Book of the day: No Matter The Wreckage by Sarah Kay
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Book of the day: No Matter The Wreckage by Sarah Kay
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Incredible? More like scum. He votes for archaic women’s health laws, drilling without consent of property owners, conceal and carry without a permit, among some of his far right wing policies.
I guess this means Leah is also voting Trump.
😒
Is David a recovering addict too?
Well, recovering about as well as Jenelle lol. He is a drug user.
Yep. He’s a pill and heroin addict, and more than likely still using. His exes have both brought up his past drug use.
im bored of boys…the ones 18-20 are sooo boring and dry and young and stupid and they could get ugly in a couple of years cant trust them oh and they just want to bust that nut but 22-26 swear they grown and think im trying to hear some fake deep bullshit on the 3rd conversation… and everyone else 27+ is just too mentally and emotionally developed for me to not feel threatened
So date someone 21
17th Feb 2016.
tag yourself, i’m zoot
Welcome to Episode: your home for interactive, visual stories, where as the player YOU choose what path your character takes!
@communistbakery because why not
sending “I hope you get that job” vibes to the people out here tryna get jobs
reblogging for yall bc the shit worked for me lol
Karma will pop me if I don’t
The little man looks you in the eyes and you look at his and you see yourself in him. Then he smiles that special, toothless smile. You know, the one he uses just for you. He looks up at you with those impossible baby blue eyes and smiles that perfect little smile…and you melt.
Dan Poore (of That Poore Baby)
New Things!!
Me, my twin sister and Sean went away for 2 nights to Disneyland in Paris, unfortunately Miles stayed with my Auntie back here in England, anyway… I’ve returned home and he can crawl!!
You won’t remember the way I stood in the bathroom late that night in labor with you, fearfully and excitedly gazing up at the moon, knowing I was going to bring you into the world soon and whispering to you, “We can do this.” You won’t remember the way you looked at me right after you were born, or the way I pulled you up next to my heart and marveled “Hi, baby” in your ear. You won’t remember the way you healed my broken spirit. The way you completed my heart. I was weak before I had you, and you made me whole again. You won’t remember the way I proudly watched you everywhere we went, you were always the most beautiful boy in the room to me. You won’t remember the way you made me laugh with all of the silly things you did. I saw how kind your heart was. You won’t remember the way I would brush the hair off of your forehead and the way you’d look up at me. Without any words, our souls could touch and say everything to each other that words couldn’t. You won’t remember the tickle fests we had, and how I always cheated so I could hold you close and cover your salty little face in kisses. You won’t remember all the times I went to bed at night and felt such fear being your mother: Am I doing okay? Have I messed up too many times already? Can I be the kind of mother he needs? You won’t remember the way my heart broke and grew a little bigger each time you passed a milestone, watching the sand fall through the hourglass while feeling overjoyed witnessing you expand and grow. You won’t remember the way I would hold your little feet in my hands, imagining how much bigger than my own feet they will one day grow, and how I will have to let you go. You won’t remember, but I will… and I’ll hold these memories in my heart for the both of us.
