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@chionogirl I feel this with a newborn and a three year old. Poor guy is having a hard time, as we all are.

My only consolation is that hopefully my kids won’t remember the day to day of this phase. It’s not going well over here

@sircalebhammer I like looking at atlas’.

I literally click around Google Maps for like 4 hours a day. I might be retarded.

@iam_preethi It takes about two days of screen free time for my son to be able to regulate himself again lol. It’s crazy seeing the difference once he comes home from his grandparent’s house.

It takes about a week to detox my kids after an extended stay at my parents house. They get spoiled with screen time there and I stopped fighting it. But the behavior change when we come home is impossible to ignore. My son becomes whiny and anxious. My daughter throws way more tantrums. I am not anti-screens. We let them watch a couple of shows at home. But there is a clear line, and beyond it, screens stop being entertainment and start dysregulating their nervous systems.

@realfemsapien Idk how fat people keep up with their children. Im pregnant with my second boy and wow, this is rough lol.

Ladies, you need to work out and make sure you have a healthy HIIT routine regiment on the off-chance that you end up a boy mom. Ignore this advice at your own peril.

@Romy_Holland Stopping exclusively pumping at 8 months was a wonderful decision. Seriously felt like i had my life back. At the end i was power pumping twice a day to get my supply to hit 28-30 oz a day. When i quit i wondered why i didnt do it sooner (obviously its great i didnt).

weaning is causing incredible dissonance between my lizard brain and frontal lobe. my frontal lobe is entirely sold on weaning. it looks like breastfeeding benefits are front loaded and there’s little to no benefit past 6 months. i’ve been exclusively pumping for months and i want to stop. i’m eager to experience my baseline hormone state for awhile before getting pregnant again. but my lizard brain is like “more milk, make more milk, must feed baby.” every time i pump and get a smaller yield than the day before i am simultaneously happy and mildly panicked.

@abysstoabyss We hauled the potty around so he used it before and after grocery shopping/restaurants whatever activity we were gonna do.

after we potty train, can I still put her in a diaper for Important Circumstances like dance class

@KassyAkiva Yea this is real, i started at 8 months and my baby never pooped in a diaper again. Fully trained at 18 months, but he was ready before i was ngl. Early and often potty training is the way to go!

I trained my 6 month old how to poop on the toilet. She’s done it every day this week. This may be one of my biggest accomplishments yet.

@skybammy_dev Normally id be up for it but I dont have much free time these days and the little i do is spent on the hunt for the elusive sunder charms! Haha thank you though 😁

@Trixmegistus would u be happy to try my game at all? It's free

Found my first(and maybe last) jah of the season on friday! Also found our first sunder charm and got a good upgrade. So far the new expansion of #Diablo2Resurrected has been fun! Are we all playing echoing strike builds?😂

@0xWaldox0 Jeez, leave some for the rest of us!! 😆

@Trixmegistus xDD

@skybammy_dev I cant stop playing, my longest addiction! 😅

@Trixmegistus this game is so good

@0xWaldox0 Two sur make a ber so you’re getting there!!! Thats a huge haul, congrats 😁

@Trixmegistus Found Sur x2, cham, vex x3 and Ohm so far. No Jah or Ber...

@DatModz Very cool! Congrats 🎊

Hardcore 99 Warlock Achieved and Statue Spot Acquired! It's been one of the most fun ladder resets I've ever had! Thank you to my amazing community for the group runs and for making this possible!

Reached the part of my pregnancy where we binge Pokemon so i can nap 😴

Dang, aint that the truth. Also i hear JP when i read that lol

@estel1414 I found once i stopped breast feeding/pumping my body adjusted back to normal. Hormones can be rough.

