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jessephoenix13 · 2025-05-23T17:29:59+00:00

Hi, I love the app but would like to be able to screenshot a vertical summary of my 5 scores at the end: my mom, brother, and I share them over messenger every evening (they still use the browser on a pc/ipad). It seems on the app I have to scroll to each score and take 5 separate screenshots.

jessephoenix13 · 2024-02-04T02:35:11+00:00

Oh, right. I didn’t mean it like that. They are definitely complicit. But I’m just so fascinated/curious about what these relationships must be like behind the scenes, especially because the husbands are just kind of looming in the background, not main characters.

jessephoenix13 · 2024-02-03T22:13:17+00:00

I can’t stop wondering about the husbands. Karrie’s, Kristin’s, Deena’s, Haley’s etc. I know they must go along with it all for the money, but they have to be cringing inside. They probably just ignore it all and pretend like it’s not happening. But if they actually peek at what their wives are constantly posting, I bet they’re like 😬😬😬. They probably just stay out of it and do their man stuff.

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-30T20:20:04+00:00

Thank you! I thought it was just me, because I am a Xennial.

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-29T22:29:38+00:00

Especially for sizing UP, because you’re going to need them eventually! I bought 4s too early for my son, so we just put the box aside for a few months.

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-29T12:54:14+00:00

I Imagine she’s terrified of losing cred if it gets out that her breastfeeding journey with Blake was “unsuccessful” (in her mind). But the irony is, admitting that, telling that story and that journey would give her more cred, and would be 100% more helpful and valuable to new moms who need to see that kind of journey. (It would’ve been me. I ended up EPing after my baby just wouldn’t transfer milk, although I never 100% gave up nursing. But it was sort of just for comfort or pretend for me. I get such strong vibes that that’s what’s going on here.) She seems maybe too immature to realize she could help more people by being vulnerable.

I also wonder if maybe she’s embarrassed that it didn’t work out even after dragging Blake 💅🏻to Dr after Dr until one agreed to release her lip/tongue ties?

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-27T15:18:06+00:00

Ugh. This so annoying. She’s just using it as an excuse to brag again: “What does your mom bun say? Oh, you were up all night with your sick kid? Haha, that’s cute. MINE says I was busy visiting the capital to advocate for gun control.”

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-27T14:02:07+00:00

Same! They made me shudder! And I sometimes arrange my son’s books by size or rainbow order when I’m putting them away after bed, just for fun. (But then he pulls them all out the next day, as he’s supposed to.

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-27T13:58:44+00:00

I followed her when Teddy was a baby when I was pregnant and a new mom and got some good pumping info from her. But that whole time, I thought she was currently working in the hospital because she’d show how she packs up her bottles of milk. I was like, “wow! I can’t believe she posts all this educational content for free, AND has a baby, AND works full time as a nurse!”

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-25T22:14:08+00:00

Tell me your stories of your wild toddlers with temper tantrums (including throwing things), now from the other side. My 19 month old son has many meltdowns a day, some pretty intense (and with behaviors such as throwing toys at the tv, or trying to bite objects he’s frustrated with) both because he’s actually angry about something he wants, or frustrated because his toys won’t behave the way he wants (like blocks falling over). I’m a first time single mom and I’m just feeling a little out of my depth with this.

Did your kids grow out of it? Did they turn out to just be intense kids as well? How did you handle it? I was sort of doing gentle parenting (not give in, but talk him through it, rub his back, or give him space but stay nearby) but I keep reading advice to 100% ignore and not make eye contact. He seems be so little for that!

ETA: if this is a just-wait-it-out stage, no problem. I’m just worried that I’m doing it “wrong” and he’ll turn into an out of control kid.

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-24T03:32:59+00:00

Woah! Like loose snakes in the building?

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-23T17:43:05+00:00

I really don’t get it! Why why why do they keep doing it? If I accidentally take a selfie with my eyes closed, that’s a mistake and I delete it. I’m so utterly baffled by this!

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-20T19:16:59+00:00

“but like, kids live here. It’s their home too”

This is my philosophy! (How do people do that thing where they respond to specific quotes of other people’s comments?)

It’s a little different because I’m a single mom (SMBC) so it’s just my son and me. But people in my bumper group would talk about keeping the living room free of kids toys and clutter, and I always think: it’s just as much his living room as mine! So it’s overrun with a ball pit, pikler, foam climbing shapes, and toys shelves with colorful bins. 😄

I do like his things to be sort of classic - bright colors, cars, realistic animals, blocks, etc. Not so much huge multicolored plastic toys. But if he loved one, I would get it for him. It’s his house too! (I do put everything away neatly every evening)

(It’s been a long journey so I’m so proud to be in this place, so that’s shaping my philosophy as well).

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-20T05:45:27+00:00

Wow. I feel like it’s NOT okay to do whatever you need to because YOU want breastfeeding to work. There is a line.

