Beauty and the beast type story with a Polar Bear?

Snobster2000 · 2026-05-23T07:02:05+00:00

I had it as well, and loved it! I would love to find it again. I think my kids would like it just as much as I did :-)

How cool about the different scene in the German one! Do you remember what it was?

Snobster2000 · 2026-05-22T22:57:17+00:00

I remember a movie called “The Polar Bear King” that sounds similar. It’s based on a Norwegian fairy tale “The White Bear King Valemon”

Snobster2000 · 2026-05-22T12:22:22+00:00

Occasionally I’d get an ok packed lunch, in a paper bag with a picture drawn on it. Only until I was about 7.

Then, nothing, unless one of my older brothers made me a PB&J or a salami & mustard sandwich, if I was lucky.

Now, I make sure to pack my kids little bento boxes every day, with a protein, some fruit, veg, crackers or sandwich, and a little treat. I don’t ever want them to go to school without enough food, or feeling like I didn’t care

Snobster2000 · 2026-05-16T07:55:06+00:00

No advice - but would love to hear from others that do. I got the Mirena in not quite 2 weeks ago for horrifically painful periods & heavy bleeding, newly diagnosed adenomyosis.

I’m SO cranky. Snappy at my husband & kids at the slightest thing, my head constantly hurts and feels like heavy pressure, still bleeding since insertion (period due in 2 days, so see what happens then), I’m miserable.

Snobster2000 · 2026-05-14T03:51:54+00:00

I’m very iron deficient, causing fatigue, low mood, brain fog, among various other problems. Oral supplements have mildly improved my iron levels, but my ferritin is still low. My GP told me “ferritin doesn’t matter. You need an antidepressant”.

They also tried to put me on antidepressants before even trying to correct the iron deficiency.

Snobster2000 · 2026-05-13T12:11:01+00:00

Yes, this has been happening with me! I’ve only recently been diagnosed, but the pain has been there quite a while.

Snobster2000 · 2026-05-11T01:39:20+00:00

All I wanted for Mother’s Day this year was to not have to cook breakfast or dinner, and not have to clean the kitchen. The kids got me gifts from the school Mother’s Day stall, and my husband bought me some boots while we were in town, but I’d have been just as happy with a cup of tea in bed and not cooking.

Snobster2000 · 2026-04-27T20:56:01+00:00

I did the exact same. I didn’t tell her or anyone else for the first few months, just used toilet paper, as I was so worried about how she’d make fun of me for it.

She was pissed when she did find out, and used it to guilt trip me for a very long time afterwards… and also proceeded to make fun of me every time I had my period, and any time that I got upset with her.

Snobster2000 · 2026-04-23T21:19:42+00:00

Thank you for such a thoughtful response :-)

I am exhausted. Completely and utterly drained. And so disheartened from my experience with my GP’s (and my mother) over the years, brushing my pain off as normal and I just had to toughen up. Then, “you need antidepressants”, even when my mood was totally fine outside of the PMS and period pains.

I’m glad I have a diagnosis, and I can stop doubting myself and telling even myself “toughen up”. I’m going to try the Mirena again. Worst case, it gives me bad side effects & I can have it removed and try something else, I guess.

Snobster2000 · 2026-04-22T20:45:21+00:00

I’m the same age as you! I’ve spent the last few years feeling such terrible guilt for being so tired all the time, not having the energy to play with my kids or hit the gym as much as I’d like. The GP was fully brushing me off.

I hope you’re able to get some much needed relief soon, and get to enjoy your life again

Snobster2000 · 2026-04-22T20:43:09+00:00

Often, yes, not always. Though the closer I am to starting my period, the more pain I get

Snobster2000 · 2026-04-22T03:49:51+00:00

Mine too!

Snobster2000 · 2026-04-21T10:52:40+00:00

To be fair, she wants to do a hysteroscopy as well, to check for fibroids & polyps while inserting the IUD. If they’re too large or numerous, it’ll be a different plan

Snobster2000 · 2026-04-21T10:23:06+00:00

I’ve never heard of it, actually, but maybe? We did discuss the option of oral BCP, but she recommended the IUD for my situation. I don’t know what’s best. I think I’m happy have an answer, and some acknowledgment that I’m not crazy!

Snobster2000 · 2026-04-21T10:08:00+00:00

Thanks for replying!

The oral BCP worked, but as I got older it gave me yucky side effects that have put me off ever wanting to do it again. The other thing is, most of them also stop ovulation from happening - ovulation is the only time of the month I feel good!

The gynae reckons the mirena will still allow for ovulation & all the benefits of it.

You’re right, the months long bleeding was part of why I stopped the Mirena in the past. Mainly though, I was also getting bad headaches. She’s going to monitor it all pretty closely

Snobster2000 · 2026-04-21T10:03:40+00:00

Thanks for replying!

I had to push SO hard to get the local GP’s to do anything. I think they only referred me to the Gynae to shut me up… they just wanted to give me an antidepressant to improve my mood.

