u/Sufficient-Star3707

I'm nearly 4 months postpartum and have been bleeding prettg much the whole time. 😐

I got the Liletta IUD 7ish weeks postpartum when I was nearly done with my postpartum bleeding, but it picked back up a couple days or so after. I wanted the Mirena because it's what I got after my first baby and I had no issues/bleeding, but they said they didn't have it and that the Liletta was basically the same, so I was fine with it. They said I might experience some bleeding, but that it should stop after a month, but it hasn't.

It's not a lot. Just a bit, but it goes back and forth from just old blood with a bit of mucus when wiping to more red and heavy enough for a light pad. I am breastfeeding, but I was the first time too and was fine. I thought I was gonna get the same experience again ugh

Has anyone else had this happen? Did it stop? I'm planning on getting pregnant again in a year or so anyway so I don't really know if it would be worth it to try something else and risk the same thing happening anyway with how long it takes your body to get used to birth control.

I want to preface with the fact that I know that this makes results slower/nonexistent in a lot of cases. But I've been doing it for about 2 months on my face and am seeing some results!

I use my IPL device (correctly lol) on my downstairs and my armpits and it's been great. I thought about stopping tweezing my face and switching to shaving so I could do IPL there as well. But shaving my face makes me break out and I don't like the look of any shadow. So I figured that I may as well try IPL with tweezing there as sort of an experiment to see what happens.

What I do is as soon as I see hairs forming, I use the IPL just in that spot and then tweeze afterwards. I used to have to tweeze daily, but now I'm going 4 days in between tweezing sessions and there's not as much hair to pull.

For more info, I'm a cis woman with probably what was originally 30 thick black hairs on my chin and probably 40 more on my upper lip. I've never been diagnosed with pcos/pmos, but I've never talked to a doctor about it either.

It really makes it all worth it when he out of the blue runs up to me and presses his head against me, and especially when he pushes his nose against mine with a big smile. Or when we're laughing together and he's looking me in the eyes.

I do sometimes wish I could hear him tell me he loves me and not just be repeating after me word by word, but if these displays of affection still end up being as close as we get with his therapy, I know I can find peace in it. I love my son so much.

Does anyone have any advice about this? I have a cowlick + short bangs and styling it out is getting annoying.

I saw a video of a woman chemically straightening her bangs to get rid of her cowlick. The only thing is that I have permanent dye in my hair and intend on continuing to maintain the dye. Does that make this too risky to attempt? I’m more of a DIY type of person and wouldn’t really want to go to a salon simply for my bangs.

My hair is relatively fine and is slightly wavy.

I’ve decided I’ve picked at my skin for the very last time a couple minutes ago.
I’ve done it as far back as I can remember, but it got bad between the ages of 13 and 19 and now I’m 25. My face is covered in scars, as is my back. But I have some level of scarring pretty much everywhere. I’ve had four wounds (2 on each earlobe) for a year straight that haven’t been able to heal at all. I’ve picked at those exact spots on and off since 13, though.

Picking at my skin for me is comforting. The pain calms me down and relieves stress, as does the feeling of the temporarily smoother skin. I also like the sound of it with my earlobes (weird, I know), which is my main drive with picking them, I believe.

I’ve made a lot of progress with it all within the past year, besides my ear lobes lol. I started taking an antidepressant and started obsessing over hair, skin, and nail care. My skin is better than it’s ever been, but I’ve still picked some here and there. I’m tired of so many “this is the last time” false promises to myself. I’ve come so far already, so I’ve decided that the right time is now to make the final call on it and quit for good (and mean it).

It’s probably just due to my postpartum hormones (I’m 7 weeks postpartum), but I feel so sentimental and a little sad! I have 2 children now and plan on having 1 more in due time. It feels so crazy that I’m only going to be doing all of this one last time. I’m going to really miss this chapter of my life. There’s not enough of me and my husband to go around for more than 3, so a 4th is out of the question. But man in a perfect world where I had a million arms, unlimited resources, and didn’t get tired, I would have so many. 😂
They make me so happy, I love being a mom. ❤️

I’m at a loss and don’t know what to try next!

My son is almost 6 weeks old and our breastfeeding journey had such a great start. :( Everything was perfect up until around maybe 2 weeks? (The days have all kinda blended together from the newborn sleep deprivation lol, it could’ve started at 1 week.) He started getting fussy. He would cry, strain as if trying to pass gas or poop, arch his back, kicks his legs, spit up, choke on spit up, and would unlatch from my breast often when feeding to cry. He has even thrown up the entire contents of his stomach a couple times, but that isn’t often and wasn’t forceful or anything. It only happened when I offered both breasts, as he usually will just drink from one for a feed.

The only thing that calms him is carrying him around and rocking. It’s the worst in the evening, sometimes he can’t be soothed at all and will just scream for a while.

I’ve eliminated dairy from my diet, I burp him often during and after feeds, I keep him upright for 30+ minutes after feeds, I give him mylicon every 2 hours, and he’s also been on pepcid for almost a week. These all are seeming to help *some*, but I don’t know what else to do. He’s very uncomfortable and I’m so tired from having to soothe him all the time. I have a very fast letdown which probably has something to do with it, he seems to get frustrated often when it happens but I already feed him in a reclined position, I don’t know what else I can do about that. Oh, I also do bicycle legs and belly massages for him.

He’s gained great weight and even went up quite a few percentiles, I just want to help him get comfortable and it seems like we’ve about exhausted all of our options from how his pediatrician sounded. I really thought the pepcid would fix things, does it just need more time? I really don’t want to switch to formula.

My husband and I had suspected autism in our 2yo ever since he turned 1. He was falling farther behind in his development and was struggling hard with any change, among plenty of other signs. As he gets older, it’s gotten more apparent and we finally convinced his pediatrician to refer us for an evaluation.

My in-laws are the only family that live super close to us (under a mile away), so we visit semi-regularly and they’ve watched our son for us when we’ve needed. But he has not managed to get used to them, and even just seeing them or their house sends him into a meltdown at this point. They’re very overstimulating for him unfortunately and have the mentality that he just needs to be forced to do/experience “uncomfortable” things to become okay with them.

Probably a week before the evaluation (I’m unsure of exactly when it was), we decided to tell them about our suspicions about autism. They said that he’s not autistic because he’s too smart and that he just has “quirks” and “everything is autism nowadays”. They said that we shelter him too much and don’t make him do anything, and that’s why he is the way he is and that we’re overreacting. They didn’t want to hear us out about any of it. They almost seemed offended.

At the evaluation, he was diagnosed with ASD level 3, Mixed Receptive-Expressive Language Disorder, and Global Developmental Delay. Upon learning this and beginning to educate ourselves, my husband and I want to make whatever changes necessary to help us meet our son where he needs us to be. My in-laws are a pretty big part of this as they are the people that he sees the most besides us and his little brother.

We are planning to tell them about the evaluation tomorrow, but I’d be lying if I said I knew where to begin. Does anyone have advice?