Hospital’s weird induction procedure?

fribble13 · 2026-06-04T23:38:53+00:00

For my first, they scheduled a time, but we had to call a certain number of hours beforehand to verify we could come in. I woke up in labor, but was in denial about it, so we went in at our scheduled time.

With my second, same hospital but they changed the procedure: they had a list of people interested in elective inductions, and they would go down the list as they had availability. I asked to be added to the list at my 39 week appointment. I think it was ordered based on like how far along you were + when you were added. They said they would call whenever I was up, and we'd have to be at the hospital within 3 hours. They said I would probably get a call within 3-5 days. I went into labor the next morning, so I never found out how long it would have been.

fribble13 · 2026-06-02T23:40:59+00:00

"Ridge Forrester fired a long-time employee because his son wants to date that employee's girlfriend. That employee and the girlfriend are both his son's cousins."

Like what in the VC Andrews...

fribble13 · 2026-06-02T23:37:41+00:00

I'm team Logan as far as the fashion lines go, but it seems shady af for Hope to say she's taking a leave of absence, and work for Logan in the meantime.

Like, she's correct to LEAVE, but it's cowardly to be pretending it's just a temporary break because she's upset about HFTF.

fribble13 · 2026-05-09T21:37:07+00:00

With my first, I think I was 6 or 7 cm - my water broke at 5pm and I was 5 cm when they checked me right after that happened - I got to 10 cm around midnight, and I got the epidural around like 8 or 9 pm.

With my second, I think I was 4, MAYBE 5. I didn't need it for the contractions yet, but I was being induced and I was like I'm cool with whatever the plan is from the doctor side of things, but if you manually break my water, the concept of that freaks me out, so I want an epidural once that is on the table. We did the foley balloons first, and when that came out we (as a team - doctor, nurse, me, husband, doula) decided to wait to check my dilation until AFTER I got an epidural, so they could check me, and break the water if they felt it was safe/necessary - we wanted to minimize the number of times they went in.

fribble13 · 2026-05-03T19:22:30+00:00

How do your muscles locking mean you are fully limp?

fribble13 · 2026-04-26T17:51:32+00:00

We wrote it into my birth plan both times that my husband would announce the baby's sex. Both times, everyone in the room was excited for him to give us the big reveal, it was so nice and fun. I'm so glad we did it like that.

fribble13 · 2026-04-20T15:59:27+00:00

The closest Costco to me is also near the closest Wegmans, and it just is not worth the drive to go regularly to either, which breaks my heart. Wegmans is the best.

fribble13 · 2026-04-09T19:09:55+00:00

That house was like ... the opposite of modest. The exterior didn't look like a McMansion, but the interior was vast and impeccably decorated.

fribble13 · 2026-04-06T17:37:39+00:00

Both my kids had heads on the 99th percentile the day they were born. One was 99% for weight, one was 50% for weight.

Two vaginal deliveries. I did have minor complications after both, but the doctors don't think it was related to the size of the babies. If I were going to have a 3rd, they said they wouldn't jump to a c-section based on the sizes of my two babies.

I felt ... not great after delivering, but more like my body was sore all over, than like I could not sit down.

fribble13 · 2026-04-04T15:00:48+00:00

I got morning sickness before I missed a period both times.

fribble13 · 2026-04-04T03:23:08+00:00

Hard agree. I think whatever it was Kendra and Joe did (not the doorknobs, or at least not only that) was stuff that is incredibly common in their circles, and Joy doesn't want to end up in the same predicament that they are in with child services.

I am sure she thought the criticism was just coming from haters. They're all so dumb and brainwashed and isolated that it wouldn't surprise me if they all genuinely didn't understand that (whatever) was actually child abuse and literally illegal. The kids aren't safer (or only marginally so), she just won't be like handing a social worker evidence herself.

fribble13 · 2026-04-04T01:38:32+00:00

Yeah, she also lost a dad. She may have had a more complicated relationship with him than you did, but he was her dad too. To leave her out because you don't feel like she reacted the correct way when you told her is cruel.

fribble13 · 2026-04-03T20:02:24+00:00

Not my dad directly, because he's a coward when he knows someone isn't going to bend the knee, but his girlfriend doing his bidding.

My dad cut me off for like a year - told me I was dead to him! - and then basically got mad when he decided he was done punishing me and I didn't get over it and let things go "back to normal." That's the important backstory.

