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littlemessyjessi · 4 years

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How They’d Be As Mukbangers: Harry Potter Characters

How They'd Be As YouTube Mukbangers

James: Every video has a theme. Like, I'm not even playing. Holidays? All kinda of holiday themed food. Quidditch World Cup coming up? Things inspired by the country of his favorite team. Just a random day? Everything is blue. He's that type of way.

Sirius: If a mukbanger was a thirst trap. I could easily see him really getting into. Dark background, black gloves, aesthetic as fuck and like, he doesn't even talk. He just sits there, looks hot and somehow makes eating looking incredibly sexy. And he fucking knows it. Bitch also one hundred percent rolls his eyes back when it hits his taste buds. Licks his lips and his fingers. Takes way too big of bites. Most people would say it's cringy how sexual his videos are...but everyone is secret subscribed anyway. With notifications on.

Remus: This goes one of two ways. If he's in a good mood and things are chill, he'll find a recipe, make it to the mother fucking 't' and then have a little mukbang slash review on said recipe. Nice lil chat. Sweet tol bean. Precious. If it's near the full moon there ain't none of that. Ya boy, brings in his monstrous plate of food, sits it down and just tears into like a fucking beast, no talking. Just nom nom nom. Unintentionally thirst traps and people opening talk about when Remus goes beast mode.

Peter: Candy and sweets channel! Small mukbangs with reviews from different candies from Honeydukes!

Lily: Lol, Lilypad. She ain't playing around. Her videos are planned out, edited and just generally finessed to perfection. Even had music added to it with tiny vlog segments as it's set up. It's a little pretentious but she does have a good following.

Marlene: This bitch. Fucking competitive eating queen. Tiny ass lil ho can eat you under the table, bro. Think RainaIsCrazy on YouTube. She can fucking smash. Usually does eating challenges from different resteraunts and competitions. Often, challenges Remus on his wild days. He's a beast but she still wipes the floor with him.

Dorcas: The collab. Dorcas always has good food and good company. She's all about sharing a meal with someone and talking about random things.

Alice and Frank: The couple channel. It's generally filled with so much fucking cute and the food is always tasty. It's sickening they feed each other but you also can't help but awww.

Molly Prewett/Weasley: Family recipes. Molly's channel are tried and true recipes from the Prewett family. Cook with me and tons of kitchen life hacks. Also, that woman can turn a ham sandwhich into a full course meal. Bet. Always taste tested by Daddy Weasley. Yes, I said Daddy Weasley.

Lucius Malfoy: The most pretentious fucking channel to ever exist. It's a whole fucking production that admittedly he does put a lot of work into. Somewhat thirst trappy like Sirius' but instead of just having a plain black background he goes out of his way to shove as much of his manor into. Only eats the most expensive food fucking on the planet and of course, it's prepared by House elves cause he's a twit. (Yes, I know this is Thranduil but honestly wouldn’t put it past Lucius to be this fucking pretentious.)

Severus Snape: Actually pretty solid content. His exquisite skills in potions actually made him a rather good chef. Tasteful shots, edited well with music over everything and subtitles. Simply audio for the eat portion at the end. Nothing too fancy for the background. Often just a very clean kitchen. Solid content though.

The Black Sisters: Mass chaos. Part vlog, part drama channel, half the time the food never even gets finished because of fights.

Bill Weasley: The Traveler. A lot of egyptian food. Some made by hand. Some vlogs from street food while he's out just generally doing his job. Short videos but solid. He's hot and he picks good food. It works for him.

Charlie Weasley: This extra ass bitch. He's the bitch that does all that outdoor cooking. You know what I mean. Shots in the woods, roaring fire. Lit by a precious dragon child no doubt. Dragons lounging in the background like those bitches who always have their dogs there. Yes, I'm jealous. Close up shots of him cutting things on a custom wood cutting board. Everything he makes causes your mouth to water. God damn, scarred, freckle faced bastard just gobbles it up and ends every fucking video with a wink. Charlie Weasley is the ultimate thirst trap and he fucking knows it.

Percy: Percy's channel could be epic but instead is boring as fuck. Why? Because he insist on having the most snooze worthy meals that are 'sensible' and THEN he proceeds to talk about politics. He actually had a pretty decent following of other like minded individuals but my god- politics and porridge, Percy? Really?

However, once he chills the fuck out, leaves the ministry to do something else - it’s a game changer. Brings the family on for mukbangs. Does videos with mummy weasley. Percy grows his hair out and Bill teases him for being a copy cat. Much better. Still talks politics but it’s fucking hiliarous and now the food is poppin.

Fred and George: Alright, this shit right here. Every fucking bit of it is a self promo for the shop. Meals inspired by and that would go well paired with 'this product'. Like, that's the whole thing. And then they run an add for their shop at the end featuring the product. It works for them because they're smart, they're hot and they're also wildly entertaining with their constantly sibling squabbling. But yeah. Big promo for the shop.

Ron Weasley: Honestly, out of everyone. Ron probably has the most followers and it's because he doesn't say shit while he's eating. He sits down with a massive fucking turkey. Nods at the camera and just tears it up. It's literally so satisfying. All the food is prepared by his mother. So it's obviously fantastic. ( I just had to use this gif.)

Ginny: Gin's channel is usually team building videos with the Harpies. 'Cheat Day: Vlog and Mukbang w/the Harpies' type of vibes. It's cool though and since it's a famous quidditch team the fans enjoy the behind the scenes action and actually drop all kinds of recipes for them to try in the future.

Hermione: Hermione could easily veer off into Percy's channel of misery when she gets started on her rants but mostly they're really chill videos. Mukbang and Book Review type of vibe. Or sometimes even the playing of an audio book while she does her thing. All in all, wholesome.

Harry: Lol, I swear. Fucking awkward bean. Harry's videos are literally of him making the simplest of things and being so fucking awkward. "Er, well, hi guys. So I'm about to head out for work. Running a bit late. But we're having a bit of toast and jam." Like it's literally just little videos of him eating whatever throughout the day. But of course, since he's Harry Fucking Potter- his follower count is astronomical.

