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January 2017 Moms
poetryandoceans
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Let's hear it, ladies!
Monday Bitchfest- 8.1.16
poetryandoceans
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Let's hear it, ladies!
Re: Monday Bitchfest- 8.1.16
She's bugged me since our older daughter was born, when she was 3 weeks old we took her to meet said grandma and we were standing outside in 100+ degree heat and the poor baby was just crying and crying and his dumb grandma was like "oh she's gassy!" and I kept asking her to return my baby so I could take her inside and she wouldn't because she was "working her gas out" and then she told all of my husband's cousins that my baby sure was cute, but cried too much! OH and at my baby shower she asked if she could call my baby something that wasn't her name and I told her I would prefer she didn't she goes "well I'm gonna do it anyway" So she's a peach.
As a follow up, I had to call my OB this morning to set up an appointment this week. The office never took their phone off night service so I had to keep stepping out of the office to make the call. It was almost an hour before I could get through to set up the appointment. I know it's a Monday but get it together people!
BFP#5 5/22/17 EDD:1/27/17 It's a GIRL!!!!
@christac1010 ugh with the ER during pregnancy. I went during my last pregnancy and I'm over here freaking about my baby and the nurse is all "is her face swollen?" To my husband and when he said no she looks at me and goes "oh. That's just your face?" Shut up and focus on the doppler please. I hope you finally got through to your doctor!
Well this past week, a graphic designer wrote down all of these items that she needed my help with. And none of them have ANY explanation of what needs to be done. They just have vague, ambiguous titles that read like Yahoo Answers questions. So I jump in and am like, "Hey soandso! I'd love to help you out or get another engineer involved on this as soon as possible, but I think this needs a little bit more context so we can understand what work needs to take place. Can you give us a little bit of an overview please?"
Radio silence for days.
So I escalate it to my manager: "I can't make sure this gets handled appropriately if I can't even understand the request..."
So he prods her to give more details.
She did like, the most minimal work someone could possibly do in providing more information and it's still written in a way that doesn't make sense unless you have in-depth knowledge of whatever it is she's been working on. It's so frustrating when people don't provide context on things... I just can't imagine how much more productive and time-efficient my job would be if people even attempted to be better at communicating. And I find this particularly ironic because I'm in a job role that is stereotypically known for having terrible communication skills and am upset at people who are in roles where the quality of their job depends on it.
@katesmama0706 that is fast! I'm anxious I'm not going to make it to the hospital this time. My contractions came on fast around 10 am and went to LD. They sent me home at 12:30 at 4cm with contractions 4 min apart. They said it would still be a long time and labor might stop. I walked in the door at 1:00, my water broke within 5 minutes. At LD I was 10 cm and baby came at 3:00. This time I demand they listen to me when I tell them it's time and I'm not leaving!!
@canavara The bleeding is definitely lessened but has yet to completely stop. It took them two hours to figure out that I have a very sensitive spot on my cervix that is bleeding from DTD (also she asked me if we used a sex swing or other tools - what are people doing while pregnant?!). Everything looked good though (amniotic fluid, baby's size, cervix length/closure, blood tests), so no one seems overly concerned. Well besides me, because who wants to see blood/clots at almost 18 weeks pregnant?
@underthesea Hopefully we'll all be okay! I can feel the baby ninja kicking in there so it's reassuring. Now I just wish the bleeding would stop!
ETA thank you everyone for your kind wishes and words! I totally just needed to vent today!
@canavara UGH. That's so irritating. There are certain people at my work that ask for vague information all the time and then get upset I didn't put it in the exact format they wanted (even though they never told me how they wanted it). It drives me batty at times.
@canavara I am so sorry you are frustrated and can completely understand. I am an IT project manager and have to communicate with all sorts of teams, some non-technical and some extremely technical. It blows my mind with the responses I get back when I am asking for status updates or even just asking, what can I do to help. I don't think people understand that I could makes their lives so much easier if they just told me what they actually needed!
