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I've been struggling with an eating disorder and various mental health issues for the majority of my life. This is my second time in treatment. I did an inpatient program for nearly two months, and I'm currently attending a partial hospitalization program. I've learned some things that I wish I knew earlier in life, so I wanted to share.

Eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes. Behaviors vary widely, as do the body types of men and women who struggle with them. You do not need to look a certain way to be diagnosed with or die from an eating disorder. I waited so long to get help because I didnt feel that I looked like someone who had an eating disorder. I didnt look like those thin m

I will be getting a $400 gift card to diapers.com and want to go on a little cloth diaper shopping spree, but don't know what to get. My daughter is six weeks and we've been using mostly covers with prefolds and homemade fitteds. I have one pocket and a couple aio's that I adore. Brand wise I'm loving rumparooz for the fit in the legs. We have one bum genius that works and a best bottom that I'm meh about. I'm liking snaps over hook and loop.

We had planned on covers and homemade fitteds mostly for the cost, but this is "free" to us so idk now what to do. Are pockets super annoying to stuff versus just getting aio's? Or is the extra drying time not worth it?

Okay. So what would you buy? I

It’s been just about a week since my labor started, so I thought I’d take some time to share the story! This is probably going to be long....

But, of course, here's the pictures first!

My labor started early afternoon on Thursday 3/17 (38 weeks exactly). That morning, I had gone to the OB for a checkup and cervical exam. I was 1cm and 20% effaced. My BP had been high (150s/90s), so we scheduled an NST for that afternoon. I went to a meeting at work and then to the hospital for the test. She passed with flying colors. My mom happened to be at the same hospital for an MRI so we had carpooled. While waiting for her to finish, I started having contractions. I timed

Hey friends! I'm expecting my first baby in March and trying to figure out the best way to buy a nursing bra in a correct size. I know the normal rule of thumb is "go up a cup size", but I'm not sure if that was accurate or not. In your experience, how much bigger did you have to go?

I plan on buying one bra to have ready at the hospital and hope to wait as along as possible to buy more (because they are not cheap in my size!). But even buying that one, I'm at a loss. For my specific situation, I was a 40H pre-pregnancy and am currently wearing a 42JJ. How much bigger can a girl expect to get?

Along the same lines, where do you buy good nursing bras that fit?

We finally decided on a super awesome name for our baby girl - Freya Mars! I told my mom that we think we have the name figured out (but didn't tell her the name yet), and she asked if we were going to do a fancy schmancy name reveal. I've never seen one from a friend/family member, but I guess she has and thinks they are cute. But, in typical mom style, can't remember exactly what people did. Just that they are cute.

Now, we've already done the baby announcement and had a gender reveal thing, but I've never heard of a name reveal. Honestly, I just figured that I'd start referring to her as Freya and people would get the id

And I don't mean in the bathroom :(

I was wandering around to waste time today and stupidly wandered into the canned soup aisle. I looked at the chicken soup and... Splat. There was no warning. Thankfully I haven't eaten today so there wasn't much (just water really). I felt so bad trying to find a worker to help me clean it up. I was tempted to just run out, but that would be rude of me. Thankfully the worker was nice. I think he was just relieved that I was pregnant and didn't have the flu or something. I wrote his name down and am going to call to place a compliment for how he handled the situation. I'm still cringing at home about it.

I have HG but I've never had this happen in public