Neville: Now, this boy. This boy is a goblincore gobbo's wet dream. Gardening videos with homegrown veg. Recipes from Grandmother. Have a nice Veggie Pot Pie with Professor Longbottom in the Hogwarts Greenhouse. There is a fanbase and it is huge.

Luna: Honestly, the weirdest fucking channel in the world. Like she finds the weirdest things to eat and goes from there. But Luna is bae so it's cool. Also, a thousand percent does Smoke Sesh + Mukbang videos. You know it's true.

Dean and Seamus: Literally, eating in the most crowded pubs as they visit football games around the country. Seamus will definitely pull the Irish card from time to time to have a drinking competition. He wins everytime. He may be a little dude but shit- homie can hold his own.

Cedric: Honestly, it's so fucking pure. Straight up did videos during his time at Hogwarts in the Hogwarts kitchen. Such kind little conversations with the house elves. "Hey, guys. Thanks for coming back to another video. Today we're making some really tasty biscuits. Whispy, one of the talented bakers here in the kitchens, is here to help us today so please say hello to her in the comments." He'll also always make extra and leave them in the Hufflepuff common room for everyone to enjoy. Like, it's honestly so pure and he's such a soft boi and oh my fucking geeeeeeerrrrrrdddd!!!!!

Draco: Actually takes it really seriously and put a lot of hard work into it. Nothing like his father's ego-tistical recipes. Surprisingly, every. single. recipe. is a muggle recipe. How would he know? Because he cross referenced with Granger of course. Cooks it himself. No magic. Lots of random talks. Just like a monologue of things and it gets kinda deep sometimes. Like, it's the channel to go to when you need advice that you didn't even know that you needed. Still eats incredibly proper. It's that pureblood raising of his. Old habits die hard.

Tonks: Pure chaos. "Hey, today we're having Mum's homemade lasagna and I'm also getting a new tattoo. Might dye my hair. Don't really need to since I can do this but whatever. So yeah, there's that. Like it's just all over the place and you'd think it would take but the chaos is too good not to watch. Literally gives herself beaks and snouts while she eats. It's iconic.

Dumbledore: Mother fucker just sits at his desk, stares straight into the camera and eats a lemon drop. Like a weirdo. The video usually no more than a minute and each video is just some variation of that. Meme lord.

Hagrid: Tea With Hagrid. Also, so the recipes suck, they too, but Hagrid is a peach and it's relaxing to see his gentle half giant there in his hut, pumpkin patch out the window and Fang laying by the fire. It's a mood and he's just like the comforting Dad figure.

McGonagall: Honestly the best one in the entire world. She makes a full course traditional Scottish breakfast... and then transforms into her animagus the cat...and promptly knocks it off the table. A fucking legend.

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michellejgaskill · 3 years

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10 Ways to Better Understand Your Husband

I’m sure you are aware of the ways you and your husband differ in your background and personalities. You may also have different ideas about how to spend your evenings, what kinds of movies you each prefer to watch, and what your ideas of an adventurous weekend would look like. But when you add to the mix their uniquely male qualities, it surely could be a case for your girlfriends that your husband is from a different world than you are.

1. Remember he's a man.

This should go without saying. Yet, I’m amazed at how many women expect their husbands to be just like their girlfriends and talk about everything, listen intently, and “go deep” with their feelings. Men are not wired for “chick chat” and the biggest mistake wives make is interpreting this to mean their husbands don’t care. Well, they don’t. But that doesn’t mean they don’t care about you.

You can understand your man better when you realize he approaches life differently, tending to focus more on the detail of fact, while you tend to focus more on feelings. While you tend to ask for help, advice and directions, he often will not. When you offer sympathy, he offers advice and analysis, and while you desire to understand problems, he is driven to solve them. Instead of thinking If only he’d be more sensitive, or If only he’d be more interested in what I l like, try changing your perspective to I appreciate the way he brings balance to our marriage

2. Realize his need for respect.

Countless studies have affirmed that a man would rather feel respected than loved. While women long to be cherished, loved, and pursued, there’s a sense in which a man can live without love. It’s respect he can’t live without.

It’s interesting to note that in the Bible, husbands are commanded to love their wives. And wives are commanded to respect their husbands (Ephesians 5:22-33). Have you ever thought about why a woman isn’t commanded to love her husband in return? We are commanded throughout the Bible to love one another, and that includes our husbands. But when it comes to this passage, which speaks specifically about the marriage relationship, God apparently knew a woman desires more than anything else to be loved and a man desires more than anything else to be respected. God must have known that as we respect our husbands, we are demonstrating love to them in a way they can more easily see and appreciate.

3. Recognize his need to succeed.

Your husband is wired to be competitive, and therefore winning, succeeding and advancing are extremely important to him. If your husband feels he is in a no-win situation or is failing at something, it will show in his attitude of feeling stuck or wanting to give up. If your husband isn’t succeeding at something, he at least needs to feel like he’s winning. Let him know he is succeeding in the areas that are most important to him and to you. And if what is important to you isn’t necessarily important to him, let him know every now and then how well he is doing in that area, and it just may become an important area to him after all.

Many a man will give up altogether and go passive when it comes to parenting if you are insisting your parental skills are better. A man may stop communicating if his wife lets him know he is a failure at communication. To the contrary, if you are praising his efforts—even if at this point they are just efforts—he will likely want to continue to please you. Treat him like a winner at home, and he’ll want to be there more often. Praise him for his handiwork around the house, and you’ll find him offering to be your handyman. Encourage him and tell him how good he makes you feel in the bedroom, and he’ll be more likely to initiate intimacy. Encouragement goes a long way. And making your husband feel like a winner will make him want to be around you— especially if you’re his No. 1 fan.

4. Allow him time in his "blank

Sometimes it’s difficult for us to understand how our husbands can sit on the couch with the TV on, not particularly watching it, and not hear a word we say, nor be capable of responding. I call that my husband’s “veg box.” Some wives call it their husbands’ “blank box.” And when you ask him “What’s on your mind?” or “What are you thinking?” and he stares off into space and says “nothing”—it really is true; he’s in a “no words, no feelings” box.

Women, on the other hand, constantly have thoughts swirling around in their heads. We are continually connecting events of yesterday to situations today and drawing conclusions. Our husbands appear clueless at what we’re doing, because they are. They don’t understand how we think and we don’t understand how they can be thinking of nothing. Allow your husband to spend time in his blank box doing nothing and thinking about nothing. It’s his way of decompressing so he can come back and re-engage with his wife and family again.

