Giving a urine sample at the ob has become an "interesting" experience ...
I had to give one today (38+4) and ended up with pee everywhere but in the vial. How the hell are we supposed to see where to put it! I barely collected enough for the Dr. To test.
I keep joking with my nurse that each week there is more on my hand and less in the cup. Thank goodness for sterile wipes and tons of soap in the bathrooms, lol.
Giving a urine sample at the ob has become an "interesting" experience ...
This. I was so proud because I didn't have any issues last week! That is, until I tried putting it in the little door.... They must have put new springs on it because as my urine is ALMOST on the mat, the door swings back and hits the sample out of my hand and EVERYWHERE around me! *picture 9 month pregnant women sobbing and cleaning up her own pee, it was horrible.
When every time you go to the bathroom, you check the toilet and toilet paper for signs of your mucus plug or blood. ....never have I been so excited to see things like that
*you pee the bed more than once in a single night because you have a cold and coughed hard
*The second you get home, you take off all your clothes because clothes are SO uncomfortable when you're the size of a whale and you're stretching all your maternity shirts to their max
You desperately want to take a nap, and you even have the time to, but every time you lie down, you get heartburn so bad you almost vom, even after a Zantac AND a Pepcid.
...You embrace the fact that you can sit your bowl of spaghetti on your belly while you get a drink of water while eating on the couch! I even cheered and showed my husband. Small victories!
...your entire day revolves around weather you would be ok or not with your water breaking at that exact second, or wishing it would so you could avoid certain situations!
...you have to mentally prepare yourself to get up out of a seated position, and have to actually make calculated plans to get out of bed...and make enough noise doing so to make the dog, both cats and my husband concerned...
....customers at work now ask you when you're due rather than how far along you are; and you can answer in single digits. Then get the look of death as to why they F*** you're still working.
....all your co-workers keep making hospital run plans every day you come in to see who will take you if your water breaks.
.... You take a bath and realize you might not be able to get out.
This! I had a bath last week when my husband was at work. I tried to get out for a good ten minutes. I was seriously contemplating staying in there for the 3 hours when he would be home to get me out!
*you get annoyed with people saying "YOU'RE STILL PREGNANT?!" Yes, I am! But seriously my family and DH family acts like I wouldn't tell them. "Oh no cousin, didn't you know, I had my baby last month! Sorry!"
.... You take a bath and realize you might not be able to get out.
This! I had a bath last week when my husband was at work. I tried to get out for a good ten minutes. I was seriously contemplating staying in there for the 3 hours when he would be home to get me out!
yes! DH works evenings. I took a bath after I put DS down for bed and as soon as the water started to cool off I started to panic. It would be at least two hours until DH was home. I debated just adding more hot water and hanging out for TWO HOURS, but I really had to pee. By the time I was out of the tub most of the relaxing that I had done was null and void from the effort it took to remove myself.
- Every single person you walk by asks you when you're due
- You are asked "how are you feeling" so many times per day that you start thinking up creative responses
- You start wondering if you were insane when you agreed to work up until the day you deliver
- Every upholstered thing you sit on is covered with a puppy pee pad just in case
- You start counting the 357 bathroom breaks a day as exercise because you need to walk to the bathroom and are winded when you get there
I'd love to hear some of the responses you've come up with for the how are you feeling question. I've gotten tired of my response of "pregnant" as a feeling when I honestly just want to scream at the next person who asks.
You wake yourself up multiple times in the middle of the night* with any one of the following: bile, gas, cramping (that doesn't turn into labor), hip pain.
*Does not include the times you get up to pee of course
I've been so bummed today these made me laugh so hard!!! Trying to remember this can't last forever! But yes yes yes! All of this is sadly very very true... Who prays for blood and intense pain... Me:)
...You are asked "how are you feeling" so many times per day that you start thinking up creative responses...
I'd love to hear some of the responses you've come up with for the how are you feeling question. I've gotten tired of my response of "pregnant" as a feeling when I honestly just want to scream at the next person who asks.
*** Fiance is being unbelievably sweet and cuddly (which is always what I love) and won't make a move because he just wants to cuddle. Put your labour inducing semen in there buddy... I feel like some sperm collector... (Yes the sex is still great but I definitely have some ulterior motives)
@sarahbeara25 oh my god you sound so much like me right now....bahaha I think I'm scarring my husband for life. He won't come near me with a ten foot pole.
Re: You might be 9 months pregnant if...
....never have I been so excited to see things like that
*you pee the bed more than once in a single night because you have a cold and coughed hard
*The second you get home, you take off all your clothes because clothes are SO uncomfortable when you're the size of a whale and you're stretching all your maternity shirts to their max
...your entire day revolves around weather you would be ok or not with your water breaking at that exact second, or wishing it would so you could avoid certain situations!
...you have to mentally prepare yourself to get up out of a seated position, and have to actually make calculated plans to get out of bed...and make enough noise doing so to make the dog, both cats and my husband concerned...
....all your co-workers keep making hospital run plans every day you come in to see who will take you if your water breaks.
Yes, I am! But seriously my family and DH family acts like I wouldn't tell them. "Oh no cousin, didn't you know, I had my baby last month! Sorry!"
- Every single person you walk by asks you when you're due
- You are asked "how are you feeling" so many times per day that you start thinking up creative responses
- You start wondering if you were insane when you agreed to work up until the day you deliver
- Every upholstered thing you sit on is covered with a puppy pee pad just in case
- You start counting the 357 bathroom breaks a day as exercise because you need to walk to the bathroom and are winded when you get there
•the sheer happiness at going an hour without peeing
•the panic at then realising if I'm in labour will they let me pee
•intense tightening, pressure building OMG this is it? Is it starting??!!! No sorry just gas : (
•how much more mucus is going to come out before something happens!!
•the entire pot of ice cream just ate itself
-Planning your entire day around getting enough bathroom breaks and drinking water
*Does not include the times you get up to pee of course
- When you wake up during the night, you check to see if your water broke
"Well, I'm still here."
"So far so good today"
"Very large today"
"Like I ate one too many donuts"
"Done. Just done."
"Like a whale"