I posted this above as well but I’m sure that changes over time. When first dealing with it I can see a lot of people feeling that way that because everything was fine yesterday and fucked up today but with time I’m sure the sentiment changes for a lot of people to being glad they know.

One of the main reasons we got married was the whole next of kin thing. We both knew his mom would go against his expressed wishes if anything ever happened to him and it would be a lot less of a fight with her if we were married.

I do wonder when 90% of people who said they wish they never knew about cheating were asked. Was in in the middle of the fallout, shortly after the end of a relationship or after some time to look back and evaluate the situation/relationship more objectively. A lot of people are going to say “ I wish I never knew” at…

It really wasn’t important to me to experience labor. It was a struggle to get pregnant and she was our last embryo, the only thing that mattered to me was a healthy baby. My Dr did give me the option, I was on weekly ultrasounds at that point , so she said we could monitor the situation and see if she shifted, but I…

I also got a lot of sympathetic comments about how bad it must have been but it was fine a little surreal when the spinal block kicked in and while the dr was trying to pull her out but the pain was easily manageable, with drugs. The only time the pain was really bad was when my brother made me laugh the next day. A…

She also asked me in a shocked way why I was weaning my daughter after a year of breastfeeding I can’t imagine if I had stopped at 6 mos or didn’t do it at all. 

This was my first thought as well she should be asking for distilled water. Not that I think she really cares if she’s shortening the life of the humidifiers. 

My understanding is that you pay for everything on your rider. That was the whole point of the no red M&M’s it was a cheap way to make sure the location was closely reading/following everything in the contract. If they took the time to pick out the M&M’s they probably also took the time to make the stage/safety stuff…

As someone who had a C section, this stigma does not just exist in Nigeria. My Dr told me there was about a 25% chance of cord prolapse due to how my daughter was positioned and my weird (she said this in a nice way) pelvis. I was fine with this. We scheduled my C section at 37 weeks for 39 weeks because they didn’t…

Orange Vanilla polar is the best. I can go through a 12 pack of it in a weekend.

When I was going through fertility treatments one of the things they tested was for measles/rubella/chicken pox immunity. I wan’t immune to Rubella and got an MMR booster. When I talked to my mom about it she though I was accusing her of not getting us vaccinated and went and found a copy of my vaccination record to…

There is a measles out break going on in Saint John right now so I’m guessing this isn’t still the case or there are enough people asking for exemptions to break down herd immunity. 

Way to ignore my first two suggestions and focus on the last one especially since in other comments you mention your expensive “hobbies”. If you’re not a lazy shut-in slob you can spend time on your expensive hobbies. Or socializing or pursuing education that would further your career or learn a new language or run…

Spending extra time on hobbies or with friends or sitting around in their jim jams watching Netflix. 

The Yorks didn’t win the War of the Roses. Unless you count Elizabeth of York marring Henry Tudor as a kind of victory.

We ended up owing and that was with my husband and I having and additional $35/per paycheck($10 for me $25 for him) withheld. We would have owed more but we had a baby in 2018 which we didn’t adjust our w4's for so had the $2,000 tax credit for her bring down what we owed to $800.00

My mom has a locket with a curl of her hair in it , it was my grandma’s and she didn’t know what to do with it after she passed away.

I used to know someone who would say something similar, that work “wasn’t for her” when you asked for more details it was because she didn’t like, not being able to sleep in , having to be somewhere at a certain time, having people tell her what to do ect . She basically lived off her girlfriend and spent all day on…

By now, many hospitals with NICU units have cuddler programs in which volunteers are trained, background-checked and immunized before they can begin.

There are several SSRI’s that do a good job treating PPD and since most have generic versions at this point they are cheap as well. I can’t see most new moms wanting to be away from their baby and in the hospital for 5 days unless they are suffering from very severe PPD.