MIL lives with us... (don't worry it's cool). Normally I cook the meals. Every so often there would be a day that she would cook. I also do a majority of the cleaning in the house. But the last week or so I just quit. I gave no warning. I stay in my room in my bed all day. When the kids come home I help the youngest with homework in my bed. A few minutes before DH comes home I make the bed and shower or change my clothes. MIL has been cooking dinner. I have no shame.
I think "baby shower games," "freezer meals," and "8 fashion trends" need to get unstuck from the top of our board, they've been there months and have had almost no interaction...it is time to let them go.
I think "baby shower games," "freezer meals," and "8 fashion trends" need to get unstuck from the top of our board, they've been there months and have had almost no interaction...it is time to let them go.
I'm happy to see that I am not the only one who is planning on stuffing my face full of food next Thursday without any shame!
I'm all over here like:
Married - 10/10/2009
DS - Due 11/3/2012 born 9/28/2012 due to Severe Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome
DD - EDD 12/30/15
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I'm supposed to be on a long term regimen of penicillin to prevent recurring rheumatic fever, but I haven't been taking them. I used to be really good at taking them when I thought I was in serious imminent danger, but since I've been pregnant and since I've seen a new doctor (who actually knew what she was talking about) who said that I was at a really low risk to get it again and could probably stop taking them all together after the baby arrives, I just haven't been that worried about it. Plus, I have enough issues down there to worry about. 10 days on antibiotics is bad enough, so can you imagine what 12+ months has done to my body. Ugh.
I don't like pumpkin pie. I'll just eat the whipped cream tyvm.
I also don't want to adult today. I went to my OB appointment and really wanted to go home and back to bed. I'm at my office, wondering how early is too early to leave. Meanwhile, I could really use the extra money with maternity leave coming up, but I just wanna go home, sit on my couch, watch my DVR and eat junk food.
I am trying to focus on work, but it is next to impossible, and I don't care. What makes it even harder is I am working from home until they induce me, and my "office" is in my bedroom. I want to crawl into bed and sleep. I may do that at lunch.
I only work 3 days a week now and only have 4 more working days till my maternity leave. No coworker I will not pick up your shift. I really don't care if it's an emergency. Does that make me a bad person?
I'm working from home today and so far I've done no work ... I have a long list of things to do but adulting today is hard. I just want to go back to bed.
DH is also pressuring me to pack my hospital bag because I've had random contractions at random times over the last two weeks and he thinks that means labor soon. I'm acting like a child and refusing to do it because I feel like it'll be fun to organize and pack it and once it's done it's done (I relish the little organizational tasks lately).
And as for Thanksgiving, it's a love hate relationship this year. I hate that we're going to DH's family's house instead of mine because I'm pissed at them for some cross-family drama that went on ... but at the same time I'm thrilled because his mom is a control freak when it comes to cooking Thanksgiving and won't let me do anything to help and I REALLY DO NOT want to cook anything or help. So win for me I guess.
I'm getting induced Monday and have had zero desire to "nest", clean or prepare for baby at all. The car seat probably won't even get installed until right before we bring him home.
I've been late to work every day this week because I just don't care about being on time anymore. Boss hasn't even made any snarky comments about it, so I'll probably continue to come in late until I have this baby.
I told my students I would provide "treats" today to compel them to come to the last day of class before Thanksgiving break (and last day of class for the semester because I didn't schedule anything for after break). The "treats" I'm providing are pathetic. I bought them donuts a couple months ago so they probably have their hopes up, but I just didn't want to spend another $20 at dunkin donuts for them. So donut holes and mini muffins it is and it only cost me $7.
I've been late to work every day this week because I just don't care about being on time anymore. Boss hasn't even made any snarky comments about it, so I'll probably continue to come in late until I have this baby.
I'm in the same boat! Feel your pain!
Married - 10/10/2009
DS - Due 11/3/2012 born 9/28/2012 due to Severe Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome
DD - EDD 12/30/15
"I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou|| [url=http;//www.fertilityfriend.com]Ovulation Chart[/url|| <a href="http://www.fertilityfriend.com" style="font-size:smaller;" >Ovulation Chart</
I told my students I would provide "treats" today to compel them to come to the last day of class before Thanksgiving break (and last day of class for the semester because I didn't schedule anything for after break). The "treats" I'm providing are pathetic. I bought them donuts a couple months ago so they probably have their hopes up, but I just didn't want to spend another $20 at dunkin donuts for them. So donut holes and mini muffins it is and it only cost me $7.
