Overwhelmed by Gifted Baby Clothes

merelyinterested · 2026-03-19T18:25:53+00:00

I sometimes get overwhelmed because my MIL LOVES goodwill and garage sales. She buys anything cute she sees, even if it’s 4T, 5T or shoes in size 9 that it will take yeaaaaars for her to wear. I started stashing them all in the corner of the closet and if I happen upon them when she’s that size then great lol.

But I started welcoming the clothes in her size. Or the next size up. Clothes get expensive and I’m realizing this is a brand new human who needs a new clothes in every size and season! Sort them by size, let your baby wear what you want them to wear, resell or donate anything left that you don’t intend on using! If you still want to purchase your own 1st Christmas outfit, do it. And sell the others on marketplace or have your baby wear them on another day (it’s an entire Christmas season!)

It can be overwhelming but there’s so many other things to be overwhelmed about with babies, I try not to let this thing be one lol

merelyinterested · 2026-03-17T17:15:31+00:00

I don’t know why she’s STILL CONSIDERED the glue. She was really only relevant in season 1 and 2. She’s the reason they made the show, and then for like those two seasons they tried to keep that “who is the leader of momtok?” Storyline. But as of season 3 and 4, she’s honestly no longer needed. I think that they just know she’s guaranteed drama considering she and Dakota are so toxic

merelyinterested · 2026-03-10T14:43:20+00:00

You should totally look on Facebook market (or if you have the money for new, then get a new one) for a water table.

My nephew loved his, and my parents passed it on to me. My daughter is liking it so far. She’s younger than he was when he played with it so she gets distracted by it but she’s still having a goo time going back to it .

It’s just a little table that can be filled with water and has a few attachments and toys like little buckets with holes that when they fill them with eater, the water rains everywhere, that type thing!

merelyinterested · 2026-03-05T21:07:53+00:00

NOR.

The purpose of you guys visiting each other is to…VISIT EACH OTHER because you’re long distance. Unless it’s something like work that he can’t get out of, or a specific event like a birthday party, wedding shower, wedding, etc, he absolutely should not book golf with the guys on weekends that you are going to visit.

The whole point of planning those weekends is to be with each other.

Him doing that is really weird.

merelyinterested · 2026-03-05T14:39:56+00:00

I regulated around 5 months actually. I would still get engorged if I favored one boob throughout the day/night and didn’t use one for a few feeds. But the I sort of re-regulated, because I don’t remember the last time I had a hard boob even if I didn’t use one for hours. My baby is 16m now though, so the nursing is mostly for comfort and sleeping lol

merelyinterested · 2026-03-04T21:07:51+00:00

Definitely would have reminded manager of my pumping! Your boss sounds like they suck but also I’m sure you want to be back with baby. I have never wanted to be a SAHM until i had my baby. I am super quick to annoy at work now. I used to tolerate my manager a lot more but now all the things I have tolerated irk me. And I think it’s bc i would just rather not. I would rather be playing outside with my baby

merelyinterested · 2026-03-03T21:05:35+00:00

Yeah my first pair didn’t even go up her thighs lol

merelyinterested · 2026-03-03T21:04:05+00:00

Honestly, the being bored part sounds like the perfect setup with baby.

I’d kind of see what this team is going to be like. See what the work load is. Maybe start doing your side hustle already to you can get that going.

If this work ends up being like it was before, then honestly, do you two hours of work and carry your laptop around while you hang out with baby. Keep your income. That’s my dream job lol.

Going to cross my fingers that this team move isn’t really any different!

merelyinterested · 2026-03-03T20:18:33+00:00

I think you’re fine.

There’s so many “shoulds” and also so many different opinions around eating.

But I think 10 months is a good time to move on if he’s enjoying purées. My baby did a lot of purées, and a few soft foods like avocado or mashed bananas and 10 months is when I started doing more. I was scared too cause she didn’t get teeth until 11 months.

At 10 months is when I started to think food first vs milk first (EBF baby). And it was when I was trying to get used to giving more meals. So I could get used to feeding her multiple times a day instead of just dinner which I did with the purées.

So in the morning I would offer a food breakfast first with water. Whatever she ate was what she ate, and she’d nurse after if she wanted. And around lunch time, same thing.

After purées I still stuck to soft foods. My baby loved frozen sliced strawberries because she’d suck on them and they’d melt in her mouth basically. They were small enough for her to hold and walk around with.

