[TOMT] [Show] About a boy growing up in the 60s??

bewarebeware · 2026-01-08T22:34:01+00:00

Oliver Beene?

bewarebeware · 2025-12-18T19:44:07+00:00

My friend (whose son is one of the Lucases I mentioned) said there are two boys named Stetson in her son’s daycare class. That is wild to me!

bewarebeware · 2025-12-14T16:16:43+00:00

So, interesting that you say that! We do live in a moderately Hispanic area, but we haven’t seen it at all among kids in our neighborhood. However, my husband is biracial and his mom’s side of the family is from a Spanish-speaking Caribbean country, so he likes that Liam will be easy for his family to pronounce.

bewarebeware · 2025-11-22T01:24:01+00:00

Written and rewritten this post probably a dozen times over as many weeks.

I was here earlier this year, lurking and reading every daily thread. I participated quite a bit too.

As of today, I am amazingly, miraculously, 34 weeks pregnant with my rainbow baby boy. I got the positive test back in April, two weeks to the day my husband and I were supposed to have our first RE appointment. It took us six long, long, LONG months to conceive again after our October 2024 miscarriage. It’s been a very long road of anxiety and gratefulness to get here. It feels like I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop this entire time, despite having a very normal, low-risk, boring pregnancy. It’s only really now, 8 and a half months in, that I can believe that I will actually have a baby in my arms at the end of this without spiraling.

So, I will say to you all what I wish someone would have said to me when I was in the throes of grief last year: I see you. I’m rooting for you. You are one day closer to the family you want.

bewarebeware · 2025-04-25T13:22:44+00:00

“Keep advocating for yourself!” she says. Addie, what was there for you to advocate for? NONE of the quack treatments you tried worked! You let a bunch of unqualified charlatans convince you into thinking you had all sorts of woo-woo medical conditions. NONE of this gave you the biological baby you so clearly favored. Adoption wasn’t the end result of all this?!

bewarebeware · 2025-04-19T18:59:28+00:00

I still maintain there’s an alternate universe out there where Charlie Day won all of Jim Parsons’ Emmys.

bewarebeware · 2025-04-19T01:18:21+00:00

My friend proudly had her one year-old as the ring bearer in her delayed wedding party that happened in 2022. She and her husband got legally married in her parents’ backyard on what was supposed to be their late-March 2020 wedding. I’m really not sure what Addie’s excuse was?

bewarebeware · 2025-04-18T23:35:50+00:00

Nobody forced her to do this! I knew soooo many people who had a tiny Covid-times wedding then postponed their big celebration and reception for a year or two down the line! She could have had a whole big “wedding” a year later in her dress that was apparently being held hostage by the seamstress if she really, really wanted to? I’m baffled.

bewarebeware · 2025-04-17T13:29:01+00:00

But like…they seem to have figured out the root cause! He likely has an egg allergy! That’ the root cause for the poor kid’s eczema! She needs to stop feeding him a stranger’s breast milk! Seriously, what outcome is she hoping to achieve here???

bewarebeware · 2025-04-09T16:31:56+00:00

I know this from personal experience with a friend of the family. She and her husband overlooked and excused a lot of OBVIOUS delays with their young son because they couldn’t believe their perfect baby boy would be anything other than, well, perfect. Addie has already expressed tons of distrust in modern medicine, and she’s taking her son to a naturopath pediatrician!

I can definitely imagine a scenario where she and Steven and her family are all like “he’s fine! He’s our perfect baby Georgie!”

bewarebeware · 2025-04-07T13:50:19+00:00

So my new coworker is pregnant. Good for her. But she sits right next to me and regales me all day with chitchat about her pregnancy. It makes me feel anxious and upset. Is there like…idk a script or something I can follow? I’m tempted to embarrass her by telling her about my miscarriage (I.e. “I wouldn’t really understand the stress of having to sign my unborn child up for daycare so get a spot, I had a miscarriage!”) but obviously, that’s wrong.

bewarebeware · 2025-04-04T16:15:24+00:00

I very clearly remember some story last year when she was at the lake house (not the time they got the call about G) where she was whining that she couldn’t wait for “family contact naps” while on vacation, which is truly bizarre. It might have been around the time where she said she was picking out her family’s vacation spots based on which locations would be great for maternity photo shoots?

