2.5 weeks PP and I'm STILL dealing with congestion! Suffered all through my pregnancy, had 2 sinus infections and spent hundreds on Kleenex, afrin, and allergy medication. Had 2 glorious congestion free days in the first week PP, but now I think I've developed another sinus infection. Dh is telling me to go see the Dr for some antibiotics, but that just seems like such a hassle. I don't want to get dressed, but I also want to be able to breathe again. Ugh!
We are being discharged this am. Actually we are done and waiting for DH who is at home trying to install the car seat I asked him about three weeks ago. Of course he was the one that requested early check out.
My dad started calling me daily to see, "how things are going" every single day about 3 weeks ago. I'm not due until Wednesday! Last Thursday he called and I sent him to voicemail because I knew he just wanted to know if I had gone into labor yet. Friday he called and I again sent him to voicemail because he again just wanted to know if I was in labor. I told him when he first started calling that the daily calls would bother me and to stop. I more forcefully told him to stop calling the 2nd week in. I even had my mom tell him to leave me alone 3 different times. Friday night because I ignored him 2 days in a row, he sent a text to my husband telling me to call him because it was an emergency. I called and he says, "Oh no actual emergency. I just wanted to see how you are doing." I blew up at him on the phone doing the ugly hormonal cry and told him to leave me alone. I told him that him calling every day will not make this baby come out any sooner and that I actually feel like I'm letting him down everyday he calls and I have to tell him that I'm still not in labor. He had the nerve to yell at me and tell me to calm down in the midst of my explaining why I was upset and then he hung up on me! I finally called him back like he asked and he freakin' hung up on me! Then he made my mom call me to find out why I was so upset. Um...asshole, the reason is you and the fact that you won't leave me alone in addition to yelling at me and hanging up on me! After the blow up he finally quit calling at least. I found out today that if I haven't gone into labor on my own by next Monday that I'll be induced Tuesday night but I don't dare tell him that because he will try to show up at the damn hospital when I have explicitly told him that he is not welcome there. I'm so frustrated and ready for him to just go away for a little while which sucks because once the baby arrives he is going to want to be around 24/7.
Much like prior posters, I'm ready to flip a freakin' table the next time one of the grandmas or a future aunt calls or texts to check in on us. How do I feel? Large, miserable, and full of barely suppressed rage. Just like the last time you called. Yes, I'm still pregnant. Stop telling me you're sure delivery is happening on X date; you've been wrong every time and it makes me ugly cry.
Can't complain too much about it, though, as I'm decidedly one of them; I'd be doing the same thing in their shoes. And someday, Maggie will do it to her daughter/granddaughter/sister/in-law. Behold your future, baby girl.
No rest for the weary, I tell ya. The second we walked in the door from bringing baby home, it was right back to work. If I don't do my paperwork, we don't get paid, funny how that works. So every day, I'm sitting at the computer doing some kind of something. This morning the dh reminds me that I have to do our workmans comp crap. Seriously tired of government bullshit. Anyway, as I'm trying to fill out this online application, my computer mouse kept shutting off because I "TAPPED" it against that damn keyboard. It would then take at least 3 minutes to connect to the computer again. By the 3rd time in a row, I'd had it and threw the damn thing across the room. I ended up at Staples 10 minutes later, with a screaming newborn, looking for a new mouse. Thank you, Monday, for being such an awesome day.
My due date is this Saturday. . . the 23rd. . . EVERYONE at work today has said "YOU'RE STILL HERE?!" Um, clearly I'm still here. Not a ghost.
Oh, and husband's grandma is concerned with the swelling in my feet. I've told her numerous times (over the past five months) the doctor isn't worried about them at all, but she feels the need to text about it at least three times a week. How is the swelling? Well, I'm still pregnant, so, yeah, still swollen.
After a clusterfeeding night session with very little sleep, SO rouses from a deep slumber and says, "Oh man, I'm so tired even though I slept a ton."
I hear you. Both nights in the hospital DH commented on how tired he was and how uncomfortable he was. He slept on a freaking cot and trying to wake him up was like waking the dead. I am running on probably five hours of sleep since I gave birth and DD2 thinks she'd like to try cluster feeding. At least DH looks like crap and seriously death warmed over.
My stupid bladder is broken. I've been doing kegels galore and it makes no difference. I called my doc today and they said I might have to have a catheter put back in to properly drain it since it's probably distended. That sounds unpleasant, but so is peeing a fountain every hour and still getting what I am assuming is kidney pain... so is wetting the bed. Next week I will probably be bitching about the catheter.
Re: BFM 4/18
Can't complain too much about it, though, as I'm decidedly one of them; I'd be doing the same thing in their shoes. And someday, Maggie will do it to her daughter/granddaughter/sister/in-law. Behold your future, baby girl.
But we did do family pics over the weekend and here is out sneak peak, I love it. Now to impatiently wait to get the rest
Um, clearly I'm still here. Not a ghost.
Oh, and husband's grandma is concerned with the swelling in my feet. I've told her numerous times (over the past five months) the doctor isn't worried about them at all, but she feels the need to text about it at least three times a week. How is the swelling? Well, I'm still pregnant, so, yeah, still swollen.
Also my son will sleep all day just fine, but at night not unless he's on my chest. Thanks, dude.