* Tuesday 4/15 Random/AW/SS Thread *

katekat8721

Have something random, attention whorey or special snowflakey to share? Here's your chance!


Because I'm a nice person, here's a song for you to have stuck in your head today

katekat8721

My random....

I bought this.



I know, not a velociraptor, but it'll have to do!

jshrop

I slept ALL NIGHT LONG last night. Apparently I just need to convince hubs to DTD and it keeps me asleep

Savvy122

Found out at my OB appointment yesterday that my breech boy has finally turned himself head down (he's been feet down since our 11 week ultrasound, so this is big news!)  In related news, his head constantly banging against my cervix has given me some serious instances of lightning crotch.  Ouch.

Also, THREE friends had babies yesterday.  I am so jealous.

PinkKEL9

I had one of the best nights of sleep last night in months!! So refreshing. But I have my first NST later this afternoon and I'm pretty anxious about it.

erind228

I only have one more two week appointment, and then I graduate to weekly visits. I can't fucking believe it!

katekat8721

Rachel5130 said:

Okay, I have a question. You know how by the end of graduation, when they are calling out the names, everyone is like "Yay, Dorothy Abbott!!!!" But by the time it gets to John Williams, everyone is all, "Please, God, make this go faster, I don't care anymore." Is that how it will be for those of us due at the end of the month? Will everyone kind of be over it by then?

I wonder that too! I'm also irrationally a little bit jealous of the girls who are already 30+ weeks. Especially the 34 weekers! But at the same time I want them to stay in as long as possible. What can ya do.

PinkKEL9

Rachel5130 said:

@PinkKEL9‌ - Why stressed about your NST? I've heard many people enjoy it (it's just the going into the office constantly that they don't like.) From what I've heard, it isn't invasive or painful or anything AND it gives you peace of mind! I think @ugabamafans‌ and @LoHerrim‌ could tell you more.

I guess because I don't really know what to expect and I just want everything to be okay with baby. I am a worrier though. This is the first one and I have to have them 2x a week until delivery.

otter1103

Had a major meltdown about baby last night and feeling absolutely shitty this morning. Nothing makes you feel like the worst person on earth than panicking about the impending birth of your child. Don't get me wrong. Baby is a TOTAL blessing, just was a surprise and the timing just isn't great with work, school, Hubs work & school, Hubs retiring from the Army, uncertain financial outcome due to Hubs job change & a smaller than desired house for the family. I know it will all work out in the end but for now, I'm a hormonal, emotional basket case.
And I apologize, I'm sure I sound like a whiny ungrateful beeotch and I hope I'm not offending anyone, just had to vent before a mini meltdown at my desk.

jshrop

Hugs @otter1103‌. I keep getting this too. Financially and emotionally I have no idea how we are going to do this and I'll start panicking. And then..... I am fine and feel like everything will be okay. (Today being tax day is a huge panic and worry day for me)

katekat8721

@otter1103 you're not alone girlie! Have as many mini vents as you need

nunzchucks

@PinkKEL9‌ You'll be hooked up to a monitor. Then you'll sit back, relax and click a button every time LO moves. No problem!

jclester614

@otter1103, I feel the same way sometimes. DH and I run a small business together, and baby will be born smack dab in the middle of our busiest season. (We did not plan this, although we're happy about becoming parents.) Assuming we even get work this year; it's always iffy! So that's fun... 

--BUT--

My SS this morning is ... (I have multiple) ...

1 - WE GOT AN OFFICE SPACE!!! No more office in my living room, no more coworkers working at my messy kitchen table. Hallelujah!

2 - We bought our crib, mattress, and changing table yesterday!! (We're only 29 weeks now, so we're behind some of y'all.) I used a 15% off code on Diapers.com for the crib, AND I was able to use credit card points on Amazon, so the mattress and changing table were FREE. *Feeling like a genius.*

3 - Although this made me cry (hormones, man!), I love this to pieces and want* to play it on a loop in labor ("Happy" music video): https://youtu.be/bRtPPdds--Q

*I probably won't, that would be crazy.

wtfisup

otter1103 said:

Had a major meltdown about baby last night and feeling absolutely shitty this morning. Nothing makes you feel like the worst person on earth than panicking about the impending birth of your child. Don't get me wrong. Baby is a TOTAL blessing, just was a surprise and the timing just isn't great with work, school, Hubs work & school, Hubs retiring from the Army, uncertain financial outcome due to Hubs job change & a smaller than desired house for the family. I know it will all work out in the end but for now, I'm a hormonal, emotional basket case. And I apologize, I'm sure I sound like a whiny ungrateful beeotch and I hope I'm not offending anyone, just had to vent before a mini meltdown at my desk.

