Because it's Monday.

Salemkitty13 · August 2014

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Salemkitty13 · August 2014

I was supposed to start back to work today. We have this huge meeting that you are not supposed to miss. Well, DS was up screaming last night with a fever that wouldn't break even with medication. I took him to the Doctor this morning, he has hand, foot and mouth disease.

RedDDD · August 2014

We just got thru HFM at our house. It is widespread right now. Super sucks. Hang in there!

My complaint is I think I have developed a food allergy. I had a severe reaction last week that had me in the urgent care and they gave me a benedryl shot. (No clue what caused it) I have never been allergic to anything. I made an apt with an allergist to get testing done this week because it scared me so bad. Then just an hour ago I ate a handful of nuts...my tongue started swelling up and I was feeling light headed. Then I started googling and researching and find that pregnancy can also trigger adult onset allergies etc.....WTF man! Anyway....now Im really glad I made that apt because I need to find out WTH is going on!

bermybabe68 · August 2014

We just had a 2 day holiday (Thursday and Friday) so were excited to spend 4 days off with dd. We had a great day with her on Thursday and then it was all downhill from there. Friday she started vomiting, refusing food, had a fever and then came the diarrhea. 3 days of miserableness. I'm so glad her fever broke and she got a great night sleep last night. She woke and took a full bottle this morning and was in a great mood ... just in time for daycare. Boo. At least I got a lot of cuddles this weekend

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bossmom11 · August 2014

jojo1112 said:

Also I need to stop reading that vocab/milestones thread. I'm happy kids are doing so well but DS is one of the older September kids and barely does any of these things. It's ruined my go with the flow attitude I've been trying to have. Poor DS and trying to find his body parts. Sigh. Deep breath. He'll find his nose when he's good and ready. And maybe he wants his wave to look like a limp gangsta wave.

haha this is us too! I stopped reading after the first page...Lo will be 11 months on Thursday. She can wave hi and bye but usually has her had faced toward herself. Body parts? Pretty sure she has no desire to know what those are let alone where they are. No desire to walk, LO is convinced she can get there faster crawling. Keep with the go with the flow attitude! LO will do it when he is ready

Zoly1103 · August 2014

@salemkitty13 - I am sending you hugs.

My only complaint is that I don't feel like working today. I was actually productive at home yesterday and I wish I was there to keep up the momentum.

redfallon · August 2014

@mommabakes said:

My vent: My ILs spend a ridiculous amount of money for holidays/birthdays, they spent over $150 on Christmas for my then 3 month old DD. If they spent it on stuff she needed, or nice,high quality toys I wouldn't mind as much. They bought a bunch of plastic toys, lots of little things... Fast forward to now, we were talking to them about her upcoming birthday. They are buying her a child size recliner, which DH suggested to them, no biggie, I suggested that maybe it would be nice to put the rest of the money they wanted to spend on her into her savings account. MIL laughed at me and says no, she doesn't do that. So I suggested going and getting DDs feet measured for shoes, and MIL says no, she doesn't want to get her clothes/shoes. We live in a 1300 sq ft home. We don't have room for all the stupid crap they want to buy her. Let alone the fact that there are a ton of other people buying her stuff too. Plus, I don't want them spending so much on her, what is wrong with putting money into her savings? It would be a much better gift, imo. DH needs to have a talk with them and explain that we do not want DD to have that many gifts, and if they want to spend that much then they need to put it in her savings, or buy "experiences", such as zoo/museum memberships, swim lessons, etc.., instead of toys.

And it might be petty of me, but I want to be the ones buying my daughter her "big" gifts as she gets older, plus all of her firsts (ie. bicycle, etc). Plus I don't want DD growing up thinking she will get every single thing on her list.

TLDR; ILs suck

We also don't want Emily to have a bunch of stuff. So far, we've been able to keep to that. The only big things she has are her Pack N Play and a walker that we are borrowing from SIL. I have no idea how her birthday and Christmas are going to turn out. However, our parents are pretty good at asking us what kinds of things she needs versus having their own ideas of what she needs.

For your situation, will they give the stuff to you in original boxes or packaging or will they unwrap it? Hoping that you can take a bunch of the stuff back to Wal-Mart or Babies R Us or wherever may have the same stuff and may take it back and give you store credit or something. At least that way you could buy her some things she needs versus a bunch of stuff she doesn't.

