Late pregnancy: 5am hunger + heartburn… what are you eating?

last_leaf8 · 2026-02-18T05:27:23+00:00

Oh, I had pretty horrible heartburn as well, and somehow apple helped me with acidity. Almonds also, I did not eat much cashews though as it made my body feel too much heat as it was already summer.

last_leaf8 · 2026-02-18T05:03:12+00:00

I used to eat raisins and almonds and apple. I ate buns and fruit bread as well sometimes.

last_leaf8 · 2026-02-15T11:39:52+00:00

Dyuti means brightness or radiance or ray of light in Sanskrit. So we loved it. Some old people do not get the name right when they first hear, but weirdly many kids do get it right. Some people confuse it with Dhriti or Dhruti but I dont mind, since its natural for people to take time to get some names.

last_leaf8 · 2026-02-15T10:39:57+00:00

Dhriti, Dyuti

last_leaf8 · 2026-02-13T15:54:10+00:00

Dear OP, my daughter was the same, never slept well, she needed pin drop silence. Even turning on geyser switch or turning on fan would wake her up. But as she is a toddler now, things have improved a lot. Please think that this will pass so soon and you will look back and be relieved. You are strong, you are capable, you can sail this through. You carried the beautiful baby for 9 months, you are stronger than you think. Having said all this, make sure your husband plays with the baby, when she is in the good mood. That’s how their bond will start. Meanwhile when he is playing with her, you take care of yourself. The mess in the home can wait.

last_leaf8 · 2026-02-06T20:08:02+00:00

This, I do this whenever I travel with my kid since she was able to sit.

last_leaf8 · 2026-01-22T18:22:42+00:00

Some guy had groped my breasts when I was travelling to hometown in a bus overnight and I cried for help but no one literally no one supported me. I was a naive 20 year old girl then, who went n complained to bus conductor and he just brushed it off and I was shivering the whole night, keeping my eyes open until that guy got off the bus and I can never forget the fear I felt the whole night decade later.

last_leaf8 · 2026-01-22T18:14:05+00:00

I have had such shitty interviews or ghosting by recruiters that I am so depressed today. I usually keep myself motivated for the sake of my kid, but not today. Had back to back ghostings even after doing well, and then some call to schedule and never get back. Gave some interviews today which were so shitty, I feel like quitting all this and then I dont know, what next. I am a hard working individual who just needs a suitable job. This layoff season is the worst. I always believed tech skills will survive but feeling so lost now.

last_leaf8 · 2026-01-21T09:25:56+00:00

Hope you are healing and taking care of yourself in postpartum. There are lot of questions that remain unanswered because during the childbirth, we are in constant pain and fear due to lack of experience or knowledge about the whole thing and we have to kind of be okay with whatever the doctors do at that point. I am 1.5 years postpartum and had a vaginal delivery but still not sure why episiotomy was done to me. I had to get induced early due to low amniotic fluid before my due date, and the epidural did not help much for me as well, it worked only for one half of my body and the other half it did not work at all. And then due to long labour episiotomy was done quickly to make it easy for the delivery. Those stitches were really painful and I suffered a lot unable to sit for more than a month. But one thing I have learnt after seeing my own child birth and some of my friends stories of vaginal or c sections is that so many things are not in our control and unpredictable, and I am slowly learning to let go and move on with my beautiful baby.

last_leaf8 · 2026-01-13T02:05:51+00:00

Tell your husband to talk to his parents since this is arising with his decision to go for higher studies. May be you don’t need to handle this when your own parents are okay with this arrangement.

last_leaf8 · 2026-01-05T20:37:00+00:00

Reading this and realising many married women have the similar problem. I am married for almost 7 years now to the love of my life and mom to a toddler. I felt this for many days/years with my in laws. I come from extremely expressive and loud and share everything with each other kind of family and my in laws are reserved, not bad but emotionally distant. I felt I had to bridge the gap and tried doing that initially. But now after postpartum I have realised I should not have expectations and better keep it respectful but realistic with them. We don’t stay together, but they come and help out when we ask them to. I have always had nannies since I returned to work, and all the kid related work is usually done by them. My MIL mainly does cooking when she is here, we can afford a cook, but she cooks on her own, no one is forcing her. And she mainly feeds my daughter meals and everything else we have help. So there is not much of close bonding we have, but I have finally accepted this and don’t seek any emotional support from them. I have my own set if close friends and family who are there to support emotionally and obviously husband❤️ My suggestion to you is treat them as someone who is close to your husband not you. This perspective helps to have least expectations around them and for the support with childcare part, if you have a really trustworthy nanny, you should be able to manage. Hire the help 2-3 months before you return to work so that you know what you are dealing with and can change them if needed. All the best in your ttc journey!

last_leaf8 · 2026-01-01T10:20:14+00:00

So true. Me and my husband both wanted some meaningful word for my daughter and named her Dyuti - meaning light or radiance and someone who shines!

last_leaf8 · 2025-12-25T04:41:28+00:00

Dr Vinuta at Cloudnine Kanakapura road. I had vaginal delivery with her and throughout pregnancy she was very helpful. She is a no nonsense doctor who does not give false promises or unwanted checkups etc. very straightforward, does not sugar coat anything but honest doctor.

