Wuh-wuh-wuh-Wednesday randoms

ngolimento · January 2015

Just in case anyone wants a ton of laughs, check out BumpMay's profile:

https://forums.thebump.com/profile/10604069/BumpMay

ETA: It's NSFW :P

kcbizme · January 2015

melissat2742 said:

I just broke down and ordered my H's shower present (co-ed shower). Now to get some of the "Daddy" books to fill it with. I'm so excited and I know he's going to absolutely love it!

I bought my husband the same bag but in black (as a surprise at the shower) and filled it with a couple dad books and a very cute dad/baby picture frame and a couple new dad t-shirts...hoping he likes it!

That's exactly what I'm doing! He's not expecting anything so I'm really excited to surprise him.

Whitfry · January 2015

tunnel said:
@Whitfry‌ - have you tried the metformin ER (extended release)? I was on it for PCOS and was relieved to be pretty much side effect free. I have heard a lot of women have better luck with the ER. Hopefully you won't need any medication though!

That's what I was just prescribed today. I have to test for ketones every morning. I have to eat all 60 carbs every meal. I have to gain at least 1lb. And I have to start taking metformin so that I can eat all 60 carbs and gain a pound while not spilling ketones or having high blood sugar. And I have to email the nurse my numbers every week.

I can't even right now, lol. I just want some fucking cake. Please, somebody, go eat something delicious for me. Full of carbs. The carbiest thing you can find.

DragonflyDreaming · January 2015

I can't get to any of the other boards on the app.

At least my birth month club is still loading!

DragonflyDreaming · January 2015

Ok, nm. It's working, the app just sucks.

Was looking at the April board and hadn't realized that I missed the update that baby Max had passed a few days ago. That really breaks my heart.

lawsonellis · January 2015

DragonflyDreaming said:
Ok, nm. It's working, the app just sucks.

Was looking at the April board and hadn't realized that I missed the update that baby Max had passed a few days ago. That really breaks my heart.

What?!? No!

jess412love · January 2015

RQuinlin said:

DragonflyDreaming said:

Ok, nm. It's working, the app just sucks.

Was looking at the April board and hadn't realized that I missed the update that baby Max had passed a few days ago. That really breaks my heart.

Awww man! That's awful!

Ugh that breaks my heart

I need to go check their board out.

kcbizme · January 2015

DragonflyDreaming said:

Ok, nm. It's working, the app just sucks. Was looking at the April board and hadn't realized that I missed the update that baby Max had passed a few days ago. That really breaks my heart.

Oh no! That's so sad! My heart goes out for them!

meowkitten · January 2015

DragonflyDreaming said:

Ok, nm. It's working, the app just sucks. Was looking at the April board and hadn't realized that I missed the update that baby Max had passed a few days ago. That really breaks my heart.

I just saw that, too. Heartbreaking

jarrard1983 · January 2015

DragonflyDreaming said:
Ok, nm. It's working, the app just sucks.

Was looking at the April board and hadn't realized that I missed the update that baby Max had passed a few days ago. That really breaks my heart.

Wow. That is terribly sad to hear. I was pulling for that little guy. I'll be saying extra prayers for him and his family tonight.

deeohgee · January 2015

@katydid2014‌ I feel like my vagina is going to fall out! And the swelling. Ugh. The good ol' cheeseburger crotch.

jack12trip · January 2015

@katydid2014‌ This is all me today sister. Like I seriously got kneed in the crotch. I have to stand up really slowly and hobble too. You're definitely not alone on this one.

ruemorgan · January 2015

Holy hormones batman! I had my hospital tour tonight and the entire time I spent trying to stop myself from crying because im so fucking excited to give birth. Standing in the labor and delivery room was the hardest, like holy shit. Im going to meet my son in one of these very rooms any week now! I cant fucking wait.

lawsonellis · January 2015

@etoille‌ I love titted out of commiseration. I'm sorry you are quarantined from your squishy. Luckily it's temporary so store up all those hugs and have a cuddle day when you're better!

ruemorgan · January 2015

@etoille‌ I forget, mike is about 1.5 right? Does he understand you're having a baby? (Many of the parents in my classroom are pregnant and I'm surprised how many of the younger twos are actually beginning to grasp the idea of a baby on the way.) That really sucks your sick AGAIN, I feel like its never ending for you. Hopefully it passes soon!

