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Thank you for this. my 2.5 year old is battling a stomach bug and has been watching TV for 2 days so she can rest. Of course that just led me to an anxiety spiral because she hardly watches 1-2 hours of TV a week

this is a curious comment so please ignore me if I sound stupid. I know there are a lot of articles about child free by choice and how that's amazing and everything and there have been some articles where women are sort of on the fence about having kids. I want to ask women here,… Read More

Are you sure about that? because my pediatrician told me to introduce food when my baby shows interest which coincides with when they're ready (around 4- 6ish months). of course I'm not to give her hard textured food but yeah she's been eating Indian food since she's old enough to… Read More

oh I have the answer to your first sentence. I am an unbelievably sensitive person. like to the point that at 31 years old if I don't control myself I'll cry if I see a dog pulling on its leash because I think it's hurting it even if the owner is literally trying to protect me from… Read More

And to add to that, every mom I know, including me, is riddled with unimaginable guilt for leaving their child for literally any reason.

for the love of everything please don't expect your spouse to anticipate your needs just because they're married to you. My husband did this and it caused a lot of arguments and fights because I can't know what you want if you don't tell me. Big stuff sure I can anticipate that but… Read More

I agree that everyone will always know who she is so she should never ever do anything in any field because it will 100% be nepotism.

I agree with the second part but the first is next to impossible to uphold if you have zero help around. Sometimes it gets to the point of "I'm either going to scream in this baby's ear because I'm about to lose it and I can't hand it off to anyone else". And the idea of oh put your… Read More

For me it's the constant "rules" parents set out for other close relatives. I understand stuff like washing your hands but I've seen moms cry that their grandma got the baby a better gift than mom so mom threw it out because otherwise the baby will grow up to love grandma more. like… Read More

Also there's a thing called breastfeeding aversion. For me it happened after 2 years of breastfeeding and every time it was a mixture of guilt and frustration and just being over it. It disappeared after a few weeks and I suspect it occurred because of stress