My wife and I are visiting Hilton Head in May. When we get there she will be around 33weeks pregnant and would like to have pictures done on the beach. Is anyone here a photographer or know of one? Thanks!
We’re staying at a nice hotel on the coast for a “baby moon” (my wife is pregnant and we want to take a relaxing vacation before baby comes in September). We’re just looking to have someone take some nice pictures on the beach of our hotel, and maybe elsewhere if you know of other good spots. Let me know if you know a good photographer! Thanks in advance.
Currently pregnant and heading to the beach next week at 7 months along; as I was packing today, I realized I pulled all two-piece bikinis (no coverage on stomach whatsoever I.e. “tankinis”) and was genuinely curious if it bothers some individuals seeing pregnant women wear them! It’s something I’ve never thought twice about having seen it before becoming pregnant myself, but some comments were made (not by my SO who says I shouldn’t worry about it) about the possibility it might make some people uncomfortable! I’m nervously curious to hear your honest but still civil opinions on it!
Editing for clarification - Thank you so much for all the replies! I have been blown away by all the kind words of support towards women and empowering them to embrace their bodies, me included! I have been happily surprised at how many of you have said you either don’t care at all or encouraged pregnant women to have the confidence to do as they please, growing baby bump and all! I wanted to mention I did make my mind up before I posted this since I am most comfortable in a bikini and I actually only own one one-piece, I planned to go about my merry, obviously pregnant way and flaunt the bump :) I posted not necessarily to make my mind up, but to hear different opinions and attitudes towards it because IMO it’s so interesting to hear other people’s views and understand their personal reasoning, and on that note, I’ve also appreciated the few honest replies that say why exactly it would bother them. I know not everyone will agree, and that’s okay! This is why I love Reddit, and I appreciate y’all more than you know - congrats to all those in the replies and their partners (plus those reading this in the future) who are on this same crazy 9 month ride!
Videos of Erin crying over cake she forgot at the bakery; doing her version of high kicks on a bar or how she demanded every hour on the daily that various celebrities and influencers answer her demands to speak to her and it shows !!!! She isn’t Joan of Arc people, she’s just Erin of fakeagram.
- What exactly happened with Josiah when Michelle announced her last pregnancy. Was he really strong-armed back into the frame to celebrate with the family? It seems clear that he wasn't joyous over the news. This happened way back in time and I remember the screen stills from the time.
- What Michelle's voice is really like when she's angry. A few times there have been hints that the kids are scared of their parents' temper.
- How their home-schooling really worked. Years ago they shared a daily schedule, but I'm convinced that they never stuck to it.
- How the current upbringing of the four youngest Duggars is different from the first sixteen.
What's the Duggar mystery you want solved, or something where you don't think we got the whole story?
Quick note that even though the mods are taking a day at the beach, speculating about sexual orientation is still not cool, so let's avoid that kind of discussion.
Also I have no idea what flair to use...
Please use this thread to discuss anything your heart desires. As always, please follow the rules of this sub and be kind to everyone!
Okay, so this girl I know from high school is getting married. We're both 22, for reference. In our senior year of high school she got pregnant, with baby daddy A who will be referred to as Adam. Her super conservative parents kicked her out and she ended up moving in with a friend's family. She barely graduated high school. The only reason she did were because of the generosity and support of our teachers and students who volunteered to help her, which is how we met. We were in the same law class in the morning and she had the worst morning sickness that really affected her ability to be in class. So, I took extra notes for her, tutored her, and brought her her stuff if she hadn't come back by the bell. I wasn't the only one who did stuff like this for her and I know she really appreciates all the assistance we gave her. She had the baby a month after we graduated.
She'd signed up for a 911 dispatcher course for after high school because where we live it's a good steady job, with opportunity for certificates and promotions. But she didn't realize how intensive the course would be and had to drop out. She started working at a grocery store bakery, just until she had a better plan. Adam started an apprenticeship while working part time at a hockey rink, and proposed to her literally the day of her eighteenth birthday, and brought up marriage because "it's the right thing to do" (I don't really agree with that but this isn't about me) and she was always refusing.
She started cheating on him after a while (we're all 19 now), and eventually leaves him for another guy because... She's pregnant again and it is far more likely that this guy, baby daddy B who will be referred to as Brad, is the father of the child. Neither of them can afford lawyers so getting any kind of custody agreement is a mess, and then their parents got involved and they did 50/50 split (still not made official). She has the baby, that does turn out to be Brad's, and everything is okay for about nine months, when she finds out Brad has been cheating on her with his TA. Brad decides to pay child support but doesn't really want contact with the kid, only around holidays and one weekend a month for his parents' sake.
She moves back in with her parents (we're all 20 now) who only accept her back because there's grandchildren around. On the plus side, (when she's 21) she gets to take that year long dispatcher course, and passes with flying colours!
After working as a dispatcher for a year (
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On a side note, I miss being able to sit down with my knees touching instead of having to open my legs up wide so that my belly can rest between them. Makes me feel so unladylike!
