I had my baby in 2022. They were just letting up on Covid restrictions. My appointments during my pregnancy my husband wasn’t allowed to attend so I was alone. He was allowed at the hospital, but we still didn’t have any family.

Our situation was a little bit different because we live far from family so I wasn’t expecting anyone anyway. What hurt was that months in advance we told everyone that we were requesting all visitors to be up to date on vaccines, including Covid. My family waited until I was 2 days postpartum to tell me they weren’t getting any vaccines, even the tdap. Nobody in my immediate family met her for 7 months.

I think every individual person is different. I liked just having my husband and my child for the first several weeks before we had visitors. But that’s not what’s best for everyone. It’s definitely challenging at times living far away from family but we’ve lived away for over a decade at this point.

As for the hospital I think it’s okay to have a policy limiting the number of visitors at a time and the number in the birthing room but the parents should get to decide who.

We don’t make the bed neatly, but we do pull up the comforter because our dogs sleep in our bed during the day and I’d rather the sheets not be full of dog hair (more than they already are).

I’m not sure if I’m understanding this correctly, but I moved states for my (at the time) boyfriend. He got a new job that was a salaried position instead of retail. He moved in October and I finished out the school year but moved in with him again that summer. We’re now married with a house and a kid and he still has the same job so I think it all worked out

My office has it turned away so it’s easy to not look at it, but then it shows up in my records anyway

Honestly I didn’t notice a difference in my day-to-day until I stopped taking them in March. That was a noticeable adjustment. But when I start taking them in November it’s a gradual change and I don’t notice it

If it’s not on my phone calendar, it doesn’t exist. I put it in as soon as I’m making it, even putting my phone on speaker or using headphones if I have to call (yuck). I have calendars for work, personal, dogs, family, my preschooler, and just reminders. Dress up day for school? Calendar. Appointment? Calendar. Lesson/practice/sport? Calendar. Dog medicine? Calendar. Meeting friends for lunch? Calendar.

My husband does most of the cooking in our house. I’ll help with dinner today but for the most part I’ll be keeping the three year old entertained while he cooks

We have one daughter who is 3. I have an iud and he got a vasectomy so we are pretty firmly one and done. Financial reasons and attention reasons. We get to enjoy everything as a family together and also split duties so neither adult is feeling too overwhelmed. But we were always interested in being parents. It’s great to have this little person with her own personality and likes and dislikes that we get to watch grow and turn into whatever she wants to be. We each see a little of ourselves in her and we get to share things we love while also letting her discover her own interests. We get to share in her triumphs when she does something really hard (recently, reading books on her own or standing up when falling down on ice skates). There’s so much love there. She’s a cool little human.

Mandated reporters are people that are legally required to report abuse or suspected abuse. Teachers, social workers, physicians, etc.

I started on literature.cafe. I used it for awhile but there was an outage so I switched to lemm.ee. After they folded I joined lemmy.zip. I still use my account on literature.cafe, mostly at work because lemmy.zip is blocked for some reason. But literature.cafe doesn’t, or at least didn’t, federate with piefed and some of my communities I follow are there.

I’m able to get up quickly and stumble through my routine. I do the same thing every morning so I’m less likely to skip anything. I’m awake and fine after a few minutes and about 100% after a shower (twenty minutes or so). Sometimes in the shower I have to rethink my sleep because I’m likely to have super realistic dreams and I have to separate fiction and reality.

I handle problems by shutting down so if I’m upset or mad or you’re upset at me I’m not going to have a discussion about it in the moment. I need time and space. I will go silent. Eventually I’ll work through it and we can talk but it’s going to take a day or so.

I’m very organized and financially literate so there’s nothing being paid late and there’s a savings that will allow for trips and other treats, on top of the emergency fund.

I’m pretty good at gift-giving. I don’t do all the holidays but I can find something to get you that you didn’t think you wanted or needed.

I don’t have a lot of friends. So my partner is all I have.

I’m borderline asexual I think and I will not initiate. It’s not that I have a bad time with sex I just never want to.

I have really good work-life balance (especially for a teacher) so I’m not always working late or working at home.

My family is kinda fucked up (:

I’m super sentimental with stuff like this. I collect magnets from places so I try to grab a few on a vacation from different places we visit. I get a postcard that I put in a photo album with the dates and a short blurb. I get something for my daughter’s scrapbook/smash book. Each year I have a page with her picture and notes from her teachers, then a page of memories. There’s stickers, patches, tickets, wristbands, keychains, and medals in there. I like things that are small but meaningful

Which we do. But it’s not our first choice

Right. They could basically name their price. We want to do stuff the “right” way. There’s just no way.

Our struggle has been the enshittifcation of streaming the games. We don’t live in the market of our hockey team we like to watch. In order to actually get (legally) 95% of the games we would need to subscribe to about 5 different services and still be blacked out for the games against the “local” team, which is 4 hours away from us, unless we also pay for cable/satellite television as well. We used to legitimately pay for the service that the NHL offered where we could get just our team, or all of the games, for one season price. Then they split everything to all the different networks so now we’d need sling, TNT, espn+ (and the highest tier of it), nhl network, prime, Apple TV +, and a cable subscription

I’ve known several kids in upper elementary school who have a diagnosis but their parents won’t tell them or get them school accommodations or services. It’s just setting them up for failure.

Not to mention taxes, which go up every year, insurance, which goes up every year, and home maintenance.

A little different, but I used to hate roller coasters. Not sure when my turning point was but now I’ve ridden over 200 unique coasters at parks all over the US (even plan my vacations around them) and have shared this love with my three-year-old who was ridden a dozen unique coasters herself in the past year.

I can’t stand bananas. Taste or texture. I can do artificial banana flavor but anything with real bananas is gross. I wish I liked them because they’re inexpensive and generally nutritious.