GTKY: What Do You Wish For? (First-World Pregnancy Problems)

MuffinMom14 · March 2014

It's not what you think.

Everyone wishes for a healthy baby and an easy delivery. Not that.

What do you lay in bed and wish for that is completely a non-important issue in the grand scheme of things?

This morning at 6am, I laid in bed and dreamed I could take a normal-sized human poop more than once a week.

For the record, I gave up and got some Colace. I didn't want to go that route, but I eat TONS of fiber, I run 30 miles a week, and nothin's movin'. I'm miserable.

First-World Pregnancy Problems.

toomanycats1 · March 2014

I wish DH loved Disneyland as much as DS and I do, so we could take a yearly trip there.

Sadly, he doesn't, and we were just there last year so this years trip is supposed to be "non-Disney" related. That gives me the sads.

We have had a rough couple of years (multiple losses, IF), and the magic of DL always uplifts me and renews my hope.

vrj0522 · March 2014

Naps.

ETA: Also, a full night's sleep. DH tosses and turns and is up in the middle of the night and that disturbs my sleep way too much. Since having DS, I've become a light sleeper so I need DH to stay put during the night!

Maggie6424 · March 2014

I wish DH wasn't the one who gets to stay at home with DS. Also for a way I could eat as much ice cream as I want without getting sick. or fat.

msturgeon11 · March 2014

That I would stop feeling like shit amd get some energy to live my life and do more than the bare min. I've been shitty at everything lately (wife, mother, housekeeper, employee, friend, daughter, you name it bc I just.can't function) and I just want.to feel even a little bit good. This kid is sucking my life force from me (although I'm thankful I'm able to.grow a human, I am just over feeling horrible day and night). I know lots of women save the world, work in horrible conditions, etc. so I feel a little selfish bitching about this but that's my 1st world pregnancy woe.

MuffinMom14 · March 2014

HelloSweetie1 said:

I wish DH loved Disneyland as much as DS and I do, so we could take a yearly trip there.

Sadly, he doesn't, and we were just there last year so this years trip is supposed to be "non-Disney" related. That gives me the sads.

We have had a rough couple of years (multiple losses, IF), and the magic of DL always uplifts me and renews my hope.

Real question: When do you go?

I haven't been there since I was 9 and my husband's never been there. We will want to take the kids when they are old enough to enjoy it (probably not until they are over 6 or 7, because I went when I was 3 and it was a waste--I hardly remember the 9-year-old trip).

But, then, I think about how crowded and how long the lines are. Is there a time of year that it's bearable? I REALLY hate crowds and lines. I know no one LIKES them, but I get really miserable.

MuffinMom14 · March 2014

vrj0522 said:

Naps.

ETA: Also, a full night's sleep. DH tosses and turns and is up in the middle of the night and that disturbs my sleep way too much. Since having DS, I've become a light sleeper so I need DH to stay put during the night!

Actually, sometimes I lay in bed at night and get upset because I have trouble sleeping sometimes, and this is my first baby. I wish I could enjoy the sleep while I can get it. This is hopefully not our last baby either, so I don't know HOW you 2nd- or 3rd-time moms do it. Are you just zombies?

I'm terrified.

MuffinMom14 · March 2014

@Maggie6424 I haven't had ice cream in SO LONG. Now I want it. I got my annual Free Ice Cream from Coldstone, and it was during the middle of the Polar Vortex From Hell so I didn't go and now it's expired. $:\$

@msturgeon11 Are you almost through the 1st trimester? Here's hoping you feel more like yourself soon...

MrsSinner402 · March 2014

@SPurp13‌ we just got back from our honeymoon there. We went Nov 2-9th. It was "crowded" but absolutely nothing compared to high traffic times of year. Normal wait time for a ride was 20 minutes or so. From the looks of how long the lines COULD be, we went at the perfect time of year. Plus they're already decorated for Christmas!

msturgeon11 · March 2014

@SPurp13‌ I am.11 wks 3 days. FX it gets better after 1st tri this time although w DS was sick entire preg so there is that fear. Thank you!!!!!!

Emerald27 · March 2014

I wish for sleep. And for fresh-baked chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches...they can be delivered to me in bed.

