Ive always thought people have terrible phrasing with this. just tell me you're thinking about me and hope I'm having a good day or something .. no need for me to respond and still sweet.. and don't send it every damn day lol
@Gators&BoSox Yeah, that's part of it. I don't really know how to respond to questions about how I am any other way then no I haven't had a baby since I last talked to you (like I would forget to tell them). The way they phrase it it's like they want information and there just isn't any to give. A hey I'm thinking about you text would be way less annoying.
Not only am I 39 weeks pregnant and huge, but my toddler made sure to tell me every day this week that she is Belle and that I am the beast.
Hahaha kids are so... Ha funny.. sometimes. My DD has been calling me her big big mommy for the past month or so. She makes sure to tell all the strangers we see "my mommy is so big".
I started posting morning Facebook posts with funny memes or things saying stuff like: "morning stalkers, you know who you are, yes I'm still pregnant." And that seemed to cut down on the stream of annoying texts and calls.
SO's grandmother passed away recently and he took it pretty hard but is in a much better place now. We got her dining room set which is a nice teak wood set with a cabinet. Not modern in the least but it's alright. Now we also got her living room couches.. we just bought our new house and we bought a brand new very comfy 3 piece set that I was so excited about. It hasn't been delivered yet but SO's dad is bringing the other couch set over tomorrow and I keep hinting that I don't want it or I don't want it in the main living room. Our basement is not finished but we will be making a small tv type room down there. His "man cave".. I hinted that I don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a new set to be put in the basement and by hinting I basically mentioned we should just cancel it all if him and his dad are insistent that his grandmother's couch be placed in the main living space. The couch set isn't a comfy cozy one and I want to be comfy and warm and cozy in my own living room. He agreed with me that ok we should just cancel the whole new set... Instead of putting his grandmother's set in the basement. I feel like a huge B about it, but this is my new house and I don't just want everything from his grandmother, I want my own style of furniture. Am I being insensitive? I don't want to disrespect SO or his dad by making a fuss about it, but it's really aggravating to me.
@Burrberrymum I would be feeling the same way. It's your home. You've been dreaming of how it was going to look and you already made the purchase. I feel like the basement is a reasonable compromise.
It's after midnight here and a framed picture just randomly fell to the floor downstairs in a massive loud shattering of glass. I couldn't get husband up (glad it wasn't someone breaking in) so I went downstairs myself to check it out. I half swept, got the dog into our room, and left him a note for tomorrow morning to keep her in the room and wear shoes when he goes downstairs because I'm just not dealing with it tonight.
Now I'm wide awake with anxiety from that and anxiety about tomorrow's OB appointment (irrational fear they'll make me move up the c-section) an anxiety about how to get him up if I go into labor while he's asleep... he's always been a deep sleeper, but IDK what's going to wake him up if a crash of glass and panicy 39 week pregnant wife doesn't. Ughhhhhh
@Burrberrymum I don't think you're being unreasonable or insensitive. In my fairly limited experience, though, men don't do "hints." They do "tell me exactly what you want/need or it will not register." So rather than trying to get him to reach the conclusion you want, I think you just need to be kind but upfront and say something like, "It's really nice that we are getting your grandmother's set, but do you think we could put that in the basement area? I really like the set we picked out and want it in the main living room area."
@sunshine507 I feel your pain. I work overnights and recently asked my husband to start keeping his phone in the bedroom with him because normally he leaves it to charge in the living room at night. Except that he doesn't wake up for pretty much ANYTHING, so if I wind up going into labor at work, I'm going to have to call the SWAT team to go to our apartment and wake him up. And those little things that keep you awake - today, mine was the fact that I finally emptied out a tote of bed sheets and got those put away, and could have started filling the now empty tote with stuff to put into storage, but after doing the laundry, dishes, cooking lunch, and sorting through more baby stuff, I was worn out, but still couldn't get more rest because I was feeling too guilty for not doing more. Ugh.
