I am ready to punch the next person who dispenses the same breastfeeding advice at me without asking what I currently do. I do know that he's supposed to be noming all of my areola and have ducklips while doing said noming
Yes I fucking checked with the nurse before leaving the hospital and with the lactation consultant 2 days later that its correct. And not its not the reason my nipples are raw and can bleed. I'm almost sure it's because I've never had something nashing away at my sensitive nipples for 45min to 1.5 hours several times a day. (TMI but I've had nipple clamps less painful than my sons super latch)
Ah I feel better. Though any encouragement is welcome, the toe curling pain is starting to get to me.
If one more person assumes I'm naming my son after a guy from One Direction, I'm going to throat punch them. They think it's funny because I'm naming my son Liam and my maiden name is Payne. NO! I was not even aware of this band before announcing my son's name (a name we've had picked out since our 3rd year of dating - aka 5 years ago!) . It's highly irritating.
It's state sales tax audit prep day at work. I'll be in meeting with accountants all day prepping the game plan for tomorrow's audit.
ALL after my 36w checkup this morning and cervix check. Pants-less operations always make me nervous. They'll probably spring the GBS test on me too. FX I've got a vagina of steel and none of these procedures make me feel sh*tty today.
I had my first big girl contractions last night... Owwwwie!! My due date is not for another 26 days, so this better not be a nightly thing unless it turns into something real. Being awake is bad enough, being awake to breathe through the pain at 2:30 am, 3:30 am and 4:30 am is just awful. Yay Monday...
So I have a cold and got like 3 hrs of sleep last night. I've been at work for 30 mins and no less than 5 people have already said "ohhhh you're still here?? I would've thought you'd have a baby." Fuck you guys. If I'd had the baby do you think I'd be here? Better yet, do you think I still WANT to be here? No! Shut your freakin faces!
____________ Emma Rose Born 3.11.14 8lbs 14oz, 21.5 in
Eff this winter. We are in the middle of another snow/ice storm. I live in the DC metro area; it is NOT supposed to be winter for this long, it's not supposed to get this cold, and it's not supposed to snow this much. Ugh. If I wanted this, I would've stayed in MA. And, having a toddler makes me dread snow days. I used to love them, but now being cooped up in the house with an almost 3 year old while being a million weeks pregnant is painful.
All of this! Also in DC area. Thankfully it was a nice enough day yesterday afternoon to get some energy out outside, but ugh. Winter, go away. And baby stay in until you're due in a few weeks - I want a spring-like maternity leave!!
Its going to be a long day, DD already threw a toy at my face. Also the sound of her whining makes me want to jump off a cliff! I just want to tell her to shut up but of course I won't because thats not nice lol but really kid cut it out!! I just want to enjoy our last few weeks together not be irritated!
F you blood pressure! I've been sent to L&D twice now, with threats to induce me, and they keep sending me home with everything coming back "normal". If I get sent again this morning to be monitored just to get sent home again, I'm going to be so pissed! Just induce me already or at least write me a note and tell me I can't go to work anymore so I don't make myself sick.
The one day my boss lets us out of work due to weather and I have no power. Have to stay in the living room where this gas fireplace is, no tv, no internet, nothing. Shit, I'd rather be at work.
Married 4-26-2011 Me 31 DH 28
TTC since 12/2011
5/4/13-IUI #1=BFN, 6/3/13-IUI #2=BFN, 7/1/2013-IUI #3=BFP!!! Little Man arrived 3/28/14 at 10:32pm 9 lb 1 oz & 21 3/4 inches
My bitch is that I can't even narrow down the things I want to bitch about to one succinct paragraph. I'm just cranky and annoyed and don't really feel like being anywhere near work right now. I will just leave it at that.
DH....I just don't know how much more this huge prego lady can handle of his laziness. I was in L&D yesterday morning and then puking and in bed all day. When I was finally able to get up and out of our room I saw that our house was a disaster...He didn't put together the organizational cube for baby's closet like he was supposed to. I asked him to get me a bendy straw (couldn't sit up without puking) and he said we didn't have any...found a whole brand new pack of them this morning that we had just bought. Dishes and shit all over...I'm just over him. I understand we all need days to relax, but he played video games ALL day, did nothing to help me while I was sick. I just hope he's better once baby is home...