5. Ask him about his dreams.

Proverbs 20:5 says “The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.” You can better understand your husband when you can draw out of him his dreams and desires. When your husband has unmet dreams, it might affect how he is processing life or whether or not he is enjoying it. Whereas you and I might conclude he has a bad attitude, he may be dealing with feelings of missing out because he isn’t living from his heart.

Ask your husband what he’d love to do if time or money were no object. Give him permission to dream and don’t discount his ideas if they don’t sound practical or realistic. You can understand what makes him tick, what he secretly longs for, and even how you can share in making some of his dreams come true when you take the time to ask, learn and discover the dreams on your husband’s heart.

6. Treat him like a king, but not your God.+

There’s a difference between treating your husband with the respect and loyalty you would give a king, and depending on him like he’s your God. Many women marry with high expectations, only to be gravely disappointed shortly thereafter when they discover their husband can’t possibly meet all of their emotional needs.

Because your husband is a man, he will never be able to meet your needs for sensitivity and understanding like another woman. Because he’s not your dad, he can’t make up for what you might feel was lacking in a father-daughter relationship. And most important, because he’s not God, he can’t possibly fulfill you in every way. Instead of looking to your husband to be God in your life and fill your every need, look to God as your spiritual husband (Isaiah 54:5). There is nothing that will free up your husband to love you more than taking your emotional expectations off of him and leaving them with God. Your husband can then love you in the best way he is able, without feeling he has an impossible task in front of him. (For practical ways to live this out, see my book, Letting God Meet Your Emotional Needs).

7. Acknowledge his singular focus.

Unlike women who appear to multi-task, men function better with a singular focus and they have a way of compartmentalizing their thoughts and actions. Like his ancient ancestors, your husband is, by nature, a hunter-gatherer, so it’s easy for him to zero in on—and stay focused on—a single topic (Picture a cat sitting by a window watching a bird – he doesn’t move, but is totally fixated).

As you are sensitive to this single-focus characteristic of his, it may help you understand his response—or lack of response—to you when you go from topic to topic in your conversation or are tending to “merge” the areas of your life when he prefers to keep them separate. For example, talking about finances just prior to intimacy will confuse him. If he’s in “finance mode,” he will not know how to transition well to “romance mode.” Likewise, if you are talking about the kids’ schooling problems or your aging parents’ needs while he’s trying to set up the tent on a camping trip, he will likely not respond to your words, let alone hear them.

8. Allow him sexual pleasure with his wife.

Men are designed, physically and physiologically, to enjoy sexual pleasure with their wives. Your husband wants to enjoy that activity and experience with YOU. And you are the only one he can enjoy that with and still be right and pure before his God. And he knows that, even more than you do.

In Ecclesiastes 9:9, Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, said this: “Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given to you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.”

King Solomon wrote a whole book on the meaninglessness of life. And among the few things he found meaningful for a man to enjoy were a good meal and pleasure with his wife. Now think about that! When you prepare a meal for your husband, isn’t it your desire that he enjoy it? Similarly, will you prepare yourself for him, physically, as his reward after dinner? God paid you quite a compliment when He gave you to your husband as your husband’s reward. God considered you a great prize to bring pleasure—in many ways—to your husband. That should make you and I want to be our husband’s reward, not his consolation prize.

9. Accept his love for good food.

Do you ever find yourself wondering why your husband constantly thinks about food? Or how it is he can down a whole steak in minutes when all you feel like eating is a salad? Your husband, if he’s like most men, loves to eat. He’ll prefer a meaty meal to your low-calorie morsel every time! And get thisenjoying food is biblical! In Ecclesiastes 2:24, the wise King Solomon says, “There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and tell himself that his labor is good. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.”

For a man to be able to sit down and enjoy dinner—or a hearty, messy barbecue lunch—is one of the ways God rewards him for his work here on earth. So let him eat. And don’t knock him when he does. It’s one of the simple pleasures in life he was designed to enjoy.

10. Be patient as his priorities shift with age.

Your husband typically values different things at different seasons of life. In his 20s and 30s, he may prioritize making money and advancing his career because he is in his prime “provider/achiever” mode. When he approaches his 40s and 50s, he may be more concerned about making his life count and not “wasting time” doing something that doesn’t matter in the long run. When he reaches his 60s, he may value slowing down to enjoy life or attempt ambitions or “bucket list” items now that he has more time.

Keep in mind, though, that even when his priorities shift with age, he’s still the same man you fell in love with and married. His priorities just change through the years, as do yours.

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vixen492 · 5 years

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Bedtime Baby

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No warnings, pure fluffiness.

Song is Miracle by Shinedown, lyrics in italics.

The low rumble of his voice carried through the bunker corridors to where you stood in the kitchen. Dean was on daddy duty tonight while you got on with some odd jobs for the next day. The slow cooker on, veg being peeled and chopped for a stew, you swayed slightly to the quiet music playing in the background. A smile teased your lips as you could your husband entertaining your daughter with her ritual bedtime stories. His booming voice playing out the big bad wolf and her little giggle at her fathers commitment to the parts.

So make a wish and say

Give me life Give me love Star lit angel from above Not so low Not so high Keep it perfectly disguised Ever changing The story line that keeps me alive

They had the kind of relationship that you’d always wanted from your own father, what could have been had he not been in the wrong place at the wrong time. A ghouls supper, leaving your hunter mother to raise you and of course you followed like the good little soldier.

The boys had been checking out a vampire nest in Utah when you had first met them. Your first interaction had begun with you punching Dean square in the face. In your defence, you had thought he was a vamp. Although, he’d never let you live it down. Apparently you walk to quietly and took him by surprise, whatever Winchester, believe what you want, you still got laid out by a five foot girl.

Leaving the stew for a moment, you decided to sneak a peek at your little family. Dean lay on your daughters tiny bed with her cozied up under his arm. He filled almost inch of her bed but she wouldn’t have it any other way. A daddies girl through and through. Sam sat crossed legged on her bedroom floor, a tangle of long limbs, leaning back on his elbows seemingly just as enthralled by the story as Cora was. Every time Dean boomed a deep voice for the wolf and squeaky voices for the pigs, Sam huffed a quiet laugh at his brother in full dad mode.

