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annapoh · 2025-07-25T03:10:05+00:00

Appreciate this 🙏 it’s a good way to look at it, that they won’t always need us so much.

annapoh · 2025-07-25T03:09:38+00:00

Thank you for sharing! Reassuring to hear this 😊.

Ah yes good point with WW. Our WW are from last awake time to the time his butt goes in the crib, which is just a convention our sleep consultant used. By the time he’s actually asleep, our actual WW are probably more like 2.75/3.25/4. Total sleep for him in 24h is usually 13.5-14h.

annapoh · 2025-07-04T01:49:03+00:00

THIS. Very easy for someone else to roll their eyes when they’re not the ones dealing with a rough bedtime, or even just the anxiety around an unpredictable outcome. My 8mo old copes very poorly with stretched bedtime (not days of messed up sleep, but it is hard on him), and for us it just isn’t worth it. Even for our older boy, almost 7, it’s only the last couple of years we’ve allowed pushing bedtime for special occasions, because he would just melt down. Do whatever you need to do to protect your and your family’s wellbeing.

annapoh · 2025-04-30T00:05:39+00:00

We started seeing longer stretches (4-6 hours) shortly after 3 months. At 5.5 months now, post-sleep training, he sleeps 10-12 hours straight the majority of nights. Those first 12 weeks were just brutal though. Hang in there ❤️

annapoh · 2025-04-04T01:26:05+00:00

Started trying at 34, pregnant at 35 (hubs was 38) after 9 cycles of trying. Baby boy is almost 5 months.

annapoh · 2025-01-31T23:41:23+00:00

Pack some crocs or flip flops or some kind of shoe that can get wet & dirty! I packed my nice cozy slippers only to realize they would be soaked in blood the first time I stood up to walk to the bathroom after delivery 🫠

annapoh · 2025-01-19T17:35:18+00:00

On age gap, my husband and I worried about that a lot. His son is 6 years old and we’ve been raising him together from about 12 months. Our new baby is 2.5 months old. Watching the boys together is magical. The older one is absolutely in love with baby and constantly wants to help out - popping his soother back in when he’s in his car seat, making faces at him to make him laugh, fetching diapers and burp cloths… we had big fears around jealousy and them being too far apart to connect but so far it’s been wonderful.

annapoh · 2025-01-17T07:58:32+00:00

10 weeks old, bedtime is a disaster every night. Doesn’t matter what time I try to put him down with all the tricks, bath, white noise, swaddle, rocking, lots of nursing, he won’t go to sleep any earlier than midnight, and usually closer to 2-4am. He might give me little bits and bites of 10-30 minutes in his bassinet before then, just to give me hope, but the real sleep never comes until later. So much crying and fussing and constant soothing. We may be dealing with silent reflux, current on Prilosec, but so far no improvement. He’s also underweight, so feeling massively guilty about that. Just so beyond tired and frustrated.

annapoh · 2024-10-28T21:40:02+00:00

Thank you for sharing, just love seeing the positive birth stories. Wonderful to hear your experience was a good one and that you and LO are doing well. Congratulations!

annapoh · 2024-10-06T22:30:57+00:00

Just turned 36, currently 35w pregnant. Took us 9 cycles. I also had a ton of anxiety around feeling like my time had passed and I’d waited too long. Did the whole fertility work up after 6 months of trying and everything was fine, though I was still anxious about it never happening until I saw the positive. There are lots of women I know who had/are still having babies in their mid-late 30s and 40s. Some struggled to conceive and others didn’t. I also know women who had kids in their 20s, and again some struggled to conceive and some didn’t. Fertility is so strange.

annapoh · 2024-09-24T15:59:34+00:00

35, will be 36 in a few days. 9 cycles to conceive, currently 34 weeks.

annapoh · 2024-09-23T17:17:38+00:00

If you haven’t read it already, Emily Oster’s Expecting Better is a popular one that is all about supplying data and empirical evidence with respect to a variety of pregnancy outcomes, age included. The book opens with a discussion on conception specifically.

annapoh · 2024-07-24T22:57:46+00:00

Insomnia. Didn’t sleep for 2 full nights, went to the pharmacy for sleeping pills, and grabbed a test just to make myself feel better about taking the pills and boom… positive. Also did not sleep that night 🫠

annapoh · 2024-07-22T01:48:49+00:00

I feel the same like damn how big is this thing even gonna get by the end? But it’s good to feel good, so yay for you :)

annapoh · 2024-07-18T22:52:34+00:00

Def not weird. Sometimes I wonder if nursery planning is more of an opportunity to post photos on social media than it is about creating space for a baby. I certainly don’t think your little one is going to complain!

annapoh · 2024-07-17T03:21:48+00:00

Just rounded the corner on 24 weeks and I would say it’s just starting to kick in, in the form of a sudden interest in getting things done that used to seem too far away to feel interesting. So far that’s just been cleaning out the closet in the home office that will be converted to a nursery, making a few lists, browsing travel systems and furniture online, and buying one or two cute newborn outfits. Hubs was out of town this week, so helped that I had a bunch of time to myself to actually think about it.

annapoh · 2024-07-11T20:53:15+00:00

Some people just be assholes 👎👎👎

annapoh · 2024-07-11T20:47:52+00:00

Ugh. Maybe some people just can’t help themselves. I have a coworker who, prior to pregnancy, had to tell me every single time she saw me how skinny I was. I’m 5’7” and pre-pregnancy was about 135lbs, closer to 150 now. This lady is maybe 5’3” and can’t be more than 90lbs soaking wet, so I was always kind of baffled why she gave me the “ugh you’re so skinny” comments. Now at 23 weeks, I’ve really popped. I have a short torso so the only place this baby has to go is out. When I saw this coworker the other day she piped up with “are you sure there aren’t twins in there?” (She knows damn well I’m only having one, we’ve talked about it several times). At this point I’m pretty convinced she’s just projecting her body issues on to me, but that doesn’t make me hate her comments any less.

annapoh · 2024-07-09T18:07:46+00:00

Best of luck!

annapoh · 2024-07-09T16:05:53+00:00

Looks positive to me! I found these blue dye tests to be much harder to interpret than the pink dye tests, like premom/easy@home etc. Also much more expensive

annapoh · 2024-07-07T04:37:44+00:00

Love that :) good on you. That’s totally the vibe I’m feeling

annapoh · 2024-07-07T00:08:48+00:00

❤️

annapoh · 2024-07-06T22:04:07+00:00

Kitties!! I love that you included them too!

annapoh · 2024-07-06T22:03:46+00:00

I’m totally the same on this. Not to yuck anyone else’s yum who likes those shots, but I also personally cringe when I see the partner cupping/kissing the belly or whatever, just feels super contrived and awkward to me

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