I don't post much because the mobile app doesn't work right on my phone so I just lurk a lot and post occasionally during downtime at work
@zande2016 good luck on your glucose test! Eat all the foods after!!
Anyway....my DS who is a little over 2.5 has started sleepwalking. My DD who is 15 used to sleepwalk when she was younger, but she was probably 7 when she started. We sleep upstairs and have a baby gate blocking the stairway but now I don't know if I should just lock him in his room at night? The thing is he is SO quiet that I don't even notice he's up until he's standing in our doorway. So tired. Just wish this boy would sleep!!
@owl_momma the only problem with locking his door is if there is an emergency and no one else can get to his door he would be trapped. If the problem is not knowing he is up, could you put a little doorbell/buzzer/chime on his door so when it opens you would know? This is what my friend did with her 3 y/o DD who wouldn't stay in her room at night
@moguippy well it wouldn't be locked for us to get to him, we just have the child safety knob on his side of the door knob. The baby monitor is right at the door mounted on the wall so we will definitely hear him if he tries to get out and cant get the door open. The only issue right now is that he creeps out of his bed like a ninja! The motion chime is a good idea though! I know I would definitely hear that!
Just had my 16-week appt (although I won't be 16 weeks until Friday) and my fundal height was measuring 16-17 weeks. I'm really curious to see how baby girl is measuring at my anatomy scan in a month or so. She was measuring almost a week ahead at my NT scan. Also, when the MFM was using the doppler she kicked the doppler wand and he said he felt it and so did I! So funny and awesome to be feeling kicks!
Married 9/19/09 Me (32) Dx PCOS, DH (32) SA = Normal/mild morph issues TTC#5 July 2017 - 3rd cycle TTC = BFP on 11/12/17 at 9dpo Beta #1 = 96 at 13dpo - Beta #2 = 207 at 15dpo
TTC#1 starting Nov. 2009 3 rounds of Clomid + TI and 3 rounds of 7.5 mg Femara + IUI before our BFP on 11/8/10 at 12dpiui TTC #2 3rd cycle of Femara 7.5mg+Ovidrel+TI = 4 follies = BFP on 10/12/12 TTC#3 July 2014 - Metformin +TI = BFP at 9dpo - Twins, one baby lost at 5.5 weeks Macy Annabelle born at 37w4d on 4/29/15. Diagnosed with Cri du Chat and passed away on 6/6/15. Forever in our hearts. TTC#4 3rd cycle of Metformin + Femara 7.5mg+Ovidrel+TI = 3 follies = BFP on 12/24/16
@owl_momma wow you really got a ninja on your hands! How crazy that your DD also sleepwalked. I agree that the motion chime could be good!
I just had my ob appointment and I finally have the orders for the anatomy scan. Nervous and excited. Trying to go soon! Heard the heartbeat and ob looked at the NT report again which confirmed the anterior placenta. He said I will still feel plenty of movement. He was super helpful in answering all my questions and is impressed with how prepared we are for first time parents- funny because I feel clueless. Nice to know we can actually pre register at the hospital now and have some basic paperwork already filled out for later. Really glad we have a doctor we like!
@paytonpedro it's my first fabfitfun box! i ordered it two weeks ago! they come seasonally for around 45 dollars but it has iver 200 dollars worth of full size items. I got a gorgeous super warm wrap, himayalan pink salt grapefruit bath soak, silicone dew drop make up applicator a sterling silver necklace rose hip and lotus face mask tube realher Play Book shadow pallet (so gorgeous) and a work out bag that says "will workout for cupcakes" haha
Sounds exciting @kissableviv! If he has another doc in his practice that rotates with him, make sure you see that doc too. Just in case he's not on call when you deliver!
@cseley321 that's crazy! Although, as I say that DH's class could be old enough to have grandkids if they had kids themselves at the end of hs/right after. eesh. Or I mean, earlier I guess.
@cseley321 at first I thought wow that's crazy, then I remembered my mom became a grandma around that age too lol...she had my brother at 18 and then he had his son at 18. I was an aunt at 9.
@lindsayleigh1989 I have always wanted to get one of those! I'm kind of a box junkie (or used to be, pre budget).
Also, I don't understand how it is possible for Elon Musk to shoot a car into space. Like...is that even safe? Is it gonna be up there with satelites? Will they hit each other? Is he just exploding it? I DONT UNDERSTAND.
