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February 2015 Moms
Monday Spamalama
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Re: Monday Spamalama
My spam- DH is finally picking up some slack! After my horrendous breakdown last night, pretty sure he got the picture! I came home on my lunch break and he'd taken care of some super important medical/financial stuff, plotted out freezer meal AND had gone grocery shopping for it all! Best thing EVER to hear a husband say? "What do you need me to get cleaned first?" :x
Regardless, we'd do family only for hospital visits. A couple of my BILs have three year olds and I wouldn't expect them to leave them home if they were making the trip.
In L&D, we're allowed to have four passes. This includes the pass for an SO. We're all about medical staff only and want the uninterrupted skin-to-skin and BF time. If we are in L&D for an extended period after, we'll probably have my MIL & FIL visit first and my SMIL and SFIL visit next. My ILs are really well adjusted and this wouldn't be an issue. If they want to come in with their respective SOs, they can rock/paper/scissors it, because we're not making that decision.
In the regular recovery room we're allowed to have as many guests as we'd like and the hours are very loose. I figure I'm probably going to be pretty exhausted and wouldn't want visitors other than immediate family.
The woman that gave our LD tour says that she has seen big groups come in and the benefit is they're there, there's not a lot of seating, and it's done and over quickly. She also said that the nursing staff is completely willing to lie about the number of guests allowed and hours. Ultimately they want you to be comfortable, less stressed, and able to recover physically and mentally.
It might be helpful to point out to YH that this will be physically and mentally draining and all of the other people who want to see the baby will be just as thrilled in the coming weeks.
Edit: Oxford comma.
My hospital is currently not allowing visitors younger than 12 yrs old due to flu concerns. The only one coming to the hospital will be my husband. MIL will be staying with my 2 oldest. Everyone else can visit at home 3-4 days later depending on how I feel.
@mrsclark731 I keep debating on when to put my shop in vacation mode. (EDD 2/21) I've had 3 orders and a ton of views for one of my pricier made-to-order items in the past 2 weeks. At the same time, I don't want to bring packages into FedEx any more! Haha.
Have I done any of these yet? Negative.
However, because of all of the birth announcements lately, I pre-worked payroll to call in tomorrow, in case I don't make it into the office. Because I have those numbers here at home, I will not go into labor early. My mom keeps telling me the anecdote that her 3rd (and 4th) came weeks early and she had to do payroll from her hospital bed. Thanks for making me nervous, Mom!
Vent: DH told his boss what the MFM said about me delivering next week so they could have a heads up. He was planning on taking off the entire week when I went into labor, boss said he couldn't take the week off because they have a turn around starting then. So he will only get 2 days off without pay. Sometimes oil field/refinery work sucks!! Hopefully OB will want to schedule for the weekend... We will see tomorrow.