As you sparkle in the sky Ill catch you while I can 'Cause all we are Is all I am I just want you to see What I've always believed You are The miracle in me

The three Winchesters did everything together. Whenever possible Sam would join Dean for the bedtime routine, every night like clockwork; snack, bath, pjs, story and good night kisses. It amazed you how easily the boys had taken to having a kid around the bunker. They no longer went on the really dangerous hunts, preferring to leave those to other hunters. They still took the easier hunts, occasionally you would go with one of them to keep yourself up to scratch. For the most part you had bowed out of the fieldwork, research now being your main responsibility.

Slipping your phone from your pocket, you snapped a candid picture of the scene before you from around the door frame, neither of the boys noticing your presence, before slipping silently back to the kitchen. Your long hair had started falling from the loose plait from earlier in the day. Curled tendrils tickling the side of your face, you tucked the wisps behind your ear before picking the knife up to chop carrots. That’s how Dean found his wife, wearing shorts, one of his old weathered band shirts, barefoot, her now waist length black her pulled off her face. Even after several years of marriage and a baby, she was still beautiful, soft and curved in all the best places.

My Mona Lisas making me smile

Right before my eyes

He never dreamed that he would ever have someone like her in his life, never thought himself worthy of happiness. She was everything, both his girls were everything. She was a total bad-ass, she could knock him on his ass at any time. Had a wicked tongue, all sarcasm and innuendos but still so smart. She could flip from discussing Vonnegut to making him blush in only a moment, a perfect combination of Sams brains and Deans wit. She had fit straight into the brother lives like she was made to be there.

Cora had come along not long after they had gotten married. Now four years old, she was the spitting image of her father. Sandy brown hair but curled like her mothers, and sparkling green eyes. As much as looked like her father, her personality was all from her mother. She had the same fiery temper, a little prankster and full of attitude. Cora adored her Dad and Uncle, they were her heroes. Chuck help the world from the Winchester girls.

Take another look

Take a look around

Its you and me Its here and now As you sparkle in the sky

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ohmarlenita · 5 years

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M - comunque sappi che sto mangiando una cotoletta di tofu, so che la cosa ti renderà felice e soprattutto fiera di me

G - :O :O :O why god why

M - per fare del bene al pianeta!

G - in effetti �� appena schiarito dalla pioggia

M - ...

G - comunque a parte gli scherzi ammiro i veg. io non farò in tempo a diventarlo ma li ammiro con sincerità. ho scritto dei veg pure nel mio romanzo

M - un segno d’amore inconfutabile

G - ma sì, poi in pratica la storia riassumendo porta al punto che la società si sta autodistruggendo, i giovani hanno ragione e sono la speranza e io faccio schifo

M - madonna che autonichilismo. in fondo basta abbracciare le nuove mode convinti che tutto sommato abbiano ragione loro. TRANNE LA TRAP.

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froustain · 5 years

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M - comunque sappi che sto mangiando una cotoletta di tofu, so che la cosa ti renderà felice e soprattutto fiera di me

Io: O :O :O why god why

M: per fare del bene al pianeta!

Io: in effetti è appena schiarito dalla pioggia

M: ....

io: comunque a parte gli scherzi ammiro i veg. io non farò in tempo a diventarlo ma li ammiro con sincerità. ho scritto dei veg pure nelle mie note

M: un segno d'amore inconfutabile

io: ma sì, poi in pratica la storia riassumendo porta al punto che la società si sta autodistruggendo, i giovani hanno ragione e sono la speranza e io faccio schifo

M: madonna che autonichilismo. in fondo basta abbracciare le nuove mode convinti che in fondo abbiano ragione loro. TRANNE LA TRAP.

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mjfemale420-blog · 5 years

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How to Plant Cannabis Seeds

So, you have decided to grow your own weed. That’s a good idea. For the meantime, learning how to plant cannabis seeds should be your main priority.

Growing your own marijuana is an inexpensive and fun way to put good-quality buds in the jar. Cannabis is a tough plant that can endure various climate conditions. You can grow it indoors or in greenhouses.

Like other gardening activities, growing marijuana is a skill you can’t learn overnight. Getting started is quite easy, but mastering such skill takes a lifetime. You don’t need to be intimidated by cultivating your own. The process isn’t complicated. It can also be expensive or inexpensive as you want.

Understanding the basics of marijuana cultivation is a nice place to begin your weed growing journey. Making well-informed decisions in advance will surely maximize your yields.

To help you in growing cannabis, here are some things to consider as you try to learn how to plant cannabis seeds:

Choose Your Seeds

Cannabis seeds are available in different species: sativa, indica, and hybrid. In choosing which type of seeds to grow, you must consider your personal taste as well as the given growing circumstances. Sativa strains especially the pure ones need more space to grow. Thus, sativa plants are better to grow outdoors though there are now sativa-dominant strains that you can grow indoors.

Indica strains are often suitable for indoor cultivation. Many of them reach two feet of height that makes them ideal for indoor growing. Aside from indica and sativa strains, you will also find some cannabis seeds with autoflowering qualities.

If it’s your first time to plant cannabis seeds, then go for autoflowering feminized cannabis seeds. They are perfect for novice growers because they are easy to grow. They take less time to grow and produce buds. Typically, autoflowering buds take 6 to 8 weeks to flower.

You truly have plenty of choices in growing marijuana seeds. Therefore, be wise and choose carefully your seeds to avoid regrets in the end.

How to Plant Cannabis Seeds? Discover the Fundamentals!

The following are crucial things in cultivating your own cannabis:

• Light – for normal vegetation, cannabis needs more than 12 hours of light for a 24-hour period. If you grow cannabis seeds indoors, you can easily control the light by using a timer. Outdoor germination should be late until your plants get themselves exposed to more than 12 hours of light and receive 8 hours of sunlight each day.

• Growing Medium – organic cannabis growers use a specific type of soil for both indoor and outdoor growing. On the other hand, the soil is not your sole choice. Neutral growing mediums such as perlite, coco coir, vermiculite, and rockwool are completely nutrient-dependent. Aeroponics, whether deep water culture or hydroponic, don’t use growing mediums because the deferred root matrix absorbs nutrients straight from your nutrient mix.

