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@pringles24 Oof, I'm not going into my c-section experience, but it didn't seem gentle. I'm still a little bitter over it. Holy hell, do not have a clear curtain. I've seen pics the nurses took from the side and it's shocking to me now, 19 months later, seeing it then would have pushed me...

@cathyhlikesflowers I would insist on trying the ECV. I had a successful one and really, it wasn't nearly as bad as I had in my head. Everyone is different, of course, but it was 4 hours, all but about 2 minutes was monitoring.

@yahwehornoway This was exactly me. Easy ECV, labor for 40 hours, then a c-section that I absolutely hated. I'd never choose another c-section. I was in a borderline panic attack to get started, then was throwing up on the table from the spinal block, then the nausea meds made me black out so...

@daniisa THANK YOU...I think I needed this. 💗

@mariefromtexas We thought about trying to go back to the crib, but she's also now exceeded the safe height for the crib. She's already at 36" (girl is tall!), and the max height is 35". I'll definitely look into sleep fading!

Thanks, all. So we have already moved her to a toddler bed. She slept really well when we let her sleep in the big bed, so we figured it may be more of an incentive if she had her own bed instead of crib (made zero difference either way). We let her pick her pjs, she calls them, "Pick'm...

My LO turns 2 next week and is still up 1-2x a night...basically every three hours at the moment. We didn't do CIO, I just couldn't, but y'all, I am so freaking tired. My husband is great and generally jumps up to do the 3am shift so I don't have to, but for me it's still generally me falling...

@katrina2017 That was exactly my plan! I have a toddler, so I'll be the one to test things first.

@submariner This is awesome info, thank you! That jar is BEAUTIFUL! You don't happen to have a favorite blueberry recipe you'd want to share, do you? :)

@sara23 Interesting! I used recipes I found online. I had the Ball canning book, but the recipes had an INSANE amount of sugar. For peach butter it said 4.5lbs of peaches and 4 cups of granted sugar (!!). I used about 5lbs of peaches, one cup of brown sugar, a little vanilla, and a touch of...

@sugahani Good to know about the lid, thank you! I actually did add two tablespoons of lemon juice to each. I read that it wasn't entirely necessary because they're high-acid foods, but in an abundance of caution...

@njc82 Thank you!! :)

@njc82 Tomatoes were next on my list! How concerned should I be about jams and jellies?

I know this sounds crazy, but I've always been a little intimidated by canning, but my garden has just gone nuts this year, and my fridge can't handle any more jars, so I jumped in making 13 pints of pickles, multiple versions of peach butter, and blueberry butter. It was A LOT of work. I was...