@JennM205 Haha! I know what you mean. I friend of mine came to visit us this weekend, she is leaving tomorrow and I was like "Watch this, baby will come when she is here" just because it would kind of inconvenient lol and then I tought "Yes baby please do come when my friend is here"
I want baby to be here so much!!!
35 years old, TTC #1 Dec 28, 2011 PCOS, Hypothyroidism.
First IVF cycle June 5th 2015 --- BFP Miscarriage at 8 weeks
FET December 15th 2015--- BFP! First saw at 6w4d It's a boy!
Luciano Alessandro Maximiliano was born on September 3rd 2016
I also like when Rachael was actually in labor and she shared a delivery room with like, 3 women who came and went before her, including the tiny Asian lady whose contractions basically made her giggle and she dilated in like 10 mins!
@RN1stBae I recently rewatched that whole season of friends. I love in the birth episode where she hits Ross on the head and when he gets up he says "you have no idea how much this hurts" and the women just glare at him since she's pushing his child out.
I feel like I missed a lot this weekend! Lurked on my phone, but didn't really get the chance to post. So here's my attempt at catching up.
Huge congrats to @TheTamedShrew! She is gorgeous, love those chubby cheeks!!
@RedMar I am so happy that you got a little bit of redemption from that cupcake situation after all, and oh man, canolli cupcakes sound like the best thing in the world right now!
@yellowrose314 Gorgeous setting for your photos!! Definitely worth a super pregnant hike
My random: Guys, we finally have a bed! Yep, when we moved a few weeks ago, we got rid of our bed frame because my BIL was building us a king sized bed frame. Well, it took a bit longer than expected, so we've been living the college life of a mattress on the floor for like 3 weeks now. Let me tell you, getting up to pee in the middle of the night had turned into pretty much an olympic sport, and not a very graceful one at that ! Last night was the first night in the new bed, and when I woke up to pee and could just swing my legs over the side and stand right up I think I almost cried tears of joy.
@SLou24 my first pregnancy we had the college life going on with a verrryyyy low bed. I totally feel your pain! So glad we upgraded to a "big girl bed" in the meantime. I forgot what a pain that was!
@SLou24 I envy you and your bedframe! We are on over two years of marriage and our mattress is still on the floor. Thankfully with mattress and box spring it's not just 6" off the floor, but yea, it's really difficult to get out of bed at anytime let alone when it's middle of the night pee time. DH thinks its fine (it is so NOT) and when I'm super in pain/sleep deprived I have definitely made him get up to help me up, because it's hard hauling my behind out of that thing, yo.
My Random: We have completed all things pre-prep baby ladies! DH got the nesting bug on yesterday, put together the dresser, I loaded with all the prewashed baby items, he cleaned out and installed the carseat (at 37.5 weeks, this was a bit overdue ), packed the hospital bag, and we set up the pack and play. Once complete DH looked at my stomach and I was all 'What?', He's like 'well you're water can break now or you could go into labor, I'm ready!' Lol, I was all 'That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works.'
Good morning all! I also followed along over the weekend (expected a few more births!!) but didn't add much. We had a busy but excellent weekend but I am somewhat ok with being back at work today (it's less tiring than chasing the tot around in the heat). This is my last week of work, which is probably also why I think it's ok... Have a lot to tie up today and Friday, training another state's pharmacist Tuesday and half day Thursday (39 week appointment) and off every Wednesday. So long work!
If baby came any time this week I'd also be ok with that, but I've pushed aside the urgency of worrying about him coming late, first let's get to due date before I think about going over.. 8 days to go!
Congrats @Smallangel and @Ampip2270! More beautiful babies! And such a fast delivery for you Ampip2270 - wow!!
I also lurked a little this weekend as my fiancé and I decided to make the best of one of our last weekends without a baby. We went to a friends chalet in Saturday and spent the day swimming and boating with friends followed by a delicious BBQ dinner. Sunday we met up with more friends for casual lunch and enjoyed a really relaxed evening. It was truly a great weekend and today I am getting the car seat installed (at 38 weeks tomorrow, I am behind) and other small errands. I really I wish I knew when this baby was going to make his arrival but I'm trying to not overthink it too much.
This is day three of modified bedrest for me, boo. Being forced to lay around is not nearly as fun as laying around because of procrastination. My BP still goes up and down so we'll see what happens. Been having contractions since Saturday, started of regular and got irregular when they got to 7 mins apart 24hrs later, boo again.
So I'll continue to chillax and bump for now. Have a great week!
