u/Ok_Coconut4898

My daughter (12F) has had an Apple watch for a couple of years. I like that the watch gives us a way to reach her and it also gives her a way to call and text her friends. This year the begging for a phone has reached an extreme intensity. It's been emotionally exhausting dealing with it, to be honest. We didn't plan to even entertain the idea of a phone for her until at least after she finishes middle school, but I broke down and started doing some research because the constant daily battle at a fever pitch is taking so much of my energy.

One of her main complaints is that texting is a huge hassle on a tiny watch, which is actually a pretty legitimate complaint. She also doesn't like that she can't see videos that her friends send her, even if they are appropriate. Also, the sports teams she is involved in for school use Slack for communication, which she can't do on her watch, and her church youth group uses GroupMe, also hard to do on a watch.

I went ahead and ordered a Pinwheel phone, which I added to our Verizon plan. I am working on setting it up for her, but we will not be giving it to her until Christmas. I was able to set both Slack and GroupMe up on the Pinwheel, even though they are flagged as things Pinwheel doesn't recommend.

My question is whether Bark would be overkill on a Pinwheel phone? The attraction of Bark to me is that it supposedly automatically monintors texts for concerning content like indications of self harm, profanity, racist language, etc. While Pinwheel will allow us to remotely read her texts ourselves whenever we need to, I don't have the time, patience, or desire to go through dozens of texts of "bro!," and memes of animals with giant bulging eyes and talking toilets, etc. I just want to know if anything seriously dangerous or inappropriate is going on.

Other than that, it doesn't seem that Bark would add anything that Pinwheel doesn't already do. Do any parents who are familiar with Pinwheel and Bark have any imput for me?

So I’m about to turn 45 next month. my third child is almost 2 1/2. She was a surprise pregnancy, born when I was 42 1/2. She eats a lot of solid food, but also still nurses a few times a day and several times a night (she cosleeps.) I got my first post partum period back last month. I guess that’s on the later end of normal, even for long term breastfeeding, but with my two older kids (almost 12 and almost 7), I also didn’t get my period back until about the two-year postpartum mark, so it was only a few months later this time than my “normal.” I know that I was ovulating (or trying to ovulate) quite a few months beforehand because of the fertile type of discharge I was getting as well as an increased libido. Now, 23 days later, I got my period AGAIN already. Before, my cycles were usually around 26 to 28 days and were relatively normal between all my pregnancies including up to this last one. I’m trying to figure out if I might be in early peri Or if it’s just my body returning to a “normal” post partum state. My first period last month was awful. I had SHARP cramping that felt like it was in my lower digestive tract rather than normal uterine-type cramping. It was almost like very painful gas pains and had me running to the toilet. Now I’m feeling some of the same type of cramping. I don’t have many other symptoms to speak of. I have my slightly less patient with my kids, but don’t feel extremely irritated or anything, and this second period actually caught me completely by surprise because I didn’t get any of my normal PMS symptoms. I do not sleep well, but it’s hard to tell why because I have a toddler in my bed who wakes up asking to nurse.

I guess im looking to see if anyone else has a similar experience of breastfeeding while at the age where they could also be in peri?