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Bumpie FFC/Vents
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Vents or confessions only a mom or a mom-to-be would care about... 
Vents: DD, why do you always seem to poop yourself the minute we step outside the door to go run errands? And speaking of diapers, when did it get to be so difficult to change her? Lately it feels like I am wrestling an alligator!
Confessions: I admit, there are times that after I read a book to DD during the day, it will "accidentally" be pushed behind the couch cushions out of view because if I have to read "Somebunny Loves Me" one more time, I may poke my eyes out!
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Re: Bumpie FFC/Vents
Vent/Whine: My mom told me this morning that her and my step-dad are going to the beach next week for two nights and taking DS with them--they do this a couple times during the summer. That's fine and dandy except for the fact that I will be 38 weeks...what if I go into labor? DH's mom will be on vacation all next week as well. She just told me last week I should pack my bag since I might go early and now she is going away.
Confession: I can't really think of one...but I will post one if I do.
Vent: Maybe its my pregnancy hormones but I can't stand how certain posters on the bump get all uppity and self righteous about giving juice to their LO. I love that they have to respond to the juice posts with "Oh No, we absolutely never give juice and I would be so infuriated if my DCP gave LO juice" like they want a fvcking parenting medal or something. DS gets watered down juice-he loves it-he still drinks his water and milk. BFD! Why do people care so much? Also the team greeners who act like it's so much better to do it their way piss me off too. Some people like to wait....some people like to know ahead of time. What does it matter when someone chooses to find out the sex of their child. Who cares?? Neither way is "better". Gah, I am worked up today.
Confession: I hid DS's baseball bat after dinner yesterday because otherwise he wants to go to bed with it and cries a lot.
Last night Mia brought me this stupid Barbie Fashion Show book for the umpteenth night in a row and I made a meaningful face at DH and said it would be a shame of anything happened to it. He hid it somewhere when DD went to bed. We both hate the damn thing and I'm sick of reading it.
Vent: Mia, please stop saying "Mommy, I'm not allowed to say stupid" as a way to, y'know, say the word stupid without getting into trouble. Same goes for "Mommy, I'm not allowed to say Oh My God, I have to say Oh My Gosh." DEFEATING THE PURPOSE.
Confession: See the above book-related one, though I don't actually feel that guilty about it. The child has an impressive library. She can pick something else.
We went to Don Pablo's last night and one of the sides I ordered for her I did with ulterior motives. I wanted tater tots to dunk in my queso.
Vent: DCP was complaining yesterday that A seems to be the only kid that gets bitten by bugs. For the second time in two weeks she had a tick on her. The last time it was on her head, this time on her leg. DCP tells DH that they make this special shampoo, that we should get a bottle of it. DH didn't tell me this. He was highly pissed off yesterday when he got there and saw that 4 kids were outside by themselves (not A).
Confession: I may jump DH this coming week while on vacation. I have baby fever really bad!
LOL! Duh the only reason we're not finding out is so I can waltz around and tell everyone what a better parent I am already!!
ETA - I hope my sarcasm came across in this post. I know the kind of people you're talking about. They're annoying. I promise I'm not one of them.
As a team greener I will say I get annoyed when people say they HAVE to know so they can plan because I always take that as if you're team green you're not planning. I personally don't care one way or the other if people find out, but for us, we didn't want to.
This is more of a FFC but one of the reasons I'm going to miss being pregnant is people letting me cut in lines, offering me seats, and overall just being more pleasant towards me. I know once I pop this baby out most people will go back to being trolls.
I agree! I do like to encourage people not to find out because it was fun, but I really do not care what others do.
Confession: DD has been Whiney-McWhinerson lately and it is getting on my last nerve. Consequently my patience has been very short. I miss my happy baby!
Vent: DH "watched" DD while I took a shower this morning by letting her watch the Fresh Beat Band. (So far not a problem I do this too.) But instead of getting her dressed, packing her lunch and getting her school bag together he sat on the couch and read a book. When I gave him the side-eye he said he didn't know what I wanted him to do.
