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May 2014 Moms
adventurebarbie
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Working until baby comes? Come in!
adventurebarbie
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I have been uncomfortable the last few weeks, but this week is far and away the worst. I can't remember the last time I got 2 hours in a row of sleep between peeing, hot flashes, heartburn (more like heart-napalm), reflux, and just not being able to get comfortable. I can barely walk - my pelvis feels like it has been shattered and my legs are snausages. Tylenol and Pepcid AC are my best friends lately. I have a desk job, so for all of you on your feet all day, I have nothing but crazy respect for you. I think sitting all day is not helping the swelling though. I try to get up and walk around some but that doesn't seem to be enough, and it hurts like hell when I do anyway. I've also gotten really impatient and mean, and my filter is pretty much gone. I have gotten very little work done lately, my mind is in 10,000 other places.
I won't get to rest much this weekend, I have my baby shower so friends and family are coming in from all over. We have 5 people staying with us (we're even throwing an air mattress in the not-yet-finished nursery!) and I know this weekend is going to be fun, but exhausting. I get the standard 6 weeks paid maternity leave (we can't really afford the 6 weeks unpaid) so I don't have enough wiggle room to take much of anything off before LO comes.
Is there anything you are doing to cope? Or do you need a place to vent? Please let me know that this is doable for another 3+ weeks ... or at least commiserate with me.
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Re: Working until baby comes? Come in!
They rely on me for so much that I've had to start being very mean about not helping them until they are stuck in a place that only I can get them out of otherwise they don't even try and rely on me to tell them how to do the job. I've made handbooks with easy step-by step instructions, all payments due are marked on the calendar and organized the sh*t out of what I do to help them. I don't know what else I can do to stupid-proof things and I'm just stressed like crazy. Many ugly cries have happened when I've gotten home. Oh and DH is a sh*t cook so then I get to make dinner or eat salty take-out so I can become more blimp-like thanks to swelling. Whew I feel a little better after that rant!
I feel ya! I'm getting more and more miserable each day. Lots of crampiness but not like contractions, just annoying on my period type crampiness. The only thing I've got going for me right now is length of sleep. It's hard to get comfortable sleeping, but once I do, I'm out most if not all night. I must have had a supernatural being replace my old crappy bladder with a bladder of steel or something after I had DS1.
3-4 weeks... It seems so close, yet so far away!
After my 6 weeks paid maternity, I'm taking 6 weeks unpaid FMLA (it's 12 weeks total but runs concurrent with the paid maternity leave), plus 12 weeks of unpaid personal leave. At that point we'll reassess our financial situation, but the plan is to be out for a full year total. I really love where I work (at a university) and I want to come back to work, so we'll see what's available next year.
LCT - 5.15.14 ~ 9lbs, 22.5 inches
Honestly what's way worse is my Spanish class. It ends 4 days before my due date and meets 2x a week for 3 hours, after work. So I'm regularly putting in 14 hour days away from home
This thread is awesome! I am a full time bank teller and I am on my feet ALL. DAY. LONG. Nine hours a day with no stupid stool - my feet are so swollen and by the end of the day I feel like my pelvis is ready to snap. It is so hard to still be working! I am so impatient to have the baby here. I am taking 12 weeks off from work, but I still want to wait until my little man is here to take my leave. I guess the plus side to the whole thing is that we are very lucky to be carrying well and that our babies are all still growing strong and healthy in there! GL to all of you ladies!
Fx she comes out today. I am going to walk in circles around that restaurant in my lunch lady compression socks.
Mommy by the Sea
No great coping strategies to share... just feeling your pain mostly. I have started to say 'no' a little more and ask for help when i think someone can help.
Planning on working up to the big day myself. I've had a pretty easy pregnancy (not including total lack of sleep) but recently I've really been feeling exhausted, crazy uncomfortable, and distracted. Uggg, and the hot flashes!! I'm an event planner and on my feet a ton. I have to work a wedding this weekend and next! Yesterday was a pretty quiet day but I had to give someone a tour and I was crazy out of breath and sweating! Not cute.
Hopefully your coworkers are understanding and as helpful as they can be. Good luck. It is insane that we are so close but that it still feels so far away too!