Everything dotgirl said! I'm another DC lady who is over the snow. Plus it's totally messing with my maternity leave. If we have to make these days up at the end if the year I'm going to be pissed.
I'm already trying to patch together child care for 2 extra weeks because this little lady decided to make her appearance 2 weeks early and daycare doesn't have a spot for her until next school year. This snow day stuff if making it even harder to get all of the days covered.
Its Monday... I'm still working.. I'm jealous of all the outside precious babies. I just want to meet my little girl !! AND lets add the swelling is intense, I've resorted to sweats to my office job IDGAF!!
Married : ** 09/09/2011 ** BFP : 07-18-13 ** Baby #1 is a GIRL , Born 03/12/14 **
Friggen 2nd night and day of cramps and contractions. They need to quit already I still have a while to go. I am cranky and in pain. All my doctor wants to do is a cervical check since they want to induce next week and I am saying no way. I have a strict no penetration rule when it comes to cervical checks! I am miserable (
@novelblessings I agree! Either I have pre-e symptoms and normal bp or high bp and no other symptoms. I go back in this morning after being in L&D yesterday...I think I'm going to tell them one more time-just induce me. Next day my dr is on call she is inducing me anyways, so what's the few days...I'm so over this. I want baby to be healthy of course, but they've told me so many times that baby will be safer out than in with all of my issues...
@snow527 I was thinking of doing the same with calling off and am glad I didn't since we obviously didn't get anywhere near what they said.
So my complaint today is that I'm still pregnant. I have no clothes that fit me and am sitting in the office with a sweater that looks like it belongs to my little sister and leaves at least 2-3 inches of the maternity panel on my pants that are exposed. I look really great. My 'huge' clothes...you know the maternity ones that you look at and say 'there is just no way in the world I'll ever be big enough to fit into these' are now so tight that they leave indentations in my belly.
DH is trying to be super supportive and keeps giving me these positive messages about how great I'm doing and how I'm almost there. I'm tired of all this positivity. I'm miserable and just want to feel bad for myself!
I was awake all night because poor DH couldn't sleep or get comfortable. This got no sympathy from me which lead to him getting pissy and thrashing his body around like a 2yr old in bed.
Then we wake up this morning and he repeatedly asks for sex and tells me how it'll help the baby come and how he thinks the baby will be coming tomorrow and we need to kick start things and blah, blah, blah. Do you really think I want to have sex after how you acted last night and just in general with being THIS pregnant (39wks 1day)!!!! He's now currently pouting in bed. F. U. Buddy! Ugh
I am on my first day of maternity leave and I couldn't even sleep in! Stupid contractions keeping me up! And I have to go to Costco today and stock up my freezer for when the baby comes. I don't want to go out side in -35 I am just over it!
@snow527 I was thinking of doing the same with calling off and am glad I didn't since we obviously didn't get anywhere near what they said.
So my complaint today is that I'm still pregnant. I have no clothes that fit me and am sitting in the office with a sweater that looks like it belongs to my little sister and leaves at least 2-3 inches of the maternity panel on my pants that are exposed. I look really great. My 'huge' clothes...you know the maternity ones that you look at and say 'there is just no way in the world I'll ever be big enough to fit into these' are now so tight that they leave indentations in my belly.
DH is trying to be super supportive and keeps giving me these positive messages about how great I'm doing and how I'm almost there. I'm tired of all this positivity. I'm miserable and just want to feel bad for myself!
This. And, I'm plus size to begin with. It's not cool and I feel bad for the people who got to look at my extra 5"... I'm less than 2 weeks out co-workers are going to have to cope. Oh, and don't tell me I'm waddling. My ever expanding hips and crotch bone remind me every moment I stand up. Thanks.
