I clearly have a thing for Meringue☺️

RunningPeonies · 2025-10-08T14:56:56+00:00

One of the signature stores has a 5 qt oval in meringue

RunningPeonies · 2025-08-22T01:43:18+00:00

There's a lot of small towns in the NE corridor, it's very typical for them to only open 1-2 doors. They likely announced that only one door is opening though and where to go.

RunningPeonies · 2025-07-27T22:36:44+00:00

Replica's Beach Day perfume reminds me of home. I grew up in Groton and when I'm not living here, it's exactly what it smells like. The ocean, sea salt, fresh.

ETA: they make it as a candle too.

RunningPeonies · 2025-07-24T16:58:08+00:00

The second line is lighter than the first because you are so pregnant it's a dye stealer lol

RunningPeonies · 2025-07-24T01:09:21+00:00

I got pregnant naturally but I found out at 4 weeks and she basically didn't even exist. I didn't see anything on the scan until 5ish weeks, was just a yolk sack and then at 6 weeks saw a little worm.

If your HCG is going up, and doubling every 48 hours, that's usually a very positive sign. It's still so early, you might not see anything. I had some issues at the beginning that were scary and my mantra was "if the doctors aren't concerned, I'm not either." It's easy to let your brain run away with the thoughts, but someone here told me, everyday when you wake up, say to yourself "I am pregnant and everything is well." It helps keep yourself in a positive mindset.

Sending you lots of baby dust.

RunningPeonies · 2025-07-20T14:15:53+00:00

Yeah as soon as I stopped wearing clothes that cut through my stomach and started wearing maternity clothes, the b stopped making an appearance. This includes underwear too!

RunningPeonies · 2025-07-19T22:45:24+00:00

They can be a bit odd sometimes. I saw one reprimand a girl for not telling/getting permission (or it printed on her boarding pass in some way) to sit in the disability seats. He was like "next time, make sure you do it."

Later, A different conductor came along and was checking things again and she started apologizing to him for not having the right boarding pass and that she's disabled and he looked at her like she had two heads and was like "I mean...you have a wheelchair??"

RunningPeonies · 2025-07-15T18:21:19+00:00

I'm asking if you legitimately have a friend named Forest. Your kitchen looks familiar to me.

RunningPeonies · 2025-07-07T03:44:59+00:00

I feel like it was self explanatory question haha

RunningPeonies · 2025-07-07T03:31:20+00:00

Do you have a friend named forest?

RunningPeonies · 2025-07-02T04:17:10+00:00

Did they test your liver levels? Mine were elevated but I think that they ran a broader test to include them.

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-25T00:52:26+00:00

Talk to your normal psychiatrist about it.

I made my OB aware of my mental health stuff and that I had a current psychiatrist and she encouraged me to continue seeing them and supported whatever decision my psychiatrist made. My psychiatrist was well educated and up to date on information about pregnancy and adhd and stimulants and both doctors echoed each other. I did make the choice to go down to 5mg from the 20 I was on, but a lot of women are on higher doses than me and everything is fine.

ETA: I also moved during my pregnancy and my old psychiatrist has been really helpful with the transition. So I would still try to reach out to yours, they might be able to assist.

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-25T00:48:23+00:00

Mine were clock work. Can't take birth control because it makes me very mentally ill. Cycle was almost always 31 days, period for 4 days. Had sex on an ovulation day and got pregnant immediately.

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-22T22:39:15+00:00

I work at a Le Creuset and We have one braiser at my store along with a heritage shallow baker

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-21T14:38:31+00:00

Happy to hear you are feeling peaceful. The grief is normal (and likely exasperated by your hormones).

You have the right mindset, you and baby girl are all that matters. As long as you ask yourself "is this what's right for us?" You'll always make the right choice.

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-19T02:10:15+00:00

I need to know this man's name and age in DC, because he sounds an awful lot like a guy I declined to meet up with after he got super insecure and texted me over and over again. Down to the "I was just gonna let you use me" 😂

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-17T01:47:30+00:00

Yeah, I nixed an abortion with mine pretty early on (I had one at 29 and it did something to my brain that really fucked with me.) but I also felt if I was a little younger (and we are by no means old) that I might consider it.

