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May 2016 Moms
emilyj77
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Things I'm no longer doing
emilyj77
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1. I've had to put a stop to watching videos of soldiers returning home, or reuniting with their dogs. Makes me cry uncontrollably every time. Also I can't read about any child in pain, or the loss of a child. Thank you pregnancy hormones/emotions.
2. I'm no longer wearing my wedding rings. It's probably a little early to take them off, but the memories of the time it took with a bowl of ice cold water last time when I waited too long are fresh enough that I bit the bullet and took them off this week.
3. No more sitting on the floor and playing with DD. It's just not that comfortable, and getting up takes way too long.
These are just a few things I've had to stop doing in third trimester. What about you?
2. I'm no longer wearing my wedding rings. It's probably a little early to take them off, but the memories of the time it took with a bowl of ice cold water last time when I waited too long are fresh enough that I bit the bullet and took them off this week.
3. No more sitting on the floor and playing with DD. It's just not that comfortable, and getting up takes way too long.
These are just a few things I've had to stop doing in third trimester. What about you?
Re: Things I'm no longer doing
2. No longer able to comfortably lounge back. I actually prefer sitting on the floor these days because I'm carrying so low that I'm most comfortable sitting criss-cross and letting my bump have space. DS is incredibly excited that I'm on the floor constantly when I'm home.
3. No longer able to wear my regular shoes. My feet swelled Tuesday after an all-day walking field trip at work and haven't gone back down to normal. I'm in my wide 1/2-size up shoes (and I still have an extra water dent in my feet from them by the end of the work day...the excess from each day since Tuesday's inflation has gone away each night at least.)
4. No longer handling decaf coffee well. Pretty much everything gives me heartburn lately, but caffeine or even decaf coffee makes it 10x worse.
DS1: May 2016
DS2: Jan 2019
Baby #3 EDD: 6/18/24
Mama to Three Girls:
Twins born March 2014 at 26 weeks due to preterm labor
and our 37weeker born May 9th, 2016!
I am no longer feeling any intimate or even affectionate thoughts towards MH. I have actually asked him very nicely to please not touch me at all.
I am no longer even looking to see if my floors are dirty or clean. If they are dirty, I would just rather not know.
I am no longer giving any fucks. Just none to give.
2. I can no longer lay on my back for any period more than 2 minutes. At the dentist two weeks ago, they had to finish my cleaning and exam with my sitting straight up, and at the chiro yesterday, I had to take a break from her working on my round ligaments. Both times I've started feeling faint, nauseous and ridiculously sweaty (see #1 again).
3. I can no longer wear my usual heels. Had to buy shoes with a little 1-1 1/2 inch wedge last weekend because my feet were killing me. I'm also really happy winter is pretty much over, because zipping up my boots was becoming quite the challenge.
4. I can no longer sleep well beyond 4am. Prep for what's to come?
2. Traveling for work; so glad to have hit my "no-travel" cut off!
3. Eating real meals. I eat all day but rarely actual meals.
Married: Oct 20, 2013
BFP 1: Aug 31, 2015
EDD 1: May 12, 2016
DD1 Emma born May 12, 2016
An Honest Account of New Motherhood (with Postpartum Anxiety, Depression, and OCD)
BFP 2: October 07, 2019
EDD 2: June 20, 2020
2. I can't lie on my back for more than 2 minutes anymore, either. I can't breathe and it gives me a stomach ache.
3. I can't get comfortable on the couch anymore without lots of pillows.
4. I can't sleep longer than 3-4 hours at a time. Luckily I can still fall back to sleep fairly easily after I pee/have water/heave over on to my other side.
2. I am no longer picking up my daughter/removing her from whatever she's doing by force if she doesn't obey. Instead, I have resorted to bribery ("kiddo, it's time to leave the park--here's a cookie for the stroller ride home!"), because it's just too exhausting and painful to have to carry her when she's not cooperating.