This is a rough chronological sequence of the events in the show so far. It's mostly from memory and I'm still polishing it, so feel free to comment with corrections or additions.
Note that some of these events may occur simultaneously or a little ambiguously to each other, but I have tried to reflect them in a rough order.
BEFORE PANDEMIC
- Miranda gets a job in logistics and shipping, working for Leon Prevant.
- Arthur shows up late and without a gift to his friend Clark’s birthday party. He hits on Miranda and gets her to draw something for him as a gift, a banana. Miranda and Clark bond while he’s off being movie star. She devises the “cutting anchor” symbol that both Kirsten and Tyler will later invoke, and a character in the story, Lonegan, bears some resemblance to Arthur. They begin a relationship.
- Frank is seriously injured in a landmine explosion in Sri Lanka, which breaks the compass his Grandfather gave him in his pocket and puts a bunch of shrapnel in his hip. Jeevan borrows his sister’s credit card to buy first class tickets to get to him in hospital, running up an enormous bill he thinks she doesn’t know about (she definitely knows).
- Arthur, believing Miranda can’t speak Spanish, openly talks shit about her to his dad on the phone. Miranda, believing Arthur is having an affair with his co star Elizabeth, storms out of the dinner party. Clark follows her, joking that he misses cocaine, though at this point he is still drinking (Pra-ha!). He fidgets with a zippo lighter throughout this conversation. Miranda burns down the poolhouse and leaves Arthur that night.
- At some point Miranda begins work on Station Eleven from scratch.
- Arthur does begin a relationship with Elizabeth. They marry and they have a son, Tyler. They split up due to his womanising. She moves to Germany. Elizabeth will later tell Tyler his father sent him many letters and she burned them, but this is a lie.
- Sarah has a reasonably successful indie musical career, and features on NPR, though she has a love/hate thing with La Campanella, a notoriously difficult piano piece, due to an association she's made with it to the death of her father.
SHORTLY BEFORE PANDEMIC
- Frank moves back to Chicago and becomes a ghost writer for the rich and famous. He begins using heroin.
- Jeevan moves back to Chicago from LA. He "had" a website, so presumably he used to be a media blogger before the bottom fell out of that whole scene in the early 2010s.
- Three weeks b
Do your worst!
I'm currently pregnant and overly emotional, and struggling with whether my feelings are valid. My SO says I am a very selfish person, and I open to that being true. If it is, I don't want to be a selfish person. But, I also feel like just because he says that doesn't make it true, and he might be manipulating me. So, I don't know - I'm just kind of venting, looking for advice, looking for input. Also, for context we are 33 and 35 years old.
We lived near to my SO's family for about 5 years and last year we moved to my hometown. I didn't want to stay there for a few reasons. One of which was that he was always staying with his family for days at a time. At one point, I printed a calendar and for 3 months tracked whether he slept at our house or with his family and he spent more nights with his family than at home. They only lived 45 minutes away (which was the distance of my daily commute, just opposite direction). So he could have gone for dinner every day. I don't want to be controlling, I'm not saying it wasn't ok for him to do that, I'm just saying it just wasn't working for me. I was really lonely and unhappy. So I wanted to move. At that point we were dating, we loved each other - but no baby, no marriage. We could have just recognized an incompatibility and moved on. I've been away from my family for about 15 years and wanted to go home, I decided it's where I wanted to end up. Well he said he loved my hometown. He said even before we met, he was thinking of moving to my hometown. He said even if we broke up he intended to move, so I wasn't taking him away from his family - he was leaving anyways. He even said that even if we broke up he might move to my hometown anyways because it's a place he always thought of moving. When we were visiting at Christmas last year he was like I love it here, it's like living in Brooklyn but it's so cheap! So in Feb I bought a house - it wasn't in the Brooklyn-like neighborhood but 20 mins driving away. My intention was to use this house as an investment eventually, but have it to live in without a lease to tie us to a certain timeline which we find something located moreso where we want to be.
Well once we got here he HATED it. He has never stopped complaining. He hates the house I bought (even though before I bought it he said he liked it), hates the neighborhood (I told him pick the next house, leaving it up to him 100% since he hates my choices), hates being near my family. I have
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I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
On August 6, 2004, 49-year-old Rajesh Dhayam abruptly went missing. Rajesh was an Administrative Assistant at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute in Moka, Mauritius. He was the father of two children with his daughter studying abroad in Australia and lived separated from his wife. He was described as a very reserved man who made no attempts at socializing with his neighbours one of them even stating that he never had a single conversation with him in the two years that he had lived in the neighbourhood.
His landlord Seewan Leelodharry also told police that he had rarely ever seen Rajesh but that he would always deliver on his payments and rent however on one of the few times that he did get to see him Rajesh told him that he was planning on going on a trip to the French island of Réunion. It's was speculated that he had possibly been planning on going on that trip with a young woman named Crithika Nundkumar with who he had been having an affair for quite some time and many residents reported seeing Crithika in the neighbourhood and Rajesh likewise often spent time at her home.
