@emeraldcity1214 thar sounds like a horrible dream! Last pregnancy I had a zombie dream and had to stop watching The Walking Dead. Way too vivid for me!
Re: fun pg name- i’m all for it, just useless from a creative standpoint. Actually just super pumped for the pg! We have a pretty good core group going.
Yes, let's do a fun PG name! I'm also super lame and not creative at all. The only things I can think of are fall or thanksgiving themed as well. Not that I've come up with anything I think is good enough to share!
Re dreams, I have had a few vivid dreams lately and its weird and disconcerting. I've had a few racy ones recently, probably because I'm on pelvic rest, lol.
I think fall/thanksgiving related is a good idea. We could make a thread and post what we come up with and everyone can “like” the ones they like and we can go with whichever has the most “likes.”
@emeraldcity1214 congrats on the PT success! I have also been having vivid scary dreams, I do normally but it’s been even more so. Last night I woke up screaming and felt so bad for hubby. Getting nervous for when baby comes because that crap won’t fly when there’s an infant sleeping in the room!
I’m down for a thread to vote on names!
We finally moved our queen bed from the guest room that will become the nursery to the basement office/new guest room this pst weekend. The box spring was too big to get down the stair case from our first floor to our basement so we had to tie cords around it and lower it off our back deck lol it was quite the production!
My longtime BFF that I grew apart from (mostly because she pulled away and I never got an explaination) back before I got pregnant with DS has always been resistant to anything social media related. So we haven't really kept in touch for the last 5 years. I found out about a month ago that she had a private Instagram so I added her, hoping to reconnect maybe. She finally approved me today, but didnt choose to follow me back (mine is also private). My pregnant feelings are hurt, we have 20+ years of history and I'm bummed she doesnt care to see what I'm up to 😞
@gumby22c ☹️ Awww I’m sorry!! Those friend situations are so delicate. It’s so sad to think of all the history you guys shared and then not really have a relationship afterwards. I listened to a podcast about the complexities of friendships and how they’re like any relationship that changes and ends too 😢. I had a falling out with my BFF that I knew since I was 12 and it still hurts to think about not being friends anymore.
My random rave for the week: MH is gone for the week and I haven’t had the house to myself in...? I thought I’d be lonely but actually I’m completely luxuriating in the quiet and solitude and cuddling up with my bump. 🤩
Thanks for the head pats and validating my feelings @mc0303 and @cl4157 ❤ I'm sure it would bother me even if I wasnt pregnant, but I'm definitely a little more sensitive these days. I can definitely relate to the the feelings of being sad over the end of this friendship and it does feel very much like the end of a relationship does. From time to time I still think about her and hope she doing well and happy, which it seems she is from her IG so thats good. We'd been BFF from kindergarten all the up through college when we were roommates and were each other MOH in our weddings. Its just hard to forget someone who was such a big part of my life for so may years.
@gumby22c I'm sorry. I understand how you're feeling too. I had a very close friend throughout high school and college and we didn't have a huge falling out, but just a small one and then drifted apart. I follow her on instagram and sometimes I feel like I should try to reconnect with her, but honestly I don't think she would be interested and I'm afraid to put myself out there. Hugs.
Also, a big wtf to people who don't follow back.. I have this person who is a very good friend of my very good friend, but we aren't friends outside of that relationship, if that makes sense. Anyway a few months ago I requested to follow her on instagram, and she took a long time to accept, and when she finally did she did not follow me back. So I promptly unfollowed her. lol. I'm petty like that.
@mc0303 sometimes its great to have the house to yourself for awhile! Glad you've been enjoying your alone time.
As for me, I am STILL NOT DONE WITH THIS DUMB PROJECT. And now I realized I forgot something I need for it at home. So I'm probably going to have to leave work early and deal with this because it really has to get into the mail today. I can't take it anymore. lol.
@creamcheeseplease if its petty to unfollow because she didnt follow you back, then I'm petty too. In my mind, if you are ok with me following you why wouldnt you follow me back? 🤷♀️ I almost wish she just had never accepted it and left me in the dark. I think that would have hurt my feelings less.
@gumby22c who doesn’t follow back! How rude of her! I have a similar situation too where my best friend from the age of 3 through high school and I drifted apart. She made friends with people in high school that seemed like they never liked me and while she always invited me along I always felt uncomfortable and stopped joining. She didn’t make time to hang out with me outside of them so I stopped trying to. I still think about her a lot. She doesn’t have social media but I’d be super upset if I followed her and she didn’t follow me back even though we don’t talk.
@creamcheeseplease oh I absolutely would’ve unfollowed guess I’m petty too! Sorry about your project not being done yet but as @cl4157 said at least tomorrow it will be done and over!