HR and my VP are still fighting over my new position. So they can't offer me one. I've been waiting to tell them about my pregnancy because I don't want it to be a reason they forget about it until after maternity leave.
I've got my gender ultrasound on Monday (which I'll keep) and was just asked to come into the office for an all-day meeting. Future boss is cool with me leaving for a "doc appt that I can't move" but now I need to dig around in my closet to find something the will fit and hide my growing belly!
@cseley321 to each their own, but IMO 36-37 is WAYYYY too early to be a grandma nowadays! @MichelleAG05 while I completely understand why you are doing what you're doing, it also INFURIATES me that we need to resort to hiding pregnancies because it's such a disadvantage. Not our fault, just this stupid society. You go get your promotion girl! Sorry for the feminist propaganda, lol. And thanks for mentioning the other doctors, I'll have to bring it up next time. For now I've only met him and a np.
@lindsayleigh1989 that was a great episode but so tough to watch! Meanwhile, I'm still totally sucked into call the midwife and I put it on every time I have to do data entry at work!ooops!
@SmashJam lol, I asked that too. My brother is a physicist and he started to explain all the math to me, and then I got distracted by something (probably a snack) and stopped listening, but it basically all boiled down to something or other like it will eventually slingshot around the sun and head toward Mars and be out there indefinitely. My question to him was what are the aliens going to think about it when they see it. Mostly asked that because having a brother who is a physicist and also a bit of a conspiracy theorist can be really fun sometimes.
@noideawhatshesdoing I read an article where after I posted that where Elon Musk basically said exactly that-that he hoped other life would find it and think it was some cool earth artifact, lol. He's so weird.
Haha @wildtot I've seen that before. Times sure have changed....
I am annoyed today because winter needs to go away. It wasn't snowing when I left for work but now it is, and I live an hour north of my office so everyone here is like, oh it's no big deal, just some flurries, and I'm like okay but none of you have to drive an hour home in snow covered in ice (supposed to freezing rain later). Then I have my friend who is a teacher and her school closes every time it snows, texting me at 9am about how she just woke up. That's nice for her and all, but I don't really want to hear about it. Also, there was an earthquake in my county this morning. I live in New York. So weird.
ETA it is always much worse up where I live than where my office is, and I always look like the slacker trying to get out of work when I leave early or stay home because of weather.
@wildtot That entire thing made me give one GIANT eye roll. Of course after you’ve taken care of the kids and the house all day the arrival of your husband must be some grandiose affair. *gag*
@wildtot I’ve seen this before! It usually gets a lot of criticism but I’m a sahm and I like to make if comfortable for my husband when he comes home. He works long hours walking all day, sometimes 6 days a week and I know he just wants to relax. I always have dinner ready. I also try not to bug him with little complaints, although pregnancy has made that hard and I almost cried because he bought cornbread stuffing and not regular stuffing. I DONT, however, tidy my appearance or my sons. Take us or leave us.
@wildtot Ugh...I can't imagine what this would have been like. I know watching my sister with my niece and nephew that kids are HARD. Power to the women who have the energy to do this, but it's super unrealistic for me. Hubby is an adult, he can cook.
@paytonpedro nice! I wish i had the energy but we both work so not realistic in my house. I was more like this before kids because he worked 12 hr shifts.
@wildtot thanks for posting! I think it's incredibly interesting how much culture has changed over the last 60 years.
@paytonpedro I would like to think if I was a stay at home mom I would be the same way. In our current situation where both of us work, we are respectful of one another and boundaries. For instance, my husband needs a few minutes when he gets home to just kind of decompress everday, and I try to make sure he gets that. After that, he is super helpful with dinner, baths, keeping the kiddo entertained, etc. He also knows that on days when I am facilitating all day long, I don't want to speak to ANYONE once I get home. lol. So he tries to give me some space.
I think the author of this article wrote it from a place of "respect your partner", but it just sounds so funny in our current world.
