Bumpie of the Week 5.25 - zubenescamli

cayaylonglegs · May 2016

Congratulations on being selected as Bumpie of the Week! We look forward to getting to know you better below. Only answer questions that you feel comfortable answering.

What is your first name?

When is your due date?

What part of the world are you from (be as vague/specific as you want)?

What number baby/pregnancy is this for you?

What is your occupation or dream occupation?

Does your/will your nursery have a theme or color combination?

Have you bought anything for baby yet?

If you have bought things, what is your favorite thing that you have gotten so far?

What is your favorite part of pregnancy so far?

Do you have a favorite maternity/baby brand?

One thing you will splurge on this pregnancy?

What are your top pregnancy related priorities?

What is your favorite book?

What is your favorite tv show?

What is your favorite movie?

What is your favorite band/singer?

Anything else you would like us to know?

slartybartfast · May 2016

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zubenescamali · May 2016

OMG that's me!!! thank you thank you! i'm so honored

What is your first name? courtney

When is your due date? dec 18, but i'm pretty sure baby is going to be born on either Thursday dec 22 or on dec 23. both my girls share the 23rd as their birthday, and Thursday as their day of the week birthday. too bad dec 2016 doesn't have a Thursday the 23rd. maybe LO will split the difference and be born at midnight between 12/22 and 12/23. oh, both girls were born at almost the same time too, one was at 10:06 the other at 10:03. crazy right?

What part of the world are you from (be as vague/specific as you want)? west coast florida

What number baby/pregnancy is this for you? #3

What is your occupation or dream occupation? i'm a pharmacist, I hear there are a few of us on this BMB! I don't think I have a dream job anymore. unless it's just coming up with ideas and having other people carry them out. I think I would make a good lottery winner.

Does your/will your nursery have a theme or color combination? oh a nursery. this baby doesn't even have a room. I feel terrible taking a room from either one of my daughters to make them bunk up, but i'm sure LO isn't going to be able to sleep in my room for long. plus i'm going to have to disassemble one of their beds so I can convert it back to a crib. i'm hoping that MIL will just decide to move out one day soon and I can put LO in her room, but there is a 0% chance of that actually happening.

Have you bought anything for baby yet? nada. I need to see or hear a heartbeat first. we're going to have to get some major purchases though, most everything we had for the two girls was either consigned, donated or trashed.

If you have bought things, what is your favorite thing that you have gotten so far? haven't bought anything yet, but I did save the beco gemini carrier from DD2 which I figure will get a lot of use this time around.

What is your favorite part of pregnancy so far? nothing. I've been so effing sick that I can't enjoy it at all yet. once I get the u/s i'm sure everything will start feeling more real and i'll hopefully be feeling better in a couple weeks so I can actually enjoy it.

Do you have a favorite maternity/baby brand? I loved motherhood for work clothes, le mystere for pretty nursing bras, and I still love Gymboree for kids clothes. they are so durable and wash easily.

One thing you will splurge on this pregnancy? i'm going to have to get more maternity clothes, and consignment is typically slim pickings for work choices. other than that I haven't really thought about it. hopefully all 3 kids will fit in my Honda accord, or the big purchase is gonna be a new car.

What are your top pregnancy related priorities? to not have pelvic girdle pain this time (I could barely walk last pregnancy). to not have back labor. and to not have a C-section. yup, pretty sure all of those are in my control!

What is your favorite book? I used to read and enjoy novels. it's all internet trash, blogs and medical journals now.

What is your favorite tv show? oh there are so many! the bachelor is on again, i'm still in love with grey's anatomy, this year I got into limitless and quantico, I love OITNB, and the Goldbergs since the 80s was wonderful! I know, you're probably reading this thinking, if you didn't watch so much tv then you would have time to read books. touche!

What is your favorite movie? i'm not sure I have one. i'm not a fan of rewatching the same movie over and over. my sister once made me watch License to Drive every day one whole summer, and then the next summer I had to ensure my brother watching Momento every single day. i think that's where i get it from. don't get me wrong, i love good movies.

What is your favorite band/singer? i'm more of a radio girl, pop music mostly, the 90s station or Pulse on Sirius, but i appreciate all types of music, I've been to Crue fest and black label society, and been to see Rob Thomas and the Script. i love them all!

Anything else you would like us to know? DH just walked in the room and told me that if I was looking for something to get him for father's day, to buy him a beer koozie that he can wear around his neck. yes, this is the man I married.

cayaylonglegs · May 2016

Love Rob Thomas annnnnd the Goldbergs!