• Air – marijuana needs fresh and clean moving air for proper gas exchange. If you want to plant cannabis seeds outdoors, then it will not be a problem because your plants will be in constant exposure to gale and breeze. When grown indoors, your cannabis plants will require fresh air, a fan, and air exhaust for proper air movement. Still, growing environments promote weak growth, mold, and pests. Aspirated gas buildup can cause stunted plant growth.

• Water – like other living things, marijuana needs water to thrive, grow, and perform its biological functions. If you’re from somewhere where rainfall is regular, your plants will get everything they need from nature. Big marijuana plants are more prone to thirst. If you want your future plants to be gigantic then you should water them between rainfalls. When grown indoors, water becomes a medium that will carry the nutrients you give. Unmodified water can flush soilless and hydroponic systems on a regular basis. The water’s pH level is extremely important. A wise marijuana grower uses an efficient pH measuring tool as part of his grow kit.

• Temperature – marijuana is a tough plant that can survive both warmth and cold. However, it can also get stressed that causes it to lose its control during extreme circumstances. Marijuana can boil or freeze to death. It can also stop growing. It can even go to stasis. The plant will enter the survival mode once the temperature is either too low or too high for too long. The temperature should be 27 degrees centigrade, which promotes vigorous weed growth. Ideally, this is easy to attain with air conditioning units, fans, and cooling and heating mats. Lights will produce heat which requires proper ventilation.

• Nutrients – like other living things, marijuana also needs fuel to thrive. A good soil mix is a solution. It must be rich in living organisms, compost, and nutrients to provide enough food for the entire life cycle of your plants. Watering them with compost tea together with other natural mixes such as molasses will enhance soil quality and promote the plants’ health. With hydroponics and neutral mediums, you’re providing your plant’s lifeblood with the pre-formulated nutrients mixes. Most growers customize them for weed. Specialized concoctions are best to use for soil-less grow mediums.

• Humidity – when growing cannabis outdoors, you can’t control humidity. The upside here will be the humidity variations and the strong biological functions required to help your plants adjust to a changing environment will make them stronger than before. When grown indoors, humidity control becomes very important. You must control humidity from the seeds to flowers. Cannabis leaves articulate atmospheric moisture every day. Well-balanced humidity will promote a pest-free and mold-free environment.

• Grow Lights – grow lights for cannabis exist in different models and types. Each phase in the life cycle of cannabis plants requires a specific type of grow lights. The market is now full of choices for grow chambers and grow lights for cultivating marijuana indoors. The ultimate deciding factor will be your budget.

• Grow Cupboards – these are available in fully customized forms for marijuana. In fact, you will find classy grow cupboards crafted by growers with years of experience. Feel free to buy one if you have extra cash in your pocket. Plug-and-play separate clone, lights, vegetables and flower chambers, carbon filters, and timers are available, too.

Lights for All Budgets

Depending on your budget, you can invest in a CFL or compact fluorescent light or a tiny LED panel for less than 300 dollars. Other compacted fluorescent lights such as T5 battens are available in different spectrums suitable for the vegging or flowering cannabis plants. They are perfect for small growing spaces, too.

HPS or high-pressure sodium and MH or metal halide lights are the traditional forms of grow lights. A 1000-watt HPS light with reflectors can light a 1.5 by 1.5-meter area. Also, a 600-watt metal halide lamp can light up a space of the same size.

When choosing a grow light for your cannabis plants, don’t forget to consider the heat factor. Your growing space will be too hot without proper ventilation, which can be dangerous for your marijuana plants.

Germinating Your Marijuana Seeds

Seed germination is the start of your marijuana grow adventure. According to Wikipedia.org, germination is a process in which a plant grows from a seed. By giving the right growing conditions, your seeds will start to germinate. They will never germinate unless you met their specific needs:

• A perfect growing location

• Correct temperature or decent heat level

• Water

Growing weed is a form of an organic process with no strict rules. It’s not something like a rectilinear system to learn. Instead, it’s a beautiful art to master. There are many equally efficient techniques for germinating marijuana. In the long run, you will surely find what can give the best possible results for your case.

Put the cannabis seeds straight into your preferred growing medium. By doing this, you can easily avoid a transplant shock. Often, it’s better to germinate cannabis seeds in a tiny pot then plant them on a bigger pot or to your garden.

Place the seeds on a wet paper towel placed on the plate. Keep them in a warm and dark place. You may cover them with plastic or an inverted plate. This will help in retaining humidity and moisture. This way, your marijuana seeds will sprout a few days after.

Soak the seeds in water enriched with enzymes. Leave them there until the tap root starts to appear then take the seeds and put them in your grow medium. The seeds will rapidly hit and break their external surface after the next 7 days.

Sooner, you will see the first set of leaves where photosynthesis will begin. As soon as your seedlings have sprouted, they will be on the way to become mature and healthy plants that will produce delicious buds in less than 3 months. This is where they truly need your tender love and care.

Transplanting the Sprouted Seeds

After letting your seeds sprout, continue planting them with these steps:

1. Fill tiny 2-inch garden pots with healthy organic soil.

2. Make a ¼-inch hold in the potting soil.

3. Drop the seeds in this hole by using tweezers.

4. Cover the cannabis seeds with soil.

In taking care of them, keep the cannabis seeds away from direct sunlight in a humid area. Also, water the soil once or twice each day, and use cool white lights as a source of lighting that your seeds will need. As much as possible, avoid touching the growing seeds

Check the video below for details.

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ITALIAN LEATHERS

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As soon as they were back in the city, Jude went to visit Val, alone. God alone knew how often it was that Allison Wright moved, and this time it was a second floor walk-up on the edge of Bushwick, 360 Palmetto street. A part of Jude wondered, as he got off Myrtle-Wyckoff onto a busy intersection of a dozen delis and fast food joints, whether this place was a good neighborhood for his baby to live. But the other option, he thought as he passed graffitied walls, in this positively more ‘hood’ section of Bushwick, was for her to come live with him full time, and that of course was not a fact he wanted to reckon with, nor entertain for even a second. Thank god Sophie hadn’t come with him, he tacked on to the rest of his thoughts, as he found someone in a duffel coat, lounging on a stoop.

