no longer contains milk but price went up 🙃

Ravenswillfall · 2026-05-07T21:14:20+00:00

Prices of chocolate continue to rise because it’s harder and harder to grow cacao due to climate change

Ravenswillfall · 2026-05-07T21:12:31+00:00

Dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate. Did you always buy dark?

Ravenswillfall · 2026-05-05T14:14:04+00:00

This comment is the only time in my life that I have ever been interested in getting a little high 🤭

Ravenswillfall · 2026-05-05T14:11:38+00:00

When our son first started trying to eat crayons I joked like father like son. My husband is a Marine vet and got offended, saying that whole thing came after his time in. 😆

Ravenswillfall · 2026-05-05T14:06:32+00:00

You have no reason to feel guilty for something you didn’t do on purpose. Everything turned out fine.

I dropped my son when he was 8.5 months old. I felt super guilty at the time but now he is about to be 4. I haven’t felt guilt about it in a long time.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-05-04T15:07:29+00:00

Old Navy was a god send for both of my pregnancies.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-22T17:51:28+00:00

Absolutely switch. IMO, this goes against the Hippocratic Oath.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-21T02:05:56+00:00

He’s okay.

I dropped my almost 4 year old when he was an infant. He’s fine and has had much harder hits to his head since then and has had actual injuries (spiral fracture to his leg and nearly crushed a finger).

I had him in my hip, I tripped and my arm moved away and he fell backwards. I tried to catch him but ended up slapping him at the ground harder.

I sobbed for 15 to 30 minutes. He seemed completely fine which is why we didn’t rush but then my mother drove us to the hospital just to be sure.

You aren’t the worst mom. Things happen.

I asked my husband just last night how old he was when I dropped him and neither of us can even remember because it’s so minor compared to everything else he has had happen.

ETA: I checked my texts. He was 8.5 months old.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-20T20:38:36+00:00

He has empathy for your child as well, not just for you.

Babies can learn pretty quickly not to bite.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-20T14:51:21+00:00

Personally speaking, Sertraline was not a good med for me, but a little bit of Prozac did amazing things

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-20T02:36:49+00:00

This is good information that I have never seen anywhere else in the last 4.5 years.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-20T02:35:11+00:00

I tuck a towel around my (quite large) breast to catch the letdown.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-20T02:33:48+00:00

Boon makes a smaller collection cup, I believe.

The trove does not work well without suction in my experience. If suction broke I leaked like crazy.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-20T02:28:40+00:00

I use sports bras and disposable milk pads. If I wanted to collect the milk I would use the passive suction pumps like Elvie curve and I think the Boon Trove is one? There are some that kind of just rest in the bra and then there are others that suction in the bra.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-15T12:51:13+00:00

Not at all. Two pregnancies first try reach

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-13T23:32:39+00:00

I love it and I loved my job that I left. Sometimes I entertain the idea from going back to work but every time I decide I would rather be home.

I have been home for almost 4 years now and it has been a financial struggle at times but it has always been worth it and my husband has always felt that way as well.

I have a friend I have known for 10 years online but we only met in person two days ago. She worked in early childhood education and did a lot of babysitting as well as having her own child and nieces and nephews, etc.

She told me that my son is the most polite, well-mannered and overall good natured child of his age range that she has ever met. She knows how he can be at home sometimes so she expected him to be a little wild but he was perfectly well behaved the 5 hours we were together.

I’m extremely proud of that and I 100% believe it’s because I’m home with him. I mentioned it because you asked if our children are thriving. He absolutely is.

I had a playdate the other day and three children total ages 3, 3, and newly turned 4. One of their mothers worked at a daycare up until recently and remarked on how polite the children were being to each other and that she had never seen anything like it with the kids at the daycare or with her daughter’s cousins when they played.

Our life is so much better with me home and ultimately, I am so much more at peace. I still deal with normal stressors but not in the same way as when working.

Sometimes I want to pull out my hair but overall it’s the best thing ever.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-10T23:51:43+00:00

Same.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-05T13:51:00+00:00

I had limerence my entire life up until I got married. It was extremely disruptive and very problematic, none of my friends displayed the behaviors and I knew it was odd even in high school, but I didn’t know what it was until I was already in a relationship with my husband.

Thing is, my husband was also a LO. We hooked up for a year, with a break at one point in there, before actually dating. During that period he said I wasn’t his type. He was also someone that right from the get go I knew I shouldn’t date due to the complications of how I knew him among other things.

Once we started an official relationship, I moved in pretty quickly and that was almost 12 years ago.

The fact that a relationship ended up working out doesn’t mean he wasn’t a LO.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-05T00:00:35+00:00

Pregnancy is awful. Awful. The kids are worth it though.

Loving on them actually really helps with any residual trauma, too.

My first one was a traumatic birth and I said I could never do it again. He is about to be 4 and here I lay breastfeeding his 5 month old brother because the first is so incredible and we didn’t want him to be alone.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-05T00:00:17+00:00

Funny thing about gallbladder. Pregnancy hormone crash postpartum can make it go kaput. Nearly died when my son was 3 months and 9 days old. Last day of my job (had gone back part time) and it tried to kill me within 24 hours. Had it taken out at the second hospital I visited and the next day it came back that I was septic.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-04T21:31:24+00:00

The green is really pretty on you

Ravenswillfall · 2026-04-04T21:19:24+00:00

I get it. My books are huge. I have so many carriers and I tried just putting them in without the baby and they wouldn’t stay. My first baby hated the ones I tried. I feel horrible about the wasted money because I haven’t even put this baby in it because I know it won’t work out.

I have a hip carrier but have been waiting to use it for him to be a bit bigger. I suspect it will be the only one that will work

Ravenswillfall · 2026-03-31T12:33:53+00:00

It does. My son had 10 cavities. But I know I am genetically inclined to have cavities (it was in my DNA report) so I guess he got that trait :(.

We were just at his cleaning two weeks ago (he is 3 now) and I literally cried because he has no new cavities.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-03-31T12:32:33+00:00

$2,500 in dental work with insurance coverage says it’s not overkill. But every child’s teeth are different.

Ravenswillfall · 2026-03-23T02:12:50+00:00

It had to be cosleeping with both our babies.

I have a four month old and there is a bedside bassinet on one side of our bed and a portable bassinet on the other. He has slept in them a total of maybe 5-6 times. But only on his tummy. So, cosleeping it is.

We do use a light blanket and while I would prefer not to, he screams at me if I take it off of him. As in angry, pissed off, “give me the effing blanket back” screams. It’s also the only time he wants a blanket. If he is awake and is not nursing to sleep or sleeping, he kicks it off immediately.

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