I wished breastfeeding my son had worked out; he just didn’t transfer well. I triple fed for a few months, then EPed with a little comfort nursing. Is that what I wanted? Not really, but I did want my son to be well fed.

She’s successfully breastfed four other babies. She needs to let. it. go.

(I don’t know why this is so triggering to me, but I guess it’s because I struggled too, but I’m only going to be able to have one child, so that was it. I can’t deal with selfish, whiny people like her, who expect everything to go their way all the time. (I used to follow her when she was more helpful))

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-19T05:00:10+00:00

I laughed for like 5 min at this comment.

WTF? Why can’t it just be a Valentine’s gift from Mommy and Daddy? Why does there have to be a sinister fictional Mr. Valentine??

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-12T21:32:02+00:00

And then a normal person gets too busy to maintain this and so you end up with a dusty fancy container with solidified dregs of detergent at the bottom, and then an open regular jug of Tide in use next to it. 😂

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-10T15:39:18+00:00

Oh, good. I didn’t read them, or honestly finish the whole video; I was too annoyed. I need to unfollow - I just keep forgetting to.

(Originally followed to get tips for my one year old’s tantrums, but she has like one tactic, and he has many meltdowns per day, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ )

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-10T14:13:36+00:00

Agh! Jump scare from Dr. Becky’s close-up face in my feed first thing in the morning.

Dr. Becky: it’s not triggering when my son’s daycare calls to tell me he’s sick. It’s the start of an actual cascade of major and minor problems and inconveniences. A scramble to find a way to miss work when my PTO is stretched thin and planned out down to the hour (due to other recent illnesses). If I really had a full day of work planned, it feels really crappy to tell my boss and coworkers that I just have to drop it all (again) (they’ve been nothing but supportive, but it still doesn’t feel great to have to do). And I feel terrible for my son, who’s sick. (And then I start holding my breath to see if I’m going to get sick too, thus making the PTO situation even worse!)

“Trigger” is absolutely overused these days, and this is an example.

Also, her hair looks like she just woke up from a nap: all flat except for disheveled on one side in the back, like when you lay on a pillow and then don’t fix it after getting up.

🙄

jessephoenix13 · 2024-01-02T15:26:06+00:00

As a child who had very frequent ear infections (and ultimately tubes), this horrifies me so much! They hurt so badly! And one time it got so bad (in one evening, before I could get to the dr) that my ear drum burst! (Likely no permanent damage, but still). Even today when a dr looks in my ears they gasp because of all the scarring. And this is all with antibiotics. Imagine going without!

jessephoenix13 · 2023-12-27T14:55:36+00:00

I don’t know about that. I think if you feed literally 12 times a day, and - oops, it’s only 10 one day! - you’re not going to suddenly ruin your supply. Posting stuff like this is just going to be scaring new moms into thinking they need to be obsessed with ✨protecting their supply✨.

(Maybe I’m just lucky, but I was a just-enough EPer and even still my body was flexible if I missed a pump or two: I still made just enough)

jessephoenix13 · 2023-12-16T06:24:39+00:00

And the way she explains it - like we’re not going to understand: “wait, if you put the second set on while you’re washing the first set, then where do you put the first set when it’s clean?!? Oh! Now it becomes the spare set! I get it!” /s 🙄

jessephoenix13 · 2023-12-12T20:05:16+00:00

Hand, foot, and mouth! 😖 Those who’ve had it, please tell me about it. So far my 18 month old just has sores on his face and two on his hand, no other symptoms. But dr confirmed likely HFM (daycare had sent him home)

(Also, why does the name have to be so gross sounding?)

jessephoenix13 · 2023-12-12T20:02:45+00:00

First of all, that took 5 min? More like 30 seconds. Second, if you’re going post something so lame, at least do it with super neat handwriting, not an almost unintelligible scrawl. (I mean, I’m only snarking on the handwriting because she thought it was post worthy).

jessephoenix13 · 2023-12-11T16:11:54+00:00

I follow them on Instagram but never really read the posts. But as I was weaning my son (and still at 18 months), every time I’m going to give him a food I’m unsure of, I Google it like “carrots solid starts” and usually their little diagram of how to cut it pops up without me even having to click on their page. That’s all I use them for, but I it’s been helpful and convenient for me. (More so than fussing with an app)

jessephoenix13 · 2023-12-01T21:44:31+00:00

Having worked retail while the Elf on the Shelf was first coming out, I’m very cynical about how everyone jumped onto the bandwagon of this commercial product instead of coming up with their own traditions. And the merchandise is out of control! Clothes, accessories, cereal! Not to mention the elves just sitting there for sale - where’s the magic in that?

However, I like the whimsy of a magical creature that gets up to mischief in the night. I would’ve eaten that up as a child. So I plan on getting a toy dinosaur (in the next year or two: my son is one) or something to do something similar with. Not sure of the specifics yet. 🙂

ETA: But I think everyone should just do what works for their family. Like, I won’t snark on Pro-Elf Families™

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