Clary sage oil in bath/bump rub?

Has anyone used clary sage oil? If so have you mixed with milk for in the bath and oil for bump rub? Thank you!

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I seriously need a mom friend

I have two friends right now and neither of them have kids. One is younger than me and the other is not the ideal friend. I care about them both but I need a friend that understands what im going through. My baby just turned 1. Im in Missoula now and all alone.

I work part time but bring my child with me to work, would I be considered more in the work force or more of a sahm?

I feel like I don’t hear about part time working moms!

Needing advice

I have a friend who I was really close with, until she started asking me to pay for things because she didn’t have money. Always promising to pay me back because I trusted she would when she could (definitely shouldn’t have done that and I’m feeling very stupid about for doing it). She now has money and is buying herself luxuries like tattoos and new sets of nails and hasn’t even tried to pay me back. I lent her the money out of the goodness of my heart because I knew she was struggling and I wanted to do a nice thing. She now owes me $345 and every time I bring up that I’m struggling I just get “awe hun I understand”. How would I go about asking her for it back. She’s very much the type of person that if you bring up subjects she doesn’t like (like her owing money) she cuts you off, and I want my freaking money back.

Anyone else’s partner or maybe even yourself, not able to be home in time to have a family dinner every night? Where every member of the family is sitting at the table.

This is not a post of judgement. With our 24 hour world right now, access to emails, programs, etc. running at all times of the day, just curious if anyone truly has this as their daily normal. If so, I’m envious!

Can’t get over how MIL acted postpartum

Recently back in contact with MIL after about 6 months of NC.

Since having our baby, MIL has repeatedly violated boundaries around the birth, postpartum period, and our no-kissing rule when she has hsv-1. Things escalated to the point where she showed up uninvited daily the first 2 weeks PP, made snappy rude remarks to me, made hurtful comments about my body and parenting, kissed LO multiple times after being told not to, and ultimately had a 30 minute emotional outburst where she told me LO was “her baby” more than mine and she loves her more and I wouldn’t understand because I’m not a grandmother, then physically intimidated me while the now ex and his father stood by and just watched. Leading me to cut contact for 6 months.

During that time she and her family constantly pressured my now ex, to leave me and also to just bring my baby to them, said a lot of negative stuff about me and cried on repeat every time he saw them. After a December apology and a seemingly successful visit in March, she demanded another visit just 3 days later and when I said no we will organise something in a few weeks, she pushed back demanding justification.

I can’t get over everything she did. She’s still her entitled demanding self and seeing her interact with my child makes me feel sick. We have another visit this weekend and I’m just so anxious about it.

Anybody else had issues like this? What do you do?

Any tips for beginning to think about returning to work? It's anxiety inducing and sad.

I'll be back full time from September although I'm very lucky that she'll be with my sister to begin with. However it just feels so upsetting to think your baby has to be with someone else most of their week. Looking for some reassurance... X