Fern

follower of Jesus and chaser of toddler

[Fern @FernTweeted]

If we listened to Ben Shapiro 5 years ago we’d all be vaccinated.

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

The Right has two options:

1. Listen to Ben Shapiro
2. Wish they had listened to Ben Shapiro 5 years from now

There are no other options

[Fern @FernTweeted]

I collected literal drops while pregnant and was so worried my supply would be bad.

I went on to exclusively breastfeed for 22 months.

After birth your primary goal is getting your milk to come in. Latch that baby every 3 hours, 15 mins on each side. Keep baby awake until time is up. Bear through the pain.

Don’t panic in the first 3 days when it’s just colostrum and no milk yet. As long as baby has enough wet & soiled diapers they are fine. Their tummy is teenie tiny.

If your milk doesn’t come in by day 4, you should consider other options.

After about a week and a half my nips went numb and it didn’t hurt anymore.

The key ingredient to milk supply is the baby being out of you and on your boob. Gotta wait for that part lol.

You got this!!

[Fern @FernTweeted]

@LSUDAN67 @BarstoolHubbs “Hey Cassidy!” Buddy was feeling so confident

[Fern @FernTweeted]

@summerschrag @UsingLyft Unfortunately my gym is mostly 78 year old men who are not accustomed to modern mixed-sex gym culture. Wonderful to talk to. But they do be looking

[Fern @FernTweeted]

@UsingLyft Love it. Sounds comfy. But how do I make it cute/feminine? I want to avoid looking like a lesbian Adam Sandler.

[Fern @FernTweeted]

I will also be without a doula next time.

After my birth I told my doula I was actually glad I ended up getting the epidural because I didn’t feel the forceps. I felt everything happened how it was supposed to and I was grateful and at peace with it.

She disagreed. Still thought I should’ve had an unmediated forceps assist birth even though it would have been “intense.”

Mind you she had zero children.

[Fern @FernTweeted]

@yayfor1a Once I saw this thing it was over for me

[Fern @FernTweeted]

@Ron430496731145 @TheyCallMeNans Yikes lady

[Fern @FernTweeted]

@LiquorAntics Legally, no.

Morally, yes.

[Fern @FernTweeted]

Legally, no.

Morally, yes.

[CleanupOnIsleSeven @LiquorAntics]

You have zero obligation to your kids once they hit 18.

They have zero obligation to you.

Plan accordingly.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Dear small percentage of Boomers who can actually be told things:

Here are some facts, to help you understand what Millennials are trying to tell you.

Here is what the middle-class experience is right now. Not for losers, but for your average hardworking, but unexceptional, dude born in 1992.

- No company pensions. Ever. No job offers this.
- Laid off every 2 to 3 years.
- No vacations. Ever. If you are lucky, you have 10 to 15 days of annual "PTO" (paid time off). But this is not vacation. This is your sick days. You can take a break with whatever's left over.
- If you are not lucky, you have "unlimited" PTO. Which sounds nice, but in practice it means you get sick days and nothing else.
- They pay social security taxes, but they know they will never receive those benefits, because the system will crash first.
- Not promoted. Ever.
- No annual raises. Instead, these are effectively pay cuts, because they don't match inflation.
- Because of this, can only get a raise by changing jobs. Some judicious prevarication about salary history is recommended.
- Good chance you'll have to change careers at least once, possibly more, as industries get rugpulled by offshoring or work visas.
- Total mortgage cost on a median house in 2026 is 104,600 minimum-age-hours. This is 50+ years of full-time work.
- For comparison, a 1972 purchase would be 23,750 minimum-wage-hours, about 11 years of full time work.

What this all adds up to is that Millennials can't buy homes until they are past their child-bearing years.

And, no, scrimping and saving doesn't change that equation. This is with scrimping and saving.

I am not a Millennial. I am GenX, the child of Boomers. I do not need to be told how much Boomers forwent luxuries to save, and how hard they worked. I know exactly how much they did of each. I was there. I saw.

They worked hard at the beginning of their careers, and lived frugally for about 5 years to save up a down payment. After that, things gradually eased up, bit by bit. Until, by retirement, a lot of them had nice fat stock portfolios and multiple rental property investments, and Caribbean cruise holidays.

And this seems, to them, like a fair and natural progression.

But as America has been hollowed out and by a corrupt political machine, those doing the robbing have left the Boomers whole, and placed the burden of that corruption squarely on the backs of younger generations.

For Millennials, there's no light at the end of that tunnel.

Just another tunnel.

And another after that.

They have been standing between Boomers and the reality of the modern economy for 20 years.

At some point, they are going to break.

[Fern @FernTweeted]

The homes are unaffordable because your generation is choosing en masse to sell them to Blackrock & Vanguard at above-market prices instead of to a family or couple.

This trend encapsulates the core issue I am describing.

You don’t know this and you’re supposedly in real estate? I’m calling bot

[Fern @FernTweeted]

@Ron430496731145 @TheyCallMeNans It’s good you are continuing to fulfill your obligation to your family.

Encourage your peers to be like you.

I am making a general observation about a massive issue with your generation.

Denial due to your personal experience doesn’t make it nonexistent.

[Fern @FernTweeted]

You’re free to die in your empty 4 bedroom house alone just like we’re free to give you zero grandchildren because we can’t afford to pry it out of your hands.

Y’all know you can’t take it with you right?

[Kristi @TheyCallMeNans]

Why should *I* downsize when my home is completely paid for and I own it outright? Why are people so dumb? Why?

[Fern @FernTweeted]

hotter take: an audiobook about something productive will always be infinitely better than reading smutty fiction slop

[Sav Shawz @shawzsav]

Hot take but listening to an audiobook is not reading and it’s actually insane to think otherwise

[Fern @FernTweeted]

@shawzsav hotter take: an audiobook about something productive is infinitely better than reading smutty fiction slop

[Fern @FernTweeted]

2 yo: “I’m hungry.”

Me: “Wanna split an avocado?”

2 yo: “No. I want real food. A waffle.”

[Fern @FernTweeted]

This is good but you have to be careful.

My ex husband was raised like this. He did not care about protecting me. His priority was to protect his mother from ever feeling any kind of negative emotion at all.

He did not like his mother. He actually thought very little of her. But he was emotionally manipulated into pleasing her at every possible moment.

I see your point. I love it and I agree. Just be careful.