As mentioned above, I've tried to turn my 'tude around about still being pregnant as of this weekend. Instead of being all "Boo, I'm still waiting for baby to come" I'm trying to do things each day that will be difficult when new baby gets here... which has really been my approach this whole pregnancy with giving my son a really really fun-filled summer and staying super busy, but I had last that mentality in the past week. Back to it! Hoping to hit up the beach on Wednesday if the weather cooperates!
@AnnaS930 so glad to hear you're staying positive. As you already know,LOs will come when they're ready, no matter how big of a mindf***k late pregnancy is. It's best to have that kind of "roll with the punches" mentality since there's not a lot we can do otherwise. It's hard thinking that the due date might come and go (I am not looking forward to that if it happens!) but our bodies know what they're doing. Meanwhile, you get to enjoy time with your LO as a family of three.
I've felt so much expectation wanting to meet baby and hoping to go into labor. But I surprised myself when I had to go in for high BP and they said it would end up in either bedrest or induction and I was immediately hoping for bedrest, even if that meant going past the EDD. Nothing wrong with an induction if I'd needed it, I just want baby to come when she's ready (eta and when she wants to!). I was a little disappointed when my contractions faded though, but that's only because I'd been in so much pain for 24hrs :P
@AlwaysAuntNeverMom - So agreed. I have such a do-do-do and go-go-go personality, it always feels like I could be doing more to get labor going, when in reality - there's no need to rush it along. I'm still sitting on my exercise ball but enjoying the bouncing and not thinking too much of it.
@AlwaysAuntNeverMom - good for you for doing what's best for that little lady and taking your bedrest seriously! That can not be easy, but will be worth it. What are you doing to keep sane? Puzzles? Reading? TV? Computer games?
@AnnaS930 mostly reading and TV for now. If this goes on much longer, I'll have to make DH get me some more entertainment. Weirdly, the hardest part is not being able to go to the grocery store, even just a car ride makes my BP go up like crazy.
@AnnaS930 mostly reading and TV for now. If this goes on much longer, I'll have to make DH get me some more entertainment. Weirdly, the hardest part is not being able to go to the grocery store, even just a car ride makes my BP go up like crazy.
That's such a shame!! Ugh, at the end of my sister's twin pregnancy she was on more of a house-rest versus bed-rest, so she could move from bed to couch and do limited standing activities in between. She would so look forward to her husband getting home and driving her to Walmart/the grocery store, where she would wait in the car for him to come back out.
@AlwaysAuntNeverMom - So agreed. I have such a do-do-do and go-go-go personality, it always feels like I could be doing more to get labor going, when in reality - there's no need to rush it along. I'm still sitting on my exercise ball but enjoying the bouncing and not thinking too much of it.
Everytime I bounce on the ball, DS comes up and wants me to get off and help him bounce. He loves it!
@AlwaysAuntNeverMom - So agreed. I have such a do-do-do and go-go-go personality, it always feels like I could be doing more to get labor going, when in reality - there's no need to rush it along. I'm still sitting on my exercise ball but enjoying the bouncing and not thinking too much of it.
Everytime I bounce on the ball, DS comes up and wants me to get off and help him bounce. He loves it!
I bounce on one at work.. then usually at home after E goes to bed. He likes to try to roll the ball out from under me.. such an evil little gremlin. I'm just waiting for the moment like in The Office that someone comes up and stabs my ball...
Hey there! I've been MIA over the weekend due to giving birth and all that, but I just want to throw out congratulations to all the other mamas who had their littles over the weekend! Congrats @camichael84, @seitzy3, @VeraMali, @asht, @MojieJo, and @Ampip2270! Babies are coming fast and furious now.
We came home yesterday afternoon, and we are doing awesome. Been really sore and SUPER swollen in my feet/legs, but seem to be healing up just fine. BFing is going smoothly and milk came in last night. Little Eden is sleeping and eating great, and we are enjoying settling in as a family of four.
Spent yesterday evening in L&D with pre-term contractions. Got them stopped with medication, and got sent home. I see my OB Tuesday, and am hoping he'll tell me I should stop working. I didn't do anything other than go to the grocery.
Ugh. I want this little man to cook longer, but I'm not pumped about the idea of three weeks of contractions. I'm in pregnancy purgatory.
@pilotswifey Glad to hear they were able to stop the contractions so your baby boy can cook a bit longer! Did they do that test (I forget the name) that predicts the likelihood of delivering in the next two weeks? I'll be thinking of you and hoping your OB supports your decision to stop working, if you feel that's the best thing for you!! Hang in there. Pregnancy Purgatory. Such a perfect description.
