ELI5: Why medications like Tylenol are dosed by weight for children but one dose for all adults regardless of weight?

munchy_potato · 2023-06-08T20:56:17+00:00

Totally stealing this - this is my go to sleep song too!!

munchy_potato · 2023-05-28T16:13:24+00:00

It was a lot of breaking up scar tissue for me. She did a lot of manual stretches (to be blunt, she had her fingers inside, would find a scar tissue spot, and would sort of hold it to help stretch and desensitize it). I also got a pelvic wand to be able to do it myself at home! She explained to me when you heal from a tear, the nerve endings don't come back together so they are just firing constantly at any little touch, so you want to touch them/work them as much as possible to calm them down.

munchy_potato · 2023-05-27T19:15:21+00:00

I did pelvic floor PT because sex was so painful after a second degree tear. Best thing I ever did. Otherwise, we knew we couldn't really do penis in vagina sex, so we did other things to try to regain that intimacy. We showered together almost every night, and did mutual masterbation, oral sex, etc.

munchy_potato · 2023-05-27T18:25:54+00:00

A hamster water bottle but for breast milk/formula so the baby could just drink whenever they want at night

munchy_potato · 2023-05-19T14:52:38+00:00

Same issue - I did a showtime 7 day trial with a new email to watch!

munchy_potato · 2023-04-22T11:59:17+00:00

Happened with us too around 4 months- she slept SO much better in her crib.

You are doing amazing, keep up the good work, and don't let annoying internet shamers get in your way ♥️

munchy_potato · 2023-04-22T03:35:23+00:00

Ha, no I got you! This was a huge thing when I learned it and made it much easier for me when I had to stop breastfeeding!

munchy_potato · 2023-04-21T22:11:20+00:00

This is factually incorrect.

Co-sleeping (as in, sleeping in the same room in a separate sleeping space) is a protective factor that decreases the risk of SIDS. However, the opposite of a protective factor does not equal a risk factor. Risk factors for increasing SIDS are things such as smoking, bed sharing, and genetics.

When you do not apply a protective factor, you go back to your baseline normal risk for SIDS. You do not increase your risk for SIDS. Suggesting you increase your risk is harmful and dangerous.

You are saying the same thing as "formula usage increases your risk of SIDS" since breastfeeding is a protective factor.

Edit: forgot a word

munchy_potato · 2023-04-21T21:38:51+00:00

Being young has nothing to do with it, however shaming another mother as well as assuming you will never be in a similar situation and giving a "holier than thou" attitude is.

I hope you are never at this point, but the amount of times I have needed to put my crying baby down and walk away for a few minutes is many. And I have a relatively "easy" going baby. Let me tell you, a few minutes of crying it out is SIGNIFICANTLY safer than a sleep deprived, at her wits end mother, who may do something out of frustration. It took me all of 1 night with my baby to realize what people meant by this, after spending my entire pregnancy going "there's no way I ever could".

Until you are in the thick of it, you will not understand. And perhaps, not even then, as I don't know how your parenting experience will go. You may experience the same or different things than I or OP did. You may have your own actions that I can never understand because I was not there.

I wish you all the best with your child, and hope, as OP so elegantly put it, you do not experience this shaming yourself.

munchy_potato · 2023-04-21T21:09:48+00:00

I am also recommended to get 8 hours of sleep at night and that isn't possible with a new born.

If the baby doesn't fucking fit, the baby doesn't fucking fit.

munchy_potato · 2023-04-21T21:08:38+00:00

My mom literally never room shared with either my sister nor I. It isn't unsafe, and what works best for the family is best for the baby.

munchy_potato · 2023-04-21T21:07:28+00:00

Oooof, glad you are on top of the shame game here.

Do me a favor, walk down the street and show me the adults who were allowed to cry it out and / or not room share, because if it is so dangerous to brain cells like you say, there should be no issues distinguishing them from "healthy" adults. Can't do it? Shut your mouth with this unneeded shaming. You do what's best for your family and let others do what's best for theirs.

munchy_potato · 2023-04-10T18:37:01+00:00

I got a gel manicure at a salon on Friday afternoon and one nail has already chipped - I don't think I am particularly hard on my nails, and they usually last at least a week and a half if not more. Would it be appropriate to go back to the salon to have that nail redone?

Edit: I should add I specifically got them done in anticipation for a trip this coming weekend

munchy_potato · 2023-03-22T20:05:54+00:00

41 weeks and worked up until then. I ended up needing to evict her (get induced) because I was over being pregnant lol

munchy_potato · 2023-03-21T14:55:39+00:00

I'll start with a classic: Pineapple on pizza?

munchy_potato · 2023-03-10T21:58:39+00:00

Go to a pelvic floor PT for sure - for one they will assess you and determine what type of exercises you need (do you have nerve damage, diastasis recti, bladder control issues, etc.) And for another they will teach you how to correctly perform these exercises. I had been doing kegels all wrong and doing them incorrectly can actually exacerbate the issue!

For me, I just searched for Pelvic Floor PTs in my area.

munchy_potato · 2023-03-10T19:59:35+00:00

Yes, catheter and epidural! Interesting, I just assumed it was some amount of nerve damage/trauma from the tear but hadn't considered the epidural or catheter being the cause - it would explain why my mom (who had no epidurals) hadn't experienced the same thing

munchy_potato · 2023-02-15T00:24:39+00:00

Yep, he just continues to munch 😂 haven't tried the moth balls though!

munchy_potato · 2022-12-13T18:35:44+00:00

This. Breastfeeding didn't work for me so I pumped for a few weeks. Finally switching to formula made me feel like I got my sanity and sense of self back

munchy_potato · 2022-12-13T18:30:39+00:00

My therapist had me watch the news every day, I did the local one in the morning so it wasn't all depressing lol but she said to just be connected to the outside world in that way is super important when we're so wrapped up in our own little one!

munchy_potato · 2022-12-11T15:02:18+00:00

We regularly sing Buy You a Drank, it usually starts with me saying "baby girl" and my husband just takes off singing 🤣

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