I'd love us to have a med-free birth plan thread for those interested. I mentioned this in the ld thread, I'd really like to go without an epidural, but it's scary not knowing what to expect. I think having the weekly support and positivity would make it a lot less scary. What do you ladies think? I don't want to start it cause tbh I really don't know what I'm talking about for the most part with this subject haha, nor do I have any real-life experience with it.
Eta: I don't want to force anything, it is pretty early. I have a feeling a thread like that will pop up organically at some point.
@bluejeanbabi05 I think that's a good idea! I had a med free birth with my son and reading up a lot about it online helped. I read a lot of birth stories. I know every birth is different, but in a way it helped me know what to expect. For example, I labored through the night and delivered at 4am. At 2am I was so tired and ready to give up and get the epidural. I had them check me again to see how far I was dilated (the nurses at the hospital said expect to dilate 1cm an hour. I think that's BS). If I was still only a few cm dilated I would have probably gotten the epidural bc I couldn't fathom laboring for another 100hrs. However, I was 5cm. I know that's only halfway there, but I remember reading so many other birth stories of when they reached 5, things progressed a lot quicker, so I held off on the epidural. So at 2am I was 5cm, then at 3am I started to get the urge I needed to push and was 9cm, then my son was born at 4:09am. I think it was the only moment I was sane in my thinking and was glad I actually remembered reading those stories.
And don't let people discourage you! I had SO many negative people ask why I would want a med free birth, why I would want to have the pain, tell me I couldn't do it, etc, etc. Those people are also what helped me push through and prove them wrong
@VLillyV my kids named him Max (DS watches Max and Ruby, and they're rabbits lol). He is still pretty skittish and doesn't really like being handled, but he'll have to get used to it, I am a bunny hugger I will most definitely be posting more pictures because I love my rabbits like crazy lol. We need to start fur baby Friday threads!
@jessafishy how is DS doing with big bed transition. DD2 is killing me slowly. She is currently partying in her room. I don't know how DD1 is snoring through this.
@carries2018 omg I can't even bring myself to transition dd2. And she's 3 It's already hell trying to get her to bed, I don't want to add more to it. But the little turd started climbing out of her crib, so it's time. Cue the tears (out of the stress that is to come, not so much the sentimental factor lol)
@sjohns08 what is with my kids. They jump out of the crib at 18 months. Far to young to even try to reason. And she learned how to open the door. So I wake up to her in my face at various points of the night. This better stop within the next 6 months.
@buttercream_frosting I can't bc dd1 is in the room and she needs to pee MOTN. But out of desperation I just put one on. DD2 freaking knows how to pop it off. Ffs.
As promised to myself I'm sitting here watching DWTS and I'm on the "memorable moments" episode and I'm literally bawling through everyone's stories. Good thing DH is at work.
Why must cats, and husbands, wake you up at the ass crack of dawn! My kids aren't even awake. My cat comes and meows in my face this morning at 6 am, probably for food? But DH was downstairs chilling before work. She finally calms down and lays with me and then DH comes up and says, " bye babe. Going to work. Babe? Bye honey. I'm leaving " while he does this every morning, and I love my quick kiss goodbye ( firm believer in always kissing goodbye and a long hug. You never know what the day brings ) , but this morning I would have been fine with that quick kiss and not the " babe, I'm leaving. Babe. Babe. Babe. " I'm so tired !!!!
@carries2018 I mean, I kind of want to sell him on eBay. He has NOT wanted to settle down for bed the last 3 nights and this morning he got up at 5am.
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*i really dont mean to start talking about yesterdays drama again but since you all had to deal with it i cant just jump back in without a word* 1st of all, i apologize for leaving yesterday, i dont deal well with drama, it raises my BP ( and im always scared people will end up seeing how bad my english insults are (lol @jessafishy)) Also, i cant say how I appreciate the support (both on this thread and in pm). I was stressed that i would come back this morning on the bump to find that it had gone another way and that i had to leave. Side note, being called out publicly on the other thread had ONE upside : a few of great mamaz are going to be moving to our group (according to pm ive received). I dont think i can write more than "IMO i think they agree with me" cause i was warned by the gods (the irony) for my post in O17 introduction. Ill end by apologizing then, for that post and for the one im S17 that started yesterdays madness during our hour of silence. In all fairness, i should ve phrased it differently. Or just refrain from posting it i was hurt and weak and should ve controled myself.