I do this regularly -- don't sweat it. We also have some uncertainties as H finishes grad school but moving isn't an option b/c of my job. And we thought we'd have bought a house by now, but we found out we were pregnant during the search and stopped, so we'll be having this baby in our small two bedroom apt. 

I freak out about losing the intimacy in our relationship as well. I've had 10+ years with this wonderful man, and while that's a great stretch, it means I'm really blissful about what we have. I tend to get terrified of how the baby will change that, even though I know we'll bond over loving her. We already have. 

Someone once told me that some years are questions and some years are answers, and it brought me a lot of peace. I remind myself that right now might be a question, but an answer will come when it comes. I cannot control these things. And above all, I trust that we are both smart, responsible people who will make good choices -- and that's really all you can shoot for. No plan or bank account is full-proof. Instead, you bank on the fact that you will make the best decisions you can in the situations that arise. 

wtfisup

Confession: in the past, I was like, "Why would ANYONE start their maternity leave before the baby gets there? What a waste!" And now I'm like, "OKAY, I GET IT." At (almost) 32 weeks, I'm so exhausted and stoned feeling all the time. I'm sleeping great, but it does nothing. I wake up after nine hours feeling like i haven't slept in days. I spend an hour laying on the couch like a spineless walrus each morning before I summon myself to get dressed and go to work. I went from washing my hair every other day to every 3 days. I'm just worn down. I don't know how those pioneer women (or poor women in developing nations across the world today) do this: how do you maintain a homestead and other kids and do physical labor and tend to animals or harvest while feeling like this? 

otter1103

Thanks for getting me ladies! And for letting me meltdown here.


@wtfisup‌ - I really love the some years are questions and some years are answers insight. Thank you for sharing that.

ahopkins0419

Im sick of people telling me to enjoy being pregnant... It's getting kind of hard to do, with the sleepless nights, hurting back, loss of energy, and just really wanting to meet my baby boy.
I know this is like a tp but im sorry I couldn't wait until Thursday. This is the third time I've heard it this week.

lest12

@wtfisup & @afurnace (& @ everyone else)

lest12

I love the "one does not simply" pregnancy memes, btw.  @mrsdbc posted one yesterday and I spent a while wasting time at work looking at other ones.  I don't even watch GOT.

lest12

I'm post whoring.

 

I forgot my shoes today.  I was upstairs, effing around the house before work, in my flip flops. 

I meant to change into my professional foot attire before I left the house, I swear, but I just forgot.

Here's to hoping no one wants to talk to me, unless it's at my desk, today.

ricecakes1216

We took our maternity pictures on Sunday. My friend/photographer posted some last night. So far I'm really pleased. The lighting wasnt good in some so we're meeting her tomorrow to redo a few. I'm really excited!

cristykaye

I have some really crazy fears about delivery and having a baby. Like its just now hit me and I cry all the damn time. I am really excited about being a mother but my fears are more like something happening and me not being able to be around for my baby.
I know most of my thoughts are irrational but they freak me out anyways.
Is this normal to be having these fears or am I just am odd one in the bunch??

lest12

lyracelesti said:

lest12 said:

I love the "one does not simply" pregnancy memes, btw.  @mrsdbc posted one yesterday and I spent a while wasting time at work looking at other ones.  I don't even watch GOT.

I you even more now that you mistook LoTR for GoT.

(Full discloser, i don't watch GoT either, but i do know from memes.)

@lyracelesti - that guy is from LoTR?  Oh.  LOL oops. 

Imagine how many more meme's I would have found if I had been searching correctly?!?!?! 

Mztwilson

I forgot to update you ladies after I saw the cardiologist. He said my heart looks pregnant. There's nothing to be worried about and I have a slight pregnancy murmur. He said even if i wasn't pregnant it wouldn't be something he feels needs treatment! I'm so relieved!

