Lu for Alaska

J’s wife, mom of many, grandma of three, Alaskan island life, highly blessed and favored, Christ appreciator

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

It’s the only way!!!! If they can rage bait you the war is lost. 😭

[KellyValenzuela7 @KellyVa28647310]

@MrsCMFrancis @luinalaska We're supposed to be chill once we have teens? 😂

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

@mamawrench Unfathomable arrogance

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

One thing Twitter taught me is that there are women who exist who would legitimately risk their own child’s life to prove that they know better than any western trained doctor. Accepting their own lack of control is somehow more painful than letting go of that idol and accepting that sometimes things go wrong and we need help and that’s ok and has been true since women started birthing babies. It’s not a personal failing. It’s the messy part of being human.

[Lynda TH7 @Dragonflynda]

It's like the people totally against C-Sections who don't understand there are life threatening and other reasons why C-Sections are necessary. There is no way physically possible I could have delivered my son as big as he was without a C-Section. I knew it, but the doctors put it off and then realized yes, you were right, you have to have a C-Section.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

@HedgeUnderCover Grateful for the advances in care that allowed you to birth your son! I’m sorry your mom said that and glad a nurse showed her the DOOR.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

Your baby can die. This happens. Our God clearly sees us outside of time and doesn’t operate how we mere humans would staunchly demand. This isn’t something you *deserve*. This isn’t some vast conspiracy. You aren’t less as a human woman. Similarly people get struck by lighting. Then you carry the scar and the search for answers in the sky. Why did you among the billions get struck down? The idea that you can earn a good outcome says in a sense that something can be done to control this pain. Alas. This is just a malignant form of fear and pride. You cannot outwork or earn your way out of the human condition. To portray your blessings are a result of your actions alone is an unimaginable cruelty on a public stage.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

I think of it like a great voyage. Like the mayflower. Sometimes there are seasons of storms and you barely make it to the other shore. Sometimes the water is flat calm and the sun shines gloriously. What makes NO SENSE is to birth in the sunshine and then turn to the women on the other shore and say COME ON OVER NOTHING BAD HAPPENS like you somehow control the weather. Bitches I swear. Shaking your head at other women sinking like see they aren’t me.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

You’ve taken your blessing and used it to actively and directly harm another pregnant woman. Shocking arrogance.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

If you purport to be a birth expert and you tell a mom that preeclampsia isn’t real and then they have a massive stroke and their baby dies you should go to prison for criminal negligence and manslaughter. I assure you it is real. It’s extremely dangerous for moms and babies. Pretending otherwise to push your birth sovereignty agenda is straight up evil, it gets people killed, and you should immediately repent/apologize/stop.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

But you’ve had seven babies and it never happened to you? Uh huh cool that’s wonderful. Do you imagine that’s because you’re somehow a better person? More prayerful? More intuitive about your own body? You think your experience applies to all women?

Pride. Outrageous.

[Tabby @missionMamabear]

@luinalaska These are all great, but the "don't let your kid be unlikable" is an underestimated gold nugget. I didn't realize until I entered the parenting world, how many parents don't like their own kids and don't make an effort to make them be "likeable" in the sense of not being a brat.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

I need a priest to weigh in. Does counteracting baneful magic count as witchcraft if you don’t add anything to it? A return to sender if you will. Is that cool or nah?

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

GEORGE. George I don’t often use my witch seminary training but this is too hard to watch. My brother in Christ I’ll help break your hex for a trip to Monaco and a good view of the track. Just put me in the back of the paddock. I got you, boo. Someone call his manager.

[mo ✮ @russellatte]

NO WAY HIS CAR BROKE DOWN 😭 who tf is cursing george

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

I don’t often want to participate in such things but the urge hits when some ho sends such negative energy to a precious angel like our George. The only thing keeping me from ruining the luck of your entire lineage is a love of our Lord and savior. Don’t play with me.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

My book in a nutshell:

Have some self awareness about your own wounds and hang ups. How you going to raise a kid if you can’t figure out yourself?

when it’s serious you burn down the world for that kid

97% of the time it isn’t serious enough to make a big damn deal

Like and enjoy your spouse

Use your intuition about their friends and the parents of those friends. No you can’t spend time with their parents. Why? Vibes. No explanation will be given.

Don’t let your kid be unlikable. People who no one likes aren’t often successful in life.

Have a sense of humor

Make sure your kid feels safe in the world

[angc @truenorth270]

@luinalaska The world needs a "Lu's Parenting" book

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

I legit cried last night because I read in ww2 they used dachshunds to find mines and they died and I had to apologize to my dog and snuggle for 30 minutes. Let’s be so real.

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

My kid holding a red bull spritzer 30 minutes after a meltdown: hey sorry for freaking out

Me:……. girl I do it all the time it’s fine…..

Fist bump and move on. It’s called parenting.