I will miss maternity clothes so much when this is all over. How TF am I ever going to fit into any of my real clothes again? Also, while I want these twins to stay in for the full 37 weeks, I can’t fucking wait to get my body back. I just want to be free from carrying tiny humans inside of me. I want to drink a full glass (or 3) of wine, and go in my new hot tub, and eat POKE! I want to not worry that me getting food poisoning is going to hurt my babies. I want to be able to breath through my nose again! I want to not have to pee every 5 goddamn minutes. I want to sleep on my BACK! I WANT TO TAKE ADVIL! GODDAMMIT WE’RE SO CLOSE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!
@breezybee it took me a ridiculously long time to set used to pants with buttons and zippers after I had DD. Not looking forward to it this time...leggings all winter? I think so.
I mean, let’s be real: I’ll be locked in my house with a baby attached to my boob all freaking winter, so it’s not like I’ll REALLY have to put clothes on lol.
To leapfrog off @splsmama2016's comment about the Starbucks cups -- I think fighting over the cups is really stupid, but my confession is I do not like the design this year, and really did not like the design that caused all the hoopla in 2015. It was just boring. Like I feel like someone really phoned it in here:
My favorites were the 2013 cups!
Me: 36 | DH 35, Married 2007
TTC #1 June 2015 April 2016 - AMH, FSH, Progesterone normal June 2016 - HSG clear *TW* BFP - Aug16, demise confirmed Sep16, incomplete m/c, D&C Nov16 BFP 3/27/17, edd 12/7/17 DS - 12/9/17 TTC #2 December 2018 BFP 2/22/19, edd 11/4/19 DD - 11/1/19 My Chart
It's snowed probably 6 inches here in the last 24 hours. I know I totally *can* shovel the driveway and sidewalks... but I am not. Being 8 months pregnant gets me out of that I think? DH can do it when he gets home from work...
love not having buttons or zippers. I also didn't own leggings until maternity and now I can totally see what the hoopla was about. Do the pants with the bands stay up even if you're not preggo? Like, can I just wear them forever?
@failuretofly I wouldn't do it, simply because of the risk of slipping and falling.
Also I'm crazy jealous. We have record highs this week. They also recently released the "winter outlook" forecast and are predicting a grand total of 3-6" snow/ice accumulation TOTAL for the area for the entire winter season, which is pitiful even by our standards.
I agree about the red cup insanity. I mean, I'll be honest, I kind of love red cup season because it's festive blah blah even though I'm going to throw it away. But I'm with @whiska, those plain red (okay, 'ombre,' whatever) cups were lame.
But the outrage? Everyone calm down. I feel the same way about people thinking saying, "Happy holidays," to be inclusive of multiple faiths is a 'war on Christmas' (or Christianity). [But I'll side-eye anyone saying anything in the US is a war on Christianity. Maybe my most flameworthy confession today?]
@babybison yes yes you can wear them forever (maybe thats my FFFC... I wore maternity cloths for a very long time post birth...) @breezybee it will be a long time till your body is yours again..but the nursing stage is better in some ways. also be kind to yourself a twin pregnancy is a whole other level for your poor abs and skin. it takes time to get those things close to where they belong and even then twin tummy is real...
*TW*
TTC 1/2012 Diagnosed : unexplained infertility 6 rounds of IUI and a MC 2/2014, rainbow twins 4/2015 TTC #3 5/2016 Restarted Fertility tx IUI 2 rounds, baby girl 12/17
OMG, you guys, I miss pants with pockets. I've been living in maternity yoga pants since June -- and they are so much comfier than pre-pregnancy pants, but NO POCKETS. I probably won't go back to pockets-having-pants really soon after delivery, but knowing they're out there -- like the mythical return to carbs eating, and POKE (fistbump to @breezybee on that one) and a million other small things -- is really encouraging some days.
