Longest Thread EVER! (aka Random Thoughts Thread )

pineconey

Last night I had a dream that I had to start biking everywhere because my foot wouldn't reach the gas pedal in my car.

Unfortunately, this might be a real thing soon (minus the bike). I'm about 2 fingers from the wheel and if I move the seat back any further I will not be able to reach the pedals.

Mamamonzo

The Angelcare Monitor is back!!! I originally really wanted it, but DH wants a camera one. STM If you had to choose would you pick an Angelcare or video?
Ps I know a lot of people say cameras are unnecessary... Leaving that opinion aside which would you go for?

Lindsay808

After a looooong talk with DH last night, we came to some conclusions. 

I had to drop a course this semester because the professor was being a c-word about me giving birth in April. She started giving me mediocre grades on everything, no matter how much effort I put into the work and tried. Well, she won. I dropped it. Now I have to take two 4-credit courses over the summer but they are extremely intense and only 6 weeks. This would all be about 5 weeks after the baby is born. 

DH talked some sense into me. I will just wait for the fall. By then, I will (hopefully) be more adjusted to having a baby and the classes will be spread out over a longer period of time. The downfall is that I won't be able to accept this project manager position at my job that I was offered starting in August because I won't have a degree or the time. 

I'm loving the miracle growing in my belly and beyond excited, but it's so hard to do this and start up a career at the same time. 

I would love to talk to one of my fellow bumpies who went the psychology/human services/social work route!

irisheyez7

Shower Day! Woo Hoo! I must brace myself...there will be belly touching X_X

J&NL

Mamamonzo said:

The Angelcare Monitor is back!!! I originally really wanted it, but DH wants a camera one. STM If you had to choose would you pick an Angelcare or video?
Ps I know a lot of people say cameras are unnecessary... Leaving that opinion aside which would you go for?

I plan to get the split screen monitor so I can put one camera in DDs room and one in the baby's room. I can watch then both on one screen. If LO was sleeping in his room right away then I would consider the angel care but he will be right next to me so I don't find it necessary.

J&NL

fireflygirl12 said:

FFSC: I've been spending wayyyyyy too much time on the CD b/s/t pages. I belong to like 15 different groups and it's getting a little out of control.

Same with me. My newsfeed is nothing but cloth diapers and it's so hard to refrain.

deidremaria

I need a project!

jennypenny1014

Mamamonzo said:

The Angelcare Monitor is back!!! I originally really wanted it, but DH wants a camera one. STM If you had to choose would you pick an Angelcare or video?
Ps I know a lot of people say cameras are unnecessary... Leaving that opinion aside which would you go for?

We have a video monitor for DS and I can't live without it. We still use it. It helps me see if he's hurt or just fussing (or as of late, just dreaming) when he cries at night, and also let's me see what's going on in his room in general when he's in there. And the mic is so sensitive that I can hear him breathe if I turn the volume on the screen up...sometimes it picks up sounds from our room if we're not careful. Lol Like, I could smack my nightstand pretty hard (we're at the end of the hall) and I'll hear it through the monitor.

We just have the Summer Infant one. Loooove it! I've always heard stories about people w/Angelcare monitors having issues calibrating the sensitivity so that they end up sometimes with the alarm going off in the middle of the night unnecessarily. If you plan to room share (co-sleep) for the first few months, it renders the Angelcare pointless anyway.

ETA: had more to say, andplusalso holy autocorrect Batman.

J&NL

deidremaria said:

I need a project!

Me too. I want to finish the baby's room but we don't have the money or a truck to haul the stuff we need. I just want to get everything prepared!

Tferr02

Cloth diapers are so addicting! I want to buy them all! DS has officially switched, even at night, so it's hard to not keep buying because I'm actually using some already!

I love having a video monitor. I never saw a reason for an angel care because I shared a room with him for the first 5 months. However I got a video monitor in Nov and it is amazing to have!

thomas930

I thought it was kind of strange that she posted for them, unless she got their permission. It should really be up to the mom if they want it linked....but thats my opinion. 

jennypenny1014

So DS actually slept through the night and stayed in his own bed the ENTIRE NIGHT, for the 2nd night in a row! Last night he didn't get to sleep til after midnight (due to an impromptu late nap screwing up our schedule), and slept until almost 10:30am. I woke up multiple times this morning wondering where he was, since he's almost always in our bed before 6am. While it was amazing and super exciting that we have the potential to get our bed to ourselves going forward, until he woke up, for a bit there DH and I were both like:

snmetz7

thomas930 said:

I thought it was kind of strange that she posted for them, unless she got their permission. It should really be up to the mom if they want it linked....but thats my opinion. 

