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March 2017 Moms
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Monday Bitchfest 8/1
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I really love how sweet and kind our BMB is!
Seriously, I do!
That said, I wanna hear y'all bitch. What sucks about the world today?
Seriously, I do!
That said, I wanna hear y'all bitch. What sucks about the world today?
Re: Monday Bitchfest 8/1
im sitting at work trying not to throw up, I really want to throw up
my boobs hurt. I think I need a new bra
IM SO EFFING TIRED WHY AM I AT WORK. oh yes. I need money
regular clothes too tight......
blump. bloat. bump. iono anymore
the 2nd trimester girl on my floor with so much energy.... IHY right now IHY.... oh please let that be me when the time comes..
i wish i was one of those. wake up and look fab girls but im not.. i wake up and i look like the crazy girl from the ring movies, and i really only had energy to put on eyeliner today.
naps should be mandatory in the US.
sigh~
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SaveSaveIt's been storming here since O-dark-thirty. A while ago, thunder struck so closely and loudly as I was waddling to the bathroom that I LEAKED. Nature made me piss my pants. WTAF?
ETA: Did I seriously just use the word "preggo?" I can't even with myself today.
::Deep Breath::
My Mil man... I spent a lot of time talking about her on Tb last go round. When I told her that we decided that we didn't want any family in town for the birth of our son she said that I was being selfish and not considering their LOSS. That I will "crush" my FIL.... Further along in the last pregnancy though things got worse. She was talking behind my back (around my niece's which told me) She is the type of person to not say a word to my face but then ask my husband things when I'm not around. Ie when we bought our most recent house and they came over she asks my husband if we can afford this place?!
Anywho... this weekend we told them were due with #2. It was the most underwhelming response ever. (We've announced pregnancy to them 4 times due to 3 mc and my son so I have several to compare it to lol)
She said "Oh..." While lookig at the framed picture of our son we gave them. She then started talking about how she needs to paint so that she can hang more stuff?!?!?
The next thing she asks is are you still going to Hawaii? The family trip that we have planned in Nov. THAT'S whatyou are interested in?!? Will the fanily vacation be impacted? Not when are you due, how far along, how are you feeling!??!?!?!
Turns out (after I wasn't around) she starts asking the hubs if he wanted to have them so close? Can we afford it? What about medical? (Which I have no idea where her comments or concerns about $ come from, my husband has been in the military 18 years and I make good money- not that it's ANY of thier business)
Yestersay a dog licks my son. She says my son now needs a bath. I say no (seriously he'll be okay) as soon as I leave the room she insists to my husband that he bathes the lo.
And everyone can assume what happens bc....well.... #husbands.
When my son was about 4 weeks old she FOLLOWED ME into the restroom to take my son after I changed his diaper. He started screaming and she briskly walked away with him saying he was fine he's just being manipulative!?!?
This is the type of MIL I have.
I'm a strong believer in making sure that my kids have a great relationship with their grandparents. They are not going to be around forever and they do love their grandson but man I can not STAND being around her. She lives 5 hrs away so the only time we see them is when they stay at our house or us at theirs. Close quarters. Fun! ;-)
Did I mention that we are driving right this minute to another state for a week long family vacation?!
Okay ###endrant. Seriously yall are amazing for letting me get that all out.
I stopped at the deli across from my work this morning to order a plain bagel (toasted) with cream cheese (the only thing that sounded even remotely good). The girl took my order, disappeared in the back for ten minutes, and then came back out to tell me “our toaster isn’t working, and we’re out of cream cheese”. Did it take you ten minutes to figure that out? Were you just staring at the broken toaster and the empty cream cheese container for ten minutes? I could have punched her.
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married to M since 6.13.09
T - 3.3.14
A - 2.24.17
@vino831 I am with you on the MIL...I am always so uncomfortable around my husband's family..the things they talk about and the way they act make it difficult to want to be seen in public with them. Yesterday my MIL was "bragging" about how her cholesterol is triple what it should be, and also asked FIL to get Xanax from his boss since her doctor won't write her a prescription. She is medically diagnosed as being bipolar and she likes to throw that around as well. We told the ILs yesterday and while they are excited we had to threaten them not to tell anyone...knowing them, they'll tell someone and they'll post it on Facebook, taking away our joy of being able to announce it. I also may have told them now is a good time to stop smoking since I don't want my kid to smell like cigarette smoke every time they hold it. I also told her there was no need to call or text every day...when we had something to share, we'd let them know. Once I start showing I'm gonna have to tell her hands off unless I tell you you can touch. Thinking about dealing with them stresses me out more than actually having the kid!