AlejandraN2 · August 2014

@Salemkitty13‌ and @jdoud77 hope your babies feel better soon. And everyone else's who's battling a cold. We've also had a diaper rash that's now healing slowly but I was scared for a while because it looked like bruising. Now it's peeling and healing - i mean is that even normal? I didn't call the pediatrician to ask but maybe i should.

@jojo1112 I feel ya. Even though Z is pretty vocal and expressive with hands, she's not crawling, or cruising or even have any interest in walking. I try to be chill about it but it's hard especially when i watch her at daycare and she's just sitting there or on her tummy where all the other kids walk around. I know she doesn't care and I'm projecting on her but still hard to snap out of it. I'm sure I'll bite my words and wish for the days when i could just plop her down and she'd play for hours.

My vent (and sorry this is already a long post): i got yelled at at work today by one of our senior partners. She has a history of yelling at people and i've called her out on it before but this one was bad at an open space office. For something so stupid and insignificant. She said she's stressed because she's going on vacation this week and has to wrap things up. She sent me a note sort of apologizing but putting the blame on me. So I wrote back a very professional note saying that it's unacceptable behavior and not a professional way to deal with disagreement. And that I did not appreciate being scolded as a child publicly. She sent another note with a more heartfelt apology (a real one this time) and sent a group note to everyone else in our meeting apologizing for acting like an a-hole. I am still fuming over it but i took a walk and feel better. I don't have issues standing up for myself but i know others here do and i need her to understand that you can't let out stress on other people like that.

redfallon · August 2014

My gripe is that PMS appears to be kicking my butt and causing emotional issues for me that are then affecting me with DH. We hardly ever have big fights, but all weekend, and especially yesterday at dinner, we have been arguing and at one point, I slammed out of the house. When I came back in the house, I felt like I wanted to throw things. I had to go back outside and sit on the back porch for a while to calm down. I cried and couldn't stop. This is not my normal behavior.

I came back in and took some Pamprin, the kind that says it helps with irritability, also. I don't know if it was a placebo effect, but it seemed to help. I feel fine today so far, and was good last night, as well.

I really don't like fighting with DH

Albertsgirl1982 · August 2014

Salemkitty13 said:

I was supposed to start back to work today. We have this huge meeting that you are not supposed to miss. Well, DS was up screaming last night with a fever that wouldn't break even with medication. I took him to the Doctor this morning, he has hand, foot and mouth disease.

@Salemkitty13 That royally SUCKS! I hope he feels better soon.

redfallon · August 2014

@jnetx‌ Last night was dumb. He said I was being mean to him or yelling at him for stupid stuff. I told him that he doesn't realize his own tone towards me at times, either. Then he asked me to do something, but I was already in the middle of fixing Emily's tray and asked him very calmly and nicely to let me finish what I was doing first. He got mad at that, so I asked him (yelling) wtf did he want from me if he's gonna get mad when I'm being nice and calm, too? That's when I stormed out of the house. Some of it is he gets impatient because he asks me to do something when I'm already doing something else and so then I get impatient with him and ask him to wait. So some of it is that. My PMS hormones did not help.

Salemkitty13 · August 2014

Hugs all around!!! Mondays suck.

ETA. FU HFM!

Salemkitty13 · August 2014

FWIW the neurologist told me on Friday that DS was doing more than she'd expect or was looking for and he's an August baby. She told me to stop worrying. (Much easier said than done)

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HisChamaoleGirl · August 2014

Maybe this is more of an UO but when I read all the posts about the LO getting an overload of gifts I get annoyed. Yes I can see how that can be overwhelming but it's just a reminder that we live near no family and lo is missing out on family time. At this point, I'd rather have an overwhelming amount of gifts and visitig relatives than being across the country away from everyone.

trinjamba · August 2014

@HisChamaoleGirl‌ I know how you feel. Our family reside in another country so family gatherings are pretty infrequent. I have a big family and growing up we were very close and spent a lot of time together. Sometimes I get very sad that LO is missing out on having that experience.

Zoly1103 · August 2014

I hadn't thought about teaching body parts either. Last night I was trying to teach him his nose and he wouldn't really even look at me. So we're off to a rough start.

Of course sometimes, when I hear him say words I can't help but wonder if it's more that I WANT to hear him say it or if he's still just babbling.

Salemkitty13 · August 2014

Thank you guys for the well wishes. DS was much better today. I was even able to go to work.

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