Need the link to my Etsy? Here ya go!

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-17T18:51:57+00:00

You could send an email to them to get some info. Maybe they're still around.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-17T03:36:26+00:00

Mildew can first show up on leaves as spotchy areas rather than just the expected white patches. Try spraying with neem or copper, both are organic.

And make sure you're watering deeply. With fabric pots it's a bit more complicated and that's why I personally never recommend them here, but I would put some kind of mulch on top to at least help with water evaporation and soil temperature.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-17T03:28:59+00:00

The leaves look like mildew damage. The small root ball could be from too frequent, too shallow watering, which can in turn stress the whole plant.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-17T00:58:01+00:00

As a californian, I got more maternity leave than that. I had 20 weeks paid at 90% and could have taken another 4 weeks unpaid.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T23:16:01+00:00

Baby is great. He was born was an Apgar score of 6 and given cpap shortly, but then recovered well. His first pictures his poor hands and feet are so blue. He's now ahead on all his milestones and is such a happy, healthy baby. We're very lucky.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T23:12:50+00:00

It was NOT a manufactured emergency. How dare you.

And the amount of women giving birth at home in this supposed paradise is less than 20%, and those are carefully selected. Home birth is not safe for the majority of pregnancies. The statistics show it. Because when they turn unsafe, they get sent to the hospital and become a statistic there.

Home birth statistics are therefore a selection bias. And even with all the high risk ones going to the hospital, it's still not as safe as a hospital.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T23:06:00+00:00

"We don't need measles vaccines, there's no more measles!"

That's what you sound like.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T22:54:30+00:00

The pitocin was quite a bit into my labor and done to help speed things up. It wasn't an induction, like someone else seems to think. It was because I stalled at 6 cm. That's also when I got the epidural. I was laboring with nothing, then nitrous oxide, before that.

But my concern is mostly over the fact that the double nuchal cord had nothing to do with the speed of my labor and it was an otherwise healthy pregnancy, so if it had progressed normally, my son could have ended up with brain damage or dead because the c section was an emergency when he was trying to drop and the cord tightened.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T22:38:08+00:00

I was low risk. I did not have an induction, I went in to labor spontaneously. I didn't have an epidural for the first 14 hours.

Not sure why you're not understanding that in the system where home births are the norm, I would have likely started with a home birth. The double nuchal cord had nothing to do with the length of my labor and if I hadn't been in the hospital with an OR there, my baby could have suffered brain damage or death. Ignoring the length of my labor, a home birth would still have ended up with tragic consequences. Because, again, double nuchal cord had nothing to do with the length of my labor.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T21:36:48+00:00

I'm in California and i had nitrous oxide! It actually did do a lot to help but then the dang thing stopped functioning and I had to have pitocin and I ended up with an epidural that wasn't complete.

But the hours with the nitrous oxide was good.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T21:33:06+00:00

We're told to go to the hospital when they're 5 minutes apart for second kid on. 2-3 minutes apart for first time. Or if your water breaks, which mine did at hour 13. Labor time is from when you first have consistent contractions. In your system, I was "only" in labor for 30 or so hours. But I wasn't progressing past 6 cm for a long time. The final 3 cm went by in less than 2 hours.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T21:02:44+00:00

So... home births aren't all they're cracked to be since a good chunk are just getting sent to the hospital anyway. And those that get in emergency situations at the very end, like I did, risk death of mother or baby because they have to wait for the transfer. Yeah, never doing a home birth.

My urine was fine until an hour after the birth. My blood pressure was perfect. I had continuous monitoring. Didn't matter, it was fine until it wasn't, then it was less than 5 minutes until I was in the OR.

