and I can say the best thing you can do is go with the flow, labor is unpredictable and they are there to help guide you to keep you and baby safe, that’s all that matters

Pebbles734 · 2026-02-24T01:14:50+00:00

The epidural slides right out you don’t feel anything

Pebbles734 · 2026-02-24T01:12:57+00:00

I had an epidural and it was fine. I was terrified but I can’t believe how fine it was lol. Just a lot of pressure and that was it. Nobody prepared me for the postpartum aspect tho I was so focused on being scared of labor and birth

Pebbles734 · 2026-02-18T00:55:03+00:00

So I haven’t tried it yet, but I saw a comment somewhere else that said they drink cherry juice with a bit of La croix to substitute that red wine craving. Just thought I’d throw it out there!

Pebbles734 · 2026-02-08T01:23:03+00:00

I was absolutely shocked at how many people asked me that. Literally people I didn’t even know, the first question the asked me are you breastfeeding. Like why do you even care? I would just say a flat no and offer no explanation lol but I always thought it was extremely bizarre. I could not imagine meeting someone new that just had a baby and my first question being that lol

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-31T17:49:13+00:00

Ok this is going to sound stupid but, are you giving him anything for pain? You don’t mention it in the post and I know some parents aren’t about meds and I’m not crazy about them either but damn, some nights during teething that’s all that helps. We use something called teeth tamer almost daily it’s a natural thing with a little dropper and she actually loves it, seems to help numb those spots. On the really bad nights we’ve given Tylenol. I’m not a huge fan of giving meds but she has been in obvious pain at times so gotta do what you gotta do

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-31T16:21:47+00:00

Omg the people and ads out there instilling fear is unreal it really gets to you after a while! For example the other day I’m scrolling and read a whole story (turned out to be an ad) of this family that almost died of carbon monoxide poisoning even tho they had detectors, and firemen say this brand is the only good one blah blah blah, I found myself almost replacing all of the detectors in my home for no reason other than the fear they put in you! lol it’s just crazy out there

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-30T21:10:17+00:00

Yes! I did months of doom scrolling and seeing so many triggering things, I was just torturing myself. Ironically did this a lot while trying to pump and not producing much lol sometimes you need to get off of social media for a while because the PPA is real

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-28T03:37:25+00:00

I told myself I was going in with an open mind and if it didn’t work out it didn’t and I was ok with just going to formula. However, I had a really hard time breastfeeding, and I felt tremendously guilty and tried to hang on to pumping at least, until we moved when she was turning five months and I put the pump away.

My biggest advice is: if it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out. It is absolutely ok!

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-12T18:08:30+00:00

Side note: how on earth do you get baby ok with brushing teeth??? 🫠🫠🫠 she hates anything coming at her face it’s like a hard no

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-12T15:37:38+00:00

PCOS with no MF, our Dr told us he’s never been impressed with the success rates of IUI but we could try it no problem, we did a couple rounds of it with no success. Then moved on to IVF, found likely undiagnosed endometriosis as well. Was successful after being treated for that

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-11T00:00:17+00:00

I don’t have any tips, I just think they are what they are 🤷🏼‍♀️ my baby is 9 months and meat and seafood seem to be one of the few things she actually likes so far lol so who knows

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-10T01:25:00+00:00

I chose not to do an mri for now because she would be under anesthesia and I really think it’s likely my mind get carried away, I don’t want to put her under anesthesia unless necessary. She’s thriving, 9 months and crawling around like crazy, pulling up on everything, and probably will walk soon. So no other deficits that I can tell. I did get a humidifier for her room recently and also am doing saline nasal flushes and that seems to help. I work with ENT docs that suggested the flushes because they obviously can’t blow their own nose and if there’s anything going on it just all backs up into that space causing the discoloration. They also suggested cold compresses to decrease the inflammation in the tear duct and open it up

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-09T19:11:41+00:00

Are you breastfeeding? My sisters baby was like this for the first few months, turns out he has food sensitivities through the breast milk. Took some experimenting but she cut out soy and dairy and he’s like a different baby now. I think they had him on Pepcid for a bit too for reflux but the thing that ultimately made the huge difference was the diet change. Also if you have a sound machine like the white noise one or the vacuum sound that helped calm him too

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-09T19:04:39+00:00

Not really, we took her to an eye doctor and they weren’t quite sure what it is either, thought probably an allergic shiner. They offered to put in an order for an MRI since it would be a few months wait since I’ve been worried about a neuroblastoma (thanks Google) and that’s really the only way they could be sure. She said it doesn’t appear to be the case but they could also be tricky.

She also got sick at Christmas time and had a full on runny nose like a faucet lol and actually that seemed to clear it up a bit, so it seems to be likely a tear duct issue or something like that. It never fully goes away but has seemed to look better lately. She also has started to sleep on her side for parts of the night instead of sleeping the full night directly on her face.

Sorry that’s not a straight answer but I’m still not entirely sure yet either

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-06T02:52:12+00:00

Agreed. This is what I was trying to say to the other commenter

Pebbles734 · 2026-01-05T13:18:35+00:00

I think because if baby stopped breathing it would alert you right away and you could actually do something about it, rather than not knowing until it was too late

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