October 2016 Moms
annabenanna
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Monday Bitchfest 9.19.16
annabenanna
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I think @kmolleltz usually starts this bright and early.
But since it's not up yet, I figured I'd go ahead and start it!
Have at it ladies.
But since it's not up yet, I figured I'd go ahead and start it!
Have at it ladies.
Re: Monday Bitchfest 9.19.16
Not a real BF...mostly just a slight annoyance... but a lady at work this morning definitely bent over to speak into my stomach really loudly "HEY BABY! HOW ARE YOU?!" in a dumb baby voice.
GET OUT MUH SPACE, LADY!
I have a headache and I'm refusing to take anything for it because I've made it through this entire pregnancy without taking any kind of medication and I'm not giving in now.
My arm still hurts like a bitch from the tdap shot I got last Thursday. The once half dollar sized lump on my arm is now the size of a tennis ball and is still extremely feverish and sore. I've pretty much never had an averse reaction to anything in my life, so I'm spoiled. This shouldn't be happening to me. I'm a speshul snoflake. Boo hoo!
DH is the technical director at a large church here. The church staff threw us a lovely shower on the 13th. It was my last shower (so I thought) and I was so happy and ready to do the whole registry completion thing and finally be DONE with shopping. Now, his "tech crew" has announced they're throwing us a shower next Monday. I tried my best to turn it down, but they insisted. I don't want another damn shower!
I'm also jealous of everyone who's having their babies already. I have a feeling I'm going to be the very last one to pop one out and I hate all of you for having yours before me.
I'm an irrational child this morning.
DH: 34
Married: May 2011
TTC #1: May 2015
DS: 10/20/2016
TTC #2: June 2019
#2 EDD: 2/20/2020
TTC only since Dec 2015. I had some weight to get off. Been working hard in the gym for over a year.
BFP 02-15-16 with our first
IT'S A BOY!!!
RE: your injection location... if it's that big and still feverish, I'd take some Benadryl. You're likely having a reaction. Also, keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't continue to spread. May be worth a call to your MD.... if you haven't already. That's not normal.
I'm with you all on the grouchy and wanting to be done train, 37 weeks this Weds, so slowly but surely...
Today is the first day that it's been on the cooler side all day and not just in the morning. It's rainy and icky out but I took advantage of the cooler weather and went to panera and got the squash soup and ancient grains salad and my fall loving heart is happy. I also may have gotten a chocolate chip cookie because I had a reward for a free one and I'm huge anyway, dammit.
Me: 32 & DH: 37
BFP #2: 2/8/16 - EDD 10/20/16
IT'S A BOY!!!!
DS Born 10/16/16
I'm due November 3rd, so there's the potential for me to go to the 17th at the latest. How's that for depressing? Some of yous will have nearly 2 month olds by then!
@Schell2013 So much this. I'm 5'4'' if I stand up super straight and I have a very short torso. This baby girl is really big and I've carried her all out in front and I'm sick of hearing about how big I am and people's predictions about whether or not I'm going to make it to my due date.
@MRSCORKER I looove Panera's squash soup! Their fall menu makes me so happy.
@CopperBoom86 I feel you on the baby jealousy. I'm due October 30 and it feels like everyone else is so close to meeting their babies
DS#2 due 25 April 2019
*tl;dr - Basically, I'm sick and cranky, and probably anemic so I'm fatigued too. SIL wants some girl time this week, and this introvert is panicking at the thought of having to entertain, so I'm trying to figure out how to tell her no without sounding too mean.*
I seem to have caught DD's virus she's had for like the last 2 weeks. I sent her to the doc after the first week and nothing changed (she mainly complained of a sore throat and stuffy nose, and ibuprofen was taking care of it, but it wasn't getting better) and the doc was like, "Yea it's a virus. Ibuprofen, and Tylenol if you need to mix it in. Good luck!" *insert my angry face* Literally the next day she had a low grade fever of like 99.7°F. Awesome, so she came home from school.
All was good for me until late last week. I started my weekly doc appts on Weds, BP was more elevated than normal, she took labs. Thursday I'm feeling kinda weird, but it's on and off and baby won't stop trying to kick me in the ribs, and I'm tired, so I just roll with I'm almost 37 weeks pregnant and this what it feels like so I moved on. Friday I am increasingly achy and my stomach starts to hurt, ears hurt, throat is scratchy... So I take my own temp at like 9pm. It's 99.4°F. Ugh. Tylenol took care of it while I was asleep, but still felt shitty all weekend.
Also, it feels like my gallbladder is acting up (I was diagnosed with gallstones about 7 years ago) and is all inflamed, which usually I only need two or three ibuprofen and a good night's sleep to care of it. Well no ibuprofen for me so now my stomach is being squished between my baby's butt and my inflamed gallbladder, making me not really want to eat at all.
