These do not have to be baby related, but most of mine are in some way.
1. I started a new speech therapy patient yesterday. She took one look at me, pointed at my belly, and said "baby?". When I said yes, she put her ear up to my stomach and told her mom and I "Shhh! I listen."
2. One of my husband's regulars at work (he's a restaurant GM) brought a bunch of gifts for Girlfriend yesterday-a robe, hooded towels, a bunny lovey, and a bow. She said she was going to wait until closer to my due date but just couldn't help herself. J brought it all home after work and I about diet from the cuteness of it all...I forgot how little baby stuff is!
3. Another one of J's regulars asked him yesterday "you're the one with the Hilton Head baby aren't you?". Dear lord. Apparently my husband has not made it a secret that this is a very likely vacation baby. I mean it's not like I'm keeping it a secret but I'm not exactly broadcasting it to the families I work with either
4. I am in the office for a bit before I head downtown for a two day conference on early detection and interventions for cerebral palsy. There is a networking dinner tonight that I am going to because I'm presenting at said conference tomorrow and therefore dinner is free. Want to know what else is free? The THREE HOUR OPEN BAR. That I can't even think about sipping from because I will be surrounded by doctors who will probably give me the evil eye. Hmph. Also, it just started raining buckets. Driving downtown is going to be AWESOME.
My house is on the market and keeping it clean and the toddler happy and the cats out of the way is going to kill me. We had two showings last night and 4 scheduled for today and I don’t think I will ever get laundry done ever again. Which is not good because my wardrobe is pretty limited right now. By the time we are allowed back home, I get the toddler to bed, everything picked up, I am not in a mood to stay up another hour to process a load of laundry. I should start using the timer and running the machine overnight.
Luckily MIL is allowing us to decamp to their house in the evenings to eat dinner and let DD run free. We’ll been out of the house from 5:30 to 8 two nights in a row now.
Post by dreamcrisp1 on Apr 12, 2019 8:08:25 GMT -5
I am dying from allergies or a cold. Who knows what this is. I feel like crap.
My back is also in so much pain so I came to the spa for a massage. It helped a bit but it still hurts so intensely. I borderline want to cry from the pain and I have seriously high pain tolerance.
I’m going back home to sleep more. I slept yesterday 6:30-8:30 and then till this am and again when my H went to work at 8:45-10:45. I also fell asleep on the massage table. My body is definitely fighting something.
We have super cool plans tomorrow so I want to be able to enjoy the day.
Don't tell H, but I'm getting cold feet about my name choice.
Also dont tell H, but I know my birthday surprise. I got a text alert saying I had booked an appointment, which I didnt. I assumed it was a wrong number but I looked up the location and it's for a local massage place. Given the time of the appointment and the fact that all I've said I wanted was a massage, I'm assuming it's legit. I'm gonna be so heartbroken if it's not!
My 3.5 yo is driving me bananas. We never had terrible 2's, but she's been tough to parent since turning 3. We're suddenly having trouble with hitting (everyone but me, interestingly), a lot of emotional blackmail at daycare drop offs (almost only with me), and a lot of emotional fragility that we've noticed at home and so has daycare. Everything from a spilled snack cup of animal crackers to mommy leaving her at daycare (the same daycare as the last 3 years... the same teachers as the last 2 years...) produce body wracking sobs almost on command. It's emotionally exhausting.
I can't tell what is driving it. Is it just being 3 and having big feelings? I've been traveling a bunch this month (last trips before I'm on late 3rd tri short leash and then newborn detail), is that it? (She's been at home with daddy and the normal routine.). Is it the baby? Her teachers keep asking her if she's sad about the baby coming, and I kind of wish they wouldn't. I am not sure enough that she'd have thought of that on her own. When she talks about or feels for the baby at home it's usually a positive thing. All I know is that parenting all those feelings while feeling every day of my 32 weeks pg is exhausting.
