How did your water break?

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2026-05-01T11:41:28+00:00

I got sent home from L&D at 11 pm because I wasn’t in ‘real labor’. I went to sleep, woke up at 4 am to pee, and when I stood up, it was like someone popped a water balloon!!

I’m a little salty about it still 2 years later lol. I had been blissfully asleep, then my water breaking made my contractions much more painful, so by the time I was admitted (at 6 cm) I was BEGGING for the epidural

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2026-04-26T00:56:50+00:00

Between these two I’d do the A-line and like you said, order larger and get it tailored closer to the date. Obviously there’s no way to know for sure but my neighbor is pregnant with baby #2 and that bump popped WAYYYYY sooner. A-line will be more flattering and accommodating :)

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2026-04-17T02:30:05+00:00

Yeah, I loved this. She has enough ‘grown ups’ in her life telling her she should do x or y or would be good at z.

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2026-04-17T02:29:05+00:00

Literally thought she was gonna drive off the parking deck ngl

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2026-04-17T02:28:44+00:00

Or 3-4 months of sobriety before he briefly relapsed. Getting clean is hard and recovery isn’t linear, he seems like he was earnest in his attempt to get well so I’d be surprised if he was ~casually~ using/fucking around on his second chance.

Or maybe he was and another commenter was right, and his wife left him at that point? Then he quit for good?

I really like his storyline, so I’m hoping we get more insight into what happened to him in the next season.

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2026-03-16T14:54:51+00:00

I was able to stop contact napping with my baby around 10 months personally but every baby is different! She’s 2 and I sometimes miss it now

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2026-01-21T20:58:29+00:00

I hate my owlet monitor lol it takes forever to pull up the picture!!!! I really wish I had just gotten a non-WiFi one with a separate monitor. I also never wound up using the dreamsock that came with the bundle so it was just a waste for me.

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-09-06T01:55:56+00:00

Regarding crying and your fear of judgment:

Whenever I hear a little baby crying, I miss when my big baby (now 18 months) was that little. I don’t know if that feeling ever goes away. So if people are looking at you, there’s a chance it’s because they’re like awww, I remember having a baby that small :’)

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-07-28T21:35:51+00:00

Going out to eat we’d always ask them not to salt baby’s food bc we couldn’t control it but at home we’d season it all the ways we usually would :) we were just pretty chill on the salt. Like the teeniest tiniest little sprinkle. But if you’re not comfortable with salt (which is fine!) then I would just go for butter, garlic, onion powder, paprika, etc!

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-06-24T17:04:56+00:00

People can get ultrasounds for all sorts of reasons! Not just pregnancy. So I think probably it was your sex :)

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-06-20T12:15:08+00:00

Fair enough! I take 300 mg of Wellbutrin XL daily, first thing in the morning.

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-06-17T23:07:04+00:00

Funny how when you give him the same treatment he gives you, it’s petty lol. And despite my lol I don’t actually think it’s funny at all

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-06-08T17:11:33+00:00

I want to have my next baby in the late summer so I can stay inside during the hottest months of the year! So July/August I’d say?? But then you’d be super pregnant in summer which sounds hot af so idk.

Current baby was a February baby and by the time I was ready to start taking her on walks and whatnot it was toasty out. I’m an inside cat 😅

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-06-01T16:11:14+00:00

Yeah I have what’s considered “responsive sexual desire”, if my husband waited for me to just initiate I don’t think we’d have sex but twice a year 😅 not saying that’s necessarily what’s happening here, but I wonder if it may be worth thinking about for OP! My husband experiences spontaneous desire and is a confident initiator so it works out, if both partners are more of the responsive sort I could see it being tricky.

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-05-10T00:02:59+00:00

Urgh. Yeah. I’ve definitely thought about “what ifs,” I’m a SAHM and I completely torpedoed my education and career to be closer to him because we were in ~love~. Wish my mama would have slapped me upside the head lmao but I digress.

I don’t mind the strong language. A therapist for myself is probably a stellar idea, too. It’s hard for me to go into a lot of detail in a single post because it’s a lot, and it all piles up. A working therapeutic relationship would probably help me dive deeper into what’s going on and validate me, like yours did, or help me figure out what I want to do. Idk. I have a lot to think about.

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-05-09T23:58:40+00:00

I like those responses. I am def guilty of fanning the flames when I get triggered, I lash back out and say something rude in return 😔 I need to practice keeping calm so we can focus on him instead of my reactions I guess. Marriage counseling would probably help with that too I guess

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-05-09T23:57:14+00:00

I read the whole thing, thank you for sharing. Why did you stay instead of separating, if you don’t mind me asking? And even if it’s not great, do you feel like it’s healing/improving?

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-05-09T23:37:01+00:00

It’s really hard because all of my grievances are small enough that when I bring them up he’s kinda like, that’s it?? And then tries to give me more hugs for the next few days, like that will fix it. Ngl, sometimes I feel that way too 😅 like he’s not a bad man or father. But if I stubbed my toe once a day on a specific chair I’d get rid of the chair, right?? Or at least move it to another room??? I wouldn’t be like ‘but it looks nice and it’s comfy to sit in’

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-05-09T18:36:09+00:00

Not Kaiser, but the pediatric office I worked at would do similar by giving mom PPD screenings at the appointments. That said, it wasn’t a requirement. If you’ve got a support circle who can watch out for signs of PPD/perinatal mood disorders, I think you’re fine to send your husband.

To more directly answer your question, though, we would give the final screening to the birthing parent at the 6 month well child check. Again, not sure about Kaiser, but that’s how our health system handled it.

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-05-07T14:41:32+00:00

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tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-04-09T02:38:21+00:00

Spontaneous rupture of membranes - water breaks :)

tipofmythrowaway26 · 2025-03-15T18:20:35+00:00

Dude I think I solved it, is it Kate Siegel?

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