Whitfry · January 2015

Re: getting kicked in the crotch

This is so me. OB said baby J is hanging out on a nerve cluster which is why I've been limping in excruciating pain, and yesterday I had 8 whole hours where he had moved briefly and I felt so much better. But now he's back on the nerve and seems happy to be there. So fuck-me-running, it huuuurts.

Re: giving birth

I'm also super excited! I feel really eager and am looking forward to the whole experience. I am, of course, a FTM who has no idea what to realistically expect as far as the sensations of giving birth so am sort of living in tra-la-la land. And I want baby J to keep cooking, but I am also just so damned excited to meet him that I can barely stand it.

ruemorgan · January 2015

etoille said:

ruemorgan said:

@etoille‌ I forget, mike is about 1.5 right? Does he understand you're having a baby? (Many of the parents in my classroom are pregnant and I'm surprised how many of the younger twos are actually beginning to grasp the idea of a baby on the way.) That really sucks your sick AGAIN, I feel like its never ending for you. Hopefully it passes soon!

Yeah he's 1.5 - I've been saying a few months baby and pointing to my stomach and stuff but he looks at me like "bitch you crazy we just went over the fact that that is your tummy and not a baby do you think I'm stupid?"

Snip

LOL I can totally imagine this. I feel like even if he doesnt grasp the idea of baby now, you and your DH seem very thorough with your son.
And i think the baby doll is a great idea. Kind of random but my sister put her DDs baby doll next to her son at about 6 weeks old and he wouldnt stop quietly starring at it(keep in mind hes a pretty fussy baby). The pictures crack me up, all bug eyed like WHO/WHAT IS THAT.He is about 9 weeks now and still hypnotized by this doll, they slip it into his crib when they need to quiet him. Lol, I need to get a baby doll!

FrecklesInside · January 2015

WTF with all the intros??? Such weird...or not weird...timing.

JenLa21 · January 2015

etoille said:

ruemorgan said:

Holy hormones batman! I had my hospital tour tonight and the entire time I spent trying to stop myself from crying because im so fucking excited to give birth. Standing in the labor and delivery room was the hardest, like holy shit. Im going to meet my son in one of these very rooms any week now! I cant fucking wait.

I alternate between "OMG I AM SO EXCITED" (especially because team Green - which honestly I'm more excited to find out this time than I was last time) and "OMG I AM SO SAD" because it's the last few weeks of it being just the three of us here and I love the family we have now so much and I just hope he's ok (rational me knows it will be ok, emotional me is a basket case).

Another reason I am so pissed that I'm so sick. I want to spend so much time with my kid right now and I can't.

--------QBF---------
This so much @etoille‌. I'm so excited to meet this LO, and add to our family, but I'm a little sad that our time as a family of 3 is coming to an end. I want to plan all these special family days, not that DS will remember or care, but it'll make me happy.

I remember my hardest day as a new mom. It was when I was sick for the first time after having my son. It was so hard not to kiss and cuddle my baby

Hope you feel better soon.

CoozieInMyPurse · January 2015

mel7806 said:
@luckystarz‌ FFWC I have never had Red Lobster biscuits

Me either. I actually don't think I've ever been to a Red Lobster at all.

Whitfry · January 2015

Sooooo.... my MIL. I have thought about just starting a brand-new thread where we can all vent about our IL's if needed. But I am exhausted and have had a stressful day. So I'm going to put this here.

MIL lives next door to us. MIL owns the house that we live in, and we pay her rent. It is not an ideal situation, but it is currently the one that is available to us. There are reasons that DH moved into this house many years ago and they included taking care of his father who was dying of cancer. MIL is elderly and benefits from us being nearby to help her with certain things - though we don't really benefit at all from being next door to her. She's a harpy. And bat-shit crazy. I digress.

There is always lots and lots of crazy weird drama where she is concerned. But the most recent is the fact that she is preparing to have her third foot surgery. On the same foot. For some reason they keep doing shit to it and she keeps being unhappy with the outcome so she has it re-done. FWIW, she never pays attention to the doctor's orders and always starts walking sooner than she's supposed to, which is probably part of the reason why the outcome of the surgery is never what she wants. So she has decided to have this foot surgery late February. Guess who she expects to babysit her and take her dogs in and out and check on her several times daily?

