I am hiding in the bathroom to deal with a post-partum poop (not the worst thing in the world but not fun) and I realize by changing my Bump status from pregnant to newborn, the Bump removed my icon and now is asking me for a new profile picture.
WHAT PREGNANCY COMPANY THINKS A NEW MOM HAS TIME TO CHANGE HER F'ing PROFILE PICTURE?!
Mother F'ing Bump app, when are they going to get a clue.
Shew. I'm not even hormonal, swear, but that's all kinds of BS.
@virginiaunicorn11 I just have always had it in my mind that the red headed baby is what your LO would look like. It's psychological now!
If I saw your real baby I might not believe it! Lol
I agree, for the longest time I thought she was a STM and that the red headed baby was her 1st child.
I am so mad!! I made a special trip through traffic and heat and a busy mall to buy this picture at pottery barn kids I fell in love with like 5 months ago. The lady was really annoying and kept trying to get me to create a registry with them. Ummm I'm due in 2 weeks, why would I be making a registry right now? Please shut up. Anyway! I told her which picture I wanted and she went and got me one from the back all boxed up and good go. Purchase made. Off I go. Took me an hour and a half to get home! Seattle traffic is no joke.
I just opened the box to show my fiancé and it's the wrong F$&KING picture!!! I don't even know how to react. Im so mad. They are so lucky it's 11pm and it's too late to call them.
Omg, all I had to do was click on the profile pic then click that I already have a Bump avatar! Lol!!
I see my avatar as the baby version of me and my 'tude. My little boy has lots of dark brown hair! Freaked DH out at first because I'm red and he thinks of himself as blond (though he shaves his head bald and his beard is dark). But the baby looks sooo much like DH. It's the first thing everyone says.
More annoyed than angry... but my boss asked if we could check in next week, during my maternity leave. I feel a bit protective over the time, but my boss is a good guy, so I'm assuming there's a legit reason he wants to chat. (Hopefully nothing bad is going on with my teammates! We also are having compensation discussions at the firm, so it could be about that. I'm nosy so I don't mind a check-in as to how things are going without me there I suppose.)
I was smart enough to schedule it for a day when DH will be at work - he'd be pissed if he thought I was doing work during my leave! I'll probably still tell him afterward
@hoodoll82 Be careful with your leave. I recently read a lawsuit where a company terminated a woman on leave and claimed it was because she didn't come in to work. She claimed she was on leave, it wasn't an unexcused absence. Their response was that because she responded to work-related email (which they asked her to do) she voluntarily terminated her leave by working. The company won the suit and the woman had to pay back all benefits accrued while she was on leave.
If you have a good relationship with your employer, I can't imagine this happening. But it's a scary thought.
Yikes! My company has women out on leave frequently and I've been there 8 years... Plus I work on the finance and HR teams so I am pretty comfortable here, but good to be thinking about this! I do know that the main thing is that I can't report time on a timesheet while on disability (so for the first 6 weeks).
I know people are just trying to be nice but I just want to run to the gas station to get cookies and not talk to anyone. 2 strangers asked my due date and said, " you aren't very big." With weird looks on their faces. 1 person we are acquaintances with would not leave it alone....., "your not very big. How big does your doctor say the baby is ? I replied, " he didn't say." She just kept on it..... " well what did he say at the last ultrasound?"
Wtf. I just want to run to the gas station looking like shit in peace. Btw thanks for thinking I can't grow my baby. I've seen very tiny women with tiny bumps push out 9 lb kids. Also... I'm overweight to begin with. Suck It people.
^^^^ omg, I know! I was so annoyed when I was garage sailing and so many people - total strangers (!) - were telling me that I "wasn't very big, or was I sure I was due on the 18th? You don't look like you're due this month..." You people suck.
On a side note - I'm annoyed with some of the bumpies. Some of it is the randoms, but then some of the random posts are from names I recognize as having been around for at least a small while... So then I'm thinking that they just want the attention of having their own thread about stuff that could go under an established thread already. Never mind me. I'm cranky today %-(
Yeah they need to quit starting "Awww look at me" threads........ Esp two in one day. Just write a dear diary in symptoms...... Ppl will respond. Not that hard.
At the grocery store today driving one of those stupid kid carts with the car attached in the front making it impossible to maneuver the corners...anyway I'm in the produce section making my way around the maze of islands when an old woman parks her cart in the middle of the aisle blocking the path while she carefully picks out her lettuce. I wait a moment with my HUGE cart...nothing. So instead of asking her to move I go a different direction mumbling under my breath, "don't worry I'll just go around, not like I'm about to give birth any moment..." We round the corner and DS starts honking the toy horn saying,"get out the way...gosh...really?!" Swear the kid reads my mind sometimes. All the little old ladies laugh and I simply reply, "he's got road rage issues...I have NO idea where he gets that from?" :-??
She still hadn't moved by the time we picked out our potatoes so we had to back track again. Ugh....really?! :-w MOVEEEEEE!!!!
@klkonwi I am literally sitting here negotiating with DH bc I don't want to go into the grocery store. I work there. I know customers there. I want to be invisible!!! But I also want fried chicken so I'll probably just suck it up.
one thing that really bothers me about this site/app is the baby names women. they're such bitches. they keep making threads about names they've found while lurking and are just bashing them. i think they need to get lives. most of them arent even pregnant.
Honestly..... I would share my baby names only with you ladies at this point because I've been on this app so long....... Ppl on a random board I would not..... And they are horribly mean.
