I don’t know how moms of many children do it. I have two and I adore being their mom but I am so burnt out. Not like “oh I’m just sleepy” - I’m like my nervous system is frazzled, haven’t slept through the night in four years, I don’t even think I know how to relax anymore burnt out. Just laying on the couch with silent tears in my eyes because it all feels out of my control. Lord, help me. I feel like I’m failing so often.
So I am back in the United States. I was in Mexico this past week but for obvious reasons did not want to post publicly about it.
One thing I will note is that a lot of the social media panic early in the week did not translate to reality on the ground in Mexico for American tourists. There was a clear effort to reassure tourists with a lot of military personnel. And even in Puerto Vallarta, I was told that the cartel was very careful about avoiding tourists during their retaliation.
I asked several people why they thought the cartel was so wary of harming Americans given American intel clearly played a role in taking out El Mencho and had several people directly say some version of "they are afraid of Trump".
I have plenty of disagreements with Trump on domestic and foreign policy, but there is no doubt for me that the perception of Trump as someone who is willing to use force and a little crazy has the affect of helping keep Americans safer abroad. Even from relatively violent actors.
VA disability is a bigger scam than welfare!
This financial show has opened my eyes to how bad it really is. It is costing our country massive amounts of money.
This pre-teen is sharing her Christmas wishlist, and it includes a mini-fridge, iPhone 17, Mary Janes ($140), Drunk Elephant Moisturizer ($72), Benefit Eyebrow Gel ($28), Lululemon leggings ($98), and more.
The mother feels this is reasonable and not too much to ask. What do you say?
@ElPsyCongrooV@angpeacock1111 Otherwise it’s impossible to get off of venlafaxine/desvenlafaxine. I still experience withdrawal but it’s bearable. I attribute it to tapering slowly in liquid form. And the doctors don’t know. Criminal!
@ElPsyCongrooV@angpeacock1111 Weaned off of 5 years on desvenlafaxine. By weaned I mean I demanded they send an RX to a compounding pharmacy that turned it into liquid. Reduced by literal mm. Took 1 year. I wish I could get this info out as it’s the only way to do it. They don’t make smaller doses 😔.
I’m almost 10 years off all psychotropic medication (that was never my plan) and every 6 months or so, I am noticing improvements even this far out. Any “medication” that takes 10 years to recover from should be illegal.
@HelaDore@short_jeff40919@EricLDaugh Nobody is a “good person”. We’re all sinners equally guilty of breaking God’s moral law the 10 commandments. Being good won’t save a criminal in court and it for sure won’t save anyone on judgement day before a righteous, holy & just God. This is the Gospel 🤍 :
🚨 JUST IN: JD Vance says he's raising his children Christian, and he hopes his agnostic wife, Usha, comes around to the Christian faith
Vance's 8-year-old did his first Communion "about a year ago," and his two oldest kids go to a Christian school
"Most Sundays, Usha comes with me to church."
"Do I hope eventually she is moved by the same thing I was moved by? Yes. I honestly do wish that. I believe in the Christian gospel, and I hope eventually, my wife comes to see it the same way." 🙏
@gshsmathmom@trequor_@RettCopple Birth control, HPV vaccine, environmental toxins and exposure. Infertility is definitely an issue. Male testosterone decline as well. Although waiting to have children to advance careers has also hurt tremendously.
@trequor_@RettCopple No you must not be aware of all the fertility issues going on with women in their late 20’s to mid 30’s over the past years. It’s a lot. I think it might be due to the HPV vaccine but of course it’s not a proven side effect of it. It’s really crazy the number of young women
If an only child has an only child, that child will have no brothers and sisters, no aunts and uncles, and no cousins.
All it takes to totally wipe out someone's extended family is two generations.
Get married, have kids, who then get married and have kids.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
@RettCopple We’ve got siblings with no kids, so no cousins for our kids. Every childless person by choice in a family breaks the ties just a little more.
My daughter (5th grade) says to me,
"But dad, out of 60 kids I'm one of only 2 in my grade WITHOUT my own phone!"
Me: "I'm glad to know there's at least 1 other parent with common sense."
My daughter: uhhhh dad......
HOLD THE LINE PARENTS.
Kids don't need access to EVERYTHING in the world so young.
Loving your kids isn't GIVING THEM EVERYTHING THEY WANT.
Loving your kids is teaching them:
•DISCIPLINE.
•DELAYING GRATIFICATION.
•SETTING HEALTHY BOUNDARIES.
It is absurd so many CHILDREN have phones.
Most adults can't use them responsibly.
You're setting your child up for failure handing them unrestricted access to everything so young.
Portland is run by captured ideologues, our ranked choice voting system is a disaster, the homeless addiction crisis is still on fire, everything is too expensive, crime goes unpunished, and we’re purging businesses
Other than that, yes everything is fine
@JMGrange No you didn’t. What is the clear reason it makes sense if the actual chances of contracting it are so low? Please tell us. Because it’s easy? Not a good enough answer. It is risk vs. reward. Both have risks. Weigh accordingly. This is why your profession is losing credibility.
@JMGrange@GossipAero@Alec_Zeck If risks are as low as you’re implying (mom tested/slight chance test is off, “other routes”), and all vaccines come with some risk, how could you honestly say it’s better for a newborn to take it then to forgo/wait? This is bad medicine. First do no harm.
@GossipAero@Alec_Zeck If you're talking about Hepatitis B, then it's that the testing isn't perfect or permanent and there are other exposure routes, so early vaccination (within the first 24 hours or so) is highly effective.
@benryanwriter Genuine question: if mother is Hep B +, baby has been exposed in utero. Correct? If so, how does vaccination after birth reduce infection risk?
Let’s say exposure happens AT BIRTH, doesn’t it take weeks to produce antibodies after vaccination?
What am I missing.
Hepatitis B is not solely transmitted through sex. It is also transmitted through blood, including sharing drug-use materials, and from mother to child (perinatally).
Before universal infant vaccination (recommended in 1991), about 18,000 U.S. infants were born each year to mothers with chronic hepatitis B. Many became infected perinatally.
Of infants infected at birth, ~90% develop chronic infection, and ~25% of those will eventually die of cirrhosis or liver cancer.
CDC modeling (1991–2000s) estimated that universal infant vaccination prevents ~3,000–4,000 deaths per birth cohort over a lifetime — largely from cirrhosis and liver cancer.