You probably guessed right. I am fairly certain that some of this is her acting out at the fact that we are having a baby and she will therefore not be the "baby" anymore. You think I am kidding about this, but I am not. I have spent the last six years painstakingly establishing very strong boundaries where MIL is concerned. I had to re-structure her relationship with DH from the ground-up, which involved teaching him basic concepts in behavioral modification and how to implement those with his mother. Things have vastly improved. We no longer get sixteen phone calls in a row at eleven o'clock at night because some lightbulb in a part of her house that she never uses has burnt out and needs to be fixed Right Now. We only associate with her in public places because she has a tendency towards histrionics and we have trained her to understand that if she causes a scene in a public place by throwing a tantrum, we will get up and walk away. She only cried a little bit the last time we went out for a meal together.

When DH's dad was dying, he tried to tell DH that he would now be responsible for basically "parenting" his mother. DH told his father that there was no way in hell that was going to be happening, as she is a grown woman. MIL was apparently listening in on that phone call and got mortally offended. We do a lot for her. We shovel her walks. We help around her house with things she can't do herself. She's older and frail and we support her where she needs support and we do it without complaint because she is family. And you don't have to like your family, but you should help them out when they genuinely need you to.

But her decision to have surgery just a couple weeks before my due date is really irking me. I know that there will be a lot of complaints about how we are not at her beck and call, because we will not be at her beck and call. We will take care of the dogs because nobody else can - they're not well trained and will bite strangers. But there won't be a lot of "checking up on her" or coddling. We're going to be very busy with a newborn, and once DH goes back to work there is no way in hell I am going to be dealing with a newborn and an old lady who wants the same attention given to a newborn. DH will be having a gentle conversation with her about the boundaries involved with the new baby, and I suppose the pro of the whole situation is that with a broken foot she won't be able to come over unannounced a million times a day to bother me while I'm learning to nurse and criticizing all the remodeling we have done to make this house something other than the pit it used to be.

But I just needed to vent that one out. Sorry.

stine28 · January 2015

@Whitfry‌ I'm really sorry that you have to deal with this mew twist with your MIL. Sounds like you're all over treating her with exactly the amount of care and coddling she requires without crossing the line. I hope that when the kiddo arrives you can keep up the status quo with ease. Ugh, I'm stressed out just thinking about it.

Whitfry · January 2015

Before I got my hands on him, DH and his parents communicated by a method in which whoever talked the loudest over everyone else won the conversation. He is now a respectful gentleman who understands that even if he's not paying attention to the words coming out of my mouth he has to make affirmative sounds so I think he is.

LadySnowblood · January 2015

Wow @Whitfry. I swear our MILs are twinsies. I would kill myself if I had to live next door to mine. We live across town and that's still not far enough for me. I will pray for you.

jess412love · January 2015

@Whitfry‌ you have every right to complain, I don't know what I would do in your situation. Good luck to you and your hubby!

lawsonellis · January 2015

@Whitfry‌ I'm sorry you have to deal with her but I respect you and Your H so much for being able to set those boundaries and stick to them. I am in the process of rebuilding my H's relationship with his mother, who I lovingly refer to as "maleficent" (and not the compassionate Angelina Jolie version either).

meowkitten · January 2015

@mel7806 DH puts cayenne and garlic powder on his sometimes...I like mine with cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on top!

@Whitfry I am so sorry about your MIL. Mine is nuts too, but not quite that nuts...DH is just her baby and her best friend so it took me a long time to separate her away from us a little bit. (Ex. When we moved in together, she used to call him about a zillion times a day, have him come over to the house and do chores for her all the time, take her to the movies/lunch/dinner constantly, etc...because these were things he did before me and she didn't understand that he had a life now). DH's dad is a truck driver so he wasn't around a lot when he was growing up, so I think she just basically needed him because she was lonely. We live ten hours away from them now, I couldn't imagine living next door! They actually just put their house up for sale with the intention of moving down here with us so that should be interesting. I'm still trying to figure out setting up all-new boundaries with her first grandchild. Ugh. I'm glad you and DH are on the same page at least as far as boundaries go and how to deal with her...I can't imagine people dealing with crazy ILs and not agreeing with their spouse as to how to handle it.

@ruemorgan I can't wait to go on our hospital tour at the beginning of February. We started childbirth classes last Thursday and I almost cried through the whole thing because I am just so incredibly excited to meet our daughter! Everyone keeps telling me I'm crazy for looking forward to labor but I'm really excited about the whole experience.

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