ETA: Also I feel absolutely no closer to settling on a middle name for DS. Same four are rolling around in contention that we were entertaining months ago. I'm getting annoyed now that one has not emerged as a front runner. I'm glad we have a first name, but we've now gone 3 months with a FN but no MN. I probably only have 7ish weeks left and am making no progress, lol!
I nearly threw up in the neighbors yard yesterday on my morning walk. Luckily I made it in the house and to the bathroom with no time to spare. So that was fun.
Post by farfalla2011 on Apr 12, 2019 9:04:11 GMT -5
osulori - your #3 has me cracking up. My husband hasn't been shy about letting people know that ours is our "new house" baby. We were so busy at the end of the year and based on when I found out, it's very likely the first night in our house is the ONLY time it could have happened, but geez, not everyone needs to know that.
aprilsails - I hope you guys get offers soon so you don't have to juggle house showings very long! We thankfully didn't have a toddler, but we had to manage similar stuff last year when we sold our house and had to figure out a place for my high maintenance dog to be for the showings while we were working. It's exhausting!
Post by farfalla2011 on Apr 12, 2019 9:07:13 GMT -5
My random is I think I may have felt my little guy this morning! It was a weird feeling that I've never felt before, but of course it hasn't happened again, so who knows. But, the thought of it is exciting!!
Also, I have a handful of work stuff that was technically due yesterday that I should be working on, but I'm here procrastinating instead of working. Work has been brutal for the last few months and my motivation is severely lacking right now.
Susie my DD is also 3.5 and is all emotions all the time right now. We’ve been having issues with her withholding bowel movements and so even mentioning pooping results in disaster. She is very upset about the baby and is not afraid to talk about it. She’s also excited too but wavers back and forth. Our house is insane because it is on the market and we’ve been super busy getting it ready. So basically she is a hot mess and I don’t blame her. DH is usually her safe parent but she’s been pushing him away since he went on a weeklong business trip at the end of February. She had a crying jag on Wednesday night that lasted 40 minutes because I told her she had to get ready for bed.
Post by stellelinds25 on Apr 12, 2019 9:25:56 GMT -5
We had an OB appt this morning and I was REALLY hoping to hear the HB...she said it'd be 50/50 if we could and she wasn't able to pick it up. She offered to send me for a US, but we are seeing MFM on Monday, so I'll just wait till then. In the meantime, I keep telling myself everything is FINE.
The last few days I've started feeling randomly nauseous. I've been SO lucky the last 11 weeks that I've rarely been nauseous and I'm really hoping that morning sickness isn't going to show her face, ugh.
Sunday is my last day at my PT job (I picked up a job at Starbucks for their insurance, which covers IVF)...I'm happy to have my time back and I know I'll actually be able to enjoy my pregnancy now, but I'm also feeling bittersweet, because I really do like working there and my co-workers are awesome. But, I will NOT miss the 60-70 hour work weeks and getting up at 5am every Saturday & Sunday.
Ugh, so much heartburn lately. And this baby is seriously kicking so hard. I feel like an alien is trying to bust out of my stomach all the time.
My boss is driving me crazy. She is trying to get ducks in a row for my mat leave, which is fine, but she is constantly referring to the baby by a new name each time and it is seriously so annoying. "When little Alicia gets here, when you are home with little Madeleine, etc". OMG stop it. I am not going to tell you if you get the name right, because we haven't picked one yet, and you don't get to name her anyway. And she does this in meetings with random people and then I have to be like, no that is not her name, all the time.
My 3.5 yo is driving me bananas. We never had terrible 2's, but she's been tough to parent since turning 3. We're suddenly having trouble with hitting (everyone but me, interestingly), a lot of emotional blackmail at daycare drop offs (almost only with me), and a lot of emotional fragility that we've noticed at home and so has daycare. Everything from a spilled snack cup of animal crackers to mommy leaving her at daycare (the same daycare as the last 3 years... the same teachers as the last 2 years...) produce body wracking sobs almost on command. It's emotionally exhausting.
