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Are mood swings normal when trying to quit an addiction?

  • Posted on February 2, 2011 at 10:21 pm

My daughter is trying to stop cutting and she’s having the worse mood swings ever. She’s 15, I think its hormonal but I’m not sure. Are mood swings normal?

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normal noise in an apartment?

  • Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:24 pm

I have lived in this apartment for like 5 months and my up stairs neighbor is really loud. I knew i would hear them walking, and dish washer, washer and dryer and dropping things. but it has been more then just that. Sometimes it sounds like its thundering in my living room, i hear drumming i hear crashes all the time and its always after 8 or 9 pm and can last till like 2-4 am. in the last week they have woken up my daughter 3 times and she is 1. i did over hear him saying that he is drunk most of the time and i’m guessing that thats what the crashing is around 12-4 am can i complain or is this just normal noise?

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Is this normal behavior of my toddler after getting over stomach flu?

  • Posted on November 20, 2010 at 7:24 pm

my 20-mon-old daughter had the stomach flu on saturday through about yesterday (tuesday). She vomited 6-7 times on saturday, a milky, liquidy texture, and didn’t eat or drink anything besides breast milk on sunday. on mon she had some regular milk and water (since that’s all she would drink0 and a popsicle. I tried giving her pedialyte freezewr pops, and pedialyte liquid, but she kept refusing. I offered the pedialyte and also other drinks like juice etc. on Tuesday in both bottles and sippy cups and open cups but she just refused no matter what.thankfully i still nurse her, bc that’s what kept her hydrated but I know my supply is low b/c I don’t do it as much as I used to and suddenly she wanted to do it again like a newborn.
Is it normal that she’s regressed? She has no appetite still even though she hasn’t vomited since mon morning. All she will eat for sure is the fruit-flavored cheerios with or without milk, and to drink for sure is my milk, or cow milk in a bottle. Sometimes she will drink water from a sippy cup but that’s it. I was overjoyed when today I got her to drink 3 oz of apple juice which put her to sleep. But I had to change the bottle it was in to her “favorite” bottle.
So my question is, is it normal for her to still not want to eat almost nothing, and to mainly just want breastmilk or cow milk again? Is it normal for her to suddenly have become turned off from the sippy cup, and from non-milk liquids? Is it normal for a toddler to not drink pedialyte when sick from a bottle or cup, or popsicle form, and act like it’s poison? (she’s never needed it before). And how will in the future i get her to drink that stuff if she gets sick like this again? I dread her getting vomiting and diahrreah again but worse and when I’m no longer nursing. Maybe when they’re older they are easier to reason with?
Yesterday btw all she had was dry colored/fruit-flavored cheerios, pieces of an apple, 2 bites of a baked potato, and a 1/3 cup of applesauce. Today she had next to nothing: a bowl of fruit cheerios w/milk, parts of an apple she nibbled at, and 4 french fries. Refused the yogurt i offered her. Also she is sleeping more. she still has periods of alertness and playfulness and her old self. I just want to know from other moms is this normal considering she’s getting over the stomach flu?
I caught the sickness too and 2 days later still feel weak for the record and a lack of appetite, but I’m not particularly tired like she is.
i already took her to the doctor—this was mon. all they told me was what I already knew.

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oh yeah and she has already lost 1 pound

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Is it normal that my daughters get drunk together and road trip?

  • Posted on November 18, 2010 at 1:27 am

my daughters are 16 and 31. They get drunk and go on road trips on the country roads. they wear their seatbelts and drive safely, i’m just worried is this normal? and i also have a hunch that they vandalized a grave. im very worried. i just cant seem to split them up and break both of their hearts and make them sad. i dont want them to hate me!

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Should I be concerned for my 19 year old daughter or is this just normal??

  • Posted on September 20, 2010 at 9:22 am

My 19 year old daughter is a freshman at college. She took 4 courses worth 4 credits a piece and dropped one because she was failing it. Then was only taking 3 classes.

She ended up receiving a 1.7 GPA for her first semester.
I thought it was just that my daughter was having trouble transitioning to college life…but apparently I am wrong.

I recently found NUMEROUS photos of my daughter drunk on her facebook page as well as photo’s of her smoking marijuana. She has her car on campus and from what I’ve heard has been driving around to visit friend’s on other campus and has been drinking there as well.

My niece who everyone thought was going to be the “problem child” and who had a learning disability and struggled throughout high school and only got accepted to 1 university ended up receiving a 3.0 for her first semester!!
My sister tells me I need to be more concerned about my daughter. But, I as a mother feel that my daughter is in college and I should let her have the college experience and let her make her own mistakes in life.

I am concerned don’t get me wrong but this is her life and I don’t feel I should act like my sister and be overbearing like she is to her daughter.

My daughter also is only taking classes on Monday afternoons after 3PM and has no Friday classes. My sister told me that could be a sign of her planning on drinking and not having to worry about hangover’s on Monday mornings….

