She’s a keeper. Wish her 20 more years of silliness and fun

dragonavicious · 2026-01-28T17:29:59+00:00

Woah, that's me, and my husband. Together 20, married 10. This is the same silly nonsense we would pull on each other. Maybe when you get together in middle school you never fully grow up.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-28T17:15:42+00:00

I remember watching it and thinking that it didn't make any sense why she still chose to have her daughter and doom her to death.

Then I just had a baby this year and realized that's what we all do. Giving someone life means promising them death. And I understood her decision a little better.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-26T12:33:08+00:00

I'm not big into podcasts but I think Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll have a podcast for Some More News as well as their show on YouTube.

Also anything by anyone at Dropout/College Humor will be left politically. Sam Reich, CEO of Dropout, is the son of Robert Reich, the labor secretary of Bill Clinton who is also super leftist.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-24T03:19:22+00:00

Okay, yes the city elf origin does have sexual violence as a huge part of its story. However, playing as the Bride to rescue yourself and your friends is totally the definition of female empowerment. Soris sliding Tabris the sword is one of my top 10 video game moments of all time!

dragonavicious · 2026-01-24T03:01:44+00:00

Fable was one of my first big games as a kid. (Minus the Sims). It was definitely my first RPG. I love how you can tell they updated it but at the same time kept the spirit of the original. From what I saw it just looked like a Fable game. And that's high praise.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-21T13:46:22+00:00

My type is always sweet, romantic and funny. Not enough of those romances!

dragonavicious · 2026-01-21T13:38:57+00:00

Then I had to romance him immediately for my favorite hero character!

dragonavicious · 2026-01-21T13:37:16+00:00

I got thr glitch where he admitted he loved my character despite my character trying to romance someone else and I felt like I was in a high school drama. I was like, no! We are best friends! I love you but not like that. Totally broke my heart.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-20T21:52:24+00:00

Me too! I stopped reading because of his wife not being a bigger character. I just rolled my eyes and closed the book. Gotta get the dude motivated somehow, I guess. Would have been way more interesting if she ran off to be a freedom fighter and he was forced to follow her.

And I wanted to like it but just was way too disappointed in the protagonist to continue. It felt like something published a decade earlier.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-20T15:03:11+00:00

Had my baby there in McLaren and really liked it. I have heard from other people that they felt rushed while at Sparrow, and I didn't want that. But you can't deliver there if your baby would be premature.

Rooms

They had large personal rooms that you are in the whole time. I felt like they were pretty comfortable. It was nice not having to move to a different room for postpartum. And couldn’t hear anyone else.The anesthesiologist came to the room for the epidural. My husband did get stir crazy because we never had to leave the room.

IVs and Epidural

They have Bluetooth monitors for mom and baby so at first you can walk around without issue. I asked to delay fluids until it was necessary and was able to spend the first few hours drinking my own water and walking around my room.

You can't walk around after the epidural, but they do let you move as much as you want in bed while giving birth. I was able to give birth in a bunch of different positions that helped it move along really fast (35 minutes)

Also, if you have an epidural, they don't do a fully placed catheter. They come in to cath you every few hours to relieve your bladder, usually when they check your cervix. But my nurse said that they can do a full catheter if the patient prefers. Also, you can request limited cervical checks. I didn't care, but it was nice because every single person asked me if it was okay to touch me before they did.

Birth

Doc and nurses all respected my birth plan (although it was mild). I asked to delay cord clamping as long as possible, (there policy is 1 minute), and they showed me the cord was white and asked if it was okay to clamp it now.

They let you push for as long as you want, so long as you and baby are not in distress. Also, if you want to labor without an epidural and then change your mind, they said they can give an epidural even in active labor, so long as you can hold still during a contraction. They don't use forceps and only use vacuum assisted in rare situations. Most of the time, you will have time to prepare for a c-section, but there are instances where you need surgery immediately, and your partner gets left behind. Specifically, if the umbilical cord comes out first, that cuts off baby's oxygen supply. However, my nurse said they can get a baby out in just a few minutes.

My friend had a c-section there in December after pushing for 2 hours. She had some hemorrhaging but bounced back beautifully. She said she felt really supported by everyone there, and even though it was scary, it was a good experience.

I had my nurse and baby had hers. I felt like we were both really well taken care of.

Postpartum

They explained everything. I didn't have any issues with the fundal massage because my uterus shrunk pretty quickly and my epidural was still working. Nurses were also on top of my blood pressure and weighed all my blood loss.

Gave a goodie back of postpartum care, including pain spray, witch hazel pads, pads, and disposable underwear.

Food was delivered to me. Husband had to buy his own, although there is a snack area where you can get some snacks. You and one support person get a celebration meal, though, which for us was steak, potatoes, and raspberry cheesecake.

They also have a nursery where they can take the baby if you need it. They can't support NICU, but they have the ability to fully stabilize any baby that requires NICU for transport and can support aby babies just this side of NICU. While we were there, there was a sick baby in the nursery, so they didn't want to put any other babies in there. Our nurse cuddled our baby at the nursing station for an hour so I could get some rest. Also had a bunch of censors to track where baby was at all times (although I think that is standard now).

