Just wanted to let you lovely ladies know about the 50% off Cold Stone Creamery discount for us preggos! You must be visibly showing, but other than that you should be good to go. Enjoy your dairy deliciousness!!
My situation just escalated. Power went out and then we had to be evacuated from our building. Not exactly sure what is going on but we have emergency vehicles right in front of the area I work in. Guess I'm going to get paid to be freezing.
My situation just escalated. Power went out and then we had to be evacuated from our building. Not exactly sure what is going on but we have emergency vehicles right in front of the area I work in. Guess I'm going to get paid to be freezing.
@AEG84 $500?!?! I wasn't anticipating a bill for the anatomy scan... I hope I don't get a surprise like that in the mail! @thaisac1 those feet! Oh my gosh, so cute!!! Makes me a little sad that we have no more scheduled US in the future.
Just an FYI to all the mama's I have 2 15% off codes for the Lost My Name book! Message me if you want one! Happy New Years ladies!
@AEG84 $500?!?! I wasn't anticipating a bill for the anatomy scan... I hope I don't get a surprise like that in the mail!
Ours was $264 after insurance, $375 without the insurance deal. We pay universal for OB (either $3600 or 4200 depending on vag or C/S) plus set fees for labs/ultrasounds/circumcision. We have a high deductible HSA through BCBS so everything is a pretty good discount because of the deals BCBS has, but we pay everything up to $4500 (which is actually cheaper for us) so idk if a tradition plan would cover it more.
My situation just escalated. Power went out and then we had to be evacuated from our building. Not exactly sure what is going on but we have emergency vehicles right in front of the area I work in. Guess I'm going to get paid to be freezing.
Yikes! Stay safe (and warm)!
Ended up going to a different building. Got to leave work about an hour ago. Last I saw, no one is still allowed in the building. Rumors are that there was a fire... My work is pretty much a chemical plant, so everyone was freaked out.
@allaire314 apparently that place is just super expensive my coworker who has the same insurance, went to another nearby place for her a/s and it was only like $250. We have a high deductible plan with co insurance after deductible is met that I absolutely hate, but it's the only option through work for both me and DH, and still cheaper than trying to find something on the marketplace.
@allaire314 apparently that place is just super expensive my coworker who has the same insurance, went to another nearby place for her a/s and it was only like $250. We have a high deductible plan with co insurance after deductible is met that I absolutely hate, but it's the only option through work for both me and DH, and still cheaper than trying to find something on the marketplace.
Oh bummer! But it could always be worse... they at least give you an idea of what to expect come delivery time
@allaire314 apparently that place is just super expensive my coworker who has the same insurance, went to another nearby place for her a/s and it was only like $250. We have a high deductible plan with co insurance after deductible is met that I absolutely hate, but it's the only option through work for both me and DH, and still cheaper than trying to find something on the marketplace.
Oh my gosh!! I would seriously sh*t my pants after seeing a bill like that! Like @allaire314 said i wasn't anticipating an a/s bill.. I'm curious now what will come in the mail in the next few weeks or so.
@AEG84 you had to go somewhere else for your a/s than your normal provider? I'm confused, Sorry if im misreading what you said.
@allaire314 apparently that place is just super expensive my coworker who has the same insurance, went to another nearby place for her a/s and it was only like $250. We have a high deductible plan with co insurance after deductible is met that I absolutely hate, but it's the only option through work for both me and DH, and still cheaper than trying to find something on the marketplace.
Oh my gosh!! I would seriously sh*t my pants after seeing a bill like that! Like @allaire314 said i wasn't anticipating an a/s bill.. I'm curious now what will come in the mail in the next few weeks or so.
@AEG84 you had to go somewhere else for your a/s than your normal provider? I'm confused, Sorry if im misreading what you said.
@kalanieileen, yes. My dr doesn't currently do anatomy scans at their office so it's at a separate provider. Apparently they will be bringing that in house in a few months, but too late for me obviously. It's fairly common out here for the anatomy scan to be done outside of the OB's office.
@AEG84 how inconvenient! For the sake of curiosity, what happens if you need a second a/s scan because the techs couldn't get all of the pictures needed? Do you get billed twice?! Or is it just one flat rate so to speak?
