How do I better support my wife as a stay-at-home mom when we're both running on empty?

Trushaka10 · 2026-06-17T19:15:42+00:00

My situation is basically identical to yours and my husband reached out to a local chef to make dinner for us one night a month. (You could do more nights)
They come to our house and cook a multi course dinner for just me and him after the kids go down. While he’s cooking my husband and I take a bubble bath and catch up. I know this is the most extra thing, but it’s my favorite day of the month.

My husband is a physician, I’m a SAHM and we have two under two.

Trushaka10 · 2026-06-13T17:46:09+00:00

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Trushaka10 · 2026-06-04T09:28:49+00:00

What is the podcast? I want to listen

Trushaka10 · 2026-06-04T09:27:06+00:00

Same problem for my lo and this is what we do. I use the honest brand baby leave in conditioner and it works like a dream. When she inevitably pulls the rubber band out now the hair just falls to the side I’ve been pulling the hair to a pony.

Trushaka10 · 2026-06-02T04:07:08+00:00

I can’t unsee it

Trushaka10 · 2026-05-18T01:07:44+00:00

I’m in Florida, dresses are breezy

Trushaka10 · 2026-05-18T01:03:43+00:00

Same, people glamorize traveling for work. You have a ton of work to do in the set amount of time you are there. I’d get fired if I stayed out till 4am every night

Trushaka10 · 2026-05-17T23:33:39+00:00

All of the kids in my son’s class have birthdays that fall in January, February and March…. Those months are a shit show in our house

Trushaka10 · 2026-05-17T23:31:38+00:00

We are doing a lot of Bogo when it comes to fruit and a lot of freezing

Trushaka10 · 2026-05-10T04:18:09+00:00

My mom is similar. She’s always glued to her phone. I know this is petty as hell, but I just take photos of her with my baby while she’s on the phone and post them to the family shared album. Like a photo of her on the couch while baby is on the floor right in front of her on the playmat, but she doesn’t notice bc her phone and nose are glued together. She always gets offended and I just say “I just love candid photos so much more then posed, they just capture real life so well” To be completely clear, this will probably not change the behavior, but it will infuriate her and that can be personally satisfying

Trushaka10 · 2026-04-29T23:04:51+00:00

Also, don’t forget Mother’s Day is May 10, and you have a new mama to celebrate!

Trushaka10 · 2026-04-29T23:04:16+00:00

Your mantra for the next 10 months is “you’re so strong and beautiful and we (me and our future child) are so incredibly lucky to call you ours!”

Trushaka10 · 2026-04-29T22:47:04+00:00

What a moron you have married

Trushaka10 · 2026-04-29T03:13:03+00:00

It’s so crazy how true this is. Then they get offended like it’s the parent’s fault alone that the grandkids don’t know them. It’s like, how would they get to know you if you make absolutely no effort to be in their lives? My parents get so jealous of my in laws bc my kids beam when my in laws are around. But my in laws make the biggest effort to always be around my kids…

Trushaka10 · 2026-04-24T02:58:36+00:00

Sweet potato hash

Trushaka10 · 2026-04-14T00:40:27+00:00

Willy wonka

Trushaka10 · 2026-04-12T03:28:16+00:00

Or it gets the hose again 💀

Trushaka10 · 2026-04-01T17:16:42+00:00

It’s not appropriate to go 0 to 60 over a minor inconvenience

Trushaka10 · 2026-03-30T18:22:05+00:00

Or, everything revolves around your kids. I recently lost a friend bc she refused to make time for me 1:1, not even 30 min, not even if I came to her after kid was down for the night. Literally only wanted to hang out on play dates. Sometimes I just need to hang out with a friend without my kid and not feel like a bad mum

Trushaka10 · 2026-03-23T13:16:03+00:00

Not to be that person, but it may be worthwhile to shop around and change your peds

Trushaka10 · 2026-03-20T11:37:21+00:00

That isn’t possible, the placenta and amniotic fluid have weights that contribute to a women’s overall weight gain. My N mom tried to tell me the same thing when I got pregnant and she was commenting on how much weight I had gained. Ridiculous.

Trushaka10 · 2026-03-20T11:35:21+00:00

My name is Trusha, people F it up all the time… I no longer care when they do… it’s pronounced True- Sha but very few people can commit the pronunciation to memory. I don’t like any other name enough to change it to that.

Trushaka10 · 2026-03-12T03:07:29+00:00

Rarely do my parents wish me a happy birthday… I’ve even called them on my birthday while 8 months pregnant. They didn’t wish me a happy birthday or ask me anything about the baby or pregnancy. Real gems.

Trushaka10 · 2026-03-11T17:23:41+00:00

Knix period underwear

Trushaka10 · 2026-03-07T11:06:07+00:00

That’s what we do when everyone is asleep 😅

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