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BethRN1987

kirotea said:

Plan B to get MIL into rehab has been enacted. My H is currently at the ER with her. She went willingly. She is still completely out of it (i.e. most likely still drunk) and he said she has a good sized goose egg on her forehead so he's going to go with the "danger to herself" route. Shift change was at 7pm so he's hoping he can leave soon.

And as I was typing that last sentence, he messaged me saying they're admitting her. 

They drew labs so once someone goes over those with him, he'll be able to come home. He'll go back in the morning to start working with a case manager.

Thinking of you guys, hang in there. It is a hard process getting someone into rehab

saisongbird

CHalePhoto said:

Also, I work for ONE DAY and all the babies are being born?! Holy cow. This is happening.

I know!  I left for ONE DAY this week to teach and missed all the excitement!

cdnmomma

@kirotea I've got a parent who has struggled with addictions. Having a partner who is supportive made all the difference in the world for me. Your hubby is lucky to have you. Glad she's being admitted and open to getting help.

ProudMommy030614

Currently making peanut butter pancakes =P~ with cut up bananas on top mmmmmm

amdecker1016

I saw these on the June board.
I don't think it deserves its own thread but these photos are amazing!

https://birthphotographers.com/contest/

amdecker1016

Oh and lurking on the august board apparently the new trend is "potty shots" aka crotch shots for the reveal if its a boy or a girl.


Potty shots..haha its so dumb.

AriaAmante143

My body actually allowed me to get a few hours of sleep on my left side this morning (usually I have to sleep practically sitting up). I woke up really excited, except now my left leg is numb. It's slowly waking up, so now I get the pins and needles feeling all up and down it.

Thanks, Universe.

Jcor84

A family friend went into labor yesterday and her mother was posting constant updates, including the status of the cervix... I told my mother she better not even think about it!!

Jcor84

Oh and FBW, I would say food!!

Jcor84

FarmBoysWife said:

Jcor84 said:

A family friend went into labor yesterday and her mother was posting constant updates, including the status of the cervix... I told my mother she better not even think about it!!

This is why if DH tries to update or people get to annoying we are going to turn our phones off.

I have a lot of friends from college who have done this and I'm all like "you didn't even know what sex was 4 years ago, and now you're sharing the state or your wife's cervix with the world?!?"

I'll never understand.

Me either! When I think about some of the people I'm friends with on Facebook too, like my assistant principal, coworkers, and my grandpa, it just mortifies me!

Jcor84

That's an even better idea! Put that hubby to work

AriaAmante143

I have a friend on Facebook who is pregnant and also has a 2 year old son. Apparently she and her husband "prayed and prayed" for a girl, and they found out on Friday that they're having another boy. She is DISTRAUGHT about it. Sobbing, emotional mess. I expected her to take some heat from the constant complaining, but one of her friends who also has two sons actually chimed in that she wants to have a third baby, but she's "afraid" of having another boy!

Obviously I'm a FTM so I have no frame of reference, but is sex disappointment really like that, or is she just a drama queen? Is it really THAT bad if you don't get one of each? I feel bad for poor kid #2!

legallyginger

FarmBoysWife said:

I have a friend on Facebook who is pregnant and also has a 2 year old son. Apparently she and her husband "prayed and prayed" for a girl, and they found out on Friday that they're having another boy. She is DISTRAUGHT about it. Sobbing, emotional mess. I expected her to take some heat from the constant complaining, but one of her friends who also has two sons actually chimed in that she wants to have a third baby, but she's "afraid" of having another boy! Obviously I'm a FTM so I have no frame of reference, but is sex disappointment really like that, or is she just a drama queen? Is it really THAT bad if you don't get one of each? I feel bad for poor kid #2!

I could never imagine having gender disappointment like that. I think if we got to #4 and we knew it was or last kid period- and I had my 4th boy I may mourn the idea of getting to have a daughter.. But I would not be capable of being "distraught" Edit: I just want to highlight the "mourn the idea of a daughter" not mourning not having a daughter. Your friend is being over dramatic, shallow and should stop having kids. People who are that upset about gender or kids just shouldn't have them.

No kidding... I can never imagine being that upset about something when you KNEW going in you had 50-50 odds. 

Jcor84

legallyginger said:

FarmBoysWife said:

AriaAmante143 said:

I have a friend on Facebook who is pregnant and also has a 2 year old son. Apparently she and her husband "prayed and prayed" for a girl, and they found out on Friday that they're having another boy. She is DISTRAUGHT about it. Sobbing, emotional mess. I expected her to take some heat from the constant complaining, but one of her friends who also has two sons actually chimed in that she wants to have a third baby, but she's "afraid" of having another boy!

Obviously I'm a FTM so I have no frame of reference, but is sex disappointment really like that, or is she just a drama queen? Is it really THAT bad if you don't get one of each? I feel bad for poor kid #2!

