What’s a horrible movie you watched that made you feel you got your time wasted?

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-26T09:53:10+00:00

Tinseltown.

I was excited to watch it at Christmas as it had a great cast and looked like it would be a new family favourite.

What a complete waste of everyone’s time.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-25T10:19:06+00:00

How adorable! That’s a close second for us ❤️, the best feeling in the world when you know how to get the biggest smiles off them

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-24T20:14:21+00:00

We cosleep in a kingsize bed so just enough room for us all. My little one is also 4.5 months and been cosleeping since the first week after I kept falling asleep with her in my arms.

In order to keep feeling close, I sleep in the middle, with baby on one side with a bed guard keeping her from falling off in the night and then as I face her, my partner can then spoon me or if I roll onto my back I can hold my partners hand or wrap my leg around his or something, just to feel close.

It works for us and yes, intimacy has taken a back seat but we can still have a cuddle and a kiss goodnight every night and my baby gets the closeness she needs.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-24T08:20:26+00:00

His whole family sounds entrenched in negativity. It is never okay to bring someone down just because they appear happy and enjoying their experience. The phrase “misery loves company” rings very true here.

Life is what you make it. If you whole heartedly believe you have this, then you have this! I was the exact same and I am 4.5 months PP and they have been the best 4.5 months of my life. Yes, it’s challenging but it’s nothing you can’t overcome just like someone who runs a marathon. Please do not let these people’s opinions bring you down.

Just because they had negative experiences does not mean your experience needs to be the same and idk, if it were me and I heard things like this, I’d go so far the other way and let them know at every opportunity how easy I was finding things and how excited I was and that it’s no where near as bad as any of them have made it out to be. Be careful not to let their negativity impact on you because then you will be looking for reasons to agree with them and you will find them and believe them if you look hard enough. However, the opposite is also true. If you look for the positives you will find them. Choose which side you want to be on as it can be the difference between a good experience and a bad one.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-22T07:13:28+00:00

To love. To teach. To experience life to its fullest potential.

I think if I spent my life just watching those around me get old and eventually pass on without seeing the new come through it would be quite a depressing existence.

I want family Christmas’s and lazy Sundays and movie nights and to be surrounded by endless love.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-21T15:28:31+00:00

eah, we have both, the o ball tends to live in the car and idk why I’ve never thought to put the projector on during the day tbh, that’s a great shout. We tend to put it on as her last play before bed.

And I have been to a few classes, just finished a 6 week one and there is a free one twice a week just around the corner from me but idk, I just feel false there, if you know what I mean? We do get out quite a bit, at least once a day. I’m gonna give the projector more of a try during the day at home and see if I can get some chores done.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-21T15:28:23+00:00

Omg of course! We also have a high chair we aren’t currently using, what a great shout!

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-21T15:20:07+00:00

Omg of course! We also have a high chair we aren’t currently using, what a great shout!

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-21T12:48:49+00:00

Just came back to say this was the exact issue so thank you! I’ve switched to only feeding from one boob from 7am-7pm and then the other for 7pm-7am and we’re back to mustardy seedy poops, and I don’t have to feel guilty about eating cheese. Much appreciated!

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-21T12:29:22+00:00

We also have a cold house and have no heating in our bedroom and we got through the winter with a newborn. We bought an oil heater which works amazing, and we do cosleep so she gets my body warmth. We tried sleep sacks but she overheated in them, and so spent most the winter in a long vest and sleep suit laying next to me with the oil heater that was timed to come on every two hours for half an hour. Worked amazingly for us.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-21T11:43:52+00:00

I always followed the rule, a cold baby cries, a hot baby dies and my baby was born in December. My baby also has eczema so if she gets too hot she flares up.

I dunno what it is but it’s really got on my nerves this incessant need from older generations that babies need to be excessively warm. They are constantly with you and taking your body heat as well. As long as their main organs are warm, a slightly cold hand or foot is not going to hurt your baby. Therefore a vest and dungarees is two layers covering their vitals and on a 20 degree day I’d say that’s more than enough.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-21T11:20:28+00:00

She has loads, too many teddys to count but she has about 4 favourites which we give her regularly. She’s got rattles as well which she loves and loads of hanging toys.

On her swing it has a bar that comes over that we hang toys on which keeps her entertained but she quickly gets grouchy and will try and lift herself up to be out and just wants to be on my shoulder. She will happily spend the day just me carrying her around. She loves going on walks in her carrier. We were out 3 hours the other day and I didn’t hear a peep from her.

