Today I actually tried to open up to my daughter.

We were having a conversation where I tried to open up to her about my feelings of feeling as though I may be on the spectrum. She immediately shot me down as though I am some how hoping of the trend when I have been feeling this way for awhile after my youngest was diagnosed and as I started to learn more about it. Having been a 90s child as well as an abused child. I feel likethe real me is buried under this anxiety and trauma but since these are so overused they have lost all meaning. I can't even look at her without feeling hurt right now. She accuses me constantly of invalidating her feelings so when she shot me down like she did it was kind of like oh okay.... Also ended up making the rest of the day about her and college and I ran an hour out of the way in order to do what I had planned today.

That double standard always be really fucking me up. If I'm making no sense call me out..

Right now I'm also kinda reprocessing so old grief Ithink as I am planning on going to see my high-school best friend and her dying mother. Her mother was very kind to me after my mother's death. Not many people were.

I'm also watching an elderly aunt and my father slowly deteriorate.

It feels like too much.......
Idk what I need or want but I just had to tell someone and I can't tell anyone anything...

Oh also I have some masses on my ovary that are worrisome....
Might as well fulling trauma dump..

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Would it bother you? Hubby never finishes.

So my husband doesn't finish. Not for birth control but he just doesn't finish, he says he can go a really long time before actually finishing. He can finish as we have a child together.

It's never bothered me enough to cause serious problems in our relationship. Sometimes I wonder if I'm good enough in bed? He says he just gets tired. I've only ever been with two guys, my ex and hubby and my ex never had an issue with it. Hubby says he likes it and we have a healthy sex life as in we have sex regularly.

Just wondered if it would bother you or am I overthinking it?

Why isn’t a dishwasher okay to wash baby bottles ?

Just wondering please no judgment when my kids were babies I just washed them in the dishwasher.

Anyone know when the newborn insert can be removed from this seat? The booklet is absolutely useless.

Seat previously used for my son but he was over one when it was purchased so newborn insert was never used.

No kissing

Those of you who didn't let anyone kiss your babies, when did you start to let them?

I've had a no kissing rule since my LG was born, which was fine at the start but there have been a few incidents lately where her grandparents have kissed her where we have had to say something. One of these incidents she ended up in hospital with bronchiolitis and the other grandparent suffers from cold sores so I'm uncomfortable with her ever kissing my LG if I'm honest.

I just want to protect her but my partner thinks there needs to be a cut off point where we say it's ok.

Can’t hold a conversation with my 2.5 year old

He only started really speaking a few months ago and while I know he knows a lot of things, follows instructions so well, I still can’t have a conversation with him.

At most I’ll get a couple words stung together and almost always they are just words I have said and he is repeating them back.

I try to ask him about his day or what we just did and he’ll just repeat it back. He even does it with strangers when they have said hi guys, he’ll repeat it back to them or say hi followed his own name and he’ll do this with us too.

I really thought once he started speaking that we can finally talk, but it’s just him repeating and not really responding

What time do you put your baby to bed?

My baby is 6 months and her bedtime is 5:30-6pm whenever I look online it says this is too early but she gets so tired and cranky and wakes up early if it’s any later. Would love know what time is everyone else’s bedtime?