I've offered to bring a dish to both of the thanksgivings DH and I will be attending , but I will harbor aggressive feelings towards the hostesses if they take me up on it.
I told my students I would provide "treats" today to compel them to come to the last day of class before Thanksgiving break (and last day of class for the semester because I didn't schedule anything for after break). The "treats" I'm providing are pathetic. I bought them donuts a couple months ago so they probably have their hopes up, but I just didn't want to spend another $20 at dunkin donuts for them. So donut holes and mini muffins it is and it only cost me $7.
I normally love pumpkin pie, I just can't eat it anymore unless I want to breathe fire for 24 hours straight...and that's with taking my beloved Pepcid beforehand!
I'm doing nothing today. I don't even plan on showering until late this afternoon. I'm going to tell DH I wanted to spend the day feeling the babies' movements as I won't get to do it much longer.
BF got his lay off this week. I'm happy about it because now my nursery is going to get finished and I won't have to stress about where the heck he is when I go in to labor or need to be induced.
I'm doing nothing today. I don't even plan on showering until late this afternoon. I'm going to tell DH I wanted to spend the day feeling the babies' movements as I won't get to do it much longer.
Confession I was "playing" with one of LO's feet last night. She kept sticking her foot out on my left side, so I kept rubbing her foot and she would kick back!
I want to make it to 40 weeks for the health of my LO, but I'm on short term disability and that means I'm getting paid for sitting around watching Netflix and eating. So I'm in no hurry to get labor started
I only woke up this morning for my cereal and to let my dogs outside. Then I went back to sleep. It's currently noon and I am just now getting up to shower and go to my moms house to plan Thanksgiving. Then I think I'll take a nap.
I showered this morning and put clean pjs back on.. No shame. Also, I love coffee! I went 3.5 full months without coffee and then decided to have a cup so since then I have had at 3 cups a week and I'm trying to be good and stop drinking it again but here I am with Starbucks on the couch.. The struggle
I'm doing nothing today. I don't even plan on showering until late this afternoon. I'm going to tell DH I wanted to spend the day feeling the babies' movements as I won't get to do it much longer.
Confession I was "playing" with one of LO's feet last night. She kept sticking her foot out on my left side, so I kept rubbing her foot and she would kick back!
Ultrasounds keep confirming little guys butt is the lump I feel on my left side. Whenever he's acting up, I give him a little spanking on his bottom and tell him to cool it.
I think I might be a bad mom. No...right now I am a bad mom.
I'm 37 weeks today with my first kid, and originally I wanted baby girl to cook as long as she wanted, but I've changed my mind. I want her out NOW. I'm so over the strict diet (gestational diabetes) with the holidays here and I'm tired of making DH the special foods that he requests and not being allowed to eat it myself. This includes watching him eat the rest of my 30th birthday cake this week after I was allowed a tiny half-slice as a cheat...I'm not a sweets person but I've craved chocolate the whole pregnancy and that slice is the only bit I've had since week 27. I'm also being tested for Cholestasis, but my OB thinks it just PUPP. The itchiness is worse than the chicken pox I had as a kid. I could cry from the unending itchy agony that has also progressed beyond my stomach to my legs and tush, and the stupid pharmacy literally just filled my prescription anti-itch cream that my doctor ordered yesterday morning. My stomach is sore and bloody because I scratch myself in my sleep. I'm sure once I've used the cream for a little bit I can be an adult again who'd never want her child to be early for a little itch relief, but right now I'm just a whiny little B who wants to rip her skin off and is glad that DH isn't home to hear me complain or hold my hands to keep me from scratching. Seriously, worse than the chicken pox. Uggghhhh!!!
I'm afraid that my grandmother will forget my son exists for the next few years before she dies. She suffers from worsening dementia, and has already forgotten quite a few times that I'm actually pregnant. Not to mention, last year, on my birthday, she asked me if I knew when one of my first cousin once removed's birthdays was, because she couldn't remember (it's in March). She had also forgotten that it was actually my birthday that day, even with a few gentle reminders from my father. The youngest great-grandchild currently is over the age of one, so she's had a bit of time to remember him. Now that her dementia is actually starting to pick up speed, I'm worried that Grayson will be one she always forgets because he wasn't around beforehand. I know this is a petty thing to be worried over, especially because there are so many other things that can go wrong, but there's already a bit of a disconnect between us over things that my father's family has said/done to try and turn her against my father and I. I just don't want my son to spend the first few years of his life thinking that his great-grandmother doesn't like him and it's not really a situation that can easily be explained to a young child, is it?
