Longest Thread EVER! (aka Random Thoughts Thread )

eireyes · June 2014

@mamacatTo2‌ I love the pups' names! DH and I are total NCIS whores...

mamacatTo2 · June 2014

@celticlullaby‌ They sell that brand at Target!

@KendraColeslaw‌ Thank you

There are some seriously cute babies on this board!

edoliesmom · June 2014

Hi and welcome @mamacatTo2‌! I live an hour from Houston.

KatieGummow · June 2014

@mamacatTo2‌ he is adorable! Welcome! And it is "vicious flea bag"

you can for sure stay! Favorite cake?

PoppySeedWindsor · June 2014

@mamacatTo2‌ Welcome to the partaaaaaay!

PoppySeedWindsor · June 2014

Merri chills out when I sing her Three Little Birds by Bob Marley, which I totes played while pregnant.

mamacatTo2 · June 2014

@SLSchuerg‌ Where are you located? An hour in TX time is a hop skip and a jump away!

@KatieGummow‌ Oh darn! I should know better. Well mine are beasts but also flea bags

I love German Chocolate cake. Also funfetti-the kind from the box. Also, pie. Also, cupcakes. All kinds.

Thanks for all the welcomes! Y'all are so friendly. And very entertaining-especially on nights like tonight where Noah thinks sleep is for the weak.

SoulTermination · June 2014

Alera's fever seems to have broken, it was 99-something a bit ago when the nurse took her temp and checked her vitals. She's finally eating again, though she still has a bit of diarrhea. Poor thing had to have both her arms poked for blood draws, and then her heel pricked because they couldn't get enough blood for the third test from her arms. Also had to have a catheter for a sterile urine sample and a spinal tap to (hopefully) rule out bacterial meningitis. They're planning on keeping her for at least 48 hours unless she starts doing really, really well, but we're a lot less freaked out than we were this morning.

Thanks for the T&Ps, everyone! :x

JessieAlbin · June 2014

@SoulTermination‌ glad to hear she's on the mend, poor little thing!

PoppySeedWindsor · June 2014

Coooooool. How to ruin an awesome day? With hubster yelling that he needs to just get away from me after me not wanting to have sex. Coooool.

PoppySeedWindsor · June 2014

@Vinny424 yeah. Pretty much.

mamacatTo2 · June 2014

@SoulTermination‌ We faced the exact same thing with Noah two weeks ago-temp of 103, admittance to hospital after full sepsis work up, etc. We wound up staying 72 hours and all the tests came back negative, so the doctors concluded it was probably just a summer virus. I hope your girl has the same thing and goes home soon-Noah was perfectly fine, but it is so scary to see your little one in the hospital. Stay strong!

PoppySeedWindsor · June 2014

Like seriously, I fucking rocked today. Grocery shopped at. 8. Took Mer into the office with me (had to go in for a meeting) from 9-1:30. Visited hubster at work. Cleaned the apartment. Pumped. Nursed. Sterilized bottles. Went to a meeting for an organization I'm a board member of. Made dinner. Bought tickets for our trip home. Bathed Merri. Rocked her to sleep. I'M SORRY I DON'T WANT TO SUCK YOUR DICK. God. Seriously. It's so infuriating. What about me?!? It isn't easy to say, "Hey I actually don't want to fool around. I'm tired. I'm overstimulated and I just want to hang out" because that will upset him but if I don't say anything he sulks and is upset. Like, come on man. I can't win. And it's not even that I want to win. I just want some compassion. Bleh. I feel so shitty now.

edoliesmom · June 2014

@mamacatTo2‌ Yes it is! lol I'll send you a PM.

@SoulTermination‌ So relieved to hear she's doing better!

kseccomb17 · June 2014

Life keeps shitting on me. I don't know how much more my heart can take. I wish something would actually happen to myself so I could have a real excuse to bitch and be depressed, but nothing is worse than seeing my family hurt or struggle. Bad day..

fireflygirl12 · June 2014

mamacatTo2 said:

Hi everyone. I am going to stop lurking and start posting because I love this thread and read it daily and I want to contribute! I hope you are okay with that...I know this is a tight knit group. I also know intros are annoying so I'll make mine brief: Mom to 2 yo DD Alice and 8 week old Noah (4.7.14). We also have two "vicious beasts", my rescue pups Ziva and Gibbs. Live in Houston, TX Former HS English teacher, current SAHM/grad student (MPH) Also, I love cake and wine. And arrested development. Can I stay? Here's my cute A14 baby.

