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I love stocking up for the next year! Just shopped busy bees!

In January, I discovered Julia Child and decided I wanted to start cooking for the first time in my life. I was having a lot of fun at first, but I do have a toddler and got pregnant in March, so the joy of cooking has slowly began to fade.

Last week, I decided I wanted that joy back. I went through my cookbooks and made a grocery list for 6 fabulous dinners I wanted to make for my family.

The past two nights were complete fails and really affected my confidence toward cooking.

Does anyone have some fool proof recipes to reignite my love for cooking?

Don’t judge me, but I have watched all three episodes of Dawna’s Corner Talk podcast. The third is probably the worst. Her and Leonard literally hate each other. Why are they doing this?

Any in person mom/baby groups? Soon to be a mom of 2 under 2 and would love to build more community!

I have watched porn off and on since I was probably 12 or 13. I am currently 27, happily married, and on my second pregnancy with my husband. Every time I get pregnant, I feel like I become addicted to porn.

Whenever I get a minute alone to myself, my brain tells me to watch porn. I know my hormones are raging but I feel so bad about this and I don’t understand why I can’t stop. I literally wake up craving it, and have already masturbated 3 times today.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!!

Did anyone bring their toddler to the hospital when giving birth?

My toddler has never been away from us, we don’t have a baby sitter, and our families are not options to babysit either.

I’m not due til December but I keep thinking about this 😅

***Edited to add:
thank you to those who are being kind and giving real advice! My husband and I only have one child so we have only been through the birth experience once. We do not know rules and regulations of hospitals, he is blue collar and I have an education background.

It was very special for my husband to see our baby be born and be able to do skin to skin after, and he would like to do that again.

My husband was sexually abused by his family, and my family is very verbally and psychologically abusive - we have not spoken to either in years. We don’t have moms and mother in laws we can call, we are all alone in this.

We also live in a very small town in rural western NC. We do not have a lot of resources but I am actively googling and trying to find a sibling doula willing to travel here! Thank you for those who recommended that!

I am 10 weeks pregnant and I have a 14 month old. I feel so nauseous all day and it makes me feel like I’m a bad mom because I can’t do as much as I use to. My screen time is also way too high lately, scrolling is the only thing I can do some days.
Any advice?

What is the best way to dispose of diapers to keep the stink down? We have a diaper genie but it still stinks

I posted earlier, but I keep reflecting on our conversation and it is just wild to me.

I told my mom she needed therapy. She told me she would not talk to a therapist but she would talk to me. I told her I don’t have the skills to help her. My dad called me and told me I needed to go to therapy and tell them how awful I speak to my mother.

What?????

I became a mother last year. Ever since, I have really struggled with my parents. I love my child so much, and when I think back to how I was treated when I was a child, I know that they did not care for me like I care for my child. The more I thought about it, the angrier and more disgusted I became.

They like to buy my love and I have always let them, until January of this year when my mother lied to me about getting a face lift when her face was bandaged up. For some reason, this set me off, broke all trust, and made me want to have nothing to do with them.

I started telling them all the terrible things they did and said to me as a child, and they just tried to play the victim and say it was because I was such a hard child to deal with. We cannot have a healthy conversation at all.

Yesterday was Mother’s Day and my mom talked about me to my grandma, and made my grandma text me and try to guilt trip me into letting my parents come over for Mother’s Day. My husband planned a trip for me on Mother’s Day so my parents were not even on my mind.

Today I told my mom to stop talking to my grandma about me when she makes no effort to speak to me and only waits and mopes around until I text her.

My dad called me and told me I was mean and judgmental. I decided that I just can’t be around them anymore. I am pregnant with our second child and I know they will start trying to guilt trip me again by talking about me to people who will tell me. Honestly, I just want to protect my kids from their behavior. They have hurt me so much and continue to hurt me to this day. I don’t want contact with them anymore. What do I do?

I became a mother last year. Ever since, I have really struggled with my parents. I love my child so much, and when I think back to how I was treated when I was a child, I know that they did not care for me like I care for my child. The more I thought about it, the angrier and more disgusted I became.

They like to buy my love and I have always let them, until January of this year when my mother lied to me about getting a face lift when her face was bandaged up. For some reason, this set me off, broke all trust, and made me want to have nothing to do with them.

I started telling them all the terrible things they did and said to me as a child, and they just tried to play the victim and say it was because I was such a hard child to deal with. We cannot have a healthy conversation at all.

Yesterday was Mother’s Day and my mom talked about me to my grandma, and made my grandma text me and try to guilt trip me into letting my parents come over for Mother’s Day. My husband planned a trip for me on Mother’s Day so my parents were not even on my mind.

Today I told my mom to stop talking to my grandma about me when she makes no effort to speak to me and only waits and mopes around until I text her.

My dad called me and told me I was mean and judgmental. I decided that I just can’t be around them anymore. I am pregnant with our second child and I know they will start trying to guilt trip me again by talking about me to people who will tell me. Honestly, I just want to protect my kids from their behavior. They have hurt me so much and continue to hurt me to this day. I don’t want contact with them anymore. What do I do?

I’m looking for boy and girl K names that are also cities!

I know this is vain, but I am worried about how my boobs will look after having two under two. I don’t breast feed but pregnancy is still rough.

Has anyone had two under two and is still happy with how they look?

I will soon have two under two. What are the best rear facing car seats for a compass that still allow you to drive comfortably without moving your seat up too much?

We have a 13 month old, and found out this week that we are 7 weeks pregnant even though I had an IUD. I got the IUD removed today, and everything looks good.

Any tips or advice? My daughter will be 18 months when this baby is born.