Weekend Bitchfest!

allthingscozy

How many of us feel with recent comments made as we wait for babies  

megstervt

If people could just stop posting animal abuse stories on my Facebook feed that'd be great.  My emotions are razor thin and I can't handle it.

allthingscozy

I hate those!! 

Kellyj103

@megstervt one of my best friends is a walking sarah mclachlan animal abuse commercial. I had to unfollow her on Facebook because I can't look at any more graphic pictures of tortured animals. I feel bad when we talk and she's posted a cute picture or a funny status cause I never see it! I just can't do it!

Weville

My itchy feet are so annoying!  I think I'm going to rub the skin off

coffeeandcupcakes

My husband and I bought a nice dresser for the nursery from a consignment shop.  Somehow neither one of us noticed it reeked of moth balls until after I had already done ALL the baby laundry, folded it, and put it away (like.. weeks after). So now this weekend I am redoing all the laundry. 

If anyone has a magical cure for getting the moth ball smell out please let me know.  We've tried baking soda and coffee grounds.  My husband is currently sanding down the inside and outside of the dresser to leave it in the sun for a few days.

Also, cause I'm on a roll here... I do NOT need emails or text messages giving me a daily countdown until my due date.  I can count and it isn't helping the days go by faster!

nikkimarie159

If my MIL says ONE MORE THING about how she thinks I'm going to give birth to an extremely large baby due to my GD I am going to flip. I already feel bad enough about it. No need to keep bringing it up! 

ESchreinerWrites

@nikkimarie1awmy bitch related to my MIL and baby size, too -- but the oposite end of the spectrum. She's a F-ING idiot and doesn't listen and its getting worse. Several months ago, my DH explained to her that our son (who was growth restricted) would come around 37 weeks -- because it limits the risk of stillbirth which is the primary danger of IUGR. She was all "Oh, that's ridiculous! Those last week's are important! That's dumb" um, lady, you're dumb. It's not that I'm just like "Meh, I don't want to be pregnant, he can come early." No, as an IUGR babe, his risk of stillbirth is like 6x that of a typical growth child. So your suggestion is we just leave him to cook and hope my placenta doesn't fail and he doesn't die? Mkay. 

So she's supposed to come over today to meet him. He ended up being 4lbs 10oz AND couldn't have done any better. Not a second of NICU time... got to come home right away... basically best we would have ever wished for. But, despite that, I KNOW she's going to be all carrying on about his size (because she was on the phone with my husband last night). I am seriously going to go off on her. He's small and perfect. I get that you don't freakin' understand IUGR, but you can just shut your mouth and trust that your son and I - oh, and my specialty trained MFM doctors - know a LITTLE more what's right for our baby than you. 

Brittnic531

This is a carry over from yesterday but I'm still annoyed and haven't responded to the email yet.  Yesterday morning I woke up to an email from my MIL (@ 6:45am) asking about Christmas ideas for DD.  Her 2nd birthday was 3 weeks ago and her party was last weekend... The LAST thing on my mind is Christmas. Plus, all the ideas she sent seem to be larger items that take up a lot of space and we have a tiny house.  I'm going reply as nicely as possible but it will basically say not to ask me again until WELL after baby is born and DH and I figure out what we're getting her.  Ugh, I understand wanting to start early and spread out the costs... But seriously?! As if I don't have enough in my plate already. 

ESchreinerWrites

@Brittnic531 amazing how many of our bitches are MIL related!! 

nikkimarie159

@ESchreinerWrites that's great LO is doing so well! At our last growth scan she was estimated to weigh about 7 1/2 lbs at birth. (Granted, I know it's just an estimate, could be bigger, could be smaller) But no where near as massive as MIL thinks she seems to gonna be.  Like you said, pretty sure the drs. Know just a little more than our mils lol. The first time she mentioned it it didn't really bother me, but now she says it every time I see her. I know she means we'll but jeezeeee, STOP IT.

nopegoat

Because postpartum cramps, aches, and hugely painful engorged boobs isn't enough,  my wisdom teeth have decided to kill me today.  Ouch.  

nikkimarie159

@kdm06c ugh that sounds awful. So sorry! You must be so miserable! ): 

Nerdchild

@hreed7289 Have you tried cedar planks? They are the mothball 'replacement', you can usually find them near the hangers and whatnot at Target. 

