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February 2012 Moms
pennyandandy
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What are your Top 5 Stressors?
pennyandandy
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The maternity leave post got me wondering, what are the top 5 baby related things that are stressing you out the most? Just wondering how similar everyone's will be.
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Re: What are your Top 5 Stressors?
1. Home remodeling
2. Labor
3. Maternity leave
4. Daycare
5. Dealing with IL's
1. Having a toddler and a newborn while recovering from a c/s
2. Money
3. Open heart surgery on my little baby
4. Money
5. Not having time with DH until we're back into a routine
I think that might actually be all of it. Actual baby stuff will sort itself out, I figure, so I'd rather not worry about it before I have to.
1. Making the transition smooth for DD
2. Staying sane with two little ones!
3. Cost, especially daycare
4. Will I ever sleep again?
5. Balancing work and family
1) Having everything ready in time
2) Finances
3) Sleep/sanity/couple-time after baby
...That's about it, I think.
♥ Married since June 2009 ♥
TW: Living children & Losses:
Pregnant after 4 losses via IVF/FET with daughter "Gamma" (EDD Oct 2, 2019)
(1) The complications with my membranes and cord/placenta we discovered on Wed.
(2) Changes / Uncertainty regarding L/D b/c of those complications
(3) Work... I have so many files to work before she gets here, it's ridiculous.
(4) Telling my employer I'm not coming back after maternity leave (job is in another city and I can't do the commute anymore w/ a baby that far away) --> Will I go nuts staying at home? ---> If so, hunting for another job
(5) My MIL's craziness / boundary issues intensifying once the baby is here.
1. Cluttered, unorganized house
2 - 4. Money
5. Labor/hospital/needle/doctor/PANIC
1. Money (it seems everyone has this concern, which kind of puts me at ease)
2.If work will give raises or bonuses this year. It's been a few years for raises (payfreeze company wide) and I am actually really hoping for a promotion.
3.labor and how dh will handle the whole labor and delivery process
4.if baby will come on time(hubs is doing a ski race feb. 24th (he was signed up before we concieved) and my parents also want us to housesit for them on the 20th-27th or feb.), we are dure the 6th. I am really not sure what we were thinking. Here's to hoping baby isn't late!
5.Holiday planning, and giving both families enough Holiday time.
1. Money
2. What I'm going to do as far as work after the babies get here
3. So much to do and only 77 days at the most until babies arrive
4. Need to get rid of my tiny car and get a mini van asap
5. Dealing with drs
1. J is losing his license for three months, starting next week. I could kill him. Yes, it's a long story....
2. House shopping with the world's pickiest man. He likes one out of every thousand houses on the market in our area. Meanwhile, I am sick of this apartment. I would like to know where I will be living when the baby comes.
3. My insurance coverage starts January 1st. Baby is due February 6th. Yup.
4. Thee Holidays.
5. I really hope this hot-start problem I have with my car is NBD. I don't want to be stranded anywhere this winter.
1. Money!!!
2. School - Trying to graduate with 2 kids while working because I'm the breadwinner of the family!
3. Changes in my job - New boss, new responsibilities
4. Labor - I'm a huge wuss
5. DS's problems with behavior and school... I feel like the baby is going to make things worse
1. Just being ready. I'm a FTM and am rarely around babies
2. Money
3. Daycare
4. Labor ? I will join the wuss club
5. Dealing with the ILs
1. money, mostly money while I am out on maternity leave even though DH swears we have enough in savings, I am not convinced
2. L&D, where will I be when it happens, will I know it is happening, how I am going to handle it, how DH is going to handle it.
3. lack of sleep, how can I get anything done without or with little sleep
4. going back to work, leaving LO and trying to get caught up at work when I return
5. how DH and my relationship will change adding a baby to the mix!
1. Home remodeling
2. Money!!!!
3. Maternity Leave
4. SO not being there when I go into Labor (he works 2 hours away)
5. "holy crap, I'm having a baby!!!"
1. My DH, i love him - but seriously gotta get the depression and issues under control ASAP.
2. DH's family - brothers not talking, uncles and brothers not talking, MIL a stress bomb on a war path, FIL struggling with on-set of dementia... and we're bringing in a baby? great.
3. finances. we have so much to be thankful for, but i am starting to feel a *major* choke.
4. premature labor. i'm just an anxious person.
5. the fact that i'm in charge of the body, heart and soul of a little person for the rest of our lives. yikes !
1- having a good L&D
2- visitors at the hospital/drama from those not invited
3- maternity leave
4- going back to work
5- ???
1. My husband getting stressed out about money. He never thinks we have enough when we really do.
2. We are moving into a very small rental house while we save to pay cash for our own house. We will be crowded. I'm nervous about getting everything organized and making our home feel spacious with 2 adults, 2 kids, and baby gear everywhere. But I'm excited for the challenge too.
I honestly don't have any more. I am about the most laid-back person you will ever meet.
1. Feeling behind on the Nursery
2. Basically planning my own shower because MIL keeps asking me to "take care of this" instead of just doing it herself (as the hostess...)
3. The mood swings & DHs reactions. I wish he would be more understanding.
4. Xbox customer Support (whole 'nother tirade, there!!)
5. Anything and everything birth related. I don't know why - but I'm terrified and wish I could just wake up and have him here.
BFP 5.31.2011 ~*~ Michael Joseph ~*~ BORN 2.8.2012
1. Money
2. Not making it to the hospital on time
3. Breastfeeding (had a lot of challenges with dd#1)
4. Going back to work when baby arrives
5. Not having everything ready when baby arrives. (actually had a hard time coming up with a 5th, this is all I can think of. 1-4 are much more stressful than 5)
Isobel
5 February 2008