Jessica Dimas The Huffington Post (via make-it-rainicorn)
I am literally sobbing
(via momma-taye)
My little (big) bump
Miles at 7 Months Routine - He’s finally got himself into a routine! I thought he would be one of these baby’s who would never do it! I didn’t want to force him into one before he was ready, I guess he needed 7 months :-) He normally wakes between half five and half six, although recently, he’s been waking at 5:40 on the dot… Not okay when he’s not sleeping through the night!! He used to be able to sleep through the night on a more often than not occasion but he’s growing 4 new teeth at the same time at the moment!!! So he can be up quite a lot during the night! He usually goes down for bed around half eight and half nine. After waking, (at 5:40 😩😩!)I’ll feed him a bottle and he’ll go with his daddy who gets ready for work, whilst I sleep in until 8 when daddy actually goes off to work. Miles will then nap until half nine. Depending on how much he’s been up during the night and what I’m up to during the day sometimes I will continue to sleep with him, so it’s not all bad :-) we’ll then get up properly and I’ll feed him a real breakfast. Usually a mushed up banana and strawberries or he loves porridge at the moment! He can finish a whole bowl… I can’t even do that!! We’ll then play/shower/get dressed/housework/go out together, and then he’ll have another nap at mid day. If he’s being particularly fussy, sometimes a bottle of milk will help him go down for this nap. He’ll then wake around an hour after going down, I’ll feed him lunch (toast/pasta/chicken and veg/then a yogurt or fruit pot. We will then continue with our day, if he hasn’t had a bottle mid morning then he’ll have a bottle mid afternoon, usually one or the other. He then has his last nap between 2 and 3 for about an hour and a half. Daddy comes home around half four and it’s more playtime!! I’ll feed him dinner between half five and half six (spaghetti bolognese/roast dinner/mixed vegetables/toast/anything we’re having). Every other night he has a bath and then it’s bottle it’s bed… And repeat!! Teeth - Miles started teething really early, about 3 months and had 2 teeth by 4 and a half months. He’s now growing four top teeth, they’ve just pushed their way through!! He’s really good at sitting and having his teeth brushed, I think he likes the taste of his baby toothpaste lol. Favourite toys - His shakers and drums, this kid loves making noise!! He always has the biggest smile when we show him Sophie the giraffe, she’s been a firm favourite for a while! He’s also taken a strong liking to a truck recently. Favourite books - Snuggle bunny and snowy bear!! They’re puppet books, he loves the puppets tickling his face! I’d love to say his favourite books are the old classics I bought him that I loved, the rainbow fish, the tiger who came to tea and the hungry caterpillar but although he does love them, snuggle bunny always wins!! He really does love sitting and reading with me though, I think it’s the only time he sits still haha. Favourite things - The TSB advert, it has a little whistling theme tune that always catches his attention and makes him smile!! He likes the new Oreo advert too!! Ever since we’ve moved him into the big boy bath he’s become a right water baby!! He loves a good old splash! And lastly KEYS and NECKLACES! He’s always eyeing everybody’s keys and necklaces up, my little magpie! Favourite foods - Banana every time! Just like his daddy, I hate them! Yogurts and fruit pots, he can wolf these down in a second! I don’t think he’s a massive fan of finger foods. I’ve really encouraged him to try eat by himself but I think he’s just a bit lazy or maybe he’s just not ready?? Favourite people - Of course me and daddy! His smile is always big for daddy when he walks through the door and sees him! Nanny Trish, auntie Haley always and Cassie the dog! And when the next door neighbours cats in the garden catch his eyes he won’t look away until they’re over the fence!
He can - Miles has been able to sit up since 4 months, he really mastered it at 5 and half months though. He can save when people wave by to him, he’s been doing this for about a month. On the rare occasion I’ve left him for a second with a half empty bottle I’ve seen him feed himself… I’ve tried to encourage him to do it when I’m with him, so has Sean, but I guess he doesn’t because he knows mummy and daddy will do it haha. He copy’s people. I think this is my favourite thing he does, when people make a noise with their mouth that catches his attention he’ll do it back. Lately he’s been clicking with his mouth when we do it to him. And sometimes he’ll even start it. It’s sooo sweet when he does this!! He did this for the first time with auntie Haley around 4 months but has just really only gotten then hang of it. He can FINALLY hold him dummy in his mouth without us helping!! We gave him a dummy for the first time at about 3 months, and he just couldn’t understand how to suck it in place!! He eventually learned that if he put his hand up to his dummy it would hold in place. He now can keep his dummy in without his hand being there but he mostly keeps his hand there just out of habit I think. So cute!! He can roll over! I THINK he’s been doing this since about 5 months, but I can’t really remember, bad mummy!! He can hold out his hands when people hold out theirs to pick him up/cuddle him. It’s so sweet! Auntie Haley taught him this, and he’s been doing it for about 3 weeks. He’s on And lastly, he can walk!! Haha not actually, but if you hold him up by the hands, he’ll take steps all by himself!! Really big steps too!
