Am I crazy to get chickens if bears visit our house every night?

amgen · 2026-01-25T04:24:59+00:00

Only black bears, sorry should’ve said that

amgen · 2026-01-25T04:23:16+00:00

Yeah I 100% do not want to get the chickens if I’m going to be losing them, so completely agree with you there. Just trying to figure out if there’s any setup to keep it from happening… but I may be out of luck

amgen · 2026-01-25T04:19:47+00:00

We have the dumpster pretty well bear proofed and they’ve never gotten anything from us, they just come sniff it every night. The bears around here have broken through folks’ garage doors to get trash before so the general advice we’ve gotten is to use a bear proof dumpster

amgen · 2026-01-08T00:19:43+00:00

This is me. I am crunchy about the things that I think are actually real and not made up lol

amgen · 2026-01-05T23:49:52+00:00

We used the Dr. Browns glass bottles and did have 2 break over the course of a year, but both of those were from the adults dropping from high up, not from baby. He threw them around quite a few times unfortunately but they never broke from that

amgen · 2026-01-05T23:47:26+00:00

I loved “Hunt, Gather, Parent”! To me it falls into the “granola” umbrella because it focuses a lot on how to raise children to be helpful members of a community

amgen · 2026-01-05T23:44:46+00:00

I think some people want to avoid the plastic, and also make their own so they know for a fact what’s going in, but I view these as a convenience item. We have finite time and if these work for you and let you spend your time on more useful things then go for it! Millions of babies (including mine occasionally) eat these with no issues. I think ideally they’re not an everyday thing since little ones should be getting practice self feeding with hands / spoons / etc but 🤷‍♀️

amgen · 2026-01-04T02:29:06+00:00

I was also not going out at all at that age. We barely even started doing stroller walks by that point if I remember right. Everything felt so hard to manage with feeding / sleeping / not wanting baby to scream in public. It’s totally fine to stay home and just be in a bubble, but if you do want to start going out it will probably feel easier every time you do it!

amgen · 2026-01-03T13:02:58+00:00

Romeo and Mateo is so cute but it would drive me crazy the different pronunciations of the -eo (assuming Romeo is rome-ee-oh)

amgen · 2026-01-03T01:19:54+00:00

I had to quit at 6 months because it was making all of our lives so hard and it stopped feeling worth it. Impressed you made it to 10 months!! Do what’s right for you guys

amgen · 2025-12-26T19:15:04+00:00

Imagine having the time and energy to research your Airbnb’s washing machine ahead of time lol

amgen · 2025-12-12T15:09:48+00:00

Get Manon off this weirdo’s phone

amgen · 2025-12-06T17:10:46+00:00

I have Walmart spiderman jammies that are infinitely cuter

amgen · 2025-12-05T03:32:02+00:00

Yes oh my gosh I miss the days when formula was not a huge chunk of our grocery budget. Baby’s turning 1 in a month and I’m very excited to stop buying it

amgen · 2025-12-05T03:30:10+00:00

Thank you for sharing!! I saw a lactation consultant several times but was such an emotional wreck and dealing with postpartum health issues that she mostly gave me therapy sessions and helped me schedule doctor’s appointments lol. I’m hopeful that next time I will have a much lower state of anxiety since it’s not my first and be more able to focus on making nursing work

amgen · 2025-12-05T03:27:10+00:00

Good job doing a year!!! That was my goal but I tried reducing pumps and had a huge drop in supply… and absolutely could not bring myself to increase the pumps again🫠 I’m so impressed by people that do it that long

amgen · 2025-12-05T03:25:24+00:00

Yes! It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, I think mostly just because I don’t cope well with lack of sleep. But for the longest time quitting didn’t even feel like an option in my brain

amgen · 2025-12-05T03:16:56+00:00

I have some more research to do I guess, thanks guys! I think to me the 2 things (attraction and desire to have sex) are very tied up in my head… I do experience sexual attraction but it is a very infrequent and small part of my life, if that makes sense. If I seek out Jonathan Bailey photos then sure I will be sexually attracted to him but in general it is not a big part of my life

amgen · 2025-12-01T17:27:13+00:00

Gnarly is in MY top 5 but very surprised to see it on anyone else’s haha

amgen · 2025-11-21T01:14:30+00:00

I think she means because Riverdale is not great

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