Yep, currently breastfeeding and have had to quit milk, soy and egg. Would be ropable if someone fed my baby because that reaction would take weeks to get over. Live in fear that her childcare will give her the wrong milk- her bottle has her name ALL over it!

Eh, it’s a big place. There definitely are parts where too much drink is the norm but also lots of cities where people drink far less. Honestly, a lot of Australian stereotypes are based on bumfuck nowhere places, kinda like if all anyone knew about the US was Florida and everyone ignored Seattle.

The way aboriginal peoples are treated is a disgrace. A lot of the time, the judges and magistrates have options other than imprisonment- their hands aren’t tied- they are choosing to be arseholes.

If you don’t vaccinate your kids, well, god I wish I could sue you. Babies too young to be vaccinated, people with compromised immune systems (eg. Cancer patients), they need your protection. People die of these diseases. 

I had it too and husband’s whole family acted like I was a monster for it. But I’m so glad I did because one of the scans showed a soft marker for trisomy 18(which you do NOT want!) and instead of having a whole bunch of scary tests we already knew all was fine.

Omg, that actually hadn’t occurred to me (i’d Had this in retrospect naive idea that they could just look and see).

Thanks! Reading your story definitely gave me some hope and put my own stuff in perspective. Glad and kinda amazed that you’re doing ok!

So I’ve got a pretty intense week ahead of me. I’ve had this random, painless lump in my jaw for a few weeks that the drs are now starting to look concerned about. I have to go for a scan on Tuesday and they want a radiologist there in case it’s something nasty.

I had several people argue with me that it was not legal to keep my own name... which it definitely is. Or people make the ‘whipped’ noise to my husband or people simply sending me things addressed to Mrs Husbandslastname.

Jagermeister and tacos

Atheism literally just means absence of belief in a deity/god. It’s not a religion in the same way lying on the couch is not a sport

Yeah, everyone I know that has four kids is either super not chill or way too chill/so overwhelmed that they basically embrace chaos.

Both my siblings also have 4 kids each. My sister is not chilled by anyone else’s standards but, for her, she’s very laidback now. My brother and his wife are a little too relaxed imo. Baby sharing drink with dog? No problem! Kids taking off clothes and painting themselves and then rollling in the new couch? Fine!

This just happened to my cousin. She had her drinker spiked by a friend. The drs think it was liquid ecstasy- she ended up running through traffic and didn’t recognise her friends or her own mother.

I had European friends force me to go skiing and I broke my nose. In the car park, on flat ground, by sliding as soon as they put my skis on.

I love that she’s talking about this. The post-birth body thing is something I never knew about- I thought there could be some issues with weight or incontinence but that that was all! Nope! Your joints can get messed up, balance change, hair is crazy, weird new moves.

I used to work in the legal system and will never forget the photos and videos of various ‘drug labs’ - vile, shit covered bathrooms would be a much more apt description. I wouldn’t wash my hands in a place like that, let alone consume anything made there. 

At the moment I have weird lump in my cheek. I’ve been to two drs and they’ve both been perplexed but also have no interest in following up because it’s probably just a lymph node (even though it’s not where the nodes are and it’s seriously hard like a marble.) I’m going to anoth dr on Monday and prepared to crack it…

When I was pregnant people constantly told me I was carrying low so it must be a boy. Aside from the fact that I was actually having a girl, it was super weird to have people comment on the shape of my belly. 

Exactly. I loathed math (and have never used anything beyond primary school maths in my day to day life). But I wasn’t tormented for being bad at algebra.