My Birth Story
Please be prepared, this will be a fairly long post! I had a fairly long labour! 3 whole days!!! When I was pregnant, I had a tumblr, but only used it to follow pregnancy and mummy blogs. I never posted nor did I really follow that many people, but I used to LOVE scrolling through random peoples birth story’s (weird I know.) I love everything about labour and people bringing life into the world! I always intended to start up a blog and so badly wanted to write out my labour, so knowing this, after Miles was born, I put pen to paper and put my whole birth story from start to finish in a little scrap book and tucked it away. So now, here it is…
I had to be induced at 38 weeks and 1 day, the little baby (we didn’t know if it was a she or a he in there) was playing havoc with my right kidney (I was hospitalised twice with a kidney infection 😩 naughty baby!). Half of me was pretty gutted about being induced, I loved the thought of not knowing when the baby could be here and was so looking forward to the moment my waters broke and I knew the baby was on the way. The other half of me was more than excited, I knew when I was having this baby and it was soon!! We was due into the ward at 8 in the morning, on Monday the 15th of September, only after the baby had blessed me with one last morning of sickness of course. Me and Sean waited anxiously for what felt like ages outside the wards doors with our little suitcase and with two other couples, one was being induced, the other was up there to have her baby checked. When we were in, I had to take my last wee in a tube (YAY!!) and sit in the waiting room. The other couple were called in straight away. Me and Sean on the other hand waited in there for what actually was AGES! I think we read every single piece of material there was to be read! I remember, my nan text me wishing me luck and told me not to scream (I’m proud to say I didn’t) and use all my energy on getting the baby out. Not long after that text we heard a woman scream, and I mean scream!!! Me and Sean just looked at each other in horror, our faces must of been a picture. When we were finally seen too, I was shown a bed, had everything explained to me, was examined and had a pessary put inside me. We we’re told we was going to have a baby by Tuesday or Wednesday. My heart was set on the Tuesday!! We had to wait six hours for the pessary to work so we were left to occupy ourselves. I think we mostly just chatted and scrolled on our phones, this bits a bit fuzzy in my head :-(. After the six hours were up the same midwife came and re examined me and NOTHING :-(! So I had another pessary inside me and had to wait 24 hours for this one to work! Again we just chatted mostly but by the evening I could feel some tummy cramps, I have never been more excited to feel cramps!! We went for a walk around the hospital and I sat in Costa whilst Sean hunted for a machine to top the hospital tv card up with! He was gone a while because they was all out of order and by this point I had to silently breath my self through the pain. This little old lady got chatting to me and could see I was pained so came and sat next to me and tried her hardest to take my mind off it! She could talk for England but was so sweet!! I met her son too and the baby made it’s first two new friends :-). Sean eventually came back and I said goodbye to them both and they wished me luck. Me and Sean had to wait outside for Sean’s mum because the whole day Sean had been searching everywhere for a tens machine for when I was in labour and he couldn’t find not one. So he’d asked his mum to drive to tesco and see if she could get him one, there was a reason why he couldn’t get one and she could but again this parts fuzzy in my head. Anyway, she met us outside WITHOUT a tens machine 😩 (I eventually did get a tens machine, I only used it in the early stage of my labour, it was actually kind of uncomfortable, I didn’t really know how to use it properly though and didn’t understand how to breathe with it, so gave up and sticked to the good old gas and air.) She instead gave us a few old towels and magazines and some words of encouragement for me. By this time my pain was uncontrollable! It felt like someone had lit a raging fire in my belly. As we were waiting for Sean’s mum I was begging him to take me up to the room, and he was adamant we had to wait for her, I’m the freezing cold, whilst I was in labour!!!!!!! I was crying and getting more and more agitated with him. When Sean’s mum finally arrived she talked for what felt like a year. They were sweet words and she was so lovely driving all that way for us but I just wanted to go back up to my room and go to sleep! When we got back to the room my best friend, Sophie and her mum had managed to talk there way in and sneak me a lemonade from Costa (my favourite). I was sat bouncing on the birthing ball trying to manage my pain without drugs and I was being so clipped and short with Sophie and her mum. I just couldn’t talk through the pain. I feel really bad for how I was with them but I guess they understood. Especially Gloria lol. After they left, about 9pm I think it was, Sean got me a nurse