Tuesday vents/complaints

[pooh8402]

I worked delivery nurse yesterday (where I only attended deliveries and transitioned babies before turning them over to the nursery nurses). 3 deliveries within 4 hours, and at the end of my shift too.

My feet and back hurt so much. I don't know how our regular delivery nurses do it day in and out. I was filling in for one.

Oh, and the black cloud continues: one baby sent to NICU for breathing problems although she ended up being fine and off oxygen in a few hours, and one baby fell out onto the bed and I wasn't present (the labor nurse was and doctor barely made it in).

[MrsAggie]

The delivery nurses can do it everyday because they're not pregnant. It makes it a whole lot easier!

[estrellita]

I'm exhausted from being at the hospital last night and we had to come in an hour early today, so I barely got any sleep. Here's hoping this coffee works and gets me through the rest of the day!

[pooh8402]

Feb 10, 2015 9:28:35 GMT -5 MrsAggie said:

The delivery nurses can do it everyday because they're not pregnant. It makes it a whole lot easier!

haha that is true!!! I'm usually tired after a delivery shift but this time it was like whoa!!! 

my boss was there late (we had a bunch of insane crap happening at shift change), and like a quarter to the end of my shift, she looked at me, and said "are you tired?" well yes, do I look it???

[mrssandro]

So DH was all bragging about DD sleeping through the night. I told him not to do that because it will jinx us. Guess who was up since 1 AM. Yeah! Usually a bad night of sleep is followed by a good night of sleep. Lets just hope.

[melsamoony]

I have had a low level headache since yesterday....I finally broke down and took some ibuprofen. Idk why I wanted so long.

[ewall]

I have no complaints. I have coffee and donuts.

I was pissed at DH last night because he came home and ruined my plans/routine. You know when you have a series of tasks planned out in your mind and it seems totally unnecessary to have to explain yourself? Just leave me alone and let me do it! He was probably very WTF about my complaints regarding his attempts to do laundry and make dinner.

[pooh8402]

Feb 10, 2015 10:03:27 GMT -5 ewall said:

I have no complaints. I have coffee and donuts.

I was pissed at DH last night because he came home and ruined my plans/routine. You know when you have a series of tasks planned out in your mind and it seems totally unnecessary to have to explain yourself? Just leave me alone and let me do it! He was probably very WTF about my complaints regarding his attempts to do laundry and make dinner.

yes. I'm rarely ever productive when it comes to housework. this past weekend, and the weekend before, I was in major organization mode. *someone* kept interrupting me. "let's go to gander mountain." "let's go to the vacuum place and look at parts for the vacuum." "let's go to a movie." "come look at this on the computer with me." ahhhhh!!! I was like, dude!!!! you complain that I never do anything around the house, now I'm actually doing stuff and you keep interrupting me, stop!

[christy082]

@ related, I'm convinced baby isn't going to want to come out on his/her own (even though my EDD isn't til Sunday). Also, I've been anxious and overanalyzing every little change or new sensation I feel.

Honestly, i wouldn't be so impatient if my job didn't suck so much right now. I'm too pregnant for this BS and I just want to be done (but won't be done til I have the baby). Grr.

I'm just grumpy overall =(

[Deleted]

My eyes are extremely dry and stinging and painful, all the time. I have a humidifier running and take eye drops all day, but I don't think I'll get any relief until winter is over.

Also my H is waiting to hear if he has to travel again this week, so he's grumpy about it.

[estrellita]

christy082 have you made any progress at all? I feel you on the sucky job. Mine is so boring right now and unless I take PTO or get put on bed rest or something I'm also here until baby comes!

[wanderingenough]

ewall - liked your comment for the donuts...not the frustrations!

[ewall]

Feb 10, 2015 10:52:54 GMT -5 wanderingenough said:

ewall - liked your comment for the donuts...not the frustrations!

Oh yeah, I'm liking it now until we have our H&F check in! Oops.

