Friday randoms/vents/whatevers!

[starburst604]

I am sooooo ready for the weekend and to celebrate our anniversary tomorrow! We're going away for the night to Portland, ME.

I have this friend who is also pregnant, about 25ish weeks, and has veered into "bitch eating crackers" territory with me I'm afraid. It started when she told me she was pregnant and I was sticking needles into myself for my IUI, I really couldn't handle it at the time, and when I mentioned the medications were making me tired she was all "Wait till you're pregnant, you'll just continue being tired!" Uh, thanks. She wasn't "trying" but they weren't preventing leading up to their wedding. I had asked her before if she was ok with getting pregnant before the wedding and potentially being sick for the wedding/honeymoon or not fitting into her dress and she was all la di da I don't care! Which is fine. What threw me was when she announced she kept saying stuff like "Well, this baby wasn't planned at all" and "a total surprise but a blessing!". YOU WEREN'T USING BIRTH CONTROL SO STOP WITH THE "OOPSIE!" INNOCENT THING! You would think once I got pregnant I would get over it but she's continued to annoy me since by knowing EVERYTHING about being pregnant. Everything. Today she messages me about plans we have and I mention I'm having my NT scan that day and should have some good pics to show. She writes this long paragraph about how my doctor is doing it wrong, because SHE didn't have HER anatomy scan until 18 weeks and aren't I too early for that? I went on to explain what the NT scan was and she informed me that I should be having the genetic blood test that SHE had because it tests for ALL abnormalities, not just Downs! Yes, yes, I am having the blood tests the same day as the NT scan, but thank you Dr. Pregnancyexpert. Then the icing - "You're going to worry so much about the results of that genetic testing. I worried SO MUCH until I found out my baby was normal!". TBH, I'm not all that worried right now. Maybe I should be but I'm just not. Maybe that will change while I am waiting for the results to come back, but don't tell me I SHOULD worry!

Anyway, vent over. I have a feeling I'm just finding her annoying over FB message and once I see her I will be fine because I don't normally find her annoying. I just feel like I've been reading into and planning this pregnancy for quite some time, and since hers was such a "surprise" she really didn't have that much info before whereas I do know quite a bit.

[gretchenindisguise]

I'm feeling neurotic.

I was having mild contractions most of the day yesterday. Not really painful but 10 minutes apart for several hours.

Went away over night.

Just had my first one this morning about a minute ago.

With my first I was induced. I showed no real signs of labor before hand. This whole "is it starting??" Nonsense is for the birds.

[hainesherway]

starburst604 I don't blame you for being annoyed with her. Sounds like she's making everything about her experience and not letting you have yours.

I totally don't feel like working today. The weather is nice and they're having a big Halloween party at work, so all I want to do is goof off

[shekels1222]

My parents (and only childcare option when I go into labor) are being flaky lately. They want me to go into labor on the weekend or my due date around thanksgiving because they don't have any time off from their jobs. They took alllll their vacation days already knowing we'd need them to keep our son when I go into labor. They also don't ever answer their phones so I'll be up shit creek until they do. IDGAF

I'm pissed at them. And my husband is going out of town this weekend for hi last business trip before the baby is born and they decided last minute to go out of town too.

[Monica Geller]

starburst604  she sounds "lovely"   FWIW, I wasn't that worried about the results of the genetic tests, but when they came back normal, I was relieved. 


We had parent-teacher-student conferences this week. I had 12 hours of conferences is a 24 hour period.  We have today off as compensation and thank God, because I am exhausted. I slept in this morning, ran some errands, had lunch, and now I'm thinking about taking a nap. LOL!!

The past 3-4 days it's like my body decided that my right hip needs to not be in its usual spot. It feels like my hip is being dislocated or something. I guess baby needs more room.

[krystee]

I made the very big mistake of trying a doppler at a friend's house. She got an urgent call from work so I had to go, so we only had two minutes--and we didn't find the heartbeat in that two minutes so I am all nervous even though I know it can take awhile if you have no idea what you are doing. I left a message on the nurse's line to see if they think I should be worried. I am secretly hoping they ask me to come in so I can stop worrying.

[demandypants]

i invited friends over for dinner tomorrow night and now I don't want to clean and cook and all of that at all. and since the weather will be nice, the girls will want to play outside which means I also have to make a good effort to clean up after the dogs (which hasn't been done in about a month cause the neighborhood kids have been playing on the street on nice days). And dog cleanup duty is near impossible in the fall anyway with the number of trees we have. BLAH. TO make it all worse, DH leaves Sunday early for about a week long business trip so I will have to manage the house and DD alone.

Well whining won't help... time to find a yummy and easy dinner to make for us tomorrow!

[krystee]

The nurse just told me to come in tomorrow to calm my fears. I'm so glad. Waiting 12 more days was going to be difficult!

[estrellita]

starburst604 your friend makes me twitchy. How annoying! She reminds me of some people from this mom's group on FB my friend invited me to. One of the girls was asking when to go into the doctor if you're not getting pregnant. She had been trying for 4 months! (ETA:she was being super whiny and concerned about how incredibly long it was taking). And she wasn't even charting or anything. Cue a bunch of people chiming in with their "expert" advice that was all pretty much terrible, lol. I feel like some of them would be a know it all about everything else too!

krystee I'm sure everything is ok! The home ones aren't as accurate and you're not trained to find it. I'm sure they will find it right away tomorrow!

