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Who is driving you nuts?

ScarlettVScarlettV member
edited October 2013 in December 2013 Moms
It's late and I can't sleep because I'm just. Too. Wide.

So join me ladies in complaining.

Who is the one person who is or was driving you crazy this pregnancy?

Mine would be my friend who is a three time mom; who has taken to emailing me links to blogs and articles related to pregnancy on views we do not share....that are completely lacking any scientific basis or logic. Like blogspot opinions. She has turned into a serious sanctimommy.

She was debating me over my choice to vax our baby and I said, "you seem to be under the impression that I don't research my views. Which I actually dedicate a great deal of time to." She replies with, "good, I'm very happy to hear that because most people don't." Wtf. Have you not known me for 15 years? Ironic considering all her research comes from random people's blogs.
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  • 2010weddinggal2010weddinggal member
    My friend is driving me crazy as well, she has all this advice and tells me some of the most horrible things about babies. Like she told me not to put DH on the BC because he would have to pay health insurance, she also told me I was going to have PPD and breastfeeding is going to be so hard I will prob quit. But the most depressing thing about it all is two weeks ago we went to dinner and she was talking to me about some family problems and I did not agree with her about any of it because it is all wrong to begin with. She has officially stopped talking to me and I guess our friendship is over. But I can not agree with something that I fully do not believe is wrong, oh well they say that is not a true friend anyways.

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  • 2010weddinggal2010weddinggal member
    JaxxM said:
    random people and their unsolicited advice on pregnancy or having a newborn.  or the ones who try and touch my bump, or who tell me wow you are so big for how far along you are.  i dont talk about my pregnancy to my friends. i ask all my questions or if i need advice i prefer to use the bump of google.
    I get tons of unsolicited advice from parents that I would not take advice from....
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  • Ohiomama2013Ohiomama2013 member
    My child's school is driving me nuts! I'm seriously one incident away from calling in and losing it. Her cheerleading practice dates change without warning. I'm normally a go-with-the-flow kind of girl, but I'm on bedrest and I have to plan her transportation every single day. (Private school, no bus) I actually called one day last week about practice at 1pm. Yes, they say. She has practice. At 3pm, they call to tell me she doesn't have practice and who will be picking her up. Hello? I can't freaking teleport! Today, she doesn't show up on time after school. I call the school and they have practice! I barely kept myself from crying on the phone. I had to call one of my faithful helpers at the last minute to pick her up after practice. They admitted it was an add on practice and that most kids didn't get to stay. The office promised I would have a note with an accurate, updated schedule sent home today with her. No note. And the coach just sent me a words with friends request! Oh, I have words. Sweet Lord, do I have words.
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  • playball13playball13 member
    hjweber said:
    Everyone.  

    Same. Everyone is driving me nuts.
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  • ScarlettVScarlettV member
    Ohiomama2013 said:

    My child's school is driving me nuts! I'm seriously one incident away from calling in and losing it. Her cheerleading practice dates change without warning. I'm normally a go-with-the-flow kind of girl, but I'm on bedrest and I have to plan her transportation every single day. (Private school, no bus) I actually called one day last week about practice at 1pm. Yes, they say. She has practice. At 3pm, they call to tell me she doesn't have practice and who will be picking her up. Hello? I can't freaking teleport! Today, she doesn't show up on time after school. I call the school and they have practice! I barely kept myself from crying on the phone. I had to call one of my faithful helpers at the last minute to pick her up after practice. They admitted it was an add on practice and that most kids didn't get to stay. The office promised I would have a note with an accurate, updated schedule sent home today with her. No note. And the coach just sent me a words with friends request! Oh, I have words. Sweet Lord, do I have words.

    Oh my gosh, the words with friends part.....fantastic

    I would kill these ppl.
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  • AGriffin620AGriffin620 member
    hjweber said:

    Everyone.  

    I was going to ask...do we just get to pick one?

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  • mavgirl_73mavgirl_73 member
    The back up midwife I'm seeing while mine is out on vacation. Yes, I get it, you're covering for her, but see the thing is I don't care. If I have concerns I'm gonna call you. Deal with it.

     

     

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  • limeblue44limeblue44 member
    My darling younger SILs. They both had their children young and are SAHMs which is awesome, just not for me. They seem to think I am completely incapable of raising a child.
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  • MeynaraMeynara member
    Sad to say, it's DH. And it's not because he's completely awful or anything, but because he keeps bouncing back and forth between being helpful and just lazy. One day, it's all rainbows and roses and sunshine, the next it's all rain and stinky diapers and pain. Sometimes, it changes even within the day. In his view, if I'm sitting, I'm being lazy and should get up more. But if I get up and start wobbling 'cause the room starts spinning (which happens much more often than it doesn't, and always after I've been standing for a minute or two, not immediately upon standing), then I'm pushing too hard and need to sit. If I don't fix supper or clean the kitchen, again, I'm lazy. But if I get up and do so and start having trouble, oh no, I shouldn't worry about it and leave it to him. Make up your mind on if I'm being lazy or should be relaxing, man!

