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My children are old enough to google and they have

Started 24 April 2025 · 11 replies · 108 hearts · read 2k times

NanNeath, UK · 24 April 2025
about a year ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: My children are old enough to google and they have

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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CarlMiddlesbrough, UK
#1

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

8me too 3

BexPlymouth, UK
#2

the opening post said something I want to sit with for a second.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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BobbieRochdale, UK
#3

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#4

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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MarkCoventry, UK
#5

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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GillyWorcester, UK
#6

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

7me too 8

OrvalWinnipeg, CA
#7

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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OrphBath, UK
#8

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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TasnimBradford, UK
#9

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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WrenFacilitatorLeeds, UK
#10

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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HannahSheffield, UK
#11

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

9me too 4