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More Sleep Would Be Nice says
To the poster who shared her struggles with her DH and her mental health yesterday: I am thinking of you and rooting for you (and your sweet daughter), as are many others in this online community.
Please let us know how you are doing today, and what other help we can provide. You are not alone.
Anonymous says
Same, I checked for an update last night and first thing this AM.
Clementine says
Same here! Sending you good vibes.
Anon says
same. thinking of you
Anon says
Another supporter, please check in.
Spirograph says
Same, sending good vibes your way.
Vicky Austin says
Caught up a bit late, but yes, please let us know how you are!
Anne-on says
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More Sleep Would Be Nice says
Thank you! Snagged holiday PJs for DS #1, he’ll be thrilled. Even though I have hand-me-down costumes for DS #2, I got some costume PJs so he and DS #1 will be on theme now. I don’t feel wasteful because they are PJs. Win-win!
Betsy says
Looking for anecdata on heavy bleeding during pregnancy. I’m 12 weeks pregnant and had a huge gush of blood (like standing in a puddle huge) followed by a few days of a slow trickle. I was absolutely convinced I had miscarried. Ultrasound the next day showed baby growing right on track and looking as content as could be, which was the biggest relief of my life. However, it didn’t show any source of the bleeding and my OB can’t figure out what could have caused it. The uncertainty is freaking me out, and I’m a little afraid to go about my day to day life in case it happens again. Wondering if anyone else went through something similar during pregnancy and if you were able to figure out the cause.
anon says
This sounds so hard. I’ll just comment that there is a lot we don’t know about pregnancies. You’d think we’d know it all after millennia, but really there is a surprising amount doctors haven’t figured out yet (probably because it relates to women’s health–if men were pregnant, I’m sure they’d have put in the resources to know).
If the ultrasound is showing a baby with a heartbeat, then you’re still pregnant. That has to be true. Hang in there. Hopefully the bleeding ends and everything returns to normal.
Anon says
Yep, it’s only pregnancy or other women’s health issues where “welp, we just don’t know!” is accepted medical practice for decades on end. It’s infuriating. Uncertainty is also far more tolerated on the patient care side. Doctors know that it’s torture for cancer patients to wait for weeks on end to hear their results and they make efforts to get patients information quickly, but when you’re pregnant, it’s so typical to “wait and see” for weeks any time there’s a problem. Hell, many practices won’t even see you until you’re 8-10 weeks pregnant, but that’s almost two months of already having symptoms, definitely having questions, and possibly experiencing complications.
Anon says
I had some heavy bleeding at 8 weeks with my kid. The consensus was the it was probably a subchorionic hemorrhage or just bleeding due to a slight placenta previa. I’d ask for a referral to a maternal fetal medicine specialist. They have experience with high risk pregnancies, and mine had a much better ultrasound.
Anonymous says
TW – miscarriage
Hugs from an internet stranger, I know exactly how you feel. Something similar happened to me at around 12 weeks. No cramping, just gushing blood. My OB thought that it was because, at that point, the placenta was very low. She put me on pelvic rest and kept monitoring, but as my uterus grew, the spot where the placenta had attached moved up, so it ended up being in an ok position a couple weeks later – definitely before the 20-week ultrasound. That baby is now 3.
That being said, I had several miscarriages before that pregnancy, and the bleeding was different for each one of them – some gushed, some were a slow trickle.
govtattymom says
I’m sorry- that is so stressful. I had a very similar situation occur during my first pregnancy. My doctors told me it was a subchorionic hemorrhage- the rest of the pregnancy went well and my daughter is now 7. Sending positive thoughts and prayers your way.
TheElms says
A friend had a placental lake (which is a space in the placenta filled with maternal blood) that caused heavy bleeding around 14 weeks that sent her to the ER in the middle of the night. She was on pelvic rest and told to take it easy for the rest of her pregnancy and not lift anything heavier than 5 lbs, and that baby is now a healthy 18 month old.