EP: 2.17.2016
DS: 3.4.2017
I'm really frustrated with my drs office. I love my dr and the US tech (he used to work with me at the hospital) his office staff is a bunch of bitches. The dr called me right after my bloodwork came out 2 1/2 weeks ago and said he wanted to see me last week. Well my hubby was on a work trip in California so I scheduled for this Wednesday instead, the extra week has almost killed me. Well I found out on Friday I have to work on Wednesday so I called them as soon as I could and it turns out the office closed at NOON on Friday...wtf? So I called first thing this morning to see if I could go in today (hubby amd I are off all day) or tomorrow after 4 since I work the rest of the week 7a to 7p. The girl literally was like "No, we'll schdule you next week there's no openings." I was pissed! I tried to explain again that I work most of the week and would really like to come in today or tomorrow and she just gave me attitude so I scheduled for next week, hung up and then cried. I've had a previous loss around 6 weeks and just so badly want this first appointment!
So I decided to pull in a favor!! I texted the US tech and asked if there was anything he could do without wanting to impose.....he called back 10 mins later and I get to go today at 130!!!!
Take that stupid bitchy front desk girl!
::deep breath:: end rant! Thanks girls
ETA: oh, and I've developed an aversion to coffee.
Me: 37, DH: 36
Started TTC #1: 9/2015
Preliminary labs/testing @ 6 months: TSH, A1c, progesterone, prolactin, SA, HSG all normal
BFP: 5/19/2016, M/C: 5/29/2016
BFP: 6/22/2016 EDD 3//6/2017
I'm at my breaking point with my step kids. Like crying in frustration the last 4 days.. then this morning I go into the hallway bathroom to shower and find that stepson pooped in the broken toilet KNOWING it would not flush and let it sit there. . I spent 20 minutes just gagging and puking in the kitchen sink. DH is at work and I just can't deal with trying to get him to behave .
Let's just take a moment to hope she was unplugging then plugging in the toaster, trying to fix the ON button, looking to see if there was another toaster, trying to see if she had the ingredients to make cream cheese for scratch then finally calling another store to see if they could emergency deliver another toaster with cream cheese.
Bc if she was not doing all of that.... 10 minutes is wildly unacceptable!
I've had 3 mc then when I was pregnant with my son someone finally checked my hormones and progesterone was super low. Which off now im.convinced is why I went to term with him.
So I get preggo this time and call for an immediate appt and blood work the front desk woman refuses to schedule me or listen to my unique situation saying that they don't see ppl until 8-12 weeks. We'll by then the placenta is generating the progesterone IF I MAKE IT THAT FAR! She was so crappy. I was soooo mad.
I want to schedule my first appointment (and first ultrasound) but they won't schedule one for me till they get my bloodwork results... They like to see patients between 8-10weeks. they just keep repeating that they need the bloodwork to prove I'm as far along as I'm saying. I'm 10weeks this week pregnant. Why would I lie? There's even a chance I'm farther along!! I'm leaving for vacation for a week and a half in three days.... So I highly doubt they'll be able to get me in in the next two days for either if they even call back in the next few days.
Why we can't schedule an appointment to just meet the OB or midwife in advance of receiving the blood work makes no sense to me!? We can reschedule if we need to. I just want an appointment! The only thing I can figure is if my bloodwork levels are low and they think I'm no longer actually pregnant and had a missed mc.... But then they'd need to see me anyway. And I'd need an ultrasound to confirm ANYWAY. Ughhhh
So when he called to ask for a ride, H was very clear. "Sure, we're happy to drive you but we're staying until we're ready to leave. We're not leaving early." Okay, fine. It was clearly communicated and agreed to. Grandpa even mentioned it to both of his daughters so we know it was all loud and clear. Fast forward to the 7:30pm at the actual event and they had just barely cut the cake (had not done bouquet or anything yet) and the band had just started (a really cool bluegrass/old timey band) when it started. The girlfriend stopped me and first asked who's sweater was still at the table and then told me "Grandpa's getting tired." When people try to go that type of angle on me, it just pisses me off. Did you mean to say, "We'd like to go back on the deal and pull you guys out of here early, even though H specifically got time off of work for this because we can't possibly just chill out by this fire or go snooze in the car."? So I kind of gave her a "cool story" and walked away...to outside where I cried because I'm pregnant, painfully sober, and pissed off because this wasn't the deal. When I came back, she had gathered up everyone's stuff from the table, including my purse and sunglasses. While I was staring at the table in a bit of a panic, one of the cousins came up and brought me my stuff. From then on, they were like two hawks with their gaze burning a hole in me. I tried to ignore it because... we had a deal, dang it. Also, it wasn't late, and there were plenty of places in different temperature and entertainment options (alone or with people) for them to sit and relax. Then the GF gave H the same guilt trip, "Grandpa's getting tired..." Every time H asked Grandpa how he was doing, "Oh, good." So he asked his mom and she told him it was really just the GF throwing a fit and wanting to go home. Then she sends Grandpa over to H and he's suddenly super upset and tells him, "We have to leave. GF is very upset and she's crying." Because why? Because she isn't getting her way by being all passive aggressive? All of this happens in the space of about 45 minutes, just as the party's actually getting going. They've got lawn games, music, s'mores, and we're finally getting to mingle and talk to people we haven't seen in a long time.