He didn’t expect to find the scene he did at Allison’s. A pod speaker was pumping music through the little, bright, colorful flat as she greeted him. “Hey,” Allison said with a smile, and retreated back into the apartment. Jude shut the door behind him as he greeted her with an awkward hey back. Val was in the middle of the room, sitting in a baby chair and his eyes immediately lit up when he saw her. How could he not? Here she was, almost a year old and happy to see him. This phase he liked.

“Hey champ,” he said with a huge grin, squatting down to greet her. Val smiled and reached for his hand, making Jude melt a little on the inside. He hadn’t seen her in two months, and she had grown so big even by that little measure of time.

Allison was doing some kind of dance around the room-ritual, cleaning items off the floor as she did, to an indie pop song he didn’t recognise but seemed bouncy, fun, catchy. “You’ll stay for lunch, right? We’re gonna do that soon,” she said, breathlessly.

“Uh, yeah, sure,” he said, tearing his gaze off of Allison to look at her. She wasn’t wearing much at all. A loose, fuzzy lemon cardigan thrown around her shoulders, a white, rainbow polka-dotted camisole, and underwear.

Jude turned his attention back to Val, saying little nonsense things to her, cooing, smiling because she did. She was such a happy baby, he couldn’t get enough of it. A part of him thought of the living together for good proposition, wondered if Allison would even agree to it — she was so easygoing, maybe she would. Maybe they could draw up a 50-50 agreement. Six months with him, six months with her. That wouldn’t be so bad. Six months of hard work, six months of rest. He picked up a rattle toy off the floor, shaking it in her direction, and she seemed completely transfixed by it. How could this possibly be hard work though? And let’s face it, Sophie would end up with the brunt of it. A single mom did not Jude make.

“Okay, great,” Allison answered, still dancing around the room, her routine it seemed for cleaning. “I’ve got some friends stopping by. Val’s got her applesauce. She’s obsessed with applesauce lately. I try to give her other fruits, but she’s not interested.”

“Really?” Jude asked, actually interested in what she had to say. A Nolan child that didn’t have a banana obsessive phase? Unheard of. But maybe it was coming, and hadn’t blossomed yet.

He played with Val, and as he did, his eyes wandered back to Allison. Like a bright lamp in the room, he couldn’t look away, he was just drawn. It was mesmerizing watching her, and like a particularly intrusive thought that came out of nowhere at all, he was drawn back to the night they met. They night it happened. What he could remember of it, at least.

Then another journey his mind went on, this one a totally different possibility. He could, couldn’t he? They’d make an interesting, quirky pair. She reminded him of Indiana somehow, just the soft parts without the rough ones. She was the kind of person to keep someone wondering, guessing. It could work. And his life would be in one neat line then. No one would have to split custody when father, mother and baby all lived under one roof. He imagined picnics on summer lawns and zoo trips. Whew.

Allison interrupted this with a request. “I gotta shower — you’ll watch her, won’t you?”

“Yeah. Sure.”

“Cool. I’m so sweaty and smelly it’s not even funny. I put camels to shame.”

Jude smiled as he knew that was a cute to smile at a joke, in reality he was not even here, still coming out of his possibility world.

Lunch was another semi-awkward affair. A couple came from upstairs, one that Allison had already befriended (no surprise). They brought copious amounts of salad, to Allison’s giant pot of spaghetti, and they had a calm, little pot luck lunch in Allison’s tiny kitchen, Val sitting on a high chair between Jude and Allison, eating her applesauce. Allison gave her a tiny string of spaghetti, and Val rolled it around the table before her before putting it in her mouth. Jude didn’t get lost in hypotheticals anymore, mainly concerned with Val now, watching her every move, transfixed.

His daughter had an incredible superpower, a quality, of grounding him to the present. He was never more present when he watched her, still in wonder about the fact of her existence. Maybe it was because he saw her so infrequently, that he was this way. Maybe full-time parents were fully used to their child being a real, physical manifestation at this point, instead of always wondering. Or maybe they too wondered if their child was real and not some higher being or manifestation of pure energy, for at least the first few years. No, it was hard to believe but very real at the same time. All he had to do was reach out and touch her.

He left after it got dark, but not before he had popped into the nearest deli and gone shopping for every fruit and veg imaginable, barely carrying the paper bags back to the apartment with him (he would’ve struggled less with plastic, but knew Allison would get upset by plastic). He had told Allison to tell him if she was ever struggling with the financial costs of raising Val, and so far that had only happened twice. And she hadn’t said anything today, but still, he had wanted to give her things. He was always buying Val shit. The apartment was full of the odd assortment of toys Jude had bought, some practical and useful, some unusable until Val would be a little bit older. It was a hit and miss trial-and-error, but by god he tried.

At one point, they sat down on the sofa together, and Val fell asleep on him. It was the same sensation he felt when Kirby or Karma would fall asleep on him, and in the past Jacob, but times a thousand million. Having his child sleeping on him, his own, actual child, he thought his heart would burst. He was so glad he was alive today. He felt every possible ray of positivity the universe had to offer. He understood now what Jenny felt for Jake, and Carson for his kids. It wasn’t a bond you could find anywhere else.

Yet even with all that, he was happy to be going home on his own, saying his goodbyes to Allison (and sleeping Val), and making his way back uptown on the M. Yeah, he was happy he was going home now, to Sophie, to their dogs, without the baby. He loved her, by god he loved her with all his heart, but he was also exhausted. Sure, he didn’t have the difficult tasks of breastfeeding, changing nappies, and all that, but just being in her presence, watching and being on high alert mode at all times (what if she swallowed something, stepped on something). When you were responsible for a child, the entire world was a danger zone and you were a beleaguered Avenger trying to save the thing from possible destruction. And that was tiring. But lord, if she wasn’t the cutest thing.

#self para #jude #i cba to proofread this so fuck u if u spot a typo

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railrestroblog · 4 years

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How to Order Pure Veg Food in Train Journey Online

Finding pure veg food in train during the journey is now very easy, whether you are on a short distance or a long-distance journey. We are living in an era where everything is available at our finger-tips. If you are a frequent traveller by train, you can easily order vegetarian food in a train journey.