@Ampip2270 Congrats on your beautiful little girl! And such a fast labor - that's wonderful! I hope you're recovering nicely and enjoying all the snuggles with your squish!!
Mainly lurked this weekend too, but congrats to all the babies born! It makes me happy to see other adults living the dorm life with mattresses on floors We don't have ours on the floor, but for FOUR YEARS now we have not had dressers and I had all my clothes in Rubbermaid bins. Finally this weekend my husband and I had a kid free ikea date and got a dresser and bookshelf! Totally all adult now!
I tried to keep up this weekend with TB, but mostly hung out with my family (and tiny bits of cleaning). I went to a giant on-post garage sale with some college friends on Saturday morning in the hopes of walking baby closer to birth. It did not work.
@hejo2016 We have not had a dresser for almost 3 years now too xD We keep having other stuff to buy and worry about. The worst part is now we have a dresser for baby, the one who was in the guest room all along. When we moved it in baby room we looked at each other and we were like "why did we never use this dresser for us" We are pretty silly.
35 years old, TTC #1 Dec 28, 2011 PCOS, Hypothyroidism.
First IVF cycle June 5th 2015 --- BFP Miscarriage at 8 weeks
FET December 15th 2015--- BFP! First saw at 6w4d It's a boy!
Luciano Alessandro Maximiliano was born on September 3rd 2016
Good Morning to my favorite Random ladies! I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend - baby or no baby! Congrats to all of those with new little ones!! So exciting!
This weekend, I went to the MN state fair with my husband, my friend, her 1 yo daughter and her husband. My best friend and I go every year - it's a bit of a tradition for us. It was definitely a bit more difficult this year with a 1 year old in tow and way more difficult with two unfocused husbands in tow, haha. I had some delicious fried eats and DH bought some gimicky but-I-swear-they are-necessary-dear items, which was whatever. The man loves his infomercial-type products. It was a long day and holy hell were my joints swollen and achy by the end of it!
Sunday was spent mostly resting and recuperating. I had a hard time emotionally because Woe is Me, I guess. I spent some time with some friends and it just made me realize how different our lives suddenly seem. Not bad in any way, just different. I was perfectly interested in their vacation plans, latest diet programs, and new shopping sprees, and they listened to be blabber about my birth/baby plans ("just don't give us too much details please because we can't handle the ick factor") but I don't know, there seemed to be a bit of a disconnect. Did anyone else feel like their friendships shifted as they moved into motherhood? How did y'all deal? Did your friendships fade or last through the changes? These women are incredibly important to me, and supportive of my life choices even if they aren't on par with their own, but I'm suddenly realizing just how much our relationships might change because I'm having children and they either a) aren't there yet or b) don't plan on kids at all.
Emotionally, I seem to be better spirits on work days, which is weird. It's like when I'm at work I'm a bit frozen in time. I can't tackle the baby laundry, or clean the cupboards, or do the grocery shopping, or organize the baby items because I'm stuck at work, but I can focus on my job (which I'm loving lately), and then suddenly I go home and I'm overwhelmed with ALL things BABY and when I get overwhelmed I just shut down and wanna cry. Yesterday, was just a rough day emotionally overall, I think, mostly because I didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted to in a single day. On my long list of chores, I only did 3/4 of the dishes, and I washed two sets of sheets. That was it.
@PoodleDoodleOoo - My strong friendships with non-moms have certainly lasted the first couple years of motherhood for me. We catch up when we can and they are lenient about me keeping plans because things certainly come up, or certain weeks are just not good if we were sleep training, etc. The other wonderful thing is how many new friends I've made.. I went to a mother's group at my hospital after E was born and eventually found "my group" there, most with babies a few months younger than E (The group there when I first had him were very cliqued already, so I kept going and offered help to the moms newer than me and fell in well with them). Just had a playdate with 2 other moms and their kiddos this weekend and thought Wow, thanks to Emmett I have new friends that I never would have known.
Life changes with a baby, but it's pretty amazing and it might take some time to see that. Things like going to the fair continue on in tradition and it turns into a "let's go between these 2 times because baby is in the best mood/most awake/will sleep happily in the stroller" but you also get to see everything through new eyes and there's nothing as rewarding as that. I get seriously thrilled every time an airplane flies by because Emmett squeals with joy and yells "BYE!!!" while waving to it... like really? This is my life? It's wacky, and it's fantastic.
