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April 2012 Moms
FFFC?
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Re: FFFC?
I'll start.
I get annoyed when I read posts and I feel like I've gained the most weight on this board! I'm overweight to begin with and I'm so pissed at myself for my weight gain but the more posts I read about people losing weight or only gaining a couple pounds the more pissed I get! I started about 35 lbs overweight and I've gained 7 pounds so far. It just sucks when you're 170 lbs to start and you've been trying to lose weight to see it coming back so easy. FI tried to cook healthy last night and made steamed fish with broccoli and it was great...but then I had a popsicle...then an hour later I was hungry again and had a bagel with cream cheese right before bed. UGH!!!
Well I'm only 12 weeks but I feel and I swear I look like i'm 5 months...at least. It's like every day I look down to my belly growing even larger than the day before.
I've never been "overweight" in fact I spent most of my life trying to prove that I did not have an eating disorder. After my son was born I was back in my pre pregnancy clothes in two weeks. After my daughter was born...well let's just say it's not going to happen any time soon since I'm pregnant with twins now!!! I miss my old body. My biggest issue is my booty (although it seems to have gotten smaller) maybe that's just because my belly has gotten so much larger....haha...still my goal is to try my hardest to enjoy this pregnancy although I'm dizzy all the time and sick all the time.
I will bite....
I am very nervous and anxious about this baby. I have wanted a baby for a very long time and have been a nanny. I have lots of experience with infants and children. I am not worried about taking care of the baby or even my relationship changing with my husband. It is a control thing. This baby was not planned and I was supposed to go to grad school starting in the spring but that has been put on hold. My body is changing every single day and I just feel fat and gross. Our apartment is crammed and I am not sure where we are going to put everything a baby needs. I do love this little bean growing in me, I am just struggling with this transition. Sorry, that turned out long....
Mine is that I don't enjoy sleeping next to my husband. I like a nice made bed and he prefers the sheets all untucked. He also sleeps with his mouth open and breathes stinky breath on me all night. I'm tempted to stick a listerine strip in his mouth while he is sleeping
I feel better now....thanks!
Yes! Me too.
I took a pepcid this AM and I feel guilty. I really wanted to wait until I was farther along but it was a choice between pepcid and not eating or drinking today. It's a Class B med so there are far worse things and I feel so much better, I kind of only feel half bad about it.
Because I gained 30 lbs, all in my mid-section I think, from Lupron injections in between my last pregnancy and this one, I look at least 6-7 mos pregnant if I don't suck it in or wear spandex granny drawers that cover my entire gut. I hate it...
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Mine is that I am still riding my scooter everywhere. I live in NYC and if I take the bus and subway to work, it takes about 80-90 minutes but if I take my scooter, it takes 35-40 minutes. I have to be at work by 8am so if I dont take my scooter, I have to leave by 6:30am and my 2 year old doesnt wake up until 7am. I miss him so much when it rains and I have to leave early. So, even though I am pregnant, I am still driving my scooter....people yell at me all the time.
Same here. Or that H could gestate it.
Mine is that I'm irrationally nervous that something is still going to go wrong with my pregnancy. I have my NT scan on Monday and I am terrified they are going to look and find there has been no growth since 8 weeks (my last u/s). This whole time I really haven't had many pregnancy symptoms (for which I know I should be thankful). I am not showing at all (like I said, this is irrational... I don't really expect to be showing).
I know I shouldn't be worried because baby was measuring right on track and had a great, strong heartbeat of 199 at our 8 week appt. I am just so terrified because we have told a lot of people at this point, and we'd be devastated if anything was wrong. I don't know how you ladies who have to wait until 20 weeks for an u/s are making it!
I have a few today!
1. My hormones have been out of control, and I yell at DH then start crying after for no reason. I fear I am starting to terrify my dogs.
2. I have told my immediate family and closest friends but I really have no desire to tell anyone else. I don't want to be asked a million times a day how I'm feeling or to be told how "cute" I look.
This. Also, I'm still in denial about this whole thing, and prefer to go about my merry existence and be treated the same (not with pregnancy kid gloves) for as long as I can pull it off. I'm the first of my local friends to have a baby, and have no idea how they will react once they find out.
I confess I've grown apart from friends in the past once they had a baby because we had nothing in common anymore, or because their baby talk bored me to the point that I avoided calling/getting together. I hope packback's not too much of a b!tch, though I deserve it.
I am TERRIFIED of telling my boss about this pregnancy.
Where should I start? He and his wife chose not to have kids, and they don't understand why other people choose otherwise. He doesn't understand why there are so many doctors appointments, why pregnant women can't do heavy lifting, why morning sickness occurs, and that maternity leave is not a vacation.
He and I do not have a good history. He's generally disrespectful of women and pregnant women in particular. I basically run our group, and he will make me feel that I am letting down our office by being unreliable and uncommitted. We're a very small office, and a women who reports to me is currently out of maternity leave. There will be a lot of talk about us, and worry that our office will not be able to gets its work done over the next year. And I would not be at all surprised if he were to declare that he'd never hire a woman of childbearing age again.