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How to Order Pure Veg Food? To order online veg food in train during the journey, follow these easy steps:

● Download the best food delivery app from the Google Play Store on your mobile. ● Enter the PNR number and select at which station you want to get your food delivered at your seat. ● Browse the menu and choose the food of your choice, and add it to the cart. ● After adding food items in the cart, it will show you the total bill amount. ● Pay using your preferred mode of payment, either online or offline. ● Enjoy your food at your seat.

Benefits of Consuming Pure Veg Food : Adopting the habit of having a vegetarian diet is the perfect way to stay healthy. It is easy to digest and takes less time to cook.

● Increases lifespan: Eating a vegetarian diet is one of the best ways of adding years to your life. Consumption of fruits and vegetables will reduce the toxins and chemical build-up in your body.

● Gives healthy Skin: Eating the right amount of vitamins and minerals with plenty of water is the best option to promote skin health. It is the source of antioxidants that helps you stay disease-free.

● Enhances metabolism: Vegetarian food is easy to digest and increases the metabolism of the body. Increased metabolic rate in the body burns fats quickly and helps you remain healthy.

● Contains high fibre: Vegetarian diets are rich in fibre which is necessary for proper digestion. It helps in increasing metabolism and reduces toxins and other chemicals from the body.

● Capacity to fight disease: As vegetarian food is less in saturated fats and cholesterol, it reduces the risk of heart diseases and other diseases. It helps in strengthening the immune system of the body, which prevents you from falling ill.

● Varieties in Vegetarian food: It’s not necessary to eat meat or non-vegetarian food to get all the nutrients. Consumption of pure veg food can also lead to better health. It has many varieties of nutritious food options such as Veg Biryani, Hara Bhara Kabab, Matar Paneer, Malai Kofta, Chole Bhature, Rajma-Chawal and many more.

Different Types of Vegetarian Diets :

● Lacto-ovo-Vegetarian: Along with vegetarian food, you need to eat both egg and dairy products.

● Lacto-Vegetarian: You can eat dairy products along with vegetarian diets but without consuming eggs. ● Ovo-Vegetarians – You can eat eggs with vegetarian food but without the consumption of dairy products.

● Pescatarians – You can eat fish along with the vegetarian diet but avoid consuming meat.

● Semi-vegetarians- This diet includes chicken and meat along with a healthy vegetarian diet but doesn’t include red meat.

● Vegans – You eliminate non-veg, dairy products, as well as other animal-derived products like honey from your diet. Even food cultivated under the earth is prohibited from consuming.

Online veg food on the train has changed the meaning of travelling for vegetarians. With restaurant-style food and varieties of food options, it has added the fun in the journey.

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January 30

4:53 we hear a knock on the door – it’s our wake up call for the 5:30 game drive. We all head to the dinning room for some quick tea, coffee, and biscuits and it’s back in our safari jeeps for the morning. We saw 2 rhinos within the first 20 minutes. Our guide said their horns grow 5cm per year but these guys just had little nubs. The reserve files them down to keep the rhinos protected from the poachers - which in this area signs read “poachers will be poached” allowing officials to shoot to kill poachers. (Also in Kruger National Park rhinos are assigned 5 rangers each to keep them protected which has really helped the population). We saw beautiful eagles, zebra, buffalo, wildebeest and warthog (not so beautiful), nyala, water buck, impala, and a family of giraffes. Oh and so many birds. Our jeeps stopped by a family of zebras to have our mid safari snack. Of course we all wanted to see how close we could get to the zebras so we lined one by one (same as when we walked to the cheetahs) and headed towards them. It didn’t take long for them to notice us coming and then move away slowly. Rachel decided to RUN at them which sent them fleeing for the hills. Back to our snack we went where we ate carrot muffins and had coffee/tea/drinking chocolate. Time for the second half of our safari- No elephants or leopards yet though, hopefully later on tonight or tomorrow. We headed back to camp for breakfast where we were served pastries, eggs, bacon, pancakes, fruits, yogurt, cereal, mushrooms, and tomatoes. Jamie and I thought they were serving hard boiled eggs as well. Jamie found out the hard way that they were definitely NOT hard boiled when she cracked the egg open onto her plate. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jeremy laugh so hard! After breakfast we grouped up to discuss our book, Pushed, and talked about problems in maternal health care and the many interesting stories within the book. The sun came out and some of us went in the pool while others napped. We had some drinks by the pool and cooled down from this African heat before our afternoon game drive. We were on the look out for leopards and elephants (to finally check off all of the Big 5). After driving for a little while, we got the radio call for the elephants, but we could not have imagined what awaited us. We pull up to an entire heard of elephants, at least 20 or more, eating leaves and hanging around. We drove a little further and that’s when the magic happened. They marched single file 15 feet in front of us - one by one they passed our jeep. From the babies to the big males, none of us could contain ourselves. I think my jaw dropped open the entire time. It was pure bliss, joy, excitement, and amazement wrapped into one moment. They surrounded one of the jeeps - so close that Katie was less than an inch from reaching out and touching it. While we were watching in awe of these majestic creatures, one came up from behind us and passed our jeep within arms reach. The guide - “no don’t make so much noise guys please” - because the only words that we could put together were “oh my god, oh my god!” They all marched down the hill next to us and were out of sight. What a moment to remember - a moment where we all saw the beauty of this earth and felt the joy nature could fire within us. I think I’m still in shock. Well after that, I think we all felt nothing could top that moment for the rest of the drive. I can’t even remember what we saw next because I was still star struck from the elephants. We stopped for our afternoon snack and drink right at sunset with the blue mountains and pink sky behind us. Picture perfect (so of course, we took a bunch). We headed back to the lodge for our braai (aka barbecue) with the guides where we chowed down on a buffet of chicken, steak, pap, potatoes, and all sorts of veg. I just wish I could have one meal without a giant bug flying into my face or landing on my head. The bugs are a lot bigger here, if I could just throw that in there. As we were leaving dinner, I asked Rachel if she could just double check that it was gone. Her face went straight to full panic mode so obviously I panicked. I screamed as she hit me multiple times with her safari hat to get it off. Jeremy ran to the rescue because from the sound of things I was getting attacked by some large animal but he turned back as soon as he realized it was just another bug incident (sorry guys). After dinner, we hung out in the lounge and around the bar (which seems like a frequent spot for us:). Hopefully we get to watch the Lion King tomorrow. Incredibly thankful for this entire trip and all the experiences leading up to now. It’ll be a hard farewell tomorrow but until then – goodnight from safari! -Sydney

(Love and miss you all back home!!)

