WTF Wednesday 3/28

scottishlass1213

Go ahead ladies!!

scottishlass1213

MIne is a cute/joking one to DS for his mini-lecture this morning.

This morning he comes in my room and asks why my maternity pillow is on the floor. I told him I got uncomfortable in the night and threw it down there.  He proceeds to say "mommy, it doesn't matter if you are uncomfortable, you need the pillow for the baby and to make you feel better!"

My other WTF is to employees that get upset/hostile when they get questions about their job.

mrsbubbles-2

WTF to the ads on the bump page? On desktop right now I've got:
What a Lizard Taught me About My Mental Health (plus wtf RanDoM CapitAliZatioN?)
This Toxic Vegetable is the No. 1 Danger in Your Diet (picture of a sweet potato)
Find out what happened to your favorite 70s country music legends

Sure Bump people, you've got to make money and all that but the lizard mental health one is just strange.
If I wasn't at work I'd totally click it too. Just to satisfy my own curiosity.

livinthesunnylife

@mrsbubbles-2 where are these ads?  Like inside our BMB?  I see nothing

proudparent2b

@livinthesunnylife Are you using the app or desktop computer? On the app, the ads are on the home page. Not sure about their location on a computer though.

lalala2004

WTF pregnancy hormones. Reasons I have cried today:

1. I heard a worship song I like in an Acapella version.
2. DS won’t grow up in a church that sings acapella.
3. It’s hard for gay people to find a church.
4. I couldn’t decide what to eat for lunch.

neeraja_k

My WTF is crying this morning because I still don't have a bump for HDBD still. Then I got angry at myself for being petty enough to think that a visible bump somehow makes it more real. And then I ugly cried because it still does. 

I guess I should be okay with it considering I'm still wearing the same clothes. And I should be okay with it because I'm still hiding the pregnancy from my grandmother, whom we're really trying to get to realize that she needs to move into a facility. One thing at a time with her. My husband dropped the "We're moving" bomb last week and she's done nothing but freak out about it, because "ohnoes who's going to do her shit every week..."

calimom2524

I have a wtf about work, which I'm pretty sure they are every week. 

WTF for other locations not having their shit together. I have to go to FedEx today to figure out how to overnight five ladders to our LA office. How the fuck do you ship a ladder? How the fuck do you ship FIVE ladders? And how did it come down to such a last minute emergency? I'm such an inventory control freak this would never happen to me and they knew I was the one to call because they knew I would save them. SO ANNOYING.

And no, it's not the kind of ladder they can just run to Home Depot to buy, it's a specialized ladder that needs to come from a certain manufacturer and they've ordered replacements, today, but they won't arrive until May. 

carrotsandpeas3

Hugs @neeraja_k. I had a coworker tell me i didn't look pregnant today which was her trying to be nice, but just made me think "well I've gained 14 pounds, so you must just think i look fat." Your bump will come! I didn't really think about the fact that >50% of my pregnancy would be this weird in between stage of "is she or isn't she pregnant?" Im sure having a huge bump is going to be annoying later, but im so ready to look pregnant NOW. *cue impatient foot stomp*

mrsbubbles-2

@livinthesunnylife:
This is what my home page looks like on desktop


Now I've got superfuel for my stomach and Telomeres (???)
The best ones (besides the lizard one, I loved that one) is like how to lose 25 lbs in a weekend or some other such nonsense.

@lalala2004 - aw, I'm sorry! I have days like that too.
@scottishlass1213 - your DS's reasoning is spot on! That is absolutely adorable

cnsm1

New here, but solidarity @doctormom33 and @neeraja_k. A few days ago I was told I was "so big already!" Later the same day, someone was surprised I was due in August because I'm "so small." Somehow both comments were upsetting. It's a weird in between time. Hoping the visibly pregnant but not yet uncomfortable stage starts for all of us soon!

livinthesunnylife

@mrsbubbles-2 look at my homepage.  I'm also on the desktop.

ashleyandjody

A student told me that I'm getting "scary". When I asked her to clarify, she was talking about my growing belly.

mrsbubbles-2

@livinthesunnylife - I'm guessing some form of ad blocker maybe? Because now I have an ad for rebuilding your body with professional probiotics. Professional... I'm side-eyeing the shit outta them...

neeraja_k

Mine looks just like @livinthesunnylife screenshot.