@caitlyn5454, I think you're worrying too much about it. My grandma has been slipping pretty badly for the last few years and rarely knows who we are without several reminders. This year, she got great grandkids 6 and 7 and will never remember them existing until she sees them or a photo. I know it'll be the same for our twins once they're here. It's just the circle of life.
My 5 year old nephew has dealt with it basically his whole life and it doesn't affect him at all. He knows great grandma tries her best and loves him, to him that's enough. He sees her forget her own daughters names and doesn't take it personally at all.
This morning I legitimately asked my midwife if I could: A) go to work if I only sat at my desk b) walk the dogs and C) exercise on bedrest... It was not my finest moment.
Fffc: I want him to come early while my friend is home for thanksgiving, but after I get to eat all the yummy foods. If he comes next weekend I will be 38 weeks. My due date is her birthday but I would rather she get to meet him as I only see her twice a year and she will not be home then.
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I'm all over here like:
Married - 10/10/2009
DS - Due 11/3/2012 born 9/28/2012 due to Severe Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome
DD - EDD 12/30/15
"I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou|| [url=http;//www.fertilityfriend.com]Ovulation Chart[/url|| <a href="http://www.fertilityfriend.com" style="font-size:smaller;" >Ovulation Chart</
Jamie
Jamie
I also don't want to adult today. I went to my OB appointment and really wanted to go home and back to bed. I'm at my office, wondering how early is too early to leave. Meanwhile, I could really use the extra money with maternity leave coming up, but I just wanna go home, sit on my couch, watch my DVR and eat junk food.
Married - 10/10/2009
DS - Due 11/3/2012 born 9/28/2012 due to Severe Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome
DD - EDD 12/30/15
"I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou|| [url=http;//www.fertilityfriend.com]Ovulation Chart[/url|| <a href="http://www.fertilityfriend.com" style="font-size:smaller;" >Ovulation Chart</
Jamie
I normally love pumpkin pie, I just can't eat it anymore unless I want to breathe fire for 24 hours straight...and that's with taking my beloved Pepcid beforehand!
I'm going to tell DH I wanted to spend the day feeling the babies' movements as I won't get to do it much longer.
I'm 37 weeks today with my first kid, and originally I wanted baby girl to cook as long as she wanted, but I've changed my mind. I want her out NOW. I'm so over the strict diet (gestational diabetes) with the holidays here and I'm tired of making DH the special foods that he requests and not being allowed to eat it myself. This includes watching him eat the rest of my 30th birthday cake this week after I was allowed a tiny half-slice as a cheat...I'm not a sweets person but I've craved chocolate the whole pregnancy and that slice is the only bit I've had since week 27. I'm also being tested for Cholestasis, but my OB thinks it just PUPP. The itchiness is worse than the chicken pox I had as a kid. I could cry from the unending itchy agony that has also progressed beyond my stomach to my legs and tush, and the stupid pharmacy literally just filled my prescription anti-itch cream that my doctor ordered yesterday morning. My stomach is sore and bloody because I scratch myself in my sleep. I'm sure once I've used the cream for a little bit I can be an adult again who'd never want her child to be early for a little itch relief, but right now I'm just a whiny little B who wants to rip her skin off and is glad that DH isn't home to hear me complain or hold my hands to keep me from scratching. Seriously, worse than the chicken pox. Uggghhhh!!!
My grandma has been slipping pretty badly for the last few years and rarely knows who we are without several reminders.
This year, she got great grandkids 6 and 7 and will never remember them existing until she sees them or a photo. I know it'll be the same for our twins once they're here. It's just the circle of life.
My 5 year old nephew has dealt with it basically his whole life and it doesn't affect him at all. He knows great grandma tries her best and loves him, to him that's enough. He sees her forget her own daughters names and doesn't take it personally at all.
A) go to work if I only sat at my desk
b) walk the dogs and
C) exercise
on bedrest... It was not my finest moment.