u/EffectSuper1987

Hi everyone! We’ll be moving to St. Thomas in the next few weeks, and we’re wondering what the area of Park Ave + Elm St. Is like?? How is St. Annes catholic school? We have sooo many questions.

My son is 18 months and is constantly leaking through his diaper at night. I have nooo idea where to even start. The brand we’re using right now is Royale, but they run quite small and he’s already in a size 7.

I’ve read that Huggies little movers are good, and pampers swaddlers, but would like some real life input on which diaper brand stopped leaks (or at least helped)!

He wakes up around 1am EVERY NIGHTTTT because he leaks through his diaper. I’m losing it.

I started getting random hot flashes about 45 minutes ago and now I’m on the toilet with loose stools. It’s not fully liquid, there’s still formed pieces but I am seriously panicking so so so bad. My kids currently have a cold (stuffy nose and cough) but now I’m worried I’m about to get a stomach bug. Someone pleaseeee help. I’m home alone with 2 toddlers and can’t handle this.

For context, me, my fiancé, and our 1 & 3 year old live with my in-laws.

My 16 month old son had 2 random bouts of diarrhea between about 8:15-8:30pm. I thought maybe it was just because he had a lot of popsicles at my mom’s house yesterday and a few other junk foods (which he doesn’t get often).

But THEN, I go downstairs around 10:15-10:20pm ish and my SIL says “my stomach hurts tonight” as she was leaving for work, she also works in a hospital radiology department.. so..

Now I’m horrified we’re about to get absolutely ripped apart by a stomach bug. I’m so nervous, my son is sleeping and seems fine. My 3 year old hasn’t had diarrhea or anything and seems perfectly fine. Everyone else in the house is fine. But of course, anxiety will do what anxiety does.

I’m just so scared.

Ok this is VERY long and I apologize.

Thursday morning I wake up with my son and I see a text from my partner saying “don’t come in the spare room, I’m dying”. So obviously I see this and I’m like, well I need to go check on him.. I walk in and this man is doubled over on the couch crying. I ask him what’s wrong, he explains, basically I end up calling an ambulance. He gets in the ambulance, I have to drop the kids off at the baby sitters and go to work. I’m just trying to push through work without stressing too bad.

End of my shift comes, he texted me and said “I need surgery to remove my appendix”, GREAT.

I end up picking up the kids, bringing them to my MIL’s and going to sit at the hospital with him. I got there around 3pm and he went in for surgery at 12:15am. His surgery finished at 1:30am and they let me see him around 2:20am. I made sure he was situated and told him I’d be back at 8am to see him.

I go home, get about 5 hours of broken sleep, and go get him.

All is well, we go home, yay!

Except not yay, because we have a 1 & 3 year old.

Obviously I am NOT mad or upset at this man in any way shape or form, he didn’t ask to get surgery.

But oh my god, dealing with the kids alone, cleaning the house alone, doing laundry alone, cooking alone, plus helping him with food and getting dressed and showering is absolutely DRAINING ME. He’s usually a very hands on dad who does basically everything except cook when he gets home from work, so this is new territory for me.

The poor guy keeps apologizing saying “I’m so sorry I put you in this situation” and I tell him every single time that I love him and I am not mad at him, he insists he did something wrong and I want to cry thinking about the fact that he thinks this is all his fault when in reality it’s my own fault for not being able to handle everything going on.

Its been a VERY stressful 2 days and he can’t even lift the kids for 4 weeks after his surgery :(

What can I do to make this easier on myself AND him?? I feel so bad knowing that he feels guilty for it.

So, for context I live with my in-laws, I also have 2 young children (age 1 & 3).

Wednesday night through early Thursday morning, my mother in law was throwing up and had diarrhea.
She started a new medication called ZepBound, and apparently her dose got raised on Friday (last week). So 5 days after her dose increase, the vomiting and diarrhea started. Apparently it can be from the medication, but usually starts soon after you take it.

I’m spiraling that my kids are going to get this, and then me. It’s been about 32 hours since she last vomited. My kids have no symptoms, and neither do I, but I’m still spiralling.

It could be the medication, or it could be a stomach bug and I really don’t know what to do in this situation. I’ve barely eaten in the last 24 hours.

I’m just waiting for one of my kids to wake up tonight and vomit.

I’m so scared, I have nobody to talk to because nobody understands my phobia and I really just don’t wanna deal with this anymore. I’m so exhausted ☹️

Like the title says, I’m seriously so done. I’m 23, just started an ultrasound job about 2.5 months ago and my lead tech keeps telling me I could do better. I have 2 kids, I love them to death, they’re not part of the problem AT ALL, but we live with my in-laws and moving out is HARD because it’s SO expensive and we’d need 3 bedrooms. All of my friends are moving out right now, and I’m stuck in a house with people who don’t care about me. I’ve told my partner that if I didn’t have the kids I’d just end it all because nothing is going my way in the SLIGHTEST. I’m miserable living with my in-laws, I’m miserable at work, I’m miserable all the time except when my 2 toddlers decide to behave and play together for 5 minutes, because then I’m not breaking up fights or taking toys away that were thrown at their siblings face.. I’m just exhausted. I’m so exhausted and I don’t know how to get out of this rut.

I apologize for the TMI in advance.

So today around 6:30pm I went to the bathroom and had a perfectly normal bowel movement (which honestly is rare, I’m usually very constipated.), and then just now (7:30pm) I had a very strong urge to go to the bathroom again, and boom. Diarrhea. My (2nd) worst nightmare. Now I’m in a horrific panic cycle that I’m about to get violently ill. I just ended my period today so I’m not sure if it’s period hormones causing diarrhea, I’m nauseous now but that could be from anxiety and I just don’t know.

I’m SO done with living like this. Somebody please help, talk to me, distract me, maybe give me some support, I don’t know.

I am freaking out. It’s 3:40am right now, my son woke up to nurse so I woke up and fed him, and then my daughter started crying and asked for water. I grabbed her water and as soon as I laid back down I got this horrible nausea. It’s deep in my stomach and I am seriously freaking out worried I’m about to throw up. I had a chicken wrap at about 10:30pm (5 ish hours ago) and I am CONVINCED I got food poisoning. The wrap tasted and looked normal but of course I’m still freaking out. My daughter’s birthday is in the next couple days and I really don’t want to be sick for it. I’m so scared.