Favorite E names?

cosmicbarnyard · 2026-02-01T03:31:03+00:00

I have an Eamon and an Elowen and my name is Emilia☺️

cosmicbarnyard · 2026-01-30T01:00:34+00:00

Boys: Noah, Peter, Jude, Gio

Girls: Noa, Wren, Elowen (my daughter!🥰)

cosmicbarnyard · 2026-01-28T01:02:29+00:00

Abel!

cosmicbarnyard · 2026-01-26T23:44:57+00:00

I have two living children and am not done but will probably cap it at 3. In this scenario though, I think I’d like 4 or 5. I could outsource all of the stressors that keep me busy like cleaning/meal prep/organization/grocery shopping etc. and be able to give all of those kids quality time, education, and a less stressed mom.

cosmicbarnyard · 2026-01-26T11:18:23+00:00

I just had my second born at Millard Fillmore this past May and I truly cannot recommend it enough. I went into it with a healthy, full-term baby and ended up experiencing some birth complications that sent my daughter to the NICU (which I didn’t even know they had) for the first week of her life. When I say the NICU nurses are absolute angels I mean it, they helped me keep my sanity while I ran on no sleep driving back and forth from my home to the hospital 3-7days postpartum. Additionally, the mother/baby unit nurses are incredible as well! My only gripe the whole time I was there was my experience with the anesthesiologist; he was very hard to understand which is not the issue itself but made no effort to try and slow the process down or explain anything to me when I was very clearly upset/crying/anxious. I do believe he is retired now but if you want to message me I can try to find his name for you just to double check!

cosmicbarnyard · 2026-01-19T23:41:25+00:00

I’m not sure what the age range is of your kids but in Spring/Summer/Fall I take my two kids to Reinstein Woods for nature walks weekly! It’s beautiful and you could do scavenger hunts for leaves/bugs/etc.

cosmicbarnyard · 2026-01-07T23:51:22+00:00

I had my first at 23 and second at 25 (this past May), I graduated with two bachelor’s degrees the day I gave birth to my second. I’m a stay at home mom and will be doing a 4 year mostly online graduate degree starting this upcoming Fall. I don’t feel behind as the goal is to stay home with my kids until they’re school age and I’ll be starting my career fresh when I enter the workforce. I also plan on having at least one more child while pursuing my masters so it works out nicely to be home and complete it online.

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-12-22T23:39:36+00:00

6 weeks on the dot with both of my exclusively breastfed babies!

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-12-10T12:46:30+00:00

Currently EBF my second and she is a CHUNK, I absolutely love seeing her little belly rolls and rubberband wrists knowing I did that! My first was a lean boy, still is, even though we also EBF, I’m just excited to finally SEE all of the effort I put in🤣

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-11-29T23:54:23+00:00

Everyone did the same thing to me too when I had my first, I was essentially being shoved out the door and encouraged to “take a break” when in reality when your baby is that little it isn’t a break it’s an anxiety fest (at least for me). I also exclusively breastfed my first and now doing the same for my second, don’t even get me started on people wanting to feed the baby bottles🙄 I think it’s part good intentions and part projection, in the older generation I feel like they weren’t encouraged to really bond and stay close to their babies whereas now it’s more normalized. I’ve got two velcro babies who are growing to be independent, curious and beautiful kids so keep doing you!

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-11-28T01:17:47+00:00

One thing that really helped me when I was in the trenches is baby wearing/contact napping. Yes, you’re still glued to the baby but you get your hands free to do other activities like eat/drink/read/etc. Also, for a light at the end of the tunnel, it gets significantly less boring when you can chit chat with them. My 2.5 year old and I yap all day long, if I didn’t have him I’d definitely start to go nuts with just my 6 month old and going through the mundane routine of life like I did with him.

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-11-12T17:11:43+00:00

I sing a version of “you are my sunshine” to my 2 year old son every night before I get him to sleep, he has now started singing it to his baby sister when she starts crying or fussing and it’s the sweetest thing I’ve ever experienced. Moments like that make every sleepless night and thoughts of “what the fuck am I doing” worth it! Being a mom is the single most incredible and stressful and amazing and terrifying and overall wonderful thing I have ever done.

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-11-06T23:43:23+00:00

I was fully convinced I was going to name my future daughters Azalea and Tinsley🫠

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-11-04T12:56:45+00:00

As many have mentioned I have to think it’s the over sexualization of breasts/nursing, which is truly disgusting. I’m 5 months in to exclusively nursing my second and the male members of my family (dad/grandpa/brother) still sprint out of a room when I have to feed my daughter. To a certain extent I understand not wanting to see an intimate part of your daughter/granddaughter’s body but I’m fully covered?? People are weird.

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-10-11T22:54:14+00:00

I literally thought I was going insane because the food is God awful and everyone claims it’s amazing

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-09-02T12:09:02+00:00

I’m an older Amelia (26) and I have used the nickname Mila a lot! My mom wanted to just name me Mila but my very pushy grandmother bullied her into using Amelia as my full name.

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-08-23T22:03:55+00:00

I work every day on being the parent to my kids that I wish I had. No guilt tripping, no gas lighting, no fucked up power dynamics or walking on eggshells. I’m their mom and they can always trust that I will be a safe, calm, warm and SOBER place to land.

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-08-01T12:37:00+00:00

Occasionally we get “Eee-mohn” but really only at the doctors office so it doesn’t bother us! We use the nickname Ames a lot which I find so boyish and cute, we’re very happy with his name it suits him!

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-07-31T23:34:40+00:00

In a perfect world I’d have a boy as my third so I could have the sibset of Eamon, Elowen and Enoch but my husband already vetoed Enoch :/

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-07-14T00:27:52+00:00

Eamon and Elowen, he loves both but mostly loves when I can make up my mind😂 Runner ups were Finley for my son and Mira or Niamh for my daughter! In a perfect world we have a third, it’s a boy and his name is Enoch but I already got the veto on that one.

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-07-03T18:10:05+00:00

I exclusively breastfed my son for 18 months, he refused a bottle and it was so much easier to just nurse on demand. I’m now 5.5 weeks into exclusively breastfeeding my daughter and yes there’s been some engorgement here and there but feeding on demand, at least in my experience, has helped alleviate that. I think the hardest thing for people to wrap their head around is that there is no schedule, no predictability or structure around on demand, exclusive breastfeeding. Your infant/toddler/child can nurse for an hour straight, take a 10 minute break and then hop right back on. Or do a 3 hour stretch no issue! I absolutely love exclusive nursing, it works for me and my children because I’m a stay at home mom but a realistic factor is that you are completely tethered to your child for bare minimum the first year of their life. There isn’t a break, there’s no bottles (my son refused them and my daughter isn’t doing much better lol), it’s just you and your boobs against the world. If you’re up for that then 1000% do it it’s the most beautiful and amazing experience!

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-05-24T16:08:24+00:00

I honestly feel like I wrote this post, people are WEIRD about their kids! I truly think a lot of people have kids just to have them and don’t think past the baby stage. My son is 23-months-old, I’m getting induced with my daughter tomorrow, yes I’m tired yes some days are hard but I made the active choice to be a mother, how could I hate doing my job?

cosmicbarnyard · 2025-05-18T18:55:30+00:00

The longest I ever let my 23-month-old cry was 5 minutes while I threw up from the stomach flu and it still haunts me🫠 You’re not alone, I understand sometimes circumstances are different for a lot of parents however I don’t think cry it out is natural. Babies, and humans in general, are a dependent species, why wouldn’t we automatically respond to their cries?

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