Pumpkin Spice Gone to Far| Jan '17 September Siggy Challenge
Jan '17 August siggy challenge: Cat fails
It's not like the world opened up and I'm great now - but they did help a bit. I have a tendency for sinus infections so I wanted to do what I could to not let that happen.
Due 1/21/17
I have also broke down in tears like four times lately because I'm sad about losing my alone time with DD once this baby comes. Rationally I know it will be fine, but here I sit, bawling, because what if age doesn't adjust? I know she will, but hormones are making me insane.
In other news, my friend's bachelorette party that I skipped was this weekend. My friend let me know today that while she initially was hurt that I didn't come she was ultimately happy I didn't. I guess one of her future BIL's girlfriend was a complete drama queen and my friend said I would of undoubtedly killed her because she almost did and she was wasted the whole time! Lol She also loved the gift box of goodies I sent her! Thanks again for the awesome idea ladies!
And on the MIL front, she was driving me nuts on Sunday. The boys were so excited about the new church we tried out so they were talking about it at my SIL birthday party and MIL kept asking questions on why are we leaving where we are, and what happened, and there just HAD to be a reason, and she couldn't picture us at any other church...! What church we go to has nothing to do with you and is a decision between myself and DH! Gah!
DS1 - 03/31/2006
DS2 - 12/31/2008
DS3 - 06/26/2012
DS4 - 08/07/2014
Edited because spelling and glitchy keyboard
Even if you don't actually use it, perhaps the existence of the site will make you feel better, because so many people have the same problem you do that people went out and wrote code to passive aggressively deal with it
Sexy time comes few and far between lately with hectic schedules and pregnancy exhaustion. So this morning I made a conscious effort to wake up 15 minutes early, shower and shave, and then wake up DH in hopes of starting off the day in a "fun" way. DH was so surprised (I'm NOT a morning person) and just as things are starting to get good, we hear BANG BANG BANG coming from DD's room.
DD just moved into her new room, complete with a big girl bed that she can easily escape from. Apparently she can't quite figure out how to open the door on her own so she proceeds to scream for me while banging incessantly on the damn door. Talk about a mood killer.
#imissthecrib
#sorrydh
#itried
I've been repeatedly told by people I'm not getting laid off but it just kills me watching upper management try to walk all over people knowing that everyone is terrified of losing their jobs. If I weren't ~5 months pregnant, I'd have tendered my resignation 2 weeks ago and opted for their severance package because I'm just appalled by the unfair working conditions and lack of ethics displayed. And it's painful because the product we build? It's a popular educational product that is life-changing for some people and part of me wants to go around telling people "No, do not use this product, it is produced by a company that does not treat its employees fairly" and the other part of me wants people to keep using it so they'll learn and change their lives. Ugh.
The light of the end of the tunnel: I'm looking forward to resigning after I take maternity leave and am back in a place where I know I'll have 0 trouble quickly finding work with a company that treats its employees well.
I woke up to this question this morning, set me on edge for the entire day
BUT at end of the day, I'm okay and baby is okay. The bleeding finally stopped and the kicks are stronger than ever. It was a terrifying and stressful experience, but hopefully now we can move past it and focus on our anatomy scan on Monday!
Well okay, that's a lie, when I was pregnant with DD I ran out of amniotic fluid, I had a high risk US done at 37 weeks and some change and basically the results showed I needed to be delivered that day, but because my doctor was out of town until 3 days later (over a holiday weekend no less) the file sat on her desk until the following week. She was furious with the hospital for not passing it on to the on call doctor. Everything turned out okay but it could have been so much worse.
But seriously! The communication between these people needs to be way better!
my doctors office just called and they scheduled my next ultrasound which is a level 2 anatomy scan for Sept 8th at 20weeks. I ASSUMED it would be sooner and have family and friends coming to town labor day weekend for a gender reveal party.
edited for clarity: I'm sure they probably wouldn't move your scan up for a gender reveal party, but they may move it up if you had another reason for assuming it would be sooner and could use that reasoning.