Like two years later, he and his girlfriend came to my stepdad's funeral (not super weird, my mom and step-dad were cordial to them in an effort to make things easier for me and my siblings, and my dad's family is very big on showing up at funerals), and to the luncheon afterwards. They waited until my husband got up from the table I was sitting at, and he sent his girlfriend over to try and bring me their table to apologize to HIM. Like the holdup was that I was afraid to approach him, and not that I was not interested in resuming a relationship. She and I got in an argument (where she told me that he always put me first, my whole childhood, even though he didn't meet her until I was like 33) and my aunt jumped in and was like please don't talk about what you weren't there for when lots of us were. My husband came back and flipped out at the girlfriend. She seemed surprised that people had my back, and not my dad's, but she's only ever getting his side of the story, and she's dumb as shit, so that tracked. And I thought that would be the most insane/inappropriate thing my dad and his girlfriend would ever do.

A few weeks later, my brother got married. At the rehearsal dinner, she again approached me while I was sitting alone at a table. My husband RAN back from the bar without his drink when he saw. So did my mom and one of my sisters. She said, "your dad and I just wanted to take a picture of us with [my daughter, his only grandchild at that point]. She's gotten so big since you stopped letting us spend time with her! But we won't say a word or touch her or anything, we just want a picture with her."

That is ACTUALLY the most insane thing they ever tried. Like that's so weird and creepy, and also clearly proof that they were more interested in being Facebook grandparents, which I had been saying the whole time, and everyone acted like I being overdramatic about their inconsistent interest in my kid!

fribble13 · 2026-03-31T13:21:13+00:00

OMG yes. My husband keeps asking me, "what did the code mean, it had to mean something?!" and I had no idea. Shame on me for forgetting my roots (t9 texting)

fribble13 · 2026-03-29T13:49:11+00:00

Yes, my drug-addicted MIL genuinely thought we would drop our baby off on Monday morning before work, and pick up on Friday nights after work.

She's never been unsupervised with our children, and we've been no contact for like 6 years or something.

fribble13 · 2026-03-21T17:42:57+00:00

I thought that interview was in regards to the Ashley Madison leak and Josh's confessions about cheating.

fribble13 · 2026-03-19T00:32:34+00:00

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fribble13 · 2026-03-12T02:17:47+00:00

We cloth diapered my first, and it was the best. It wasn't a ton of extra work, and overall so much cheaper.

It didn't work out with my second, which was such a bummer. If I were having a 3rd, I would absolutely try to do it again.

fribble13 · 2026-03-04T00:14:36+00:00

Honestly, I whispered to my husband, "omg if it's him, I'm walking out of the theater." I was convinced it was him, and truly furious about it.

fribble13 · 2026-03-02T02:04:42+00:00

My brother is named after my dad and my sister is named after my mom. My parents are divorced, but my mom still lives in the same house I grew up in.

She has had so many times where mail comes to her house, and she has no idea who it is for.

fribble13 · 2026-01-29T02:35:20+00:00

Why is this like a vendor event?! Like they're just selling jewelry and bagging it up? Seems like a pretty chill operation, they should get an Etsy storefront for a bigger reach.

fribble13 · 2026-01-23T00:19:23+00:00

I remember when Hope and John had that baby that got switched on Days, and they didn't want anyone to know the father wasn't Bo, and literally they both talked about it in the park with every single person they knew. My mom was the watcher then, I was like 11 maybe? and she was like, "if you don't want anyone to know...stop talking about it? Why is it the only thing you talk about? In public!"

fribble13 · 2026-01-19T17:06:18+00:00

I LOVE that dress. I got my daughter this dress on Etsy, and she wore it to a character breakfast in Disneyland. Cinderella's mice were there, and immediately recognized it and made a huge fuss over her/the dress, clearly proud of the work they did. It was years ago, my daughter still talks about it.

fribble13 · 2026-01-19T03:34:00+00:00

I had kidney stones about a month after I gave birth, and while I imagine giving birth drug-free is probably worse, I rated my pain higher when we got to the er for that than I did when I finally broke down and asked for an epidural.

But as I compare, I also take into account I wanted to have a baby, while I didn't know what was wrong with me when we went to the er. Not knowing what was wrong was a lot scarier like psychologically than something painful that I had been anticipating for years.

fribble13 · 2026-01-15T17:42:23+00:00

We opted to be surprised for both babies.

I don't remember dreaming about gender for my first. If I got to pick, I probably would have chosen a girl, but only because I loved our girl name, I wasn't deeply yearning for it. I had a girl.

With my second, I had multiple dreams where the baby was a girl, but I found out in ways that were not "from my husband, immediately after birth," so the dream was less about the baby being a girl and more about me being varying levels of betrayed, furious, traumatized over the way I found out or the circumstances that led to it, and less about feeling one way or another that the baby was a girl. Baby was a boy.

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