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October 2016 Moms
OrangeEv
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Twatwafffle Tuesday 4/26
OrangeEv
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I'm certainly feeling ragey lately. Let em rip
Re: Twatwafffle Tuesday 4/26
i need SLEEP, cats.
This happened Saturday, but I'm still thinking about it today, so I say it counts!
Went to a party this weekend and started talking to one of the guys there whose wife is pregnant about Zika.
Well, one of the girls there -who is.... 28 maybe? somewhere around there, and HAS a kid already- goes "What's the big deal with Zika anyway? I mean, it makes your baby have a small head, but I mean, it doesn't KILL the baby or anything."
The guy and I just kind of looked at each other, and I was like "It's not 'just a small head,' you know. It messes with the baby's brain development...that's why the head stops growing."
Once again she goes "I mean I GET that. But it doesn't KILL you. Or the baby. The baby is still alive."
I just... I can't. I just can't.
Finally the guy was like "Well actually, most babies who are born with it don't live past age 2 or 3." (IDK enough about Zika to know if this is true, but it sounds plausible to me.)
That made the girl finally say "Oh. Well, yeah. I guess you don't want to get it then."
So I mean, according to her getting Zika would be totally fine because it just gives the baby microcephaly, and what's the big deal, amirite?
I just got super annoyed, because she has a son and I know she probably did everything she could to keep her son healthy while she was pregnant-took her vitamins, ate well, stayed away from binge drinking and drugs, etc. So to have her say something with such a blasé attitude about a virus that causes severe developmental issues with your kid was just weird.
IDK...am I being overly critical?
Posted too soon....
No need to waste precious energy worrying about stupid comments. She definitely deserves the TW title.
O16 April Siggy
Me: 28 DH: 27
1 - so ya I get to work at 8, and by 8:10 there is a huge blow up fight because of miscommunication, misunderstanding and just overly sensitive people. And because of what?! Planning a fun professional development that surrounds health and wellness - supposedly some people were complaining about an hour of cardio (Zumba) and they only wanted 20 minutes. Seriously people!?! Would you rather an hour of Zumba plus some other fun activities or would you prefer 3 hours of suicide prevention (when we don't directly interact with the people that this is intended for). Twatwaffles!!
2 - my second one is similar to @celette482. My cat (1 of 3) decided to start scratching the bed and meowing and jumping on the furniture in the bedroom at 2:30. I tried yelling at her, squirting her with water, nothing worked (our door doesn't close properly...the latch part doesn't line up with the wall so the door doesn't actually stay closed). She stopped at 5ish, my alarm went off at 5:50. This on top of me not sleeping well because I kept stressing about the safety of a student I work with. Now I'm exhausted!!
Ticker/Siggy Warning: Children and losses mentioned
TTC #1 since 7/2011
ME: 37 DH: 38
SA-12/28/11-normal
HSG-1/16/12-possible blocked left tube
BFP#1---CP 7/9/12
Hysteroscopy-8/9/12-blocked left tube for sure, proceeding with IUI#1
IUI#1 (Gonal-F + trigger)=BFP#2 m/c @ 19w1d D&E 1/23/13
IUI #2 (Gonal F + trigger)=BFP#3 EDD 1/6/14 TWINS!!!
Identical girls born 11/17/13
BFP#4 EDD 8/27/15 MMC at 7w6d
BFP#5 m/c at 6w
BFP#6 EDD 10/5/16 Going Strong! It's a Girl!
I didn't understand how the whole court/trial process goes, so my advice about it was based on completely wrong information. I didn't realize it, so I didn't think to ask my husband how things work. And he assumed I knew, so he didn't think to correct me. So we fought almost every time we spoke because we disagreed with each other. Now that I know what's happening, we're on the same page.
Once we realized that, we just started laughing. Our communication is usually excellent because we've worked very hard at it, so it didn't even occur to us that we might be totally misunderstanding each other. We were screaming at each ALL DAY because of this.
