u/pococurantina

It’s undeniable that Chrishell has a lot of support in here, and sometimes I think too much blind support. I think the reason is because she’s usually compared to conservatives, and so she seems like an angel for doing fairly basic things.

I honestly think that if she didn’t stand out as the only one in the cast outspokenly against prejudice, you’d like her a lot less, even if she was equally outspoken.

I’m sorry, but at the end of the day, she’s an influencer, not a philanthropist. She’s not tying herself to trees or starting charities for sick kids. Most of her activism is posting on social media.

She makes money selling luxury houses to the ultra rich and using her fame to advertise products. She also uses her fame to promote good causes, but so do many many other influencers and they don’t get the kind of intense support she gets.

Maybe I’m wrong here, but isn’t posting about good causes pretty much the baseline of what an influencer is expected to do? And don’t most of them support charity events and donate to them? Yes we thank them for it, but at the same time we kind of expect it, right?

I’m about to give birth to my first child, a boy. I grew up with very few men around, so a household with no women other than myself is very foreign to me.

So I’m wondering, for those in such households, did that make you feel stronger in your womanhood? Or maybe you adapted into more masculine? Or maybe it had no effect at all?

Do you intentionally project an image of what a woman is and does, so that your sons learn it?

I never really connected much with female gender identity, and I certainly don’t fit the gender role fully, so I’m curious if that might change and if yes then in what direction.

I’m scared of needles and it’s much easier for me to stick it in the side of my thigh, without looking at it much. If I have to pinch my skin, I’d have to look closely where I’m putting the needle.

I have a lot of fat tissue on my thighs so it’s not like the needle is gonna reach the muscle or anything.

Do you think pinching is necessary?

After 3 weeks of fasting levels in the 95-100 range, I started reading and saw that it’s recommended to test immediately after I wake up. Like within 10 minutes. I had been doing it about 30-60 minutes after I woke up.

Today I tested as soon as I woke up and got an 85. Tested 30 minutes later and got a 92. Which number should I consider my fasting sugar?

What I don’t understand is that when I go get a lab blood test, it’s usually about 60-90 minutes after I wake up and if I get a 95 there, I’m over the norm.

Should my fasting levels be under 90 only right after I wake up? Or should they stay stable until I eat? Because I don’t know if I have to start insulin…

My fasting levels have been around 95-100 almost every day since my diagnosis (around 3 weeks). It only lately occurred to me that I might be able to impact them - sorry I’m stupid, I thought I was doing all I could by eating the right diet.

I tried having a cup of cottage cheese with a bit of olive oil in it right before bed, but my fasting the next morning was 109… Higher than ever.

Do you think I ate it too late? Wrong ingredients?

I also tried riding my stationary bike for 30min in the evening and it also didn’t help. Eating my last meal at 5pm also didn’t help. Am I doomed to insulin?

I have gestational diabetes and I’ve been absolutely craving chocolate for like 3 days. I’m talking mouth watering with the thought, and the thought came many times a day.

Finally I caved and nibbled a little after dinner, altogether it was about two teaspoons interspersed with a few tablespoons of plain yoghurt. I spent the whole hour nervous about what my blood sugar was gonna be.

It was 104!! I can have a little nibble!! You have no idea how relieved and happy I am. It’s not gonna be as hard as I thought!!! ❤️❤️❤️

I’ve been on my feet for a few hours and my body is beyond tired… I’m literally lying down and I’m still achy and uncomfortable.

How do you guys make it to 9 months?? I’m on month 7 and I can’t believe I have to get two more months’ pregnant! I’m gonna take a nap 😅

Everyone talks about wanting to see Hall vs Christine or Bre, but I think only Jarvis had enough brains and coldness to actually bring her down.

I miss Jarvis! She stood up to Hall’s stupid lies and childish attempts at manipulation, and she kept her cool. Plus she was so dignified!

(Yes I know her political views. No I don’t agree with her. Yes I believe you can be politically in the wrong and still be intelligent and educated)

This is fully just a rant because I’m feeling sorry for myself.