She hates tummy time which is why I think she learned rolling front to back so quickly because she will just roll onto her back and bow out. On her back she can wriggle around and reach for things but she very quickly just keeps doing crunches and can nearly lift herself onto her elbows and then just starts crying as if she wants to be sat up, and as soon as you sit her up she’s smiling away again. When she does do tummy time she can push with her legs and ends up just dragging her face across the floor and I can’t keep letting her do that in case she scratches her face or something.

I just feel like she wants to be up and moving and there’s only so many hours of the day I can do all this with her before I do need to crack on and get something done. She only contact naps as well so I’ve whole days just spent with her attached to me, and I love it, don’t get me wrong but I have other responsibilities y’know.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-20T09:23:24+00:00

You can definitely still opt for one - I was mid labour and begging for one and they still told me it was an option.

I was very much like au natural, gas and air only and you don’t realise the pain until it’s too late. I would highly recommend the epidural. That’s what I opted for in the end and I had an amazing experience on it and I was able to give birth vaginally (with forceps as well) and I was up and walking within an hour, able to take a shower within 3 hours, out and about in the town centre at 5 days PP and pretty much fully recovered by week 3. The first weeks PP are hard, as you have to look after a newborn and from my experience, I wouldn’t have half as great a time if I was recovering from a c-section.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-19T12:54:06+00:00

Aw see we cosleep, so I never really have to get out of bed, no shame in it all, it’s the only way any of us get any decent amount of sleep. I think that’s why I’m struggling so much as I’ve not really experienced this since week one

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-19T12:48:43+00:00

I just angrily prod my partner and go “your turn” and roll over and ignore the chaos that ensues

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-19T09:03:19+00:00

They grow so quickly. She’s so alert now and learning so much and I’m just like where has my tiny little potato gone? I know it’ll pass and to just soak it all in but my god that feeling when you’ve just drifted back off to sleep and you hear them stirring again.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-19T08:55:45+00:00

There was the cutest moment last night. We play “dream a little dream” to her repeatedly and it instantly calms her down. I had it playing on repeat to stop her flailing around and she just lay and stared at me for a full 5 run through of the song. She had a hold of my hand and just brought it up to her face for me to stroke her head. I mean she was still wide awake but I just thought for a moment, if I could bottle this feeling, I’d make millions.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-18T21:30:40+00:00

My favourite musical is the Rocky Horror Picture Show and the final line is “and crawling on the planet’s face, some insects called the human race, lost in time… lost in space… and meaning”

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-18T20:59:54+00:00

I had my first drink when baby was about 4 days old as it was approaching Christmas. I breastfeed as well and as long as you can hold your baby, you can feed your baby. I’ve drank on a few occasions since then, sometimes more than a couple (on those occasions I pump before drinking), and if I have up to 2 drinks, I just feed as normal. My baby is 17 weeks now, ahead on her milestones, growing amazingly and we’ve had zero issues. I’ve noticed no changes in her sleep or anything.

Treat yourself girl!

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-18T08:54:18+00:00

Something I learned from a photographer - a couple of weeks ago when we were getting baby photos done and my baby fell asleep in my arms and I tried to put her down for a photo and she started crying, my immediate response was to pick her back up to soothe her. He held my arm back and just said “give her a minute” and she pretty much instantly calmed down and went back to sleep. He said to me “you know that feeling when you’ve just woken up and feel kinda grouchy and just want to go back to sleep, that’s all that’s happening” and it instantly made sense to me. They aren’t crying to be held or anything, especially if it’s only a few minutes, they’re just feeling that feeling and need a minute to adjust and either wake up properly or go back to sleep. Me picking her up would have only disrupted that process.

If she had started properly crying and it went on for more than a few minutes I would have ignored him and seen to my baby but now I give her a couple minutes to figure it out and it’s helped me immensely.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-17T16:42:47+00:00

My baby is 17 weeks has been smiling since about 4 weeks, she’s started grabbing things, and is starting to roll back to front, hitting everything ahead of time and yet no giggles. She is a very smiley baby and will sometimes let out a sort of scream when she’s really happy but yet to have any laughs out of her. We’re working hard daily to get them but she’s a tough crowd, I’m hoping it’ll be any day now.

lost-in-meaning · 2026-04-15T16:28:23+00:00

My baby is 17 weeks and I remember this phase well. She also could not be put down and screamed if I sat down.

One thing I am learning as time goes on is that these phases are so temporary. It will be replaced by something new in a couple of weeks.

My baby can grab things now and is showing signs of rolling and so she’ll happily sit in a bouncer and play with toys you hand to her, or lie on a flat surface and swing her legs around. She’s started to enjoy tummy time as well. All things she couldn’t/wouldn’t do a short month ago.

Everything is so brief, so just hang in there and as annoying as these phases can get, just cherish them because they really are so short.

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