@AnnaS930 Glad your weekend was nice! DH and I had a pretty good one too! But now it's Monday. Rawr. I work from home, which sounds beautifully beautiful (and the majority of the time, it is) but it gets kind of lonely, so when DH goes off to the office after a weekend of him being constantly around I feel all isolated, so Mondays still stink for me.
It IS nuts to think about how many weeks we have left. I was thinking the other day how I'm going to have to start being on my toes in 7 weeks. I didn't realize that a full-term baby is anywhere between 38 and 42 weeks and that's this HUGE window of time when I'm going to be hyper aware of every twinge, phone on the ready!
My due date is right on the cusp of the summer/autumn changeover so I'm constantly wondering to myself if I'm going to have a Summer baby or an Autumn baby!
I've been reading this thread to keep up over the weekend, but haven't been able to comment.
@marikkita112 I'm so glad you're back! Can't believe these bans. Hopefully Slou is back soon, too!
I'm also surprised and not surprised to see a birth announcement. I have been thinking that we've made it pretty far without any births so far. But also, how are we this close already!?
My random is that Saturday we went with BIL, SIL, and our nephew to the children's museum. McKenna and our nephew had an awesome time. We didn't stay terribly long (we are members, so not a big deal), but they came back to our house to hang out after. It was wonderful to talk to SIL. She got all of my recent MIL rants. They live a couple hours away, and we see them less than anyone else in either of our families, so it was really nice to spend time with them.
I'm also glad we could do it for DH. His brother went into the air force about the time we got together (7 years ago). So he was out of the state for 4 years, then has lived a couple hours from us since getting out of the air force. I know DH misses hanging out with him.
Do you guys remember the guy I posted about in TW Tuesday that I absolutely loathe, that cc's himself on emails and also said that he thinks I've been avoiding his calls and he's not sure if I'm having to go to doctors appointments all the time because of my "condition"? Well guess what!? He's moving to our group and will be on my team now! Oh, happy day!
@MrsVoorhees Well, if you end up throwing coffee in his face by the end of the week just blame it on the uncontrollable hysterics (translate: inability to put up with morons) that come with your "condition".
@MrsVoorhees Well, if you end up throwing coffee in his face by the end of the week just blame it on the uncontrollable hysterics (translate: inability to put up with morons) that come with your "condition".
This is true...I will blame everything on my condition. FMLA will keep them from firing me for that, right? Totally part of that? Haha
So my dad got our travel system and PnP for us and I was a total pregnant lady and cried in public when he told us. Afterwards, it really sunk in that with somewhere to sleep and a car seat, we're technically ready for this baby! Sure, the nursery is nowhere near finished but a newborn wouldn't really care about that anyways.
To all the boy moms to be out there... I took my Little Tikes 1990s dollhouse and stable out this weekend when it was rainy (ya know, the classic blue roofed dollhouse with all the Little Tikes stuff that real kids can have - turtle sandbox, yellow infant swing.. anyone? anyone?). I feared when I was pregnant the first time that I'd never have a child to play with it, but the current boy moms assured me that their sons LOVED Little People and all kinds of role playing. My sister also told me that her kindergarten class has the same dollhouse and all kids love it.
Well, he loved it...He was most interested in the tractor and the baby. You guys are already probably smarter than I was and know that boys and girls will like toys regardless of their sex/gender and more just what they like, but I just wanted to say it in case there are some boy moms with a twinge of sadness in their hearts that their boys won't play with their own childhood toys that they've held onto.
@alwaysauntnevermom so true and such a good attitude. Car seat, place to sleep, clothes, diapers/wipes, bottles (if not BFing) and you're good. So many people freaking out over getting baby's room done and I'm all, uhhh, our crib is in pieces and I just took the cover off the car seat to wash it. (I picture myself actually washing the cover while in labor.)
@PSUBecky23 check, check, check and check! We have a bunch of stuff leftover in our registry and I'm just going to trim it down now since it really feels like we have the necessities. She'll sleep in the PnP in our room in the first few months anyway.
@AnnaS930 - Awww! I'm glad he enjoyed it. And I fully agree, I don't think they necessarily care what they're playing with (especially at that age). Robert enjoyed playing with babydolls before Elleanore did and still loves to play with her when she plays with her dollhouse.
@AlwaysAuntNeverMom - if your registry is from a store with a good return policy, you can even leave it on there. We got some superfluous stuff that we held onto for a month after birth, then made a huge return/exchange trip and got rid of the stuff that we realized we really didn't need to pick up things that we did
@AlwaysAuntNeverMom I am currently going through our registry to delete the stuff we don't actually need and its very exciting, haha. SIL got us a comb/brush, and nose aspirator for our shower, and I realized the "health care and grooming kit" we had on the registry ($24) has that, plus nail clippers and thermometer. Well, we already have a thermometer, so I'm not going to get the kit now cause I just need clippers. Bonus!
ETA: @MrsVoorhees haha I don't get paranoid people are talking about me, but that might be because IDGAF if they are
I'm stuck in some in-between world of craving more drama on this board, then absolutely hating it/avoiding it/wishing it would end when it pops up. Just can't win...
I'm stuck in some in-between world of craving more drama on this board, then absolutely hating it/avoiding it/wishing it would end when it pops up. Just can't win...
Lol me too!!!! I'm so awkward when people are fighting. I do photography on the side and there's one family that the parents fight the entire time, every session. And while I love telling the stories after, I am SO awkward in the moment.
Someone, somewhere, whom I will not tag, is being a holier-than-thou asshat.
That is all.
Lmao FFMC that's how I have always pronounced that in my head
What!? What thread? I've been really bad at keeping up.
also, I always assume people are talking about me...anyone else?