Happy Endings
I love this thread because I feel like complaining. I'm EFFING EXHAUSTED. Still working, but taking it ridiculously slow. Today is actually my last day in the office and I will work up until my scheduled c-section (5/5) from home. I got here probably around 9:30 and I will be leaving around 4-ish. I'm done. I don't sleep at all, I'm up every two hours or so peeing or dying from the heartburn and chugging more Gaviscon or Tums. I can't get comfortable no matter what I'm doing...sitting, standing, laying down. It's awful. I have a feeling he's going to come sooner than the planned date, but we'll see. Everyone at work seems to be in denial that I'm trying to wind down because they all keep asking me for more and sending me meeting invites for May and June. I'm ready to be left alone. I can't wait to be home bonding with my new little guy and not even remotely thinking about work.
Hang in there ladies! We're in the home stretch! xo
BFP#1 - 11/27/09 EDD 8/5/10, DS1 arrived 7/24/10 via emergency c-section.
BFP#2 - 6/18/12 EDD 2/23/13, sweet baby girl born sleeping on 10/4/12 at 19 weeks, 3 days.
BFP #3 - 1/18/13 EDD 10/1/13, natural mc on 2/2/13 at 5 weeks, 4 days.
BFP #4 - 8/29/13 EDD 5/12/14, our sweet rainbow, DS2 born 4/29/14 via c-section
I had to work a charity event last night and THAT was torture! I was stuck taking tickets in an uncomfortable folding chair for 4+ hours. My poor legs were so swollen last night. Oh, well. Almost there, ladies!
2011: FSH 13.3 & E 99; AMH 0.54 2nd FSH 6.2 E 40's AFC: 8
BFP from Clomid/IUI ~ Pre-e and IUGR during pregnancy ~ DS born 9/4/12
Feb./March 2013: AMH less than 0.16 (undectable) and AFC = 4;
BFP from supps ~ DS#2 due May 2014
May 2014 January Siggy Challenge:
I hope you make it through the rest of your time without killing a co-worker! Only a few more weeks!
BFP # 1 - 12/19/09 EDD 08/27/10 - D&C 1/26/10 @ 9w5d
BFP # 2 - 06/05/10 EDD 02/17/11, DS1 born on 2/14/11
BFP # 3 - 04/10/13 EDD 12/21/13 - D&C 05/15/13 @ 8w4d
BFP # 4 - 07/27/13 EDD 04/08/14 - CP 07/29/13
BFP # 5 - 09/14/13 EDD 05/28/14, DS2 born on 5/22/14
T 2.12 | W 5.14
I worked from home two days this week, but that means I am operating at 50% capacity (because the naps are SOOOOO necessary) My doc keeps strongly recommending that I stop my commute (which is about 90 minutes each way and includes walking, the NYC subway, and commuter railroad)...but until he tells me I have no choice, I am trying to make it in at least a few more days before it's a wrap.
I ain't gonna lie, the commute is MEAN and the days I am here are longer than I would like. But I feel like I am operating on a clock that's running out and I need more time!!
I work as a Behavioral Therapist, with children who have autism. So I go into people's home and play with their children. I am getting up and down on the floor, and bending over to do things. Whether it be to pick stuff up, or write my data down in the book. But it's getting very uncomfortable to chase after these children and to play with them.
Most of the parents I work with understand what I am going through, so I've been lazy sometimes and sitting on their furniture instead of on the floor with the child. But there are some children I actually have to do a lot of physical stuff with or else they will lose all the hard work me and my other therapists have put in.
This job does not help with the swelling at all. I'm up and down with the child for 2-3hrs a session. And I have like 3 sessions a day with a different child everytime. I'm in and out of my car, which is starting to get harder to get in and out of. I have an SUV and I'm short... There are some days that I have like an hr or 2 break so I go home and nap. But it is definitely getting harder and harder to work. And not to mention when I'm done for the day.. I have to take care of my 2 pups (because my husband is at work by then) and I have paperwork and reports to write. These 2 weeks of work better fly by. I just feel so worn out!!
do get a lot of kiddo points from my patients because I am still working.
Also I am tired of everyone asking how much longer till she comes and how long am I going to work.