I almost want to tell him this was an accident, when in fact it was very carefully planned.
And the topic of BFing and pumping in the office is a whole separate ball game that I'm not ready to think about yet.
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Agreed. I hope 2ndT gets better like everyone says it should.
Also that I'd prefer to fake sick again (yes I said again) than go see my brother and my dad tonight. If you're interested in why, please see My Family Rant post.
LMAO!!
1) My aggravating family telling me I am having a baby because I felt "left out" because my baby sister had a little boy in February. This is absurd and this pregnancy was an unexpected (but pleasant!) little surprise. We have talked about having kids of our own, together, but we certainly weren't planning on it now. Especially when I can get my baby fix from my amazing nephew who I can hand back to his mother when he is cranky or spitting up, etc.
2) My BFF is buying her first house and I just don't care. I feel terrible about not caring but really, I can only hear you rant and rave every day about how upset you are that your closing got put off(because I am a home owner and I know closings don't magically happen in 2 weeks like you had your heart set on, and I told you this, and you argued!), that your water test isn't coming back in time, that you still haven't packed up your current house and that you just don't think you'll have time to drive a couple of hours to spend some QT with me. I just don't care. I don't care if she comes and visits, I don't care when she closes and I definitely don't care about what new washer and dryer she is buying. I was super supportive and went to viewings with her and lent her and her husband my SO who is a contractor so he could tell them if the house was falling down, etc. But I've reached my breaking point!
This exactly. Only we haven't scheduled a NT scan.
I don't know if my insurance covers it. But I had a dream last night that I went to my 12 week appointment and they couldn't find the heartbeat... 
I'm so terrified that something might happen.
LOL! Thank you!!!!!!!!
I have some
1- We have told pretty much everyone around us that we are expecting, but we've also told everyone that it was an accident. Really, we had just gone off the pill and were excited to be trying. Luckily, it only took us one cycle to get pregnant. We'd just rather not hear the judgements from people about being too young and still living in an apartment and blah blah blah...
2- My BIL and SIL got married on 8/4/11 and got pregnant on their honeymoon. Apparently they were trying, but told us all that she was on birth control. I pretend to be happy for them, but really I'm quite annoyed. We were the first in the family to get married and we were going to have the first grandchild, but now they are totally going to steal our thunder. And in my opinion, a baby is going to throw them for a loop. Marriage and moving out on their own was a big enough step for them... AND my SIL has been applying stretch mark cream since she was 4 weeks along and tells me that she is showing and she's huge. DUH.
3- I get tired of people at work asking me how I'm doing, just because they think they should. I know I'm pregnant, but I can still tell when you're being insincere. If you really don't care, please don't ask. It's annoying enough to have to answer that question all day.
1. I slept until 1:30 today. And it felt wonderful.
2. I don't know how much more of living with SIL I can take. Today she thought it would be adorable to let her dog into our room and jump on the sleeping pregnant lady. I know in the longrun it's only temporary but it's getting old really fast.
3. I'm worrying my home business isn't bringing in enough money so I've started sending out resumes but who's going to hire a pregnant woman that's going to leave in 7 months?
OK, mini rant done. I need some ice cream.
DH wants to see a movie that I don't want to see. I feel like he's had PLENTY of free time this week while I have had NONE.
SO I might just send DD to MIL's house and go to the movies to see something else, all by myself!
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Are you talking about April 12 or 1st tri or what? Many times if we do repeat posts on this board we are making funnies in the new post.
I confess I bought two pairs of regular jeans and a belt this week. I know that they won't last me very long, and it was probably a silly waste of money, but I did it anyway because they look great on me. I want to enjoy what remains of my pre-pregnancy body as long as I can, dammit!
I wish we could share. I don't mind it sometimes because I like maternity pants. But everything else I do not like. Like this week when I've been sick, I wish H could have carried it so I could take some dang Nyquil!
This reminds me..
I hate this stage right now because I feel like I can't shop! Can't buy regular clothes b/c I won't be able to wear them soon and who knows what my PP body will look like, too soon for maternity clothes, too soon for baby stuff. UGH it sucks! lol
1) I had 2 sips of sparkling wine at my cousin's wedding last week for the toasts, and I do mean sips. My mom looked at me as if my baby was going to suddenly spring forth with 3 heads.
2) I am starting to obsess over whether I'm still pregnant. My last u/s and exam was 8/18 and my NT scan is 9/28. I think 6 weeks is a bit too long between exams and now that I'm not feeling m/s, I'm starting to panic. The only reassurance is my boobs are still tender and I gagged when I found a tiny piece of egg shell in my cooked eggs this morning. I almost gagged again just telling DH about it, so I'm thinking/hoping that's not a problem a non-pregnant woman would have.