u/Routine_Aerie_6160

My 4 week old is a velcro baby. My toddler is 2.5. My husband just left for 5 days to attend to family matters out of state and I am here feeling glued to my couch.

I've broken every screen time rule to keep my toddler at bay, and my 4 week old wont let me put him down, he wants to constantly nurse or be held.

"Just get out in the sun, you will feel better." "Get the boys outside they will be fine" Yesterday I tried to take them both for a walk alone and even that felt like chaos. A simple walk with my toddler not listening well, trying to stop in the middle of the road, stepping over shattered glass on the walking path (thanks local assholes) and a dog charging at him behind a fence and scaring the crap out of him. All while baby fussed and cried (luckily he did stop after a while).

My village is very small with nearby family all very busy and preoccupied with work and other things...I feel like such a failure, im so tired, I feel so alone. Idk how my neighbor who has 2 toddlers and a newborn is outside in her fenced in back yard letting the boys run loose.

Why cant I be more like her? Why do I feel scared to leave the house without help and force my very bored toddler to stay stuck inside? Im so sad for him. Poor newborn cries and fusses over the smallest things and always needs my nipple in his mouth :(

Going from 1 to 2 is WAY harder for me, than 0 to 1.

Honest question here, and im NOT a FTM but my 2nd baby is so different than my first....he is a velcro baby.

He is 4 weeks and will barely let me put him down. He hates his bassinet, I have been co sleeping with safe sleep 7 the last 2 nights otherwise I dont sleep.

I know you cant spoil a newborn, I hate leaving him to cry. My instinct is to pick him up as soon as he starts. I am wondering if me co sleeping and holding him all day, is setting him up to be really hard to sleep train later?

My first would sleep in bassinet alone just fine, wake every 2 to 3 hours and now at 2 years old sleeps in bed all by himself and puts himself to sleep.

I honestly dont know or understand the psychology behind it, maybe it just fixes itself with age but I dont want to force the bassinet or drop contact naps if it makes it hard on my little boy!

Any insight?

PARMIDA?!?! OUT OF LEFT FIELD.

She said, in front of everyone, what AMERICA has been screaming at their TVs

Kayda ain't it, with her "what the f***" response and flabbergasted look on her face.

Aniya ain't it with her "I'm team Sincere" dancing and pride in it. PRIDE in it.

Guys, even TRINITY ain't it, with her immediate flip when Sincere came in with flowers for breakfast. I believe she also started dancing and saying "team Sincere."

Either this WHOLE SHOW is fake and they have had to put on for a narrative production wants, or these 3 girls are the fakest and worst friends ever displayed on the show. Is winning the prize money and being in the top 4 together worth the sacrifice of your "friends" mental health and well being?

Birds. All of em.

Edit: im not 100% sure Trinity was dancing around with them yelling team Sincere but she definitely was pushing Mel to go back to him.

Im 36 weeks and 4 days and baby #2 is measuring 39 weeks 🙃🙃🙃 my first baby was 9 pounds. Difficult labor because he went past his due date, body refused to go into labor. Had to be induced with effing Pitocin and he was posterior. But I got him out after 4 hours of pushing. Total labor was like 30+ hours.

Now my husband was the second born in his family and was 10 pounds. Our second is measuring 99th percentile in most things and 97th percentile on others. Im worried Dr. Is going to push induction due to size alone.

Baby is healthy. Im healthy. My BP is fine. I barely even have swelling. Only thing is im overweight, but also 6 foot tall.

I want to badly to go into labor NATURALLY and have an unmedicated birth IF POSSIBLE. Are there any other mamas here that had giant monster babies?

Im pregnant, home alone with my toddler and crying because our toilet is clogged, please be gentle 😭

I thought I knew how to use a plunger, but when I go to use ours it doesn't seem latched properly? We have a proper toilet plunger but we bought it over 10 years ago. It doesn't feel like it gets a proper suction on the hole.

Im able to line it up over the hole, slowly push it down, but when I go to jerk it up the whole plunger moves up and off the hole, losing its latch. Wouldn't it stay latched because of the suction?