Could that really be the case??
Should I be more concerned with my daughter and what she is doing at college??
Or should I just let her have her college experience???

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what is the normal blood glucose level for a 5 yr old??

  • Posted on August 22, 2010 at 1:30 am

i tested my daughter this morning before breakfast. her results said 80, she trys to eat lots of sweets. drinks a lot, has severe dry skin patches at times. i just thought that this could be a sign of diabetes, any advice???

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will my babies mom ever come back to normal?

  • Posted on August 2, 2010 at 10:20 am

“my baby’s mom broke up with me and moved to st george ut with her dad she never had her dad in her life and now is a chance but I think she makes stupid desisions like there’s her dads freind named tanner who is an ugly skin head and he has all the racist tatts you could imagine and my babies mom is the most beautiful woman in the world and she is having sexual enconters with him and hes married and its ok no big deal she use to have morals and values but ever since we broke up if shes not sleeping with someone its someone else and it seems to be some one who her dad likes more is the one shes humpping and we have the most beautiful 2 year old together and she seems to not care about are daughter either she is so diffrent is there any thing I can do to get her to stop the bs and become real again I think part of the problem might also be her methamphetamine habit cause she uses so she dont feel the things that hurt but she doesnt understand that it makes everything worse.

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My bf mistreated me and I moved away w/our baby and my older daughter, I feel very angry w/him. Is this normal?

  • Posted on July 30, 2010 at 12:18 pm

He was often short, ugly and insecure. He would stonewall, and gaslight. He did three tours and Iraq. I have known him for seventeen years. I had no prior romantic interest in him and he put a tremendous amount of pressure on me after he was in divorce proceedings with his wife who asked for a divorce.
He only got married the first time because he got her pregnant after seeing her a month, and this baby I have by him was conceived in spite of birth control and condoms.

He didn’t speak to his mother for over a year after she kicked out his grandchildren over issues that involved control of grandchildren a few months after he got out of the Army. When this happened she focused her anger on me. She looked up my court history that was more than ten years old and mailed it to his ex. She spoke hatefully about me in a verbose manner in an e-mail she sent him and she made sure the pre-school his children attended got a copy of this. His (now) ex-wife had cheated on him and physcially abused him. She also assumed we were romantically involved when we weren’t when he was married and she sent me vulgar, hateful text messages and a year later starting harassing me via crank calls over a two day period. His mother had physically abused him as a child. I helped him care for his children and eventually he had to rent an in-law from my parents. His wife concealed an entire pregnancy from him and binge drank vodka when she was pregnant, and sought no medical attention. This was in part because of the fact she cheated -she didn’t know who the father is-we still don’t know and that child is almost 4. His children are troubled and he can’t see it. She is a very under-involveld/neglectful mother and yet he is supportive of this and intolerant of me. I feel that I am the only “safe” person to take his resentment out on. I no longer speak to him, but I find myself very angry at him for mistreating me. I am currently seeking counseling. I don’t worry about harming either one of my children. I just find myself withdrawn. I have read about emotional abuse and trauma. I have read that emotional abuse is sometimes more psychologically damaging than physical abuse because of its frequency. He was often so ugly and he would needle and needle and needle and I would finally say something hateful and ugly back to him. I don’t want to be that kind of person. My older child is fairly well adjusted. She is academically gifted, adults just love talking to her and she is personable and happens to be a successful child model. I gave a lot of attention to her when she was small-I nursed extensively and spent a lot of time bonding with her. I brought her to counseling when her father was no longer in our lives-the therapist was amazed at her vocabulary by three and after some time felt my daughter was ok to move on. I was always a single mother. She is now ten. I want to be able to give attention to my baby somewhat to the degree that I did my first child(which is impossible because now I have two). I feel as if I stayed there I would be further diminished with nothing left to give my children or myself emotionally. I don’t think it was wrong of me to leave the father of my child in another state. He wanted to get married-I said No. I just find myself so angry at him for mistreating me after knowing me so many years. Is it normal to feel this way?

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Is my daughter normal?

  • Posted on July 25, 2010 at 1:46 pm

My 10 year old daughter Lucy is growing up now but I’m worried. She treats our cat and our dog like a married couple. The cat is called Kudrow and the dog is called Paul.

My wife and I helped set up a small ceremony at the local chapel when she was 6, thinking it was cute. But Lucy now takes it too far: we constantly have to remove the animals from her doll’s house, or our car, and once from the chimney as a result of her role-playing.

She talks to them about their relationship often, in concerning terms. Paul is scolded often for alcoholism and gambling problems, and Kudrow is shouted at also. Me and my wife experience few domestic problems, although Lucy watches a lot of television.

We are hesitant to curb this behaviour, as this is how Lucy has behaved in a long while. She has few friends as we live in a house between two bottling plants, and the nearest school is 5 miles away. At what age does this behaviour become abnormal, if it is not already?

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