@babybison that is why half my maternity wardrobe is just lululemon because i can wear it forever and no one will know the difference! High waisted leggings feel AMAZING on the postpartum belly
@failuretofly Omg, at the airport the other day, DH points out this (thin, non-pregnant) girl and said, "Look, her pants are as high as yours!" (He's fascinated by my full-panel maternity pants, apparently.) She was wearing high-waisted leggings. I was like, "Listen here, sir, high-waisted leggings are the best and I wore them pre-pregnancy and will wear them post-pregnancy! You can pry my high-waisted leggings from my cold, dead fingers!" Lol.
Okay here's another one - i think postpartum bellies are the most beautiful things ever! They are so soft and round and perfectly display what just grew inside us for the past 9-10 months! like this one:
I just spent 45 minutes actually doing stuff around my house (dishes, put away baby clothes, sorted mail), and I’m exhausted. I’m going to take a break and watch TV for an hour. Organizing baby stuff is hard!
@breezybee that was me yesterday. I went to the grocery store, set up coffee for residents in my building, and threw together some soup for dinner. Took me about 2 hours and I was DONE for the day
@failuretofly I'm gonna assume that was a waterbirth or the most staged photo ever. Like, how is that baby so clean but still has a placenta attached? There's none of that powdered-donut vernix looking stuff going on
My confession is that I would be ok with this guy coming a few weeks early. I am about 50% effaced, it feels like he's going to fall out at any minute. I am so f'ing uncomfortable with constant contractions, if I have to do this another 5 weeks I will probably have a mental breakdown. I said that to my dad and he was like "you should want him to bake as long as possible"....I told him to shove a softball up his ass and walk around for a few weeks, then come talk to me about it. 37 weeks is considered full term, I am a-ok with anything after that.
Momma to Amelia Marie (7/14) and Austin Samuel (11/17). Adding baby (girl) #3 on 7/21
@elcd458 ya it is a VERY pretty photo, BUT I will tell you, 1) not all babies are born with vernix on them and 2) it absorbs really quickly and some people leave the placenta attached for a REALLY LONG TIME.... like way after it has been birthed lol
My fffc is that the kinds of pictures that @failuretofly posted totally creep me out. No idea why...but I seriously cringe whenever I see them
@ameliabedelia-2 yup. right there with you. I was 20% effaced at 32 weeks and haven't been checked since, but I'm assuming (based on the contractions I've been having and how freaking low she's sitting) that I've progressed more since then. A little over a week until I get checked again at 36 weeks and I would be totally fine with my Dr telling me that I needed to go head to the hospital to have this kid like yesterday.
My confession is we finally figured out the hospital/delivery room fiasco With the mom-in-law and she is not part of it nor will be visiting at the hospital and i could care less how mad or upsets she gets!!! We have it set to where only two other people will be notified we are there and hospital will not release any information about us either. Went full mama bear mode about it and SO understood and agreed and even giving me a date night tomorrow night lol.
My FFFC is that I'm strongly considering boycotting family Christmas due to (an utterly unnecessary level of) family drama. I want to see my cousins, but my parents' generation is serving up some grade A bullshit. Seriously considering staying home, basking in the twinkling lights of our Christmas/Yule tree, indulging in GD-forbidden sweets and watching cheesy holiday movies while snuggling our new baby.
It's barely even November and our usually peaceful well mannered holiday season is off to a start like this:
I'll probably get flamed for at least one my my confessions but here goes anyways.
1) If you buy off registry gifts, provide a gift receipt. It's not that I don't love your item, but I received SO MANY duplicates of clothes at my shower and not one gift receipt for any of it. I'm grateful don't get me wrong, but a full fleece bodysuit for size 6/6-9 months is ridiculous it'll be mid-summer and I don't live in the arctic. Sidenote: all but TWO people (my aunt and my mom) at my shower purchased off-registry. WHYYYYY?!?!
2) Part of me hopes the hospital is under flu precautions when I deliver because everyone on my SO's side of the family just assumes they'll be front and center for everything at the hospital. And I'm like NOPE! Stay away this is a really intense period and I'd like my little family to start adjusting without onlookers. The only downside to flu precaution is that DS1 wouldn't be able to visit the hospital. People CAN visit during flu precautions, but only 2 at a time, and it would be easier just to say guests not allowed at this time.
