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Things that annoy you now that you are a mom
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Safety issues that can be avoided -- Babies that are strapped improperly in the car seat. Chest clip is positioned at the belly and the straps aren't tight.
DS 7/6/09
DD 9/4/11
EDD 9/1/15
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Re: Things that annoy you now that you are a mom
Super dangerous drivers piss me off way more now. I don't just mean a little speeding either. I mean the huge truck that is on my side of the road when I come around the curve on a two-lane or the kid driving grandma's Buick that ran me onto the shoulder the other day.
Before kids it was like "haha you're an idiot!"
Now it's like "OMFG DIE BEFURE YOU KILL MEH BABBIES!"
hahahahahah!!! THIS! I'm still waiting on LO's arrival (the bump bumped me to a new board this week), but I do a lot of driving for my job as an outside sales rep, and I'm ALWAYS thinking these thoughts. Lots of curse words and mental fist shaking. Before I would try to speed up to thwart some jerk's efforts at hopping one car ahead by weaving in between lanes. Now I drive in the right lane and hope everyone else stays reeeeeeeeeeally slow around me.
Everything OP and PP said.
Stupid things I see people doing with their kids.
People who don't respect the required distance and smoke right outside of the doors to a store/mall (this bothered me before, but now I give dirty looks).
Above all else: my MIL.
All of these...
OMG THIS! I have always hated smoking but once I had DD it is on a whole different level! I too give dirty looks...jerks...
Bahahaha!! All of this! I don't know how many times I have to tell my inlaws that the things they did over 20 years ago are no longer relevant! He will be dressed in a fleece outfit and it will be 72 inside and they still insist on wrapping him up in a blanket and keep saying I shouldn't let a "draft" get on him! He has gas because he had to much fresh air on him. Really? Poor little guy is always so sweaty when they are over!
omg lmao.
I agree with all pps!
and to add- people that act like I'm weird because I want to follow AAP guidelines, and other things "the experts" tell you. I don't even go completely by the book, but in general yea.. I dont want my kid eating anything but breastmilk, dont want to put her on her tummy to sleep, etc. I still do other "wrong" things such as bedshare. but seriously quit telling me I need to give cereal, etc! and then joking about how "by the book" i am!grrr
sorry vent over.
"What did my fingers do before they held you? What did my heart do with it's love?"
Smoking...I quit last year and I told myself I wouldn't be one of those b!tchy ex-smokers who wouldn't hang out at my friends' houses because they smoked inside, etc. Well, that went out the window once I got pregnant. A lot of my friends smoke, and most of them haven't met the baby, and one big reason is that I don't have the nerve to say "please don't smoke today until after you come over...oh, and how about I pick you up because your car reeks." After being a smoker for nine years, this has been a big personality change for me.
I really don't even want people smoking in the backyard when they come over, but I let that one go. These are my friends, after all. But now, I want to tell them to get their baby fills before they go out to smoke.
I don't care if you wash your hands and change your shirt, please don't make my baby smell like cigarettes. =/
Also, my dad's wife bugs the sh!t out of me. Really? You want to add me as your daughter on facebook? My ACTUAL mom is on facebook. I don't think so.
She's become more pushy about our relationship since I got pregnant, and I'm not into it. I have issues with my dad, one of them being that this is his fifth wife, and she just doesn't understand that there is distance between us for a reason.
I'll never say it to her, so I'll say it here: I don't want my daughter to call you grandma. She already has two grandmas, and frankly, I don't want her to get too attached to you since I don't how long you're going to be around.
loud motorcycles. I mean really, do you HAVE to rev your engine next to my sleeping children?
I used to LOVE motorcycles...I see them as nothing but annoyances now.
Posting from an Android sorry for any errors
MIL!! She always gives me unwanted advice, or should I say demands? It irritates me SOO bad. She also will ask me something like if my 3 week old bf baby can go stay the night at her house an hour away, after I tell her hell no she will go behind my back and ask DH. If I ask her to not do something with the baby, like change her outfit that I decided for her to wear.. she will go and change her anyway!
Then when people tell me I need to get rid of my pit bull because he's going to turn on my DD, how I need to get rid of my cats because they are going to take her breath away, and how people ask me to put my animals away when they come to the house because they are bothering the baby... um they live there and they are around her 24/7 and never invade her personal space!!!
