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Is anyone else having this problem? I've had two sales this week and no emails from etsy, which is how I primarily track new orders. For one of them I got a notification in the etsy app, so that was ok. But for another one I had no idea until the buyer messaged me a few days later confirming the colours they wanted. They're legit sales and they appear in my orders on the website. I'm not being very active with my shop right now, just keeping it open and filling orders as they come in, so it's kind of important that I don't miss any. I checked my settings and there's no changes there.

My shop is only very new and I'm a bit confused about how to price postage on my items. I sell paper goods which are quite light and usually fit into the letters category when mailing them, but I had a recent order of 3 of my paper buntings. On their own these are quite small and light weight, but 3 in one envelope made it a bit bulky and the Aus Post worker deemed it to be a parcel over a letter and charged me $7.something instead of the $1.40 I was expecting. I had charged the buyer $4 postage so obviously I was out of pocket. I have a decent profit margin on this item so as a once-off I'm not too bothered by it but I'm not sure how to go about avoiding it in the future?

My default is $2

Due to GD, my doctor wanted to induce me on Dec 19, so baby would be born on Dec 20 (my due date). After two days of a failed induction, they sent me home to return in a few days (part 1 of my story is here). We went back on Monday afternoon - quick cervix check - STILL 2 cm, high, but midwife was confident she could break my waters if she had to. They weren't going to use anymore prostin gel, but decided to give it another attempt. First dose was inserted at about 3pm and I felt no contractions. Second dose was inserted at about 10pm and I instantly started feeling VERY strong contractions. I mentioned to

I was supposed to have my baby yesterday :(

I have insulin-dependant GD so I went in for induction Thursday afternoon, and was promised baby would be born on Friday (my due date). They checked me and I was 2cm, but cervix was super high. Did one dose of the prostin gel, checked me 6 hours later - no change. They did another dose that brought on some strong contractions and left me overnight. They didn't check me in the morning, but I was having very consistent and strong contractions all day - 4 minutes apart, 1 minute long - so they just left me to my own devices. The labour ward was full so they didn't want to do anything unless it looked like I was in full-blown labour. They finally chec

I'm 37 weeks pregnant with baby #2, and my daughter is nearly 14 months old.

I've tried to read up on how to best manage the transition for our daughter, but everything I've found seems to be aimed at kids older and more aware than her (2+). She's a pretty typical 14 month old - walks confidently and uses a small number of words but understands a lot of what I'm saying. She's very strong-willed (and strong) but still very young and communication can be a barrier.

We've talked about her little brother for a long time now. She's very interested in my growing belly and a couple of days ago when we said baby boy's name, she pointed to my belly. We've read some books to her about a baby coming

I thought I'd share this for anyone else who is thinking of doing the same thing.

We first gave Avy a dummy at about 3 or 4 weeks (after initially planning on not using one at all, ha!), initially just to calm her when she was really upset, then over time that gradually morphed into every time she fell asleep, until eventually she couldn't fall asleep without it. Oops! We decided when she was 4 months old that we'd start to wean her at 6 months. Since she had become incapable of falling asleep without it, it became somewhat trying to be in the car with her when it fell out of her mouth. She had become pretty adept at finding it in her cot and putting it back in, so we never had too many nig

Now that I'm over 3 months postpartum, I did the 2hr glucose test last week and am happy to report that my fasting, 1 hr and 2hr numbers were all incredibly normal! So so happy. I had hypothyroidism while I was pregnant as well, and that's back to normal. My only issue is slightly low Vitamin D but that's quite common in the general population so it's no real surprise.

They did stress the importance of breastfeeding for as long as possible as it helps keep your blood sugars stable (although it can also make you absurdly hungry, so it's a battle) and also to try and plan your next pregnancy so you can get blood tests done beforehand and be in optimal health to try and delay the onset of GD f