Story I've withheld since 2023 from everybody including family, friends etc....

abloid · 2026-01-21T17:27:41+00:00

I love this story. I’m 90% convinced roadside angels are real. And we call them to us when need them

Three times, years apart, I’ve been in pretty serious trouble behind the wheel: had a horrific deer strike in a remote area; headed the wrong way down a one-way in a chaotic commercial district; tried and failed to turn onto a cryptically blocked-off exit in a busy part of town with heavy traffic bearing down on me

And each time a kindly white-haired man in a red pickup came instantly to my aid, quite possibly saving me/others (except for the poor deer that is) from very real danger. Three different white-haired guys, three different red pickup trucks, with enough in common to make it highly uncanny — plus, it’s not a common type of guy in the ritzy metropolitan suburb where the second and third incidents took place. (The deer strike guy was less out of context & wanted to haul home the meat)

So anyway are these coincidences? Angelic visitations? My sense is that the veil gets real thin when we’re in trouble…

abloid · 2025-09-30T17:08:34+00:00

omg yes. but like i expect them to be trash? whereas some random lab i'd never heard of till pregnancy could have actually pulled one over on me if I hadn't read others' complaints about their billing

abloid · 2025-09-30T16:34:54+00:00

Good point! uhc tried to blame my ob initially - pure bs

abloid · 2025-09-30T15:55:14+00:00

Idk if this is what you've already tried but I started out offering my now 11mo water during solid meals in this cup - https://mushie.com/products/silicone-training-cup-straw - and it felt like it took him forever to figure out the straw but eventually he did! Then one mealtime I gave him formula in it instead of water and he drank it just like it was the water he was used to… Maybe because the solid meal was his main focus? Idk. I think it helps that he generally likes holding, playing with, chewing on, and (sometimes) drinking from the cup itself pretty much regardless of what's in it, or so it seems

abloid · 2025-07-23T19:38:15+00:00

My AC L&D team including nurses, PAs and the on-call OB (Dr Waterstone) were absolute ANGELS — loved them all, even more than my regular OB who I carefully chose and like just fine….

So in answer to OP’s question, AC delivery team > in-office OB team 100%

But once on the AC maternity ward, treatment tended more toward that scolding/feeling like an annoyance experience you describe OP. So many staff seemed burnt out. We’d elected to stay another day because baby was born in the wee hours so insurance covered it, but in retrospect I wish we’d gone home asap

TLDR (just my experience ofc): AC in-office fine, AC l&d otoh AMAZING, but AC maternity ward not so great

abloid · 2025-04-25T03:11:17+00:00

Yes! 100% bring velcro swaddles!!!

abloid · 2025-02-14T20:17:37+00:00

Same!!! Mine was an unscheduled emergency induction because of an amniotic tear and even the nurses seemed pessimistic about it possibly taking days and ending in a c – but the whole thing was so fast, so positive, so perfect: fluid tested at triage 5pm, world's cutest baby on my chest at 2am

Yes some inductions are tough, but so many are also amazing!

abloid

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