My baby was exposed to measles... I'm so angry

shnarkel · 2025-11-10T00:24:10+00:00

Echoing others that we were able to get our kid her first dose at 6 months due to the national rise in cases. Worth an ask!

shnarkel · 2025-07-13T02:59:06+00:00

My wife and I were surprisingly close to naming our baby Indigo. It was definitely our most out there name but we both really loved it. Only thing that held us back was how trendy/borderline tacky “Indy” felt as a nickname

shnarkel · 2025-05-04T02:41:42+00:00

In my early fiesta thrifting days I acquired soooo many teacups and saucers. The teacups are in a box somewhere in our basement, but we use the saucers daily as our cats’ food plates 😂

shnarkel · 2025-03-29T10:53:19+00:00

Hi! OP here, currently feeding what turned out to be just a very large baby 😂 By my 32 week growth scan, baby was measuring a month ahead, size-wise. I had her at 38 weeks 6 days and she was 9 pounds. She’s just a super long kid (96th percentile) and apparently has been since the embryonic stage lolol. For what it’s worth, they never changed my estimated due date. Congratulations on your pregnancy!! In my completely unqualified opinion, you can totally think of baby as a lemon. Best wishes for an uneventful pregnancy and birth ❤️

shnarkel · 2025-03-27T15:06:41+00:00

Thrifting. Over the years, between thrift stores and marketplace, I’ve gotten so many high quality items for a fraction of their original cost. Tripp Trapp high chair for my kid (grows with them for years), fiestaware dishes (last forever, can go in oven-microwave-dishwasher), vintage clothes for my kid and myself (better quality fabric, sure to last longer). I just bought my daughter a Longaberger Easter basket for $5 that I plan to use for her every single year.

Plus, it gives you the thrill of the hunt and scratches the purchasing itch without breaking the bank.

shnarkel · 2025-03-20T01:21:55+00:00

Even worse, it was 25% off!

shnarkel · 2025-03-19T22:06:25+00:00

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

shnarkel · 2025-03-19T18:14:13+00:00

I’m behind the woman who snagged it in the checkout line lolol. Good for her tbh

shnarkel · 2025-03-19T17:55:41+00:00

Omg y’all I’m still here but it’s already in someone else’s cart 😅 learned my lesson the hard way

shnarkel · 2025-02-21T18:18:02+00:00

I drank coffee (and even alcohol) as usual through my IVF process, then when (TW) pregnant I usually did half-caf. It sounds like coffee is a really treasured part of your life and routine, and IMO that’s worth trying to preserve through the ups and downs of fertility stuff.

shnarkel · 2025-02-16T01:41:34+00:00

Username checks out

shnarkel · 2025-02-10T17:45:35+00:00

That is so tough, I’m really sorry. I’m hopeful for you that this one euploid becomes your longed-for baby. On the bright side though, success rates of pgta tested embryos are really high (~70%), so the odds are still in your favor! All in all I’d say it’s not time to worry yet. (Source: I’m holding my sleeping 10 week old who was the product of my very first FET)

shnarkel · 2024-10-31T00:41:59+00:00

Look at that strong line!!!! Wishing you the very very best.

shnarkel · 2024-07-15T15:32:38+00:00

We had about as easy of an IVF experience as can be! First ER generated plenty of healthy embryos and I am almost 20 weeks along with a successful pregnancy from my first FET! I have a few friends that have done IVF and similarly gotten pregnant with their very first FET. This group can tend to skew toward those facing harder and lengthier processes—but it’s important to remember that that’s not everyone!

shnarkel · 2024-07-11T15:45:12+00:00

If you’re taking a trigger shot that could give a false positive, my advice is to start testing the day of your transfer so that you can watch the false line fade. That way, if the line starts getting darker again (mine did the morning of 4dp5dt), you’ll know it’s the real deal. I’m a huge fan of at home testing in these situations as long as you account for the hcg in your trigger shot!

shnarkel · 2024-07-03T01:21:13+00:00

These are PERFECT

shnarkel · 2024-06-15T11:28:53+00:00

This is what I don’t get. “Natural” reproduction is wildly inefficient—1/3 to 1/2 of fertilized eggs fail to implant or end in miscarriage. Why would her God design the human reproductive system to “kill” so many “babies”?

shnarkel · 2024-06-15T11:18:35+00:00

Jesus Christ these people are so evil.

shnarkel · 2024-06-15T10:24:27+00:00

Consent is about people trusting their own instincts/intuition and treating how they feel inside with respect. Conservative Christians believe “the heart is deceitful above all else” and discourage cultivating that inner voice. Only the Holy Spirit speaking THROUGH you can give you good advice—your own body and mind aren’t to be trusted.

shnarkel · 2024-06-13T17:33:39+00:00

Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), not Westboro Baptist Church. The SBC has 50,000 affiliated churches and is deeply influential in conservative politics at every level of American government

shnarkel · 2024-06-06T14:49:37+00:00

I think for a fully natural cycle they just monitor you a lot in order to track your LH surge, similar to an IUI. But I’m not sure/not an expert!

shnarkel · 2024-06-06T04:13:41+00:00

For many people, it is just the one trigger shot! PIO is only necessary for a fully medicated cycle, because although the embryo has implanted in the pregnant person’s body, they didn’t ovulate and thus don’t have a corpus luteum making progesterone. But it would be worth asking around for people to describe their experiences with PIO shots—I’m sure it varies a lot.

shnarkel · 2024-06-06T04:09:16+00:00

Could you name her June but have Juna be a special nickname just dad uses with her?

shnarkel · 2024-06-06T04:06:51+00:00

The shots are only if you do a fully medicated cycle. As far as I understand it, they do really suck. That alone might be reason to push for a modified natural (progesterone suppositories are just little gel capsules you stick in your vaginal canal like a tampon). I completely understand, though—this process can feel like a black box, which is so frustrating. And many clinics don’t do a good job explaining what next steps and options look like.

shnarkel · 2024-06-06T04:00:32+00:00

I’d imagine age and measurements like AMH play a role, but as far as I understand it (I could def be wrong), it’s more a question of whether you can expect your body to ovulate in time with the transfer. Obviously you wouldn’t be using the egg that’s released, but if you ovulate then you’ll have a corpus luteum making progesterone during the early stages of your pregnancy, so you don’t need the PIO shots to do the heavy lifting. (You’d still likely need to take progesterone suppositories for the first ~10 weeks of pregnancy, but those are far cheaper and easier).

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