Bloodwork posted online on Sunday night, showing slightly elevated white blood cells, makes sense if I caught DD's virus. Also, if I was reading them all correctly, it looks like I'm slightly anemic, too, which also makes sense because I've been SO TIRED lately. Doc's office never called though, so I'm guessing she's not terribly concerned. I see her Thursday, so we'll see. I have this irrational fear she's going to try to pull me out of work early. I work a desk job, so not exactly physically taxing, and I REALLY REALLY don't want to have to come back to work until after the New Year, so I'm hoping to push it into October before I have to stay home. Between vacation, paid time, and FMLA, I could get to January if I wait until October.
And now, SIL just texted me that she wants to have some "girl time" on either Wednesday or Thursday and play with my gel nail polish. No. Just no. No no no no no no no. I am in no mood to be entertaining people. I felt bad for even being with DH at lunch today because I was so cranky. I love him dearly, but all I really wanted to do was sit alone in my car by myself and listen to my audiobook. There's no way I could be nice to her right now. I love her, she's been a great SIL all things considered, but I want like zero company until this guy is here. I'm having a hard enough time managing our day to day with DD.
Wahwahwah, poor me.
Mommy to Elizabeth (6/18/09), preemie at 34 weeks
Team Blue!
THis weekend, I couldn't adult. I couldn't. It was our weekend with my stepdaughters this weekend, and things that don't bother me, for some reason bothered me this weekend. Picking up toys and clutter off the floor when you're 37 weeks pregnant is enough to drive anyone insane. And I swear, every time one of them needed me for something, I wanted to cry.
DH was so sweet, giving me lots of breaks and a lot of alone time---but that just made me feel more guilty for how I was feeling.
I think we are all just ready to have these babies.
TTC only since Dec 2015. I had some weight to get off. Been working hard in the gym for over a year.
BFP 02-15-16 with our first
IT'S A BOY!!!
@Kaytee1087 - I'm sorry you're feeling so crummy! Just say no to "girl time!" I'm sure she'll understand!
@annabenanna - I've felt really great until this weekend. I hit 35 weeks and all hell broke loose. I gave DH fair warning that from now until delivery, I was one straw away from losing my shit. At all times. No matter what. I can't imagine what it would be like to take care of two other children right now, one of which randomly shits on the floor... Is she still doing that, btw?
Adulting is hard.
Went to leave for work, car had a flat tire. Dh tried to change it but the nuts were on super tight and it took forever to get them off. In the mean time, I had to wait for my mom to get my nephew on the bus and then get her to take me to work before she took my dd to preschool. Then I get to work and the kid I am an aide for isn't there today. She apparently has a stomach bug (which I don't even want to think about possibly getting). Besides feeling bad that she's sick, it sucks when she's not in school because then I have to find something to do for the 3 hours I'm there and it's awful. So basically I walk around the building trying to find a special Ed teacher that needs help but its still hard to find something productive to do. Not to mention that it means I'm basically on my feet for 3 hours rather then say an hour max that I would be if 'my' kid was there. By the time work was over, I was in pain!
My dh ended up being over an hour late to work, and he was supposed to leave early today because my dd has her first dance class today and he didn't want to miss it. Now I'm waiting to hear if he'll still be able to make it.
rainy Monday's suck!!
DH: 34
Married: May 2011
TTC #1: May 2015
DS: 10/20/2016
TTC #2: June 2019
#2 EDD: 2/20/2020
TTC only since Dec 2015. I had some weight to get off. Been working hard in the gym for over a year.
BFP 02-15-16 with our first
IT'S A BOY!!!
So now I'm utterly exhausted and still recovering but can't admit it to hubby cuz he says I do too much blah blah. Ugh, it's not my fault I get bored!!! I hate staying at home.
I promise this is not a humble brag (because people who say this stuff to me aren't necessarily saying it in a flattering way) but I am having the opposite of "you look ready to pop." As in "there's no way you're due so soon! You're too small!" etc. So now I have taken to telling people a rotation of the following:
a) "Well actually I'm having a little person. You know, like the guy who plays Tyrion."
b) "I shouldn't be telling you this but I started smoking more in order to keep the baby small."
c) "I started dieting about halfway through the pregnancy because I'm really afraid of labor. I'm down to 800 calories a day!"
If you can think of more feel free to let me know.
My BF is about contractors. We have spent this entire pregnancy trying to complete two small home projects with two different contractors. Both have been complete disasters. First, we spent weeks calling multiple contractors over and over to try to get a price quote, and no one would return our calls. Then we finally found people to do the jobs. Both of them did a crap job, and we started having major issues with their work after the first big rain storm. Then another few weeks of calling them. Both came out and "fixed" it. Then this weekend we had another big rain storm that revealed both projects were not fixed. My handyman dad was here, and he pointed out all the shortcuts and cheap supplies these people used to cause these issues. now we have to figure out how to fix this crap when we thought it was all over back in May! I don't understand why it is so complicated! Why can't we just pay someone and they do their job right the first time! Our city is in a real estate boom, so I think these contractors just don't care about small residential jobs.