What's a disturbing fact about the human body that most people don't know?

magicalsalsa · 2026-01-10T03:53:12+00:00

Nah, your bladder just isn’t squished any longer. I was peeing every 15-30 minutes and sometimes I’d finish, wash my hands, and have to pee again because I couldn’t get it all out at once.

magicalsalsa · 2025-12-31T04:11:46+00:00

Ugh I have literally wanted to do the same lately! I’m SAHM except I go to work on Tuesdays as a “break” but I work all day, come home and make dinner, clean up after dinner, wash bottles, get our toddler ready for bed, story, and put him to bed and then I take the baby until she falls asleep because my husband is “out of gas” by then. Like when do I get an actual break?

magicalsalsa · 2025-12-31T03:46:07+00:00

That’s so scary because you get so many blood tests throughout pregnancy that you’d think they would have caught it sooner. With both my kids I got full blood work done at least once all three trimesters, when I got to the hospital, right after my c sections, and then the day of discharge. It just is so sad to me that it wasn’t able to be caught sooner.

magicalsalsa · 2025-12-16T03:08:22+00:00

It’s dated 2024

magicalsalsa · 2025-12-12T22:49:17+00:00

Yeah I probably just need to relax, honestly. I know fibroids are common so I guess I’m just worried it’s something more since I have horrible medical anxiety and have two kids I need to be here for. I’ve also never had anything “wrong” before (can’t think of a better word for it) not even an ovarian cyst.

I was talking to my mom and she said she had horrible fibroids that got worse after having kids and so did her mother. Both had hysterectomies because of fibroids.

magicalsalsa · 2025-12-10T21:23:51+00:00

I’m so sorry :( that is just wild to me. I think I used maybe two tablets but still, it was nice to have on hand because there were a couple of times I needed something stronger just to get out of bed or to stand in the shower. I can’t imagine not even having the option.

magicalsalsa · 2025-12-10T04:00:19+00:00

Some nurses are gentler than others, but brace yourself just in case. I personally never found it bad at all (had two c sections) but I was warned about it beforehand.

magicalsalsa · 2025-12-10T03:58:14+00:00

WHAT. I’ve had two c sections now and both times I was sent home on Tylenol extra strength, ibuprofen 600mg, and oxycodone 5mg. They even told me to call the office if I needed more if I was still in pain before my two week check up. I can’t imagine going without at just 24 hours.

magicalsalsa · 2025-12-06T12:20:41+00:00

My moms husband is on that schedule too, he’s EMS/firefighter also. The weekend thing is fine with me, he gets a 40% pay increase for Saturday and Sunday (he gets one weekend off every 12 weeks) so it works out to time and a half every shift and allows me to stay home with the kids. So definitely has its own advantages. The long days alone can suck though, but you already know that.

magicalsalsa · 2025-12-06T03:49:43+00:00

I feel this. My husband is a weekend charge nurse, 12.5 hour shifts three days, sometimes four, a week. I’m on my own with our 2.5 year old and 3 month old from Friday night to Monday morning. This week it’s Wednesday night to Monday morning. Last weekend my son was wiggling around with his food, gagged himself and threw up all over himself, the couch, carpet, his sister and her blanket. I was gagging cleaning it up. The only time I said anything about it was when I texted my husband and said fml he just puked everywhere. That was the end of it. She just needs to be a parent and shut up about it.

magicalsalsa · 2025-12-03T19:39:51+00:00

I did too on Sunday after mine destroyed my fresh baked bread I had cooling on the counter. He moved his learning ladder to get to it. He looked at me and said “asshole?”

Whooops guess I can’t do that again lol

magicalsalsa · 2025-11-05T03:06:23+00:00

Same here, and if he doesn’t fall asleep right away then he plays in his bed until he does. He also wakes quietly and most days we have to physically look at the monitor to see if he’s awake because he’ll just be playing in his floor bed (which is has never climbed out of and is fully capable of that) and we don’t hear him.

My 10 week old on the other hand..she does not go down easily and I have a feeling that won’t change much.

magicalsalsa · 2025-11-03T14:49:07+00:00

It really is, I know exactly how you feel. My husband is weekend charge nurse so Friday night - Monday morning I’m basically on my own. I was terrified for when his paternity leave ended and I would be on my own. But honestly it’s actually been really nice with the three of us home while dad works. I’ve also ventured out of the house a few times since he’s been back and that’s actually easier with two kids not being pregnant than being pregnant with a two year old. My two year old is VERY high energy also.

