crazywithfour

I have suspected for a few years that I have adhd and finally took the step to get evaluated for an actual diagnosis. Getting the appointment was its own battle (a story for a different time) but I managed it. The first part was an hour interview type session with a therapist. She sent me home with several paper questionnaires, 2 online ones, and a follow up appointment for some in-office quizzes. I had that second appointment last Monday (it was soooo tedious) and it ended with "once your insurance tells us how much you owe we'll call you, then after that we'll compile all your results and give them to you"

The initial therapist DID say it was a 4-6 week turnaround for a diagnosis/result.

I have suspected for a few years that I have adhd and finally took the step to get evaluated for an actual diagnosis. Getting the appointment was its own battle (a story for a different time) but I managed it. The first part was an hour interview type session with a therapist. She sent me home with several paper questionnaires, 2 online ones, and a follow up appointment for some in-office quizzes. I had that second appointment last Monday (it was soooo tedious) and it ended with "once your insurance tells us how much you owe we'll call you, then after that we'll compile all your results and give them to you"

The initial therapist DID say it was a 4-6 week turnaround for a diagnosis/result.

I finally messaged my NP to ask about resources I can use to get a diagnosis. There's so much overlap between anxiety, adhd, and depression symptoms (including that they can be symptoms of each other 🤦‍♀️) that I don't know what to believe. But the more I read and hear about women and adhd, the more it fits.

Now for hard part #2- reaching out to one of those resources to make an appointment. That's a next week problem!

Any advice for handling seeing my MIL over Christmas is welcome.

History: pre-pandemic we saw her semi-regularly but primarily at larger family events. Since large family events basically didn't happen for 2 years, we've seen her pretty rarely. She didn't meet my 2yo until he was 6mo old and that was from afar in my garage (he was born June 2020 and she met him in December, even though we offered several opportunities of nice weather outside visits in prior months). She's seen him a total of like 4 times.

She has met my 14mo old once, when she was a month old. I have a lot of negative feelings about this. She's basically a third parent to BILs kids (who are tweens) and has been since they

This is more of a post-breastfeeding question but hopefully someone here knows! My 12 month old self weaned and has decided she's done nursing. She's my final baby so I am d.o.n.e with breastfeeding, which means it's time to start looking at updating the wardrobe with some real bras again 😅. I don't want to jump the gun and end up wasting money on stuff that won't fit in a month or two!

*we've been done for about a week now and while I do feel a little fuller than normal I'm not swollen or anything

She turned 12 months last week and girlfriend looovves food. Over the last several weeks she's been less interested in nursing and more interested in just regular food. She does well getting in 3 full meals plus snacks (some days I feel like she eats more than my big kids!). I found some straw cups she is good at so she's been using those to drink whole milk at meals. Today she only nursed after lunch and before bedtime. Our breastfeeding time is slowly coming to an end.

I'm this weird mix of sad and overjoyed. She's my last baby so I'll never be doing this again. But in the last 10 years I've had 6 pregnancies, 4 births, and breastfed for a combined total of over 3 years. I'm so ready for

I just don't know what to do to motivate my kids to get moving in the morning. I have 4 kids- older 2 are 7 and 9, in 1st and 3rd grades, younger 2 are 2 and 10mo, home with me all day. I swear I spend more effort getting the big ones ready for the day than the little ones!

I feel like I've done everything I can to set them up for success- clothes get prepped in labeled drawers every Sunday for the upcoming week, they're theoretically getting plenty of sleep (bedtime is 8ish, they're normally asleep between 9 and 10, wake up at 7:10), I have prompts set up on their Alexa device to keep them on time and those prompts coordinate with a color-changing light for a visual cue as well. The bus co

My husband (30s, dx, medicated) is pretty upset by this so I need a gut check on if I'm being unreasonable.

My boundary: I will not manage his medical care, specifically arranging appointments for him. I will pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy if he needs me to and recently spend 2 days coordinating between him and 2 pharmacies to get his script sent somewhere else because of supply issues. So I will help, but I will not take over.

He pretty solidly blames me for his health being shit. Specifically because instead of calling behavioral health for him after he for a referral (relevant info: he also stutters, he apparently tried to call, stuttered/got stuck in his greeting, and got hun

So, I don't really care about the event decorations, I just played to play. If I don't use my event coins they roll over to regular coins after the event, right? I have about 7k in event coins stashed up as I've finished all the big tasks

And the prizes you get for buying decorations- are those in-event gift boxes or main board gift boxes?

I spent all morning collecting leaves and making water bottles so I could do the flower box daily task. Either I didn't hit the button fast enough or they fixed that multiple-use glitch 🙁. I had 5 water bottles ready but it only used 1 and gave me 1 box. Anyone else tried to use that hack this morning and have it work for them?

Ughhhh. I have level 10, 11, and 12 (big pile of money, gate, and briefcase) on the path to create the stone can. I'm soooo close but I feel like this last bit is taking for.ev.er. If I stay on top of it I'm hoping I might finish it this weekend! Then I can sell the gate and the bushes and clear up some board space.

How many Peony plants is it logical to keep? I create them pretty quickly but I was hesitating to get rid of them because once I do I'll need several! I have 6.5 right now.

Hi! I have a 4mo old that is currently combo fed. At her 4 month well check her weight gain was not sufficient so we added in some formula, about 6-8 oz total per day. I'd like to work on increasing my supply to get back to being EBF if possible.

Info that seems pertinent: She latches well. She sleeps a solid 8 hours overnight I am home with her almost 24/7 I rarely pump simply because I don't really need to but will be using one between feedings to encourage supply. I have a Spectra S2 (I think? The plug in one)

I'm not great at drinking water so I know I need to do better at that. Will increasing water intake and adding pumping time be enough to do it?

What other ridiculous questions have you asked yourself about children's books?

My two older kids are 6 and 8, both boys, both diagnosed ADHD. That's relevant because chores and things requiring focus take longer and I get that, but there has to be a line.

I took away access to the basement playroom for about the last 2 months because they trashed it and no matter how much help they got it never stayed anywhere close to clean. I re-opened it yesterday and told them the baseline rules of 1) clean up what you get out after you're done 2) help others remember to clean up also 3) stay out of the art area (because I'm working on a project) and 4) stay out of the fridge (it's an extra fridge that's only for soda and extra stuff).

In the 24 hours they've had it back they've