u/shortyy_40s

I’m currently getting ready to have a baby and still living with my parents therefore I won’t have a nursery and need space for a lot of baby items. I’m packing away all my collectables and trinkets but the biggest spot in my room is Santa muertes altar I feel horrible needing to store away her altar but I have to make space for the baby’s bassinet in that area. I talked to her and let her know everything that’s going on and how I appreciate her so much and how this is temporary and when I get my own house she’ll be up again. I have no where to put her other than storage because my father doesn’t support my Santa muerte devotion he grew up very catholic. Is it okay that I’m doing this..? I’m also working on my room a lot sanding down the walls and painting and redoing pretty much everything I don’t want her to break or get dirty :(

I’m currently 15 weeks pregnant my baby is so far healthy from the last ultrasound I had 6 days ago. I’m 23 years old and I’ve been diagnosed with bipolar disorder since I was 16. I went through a lot of traumatic experiences at the age 16 to 19 but once I was out of that environment I learned to deal with things on my own and really fixed myself up. I was on medication until 2 years ago when i developed a heart condition which made taking my medication impossible the only thing I was still able to take was my Ativan because it actually helped with my heart. Well I’ve been going through a lot of physical changes where my heart condition has gotten worse I’ve been recently diagnosed with pots syndrome, I have low blood pressure, and my asthmas been kicking my butt. My boyfriend and I have been going through problems and it seems like whenever we argue it triggers my bipolar disorder to switch up and I have really bad lows. I’m scared this is hurting the baby I feel like a terrible mother and like I’m already failing. Anyone else have bipolar disorder while pregnant ? What was your experience? And before anyone asks I do have a therapist and psychiatrist who are monitoring me every 2 weeks.

I know in some practices it’s highly shunned that you read someone’s cards without permission but, this little girl is missing and it’s my boyfriend’s brother’s best friend. Everything has been reported to authorities but I’m wondering if there’s something we don’t know.

I’m about to be 12 weeks and for the past 2 weeks I just can’t sleep. I’ll be tired around 10-11pm I’ll fall asleep for a hour then wake up needing to urgently pee and then I can’t fall back asleep until around 4 am then I wake up atleast 6 times between 4am to 2pm and a lot of the time it takes me 30 mins to a hour to fall back asleep. I can’t take unisom it makes me feel absolutely terrible the next day I get angry and dizzy and have terrible headaches from it. I’m also so thirsty at night but I try not to drink too much because I want to sleep so badly. I absolutely hate waking up at 2 pm I feel like my whole day is gone.

Long story short I forgot my window was open on the second floor of my home right above my altar and my cat was on top of it I was scared he was going to jump so I grabbed him while doing so I dropped her statues 2 of them. She didn’t break and I cleaned her right away and checked for cracks or breaks and made sure to say sorry. Will she be mad at me for dropping her? It made me really sad because I took the time yesterday to clean out her altar, dust it, wash everything with moon water, and I put perfume and oil on her. It was truly unintentional and I’ve never dropped her statue before.

For most of my life I’ve felt terrible every single day. Finally I brought up pots to my cardiologist and he is considering pots as a diagnoses. I have always had low blood pressure normal for me is 84/58 I’ve always had to keep a bag of chips with me everywhere I go for salt intake, my heart rate is on the higher side in the 80s or 90s but while walking could easily go up to 140. 2 years ago I was diagnosed with pvcs with no reason why I have them I’ve gotten echocardiograms, stress tests, heart monitors and everything comes back fine other than these palpitations. I’ve always had a very hard time falling asleep or sleeping too much. I’ve always felt very hot and faint out of nowhere especially after walking medium or far distances. I’ve also always been extremely tired no matter how much sleep or rest I get I feel like my body hates me. I’ve been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and now I’m wondering if it all ties together. I’m not sure if it’s part of it but I’ve also always had gut issues I had to get my gallbladder removed last year I also have chronic colitis and heartburn I also always feel full and bloated. Does this sound like pots to anyone who’s been diagnosed ??

About 2 weeks ago I was in the hospital for bronchitis and in my urine sample they found out I have a uti so sent me home with antibiotics and of course these antibiotics gave me a yeast infection but I think my yeast infection has spread to my butt crack 🙃 (btw this is so embarrassing to post) has this happened to anyone else ? My mom told me it’s nothing to worry about and weird things happen when your pregnant but my butt crack is literally raw right now and swollen if anyone has any advice I’d absolutely be happy to hear it

I’ve never been more upset in my whole life. When my bf and I found out I was pregnant we were both absolutely in tears, my last pregnancy ended in a ectopic so I had a fear that my baby wouldn’t implant in the right spot again. Well everything so far is healthy and we made sure not to tell a lot of people yet just our family’s and our best friend since I’m still only 8 weeks. My boyfriends mom made a comment about how she’s upset that she’s not going to be in the baby’s life more and how my family will know the baby more and I think she knew this was going to upset my bf, his mom lives in another state about a 8 hour drive and has her own decent sized family she wouldn’t be able to help us even if she wanted to. She’s been trying to convince my boyfriend to spend thanksgiving and Xmas with her aswell the both of us but at that time I’ll be 7-8 months pregnant and I am not going on a road trip and she also asked him to spend the week with them when the baby is born honestly I don’t want the baby around his family in their house until he or she is older, they don’t have the most stable home life. I visited one time and there’s 7 people living in a 3 bed room home along with 5 dogs and the house isn’t exactly clean not to mention his meth head cousin that tried to break in while I was there. I forgot to mention his mom doesn’t exactly make a effort to talk to me much we pretty much don’t have a relationship other than just saying hi to each other when her and my bf are on the phone. I even made the effort to include her in my gender reveal planning and I noticed it made her really happy, but now I’m regretting it because I woke up to her announcing that we’re having a baby before I was able to and definitely way before I wanted to, I was waiting atleast 7 more weeks not only did she post it but she made it her Facebook profile picture I’m absolutely livid right now. Am I overreacting? I feel like she always over steps or try’s to make my boyfriend feel bad on purpose. My bf has been wonderful to me especially while I’ve been pregnant. What do I do ? Do I confront her ? Do I have my boyfriend? I’m alittle worried he’ll be super soft with her

7-8 months ago I lost my first baby to a ectopic pregnancy(treated with methotrexate), now I’m officially pregnant 3 weeks and 4 days I have my first doctor appointment on the 21st of this month. I have so much anxiety about it being another ectopic pregnancy I haven’t been able to sleep. Last time I had headaches a lot and I was spotting for weeks until I found out. This time however I haven’t had any spotting but definitely implantation cramping in the middle of my lower abdomen. I’ve noticed on my right side I have slight aching here and there which is where the last ectopic was located but from what I read that’s normal ?? What’s really concerning me is this cramping/sharp pain on my left lower abdomen it comes and goes it’s not bad definitely not major and I’ve read it could be normal but I’m so nervous. Can anyone confirm these small pains are normal? And can anyone tell me their success stories?