Bitchfest is puking. And diarrhea. Let's hope labor is in my near future. 

sunshineandwhiskey

hreed7289 said:

If anyone has a magical cure for getting the moth ball smell out please let me know.  We've tried baking soda and coffee grounds.  My husband is currently sanding down the inside and outside of the dresser to leave it in the sun for a few days

I have no personal experience but I've heard from friends that charcoal works well. I'm not sure if you have to buy a specific kind but chemically it makes sense that it would neutralize the mothball smell. 

twinpeaksmama

@hreed7289 I have also heard that charcoal works well to remove smells. I would think that the sanding and airing out would help as well.

LadyFleck

For everyone fielding those inevitable "have you had the baby yet" texts....

https://www.haveyouhadthatbabyyet.com/ 

Kellyj103

@LadyFleck LOL!!! Love it and will be using it!

coffeeandcupcakes

@nerdchild @derivemypi @mbondi0 thanks!! I will definitely try both the cedar planks and charcoal. Hopefully something works. 

PootsDragon

This is almost not bitchworthy but I'm cranky and overdue. I'm booooooored! No energy to go out, but we are out of Netflix gems and shows to binge... We even had sex a couple times despite a sweep yesterday and my leaking weirdness. Desperate for entertainment! Come on baby! Waiting around for you is getting old!

setosh

Work was my bitchfest so I called out yesterday and today. How am I supposed to work when the bathroom is at the front of the store and I have to go every 30 mins? No thanks. Also I can't put my feet into sneakers anymore. 

DachshundMomma

 Being annoyed for absolutely no reason is my bitchfest. I wake up annoyed and have a general sense of being on edge all day. I'm glad my husband isn't here because I have a feeling I'd snap at him. Which makes me feel guilty because I miss him and have another whole week to go before he gets home. Damn hormones. 

foxa319

Ds has decided his new wake up time is 430 am and he wakes up screaming. The last 3 days I have finished feeding the baby, put him back down and then ds wakes up! Not sure what to do! we've had family visiting and staying with us most of the week so I'm really hoping that's what's getting to him and he goes back to his normal schedule tonight!!! I'm exhausted!!!!!

Nerdchild

Made it to the middle of 39 weeks before I got significant/noticable swelling. Both of my legs below the knee are little sausages, and my feet are so swollen that I feel like I'm walking around in multiple pairs of socks. The end game sucks.

ktomorrow

I miss my face. It has been growing progressively rounder this last trimester and today I wake up to almost a double chin. Joy.

samantha1206

It's hot and miserable. I have so much I wanna do but it's hard when it's so hot. I mean who let the gates of hell open up for all the heat to come out anyway? 

eymi

Ugh insomnia. I was up pretty much ALL night, kept SO up and he had to be at work at 4:30 this morning. I finally napped for a few hours but now I feel like crap and still have a ton of stuff I wanted to get done today.

MDmomma1217

We have 4 July birthdays in the family (MIL, FIL, DH, and myself). My MIL keeps making comments about how she wants the baby to have a birthday of his own, but we've all talked about how there's a chance he might end up sharing a birthday. DH, FIL, and I are all between 7/8 - 7/19 (LO is due on the 15th) and DH and I really don't care if he ends up being born on someone else's birthday, we kind of have no control over that. Yesterday, she again makes a  comment about the birthday thing, and I just completely ignored it - I just can't with the comments anymore.

LF93

@MDmomma1217 LO is due on the 24th and I have three birthdays (Mother, MIL & aunt) 26-28. As long as he is not born on my mother's birthday I'll be happy! I'd never here the end of it!  I wish I could be like you and not let it bother me, but as you said, it's not something you can control! 