Meagan Married 6.12.10 DS 11.8.12 Baby GIRL! due 7.4.18
The thing that rubs me the wrong way about that article is not necessarily the idea of having dinner ready and what not, but more just the tone that makes it sound like the SAHM has it so easy while the working dad has it so tough. To me, days when I am home all day with my toddler are more emotionally draining than the days I am at the office. But I guess back then women did not work even after the kids were in school full time, so in that case I can see how the man's day could be a lot harder than the woman's. As a full time working mom though, there is no way I am catering to my husband when he gets home from work (he actually gets home before me anyway). If I were a SAHM with young kids at home, I would 100% expect him to jump into dad mode when he gets home and help out, not sit in a recliner with a cocktail and wait for dinner to be served. That's just me though, I know all family dynamics are different.
That’s kind of what I think @zande2016. I’m a SAHM and I like being able to make dinner for my H and I like it when he’s able to relax when he gets home (usually he’s home after the kids are in bed so he doesn’t get the chance to parent in the evening). I don’t like the connotation that his day was harder than mine because he was at work and I was not though. We still both contribute to the house, just in different ways. My purpose isn’t to make his life easier lol.
+1 to not liking the tone implying the husband's day is harder. But I did read an article recently written by a stay at home.mom saying she gets pride out of making the house a place where DH and kids and I feel comfortable and happy and relaxed; where the kids wanna bring friends and people feel warm and happy being in the home. And I'm like, when you put it THAT way I would love to do that for myself and my family. So I suppose one of the ways I adjust to staying home vs working outside is making those my "job," which I guess means I do a lot of things in this article. But I do bitch sometimes, haha.
I with ya on the implying that DHs job is more stressful - bs i my house (these days). We work in the same office, same hours, and both desk jobs. We have different stress levels some days but at the end if it all we are both working hard and we both deserve these things from time to time. It may not happen everyday or often but it’s nice when it does. It means we are in sync with each other’s needs after a rough day. Now if he still worked 12 hrs of physical labor 60+ hrs a weekend I’d probably act more like this article (and probably be able to afford a part time job with less stress). Times have changed for sure!
I don't think my hubby's job is harder, but I get to work from home so on most days I have time to make dinner and I like to do that, he gets home at 7:30pm.
See, my husband is a mailman. He walks 9-16 miles per day- right now in a foot of snow. So, while being home with an almost 2 y.o. is no walk in the park, it is significantly easier than what he has to do. That’s just where I’m coming from and I think every family is different. I see, and get, so much bashing because I like to make my husband comfortable when he gets home, but it’s because his days at work really do suck. If he sat in an office all day I’m sure I’d be less accommodating. He starts at 8am (sometimes earlier and as early as 6:30am) and is never home before 5pm and rarely home before 6pm. The least I can do is make him dinner (and I admit that occasionally he’ll help, and on his days off he’ll sometimes make dinner by himself). It’s just what works for us.
As for the tone, it was written in a different time when that was appropriate and I take no offense. I’m pretty traditional though, when it comes to family life. I take care of the kids, he takes care of us. We work as a team and neither of us could do it without the other.
Not to change the subject, but for the girl last week who said she wanted to walk around with a 9 month pregnant belly her whole pregnancy.... I think I’d rather die. I was 40+4, the night before I had my son. ONE baby. I’m 5’4 and he weighed 8lbs 5oz. Not looking forward to this again. Haha.
@paytonpedro wow you carried high! I’ve been holding back on sharing the late pregnancy pic but here we go! I can’t imagine being like this all 9 months! 38 wks her delivered at 39. Im 5’2” and he was 8lb 15 oz. My back and hips suffered so much!
Re: Weekday Randoms pt 1 2/5 - 2/6
I don't post much because the mobile app doesn't work right on my phone so I just lurk a lot and post occasionally during downtime at work
@zande2016 good luck on your glucose test! Eat all the foods after!!
Anyway....my DS who is a little over 2.5 has started sleepwalking. My DD who is 15 used to sleepwalk when she was younger, but she was probably 7 when she started. We sleep upstairs and have a baby gate blocking the stairway but now I don't know if I should just lock him in his room at night? The thing is he is SO quiet that I don't even notice he's up until he's standing in our doorway. So tired. Just wish this boy would sleep!!
@moguippy well it wouldn't be locked for us to get to him, we just have the child safety knob on his side of the door knob. The baby monitor is right at the door mounted on the wall so we will definitely hear him if he tries to get out and cant get the door open. The only issue right now is that he creeps out of his bed like a ninja! The motion chime is a good idea though! I know I would definitely hear that!
