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What events are you missing due to pregnancy?
My 96 year old grandmother is in a nursing home and hasn't eaten in 3 weeks. She's fading fast, and most likely won't last the week. I live in Vegas, and she/family are all in Massachusetts. I can't travel more than an hour from the hospital, so going home is not possible.
I was never close to Memere (she has a bit of mental illness, and was an alcoholic before she went into the home), but I'm sad I'm not able to be there for my mom right now.
Before I lapse into a self-pitying sobfest, what events have you missed out on because of pregnancy? Weddings, funerals, parties, beer-pong, wet T-shirt contests...what?
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Re: What events are you missing due to pregnancy?
So sorry to hear about your grandmother.
I am missing my cousin's wedding in OH this weekend. My ENTIRE family in Texas is going except for me & DH. Oh, well.
Why can't you travel more than an hour from the hospital already? My OB didn't give me this restriction until 36 weeks!
DH and I are missing both of our sister's college graduations...my sister graduated this past Saturday in Houston, TX and DH's sister has her graduation on my due date in St. Peter, MN.
Sorry to hear you cant be with your family. That would be really hard to have to deal with.
I am not missing out on anything....DH wont be able to participate in the Beer Olympics, but I am sure he will survive!
I am missing two weddings...one at the end of this month and one at the end of June because I can't face getting on a plane now.
I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother.
We will be missing spending time with my BIL/SIL and nephew, as well as an annual friends weekend, at DH's family cottage this summer because we moved far away and I will NOT be flying anymore. And due to the newborn, we will be missing 2-3 weddings in our hometown that are happening within a month of the birth. I "blame" it on the move more than the pregnancy actually, but had I not gotten pg, we would probably make a few more trips.
Oh, and I didn't go with other family members to South Africa to visit my sister who is studying abroad.
Its all worth it though.
Due to pregnancy complications, money to prepare for baby, travel restrictions at the end, and even events that will take place within a week or two post baby DH and I will have missed:
Our friends wedding in North Carolina
My cousin's bar mitzvah 30 minutes away from the house
Our friends wedding in Florida
Our childhood best friend's wedding is a week after my EDD. As long as I'm not pushing and everything is ok DH (a groomsman) will be there for at least the ceremony and pictures -- at this rate, I'm hoping not to be there.
DH's cousin's bar mitzvah in Florida?
I was supposed to be in my BFF's wedding on March 18th, and my doc told me I couldn't travel that far (it was in FL, I'm in TN). Honestly I wasn't too upset about it - I would have had to wear a fluorescent green dress (seriously, it was day-glo green) when 7 1/2 months pregnant...it would not have been pretty.
Sorry to hear about your grandma!
I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother, thats hard to be so far away.
Luckily, I've only missed out two big friend drinking get togethers because I didn't want to be pregnant and in a bar or around all the smoke. We are missing a family reunion this weekend for DH's side of the family, but are so thankful to be missing that (they are like 20 years behind the rest of society, are always very rude to me )
We haven't really missed anything during pregnancy, but we're going to miss events right after EDD. I'll miss a family reunion, which is a bummer because one of my cousins that I haven't seen in at least 15 years is coming out with his family. DH will miss his 20 year high school reunion, and he already missed his 10th.
This made me laugh out loud. Oh...the humanity...
Thanks to everyone for your support and tales of woe/beer. I'm not pitying myself as much now!!! I think it's harder to miss out on happy occassions than sad ones. Except, of course, for the happy occasions that require hideous dresses....
Sorry about your Grandmother.
I am missing the following:
1. Beer drinking. Drinking in general, but I especially miss beer.
2. The birth, and first few months, of one of my best friend's twin daughters...not enough time or money to go see them.
3. Annual Labor Day celebration with my husband's family at their mountain cabin. Baby will be too tiny to travel, in my opinion. Plus, I am sure I will be too tired.
All in all, I can definately handle all of this, as it is for my daughter!
With my DD, I missed everything, I wasn't allowed to leave the house from 20 weeks on due to placenta previa, it really stunk and I wasn't allowed to go to the user group meeting I planned for work or my baby showers.
This one has been tons better but I may be missing my master's program once a year get together. I will be 38 weeks so we'll see. I will miss a trip to see my parents next weekend because they live too far away.
i haven't missed much while pregnant, but i'm missing a few things right around my due date and just after when i'll have a newborn.
- friend coming into town, staying with another friend and everyoen is planning a big 'girls night out' - it's literally ON my due date so either i'll have a baby or be so flipping giant pg i am sure i won't be hanging out in a bar!
-week after due date friend having a giant 'kickoff summer party' --same situation as above
-3 weeks after due date friends all taking road trip for a weekend for a friend's 30th bday. considering i can't leave a newborn and it's a big party party weekend, i will definitely not be attending
of course i'm excited about the baby but these are the silly little things i'll miss being able to run and do easily!
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DH coaches a step team that had a competition in Hershey Park, PA. I missed missed that - it would have been too long a day for me watching the competition + roaming around the park (they did win Grand Champions though).
I am missing picking up my step daughter from college this week. It's a 6 hour ride.
The step team is also performing at McDonald's gospel fest next month -- haven't decided whether I'll be up to attending that event because its literally all day long.
DH wants me to miss another step team competition at Disney World in September! DD will probably be about 5 weeks old, if I deliver on time. He thinks thats too much. But its Disney World! I wanna go!
Do you think it's too much?
None, unfortunately.
I actually hoped to conceive sooner so I would be due around my cousin's wedding (June 7th) and would have an out. But I'm just grateful that I AM pregnant (many friends dealt with IF issues) no matter when this baby is due. So I have to go.
My cousin is nice enough, but she's 11 years younger than I am and we've never been close. And whenever I go to an event that my aunt and uncle throw I have a terrible time. Her friends are cliquish and don't speak to me or my family (hurts my mom's feelings terribly) and if it weren't for my 91-year-old grandmother, I wouldn't go.
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I'm sorry about your grandmother.
I'm missing a friend's wedding. It's a month before my due date in NYC, and I live in Florida. I also missed that same friend's bachelorette party. I could technically have gone, but I thought I'd be a party pooper plus I didn't think I'd have much fun!
I am so sorry about your grandmother. That's so sad.
I'm missing my BIL's wedding, but that's his own fault for purposely choosing a date that is one week after my due date and in another city.
My cousin's funeral is tomorrow, and I won't be there because I can't drive myself the 8 hours it takes to get there, and DH is on call so he can't go.
A lot of movies and concerts we won't be attending due to either late pregnancy or new baby. Nothing major, but little things I'd like to see that we won't be able to. ?
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Nothing really due to pregnancy, but more right after baby is born. I'll miss a friends wedding because baby will be too young to be out in public with that many people around and welll I probably won't want to be out either:)
Oh and a summer vacation. We really wish we could have gone on a backpacking trip in the Grand Tetons, but that won't be happening this summer.