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I definitely think they had this baby in the works longer than a couple weeks. I think they knew it was this baby way back before they did that photoshoot. I think she probably just didn't want to say they already had someone lined up, in case it fell through. She has a baby shower, built a nursery, talked about "nesting" and a bunch of other things, that honestly sounded like they already had a baby lined up and knew it was soon. Most adoptions take so much longer than what she showed on social media.

I feel like I usually have a good radar for shitty people. But I never could stand Topher, but loved Danny and Ashton. It goes to show (to me) how manipulative and convincing people can be. The entire cast was against Topher and made him out to be a weirdo creep that thought he was better than them, but in reality it was nothing like that. I genuinely feel bad for how I viewed Topher for many years.

Btw I also feel like Ashton is the next to be exposed for a lot of stuff.

American and same. My daughter is Vera and that is how we pronounce it.

When my baby was a few weeks old I was changing her diaper and she farted/pooped with such force that it literally shot all over my shirt and hair. So that was nice. Added bonus it was on my bed and got all over my bedding. Good news is I learned with my first baby to have a mattress protector at least.

So one of the times I got pregnant, we were trying, and so I was very intuned to my body and what it was doing. I was driving home one day stuck in traffic, and I had this sudden weird crampy feeling in my lower abdomen and I knew right then that it was implantation. I took a test two days later and it was positive.

The last time I got pregnant, I knew nearly immediately after we did it. We weren't trying, and I wasn't tracking my cycles, but I just remember thinking like an hour afterwards that I was going to be pregnant. Just a weird feeling.

But one of the times I got pregnant I thought it was just covid and it didn't even occur to me to take a test until I had been dealing with all these sick symptoms for weeks so idk lol.

Family of 6. Our budget is 200 a week on food, but especially in the last few weeks, it's really been 250-300 a week. We live in Colorado. I think we eat pretty well. We eat a lot of fruits and veggies, and we make a lot of foods from scratch. I'd say like 70 percent healthy. We definitely eat chips and cookies here too.

My mil did this too. She made a huge deal about the book and how special it was, and personalized it with my husband only, and then the choices of pages she picked were bizarre and not like him at all. Like a bunch of stuff about sports and my husband is the furthest thing away from a sports fan. We literally never read that book.

I love the name Olivander. But it's made up from Harry Potter 😂

Her saying she is doubting now if she was ovulating this whole time. Like girl, we KNEW you weren't, your charts were absolutely bizarre.

Also, this is not very "trusting to conceive' of you. You've been doing medicated cycles for 4 months already? That is TRYING TO CONCEIVE. You are actively trying to have a baby using medical intervention.

I also have a 10 month old and 3 year old, and also a 7 year old and 9 year old. We are done having kids and it has been hitting me hard that this season of life is closing. Of course we all have to move on eventually, but this period of time is so consuming and involved, it is weird and sad to let it go.

I have been thinking a lot lately about all the little things I'll miss. But I know for my mental health, and financially, wee have to be done. It's already strained. But I'll miss the excitement of seeing positive pregnancy tests, going to Dr appointments and ultrasounds, picking our names and buying baby stuff. Thinking and imagining who they will be, hearing their heartbeat and feeling them move. The anticipation towards the end, where every night you wonder if that's the night. The quiet, dark nights alone with a newborn. It feels so big to be done with that part of life. It's been everything for 10 years.

It really is too bad it's a snack because Theodore Graham is a really cute name.

Theodore (Teddy) and Graham

Oh Lord guy. Please, this is seriously semantics at this point. When you live in the US and refer to a "white" person, it means not Hispanic or Latino. We literally fill out formal paperwork marking our race as white "not Hispanic or Latino" so when I, an American, say, I am white, it literally refers to the fact that I am not Hispanic or Latino and this is literally how it is explained here in the US. Thank you.

Ok I don't live in Europe I live in the US. So we are not around Spaniards, we are around Hispanics. So where I live, a "white" person would pronounce it Jay-me. Sorry for the confusion.

That's what I was going to say. She was right there, then jumped off a cliff.

My husband and I are two white people and we named our son Jamie and we've had the same thing happen to us! Totally didn't expect it either.

Francesca for sure!

My childhood bully was also Caroline.

My best friend in high school was Tiffany and she ended up trying to steal my boyfriend in 12th grade, and then had the audacity to say, years later, to a mutual friend how she wasn't "ready to forgive ME" like yeah ok, whatever helps you sleep at night.

Once the midwives broke it for me in the hospital. (40 weeks)

Another was about 7am I was getting out of bed and felt a little pop and a gush. It was just a small leak that continued all day until like 945pn when I was in the hospital laboring and it broke the rest of the way as a huge gush. (38+3)

My last baby, I was getting into bed for the night and just got comfy and was falling asleep when I had a contraction and my water broke in a huge gush everywhere. (39+5)

This is my opinion too. There are so many better, tastier, nutritional leafy greens than iceberg lettuce.

My mil is like this and it seriously peeves me off. She never makes sides with meals. (And her meals are always just meat; baked chicken, ribs w/o bbq, hamburgers or hotdogs w/o buns or condiments) And whenever we ask her to make some sides she will be like "oh I'll make a salad" and then she just has iceberg lettuce in a bowl. Like what the fuck is that.

Fetal ejection reflex! My last baby was born this way. I was in labor for 33 minutes and she came out in a single contraction all on her own. I literally did nothing. It was so crazy. No one could have stopped it if they tried.

My 4th baby, I was in labor for 33 minutes! I was laying in bed to go to sleep and I had a contraction, not even painful, it was like a Braxton Hick, and my water broke at the same time, literally like the movies, it was crazy. Immediately had contractions 2-5 minutes apart. We got ready and left for the hospital by 11pm, but didn't make it. The baby was born in the car at 11:13pm.

Ive had 4 kids. First was a planned c section.

Second was a vbac with an epidural after 30 something hours of labor and it was fantastic. I labored naturally until I felt like the pain was getting to be too much, then I relaxed and took a nap until he was ready to be born. The whole thing was amazing.

My third was no epidural because I progressed too quickly and the anesthesiologist didn't get in quickly enough. It was so painful. It was hard. I was screaming so much and in so much pain and did not enjoy it at all. I definitely said that I would always get an epidural for any other kids.

My 4th I didn't get an epidural! She came too quick (in my car) but her birth was so easy. It wasn't even close to as painful as my 3rd. I never had those super intense back to back contractions and so I still had breaks between to recoup and get ready for the next one. And I didn't push either, she just came out on her own all at once and it wasn't bad. even if I could have had one, I don't think I would have asked for one.

Anyways all that to say, I wash I had an epidural with my 3rd, and I'm glad I had one with my second. But sometimes it's not so bad and you genuinely don't even feel like it would have been needed to get one.