I do use AdBlock Plus on my Chrome browser as well. I don't understand how people who use computers without ad blockers function. *twitch*

livinthesunnylife

Oh yes, I am on Firefox and not IE.  IE sucks so I either use Firefox or Chrome for the internet.  I have TV going in the chrome window so you guys are over here on Firefox. 

mrsbubbles-2

+1 for firefox. I had to satisfy my curiosity and switched to chrome to see if the ads were still there - yup! So looks like work needs to update its ad blocker!

mrsbubbles-2

So my WTF should be directed at work!

scottishlass1213

This annoying over the top-coworker I have that just isn’t sincere and overly dramatic came into our full lunchroom gushing, gesturing and talking loudly about my belly and how cute I am blah blah blah. It made me very uncomfortable because I don’t like it and she’s so fake and phoney it just seemed passive aggressive to me. I tried to ignore it and continue the conversation I was having. She then went to a table of all older women who don’t even have kids to continue to talk about me like that. It was so weird. 

People have ave also been making the comments this week about my belly. Depends who it is if I care and granted I probably have a giant baby growing again, but still. 

livinthesunnylife

yeah, WTF @mrsbubbles-2 's IT department, do your job!

And I agree @scottishlass1213 I work with an older guy that keeps making comments about how I must be due any day now.  I want to reply "yeah, you too?" cause his gut isn't any smaller

aj1327

WTF to my hunger today. I cannot get full. 

mrsbubbles-2

@livinthesunnylife - bwahahahaha! That's the perfect response! How rude of him!
And my IT dept could have been my siggy challenge this month lol!
But they're no Batman

neeraja_k

@mrsbubbles-2 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/ 

@scottishlass1213 I'd probably have a private conversation with this individual and let them know that their behaviour is not welcome and to please keep their comments to themselves. How bloody rude.

melprop

Once again, WTF to my IL’s. We took up some stuff MIL is borrowing for Easter. They bitched about BIL’s wife and how they now think she is selling some of her Rx meds. They bitched about how they have so much remodeling to do in their house, and they can’t actually do any of it. They bitched about how BIL never does anything for them and just brings his family to visit for free meals & babysitting. They passive-aggressively made it known that DH & I will be expected to help them with their remodeling this summer, even though we’re having a baby and have a ton of stuff on our own plates. 

They never asked how we were, even though they haven’t seen us in almost a month. They never asked anything about the baby. They never bothered to thank us for bringing the stuff up, nor did MIL thank me for taking care of the rolls, stuffing, and strawberry pie for Easter dinner on Sunday. They didn’t even acknowledge the fact that we came up just to visit, considering they often bitch that we don’t do that. 

We’ve told them that we have multiple remodeling projects to do before this baby comes. Period. DH gets 4 days off a month. We don’t have time to help them with major projects, especially when BIL just goes home and sits around all evening. Why does everything have to be about them? Why will they not ask BIL to do a damn thing, but we’re horrible people when we honestly tell them we have no time to help them. 

They also said they expect BIL’s wife to announce a pregnancy any time now. Since I’m pregnant, they think she’ll try to get pg too in order to “take the attention away from me.” Um, what attention? They never mention my pg. They barely talk to me. There is no attention. 

scottishlass1213

@melprop I wouldn’t be going there for Easter if I were you! You must have the patience of a saint!

elsieisamoocow

+1 on the crazy ads. Anyone else have the annoying one (on desktop) that always pops up on the bottom right corner? It's always a video and so annoying. I need to find an adblocker for chrome now.

calimom2524

  

After driving to Sacramento on Monday and back I now get to drive to Reno tomorrow and fly back in the afternoon. Ughhhhhhh why am I always the one called to save people's asses? 

livinthesunnylife

@calimom2524 This is when I hate that The Bump only has LoveTits and not angry faces

calimom2524

livinthesunnylife said:

@calimom2524 This is when I hate that The Bump only has LoveTits and not angry faces

Ugh I know!! They need more emotions, we're pregnant ladies for crying out loud, we're not always just full of love tits.

mrsbubbles-2

@calimom2524 my love it is an actual love it because I grew up in Reno!!! 

ecwk

@livinthesunnylife I want an eye roll reaction. Is that too much to ask? 
Sorry to all the ladies having shitty days. Last Friday someone (a parent at school) told me I don’t look pregnant, just maybe a little chunky. 

neeraja_k

@elsieisamoocow Ask and ye shall receive. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb?hl=en-GB

rachel1008

WTF to gaining 20 lbs already, and I'm only 19 wks. I'm ok with it (except for the backaches), but my mom is sort of a weight Nazi, and I don't even want to have to hear about it. I feel like gaining a bunch of weight is a FTM thing. 