1. Sleeping with any kind of depth or regularity that could be considered "quality"
2. Exercising.
3. Pooping
4. Getting myself into a standing position using my core in any way shape or form
5. Being intelligent. All intelligence has left me.
2. Drinking apple juice. I love apple juice, but I don't love heartburn.
3. Watching my calorie intake. Like, at all. I only gained 5 lbs so far (already totally obese before getting KU, though) so whenever momma's hungry, momma gets to eat all the carbs. I do try to make sure I also get enough protein and vegetables etc. in, but baby's gaining about 50 grams a day at this point and I am HUNGREH.
Not everyone can breastfeed - Mammary Hypoplasia/Insufficient Glandular Tissue Awareness
no consistent sleeping
no shaving my private area
havent eaten anything without a tums after in weeks
cant cough without peeing my pants
Sleeping normally
Eating normally
Taking any drama/pushiness/bullying/emotional manipulation from people. I don't have the patience or time to put up with it. I am putting my little family (of soon to be 4) first and intend on doing so for a long time to come.
-Sleeping more than 1-2 hour stretches (before getting up to pee)
-Bending over to pick things up (which my cats are starting to figure out and use to their advantage). Super awesome since I have become CRAZY clumsy while pregnant. I run into and drop things constantly.
-Squatting or sitting on the ground while taking pictures (I started making my assistant bring my step ladder with us everywhere just for me to sit on lol)
-Wearing underwear without a liner in it (I never know when that sneeze/cough pee will hit!)
-Caring what I eat (including crushed ice that I am suddenly crazy fond of)
-Avoiding compression socks...It's a 10 minute hard struggle to get the dang things on, but it's better than swelling like crazy from sitting at my computer for hours.
2. Able to sit or lie down anywhere without my car instantly laying on top of me, she's usually super snuggly but has amped it up
3. Able to remember anything, over the past week my boss has sent many things back to me for forgetting some of the most basic things, thankfully she's very understanding about my pregnancy brain
2. Looking at Facebook posts about animals in shelters or stories of abuse. All the people who share these posts are being unfollowed till further notice!
3. Slacking on putting on tummy butter because I just saw my first traces of stretch marks and they itch so bad!
*Smiling at non-customers who deserve the stink eye.
*Sleeping or sitting at a ninety degree angle, comfortably.
*Shaming myself for my daily need for cookies. I AM the Cookie Monster.
As an OB nurse, I do NOT think about your pubic hair when I go home at night!!
Mama to Three Girls:
Twins born March 2014 at 26 weeks due to preterm labor
and our 37weeker born May 9th, 2016!
2) If I'm around the house and my belly shows a bit. I'm at the point where my shirts are getting a bit too small and if the belly wants to be on display..so be it.
3) Sitting on any furniture for more than 5 minutes. It's too uncomfortable! So now I play musical chairs in every room of the house
Haha sorry this made me lol...
Dignity. Gone.
Give a F about mundane things. Gone.
Been married since 2009.
Unicornuate Uterus (yes I menstruate glitter)
Several MCs
DD born 2013 (our miracle "you can't have babies" baby!)
no longer picking up the daycare/my son's toys. Either he and the other kids can do it or Daddy will
taking baths, even though it sounds heavenly I'm afraid I'll get stuck. Sigh I guess showers will do but I'd like to soak my sore hips
carrying my son upstairs to bed, too much pressure on my joints. His 30# + my extra 30 something # = OUCH!!
doing anything at all with my brain
- doing any straight up-and-down abdominal exercises (sit-ups, crunches, even getting up from a lying position without using arms or legs) because I went down a rabbit hole reading about diastasis recti yesterday and now I live in terror of accidentally causing or worsening that.
2. Working
3. Shaving...anything other than underarms
4. Sleeping laying down in any form (not because of heartburn, but because LO sleeps under me on BOTH sides)
5. Bending over to get things I've dropped
6. Wearing pants at home.
2. Caring about looking unprofessional in my yoga pants and shirt at work.
3. Wearing clothes at home. I just can't.
4. Feeling bad about the multiple sweets I must have in a day.
2. Sleeping.
3. Being nice.