The video of little Preston being spooked by Varley so he couldn’t fall asleep and his innocent trusting eyes looking up, not knowing whether to smile at the camera is utterly heartbreaking - there’s some sort of hell waiting for these two in prison and it can’t come soon enough.
Motherhood is the greatest labor of love I have ever done. It’s hard. It’s beautiful. I miss my old life and love the life I share with my little.
We can’t use other mothers experiences to convince us into it.
It’s something you have to choose 1000% for yourself.
Boy moms, some of you are way too emotionally attached to your sons and it’s not normal.
That whole “I’m the first woman in his life”, competing with his girlfriends, or being weirdly possessive over him is not love, it’s covert incest.
Your child is not your partner. He’s not there to validate you, compete for you, or fill emotional gaps in your life.
Already been told I am “too posh to push” for having a c section I don’t want because my baby is upside down. Anybody who says this should automatically have to have major surgery whilst wide awake and see how easy it is.
People don’t want to hear that beyond taking care of yourself, most stuff with pregnancy/postpartum is luck. Whether you get sick, SPD, good/bad delivery, easy sleeper, colic (sans food allergies) etc is mostly luck. Eve ate the apple and now it’s mostly out of our control lol
More peopld are calling in sick to work and being signed off because they're being overworked. Companies are downsizing and the reality of this transition is that people with have to take on higher workloads and there are absolutely no provisions for the consequences of that.
One of the parts of pregnancy I find comical is the wide array of strange symptoms you think must surely be in your head, but you find yourself googling “teeth feel lose in pregnancy” and are met with 15 articles titled “yes, your teeth may feel lose in pregnancy— thanks to this new hormone” 😂
Ladies, this year:
– get a pap smear
– do a pelvic exam
– go for a breast scan
– do a hormonal profile
– screen regularly for STIs
– don’t ignore pain during sex
– do monthly breast self-exams
– incorporate probiotics in your diet
– get the HPV & Hepatitis B vaccine (if you haven’t already)
– pay attention to changes in your discharge or smell.
people tearing apart and hating finales feels so inevitable and predictable at this point that i’m literally not phased by any of it and understand it’ll always come with the territory of ending a show. it’s just impossible to satisfy everyone and their theories.
One of the clearest examples is pain management. Women are often given less pain relief, fewer options, or told they’ll be ‘fine’ during procedures. There’s this unspoken expectation that women can tolerate discomfort better, so our pain doesn’t need to be addressed with the same seriousness.