u/PsychologicalBoot636

Anyone else’s eyesight get worse after pregnancy? Granted I’ve hardly been wearing my glasses but pre pregnancy / even throughout my pregnancy I only really needed them for driving and work. I swear I’m blind as a bat now (and especially outdoors in the bright light?? I like see little dots??) Is this going to get better or do I need to make a visit to the eye doctor and get my prescription upped 🥲

My baby is 15 weeks.

Looking for a good budgeting app to get started on. Ideally something pretty simple and straight forward - I see Buddy imports from your own bank account which seems easy?

Any tips greatly appreciated

I’m 3 months out from a c section and my husband and I have had sex 3 times, the most recent being last night. Every time it’s hurt. My OB warned me it may be quite sore for a little while and suggested we use Silicone lubricant instead of water based. So we have. It’s still soooooo unbelievably tight and sore the whole thing is pretty unenjoyable for everyone involved. It feels like all the muscles inside me are wound so tight 😭 is this C section specific? Or does sex also feel like this post vaginal birth?

If you had pain at first, when did sex start feeling more normal for you again??

I’ve noticed lots of apps have prenatal workout series but not much postpartum. I had a c-section 13 weeks ago and I’ve done a grand total of one workout since lol. Not that I was crazy active before but I’d love a good postpartum c section program to follow to help heal as well as possible!

We only moved into the area a few months ago so I’m not sure if this is a regular / annual thing or what is going on but there are a group of crows that pretty much harass me anytime I go outside recently. It’s extra bad in the morning. I was walking my son and dog yesterday and one literally dive bombed us and came within two feet of me. It starts with aggressive cawing and then circling and diving. We try to move quickly up our street because I’m assuming there must be a nest nearby they are protecting but HOLY they are making it hard to leave my house!!

FTM - baby boy will be 11 weeks tomorrow. For the first 8 weeks we flew by the seat of our pants as you do, eating sleeping pooping on repeat. He has always been a good sleeper (as long as it’s contact during the day lol) and as a sleep lover myself I truly find it SO important so I make sure to prioritize it for baby even if that means Ive pretty much sat in my rocker all day everyday for the last 2.5 months. He loves a good 3+ hour nap. Around week 8 friends of mine and my social media algorithms started talking about over tiredness and wake windows etc so I started tracking his sleep in Huckleberry. It’s going fine, I’ve noticed it’s easier to get him down when I abide by the wake window which is great but the one thing that I can’t seem to get on board with is capping naps.

Can anyone explain what the reasoning behind capping daytime naps is? It feels wrong to me. If his body needs the 3 hours, why should I wake him up at 1/2 and keep him awake for an hour? It feels like I’m forcing so much “wake up put down wake up put down”. I don’t know. There must be a science behind it I’m not aware of.

I’m 10 weeks pp today and have massaged my scar maybe 5 times and starting to stress that I’m not “keeping up” with all the c-section rehab I see online enough. I’m wondering:

- if you did it did you actually notice a difference? If so how often were you massaging and for how long?

- any specific tips for how you did it? (In the shower? With lotion?)

My baby got his 2 month shots last Wednesday and since Friday I’d say his cry sounds different, like weaker and hoarse. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it maybe because he cried hard from the shots? I’m worried. Diaper output is okay but he’s definitely been more fussy since.

My baby will be 8 weeks old tomorrow. I’ve noticed maybe over the last week or two his latch seems to have worsened. It was never an issue before but now I get clicking occasionally, white tipped nipples and also the “lipstick” shape they talk about. He’s much fussier at the boob as well, latching on and off, shaking his head, tugging the nipple, etc. I’m not sure if I should chalk this up to the 6-8 week fussy period or if I need to get a lactation consultant involved.

Anyone have experience with a suddenly worse latch? Any tips on how to get the lipstick nipple fixed? Did baby go back to their old feeding style as they grew or do I need to intervene here?

Weight gain and diapers seem ok.

I’m currently 7 weeks 1 day pp. At my 6 week check in with my OB she mentioned that if I’m breastfeeding at least once every 6 hours (which I am) I shouldn’t get my period back for at least 6 months. Something called the lactation amorrhea method of birth control?

Anyways - fast forward to today to me wiping and seeing EWCM on the toilet paper. It looked exactly like the mucus I’d get before I would ovulate. But I can’t be…..right???

My mom got pregnant 10 weeks pp and swears to me she was breastfeeding then too. I would just have a hard time believing it could come back this soon! Especially when I’m EBF.

I have to do two hour fasting bloodwork now that I’m postpartum and back to “normal” (at least I was in the hospital after birth but who knows now, which I guess is the exact reason for the blood work lol).

The requisition says “do 6 weeks - 6 months postpartum”. I’m 7 weeks now and have been in pretty much in survival mode the last month and a half so eating balanced meals hasn’t been top of mind.

If I wait longer is there a better chance of me passing? Or does it not work like that 😂

I’m wondering if this case is as mysterious and terrifying to pilots as it is to me lol. Ever since it happened it’s been my Roman Empire. I think about it way too often for someone who was not personally affected by it. I just don’t understand how something like this happens in our day and age. Would love to know if this haunts pilots too or if there’s an insider assumption about what happened that doesn’t make it so crazy to pilots.

Our 6.5 week olds bedtime is 7:30. If we are doing bath, lotion etc the wind down starts at 6:30, if not we just head into bed around 7 for last change and feed.

I like our schedule but he’s wide awake for the day at 5am lol. Wondering if we pushed this later if he would also wake later or that’s just his time.

What time do you put yours down? What time do they wake up?

When I feel overwhelmed, touched out, sleep deprived, frustrated with the crying etc I can’t help but think about all the women who have had it so much harder than me. Women in the olden days who had many children with barbaric deliveries, the women who birthed these babies in times with such high infant mortality rate they didn’t even name them for the first few years in an attempt to make it less painful when they inevitably got sick, the women in the Middle Ages who knew they they weren’t going to survive the labour and had doctors begin the C section before she died so they could save her baby, the millions of women in countries today without access to all the screenings and health care and support groups and therapists, AND women without partners or family and do this entirely alone. It irritates me that I feel so overwhelmed by having one baby in pretty ideal circumstances and I still get so overwhelmed sometimes. It makes me feel mentally weak.

Does anyone else feel this way? What helped to give yourself some grace?

My baby boy turned 6 weeks old yesterday and despite seeing some great developmental milestones happening like he’s more alert, making more eye contact, sleeping more independently, the vague semi-smile here and there - it feels like he’s very rarely “calmly awake”. He has maybe two calm awake windows a day, first thing in the morning and then maybe another sometime in the afternoon before witching hour starts around 4:30.

Is this normal? Does he have colic? The rest of the time he’s sleeping, eating, fussing or crying pretty much. I just had my brother over to meet him and he cried the entire time unless he was on my boob. It’s my first baby so I don’t know if newborns are all this fussy or he is high needs/colic. I know he has bad gas and we are doing everything we can to help it but I just feel like…I don’t know I guess I expected more moments of him being alert and just being happy??? He smiles so much in his sleep and then wakes up and seems upset 😭

I have no idea if I should be concerned about his level of fussiness or if this is normal.