HELLO! I lay out clothes for the week on Sunday, so all you had to do was pick out 1 of the outfits laying on her changing table. She takes fresh fruit every day so pick something out, cut it up and put it in her lunch bag.
I don't cut fruit better just because I have a va-jay-jay!
I feel this way about sleep too- DS isn't the best sleeper. He sleeps enough and it's not like I b!tch and whine about him still waking up to nurse at night sometimes, but whenever I mention it (just matter of factly) people jump all over me. I am sorry, but CIO isn't for our family, DD and DS share a room, a room that is right next to us, and CIO wouldn't get any of us anymore sleep.
Another confession:
DD and I got into the car on Monday morning and, seeing my plugging in my phone to play music, she said "Mommy! I want potatoes oiled and fried!" After taking a second to ponder why she was asking for hash browns, which she hates, I realized she wanted a song called Potatoes by the group Barleyjuice, which talks about wanting potatoes with whisky on the side.
My Christian sister (who doesn't attend parties where alcohol is being served, nor patronizes restaurants with bars) is horrified to hear DD sing that one, but I consider it payback for the fact that my kid comes home from her house singing about finding Jesus (which seriously pissess me off).
What?!? That's crazy. Last time I checked Juicy-Juice isn't the devil. Everything in moderation people!
I'm actually upset because DD will NOT drink juice. She will drink water or milk. This made it VERY difficult when she had a temperature for several days in a row. She wouldn't eat and all I could get her to drink was milk. So in addition to having a fever and strep, she was constipated too.
LOL Maria!
I swear DH would let A play with playdoh every damn minute, instead of giving her a bath or helping me get her ready for bed.
Check out the Preemie board, lots of drama over there with giving a baby juice!
This is EXACTLY why I stay on my friendly neighborhood Baltimore board.
I'm sick of my one co-worker telling me we need to have baby #2 RIGHT NOW if we are going to have a second, because we will want them close together in age. She is very open with her opinions on people's personal lives, I don't know if it's cultural (she's Armenian), but it's annoying. We know when we want to, and can afford, have baby #2 so thankyouverymuch.
I get so annoyed with DH sometimes, we will be getting J ready for bed after his bath on our bed and I'm trying to put a diaper on him (like OP said, it's like wreastling with a wild animal) and he is just sitting there with this blank expression on his face, obviously watching me struggle-is within arms reach and DOES NOTHING TO HELP! At least, not until I sigh and ask "could you give me a hand" in a not so nice tone. He does this at other times too, like when I'm trying to make dinner and J is pulling at my shirt to pick him up, and DH just stands there totally zoned out. It drives me insane. If I see him struggling with something I immediately jump in, but he seems like he is in his own world sometimes.
Confession - I guess I'm officially TTC, but I got AF 2 days ago
Last time it happened immediately - oh well, hopefully next month is better
Vent - DD switched to the toddler bed on Friday, it was ok for a few days, but really bad two nights ago (asleep finally at 10 pm, awake at 4:30!) and last night, DD was a completely hysterical mess and I ended up having to rock/sing her to sleep. But, before I decided to do that and was still trying to reason with her through her over tired tantrum and getting more and more frustrated by the second, I sort of realized why people hit their kids. It is soooo exhausting and difficult dealing w/an upset child and I try to walk away, but then she just follows me and screams louder and when the solution is so obvious - GO TO SLEEP!!! Singing and rocking was good for both of us.
Kathryn you should have read her this book....
Grrrr I'm not sure why the image isn't showing up but I was trying to post the "Go the Fvck to Sleep" book.
Vent: DH doesnt seem to realize just how much our lives will be changing when LO arrives. It is almost as though he thinks LO will start STTN right away and no sleep lost on our end. I feel like sending him over to brother/SIL's house for 24 hours and see how much work it truly is.
Confession: I am scared to death at how much everything will change. I am scared to think that maybe I wont be a great mother. I know I can handle the good things that come with having a baby but not the bad (sleep deprivation, tantrums, etc). I wake up some mornings after a nightmare and think "What did we get ourselves into?". And I dont want to ever regret having this baby. I feel extremely guilty for feeling this way.
You won't regret your baby. You really won't.