@JessHeppell yes, the names board are full of really snotty ass ladies. I used to go over there and look at names when we were working on our own names list, but once we got a reasonable list I stopped going over there. I couldn't deal with them constantly being judgy bitches. Some of their complaints are valid, some names are holy shit bizarre and / or just terrible, but they will jump all over people with names that are just a little different and really not all that bad, in the scheme of things. I asked them for help once and they were so UNhelpful that I just abandoned that thread
@JessHeppell@mellymar Hahaha yes! And they cannot STAND being told that they're overreacting or that some of their name ideas are fucking ridiculous (Rowena? Bertha? Wolfgang? Archibald? NO thank you!). Or when (after an OP has abandoned a thread and they still won't shut up) they are told to let it die because obviously no one cares anymore. I can't *not* laugh at how self-righteous they get over something so irrelevant to their lives.
That's so terrible-- I'd rather squabble with you ladies about things that are relevant to me and make me laugh then randos. Commiserating is making this so much better.
I'm just wondering where some of these people are coming from? I mean they're all over the announcement board and posting random threads. It's enraging me
I'm just wondering where some of these people are coming from? I mean they're all over the announcement board and posting random threads. It's enraging me
I'm just wondering where some of these people are coming from? I mean they're all over the announcement board and posting random threads. It's enraging me
Ladies, I'm in a bitchy mood right now. I'm losing it with the randos but I'm gonna try to keep it civil up in here, mostly because I don't want to get kicked off when you regulars are basically keeping me sane atm. Thanks for the snark, the sass, the open space to vent.... Sincerely, The Cat.
Actually, BOTH of those randoms are on my annoyance list. They post just often enough that I recognize the names because all of their other comments or posts annoy me. Enough so that if I'm just reading and scrolling and 'love'-ing when I agree or sympathize with a statement, I will GO BACK and remove my love once I notice who said it. One of them basically tried to slam me for enforcing a loss hour of silence, once. I remember you, chickie. Don't think I forgot you being disrespectful
I will admit I go on the names board quite frequently, mainly to see if there are any good last ditch effort names I can suggest to my very stubborn bf. But I at least try to be polite and make suggestions, some of the people on there are awful.
so speaking of people bashing names.. i remember creeping the september birth month, after the cats thread, ultrasound dickpic drama and the one chick who called me a "twatwaffle" and found a thread that was that board bashing names they had recently heard, and the one who started the thread happened to be the same one who obviously doesnt like me. and the name she thought was ridiculous and stupid is the name DH and i picked if its to be a boy. guess she has another reason not to like me :-bd
ETA: just found this in the comments of the bashing names thread on the name board "I don't like your name choices. Naming your kid Jagger sounds like you are trying way too hard to be cool.
And I can post that because this is a public internet forum and you can't dictate how people respond." it sounds totally like a bratty kid. all because she asked to keep it positive.
I'm going to lose it on our HR lady. I have asked her 3 times since April to get my leave paperwork, finally 2 weeks ago she gave me the FMLA forms and I took them to the doctor next day. I picked them up last Friday and turned them in when I got to work. I mentioned to her that I was most likely have a c section within the next few weeks. I just happened to see her walking by and told her that the c section was scheduled for June 22 and that I needed to complete my paperwork if there was anything left (I know there is short term disability stuff). She just looked at me and said, oh, I guess I should get started on that with the 22nd as your start date. I made sure to mention that he may come before that. She's notorious for dragging her feet and not getting her shit done. Every time I talk to her she tells me about a girl who had her baby in January who didn't get hers done in time and had to do it after. I'm not doing that. I live over an hour away and I'm having a c section, I will not be driving down here with a new baby just because you can't do your job.
Re: Angry Pregnant Ladies...
I just opened the box to show my fiancé and it's the wrong F$&KING picture!!! I don't even know how to react. Im so mad. They are so lucky it's 11pm and it's too late to call them.
I see my avatar as the baby version of me and my 'tude. My little boy has lots of dark brown hair! Freaked DH out at first because I'm red and he thinks of himself as blond (though he shaves his head bald and his beard is dark). But the baby looks sooo much like DH. It's the first thing everyone says.
I was smart enough to schedule it for a day when DH will be at work - he'd be pissed if he thought I was doing work during my leave! I'll probably still tell him afterward
If you have a good relationship with your employer, I can't imagine this happening. But it's a scary thought.
2 strangers asked my due date and said, " you aren't very big." With weird looks on their faces.
1 person we are acquaintances with would not leave it alone....., "your not very big. How big does your doctor say the baby is ? I replied, " he didn't say." She just kept on it..... " well what did he say at the last ultrasound?"
Wtf. I just want to run to the gas station looking like shit in peace.
Btw thanks for thinking I can't grow my baby.
I've seen very tiny women with tiny bumps push out 9 lb kids. Also... I'm overweight to begin with. Suck It people.
You people suck.
Never mind me. I'm cranky today %-(
She still hadn't moved by the time we picked out our potatoes so we had to back track again. Ugh....really?! :-w MOVEEEEEE!!!!
Or float in the pool.
I'm in a bitchy mood right now. I'm losing it with the randos but I'm gonna try to keep it civil up in here, mostly because I don't want to get kicked off when you regulars are basically keeping me sane atm. Thanks for the snark, the sass, the open space to vent....
Sincerely,
The Cat.
One of them basically tried to slam me for enforcing a loss hour of silence, once. I remember you, chickie. Don't think I forgot you being disrespectful
Edited, missed a word
ETA: just found this in the comments of the bashing names thread on the name board "I don't like your name choices. Naming your kid Jagger sounds like you are trying way too hard to be cool.
And I can post that because this is a public internet forum and you can't dictate how people respond." it sounds totally like a bratty kid. all because she asked to keep it positive.