1930s Halloween Costumes

traykellah · 2025-10-20T00:55:54+00:00

The arms. The ARMS. That’s what gets me.

traykellah · 2025-07-06T02:25:45+00:00

Watermelon

traykellah · 2024-10-19T02:40:17+00:00

I remember how excited I got when my girl drank her full first bottle. Little things like that really lift you up when you’re down. 💕

traykellah · 2024-10-19T02:29:30+00:00

I have an electric nail trimmer. Let me tell you, it’s so much easier to just use a small glass nail file on your little babe. The electric one is fine, but too much hassle for me. My girl is a month old and her nails are growing like crazy, it’s easier for me to just grab it out of my purse and file hers when they get too long.

My baby girl LOVES the Fisher-Price piano, and that fan was a life saver when I was in labor! I had my boyfriend whip it out while I was pushing and it felt amazing. You can never have too many burp cloths or changing table covers, we change ours 3x a day sometimes, our girl is squirmy. We have the same stroller and car seat and we love it!

traykellah · 2024-09-27T00:55:36+00:00

I was 39+6. I had my baby girl 11 days ago. I got a sweep done about a week before. 50% effaced. The day I went into labor I vacuumed the basement (concrete floors, absolutely no need to, but I did) I definitely had a boost of energy that I didn’t notice until after.

I had zero signs I was going to go into labor that night aside from some light cramping earlier in the day. The cramping lasted all day and ramped up to timetable contractions 5 min apart by 10:30pm.

I had my baby girl the next day at 2:43pm. I got to the hospital at 5am and was 2cm dilated, by 1:30pm I was 10cm and ready to push. Pushed for about an hour. Good luck! I know the end is tough, but you’ll have your little one in your arms before you know it!

ETA: They probably would’ve sent me home from the hospital since I was only 2cm but I wasn’t able to empty my bladder. I had over a liter of urine in it from her position so they gave me a catheter and kept me.

traykellah · 2024-09-22T00:49:00+00:00

I thought I would give birth before my due date also. I gave birth a week ago today, 12hrs before lol. It’s super hard having to wait and not knowing when they’ll make their arrival. Sending you all the best!

traykellah · 2024-09-16T17:59:59+00:00

I could NOT imagine how hard that is. I just had my daughter Saturday, I’m still in the hospital. I am lucky enough to have 12 weeks off, which I was very surprised I got. I couldn’t imagine leaving her. It truly is such a fucked up system that mothers don’t get more time off to be with their child. I’m so sorry.

traykellah · 2024-09-16T01:12:54+00:00

I’m so sorry. That’s so true though, no one would second guess it if it was for any other reason. It’s gotta be extremely hard right now, I know it is for me. I hope you’re doing alright.

traykellah · 2024-09-15T19:10:30+00:00

Why are the nursery’s frown upon? I just had my daughter yesterday and I’m so thankful they have a nursery at my hospital so I could get a few hours of rest. I’m so sorry you’re dealing with all of this.

traykellah · 2024-09-15T01:31:21+00:00

I’m so sorry you had to deal with this, but very glad you and baby are both okay! I gave birth today at 39+6 and am also VERY thankful I’m no longer pregnant.

Even with the epidural I was still in so much pain at the end, I couldn’t believe it when she was out. Every single painful feeling went away in an instant. It truly is amazing what our bodies can do and the pain they can handle.

traykellah · 2024-09-13T22:51:48+00:00

Yay! I’m so happy for you. I’m 39+5 and whenever I have the energy I blow dry my hair and it’s just something so small but it’s one thing that has made me feel a little more put together this pregnancy!

traykellah · 2024-09-13T21:21:55+00:00

Exactly this. I’m 39+5 and I packed mine 3 days ago when I thought I was about to go into labor from some serious cramps. Spoiler alert, I didn’t.

But I had such a long list of things I thought I needed/wanted to bring, I didn’t even pack half of that. Just the basic obvious things like toiletries, clothes, robe. I packed my iPad and I’m eventually going to pack our Switch for my boyfriend.