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A Planned Pregnancy, A Semi Planned Surgery and Some Unplanned Weight Loss

It was two years since we got married and we were attending a cousin’s wedding (one of numerous cousins). We were approached by a innocent looking middle aged woman and were asked about our procreation plans. We had no idea who the lady was but tried to brush her off without discussing our family planning measures. Her reaction was to threaten us on behalf of Lord Almighty, “You shouldn’t delay such things, God won’t give you the gift of progeny as per your convenience.” Although we were shocked by her declaration, we let it slide.

Our family planning involved waiting for two years of marriage and then starting to try for kids. So when I conceived right after we completed two years of marriage, it was a pleasant but unexpected surprise. On one hand, we were happy that unlike that lady’s prediction, God decided to bless us at our own convenience. But on the other hand, we were still unprepared for a new life to enter our lives. We found a gynecologist nearby to consult and confirm the news. Her advice when I enquired about consuming non vegetarian food was to depend more on salads and fruits and avoid non veg if possible. The pure non vegetarian in me started hating that doctor right away.

Within a week of confirming pregnancy, my struggle with nausea started. I wouldn’t use the euphemism “morning sickness” for my suffering. It was a 24 hour ordeal with me not being able to keep anything in my stomach. I was living on a diet of rice and curd or chapati and milk. Some of my favorite foods like chicken and chicken liver became my sworn enemies (I still cannot eat liver). Simultaneously I had cravings for Maggi and Chinese food which were on the no go list. Out of sheer pity, my husband used to buy these for me, hoping something would stay in my stomach. One bite, and I would rush to the restroom to throw up everything I ate from morning. We even bought a small stool to keep in the toilet so I could be more comfortable in my long vomiting sessions in there. The doctor discouraged me from medication for vomiting, which made me uncomfortable to consult with her further.

We came to know that there was a gynecologist in our neighborhood who was well known in Mumbai. We went to meet him. One check up and he told me that I have fibroids. The subsequent scan only helped to confirm two fibroids. It was quite scary because I made the mistake of Googling the issues with fibroids. Anyway, the dilapidated condition of the clinic and the fact that the doctor was male(Yes I am a bit conservative in this matter, thank you for the judgment) prompted me to find a new doctor.

By the time I had settled with my new gynecologist I had already lost almost five kilograms in the first four months of pregnancy. I had resorted to wearing thicker clothes to give me a false sense of weight gain. I was concerned that this weight loss was going to hurt my baby. My doctor helped me through this phase and ensured me that things aren’t as bad as I had thought it through in my head. It seems nausea and loss of appetite lasting throughout the pregnancy, even if not common, was not unheard of.

It was from the fifth month that I actually started gaining weight and started enjoying pregnancy (albeit with the help of nausea medicines). But by then, the next problem had started. I used to get constant pains below my chest, making it impossible for me to sit in a place for more than ten minutes. The doctor explained to me that my short stature was not allowing the uterus to expand upwards and was causing the discomfort. Consequently I had to take maternity leave from an early date (I had a desk job-what was the point of going to work if I couldn’t get any work done).

The phase of waiting for the little one to arrive had begun. My short stature also meant that I had an inadequate pelvis (pelvis not expanded enough to push out the baby). So the doctor had already informed us that it would be a planned c- section for me. I had heard stories of how a woman would be an ideal mother only if she survives labor pain. But I was never a fan of being ideal. So I felt no qualms in taking the doctor’s advice and settling for a planned caesarian. Although I was initially told that I was under the risk of early labor due to fibroids, the baby didn’t show any sign of coming out soon.

As per doctor’s advice, we had selected an apt date for the surgery and had packed our bags for admission. Two days before the planned date, while I was taking one of my early morning bathroom breaks, I felt like I had some discharge. I woke up my mother to take her expert opinion and she asked me to wait for some more time. I started spotting soon enough and I decided that it was time to wake up dear husband mine. I woke him up saying we had to get to the hospital soon. He just grumbled and wrapped his blanket tighter. Despite informing him that I had started bleeding, he didn’t seem too keen to be interrupted from his beauty sleep. Finally I had to resort to exhibiting a wiped tissue to make him understand the seriousness of the matter. We reached the hospital soon and after checking I was told that although the water had not broke, I had some infection and the surgery needs to be done soon.

An issue due to nurse duty meant that it was taking too much time for the operation theatre to get ready. By afternoon I had started experiencing labor pains and the baby’s heart beats had started declining. I heard my doctor barking orders to everyone and I was finally taken in for surgery. The baby was taken out a little after 2.30pm- a healthy little girl who resembled her father as though my uterus was a photocopying machine. All the nausea, the weight loss and pains were forgotten the moment I kissed my daughter for the first time.

I have heard people belittle women who have undergone c-section, saying they had it easy and did not have to go through labor pain. But the after surgery recovery pains undergone by caesarian mothers is no less, sometimes even worse. I have never felt any guilt for having to settle for a surgery. In fact, neither me nor my husband wanted to take any risk to chase the glory of a normal delivery. We trusted our doctor to do the right thing. At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is that you have a fine and healthy baby in your arms; the mode of delivery is a trivial matter.

I survived a pregnancy with unbelievably awful nausea, weight loss, UTI, fibroids, ear infection, burnt leg due to a kitchen mishap and an almost emergency surgery. Despite all these discomforts I opted to have another child. So from my experience I can safely say: plan your pregnancies, prepare for unplanned events during pregnancy and keep your fingers crossed for all the best things to happen to you but don’t get disheartened if things turn less than ideal.

Conceive when you feel it is a good time to expand your family. Do not feel bad about taking time for yourself as a couple before deciding to add a new member to your world. Once you are pregnant, don’t allow yourself to be judged by others for the choices you make, lest you want your pregnancy memoirs to leave an ugly imprint in your mind.

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