Rajesh was last seen leaving a function at the Indira Gandhi Centre in Vacoas-Phoenix and according to his brother on the day of his disappearance he was carrying a check for 350 000 Mauritian rupees which he had recently deposited from his bank accounts and had just obtained a loan for the purchase of a car. The police searched Rajesh's home and when they found a picture of Crithika Nundkumar they decided that the rumours of an affair had some degree of truth to them and decided to go to Crithika's home to see if Rajesh by any chance happened to be there.
On August 27 the police approached Crithika's home on Béchard Lane in St. Paul. When they arrived, however, the main gate was chained shut and padlocked and once the police broke the locks they approached the home and every door and entrance was locked shut and the blinds and curtains closed so no one could peek inside. Despite this, an officer managed to peer inside the house via a small window and saw what looked to be a body. The police in response broke down the front door and entered the house finding themselves in the living room.
Upon entering the home the very first thing they noticed was the body of 37-year-old Crithika Nundkumar laying on a mattress the police however were not expecting what came next. When they searched the house they discovered a further nine corpses including Rajesh Dhayam. Three of the corpses were found
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Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
Just a disclaimer about how this is such a boring show that is mostly just a spectacle about breeding.
This show has to be some of the most boring content ever created and I think the only reason people watch it is the spectacle. The amount of times that things are described as "special" or "great" or "interesting" is just beyond. Like HAVE AN OPINION GOD DAMMIT. Say what you want about the Kardashians, but at least they put in a modicum of effort to make their show interesting to watch. Our Lord of Reality Television, Kris Jenner would rebuke so much of this show. It makes KUWTK look like Citizen Kane.
Every episode of these Duggar Shows gives off the same vibe as a meeting that could have been an email. Somehow the producers of this show manage to make 5 minutes of content into 45 minutes, so kudos to them, that's talent.
I have no idea why they even have "talking heads" because their comments are quite literally stating the obvious, redundant preaching, redundant narration, giving vague praise, or calling something they don't like "interesting" and laughing uncomfortably. The only one who comes off unscripted is Pest, but he's a sociopathic creep.
Anna and Pest are basically taking a trip down memory lane of their "love story." Anna was in desperate need of chapstick the entire time she was interviewed which was distracting, and I have no clue why anyone on the crew or whatever fixed that. But as things progressed that became the least of my worries because this woman was completely coerced into marrying a sexual predator and that's just...more and more evident throughout the episode.
Part 1: Their Arraigned Marriage Love Story
Anna tells us about her childhood which sounds so fucking miserable. Eight kids shared one bathroom which is just kinda sad. Five girls shared one bedroom and closet, which sounds like misery. She said she didn't think she would ever get married which was a weird thing for a fundie girl to say but I digress.
Also I have definite feelings about Pa Keller but they are against the rules.
It starts off with their Meet Cute which was at a concession stand at some culty conference. Pest claims it was love at first sight (which I doubt HIGHLY), and Anna said it was NOT love at first sight for her but then he just kept popping up over the next year.
Anna proceeds to tell us how she was manipulated into this arranged marriage. Pest and her started talking, and then her Dad was like "Is the Lord sa
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You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
I don't know if I'm in the right sub I just know that I need any support I can get.
This is long post but even writing it is helping me so don't feel guilty if you don't want to read it.
Sorry English is not my first language
I (32F) married my husband (38M) 4 and half years ago with him working abroad and spending a month per year in our country, the initial agreement was that I go live with him as long as I find a job because it's an expensive place for a family. That didn't happen, I still live with my family.
I'm an introverted person with people pleasing tendency.
He has 4 sisters (only one of them is unmarried) , and he is the youngest. I think they see him as their baby, plus he got engaged 3 times and I suspect his sisters had a part in ruining these relationships but I have no proof.
His family started causing trouble because I don't call and visit enough, I admit I was in a draining job and I called about once a month, which they didn't like. I was always lectured on my antisocial personality no matter what I did.
The pressure about the pregnancy began after we spent one month together and he went back to his job, how we should check to make sure we are fine and start the process if we found anything wrong, I was against their intrusive approach but went and checked and it's all fine with me, he did too and was prescribed supplements he didn't take because I got pregnant.
I ended up having a miscarriage in the 40th day which was awful for me but that didn't stop them of accussing me of distancing my self when I refused to take Sil with me to the doctor following the initial bleeding. And then saying the miscarriage was my fault because I should have left my job and every call from them was basically "next time be careful" when I was assured by my doctor that it was not my fault.
Mil asked me if I want to visit thier ob/gyn and should they schedule a visit for me I declined and said we will discuss that me and my husband when he comes, I found out they went ahead and scheduled a visit any way and told my husband about it. He went along and only told me the day of the visit when he was with me, I refused to go and we had a big fight about it, and ended up not going because his sister went and paid for the visit and he didn't like that :/
When covid hit my husband was on vacation here and couldn't go back to his job so we spent most of his five month stay with his family, I thought his mother must miss him and I don't wanna be gr
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