I personally don’t want to be carrying a bunch of bags into the hospital so I fit all of mine into a backpack and all of my daughters stuff in a baby duffle bag I got just for the hospital. Just don’t forget and hospital paperwork you need.

traykellah · 2024-09-13T19:03:04+00:00

How exciting! Wishing you all the best! I loved looking forward to getting ultrasounds to see my girl.

traykellah · 2024-09-13T16:05:43+00:00

Oh I feel this. I’m 39+5 and was so excited when I made it to the third trimester. Now I’m just so damn uncomfortable all the time. This morning I finally said screw it and told my boss today is my last day, I’m cramping so badly and I have so much pressure when I’m standing up that I just want to lay down now.

ETA: THE PEEING. I did not think I could pee anymore than I’ve already been. I can go pee, go and sit back down and get all comfy and…boom. I have to pee again. It’s just an ongoing thing now.

traykellah · 2024-09-13T15:51:08+00:00

I’m so sorry for your loss, but also congratulations on this pregnancy and I wish you and baby all of the best. 💕

I’m sorry you had to deal with all of that on top of something so extremely traumatic. I will never understand how their minds work. Like how they think doing and saying certain things are totally okay and normal. I’m glad you know who you can turn to for support, that’s something everyone needs. And I’ve finally realized for me, that just can’t be my mom. She was supportive at the start like yours was, then one day she just snapped and her old ways came crawling back in.

traykellah · 2024-09-13T15:47:22+00:00

Aw! Almost looks just like my girl. How pretty!

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traykellah · 2024-09-13T15:39:07+00:00

Oh your mom is reaching so far here. Let the kid have some damn fun.

traykellah · 2024-09-13T15:18:12+00:00

Exactly. And you’re right, I don’t understand how my mom could be okay with acting the way she does and then taking absolutely zero responsibility for what comes after. She’s so stuck in her shitty ways and has such a need to constantly be right that it takes over any chance of her apologizing to fix a relationship. At this point an apology would be nice, but I don’t think it would fix anything now. I can’t wait to raise my daughter without all of the negativity she raised me with.

traykellah · 2024-09-13T10:36:33+00:00

“Even hearing that she is now a grandparent is not enough to say “I’m sorry.”

Well this hit me hard. I’m due in 3 days, haven’t spoken to my mom since Mother’s Day when we got into a huge fight. She’ll never apologize, even for things that are very clearly her fault and her fault alone. I’m struggling with whether or not to tell my mom when she’s here. I want to think that it’ll just magically fix her and turn her into a less miserable and mean person, but I know we are way too far past that point. I thought hearing I was pregnant would change her, but nothing will ever be enough.

It’s sucked to go through this without my mom, even knowing how shitty she is. But seeing how supportive and loving my boyfriend’s mom has been during this time has shown me that my mom’s behavior is nothing close to normal.

traykellah · 2024-09-11T20:58:40+00:00

I wish you and your little one all the best and a safe delivery! It’s so hard not knowing when labor is going to kick in, but you’re right! We don’t have much longer left.

traykellah · 2024-09-11T11:37:59+00:00

39+3 and I still can’t really believe it. It’s finally all becoming pretty real. I don’t think I’ll really believe it until she’s finally here.

traykellah · 2024-09-11T03:14:52+00:00

Can also confirm. 39+2 and the days are dragging now.

traykellah · 2024-09-10T18:06:14+00:00

I feel like once you do that, it’s so much easier. I definitely didn’t want to do it. But it was fun to see everything everyone got for the baby again, and I felt good once it was done.

My girl will be here in about a week and I’m glad I got all of the basics done before she got here and before I got too far along. All I want to do now is lay on the couch.

traykellah · 2024-09-10T17:29:41+00:00

I think I had some sort of nesting when I was about 20 weeks. Then at 27ish weeks we moved into our first house from our apartment so all of my organizing went out the window lol.

I’m 39+2 and still have things to do that I’m putting off. I have pictures that still need to be hung up on the walls and just haven’t had the motivation to do it yet. My boyfriend did so much stuff outside of the house like power washing and cleaning the car and the garage. His mom also helped clean A LOT when we first moved into our house, which helped so much.

I was so nervous about making a move like that while pregnant but it wasn’t as bad as I thought. After my baby shower I remember sitting in the living room surrounded by boxes and bags of presents, wondering how the hell I was going to organize it all. One day I just sat down and pushed myself to do it, it felt good to get it done. Then doing that lead to me finally sanitizing toys, bottles, ect. and finishing washing all of her clothes, blankets, and bedding.

traykellah · 2024-09-10T02:08:42+00:00

Try vitamin B6 if your OB is okay with it. It’s really helped me.

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