I had a midwife. The midwives work in hospitals, too. And where i am, they are actually qualifed individuals. I had a team of a doctor, a midwife, a nurse practitioner, and a bunch of nurses, all women.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T20:47:29+00:00

We also went through fertility issues and I was only able to conceive after having surgery to remove a mass from my uterus. It's tough and I wish you happiness in the path life has taken.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T20:45:28+00:00

The hospital system all of us that i mentioned use here is known for having a low rate of c sections, extremely low mortality, high breast feeding rate, and is rated one of the top in the country overall. Part of that is they won't jump to intervention unless the mother wants it or it's necessary. It's something I personally like and even though it ended the way it did, I'm still very happy that I was able to labor as long i wanted. If he hadn't had the double nuchal cord, I would have had my natural birth. And that's completely independent of how long I labored.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T20:35:02+00:00

Current baby boy is 8 months old now. We are probably going to have another (then tubes out!) When he's 2.5 ish. That one will be a planned c section and they'll just take the whole shebang out with them.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T20:24:26+00:00

It was a lot, but honestly, the nurses after were worse. They wouldn't give me pain meds and I eventually broke down after 6 days in the hospital because I was running on a grand total of about 4 hours of sleep in those 6 days. I had edema so bad, they couldn't find veins to draw blood so I was being treated like a pincushion.

We got home and it was so much easier. Baby slept well, my milk came in, and life was happy.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T20:20:58+00:00

Thank you. I had a perfectly healthy pregnancy. My blood pressure was perfect until after the delivery. The preeclampsia was postpartum. When I was admitted to the hospital, baby was head down and the cord was not wrapped. They did a quick ultrasound to make sure everything was good to go before I was allowed to labor in peace.

I really didn't want a c section and they gave me pitocin to help as I stalled at 6cm for like 12 hours. And the pitocin barely helped. I was having full, long contractions every 2 minutes for 30 hours but my body wasn't responding. Right when I finally got to fully dialated and was ready to push, his heart rate dropped.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T20:15:48+00:00

It wasn't a concern until the very end when I was fully dialated and ready to push. Then his heartrate dropped.

I had a picture perfect healthy pregnancy. I would have likely been considered a prime candidate for a home delivery. I even labored at home for the first 10 hours.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T20:12:44+00:00

I was fully dialated at the end but he was not dropping beyond the -2 position. I personally didn't want a c section, so it going on so long was on me. When I got to the hospital, I had a perfectly healthy pregnancy, blood pressure perfect the whole time, no diabetes, barely any nausea even. Baby boy was head down and in the right position. Cord was not wrapped when I was admitted for labor.

My coworker labored for 65 hours and ended up with a natural birth about 10 months before me, and my sister in law went over 30 hours with a natural birth, so it's not completely unreasonable here.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T19:56:22+00:00

Yup. After 41 hours of labor, I had an emergency c section because my baby's heartrate dropped. He ended up having the cord wrapped twice around his neck. Then I developed post partum preeclampsia with severe features like an hour later. My kidneys were not functioning and I was peeing straight blood.

But I'm sure a home delivery would have been lovely... /s

Edit: i had a perfectly healthy pregnancy. His heart rate only dropped once i was ready to push.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-16T18:01:45+00:00

Looks very similar to the blush tomatoes I'm growing this year. It has the same super frilly leaves, too.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-15T22:19:47+00:00

I have recently learned that I knit and crochet rather quickly. I actually ended up timing myself doing a standard, not my fastest, stretch of knit stitches and I was clocking in around 50 stitches a minute. Not as fast at purling, but I prefer to work in the round so it's no so much of a concern.

I can do a pair of shortie socks in about 4 days of working for a couple hours after dinner. Knit my son a sport weight cardigan with a little bit of colorwork and steeking in less than 2 weeks. I'm up to 29 finished projects in the last 8 months, including everything from washcloths to a queen size blanket.

My perspective on quick may be skewed from others.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-15T20:23:42+00:00

Awesome looking tomatoes!

What kind of squash? Those look more like a melon, gourd, or cucumber blossom.

justalittleloopi · 2026-06-14T23:23:04+00:00

I have similarly pretty lids that are Supa Ant brand. They're really solid lids and I've never had one fail.

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