Just wanted to let you lovely ladies know about the 50% off Cold Stone Creamery discount for us preggos! You must be visibly showing, but other than that you should be good to go. Enjoy your dairy deliciousness!!
WHAT! I must Google this!
It sounds like it's only at some locations
It was started at a Cold Stone in El Paso, but because the promotion went viral. The Cold Stone by me got a call from corporate to honor it the night before I went in. Worth a try!
I just went on Facebook and the first 6 posts I see are people showing off their NYE engagements. I wipe my hands clean of you tonight Facebook.
I was shocked not to see a single engagement or baby announcement when I checked FB this morning! I was waiting for it last night too, and nothing. Now drunk and hungover, THOSE I saw...
The snoogle pregnancy pillow is the best thing ever! I have been sleeping so much better since I picked it up. It was on sale for $69 but I would have paid $500 for it lol!
I saw this on a Scary Mommy article (time the negative of course...) and refused to read it. People be crazy. How they would even come up with things like this is beyond me...
Okay need advice! so while I think my DH is very sweet for wanting to be a part of the planning of the baby shower, I don't like his ideas. Nor am I even the one planning it. My cousin is. Well today he texted me with an invite he made on an app for the Android. It's kind of a cute invitation...just not something I would send out because it's not my taste. But I definitely don't want to hurt his feelings. It's not terrible, it's just not me. Is this something I should just let go?
Next item of advice, he wants to send them out as texts or write a Facebook event to invite people. I REALLY don't want to do that, I want to mail out invites to our guests. I feel more strongly about this than the look of the invite itself. Is it really not that big of a deal? Am I being too rigid on what I want?
And lastly, the amount of guests we originally wanted to invite is A LOT. I don't want that many people, I feel it will be chaotic and hectic. I don't want to be stressed on the day of the baby shower. I suggested doing separate showers: one for family and one for friends. On both sides, we have a giant family with tons of cousins and to spare any feelings because we know how our families are, we are inviting everyone. We know not everyone will be able to make it, but we have to invite out of respect. It's a weird Filipino thing. THEN we have a lot of friends we would like to invite as well! hence my suggestion for two separate. But DH is nagging saying he doesn't want to do that, we can't afford two showers to provide food and drinks etc. I'm leaning towards just giving in to what he wants because I really don't want to deal with the nagging today.
I know traditionally men don't normally attend baby showers, but it seems as though DH wants to be there and would really like his male friends there also.
Am I overreacting? Or am I justified? April Mommies help me out!
So basically a tampon with a microphone... how ridiculous! I bet whoever invented this odd contraption thinks they just hit the jackpot with this one. lol!
I googled it and look at this catchy slogan: My vagina definitely doesn't need surround sound system.
Okay need advice! so while I think my DH is very sweet for wanting to be a part of the planning of the baby shower, I don't like his ideas. Nor am I even the one planning it. My cousin is. Well today he texted me with an invite he made on an app for the Android. It's kind of a cute invitation...just not something I would send out because it's not my taste. But I definitely don't want to hurt his feelings. It's not terrible, it's just not me. Is this something I should just let go?
Next item of advice, he wants to send them out as texts or write a Facebook event to invite people. I REALLY don't want to do that, I want to mail out invites to our guests. I feel more strongly about this than the look of the invite itself. Is it really not that big of a deal? Am I being too rigid on what I want?
And lastly, the amount of guests we originally wanted to invite is A LOT. I don't want that many people, I feel it will be chaotic and hectic. I don't want to be stressed on the day of the baby shower. I suggested doing separate showers: one for family and one for friends. On both sides, we have a giant family with tons of cousins and to spare any feelings because we know how our families are, we are inviting everyone. We know not everyone will be able to make it, but we have to invite out of respect. It's a weird Filipino thing. THEN we have a lot of friends we would like to invite as well! hence my suggestion for two separate. But DH is nagging saying he doesn't want to do that, we can't afford two showers to provide food and drinks etc. I'm leaning towards just giving in to what he wants because I really don't want to deal with the nagging today.
I know traditionally men don't normally attend baby showers, but it seems as though DH wants to be there and would really like his male friends there also.
Am I overreacting? Or am I justified? April Mommies help me out!
I don't know if this is silly or if people do this, but I was watching Lady and the Tramp yesterday and the people in it were having like two baby showers at once in their house with all the women in one room and all the men in the other room and it looked sort of like two separate parties going on.