@carries2018 I feel your pain! DS started climbing out around 18 months also and it was hell trying to transition him, especially since he shared a room with dd1 at the time.
I'm getting real sick and tired of my once unicorn 3yo becoming a full blown threenager in a short matter of time. Bedtime is a nightmare, she doesn't STTN anymore and refuses to go back to sleep in her own bed. So she ends up in ours and I can't sleep from being kicked and her snoring. This crap needs to change before fall
We are getting ready to transition DS out of the crib soon, as in probably this weekend. And all of these stories are scaring me. What am I getting myself into? Just consider this my RSVP to the "I don't get any sleep!" party.
DD's transition to her big bed was going smoothly, but last night she all of a sudden decided she was afraid of monsters. DH explained to her that monsters aren't real, just in movies, which she accepted and went back to bed. 10 minutes later, she calls for us again, says she's afraid. When I asked her what she's afraid of, she thinks for 30 seconds and says, alligators. Lol. I told her no worries, alligators live in the water, not in houses. This continued several times until I finally gave up and let her sleep with me. FAIL.
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@beezeemarie do you have a dog(s)? DD has recently become afraid of monsters, too, so if she comes out and says there's a monster, we bring the dogs up to do a "monster check" of her room.
Spoiler alert - they've never found a monster. We've told her that the dogs eat monsters, so all is good.
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@natleilynn we do have dogs, so we should try that. I wanted to try the "monster spray" (spray bottle with water), but DH decided to just tell her monsters weren't real because "we shouldn't lie to her." Wtf. I mean yea, that makes sense, but I feel like that doesn't actually make her less afraid.
Honestly, I don't think she's actually afraid, I think I'm just getting played by a toddler.
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@yasandson no need to apologize but i appreciate it.
but the real question i have - so you have sex every day at 4am when H leaves, and 3am when H gets back? H sleeps for an hour? walk me through this time line.
@beezeemarie I've considered the whole "lying" thing, but I partly don't think she really believes in monsters (and we also had a discussion this morning on the way to preschool that only good monsters live in our neighborhood) and I partly just need sleep sometimes. We also got her a little flashlight to keep close to her bed if she thinks she sees something.
I can kind of tell when she's making stuff up. She'll come out of her room and kind of hesitate when I ask what's wrong. It's like she's running through her list of excuses to decide which one to use. If she comes out and is immediately "I NEED TO POTTY!" then I believe it. But when she comes out and "ummm....ummm...I'm....I'm...ummm...but I'm afraid of the dark." DD. C'mon. It took you 5 minutes to figure out why you came out of your room. Back to bed.
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ZOMG thanks DD2. she finally fell asleep at 2am. around 5:30 am they both end up in bed with me. whatever i am too tired to fight. they are obviously exhausted and i roll over and the clock says 8:11am. OH SHIT i have my date...i mean appointment with my OB in less than 50 minutes! i jump in the shower. get the kids ready. drop them off. get to my appointment somehow on time. i had no time to shave which whatever, i shouldnt have to take off my pant. newp had to get a culture down there. my chances are ruined! RUINED!
@yasandson no need to apologize but i appreciate it.
but the real question i have - so you have sex every day at 4am when H leaves, and 3am when H gets back? H sleeps for an hour? walk me through this time line.
It's like DS has an internal alarm clock that goes off at 6am ON THE DOT every morning. No matter what time he goes to bed, he springs up at 6 raring to go. Dude. Even 30 more minutes would be amazing. I'm not sure if he's old enough for one of those OK to Wake clocks yet but I might give it a try.
@bluejeanbabi05 Loool no girl. Ok first i gotta explain. I know there wont be any judging. H and I are VERY sex oriented people. TMI coming : we spend more on kinky outfits than we do on regular clothes (im a sweatpants and sneakers addict), we film ourselves and love to change scenerey in hotels every now and then (yes i know that will change once we have our first kid lol). As ive mentioned before, H is an airport cab driver. And since Ubber was allowed to pick up at airport, which was forbidden by law a few months ago, money has became very hard to make. He used to only work from 8am to 11pm and come home with 350$. Now he has to be at the airport at 6 and drops his last ride around 2am to be able to bring in 200$-250$(hence the 18 to 20 hours shift explanation). Also, he has insomnia issues. He is a weed smoker. So I know the ONLY way for him to sleep straight when he gets home, and not stay in his smoking room for 4 hours, is to have sex to fall straight asleep. So lol yes, i have sex with him before he leaves (i wake up because of his alarm and generaly pretty easily because its around the time my bladder wants me to wake up lol) and i tell him to wake me up when he comes home so that we can do it again. Mind you, for the past 18 months i have been a stay at home wife and since he works 4 days a week (mon wed fri sat) i can sleep during the day while netflixing. On his days off we'll do it 3 times. We never get out, we re lazy people we just cuddle and watch movies or docs or shows. Though to be honest i gotta admit i do it mechanically, i am not into as much as i was before pregnancy. I am still waiting for that increased sex drive people keep talking about... Want it to be fun again, and not feel like im doing him a favor lol.