Where do you stand on the buttsecks? You can stay either way, but I just want to know.

Edit: grammar is hard

mamacatTo2 · June 2014

Oh that's a firm no go. Exit only.

fireflygirl12 · June 2014

Sending you all the hugs and cake @kseccomb17

mamacatTo2 · June 2014

@kseccomb17‌ From what I've read you definitely have a "real excuse" to bitch! You and your family have been through a lot. You are so strong for everyone that I'm sure you aren't able to take care of yourself very well. I'm so sorry. I hope tomorrow is better for all of you.

pineconey · June 2014

Trying something new with my little night owl- wearing him in a wrap to put him to sleep while wrapped in his swaddle. When he passes out I will pull the bait and switch and try to put him down.
[-O<

fireflygirl12 · June 2014

My mom came to visit for a few days, which means she'll take care of the Littles, cook, clean and let me watch Sex and the City reruns all day. Let the laziness begin.

irisheyez7 · June 2014

SoulTermination said:

Alera's fever seems to have broken, it was 99-something a bit ago when the nurse took her temp and checked her vitals. She's finally eating again, though she still has a bit of diarrhea. Poor thing had to have both her arms poked for blood draws, and then her heel pricked because they couldn't get enough blood for the third test from her arms. Also had to have a catheter for a sterile urine sample and a spinal tap to (hopefully) rule out bacterial meningitis. They're planning on keeping her for at least 48 hours unless she starts doing really, really well, but we're a lot less freaked out than we were this morning. Thanks for the T&Ps, everyone! :x

So glad to hear your LO is doing better! I had to play some catch up and when I read about her high fever I was so concerned! Glad to see the update! Hope all works out well for you and Alera!

bootsiebabe · June 2014

@SoulTermination‌ hopefully Alera is through the worst and just keeps getting better. Glad she is ok!

@kseccomb17‌ I'm sorry you're having such a rough go. We are here for you.

@PoppySeedWindsor‌ it totally sucks to feel unappreciated. You kicked ass today.

@ColleenSwerb‌ what a shitty night. I hope the vibrations let you get some much needed rest.

Xxlilies · June 2014

Drake didn't decided to get up for his motn bottle at 3:00 instead of 1:30-2:00
Should be interesting to see if he gets up at normal time around 7 or sleeps a bit more
I predict 7 . Boy is serious about his breakfast

bootsiebabe · June 2014

Oh and @MrsStanton87‌ glad for safe travels. Enjoy your visit!

rtv3 · June 2014

@CollenSwerb I think our LO's planned this together or something. DD usually is a 'nurse back to sleep' baby for MOTN feedings. Tonite, despite nursing both sides, swaddling, burping, and rocking, she has been up since 3:30 (went down at 12:30) - wide awake. Momma needs sleep!

KatieGummow · June 2014

I try not to complain because, let's face it, I have the cutest/best Gummow twins in the world and my life is pretty easy in the scheme of things...but...
Ryan is back at work this week after having all of May off (another reason I shouldn't be complaining) I had (and have been having) the boys all by myself (I move to the guest room at 5:30-6am and sleep until 8-9 and Ryan takes care of them while I am sleeping) from 9am to 6:30pm, which is fine! We agreed on this. He is supposed to stop working at 6 and put his dad hat on, which he usually does and does well. Not today!