I'm working from home today and had it all planned out that I'd lay around all day in my pjs, watch tv, and get minimal work done. DH just texted me telling me he forgot something he needs for work and asked if I can "swing by" and drop it off. No, I can't "swing by" because I'm not leaving the house. Sorry.
On my 1st full day on mat leave my oldest DD wakes me at 6 with a nosebleed. I go into her room thinking I'd need to change the pillow case. Nope, it's all in the wash right now. Even the comforter. I feel bad for her, but sheesh kid, could you confine it to the pillow next time?!
I am on my first day of maternity leave and I couldn't even sleep in! Stupid contractions keeping me up! And I have to go to Costco today and stock up my freezer for when the baby comes. I don't want to go out side in -35 I am just over it!
This also! I need to get groceries but it's so cold out and I don't feel like walking around that much and loading and unloading. I'm just done, with everything
I wish Halo made Sleep Sacks for adults. DH and I are FREEZING, but DD is happily swaddled in the Pack n Play next to us. I want her life, man! ITS TOO COLD.
My students performed at a hockey game this weekend during one of the intermissions. I thought the day went well. The only hitch was that the hockey organization messed up and told both groups singing at intermission to sing the same song. Well, what they neglected to tell me, so that I could prep my ELEMENTARY school students, was the the other group was a special needs school. So we're downstairs just after sound check and were about to fix something when they start singing the same song, and they sound awful. I hadn't seen the group yet. The kids were screaming. Shouting. Of course, my kids react. I didn't see pointing or laughing but they did react. I looked over at the group and it took a moment, because the kids looked completely normal. I looked again, and realized that there were a couple of kids in the back that were much taller. I turned to one of the parents (two PTA moms were with me) and asked, "Do you think that's a special needs school?" She realized it, and said, "Probably." I quieted the kids down immediately, and reminded them to be respectful.
Well, apparently, I didn't do enough. Because a parent from the other school emailed the superintendent, claiming my kids were pointing and laughing and that the adults in charge were laughing (we weren't) and now my principal is upset and I'm somehow taking the flack for an event that I was not ASKED to do, I was TOLD to do. On a Saturday. The principal and I are speaking to the kids tomorrow and we are writing a letter of apology to the other school that all the kids will sign. Did the kids react inappropriately? Yes. Is it ever ok to make fun of others? No. But are they kids? Yes. Should we have been told ahead of time? YES. I feel ambushed. And I am NOT ok with this.
What a way to start a Monday.
RIP Dr. Irving Fishman - 10/1/19-7/25/10 - thank you for holding on for me. You made my wedding day complete.
I'm pissed because I felt better when I was awake between 4-7 then I do now that I'm up for the day at 9. Wth?? And DH just let me know he's on late tonight at the hospital so he won't be home until bedtime.
BUT... My parents are coming up tomorrow and that makes me not so crabby!
I am on my first day of maternity leave and I couldn't even sleep in! Stupid contractions keeping me up! And I have to go to Costco today and stock up my freezer for when the baby comes. I don't want to go out side in -35 I am just over it!
This also! I need to get groceries but it's so cold out and I don't feel like walking around that much and loading and unloading. I'm just done, with everything
I don't wanna get out of my flannel pajama pants with owls all over them. They are so comfy but I just can't go shopping in them! So I probably won't go! But i really want muffins and am missing a few ingredients, ugh!
@missfunball Sorry you're having such a crap time with BFing. Is your LOs tongue down when you latch on? Audrey seals her's to the roof of her mouth and if I don't notice it's like BFing someone with a mouth full of razor blades! We are trying to 'teach' her to put it down with soothers and our fingers.
My bitch is my MIL (thank goodness she leaves today). She spent her visit bitching about her long drive here, how much she hates where we live, how much she was spending on her hotel (not my fault you picked the place with $400/night rooms!!) and how hard it is to come visit (then just don't!). Plus she brought us a couple blankets a woman from her church made and proceeded to lecture me about etiquette and how important it was I send this woman a thank you card. On two different occasions. Then gave DH the same lecture in front of me. Because apparently I'm rude and don't understand when a thank you note is appropriate.
