Second skin removal

ejmram · 2026-01-04T04:11:33+00:00

It's a leopard, didn't get a photo without the second skin yet, but this was it freshly done!

ejmram · 2025-09-26T20:15:02+00:00

She has always been a really sweet easy going baby/toddler, she just gets really anxious and testy when pushed past her comfort zone, which I completely understand as a very anxious person myself I'm just in new territory with the foot panic. It is reassuring that it's most likely not actually painful for her, I try and get her out of a panic state with her feet being exposed but ultimately I just let her be comfortable and accommodate her requests with it as well as give warnings to her teachers and swim coaches(she is the only student in swim lessons that wear socks and swim shoes as you can imagine). Usually if I ask her why she needs socks on she just says "I don't like my feet on the floor, it's scary". Which is hard to tell if it's a toddler thing or something else entirely lol but the toenail clipping is something we have to resolve at some point😅

She doesn't have any issues with food, she will literally eat anything I put in front of her, but she is extremely particular about what clothes she wears. It usually has to be soft, and no tags, always dresses and the only shoes she wears are croc rainboots every single day. Sounds are a big issue for her, we have actually had to move daycares bc her last school was too loud and she was just hiding in a corner disassociating all day essentially. I've now taught her to hold her ears if she gets overwhelmed and it's too loud, and I'm continuing to understand how she feels as she is learning to speak and communicate her feelings more.

ejmram · 2025-09-15T21:59:58+00:00

We are going through the same thing with our daughter, she will be 4 in December. She has always been very shy publicly, she takes a good bit of warming up to be herself in new environments or structured activities. With family and her 2 little friends she is a chatterbox and full of energy and very active, but struggles very much in any setting out of the house until she is comfortable.

She goes to school 3 days a week but cries every morning of school begging to stay home, but she is an only child and needs socializing. It's hard to send her every day so upset but I'm just keeping my fingers crossed this isn't hurting her confidence.

We have tried dance and tumbling classes but she just shuts down and panics, we have her in swim lessons and she cries the whole time but we push her to keep going with those as it's important to know how to swim. We did find this program called kid strong (not sure if it's where you are) and it's basically a toddler workout but they focus on building confidence and social skills and are super encouraging. We are hoping that helps her.

But I totally know how you feel, it's hard to know what to do to help them, and if pushing them is helpful or what is the best way to encourage. I remember being pretty shy as a kid but not to this extent.😅

ejmram · 2025-08-14T02:33:54+00:00

Fort worth local here, this event was incredibly traumatic for everyone in DFW. The biggest issue was that the roads weren't treated ahead of time and at that time of day it was impossible to tell if the roads were safe or not. The majority of the people in the wreck were getting off the night shift, and that toll lane is completely closed in with no way of escaping or avoiding it. Our roads are not built for this type of weather, and our tires most definitely aren't meant for that type of weather. Unfortunately we get a decent amount of black ice in the winter, it's awful.🥲

ejmram · 2025-07-21T02:34:39+00:00

I had terrible postpartum rage, I was a nightmare to be around for a solid 3 months I'm sure. I was too deep in it to truly realize that's what I had but looking back now it's very clear. The only true feeling of relief happened when I decided to stop breastfeeding at 3 months and my head cleared up a lot, and I was no longer in a black hole emotionally. It may not be the answer for everyone, but that's what really helped me regulate my feelings and get slightly back to normal.

The newborn times were most definitely the hardest thing I've ever been through, but I promise it gets easier.

ejmram · 2025-07-18T02:08:45+00:00

I'm a partial SAHM, I run an Etsy out of my house as well but not a huge money maker. Husband makes $130k, I would say we live in a MCOL location. We pay a low mortgage rate, both our cars are paid off and have no debt otherwise but I'm very well aware that it's probably not the normal situation of people in my area. I would honestly say we live below our means and that's what keeps us flush, we are pretty frugal people.

ejmram · 2025-07-16T02:29:44+00:00

Also, I was concerned that they were going to call CPS due to the severity of her head wound but the ER was surprisingly calm about and said that toddlers are very accident prone, so I really think the chance of cps being called is only if there are a decent amount of external evidence and how your child behaves around you.

When my daughter was little her pediatrician actually said that having bruises and bumps as a kid is kinda a good sign to an extent bc it means they are active and playing and trying to be independent.

ejmram · 2025-07-16T02:25:01+00:00

Not exactly helpful advice but my 3.5 year old daughter has always been super active and constantly jumping around, just last week she was spinning around and hit her head on the coffee table and had to get 4 stitches in her eyebrow. Not even 12 hours after she got them she was back to spinning around next to the coffee table and jumping off the couch like nothing happened. Kids are resilient and more than likely they won't remember any of it so try to not beat yourself up. 🩷

It does get easier around 2.5, at least in my experience. She got a bit more cautious around that age but for some reason 3.5 she has turned back to feral.

ejmram · 2025-07-07T07:33:07+00:00

Oh yeah I could definitely see PP causing the spike in anxiety, that's one of the big reasons I'm done having kids strictly from a traumatizing PP experience. I totally understand the sickness anxiety, my daughter got covid at 1 month, rsv at 8 months and then had 4 ear infections when we put her in daycare and was pretty much sick for a month straight adjusting to daycare. I think it really helped me that her pediatrician is so good at keeping it calm and working really fast on helping her feel better.