Pepper6

lest12 said:

lyracelesti said:

lest12 said:

I love the "one does not simply" pregnancy memes, btw.  @mrsdbc posted one yesterday and I spent a while wasting time at work looking at other ones.  I don't even watch GOT.

I you even more now that you mistook LoTR for GoT.

(Full discloser, i don't watch GoT either, but i do know from memes.)

@lyracelesti - that guy is from LoTR?  Oh.  LOL oops. 

Imagine how many more meme's I would have found if I had been searching correctly?!?!?! 

He's in both.  He played Boromir in LoTR and Ned Stark in GoT.  That specific picture is from him in LoTR though...although he looks almost exactly the same in GoT...so definitely easy to get it confused.

eta:  also, I'm clearly a huge nerd because I love both LoTR and GoT :-)

lest12

lyracelesti said:

lest12 said:

lyracelesti said:

lest12 said:

I love the "one does not simply" pregnancy memes, btw.  @mrsdbc posted one yesterday and I spent a while wasting time at work looking at other ones.  I don't even watch GOT.

I you even more now that you mistook LoTR for GoT.

(Full discloser, i don't watch GoT either, but i do know from memes.)

@lyracelesti - that guy is from LoTR?  Oh.  LOL oops. 

Imagine how many more meme's I would have found if I had been searching correctly?!?!?! 

SO MANY MEMES!

I'm such a huge dork.

Here's the know your meme page if you want https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/one-does-not-simply-walk-into-mordor

MIND BLOWN.

I'm such a dope, I had no idea.

Also, increasing my dope status, I used an apostrophe to turn meme into a plural   I lose at the internet today.

PinkKEL9

ugabamafans said:

PinkKEL9 said:

Rachel5130 said:

@PinkKEL9‌ - Why stressed about your NST? I've heard many people enjoy it (it's just the going into the office constantly that they don't like.) From what I've heard, it isn't invasive or painful or anything AND it gives you peace of mind! I think @ugabamafans‌ and @LoHerrim‌ could tell you more.

I guess because I don't really know what to expect and I just want everything to be okay with baby. I am a worrier though. This is the first one and I have to have them 2x a week until delivery.

@PinkKEL9 - Here's a link that describes the test and has a picture of a woman hooked up to the monitors.  https://www.prenatalanswers.com/non-stress-tests/

They are seriously not a big deal, not invasive or uncomfortable.  You get to lay back and listen to LO's heartbeat for like 30 minutes or so  They are checking for contractions and also to check LO's heartbeat in response to his/her movements.

Thanks! That helps a lot

lest12

Thank you @pepper6 - I feel a little better now.

Having never seen either GOT or LoTR, I'm lucky I knew who he was at all! 

elsa1688

Because the symptoms thread doesn't always get responses:
Has anyone had chest discomfort? (Not really pains). It feel like I have to take really deep breathes and when I do, my chest hurts. I think I'm getting a cough but I've never had this before. Just general rib cage expanding nonsense?

mfilosi

elsa1688 said:

Because the symptoms thread doesn't always get responses:
Has anyone had chest discomfort? (Not really pains). It feel like I have to take really deep breathes and when I do, my chest hurts. I think I'm getting a cough but I've never had this before. Just general rib cage expanding nonsense?

I had some really bad chest pain that went around my ribs to my back, turns out it was gas pains. What your describing sounds the same, my dr told me to take reg strength gas x and it did the trick!

My ss: we had a 3d ultrasound yesterday and it was amazing! I can't wait to hold this little boy.

otter1103

@elsa1688‌ - I get this too. Or I feel like I can't take a good deep breath. I have bad seasonal allergies too so when those act up I get a tight chest added to the pregnancy crowding going on and it's all so (not) glorious. I do remember seeing posts from a couple other ladies who have/are experiencing a pregnancy induced asthma.

@kaysa2‌ - are you one of the fellow asthma sufferers?

lest12

@elsa1688 - I get it too. 

wtfisup

ugabamafans said:

cristykaye said:

I have some really crazy fears about delivery and having a baby. Like its just now hit me and I cry all the damn time. I am really excited about being a mother but my fears are more like something happening and me not being able to be around for my baby. I know most of my thoughts are irrational but they freak me out anyways. Is this normal to be having these fears or am I just am odd one in the bunch??