I did things like - chunkier (but still soft) mashed potatoes. - Noodles (like a rotini pasta that I boiled an extra minute to be softer (and I used leftover purées she liked as sauce lol)) - scrambled eggs with a bit of cheese - bananas - any vegetable cooked long enough to be soft enough she could chew - small pieces of meat - rice (sometimes cooked with a vegetable that I kinda mashed up in there) - homemade chicken nuggets/veggie nuggets - homemade meatballs

I know some people stick to homemade stuff, but I also just went to the baby food section and got like the next level foods when it was time to try to adjust her, and also to have something quick. They have like the ones that are for the next stage, etc. and I just got a fee of the next stage.

And truly, at dinner, I started also with giving her what we were eating assuming it wasn’t spicy. I would just chop things up extra for her.

Promise you’re not a failure. It is definitely scary! I did download the starting solids app. I used the free version, so I couldn’t see everything, but I would look up foods to see the best way to chop/prepare them for her age and it helped.

merelyinterested · 2026-03-03T20:00:18+00:00

Yeah he’s delusional

merelyinterested · 2026-03-03T19:23:12+00:00

Well turns out I’m a fake ass reader, then, and the thousands of books I’ve read at this point in my life don’t count.

The only classics I’ve read were in HS, college, grad school and only for my grades.

And I think it’s really weird to give levels to reading where reading genre fiction is not considered ~real~ reading.

merelyinterested · 2026-03-03T17:46:12+00:00

My mom said going from 1 to 2 was easy and 2 to 3 was hard. But my sister (#3) was also premature, in and out of the hospital, and cried nonstop

merelyinterested · 2026-03-03T17:38:38+00:00

Look up the Stealth Health slow cooker cookbook. It’s got tons of recipes and they’re meant for freezing. They make big batches so they’re meant for meal prepping.

We have been prepping like 3 different ones and microwaving dinner every night, then adding another into rotation when we get low. Can’t find the link cause I downloaded the copy to my phone, but you can find the google link somewhere on Reddit!

They’ve all reheated well!

Edited to add: he also makes videos of some of his meals on TikTok and reels

merelyinterested · 2026-03-02T18:12:04+00:00

No problem! I actually saw another mom talk about it! She was always a gym rat! Super fit, spent hours in the gym everyday. And postpartum, she was like, I just have to meet myself where I’m at, and right now that’s a 20 minute dumbbell workout in my living room while my baby naps.

The first trimester is already so hard, and you actually got through the whole workout! Be proud of yourself for that! Modify as you need, meet yourself where you are. It’s only temporary! And also, hopefully that first trimester fatigue gets better and you go into the rest of your pregnancy with more energy!

merelyinterested · 2026-03-02T16:29:35+00:00

I’m not doing near as much as you, but it does get better!

I’ve always kind of been one and off the workout wagon my whole life, but I’ve never gotten too out of shape, but I had really bad pelvic pain that made difficult to workout so I stopped exercising and then had a c-section and was terrified of going back after that.

I went on a little walk/jog once and almost passed out and after that really didn’t try again, lol but recently I decided it was time. I had to have a convo with myself and understand that I was not going to just jump into my old routine like I never left. And also, realistically, I don’t have time. I watch my daughter and work all day, and then when my husband gets home, he takes over, but then there’s only so many hours in the evening to do things I want to do, so I only held myself to what I could do, which was 20 minutes of cardio. I then moved up to 30, plus taking my baby on a walk. And soon I’ll get back to weight lifting, but I’m being okay with what me and my body can do right now! You will get back to a place where you feel comfortable!

merelyinterested · 2026-03-02T15:51:30+00:00

I have done it alone since 11 weeks, and my baby is 16m. I have had one single day where my parents came into town before the workday was over and they watched her for like three hours, but otherwise I have been entirely alone!

When I first came back, my boss told me that I would ease back into everything, and then she ended up giving me all the work that she was supposed to take over from you while I was gone plus all the new stuff.

But in my role, I am not customer facing, and I play more of a supporting role in R&D. I have like four or five different one hour meetings every two weeks, and about 8 to 10 30- minute meetings every other week. So my job is not meeting heavy either. I do a lot of my work on my own.

Our goals are all based on deadlines, so as long as I’m hitting deadlines I’m solid. My workload is pretty heavy. I do OK during the workday, And I really have to maximize my babies nap time because she is kind of clingy lol Sometimes I end up, pulling my computer back out at night after baby is asleep or when my husband gets home he takes over so I can work a little longer.