I tend to eat larger portions than most people, which was never a problem until this hellish heartburn started. Yesterday I ate my last meal at 2pm, it was a large portion of light food. I had heartburn all the remainder of the day, and eventually vomited at 11pm. Nine hours and I hadn’t even finished digesting my salad! A salad!!

I’m not even done with my second trimester and I already have to dance around this issue and be so so careful what I eat and can’t eat too much.

I don’t know how I’m supposed to have any kind of emotional stability when I’m already hormonal and now I’m adding being hungry all day.

Ugh!!

I have two options for bathroom cabinets (4 bathrooms, 4 cabinets total) and I can’t make up my mind. Hopefully you wonderful ladies can help ❤️

My concerns are: effort, timing and budget (in that order).

Here are the options.

1. Ready made cabinets:
   Will be cheaper and faster.
   But there’s less personalization, and for each bathroom I’ll probably have to choose a different model (takes time and energy).
   I’ll pay less and have them quicker, but I’ll like them less, they’ll be less comfortable and I’ll likely have to spend a considerable amount of time choosing them for each bathroom.

2. Custom:
   More expensive (not much, about 1,5 times the price of ready-made), but will take about 2 months to make. So for a few weeks we’ll be living without bathroom sinks (no cabinet= nowhere to put the sink) and we’ll have to wash our hands in the shower/bath.
   We’ll deal with it, but we have clients in our office so it would be awkward for them.
   We can choose any setup we want, but the available materials are not anything incredibly beautiful.
   The functionality would be more tailored to us, but they’d look pretty much the same as from a store (I don’t want to overpay for something that looks normal).
   But it would be convenient to choose one finish for all the cabinets and order them from one place.

So that’s my dilemma. I would appreciate opinions ❤️

PS If you’re interested in why I’m valuing effort first, it’s because I’m pregnant and my baby just started kicking 😍 very hard for me to care about my bathroom cabinets anymore 🫣

Girlies help because I’m not sure what I’m feeling. I do have gas and I can hear it gurgling and feel it in my belly, but I also have this other feeling.

It’s like a little boom and I can feel it with my hand on my stomach, my husband can feel it too sometimes.

Am I crazy or is that baby kicks? I’m 23 weeks, but I have an anterior placenta, so my doctors said it could still be a while before I feel anything…

This is my first pregnancy so I have no idea!! 🫣

I’ll try again tomorrow 😅

Mild annoyance here. Saw my friend recently - she’s very anti-child, has complained to me about her friends who are parents (because their home was a mess), and is adamant she will never have kids. She does however have several cats, one she adopted very recently.

We chatted for a moment and she told me about how difficult it’s been for her when one cat got sick. And when she introduced her newest cat to the apartment, she had to keep the other ones separate for a while. She said she kept hearing the other cats meowing in the other room and her heart was breaking for them.

All this I fully sympathise with. But then she started saying she never expected to care for cats that much, that she now understood how it felt to be a mother, and even started telling me, from a place of experience, what MY motherhood will be like based on her relationship with her cats…

Girlies I bit my tongue so hard. Is this just hormones or am I right to be annoyed?

I always struggled with bladder control and had many embarrassing moments growing up. It took a lot of work over the years to get myself to a state where I could go to a party without wearing a pad “just in case I laugh too hard”.

Now that I’m pregnant, it’s back to not great. Sneezing, coughing, vomiting, laughing, all risky.

I’m reading that it will probably get even worse post partum. But in my teens, I was told by a doctor that women who experience incontinence before pregnancy are often “cured” by pregnancy and labor. Have any of you experienced this?

I assumed babies typically sleep in a separate room (the nursery) and the parents use a baby monitor to hear if the baby is fussing. But I met with my friends who have an 8 month old and they said he’s still too little to be left to sleep alone, he sleeps in their bedroom.

What did you do with your babies? What are your plans for this one?

And if the baby is supposed to sleep in my bedroom, then why do I need a nursery?

As I’m sitting here in my office, feeling uterus cramps every few minutes because my baby is going through a second trimester growth spurt, I’m reminded of how I used to only get period cramps for like 2 days a month and could take painkillers for them. I was so looking forward to at least not getting my period! Ah well…