@creamcheeseplease I’m queen of petty over here!! I have like 7 people that follow me and I don’t follow them back. Honestly it just feels healthier for me. It was because you couldn’t hide peoples post back then and I didn’t want to see what they were up to bc it upset me. But now it’s too late to follow them back 😂
So my project is done! However I will say I finished it too late to mail, after the post office closed, so I have to run over there this morning and mail it. But whatever. Now I have another project to review today for a meeting in NYC tomorrow. I started doing it last night. I kind of have a long way to go with it but I think what I will have done by the end of the day will be good enough for this initial meeting.
I have two other major side projects to finish and then I plan on not taking on anything else major until after the baby comes. I'll still do my other side work gigs but these major projects I think I need a little break from until January or so.
@creamcheeseplease Just reading all that made me want to go back to bed! I’m glad you got it done and your work load will decrease soon.
I forgot to tell y’all we had 2 wildfires start this past Monday. They are right in the same city as me. All week we have had helicopters flying over our house with things of water to dump on them. They got them under control earlier in the week but I woke this morning to an intense smoke smell from outside. So I’m hoping everything is still under control.
I’ve been waking up early and helping deliver newspapers (DH is a manager there) but then the rest of the day I feel exhausted and don’t wanna do anything. Honestly I’m just feeling lousy cause I can’t even keep up with the dishes in the house.
@emeraldcity1214 - I am glad it is under control. But still very scary - I hope the kids are at least enjoying the novelty of the helicopters. I know mine love when we get planes and helicopters to look at.
@emmac99 - I so feel you on the dishes. It is never endingggggg. I mean so is Laundry but for some reason I actually enjoy laundry.
I’m pretty sure both fires are on their way out but the smell is making my throat hurt.
I just got back from the park with the kids and I encountered the most oppositional child I have seen in along time. I was pushing all the kids, including my youngest, on this flat swing. He asked if he could jump on and I said “sure but we aren’t going too fast because my LO is riding too.” He got frustrated and jumped off then starts to try to push the swing as fast and hard as he could. I repeatedly told him to stop and even asked him to walk away. The kid just ignored me and kept trying to “show me how fast he can push it.” Even my 5 year old was getting upset. I started looking around for his parent and she finally walked over and got him away from us. When she told him they were leaving he started screaming at her. 😳
My oldest (now 17) is HDHD and ODD so I’m familiar with the behaviors of children like this. My heart goes out to that mom. Everyday is a struggle.
So not to brag or anything, but last night I slept good for the first time in MONTHS. I've always had a hard time sleeping, I blame it on working swing andnnights for the last three years. But even since I've been back on days, sleep has been difficult. But last night, I passed the hell out at 9- turned on the tv and don't even remember what was on, that's how quick i was out. And then I slept without waking up once until MH got home at 3:45. Talked to him for a minute, apparently fed the cat?? Lol I don't remember that, but MH says I did, and then back out until my alarm went off at 4:45.
I hate women cut shirts and the fact that a lot of maternity shirts are cut with those short sleeves or capped sleeves or whatever they are. It doesnt matter my body size, my shape does not do well in anything called "womens cut". I have to size up multiple sizes and it still doesnt want to fit me across the chest or be long enough in my torso. And those stupid short sleeves. They ride up in my arm pit, make my arms look even bigger, and I swear I swear more in them or the sweat is more noticeable. Every short sleeve maternity top I have right now is the same with a v neck and short sleeves. Like, let me distract you from the volleyball Im smuggling under this shirt by tempting you with cleavage and upper arm fat.
Also, it is stupid muggy out and kinda hot and yet I feel like I need to wear layers. I wear spanx a lot for my pelvic issues but also because said shirts like to show off cleavage and Im not always comfortable with that depending on setting, Im also wearing tanks under shirts. So some days I have on shorts or pants with maternity band, spanx, a tank top, and then a top. How have I not lost weight or become dehydrated from sweating so much?!?! I am so happy to be pregnant and I really do like so much of pregnancy but for my sanity can we please see the weather start changing over to fall?? Also, i need a clothing designer to make "womens cut" clothing that actually fit a wider variety of women.
@purplefan1 I hate the cut of women's shirts as well. I'm having the problem with maternity tops not being long enough to cover my belly (twin pregnancy) and it's highly annoying. I feel your pain!
My random... I cannot sleep. I have had terrible pelvic, back, and hip pain for a month already. I don't remember this with my 3 girls until the end of the pregnancy. I got the support bands my OB recommended and it's not helping at all. I can't lay on a side to relieve pressure because Twin A is on one side and Twin B is on the other.
The boys will be arriving in October and we set the date Thursday. I am extremely nervous and it's getting worse the closer it gets.
DD born 8/12/11 DD born 10/3/14 DD born 10/10/16 Twin boys due Nov '19
@Jlp12314812 - That is so exciting that you have your end date set! Nervewracking for sure, but knowing the end date would be such a relief to me.