@kalanieileen I would let him make the invitation. It's sweet he wants to be a part of it and if it's something you could let go, I would. A big baby shower would stress me out, so 2 showers seems like the way to go. The baby shower is focused on you and having that many people eye balling you the whole time doesn't sound too fun. Is there a way that family could make food, like almost potluck style with appetizers?
@k&elizabeth Okay you're probably right about the invitation. I do think it's sweet too.. I'm just a bit of a control freak! I would LOVE to do potluck style.. but I'm not sure it would work out. We had an incident where we were planning a birthday party for our 6 year old and DH jokingly suggested potluck and we were reprimanded for it. I didn't think it was that big of a deal, but they did.. so if I got reprimanded again for suggesting that WHILE pregnant, water works will ensure and my sharp tongue will definitely get me in trouble haha.
@k&elizabeth Okay you're probably right about the invitation. I do think it's sweet too.. I'm just a bit of a control freak! I would LOVE to do potluck style.. but I'm not sure it would work out. We had an incident where we were planning a birthday party for our 6 year old and DH jokingly suggested potluck and we were reprimanded for it. I didn't think it was that big of a deal, but they did.. so if I got reprimanded again for suggesting that WHILE pregnant, water works will ensure and my sharp tongue will definitely get me in trouble haha.
Omg don't even mention potluck on here lol. I remember a thread about that, the poor girl got ripped a new one!!! Everybody was arguing that baby showers are already gift grabby enough, and to have to bring your own food is like a slap in the face and in poor taste.
My personal thoughts on the matter are that if you don't publicly mention it, but ask a few of your closest family or friends to bring something you know that they can make in their sleep... Well, it doesn't hurt anybody. Then you provide the drinks, cutlery, appetizers.
I wouldn't want to invite anybody that would speak negatively about me for asking them to bring a dish, but on here it's largely looked at as being in poor form.
Regarding the evites, I would say let him go forth and do a Facebook invite if that is so important to him. It's far less formal, but if you're having a very large guest list and considering a pot luck, it sounds like you're already going for a more casual atmosphere. So hey, whatever!
@kalanieileen That is adorbs that your h is so involved. The style if the invites is something that I would let go, but an evite is not. When my mil threw me a baby shower, she sent an evite to her side if the family, then emailed it to me to send to mine. I totally printed and mailed instead. As for one vs two parties, two sounds way better to me. My friends and family don't really blend, so it's more comfortable for guests as well.
@k&elizabeth Okay you're probably right about the invitation. I do think it's sweet too.. I'm just a bit of a control freak! I would LOVE to do potluck style.. but I'm not sure it would work out. We had an incident where we were planning a birthday party for our 6 year old and DH jokingly suggested potluck and we were reprimanded for it. I didn't think it was that big of a deal, but they did.. so if I got reprimanded again for suggesting that WHILE pregnant, water works will ensure and my sharp tongue will definitely get me in trouble haha.
Omg don't even mention potluck on here lol. I remember a thread about that, the poor girl got ripped a new one!!! Everybody was arguing that baby showers are already gift grabby enough, and to have to bring your own food is like a slap in the face and in poor taste.
My personal thoughts on the matter are that if you don't publicly mention it, but ask a few of your closest family or friends to bring something you know that they can make in their sleep... Well, it doesn't hurt anybody. Then you provide the drinks, cutlery, appetizers.
I wouldn't want to invite anybody that would speak negatively about me for asking them to bring a dish, but on here it's largely looked at as being in poor form.
Regarding the evites, I would say let him go forth and do a Facebook invite if that is so important to him. It's far less formal, but if you're having a very large guest list and considering a pot luck, it sounds like you're already going for a more casual atmosphere. So hey, whatever!
Oh really? Awe, I guess for me potlucks are a way I feel like I can help out the host/hostess. Whether it's potluck or not, when I'm invited somewhere I normally bring a dish anyway. I guess I was unaware others felt differently about it. I could see how people would think it's poor form.. I suppose it just doesn't bother me to fit in what's "formal and normal"
I think a Facebook invite for maybe his friends he wants to invite is fine, but as far as family members--especially elders of the family, I don't want to give them any reason to speak ill on how we do things, so I would like to send them an invite.
