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Pregnant after 35
Geeps2
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Just need to vent
Geeps2
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Today starts my maternity leave...whoooo hoooo! Problem is I am 3 days away from my due date and am just over being pregnant. I had the lovely "bloody show" last night and had some contractions that I thought would turn into something but didn't. Woke up this morning just feeling pissy and over it all. I am thankful that it is happening naturally and on its own this time. When I was pregnant with my daughter one of the DRs in the practice decided to strip my membranes with no dilation and without me asking him to do it or asking if he could do it. I was in labor for 3 days. Wasn't a fun time to be me. So my silver lining is I am dilating on my own this time around and things are working themselves out naturally without intervention. Just WAY TOO SLOWLY for my impatient self.
Part of my problem is my favorite Dr that delivered my daughter is on call today and tomorrow so I would be guaranteed she would deliver me again if I go into labor within the next 2 days. I have to call today to find out the rest of the weeks on call schedule of Drs. My fear is that I will go into labor on the day/days that the Dr mentioned above, that I despise with the fire of 1,000 burning suns is on call.
Also, my due date is the 21st. My Mother in laws birthday is the 25th. I refuse to have the baby on her birthday. Even my hubs doesn't want that to happen. She is driving me crazy. She reads things on the internet about babies and pregnancy then thinks she is an expert. I am dropping my daughter off at her house this morning because she wants to take DD to story time at the library which is very nice and helpful. Then she says to my DH....how are they getting here? I hear him on the phone confused and hear him say "she is driving how do you think she is getting there"? and I am told after he hangs up that she read somewhere that at the end of pregnancy you weren't supposed to drive????? WTH??? Have I time warped back into the 50's? God help me today when I have to see her this morning and fix the car seat in her car. I may need to seal my lips closed with some crazy glue so as not to get myself in trouble. She is a know it all about EVERYTHING!!!!!!
Sorry for the whining. I just needed to vent and as wonderful as my hubs is he just doesn't get it sometimes.
Hope you all have a great day!!!!
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Re: Just need to vent
Sorry you're having to deal with that. People can be so strange!
When I was pregnant with DS2yrs, my boss & the lady I was training to fill in for me while on maternity leave told me if I went into labor at work that one of them would drive me home in the company car while one drove my car home for me. I guess they thought it would be like in the movies where my water burst like a dam & I start screaming bloody murder.
My water actually did break at work. I told my boss, "I don't feel well. I need to go home." I drove myself home, put our bags in the car & when DH arrived home from work we drove to the hospital. The next morning I called my boss & told him the baby was here. Lol. There was no way I was letting the 2 stooges drive me home!
Labor vibes sent to you! Happy birthing mom and baby thoughts
Thanks ladies! The pregnancy Gods smiled down upon me this morning......no I am not in labor (I wish) I got a phone call from my Mother in law and she is sick. She sounds awful actually. Thinks she may have the flu so I didn't have to see her today. Oh and if I go into labor soon she can't come to the hospital or my house till she is feeling better. Score for me on both fronts!!!!
I really am not that mean she just makes me crazy and most days I can just let it roll but nearing the end and being so uncomfortable I just don't have the energy for it. I did however offer to get her anything she may need since she wasn't feeling well. I'm not all bad
@ Labpup- I told my Doctors this go round about the jack#@$! Dr that I want to avoid. Sadly he is a founding member of the practice so I knew nothing would come of my complaining after it happened. I just avoid him like the plague. Had to see him 1 time in the very beginning of the pregnancy and haven't laid eyes on him since. When I discussed the matter with one of the other (newer) Drs her eyes almost popped out of her head before she could gain composure of her face to try and cover up what was running through her head. He is on call this WEdnesday so if I can go before or after that I will be golden. The only silver lining is on Wed he is only there with the midwife in case of an emergency/surgery so I probably wouldn't have to see him then either.
Thanks Guennie
we will make it through together. Just wait till you lose the plug...gross doesn't begin to describe it and I think the human body is really cool, not that part LOL
Thanks ladies for letting me vent and your kind words
You are the best!!!!
my twins were born on my anniversary of my first marriage as much as I said " I CANNOT have them on this Tuesday, no matter what..."
>-)
annnd the one doctor in the entire hospital that I couldn't stand, and even reported some crude remarks he's made to me (about sex toys causing my preterm labor problems!!), ended up being the one on call by the time we realized I was going to have to go for a c/s after all.
He even made jokes in the OR about giving his pet fish Viagra.... um, yeah...while my critical non-breathing premature girls were being delivered and I was naked as a jay bird in front of him. Turns out he is a well-renowned doctor for high risk pregnancies in the region and was a cerclage specialist.. so no, he wasn't going anywhere...
thankful I don't live there anymore and not have to deal with that idiot.
Hang in there!! Keeping you in my prayers for everything to go smoothly!!
Oh Lord Lucy!!!!! I couldn't even imagine. How gross is he!!! I don't know what I would have done if I were you. My guy wasn't inappropriate like yours was he's just an idiot. He took personal phone calls on me twice and talked to me like I was a moron after I had my daughter and had such swelling I couldn't even bend my legs at the knee. I was retaining so much fluid it was making it hard to breath. His response was "I've seen worse swelling" and then asked me if I was depressed? I have no clue what fluid retention and depression have to do with one another but I left the appointment miserable with no end in sight and his parting words were if I couldn't breath go back to the ER. I got in the car and started sobbing. My poor husband was trying to comfort me and was telling me not to cry. I started laughing through the tears and told him I don't want to because at least I'm getting rid of some of the fluid in my body LOL.
You just can't make this stuff up!!! I am so glad for you that you don't have to deal with him anymore. What a skeevy creep.