No, I don't do that here, but I am a person that always feels suspicious if I go into a store and don't buy anything. Or worry if I'm fidgeting with my pockets or the diaper bag too much, they'll think I'm stealing.
@MrsVoorhees - Yes! I want to jump in, but I really don't. And I don't want to read it, but I keep clicking whenever there's a new post. I'm that person that gets really awkwardly giggly when I get uncomfortable in real life...like my body just can't handle the adrenaline and I get all weird. Then I spend a lot of time thinking back on how weird I was, it's a really fun cycle...
Secretly it's because I used to steal a lot when I was in high school and I feel guilty about it now but I always think that some karma is going to hit me and I'll be wrongly accused or something
@Megan324 I've never stole anything except for a piece of candy when I was probably 5. I'm just naturally paranoid. Haha. Likewise, when I first started working and buying things with my own cash, I'd be irrationally worried that I'd not have enough money when I went to check out. Despite triple checking the cash in my wallet and the prices of items being bought.
So my mother is looking for excuses to come a few days over two weeks before my due date and stay for two weeks to see baby. Her reasoning? Baby will probably come four weeks early because she's "sure she's already 7lbs because I look so big". Yeah, 32 weeks over here but thanks for the kind comment.
I've been pretty MIA this weekend but wanted to post a comment asking for thoughts and prayers. I went into preterm labor yesterday at 32w6d. To attempt to get the contractions to stop they gave me trubuteline (spelling?!). My body did not respond well to it and my blood pressure dropped, my heart rate skyrocketed, and the machine went silent as we couldn't find baby's heart rate either. I went in and out of concouseness. Dr's and nurses swarmed me and were flipping me around trying to get me in a better position to find baby's heartrate again. After what felt like an eternity, they found baby, gave me oxygen, fluids, etc and we both stabilized. They did an EKG and then put me on a different medicine to stop the contractions which was procardia. I will be taking this twice a day until week 36. The procardia seems to be working and I am home now but only because I live just a few blocks from the hospital... I'm suppose to go in if anything happens again.
I have never been so scared in all my life. They gave me the shot and we never thought I'd react that way so Dh left to go get food. I was all alone. Dh walked in towards the end and I could tell he felt terrible for not being there for us.
Please just keep keep me and babygirl in your thoughts and prayers.
@reesaXden come on pregnancy, it's time for you to get a break I'm sorry this happened!! Did they do a steroid shot? My nephew was born at 34 weeks with no issues, and we think the steroid shot had a lot to do with him not needing oxygen.
@reesaXden Oh my gosh I'm so sorry to hear about such a scary experience! I will be thinking about you and hope you start to feel better soon. I hope your husband doesn't feel too badly - there is no way to know you would have reacted that way.
@reesaXden - Wow. I'm so sorry you had to go through that! Sending thoughts, prayers and good juju your way! Hoping that your LO stays put and you continue to do well. I can't even imagine. Take it easy (easier said than done with having a LO running around, I know) and take care of yourself!
@reesaXden how scary! I can't imagine how you felt (and how your H felt) and the uncertainty now. I'll be praying for you and for your little girl. I know you've already struggled so much with this pregnancy so I hope you can have the most boring, uneventful four weeks of your pregnancy. Keep us posted!
@reesaXden - Sending positive thoughts to you and yours! Hoping the next 3 weeks go by quickly and uneventfully and that little miss is being well-prepped for the world!
For some random reason, I just started thinking about how funny it would be if someone was posting on here but wasn't actually pregnant. Now that I type it out, it wouldn't really be that funny.
Re: July Randoms Thread
It IS nuts to think about how many weeks we have left. I was thinking the other day how I'm going to have to start being on my toes in 7 weeks. I didn't realize that a full-term baby is anywhere between 38 and 42 weeks and that's this HUGE window of time when I'm going to be hyper aware of every twinge, phone on the ready!
My due date is right on the cusp of the summer/autumn changeover so I'm constantly wondering to myself if I'm going to have a Summer baby or an Autumn baby!
Very excited for all of us.
That is all.
@marikkita112 I'm so glad you're back! Can't believe these bans. Hopefully Slou is back soon, too!
I'm also surprised and not surprised to see a birth announcement. I have been thinking that we've made it pretty far without any births so far. But also, how are we this close already!?
I'm also glad we could do it for DH. His brother went into the air force about the time we got together (7 years ago). So he was out of the state for 4 years, then has lived a couple hours from us since getting out of the air force. I know DH misses hanging out with him.
And here's an AW of museum trip.
Well, he loved it...He was most interested in the tractor and the baby. You guys are already probably smarter than I was and know that boys and girls will like toys regardless of their sex/gender and more just what they like, but I just wanted to say it in case there are some boy moms with a twinge of sadness in their hearts that their boys won't play with their own childhood toys that they've held onto.
also, I always assume people are talking about me...anyone else?
ETA: @MrsVoorhees haha I don't get paranoid people are talking about me, but that might be because IDGAF if they are
Secretly it's because I used to steal a lot when I was in high school and I feel guilty about it now but I always think that some karma is going to hit me and I'll be wrongly accused or something
After what felt like an eternity, they found baby, gave me oxygen, fluids, etc and we both stabilized.
They did an EKG and then put me on a different medicine to stop the contractions which was procardia. I will be taking this twice a day until week 36.
The procardia seems to be working and I am home now but only because I live just a few blocks from the hospital... I'm suppose to go in if anything happens again.
I have never been so scared in all my life. They gave me the shot and we never thought I'd react that way so Dh left to go get food. I was all alone. Dh walked in towards the end and I could tell he felt terrible for not being there for us.
Please just keep keep me and babygirl in your thoughts and prayers.
@reesaXden T&Ps coming your way! Stay in there, baby!