He actually just called me about the e-vite situation and he started arguing with me. And I am just so emotional today that I started crying and he gave up right away lol I told him to e-vite his friends and whomever he would like, but for some of my friends and family I would like to do a mailing invitation. So at least that fiasco is now solved!
@kalanieileen For DD I had three showers, one at work, one hosted by my MIL out of state when we visited, and one hosted by friends in our town. At the work one, anyone could come and since most of the teachers I worked with at that school were male more men attended then women. DH came to the one hosted by my MIL (though aside from my dad and FIL the rest were women) and the one hosted by friends was a joint BabyQ for friends of both mine and DH. It's really up to those planning and yourself (as I imagine they'd ask your opinion). Even if he'd be the only guy, if he's comfortable with that, go for it!, and consider yourself blessed he wants to be that involved
@imrachellea@mojomama6 Yes! see I would love to have 3 separate showers, one for work, one for friends, and one for family. I know for a fact my family will not mix with my friends and I just foresee a lot of problems, and I don't want my parents to feel uncomfortable. Unfortunately, I won't be able to do one for work since it's Chipotle, we don't have a separate room in the back for something like that.
and @mojomama6 ok good, I feel justified. I just think evites are tacky when it's a nice event such as baby shower wedding etc. If it's just a tiny house party then an evite is fine to me.
@AEG84 how inconvenient! For the sake of curiosity, what happens if you need a second a/s scan because the techs couldn't get all of the pictures needed? Do you get billed twice?! Or is it just one flat rate so to speak?
Honestly, I don't know - thankful baby cooperated in the end, because for a while she didn't want to turn over and have her heart looked at! I suspect they would bill twice, but I don't really know.
For baby shower...I would also split up friends & family. Nobody wants to watch you open gifts for 3 hours straight at a massive shower! And if you're feeding the same number of people, I don't see why it would matter if it's all at the same time vs two showers.
@thaisac1 I just had a friend send me the link for that! Um...no. The instructions are pretty funny, though.
Someone at a party asked DH last night how he thinks I'll bounce back after baby. Umm... Awkward. How my stomach is after baby is my own business. It'll do what it is going to do.
Someone at a party asked DH last night how he thinks I'll bounce back after baby. Umm... Awkward. How my stomach is after baby is my own business. It'll do what it is going to do.
If I were you H, I would've responded totally deadpan, something like, "The doctors say there's a 50% chance they'll be able to salvage the vagina. I'm having divorce and custody papers drawn up, in case it goes south. "
Someone at a party asked DH last night how he thinks I'll bounce back after baby. Umm... Awkward. How my stomach is after baby is my own business. It'll do what it is going to do.
If I were you H, I would've responded totally deadpan, something like, "The doctors say there's a 50% chance they'll be able to salvage the vagina. I'm having divorce and custody papers drawn up, in case it goes south. "
At that point, DH was drunk, so he told her that I'll probably bounce back just as quickly and just as well as I did with DS1. I pretty much lost all of my baby weight in the first couple of weeks and then started losing extra. She wasn't really concerned about my downstairs... Just my stomach. I had apparently made her extremely jealous of my weight loss last time, so I think she's hoping I have a hard time this time around. Even if it is harder to lose the baby weight, I really couldn't care. I'm just hoping for an easy delivery and a healthy baby.
@fbanke42 I'm going to shift the conversation and thank you - I'm now going to shift every possible conversation about anything post-baby to my vagina, and maybe people will stop asking. You know, since it's none of their business.
Also, FWIW, my sisters who bounced back quickly with their first bounced back just as quickly with their second, third, fourth, and fifth children. Yes, all freaking five. They say it was actually easier with subsequent children because they were heading around the older ones in addition to the breastfeeding, etc.
@fbanke42 I'm going to shift the conversation and thank you - I'm now going to shift every possible conversation about anything post-baby to my vagina, and maybe people will stop asking. You know, since it's none of their business.
Also, FWIW, my sisters who bounced back quickly with their first bounced back just as quickly with their second, third, fourth, and fifth children. Yes, all freaking five. They say it was actually easier with subsequent children because they were heading around the older ones in addition to the breastfeeding, etc.
DH said he wishes that he had said your response to her instead!