-Moms that don't put a coat on their LOs. Hello, we live in Wisconsin. I see that YOU are wearing a coat and you are carrying LO's coat while you run her into the store in just a longsleeve tee. Take the 45 seconds and put your coat on your kid before running from car to building. I'm sure its a hassle and you aren't in the cold for "that long" but if it is cold enough for you to want to be bundled then how the hell do you think that your child is ok being so exposed?
-Bad drivers bother me and frighten me. I am dreading my first snow driving experience with DD.
-Uppity moms bother me. I'm not talking the moms that are committed to a particular baby lifestyle (cloth diapering, EBF, etc.) or the ones that have the $2000 stroller and bought the newest Volvo station wagon the moment they got pregnant. I am talking about the ones that look down on the rest of us that don't raise our kids exactly like they are raising theirs. "Why yes, those are disposable diapers in my cart. Damn right I intend to use them."
This is a new one...my FIL! My DH's family is all from Portugal so yes they do things different. However, the day I was leaving the hospital I was a hormonal WRECK...histerically crying in the elevator type of wreck, only to get off and see him waiting in the lobby to take MY daughter to HIS house in HIS car...my response... "oh hell F*cking No!" Then he has the nerve to call us at 7am the next morning because we have to come over for breakfast..again...no. SO he takes it upon himself to just show up at our house...walk in without knocking and proceed to take the baby from a friend of mine who stopped by to bring her a gift. I saw red. lol Everytime we go to his parents house the second I take her out of her seat he is reaching for her from my arms in an impatient manner, I literally cannot deal. OH..and then.he sends the "baby" messages in portuguese to her on my facebook...first of all...shes a month old...she cannot read your dumb messages, secondly, I don't speak the language so I don't even know what the hell you are saying!
Lastly, he thinks he is the only one who can calm her down when she is crying, he will take her from whoever has her by walking up to them and grabbing her out of whoevers arms and then will shush her and walk away with her while turning his back on everyone so that nobody can even have a chance to say no.. then will try and jam a bottle in her mouth like hes the god damn miracle worker. Last week he did this and I look up and he's just letting her suck air because he wasn't tilting the bottle, she then got sick and vomited and had a sore tummy all night..
UGH..I could go on and on!
sorry this turned out to be a huge vent! lol
My stupid neighbors! We live in a townhouse and share a wall with these bozos. They would have (and did) annoy me before, but now that LO is here, DH and I can't put up with their antics anymore. They are about 10 years younger than we are, and they make me feel so freaking OLD. Some things they do include:
- playing thumping music until 5 AM
- playing thumping music until 5 AM while they sit and smoke in the carport (they explained that they had to turn the music up so that they could hear it when they were outside!)
- chopping firewood in the driveway. (It was August. And we live in the city.)
- having LOUD sex and playing loud "mood music" at 4:30 AM in their bedroom, which shares a wall with our bedroom
- having a party on their deck at 3 AM, and not understanding that the noise carries over to the rest of the street
DH goes and talks to them every time their noise gets out of hand. He's been really nice to them about it. Every time, though, they act like he has said something revolutionary. "Really? Everyone can hear us? Oh, sorry, we didn't know!" Aaaugh.
Went to my moms for thanksgiving and she failed to mention my aunt would be there and has a cold! Now I am sick and praying my LO doesnt get sick! Thanks alot!!
Also that my mom doesnt belief there is a thing called third hand smoke! I even left her the information at her house and she still thinks i am over reacting! GRRR
I feel the same way right now. I'm only 6 weeks along but she is driving me nuts. She calls me and says hey this is mom.....I've already told her that I do not feel comfortable with her calling herself mom to me. Not how I was raised and it just makes me really confortable. She just doesn't seem to care....in one ear out the other. Anyway, she is already trying to touch my stomach and I'm not a touchy feely kind of person. I'm only 6 weeks. She already wants to buy a crib and be in the delivery room and stay at our house after the baby is born. I'm stressed out over my MIL.
Motorcycles are loud for a safety reason... though i agree that it is annoying, I understand how important it is for them to be so loud.