I am generally struggling with not snapping at every tiny thing. Tonight at work, there was a sticky note for me to sign off on a med change - literally just had to glance at the paper and see if it was filled out properly and write my initials. Someone ran the dishwasher which is normally my job. And my co-worker who feels my belly every single night lately thought that she felt the baby move and asked me four times in a row "Was that him or you?" All things that are not a big deal, and one of which actually helps me out, but I sort of wanted to learn to breathe fire just so I can burn this place down. My boss's boss, who I see maybe once a month, has said to me twice how much she just loved being pregnant, and I have had to tame my inner banshee both times to not screech and rip her apart. Every tiny thing is making me want to Hulk out. Bleh.
@msturney My dogs been out of sorts too except tonight she wanted to eat a second meal at 10:30 pm. She keeps scratching at he water bowl in our bedroom and digging around to indicate she wants to eat. I finally gave in. Maybe she's training me for the baby. I wonder if they can sense all the new stuff in the house and weird schedule and they worry we'll forget to feed them. Poor pups
@msturney My dogs been out of sorts too except tonight she wanted to eat a second meal at 10:30 pm. She keeps scratching at he water bowl in our bedroom and digging around to indicate she wants to eat. I finally gave in. Maybe she's training me for the baby. I wonder if they can sense all the new stuff in the house and weird schedule and they worry we'll forget to feed them. Poor pups
I absolutely think they have some sort of sense of it. Merlin is already very in tune with me, as I am more his person. He loves my husband, but I really am the only one who can pick him up without a fuss and did all the training with him. He was better yesterday about feeding. At the time he starts to whine, we go for a walk or play fetch to distract him. I've also started making him sit far away from his bowl quietly to get fed. So he knows that being away from the bowl reaps reward. I am hoping that works! Merlin is so smart and let's just hope he catches on quickly.
A 1030 feeding! I totally get it. Sometimes it's just easier to give in... lol
so, my husband is a CPA and works in accounting at a large company. Obviously, this is busiest time of the year. We're in the process of applying for Irish citizenship, so I made him a deal that I would order/organize/prepare ALL of the baby stuff if he would just get the application ready before he got too busy. Well, guess what? He never did it. And now he's too busy to look at it. And his response is "well, you're on maternity leave now, and the baby isn't here, so can you just do it?"
Oh ok... yeah no problem I'll just organize ALL the baby stuff AND do the thing you promised you'd do too. Granted, he's been super helpful so far this whole pregnancy. But he's admitted that the reason it didn't get done sooner was because he kept working late because he was having a hard time focusing on stuff at work and kept catching himself surfing Internet forums instead. So, he COULD have done it. He just chose not to make it a priority.
And the only reason I mind so much, is that we have to send in our passports with the application. I want to fly home to the US to see my family when the baby is two months old, and if the application process takes too long I won't be able to do that. UUGGGHHHHH
@npaulie there's always the what if baby shows up unexpectedly. I'm a great example, we definitely had to get some stuff done at home while baby was in nicu. Made resting hectic, because we were doing errands and chores, then also rushing to the nicu on time for our visit. Wouldn't recommend that to anyone.
MIL months ago refused to accept that she was never visiting the baby immediately after he was born, never bought a plane ticket for the date we offered, now is complaining that the date is too expensive. Well of course it is if you wait so long instead of buying it well in advance! So mow she is insisting she come next month. Such a rude woman! Just like when she refused to wear pink at my wedding because it made her "fat" and wore white. Ugh! Just had to get my anger out here.
MIL months ago refused to accept that she was never visiting the baby immediately after he was born, never bought a plane ticket for the date we offered, now is complaining that the date is too expensive. Well of course it is if you wait so long instead of buying it well in advance! So mow she is insisting she come next month. Such a rude woman! Just like when she refused to wear pink at my wedding because it made her "fat" and wore white. Ugh! Just had to get my anger out here.