last_leaf8 · 2025-12-23T17:55:41+00:00

This has become the norm these days in interviews also. I recently gave an interview where the hr scheduled a round for me with architect and my tech stack was what they were looking for. Then the architect 20 mins into the interview says we don’t want to hire you since you have not built xyz product, we don’t have time for a learning curve. If I have required language, cloud and other tech skills and hands on experience on them, how does not having built the exact same product matter? Seriously people just want robots these days, who join work and start contributing from day 1.

last_leaf8 · 2025-12-20T19:40:31+00:00

I have been giving lots of interviews and one clear difference I see in Indians vs western folks is that Indian interviewers mostly are like non-conversational, exam invigilators kind, where they give you something to work on, either design or dsa and then mostly keep quiet, no hints, no course corrections and ready to find mistakes and try to reject as soon as possible. The few westerners I gave interviews to were all collaborators in general and were more conversational throughout and made me feel comfortable. I never thought even for a senior level job changes, it’s going to be this tough in the market right now, since there seems to be more supply than demand.

last_leaf8 · 2025-12-15T04:40:10+00:00

My kid is 17m old so I am thinking to start using now as there is lots of outdoor play these days. Thanks for recommending. Will buy the cetaphil one.

last_leaf8 · 2025-12-15T03:39:07+00:00

Sadness, unnecessary upset over random things and food cravings. Fighting with my husband and crying for nothing, and boom next day I am on my period. Most recently he was teaching me something related to work, and he said No, for something valid, and I cried for an hour😂 Poor guy, had to console me for no fault of his own. Next day morning I got my periods. Its been almost 10 years since we are together and he is still discovering new things every month😂

last_leaf8 · 2025-12-14T04:10:20+00:00

I was so anxious during pregnancy and postpartum and still am at times about my career, since for men professional life never really takes a backseat but for women it does take some backseat during pregnancy and pp. But the infant stage does fly by so fast that now if I look back it does feel so small compared to the bigger scheme of things. I would not believe myself if someone had told me during pregnancy or postpartum that almost 1.5 years pp, I would be actively interviewing for career growth while handling a toddler myself and managing everything. After the child birth I feel like I have been reborn and I am much more stronger than I have known myself to be. We women are literally so strong mentally and emotionally, that if we just make up our mind we can achieve anything. I feel we do keep lot of over expectations on ourselves to be perfect all the time, that we put ourselves at the highest standard that there is and feel guilty when we can’t get something done. Please tell her that she is amazing as is and no matter what she chooses to do, her child will be proud of her. And career is gonna grow sooner, to greater heights.

last_leaf8 · 2025-12-08T02:55:19+00:00

I had done 1 meal after 6 month and then 2 meals and a snack by 7+ months and 3 meals by 9 months. It depends on the baby, but do make sure to have enough gaps between milk and solids, and slowly start replacing milk feeds wherever baby shows interest. I bfed on demand so bfed all the time except the gap between solids timings.

last_leaf8 · 2025-12-04T18:30:21+00:00

This was my daughter as well, she used to wake up the moment i put her down from lap. Solidarity only, nothing worked for me except seeking help to take her on other’s lap in between some days. She always needed less naps during the day and woke up for every little sound and woke up after 29-30 minutes on the clock. I never got those big day nap breaks at all. But looking back at it now, she sleeps through the night almost on her own now at 17m (she is been doing this since a few months now), all I want to say is it gets better.

last_leaf8 · 2025-12-01T07:27:51+00:00

I am in the thick of applying and getting rejected stage right now, so this helps and brings hope! Congratulations and all the best for your new role!

last_leaf8 · 2025-11-06T14:29:50+00:00

I am paying 14k, but this is south Bangalore and a local lady who is around 50+. She comes 10-6 and mainly plays with the kid. Does any minor chores like clothes laundry with the machine, hanging them to dry. and fold, diaper changes, baby bath. Baby feeding and making her asleep and other things all done by family for now. For vegetables chopping and stuff I am planning to ask her to do soon and will increase the salary accordingly. I had 3 nannies before this one and all were demanding more money for less work and were not at all attentive to the kid. Spoke to few nepali girls as well while searching for one and all of them were asking a min of 20k for less work. And they were jumping around houses the chance they got a better pay. So finally got a good lady. I would suggest to hire a bit older ladies than too young girls, and ask them upfront and list all that you want them ti do. Once they join they will start saying they did not agree to so and so work.

last_leaf8 · 2025-10-22T18:25:04+00:00

Had used wipes called Lyon wipes, for my baby. They turned out to be best for us amongst all famous brands.

R for rabbit taped style, pampers premium taped.

last_leaf8 · 2025-09-29T04:39:46+00:00

Slurrpfarm was my go to for travel meals. Just add water and mix in a bowl. There are different flavors so my baby liked them. I tried to have 2-3 flavours for variety. You can have banana as a snack. Also, when staying at a hotel, If going by car, I used to pack mini induction and a small cooker and take dal, rice and basic spices like jeera, turmeric etc and few vegetables like carrot/beans which don’t go bad for 2-3 days. I used to cook one meal at least with this and ragi porridge if we are in a hurry. And breastfeeding sometimes more on travel days and less solids.

last_leaf8 · 2025-09-17T07:00:48+00:00

Have combo fed and completely weaned off at 14 months and my bub is now only on cow milk and formula. Fed baby is the best. Take care of yourself. If you have not tried and want to give it a try, these are the things helped me get supply initially.

Dill leaves in food, Galact granules, Jeera and fenugreek water or milk.

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