I could never imagine having gender disappointment like that. I think if we got to #4 and we knew it was or last kid period- and I had my 4th boy I may mourn the idea of getting to have a daughter.. But I would not be capable of being "distraught"

Edit: I just want to highlight the "mourn the idea of a daughter" not mourning not having a daughter. Your friend is being over dramatic, shallow and should stop having kids. People who are that upset about gender or kids just shouldn't have them.

No kidding... I can never imagine being that upset about something when you KNEW going in you had 50-50 odds. 

This is our third and final baby, and after having two boys my family acts like they are so glad it's a girl or else I would have "flipped out"...yes, I would have been disappointed at first but this is a child we are talking about here. I would have been thrilled to welcome another boy, so my family was really getting on my nerves for a while there.

ProudMommy030614

Jcor84 said:

legallyginger said:

FarmBoysWife said:

AriaAmante143 said:

I have a friend on Facebook who is pregnant and also has a 2 year old son. Apparently she and her husband "prayed and prayed" for a girl, and they found out on Friday that they're having another boy. She is DISTRAUGHT about it. Sobbing, emotional mess. I expected her to take some heat from the constant complaining, but one of her friends who also has two sons actually chimed in that she wants to have a third baby, but she's "afraid" of having another boy!

Obviously I'm a FTM so I have no frame of reference, but is sex disappointment really like that, or is she just a drama queen? Is it really THAT bad if you don't get one of each? I feel bad for poor kid #2!

I could never imagine having gender disappointment like that. I think if we got to #4 and we knew it was or last kid period- and I had my 4th boy I may mourn the idea of getting to have a daughter.. But I would not be capable of being "distraught"

Edit: I just want to highlight the "mourn the idea of a daughter" not mourning not having a daughter. Your friend is being over dramatic, shallow and should stop having kids. People who are that upset about gender or kids just shouldn't have them.

No kidding... I can never imagine being that upset about something when you KNEW going in you had 50-50 odds. 

This is our third and final baby, and after having two boys my family acts like they are so glad it's a girl or else I would have "flipped out"...yes, I would have been disappointed at first but this is a child we are talking about here. I would have been thrilled to welcome another boy, so my family was really getting on my nerves for a while there.



This is also our third and also our third boy. You wouldn't believe the looks of disappointment that we get it's ridiculous! I wanted three boys so I am happy mil still calls LO a girl and I rub it in her face everytime that he is a boy! H went as far as to tell his mom that we had all boys just to piss her off!!! Love that man

lalaith50

Speaking of boys- I just saw this cute article... 10 best things about having boys. :-)

https://www.scarymommy.com/the-10-best-things-about-having-all-boys/

SomersIsles

AriaAmante143 said:

I have a friend on Facebook who is pregnant and also has a 2 year old son. Apparently she and her husband "prayed and prayed" for a girl, and they found out on Friday that they're having another boy. She is DISTRAUGHT about it. Sobbing, emotional mess. I expected her to take some heat from the constant complaining, but one of her friends who also has two sons actually chimed in that she wants to have a third baby, but she's "afraid" of having another boy!

Obviously I'm a FTM so I have no frame of reference, but is sex disappointment really like that, or is she just a drama queen? Is it really THAT bad if you don't get one of each? I feel bad for poor kid #2!

I have a friend who acted EXACTLY the same way except over having a girl. And by the way, she's the biggest drama queen/negative nancy I've ever met. I'm actually shocked she decided to have children to begin with. Nothing pleases her and she complains about everything.

I can understand hoping for a certain gender and being a bit disappointed initially... But to act so overtly upset over your own child? Makes me feel bad for the child.

Some people just can't be happy

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AriaAmante143

LW78 said:

One of my youngest's school friends lives a couple houses down from us. They play together, here and there. Today, his older sister walked him down and said that he wanted to play. That was 4 hours ago. He was complaining that he wanted dinner, so I had DH walk him home. They both came back, saying that NO ONE WAS HOME! How fucking RUDE.

So the kid has no idea where the rest of his family is? Did they go out to eat and just expect you to feed their other kid??

Yeah, he would NOT be coming to my house for play dates anymore.

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AriaAmante143

@LW78 how old is the sister? Sounds to me like SHE was supposed to be the babysitter and dumped him on you so she could go do whatever.

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AriaAmante143

LW78 said:

AriaAmante143 said:

@LW78 how old is the sister? Sounds to me like SHE was supposed to be the babysitter and dumped him on you so she could go do whatever.

Yeah, that seems like exactly what happened. She's a teenager, I'm thinking like 17.

Grrr. I want you to get that brat in trouble SO badly, but if you can't get ahold of the mom at work I don't know how...

ProudMommy030614

Random thought just came to me... I have been nesting hardcore today. The house is clean from top to bottom everyone's laundry including sheets and pillows are washed and put away. I cooked dinner and did the dishes. I even washed the ceiling fans. Well the past few days I have been getting contractions for about 3 or so hours twice a day that are at regular 15 minute intervals. This happened with ds2 tight before I had him. Well it's to soon for this LO still. I am hoping that I am just going to have a long nesting period this time.