Anonymous says
Placenta previa? Was the placenta low near the cervix? I had the same thing happen at 12weeks6days and the ultrasound tech (very experienced – and confirmed by the OB) said the placenta is growing/really firmly attaching at this point. I was on light bed rest but it was all cleared by 20 weeks. 4yo is sitting next to me right now :) it was so scary because the amount of blood and I called my husband crying that I was losing the baby. So I understand the fear!!
anonM says
Hi. I’m 8wks and just went to get an ultrasound today because of light spotting, and even with the reassurance I’m mentally drained and emotional. They didn’t have a clear cause for me either, just a few factors of what it could be. I don’t blame you for being stressed based on the heavy and sudden bleeding. No advice, just solidarity.
Betsy says
Sending you all the best vibes. It is so scary and completely draining. Hoping everything turns out to be fine and that your next ultrasound is a lot more exciting and less stressful!
Betsy says
Thank you all – it is really reassuring to hear that other people have had similar situations and been ok. Fortunately the bleeding is much less today so that’s a relief. I don’t think we’ll get an answer about what happened – the ultrasound didn’t show a subchorionic hemorrhage or signs of placenta previa, but clearly this blood was coming from somewhere! The uncertainty of early pregnancy is really hard but I am so grateful we’ve had good news so far.
Anonymous says
Can you ask for another ultrasound in 2 weeks? My OB was happy to comply for peace of mind. I’m the placenta previa above. After my 14week one and less bleeding I felt much better. Some people do just spot/bleed throughout pregnancy.
Betsy says
I have a follow up in a week, and I’m planning to ask about that then! My practice rotates OBs so at the least I’ll get a second set of eyes/experience on the situation and maybe some different thoughts on what might have caused it.
Anon says
I’d also be requesting another ultrasound and asking them to check the length of your cervix. Don’t be afraid to ask for a second opinion or to request to have a better scan.
Anon says
I recently posted about experiencing a miscarriage. To really cap off that experience, I’m now being assessed for a partial molar pregnancy due to the nature of the chromosomal abnormality our baby had (so basically I felt relief at having an answer for about 4 seconds until I heard about the partial molar risk). I have an appointment coming up in about 10 days with an MFM geneticist. Long shot, but has anyone gone through this and do you have suggestions for what questions to ask? I’m having trouble organizing my thoughts with all the recent stress. The obvious one is how can we plan for future pregnancies…
Anon says
how can i help my K daughter feel more comfortable asking for help at school? she has a wonderful supportive teacher. Yesterday morning during ‘carpet time’ my daughter lost her first tooth that had been loose. she said she was bleeding and I asked her if she went to get a tissue. And she said no, it was during circle time and you can’t get a tissue then, or asked if she told her teacher and she said no bc you aren’t supposed to raise your hand then. I obviously realize this is not a major health emergency or anything like that, and I also don’t care that she physically lost the tooth and didn’t bring it home with her. It also isn’t just this. She also says that she doesn’t raise her hand to ask a question during circle time because she “can’t think of any questions that will help grow her brain”. Her school is an IB school and so very focused on inquiry based learning, and figuring out what it means to be curious. How can I help her feel more comfortable with this?
Anon says
I think a lot of this will naturally come with time. I’m not saying don’t encourage her to speak up but I wouldn’t worry too much. Many 5 year olds take rules too literally.
Anonymous says
I think there are two separate issues here—asking for help and asking the kind of questions you need to ask to get credit in an IB seminar discussion. Re. #1, interrupting the class to ask for help is very difficult for well-behaved, complaint kids. You can help her by role-playing appropriate, less obtrusive ways to ask for help at home. On #2, she’s got years to learn before it matters to her grades. As someone who graduated with two advanced degrees #1 and #2 in her class and rarely asked questions in class, I actually think a reluctance to ask questions just for the sake of hearing herself talk is a good thing. In elementary school it is unlikely that she will need to ask questions because she doesn’t understand the material. In college and grad school most of the “extension” questions people asked were obnoxious and/or irrelevant, asked out of a desire to show off rather than out of genuine curiosity. Occasionally there was a good question about applying a concept to a different situation, but these were few and far between. I took all of my comprehension questions and most of my extension questions to office hours because they were more appropriately asked in that environment. My daughter is in an IB program and does just fine in class discussions mostly by answering questions or responding to other students instead of asking questions.
