Longest Thread EVER! (aka Random Thoughts Thread )

Lindsay808

Hubs and I saw Dallas Buyers Club last night (Mathew Mcconaughey as a rodeo guy who catches HIV in the 80s). Well, freaky dream that I had HIV and was pregnant and now I'm up in the middle of the night, making sense of reality.

I hate when bad dreams feel so real that it wakes me up and keeps me awake for awhile.

However, it has allowed me to see the January sig challenge! Love it!

BiggerinRealLife

dani+california said:

Thanks to whoever shared their dad's gorgeous Beatrix Potter nursery designs. Inspired me! I went to Value Village and bought some BP and music books for $1, painted the music pages with coffee to age them and cut out some of the characters from the books. Now I have nursery art!

Just have to hang them.

Ohmigosh @dani+california! Way to be super creative! I LOVE them!!!

Sisimama10

Eireyes said:

Sisimama10 said:

ColleenSwerb said:

Fuck this nighttime heartburn bullshit.

Mine is fiery horrible ALL day. I was gagging from it trying to read a story to my class this afternoon. And I take rantadine every day!

Same here with the all day crap.  It's sporadic all day, so Tums usually does the trick. I just wish I had trigger foods I could identify and avoid! 

Me too!! I was just thinking that today, but it's literally everything. And the wives tale about your baby having tons of hair if you have bad heartburn? So false! DD was a bald little egghead until 18 months!

mrscrcalli

We just got to the hotel after an 11 hour drive.. DH went to the gym I ordered a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and key lime pie from room service :P

Sisimama10

I love when I wake up to pee and it's only 2am and I still have 3 1/2 more hours to sleep before work. I hate when I wake up at 2 am and I'm wide awake. :-(

Medic99

Thank you ladies so much!! It was a very scary night. I have never had the procardia not do its job. They are unsure what is causing the contractions or why I am having them. They told me I could take the next dose of procardia sooner if this happens again. I see my OB on the 10th so I am going to question the heck out of him. I would like some answers so I know if I did something to cause them or if I have something else going on. This baby is not allowed to vacate my uterus for at least 16 more weeks. I have had the talk with him. Now we will see of he is like his father that has selective hearing

katieharpiceland

DH got more woodblocks (percussion instruments.) He watches youtube videos and hits them constantly. It drives me INSANE!!

BiggerinRealLife

It's 2:30 am and I'm awake. Which would be frustrating enough if I'd just woken up, but I have yet to fall asleep. Debating the merits of taking a shower and possibly waking poor DH vs. it helping me get some shut-eye. I've been sleepy for days, and NOW I get insomnia??? Not cool, body. Not cool.

NatalieBier

I feel your insomnia pain. Since technically my body has now had 5 hours sleep, it thinks it can survive the day. Someone needs to tell it that it's NYE!!

Xxlilies

Mamamadi said:

Does anyone know if, in Canada, insurance covers breast pumps? I would ask it on the PSA thread but I'm staying wayyyy out of that...

I m In Canada
I highly doubt it's covered by government but maybe ur private insurance

tamaraaaa

I bought a maternity bra from Target and wore it yesterday.... All day I kept thinking "this is the worst bra EVER" and wanted to take it off. When I got home I realized its because the 38D I bought cannot contain my new E (E?!) boobs. So, if anyone wants me to send them a practically new bra, let me know. These suckers are never stuffing themselves into that mess again...

katieharpiceland

Ugh, I hate it when I forget to cancel subscriptions! I had an android phone that died and got a new "not smart" normal cell phone. I totally forgot to cancel the virus protection stuff and it JUST renewed. Its not a lot of money, but, just a little annoying. I hated that phone. (I'm sure most android phone are fine. The one I got was a piece of crap and after 9 months it stopped accepting calls. But facebook worked, LOL. We have no warranties or trades with our phone companies. Only full-price unlocked phones to buy. Annoying.)

kseccomb17

I keep waking up starving. I think DS is going through a growth spurt.. I hope so anyway because I know I am.

Mamamonzo

poru said:

Mamamonzo said:

I am so damn tired of feeling like I have something productive to say, and then by the time I get to this thread I forget what it was!

On a side note when I logged into the bump just now it was talking about 2014 popular names.  Apparently spices are going to be popular Rosemary, Sage, Bay, Poppy. Also boys names as middle names for girls...hmm

. Oops we are doing a boys name as a middle name for a girl. But it's a family last name that has been used as a middle name for generations so we want to use it since it's the last grandchild in that line.

I don't mind the boys name for a middle name. I know two people who did that this year with their girls. It's just weird how quickly trends catch on! What's the middle name you are using?

Mamamonzo

Didn't someone mention if you receive diapers as a gift you can pretty much return then to any store that sells that brand for store credit? I may be totally off on this one. I do know they let you exchange sizes, but since we're CDing I have tons of diapers I don't need. I know I can also donate them.

eireyes

Sisimama10 said:

Sisimama10 said:

Fuck this nighttime heartburn bullshit.

