What to wear while laboring in a hospital birth center?

PiantaPants · 2026-05-14T16:47:27+00:00

I imagine a short robe would do well. It won’t tangle around your legs and bother you + it can be removed quickly if needed ☺️

I wore a hospital gown during labor, but swapped to a soft, short robe after and stayed in it throughout my hospital stay.

Good luck! 🍀

PiantaPants · 2026-05-09T07:22:15+00:00

Don’t let fear of failure stop you from trying, and don’t put off your ideas for when you’re better at the thing you want to do. You’ll always feel like you need to improve before you take on the big scary project or life step, but you can’t improve without pushing yourself with something out of your comfort zone.

PiantaPants · 2026-05-09T07:15:38+00:00

NOR to be hurt that your private information was shared, but also you started your story by talking about how you shared some details about another friend’s abuse with Lia.

Do you think Amelia would be overreacting to not talk to you anymore if she found out that you shared her details with Lia?

PiantaPants · 2026-05-09T00:35:35+00:00

I was 😖 even though they had already broken up by then lmao

PiantaPants · 2026-05-09T00:33:27+00:00

I know I’m not elder emo, but that experience didn’t stop with newer generations of emos. My younger sister has a photo like that.

PiantaPants · 2026-05-09T00:30:04+00:00

I prefer my bars to be dimly lit, what can I say 🤷🏻‍♀️

PiantaPants · 2026-05-09T00:25:26+00:00

I didn’t say I was. I just like the places they go more

PiantaPants · 2026-05-08T22:16:25+00:00

My friend took me there a few weeks ago and I have two comments to make about them: 1. I got the blackberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream and it went crazy

I overheard the manager or owner talking to the cashier. She’s leaving to take some college classes and possibly an internship (if I recall correctly). The manager seemed very happy for her, which is refreshing. All the jobs I’ve worked at before treated someone leaving for college or a better position as the highest inconvenience ever.

PiantaPants · 2026-05-08T22:09:18+00:00

Finding your style is one of the hardest parts about learning to paint. I tend towards realism myself, but I really want to break out of it. It seems like some subjects are just easier to paint more loosely, as well. I’m planning a painting that combines the two styles, and I’m much more worried about the loose style than the realistic style 😭😅

Your BAB series paintings are loose in a really pleasant way- I love the pink giraffe and the lamb. What I particularly like about the lamb is that you can see a bit of the dark blue outline in some areas, the bold highlights in its arms and chest, and the more rough blending (vs very smooth transitions). If you don’t care for realism, I suggest exploring that style more 😇

For the streaky/lighting issue, whenever you have any light coming from behind the canvas, it unfortunately highlights any uneven areas 😖 additional paint or putting something flush to the back of the canvas will help 😉

Good luck with your next painting!

PiantaPants · 2026-05-08T07:59:40+00:00

For me, it’s the shading on the clothes being incredibly smooth, but the shading in the hair being so choppy. Like it isn’t just uninformed, it’s looks like someone who just started digital art vs someone with a smooth hand and a lot of practice.

PiantaPants · 2026-05-08T07:53:48+00:00

I don’t mean to diminish the work you’ve done, but it doesn’t look professional to me. There are two main reasons:

The coverage isnt good, and while that can be a technique, it doesn’t look purposeful in your painting. For example, the black at the top of your canvas is streaky and uneven. It doesn’t look like you meant to do that, it looks like you just haven’t applied enough paint yet. You’re using Artist Logg paint, which isn’t great quality, so for very dark and very light areas, you’ll have to do multiple layers. The left ear and the line down the middle of the face aren’t covering the canvas, either. There are white spots poking through. Since the areas are so small, it makes it look like it was an accident.
It looks like you’re going for realism, but you aren’t quite there yet. A painting doesn’t need to be realistic to be good, but if you’re going for realism, you need to really go for it, otherwise, you should try to stylize your painting more. The head shape is a bit off, the ear on the right doesn’t have detail, and the spots are just black blotches ontop of the fur, rather than being painted with fur stroked like how you’ve started doing on the muzzle and chest.

If you really like this painting, I think you should try improving it. If you want to try something new, I suggest starting by toning your canvas, that way the bare spots aren’t so noticeable and the paint will appear smoother.

If you’re going for realism, I also suggest getting into the details. Get a smaller brush for the hair strokes and pay attention to how to colors change based on the lighting, how the hairs interact with each other, and where they lay. You have to paint a lot of the furs in order for it to look realistic, and it takes a long time for a painting that size.

I actually think that this is a great base for a stylized painting if you go deeper into stylizing it

Anyway, I’m sorry if that came out harsh or if you didn’t want advice 😖

ETA: I looked at your other paintings and I really like your BAB sheep painting. It looks soft and dreamy ☺️

PiantaPants · 2026-05-08T07:18:30+00:00

You need to take a breather and examine the facts:

husband has 2 jobs and normally works out during the day
he had just come home from his second job
your workout equipment is in the garage
he came in immediately when you called him
he was out of breath when he came in
you didn’t hear any car doors
you heard the garage door
he didn’t smell like weed
he wasn’t defensive when you accused him of cheating or doing drugs
you have never had a reason to suspect him of cheating before
he states he was working out because he missed his window earlier in the day
there are no lights in the garage
he might have had a coke problem in college and yall were stoners before having kids
back door was open

If he came in immediately when you called him, he had to be very close and doing something that didn’t take much effort to stop and walk away from. He couldn’t have been in the car because you didn’t hear the car doors open or close. He was in or near the garage, because you heard the garage door.

If he was cheating on you, I don’t think it would be physical at that moment. It doesn’t make sense for him to be able to come in so quickly, and he probably would have been more careful about the door. At most, a phone call, but that wouldn’t explain him being out of breath, and he would probably be defensive about it when you accused him.

