Rebekah Roper

@opendoorforever @meatypepper I’m curious what your assumed reason for declining fertility rates is if you don’t believe it has dropped because of takes like these (kids ruin your body/life, you’ll never have another moment of freedom, etc.).

@meatypepper K but that’s twitter, not real life. People aren’t avoiding having kids because of twitter comments from 0.01% of the population let’s be real.

Remember when I said that sometimes after a long day of baby care, I would encourage my son to play independently by me while I played a video game next to him? And everyone said I was abusive bc that would involve him whining for me to entertain him and me telling him no? Yeah. When I said we did the ferber method with check ins throughout the night and I was told my son would have attachment issues his whole life and never bond with me bc we didn't cosleep and contact nap every single nap? Yeah. When I said its fine to let them cry a lil bit while you finish doing dishes, going to the bathroom, get dinner started, tend to your other children, and that you'll know the difference between a pain or distress cry vs a tantrum cry and every martyr mommy felt the need to post how they pick up their kid every single time they cry and would never let their baby cry like that? Yeah. When I made a funny haha joke about how babies have a way of needing you right when you're trying to be intimate with your husband and everyone acted like they had no idea what I was talking about and said that I clearly ignore my child and leave him afraid in the dark bc i'm too busy in pound town to care abt his needs? Yeah.

@ReformedDaisy I’m that cowboy’s wife and the mother of his four kids. 😊

@beyondwaiting Aww. And who are you now?

Who were you in 2019?

@rachallison1 Find yourself a wife who dreams of having your babies, but does not look absolutely delighted to be marrying you?

all I see here are two happy couples 🤗

@castlehillmom @handmadeshoesia I love your commitment to this math. I also love that I had to pull up my calculator to figure out what this means in practical terms. I also love that I have your age gap beat, but I’m the old person in my relationship. 😂

@handmadeshoesia My husband is 26,808 hours older.

Hopping in on the age gap discourse to say my husband is older by 2 and a half months. I think age gaps will probably be more likely than not, considering very few people are born on the exact same day as yourself.

@Utterly_Jean Exactly. I was honestly surprised to read that OP has five kids under ten. Maybe they all sleep and she feels like she gets adequate time to herself every day, but I would go insane without drawing some “Mommy needs this time right now” boundaries.

@beyondwaiting It's even longer when you have several kids.

After 4 years of motherhood, I’ve finally started doing things outside the house without kids and I have to say I’m a much happier mom these days. There’s a huge difference between prioritizing childrearing and constantly setting aside your wants/needs because of kids.

@InjunShay This sounds like something my husband would never let me stop feeding him.

Hear me out; Grilled cheese fried egg sandwich with lots of jalapeños and Sriracha 😋 Lol give it a go!

@be_homestead In that it’s where you go after you die and the concept is that you earn your way there (and the MC is definitely there by mistake), but there is no concept of God or religion otherwise. So as long as you’re good with a fictionalized afterlife, it’s just clean comedy.

@beyondwaiting Does that have religious undertones?

I need a good show that’s not overly sexualized or political…

@rybacon00 @Utterly_Jean So, essentially the opposite of this? 😂

@Utterly_Jean I know, I know but she laughs at me and says dada instead 😭😭😭

I wonder if baby #2 will start saying Mama before #3 gets here... (I'm betting no)

@faithmaycreate Bummer. It took my second a solid week to learn to pee on command. He’d sit on the little potty for a while and then pee on the floor five minutes later. But once it clicked, he got it.

@beyondwaiting My struggle is she just has this blank face like it feels as though the words I’m using and the physical experience of the accidents just aren’t clicking to her yet 😭

Had a bad experience today with the no diaper method of potty training Whats ur fave potty training method? Child is 2yo

@thegenesisbl0ck Okay, but on the flip side, it is super irritating to share your birth story and be told that you only had a traumatic experience because you did something wrong. Some things actually are out of your control no matter how badly you try to control them.

One thing I noticed after going through pregnancy/child birth and reading related discourse online is that women HATE it when you try and give them advice. They’re super opposed to the idea that you have some control over your experience and child. It’s as if they want to bask in their suffering and tell you all about it.

@FullAsMuchHeart I don’t know about “most,” but people who do physical labor for a living absolutely shower every day except maybe Sunday.

My husband says it's normal for people to take a shower every single day. Is this true? Do most people do this?

@TheMuppetPastor When I was 20, I was asked out by a 30 year old man and it wigged me out. But I could see myself being attracted to a 40 year old man at 25. A girl should still have too much childlike whimsy at 19 though.

90% of 19 year olds don’t want a 38 year old man, and the 10% who do normally have “daddy issues”. Don’t fall for this nonsense.

@TimeTrekFam I have four siblings. Someone once asked my mom when her laundry day is and she said, “Uh… every other?” But I’m sure this is what it would have looked like if she did it once a week.

First of all, this is too much laundry.

@EastTNMama I fridge. One small chest freezer. But my MIL is leaving a large chest freezer in the house we bought from them and it’s mine as soon as she gets all her food out of it. 😂

How many refrigerators and freezers do you have and don’t lie?

@iWomansplainer Sending this to everyone who told me my second was easier because I “had it figured out by then.” Oh yes. I got my whole life together in 19 months, but my first child is somehow irreparably screwed up because my newfound methods still don’t work on her.

I was about to rage screenshot but then I scrolled over