Edited because im pretty sure speatpants dont exist.
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@pizzaMonster3 definitely use Margot Robbie's voice. I am definitely super dooper hot like her.
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Eta: I don't want to force anything, it is pretty early. I have a feeling a thread like that will pop up organically at some point.
And don't let people discourage you! I had SO many negative people ask why I would want a med free birth, why I would want to have the pain, tell me I couldn't do it, etc, etc. Those people are also what helped me push through and prove them wrong
We have a new addition to our family! I just want to snuggle him, but he's not a fan of it lol. But that face
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@bluejeanbabi05 @carries2018 @jessafishy
Either we are super completely awesome or have no life.
I'm going to go with awesomesauce.
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“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times,
if one only remembers to turn on the light."
- Albus Dumbledore
Edit because derfinitely is not a word.
I heart YNAB
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“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times,
if one only remembers to turn on the light."
- Albus Dumbledore
BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!
1st of all, i apologize for leaving yesterday, i dont deal well with drama, it raises my BP ( and im always scared people will end up seeing how bad my english insults are (lol @jessafishy))
Also, i cant say how I appreciate the support (both on this thread and in pm). I was stressed that i would come back this morning on the bump to find that it had gone another way and that i had to leave.
Side note, being called out publicly on the other thread had ONE upside : a few of great mamaz are going to be moving to our group (according to pm ive received). I dont think i can write more than "IMO i think they agree with me" cause i was warned by the gods (the irony) for my post in O17 introduction.
Ill end by apologizing then, for that post and for the one im S17 that started yesterdays madness during our hour of silence.
In all fairness, i should ve phrased it differently. Or just refrain from posting it i was hurt and weak and should ve controled myself.
Good morning to all of you. ❤️❤️❤️
I'm getting real sick and tired of my once unicorn 3yo becoming a full blown threenager in a short matter of time. Bedtime is a nightmare, she doesn't STTN anymore and refuses to go back to sleep in her own bed. So she ends up in ours and I can't sleep from being kicked and her snoring. This crap needs to change before fall
Spoiler alert - they've never found a monster. We've told her that the dogs eat monsters, so all is good.
BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!
Honestly, I don't think she's actually afraid, I think I'm just getting played by a toddler.
but the real question i have - so you have sex every day at 4am when H leaves, and 3am when H gets back? H sleeps for an hour? walk me through this time line.
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I can kind of tell when she's making stuff up. She'll come out of her room and kind of hesitate when I ask what's wrong. It's like she's running through her list of excuses to decide which one to use. If she comes out and is immediately "I NEED TO POTTY!" then I believe it. But when she comes out and "ummm....ummm...I'm....I'm...ummm...but I'm afraid of the dark." DD. C'mon. It took you 5 minutes to figure out why you came out of your room. Back to bed.
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Also, he has insomnia issues. He is a weed smoker. So I know the ONLY way for him to sleep straight when he gets home, and not stay in his smoking room for 4 hours, is to have sex to fall straight asleep. So lol yes, i have sex with him before he leaves (i wake up because of his alarm and generaly pretty easily because its around the time my bladder wants me to wake up lol) and i tell him to wake me up when he comes home so that we can do it again.
Mind you, for the past 18 months i have been a stay at home wife and since he works 4 days a week (mon wed fri sat) i can sleep during the day while netflixing. On his days off we'll do it 3 times. We never get out, we re lazy people we just cuddle and watch movies or docs or shows.
Though to be honest i gotta admit i do it mechanically, i am not into as much as i was before pregnancy. I am still waiting for that increased sex drive people keep talking about... Want it to be fun again, and not feel like im doing him a favor lol.
Edited because im pretty sure speatpants dont exist.
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