Things are going to change for the two of you, no doubt. And your DH may be in for a rude awakening, but he'll catch on soon enough. You'll both figure it out just like every other set of first-time parents has. Yes, there's rough moments - being exhausted and hormonal was rough, temper tantrums and the word "no" are rough, slammed doors and stomping feet are rough. It's all part of parenting. You two will get through it together, and when you need the support, you'll turn to the people around you who are more than willing to lend a hand, offer advice, or just listen when you need to vent.
It'll be okay. None of us knew what we were doing when we became parents either. I'd changed hundreds of diapers, soothed hundreds of tears and slept with babies on my chest more than I can count, but still, nothing fully prepared me for being one of the two sole caretakers for a tiny little baby. It was hard and it was an adjustment and I cried a lot and yet, it was all amazing.
You'll be an awesome mom.
hugs - you'll be great!
Umm, is this common knowledge on the board and I am out of the loop??
!!!!!
Yay for Ella potentially being a big sister!!
I'm not making a badge or anything so you're not out of the loop. I just want to be low key in case, you know. ... things don't work. But thanks. If she doesn't go to sleep soon, though she'll be singleton!!
LOL! So no fertility chart in your siggie just yet? hahahahaa
Vent:
I was 2 cm and 50% effaced on Tuesday. Went in for growth ultrasound yesterday morning (UM....8 pounds, 10 oz.) But I'm not too worried, they aren't that accurate.
Because I was contracting every 5 mins they doctor came to check me and I had progressed to 3-4 cm and 80%. He TELLS me i'm in labor and gives me the option to go home and walk for 2 hours and return to the hospital...or just go now. Given the speed of my last delivery I grabbed a bite to eat and went. But I just didn't feel like it was labor, they weren't painful enough.
Fast forward: yep, false labor. I continued to contract every 2-7 minutes for the entire day long and they said to go home and come back when they are consistently 3 minutes apart. Which didn't happen. Today they died down. I think it's because I had my membranes stripped and it was just a temporary flukey thing.
I just hated having my hopes up. I'm over it now though.
So how long can I really walk around 3-4 cm dilated?? Geez, 4 is when they start giving epidurals.
And this is exciting! Good luck : )
I know this feeling! This time it took 6 or 7 months; with DS it happened on the first round. Good luck to you guys!
Confessions: I'm so going to be this type of mom. As it is, after playing forever, I let the dog's tennis ball (he's obsessed) roll under the coffee table and pretend I don't know where it went. :-) He forgets eventually.
Jadebaby summed up everything else perfectly!
Oh wait, a vent: We announced we were not traveling for Christmas because LO will be so young, but that our families were all welcome. We had talked about mine before Christmas and DH's after. There were reasonably priced airline tickets last week (rare from Montana), so my parents booked their visit for the 18-25th of Dec. One week later, MIL announces that they are moving from Chicago back to Nashville, and since she'll be at a new job, she won't have any vacation saved up. She wants to come for Christmas, but can pretty much only do the 23-26...overlapping with my family. "I don't want to overwhelm you guys, but it's the only time we can come..."
We have a decent sized house where everyone would have a bed/room, but if the weather isn't good, I cringe at the thought of 2 sets of parents (who are different from each other), us with our new baby, and my brother and SIL with a 1 year old and 5 year old all in the same house, even for only 2-3 days. That's not even considering DH's brother and SIL, who we had originally planned would come at the same time as his folks. I'm considering running away. Maybe it would be great. The grandma's can fight over the baby, hopefully someone will watch the nephews, and I can just sleep...
Baby Girl #2 is on her way!
Hotels are your friend
This- how old will your LO be?
I know some people are all about having family stay with them when they have new babies, but unless they are really awesome about helping out w/o asking questions, know your house, know how you like things done, can make themselves a meal w/o your help/ assistance, etc. have them stay in a nearby hotel/motel.
Ditto everyone! My IL's are here staying with us now and I am counting down the minutes until I go to bed tonight cause they won't be here in the morning.
Thanks, everyone! At that point she'll be roughly 8-9 weeks old.
Baby Girl #2 is on her way!