anonamommy says
I’d ask for a short conference with the teacher and get the teacher’s take on it. Kids are notoriously unreliable narrators. Go in looking for additional context and ask questions about how your daughter is adapting to the K transition (which is a huge change!). Frame it that your daughter seems to be struggling with confidence or figuring out how to best engage in the class, and seek to understand whether the teacher sees that as well. Work together with the teacher to adopt strategies to support your daughter. If nothing else, having a strong open communication line between you and the teacher is a good thing.
Anonymous says
+1 to all this. Last week my first grader came home with a bit of blood on his shirt (he often has nosebleeds). I asked if he had a nosebleed at school. “Yes.” “Did you go to the nurse?” “No.” “Did your teacher give you a tissue?” “She wouldn’t let me have one.” I could see he was embarrassed so left it. Later that evening I asked him “Hey did you ask your teacher for a tissue when your nose bled?” “No.” Facepalm. It’s not that he was lying he was just telling me the literal facts. I’d ask for a conference and go in with curiosity and an attitude that you want to help. I think even if you do nothing it will get better as she warms up to the teacher and school style.
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
My almost-6-year-old K-er is also “scared” (his words) to ask his teacher anything – e.g. help opening his yogurt, help with his glue bottle, etc.
It’s a him thing, not a her thing — I’m encouraging him to ask/speak up, and will mention this to her at parent/teacher conference and see if she has any tips to help him be more direct/ask questions when he needs.
Spirograph says
How do you treat interruptions at home? I feel like I need to teach my kids to be *more* judicious about when they interrupt adults / people doing other things, but we’ve told them that you can always interrupt or excuse yourself (politely!) if your body needs something right away. eg, if there’s a bathroom emergency, or you’re bleeding, or your sneeze really needs a kleenex. Physical needs — and identifying “needs” vs “wants” is an ongoing conversation — get priority.
anon says
My K daughter had a potty accident in her second week and didn’t tell anyone because it was during “quiet time.” Breaks my heart thinking of it as she sat, wet, for hours – she had on dark pants and just didn’t know to speak up. The teacher proactively emailed me before the end of the day so I got the teacher’s account of what happened, which was not 100% aligned with DD, but I believe T, fwiw. At home we talked a lot about how there are certain circumstances when it’s ok to ask for an adult to help, no matter what you’re doing. I think it just comes with time, as others have heard. Kids tend to be pretty literal until they start to understand nuance. I think talking to the teacher isn’t a bad idea – the teacher reached out to me, as I said, and I’m so glad she did. It was a short, sweet email exchange and we’ve all moved past it together.
Anon says
My 5 year old has developed an obsession with being “rich” – it feels like lately all she does is talk about how she wants to be rich when she grows up and how she wishes we were rich so we could “give her a better life” (she’s used those exact words!). I know ‘rich’ is subjective, but we are by any definition very comfortable and she has a really nice life. We aren’t surrounded by people who are way richer than us; if anything, we have more than our neighbors and her classmates. This is just a phase and we should mostly ignore it, right? We do sometimes talk with her about how we may be able to afford something but not choose to spend money on it because we have other spending priorities and we need to also save money for the future. She has an allowance and generally has done a good job dealing with disappointment when she doesn’t have enough saved to buy a particular toy, but apparently she thinks her overall standard of living should be higher, lol.
Anonymous says
Oh I would be nipping that in the bud super quick.
When our kids complain about money issues we sit them down and explain how privileged they are. How much the median (NOT average!) salary is. How much we have compared to that. We also talk a lot about how we make choices in what we spend money on. For example, we drive less expensive cars and spend more on travel. That’s a choice. Talk about needs vs wants etc.
Finally, we’ve cut out a lot of YouTube. Mr Beast does not need more viewers for his garbage.