LinziLoo09 · May 2016

Oh The Bachelor, Grey's, and OITNB - you're my tv soulmate. And man if you find a way to avoid back labor, let a girl in on your secret! That was WAY worse than front labor.

zubenescamali · May 2016

@cayaylonglegs we saw Rob Thomas live acoustic in a small venue and he was ah-mah-zing!!!

aevan011 · May 2016

I also think lottery winner seems like something I'd be great at. Nice to meet you!

beff12 · May 2016

I LOLed at being a great lottery winner. I think I'd excel at that too!

zubenescamali · May 2016

@LinziLoo09 back labor is a completely different animal and people don't recognize how hellish it is unless they've been through it. My contractions were basically continuous double peaking since they started so close together. I really think I could have gone without the epidural had I not had back labor.

LinziLoo09 · May 2016

I agree @zubenescamali . When your water breaks up front, and you have back labor, there's no buffer for the pain. My contractions were 3-5 minutes apart for 22.5 hours. I started puking during them at hour 12. I don't even remember front labor, but the back killed me.

slartybartfast · May 2016

+1 for back labor. People asked me how my labor went afterward and the only word I had was "sadistic"

I would LOVE to experience regular labor this time to feel the difference. Overlapping contractions, insane pain gripping your whole torso, stalled labor... oh yea. I think avoiding that would be quite lovely.

bakerstreetboys · May 2016

Oh, back labour

Wishing all of us "easy" front labour this time around! Nice to meet you Courtney!

LinziLoo09 · May 2016

Oh yea, I had 'friends' brag about their unmedicated births after 6 hours of front labor only...and somehow I didn't murder them. I was unmedicated for double that time with double the pain, woman! SUCK IT!

Can anyone tell that I'm still angsty about my labor experience?

Kacie209 · May 2016

@zubenescamali Love your taste in music! I am still bummed that I had awesome tickets to see MB20 back in college (years ago), but they had to cancel some stops that year and my city was one of them. I haven't been able to see them (or Rob) since. They're on my list, though!!

And yes to The Goldbergs! It is my absolutely favorite show on TV. It's so great seeing everything in the show, cos most of it was stuff we had growing up. Even my sister had Erica's bedspread, and my cousins, sister and I started playing Fireball Island at holidays when we get together.

Yes to Grey's too. I think some seasons I could be done, but I have to keep watching. I do miss the 2-hour season finales where I almost have a heart attack going on due to the "what is happening?!" moments.

jenlynne0624 · May 2016

Hello fellow bumpie of the week! 90s music FTW. Also let me know if you find the meds that prevent back labor because that hurt like a mofo.

Nice to meet you!

zubenescamali · May 2016

nice to meet all of you too! here's to all of us having 6 hour or less of normal, front only barely wincing contractions and all we do is sneeze and baby comes out.

anyone who goes more than a couple minutes with back labor without an epidural is a true rock star in my book!
and the goldbergs, I love how they totally romanticize all the dorkiness of the 80s and make it look so cool again! like we all know how ridiculous we all looked back then, but watching it on TV makes us seem not so awkward after all.

MamaWino · May 2016

@zubenescamali, we have very similar stories in regards to our girls' births! Both of mine were born on the 25th of the month (Oct and March) and were born at almost the same time as well... 1:54 and 1:56pm. Although, if you ask me, they WERE born at the same time... the clock on the wall that I was starting at while pushing said 1:54 when DD2 made her appearance but apparently they had to go by the clock on the computer for her official time of birth. I call that bull. Lol. But yeah... I'm kinda hoping for another 25th baby this time, although it's not likely as I'm due 12/4. 11/25 would be great but I was overdue with both kiddos so I don't see that happening and 12/25 is just way too long to wait.

And I'm so with you on the movie thing. I can't freaking stand watching the same movie more than once. I'm the same way with books. I've never read the same one twice.

zubenescamali · May 2016

@MamaWino that's so cool!!! I tease DD2 that she just wanted to be like her sister because she came 2 weeks early just to share the 23rd! When I was pushing her out DH said, just wait a couple more minutes so they can have the same time too, lol, no way, I'm pushing this baby out now! So you never know, you might have a nov 25 baby, it's not a crazy thought! I thought I would go passed EDD too but every babe is different.
it does make remembering their birthdays much easier.

MamaWino · May 2016

zubenescamali said:

@MamaWino that's so cool!!! I tease DD2 that she just wanted to be like her sister because she came 2 weeks early just to share the 23rd! When I was pushing her out DH said, just wait a couple more minutes so they can have the same time too, lol, no way, I'm pushing this baby out now! So you never know, you might have a nov 25 baby, it's not a crazy thought! I thought I would go passed EDD too but every babe is different.
it does make remembering their birthdays much easier.

It definitely does! Here's hoping for a Nov 25 debut for baby #3! Lol.

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