@nlane0723 Yeah, calling the police over that seems waaaaay overboard. People are crazy!
@jillianpardo Yeah, I probably didn't explain myself well... I've had serious pregnancy brain today, legitimately! But yeah, I was nominating this girl as my TW for today. But then I was thinking maybe I was just being over critical... I mean, she was pregnant before but she's not now, so maybe she honestly doesn't know what Zika does to unborn babies besides give them a small head. But still.... just the blasé attitude she had toward two parents (me and the guy I was talking to) who wanted to take very minimum precautions (just putting on bug spray...it's not like we demanded to move the party inside or anything) toward preventing a possible birth defect in our children just rubbed me the wrong way.
Also the "it doesn't kill your child, so it must not be that bad" philosophy seems way weird to me. Just weird all around with this girl.
(repeat post from another board but I really need to bitch)
I've posted about this on other threads (possible TW) I had to go to the ER last Tuesday because of some heavy bleeding. Thankfully, everything looked okay with the little one but it's been really stressful. The bleeding continued through Saturday night/Sunday, now I'm still spotting, so my doc is having me come in Thursday for another ultrasound to check and make sure everything is still okay.
I have quite a large family, but I am a fairly private person and I don't like talking about potential bad news/my feelings so I purposely kept this quiet. I told my sister and my sister-in-law exclusively and made it known that I didn't want to talk about it until after my follow up this week so I know where I stand. My sister took it upon herself to act like she's the phone chain captain on a 3rd grade snow day and tell EVERYONE. She also told everyone that everything was fine now and I was feeling better (which isn't true, at the time this happened I was still actively bleeding and felt like shit).
We had a large family party on Saturday and I put my game face on to attend and walk in to everyone coming up to me telling me they're so glad I'm feeling better and that the baby is okay, and wanting to tell me about how this happens to everyone (no it doesn't) and how it's just like when their neighbor's hairdresser's daughter spotted at 6 weeks (I'm sure she'd glad her life is gossip fodder too). I was so livid. My sister avoided me like the plague because she knew I was pissed. I'm just still completely dumbfounded. Who DOES that? Like why is that something you even want to talk about? And then I have to deal with the hurt feelings from my dad, his wife and my aunts who are pouting that I didn't tell them directly. I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to know! Ugh... sister is such a TW.
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BFP #4 1/2016, DD born 10/2016
@smmatt08 Whoa! I think you might win for today! Having your SS# stolen sounds like the absolute scariest thing in the world to me. I hope you get everything all figured out soon and get your tax money back!
@jillianpardo So sorry to hear this! Hugs and well wishes for you!
I'm all for being reasonably worried, but Zika isn't even in the US at this point. And most of the women in my class aren't looking to get knocked up. So f--- off, lady.
And also, to all the post mortem pictures of dead babies on her slides, which I completely ignored while I knitted my baby sweater.
And and also, when she said "none of you are dumb enough to get pregnant in nursing school, am I right?" and everyone looked at me.
Okay, yeah. That lady was a twatwaffle.
Baby GIRL born 9/16/201
BFP! EDD 8/1/2019 CP 4w2d
@jillianpardo so so sorry to hear that.
Married 7/15
BFP #2 2/18/16
TTC#2: BFP: 8-23-15 MMC: 10-29-15
DD 2: 9-15-16
DD 3: 9-16-17
My TW for the day is the weather... I hate you, tornado season.
TTC#2: BFP: 8-23-15 MMC: 10-29-15
DD 2: 9-15-16
DD 3: 9-16-17
TTC#2: BFP: 8-23-15 MMC: 10-29-15
DD 2: 9-15-16
DD 3: 9-16-17
If she would have just asked us to move the vehicle, we would have. They know where we live. it was totally unnecessary to involve the police, which wouldn't/didn't work anyway since our entire family is SWAT/LEO.
Me: 28 DH: 27