and I begged her for some pethidine. It makes me really sick but I loved that floaty barely there feeling it gives you. It took the pain away and sent me off to sleep at last. Sean was allowed to stay the night but he had to sign an agreement that said he was only there for me and wasn’t meant to sleep??? I didn’t really get it, it was a new thing the ward had bought in, I was just happy it meant he could stay overnight with me. I slept like the dead until Sean woke me up at half one in the morning climbing into my hospital bed, that was obviously a single!!!!!!! He actually really annoyed me so I just told him to go home and get a good night sleep, I felt a bit sorry for him, he had been sleeping on a hard chair after all lol. I can’t really remember what time I got up the next morning, I think it was about half eight, Sean came back and I showered and we watched tv most of the morning. My 24 hours had been up, so the midwife came and examined me again and….I was only ONE CENTIMETRE DILATED… After all that pain haha!! My midwife was actually quite impressed though because when she checked my uterus/womb (??) lining the day before she said it was really hostile and didn’t expect much, so that was a bit comforting at least. She advised us to take lots of walks round the hospital so that’s exactly what we did. Sean again, went to top up the tv card and I bumped into someone I knew so got chatting. As I said though, pethidine makes me sooooo sick and midway through our conversation I apologised and had to excuse myself to go RUNNING to the toilet to be sick! After id cleaned myself up, had a cup of tea (hospital cup of teas are the best!!) and gotten changed, me and Sean took a walk to the near by Tesco and got loads of snacks. We then sat on a bench and chatted and played silly games. That’s one of my favourite memories of my labour. It was the last sweet little moment that me and Sean had together, it was a really pretty sunny day too. I thought it would be a perfect day for the baby to arrive… But no!! The rest of the day was pretty much uneventful, we took loads of walks around the hospital and I sent Sean for loads of trips to the tea maker lol. About 9pm, we was squashed on my bed watching the Liverpool game together when I felt a bit funny. I sat myself up and water just gushed out of me! I was so surprised because i had been painless all day!! Sean laughs at this memory because i apparently shot up with a look of horror on my face and said ‘omg, something’s coming out of me’! Haha ewww gross. Sean went running to a midwife and I went to the toilet to clean myself up, I was in there for ages because I couldn’t believe the amount of water that was coming out of me!!!!! The midwife gave me these massive pads and I changed and had to sit on a towel for ages lol. There was talk about taking me to a delivery room and helping me along but they wanted to see if I could progress overnight by myself. That night was kind of fuzzy too. I think I just slept and Sean went home again. I woke up in the morning to who would be my first delivery midwife, her name was Susanne, nudging me awake. She told me to pack up all my stuff because… I was going to delivery!!!!! I was having a baby that day!!! I was checked and had only progressed point 5 of a centimetre in all that time lol. Really?? I called Sean and told him to come in right away!! He met me in the delivery suite and they hooked me up to a hormone drip and wow is that stuff magic!!!!!!! My contractions were coming fast and strong! I asked for some more pethidine almost straight away I think and again, it made me quite sick but at least I was away in my own little world haha. I can’t remember when I got to however many centimetres dilated but my active labour only lasted 3 hours and 56 minutes in the end, a fast labour for a first timer apparently. I hadn’t really eaten much of my breakfast so my midwife went and got me some food, it was a cold chicken and pasta salad, cold pasta is my nightmare but I was so hungry I ate it all!! Sean fed it to me while I say on the edge of the bed with my eyes closed completely out of it. All I remember is being STARVING. I was surprised I could even think about being hungry whilst being in all that pain, but apparently my tummy won out lol. I remember all my pregnancy books drummed into me to stay hydrated and keep my lips moist with lip seal. I took that so seriously and requested my water bottle and lip seal every 2 minutes. I didn’t get dry lips or a dry mouth once though haha. By this point I was really out of it on gas and air, Sean says I mostly just stayed sat on the very edge of the bed with my eyes closed breathing through it all lol. Everyone joked that he would faint whilst I was on labour and wouldn’t be able to handle it (he gets a bit woozy if I cut my finger lol) I was actually quite worried about having him as my birthing partner because I knew I needed someone who would get really stuck in, and… He did just that!! I was so surprised!! In the thick of my pain he would talk me down a set of stairs, with each stair I passed down my pain would ease up a little bit and at the bottom of the stairs would be a bath of