@ecwk Same, I can't wait to go back on Keto in August! I think part of why I have gained so fast (17 lbs in 17 weeks) is the adjustment to eating carbs again (and massive amounts at that). There is no reason against doing Keto while BFing right? I can usually lose 10 lbs a month doing it and would love to be back close to pre baby weight by the end of mat leave.
I've gained about that much too and being almost half way through I am pretty proud of the fact I still am not back to where I was before I started. I am not sure about BFing and Keto, I looked up a few threads on Reddit and people say it is ok. My concerns about it are that I may need to chow down on oatmeal to help with my supply and I may be so overwhelmed in the first couple of months that I simply rely on convenience food and snacks out of necessity. That's just me though. I really have to be in the right frame of mind to commit to starting something, so hopefully once the dust has settled and I have adjusted to life with 2 then I can get in to it without to much trouble!
I had a friend who did Keto and lost 30 pounds- she looks fantastic!
I had to message a parent about her daughter writing her name on the walls and floors of my classroom. The parent's response? A bunch of crying emojis. WTF.
Me: 28 DH: 29 Married: 6/2016 TTC #1: 12/2016 Benched due to deployment- Off the bench 8/8/17!
My mom smokes and it was really hard to handle when DS was born. She smokes in their house (only in the basement, but still). We went to visit them a few times (they live 4 hours away) and it made me uncomfortable a lot. She wouldn't smoke for a few days prior to our visit, but it was hard. DS got RSV very bad when he was 6 months old and after a 4 day hospital stay I told my mom we would not be visiting if she continued to smoke in the house. It was right before Christmas, so she missed the first Christmas with her first grandson because I refused to stay in their house. I felt bad, but his health was more important than anything. Now she still doesn't smoke in the house, and although I can't keep her from smoking in general, I insist she washed her hands, changed her clothes, etc. when she is around him. I will be doing the same thing with #2.
Ahhhhhhh. I read thru a couple pages of the troll thread. That’s enough of that. People weren’t just fighting the troll - they started fighting each other. I know SO says I’m thin skinned. Maybe he’s right. Just reading a couple pages was stressful.
For everyone who said let her make a nursery, if my mom were chillax and normal I wouldn't even think anything of it, and in fact I'd encourage it for the days I just need a break or we've got appointments or things where we need to be without little kid distractions. But she's a classic narcissistic manipulator, and it just felt like she was immediately overstepping her bounds by telling me what she has planned for it, like it was her own...rather than first being excited for me and asking what all we're planning for ourselves before just assuming she would have it as much as she wants.
Plus, she's a spend-a-holic, ever since dad died she's been struggling to pay her bills as she blew through her retirement buying stupid useless antiques and is pretty much living on his pensions and social security checks right now...so I don't want to see her waste her money on even more unnecessary things, because I do care about that sort of thing. And we're planning to move more than likely next year, so it'd really be more of a waste of money than she realizes right now.
The smoking is a hard limit for me as well, and it's going to be a really ugly issue to address. She gets incredibly defensive about it even when I ask her politely to not smoke around me, then she gets passive aggressive about blowing the smoke at me, or lighting up in my personal space, just to antagonize me. Plus her house reeks of the smoke, it literally makes my eyes burn and water if I'm inside for more than a few minutes and you can taste it in the air. Everything that has spent any time there has to be washed to get the smell out, our persons included. I don't want my kid exposed to it like I was. I can just see her trying to rationalize it such that because I grew up with it and turned out fine, so that it's okay for my kiddo too. So, I don't know how to get it across to her when she's so set in her ways and willfully stubborn, short of just being blunt, putting my foot down, and letting her have tantrums about it.
Then you're just going to have to be blunt, put your foot down and let her tantrum about it. It doesn't seem like being gentle about it is going to achieve anything. I still don't think you have the right to tell her what she can and cannot do when it comes to a nursery in her own house but it seems like you wouldn't want to spend any time there anyway so as long as she is aware of that - she can make her decision. It's her problem if she spends money on it fully knowing that you have zero intentions of using it.
