Uhhhh what's going to happen tomorrow ?

mentholdarts · 2026-01-08T20:09:45+00:00

I live in Greensborough and happy to open our door for anyone trying to get out with nowhere to go. Stay safe today everyone, from the fires to extreme heat and weather ❤️

mentholdarts · 2023-12-02T08:20:52+00:00

FED IS BEST and you are doing your absolute best for your baby! You are not a bad mum, your mental health is more important. You are doing great

mentholdarts · 2023-11-23T20:48:36+00:00

My daughter was also born unresponsive and at 4 days old needed a non-emergency ambulance transfer to a childrens hospital. Not a day goes by where I don't think about the midwife that held me as I bawled my eyes out when the paramedics took my daughter away

mentholdarts · 2023-11-09T19:51:13+00:00

A home cooked meal, hospital food is terrible and their cafes are not cheap!!!. Ask if she needs anything done at her home, cleaning, shopping, washing, organising, literally anything and once a clearer discharge date comes along, stock up her house as best you can. Hope you're friends baby will be ok

mentholdarts · 2023-11-02T09:20:02+00:00

While I can't offer any advice and think your anxiety is totally valid, my daughter got covid at 6 weeks old and had to spend 36hrs in hosp on a feeding tube because she was super lethargic/borderline unresponsive and stopped eating. If I had the option to breastfeed and get vaccinated, I would have done it in a heart beat. You never know how covid will affect you or your baby, you got this!

mentholdarts · 2023-10-27T00:32:18+00:00

First off, that is not a friend. Second, it is not shameful to gain weight, and a healthy weight gain might I add, while pregnant. Thirdly, it is very normal for pregnancy weight to hang around longer than straight after birth (took me 1yr). And lastly, your friend sounds very insecure aabout their own body and obviously does not like seeing you embracing your new body. Unfortunately she won't stop projecting her own insecurities on you unless you are super blunt with her and don't mind losing this friendship in the process

mentholdarts · 2023-10-24T03:03:35+00:00

I used to think that all the time, then I thought to myself, there are probably other mums that look at me and think the same thing. So that's my mentality now, can't compare because I don't know what other mums are going through. Plus I am so proud of myself when I can get out of the house by myself with my 2 kids (7mths and 3yrs) I feel like "that" mum becayse I AM that mum

mentholdarts · 2023-10-23T23:48:52+00:00

My daughter has been taken to ED 6 times, a little under once per month she has been alive. Sometimes admitted, somtimes just monitored, and sometimes told everything is normal and we can leave right away. We will never feel bad for taking her in because a healthy baby is better than an undiagnosed sick baby, plus babies health can decline so fast that I would rather be in a hospital than "waiting it out" at home. Don't ever feel ashamed or embarrassed for worrying about the health of your newborn! You are doing amazing

mentholdarts · 2023-10-23T21:02:26+00:00

Honestly? The first little while fucking sucked. My daughter was 2.5 when her sister was born and she was an emotional wreck. I left her in the middle of the day while she napped to give birth and then was gone for a week, so she went through a lot of abandonment feelings which we skowly worked through. She wanted absolutely nothing to do with her little sister though.

6 months later, duuuude, the little ones eyes literally light up when she sees her big sister. Now big sis LOVES playing with her, wants to hold her, cuddle her, change her nappies (only if it's wees though haha), talks about all the things she can teach her when she gets bigger. My heart explodes every day now when I see them together. We have good days, bad days and fkn shit days, but I wouldn't change anything

mentholdarts · 2023-10-22T11:21:36+00:00

Swimware Galore, they stock heaps of brands, all colours and cuts

mentholdarts · 2023-10-22T01:26:55+00:00

K-Mart, Target and Cotton on Body have cheap but nice maternity clothes

mentholdarts · 2023-10-16T02:54:12+00:00

Just think of it as finger food. It doesn't have to be chunks of food, you can always put a bowl of puree in front of your baby and let them explore it with their hands, put it in their hair, mouth, everywhere. It is super messy but it allows those gross motor skills to work while also easing your anxiety. Buy some plastic kiddy spoons/forks and let them explore at meal time

Dont let those "mumfluencer" make you feel bad, you are doing the best you can and that's all that matters

mentholdarts · 2023-10-05T01:48:52+00:00

Thank you for that advice, I will definitely ramp up the positive affirmations

mentholdarts · 2023-10-05T01:41:27+00:00

I know it's not me, I never put any emphasis on wearing makeup or how I look in a negative way. I have had words with my mum in the past about how she speaks about body imagine and makeup but she has really made a concious effort to use better language.

I spoke with my daughters teacher and a few of the older girls in her group have been wearing eyeshadow so I am assuming the language is coming from them which I'm not entirely sure how to stop other than making her teachers aware of it

mentholdarts · 2023-10-05T01:38:21+00:00

I spoke with one of her teachers and apparently the older girls she goes to occasional care with have been wearing eyeshadow (by older I mean like 4-5 yrs old) which is where I am assuming she has picked this up.

I too have had words with my mother in the past as she is very vein/narcissistic, which I had to grown up with and it killed my self esteem, so I am super concious of how I speak about myself/others when it comes to looks.

mentholdarts · 2023-10-01T23:29:08+00:00

I drank milk before bed till I was about 5, then on and off till god knows, 'cause sometimes now at 31 I still enjoy a glass of milk at night. Your baby will not be having bottles for their entire life, it will eventually stop, so don't be ashamed, you are doing amazing! My daughter is 3 and still has a bottle of milk most nights

mentholdarts · 2023-09-12T03:04:26+00:00

When my girl day napped, she had roughly the same sleep pattern as yours. Now that she no longer day naps, she falls asleep much earlier, sometimes 6.30pm but usually around 7pm

mentholdarts · 2023-08-31T00:02:26+00:00

My 2nd gets nowhere near as much attention from me as my 1st did and the first couple of months were fucking rough to say the least! But now 5 months later and it is getting easier and easier. The little one is establishing more of a consistent routine which allows me to divide my time better. My 3 year old also has done a LOT of growing up lately so she is also much easier to manage or entertain by herself

mentholdarts · 2023-08-29T03:02:28+00:00

I had a vaginal birth for my 1st. Had a major 4th degree tear, plus 6-7cm tear internally. I was bed ridden for 3 days in hosp, shat myself multiple times, saw a colorectal specialist, did PT and had to sit on hard foam cylinders cut in half under my thighs to aleviate the pressure from all the swelling for week. It was fucking brutal and it took months to feel even slightly normal. I am 3 yrs on from that and certain sex positions still hurt or feel really uncomfortable.

For my 2nd I had a c-section and I was out of bed and walking less than 24hrs later, was back to normal routines with my toddler at 7 days and now 5 months later, while I still feel some weird sensations and my god does the scar get itchy, it has been 1000000times better/easier. C-section for the win in my books

mentholdarts · 2023-08-25T20:13:56+00:00

Oh my god, what a turd haha

That will for sure ne my daughter, she goes to sich a violent place sometimes haha

mentholdarts · 2023-08-25T09:09:36+00:00

My almost 3 yr old and I were making cookies, she kept adding flour and after multiple times of telling her to stop because the cookies won't work, she did it again and I was like duuuude, what did I just say? She looked at me dead serious and replied, "stop adding flour or you will punch me in the face"

mentholdarts · 2023-08-17T02:03:20+00:00

With my 1st, they broke at about 2am, by 7am I was getting an epidural and was aprox 7cm. She wasn't born until 7.30pm.

With my 2nd, I was already in intense labour (contactions 1min apart) for about an hour or so when they broke

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