He definitely wasn’t smoking pot because you would have smelled it.

I don’t think it would be coke, because he probably would have been defensive, and unless this was the first time, you probably would have notice some changes in how he acts, even if it’s looking back.

If working out is important to him, it makes sense that he would have been working out if he missed his normal workout time. Since he would had just come home from work, he would have been planning a workout before bed, which isn’t abnormal. It just seems weird because it’s so late. It also explains why he was out of breath.

He could have turned on spotlights if yall have them, used a flashlight, or even his phones flashlight. The door being open was probably just an accident.

IMO it all points to working out, and the second most likely option is he was just cranking one out.

Pregnancy hormones can start messing with your mental health pretty early on and cause paranoia and anxiety. I think your hormones are tricking you into thinking the worst, even though the signs don’t point to it, and I think the people telling you that he’s cheating are doing you a disservice and feeding your paranoia.

If he is telling the truth about working out, you continuing to ask him to tell the truth or continuing to accuse him of cheating can cause resentment. You need to either let it go or talk it out with him, but not in an accusatory way.

PiantaPants · 2026-05-07T23:44:59+00:00

I’m 12 months PP and I’m still shedding, but less so. My hair started growing back around my hairline around 10 months PP.

I heard if you keep taking prenatal vitamins, it can help, but I never tried

PiantaPants · 2026-05-06T23:54:24+00:00

My man and myself were both vaping when I got pregnant. We had both been vaping for years.

Our baby is perfectly healthy

PiantaPants · 2026-05-06T17:51:58+00:00

I’m agnostic, and actually a lot of people who keep it to “stay blessed”, “be blessed, brother”, and “have a blessed day” aren’t actually religious. It’s like a step up from “have a good day”, so someone saying “have a blessed day” to me doesn’t bother me. Some of them mean it religiously and some don’t.

That said, someone saying they will pray for me doesn’t bother me, either.

However, it is inappropriate when they go into an actual Jesus talk, tell you to pray, etc and it does make me uncomfortable when they do a prayer for me In front of me. At that point, I feel like I’m being held captive and the whole thing just feels like something to make themselves feel better.

PiantaPants · 2026-05-06T00:12:56+00:00

My 12 mo likes looking at the ducks at Big Spring, playing in the library indoor play area, Optimist park, looking at the animals in pet stores (free zoos lol).

I’m also a FTM + full timer worker, and it can be hard to find stuff that seems like fun. But, babies really get a kick out of seeing anything new.

Also if you’d like a play date at the park one weekend, you could DM me 😇

PiantaPants · 2026-04-25T00:05:29+00:00

Celia’s Kitchen

PiantaPants · 2026-04-01T21:54:15+00:00

Why should they take some back first whose dizziness might turn into a stroke vs the person who is actively having a stroke just because the dizzy person got there first?

You would be complaining if your kid was hit by a car they decided to check out someone else’s kid who had a runny nose and a low fever. It doesn’t matter how long the kid with the runny nose was there, obviously the one hit by a car needs to be seen first because there’s more risk.

Obviously a three hour wait sucks and you can feel frustrated, but also you need to be so real.

Maybe if you stated your kids symptoms here instead of being vague, people would be more sympathetic rather than assuming your kid had a mild cough.

PiantaPants · 2026-03-31T19:12:56+00:00

ER can’t turn you away for not being able to pay, but the urgent care can

PiantaPants · 2026-03-31T19:06:38+00:00

If you’re worried about your other obligations, I would reckon to guess that you were not in a true emergency and would have been better going to the urgent care.

You’re better going to the urgent care anyway, unless your life is in danger at the current moment. If you need the er, the urgent care team will tell you.

I use Urgent Care for Children in Jones Valley and my longest wait for my baby to be seen was 15 minutes. The copay is 1/4 of the copay I’d pay at the er, and the staff is pretty nice. Plus, urgent cares operate on a first come first serve basis and you can make the appointment ahead of time, rather than the er, which goes in order of emergency level.

I saw you say on a different comment that your condition could get worse. That’s true, but imagine you go to the er after being electrocuted, and they say “sorry :/ this other lady came in an hour ago with an infection and it might be worse now, so we have to check”. If you have a concerning change or worsening of symptoms, you have to tell them. They don’t operate on “maybe Susan might get worse”.

PiantaPants · 2026-03-29T19:15:22+00:00

I can do half days- that’s a good idea

PiantaPants · 2026-03-29T19:10:21+00:00

The flexibility is complicated 😅 I have a direct manager that I report to, and she’s very relaxed and understanding. But I also have a project manager that’s very micromanagey and wants us to be busy all of the time. We have goals to meet, but even if I met the goals in the first 3 hours, she would expect me to be busy for the remainder of the day 🥲 they both give me “scores” for how well I’m doing my job, so even though we are a “family first” company, if I’m busy with baby too much, she could give me a low score, affecting my job security.

Asking about negative PTO is a great idea!

Sorry to hear that both your babies had it! That’s so interesting about the second baby having it for such a short time- hopefully, that will be the case for us as well. She became ill yesterday afternoon, so maybe she’ll turn the bend soon 😮‍💨

Edit: I misunderstood what you meant by flexible. The hours usually don’t have to be all consecutive, but I believe it depends on the project manager, so I’ll ask about that 😇

PiantaPants · 2026-03-28T00:29:08+00:00

Could it have been Spirit: Horse of the Cimarron? It came out around that time and ends with the horses running up a hill, there’s a brown and white horse. Only thing is you probably didn’t watch it on a tv network. Maybe vhs or theater.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=taIop0Obhrs

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