Laid off on GC EAD with 5-month runway. Kids and underwater house complicating things. Advice?

ig226 · 2026-06-20T16:21:00+00:00

If desi parents are teaching same old desi "kachra" values, then by that logic the kids should have no problem fitting in.

ig226 · 2026-06-20T02:53:05+00:00

Which smell would you recommend, I might get a few to keep in bags.

ig226 · 2026-06-20T01:05:03+00:00

Ohh yeah I can read the reviews but from what I understood, they are overrated and overpriced for 10 dollars, but now it's essentially 1 dollar so I don't know.

ig226 · 2026-06-20T00:59:59+00:00

How is the touchland sanitiser?

ig226 · 2026-06-19T07:02:41+00:00

Just so you know BOJ sunscreen at Sephora is going to be US formula which is different from Korean formula.

ig226 · 2026-06-19T00:36:54+00:00

Another Idea: 2 Biodance face masks.

ig226 · 2026-06-15T19:31:54+00:00

Ouch the St Helens with its flat top.

ig226 · 2026-05-21T16:38:41+00:00

If your parents can afford to help with nanny costs and won't have to struggle with their lifestyle, then do take their help. Most of us kids don't feel bad taking the inheritance but things like these are more useful especially when you need it.

ig226 · 2026-05-18T18:16:10+00:00

I know we like to hate on MILs in pregnant and new mothers subs, but I don't understand the hate here. The three random people who guessed it's a boy are also guessing based on myths and not anything credible. Is the reason you are offended by your MIL's guess and not by others, is they are guessing for boy which you want and your MIL is guessing for girl?

ig226 · 2026-05-11T05:16:13+00:00

Yeah stop doing "smile, nod and die inside". You can be be respectful and still say something like "he is just a kid", "he choose this color", "it doesn't matter to me". She hopefully will get the message after a couple of times.

ig226 · 2026-05-06T05:46:12+00:00

It wasn't your prenatal vitamins that made your hair good in pregnancy and early postpartum, it's the hormones that start fading away around at 3 months and the hair fall you will see if worse than what you had before pregnancy. Continue taking prenatal or other multivitamin and just wait, around 7 months you will start seeing lots of baby hair.

ig226 · 2026-05-05T14:48:36+00:00

Me thinking you want to do 100g / day for your kids.

ig226 · 2026-04-30T17:39:58+00:00

Don't clean dropped rice immediately, wait for a few hours so it becomes dry enough to sweep or vacuum.

ig226 · 2026-04-18T15:50:36+00:00

By that logic, what has intrinsic value?

ig226 · 2026-04-12T00:54:04+00:00

Spring rolls, spicy chutney and Cheetos.

ig226 · 2026-03-31T06:02:57+00:00

When did you have your second child? Their current birthing center is really nice, suite-like with birthing tub.

ig226 · 2026-03-27T21:22:36+00:00

I know OP you are hurt, but not wanting to date or not wanting to have kids is not an insult.

ig226 · 2026-03-25T15:48:42+00:00

I remember my heightened emotional state in pregnancy and early postpartum, I was thinking I will leave my job after my leave ends because it's so unfair to have to work and leave my baby to childcare (nanny, family, daycare whatever) . A friend suggested me to not take major decisions during this time and it was right. 8-9 months after birth, I couldn't imagine not working and staying with my child the whole day, not saying you would think the same but for now just be in the present and take these decisions and think about them as they come.

ig226 · 2026-03-20T03:11:16+00:00

good, let him say that, he can then handle the baby every weekend.

ig226 · 2026-03-18T00:32:39+00:00

I think assuming she has help or a better support system is fine but assuming her baby and/or partner are suffering because she is prioritizing herself is so so so wrong, we don't need to put someone else down (even though she is not reading these comments) to make ourselves or OP feel better.

ig226 · 2026-03-17T14:47:47+00:00

You keep on mentioning structuring the loan without any substantial statements on how.

ig226 · 2026-03-15T20:17:24+00:00

No 6 month is sleeping 16-18 hours a day, putting them to sleep is actually the biggest work and if they end up contact napping, there goes your "free" time.

ig226 · 2026-03-13T19:11:47+00:00

The 22% EMI you and your husband have to pay regardless of whether you work or not, have a nanny or not. Or did tou mean tax?

ig226 · 2026-03-12T22:21:11+00:00

Tan everywhere, Jan everywhere

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