It feels like its borderline TOS violationish... Not the link itself because people can cross post threads all the time but the personal info in the rest of the post? Even though it comes straight from the thread...idk it's a little inky

thomas930

snmetz7 said:

I thought it was kind of strange that she posted for them, unless she got their permission. It should really be up to the mom if they want it linked....but thats my opinion. 

It feels like its borderline TOS violationish... Not the link itself because people can cross post threads all the time but the personal info in the rest of the post? Even though it comes straight from the thread...idk it's a little inky

WifeofaComposer did send her a PM asking if she got permission from the mothers....just haven't heard anything back. But we felt the same way.

Bluebird2318

KendraColeslaw said:

...Annoyed by the "back pain and upset stomach" post. Same poster asked the 3rd trimester board a month ago if her water broke. :-w And XP'd today's post there too. Mega sigh.

She has almost twice as many discussions as replies.  :-O

mrscrcalli

I have to AW my husband last night, durring his speech. He's so handsome!!

Happy Sunday hot mammas :x

Lindsay808

hvmom2b said:

After a looooong talk with DH last night, we came to some conclusions. 

I had to drop a course this semester because the professor was being a c-word about me giving birth in April. She started giving me mediocre grades on everything, no matter how much effort I put into the work and tried. Well, she won. I dropped it. Now I have to take two 4-credit courses over the summer but they are extremely intense and only 6 weeks. This would all be about 5 weeks after the baby is born. 

DH talked some sense into me. I will just wait for the fall. By then, I will (hopefully) be more adjusted to having a baby and the classes will be spread out over a longer period of time. The downfall is that I won't be able to accept this project manager position at my job that I was offered starting in August because I won't have a degree or the time. 

I'm loving the miracle growing in my belly and beyond excited, but it's so hard to do this and start up a career at the same time. 

I would love to talk to one of my fellow bumpies who went the psychology/human services/social work route!

I have a BS in Psychology, no Masters and have always worked in the human services field. (Rehab, DV shelter, emergency foster care and currently with people living with HIV/AIDS). Happy to help you any way I can.

I will PM you soon if you don't mind! 

snmetz7

I just made some gyros. I'm sad I didn't buy more supplies they were so yummy!!

Lindsay808

aviola329 said:

@Lindsay808 you can PM me too. I have a BA in sociology and have worked in social work for the last 3.5 yrs....

I definitely will! Thanks!!

deidremaria

That labor chick is seriously annoying. Call me mean, I don't care! The emergency line is there for you to harass, not a bunch of strangers who aren't hired to tell you whether or not you should come in. Ugh!!!

deidremaria

I need to know if I'm abnormal. I am not one to call my family very often to "check in". I've always been this way. They always come down on me for it (and I don't care) but now that I'm pregnant it's worse. If they don't hear from me in a couple of days they're all down my throat about how I should check in because I'm pregnant. I just had to say to my mother that I'm pregnant and not on my death bed. Am I just an odd person? Is it normal to call family every few days?

mrscrcalli

deidremaria said:

I need to know if I'm abnormal. I am not one to call my family very often to "check in". I've always been this way. They always come down on me for it (and I don't care) but now that I'm pregnant it's worse. If they don't hear from me in a couple of days they're all down my throat about how I should check in because I'm pregnant. I just had to say to my mother that I'm pregnant and not on my death bed. Am I just an odd person? Is it normal to call family every few days?

I don't check in.. I do talk to my mom a few times a week just via short tex. But at least once a month she asks for a Skype session just to see "us".

olenkapdx

Sundays are glorious.  I woke up at 6:30 because I didn't sleep well, then promptly went back to bed at 9AM and slept until 11:30.  If I could do that every day I would be in great shape!

kseccomb17

deidremaria said:

I need to know if I'm abnormal. I am not one to call my family very often to "check in". I've always been this way. They always come down on me for it (and I don't care) but now that I'm pregnant it's worse. If they don't hear from me in a couple of days they're all down my throat about how I should check in because I'm pregnant. I just had to say to my mother that I'm pregnant and not on my death bed. Am I just an odd person? Is it normal to call family every few days?

Better than having to change your dead bolts, right? Or did I just luck or for the both of us?

No, but seriously, FFSC? I LOVE my in-laws way more. I wish they weren't so far away. Now I bet that's terrible.

Mamamonzo

I'm so tired of waking up feeling hungover from lack of sleep. I have such a headache I feel like I drank 8 margaritas

kseccomb17

I see a GBCB in my crystal ball. Soon... It's coming soon.

jennypenny1014

Mamamonzo said:

I'm so tired of waking up feeling hungover from lack of sleep. I have such a headache I feel like I drank 8 margaritas

At least after 8 margaritas we'd have an excuse to feel like ass warmed over every morning!

