Crazies tried to take my kid by enabling a liar who hurt my child to make false claims in the first place as if that was ever okay, one who couldn't take care of a kid as instructed for 8 hours, one who goes off her bipolar meds while posing as a great foster mom after a month of that, and both who use other family members extensively to watch ( Read more... )

Just when I think oh my gosh, look I'm a mom at the same time friends are becoming Moms and that should mean we all realize we have to be careful and responsible adults for our children, I have a friend be one of the most terrible people ever in my life and yeah, frankly, a bit irresponsible with her own kid and incredibly irresponsible/dismissive ( Read more... )

Nothing to bring a family together like someone finally believing an experience some people die during might actually have been real risk to your health or life after seeing it in person. We have talked a few times now where I have been told, "I didn't think it would be that bad for you or risky, but you were right ( Read more... )

Now because I want my sibling to be my power of attorney, my Mom has spiraled off the deep end in how much she wants to rant and be generally terrible to me toward the end of my pregnancy. Unfortunately, for her self-absorbed persona, I am trying to keep my health fine to have my baby and am much more worried about preparing my body to have baby, ( Read more... )

Oh, there it is. So, I've been waiting on mood swings and irritability most of this pregnancy and just haven't had it. Family member provoked me, sure, but it wasn't an unexplainable mood swing. Think after I got a ton of stuff done earlier today, I'm starting to get one of those though. I don't like it, it's making me irritable and it might make ( Read more... )

I have been dealing with a parent who has been terrible to me most of my pregnancy because I'm tired and she doesn't get all of my energy when I'm tired. It's selfish, it's disturbing and then she tries to push boundaries constantly while I'm tired and get angry when she cannot drain every last minute and day of energy I have when I finally ( Read more... )

though lj looks taken over by bots on some of the main page now unfortunately ( Read more... )

to get back to more normal ( Read more... )

So, even though previous testing went on without donor inclusion because a donor has agreed to not be involved until age 18 of any possible children with ID disclosure to the child available at that point, only with some specific donors...this apparently had some kind of difference if it went directly from a clinic versus the sperm bank. This ( Read more... )

The only experience worse long-term is watching a man I thought I might spend my life with have a total mental breakdown he caused by going off his mental health medications and then leaving me to deal with his dog, when I didn't even have the fence fully up for a dog when the abandonment first happened, I was grieving the death of my father, and ( Read more... )