I will post in HDBD, but I make sure that I crop my face out, there is nothing in the background that is super identifying. I remember that crazy thread - I had started participating in TTGP summer of 2014 and I remember reading that and being like WTF!? I was very careful at the info I shared prior to moving to FB with my old BMB. There are a lot of creepers out there and I saw way too many BMB's have catfish/trolls/false identities to put to much trust into it all so early on.
@neeraja_k Honestly, if it were me and my parent was intentionally doing those smoking things just to piss me off, I wouldn't see her. I've essentially cut my dad out of my life and he lives with my mother, so it can get awkward but we just don't go there for things. DS gets to because it's not a safety thing with my father, we just have a lot of personal issues, but I would be so quick to cut him off from DS if it were something like smoking, etc. I don't play with that. I wouldn't and don't care that he's my father. When I type that, it sounds so cold but when you're a parent you gotta do what you need to do.
+1 for wanting bread - I'm team Olive Garden breadsticks with alfredo. Nom nom nom Boring troll is boring. If they wanted to be fun / special / unique or even remotely entertaining they'd let us play 20 questions to try to guess who they are (but I also seriously doubt it's anyone here) 1st question: are you bigger than a bread box (lol! See what I did there?)
I'm not a STM but I agree with @ecwk - I think there's only so much you can do. If she want to do something in her own home, that's kind of her business. I think you can control how much time your LO spends over there and the restrictions regarding smoking, for sure. After you're up front with her about how much time you'll be there, it's her problem if she spends money on a wasted nursery. Have you told her you're moving?
My brother smokes a lot and I know I'll have to have that conversation with him regarding washing and holding the baby. He has a grand idea that he'll be a Manny for LO, but I haven't really broken the news yet that LO won't be over at his house because he smokes so much.
Bread is delicious. I just had cookies, which are just as good.
All this baby has wanted is bread! I stayed away from most carbs other than rice and occasional corn tortillas or such because I found a lo of it triggered extreme headaches for me. It's been so hard to manage because all I want to eat is bread, but then the headaches kick in and I feel like crap. It's a vicious cycle.
@Brezzy1928 definitely don’t feel like you need to post one! I don’t post my face for multiple reasons, so no one should feel like they have to post anything, and I’m sure when it’s done for Facebook it will be done in a private way.
I don't watch the Bachelor but I will pretty much watch any reality show on Bravo. I also randomly binge watched Teen Mom OG the latest season (even though I haven't watched in years) when I was in bed with the cold on Sunday ahhaha
@dirtanddiamonds the Bachelor, Arie, proposed to one girl then broke up with her because he wants to try and reconcile with the girl he dumped. As of now he's alone but from the spoilers I've read on social media it sounds like maybe he proposes tonight at the After the Final Rose show. He's a douche, I hope he ends up alone.
So, he broke up with a girl - on the show? Proposed to another? Broke up with that one... and wants to go back to one he already broke up with?
And by “break up” does that mean someone who didn’t get a rose?
We watched this in college YEEEAAARS ago. I remember some of the concept. Honestly. I can’t believe they still get women to go on the show and humiliate themselves. Lol.
@dirtanddiamonds basically...yes. Haha. I don't know why people still go on the show either but it's literally the only reality tv I watch and it keeps me entertained.
I don't watch the Bachelor but I will pretty much watch any reality show on Bravo. I also randomly binge watched Teen Mom OG the latest season (even though I haven't watched in years) when I was in bed with the cold on Sunday ahhaha
@calimom2524 This is what Reality Steve had to say, in spoiler! It's kinda long.
...if he wanted to end an engagement to Becca, that’s fine. If he didn’t want to continue a relationship that he wasn’t 100% in on, he has every right to break it off. I don’t think anyone is disputing the break up. If they are, then they’re not thinking straight. What he didn’t need to do though was lie to her, make her think they were having a normal Happy Couple visit, then bombard her with cameras and film the whole thing. Completely classless and speaks volumes about his character.
