my sleep deprived postpartum brain can’t deal with all this

shoutout to the dude i spoke to on the phone for 2 hrs last week bc so far he’s been the only helpful person. frustrating that they pushed me to “just go online” today so i did it in front of them to show them the page i hit that says im not eligible to apply online lmao

went into centrelink to speak to someone bc im still hitting brick walls trying to get my baby enrolled into medicare and the lady who was helping me didn’t even know how to use their website or scan in the physical forms we ended up filling out 😭 what hope do i have of this actually processing rip

me, having BP issues so bad i couldn’t stand for longer than 30 seconds, having a MET call in hospital, getting sliced open on the operating table, not being able to lift my baby and needing a steroid injection in my fucked up wrist: this is fine

me, having to give up greek yoghurt:
absolutely not

i think i might have to go on a dairy & soy free diet for the rest of the yr which is worst case scenario for my breastfeeding journey. i rly struggled with restricting my diet during pregnancy and i don’t wanna have to read every single label with a magnifying glass. either that or $50/tin formula

peak motherhood: me, over an hr into my phone call with centrelink, my baby screaming in my arms, the coles delivery man knocking on my front door

i’ve been to the emergency department more times for him in the past 4 months (twice) than i have in my own 32 yrs of life (never)

u ever wake up at 3:30am to ur baby coughing up a lung and pooping blood. being a parent is fun and not stressful at all

thinking about all the years i have referred to people/inanimate objects as “my son” only to now have an actual son. my baby. my sonny jim laddy boy

im busting to go to the toilet and i cant feel the fingers on my right hand but my son just fell asleep on me so i live here now

what people on maternity leave don’t tell u about is the $900 electricity bills

like not to be blunt but she’s literally dying idk why she can’t eat whatever she wants for however long she has left

my nanna is in a palliative hospital for end of life care and they’ve got her on a super restrictive diet and only water and apple juice for her fluids but she doesn’t like the food so she’s not eating at all. they won’t even let her have a piece of toast. i wanna sneak in some kfc so she eats again

only benefit of it was dedicated time to listen to my playlists/podcasts 😂 i do miss the alone time!!

i come on here to complain about petty things but i get halfway thru typing and remember there’s so many people worse off rn and it shuts me up real quick

every time someone accepts my friend request on fb i have to do a quick scroll of my profile to see myself through their eyes. i added 3 people from new parents group today and scrolled my own profile 3 times lmaooo

it feels like those fake videos where someone’s sitting in a shopping centre carpark filming a bloke for 10 minutes trying to set up a pram and everyone just eats it up. we are losing our critical thinking skills and it’s so frustrating to watch

do people really think that a famous youtuber just happened to pull up behind someone hoarding fuel in containers and started calling him out while he was only $13 into filling up his first jerry can. and then managed to get a good zoom into his boot where half the containers are water containers

insane that i can read thru the entire comment section of a staged video and not a single person has figured out that it’s a set up

sometimes i feel life is like “hey i think you’ve been a bit too happy lately? time to knock you back down 10 pegs”

my poor little nanna is being moved into palliative care 😞 she was so excited to meet her first great grandson but now we have to visit her in hospital and she doesn’t even have the strength to hold him. i hate the thought that she’s never gonna go back home. and im not ready to say goodbye 😭

now that im living regional again and everything is max 20 mins away i can’t believe i did this for 5 years for a part time retail job. thats how deep my job-change anxiety runs

tell u what i would be screwed if i was still driving brisbane-gold coast-brisbane for work coz i was often filling a tank twice a week 💀

until i saw it written down i thought all those mormon ladies were talking about montauk and not “momtok”

whyd this current financial crisis have to happen while im on half-pay maternity leave 💀

of course im gonna have an allergic reaction to the custom-fitted wrist brace i have to wear 24/7 in order to do anything without excruciating pain

me: carefully curates my shopping lists to take advantage of all the 1/2 price specials
bam: comes home from work every second day with $16 worth of twiggy sticks

my life has become completely narrowed down to baby, washing and groceries. think i spend more time on the coles and woolies apps than i do on social media

robert jowney dunior

a perfect circle & puscifer australian tour dates for december 2026

looks like my mum is gonna be babysitting