Mmmmm margaritas... I may go buy some mango sorbet and sweet n sour mix and make a mocktail just to curb the craving.

jennypenny1014

kseccomb17 said:

I see a GBCB in my crystal ball. Soon... It's coming soon.

Good God I hope so! How many ways can we ask the same question, and how many ways can one be told to do the same thing! I think we should just gif her out.

janice9821

@Lindsay808 - I have a BA in Sociology and I've been in child welfare for the last 5 years or so.  I've worked on dorms at a children's residential center, as a waiver service provider, as a foster care caseworker, and currently as a foster & adoptive homefinder.  Feel free to PM me if I can be of any assistance.

BiggerinRealLife

Jessieann1020 said:

jellysparkles said:

Jessieann1020 said:

Random but why are all the birth stories in the sticky showing as posted by the same user? Am I missing something?

That made me itchy, too (just the precedent that it sets - I want to be able to edit/update my own post). I think the person just wanted us caught up?

I think you are right. She does seem to be a pretty regular poster. I just thought maybe I missed something. Someone's trying to do a good deed and I am being all skeptical.

I think she was trying to do a nice thing, which I appreciate. On the other hand, I don't mind that the birth stories weren't stickied, because as I've said many times, I don't care to read birth stories from drive-bys or randoms. If a person knows to post in the sticky thread it's highly unlikely that they are either. And as we've seen, most posters of birth stories so far have been drive-bys and have even found other boards. So I think I'll be using the sticky thread as a tool, and only reading stories that get XPd there.

Emily041285

Ugh. This jerk coworker just sent an email that he knew would start an argument. DH talked me out of sending a snarky response back, but seriously dude?!?!?. It's Sunday afternoon, thanks for being a dick and ruining the last little bit of freedom I have for the week.... :-w

avidkeo

jellysparkles said:

I have no patience for people asking if being uncomfortable is normal or if they're in labor. Have you picked up zero books about pregnancy? Or shit, I'm sure they get the same excessive emails from TB that I do. Rage.

jennypenny1014 said:

I see a GBCB in my crystal ball. Soon... It's coming soon.

Good God I hope so! How many ways can we ask the same question, and how many ways can one be told to do the same thing! I think we should just gif her out.

@Jellysparkles and @jennypenny1014

Hope you don't mind I started the GIFing this time.... I'm not as good as your ladies, but do enjoy participating.

BiggerinRealLife

@avidkeo Your post made me smile. No one has say-so on who gets to gif. We're not the Feb board! Gifs for everyone!!!

SoulTermination

I've found two gray hairs since becoming pregnant.  It's true, kids really do cause the grays!!  X_X

avidkeo

BiggerinRealLife said:

@avidkeo Your post made me smile. No one has say-so on who gets to gif. We're not the Feb board! Gifs for everyone!!!

Haha, forgot about the Feb board!!!

deidremaria

BiggerinRealLife said:

@avidkeo Your post made me smile. No one has say-so on who gets to gif. We're not the Feb board! Gifs for everyone!!!

They have gif rules too?

avidkeo

deidremaria said:

@avidkeo Your post made me smile. No one has say-so on who gets to gif. We're not the Feb board! Gifs for everyone!!!

They have gif rules too?

Probably, they had rules about who can start threads and when.... 

though the compassionate side of me wonders what happened to that lady (Ziggy?) and her LO. Feb 13's defense of her was that she was going through a tough time and that the HDBD was her thing to get her through.

deidremaria

avidkeo said:

deidremaria said:

BiggerinRealLife said:

@avidkeo Your post made me smile. No one has say-so on who gets to gif. We're not the Feb board! Gifs for everyone!!!

They have gif rules too?

Probably, they had rules about who can start threads and when.... 

though the compassionate side of me wonders what happened to that lady (Ziggy?) and her LO. Feb 13's defense of her was that she was going through a tough time and that the HDBD was her thing to get her through.

Oh I remember the absurd behavior of that board.

avidkeo

KimC85 said:

avidkeo said:

deidremaria said:

@avidkeo Your post made me smile. No one has say-so on who gets to gif. We're not the Feb board! Gifs for everyone!!!

They have gif rules too?

Probably, they had rules about who can start threads and when.... 

though the compassionate side of me wonders what happened to that lady (Ziggy?) and her LO. Feb 13's defense of her was that she was going through a tough time and that the HDBD was her thing to get her through.

Her baby was early, but is home from the NICU now I believe. Not sure what ended up happening with the issues with his genitals.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I recall from my sporadic lurking.

That's right, there was concern that baby would be hermaphrodite. 

kseccomb17

I was just gifted a Snuza! This has to be the best gift I've ever been given!