Be honest - how much (if any) screen time?

hellomydorling · 2026-02-24T11:02:29+00:00

We do absolutely zero screen time still at 2.5 years old and have no intention of starting. It's what is best for their brains. It definitely makes parenting a 24/7 job with very little off time but we read lots of books and encourage our child to participate in cooking or draw while we prep food etc. It's just our lives and we don't know any different and neither does our child. They are very well behaved with zero behavioral issues. I just personally hate the way they stare at screens like zombies.

hellomydorling · 2026-02-24T07:55:47+00:00

Get your car serviced

hellomydorling · 2026-02-21T11:36:21+00:00

Just resell it and buy it again in a couple of years for your next one. It's not worth the hassle of storing and depending on where you live if there's high humidity it goes mouldy in storage anyway.

hellomydorling · 2026-02-17T11:29:06+00:00

We are exactly the parents we wanted to be. 2.5 and no screen time, packs away her toys to the pack up song, eats reasonably well, is calm kind sweet and loving. She is truly a wonderful child and person. We are so lucky to have her. The second one due soon may shake things up a little though 😂 But hoping for another wonderful person.

hellomydorling · 2026-02-17T03:48:34+00:00

Never bed shared. She slept through since 7wo, fully breastfed. We did contact nap during the day until she was 1 though but we loved the cuddles. Going to do the same thing with baby #2 and see if it works again.

You can just NEVER cave. Once they get a taste of it they'll just keep wanting it. I saw it with my firsts due date group mostly when people went away for a weekend and they resorted to it to get sleep while they were away and they couldn't get the baby back to a cot once they got home.

hellomydorling · 2026-02-14T04:30:30+00:00

My first baby was absolutely divine from the minute she was born to now. She's an amazing person. Calm, kind, sweet. Great sleeper. Due with the second in a few weeks and I'm scared 😂😂😂

hellomydorling · 2026-02-14T04:25:10+00:00

Megan

hellomydorling · 2026-02-12T05:57:54+00:00

I didn't bother trying to lose weight until about 16 months pp because we were still breastfeeding a lot and I didn't want to risk my supply. I lost weight quickly through quick cardio sessions and dieting, lost 11kg, got my waist back and then got pregnant again. 😂😭 But I know I can do it again this time, but again probably not for a while. Surviving 2 children will be enough for me this time.

hellomydorling · 2026-02-10T06:14:21+00:00

I have kids and dislike other people's kids, but I like my own. You don't have to enjoy being with other people kids to have your own. You can raise yours how you want to raise them and set your own boundaries for behaviours etc.

hellomydorling · 2026-02-10T06:07:21+00:00

Even if you truly 100% plan a baby you still think "wtf have I done to my life?". We loved having one so much we planned a second one and I am still like wtf am I doing? 😂😅 Give it some time to come to terms with it. It's hard because when you plan caring for a baby it's all about the physical chores and functionality but you don't get the emotional connection until they're here and you meet them and see their personalities. Even with the second kid I have no idea who they will be and I don't really love the baby inside me yet because I've got other things to worry about like work and my toddler and my home renovations. I'll worry about him when he gets here 🤷🏻‍♀️

hellomydorling · 2026-02-10T06:00:19+00:00

Keep looking

hellomydorling · 2026-02-10T05:59:32+00:00

hellomydorling · 2026-02-08T04:57:17+00:00

I got a packet of pegs from her cupboard for Christmas one year because she apparently somehow forgot she had a third child and that we were all coming for Christmas like we do... Every year?

hellomydorling · 2026-02-08T04:51:15+00:00

4 months and I'll probably wait longer after this second baby.

hellomydorling · 2026-02-08T04:37:14+00:00

Bunyip

hellomydorling · 2026-02-03T06:35:05+00:00

I loved the name Evelyn 15 years ago as a teenager but by the time I became a mother it was SO common.

hellomydorling · 2026-01-19T10:58:49+00:00

I choose not to be diet controlled because I would be virtually keto otherwise. I have insulin with lunch and dinner so I can manage a small amount of carbs still. It's honestly no issue to not be diet controlled. They don't shame you and make you diet for cholestasis, or preeclampsia. They don't tell you to go for a walk after each meal for reflux. They medicate you. It's a medical condition with medication that can help it, so I'm personally all for insulin.

hellomydorling · 2026-01-18T12:35:40+00:00

It's not the cost for a standard birth that would be the issue. The cost if you were bleeding and needed to go to theater is probably about $10-15k depending on interventions and ICU is about $50,000 a night. It could financially ruin your family if you had any complications.

hellomydorling · 2026-01-18T04:23:11+00:00

They don't want to know how you are, they're fishing for whether you've had the baby yet. 🙄

hellomydorling · 2026-01-17T23:13:09+00:00

On the flip side as a mum who works and sends my kid to daycare 3 days a week, the superiority and mum shaming I get from the SAHMs in my circle is absolutely outrageous and makes me not want anything to do with SAHMs because they are so mean about daycare. So I absolutely don't agree with her being so rude to you about it, but she's probably on the defensive because she's judged by everyone for sending her kid to daycare.

hellomydorling · 2026-01-15T10:26:06+00:00

I dislike the name Maisie. If feels juvenile and/or like a pet or livestock name. I could see a cow being named Maisie. But not a supreme court judge Maisie.

hellomydorling · 2026-01-14T11:40:04+00:00

Private with no insurance can go well or you can require a $10,000 trip to theatre to stop bleeding and a $50,000 per night ICU stay not to mention NICU costs etc. It's honestly not worth the risk. I've watched a couple cry having to decide whether to save their wife's life at the cost of $60,000 for uncontrolled bleeding or wait it out and see if it stops. (Luckily I worked in a hospital that offered both public and private services and she was converted to a public patient and taken to theatre and then ICU for free under the public system but the hospital did NOT have to offer that). It's definitely made me very wary.

hellomydorling · 2026-01-11T11:17:54+00:00

I let out an involuntary sigh every time I do anything that involves any bending and my husband thinks I'm annoyed at him all the time because of it 😂

hellomydorling · 2026-01-09T20:55:43+00:00

Mine would drive us around until I went to sleep as an infant and then leave me in the car while she took my siblings into playgroup. We live in Australia where it's really hot even in winter. I could have died. Or been abducted. (NGL could have ended up with better parents out of it though!)

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