WTF Wednesday 5/18

Pascal86 · May 2016

WTF is making you ladies go WTF today?

Pascal86 · May 2016

Had to start this since I didn't see it yet, specifically to complain about my husband's grocery shopping. We have NO FOOD, and last night he went to the store and bought apples, carrots, and healthy shredded wheat cereal. Then this morning he made me a spinach smoothie. WTF is he trying to do to me??? I need a lasagna or cookies or something, not this bullshit tiny selection of fruits and vegetables.

clw617 · May 2016

WTF @ my feet/ankles??

How swollen is too swollen, y'all? I have my feet propped up and the school nurse just walked by and saw me and asked "has your doctor seen your ankles?" I know puffy feet are normal at this point, and when they ask at the OB "any swelling, bleeding, vomiting, etc?" I always just say no, because I figure normal swelling doesn't count. But should there be a point of concern?

JoMunson · May 2016

clw617 said:

WTF @ my feet/ankles?? How swollen is too swollen, y'all? I have my feet propped up and the school nurse just walked by and saw me and asked "has your doctor seen your ankles?" I know puffy feet are normal at this point, and when they ask at the OB "any swelling, bleeding, vomiting, etc?" I always just say no, because I figure normal swelling doesn't count. But should there be a point of concern?

My feet seriously looked like rising bread dough up until a week pp. I asked my midwife about it when my DH said my feet "felt puffy". If you mention it they'll ask you some follow up questions about headaches, vision changes, and look at your blood pressure to rule out pre-e. I was lucky and didn't have it and they let me know that your body becomes less efficient at draining your lymphatic fluid during pregnancy, which leads to swelling.

clw617 · May 2016

@JoMunson - Good info, thanks! I had the nurse take my BP and it was good. No headaches either. TBH I probably just eat too much salt, and I'm not trying hard enough to curb that. In the mean time, I'll just chug water.

AdorkablePixie · May 2016

My WTF for today is all the random posters that are showing up all the sudden. The whole time we've been here they've said nothing now I am seeing a ton of "Is this labor?" "Am I having contractions?" "Should I go to the hospital?" It's so annoying! None of it is coming from people who have been here the whole time/regular posters.

LadySamLady · May 2016

WTF to me. Why can't I accept help like a normal person? My MIL is here to help me today while my H is working and I feel so bad about her doing laundry and dishes. I tried to give her the baby so that I could rest and do the laundry but Holly is being a big mama's girl and cried until I took her back. She nursed for a while and just fell asleep - I know that she needs to be in a very deep sleep for me to hand her over successfully but I'm putting all this pressure on myself and feeling so guilty that my MIL hasn't been able to spend much time holding her granddaughter. And my MIL knows I need rest so keeps offering to take the baby which makes me feel even worse! I know she wants to do whatever is helpful and not just hold Holly but I just feel so bad and a bit self conscious. She's doing dishes now and already put in two loads of laundry. Ugh! Why do I have so many feelings? It shouldn't be so hard to accept help like this!

Pascal86 · May 2016

@LadySamLady Not too long after we told my dad I was pregnant, he started coming over all the time doing all kinds of house repairs, yard work and house cleaning. At first it was awesome, then I started feeling really guilty, and now I just tell myself that he likes doing it because he likes being useful, active, and helping me out, and I'm feeling pretty good about the situation. I would just give your MIL a free pass to get out of it by saying something like, "I appreciate all this help but I feel guilty having you work so hard for me, please don't do anything that you don't really want to do!" Then the ball is in her court, she should stop when she doesn't want to do it anymore and you should relax! I think every reasonable person just wants baby to be happy, so she'll hold her when it makes sense, and you'll hold her the rest of the time. Good luck and take it easy!

mrstmoose · May 2016

My WTF to people who think they need to tell me I look like I'm about "ready to pop" or "you can barely walk!" No shit, I'm almost 39 weeks pregnant, what am I supposed to look like? What's your excuse for looking like you're about ready to pop?

PYLWhammy · May 2016

@AdorkablePixie the random posts make the board look cluttered, which annoys this neat freak over here!

katxattack1212 · May 2016

Wtf, elementary school.
I registered my daughter to start Kinder in fall. First, the person in the office gives me a the wrong forms. Then, they won't accept one proof of residence because it was 1 day past 30 days. Fine, whatever. So I get all the correct stuff for them, drop it off and I get another call. I have to set a time for a "screening" in August. Of course, right when I am back to work. Also, they don't do said screening on my day off. So, we aren't going. Sorry.

thismakes4 · May 2016

Wtf to my neighbors, again. We have a ride share "agreement". I take the kids to school and they pick up. Our kids had a field trip today and I told DH last night that I knew they would have me take their kid to school and then they would pick their kid up early leaving me to have to drive 9 miles one way to get my kid. Which is exactly what happened. I wouldn't mind if it was every so often...but it's multiple times a week. They did this last Friday too. Every Friday they have a minimum day. I drove over to pick up their kid and the dad was like "oh, umm, he isn't ready." So I was like, "That's okay, I'm early, I can wait." and he was all, "I'll just take him later." Umm, okay. Normally people would assume that they took the kid later. Nope. Instead of telling me they didn't take him, their kid shows up at my house an hour later eating a popsicle wanting to play with my kids (who were at school). And then the kid tells me that he is "home sick" so I told him that's exactly where he needed to be then. Home and not playing with my kids since he is "sick".

I usually hate when people complain over and over about the same damn problem but I feel like it was something I got stuck with this school year. My friend and I agreed to split the rides. I take them in the morning because I have a preschooler I have to take as well to a different school. Then their son started acting out really bad at the beginning of the school year and ended up only going to school half days. Well, that lasted from September up until February/March and he started going full days. But he would miss a lot of school or get picked up early or they would say they couldn't get the kids from school so I would have to run and do it. Plus, they are late people and the one time they were going to take my son to school, they cancelled last minute! My son would have missed his field trip if I didn't rush to get him there. I was pissed about that. I tried getting out of it at this point because it was irritating but then DH and her husband started hanging out more and DH was like oh yeah it's no big deal... until he started experiencing what I had been experiencing the whole time.

I'm not doing any sort of "ride share" next year. I'm making myself very clear on that. Because the whole point was to make it easier on both of us... not just them. There is seriously only 2 weeks left of school. I will have 4 kids soon and I'm maxed out! /vent

bkjade · May 2016

@PYLWhammy - yes boo to board clutter!

@AdorkablePixie - I think a lot of mamas finally have time to post now that they are on maternity leave/at home. I know I rarely had time to post when I was working full time, now I'm all up in this shizz.

AdorkablePixie · May 2016

bkjade said:

@PYLWhammy - yes boo to board clutter!

@AdorkablePixie - I think a lot of mamas finally have time to post now that they are on maternity leave/at home. I know I rarely had time to post when I was working full time, now I'm all up in this shizz.

But at least we know who you are! lol AND you know the proper threads to post on instead of creating new ones.

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