Anon says
We definitely do talk about how we make choices and do things like drive our cars so we can spend more on travel (our situation too :)). I’m not sure salary numbers are going to mean anything to her at this age, but she knows we have more than many people. She just…seems to want even more. She doesn’t watch any YouTube. I’m not sure where this coming from. It seems to have come on very suddenly, so I guess I was thinking that if we didn’t give it too much oxygen it would go away as quickly as it came on.
Anon says
maybe your kids were more advanced at 5 than mine, but i have two 5 year olds and I think ‘median salary’ would be well over there head. it sounds like she is repeating something she heard someone say. i don’t think my 5 year olds know the word “rich” yet. they know that some people earn more and some people earn less and we talk about how we are lucky we have money for what we need so that sometimes we share it with others and we’ve done some community service type of projects.
Anonymous says
I don’t use the word ‘median salary’! Sorry if that was confusing. I more meant to look into that so you can accurately describe your family relative to others. We talk about that for every 100 people – half the people will make X amount, some will make more and some will make less. We are lucky because out of 100 people, our family has more money than 90 people. (you can talk about percentages once they learn that). And then we talk about how we spend our money – mom and dad need to pay for our house and for the lights and heat etc.
Even just introducing the concept that we don’t own the house, we borrowed money and have to pay back the bank, is helpful. I also love the Game of Life Board game for this kind of stuff. We play in teams with an adult on each team when they are younger.
We also talk about how different jobs pay different amounts of money. Like how the dad of a family we know earns a lot but he has a shipping job where he is away for 6 months then home for 6 months and we didn’t feel like that kind of job was right for our family. She sees that our friends just got back from 2 weeks at Disney but doesn’t see that the kids hadn’t seen their Dad in six months.
Spirograph says
haha “give her a better life” is adorable. She heard that somewhere, like a Save the Children commercial, or in a read-aloud at school or whatever, and she’s just parroting it. But yes, it’s a phase. I probably would slip in a gentle reality check that she has a really nice life, and more money does not equal more happiness above a certain threshold. My kids sometimes bemoan that “everything truly terrible happens to me” and I remind them that they’re safe, healthy, and have a family that loves them, so they have it pretty great even if they have to go to bed early (or whatever they’re whining about ).
Anonymous says
I would definitely want to find out where she got that phrase!
Anon says
i know, i literally laughed out loud reading this. she is repeating somethign she heard without fully understanding what it means. ask her what kind of “better life” she wants and please report back
So cute says
+1 I also want to know what “a better life” means to her. Lol. I love this so much.
Anonymous says
I would ask what being rich means to her, because I bet the answer is funny and likely “these 2 toys I want from target.”
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
I love this. I feel like my K-er would say a better life involved some type of indulgent dessert daily. He’s not wrong!
anonn says
I wouldn’t reprimand it to her or even get into an economics lesson Just ask follow up questions, like what does she want that she doesn’t have now? “rich” is likely a tangible feeling for something else she’s feeling, jealousy, need for attention. My daughter has said similar things, I just try and validate her feelings about how its not fair that she doesn’t have an ipad or kid-sized car that really drives, it’s just a choice we made for her but she doesn’t have to be happy about it. I used to explain my feelings about screentime but we don’t do that either, I don’t want her thinking we judge others’ parenting choices, or don’t trust her. eventually she moves on. I really don’t want her to know our family is probably the most well-off in her class.
Anon says
Tell her you are rich. Even rich people have to make choices (and WANT to make choices in line with their values). I’m just guessing, but based on the world’s population you (and most of us here) are likely in the top 10% if not 5%?
You can definitely ask her what she means by that, because I’m sure it’ll lead to good conversation. But it’s not too early to start instilling the reality that you (we) are rich, materially and beyond.
Anon says
I’ve posted before about my younger kid’s speech delay. Older kid was just so, so verbal. I was looking at old videos of older kid at younger kid’s current age (almost 3), and older kid was like “This is a brontosaurus with a big tail. The other dinosaurs are upstairs.” Meanwhile, I’m trying to get younger kid to say “I want ___” when asking for something vs just grunting the words.
