I'll start as I'm pretty bit chy feeling right now. I can't sleep either due to reflux, back pain, contractions or just a really achy belly oh and of course the need to pee constantly. I'm exhausted. Braxton hicks on and off all day and night. Thought it was go time last night drank water and ate and after an hour the regularity went away. I cannot even feel myself peeing when it's an accident. I had to power walk from garage to work today to clock on time and half way there I'm like omg my leg is getting wet because I've already wet through my pad! So now I'm stuck at work with tp wrapped around undies till it's dry enough to put my other pad on. I'm seriously over it
@Yiggle09 do you have a recliner and/or glider? On very tough back pain and reflux nights I have moved to our reclining glider for a bit with a pillow wedged under my low back and it helps me get a couple extra hours. Pillow forts in bed aren't quite firm or structured enough and tend to make me more sore the next day.
@WombThereItIs no we never bought one with my first. I am best if left on the couch in the corner sectional pillow behind back and under knees pillow under head leaning to the left head on top of couch but dh can't handle sleeping with me on couch or sleeping without me upstairs.... I'm feeling a stand off coming because I need some sleep. 3 more days of work then leave starts
@WombThereItIs no we never bought one with my first. I am best if left on the couch in the corner sectional pillow behind back and under knees pillow under head leaning to the left head on top of couch but dh can't handle sleeping with me on couch or sleeping without me upstairs.... I'm feeling a stand off coming because I need some sleep. 3 more days of work then leave starts
Oh HELL NO. That is what we refer to as "triple T" situation in our house.
Dr. Kelso: Well then, I'm going to need you to get me a Three T form!
@Yiggle09 My husband is the same way. He can't stand to be alone at all. He hates when I go out with my friends or go on trips because then he is alone sleeping. He has a broken back and often likes to sleep downstairs because it feels better- but he won't unless I do.
My bitch is work related. So I have two offices, one at our main building and one that is at our satellite building. We got a new phone system everywhere a few months ago, and it goes off of the internet, so if the internet is out, so are our phones. Well the internet at my satellite office is TERRIBLE & freezes all the time, thus making our phones cut in and out. Well this is annoying in general being on the phone and having to repeat myself when it is about a menial issues. BUT, I work in mental health and I'm often on the phone with CPS, or inpatient hospitals, or people in crisis, and having the phone cut in and out is so EFFING ANNOYING. They've done "upgrades" of the internet here but nothing helps. The director of the clinic basically said oh well too bad, there's nothing else to be done. This on top of being so uncomfortable today makes me hate working.
I'm feeling cranky. I'm not surprised, just annoyed that I have no progress. I'm annoyed with myself for being annoyed/ disappointed to. I know due dates are not a definite thing and going late is so so common, especially with a first. It doesn't mean I'm not overly anxious/ excited though. Most everyone is out at work which means I don't have anything to do, which makes the work day long and I just need the days to go fast at the moment!
@nda_roxybabe I'd be going crazy. I am and I'm not overdue. Hang in there. I know you're super prepared so there's probably nothing left to do, but maybe you can google things or read a baby book?
@Jens_Hoes Oh my gosh, that's so annoying. The place I worked at was the same way - our phones functioned over the internet. And our internet would go out, just for like 20 seconds at a time, at least once an hour. So, phone calls would cut out and I'd constantly be calling people back. And my phone calls were not as important as yours, so I can only imagine how frustrating that is.
@nda_roxybabe I'd be going crazy. I am and I'm not overdue. Hang in there. I know you're super prepared so there's probably nothing left to do, but maybe you can google things or read a baby book?
One thing I am going to do is make a flyer to hand out to our neighbors with the non emergency # to call when A-hole neighbor starts up his ridiculous motorcycle crap.
Mine is a small SO rant... He will only use a bath towel and wash cloth 1 time before they 'need' to be washed. It's not a HUGE deal, but it means I wash his towels once a week (every week!). He told me Saturday night that he was out of towels, so I washed and dried them yesterday - before he needed one for his shower last night. When he was about to head back, he asked if they had gotten done and I put on my guilty face. "I don't have any clean towels?" Yes. "They're still in the dryer?" ... And he gave a HUGE sigh like it was a hassle to go and get one out of the dryer.
HOW'SABOUT A THANK YOU FOR WASHING THEM?! My apologies that they weren't folded and ready for you in the closet!
Mine is a small SO rant... He will only use a bath towel and wash cloth 1 time before they 'need' to be washed. It's not a HUGE deal, but it means I wash his towels once a week (every week!). He told me Saturday night that he was out of towels, so I washed and dried them yesterday - before he needed one for his shower last night. When he was about to head back, he asked if they had gotten done and I put on my guilty face. "I don't have any clean towels?" Yes. "They're still in the dryer?" ... And he gave a HUGE sigh like it was a hassle to go and get one out of the dryer.