Fun new pregnancy symptom this last week: random nosebleeds! One on Christmas out of nowhere, a little one a few days ago, and a doozy tonight. Yay
I get them any time I have any nose issues. Everyone keeps bringing home colds, so I've had a cold for months now... Which means I've woken up to a nosebleed every morning. It sucks, but hopefully it will go away soon. Our bodies are just producing extra blood, so it's easier for the capillaries in our noses to break.
Re: **The Everything Random Thread for April Mamas**
@thaisac1 those feet! Oh my gosh, so cute!!! Makes me a little sad that we have no more scheduled US in the future.
Just an FYI to all the mama's I have 2 15% off codes for the Lost My Name book! Message me if you want one! Happy New Years ladies!
It was only at 13 weeks
@AEG84 you had to go somewhere else for your a/s than your normal provider? I'm confused, Sorry if im misreading what you said.
It was started at a Cold Stone in El Paso, but because the promotion went viral. The Cold Stone by me got a call from corporate to honor it the night before I went in. Worth a try!
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/01/01/babypod-entertains-your-fetus-with-an-insertable-speaker-for-your-baby-maker/
Next item of advice, he wants to send them out as texts or write a Facebook event to invite people. I REALLY don't want to do that, I want to mail out invites to our guests. I feel more strongly about this than the look of the invite itself. Is it really not that big of a deal? Am I being too rigid on what I want?
And lastly, the amount of guests we originally wanted to invite is A LOT. I don't want that many people, I feel it will be chaotic and hectic. I don't want to be stressed on the day of the baby shower. I suggested doing separate showers: one for family and one for friends. On both sides, we have a giant family with tons of cousins and to spare any feelings because we know how our families are, we are inviting everyone. We know not everyone will be able to make it, but we have to invite out of respect. It's a weird Filipino thing. THEN we have a lot of friends we would like to invite as well! hence my suggestion for two separate. But DH is nagging saying he doesn't want to do that, we can't afford two showers to provide food and drinks etc. I'm leaning towards just giving in to what he wants because I really don't want to deal with the nagging today.
I know traditionally men don't normally attend baby showers, but it seems as though DH wants to be there and would really like his male friends there also.
Am I overreacting? Or am I justified? April Mommies help me out!
So basically a tampon with a microphone... how ridiculous! I bet whoever invented this odd contraption thinks they just hit the jackpot with this one. lol!
I googled it and look at this catchy slogan:
My vagina definitely doesn't need surround sound system.
My personal thoughts on the matter are that if you don't publicly mention it, but ask a few of your closest family or friends to bring something you know that they can make in their sleep... Well, it doesn't hurt anybody. Then you provide the drinks, cutlery, appetizers.
I wouldn't want to invite anybody that would speak negatively about me for asking them to bring a dish, but on here it's largely looked at as being in poor form.
Regarding the evites, I would say let him go forth and do a Facebook invite if that is so important to him. It's far less formal, but if you're having a very large guest list and considering a pot luck, it sounds like you're already going for a more casual atmosphere. So hey, whatever!
As for one vs two parties, two sounds way better to me. My friends and family don't really blend, so it's more comfortable for guests as well.
I think a Facebook invite for maybe his friends he wants to invite is fine, but as far as family members--especially elders of the family, I don't want to give them any reason to speak ill on how we do things, so I would like to send them an invite.
He actually just called me about the e-vite situation and he started arguing with me. And I am just so emotional today that I started crying and he gave up right away lol I told him to e-vite his friends and whomever he would like, but for some of my friends and family I would like to do a mailing invitation. So at least that fiasco is now solved!
and @mojomama6 ok good, I feel justified. I just think evites are tacky when it's a nice event such as baby shower wedding etc. If it's just a tiny house party then an evite is fine to me.
For baby shower...I would also split up friends & family. Nobody wants to watch you open gifts for 3 hours straight at a massive shower! And if you're feeding the same number of people, I don't see why it would matter if it's all at the same time vs two showers.
@thaisac1 I just had a friend send me the link for that! Um...no. The instructions are pretty funny, though.
Also, FWIW, my sisters who bounced back quickly with their first bounced back just as quickly with their second, third, fourth, and fifth children. Yes, all freaking five. They say it was actually easier with subsequent children because they were heading around the older ones in addition to the breastfeeding, etc.
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