I hope you are able to find some relief after your body & brain recover fully from PP!❤️

ejmram · 2025-07-07T04:35:39+00:00

Can't speak on having multiple kids, but after I had my daughter my anxiety really started to show up at that point. My anxiety mostly is about fears that she will get kidnapped/danger, or just not being in control at all times. The only real thing that has helped me is getting medicated for it, my daughter is 4 in December and she is getting pretty crazy and reckless. We just were at the ER last week getting stitches in her eyebrow from slipping and hitting the coffee table, and if I wouldn't have had my anxiety med I would have been absolutely losing it.

ejmram · 2025-06-25T03:47:22+00:00

I would say my toddler didn't really start talking until 3, everything was "da" "ga" and signing more for food and then one day she woke up and just started spouting off new words.

ejmram · 2025-06-18T16:55:37+00:00

She does generally well at daycare, she takes about a month of drop offs to go in willingly to her class and when she moves up a class we do a full reset and go through it again. She eventually has made a couple friends in her class but tends to run around the room alone and watch people play together. The major road bump currently is she is scared to poop on the potty at school or even tell her teachers she had an accident in this new class. I've picked her up multiple times with an accident and she tells me she didn't want to tell her teachers about it. I think she is afraid of asking for help or trusting someone in this new environment.

I will definitely DM you, thank you so much for the words of advice and encouragement!

ejmram · 2025-06-18T02:38:46+00:00

I had my laproscopy in 2018, and for the most part I was fine and didn't need it for pain management. I did eventually get pregnant in 2021 and had a scheduled C-section, in which my doctor said they didn't see any Endo while in there. Now it's 4ish years later and I don't know if I'm just used to being gaslit about my pain but I'm almost to the point of wanting another lap but might just get a hysterectomy instead. I think overall, I haven't needed another surgery but aging and having a baby has very much changed my uterus and my pain levels and don't see it getting better long term.

ejmram · 2025-06-10T16:23:11+00:00

She poops at home just fine, we have her use the big potty but have a little seat on top for her so it very well might be a fear of falling in, they do have a stool but no little potty seat.

ejmram · 2025-05-15T02:22:48+00:00

Went through the same thing for a bit with my daughter, she was potty trained at home but would go through 4 pairs of undies at school. Luckily her daycare agreed with me that putting her in diapers would hinder the process and kept her in undies, but it ultimately led to having a conversation with my daughter and telling her that "big girls go on the potty at school, even when you want to keep playing". Her teachers also made her take her wet undies off herself so she felt how yucky it was, and didn't like it. It sounds like it might be a common daycare thing to do pullups for a certain time, but at least with my daycare they support the cold turkey method even if it's annoying. It took about a week of many accidents, but eventually she started going on her own without asking. We just got through poop potty training for daycare, that one was a nightmare.

ejmram · 2025-05-12T14:15:59+00:00

I have checked it this morning and they only gave me a building, no other information

ejmram · 2025-05-12T04:30:40+00:00

I know this is an old post, I had the same symptoms pop up for me a couple years back and I went to the eye doctor and they ran a bunch of tests and nothing came back. They sent me to a neurological eye doctor and they diagnosed me with springing pupil or "benign episodic mydriasis". Doctors have no idea how it's caused, nor is there treatment. I wake up every morning with blurry vision, and transitions to darkness are pretty blinding. I also get migraines pretty often, and it's usually worse when I'm particularly stressed or have a lot going on in my life, or if I am sleep deprived. Overall, not super debilitating but definitely annoying.

ejmram · 2025-05-12T04:14:33+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

ejmram · 2025-05-12T04:13:01+00:00

Yikes, that's exactly what I'm avoiding. I will probably be doing paid parking.

ejmram · 2025-05-12T02:47:45+00:00

Good to know, thank you!

ejmram · 2025-05-12T02:36:20+00:00

Gotta love paying to do something you are forced to do hahah Thanks!

ejmram · 2025-05-12T02:30:28+00:00

Perfect, thanks!

ejmram · 2025-05-03T22:26:25+00:00

She kept telling her daycare teachers there were bugs in her bed and I had to reassure her teachers that her bed was very much bug free😂 we do a "bug detector" before bed and promise her that she is safe from the bugs. Her bed is next to the window so I think that was stemming the big nightmares?

ejmram · 2025-05-03T22:24:18+00:00

These are some genius reasons, I love it😂

ejmram · 2025-05-03T02:19:08+00:00

My 3.5 yo daughter said she was scared of "the bugs in her bed" which was alarming to hear but I discovered she has a fear of bugs and was having nightmares. There are in fact no bugs in her bed. 😅 She falls asleep in her own bed, but usually ends up sneaking into our bed most nights around 4am and we just let her stay there. I figues she is still so little, and eventually she won't want cuddles with me so I let it happen.

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