@AlwaysAuntNeverMom I'm sorry to hear about you being on modified bed rest.. that's got to be frustrating! Hopefully you don't go too stir crazy waiting for this babe to come, I'm happy that you seem to have such a good attitude about waiting until LO is ready to come out. Hopefully DH is up to the task of keeping you entertained in the meantime
I think DD was nesting this weekend. She is 5 and organized all the baby clothes for NB and 0-3 months. She then asked if she could wash all the bottles. I was totally okay with sitting on the couch all day, but she kicked my butt into gear. She even asked if we could set the crib up in her room. Who is having this baby?
@PoodleDoodleOoo I have found that some of my non mom friends have drifted away a little bit others have become even stronger. They are my go to people when I am having a bad day and don't want to talk about babies so much. I enjoy talking about their lives. Some of them I've found we just more catch up once a month or every 2 months instead of being on the day to day level. But I think that's normal. I agree with @AnnaS930 I have made sooo many new friends since having kids! It's amazing!
Married 6-1-13 Sebastian 3-11-14 Simon 5-2-15 Baby #3 Due 9-29-16
@PoodleDoodleOoo sounds like you had a nice weekend at the fair and got some rest in afterwards, too. Bonus!
As for your concerns about friendships after baby, I will say, not that I already have a child, but friends around me have already had kids and it does change relationships slightly. I think the key is to make sure you let them know you still want them in your lives and how you want them involved etc. With our first set of friends, things changed quite a bit. They were always busy people, but they got even busier and didn't let people meet their DD for several months. Only family was allowed to visit as per doctors orders. I guess just the time of year she was born? So keeping up with them has been hard. (Moreso now since I've been pregnant too) And in that I didn't know my place in it all. I wouldn't know when a good time to text or call was or know what they wanted or needed so I feel like part of it was my fault. We are still friends and we get together occasionally, but not as often as we did before the baby came. Another set of our friends had a baby and we see them more often. My DH is good buddies with the father so he sees him the most but we do try to do dinner and visits and hang out when we can. But they've been keeping in touch where our other friends didn't really.
All of this to say, that when you're ready and want visitors don't forget to text or call them. Make sure they know they are wanted around! Sometimes people won't call or text because they're afraid they are interrupting or going to wake the baby etc. it's just good for people to know what you want and how you want to approach it too. Just another perspective that I hope helps. Now that I'm going through it I want to make sure I do this very thing with my friends. Sure my life is about to change, but it doesn't mean I need those people any less or won't have time for them. I just need to show them I want them and need them around.
and I feel you on feeling a bit overwhelmed with what is left to do before baby comes. I'm struggling with my to do list and it feels never ending. I think part of it is procrastination on my part and the other is not knowing all that's involved in preparing for baby. Two key things I want to do this week is install the car seat and pack the hospital bags. With those things done I think I will feel a bit better. I also want to wash a few outfits for the baby so I have something ready for the bag and just to have clothing ready at home. Either way, know you're not alone in feeling this way. It's crunch time for us Sept mamas! It's normal to feel this way. Hope you're able to get some more accomplished so you can feel a little more at ease. I know I should take my own advice!
@pilotswifey pregnancy purgatory is a perfect phrase for this period of time. I thought for sure I was about ready to pop this baby out like two weeks ago. NOPE. I'll probably go to 42 weeks at this rate. Bleh.
@Ampip2270 I am sure I speak for everyone when I say I am TOTALLY JEALOUS THAT YOU GOT TO THE HOSPITAL AT AN 8. Holy crap. That's amazing. And congratulations, of course!
@PoodleDoodleOoo I feel like so many of my friends are moms already, I can stop being the person awkwardly sitting out of kiddie playdates or awkwardly at birthday parties with no children of my own. I sort of lost frequent touch with a lot of my younger friends who still go to bars a lot a long time ago, but I think that's more of a function of being in my mid-30s than anything else. The stronger relationships will stay strong for a little while, and friendships will always change, but I like to think the people who are meant to stay in your life will stay in your life.
My random for today: does anyone else notice that when they're a little dehydrated they have dreams about drinks? I had a really vivid dream that I was visiting a lemonade bar last night. There was all kinds of cold melon drinks, and lemonades, and watermelon... I woke up dry as the sahara. I need to go get some damn lemonade.
@MrsVoorhees - Unlike every other month where I've been like "Woah.. how is this month already over?!?" August has felt pretty appropriately lengthed for me.. most likely just because it's been so darn hot/humid and nearing the end slows things down a bit.