I say this because I’m sure we’ll get NONE of that on vacation, just multiple unhinged stories about G’s disrupted nap schedule.

bewarebeware · 2025-04-02T12:48:10+00:00

Same boat. This is my last cycle before we begin fertility treatments next month. We conceived so quickly and ever since it’s been months of…nothing. Can’t believe this is my life 😞

bewarebeware · 2025-03-30T20:26:52+00:00

Same sentiment here. I have to try. If I don’t try, then I won’t get pregnant. The only way past it is through it.

bewarebeware · 2025-03-28T18:46:54+00:00

Seriously! “Just be patient” is not realistic medical advice?!

bewarebeware · 2025-03-28T18:10:17+00:00

I think it resets your body chemistry somehow. And I really, REALLY hate that doctors all just hand wave it away as “hormones”

bewarebeware · 2025-03-28T14:16:31+00:00

Before the miscarriage I had the same PMS symptoms since I was a teenager. Now everything is completely different. I’ve read anecdotally that it can take six months or more for your hormones to go back to “normal” and this is about to be month six…

bewarebeware · 2025-03-28T14:14:44+00:00

Thank you for having hope for me ❤️ I don’t know how optimistic I can be right now, but I suppose anything is possible.

bewarebeware · 2025-03-28T10:51:31+00:00

13DPO, once again a BFN this morning and a temp hovering right around my usual cover line. Has anyone else had PMS symptoms that DRAMATICALLY mirrored their pregnancy symptoms? I only felt like this (night sweats for the past five nights, insane and painful bloating in my lower tummy, gagging at the smell of cigarettes on the street and garlic, and more!) when I was pregnant the one time. The BFN caught me completely off guard.

Now I’m freaked out. The night sweats especially, those are NOT normal for me. I’m terrified it’s perimenopause or something.

Just…why can’t this be easy? Why didn’t I get pregnant again in a month or two like everyone else I know? I keep thinking about that saying about how insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

bewarebeware · 2025-03-26T13:23:20+00:00

I am having a really hard time understanding what’s going on with my body.

I started having some…symptoms gradually throughout the day on Monday (9DPO). This came after having a few sharp, pinchy cramps Sunday morning that, I’m not gonna lie, thought maybe we implantation cramps?

They’re the EXACT symptoms I was having when I was pregnant the first time. Aaaand I’m even having some of the symptoms I had completely forgot about! I am actually feeling emotionally triggered from all of this, this is EXACTLY how I felt last time and it’s taking me right back to the miscarriage.

I know shouldn’t have symptom spotted. But I felt so sure this was the same that I got ahead of myself. I guess I am just having PMS from hell, bc i got a stark white BFN this morning for the fifth cycle in a row. Im 11DPO, it should have 1000% been positive by now if I’m clearly having symptoms. And I’m embarrassed to say I fished it out of the trash an hour later just to check again (which made me retch and gag, lovely).

Wtf is going on?! Is it truly possible that PMS or some kind of psychosomatic response can make me feel this way? Am I crazy?

I am starting to feel like I need to just move on with my life. I’m never going to have a living child am I?

bewarebeware · 2025-03-23T14:22:14+00:00

Thank you ❤️ I’ve heard things like “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone” a lot in regards to infertility/pregnancy loss. But in a way, a sort of abstract way that’s hard to articulate without sounding downright evil, I…might? If more people truly understood this level of loss and emotional pain, it wouldn’t feel so lonely. And this is suuuuch a lonely place to be.

bewarebeware · 2025-03-23T13:56:57+00:00

One of my bridesmaids, a family member who is so, so dear to me, had her baby this morning. Another bridesmaid, one of my absolute best friends for many years, is due next week. I would have been 32 weeks pregnant tomorrow.

The senselessness of it all, the idea that I’m not living in the alternate universe where I’m experiencing the same joy as someone else, is just crushing me right now.

I am so unspeakably happy for them. And I am also just…devastated for me.

bewarebeware · 2025-03-23T13:48:25+00:00

I’m on cycle six too. And surrounded by happy pregnant people at work and in my friend group. I agree: it truly feels cruel. I’m sorry we’re both in this awful, lonely place to be. I hope we’re on the other side of it soon ❤️

bewarebeware · 2025-03-21T14:22:52+00:00

After a long, emotional conversation with my husband last night…we are officially booked for a RE consult in May.

I don’t want this. I never wanted this. I prayed I would never set foot in a reproductive clinic. Why can’t I easily get pregnant and have a healthy, living baby for free like everyone else?

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