[christy082]

Feb 10, 2015 10:52:09 GMT -5 estrellita said:

christy082 have you made any progress at all? I feel you on the sucky job. Mine is so boring right now and unless I take PTO or get put on bed rest or something I'm also here until baby comes!

Last week, I was 1cm 70%, the week prior to that i was 1cm 50%.  I haven't had any contractions except Braxton Hicks. Next check is this Thursday.

 My job is so stressful lately, and I resent them for it. We had all this new business come as of 1/1/15, but apparently they couldn't get their act together to get new staff hired and trained in time, so now all the new staff is still training and everyone else has literally twice as much work to do.  I hate it. 

I wish I had more PTO, but want to save it for after baby is born, because I don't qualify for FMLA (due to # hours I work) and want to extend my leave past 6-8 weeks.  

[estrellita]

Feb 10, 2015 10:56:58 GMT -5 christy082 said:

Feb 10, 2015 10:52:09 GMT -5 estrellita said:

christy082 have you made any progress at all? I feel you on the sucky job. Mine is so boring right now and unless I take PTO or get put on bed rest or something I'm also here until baby comes!

Last week, I was 1cm 70%, the week prior to that i was 1cm 50%.  I haven't had any contractions except Braxton Hicks. Next check is this Thursday.

 My job is so stressful lately, and I resent them for it. We had all this new business come as of 1/1/15, but apparently they couldn't get their act together to get new staff hired and trained in time, so now all the new staff is still training and everyone else has literally twice as much work to do.  I hate it. 

I wish I had more PTO, but want to save it for after baby is born, because I don't qualify for FMLA (due to # hours I work) and want to extend my leave past 6-8 weeks.  

Hopefully you've made some more progress so baby can get you out of there soon! I also hate the leave policies in this country. It would be nice if all companies gave a decent amount of paid leave to everyone!

[pooh8402]

my next vent: DH went shopping with my amazon account. I have 3 accounts linked to it in my amazon wallet--our joint account, my personal checking account (fun money), and my personal credit card. DH charged it to my personal account, which made it go into overdraft, grrr.

so now I'm chatting with him, telling him about his screw up, and he has the nerve to tell me that my math is wrong and questioning me. I did the math, step by step, and gave him login info to see. now he finally accepts that I was right.

the main thing he was questioning??? I told him, our joint account owes me $300. I'm writing a check. he goes, "uhhh, it was actually 289.29" and copies/pastes the total from amazon's order history. yea asshole, I was approximating it, it's easier to type 300.

so now I'm writing a check to myself (to avoid bank to bank transfer fees) and depositing it. woo. thank goodness for mobile deposit. I don't have to actually go to the bank.

[krystee]

My dog woke me up to go out at 1:15. In nine years, he has never woken me up to go out unless he is sick. He was not sick. I am relieved, but hope this is not going to be the start of a new pattern. H then woke me up at 3am when he left for a business trip. I am so sleepy today.

[pooh8402]

Feb 10, 2015 11:50:28 GMT -5 krystee said:

My dog woke me up to go out at 1:15. In nine years, he has never woken me up to go out unless he is sick. He was not sick. I am relieved, but hope this is not going to be the start of a new pattern. H then woke me up at 3am when he left for a business trip. I am so sleepy today.

they're just preparing you.

[MrsAggie]

@ My vent is that W saw the same pedi he saw last time (different from the one we saw the first few visits). I still have a sour taste in my mouth from her telling us babies shouldn't be swaddled once they leave the hospital. DH took her word as God, stopped swaddling him, and ruined the *one* thing we had going for us. Today she told us we had a very high maintenance baby. Yes, yes we do. And swaddling used to be the magic go-to.