Re: August Randoms!!!
I want baby to be here so much!!!
PCOS, Hypothyroidism.
Miscarriage at 8 weeks
First saw
It's a boy!
If you can't tell, I love Friends.
Huge congrats to @TheTamedShrew! She is gorgeous, love those chubby cheeks!!
@RedMar I am so happy that you got a little bit of redemption from that cupcake situation after all, and oh man, canolli cupcakes sound like the best thing in the world right now!
@yellowrose314 Gorgeous setting for your photos!! Definitely worth a super pregnant hike
My random: Guys, we finally have a bed! Yep, when we moved a few weeks ago, we got rid of our bed frame because my BIL was building us a king sized bed frame. Well, it took a bit longer than expected, so we've been living the college life of a mattress on the floor for like 3 weeks now. Let me tell you, getting up to pee in the middle of the night had turned into pretty much an olympic sport, and not a very graceful one at that ! Last night was the first night in the new bed, and when I woke up to pee and could just swing my legs over the side and stand right up I think I almost cried tears of joy.
If baby came any time this week I'd also be ok with that, but I've pushed aside the urgency of worrying about him coming late, first let's get to due date before I think about going over.. 8 days to go!
I also lurked a little this weekend as my fiancé and I decided to make the best of one of our last weekends without a baby. We went to a friends chalet in Saturday and spent the day swimming and boating with friends followed by a delicious BBQ dinner. Sunday we met up with more friends for casual lunch and enjoyed a really relaxed evening. It was truly a great weekend and today I am getting the car seat installed (at 38 weeks tomorrow, I am
behind) and other small errands. I really I wish I knew when this baby was going to make his arrival but I'm trying to not overthink it too much.
This is day three of modified bedrest for me, boo.
Being forced to lay around is not nearly as fun as laying around because of procrastination. My BP still goes up and down so we'll see what happens. Been having contractions since Saturday, started of regular and got irregular when they got to 7 mins apart 24hrs later, boo again.
So I'll continue to chillax and bump for now. Have a great week!
I've felt so much expectation wanting to meet baby and hoping to go into labor. But I surprised myself when I had to go in for high BP and they said it would end up in either bedrest or induction and I was immediately hoping for bedrest, even if that meant going past the EDD. Nothing wrong with an induction if I'd needed it, I just want baby to come when she's ready (eta and when she wants to!). I was a little disappointed when my contractions faded though, but that's only because I'd been in so much pain for 24hrs :P
Tell that BP of yours to get back in line!
We came home yesterday afternoon, and we are doing awesome. Been really sore and SUPER swollen in my feet/legs, but seem to be healing up just fine. BFing is going smoothly and milk came in last night. Little Eden is sleeping and eating great, and we are enjoying settling in as a family of four.
Can't wait to see more babies on here!
Ugh. I want this little man to cook longer, but I'm not pumped about the idea of three weeks of contractions. I'm in pregnancy purgatory.
@Ampip2270 Congrats on your beautiful little girl! And such a fast labor - that's wonderful! I hope you're recovering nicely and enjoying all the snuggles with your squish!!
It makes me happy to see other adults living the dorm life with mattresses on floors
I tried to keep up this weekend with TB, but mostly hung out with my family (and tiny bits of cleaning). I went to a giant on-post garage sale with some college friends on Saturday morning in the hopes of walking baby closer to birth. It did not work.
July: Patriotic Fails
The worst part is now we have a dresser for baby, the one who was in the guest room all along. When we moved it in baby room we looked at each other and we were like "why did we never use this dresser for us" We are pretty silly.
PCOS, Hypothyroidism.
Miscarriage at 8 weeks
First saw
It's a boy!
This weekend, I went to the MN state fair with my husband, my friend, her 1 yo daughter and her husband. My best friend and I go every year - it's a bit of a tradition for us. It was definitely a bit more difficult this year with a 1 year old in tow and way more difficult with two unfocused husbands in tow, haha. I had some delicious fried eats and DH bought some gimicky but-I-swear-they are-necessary-dear items, which was whatever. The man loves his infomercial-type products. It was a long day and holy hell were my joints swollen and achy by the end of it!
