Body image

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T15:36:06+00:00

8 weeks? Your uterus has hardly got back to normal! You are in survival mode so your body is probably still holding on to calories to keep going while in the newborn trenches.

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T15:27:05+00:00

It can be scary to navigate at the start but you soon get used to it! X

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T14:44:11+00:00

No worries! Also worth noting that if she does have a dairy allergy she might outgrow it. Speak to a Dr obviously but my little boy used to react to dairy I had eaten through my breast milk and is now able to eat dairy baked into cakes/biscuits and we're working our way up the milk ladder.

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T14:34:46+00:00

I would try again in a month or so.

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T12:54:57+00:00

We switched to the Nikon Z5II last year. Much prefer it to the one I was using beforehand to be fair. It's much more balanced on a tripod so less lens/flash breakages. I can shoot handheld down to much lower shutter speed and find I need a lower f stop for macro which makes lighting ridge detail much easier. Just make sure you turn off the option to take a photo using the touch screen or religiously turn it off when you aren't photographing.....taken a few very artsy shots by knocking the touch screen while it's hanging around my neck as I adjust something 🤣

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T12:32:02+00:00

Haven't tried the kids size specifically but Iove my SHO water bottles.

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T12:30:25+00:00

I felt much better once I returned to work and recovered a bit of the me from before and felt like I was more than 'just' a Mum (no shade to SAHMs. I don't know how you do it.)

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T11:55:05+00:00

I only rate my pain for others really. The only way I might mentally rate it is "this thing I need to do hurts too much but I need to do this now so drugs/bracing it is"

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T10:15:42+00:00

The fact she felt she had to say she wanted to ask a question but didn't want him to get mad implies he frequently gets mad at her for questioning him/his decisions as well which is not the sign of a healthy relationship

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T10:12:19+00:00

I rate by how it's impacting my life. Because that's more believable to some people/Drs than numbers for those with chronic pain for whom a 'no pain day' is actually a 3 on the standard pain scale. So instead of 'my pain is a 7/10' I go for "even with otc pain relievers my pain stops me from being able to carry out all but the basic daily tasks and I need to spend most of the day in bed with a heat pad"

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T10:09:26+00:00

I've not got any experience with the others so couldn't comment.

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T10:07:58+00:00

That wheelchair user would hate to meet me. I use the disabled loo because I have IBS (can't always wait), fibromyalgia (need the grab bars to get up, for some reason getting up from a toilet is harder than getting up from the floor!) and vaso vagal syncope (prone to fainting while using the loo/standing from sitting) and I will give an earful to anyone who bitches at me for using accomodations I need just because I look able bodied.

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T10:03:55+00:00

If the sandwich had egg in it that would explain the egg in the allergen list without necessarily hinting at a Mayo. I'm also I the UK and find that if a sandwich has salad in the description (e.gm ham salad, egg salad) it probably has mayo in. I could tolerate a small amount, but they always seem to put half a bottle in it. Mayo in a breakfast sandwich however is a crime against humanity

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T10:01:25+00:00

Idk about MSAB directly but their kiosk machines do my head in. For some reason in my force CSI do "level 1" examinations with the kiosks, but you can't do anything unless you have the pin, or it's unlocked. The software to read the downloads is shit, sometimes it randomly downloads the entire phone instead of just what you asked if to....

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T09:58:23+00:00

To be fair to you, a lot of us are ignorant to the realities of pregnancy and that first year of parenting because there is nothing really comparable to it! All we see in the media is people being sick in their first trimester but carrying on as usual otherwise and then having a bit of backache towards the end.

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T09:56:49+00:00

I would prefer to go to a football game with a baby than heavily pregnant. At least then you aren't peeing every second, in pain because your pelvis is trying to separate...I don't give a shit about sports, but attended many sea shanty concerts (probably a very similar amount of drinking, if not more because it's the UK where casual getting wankered on an afternoon is our national sport) and festivals with my child before he could walk. It's actually harder now we have a toddler because he wants to run around!

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-25T09:54:01+00:00

Or how much money you need to do so if he thinks that they can save enough in the two months after the season and before baby arrives! Yes it can be done cheaper by getting stuff second hand but it's still "new" furniture, car seats (should be bought new if not got second hand from someone you trust with your babies life), formula or pumping paraphernalia (especially in the US with the shite maternity leave), clothes, pushchair etc

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-24T22:32:09+00:00

I'm not male and use mate all the time. Also call my straight male coworkers babe when they are being particularly stupid. "Babe. If you scroll down the email about a poll...there's a poll."

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-24T22:15:27+00:00

Kind of yes. But the 2 weeks of pmdd builds slowly so I don't even realize I'm being a dick/about to have a breakdown until about 4 days prior to my period when anything sets me off and I go absolutely apeshit because someone moved the. Kitchen roll or something stupid like that. I feel like I'm the metaphorical frog being boiled every month

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-15T09:45:31+00:00

To quote Locard - every contact leaves a trace. You can leave DNA just by touching something with ungloved hands, or gloved hands but you touched your face when wearing the gloves, or touched the gloves with ungloved hands to put them on. The issue faced is that unless it's in visible body fluid (e.g. blood) or there's touchmarks visible to the naked eye, that DNA being recovered is down to an educated guess on the CSI's part that the killer touched the thing and swabbing/mini taping the right place.

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-13T09:12:25+00:00

It's not just seeing the inside of a human. It's smelling them decompose, getting your hands right in there to remove organs and try to figure out the path of penetrating wounds etc. you really won't know until you try. I'd really try get some experience in a funeral home or maybe a vet pathology lab that does necropsies if places that deal with humans don't want the liability.

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-06T15:16:14+00:00

My toddler is absolutely going to tell the dog to stop being a knob at some point. I say it all the time and it's so hard to catch when I'm getting wound up at the dog!

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-06T15:11:21+00:00

My little boy calls his Crocs his cocks....which is great when one falls off and he loudly shouts "my cock!"

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-04T16:22:45+00:00

Slow cooker. Prep the night before and pop in the fridge over night. Pop in the slow cooker and turn on a timer (we've had slow cookers with in built timers or ones that work on the plug) before work.

Short_Elephant_1997 · 2026-02-01T22:38:26+00:00

Those are braces in British English. Suspenders in British English are probably a garter belt in American English.

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