I'm not sure about the whole story but "she even changed the weight of her kids’ birth weights which makes them the heaviest newborn in America"...seems...kinda...fake.
Posted Feb 2, 2023, 4:01 PM UTC
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Being a huge baby at birth is actually a very bad thing, it means the mom organism cannot metabolize glucose well and the baby will also have a predisposition for diabetes, so do not wish this to anyone.
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I just looked it up, and the heaviest baby every born in the US weighed 22 lbs and lived only 11 hours. It would be obvious to anyone who had seen her babies that they didn't weigh over 22 lbs.
And you're right about the glucose. I had gestational diabetes with one of my pregnancies. My baby had to be tested for hypoglycemia at regular intervals for her first 24 hours of life.
Since babies make their own insulin but share a blood supply with the mom, uncontrolled high blood sugar in mom can lead to the baby having increased insulin production, which can lead to hypoglycemia once they're born.
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“It would be obvious to anyone” - I just want to point out that some people will still say weird shit like this. My relative makes crazy claims about himself in front of his wife, who knows they’re not true, and she never bothers to say anything about it.
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Yep, infant of a diabetic mother- common reason to have to spend time (or more time) in the NICU. Also predisposes you to getting stuck on the way out resulting a broken collarbone and making your mom hemorrhage.
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Just gonna tag onto this comment because shoulder dystocia online is always presented as absolutely terrifying:
Just went through shoulder dystocia with my big ass son (did not have gestational diabetes, just was a big baby and had a big baby) and it was fine. They gave me a neat episiotomy and got him out with zero damage to either of us. 4 stitches and I didn’t need to ice after or anything.
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Ideally it’s terrifying for the staff and nbd for the patient. Sounds like you had an excellent team.
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Yeah, they were well prepared for the possibility which was excellent.
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My siblings and I all had high birth weights, so that's something to look forward to.
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TWINS!
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I really hate the brittle insecurity of "Mom World" (and I speak as a relatively prolific mom myself). This post brings back flashbacks of early motherhood years where you'd finally break out of the house and socialize with "other moms" and have to walk on eggshells around this shit. Meanwhile, nobody, fucking NOBODY, would engage you in discussion about ANY OTHER TOPIC. Ever. And if you tried you would be looked at like a talking donkey and shunned. So it would go like this:
(insecure mommy 1) : My Neil crawled at 9 months bla bla bla bla
(insecure mommy 2) : oh really my Steffy crawled over at 8 months
(me) : interesting, yeah huh
(insecure mommy 1) : when did your baby crawl?
me: uh probably around that same time yeah
(insecure mommy 2) : which one?
me: Uh like the second uh probably around seven, eight months
(insecure mommy 1) : *visibly angry* *goes to internet to rant*
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I get that kids wanna write themselves as the hero but damn this is dumb. Even a kid should know blatantly obvious lying doesn't carry weight in the real world.
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In case this story gets deleted/removed:
SIL insulted my kids so I exposed her lies
SIL is the kind of mom that always has to one up other kids. She constantly talks about how her kids are smarter, taller, faster etc than her friends' kids. She literally bragged about them peeing more than her friends' kids when they were babies lol.
It was worse when my husband and I had our twins. Suddenly everything was a competition (that her kids always won). One of my girls rolled over at 4 months, her son had rolled over when he was just a week old. The twins both took their first steps around 13 months, her daughter was RUNNING at 4 months. (She didn’t actually start walking until around 16 months). She even changed the weight of her kids’ birth weights which makes them both heavier than the current heaviest newborn in America. It’s so weird that she feels the need to tell such obvious lies, especially to people who know she’s lying because they were there when her kids were small.
I got annoyed when she went from lying about her own kids to telling me there is something wrong with mine. The girls are a few months shy of 2 and they’re both healthy, on track and hitting their milestones. SIL has become OBSESSED with the idea that there is something wrong with them because they’re not speaking in long sentences. Of course they’re not, they’re not even two! They’re both developmentally on track but she insists that her children were speaking in 5-6 word phrases by 18 months. (Spoiler - they were not). Honestly, her son is almost 7 and I can still barely understand a word the kid says.
My husband and I ignored her but she took it too far when I got a call from her friend who works in Early Intervention who was under the impression I was very concerned about my children. We talked and her friend confirmed that yes, they are on track and no, there’s nothing to worry about.
I finally lost my patience. Hey, her kids are breaking almost every record there is and that should be celebrated!
We had dinner with my husband’s family on Saturday (kids were in another room) and I decided it was the perfect time to give her my gift - a booklet I had printed and laminated called the ‘White Claw Book of World Records’. I printed all the supposed milestones of her kids, complete with photos and info of the actual world record holders now that they had been pushed to second place. She flipped through the first couple of pages, went beet red and called me an asshole. Her husband took it from her and got through the first page before laughing hysterically and asking her why the hell she was still lying? Apparently it was not the first time they’d talked about her lying about their kids.
She stormed out but texted me later that night and asked why I’d humiliated her when all she’d ever tried to do was help me get my kids the help they needed, but if that was how I wanted to treat her then she’d stop.
So I guess it’s a win for me!
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I like the part where the SIL apparently lied about her son rolling over at a week old. And her child running at four months? lmao. Couldn't even make it sound realistic. I also don't get the part about lying about the child's birth weight, honestly? Is SIL wanting to make a world record or something? lol.
I mean, its the evil SIL™. also a hot revenge story.
True. It just amuses me greatly that the troll is sort of so obvious about it being fake? Just with the claims the fake SIL apparently made. And yet, the commenters over there seem to believe it???
So this troll is based on that one SNL character that Kristin Wiig created right?
Funny thing is that there was this girl in our parenting/pregnancy birth month group… she did this exact kind of thing. Tried telling us kid rolled over at 4 weeks, said “I love you” at three months, etc.
Eventually, I responded that my son (still an infant) had just saddle broken out dog and was working on his manifesto. He was working on a goal of world domination. Another mom friend had a daughter… and she was going to be my boy’s evil Queen. Another boy’s mom said her son was already practicing mountain climbing. Our babies were still tiny then.
Crazy dumb lady was not the brightest crayon in the box.
Interesting. I have a relative who’s always making ridiculous claims about himself, and apparently has been doing so since he was at least mid-teens (now in his 60s). I think it’s narcissistic personality disorder or similar. It’s irritating enough that I’ve cut ties with him (although that’s more for the fact that he puts me down and says sexual things to me).
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