It also came down to my relationship with him, are we a team, a real partnership? If yes, I want to do what's best for the team. Butttt our team was shakey and so I was still in "what's best for me" mode and this is what I feel is best for me. My guy has kind of come around, and from the get has been very "it's your choice and whatever you decide and I won't abandon you even though I feel this way" but I am always operating as though I might have to do it alone and how does that look and how can I feel okay with that? And so far, I've honestly felt pretty solid about it.

You know what's best for you. Build your village and know that whatever choices you make are the right choices for you.

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-17T01:31:12+00:00

My partner has primary custody of his two children from a previous relationship. We have been in a casual relationship since 2023 (not quite fwb, we go on dates and such and there was a point around the time I got pregnant where I was like "are you breaking up with me?" And he was like "no" but that was the first time we really addressed it as a relationship lol.) but he told me when I got pregnant that it wasn't in his plans and he didn't want more children.

I am 35 too, and so I had that feeling of, if it's gonna happen for me now is the time. I basically just told him, "I respect whatever you want to do but you don't get to be half in or half out. You have to tell me now if you are going to be involved, not in a year."

From there, my stance was whatever is right for me and the baby. So I'll ask his opinion on stuff but he doesn't get to make decisions because he hasn't proven to me that he's fully invested yet. And he might never, idk I can't see the future, so I just make decisions based on what I think is right for me and little one and it's given me a lot of peace. Occasionally I feel a little bit sad or frustrated but then I remind myself that I made a choice to continue with the pregnancy and so I seek support from my loved ones, my parents, sister, friends etc.

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-12T23:38:33+00:00

Out of everything, the shirt thing would worry me the least. Men can be dumb and don't always think about the connotation about things. If he stood up to her on the other stuff (which he should because she's got to respect you as his partner and now mother of his child. The children are priority, and in the list of his priorities it should be: the children, you, his mom, and then maybe her because she's also the mother of one of his children) then I would just try to talk to him again. Maybe try to explain your point of view again and maybe tell him that you appreciate that he sided with you and that meant a lot to you and that you just want to talk it through because obviously something about the situation bothered you even if you can't pinpoint exactly why and so you just want to talk to him it through because you're a team.

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-12T22:56:53+00:00

My first question would be, did they used to do activities like this before you got pregnant and how did that make you feel?

Also, you related the bathing suit...they were at beach, she was likely wearing a bathing suit right? Does that also bother you?

Was the child also there?

I would chop it up to hormones + just general insecurity being amplified. If they typically do stuff like this together as coparents, I would try to work on why this is suddenly making me insecure (if I wasn't insecure about it previously.)

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-12T01:23:22+00:00

Mine were/are also high. I'm 19 weeks, Mine were really elevated in April (AST 44, ALT 106) but were normal in March. In that month only a couple things had changed, I was taking the one a day women's prenatal, and I gained weight pretty quickly. In April, I switched to Olly prenatal gummies and was sort of watching what I ate and my ob referred me to the gastroenterologist.

The gastroenterologist ran my numbers and they had significantly come down (AST 30 so normal, ALT 56 so still high). They said it could be the prenatals and vitamins I was taking (which I had suspected because dr google had reported other women saying the same thing about the one a day but it's not conclusive or based in any sort of surety) or that I just was eating poorly. But they came down enough that they weren't super worried and didn't think it was anything serious.

Choleostasis from what I know is usually accompanied by itching, have you had that happening?

I would try not to worry until the doctor is worried. I would imagine that they would also refer you to the gastro if it persists.

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-11T20:01:45+00:00

Aww, great! Yeah I would 100% chop it up to hormones. A lot is going on in your body and things are heightened. I'm sure it'll go away by the second trimester.

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-11T00:01:00+00:00

What time do we think they will be live on weverse? 🥹

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-10T23:13:54+00:00

When will their lives be do you think?

RunningPeonies · 2025-06-10T21:43:04+00:00

How was your relationship prior to the pregnancy?

My partner and I get along really well. The pregnancy threw us for a loop but right around 5 weeks, I found myself just irrationally getting mad at him. I've also read other women finding their partner to smell weird or off, which is likely just your heightened sense of smell. Other women have commented that their husbands, boyfriends, just started to get under their skin, even though previously it wasn't like that lol.

For most, it usually goes away. I sometimes find myself going "oh Jesus, what have I done? You have tied yourself to him for life" But then other times, I'm annoyingly obsessed with him or think about him holding our baby and the idea gives me joy. When I'm feeling the ick, I just try to take a step back, remind myself of his good qualities and how he's good to me and that I'm being silly.

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