I know ultimately comparing is terrible, and younger kid has plenty of words, puts together phrases, and will likely be fine. Plus we start private ST next week (did not qualify for early intervention).
Sharing as a vent, and if anyone has any similar experiences with 2+ kids re differences, please share!
EP-er says
Both of my kids were late talkers and were in EI speech therapy. My eldest didn’t speak until he was 3, let alone string words into phrases. And then my second came along and was also not talking at 2… I knew the drill, and was practicing signing and other techniques at home while we waited for the evaluation. (a lot of ST at this age is ST for the parents, not the kids!) One thing that I was terrible at was anticipating needs instead of waiting for my kids to ask for what they wanted. I was talking to a friend who has a non-verbal child a year older than my second. She asked me “Well, do you think #2 will be able to talk in the future?” and yes, there were the signs of understanding and babbling and I knew that she was just a late talker, not non-verbal. And 10 years later, I still think of that conversation. My friend’s son is 12 and still non-verbal. And while it is frustrating in the moment, for most kids it works out.
You didn’t qualify for EI — you have a late talker who needs some help. Lots of second kids don’t need to talk, because their needs are anticipated. But your youngest is talking! And is going to get there! And you have the resources to help with private ST! You guys are going to be okay. :)
Anon says
my post got eaten and i’m not sure why, but i have fraternal twin girls who are sooo different so i’ve been trying not to compare since day 1. kids can be SO different, even if they grow and come out of your body at the same time. one of my girls has amazing fine motor and gross motor skills. she has been able to fully dress herself since age 2 and has moved on to buttons and zippers, whereas her sister goes to OT and at age 5 still struggles to pull her leggings up all the way. the one with the weaker motor skills, was my early speaker and i realized recently i have so many more videos of her than her sister speaking at age 2 because she said so many more cute/funny things (i have plenty of pics and videos of her sister, not just of that). one recently stopped wearing pull ups at night and really really wanted to stop, while the other one is happily still wearing a pull up. as i am human, there are moments each day where in my head i wish one was more like the other, but at the end of the day it can be kind of cool seeing how different they are
Anonymous says
Both my kids did/are doing speech. Younger child’s articulation issues are more severe, likely due to him being 6months old when the pandemic started and not seeing anyone else’s mouth move (besides family) until he was 2.5yrs old. I do think some kids are just less…verbal people? Like my younger one has a good vocab and grammar, just needs help with articulation, but he’s still just not as much of a talker as his sister. But that’s ok.
Anon says
My oldest and my youngest were late talkers (youngest in SP), and my middle two kids talked early and often :) Some of it is personality – even now, the oldest/youngest have very long attention spans, are excellent at self-directed activities, and were always great at independent play. The middle two are more extroverted, less into quiet play (much more gross motor and group sports oriented), and naturally seek out other people. I believe the middle two spoke earlier because they were actively seeking out friends at preschool at a very early age, and my oldest/youngest were happy to play quietly on their own much later/longer than my middle two.
Also, my oldest had two devoted parents to dote on her and anticipate her every need, and my youngest had three extremely patient older siblings and two loving parents to dote on him and anticipate his every need :) My youngest also was delayed due to some hearing loss, which was alleviated after he had tubes. With about 6 months of weekly ST, he is now completely caught up to his same aged peers. So, at least in my sample size of 4, their actual development was definitely impacted by personality, environment, and specific contributing factors, but they are all verbal and chatty and LOUD now, even if they all got there at different times.
Anon says
To clarify why I think longer attention spans impacted their speech, I just remember my oldest would sit and draw or play with play doh for like an hour on her own, and my youngest would do the same with cars or trucks. They both would just get very focused on their own independent activity at preschool or at the park, whereas the middle two kind of went from one activity to the next, and usually collected a friend or two with them as they ran from the jungle gym to the bikes to the sandbox, or dress up or pretend play or whatever, etc.
OP says
Thank you, all. I know this isn’t a big deal, when all things are considered, it’s fine and there is just so much variation. I really appreciated everyone’s stories.