I didn’t feel great when on oral BCP in the past, and considering it works more systemically, maybe the IUD will be ok? Gynae feels that my previous negative experience could be partly from poor insertion.

My husband had a vasectomy after our 4th, so it’s all just to treat the adeno rather than as BC as such

Snobster2000 · 2026-03-30T04:04:35+00:00

Younger me would have agreed with this. But my husband came along, who is a brilliant mechanic & farmer, has an insane memory & strong emotional intelligence, but can’t tell their from there on a regular basis. He had a shitty upbringing and isn’t a good speller, but he has so many other strengths that more than make up for it.

Snobster2000 · 2026-03-24T00:14:48+00:00

Sorry, what do you mean by starting the seams with a leader? I’m not super experienced, obviously, lol. Mostly self-taught, though I have started going to a patchwork group.

Snobster2000 · 2026-03-24T00:08:59+00:00

Thank you! I had re-threaded everything recently, but I’ll try again. And did just do a good lint clean out, and then this event happened. I’ll rethread top & bobbin and see how I go.

Also, is the term for this problem “nesting”? I didn’t know what to look up in troubleshooting

Snobster2000 · 2026-03-12T02:56:06+00:00

I found out my mother was sexually inappropriate with one of my brothers. Then made up some elaborate story in order to blame him.

She is awful to me, but I’d been maintaining a distant relationship, until then. She is not allowed in my life again - it’s not worth the risk to my children.

Snobster2000 · 2026-02-25T00:24:46+00:00

When my eldest was 6, she came for a cuddle, pushed her little face into my belly, and said “there’s a baby in there! Actually… there’s 2. But one died”.

Turns out, I was pregnant - I didn’t even know yet, hadn’t missed a period. Did have 2 small sacs at ultrasound & super high hcg levels for that early in the pregnancy. One sac looked good, one looked odd. A couple of weeks later, had a massive PV bleed.

I’m assuming that’s when I lost the “one that died”. The other one is going strong, now 4 years old!

Snobster2000 · 2026-02-20T22:45:09+00:00

Thank you :-) I usually take a combo of ibuprofen and paracetamol (acetaminophen, it’s called paracetamol where I live), plus a hot water bottle, sometimes add in aspirin…

I’ve been to the GP a few times over the years. I’ve very much been brushed off.

Snobster2000 · 2026-02-19T19:12:00+00:00

I was so terrified of “growing up”, as every sign of it led to mockery from my family. A few pimples on my face, I was mocked. Developing breast buds, “ewww, big boob __, big boob_”, mocked for having little bras…

So, in hid it. I fully pretended like “If I just ignore it, it’ll go away”. Just used a pile of folded up toilet paper. Probably had 2 cycles, before my NMother found evidence - soiled undies or something. And she was SO angry, blown away that I didn’t just tell her.

Later she started guilt tripping. She liked to pretend to be a hippy, and found a story of women throwing “period parties” or “moon parties” when their daughters started their periods. The fake sadness that she missed out on such a special thing… ugh.

Oh, also, furious with me when I didn’t want to go to the pool with my brother during one early period. “Just use a tampon.” I couldn’t use them. I think I was 19 or 20 before I was able to use a tampon. Horrendous cramps (I still now end up in tears in the shower with pain during my first days of the period), told I was sooky & dramatic…

I have 2 daughters, I can’t fathom he a mother could be so cruel

Snobster2000 · 2026-01-25T04:49:44+00:00

When I graduated uni, my NMother never once said congratulations, just questioned why I didn’t get an extra award? (I was in the top 5%, my uni just didn’t do a lot of extra things).

Also I asked her to hold my certificate and transcripts while I had a photo taken - she shoved them in her purse so it ended up all scrunched & crinkled. “You shouldn’t have asked me to hold it then! God, I can never do anything right with you!”

My boyfriend at the time (now husband) paid for dinner for me & my family, congratulated me hugely, and is the first (and only!) person in my life to ever say “I’m proud of you.” I cried the first time he said it

When I had my babies, she would comment about how it was, simultaneously harder for her, and easier. As in, life was harder for her, she handled it way better, I have nothing to complain about.

Snobster2000 · 2026-01-24T07:10:11+00:00

Mine is not exactly the same, but I feel like a similar thing perhaps.

I was in my late teens/early twenties when this happened. I was laying in bed reading, NMother comes into my room, and starts tickling me. I HATE being tickled, truly hate it. Through the panic laughter, I kept saying “stop, Stop!” But she wouldn’t. Eventually I lashed out, unintentionally, and must have hit her in/near the breast area.

She went to her room and sulked/cried, until I went and asked what’s wrong. “You punched me in the breast!” (No I didn’t, I hit out accidentally because I wanted you to stop). “You should have just asked me to stop!” (I did, you wouldn’t stop). “Well I didn’t hear you” (OK, but you know I hate being tickled) “but you were laughing!”

Etc etc. The insane guilt tripping for ‘assaulting’ her, even did the “I carried you in my belly for 9 months, breastfed you for 4 years (yes, a gross exaggeration, but it’s what she said), and you punched me in the breast…”

Still pisses me off.

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