I also wish to use the restroom and shower uninterrupted: this morning while I was shaving my legs, I had left DS (2.5yo) in the bedroom playing trains and watching Daniel Tiger on my computer. I suddenly heard a scream and crying and called "DS, what's wrong? Come see mommy.", but the crying got louder. I jumped out of the shower, shaving cream going everywhere, and ran to the bedroom to find him sitting with his finger stuck in the bottom drawer of my dresser. :-/

Sat him crying on the toilet and wrapped his hand in a cold washcloth while I quickly rinsed off so that I could attend to him. I have one leg 3/4 of the way shaven and one unshaven leg. DS' finger is just fine.

msturgeon11 · March 2014

@SPurp13‌ Coldstone sounds like the most amazing thing ever right now. Maybe sometime over the weekend I can drag myself there. Couldne the prob not enough ice cream in my diet!!! :-)

toomanycats1 · March 2014

@Spurp13 - We have been at all different times of year. The slower times of year are between holidays, when the kids are still in school. It is definitely less busy then, but sometimes less shows and things are on as well.

I love it when it's busy! With proper planning (I'm type A) it doesn't really matter. I'm the type of person that HATES crowds. Malls at Christmas drive me nuts, but for some reason Disneyland doesn't bother me. It's organized busy-ness if that makes sense? We've been when it's 'at capacity' too, so that's as busy as it gets.

We recently went in the Halloween season so DS could Trick or Treat. He loves Jack Skellington and anything Halloween related, and it was the best time. We took him when he was 3, 5 and 6. He doesn't remember the trip when he was 3, but we don't mind. It was magical to him in a way we'll never forget :-) Waiting until the kids are a bit older is a good idea though, if you're only planning on making the one trip. With planning and research you can avoid the super long waits. We don't wait in lines any longer than 30 mins now.

vrj0522 · March 2014

@SPurp13 - We are like zombies but somehow you just adjust and learn to do it. It does get better when LOs sleep through the night for the most part.

@Emerald27 - That is the exact reason why I go to the gym every single morning during the week. Not so much that I want to work out everyday, but I need a shower everyday and I can do that while the daycare there watches DS.

Sofia2529 · March 2014

I wish eating wasn't such a chore. I dread mealtimes because nothing is appetizing and I'm sick of forcing myself to eat.

NYGWildcat · March 2014

I wish I could do my job without feeling completely nauseated.

I wish I looked like you gorgeous preggos on the bump thread -- I just look like an inflated balloon.

Mommy2Boys09 · March 2014

SPurp13 said:

vrj0522 said:

Naps.

ETA: Also, a full night's sleep. DH tosses and turns and is up in the middle of the night and that disturbs my sleep way too much. Since having DS, I've become a light sleeper so I need DH to stay put during the night!

Actually, sometimes I lay in bed at night and get upset because I have trouble sleeping sometimes, and this is my first baby. I wish I could enjoy the sleep while I can get it. This is hopefully not our last baby either, so I don't know HOW you 2nd- or 3rd-time moms do it. Are you just zombies?

I'm terrified.

@SPurp13 I feel like a zombie lately lol. My oldest son is at school from 8-3. My youngest son has all that time to nap (so I can nap too) but he seriously waits til about 2:30 so that I have to make him mad and wake him up then he gets to sleep in the car and by the time we get home he's wide awake. So I'm up by about 7:20 every morning and very rarely get a nap. I'm dreading what it will be like trying to do this with a newborn keeping me up half the night, then getting up to take my oldest son to school and have to stay up all day because of my youngest son. Then I will definitely be a zombie.

MrsSinner402 · March 2014

I wish I could have an ultrasound every single day and just watch the baby moving around in there.

Heartwood0519 · March 2014

I wish I could eat whatever I wanted. Being pregnant with Type 1 diabetes sucks.

MuffinMom14 · March 2014

Nicb13 said:

SPurp13 said:

vrj0522 said:

Naps.

ETA: Also, a full night's sleep. DH tosses and turns and is up in the middle of the night and that disturbs my sleep way too much. Since having DS, I've become a light sleeper so I need DH to stay put during the night!

Actually, sometimes I lay in bed at night and get upset because I have trouble sleeping sometimes, and this is my first baby. I wish I could enjoy the sleep while I can get it. This is hopefully not our last baby either, so I don't know HOW you 2nd- or 3rd-time moms do it. Are you just zombies?

I'm terrified.

I was exhausted for a few weeks in the beginning of the pregnancy but I just went to bed when DS did at like 8pm! DS has been STTN for a long, long time and it's awesome. I get plenty of sleep myself so I haven't been a zombie since the newborn days.