@christykaye - You are totally normal to have worries and concerns.  I'm a STM, and I still worry.  Just have faith in the fact that it is really, really rare for something to happen to you during birth.  My son is 2.5, and I still worry about something happening to me or my husband and us not being there for him.  I think you could probably file this one under "mommy guilt."

cristykaye 

Parenting and making all that work, WHO KNOWS. But a baby coming out of me will just happen. It might be easy for me because I've had some medical procedures (tons of hardcore dental work, surgeries to remove tumors), so I have some experience with being in that situation and trusting staff. 

I also read EVERYTHIIIIIING labor and birth related when I first got pregnant, and it kind of normalized birth for me. If you read about the stages and processes and signs five million times, it gets old and boring and is no longer very scary. Initially, it will be. But then it wears off. 

kk627

cristykaye said:

I have some really crazy fears about delivery and having a baby. Like its just now hit me and I cry all the damn time. I am really excited about being a mother but my fears are more like something happening and me not being able to be around for my baby. I know most of my thoughts are irrational but they freak me out anyways. Is this normal to be having these fears or am I just am odd one in the bunch??

 

Can we have an "irrational fears" thread?

 

My latest freak out - That something happens to DH and I, and MIL will have to raise our baby since she's the most capable and responsible person we know. But my parents live in the Caribbean. I fear that my child will never have a close relationship with my parents because MIL will not make the effort to keep the realtionship going, and my parents don't the resources to come visit often. Totally made up scenario that's driving me crazy!

Mia081081

i had a prenatal massage at a reiki healer this morning and it was AMAZING. Like really amazing. I feel like a new person and highly recommend it to anyone experiencing back pain. I'll definitely go back 1-2 more times before the end. 

I'm not drinking so I can put wine money toward massages, right?

TheMrs820

@otter1103‌: You are not alone & do not sound ungrateful, I wanted this & tried for years & am freaked the F out!

@Rachel5130‌, @mrsdbc‌, @katekat8721, & @nelleebelle‌: I am due June 2nd measuring 2 weeks ahead since I decided to marry a giant (hindsight is 20/20! ) & totally agree with Lyracelesti. ....I can't wait to see these babies & celebrate with all of you.....plus what else am I gonna do in the middle of the night!

rastrau

@erind228 - I'm with you dude - one more bi-weekly and then game on! Craziness!

steprozz

so the June schedule is still not made and my csection is still not scheduled. I know this really isn't a big deal because at least I know it will be at 39 weeks but the obsessive planner in me, mixed with major nesting and hormones, is seriously having a mini meltdown over it. I just want to have one more thing checked off my list!

elsa1688

Thanks ladies! Happy to hear I'm not alone.

cristykaye

Thanks for all who replied about my irrational fears.
I trust my docs and nurses. My fiancé works with them everyday so we are all closer than the average doc/patient.
That does help some. I know that it is rare for something to happen during child birth. But I have this thought that I have clothes, diapers, wipes, blankets, bassinet, and other baby needs. My shower is coming up next weekend and I'm so excited but then I think "it's going to have to come out soon"!!!! "What if the epidural doesn't work?" With all the anxiety I have over my thoughts I'm just afraid I'm going to lose it in the delivery room I guess!

wtfisup

cristykaye said:

Thanks for all who replied about my irrational fears.
I trust my docs and nurses. My fiancé works with them everyday so we are all closer than the average doc/patient.
That does help some. I know that it is rare for something to happen during child birth. But I have this thought that I have clothes, diapers, wipes, blankets, bassinet, and other baby needs. My shower is coming up next weekend and I'm so excited but then I think "it's going to have to come out soon"!!!! "What if the epidural doesn't work?" With all the anxiety I have over my thoughts I'm just afraid I'm going to lose it in the delivery room I guess!

If you've ever had a major disappointment or loss, this is normal thinking. It's your psyche's way of trying to prepare you. (Though it really just freaks you out.) Try to let those thoughts pass like something floating down a river: be an observer, but don't engage with them. Don't let them scare you. Say, "I see that fear creeping closer, now it's here, next it will go away."