[pooh8402]

Feb 10, 2015 12:34:52 GMT -5 MrsAggie said:

@ My vent is that W saw the same pedi he saw last time (different from the one we saw the first few visits). I still have a sour taste in my mouth from her telling us babies shouldn't be swaddled once they leave the hospital. DH took her word as God, stopped swaddling him, and ruined the *one* thing we had going for us. Today she told us we had a very high maintenance baby. Yes, yes we do. And swaddling used to be the magic go-to.

wtf is she talking about??? babies should be swaddled while they transition to the wide open world after being tightly wrapped in mom's belly. it's a comfort measure. and it decreases their moro reflex, thus reducing wakeups.

I know you know that. this is more for your H and your pedi.

[mrssandro]

I swaddled dd until just about a 2 weeks ago. She started breaking out so now we use a sleep sack. The pedi wanted us to stop at 6 weeks but we didn't see a need to.

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[MrsAggie]

Feb 10, 2015 12:39:59 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

Feb 10, 2015 12:34:52 GMT -5 MrsAggie said:

@ My vent is that W saw the same pedi he saw last time (different from the one we saw the first few visits). I still have a sour taste in my mouth from her telling us babies shouldn't be swaddled once they leave the hospital. DH took her word as God, stopped swaddling him, and ruined the *one* thing we had going for us. Today she told us we had a very high maintenance baby. Yes, yes we do. And swaddling used to be the magic go-to.

wtf is she talking about??? babies should be swaddled while they transition to the wide open world after being tightly wrapped in mom's belly. it's a comfort measure. and it decreases their moro reflex, thus reducing wakeups.

I know you know that. this is more for your H and your pedi.

I was pissed because he just stopped and didn't talk to me about it at all. She mentioned hip dysplasia, which I have already read articles on and know how to properly swaddle to avoid the risks (even though I think that is BS too because swaddling has been around literally forever and there's not a mass hip dysplasia epidemic). Then she mentioned arm development which was a BS afterthought that I found zero research to even suggest that. It terrified H out of swaddling and by the time I knocked some sense into him, W began fighting the swaddle. RAGE.

[pooh8402]

I'd be raging too. at my hospital, we've altered our swaddling technique to account for hip dysplasia, but I do believe that swaddling is important.

[melsamoony]

I need to complain. Tapatalk is being stupid so I can't upload my pictures, DS is sick and not eating and driving me INSANE with worry about that even though I know it is ok (peeing fine...but come on kid you are gaining weight well finally can't we just stop with this whole silliness), I am being a big loser today and can't find an important piece of mail that I swear I put in my bills mail spot but isn't there so now I have no idea where I would have put it...ok I need to quit now before I get worked up again.

[MrsMB]

I informed my Director that I was going to request off next Thursday for my husband's surgery. (Keep in mind, I work in HR). She rolled...her....eyes. I can't even! What the heck? She back-tracked and said something to the affect of "Oh, I wasn't rolling my eyes at the surgery..." and then trailed off. She didn't expound on it...which now has me obsessing. I'm sure it has to do with something else....right?!

She doesn't know why he's getting operated on (and doesn't need to know)....but come on. Technically, I just had to put in the PTO request and not tell her anything. But we've got an event going on that evening that I had r.s.v.p'd to so I wanted her to know I wasn't just avoiding.

[melsamoony]

MrsMB totally.not.ok. I had a HR question for you and now I forgot LOL.

[MrsMB]

Feb 10, 2015 16:33:06 GMT -5 jjwritergirl said:

MrsMB she acts like you do this often which you obviously don't.

Exactly. She waltzed in my office this morning before our weekly meeting to joke around and say I didn't miss anything yesterday. Then this.

It was just a really weird reaction....

[bk1]

I'm down to just internet on my phone :-( my cousin needed his hot spot back, which is fine of course, but I hate that we still haven't got everything figures out with the net. I reached out to our suddenlink contact and never heard back. I sent another email today. We really need to know if this is gonna happen. Otherwise we need to get something else figured out.

[spankswife]

I had a really stressful day, and then there was a hair in my dinner tonight.

I give up on today.

[wanderingenough]

MrsMB - the more you post about your boss, the more i realllly dislike her