Yeah, I have definitely called myself out on this exact thing before. But it is still hard! It is hard to look back (especially to times when I was ignorant or not in control of the situation) and realize that I will never be able to have what I missed out on. It is ok to be sad about things, the important part (which is what I'm stuck on) is not getting hung up on what could have been but instead to enjoy what is

Yeah... I felt ATTACKED by that line, and I'm not even a parent. X_X

@@albertlassiter8608 100%! I find I like to make things or buy keepsakes to remember things I used to do. Now that's not some new revelation or anything, but what I have found is that when I make something that reminds me of a fun adventure I went on, or buy a keepsake or something, it helps me kind of keep that memory ANCHORED in reality and not some rose-colored glasses version of what really happened. I have a large collection of these keepsakes, and it always makes me smile remembering some dumb thing I used to do with friends or some adventure I took off somewhere. And always fondly. Never wishing I could go back and do it again. I think somehow the keepsakes help me not pine for a time when I was younger and or wish I had done something differently, like I missed out.

Julie - the person, not the internet meme - is multifaceted. I'm sure this kid will turn out just fine.

A perfect and succinct line that really helped me! Thank you for being the perfect therapist today! 🙂

LMAO!

I literally spit my tea all over myself when I read this. Good job. +15 internet points

She wrote a bunch of "pregnant" sketches and literally went all the way to bring them to life instead of stuffing a pillow under her shirt. That's dedication!! She's probably got a bunch of "mom" sketches ready to go 🙂

So we thinking she got preggo just to clear out the backlog of pregnant sketches she had written over the years, but didn’t have the bump to pull off?

@@runrig97 🤣🤣

Could have cut to Mirror Julie on the toilet drinking Coke 🤣

Notice she didn’t say “you never did Coke”

some ppl like buffalo, some like teriyaki

"reality slap" is the only two words I can think of in connection with that... Another problem, one's not only lost to the outside world, but that "partner time" is also severely curtailed. Unless you're comfortable with outsourcing child rearing to outsiders to sniff coke off the toilet seat...

Oh no... I never even thought about mirror Julie's baby. I cannot wait.

It fits the character, but it is a little uncomfortable seeing a drunk pregnant woman. Even when you know it's fake drunk. But what's she going to do, NOT have mirror Julie drinking?

Mirror Julie's baby will come out with a drink in its hand!

Oh no!!! That poor baby. It'll be off screen crying and mirror Julie will be yelling at it... Poor thing. Will mirror social services come? Arghhh, now I'm worried

Would be the most sarcastic yet wise baby ever

haha basically the same as having twins

That's cheesy and kinda basic. But deep down, we all know that "cheesy and basic" means "pleasant and good".

My wife prefers, “Character spawn point”.

Oh please don’t. Don’t exploit your child for views. Here and there yes it’s fine. But internet is dangerous. And, Julie, you don’t need to show your child. We would still watch and enjoy your videos even if there was no child in them.

And a future teenager…😮

I was watching her through my pregnancy, So yes please do!!! Lol! And I don't listen to most of my music anymore.... It's all Baby Shark now. Lol! But I wouldn't change for the world 🤱💝

I'm afraid to hear from Mirror Julie not holding back, she already made a very unglamorous comment on how much Julie might tear. But it'll be hilarious.

There's nothing wrong in being a mom. In fact it can make you even better...

I was too tired for the first year to have a crisis lol. I was in survival mode for the first 6 months and almost survival mode for the second 6 months. Crisis came my second year and I've made it my goal to recommit myself to my old hobbies and activities. It's going well so far and has helped me get back in touch with myself.

“Being a god to them” is such an interesting way to put it

You will be a god if is a boy to the age of 12, 9 if it’s a girl. Good luck!

Motherhood is pretty important. You become the most important person in the world to your child. The media has spent decades trashing motherhood to young women and its worked. I'm glad there are still women out there that want to be moms, I just wish there were more independent minded women out there that didn't let the media think for them.

@@olliefoxx7165 I am the oldest of five children and a child and family therapist. I did not need the media to tell me that having a child comes with significant downsides that IF ANYTHING are downplayed by friends, family and social media as well. That doesn't mean that it doesn't have its upsides, but my experience is that motherhood is glorified in our culture to an extent that greatly overshadows any woman who dares to critically examine the impact of motherhood on women.

So, the media and major segments of feminism are constantly telling us that motherhood is what a woman does when she fails at everything else. They push the rewards of careers, but traditionally only men had careers...and only men had a midlife crisis. A midlife crisis is the realization that no matter what your career is, at some point, someone is going to put all of your accomplishments in a box and ask you to have a nice retirement. You are replaceable. Your mother is your mother forever. Nobody hands their mother a box and says, okay, you are done, here, have a nice retirement.

If you haven't followed them you might like Connor and Liana. I think that's how you spell it. They just had a baby but I wouldn't call them family bloggers. They're currently building out a van so they can travel with their baby. Also Jessica Kellgren-Fozard. She's a deff lesbian disability activist and they had baby about a year ago. Maybe a bit of a different perspective on motherhood altogether as there's two moms. I guess I recommend these to you because they're both very honest with her feelings and their struggles but haven't lost the original intent of their channel, which is overwhelmingly positive. Basically great moms who love being mom's but that's not their whole life.

@@junipersages Then you have some kind of deep-rooted bias for whatever reason. Motherhood is not glorified in our culture and the fact that you believe otherwise means that there's an issue with your perception.

I hope not. Monetizing a child? Just because it's normal or common doesn't mean it's right or okay.