Ah yes, white, the universally slimming color. (sarcasm) What a peach.
@disneybaby84 I would have completely lost my cool if my MIL wore white to my wedding! WTF is wrong with people? Your wedding is not about how she looks, if the bride makes a request- you honor it! Same with visiting a newborn! If Mom says no then then answer is NO, even if it is inconvenient for you!
@disneybaby84 I'm with @SienaC on this on I would have LOST it! My MIL came with her huge breasts out to my wedding. We were in the middle of bridal party pictures when she showed up, and all my friends just turned to look at me and gave me the universal friends look of "What the .... did you know about this?!" I can't imagine their looks had she been in white! The nerve of some people ....
@disneybaby84. At our wedding the 40 year old best man's 19 year old girlfriend wore a white dress. Like paper white. I didn't even wear white, I wore ivory. 4 months later she wore that dress as her wedding dress!!!! So she legit wore her wedding dress to my wedding. Needless to say that marriage lasted all of 15 seconds so I never have to see her again or I might have punched her in her face because SHE WORE HER WEDDING DRESS TO MY WEDDING!
Working till the end in order to save up time off sucks. I just want to be home in comfy clothes, pee when I want to take naps when I'm tired. Next Friday can't come soon enough!
@Jilliants same!! Next Friday is my last "scheduled" day in the office but I'm going to keep going in the following week(s) until whenever baby comes (if he doesn't make an early appearance) and already I'm wishing I could not work anymore. For me it's more because I get so annoyed at literally every customer and coworker CONSTANTLY asking me how I'm feeling and new customers asking "ooo when are you due?! ooo is this your first?!" It shouldn't bother me as much as it does but ugh I just want the questions to stop! I'm hoping he stays in though and I can keep working up till my due date because I found out yesterday I'll be getting a tiny raise but the effective date is like the 27th probably, so if I go out before then I have to wait until after I come back from my 10+ week STD/PTO leave for the increase to take effect, and every little bit helps so that's given me motivation to stick it out despite how I feel lately.
@serenity13 Oh you are so much better than me for still going in. I teach and I know my patience is getting really thin with the kids and honestly it might be better for them if I just left now, but I need the time!
@npaulie I hope you can get the paperwork in on time so that it doesn't mess up your plans to travel home! Maybe it's safer to wait until after your trip just in case? So sorry - sounds like DH dropped the ball big time!
@disneybaby84 Sorry your MIL continues to make things stressful for you. At least she is far enough away that a plane is necessary to get to you.
@Jilliants@serenity13 hang in there! Next Friday is my last "working" day as well, but today is my last day in the office. Even though I gave people plenty of notice that I was not going to be here, people are still scheduling meetings right up until the end of the day today and asking me for things really last minute. UGH!
@Jilliants I officially made the call to make this Friday my last day at work. I had planned on working until I went into labor, even if it was past my due date, but I am so mentally checked out now. Part of me thinks it's completely logical and part of me thinks I'm being ridiculous. My husband reassured me that I'm not being ridiculous so I went with it
I feel bad for the temp that I just started training this week but I can't make that my problem.
Me: 24 DH: 27 High School Sweethearts: 10/13/06 Married: 10/13/13 Baby #1 EDD: 3/20/17
I'm still working too (as miserable as it is - why are office chairs so uncomfortable?). I want as much time with LO as possible, so I'm using that as motivation to keep going! Also, I feel like I would be so bored at home waiting that it will make time drag by even slower.
Luckily, my boss is ok with me working remotely when I don't have any important meetings. Totally freaked her out yesterday though because she didn't see me in the office. I reassured her this morning that I'll let her know when I'm admitted to the hospital. It won't be a surprise.