[orangeglow]

Third tri puking has started.  I don't know if that's an actual thing, but the past two days I'm back to nausea, vomiting, vertigo.

I want to blame it on the flu shot I got - can I?

[Deleted]

My bestie is in labor, her water broke last night. I can't wait to meet her son/daughter! Her entire family is at the hospital waiting though, which annoys me by proxy. They've been there all day and most of last night! Too much pressure.

[pennylane]

I decided yesterday to groom my nether regions. It was a hilarious feat in and of itself, but I am really regretting it today because now I have razor burn to go along with my already sore pelvic region. Not worth it.

In other fun news- I found out this week that my little brother & SIL are expecting a baby next year! I'm excited for my little guy to have a cousin close in age.

[orangeglow]

Oct 24, 2014 13:46:51 GMT -5 pennylane said:

I decided yesterday to groom my nether regions. It was a hilarious feat in and of itself, but I am really regretting it today because now I have razor burn to go along with my already sore pelvic region. Not worth it.

I did this like two weeks ago.  I thought using a mirror would help me.  NOPE - it's all backwards and confusing!!  DH said it looked like a blind lawn guy went after me with a rusty lawn mower!  Lol.  It hurt too.  I'm sorry your down there is sore.  If you already got some dermaplast, it really helps the owies.

[azurely]

I had a dr appt this morning. I'll be 37 weeks on Sunday, so I got my TDaP shot and she did a strep B test and cervical check. Baby is head down and really low, and I'm 1cm dilated and 80% effaced. I know those numbers can mean nothing, but yay for progress! She told me she doesn't expect me to make it to my due date. I'd be happy going a week or two early, but any earlier than that is a little scary...

I'm excited for this weekend. I was sick most of last weekend and didn't get anything done, so I'm hoping to be more productive this weekend.

[ewall]

pennylane and orangeglow I feel so much better after reading your posts. I attempted grooming this morning. I thought I did okay until later this morning (TMI) I noticed a spot of blood on my panty liner. Slight freak out until I realized the logical explanation is that I nicked myself with the razor. 

I'm sore all over today - neck and back. I think I might be entering the uncomfortable phase of pregnancy.

I've traveled for work over the past 5 years. My longest consecutive stretch at home has been 2 weeks, maybe 3 weeks once. Realized yesterday that maternity leave will have me home for a full 10 to 12 weeks. DH and I may drive each other crazy as we're not used to so much together time. I may take my boss up on his offer to come back to work early on part time basis.

[smsm24]

Vent 1 - Pregnancy heartburn is the worst, I was getting it while I was eating. I need to go take more tums.

Vent 2 - my washer and dryer were delivered today, but they weren't able to install them or take the old ones away because they are in a weird corner and they aren't allowed to lift the appliance over anything so we have to wait for tomorrow to get some friends over to help put them in. I just want to do laundry and be able to clean up my house. Gurrrrr

Aw- I saw the babe move from the outside.

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Oct 24, 2014 12:09:25 GMT -5 krystee said:

I made the very big mistake of trying a doppler at a friend's house. She got an urgent call from work so I had to go, so we only had two minutes--and we didn't find the heartbeat in that two minutes so I am all nervous even though I know it can take awhile if you have no idea what you are doing. I left a message on the nurse's line to see if they think I should be worried. I am secretly hoping they ask me to come in so I can stop worrying.

I think those things are garbage a lot of the time. We couldn't find a heart beat with my friend who was like 37 weeks pregnant all while the baby was kicking her.

[krystee]

We just got into a fight at Home Depot because my H has no taste and cannot understand color coordination, and he says I am just perfection-obsessed thanks to Pinterest. He was looking at these horrible blues that completely clash with the fabrics we picked out together (that go with the theme HE chose, so he has a say) and he could not understand why they clash because "planes go in the sky and the sky is BLUE. Planes don't clash with the blue, they BELONG with it!"

The fabric we picked is aqua. It does not go with blue. At all. Then he found this hideous space shuttle ceiling fan and said it was perfect for the room because it fit the theme. I was so emotional I practically cried. Just because it has wings does not mean it belongs in the room. If the kid wants an ugly ceiling fan and blue walls someday, I will
oblige. But until he has opinions, the room will match, darnit.

I might sound crazy, but I love decorating and making this a nice, appealing room is really important to me.

[MrsAggie]

krystee I'm laughing at your H's rationale. That's the kind of smart ass thing my H would come up with. H really likes the way the rest of our house is decorated even though he was hesitant about some ideas that he ended up loving when they came to fruition. I used to tell him that if he likes the way that I've decorated everything then he needs to trust me.

Plus, you're carrying the kid, the one that nests, and you get the biggest say for baby's room. He'll be the little guy's go-to when he gets older. Happy wife, happy life

[llamamama]

Starburst604, your friends sounds really annoying. I don't blame you for being irritated with her. My vent is I have been so irritable lately. I am a teacher and feel like my students are extra annoying this year. It is probably the pregnancy hormones but I can't wait until maternity leave!

[pennylane]

smsm24 Have you asked your doctor for heartburn meds? I have found the tums not to be very helpful, but my dr. prescribed me Zantac 150 and that stuff is amazing.