She keeps trying to give DS 'pieces of nature' and then acts super disappointed when he doesn't care. At Christmas she brought him a box of dried leaves. He 'crunched them' because he's not quite 3 and that's what they do; she cried. This time it was 'tree beard moss', he ignored it. She cried.
She bought DS wall decals with lions and monkeys on them for his room, which has a bunch of foxes and camping themes (anyone else be frustrated by that?). I won't put them up, and I know it'll become a huge deal the next time she's here. Grrrrrr
Everyone feels the need to comment on my being pregnant. Strangers, co workers, family. Yes, thank you for the reminder I forgot there's a watermelon on my bladder. My SIL started texting me last night asking how I was feeling and if I was uncomfortable yet. I *hate* being asked how are you feeling. I want to throat punch everyone who asks that. I get you're just trying to make small talk but it's really old. I feel pregnant. I'm not going to engage with you and say I feel good/bad bc then you'll go into some stupid story about how I should just wait. Don't wanna hear it. Uggh. I'm just feeling grumpy.Its not even like I'm feeling miserable and ready to have this baby I'm just annoyed with people who'd ordinarily leave me alone feeling the need to chat just bc I'm pregnant. When am I due, none of your durn business that's when grocery cashier. Wow I feel like a b*tch typing all that out. But surely you guys understand
They need to provide "sanity leave" for teachers at least a week before they are due. I am 39 weeks pregnant and these kids are making me INSANE. I have zero patience and 4.5 days to go.
we had a birthday dinner over at my moms for myself last night, as we do for all family members. Although, since its texas no one came (there was some ice on the ground). Also, my mom bought me a gift that was too much, and something I probably won't use much. I am getting to the point where I really wish people would stop buying me presents. I am picky I guess and I rarely end up using the things they get and just feel badly that they sit around not being used. Its such a waste of money. I just don't need things so much anymore and am trying to be much less consumer driven. Blegh. I feel really ungrateful, but I am not. I swear.
Also, LO decided to start moving down this weekend so I was dealing with incredible cramping and gas pains all night last night. Barely able to stand. Today I just want to sleep, but now I have heartburn again and work people driving me nuts... I get it, last few weeks are grump central for me apparently.
@disneyaddict1, mine last week apparently weren't 'real' and I couldn't walk through them, so F that theory.
on a non-bit&hy note...someone just came in my office and told me a whole boatload of stuff that I needed to get done. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) my client hasn't provided any of the info I need in order to get this stuff done. I gotta say it felt REALLY good to say 'well you are probably going to have to talk to someone else about that cause I'm done after tomorrow and I highly doubt I will have the info I need to complete it before then!' It felt good to say that!
Also, DH FINALLY got the job offer he has been waiting on since Thanksgiving! He didn't get the up front signing bonus he was hoping for but it is a jump in salary, a huge growth opportunity, free parking (which amounts to an extra $3600 per year after tax), huge gas savings since the communte went from 30 miles each way to 4 miles, and they agreed to him starting 3 weeks after the baby is born so we won't have any lapse in insurance coverage! So relieved to finally have this off the table!!!
Re: B-Fest Monday
Yes I fucking checked with the nurse before leaving the hospital and with the lactation consultant 2 days later that its correct. And not its not the reason my nipples are raw and can bleed. I'm almost sure it's because I've never had something nashing away at my sensitive nipples for 45min to 1.5 hours several times a day. (TMI but I've had nipple clamps less painful than my sons super latch)
Ah I feel better. Though any encouragement is welcome, the toe curling pain is starting to get to me.
Edit: spell check
ALL after my 36w checkup this morning and cervix check. Pants-less operations always make me nervous. They'll probably spring the GBS test on me too. FX I've got a vagina of steel and none of these procedures make me feel sh*tty today.