I'm in the same boat. After my appointment today my midwife thinks I'll go in the next week for sure. I'm still scheduled next week but there's someone extra scheduled my exact shift for backup. Only issue is (other than Monday and Tuesday) the backup will have to drive 2 hours to get here so I'm trying to figure out the best solution for everyone. Obviously I want to be able to have more time off with baby once he's actually here.
married 10.10.14 @ Turks & Caicos yorkie mama to Oscar FTM EDD 3.12.17
I decided to take the 2 weeks pre-due date short term disability that is allowed via my company policy. Like you @octoberlove13 I am SOOOoo checked out I am not doing anyone any favors sticking around. Most people don't take the 2 weeks because they worry about going late & then don't know what happens. I spoke with the administrator of the policy on Monday & if I was to go late (highly unlikely now because she is breech so planning scheduled c-section) I would get paid at 70% for the days that went over rather than 100%. I'll take it! Tuesday of next week is my last day. I can't decide if I want today to be my last day in the office or if I will come in Tuesday.
My bitchfest is my doctors office can't get the stinking act together to confirm my c-section date. We're talking 2 weeks from now this thing needs to happen & they haven't confirmed the day/time with me yet. I have to call again today & IDK how I am going to keep my cool.....
DH is driving me insane! That is all. I just can't deal with him right now. Why must they all need specific "orders" in order to do anything?! Shouldn't you be able to SEE the trash needs to go out? or that the mail needs to be taken care of? or that you know the diapers YOUR boss gave us can go up to the nursery? ugh. He's really been very good about all of my requests. but I WISH I didn't have to make so many requests. I come home from work and see him playing video games instead....
They just hired for an open position at the child care where I work and DD currently goes. (she is going to stay home for the summer so LO can take her spot in the infant/toddler room, and she will come back to the preschool room when she turns 3 in August and DH is getting ready to start up the school year) The new hire is in my classroom, and is someone that has worked for us before, and it did not go well. The thing that bothers me most (aside from hiring someone that is just going to make my life more difficult) is that my boss never told me they were interviewing her, I heard it from a coworker, and pretty much all of us found out she got hired by her posting it on FB. This is so out of character for my boss, she always has been great about coming to me and having conversations about this kind of stuff, and this time she couldn't pick up the phone? At the beginning of my maternity leave she had no problem calling me when she needed me to help hash out some drama that was going on (the hazard of working with all women in close quarters), but she couldn't be bothered to give me the heads up on this? There is a lot of history with this girl, and I get that we are short staffed and in a bind, but give me a damn heads up before I find out on FB! And had I not found out online, I would have found out at pickup yesterday from a letter she sent to all the families to update us on staffing changes. I've been working with my boss for 10 years, and we have always had an open relationship, and I have always, quite frankly, been her right hand. I stepped down from a supervisor role, and she lobbied (and won) for me not to take a pay cut. Literally the last time I talked to her she said that we can't have anymore people working in the center that are all drama (because we have a few of them, and it causes so many problems), and "please never leave here until after I retire." And I think she just did both of those things. The worst part is, the thing that is making me want to get done is the fact that she couldn't be bothered to pick up the damn phone, not even so much for the hire. So now, I have 12 weeks to figure out a way to make being a SAHM work financially for us. I think I may just take 1 or 2 kids in my home, and not go back. It's what I have wanted for a while, but this really gave me the push I needed.
My sub keeps emailing me questions about students. I refuse to email back, I'm pretending that I'm not checking my work email. I've got a new baby! What part of maternity leave don't you understand? You're a teacher....work it out!!
@longliveregina ugh! I totally understand! I keep getting school questions too my husband and my mom keep reminding I'm on bedrest for a reason! I left them all the lesson plans if you can't figure it out then do something that makes sense to you! My principal even had the nerve to suggest I do my grades at home on leave since I told her I wasn't going to have time to finish them since my leave was starting 2 weeks early ... I politely reminded her that I couldn't do that.
Don't worry about school just enjoy your time with that sweet baby!
