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I don’t know what to flair this, but i’m over it so i’m calling it a rant 😂 I’m currently 20 weeks pregnant with my second baby and the pooping situation this time around is absolutely horrible. With my first, my poops stayed fairly consistent as they were before getting pregnant just maybe pooped a little more often. This time around is soooo different.

I swear 9/10 times my poop feels like it’s never going to get wiped up. Even when I wipe till the TP is clean (AND using a butt wipe!!) I’ll wipe later in the day and there will still be like a small streak. Like is this poop slowly leaking out of me or what?

The SMELL too, don’t even get me started. Of course poop smells but maybe it’s just my change of smell or what but these have been foul poops. It ranges from poops smelling like a mcdonald’s bathroom to poops that smell like my dogs poop (that one is very new and honestly I don’t think I pooped in two days prior so could definitely have just been stewing).

Don’t get me started on the discharge that comes out of my vagina when I am done pooping too. It’s not as this as a mucus plug but definitely is mucusy. I have talked to my OB and they say it’s normal as long as i don’t notice certain signs but omg i’m over it.

Any tips for normal poops would be great and maybe to feel like i’m not alone 😅

Hi everyone! I’m currently pregnant with my second baby at honestly not a great time. My husband is set and scheduled to get out of the Airforce September 4th. My current due date is set at September 26th. He’s currently in a skillbridge program and is interning with a company that offers family plans, but we’re unsure about what that will look like and if we get the coverage before baby is born. I’ve been kind of bugging him about asking to see if he could get the insurance ball rolling with the internship/new job since his first date he can be hired on is the day after he’s out of the military. Don’t know if it’ll be a 30 day wait period or if it will be a week or two.

I’m pretty much looking at options to have MAYBE 2 months of coverage that’s similar to tricare. I dont think the cost of the birth is stressing me too much just because our hospital has options for price deduction, but my OB doesn’t charge every appointment to tricare. They only charge the first appointment and then the rest of the appointments are billed after delivery. Which kinda stresses me out because I saw every bill from my old OB and the amount they charge to see you for 5 minutes is wild. I also have preexisting conditions (PTC and hypothyroidism due to the PTC) which makes this more fun.

We were freshly 18 when we got married and didn’t have to do much to get me enrolled into tricare, so figuring this out now at 26 makes me feel so dumb.

Hi! My son is two and about a year ago my mom gave me all of my sister and I’s little people playsets from when we were kids. I have at LEAST 8 sets and storing them is fairly hard. She had them in two HUGE storage boxes but I’m pregnant with baby #2 and will need the space. My son loves playing with them and if I had the space I’d genuinely set up a whole little people town for him but not realistic 😂

I do have two target cubby systems but some of the sets don’t fits great in it. Love to hear what other people do!

Hi! Not super related to being pregnant minus the fact that i’m 18 weeks pregnant with my second and maybe it’s just playing a role in how sad it makes me. The other week I told my husband that I wanted to make my mom on of those little cement garden stepping stones because I remember doing it as a kid for my mom and grandma for mother’s day. He brought up not knowing what to get his mom and I told him we could do the same thing but I wanted him to be involved making them if that was the case.

My first baby is now two so i’ve been a mom the past 2 mothers days and haven’t gotten anything from him. I love that he wants to get his mom something but when I mentioned even just maybe wanting flowers this year he said “but you’re not my mom so why would I buy you something”. I said well I am your son’s mom (who’s 2 so you know can’t really buy a gift for me) and even if you spent the time making something for me with him it’d mean so much. I feel like it isn’t going to happen so i’m not getting my hopes up but Im just curious if anyone else cares about this stuff? Not asking for a birkin bag or anything and I know we aren’t made of money but I feel like every holiday he spends hundreds on his family and I don’t get literally anything.

I’m a SAHM so I don’t have the money to do grand gifts for him, but every year i’ve gotten him something that I feel is meaningful and shows how much I appreciate him as well as have our son make him something special.

I feel like i’m not asking for much considering MY SISTER got me a mother’s day gift last year and also made a craft with my son for me.