Obviously, I have a bump, and everyone at work is basically only talking to me about said bump, and like y'all already said, it depends on who's talking about it whether it irritates me. Since I really hate my job, it mostly irritates me. Plus it's constant there. I wish it could be invisible at work, but I'm really proud of it in my personal life. I'm seeing my parents this weekend and can't wait for them to see it!

melprop

@scottishlass1213 They’ve always been like that to a point, but it’s definitely gotten worse in the past 3 or so years. 

I forgot to add, they always bitch that they don’t  see DS often. We got there, and DS asked for Netflix. DH said no, you can sit in here with us and visit with your grandparents. FIL said yes, he can have Netflix, and MIL turned on the tv in the other room. Because we said no to something, and we’re awful parents for not giving him whatever he wants, they just have to contradict us. So DS sat in the other room and watched TV for the 1.5 hours we were there. Gee, I wonder why we rarely bring him up. The kid can watch Netflix at home - I don’t need to drive him up there for him to sit on the couch and stare at the tv. 

mrsbubbles-2

@ecwk - sooooo not ok! What possesses people to think that it's ok to talk about someone's body in any capacity?!? Sorry girl but your gif is perfect

@rachel1008 - Ditto above, why do people think it's their place to comment on your body, pregnant or not? Sorry you're dealing with that! As far as the weight gain goes, your body is going to gain what it's going to gain and every body, and every pregnancy is different. I'm glad that you're ok with it! Baby is growing and is healthy, that's what is important!

aj1327

@ecwk WTF. Why would she say that to you? I don’t understand people! 

melbel0824

My WTF is from the dentist last week. The hygienist got on me because my gums were bleeding. She said that bleeding gums could be gingivitis which can lead to diabetes and high blood pressure. Plus since I’m pregnant it could lead to a low birth weight. But the tone she said it in, was basically saying “you’re bleeding gums could kill your baby.” Then after she was done she made the comment that “once you have kids you’re stuck with them. They never leave you.” I don’t know if she was trying to be funny, but I was not amused.  

scottishlass1213

@melbel0824 that was rude! Isn’t bleeding gums common in pregnancy? I will say my teeth have gone to ish since DS. I’ve lost like all my enamel and am super prone to cavities now when I barely had them before. 

mrsbubbles-2

@melbel0824 - um, I would be getting a new dentist immediately. Like, calling from the waiting room of that office to make a new appointment immediately.

WTAF? Bleeding gums can lead to diabetes? That's news to me! Would someone please apologize to my pancreas that it was actually my GUMS that caused my diabetes and I've been misplacing blame and calling my pancreas an asshole for 2 years?

Super quick google search revealed that when the gum damage is significant enough to cause an infection that could cause a rise in blood sugar, but that's as a result of poorly controlled diabetes in the first place!

Sorry, hopped right on my soapbox there. I'm pretty peeved on your behalf. I hope you complain about her comments to you as she was so completely out of line. Then I hope you find a (new) wonderful dentist!

melbel0824

@mrsbubbles-2 Thanks for the validation. Obviously, I know that prolonged bleeding gums isn’t a good thing, but I’m flossing and brushing like I should, so back off.

I like the actual dentist, but this is the second bad interaction I’ve had with the hygienist and it’s really off-putting. She wants me to come back in a month for a follow up appointment, but I think I’m going to cancel it. Maybe find a new dentist after the baby is here.  

brzvice

@melbel0824 I've changed hygienists a couple times. Love my dentist so i stick around but when im being chastised or lectured by the hygienist "next please". I know the brushing and flossing drill. I know what to avoid eat/ drinking. I understand it is a part of their job to educate patients but some take it above and beyond in your case giving your fear mongering incorrect information.