Emma Rose
Born 3.11.14
8lbs 14oz, 21.5 in
Little Man arrived 3/28/14 at 10:32pm
9 lb 1 oz & 21 3/4 inches
I'm already trying to patch together child care for 2 extra weeks because this little lady decided to make her appearance 2 weeks early and daycare doesn't have a spot for her until next school year. This snow day stuff if making it even harder to get all of the days covered.
Married : ** 09/09/2011 ** BFP : 07-18-13 ** Baby #1 is a GIRL , Born 03/12/14 **
** BFP 2 : 01- 05-15 ** EDD 09-11-15 **
@snow527 I was thinking of doing the same with calling off and am glad I didn't since we obviously didn't get anywhere near what they said.
So my complaint today is that I'm still pregnant. I have no clothes that fit me and am sitting in the office with a sweater that looks like it belongs to my little sister and leaves at least 2-3 inches of the maternity panel on my pants that are exposed. I look really great. My 'huge' clothes...you know the maternity ones that you look at and say 'there is just no way in the world I'll ever be big enough to fit into these' are now so tight that they leave indentations in my belly.
DH is trying to be super supportive and keeps giving me these positive messages about how great I'm doing and how I'm almost there. I'm tired of all this positivity. I'm miserable and just want to feel bad for myself!
Then we wake up this morning and he repeatedly asks for sex and tells me how it'll help the baby come and how he thinks the baby will be coming tomorrow and we need to kick start things and blah, blah, blah. Do you really think I want to have sex after how you acted last night and just in general with being THIS pregnant (39wks 1day)!!!! He's now currently pouting in bed. F. U. Buddy! Ugh
Me: Endo, PCOS, septated uterus (mostly removed)
DH: perfect
Started TTC in June 2011
Baby boy born 3/17/2014
RIP Dr. Irving Fishman - 10/1/19-7/25/10 - thank you for holding on for me.
You made my wedding day complete.
BUT... My parents are coming up tomorrow and that makes me not so crabby!
My bitch is my MIL (thank goodness she leaves today). She spent her visit bitching about her long drive here, how much she hates where we live, how much she was spending on her hotel (not my fault you picked the place with $400/night rooms!!) and how hard it is to come visit (then just don't!). Plus she brought us a couple blankets a woman from her church made and proceeded to lecture me about etiquette and how important it was I send this woman a thank you card. On two different occasions. Then gave DH the same lecture in front of me. Because apparently I'm rude and don't understand when a thank you note is appropriate.
She keeps trying to give DS 'pieces of nature' and then acts super disappointed when he doesn't care. At Christmas she brought him a box of dried leaves. He 'crunched them' because he's not quite 3 and that's what they do; she cried. This time it was 'tree beard moss', he ignored it. She cried.
She bought DS wall decals with lions and monkeys on them for his room, which has a bunch of foxes and camping themes (anyone else be frustrated by that?). I won't put them up, and I know it'll become a huge deal the next time she's here. Grrrrrr
So glad she's leaving!! X(
Edit: typos
Also, LO decided to start moving down this weekend so I was dealing with incredible cramping and gas pains all night last night. Barely able to stand. Today I just want to sleep, but now I have heartburn again and work people driving me nuts... I get it, last few weeks are grump central for me apparently.
@disneyaddict1, mine last week apparently weren't 'real' and I couldn't walk through them, so F that theory.
on a non-bit&hy note...someone just came in my office and told me a whole boatload of stuff that I needed to get done. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) my client hasn't provided any of the info I need in order to get this stuff done. I gotta say it felt REALLY good to say 'well you are probably going to have to talk to someone else about that cause I'm done after tomorrow and I highly doubt I will have the info I need to complete it before then!' It felt good to say that!
Also, DH FINALLY got the job offer he has been waiting on since Thanksgiving! He didn't get the up front signing bonus he was hoping for but it is a jump in salary, a huge growth opportunity, free parking (which amounts to an extra $3600 per year after tax), huge gas savings since the communte went from 30 miles each way to 4 miles, and they agreed to him starting 3 weeks after the baby is born so we won't have any lapse in insurance coverage! So relieved to finally have this off the table!!!