I can't tell what is driving it. Is it just being 3 and having big feelings? I've been traveling a bunch this month (last trips before I'm on late 3rd tri short leash and then newborn detail), is that it? (She's been at home with daddy and the normal routine.). Is it the baby? Her teachers keep asking her if she's sad about the baby coming, and I kind of wish they wouldn't. I am not sure enough that she'd have thought of that on her own. When she talks about or feels for the baby at home it's usually a positive thing. All I know is that parenting all those feelings while feeling every day of my 32 weeks pg is exhausting.
ETA: Also I feel absolutely no closer to settling on a middle name for DS. Same four are rolling around in contention that we were entertaining months ago. I'm getting annoyed now that one has not emerged as a front runner. I'm glad we have a first name, but we've now gone 3 months with a FN but no MN. I probably only have 7ish weeks left and am making no progress, lol!
3 has been really hard for us with Ds2 as well. The kid DGAF and I have no clue what to do.
osulori - your #3 has me cracking up. My husband hasn't been shy about letting people know that ours is our "new house" baby. We were so busy at the end of the year and based on when I found out, it's very likely the first night in our house is the ONLY time it could have happened, but geez, not everyone needs to know that.
aprilsails - I hope you guys get offers soon so you don't have to juggle house showings very long! We thankfully didn't have a toddler, but we had to manage similar stuff last year when we sold our house and had to figure out a place for my high maintenance dog to be for the showings while we were working. It's exhausting!
Work is so quiet today I might actually check off my entire to-do list AND leave by 3 pm. My SPD pain still sucks. Of ALL the things I worried about with this pregnancy, my pelvis splitting in two was not even on my radar. WTF. 2nd visit to Chiro today and I'm praying he'll at least be able to keep it from getting worse.
osulori, we moved to Florida and then not long after announced our pregnancy (after years of waiting, which we did share with people). Everyone was like "ooooh must be that Florida air." Yeah no. This kid was conceived early last year in TN by a wonderful embryologist named Kaycee. LOL.....
stellelinds25, hope the weekend goes fast for you. I'm sure everything is fine, it IS early for the HB!
I’m fighting with DH that he needs to get his ducks in a row for PTO & WFH for after baby comes. He’s being weirdly resistant about it even though I know he wants to be here. I’m trying to give him space but we have less than 2 months until I’m induced at 39 weeks! He just keeps saying we will it for help if he can’t get the time off so I think his client or boss may be giving him shit and he hasn’t told me that.
aprilsails I hope you get an offer soon! Selling a house is bad enough, but I can imagine trying to keep it clean with a 3 year old!
We had a biometry ultrasound yesterday. The baby’s head is so low, they had to use the wand to view my cervix, but her butt and feet and still way up in my ribs. Not exactly sure how that works for her, but it’s not the most the comfortable for me!
We are no closer to settling on a name and DH keeps calling her by the name he likes, which I have 100% vetoed, and it's driving me crazy. And seeing it in text messages is even worse.
I swear she's just going to go by "baby girl" for the rest of her life.
We are no closer to settling on a name and DH keeps calling her by the name he likes, which I have 100% vetoed, and it's driving me crazy. And seeing it in text messages is even worse.
I swear she's just going to go by "baby girl" for the rest of her life.
I didnt 100% veto H's name, but this is what he's been doing. I think he can sense my weakness and started using it again.
I don't really want to cave on principle, but he clearly feels more strongly about his name choice than I do mine.
We had an OB appt this morning and I was REALLY hoping to hear the HB...she said it'd be 50/50 if we could and she wasn't able to pick it up. She offered to send me for a US, but we are seeing MFM on Monday, so I'll just wait till then. In the meantime, I keep telling myself everything is FINE.
The last few days I've started feeling randomly nauseous. I've been SO lucky the last 11 weeks that I've rarely been nauseous and I'm really hoping that morning sickness isn't going to show her face, ugh.