So....just found out our company is changing their maternity policy as of April 1st...to 12 weeks 100% paid, you don't have to go through STD, and you don't have to use your PTO. I'm gypped. Since I'm having LO next week, I have to go through the old policy, will have to burn ALL my PTO that I've earned, 6 weeks STD at 75%.... I mean, I planned on this from the beginning, but it just sucks to lose out soooo close to the effective date.
Well, last Friday I called my hubby to let him know we should head to the hospital for a quick check...enter Boston traffic - of course someone rear ended him. Thank goodness it was just a bumper & no one injured. Made it to the hospital even later...
Fast forward to today, major windstorms everywhere. Went to pediatricians office for first time, overjoyed to learn our Bridget has gained nearly all her weight back. Come home to cops at our house, two broken fences, apparently in a major windstorm the fence actually lifted up & of course landed on two different peoples cars. Are you kidding me. Minor damage to both cars. One actually rubbed off so just one car...
Somehow I didn't have a meltdown. I was ready to burst into tears in the office when I heard her weight was good (breastfeeding paranoia/struggles & no sleep - it felt so good to hear this news) & then coming home to a disaster. I feel badly for my poor husband who is now sleep deprived & cementing fences before we get a blizzard. He deserves some sleep.
This is less of a bitchfest since it has to do with my son and more of a time to complain. Just last week I posted in another thread about how my son sleeps through the night and how easy he is...well of course this whole week he's been waking up at night again and will be up for a couple of hours. He's also been extra clingy lately. I think he senses change is coming and wants to hang on to mom as much as he can. Last night he woke up around 3:15am and didn't fully go back to sleep to until 6! The night before he woke up around 1:30am, the time before that around 4:30am. It's so frustrating! I'm so dang tired and thankfully my husband will get up with him in the morning and give him breakfast while I sleep in. Since my husband is in sales he's able to make his own schedule, so he's flexible with the time he leaves the house. If he had an office to go to at 7 or 8am, I would be royally screwed. It just sucks because I don't want to handle 2 kids being up in the night.
People can stop telling me any day now about the fact that they are covering for me while I'm on leave. I will have a newborn. I will be recovering from delivering said newborn. I really will not be sitting at home wondering about work. I don't care about work now while I am still here; I definitely won't care when I'm on leave taking care of my kiddo.
Also, my boss went and scheduled me for some overtime next week... without bothering to ask me or even let me know - since I work the exact same days and shifts every week, and have been on this exact schedule since the day I started, I never even look at the schedule and would not have noticed it if it weren't for another co-worker pointing it out to me. I almost hope they schedule my induction right away after Monday's appointment so that I won't have to deal with it.
And gonna crab a bit about still not being able to fall asleep. My OB gave me a meditation/relaxation thing to try, and yet almost every day this week, I am still only logging 4-6 hours of broken up sleep. I'm so tired yet just lie there awake. I miss my anti-anxiety med so much...
I have to keep checking my emails unfortunately because I'm waiting to hear back from HR...I don't qualify for std because I'm a half timeemployee, but apparently need to file a claim for std in order to get fmla leave? Very confusing
Last pregnancy my boss suggested I come back from leave at 10 weeks to prep kids for the state test and take the other two weeks later. Um....that's not how it works....