HOW'SABOUT A THANK YOU FOR WASHING THEM?! My apologies that they weren't folded and ready for you in the closet!
Whew. Glad I could get that off my chest.
Oh geez! H was complaining about our towels not drying quicker yesterday. I was like uhh..IDK what you expect when y ou take 3 showers in one day! The man also goes through approx 12 white t shirts in 1 week.
@nda_roxybabe to be fair to your husband I have been going through multiple pairs of underwear the discharge/ sneezing and piddling is too much for me to handle. But in normal circumstances umm no, you do your own laundry dude.
All your H's are spoiled and you need to tell them so! Mine does his own laundry, including his bath towels. I do plenty around here and he can manage to wash his own clothes.
Me: 38 DH: 36 Married 8/27/2011 BFP #1 9/28/2011 DS born 5/22/2012 BFP #2 4/24/2013 m/c 4/25/2013 at 4w BFP #3 1/31/2014 DD born 10/14/2014 BFP #4 1/20/2016 m/c 2/12/2014 at 7w2d BFP #5 8/19/2016 DS2 born 4/29/2017 BFP #6 3/7/2018 EDD 11/18/2018
My husband never does laundry. He sometimes has the audacity to complain about his work sweatshirts and pants not being clean. IDGAF pregnant or not lol
I don't mind our laundry situation. I do all of it on the weekends which consists of a load of whites, a load of colors/darks, and load of towels and then bedding every other week. We dont really have enough laundry for us to each do our own loads. I just don't get how he goes through so many t shirts in a week! He says they get stretched out or uncomfortable or w/e. weirdo.
I am super annoyed with my big toe. I realize that sounds insane.
Like 7-8 weeks ago I dropped a drawer on it and it hurt like crazy. After 2 weeks of lectures from my husband I went in and got an X-ray that came back normal so I figured even if there was something they didn't see it would be 6 weeks to heal and I could suck it up until then. It's still swollen and I still can only bend it a tiny bit. If I accidentally force it bent like when putting on shoes it nearly makes me cry.
Its just a damn toe for crying out loud, wtf! Why is this still a thing?
@WombThereItIs You dont realize how much you use toes until you injure one! I broke my PINKY toe once and it sucked, made it difficult to walk. Pinky toe.
So today is my due date and if one more person comes by my desk and says "no baby yet huh?" (with an exasperated tone to their voice) I am going to go full on B!tch mode on them. I am so sorry you are troubled by the fact that I am still pregnant. How about you just walk by my desk and not say anything, huh?
So today is my due date and if one more person comes by my desk and says "no baby yet huh?" (with an exasperated tone to their voice) I am going to go full on B!tch mode on them. I am so sorry you are troubled by the fact that I am still pregnant. How about you just walk by my desk and not say anything, huh?
This is why I'm hiding at my desk today and glad most everyone is out. I'm not even going down to the caf to get anything or walking (like I'd like to) because I just...don't wanna.
I prefer to do my laundry and DD's laundry when DH is home because he isn't as particular as I am:
I separate color groups down a bit more than he does, such as very darks from mid-dark and colorful.
I shake everything out as it goes from the washer to the dryer, esp items like jeans. He just grabs the ball of wet clothes and chucks it in the dryer.
I wash clothing on cold to avoid items shrinking. He doesn't look at the dial, so if I did a load of towels with hot water, and he comes along to do clothing, they'll be done hot as well.
If I'm not ready to sit and fold a load, I either leave it in the dryer so I can fluff it when I'm ready to fold, or I shake them out and layer them somewhat flat so they won't get wrinkles sitting in a basket. He pulls the bundle of clothes out, stuffs them in the basket, and won't fold them or tell me they're ready to be folded. DRIVES. ME. NUTS.
So he's allowed to wash our underclothes, socks, and pajamas, but he gets an earful if he touches anything else.
It’s not that I don’t like you, it’s that I don’t know you. Stranger Danger.
I actually don't mind doing and folding laundry, but you better believe DH can put his own stuff away. I'm not lugging all his clothes upstairs. He also thinks that things can only be worn once before they mysteriously become so contaminated he can't go near them again.
Same with his bathroom. I'll happily clean it as long as he keeps the counters clear and doesn't leave hair all over the place from trimming his beard. If he can't be bothered to keep it tidy I can't be bothered to help him out.
Happy due date @rosemarylaff! I like doing the laundry, but that would drive me crazy @emilyalso. Totally worth a rant. ETA: @WombThereItIs Did you go to a podiatrist or orthopedist? I'm sorry it's still bugging you!