MDmomma1217

@LF93 I just keep telling myself all I want in the end is a healthy baby and a smooth delivery, I couldn't really care what day that happens! Apparently some people do care, but guess what, they aren't the ones that are pregnant!

blackgirlmagic

@MDmomma1217 I am due on the 6 and between my husband and I there are five birthdays today. My doctors said that I would most likely go past my due date but I have done absolutely nothing the past to two days to ensure that she stays comfortable in there. I would never hear the end of it from both sides of she was born today and I don't want her to have to deal with that for the rest of her life. Call if selfish, but I have no problem with her coming anytime after today. 

fantasticmrsfox

I told DH I'm holding the baby in tomorrow. I do not want his birthday on the 4th. My dads birthday is the 6th and I'd be totally fine with that!

rnyland1

@MDmomma1217 DS1 was born on my mother's 60th birthday. I didn't want it to happen that day but my mom was ecstatic! I don't see why grown ass people would be upset about sharing birthdays.

arhodes6

I am currently sitting in L&D hooked up to monitors and on my third dose of cytotek (sp?) because my water broke yesterday and I never started contracting. My due date is tomorrow and I didn't want him to have a 4th of July bday, but at this point I don't give an F what his birthday is. I just want my baby! 

sboston06

I had a craving for Chinese food plus I was hoping it would move things along. My favorite place was closed for the holiday

Heathereaddy

I'm soooo over the fireworks already. It sounds like a war zone outside my window.  

PhoebeJune1984

hreed7289 said:

My husband and I bought a nice dresser for the nursery from a consignment shop.  Somehow neither one of us noticed it reeked of moth balls until after I had already done ALL the baby laundry, folded it, and put it away (like.. weeks after). So now this weekend I am redoing all the laundry. 

If anyone has a magical cure for getting the moth ball smell out please let me know.  We've tried baking soda and coffee grounds.  My husband is currently sanding down the inside and outside of the dresser to leave it in the sun for a few days.

Also, cause I'm on a roll here... I do NOT need emails or text messages giving me a daily countdown until my due date.  I can count and it isn't helping the days go by faster!

That happened to us a couple of months ago. I ended up spraying and wiping the whole thing down with Orange Glo Wood Furniture Clean & Polish (even though the dresser was painted antique white....it still cleaned it pretty good). Then pulled all of the drawers out, and laid them in the sun for a couple of days (but then it started to rain on day #2, so they went into the garage in separate pieces to still get air). My husband ripped the back panel off of the whole thing, went to Home Depot, and got a new panel (they made the cuts right there to make it the same size), and we put that on the back. Smell was gone. 

PhoebeJune1984

nikkimarie159 said:

If my MIL says ONE MORE THING about how she thinks I'm going to give birth to an extremely large baby due to my GD I am going to flip. I already feel bad enough about it. No need to keep bringing it up! 

@nikkimarie159 my mom's sister keeps saying the same thing. My DD was over 9 pounds, so really, if this one is around 9 pounds, I wouldn't be phased at all. I have GD (I didnt have it with DD), and I kept telling her that large babies aren't always the end result, as most of my friends with GD had babies smaller than their non-GD babies. Finally I just said "Actually, my OB said that she rarely delivers huge GD babies, because people with GD have to watch what they are eating a lot closer than someone without GD, and are more aware of how much sugar and carbs they eat. She said the only time she delivers a big baby, is when she has someone that is on diabetic medicine, who is just eating willy-nilly because they think since they are taking the medicine, they can eat whatever they want..." It was a white lie, but once I said that, she stopped bringing it up (because she knows that I am diet and exercise controlled). 

brandiK

Heathereaddy said:

I'm soooo over the fireworks already. It sounds like a war zone outside my window.  

Here here! I love the 4th but it's one of those holidays that's more fun when you're a kid. We have a lot of trashy people that live around us that I swear just save for months to buy the most obnoxious fireworks. They start the weekend before and go for a few days after. 

DarkCat

I had GD with my pregnancy. My DD was born 6 lbs 15 ounces. When you watch your diet you don't produce a big baby. All my DD's sugars after birth were in normal range which means my GD was well controlled. I hated when people assumed I would pop out a 10 lbs baby. The number one comment I get now is how tiny she is! 

agradi

I might go open a can of pregnant lady whoop ass on our asshole neighbors. They started setting off firework about 30 minutes ago, right as I was crawling into bed. They're still at it (it's 10:15 here now), and they're shooting them off into the courtyard of our apartment complex, and aiming them towards our apartment building...Right outside our bedroom window it sounds like. I'm debating on calling the cops, or going out there myself...