7 months postpartum today and my body literally feels weaker than the days after birth. definitely need to figure this out :(

@iam_preethi I bought some! But forgot to add the discount code 🤦‍♀️ been nervous about supplements ever since running my gelatin powder in an icp spec. They had some of the heavy metals listed as ‘other heavy metals’ on their certificate of analysis. Lol

Use code "PREODER" for a special 20% discount (limited to the first 100 orders) fertasupplements.com

I took creatine during pregnancy and postpartum. Here's what it's done for my postpartum recovery: I'm 6 weeks postpartum with my third baby. Sleeping in 2 hour chunks. By all accounts I should be a zombie. But I'm not. I'm dancing, lifting, working, and present with my kids. The difference this time = Creatine. Most people don't understand how energy demanding motherhood actually is. During pregnancy, you're building an entire human from scratch. Your body is running a construction site 24/7. During postpartum, you're recovering from birth, producing milk around the clock, and running on very little sleep. And then there's the mental load of raising children. You're making constant decisions all day long. You need patience when your toddler asks "why" for the 47th time. You have to regulate your own emotions when your kid is melting down and you want to melt down too. All of this requires energy. Specifically, your brain requires energy. Your brain is only 2% of your body weight but uses 20% of your energy. When you're sleep deprived and stressed, your brain burns through its energy stores fast. That's why you get mom brain. You feel foggy and can't think straight. You forget things constantly. You snap at your kids over small things. Creatine helps your brain produce ATP (energy) more efficiently. Studies on sleep deprived people show better focus, memory, and cognitive performance. And women store 70-80% less creatine than men. We need it more and most of us aren't taking it. I believe in this so much that creatine is the first product we're launching at Ferta. Creatine for Her is now open for pre-order! German-sourced, micro-ionized, no bloating. Link below.

@chymicalmycelia @iam_preethi Thanks, ive been thinking about getting a book to refer to. Ill check it out! Ive been eating 3 whole eggs a day and supplementing with 550 mg of choline.

@Trixmegistus @iam_preethi You should check out Nourishing Traditions book for an idea of what your intake should be like during pregnancy. Tracking will add to your stress IMO, keep it simple and stick to foods that have a high nutrition density. Whole eggs are the best.

"Daily caloric intakes were assessed by 24-hour recall in 13 healthy women while breastfeeding between 4 and 38 weeks postpartum and in the subsequent nonlactating state. 9 mothers were lactating adequately; i.e., no complementary feeds were given. 4 mothers had an inadequate milk supply, as complementary bottles had to be given at 2 or more feeds/day. All the babies were healthy. The weight of 1 baby fell between the 3rd and 10th percentile, 4 between the 10th and 25th, 7 between the 25th-75th, and 1 between the 75th-90th. The younger babies, under 4 months, were receiving little or no solid food, and the major part of the older babies' fluid intake was breastmilk. Results shown tabularly indicate that caloric intakes of the 9 successfully breastfeeding mothers was considerably higher than that of the 4 mothers who were unsuccessful. This was particularly striking in the mothers who were not losing weight. The intake of the unsuccessful mothers was only little more than in the nonlactating state, whereas the successful mothers were eating up to 50% more than normal. 1 unsuccessful mother, consuming 1950 kcal increased her intake to 3910 kcal/day. Her milk supply increased quickly and complementary feeds were no longer necessary. Furthermore, 3 successful mothers who tried to diet to lose weight more rapidly found an immediate reduction in milk supply with subsequent irritability and failure of their babies to gain weight. On reverting to demand feeding, the babies became satisfied and resumed their normal weight gain patterns. None of the mothers were aware of the extra caloric requirements of the body during nursing although the Department of Health and Social Security and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization recommend increases of 500 and 1000 kcal/day. The present findings are in agreement with those of Thomson, Hytten, and Billewicz who found that successfully lactating women, most of whom are losing weight, had an average daily intake of 690 kcal/day nore than bottlefeeding mothers. Insufficient milk is a commonly reported cause for breastfeeding failure and the usual clinic advice to mothers to drink more fluid to increase their supply has been ineffective. Since the present preliminary results indicate that the calorie content of a mother's diet may be critical in her ability to produce an adequate milk supply, mothers should be informed of their extra caloric requirements, and advised to eat more if in doubt about their milk supply."

@PBandChelsea @iam_preethi Gonna keep some at my bedside! 😆

@Trixmegistus @iam_preethi They’re just sweet enough and perfect size for a sneaky snack LOL

@celestialbe1ng New orleans is magical. And charboiled oysters+ other seafood is always a win

I’ll be in America for the next couple of months. Where do I go, what do I do and how do I get the real American experience? Please advise me 💙🇺🇸🦅