SomersIsles

@lw78 OMG that would piss me off sooooo bad. I'm way to spiteful to deal with that shit. I'd call the cops.... Although that's a bit extreme I suppose.

I guess a good second option is once you get ahold of the mom make sure you make it clear how irresponsible that is, so much that she gets embarrassed.

Even though it seems the 17 year old was "in charge", the mom is ultimately in charge.

SomersIsles

PS I am finally done organizing allllllllll the clothes. 3 trash bag full of hand-me-downs plus a boatload from my shower. All washed... Sorted by size.... Put in the closet.

Honestly I don't want to see baby clothes again until it's physically ON my baby.

SomersIsles

Jennibeanjld said:

Today's nesting was capped of with the purchase of a new Dyson vacuum! Can't wait to clean the house top to bottom when it arrives!!

Jealous

Although who am I kidding, if I got a Dyson it'd collect as much dust as the elliptical in my living room. I swear I will use it post partum....

legallyginger

I'm watching Pacific Rim with DH. It is one of the absolute dumbest movies I've ever seen.

There's a part where they figure out one of the huge monster aliens is pregnant while they're basically cutting it up. The baby alien comes out and starts to attack, and DH goes "look, that'll be you on Monday!"

He's an ass but I love him anyway.

SomersIsles

It's my last Saturday of Feb vacation and I'm bored out of my mind..... And now I'm in a bad mood. Grrrrrr

AriaAmante143

I just asked my husband to peel me a Cutie (aka tiny orange) for a snack. I had no idea he had never peeled an orange before. He went into the kitchen, I heard some cabinets open and close, a slam, and some cursing.

He tried to peel it with an apple corer.

amdecker1016

Went to L&D again.
These were the real deal, just barely made any progress down there.
Maybe i'll get lucky and have a baby soon? Doubtful.

Anyway- the lady next to me was like 23 weeks and went in for RLP.
It had to be excruciating because why would you not call the after hours clinic? Why waste two hours of your time at the hospital...oh well to each his own.

CactusGirl

We bought a rocker recliner yesterday and will pick it up next week. I'm so dang excited!

AshleyO925

Decreased fetal movement seriously freaks me out. Normally this baby has a dance party in my belly all day. I've been up since like 6 and have felt maybe 4 kicks.

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ProudMommy030614

LW78 said:

I'm such a bad mom. Eve woke up this morning holding her tooth and asking why it was still under her pillow. I told her that the tooth fairy must not come on the weekends...

I have done this before :-q And told my little guy that she must have ran outbid money that night! Yeah he got $2 the next night!

jessher

DisneyAddict1 said:

I completely unloaded emotionally on H tonight after we had to run home from a party because DS was ready for bed. I told him to go back to the party because the guys were going to sit outside and smoke cigars and I know he was looking forward to it. I'm honestly 100% fine with him doing this. I don't know what happened but I just started crying. I'm been feeling envious of H and some of the things that he has gotten to do lately. It was completely "the grass has to be greener on the other side" moment. I know he would give up working to stay home and me go back to work if the opportunity came. He hates having to travel and deal with the idiots at work. Ugh!! I feel so bad but I just couldn't hold the tears back anymore. I've been feeling so isolated lately and I think it just finally got to me. Nothing that H actually did, just a series of events that he had to do for work that got him out of the house and socializing. One of my best friends is moving her family back East on Wednesday. She's a stay at home mom too so we hung out A LOT. Then many of the other moms that I typically see during the week are starting to go back to work for various reasons, then H working/traveling a lot, then not being being able to keep up with DS like I normally would so we just don't go places like we used to....yeah I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. Now to figure out how to make it up to H.

I can totally relate to this! I had a day like that yesterday, too. Dh has had some opportunities lately that seem to me, in my irrational state, to be opening up his world while mine is about to shrink down. And it has me totally freaking out and feeling insecure. 

I have no doubt that my husband is just as excited about this baby as me and I know this "fear" is totally irrational. I think it's more about knowing from past experience just how much of my life will be wrapped up in baby stuff and having a freak out about it. I feel pressured to come up with some new hobby to pursue or something just to force me to focus on myself in some way after the baby arrives. 

I feel the isolation, too. I have NO friends with babies. My kids are 18,15,12, and 11 so I am totally starting over. Panic! 

Hugs to you. I think we have a much higher need for stability, safety, and consistency in these last few weeks of pregnancy. 

jessher

LW78 said:

I'm such a bad mom. Eve woke up this morning holding her tooth and asking why it was still under her pillow. I told her that the tooth fairy must not come on the weekends...

I have been a failed Tooth Fairy SO many times. My problem was that I would never remember, so I started bringing the dollar with me when I tucked the kid in at night and would sneak it under their pillow as I kissed and hugged them goodnight. They were little, so pretty easy to trick! 

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