3) I know I might regret this in a few months but I'm really ready to just be holed up with my family and the new baby and the break from work.
Re: FFFC - 11/2
Also, while I want these twins to stay in for the full 37 weeks, I can’t fucking wait to get my
body back. I just want to be free from carrying tiny humans inside of me. I want to drink a full glass (or 3) of wine, and go in my new hot tub, and eat POKE! I want to not worry that me getting food poisoning is going to hurt my babies. I want to be able to breath through my nose again! I want to not have to pee every 5 goddamn minutes. I want to sleep on my BACK! I WANT TO TAKE ADVIL!
GODDAMMIT WE’RE SO CLOSE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!
DD - 12/28/17
TTC #2 3/2019
BFP 5/2019 || MC - D&C 5/2019
BFP 2/2020 || EDD 10/10/2020
My favorites were the 2013 cups!
April 2016 - AMH, FSH, Progesterone normal
June 2016 - HSG clear
*TW* BFP - Aug16, demise confirmed Sep16, incomplete m/c, D&C Nov16
BFP 3/27/17, edd 12/7/17
DS - 12/9/17
TTC #2 December 2018
BFP 2/22/19, edd 11/4/19
DD - 11/1/19
My Chart
Also I'm crazy jealous. We have record highs this week. They also recently released the "winter outlook" forecast and are predicting a grand total of 3-6" snow/ice accumulation TOTAL for the area for the entire winter season, which is pitiful even by our standards.
But the outrage? Everyone calm down. I feel the same way about people thinking saying, "Happy holidays," to be inclusive of multiple faiths is a 'war on Christmas' (or Christianity). [But I'll side-eye anyone saying anything in the US is a war on Christianity. Maybe my most flameworthy confession today?]
DD - 12/28/17
TTC #2 3/2019
BFP 5/2019 || MC - D&C 5/2019
BFP 2/2020 || EDD 10/10/2020
@breezybee I still wore my maternity clothes for a while after DD was born. The elastic is more forgiving as your body changes shape.
Married May 2014
DD born August 2016
Baby #2 due December 2017
@breezybee it will be a long time till your body is yours again..but the nursing stage is better in some ways. also be kind to yourself a twin pregnancy is a whole other level for your poor abs and skin. it takes time to get those things close to where they belong and even then twin tummy is real...
Diagnosed : unexplained infertility
6 rounds of IUI and a MC 2/2014, rainbow twins 4/2015
TTC #3 5/2016
Restarted Fertility tx
IUI 2 rounds, baby girl 12/17
DD - 12/28/17
TTC #2 3/2019
BFP 5/2019 || MC - D&C 5/2019
BFP 2/2020 || EDD 10/10/2020
like this one:
{insert heart eye emoji}
@ameliabedelia-2 yup. right there with you. I was 20% effaced at 32 weeks and haven't been checked since, but I'm assuming (based on the contractions I've been having and how freaking low she's sitting) that I've progressed more since then. A little over a week until I get checked again at 36 weeks and I would be totally fine with my Dr telling me that I needed to go head to the hospital to have this kid like yesterday.
It's barely even November and our usually peaceful well mannered holiday season is off to a start like this:
1) If you buy off registry gifts, provide a gift receipt. It's not that I don't love your item, but I received SO MANY duplicates of clothes at my shower and not one gift receipt for any of it. I'm grateful don't get me wrong, but a full fleece bodysuit for size 6/6-9 months is ridiculous it'll be mid-summer and I don't live in the arctic. Sidenote: all but TWO people (my aunt and my mom) at my shower purchased off-registry. WHYYYYY?!?!
2) Part of me hopes the hospital is under flu precautions when I deliver because everyone on my SO's side of the family just assumes they'll be front and center for everything at the hospital. And I'm like NOPE! Stay away this is a really intense period and I'd like my little family to start adjusting without onlookers. The only downside to flu precaution is that DS1 wouldn't be able to visit the hospital. People CAN visit during flu precautions, but only 2 at a time, and it would be easier just to say guests not allowed at this time.
3) I know I might regret this in a few months but I'm really ready to just be holed up with my family and the new baby and the break from work.