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  • TimeToReplaceTheCatsWithABabyTimeToReplaceTheCatsWithABaby member
    Once a month I go to a "girls' night" with a group of wives from my husband's department (we've all uprooted our lives in the last six months to 3 years for our tenure-track hubbies). One of the wives is so self absorbed that she's just. Fucking. Awful. Tonight she sends out a invite saying we "must"get together one nov 1 to celebrate her completing her second homework assignment for the class she's taking, and that we can only go to her favorite restaurant. Great, right? No. She wants to go to a sushi place one month before my due date. A sushi place that ONLY serves raw. As long as it's fresh, I'm not about it. But I'd be there with this woman who lectures me about what I'm doing wrong with my pregnancy every time I see her. And how she did things differently than I do with both of her pregnancies. So if I go, I can eat what I want and be lectured or sip some water and enjoy the other ladies' company. Yup. She's on my list. Also, what self-respecting woman in her 30s needs to "celebrate"doing her homework?
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  • 2010weddinggal2010weddinggal member
    I would not go, no one deserves to be miserable at 9 months pregnant....
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  • TimeToReplaceTheCatsWithABabyTimeToReplaceTheCatsWithABaby member
    2010weddinggal said:
    I would not go, no one deserves to be miserable at 9 months pregnant....
    Iwas leaning toward not going. But I like the other 5 ladies, and I know I'll be sitting out december's get together since LO is due Dec 1. I think I may just stage a coup to change the restaurant.
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  • m88bloomm88bloom member
    The one person that continuously gets me every time I see or talk with her has to be one of my SO's best friends. She's one of those that LOVED being pregnant and was the perfect pregnant person "I didn't even take Tylonol". Good for you! She makes SO feel uncomfortable about me taking a sip from his beer or eating sushi (cooked sushi rolls). Oh and if you want your kid to be like this you need to do this. . blah blah blah. I know she means well and it wouldn't bother me so much if SO didn't put so much stock into what she says. It's my effin body and MY effin kid. I will malnourish and abuse him however I see fit! She also keeps pushing to be there when he's born. Bitch you wont even be told until after he's out and I get some rest. 

    Ahh that makes me feel better :) I can't vent to SO (like I normally do) about this since it's his friend. Thanks!
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  • lisab613lisab613 member
    seriously, it's everyone. I feel like a lot of the time, all people want to talk about is my pregnancy, and I'm kinda over talking about it. I'm starting to not feel awesome, which is fine and to be expected, but I don't want to complain to my co-workers, so I'd prefer they just stop asking how I'm feeling altogether. I should probably just get over it and say "good," even when it is clearly not true.

     

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  • jamrosjjamrosj member
    I vote everyone. My mom has now decided she needs to tell me na,e suggestions because we haven't decided and my IL's are now going to visit this weekend and Thanksgiving. I usually drive myself silly cleaning beforehand but I am slowly taking up the IDGAF mantra for things because I'm having issues being on my feet. 
    Also, I swear DH is trying to make life more difficult. He brought home 3 grocery bags of tomatoes from a lady at work and decided we are going to learn to can and when I finally agreed we can sell the elliptical machine he tries to convince ,e we can hang on to it until we can drive it to his cousin 4 hours away. Did I mention it's in the middle of our very small nursery?!?

    OK so it's fair to say everyone is bugging me.
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  • Bjhuntley29Bjhuntley29 member
    My sister! She is ten years older than me and has zero children, yet she believes she is way wiser than I could ever be because she's a school teacher. She constantly tells me I am going to be a bad mom and that I can't tell her or my parents what to do when they babysit which I've never even brought up. She also tried to take over my entire baby shower with her two friends (who don't know me) and when I confronted her about it she threw away my invites and cancelled my cake and pretty much screwed me over a week before my shower. I could really care less though besides being irritated because my friends and family were already planning to throw me one. I just think it is rude for her to constantly put me down and say things like I'm too young to have a baby because I can't change that now! Sorry for the long vent but that felt good!
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  • northport6northport6 member
    My dear, dear, dear, dear friend, who is hosting my shower with my mother and mother-in-law.  And it's a silly thing she said on the phone the other night that is driving me nuts.  And it's stupid.  But.

    She's worked for a parenting magazine for a long time and as a result, despite being childless, knows everything her friends are doing wrong with their newborns.  On Friday night she told me about her friend whose baby is currently 4 weeks old and sleeps 6 hours a night.  Which sounds like fucking heaven, but what do I know.  She criticized this friend whose baby is not gaining at the weight she should be (she's gaining, but she's on the low side of average) for not waking her child up to feed.

    I actually don't care whether or not this is the right thing to do, I only care that she has what came off as a totally judgmental opinion instead of genuine concern for her friend's as-yet nonissue.  It makes me feel like maybe I don't want to tell her if my kid sleeps 6 hours (please, universe, make it so), because then she might judge me for not waking him/her up for some boobtime.

    I very gently said that every baby was different and the doctor would probably have said something to her about changing the BFing schedule if her baby wasn't gaining fast enough. She conceded this was probably true, but reiterated the every-four-hour feeding plan and I just let it drop at that.

    But still I found it irksome.
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  • EmJacks0nEmJacks0n member
    RECENTLY, my aunt and cousin. They tried to stir up drama weeks before the shower bc one if my other aunts didn't get her invitation delivered. Truth be told I thought I had sent one to her bc she is one if those aunts I couldn't imagine ever forgetting, she's at all of our close family events, but as luck has it, pregnancy brain messed it up. She got my (nice) aunt all upset, and on the phone with my mother. It really wasn't a big deal, but she (biotch) made it seem personal. Then the same aunt (biotch) who tried to cause trouble ALSO called my mom insisted SHE didn't get invited. That was a complete lie. I addressed it myself, and remember it vividly. Then she and her daughter didn't RSVP, showed up to the shower, with her daughter's two insanely misbehaved (5 & 6 year old) children, who they both ignore. I was LIVID. It wasn't a bring your kid type of party. It was at a fancy restaurant, fully catered, and they needed the head count BEFORE the party. Sorry for the length of explanation!!
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  • bty19bty19 member
    a friend. she is more than 10 weeks behind me and acts as though she is about to give birth.  alsos hows off her barely there bump by rubbing it all the time. gah
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