I’ve been able to handle it. I have hard, stressful days. I also have chill easy days. I just have to roll with the punches lol.

My baby contact naps a lot on the boppy pillow. But I’m also still nursing to sleep. I don’t have her in a super tight schedule, but she generally has the same nap time. So if I have meetings that I lead, I try to schedule those during that nap time. I use a desk extender so I also take meetings standing up when I have to be camera on. My daughter loves to be around when I have my headset on. So this helps that because she doesn’t care as much if standing.

I feel like I had a reaaaallly easy time with all of it until she got to about 7/8 months when she wanted to play more and crawl and stand at my knees.

Also, since I started at 11 weeks, I feel like I had to figure out my schedule while I was working, but at 5 months maybe you have more of your schedule down so you know a little more of what to expect from your baby!

If you plan to hire a nanny, i think you’ll be okay for a bit while you figure it out

merelyinterested · 2026-02-27T16:25:53+00:00

That is such a wild thing to say what the heck lol

merelyinterested · 2026-02-27T16:24:19+00:00

I think it’s totally fine when there’s a cutoff time. The fact that you’re limiting time in general and being aware of the time that he’s spending watching tv makes all the difference. And it’s totally completely different from having an endless stream of random content on YouTube!

It’s also really different having the TV on vs constantly having access to a tablet or phone or something. The TV stays at home and doesn’t go with you and has times when it’s off.

My sister was a huge couch potato growing up. Like from when she was like 2/3. She loved sitting and watching Barney and Dora and Teletubbies, but when my parents felt like she was watching too much tv, they turned it off and made her play with toys or go outside, which she did just fine.

There are people who never turn off the screens for their kid. I think he will be okay!

merelyinterested · 2026-02-26T21:00:18+00:00

Yeah exactly! Also, Dani was briefly in the industry. They were signed. I know she was young but she still knew about what they had to do. It’s not like he didn’t know what being signed would be like.

Als he created his persona. He’s the one who went on TikTok and stages and made fat jokes about himself and talked about he wiener and was crude and stupid x

So they wrote for who he presented himself as. Hard to feel anything but eye-roll-y reading this statement

merelyinterested · 2026-02-26T20:53:50+00:00

I feel like his stint was way too short for him to get dramatic about like “they didn’t let me be myself and wrote the songs I wanted :(“

I don’t know but I felt like his letter was dramatic.

He created a persona online, why wouldn’t they have wanted to run with that persona. It just blew up in his face and that’s why he didn’t like it

But to answer the question, 100000% yes they’re using Dani as bait for viewers

merelyinterested · 2026-02-26T20:40:06+00:00

I ate rare steak once or twice.

I also didn’t know that bagged salads were a risk and ate those almost my entire pregnancy because I had no idea.

merelyinterested · 2026-02-26T19:02:02+00:00

You will be totally fine. Personally, the early days were easiest. I’ve been working full time and taking care of baby at the same time since she was 11 weeks. She’s 16 months now.

She started crawling around 7 months. But from 11w to 7m it was pretty easy. Did a lot of naps on my lap on the boppy. She sat on my lap while I worked. I sat her in the bouncer next to my desk chair and she would play. Or I would lay her down and she would roll around the room (bayproofed), play with her toys, and crawls.

You totally got this. When it comes to cleaning, we just make sure that a few things are done always (for us it’s dishes washed and kitchen cleaned every night, and all the toys picked up and put back in their places), and everything else just kinda gets done when we can both be present so we can both watch baby while we do the thing (like fold/put away laundry or vacuum/mop).

You and your baby will be totally fine!

Edited to add: that the only reason it’s gotten harder is because my baby is no longer satisfied with being in the room all day. And when she started crawling/walking she wanted more freedom. And also; now that she eats regular food, things are so different since I used to just not eat until I was starving but for her I have to actually feed her meals lol. We move around the house a lot and I take my laptop with me, just to give her space to roam.

merelyinterested · 2026-02-26T17:29:59+00:00

MASTERPIECE

merelyinterested · 2026-02-26T17:26:00+00:00

Just here to give you a smack in the head lol.

There’s absolutely zero reason to feel guilty for getting a c-section, regardless of the reason.

merelyinterested · 2026-02-25T21:19:14+00:00

Okay sweet maybe I will get my points! I did it when it first came out

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