Mine is fiery horrible ALL day. I was gagging from it trying to read a story to my class this afternoon. And I take rantadine every day!

Same here with the all day crap.  It's sporadic all day, so Tums usually does the trick. I just wish I had trigger foods I could identify and avoid! 

Me too!! I was just thinking that today, but it's literally everything. And the wives tale about your baby having tons of hair if you have bad heartburn? So false! DD was a bald little egghead until 18 months!

Dammit! I was so counting on that wives tale to be true too - I figured I'd better have a super hairy baby for the amount of throat burning I've been dealing with!!  :-w

Sisimama10

Eireyes said:

Sisimama10 said:

Eireyes said:

Sisimama10 said:

ColleenSwerb said:

Fuck this nighttime heartburn bullshit.

Mine is fiery horrible ALL day. I was gagging from it trying to read a story to my class this afternoon. And I take rantadine every day!

Same here with the all day crap.  It's sporadic all day, so Tums usually does the trick. I just wish I had trigger foods I could identify and avoid! 

Me too!! I was just thinking that today, but it's literally everything. And the wives tale about your baby having tons of hair if you have bad heartburn? So false! DD was a bald little egghead until 18 months!

Dammit! I was so counting on that wives tale to be true too - I figured I'd better have a super hairy baby for the amount of throat burning I've been dealing with!!  :-w

I know right?! I was like I will endure this pain DD will have beautiful flowing locks! Nada!! She didn't even have eyelashes when she was born hahaha.

J&NL

Mamamonzo said:

Didn't someone mention if you receive diapers as a gift you can pretty much return then to any store that sells that brand for store credit? I may be totally off on this one. I do know they let you exchange sizes, but since we're CDing I have tons of diapers I don't need. I know I can also donate them.

I'm pretty sure you can get store credit, as well. 

J&NL

Eireyes said:

Sisimama10 said:

Sisimama10 said:

Fuck this nighttime heartburn bullshit.

Mine is fiery horrible ALL day. I was gagging from it trying to read a story to my class this afternoon. And I take rantadine every day!

Same here with the all day crap.  It's sporadic all day, so Tums usually does the trick. I just wish I had trigger foods I could identify and avoid! 

Me too!! I was just thinking that today, but it's literally everything. And the wives tale about your baby having tons of hair if you have bad heartburn? So false! DD was a bald little egghead until 18 months!

Dammit! I was so counting on that wives tale to be true too - I figured I'd better have a super hairy baby for the amount of throat burning I've been dealing with!!  :-w

My Dr gave me omaprazole (prilosec) when I was pregnant with DD because I had such horrible heart burn all day long and it worked wonders!

ETA: DD had a lot of hair

J&NL

I think I'm starting to come down with something and I'm praying it's not the flu. I woke up feeling cruddy, snotty and with a sore throat. 

Sisimama10

aronie82 said:

I read last night in What to Expect that because of the hormone Relaxin it opens the muscle from the stomach to the esophagus allowing stomach acid to flow causing heartburn.  It's not because of hair.  I was like damn that makes sense. 

Oh I know! I was just teasing bc the old wives tale is that if you have heartburn your baby will have a lot of hair.

Sisimama10

aronie82 said:

I read last night in What to Expect that because of the hormone Relaxin it opens the muscle from the stomach to the esophagus allowing stomach acid to flow causing heartburn.  It's not because of hair.  I was like damn that makes sense. 

Oh I know! I was just teasing bc the old wives tale is that if you have heartburn your baby will have a lot of hair.

fourthnlast

I really have to pee, but don't want to get out of bed.

Sisimama10

ColleenSwerb said:

DS had a TON of hair, and never really lost it when he was born. It was pretty awesome, but I throat punched everyone who told me the heartburn was worth it since he wasn't bald.
NOTHING IS WORTH THAT. I'd much prefer a baldie if it actually saved me (which I know it would since they aren't related).

RE returning diapers: Save receipts if you actually get any. Target has a limit on the value of what you can return without a receipt/gift receipt (they track by your drivers license). Walmart doesn't, I don't think.

Yeah target is stricter. Walmart and meijer pretty much let you do whatever. They always let me exchange unopened sizes.

Emily041285

@snmetz7 that is exactly what I want to do! I love it!! Just showed it to DH and he finally agreed to paint it like that!!

Big day here. Finally get the keys to the new house and take the glucose test this afternoon! So much going on!

xilovemybabiesx

I was talking to my husband about going on a little get away for Valentines day and mentioned an indoor water park without even realizing that that wouldn't be much fun for us lol....he proceeds to ask me/ tell me...."What will you be, a RAFT?!".....Needless to say I cried my face off and told him he was an ass for calling his pregant wife a Raft....I mean now that I think about it it is funny...but still....you don't call a pregnant woman a freaking RAFT!

mrscrcalli

My kid is in my ribs, if I turn my body to the left at all I have a piercing pain in my right rib!! Ahhhh (

snmetz7

Emily041285 said:

@snmetz7 that is exactly what I want to do! I love it!! Just showed it to DH and he finally agreed to paint it like that!! Big day here. Finally get the keys to the new house and take the glucose test this afternoon! So much going on!