Bath/bottle/bed: Ryan has Carter and I have Pat; put him down dead asleep at 830 and skip dinner so I can go tanning (yeah, yeah I know.). Get home at 9:10 and as soon as I walk through the door:
"Patrick is awake?" (Me)
"Yeah, here."
"Ooookay... You stressed out?"
"No, I need a break. I have been rocking the boys to sleep all night while you were out."
"What."
"I've been working all day and then rocking boys all night. You were gone for a long time."
[insert sarcastic comments I could have said a little nicer]
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11:00pm
"What are you doing?" (DH)
"Rocking Pat to sleep then Waking up Carter to feed him because I don't want them waking up at different times to eat."
"[some douchy comment]"
"Says the man going to sleep."
"Well, I have to work in the morning."
*Roll over and start snoring*
[fuck. You.]
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Boys Woke up at the same time at 1:30 to eat again. One was crying pretty loud for a moment and woke up DH.
*roll over to the other side and commence snores*
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Usually Ryan is awesome which is why I am super upset at him. Ugh! TP. This weekend I am going to have him do every single night feeding for both the boys (he's only done this once or twice with one baby) while I just pump. He doesn't understand how 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep differs from 9 hours of broken up sleep (which is only really maybe 6 hours of actual sleep).

I. Am. Exhausted.

thomas930 · June 2014

Sorry to hear about all the crappy nights. My night wasn't great...today is going to require lots of coffee.

rtv3 · June 2014

ColleenSwerb said:
Fuck me, I hear the toddler making noise in his room. ::cries ::

Oh no! Lots of hugs! Hopefully,they'll both take a long nap at the same time today so you can get some sleep

DD finally went down after almost 3hrs of nursing and rocking - praying she stays asleep!

chichi589 · June 2014

I always do night feedings because it's way too annoying to listen to him bitch about it. Plus it throws off our night and Chase doesn't go right back to sleep. But I throw it in his face all the time that he doesn't offer. He shouldn't wonder why we barely have sex.

Edit to add I'm back to work full time too. SO is off for another few weeks..

snmetz7 · June 2014

I just want to say that I work full time and have been back for about a week while DH is a sahd (so opposite of most of your situations) even though I work full time, I ALWAYS take the motn feed (voluntarily) and I seem to do just fine at work (albeit a little sleepy in the morning) on 4+3 hrs of sleep.
If I can do it, so can the husbands.

allyandmike24 · June 2014

Coffeeeeee. Right meowwww. Baby W thinks sleep deprived mamas are the funniest mamas.

speechie517 · June 2014

@SoulTermination‌ I'm glad baby girl is doing better!

What is with the husbands lately? If seems like the novelty of the new babies wore off and they want back to their pre-April baby lives. Mine played video games in the basement while I alternated nursing and holding baby upright for 6 hours last night. This was after he called me and insisted I leave the gym after 45 minutes because she was "having a meltdown and won't drink from the bottle". He said "what do you want me to do?" Oh I dunno dishes, dinner, hold her so I can pee, freaken pay attention to me and the little refluxy gremlin who took over B's little body. Oy

All the coffees☕wines

mamacatTo2 · June 2014

I honestly think husbands DON'T get it. Mine has a hard time helping me out unless I am super specific about my needs. And then, if he bitches about being tired or whatever, I just completely ignore it at this point. I'm not about to give him sympathy when I know I'm more exhausted-but no one wins a prize for being most tired, even though that's what DH wants!

Eff everyone who said the first year of marriage was hard. The first year of marriage was all vacations and cocktails and sex and sleeping in. The first year of parenting was the worst so far.

PoppySeedWindsor · June 2014

Thanks for all the support last night...and also sorry for the insane vent. @ColleenSwerb maybe our husbands need a time out together?

@SoulTermination I'm soooo happy to hear your little girl is doing better! YAY!

@kseccomb17 Hang in there lady. I wish I could send you on a vacation somewhere.

In my neck of the woods...hubster apologized for being such an insensitive dickhead (my words -- not to his face). I still feel like this warrants him buying me something pretty.

When did I become THAT woman? Siiiiiiigh.

Happy Thursday y'all. Almost fucking there.

smushi · June 2014

Hugs to the hard times and crappy things DHs do...

Went to flush the toilet this morning and a brown recluse jumped out... Now that's some scary shit.

Ba dum dum.

bootsiebabe · June 2014

TP to all the husband whines. I feel like men just don't always get it.

thomas930 · June 2014

Totally agree @mamacatTo2‌, the first years of marriage were a piece of cake compared to the first year of parenting.

Mamamonzo · June 2014

Lucas and I had a dance party in the living room. We were dancing to Happy. Then he puked all over me. Probably would have been a good idea to wait longer than 10 minutes after feeding him.