Re: Weekly BItch Fest (3/6)
Me 28 DH 28 Married 2012
TTC #1 since March 2015
Metformin + Femara + Gonal F + Trigger = BFP 6/24/16
EDD 3/3/17
Found out it's a girl! 9/23/16
Me 28 DH 28 Married 2012
TTC #1 since March 2015
Metformin + Femara + Gonal F + Trigger = BFP 6/24/16
EDD 3/3/17
Found out it's a girl! 9/23/16
Desperate times call for desperate measures
High School Sweethearts: 10/13/06
Married: 10/13/13
Baby #1 EDD: 3/20/17
SO's grandmother passed away recently and he took it pretty hard but is in a much better place now. We got her dining room set which is a nice teak wood set with a cabinet. Not modern in the least but it's alright. Now we also got her living room couches.. we just bought our new house and we bought a brand new very comfy 3 piece set that I was so excited about. It hasn't been delivered yet but SO's dad is bringing the other couch set over tomorrow and I keep hinting that I don't want it or I don't want it in the main living room. Our basement is not finished but we will be making a small tv type room down there. His "man cave".. I hinted that I don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a new set to be put in the basement and by hinting I basically mentioned we should just cancel it all if him and his dad are insistent that his grandmother's couch be placed in the main living space. The couch set isn't a comfy cozy one and I want to be comfy and warm and cozy in my own living room. He agreed with me that ok we should just cancel the whole new set... Instead of putting his grandmother's set in the basement. I feel like a huge B about it, but this is my new house and I don't just want everything from his grandmother, I want my own style of furniture. Am I being insensitive? I don't want to disrespect SO or his dad by making a fuss about it, but it's really aggravating to me.
Now I'm wide awake with anxiety from that and anxiety about tomorrow's OB appointment (irrational fear they'll make me move up the c-section) an anxiety about how to get him up if I go into labor while he's asleep... he's always been a deep sleeper, but IDK what's going to wake him up if a crash of glass and panicy 39 week pregnant wife doesn't. Ughhhhhh
@Burrberrymum I don't think you're being unreasonable or insensitive. In my fairly limited experience, though, men don't do "hints." They do "tell me exactly what you want/need or it will not register." So rather than trying to get him to reach the conclusion you want, I think you just need to be kind but upfront and say something like, "It's really nice that we are getting your grandmother's set, but do you think we could put that in the basement area? I really like the set we picked out and want it in the main living room area."
@sunshine507 I feel your pain. I work overnights and recently asked my husband to start keeping his phone in the bedroom with him because normally he leaves it to charge in the living room at night. Except that he doesn't wake up for pretty much ANYTHING, so if I wind up going into labor at work, I'm going to have to call the SWAT team to go to our apartment and wake him up. And those little things that keep you awake - today, mine was the fact that I finally emptied out a tote of bed sheets and got those put away, and could have started filling the now empty tote with stuff to put into storage, but after doing the laundry, dishes, cooking lunch, and sorting through more baby stuff, I was worn out, but still couldn't get more rest because I was feeling too guilty for not doing more. Ugh.
I am generally struggling with not snapping at every tiny thing. Tonight at work, there was a sticky note for me to sign off on a med change - literally just had to glance at the paper and see if it was filled out properly and write my initials. Someone ran the dishwasher which is normally my job. And my co-worker who feels my belly every single night lately thought that she felt the baby move and asked me four times in a row "Was that him or you?" All things that are not a big deal, and one of which actually helps me out, but I sort of wanted to learn to breathe fire just so I can burn this place down. My boss's boss, who I see maybe once a month, has said to me twice how much she just loved being pregnant, and I have had to tame my inner banshee both times to not screech and rip her apart. Every tiny thing is making me want to Hulk out. Bleh.
A 1030 feeding! I totally get it. Sometimes it's just easier to give in... lol
Oh ok... yeah no problem I'll just organize ALL the baby stuff AND do the thing you promised you'd do too. Granted, he's been super helpful so far this whole pregnancy. But he's admitted that the reason it didn't get done sooner was because he kept working late because he was having a hard time focusing on stuff at work and kept catching himself surfing Internet forums instead. So, he COULD have done it. He just chose not to make it a priority.
And the only reason I mind so much, is that we have to send in our passports with the application. I want to fly home to the US to see my family when the baby is two months old, and if the application process takes too long I won't be able to do that. UUGGGHHHHH
I'm sorry - I really hope it can all get done and not mess up your plans to visit home.