You're giving me hope...the plan is to have these kids pretty close together if we can (I know you can't always plan that)...and the idea of having a 1-year-old and being pregnant again is daunting, but it's on the fringe of my imagination.

persephonerose · March 2014

I have most of the same wishes. But I think will steal @Emerald27 wish about chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches in bed. That sounds so good. Almost every day I wish for chocolate and wish my IVF doctor wasn't so strict about caffeine. But I know her method works so I'm just trying to suck it up until after the babies are born.

DaniW1984 · March 2014

Right now I'd love a fitter body & a soccer ball bump to rock (instead of blump) as I'm headed on a beach vacation this weekend!!!

lrobi13 · March 2014

I wish everyone could just keep their shit together so I don't have to handle their problems and my pregnancy at the same time. Work and family are both having freak out and I am not a fan.

eta: grammar

Staciefacie · March 2014

If you know me you know I absolutely do not eat fish.

Last night we had flounder and salmon. The flounder was delicious and then I start to feel nauseous. Really?! I'm finally eating somethin othe than pork and chicken and my body decides, nope that shit is gross, back off.

AmandaJean12 · March 2014

I wish we could find a house we like. Partially so we can move before I'm huge but more because trudging through showings every other night has gotten exhausting.

Or I guess I'd take a million bucks so finding a house I love and can afford is easier

MrsL2B · March 2014

My wish is for decent maternity leave. Having to save up all my sick and vacation time so that I can afford to give birth sucks, especially considering that I've used most of my PTO over the past two years to take care of my mom and husband after their hospitalizations and surgeries. I'm not looking forward to having to rush back to work and leave the baby at home with my husband (he gets to work part-time from home) while I pump in the car or in a conference room with paper-thin walls. And the only way I'm going to get any extra time off is either if some previously-unheard-of-spinster-great-aunt dies, leaving me her vast fortune, or if I have some nasty complications that trigger my short-term disability insurance, which I think only covers about a third of my salary.

heatherjeanp · March 2014

I wish I could log into my Facebook account. Someone across the country tried to change my password and now Facebook has locked me out. Hopefully I can fix it tomorrow.

Eastie156 · March 2014

I wish my morning sickness, oh wait, all day sickness, would go away.

Eastie156 · March 2014

Sofia2529 said:
I wish eating wasn't such a chore. I dread mealtimes because nothing is appetizing and I'm sick of forcing myself to eat.

Oh my god, I totally get this. Nothing sounds or looks good. Nothing. Popsicles and gingerale sound good.

First time around, I'd be side eying you for saying this-but really I totally get this now. Amazing how different pregnancies can be. Wih DS, I ate all.the.time. This time I struggle with it.

Eastie156 · March 2014

Oh wait. I have another. I wish that my 18 month old didn't think that waking up at midnight 5x a week all of a sudden was a good idea. I'm running on fumes. Literally.

irisheyes317 · March 2014

@savagek7‌ @AmandaJean12‌ I feel the same way! I just want a house already and I'm sick of being outbid. We just thought we found a great place and put in the first offer (over listing price) and the sellers aren't even going to consider it for a week because they want to see what else comes in. I have a feeling that means we are getting outbid again. Ugh. At this point I'm just hoping we can move somewhere before October.

angeltennis3 · March 2014

I wish I could have a little sneak preview of the next 20 or so years. I'm so curious how this pregnancy will go, labor will go, and I am VERY excited to meet our LO and see what his or her personality is like and all that they will accomplish.

fireflyrebirth · March 2014

I wish we didn't have to move in August. My husband is completing a one-year internship right now and next year has a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in another state. So, we are only here for a year and most likely will be living in the next place for only a year as well. I feel settled here, I like our place and our neighborhood. It would have been a good set up for a baby, too. I know my husband will get a regular staff position after next year and we'll be buying a house within the next few years but I'm ready to be settled now.

I'm also getting sad we won't have any friends or family close to us when we have the baby/are dealing with life with a newborn. Our families are very, very excited and I'm sure people will visit as much as they can, but it won't be the same as having anyone local.

MrsMaui12614 · March 2014

I wish I could quit my job right now and tell everyone in the company what I think about them....OK, I wish I wasn't so damn hormonal...#&$#%@#$@!%!!!!!!!!!!!

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