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Every goddamn fucking Friday my husband has this horrible long 14 hour shift.

We have a velcro baby. He's pretty advanced and wants to do everything he's not physically capable of doing yet, and when he gets frustrated he fights sleep or screams if I attempt to put him down... so we have to play the roulette game of "what do I want/what will make me stop screaming for 5 minutes." Usually he wants to be held all the time, and all of 5 baby carriers I bought do not work for him. He hates it, and so does my back.

I can't eat or drink when I have him with me. He knocks food out of my hands, so I have to literally grab something and inhale it. If I put him down in his walker or the floor he

There's this virus that's going around the US/midwest, and my son and I are both sick. It's awful. My sister and niece just recovered from it a few days ago and apparently it takes 2-3 days to pass, but it takes you by surprise because it's freakin' summer.

I start school again tomorrow and I had a fever of 103 last night. My husband had to take over, and now our son wants nothing to do with me since I was being the bad guy earlier and taking his rectal temperature. He screamed for daddy all morning and is asleep on the floor now, but at least he's napping. His fever hit 100 degrees last night, and he's now fussy but hates my guts.

I'm on my 2nd energy drink. FML. Also, my husband is getti

I got a copper IUD last month, and I absolutely cannot stand anything. AF started like 7 days ago and I'm still bleeding. It's this very light period thing that's mostly spotting. Before the IUD I was a torrent of blood for about 5 days max. I'm not sure which is more annoying.

Also, I started working out yesterday after about a year of nothing. Good for me, right? No. I rage-jogged 4 miles to burn off the PMS and get some time away from the baby.

Guess what? I hurt myself. My hips are pretty weak and even though I did physical therapy not too long ago and was okay'd to do this shit, I apparently am not.

I came back from the gym. Baby was completely inconsolable due to the fact I was gon

I scrubbed the carpet yesterday, folded laundry, sorted books for donation, did 6 loads of dishes, bought Christmas gifts on Amazon, read the bub 8 stories, did finances, did my dad's finances, did my brother's finances, cleaned the couches, and made my husband dinner. The next day: I can't even move. I had two hours of sleep because the baby is teething and constantly wants mama.

My 4 month old son wants to sleep either on the floor (on a blanket, specifically with Handy Manny playing on the TV) or in my arms. I sat and held him in the rocker for 4 hours when he took his nap this morning, now he's asleep on the floor in front of the TV while I have Handy Manny on. Now, I feel bad that al

A while ago, I posted about our 5 year ordeal with our cat peeing on me and everything in the apartment. I had tried everything behaviorists recommended, seen all the vets in the area, nothing was wrong and nothing really helped. We couldn't find anything that would solve the problem.

Things got worse. The cat destroyed about $5,000 worth of our property during his life with us. I couldn't go anywhere without smelling of urine. My husband's job was in jeopardy due to the constant urine smell that we just couldn't seem to get rid of, and then I got pregnant. I had the baby and it obviously wasn't sanitary to continue to live like this. At our vet's urging, we took him to the shelter that he

My cousin Brittany has a spouse that is emotionally, physically, and verbally abusive. Her name is Jennifer. They met a year ago and randomly got married after a month of dating/knowing each-other. Brittany is head over heals for this woman, and I have no idea why. She is the polar opposite of anyone she has ever dated, and honestly I think she might be a sociopath.

Jen is an alcoholic, a felon, and quite recently has gotten Brittany into drinking excessively just about every single day with her and doing drugs (nothing serious, just a ton of pot when she was previously against that sort of thing.) Britt also had to bail her out of jail a number of times for theft and she recently has lost

I had pretty much one of the worst 4th of July/Independence Days ever, but at least my kid looked cute and I got some nice pictures out of it.

• Expectation: We had planned to go to City Hall at 8:30am because they were having a nice breakfast thing going on, then my son and I were supposed to be in a tiny parade from 9:30-10:30 with the people from our library. If things went okay, we would later on get pictures with some "superheros" (old co-workers dressed up as Batman and Superman - they work at a comic book shop.) Pretty sweet day, huh? It was the best I could do since all of it (minus decorations) was a free community event and we're a bit broke. I foolishly thought I did well.

• Re

So, I'm out of antidepressants for my postpartum depression and have been stretching them out for a couple weeks because our insurance refused to fill the last prescription, and my husband said he'd set things up to order them through the mail (which I have enough trouble getting with an infant and running down three flights of stairs to catch the mailman, but I digress.) It took him about two months to do it (I needed his insurance info and social security number), and now I'm having a bad reaction.