Sunday was spent mostly resting and recuperating. I had a hard time emotionally because Woe is Me, I guess. I spent some time with some friends and it just made me realize how different our lives suddenly seem. Not bad in any way, just different. I was perfectly interested in their vacation plans, latest diet programs, and new shopping sprees, and they listened to be blabber about my birth/baby plans ("just don't give us too much details please because we can't handle the ick factor") but I don't know, there seemed to be a bit of a disconnect. Did anyone else feel like their friendships shifted as they moved into motherhood? How did y'all deal? Did your friendships fade or last through the changes? These women are incredibly important to me, and supportive of my life choices even if they aren't on par with their own, but I'm suddenly realizing just how much our relationships might change because I'm having children and they either a) aren't there yet or b) don't plan on kids at all.
Emotionally, I seem to be better spirits on work days, which is weird. It's like when I'm at work I'm a bit frozen in time. I can't tackle the baby laundry, or clean the cupboards, or do the grocery shopping, or organize the baby items because I'm stuck at work, but I can focus on my job (which I'm loving lately), and then suddenly I go home and I'm overwhelmed with ALL things BABY and when I get overwhelmed I just shut down and wanna cry. Yesterday, was just a rough day emotionally overall, I think, mostly because I didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted to in a single day. On my long list of chores, I only did 3/4 of the dishes, and I washed two sets of sheets. That was it.
also, there's a stork movie that starts on the 23rd. I text H that it's a sign, DD was due one day before this LO and was born on the 22nd....
Life changes with a baby, but it's pretty amazing and it might take some time to see that. Things like going to the fair continue on in tradition and it turns into a "let's go between these 2 times because baby is in the best mood/most awake/will sleep happily in the stroller" but you also get to see everything through new eyes and there's nothing as rewarding as that. I get seriously thrilled every time an airplane flies by because Emmett squeals with joy and yells "BYE!!!" while waving to it... like really? This is my life? It's wacky, and it's fantastic.
Sebastian 3-11-14
Simon 5-2-15
Baby #3 Due 9-29-16
As for your concerns about friendships after baby, I will say, not that I already have a child, but friends around me have already had kids and it does change relationships slightly. I think the key is to make sure you let them know you still want them in your lives and how you want them involved etc. With our first set of friends, things changed quite a bit. They were always busy people, but they got even busier and didn't let people meet their DD for several months. Only family was allowed to visit as per doctors orders. I guess just the time of year she was born? So keeping up with them has been hard. (Moreso now since I've been pregnant too) And in that I didn't know my place in it all. I wouldn't know when a good time to text or call was or know what they wanted or needed so I feel like part of it was my fault. We are still friends and we get together occasionally, but not as often as we did before the baby came. Another set of our friends had a baby and we see them more often. My DH is good buddies with the father so he sees him the most but we do try to do dinner and visits and hang out when we can. But they've been keeping in touch where our other friends didn't really.
All of this to say, that when you're ready and want visitors don't forget to text or call them. Make sure they know they are wanted around! Sometimes people won't call or text because they're afraid they are interrupting or going to wake the baby etc. it's just good for people to know what you want and how you want to approach it too. Just another perspective that I hope helps. Now that I'm going through it I want to make sure I do this very thing with my friends. Sure my life is about to change, but it doesn't mean I need those people any less or won't have time for them. I just need to show them I want them and need them around.
and I feel you on feeling a bit overwhelmed with what is left to do before baby comes. I'm struggling with my to do list and it feels never ending. I think part of it is procrastination on my part and the other is not knowing all that's involved in preparing for baby. Two key things I want to do this week is install the car seat and pack the hospital bags. With those things done I think I will feel a bit better. I also want to wash a few outfits for the baby so I have something ready for the bag and just to have clothing ready at home. Either way, know you're not alone in feeling this way. It's crunch time for us Sept mamas! It's normal to feel this way. Hope you're able to get some more accomplished so you can feel a little more at ease.
@Ampip2270 I am sure I speak for everyone when I say I am TOTALLY JEALOUS THAT YOU GOT TO THE HOSPITAL AT AN 8. Holy crap. That's amazing. And congratulations, of course!
@PoodleDoodleOoo I feel like so many of my friends are moms already, I can stop being the person awkwardly sitting out of kiddie playdates or awkwardly at birthday parties with no children of my own. I sort of lost frequent touch with a lot of my younger friends who still go to bars a lot a long time ago, but I think that's more of a function of being in my mid-30s than anything else. The stronger relationships will stay strong for a little while, and friendships will always change, but I like to think the people who are meant to stay in your life will stay in your life.
My random for today: does anyone else notice that when they're a little dehydrated they have dreams about drinks? I had a really vivid dream that I was visiting a lemonade bar last night. There was all kinds of cold melon drinks, and lemonades, and watermelon... I woke up dry as the sahara. I need to go get some damn lemonade.