My random: Anyone else get unreasonably excited when they finish a bottle of their prenatal pills? I am down to my last one before I start the next bottle and I feel so accomplished.
@Dancer688 yes! My current bottle of prenatals I calculated how far I'd be once I'm done- 30 weeks!! I'm looking at expiration dates on everything and relating it to my due date, just so excited lol
@purplefan1 plus one to the hating womens shirts here. Partially because I HATE sleeves at all- I will go sleeveless all year long, until it's really cold when I switch to long sleeves. I avoid short sleeves like the plague. And especially women's short sleeves, cause they're funky like you pointed out, and I am about 99% sure they do make you sweat more (SO glad I'm not the only one who feels that way). And definitely the cleavage issue. Normally I'm not bothered by it, but yea, definitely there are times I don't need boobs all over the place. Would be nice if women's clothes designers could figure something out that isnt a turtleneck to keep things covered.
We did another Potty training bootcamp this weekend, went better than last time but still not great. He can hold it 7 hours so I know he has the bladder control but he is just very resistant. Maybe it is just so much going on with the new baby coming and his little friends moving up to the next classroom without him. IDK, it will happen eventually but it is a frustrating process.
We were 1.5 hours away from the house and started seeing a ton of smoke up ahead of us. Then I got an emergency notification of evacuation of the area that was right ahead of us. Apparently, a wildfire broke out and the wind caused it to pick us really fast and pushed it across the highway. Photo of the smoke in the spoiler. So now, we are headed back to my in-laws. It will be an all night drive because there are basically no hotels on the highway we are on. Never in my life did I ever think I would be able to get back home do to a wildfire. 😳 *ignore my filthy window
@emeraldcity1214 I’m sorry you’re all going through that. I can’t imagine how scary that is, fire is so unpredictable. I hope the drive passed quickly and you get better news today 🤞🏻🤞🏻
@emeraldcity1214 thinking of you and the family..I'm glad you have in-laws living out there too. Check back in soon, I hope the conditions are favorable to get the fire out.
Re: August Randoms
I’m down for a thread to vote on names!
We finally moved our queen bed from the guest room that will become the nursery to the basement office/new guest room this pst weekend. The box spring was too big to get down the stair case from our first floor to our basement so we had to tie cords around it and lower it off our back deck lol it was quite the production!
@creamcheeseplease oh I absolutely would’ve unfollowed guess I’m petty too! Sorry about your project not being done yet but as @cl4157 said at least tomorrow it will be done and over!
I forgot to tell y’all we had 2 wildfires start this past Monday. They are right in the same city as me. All week we have had helicopters flying over our house with things of water to dump on them. They got them under control earlier in the week but I woke this morning to an intense smoke smell from outside. So I’m hoping everything is still under control.
@emeraldcity1214 that is so scary! Stay safe
@emmac99 - I so feel you on the dishes. It is never endingggggg. I mean so is Laundry but for some reason I actually enjoy laundry.
I just got back from the park with the kids and I encountered the most oppositional child I have seen in along time. I was pushing all the kids, including my youngest, on this flat swing. He asked if he could jump on and I said “sure but we aren’t going too fast because my LO is riding too.” He got frustrated and jumped off then starts to try to push the swing as fast and hard as he could. I repeatedly told him to stop and even asked him to walk away. The kid just ignored me and kept trying to “show me how fast he can push it.” Even my 5 year old was getting upset. I started looking around for his parent and she finally walked over and got him away from us. When she told him they were leaving he started screaming at her. 😳
My oldest (now 17) is HDHD and ODD so I’m familiar with the behaviors of children like this. My heart goes out to that mom. Everyday is a struggle.
It was glorious.
Also, it is stupid muggy out and kinda hot and yet I feel like I need to wear layers. I wear spanx a lot for my pelvic issues but also because said shirts like to show off cleavage and Im not always comfortable with that depending on setting, Im also wearing tanks under shirts. So some days I have on shorts or pants with maternity band, spanx, a tank top, and then a top. How have I not lost weight or become dehydrated from sweating so much?!?! I am so happy to be pregnant and I really do like so much of pregnancy but for my sanity can we please see the weather start changing over to fall?? Also, i need a clothing designer to make "womens cut" clothing that actually fit a wider variety of women.
My random... I cannot sleep. I have had terrible pelvic, back, and hip pain for a month already. I don't remember this with my 3 girls until the end of the pregnancy. I got the support bands my OB recommended and it's not helping at all. I can't lay on a side to relieve pressure because Twin A is on one side and Twin B is on the other.
The boys will be arriving in October and we set the date Thursday. I am extremely nervous and it's getting worse the closer it gets.
DD born 10/3/14
DD born 10/10/16
Twin boys due Nov '19
My random: Anyone else get unreasonably excited when they finish a bottle of their prenatal pills? I am down to my last one before I start the next bottle and I feel so accomplished.