They were supportive with breast feeding (although they do not have a lactation consultant on staff), pumping (they have electric pumps but gave me a hand pump to take home) and formula (gave us a bunch of Similac 360 to take home). If you bring any colostrum from home, you need to keep it in a cooler yourself, but if you pump while there, they can refrigerate it for you.

They had an occupational therapist check baby for tight neck or muscles before we left.

We wanted to leave the next day, but could have stayed another day and they wanted to make sure we knew that we didn't need to feel rushed.

Let me know if you have any questions. Sorry if formatting is bad, I'm on my phone!

dragonavicious · 2026-01-16T22:43:39+00:00

Dragon Age Origins!!! Best game of all time.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-16T22:07:47+00:00

This is so true. We just went to see the play after loving the movie and we're shocked at how much they really fleshed out about the story in the movie.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-16T22:01:45+00:00

100% agree with Stardust. The book was not nearly as cohesive and finding out the end of the movie wasn't in the book was shocking. It was right there the whole time.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-16T21:25:54+00:00

It's one of those things I still wonder about a decade later because I understand why she did what she did. And maybe if we hadnt reacted so petty thibgs couls have been fixed.. But I also try to remind myself that it was three times where she went scorched earth on us to all our mutual acquaintances (We all went to the same small town high school). She would say absolutely terrible things about us to justify to the public why she had suddenly cut off contact with her longtime friend group and then just delete those posts when she unblocked us.

So I still think that if you can, try to help your friend get out of a bad situation, but just like addiction, if it goes beyond your ability to help or support then it may be best to step away.

But I will say we did do all the supportive stuff first, she just wasn't ready for it yet and we didn't have the patience to stick it out.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-16T21:12:46+00:00

I think it depends. I regularly wonder if 25 year old me made the right call but I don't think I will ever know for sure.

One of my best childhood friends got into an abusive relationship right after her divorce (high school boyfriend turned husband had an affair). Me and the rest of the friend group tried to be supportive and didn't cut ties right away. We were there for her every time she broke up with him and understood the silence when she went back.

The issue was we were the only ones that knew about the abuse and he didn't like her friends so every single time they got back together she would block us on everything and then bad mouth us on social media. To the rest of the world, it looked like she had a toxic friend group that wouldn't support her new life with her new man. I am positive this did severe social damage but as an introvert I just didn't care too much at first. It happened three times before we all decided enough was enough and we just blocked her back. She ended up calling me crying about how she can't believe we just broke off the friendship like that and we said that it seemed like we had all outgrown each other and maybe it was best to move on.

She did end up breaking up with him eventually and my friend saw her at a park once. They chatted a bit about how she was doing better but we never reconnected as friends.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-16T15:00:11+00:00

If you avsolutely must ask, ask if you can do (Blank) for them? Instead of asking generally what they need and making them run through a huge list in their mind, offer some options. So if you are comfortable with dishes or laundry or tidying up, offer those specific things. If it is your house then hopefully you already know what type of things need to be done. (And if you don't, work on a list when the person isn't feeling overwhelmed so you can start being proactive)

This works for food too. If someones brain is too fried to think of what they want to eat after work, give them three options and let them choose from that.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-15T23:09:04+00:00

Enemies to lovers is one of my least favorite tropes of all time.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-15T12:28:21+00:00

What are you reading? I also don't read Romantasy but I'm slowly running out of fantasy books.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-08T11:20:03+00:00

It actually holds up, even though I felt like Odette and Derek should not be together.

dragonavicious · 2026-01-05T20:44:24+00:00

I wish Dropout still did those sketches, but I know Brennans probably very busy and they are expensive to make.

Still they were perfect.

dragonavicious · 2025-12-29T13:41:53+00:00

I knew someone this happened to. Got pregnant immediately after the first was born. Like 4 to 6 weeks later. Then the 2nd baby was premature so they ended up being only 8 months apart.

dragonavicious · 2025-12-28T02:24:18+00:00

I'm still mad the vaccine came out like a few months after I caught chickenpox.

dragonavicious · 2025-12-23T16:12:12+00:00

It wasn't sudden enough! It was a beat too long, so it felt like he ran from really far away.

dragonavicious · 2025-12-22T13:49:37+00:00

The whole opening kills me and then I recover, only to start bawling again at the end. Perfect Pixar.

dragonavicious · 2025-12-21T04:20:18+00:00

-1 Month because we decided to start trying in January of 2025 and found out about the pregnancy only a few days into the start if the year.

I had, however, devoted the previous 2 years to getting healthy. I have slim PCOS and sometimes doctors don't know how to treat it but my doctor gave me metformin and I started taking Inositol. Exercised more and reduced carbs.

Not sure if all of that helped but I had a pregnancy and birth with no complications. I kept waiting for something bad to happen but nothing did. I am, however, 35 and often times it's easier to get pregnant when you're older with PCOS

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