warm water I would climb into and it would make my pain completely melt away. It really worked, every time he finished about the bath my contraction would tail off! He was amazing! Even the midwife said it!!! At one point he changed it to walked up the stairs and I started getting a bit hysterical because it wasn’t working as well, I heard the midwife whisper to him that most women in labour likes to stick with one technique so he carried on talking me into the tub haha. So sweet!! At some point My midwives swapped over as Susanne had finished her shift, I started crying when she told me she had to go, she told me if I could hold on till next Monday she’d be back haha!! There was no need to cry because my next midwife was just as amazing, her name was Jemma. And she brought Miles into the world. I feel like I got really lucky having two amazing midwives because I had read some real horror story’s about neglectful midwives! She mentioned to me that I hadn’t wee’d in ages despite all the water I was drinking and threatened me with a catheter. I told her I needed to try first but unfortunately ended up having the catheter fitted 😩!! I started to feel really funny and kept pacing back and forth to the toilet not really knowing what to do with myself because I needed the toilet but couldn’t go to the toilet, that’s when my midwife told me… You don’t need the toilet, you need to have a baby!!!! So onto the bed I got, I kneeled, using the back of the bed as my support and had my hands wrapped around Sean’s arms. Sean said at the worst of my pushing my fingers turned a bluey black because I was clinging onto him so hard!! Apparently, when the midwife told me to get my knickers off I point blank refused and got really hysterical when she insisted. I don’t remember any of this lol. Obviously I eventually got my knickers off and Miles was on his way! I remember asking, through gritted teeth, for an epidural, but the midwife told me it was too late! I’m really glad it was too late because I actually really didn’t want one, I hate the thought of not being able to feel the whole lower half of my body! I just put all my focus and energy into pushing, the only other words I spoke was when I asked how much longer it would take him to arrive. I must of asked every five minutes, having a set time to focus on really helped me concentrate on pushing. The first midwife told me I was going to have a little baldy when she examined me and I was gutted haha!! So when the second midwife told me she could see his head, the first thing I asked was has he got hair… Haha priorities!! His shoulders appeared and he just thought he would hang out there for a little while. The midwife said he was wiggling about having a look around, she asked Sean if he would like to come look but he was under strict instructions to stay by my head haha! I gave one last big exhausting push and all 7 pounds and 10 ounces of my little baby BOY entered the world at 5:40pm on Wednesday the 17th of September, 10 days before his due date and 4 days before his mummy’s birthday!! What a gift!! Sean got the first glimpse of him as I had my back turned and he was streaming! I’ve never seen him cry like that!! He told me through tears the sex and that’s when I turned around and saw the face id been dreaming of for all this time. Boy, my dreams did his little face no justice!! I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t cry, not because I wasn’t happy but because I was TOO happy, I was exhausted from a three day labour, I was shocked that my body had just birthed this little human with a FULL HEAD of black glossy hair, and I was just in pure awe. I can assure you though, we was left alone for the night on the ward to get some rest, just me and my baby and all I did was look at him and cry, I barely slept! I had never felt exhaustion like that but I didn’t WANT to sleep. How could I close my eyes on a face so beautiful! I still do that to this day, just stare at his sleepy face and cry a little. He’s magic. That first night, just me and him, will always be so so close to my heart, I could live it over and over again and never get bored. Welcome to the world Miles Gary Davies, you are so loved.
Let us introduce ourselves… Miles is 7 months old, he’s the biggest ball of energy I’ve ever known, he’s always full of beans! Mummy finds it hard to keep up with his wriggling ways sometimes! Mummy’s actual name is Lottie. I’m 19. A young mummy in age but a slightly older head and heart. And daddy’s actual name is Sean! He is the definition of laid back. He’s 25 years old, but probably slightly younger in the head and heart haha. We've only been together just over a year and a half! We have a lovely home together. What an adventure already! 👪
Finally Getting Started...
I wanted to start a blog for me and Miles since I found out I was pregnant, to make sure I had somewhere to remember every little thing and maybe for him to have something to look back on someday, but story of my life, I never got around to it, for many reasons, especially including most of my pregnancy and there after was STRESSFUL! However, better late than never and 16 months later here i finally am…