Are you effing kidding me? To back up on the girlfriend, she's been an issue with family events before. She gets all super offended if an invitation is just extended to them as a couple and someone doesn't basically personally beg her to come. She acts like her kids don't visit or anything but her son comes to visit every other week and takes her out to lunch. She's a pot-stirring drama maker. So H tells him that we'll leave but we needed to take a picture first. H's mom wanted one with that whole section of family. Grandpa and GF refuse to be in the picture and instead motor off to stand by the car impatiently while we get everyone together. By the time we get out of there, I'm so pissed off by all the things + pregnant that I started crying then when we get to the car, GF is sobbing and claiming that H's mom said horrible things, "I don't deserve to be so viciously attacked!" (from what I heard, she was trying to go talk to her dad, GF intercepted her and blocked her and she said something about shutting up or butting out that included the F word. But the way GF talked you'd think that she called her something along the lines of the c-word and every other horrible name in the book) and the entire ride home was awkward AF. But guess who was passed out the whole way home? Not Grandpa!
I wish I had known her in her youth to know if she once had a full set of marbles and now she's losing them but a number of things just felt manipulative and like she's probably always been a bit manipulative. You're asking us for a favor. You don't get to tell me how things are going to be. If you know you don't want to stay for the whole thing, don't agree to it, then go back on it and make us leave early, and in such a state at the end that we hardly said goodbye to anyone. If you know you don't want to stay for the whole thing, make other arrangements. Ask us if we can drive you up and then arrange for a cab on the way home. It wouldn't be a cheap cab ride but...there you go. Or we'd gladly all pitch in. Plus, for all they knew, I hadn't planned my drinking appropriately and would have just been hitting the 'time to back off so I'll be ready to drive in a couple hours' stage. Or, if you thought you could do it and find that you're just miserable and want to leave you could ask to go snooze in the car or you could very nicely and respectfully say something like, "I know we agreed not to leave early but we'd really like to go home soon if that's at all possible. We're wiped out." Don't give me the guilt trip or the bossing around. I know that when Grandpa was H's age, he wouldn't have put up with something like this. I'm so pissed off about the whole thing. And you know, while I know wedding planning is hard, transportation for him was one of the things that I included in the planning and I offered to get him a cab home from ours so he could leave whenever he wanted to without anyone else having to leave. I also planned ours closer to his house so even it someone did end up taking him home, it was only about 25 minutes round trip and they could be back to the party.
Married: June 2011
TTC since Feb 2016
BFP#1: 7/7/16 MMC: 8/16/16
BFP#2: 5/8/17 - CP
BFP#3: 6/27/17 EDD: 3/10/18
*TW* - BFP & MC in March 2016.
BFP in June 2016; EDD March 2017.
Samuel born February 2017!
Samantha - 4/5/2017
Anyway, it feels good to know I am not the only one dealing with this kind of crap. I am trying to mentally prepare for it to get worse when baby arrives. Thank u for letting me rant.
** December BMB Siggy Challenge - Animals in Pools **
Me: 31+ H: 32
TTC Since 11/2015
#1 - MMC 6.5 weeks (2/16); #2 - MC due to cystic hygroma at 20 weeks (10/16); #3 CP (2/17); #4 - Due 12.16.17
Me: 37, DH: 36
Started TTC #1: 9/2015
Preliminary labs/testing @ 6 months: TSH, A1c, progesterone, prolactin, SA, HSG all normal
BFP: 5/19/2016, M/C: 5/29/2016
BFP: 6/22/2016 EDD 3//6/2017
Because seriously it would make my YEAR if my hubs EVER called out my MIL. He always tries to sugar coat everything then hours later he usually will FINALLY SORTOF admit that MAYBE she was being a $h!t. Anyway...
My goodness your MIL sounds super self absorbed! Maybe its a generation thing? To me if I didn't see my kid and his wife much (bc of life) and they told me they were having a kid I'd be like "awesome I look forward to being there more often for you guys in whatever way you need me!"
It's awful because couples are just excited to share their pregnancy news. Even if in the back of their head you're thinking something else (I'll never see the baby! or Another already?) You act excited DAMNIT! Even when I had a family member leave their spouse and just days later together announce their pregnant - you act excited damnit! Lol
Like you said I wish I had the personality where I could say not my problem and let it go. BC I KNOW it's not me (and I even know when I'm not making it easier lol) but I say not my problem and I literally loose sleep stewing over it.
BFP #2 7/13/2011 ~ EDD 3/16/2012 ~Aubree Olivia (9lbs 1oz, 21 inches) 3/15/2012 VBAC (39w6d)
BFP #3 5/15/2014 ~ EDD 1/16/2015~Addison Isabelle (9lbs, 0oz, 21 inches) 1/25/2015 2VBAC (41w2d)
BFP #4 7/20/2016 ~ EDD 3/25/2017 ~ Malachi Mathew (10lbs 0oz, 22 inches) 4/4/2017 emergency csection (41w3d)