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The next conspiracy people have is that Arie had no choice and he had to do it on camera. Well, no he didn’t. He could’ve broken up with her off camera if he wanted to. Did producers encourage it? Absolutely. Did Arie know this would be dramatic television? For sure. But he absolutely could’ve put his foot down and said “Absolutely not. I’m not going to embarrass her like this on television. We are not filming this.” The Arie sheep will say he had no choice and I’m telling you, they’re wrong. More on that in a minute. Yes, producers are highly influential in making people do what they want to do. But they are sick, twisted, insecure people whose job it is to pretend they’re your best friend, then f**k you over the first chance they can get all in the name of TV gold. Arie could’ve prevented that break up being filmed and he didn’t. He chose to give in to them and that’s what makes him an asshole, not because he broke up with her.
@scottishlass1213 I don’t watch the bachelor but I’ll happily binge on Housewives on Bravo or any of the Teen Moms. The latter generally makes me feel like I’m at least doing something right as a mom...
Oh you naughty thing! Funny enough after I posted that I did consider tagging @calimom2524 you know what else is hot and salty? But I guess I already have an established reputation as at least one of the pervs here
Re: Weekly Randoms 3/5
I had to message a parent about her daughter writing her name on the walls and floors of my classroom. The parent's response? A bunch of crying emojis. WTF.
Married: 6/2016
TTC #1: 12/2016
Benched due to deployment- Off the bench 8/8/17!
DS: 5.28.15
DS#2: EDD 8.31.18
I need some bread.
DS: 5.28.15
DS#2: EDD 8.31.18
Boring troll is boring. If they wanted to be fun / special / unique or even remotely entertaining they'd let us play 20 questions to try to guess who they are (but I also seriously doubt it's anyone here)
1st question: are you bigger than a bread box (lol! See what I did there?)
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
My brother smokes a lot and I know I'll have to have that conversation with him regarding washing and holding the baby. He has a grand idea that he'll be a Manny for LO, but I haven't really broken the news yet that LO won't be over at his house because he smokes so much.
Bread is delicious. I just had cookies, which are just as good.
DS: 5.28.15
DS#2: EDD 8.31.18
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
Hello from Detroit!
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
And by “break up” does that mean someone who didn’t get a rose?
We watched this in college YEEEAAARS ago. I remember some of the concept. Honestly. I can’t believe they still get women to go on the show and humiliate themselves. Lol.
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
And now I want bread, fries AND pizza. Thanks guys
Me: 37 Him: 38
Married 11.07.2015
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
@ecwk Hot salty fries sounds very dirty to me!
August 18 Siggy Challenge: April Showers
...if he wanted to end an engagement to Becca, that’s fine. If he didn’t want to continue a relationship that he wasn’t 100% in on, he has every right to break it off. I don’t think anyone is disputing the break up. If they are, then they’re not thinking straight. What he didn’t need to do though was lie to her, make her think they were having a normal Happy Couple visit, then bombard her with cameras and film the whole thing. Completely classless and speaks volumes about his character.
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The next conspiracy people have is that Arie had no choice and he had to do it on camera. Well, no he didn’t. He could’ve broken up with her off camera if he wanted to. Did producers encourage it? Absolutely. Did Arie know this would be dramatic television? For sure. But he absolutely could’ve put his foot down and said “Absolutely not. I’m not going to embarrass her like this on television. We are not filming this.” The Arie sheep will say he had no choice and I’m telling you, they’re wrong. More on that in a minute. Yes, producers are highly influential in making people do what they want to do. But they are sick, twisted, insecure people whose job it is to pretend they’re your best friend, then f**k you over the first chance they can get all in the name of TV gold. Arie could’ve prevented that break up being filmed and he didn’t. He chose to give in to them and that’s what makes him an asshole, not because he broke up with her.Oh you naughty thing! Funny enough after I posted that I did consider tagging @calimom2524 you know what else is hot and salty? But I guess I already have an established reputation as at least one of the pervs here