Grackle #7 Baby is here, a good wifey to Rick, the thought of her procreating still gives me the ick

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D_Wills said:
I must say she does seem really happy and like she's settled in to mum life ridiculously easy. Do we think its genuine? Does seem to be, but I guess she's not the sort to really open up about struggles.
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I feel really torn about this! I think she's kind of positioned herself as someone who keeps it real (in terms of food, feelings, etc), but I also think her upbringing and environment wouldn't allow her to be outwardly struggling with motherhood other than the occasional "this is harder than I thought" comment. I think she's generally enjoying motherhood, but if she was struggling a lot, she'd probably just disappear from the internet for a while (which would be fine, of course).
 
ginamarcella said:
I feel really torn about this! I think she's kind of positioned herself as someone who keeps it real (in terms of food, feelings, etc), but I also think her upbringing and environment wouldn't allow her to be outwardly struggling with motherhood other than the occasional "this is harder than I thought" comment. I think she's generally enjoying motherhood, but if she was struggling a lot, she'd probably just disappear from the internet for a while (which would be fine, of course).
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I was thinking this yesterday while watching her festive food video. It could be because she's so young/childish/immature (pick the right word) that she's had even more unsollicited advice from church mothers around her and she has taken it all on so everything is fine, everything is normal and everything is great and she has a ton of support.
On the other hand, I saw a tiktok saying how they appreciate uncomplicated mothers and she's giving me that vibe. I love that she has a baby now but it's not all about baby and its problems. She mentions the odd vomit covered clothes and sleepless nights but she hasn't become all #motherhood.
I still find her very odd to watch because she acts 12 so it always sounds insane to me when she mentions the baby.... I'm 33 and would feel weird if I suddenly was a mum so I might just be projecting lol
 
This just in, it’s totes fine to show her sister’s baby in her vlogs, it’s HER choice! As long as our lil Gracie poo is having a cracking good time, amirite?!

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She seems to be doing ok to me.
I doubt she questions too much and I reckon she has accepted her life as it is now.
 
Benandrewsao said:
Did I mishear during her pregnancy video on extra grack?. Did she say after her waters broke, she still made scrambled eggs for her and Mr Grack to have before they left for the hospital?
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Unclear but it sounds like Mr Grack made them, but used old eggs and either he or she had to remake them. Which is quite a random tidbit lol.

I know it sounds weird but when your waters break labour doesn’t necessarily start immediately, even when contractions start they often want you to stay at home for a while until they really ramp up. Oxytocin is the hormone that moves labour along and you get it by being relaxed and calm, hence why she would have preferred to labour at home. It’s very unlike how it’s portrayed in the movies.

She says she was considered a high risk pregnancy and had to have iron infusions. Explains why she looked a little undead during pregnancy.
 
Agreed. I realise it's Chloe's decision and if she's fine with it, then in Grace's eyes it's OK. But if she doesn't want to show her kid (I refuse to call him Tiny, blugh) for safeguarding reasons, which is fully understandable, why doesn't she extend that same care to her niece or nephew? She's essentially saying don't come for my kid, but they are a free for all. It's hypocritical.
 
Just saw the birth story video. I’m glad she’s okay and doing well enough to be able to share it quite happily - but I don’t understand how she could say in one breath that she wished she’d “advocated for herself” more and that she’d have been more comfortable at home, before going on to talk about how close the midwife had been to pulling the emergency cord because things started getting dicey???

Sure in hindsight it was fine but it sounds like it was a near thing? Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, I’ve never given birth it’s not a topic I know much on.
 
Obviously birth is traumatising for most people (if not everyone?), but from the way she was talking at the start, I was expecting... worse? I dunno. Maybe I'm being judgemental cause I had a traumatising birth myself and I'm drawing comparisons, but it all sounded relatively smooth and normal? I know obviously it wouldn't have been nice if she'd had to have intervention, but she didn't in the end and it's pretty common to need it. It sounds like the biggest harsh to her mellow was being told to zip it (which I agree is a head thing to do), other than that everything seemed to progress quick, she got her water birth and got to leave very swiftly afterwards. It sounds nice tbh. I'm glad for them it all worked out like that, I wasn't expecting it to considering how poorly she looked during the pregnancy.
 
I thought her birth story sounded stressful and a bit traumatic. Especially when she got a second degree tear from being so keen to get him out fast (this is something that worries me a lot about birth so maybe it’s just me!) I’m glad she got through it ok though.
 
Ellie_Rose said:
I thought her birth story sounded stressful and a bit traumatic. Especially when she got a second degree tear from being so keen to get him out fast (this is something that worries me a lot about birth so maybe it’s just me!) I’m glad she got through it ok though.
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I also had a second degree tear with my first. Everyone is different I guess but I personally didn’t find my tear too bad and recovered easily from it. Getting the stitches was the worst part of it.

I’m not taking away from Grace’s labour and have only skimmed through the video but if there was definite panic, stress or concern I don’t think they would’ve allowed her to continue to give birth in the pool or allow her in to start with. Haven’t had a water birth to know but I’m pretty sure they’d have got her out of there.
 
ariawyn said:
Just saw the birth story video. I’m glad she’s okay and doing well enough to be able to share it quite happily - but I don’t understand how she could say in one breath that she wished she’d “advocated for herself” more and that she’d have been more comfortable at home, before going on to talk about how close the midwife had been to pulling the emergency cord because things started getting dicey???

Sure in hindsight it was fine but it sounds like it was a near thing? Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, I’ve never given birth it’s not a topic I know much on.
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To be fair she was talking about early labour then. It's v v common to labour at home until you enter second stage or feel yourself progressing. And the emergency came when she was literally pushing him out, hour and hours later. She absolutely should've stayed home since she was put on an induction ward which is just miserable. And being hooked to machines wrongly is shocking I'd personally complain! She could've come in much later and been taken straight to the MLU. All in all her birth story sounded pretty good and I am so pleased he came out with that push before they started interventions. She's lucky he did too. They were both fine and the in and out rocking is a natural and normal part of labour, baby probably wasn't distressed but not having an episiotomy or forceps delivery is definitely much better so it was a close one!
 
ginamarcella said:
I feel really torn about this! I think she's kind of positioned herself as someone who keeps it real (in terms of food, feelings, etc), but I also think her upbringing and environment wouldn't allow her to be outwardly struggling with motherhood other than the occasional "this is harder than I thought" comment. I think she's generally enjoying motherhood, but if she was struggling a lot, she'd probably just disappear from the internet for a while (which would be fine, of course).
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Wait, are we talking about the same person? She in no way keeps it real. There is nothing real about her. It’s all (very lazy) curation and camera cuts,
 
I would think that even if she had a very traumatic birth she would never label it as such because her role is to keep churning out the spawns not matter what. Showing Chole’s baby and not her own is a very weird choice, and also a weird flex like, “my tiny is TOO precious for social media but yours isn’t 💅🏻”
 
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