@CherryBananas Does he have his own bathroom? H claimed the guest bathroom by his office as his. He only uses it for bathroom and something that involves getting water all over the mirror/ counter. My guess would be battleships in the sink, but I think it's actually just washing his face. He uses our bathroom for shower and getting ready.
I don't put away H's clothes (I HATE putting away clothes more than the laundry itself) and I stopped carrying the basket up/down slightly before I got pregnant. He actually doesnt like me to carry it anymore.
What is it with dudes being helpless with laundry? H did a couple of loads yesterday. Before we went to the hospital, I took my good white sheets off the bed, started them washing/drying, and tossed some old crappy black ones on so I didn't accidentally ruin my good ones. I walked in the laundry room today, and the nice sheets are literally balled up on the mud room bench, wrinkled to hell and back. When I asked H about it, he said he "didn't know what to do with them". Um...fold them? Put them with all the effing other sheets? Weirdo
DH and I do our laundry separate he's on the opposite spectrum as me. I'm the slob that doesn't sort my clothes by any color. I only wear white socks and pink is a pretty color anyway. Plus I hate folding clothes so I've got a dirty hamper and a clean one. My jeans will eventually straighten out. I do have white towels though that I bleach the heck out of and those get folded asap.
I am LOVING all this laundry talk!!! You guys crack me up. Lots of for you.
@starphish18: I totally agree. Your bath towels are clean & dry, and your body is clean when you use them to dry off, ergo, towels are still pretty clean! We use them all week! Now if you blow your nose into them or something gross, then sure, whatevs, get new ones. But most bath towels are multiple use items, duh.
One of my hubbs' grandmothers mentioned she uses fresh towels and sheets every day, and I was like "haha, that's funny, we don't, we re-use them for days..." and she was SO APPALLED, I swear her pearls screamed aloud at having been clutched so tightly. I think even their oysters shivered at the thought.
H is both good with laundry and bad with it. I did a heap of washing and drying yesterday, so I folded it all last night, the day before I asked 4 times for the clothes in the bathroom to be put in the machine, that wasn't done, I then washed and folded, that's fine, I don't mind, I asked him to put them away before DS got to them and threw them around... guess who got to them first? So I had to refold and put them "away" we don't have drawers just a shelf in the wardrobe, I keep looking for drawers but when I find what I want we can't afford it, no biggie, but it means that our clothes put away is just a pile of folded clothes on a shelf... so why in the hell are my husbands clothes "put away" when they're stacked on a dining chair in the bedroom? /sigh he's not usually too bad and will at least put washing on/move it to the dryer etc, but it's gotten ridiculous lately. It might be because I'm trying to stay on top of everything and he usually only does it when I've been slacking off.
Me - 22 | DH - 32 | Married - 24 May 2014 DS - January 2014
TTC#2 - December 2015
BFP - 6 March 2016 | MC Confirmed - 21 March 2016 TTCAL | April 2016 CP | June 2016 CP | July 2016
This isn't a true "bitch" but it cause don't some major side eye in my house and I thought y'all might appreciate it. H and I were playing with DS, and he managed to both grab my IV injection site and basically karate chop my uterus in one solid move. I made a comment about needing one of my pain pills from that and H blurts out "I don't even see why they send everyone home with a prescription for pain pills. It's like when I got my wisdom teeth out. They just gave me the prescription and I barely used it." *cue an absolutely evil look from me and immediate backtracking from H* "I mean, not that wisdom teeth and having a baby are the same thing at all."
Re: laundry...we have colors, darks/H's work clothes, and towels. We don't have a ton of just white stuff so it tends to get thrown in with colors because none of it bleeds at this point, plus we have color catchers. Usually on his day of during the week he'll wash his stuff and put it away. Then I do the other laundry on the weekend. He'll help though if it's on Sunday. Folding isn't his thing but he tries lol towels are typically changed weekly, if I remember I'll try and change them half way through the week because even though H showers and is clean he doesn't seem to ever be all the way clean. Life of a mechanic I guess lol many a towel has been ruined hence having grey towels now (both old that have turned grey and actual grey ones).
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
@nda_roxybabe yes! Our master bath is too small to share so that's DH's domain. I use the guest bath across the hall. At least then if we have company I know my bathroom is clean enough for people to use.
ETA: our marriage is better now that I don't have to see his hair stuck to the counter and sink constantly. I just close the door and pretend that room doesn't exist.
I've been using out guest bath because it actually has a tub and I can put my foot up on the side to wash my legs and semi shave our master is a walk in only with no seat or anything to out my foot up on!
