Posts by Hannah Nguyen3

Kate Harris3 said:I'd sign off on that. I have a nearly four-year-old who has been incredibly active and "spirited," to put it politely, since day one. 😁
While I was pregnant and dealing with a newborn, my husband finished his graduate studies abroad, and I knocked out my final, most brutal exam, wrote a grueling thesis, and graduated. We moved into a new apartment (I was breastfeeding at one point near Solomon 😁), found jobs, built a social circle, and traveled quite a bit with the kid and friends. The compromise was keeping trips relatively local, and making sure our friends genuinely loved the little one—people who wouldn't mind cutting a hike short to run through a park with him. At one point, I was hitting the gym almost five times a week, and incredibly, both my husband and I still go out. Not necessarily every weekend, but we go when we plan to.
Well, I'm not going out as much anymore because I'm pregnant again. 🙂
And yeah, the kid is a handful. He slept over at his grandpa's once, but we can only leave him for a few hours at most; we don't have that luxury of constant grandparent childcare.
It's all doable simply because we have the willpower and we love each other, wanting the next one to be happy too. It works. 🎉
But back to the topic. I'm eight weeks along and I'm surprised by how little nausea I have. I barely feel pregnant, which makes this feel less "real" than my first one. I've started getting paranoid about labor, even though I have plenty of time left. And I'm dreading a summer pregnancy. There is no bigger hater of summer than me, and I still have 8 or 9 months of this ahead of me... it'll be fun.

Since this is a response to my post about "life ending after kids," let me clarify. After he was born, we moved thousands of miles away from everything. Now, we have absolutely no one nearby who can watch him for even five minutes. Someone mentioned nannies... but right now, that's an impossible goal, and paying $25 an hour for childcare is a stretch. Daycare is roughly $1,500 a month, which is also a lot. So, we're in a pretty unique situation. My husband works in an industry with erratic shifts; he usually takes the 2 PM to 10 PM slot just so he can spend as much time with us as possible. His commute is an hour each way.

Sure, I agree everything is doable with enough organization, but... well, some of us aren't that lucky. 🙂

P.S. Not sure why only this specific post was quoted for me.

Daniel Miller4 said:It honestly stung so much when people started telling me that now that I’m pregnant—and especially once I actually give birth—everything just... stops.
My life is supposed to end? Like, everything just ceases to exist??
The suggestion that I should just abandon my fitness routine and stop focusing on myself, as if I’m just going to clock out at 3 p.m. every day... I usually try to be patient, but I have a pretty short fuse when it comes to this kind of nonsense, though I've tried to hold back until now. Lately, I can't even deal it anymore; I've actually lost some good friends because of his wife, who is just such a judgmental person and frankly, a complete nightmare to be around. I just don't have the energy for that drama. :/
I am an athlete at heart and I still am. I'm four months along now, and I fully intend to stay active, just like so many of my other female friends who prioritize fitness and an active lifestyle—adjusting things as needed for the pregnancy, of course, and then continuing after the baby arrives. I truly cannot wrap my head around why so many women suffer through this and feel forced to give up their entire lives after having kids... which, by the way, is what babies are for???
Anyway, I’m feeling quite worked up about it all right now...🙂

God, it’s like I’m reading my own diary. 🙂 Here’s someone else who clocked out at 3 PM. 😁 Let me explain... nine glorious months of being super active, and then suddenly someone drops a kid on me who almost never sleeps, a husband who works (and doesn't), and me, alone 99% of the time. It’s been over a year and a half now, and here I am: sleep-deprived, with zero "life" because there’s nobody to watch the baby, greasy hair, unkept legs... I can only dream about certain activities. Actually, no, I can't even dream about that because I don't sleep. 😁 Am I suffering? No. Do I look beautiful? Sure, if you count getting a few hours of sleep a day. 🙂 Why did I have a kid? We decided our lives would be perfect if it were just the two of us. 🤦 So, I wish you a calm, wonderful baby—one of those babies from the commercials that sleeps all day long—otherwise, you’re going to end up remembering this post. 🙂 As my father's word goes, don't let it get to you too much.

Maria Fisher46 said:Look,

it basically means the urine sample wasn't clean enough for a real analysis. Either you didn't catch the midstream flow and just got the initial burst—which carries all those bacteria naturally sitting at the end of the urethra—or the sample touched skin during collection, picking up standard surface bacteria. Or maybe both happened at once.

Best, 🙂

Thanks so much! And I honestly thought I was following the instructions to a T. 🙂

Anyone out there willing to make sense of this urine culture report for me? It says bacteria count is 10^3, saprophytic cocci, mixed flora in the urethra or skin. I'm pregnant, by the way, and I can't see my doctor until Monday.

electriccobra76 said:Also, just a heads up: I've been dealing with pet allergies since I was four years old. Now I'm 15, and I'm stuck with chronic bronchitis and allergic rhinitis too.
Right now, I'm taking Telfast 120, but I'm trying my best to avoid anything else because I heard it stunts your growth, and honestly, it's probably not great for your system anyway.🙄
Does anyone have any tips for natural remedies? Last year I tried black cumin seed and it actually helped a little bit...
Later 😉

Look, I’m one of those people who has tried everything—from the standard pills you guys mentioned to homeopathy... right now, I’m basically on everything. 😁 I ended up settling on pollen tablet "therapy," and I'm still taking aloe vera gel and black cumin oil. I started this stuff a bit late in the game, but surprisingly, it hasn't been terrible. Sure, there are days when my eyes itch, but nothing major. Usually, by this time of year, I’d be cursing the universe. 🙂 Maybe some of this actually works... I guess I'll find out when ragweed season hits. That stuff kills me for about a month and a half every year.

Kenneth Brooks97 said:I'm 14, living in Indianapolis, and I'd love to find somewhere to train properly. When we play rugby, I throw the ball hard and straight, but usually nobody catches it because they haven't got the skills. It flies perfectly, though. Let me know if there's anything going on in Indianapolis. 😉

New Orleans Saints, check their Facebook group or their site here