It’s not monetizing your child if you’re just bringing them into your life. Monetizing your child is when you make it all about them and make them do crazy stuff just to get clicks. I don’t see Julie doing that.

Step 1. Be attractive.

I disagree. I refuse to change on little bit. Baby's gonna have to learn how to hold a camera

@@julienolke Oh, you'll change all right. Diaper after diaper after diaper...

@@julienolke YES! The child labour laws are stupid, my four year old niece agrees with me. Well she'd better if she wants my help getting her out of that chimney.

@@julienolke And a mirror…and a microphone…and a giant book of ideas.

​@@julienolke will the baby have a mirror friend one day?

Everybody feels that way when they graduate and enter the "real world." You feel phony, like you are just _playing_ adult rather than being one. The hyper-boring conversations your coworkers have about television shows and moles they are having removed make you want to quit and backpack around South America or something. The problem is that you have to grow up sometime. You don't have to like the conversations about TV. Find some cool younger people at work and form a community safe from health problem talk.

Nobody does that subtle dismay/disappointment as well as Julie.

Why will it be boring? Wtf

@@king_halcyon Someone once said to me that kids are overwhelming and understimulating at the same time. I love my kids and they love me AND a lot of hands-on motherhood is incredibly boring.

I put the odds at 50% that she names the baby Content 😏

Child Protection Services would disagree. There are definitely rules on how to be a parent.

Qut making excuses for yourself dude.

First Person to Give Birth: "WTF is going on down there?!"

Although even being Just A Mom is the most important job in the world. And can be all-consuming.

It's mostly looks for females get real twinkle toes.

@@tommybards3489 Maybe it is for shallow chads like you. Those of us who are wise are looking for women that are beautiful inside.

Well Conceived....oh, I get it🤪

Hey.

Wise decision! Three Decades of Hell The future goes something like this. The next 3 to 5 decades are going to be apocalyptic. Beyond everyone's comprehension. Corona-panic will seem like a birthday party. The 2030s will be the decade climate change gives us a really good smack to the head. Floods and fires will be non-stop. Cities will flood, countries will drown, crops washed away and whole regions go up in smoke. Heat domes will turn crowded cities into concrete crispy crematoriums. As a result economies will crash, jobs will be lost, just in time supply chains will be distant memory. Societies social cohesion will implode into dystopian regimes the way America, UK and other "democratic lol" nations are already experiencing. The 2040s will be the decade when mass extinction gets real. Coral reefs and all the life dependent on them Gone!. There will be far far more plastic in the oceans than fish.. Hundreds of millions of peoples primary food sources Gone. Having ripped the bottom out of nature’s great chains, they will topple over, and collapse in on themselves. Who’s going to turn the soil when the insects are gone? Who’s going to clean the rivers when the fish have vanished? Who’s going to nurture the forests when the bees disappear? Bang! In the blink of an eye, even bigger collapses begin to happen. Our systems of civilization begin to fail, catastrophically. Whole economies. Whole industries. Whole sectors. Entire regions. The things we take for granted now food chains, water tables, air to breathe, soil to plant crops in, harvests to till, raw materials to extract and deplete will all begin to simply disappear. 400+ nuclear power plants will start to meltdown as they won't be able to be cooled down anymore and the people capable of servicing them lost to the economic collapse. Cities will be abandoned and massive migration (attempts) will be forced upon all nations. Brutality and cruelty will be the new legal systems. The 2050s the Final Goodbye. The planetary biosphere will transition into a phase not seen in many many millions of years. Hothouse earth. Glaciers and their rivers will have vanished replaced by horrific run-offs of super storm driven events that sweep the toxic landscape into the already pollution saturated oceans. Jellyfish, and cockroaches will be the main species left. Nothing will be able to evolve fast enough

Get the tubes removed, instead! Can't recommend highly enough.

Team Childfree 🎉 Also got my tubes removed 🎉

Hey ohh! #Teamnokids!! woot!! in my 40's no kids! :)

there coud be no bigger feeling than giving birth to a baby, feeding them, and letting them grow, being their mothers... nothing can compare to that...

Wow! I hope Julie reads this. That could be a great development idea. Mirror Julie changing. nice.

I thought she needed a straw (to sneak under the depilatory).

yup. Times have changed

@@julienolke 👍

Wow😂😂. You’re literally the last person here who could say they feel old. You’ve literally got your whole life ahead of you. Don’t worry and enjoy the ride

Pork chops and.... Apple Sauce.

I'm glad you picked up on that motto, it's incredibly true. You can be full of confidence one day and feeling irrelevant the next, with zero confidence your peers think you're cool (whatever that means) and then feeling super the next week, thinking you've figured out your problems (ha). It's not being a teenager, it's being anyone older than a child and younger than dead. It can be tougher as a teen cause you're not used to it (and yeah, the hormones) but it comes with growing up. But don't misread me, the ups are always a lot more than the downs, there's a lot of fun to be had. Also: If life gives you lemons - get used to it, life has *lots* of lemons.

"Explaining motherhood to my past self", could work!

It could have been apple juice ... maybe?

@@Dragonryder-iv6vi Maybe it was apple juice. Then it must have been the jello shots she was doing off camera that made her talk in her usual tipsy manner.

I thought it was iced tea

I can't wait until Mirror Julie starts babysitting Mommy Julie's baby.

😘

@@julienolke Totally not hot flashes... Yet!!!! ;-)

U sure?

massive tumor

When M.J.s child is born it may be terminal to others, instead of a pacifier it'll have a pipe.

​@Julie Nolke By the looks of it not the type that unlocks 90% of the untapped brain...