Me: 26 Hubs: 28
Married: 6/6/15
Baby Girl: 3/22/2017
I'm hoping he stays in though and I can keep working up till my due date because I found out yesterday I'll be getting a tiny raise but the effective date is like the 27th probably, so if I go out before then I have to wait until after I come back from my 10+ week STD/PTO leave for the increase to take effect, and every little bit helps so that's given me motivation to stick it out despite how I feel lately.
@disneybaby84 Sorry your MIL continues to make things stressful for you. At least she is far enough away that a plane is necessary to get to you.
@Jilliants @serenity13 hang in there! Next Friday is my last "working" day as well, but today is my last day in the office. Even though I gave people plenty of notice that I was not going to be here, people are still scheduling meetings right up until the end of the day today and asking me for things really last minute. UGH!
I feel bad for the temp that I just started training this week but I can't make that my problem.
High School Sweethearts: 10/13/06
Married: 10/13/13
Baby #1 EDD: 3/20/17
Luckily, my boss is ok with me working remotely when I don't have any important meetings. Totally freaked her out yesterday though because she didn't see me in the office. I reassured her this morning that I'll let her know when I'm admitted to the hospital. It won't be a surprise.
Samantha - 4/5/2017
yorkie mama to Oscar
FTM EDD 3.12.17
My bitchfest is my doctors office can't get the stinking act together to confirm my c-section date. We're talking 2 weeks from now this thing needs to happen & they haven't confirmed the day/time with me yet. I have to call again today & IDK how I am going to keep my cool.....
Me: 39 DH: 40
Married: 12/6/2014
BFP#2: 10/28/15 MC: 11/24/15
BFP#3: 3/20/16 MC: 4/26/16
BFP#4: 7/15/16 DD: 3/18/17
BFP#5: 5/1/18 EDD: 1/12/19
DH: 37
DD: 03/17/17
DS: 12/06/19
OK, long rant over!
Don't worry about school just enjoy your time with that sweet baby!
Actually, some STD companies will pull the money they give you if they discover that you did ANY work items while out on disability.
Samantha - 4/5/2017
DH: 37
DD: 03/17/17
DS: 12/06/19
Fast forward to today, major windstorms everywhere. Went to pediatricians office
for first time, overjoyed to learn our Bridget has gained nearly all her weight back. Come home to cops at our house, two broken fences, apparently in a major windstorm the fence actually lifted up & of course landed on two different peoples cars. Are you kidding me. Minor damage to both cars. One actually rubbed off so just one car...
Somehow I didn't have a meltdown. I was ready to burst into tears in the office when I heard her weight was good (breastfeeding paranoia/struggles & no sleep - it felt so good to hear this news) & then coming home to a disaster. I feel badly for my poor husband who is now sleep deprived & cementing fences before we get a blizzard. He deserves some sleep.
People can stop telling me any day now about the fact that they are covering for me while I'm on leave. I will have a newborn. I will be recovering from delivering said newborn. I really will not be sitting at home wondering about work. I don't care about work now while I am still here; I definitely won't care when I'm on leave taking care of my kiddo.
Also, my boss went and scheduled me for some overtime next week... without bothering to ask me or even let me know - since I work the exact same days and shifts every week, and have been on this exact schedule since the day I started, I never even look at the schedule and would not have noticed it if it weren't for another co-worker pointing it out to me. I almost hope they schedule my induction right away after Monday's appointment so that I won't have to deal with it.
And gonna crab a bit about still not being able to fall asleep. My OB gave me a meditation/relaxation thing to try, and yet almost every day this week, I am still only logging 4-6 hours of broken up sleep. I'm so tired yet just lie there awake. I miss my anti-anxiety med so much...
I have to keep checking my emails unfortunately because I'm waiting to hear back from HR...I don't qualify for std because I'm a half timeemployee, but apparently need to file a claim for std in order to get fmla leave? Very confusing
Last pregnancy my boss suggested I come back from leave at 10 weeks to prep kids for the state test and take the other two weeks later. Um....that's not how it works....