The last day of school was yesterday, the last "professional day" is today, and my summer vacation officially started an hour ago after I left a final end-of-year meeting with my wonderful assistant principal. I'm freeeeeee!
DS 2 is still finishing his last day of private Pre-K, so DS 1 and I are entertaining ourselves with books and crafts until we pick up the little guy around 2:00. Then I'm going to take them to see Finding Dory as a surprise. Three cheers for summer vacation!
I'm so frustrated in my Pet/house sitter quest. I just got a kitten and I am going to be away for a couple nights in July. I have posted on FB, my Nextdoor page, googled, contacted people on Rover. Why is this so hard? It's a little fluffy kitten!
I had my coffee meeting today with a woman who made the career-path transition I've been looking into lately. I was nervous, but it went SO well. I've been trying to arrange an opportunity (with amazing support from my boss) to get exposure/opportunity in her department, and while she isn't in a position to implement anything, she had a concrete idea for a role that would be of use to the department and also get me the experience I want. She's going to talk to her boss (who I have been talking with in a more general way, and who made the introduction) today about that plan and/or brainstorm other options. I was skeptical about whether this would go anywhere before this meeting, but now I'm actually optimistic!
I feel like my head is still spinning from the chemical pregnancy. We weren't trying, I was under the assumption that kids were probably not possible and if they were it would require major assistance. But instead I started my full dose of metformin 8 weeks ago and was 4.5 weeks pregnant over the weekend. And before we even got our minds wrapped around it, it was over. The doctor's office has been super helpful by telling me I was barely pregnant anyway and I need to consider lowering my BMI for future pregnancies. I've already lost 60+lbs and started the metformin to help me lose more. So now I feel like I was just so fat that I killed my not-even-really-there child.
I'm just waiting on the status of my salary counter to make it official, but I have a job offer! It's 4 days/week, and even if they don't accept my salary counter, I'd still make more than I do now. So more money, less hours, no city wage tax, and better benefits? This is a no-brainer, right?
Hugs @mwos. Chemical pregnancies are a total mindfuck. Can you find a new doctor's office. What they said was totally unhelpful. You DID NOT do anything to cause this, and for them to be so unsympathetic while simultaneously implying you were the problem is just inexcusable.
MWOS that doctor is full of bullshit and I'd like to light them on fire.
I'm 60+ lbs overweight and yeah I had an m/c last year, but I'm now 12 weeks, no one has mentioned my weight at all, and at my first ultrasound the doctor said everything looked perfect. I think you should find a new non-dickface doctor.
To be fair, they did also say that your first 3 months on metformin you cycle through old crappy follicles. So it might have been bad egg quality. And of course, no one knows and no one can ever know what caused it. And it might be multiple things. BUT, of course, being at a healthy weight is very important to having a healthy pregnancy and lowering my BMI blah blah blah (idea)
I'm mostly just worried that this was my miracle and I won't get a second chance.