Yay! yeah I had to show my hubs a few picks before he agreed to have one stripped wall and not all grey. we wanted to keep the walls neutral along with the big ticket items so that we don't have to re-do everything for number 2.

yay to the house! so exciting.

snmetz7

So I  had my first baby scifi experience last night. She was dancing or something becuase it was like my stomach was doing the wave. she's def getting stronger!

J&NL

mrscrcalli said:

My kid is in my ribs, if I turn my body to the left at all I have a piercing pain in my right rib!! Ahhhh (

This is happening to me too. He kicks my right ribs but I have a constant pain in my left ribs. 

katieharpiceland

So, I know depression is a common hormone symptom, but, is the opposite? I just feel insanely happy all the time. Not complaining, but its weird. Is this hormones too?? (Not trying to be insensitive to our depression sufferers. I suffered a long time with chronic pain induced depression, so I feel for all of you! I'm just curious)

eireyes

J&NL said:

mrscrcalli said:

My kid is in my ribs, if I turn my body to the left at all I have a piercing pain in my right rib!! Ahhhh (

This is happening to me too. He kicks my right ribs but I have a constant pain in my left ribs. 

I have yet to experience the rib kicks, but I have a bad feeling this kid is going to beat the crud out of them if/when he flips.  Peanut likes to hang out really low, and I've only had maybe one or two pokes above the belly button at this stage, but he goes all soccer player on me late at night, and it's downright crazy.  

nikki912

Finally back from various trips and not much to share actually- pretty un eventful holiday.

HOWEVER- I was craving sushi on te way home from VA and so we stopped for dinner. I got a fried tempura roll (fried shrimp,crab, and roe) because it was the only thing on the menu with a spicy sauce except tuna and I had already had tuna earlier that week. When my order came the food runner gave me a face and said, "uh...you're pregnant. This is sushi."
I tried being nice and said "oh I know- its okay. It's fried."
He wouldn't let it go, " but the roe...maybe you should order something else."
I said no thank you, this is fine.
He asked me in a pleading way with a look of disgust if i was sure.
I wanted to smack him.
I grabbed the plate and told him it was fine and I knew what I was doing, i'd done the research. My husband placed his hand on my arm nicely to prevent the "fucking asshole" from coming out of my mouth.
The food runner stalked off like I was the worst person in the world.

I was shocked. And deeply annoyed.

katieharpiceland

nikki912 said:

Finally back from various trips and not much to share actually- pretty un eventful holiday. HOWEVER- I was craving sushi on te way home from VA and so we stopped for dinner. I got a fried tempura roll (fried shrimp,crab, and roe) because it was the only thing on the menu with a spicy sauce except tuna and I had already had tuna earlier that week. When my order came the food runner gave me a face and said, "uh...you're pregnant. This is sushi." I tried being nice and said "oh I know- its okay. It's fried." He wouldn't let it go, " but the roe...maybe you should order something else." I said no thank you, this is fine. He asked me in a pleading way with a look of disgust if i was sure. I wanted to smack him. I grabbed the plate and told him it was fine and I knew what I was doing, i'd done the research. My husband placed his hand on my arm nicely to prevent the "fucking asshole" from coming out of my mouth. The food runner stalked off like I was the worst person in the world. I was shocked. And deeply annoyed.

Ugh, none of their business! Your body, your food!!!

Tferr02

I just threw up from coughing so hard...can I give up yet? I saw the dr yesterday and it's still not in my lungs, so I'm happy for that but I'm so miserable!!

TallaB

I have a lot to do today. I'm still in my pajamas, watching Dance Mom's episodes. 

Mamamonzo

TallaB said:

I have a lot to do today. I'm still in my pajamas, watching Dance Mom's episodes. 

I love dance moms! Growing up I was a competitive dancer and I can say, at least my experience, was totally different!!

RocksInTheWater

TallaB said:

I have a lot to do today. I'm still in my pajamas, watching Dance Mom's episodes. 

Ditto here, except I'm not watching Dance Moms.  PJ's and lots to do today...yup!

RocksInTheWater

KendraColeslaw said:

You wanna know something REALLY pathetic??

A litter box dictates my living arrangements. A freaking litter box. I can't use the completely open 2nd bedroom we pay rent for every month as a nursery because the box is in there and I won't make my baby sleep near pooping cats. And while searching online for a new apartment community to move into next June, I am looking at floor plans thinking "Can I hide a cat box there? No? Next!"

When I had a cat in an apartment, I used the coat closet.  It was a sliding door type and I just left it open on the end.  Is that a possibility for you?  Is there any room in your bathroom?  

snmetz7

@KendraColeslaw we kept our litter box in the living room corner (farthest from the sofa) in one of these. We even flipped it around so the "door" was facing the wall and it just looked like a little table. we put a plant on it and some deororizers and never had an issue with smell.