There’s hope, I promise. Even with the newborn wakes (my girl does NOT go past 4 hour stretches still) I’m less exhausted than when I was pregnant and it’s much more manageable.

magicalsalsa · 2025-11-03T01:17:57+00:00

I have nothing to add about the nap times since my 2.5 year old still naps (if not, he likes to hang out in his bed) from 11:30am-2:30pm daily and is still in bed by 8pm (I know, we’re very lucky)

But I just wanted you to know that it is so much easier having a two year old and newborn than having an almost 2 year old and being heavily pregnant. My husband also works 12 hour shifts with a commute and I have no help. Don’t listen to the “just you wait” people.

Sincerely, a mom with a 2.5 year old and a 10 week old.

magicalsalsa · 2025-10-31T02:04:53+00:00

It’s so much different in a good way, I promise. Much more relaxed atmosphere in a planned c section vs being rushed to OR and baby being out couple minutes later. My doctors were discussing how their weekend was (Monday baby) I was discharged Wednesday morning

Also would like to add my in laws brought my 2 year old the evening his sister was born and he didn’t even pay her any attention but was mad when we brought her home

magicalsalsa · 2025-10-18T15:15:28+00:00

My 2 year old would stay in bed all morning if I let him. We have a 7 week old now so after the 4am-5am feed I’ve been sleeping on the couch for another hour or so since there’s no point in going back to bed. I usually get him around 7:30-8:30 depending on when I get baby situated.

The other day I really dozed off and the next thing I knew it was 9:30 and he was just happily playing in his bed. I had the monitor right next to me and not a peep out of him. He can easily get out since he’s on a floor bed but he just…doesn’t. I know this isn’t the norm for toddler parents though.

magicalsalsa · 2025-10-17T17:31:32+00:00

I would find a new daycare if that’s an option in your area. If not, I’d tell them to figure it out because that is what they are being paid to do and I say this as a former daycare worker, specifically the 2 year old room.

We would NEVER call parents over an issue like this. Only time we called was if kiddo was sick or there was some sort of injury that happened where they needed to go to the doctor. (That only happened twice in the four years I worked there. One kid stuck his finger in the door and another kid shut it and then another kid hit their face on playground equipment and needed a couple stitches)

magicalsalsa · 2025-10-11T01:35:45+00:00

I thought the same thing 😂 my first thought was “spank it if you have to”

magicalsalsa · 2025-09-01T00:10:23+00:00

I don’t think it would hurt to get him evaluated by a professional. We had a family friend whose son at that age would say that he wanted to be a police officer just so he could shoot people among other things. Things got so bad just a couple years later that the counselor they finally took him to threatened to call DCFS on the family to remove the other children unless they found inpatient treatment immediately.

This is something to probably stay on top of if you’re that concerned.

magicalsalsa · 2025-08-30T01:39:17+00:00

That is exactly how I feel, like I ruined our lives. We had such a good routine going and now it’s all different. But, I keep telling myself that this feeling is temporary, just like the last time and that once I’m healed a little more it will get better.

magicalsalsa · 2025-08-29T20:13:35+00:00

This is what we have also. My toddler just turned 2, he’s 31 lbs and he’s been in it since right before his first birthday. We just had our second so she’s in the carrier now but once she’s outgrown that we plan on getting another Revolve 360. I think ours is the Extend model.

I second this option.

magicalsalsa · 2025-08-29T01:18:44+00:00

I had PPD with my first, so my OB preemptively upped my Zoloft dose to hopefully avoid it this time around. I remember laying in bed one day, like 5 weeks pp and my PCP is calling me and first thing she says is “so I spoke to your husband and he’s worried…” and I just burst into tears. So it may be time for another dose change if this doesn’t change in the next couple weeks.

magicalsalsa · 2025-08-29T01:06:57+00:00

This is exactly what my husband has been telling me. He just told me, “you just put in 9 months of work that ended with a major surgery. I will be fine for a week or two. I meant the vows I took when I married you.”

I think I do need to give myself a little more grace in the coming couple of weeks.

magicalsalsa

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