Me (32) Dx PCOS, DH (32) SA = Normal/mild morph issues
TTC#5 July 2017 - 3rd cycle TTC = BFP on 11/12/17 at 9dpo Beta #1 = 96 at 13dpo - Beta #2 = 207 at 15dpo
3 rounds of Clomid + TI and 3 rounds of 7.5 mg Femara + IUI before our BFP on 11/8/10 at 12dpiui
TTC #2 3rd cycle of Femara 7.5mg+Ovidrel+TI = 4 follies = BFP on 10/12/12
TTC#3 July 2014 - Metformin +TI = BFP at 9dpo - Twins, one baby lost at 5.5 weeks
Macy Annabelle born at 37w4d on 4/29/15. Diagnosed with Cri du Chat and passed away on 6/6/15. Forever in our hearts.
TTC#4 3rd cycle of Metformin + Femara 7.5mg+Ovidrel+TI = 3 follies = BFP on 12/24/16
I just had my ob appointment and I finally have the orders for the anatomy scan. Nervous and excited. Trying to go soon! Heard the heartbeat and ob looked at the NT report again which confirmed the anterior placenta. He said I will still feel plenty of movement. He was super helpful in answering all my questions and is impressed with how prepared we are for first time parents- funny because I feel clueless. Nice to know we can actually pre register at the hospital now and have some basic paperwork already filled out for later. Really glad we have a doctor we like!
himayalan pink salt grapefruit bath soak, silicone dew drop make up applicator
a sterling silver necklace
rose hip and lotus face mask tube
realher Play Book shadow pallet (so gorgeous)
and a work out bag that says "will workout for cupcakes" haha
@lindsayleigh1989 seriously! bring a box of tissues if your watching
Also, I don't understand how it is possible for Elon Musk to shoot a car into space. Like...is that even safe? Is it gonna be up there with satelites? Will they hit each other? Is he just exploding it? I DONT UNDERSTAND.
I've got my gender ultrasound on Monday (which I'll keep) and was just asked to come into the office for an all-day meeting. Future boss is cool with me leaving for a "doc appt that I can't move" but now I need to dig around in my closet to find something the will fit and hide my growing belly!
@MichelleAG05 while I completely understand why you are doing what you're doing, it also INFURIATES me that we need to resort to hiding pregnancies because it's such a disadvantage. Not our fault, just this stupid society. You go get your promotion girl! Sorry for the feminist propaganda, lol. And thanks for mentioning the other doctors, I'll have to bring it up next time. For now I've only met him and a np.
@lindsayleigh1989 that was a great episode but so tough to watch! Meanwhile, I'm still totally sucked into call the midwife and I put it on every time I have to do data entry at work!ooops!
Edited because the bump ate my words.
Edited for words
Also...snack distractions are so real.
I am annoyed today because winter needs to go away. It wasn't snowing when I left for work but now it is, and I live an hour north of my office so everyone here is like, oh it's no big deal, just some flurries, and I'm like okay but none of you have to drive an hour home in snow covered in ice (supposed to freezing rain later). Then I have my friend who is a teacher and her school closes every time it snows, texting me at 9am about how she just woke up. That's nice for her and all, but I don't really want to hear about it. Also, there was an earthquake in my county this morning. I live in New York. So weird.
ETA it is always much worse up where I live than where my office is, and I always look like the slacker trying to get out of work when I leave early or stay home because of weather.
@zande2016 hope it’s not too bad later on! We usually get more snow at home too so i look like the weirdo all geared up when i get to work.
@paytonpedro I would like to think if I was a stay at home mom I would be the same way. In our current situation where both of us work, we are respectful of one another and boundaries. For instance, my husband needs a few minutes when he gets home to just kind of decompress everday, and I try to make sure he gets that. After that, he is super helpful with dinner, baths, keeping the kiddo entertained, etc. He also knows that on days when I am facilitating all day long, I don't want to speak to ANYONE once I get home. lol. So he tries to give me some space.
I think the author of this article wrote it from a place of "respect your partner", but it just sounds so funny in our current world.
DS 11.8.12
Baby GIRL! due 7.4.18
I bet we all wish we could do that anyway!!
DS 11.8.12
Baby GIRL! due 7.4.18
As for the tone, it was written in a different time when that was appropriate and I take no offense. I’m pretty traditional though, when it comes to family life. I take care of the kids, he takes care of us. We work as a team and neither of us could do it without the other.