I had to get up just about once every hour last night because our son wouldn't sleep through the night and my husband simply won't get out of bed whatsoever anymore to help out with the night f

A relative started messaging me. She's currently making odd comments on my Facebook because my newborn isn't circumcised. I don't really have any super strong feelings in regard to male circumcision. Half of my family is uncut, so is about half my husband's family. All the guys are happy. I don't know why my son's penis enrages her so.

My son was born with a birth injury. I had precipitous labor and fucked up my pelvis as well as my son's head. He is fine, but was born tiny (smallest baby in the nursery even though he was near 42 weeks) with a rather large hematoma on the top of his skull. I didn't want him to go through anything else painful that wasn't a hundred percent necessary and that

We have tried everything and he only wanted to sleep in my arms or in the damn vibrating chair thing, which he is slowly outgrowing. We bought a co-sleeper before he was born, and we couldn't use it because I have trouble getting out of bed. Then we bought a pack-and-play, and he would tolerate it for maybe 2-3 hours at the most for naps... sometimes.

So, I've been sitting on the couch with the little guy for the past month. I'll lay him down on the cushion and watch him closely. I just sit there and he falls asleep. I was trying to explain to my husband for the past MONTH that he would probably sleep better in the crib due to the mattress.

He wouldn't freaking listen to me and has been

So after 3 or 4 back-to-back pregnancies and one baby to show for it all, my thyroid is saying "LOL fuck this shit." I was just diagnosed with hyperthyroidism at about 6 weeks postpartum. I'm a wreck. To be fair, I've been wondering what the hell was wrong with me and I've been having my issues brushed aside as "Oh, well that's just what it's like to have a newborn! Tee Hee!"

I had a relative come help with the baby boy since this and postpartum depression is destroying me. I managed to get a doctor's appointment to get on medication, which is good... but in the meantime the baby actually exhausted the help, and now it's just my husband and me.

The help was a bit ridiculous. I'd wake up a

I have like, zero options and it's killing me.

To start things off, my child is a little over a month old right now and he's a big eater. He started off as the smallest baby in the nursery so the pediatrician had us supplement with formula - which people are telling me was a big no-no.

Whatever, I was exhausted and it sounded like an okay thing if it was temporary. Well...we can't get him off of it now due to his insane appetite, and I have no time to pump ahead for when daddy takes over and I get a few precious hours of sleep. I sleep from 8pm-1am then I take over and dad sleeps from 1pm-8pm and then he leaves for work. I used to be able to pump ahead, now I can't manage the time, abilit

I think I've posted on Reddit before about this situation, but I've been awake forever and I have some serious brain fog so forgive me. In 2010, my husband and I adopted a relatively young cat from an animal shelter. The cat ended up being very sick with a heart condition, and the shelter never really realized it. It's eventually terminal, but not painful. We weren't really prepared to take care of such severe medical needs already, but we made it work for a while under the advisement of a vet who told us that the shelters would put him down if we returned him because his issues are so expensive and complicated he's not adoptable.

Right now I pay $1000/year for his medical issues. He has s

Did anyone else experience severe back pain a few weeks postpartum, because I'm about to go crazy.

I had a quick labor (15 minutes apparently of pushing) and dropped 30lbs so far which I am certain sounds awesome to a lot of people, but my back is making it impossible for me to take care of my son. I have an old injury from 5th grade and it feels like it's flaring up again. I have been to 3-4 chiropractors and they haven't been any help whatsoever and I'm waiting on my insurance to change over in a week before I see my general practitioner.

My husband seems to think that the rapid weight loss is just making me sick, but doctors haven't said anything about it and my sister-in-law says

My son was born 3/25/15 at 7pm. I was originally admitted 7am for an induction, but after they broke my waters I still remained at 1cm dilated and 75% effaced. I was told I was having contractions but I couldn't feel them. They offered me a labor ball or medicine that would get things going relatively quickly. I didn't want to wait around for another day so I opted for meds... which started contractions that went from mild cramping to period from hell in a few hours. By 2pm I was shaking like an addict, having mild seizures/tremors (I'm an epileptic and stress triggers my seizures) and my vision started going blurry. I asked for an epidural, which was uncomfortable but not as terrible as wha