Sunday is my last day at my PT job (I picked up a job at Starbucks for their insurance, which covers IVF)...I'm happy to have my time back and I know I'll actually be able to enjoy my pregnancy now, but I'm also feeling bittersweet, because I really do like working there and my co-workers are awesome. But, I will NOT miss the 60-70 hour work weeks and getting up at 5am every Saturday & Sunday.
we are within a day or two of each other, and at our OB appt this week the same thing happened, she couldn't find the heartbeat with the doppler. she did a quick ultrasound (they just got a new machine in the office and she wanted to play around with it) and baby was bouncing around and fine - so i'm sure things are fine with your little one too!
also, the same thing happened to me with nausea last time, i was fine until week 11, thought i was out of the woods since it was so close to 2nd tri, but then it hit and it was bad. but, it was gone by week 15, so if it shows up for you, hope it's short-lived, it's definitely possible!
Ugh, so much heartburn lately. And this baby is seriously kicking so hard. I feel like an alien is trying to bust out of my stomach all the time.
My boss is driving me crazy. She is trying to get ducks in a row for my mat leave, which is fine, but she is constantly referring to the baby by a new name each time and it is seriously so annoying. "When little Alicia gets here, when you are home with little Madeleine, etc". OMG stop it. I am not going to tell you if you get the name right, because we haven't picked one yet, and you don't get to name her anyway. And she does this in meetings with random people and then I have to be like, no that is not her name, all the time.
that's so rude. i'd seriously have to tell her to cut it out. hope she stops soon!
we were team green last time, but plan to find out this time. so, we've held off on the name discussion since when we find out, it will cut the options in half. last time we had a definite, solid, no other options even discussed, boy's name (which we used) and then a few girl's options. i don't even know what we will do with another boy, it will be a long search, i have literally no ideas.
Work is so quiet today I might actually check off my entire to-do list AND leave by 3 pm. My SPD pain still sucks. Of ALL the things I worried about with this pregnancy, my pelvis splitting in two was not even on my radar. WTF. 2nd visit to Chiro today and I'm praying he'll at least be able to keep it from getting worse.
I have SPD as well and see the chiro twice a week. I'll be honest, while I do think the exercises have helped as have the adjustments, the pain is still here. It's not as bad. I had days where I literally couldn't even walk, so definitely an improvement but I don't know that it'll be "fixed". I hope you do get some relief though. The pain is so hard to deal with and it's made an otherwise relatively easy pregnancy very hard to enjoy.
Post by dreamcrisp1 on Apr 14, 2019 1:57:16 GMT -5
The only thing more annoying than being sick is being sick while pregnant. The pharmacy is also closed on weekends so I haven’t been able to go see if they even have anything that I can take while pregnant. I need to smuggle some drugs back from Canada.
The only thing more annoying than being sick is being sick while pregnant. The pharmacy is also closed on weekends so I haven’t been able to go see if they even have anything that I can take while pregnant. I need to smuggle some drugs back from Canada.
Sorry you’re sick. The only thing you can really take is Benadryl and I imagine it is available in Europe too. The Neti Pot has been my saviour through this head cold. I’m two weeks in and finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
The only thing more annoying than being sick is being sick while pregnant. The pharmacy is also closed on weekends so I haven’t been able to go see if they even have anything that I can take while pregnant. I need to smuggle some drugs back from Canada.
I don’t remember what it was called (Benylin? Or was that something I took on a different non-pregnant trip. I’m not sure. I just know we talked to the pharmacist and he spent like 10 minutes researching before he told me which ones were ok) but I know there was a cough medicine that I could take when I was visiting Canada last time I was pregnant. It worked decently and since we have no OTC cough medicine in Sweden (pregnant or not) this was obviously much better than anything I could get at home (again not very difficult since I can get zero here)
I always get a dry long lasting cough whenever I have a cold and it’s 1000x worse when pregnant. Last time it didn’t go away until DS was born (woke up next morning and it was gone) and i’m Expecting it to be the same time since I’ve already coughed since early February.