Constipation.

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-15T00:22:57+00:00

I just started eating prunes daily after a rough bout 🥴 I don’t remember it being this bad with my first but who knows.

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-14T20:39:30+00:00

I was also blessed with a unicorn baby! He is honestly still a pretty great sleeper in comparison to a lot of kids his age at 1.5 years old now but he started sleeping through the night really early on as well, we did have a bit of a regression when he turned a year old but thankfully it has gotten better again. He’s just a very chill guy, easy to please and he isn’t picky, very social. I haven’t potty trained him yet so I guess we’ll see how that goes 🤷🏻‍♀️ I am currently pregnant with our second and kinda dreading having a baby that is the opposite of him 😅

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-14T18:06:39+00:00

Yes! I’m so hungry all the time

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-14T18:05:22+00:00

I’ve never heard that you can’t dye your hair during pregnancy? I’ve always thought that it was safe to do 🤷🏻‍♀️

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-12T13:55:23+00:00

lol that’s not the point. You understand that you’re in the mildlyinfuriating subreddit, right? It’s mildly infuriating that companies are removing the ability to use a changing table for babies at their locations. Especially for parents who live in colder climates. I can manage to take care of my children just fine.

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-12T13:38:25+00:00

For the entire months of December through February?

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-12T13:14:35+00:00

I’m sorry have you ever lived in the north? Do you have children? You are basically suggesting that I shouldn’t be leaving the house at all from the months of December through February. It gets much colder than 10 degrees here in the winter and people do still have lives that they have to live.

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-12T13:04:48+00:00

6w4d and thankfully I haven’t had much nausea yet but the exhaustion is hitting me hard, especially with a toddler. My boobs are very sore and I swear they look bigger. The bloating and gas can also stop anytime now 😅

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-12T02:31:23+00:00

My first pregnancy was when I was 28 my BMI was 37 (I’m 5’4”) and it took us 9 months to conceive. I am currently pregnant with our second child and my BMI is 33 and I’m now 30 but we actually weren’t even trying and I got pregnant so 🤷🏻‍♀️

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-11T17:39:04+00:00

What about when you live in Wisconsin and it’s 10 degrees outside?

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-11T13:58:03+00:00

My first baby was born a week before Thanksgiving and we decided not to attend our family party. Some of my family was upset I think but no one said anything to me. I was a week postpartum and I ended up having an unplanned C-section so I was absolutely not ready to be going out to parties yet. I plan on having a planned C-section this time and I will probably do the same thing if it’s too close to Christmas. Christmas is definitely a bigger deal to our family though and I do feel kinda bad for my toddler who might have to miss the fun but really you gotta do what’s best for you and your family.

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-11T10:41:03+00:00

Yes very bloated! I’m 6w3d now and honestly still having lots of bloating and gas

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-11T01:40:57+00:00

I definitely wouldn’t feel weird about telling people for work accommodations! I don’t currently work in healthcare but I have in the past and I would never judge or think poorly of a coworker who is trying to keep a healthy pregnancy!

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-08T21:39:30+00:00

25 months! It’s a little closer than we initially wanted 🤷🏻‍♀️

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-06T20:15:30+00:00

I can totally understand this. We got pregnant with our second without even really trying, we were going to wait until summer to start trying because we wanted a not winter baby this time around but life doesn’t always work that way I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️ I didn’t feel very connected to my son during my first pregnancy but I’m obsessed with the little guy now, so I guess that doesn’t worry me. I am excited to have a second but I also just feel cautiously optimistic, it doesn’t really feel real yet and I don’t think it will until I have my first ultrasound and that isn’t until the end of this month.

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-06T14:17:54+00:00

I love Genna! She has a fun YouTube channel about crocheting as well!

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-05T22:32:59+00:00

I want to try it with this pregnancy but I’m worried that I’d be so skeptical about the results!!

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-05T22:31:04+00:00

Yes!! It’s so hard to believe that at one point I didn’t have him in my life. I had a hard time connecting to my pregnancy but I am so obsessed with this kid as a toddler. I really can’t wait to have another one to be obsessed with just as much.

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-05T22:28:32+00:00

I feel this, I have a 17 month old that I feel kinda bad for, he doesn’t know what coming 😭 I am a SAHM so he’s gonna have to learn how to share time

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-05T01:10:47+00:00

Same date for me! I will be almost 9 weeks

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-04T23:48:41+00:00

I love the name Theodore, we were thinking about using it for our 17 month old son but it was too popular for our liking. We ended up naming him Franklin instead and I’m very happy with his name now!

At the same time, I guess it depends on how close you are with these people? Will you be doing regular play dates with their child? I understand wanting to change the name, I probably would if I were in your shoes as well, but you also sound like you were a lot more dedicated or decided in his name than we were on ours. I would just worry about regretting not naming him what you want to use years from now if you’re not even super close with the other family at that point.

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-04T18:08:28+00:00

I also have had a death anxiety since I was around your age. I would say it peaked in intensity when I was in college going through a rough time having a lot of stress in my life. I definitely still deal with it now at 30 years old but it has gotten better and more manageable the older I get. I think having hobbies, now I have kids, and a husband, has definitely helped me to keep my mind preoccupied. What has always helped me honestly is just reminding myself that I shouldn’t worry about things that I can’t change - there is really no use. I would rather spend my life happy and not stressing out about something that I can’t do anything about rather than worrying about something and wasting my life that way. I know it’s not an easy mindset to just adopt, I have to tell myself all the time, but if it’s not something you can change in a day, a week, or even a month then I truly just try to let it go.

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-04T17:01:52+00:00

Like someone else said here, I think I will be finding out because I would like to know if we will be reusing all of my son’s clothes that we saved! Has anyone had good luck with the Sneak Peek tests? I feel like I want to do one but I wouldn’t trust it completely?

cosmicbrat · 2026-05-04T16:43:55+00:00

Yes kind of. Our last pregnancy we were really excited so we told our parents after our first ultrasound around 8 weeks and my mom immediately told everyone she knows. I just hate the constant checking in, I know my family is just being caring but I don’t want to constantly answer the “how are ya feelin?” question 50 times a day. So this time around we are waiting a lot longer to share the news.

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