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
@BabyMC517 Our master has this great garden tub and they totally skimped on the shower. Just a little stall. There's a wee ledge I can put my foot up on, but its hard at this size. I often sit down completely, but that's also hard!
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Re: Weekly B*tchfest 5/8 - 5/14
May '17 labor memes
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My bitch is work related. So I have two offices, one at our main building and one that is at our satellite building. We got a new phone system everywhere a few months ago, and it goes off of the internet, so if the internet is out, so are our phones. Well the internet at my satellite office is TERRIBLE & freezes all the time, thus making our phones cut in and out. Well this is annoying in general being on the phone and having to repeat myself when it is about a menial issues. BUT, I work in mental health and I'm often on the phone with CPS, or inpatient hospitals, or people in crisis, and having the phone cut in and out is so EFFING ANNOYING. They've done "upgrades" of the internet here but nothing helps. The director of the clinic basically said oh well too bad, there's nothing else to be done.
This on top of being so uncomfortable today makes me hate working.
Most everyone is out at work which means I don't have anything to do, which makes the work day long and I just need the days to go fast at the moment!
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
HOW'SABOUT A THANK YOU FOR WASHING THEM?! My apologies that they weren't folded and ready for you in the closet!
Whew. Glad I could get that off my chest.
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
Married 8/27/2011
BFP #1 9/28/2011 DS born 5/22/2012
BFP #2 4/24/2013 m/c 4/25/2013 at 4w
BFP #3 1/31/2014 DD born 10/14/2014
BFP #4 1/20/2016 m/c 2/12/2014 at 7w2d
BFP #5 8/19/2016 DS2 born 4/29/2017
BFP #6 3/7/2018 EDD 11/18/2018
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
Like 7-8 weeks ago I dropped a drawer on it and it hurt like crazy. After 2 weeks of lectures from my husband I went in and got an X-ray that came back normal so I figured even if there was something they didn't see it would be 6 weeks to heal and I could suck it up until then. It's still swollen and I still can only bend it a tiny bit. If I accidentally force it bent like when putting on shoes it nearly makes me cry.
Its just a damn toe for crying out loud, wtf! Why is this still a thing?
May '17 labor memes
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
I separate color groups down a bit more than he does, such as very darks from mid-dark and colorful.
I shake everything out as it goes from the washer to the dryer, esp items like jeans. He just grabs the ball of wet clothes and chucks it in the dryer.
I wash clothing on cold to avoid items shrinking. He doesn't look at the dial, so if I did a load of towels with hot water, and he comes along to do clothing, they'll be done hot as well.
If I'm not ready to sit and fold a load, I either leave it in the dryer so I can fluff it when I'm ready to fold, or I shake them out and layer them somewhat flat so they won't get wrinkles sitting in a basket. He pulls the bundle of clothes out, stuffs them in the basket, and won't fold them or tell me they're ready to be folded. DRIVES. ME. NUTS.
So he's allowed to wash our underclothes, socks, and pajamas, but he gets an earful if he touches anything else.
It’s not that I don’t like you, it’s that I don’t know you. Stranger Danger.
Same with his bathroom. I'll happily clean it as long as he keeps the counters clear and doesn't leave hair all over the place from trimming his beard. If he can't be bothered to keep it tidy I can't be bothered to help him out.
I like doing the laundry, but that would drive me crazy @emilyalso. Totally worth a rant.
ETA: @WombThereItIs Did you go to a podiatrist or orthopedist? I'm sorry it's still bugging you!
He uses our bathroom for shower and getting ready.
I don't put away H's clothes (I HATE putting away clothes more than the laundry itself) and I stopped carrying the basket up/down slightly before I got pregnant. He actually doesnt like me to carry it anymore.
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
Married:09/14/13
Baby 2 - Due: 5/4/17
@starphish18: I totally agree. Your bath towels are clean & dry, and your body is clean when you use them to dry off, ergo, towels are still pretty clean! We use them all week! Now if you blow your nose into them or something gross, then sure, whatevs, get new ones. But most bath towels are multiple use items, duh.
One of my hubbs' grandmothers mentioned she uses fresh towels and sheets every day, and I was like "haha, that's funny, we don't, we re-use them for days..." and she was SO APPALLED, I swear her pearls screamed aloud at having been clutched so tightly. I think even their oysters shivered at the thought.
DS - January 2014
TTCAL | April 2016
CP | June 2016
CP | July 2016
Dumb ass (and I mean that lovingly).
Married:09/14/13
Baby 2 - Due: 5/4/17
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
ETA: our marriage is better now that I don't have to see his hair stuck to the counter and sink constantly. I just close the door and pretend that room doesn't exist.
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry