My bradley class is through a private midwife. We meet in her living room. Very NYC. LOL
I would look into local midwives who are "bradley certified"
I was recommended this class by a friend who I trust. I had no previous knowledge of the bradley method, but I can already feel myself becoming a cult convert.
Me: 36, H: 37 FTM, 2 Furbabies married 03/17/07 lived in Houston, Austin, Los Angeles and NYC due: 2/15/17
For those of you attending bradley classes, are they at the hospital you're delivering at? Our hospital is currently on strike, so all classes have been cancelled, and I am getting nervous that we won't be able to get to a class in time...
In my area, Bradley classes are done at an upscale baby boutique, not the hospital.
Anyone here a technology guru?!?! My mac laptop has been telling me to update to he new OSX Sierra and started slowing down majorly, so last night I finally did. Now it continuously gets to the same part of the installation process and says it can't continue and I can't restart on the old HD. I haaaaaaaate technology when it doesn't work!!!!
Today is not my day... Broken laptop, dentist poking at my gums (still sore 5 hours later...), annoying parents, major delivery/choosing new hospital and Doctor anxiety, and trying to organize life for our PCS move to Tennessee in December... I may lose my mind over here soon! Can I go back to sleep and start over tomorrow?
Sounds like a really rough day, I'm sorry you've got so much on your plate! As far as the computer goes, 95% of the time with the macs that I see, the hard drive has failed. New HDDs run $60-70 typically, but Apple makes the OS available for free--as long as you have access to another apple computer. You'll need a 16gb flash drive to make the OS recovery to put on the new HDD. Of course you can always try the flash drive recovery and there's a very slim chance it could be successful. Did you have important data that was not backed up?
Checked my bank account and then immediately felt sick to my stomach. I thought by now I'd be making more money and not feel like I'm 22 and struggling so hard. I have I no idea how we are going to support a child.... queue panic attack....
I think bees must be attracted to something about my pregnant body. I just got stung for the second time this year. I seriously have no idea of when I got stung last, before this summer. I'm such a baby, but it hurts soooo bad.
Checked my bank account and then immediately felt sick to my stomach. I thought by now I'd be making more money and not feel like I'm 22 and struggling so hard. I have I no idea how we are going to support a child.... queue panic attack....
for a second, I read this and was like "I don't remember posting this!"
Checked my bank account and then immediately felt sick to my stomach. I thought by now I'd be making more money and not feel like I'm 22 and struggling so hard. I have I no idea how we are going to support a child.... queue panic attack....
for a second, I read this and was like "I don't remember posting this!"
Cheers for those in the struggle.
Glad I'm not alone....not that I would wish this on you or anyone haha. What sucks is we can't even cheers anything worthwhile... I miss beer
Checked my bank account and then immediately felt sick to my stomach. I thought by now I'd be making more money and not feel like I'm 22 and struggling so hard. I have I no idea how we are going to support a child.... queue panic attack....
for a second, I read this and was like "I don't remember posting this!"
Cheers for those in the struggle.
Glad I'm not alone....not that I would wish this on you or anyone haha. What sucks is we can't even cheers anything worthwhile... I miss beer
We spent extra money while we were on vacation late August, and we are still playing catch up... not fun at all... if this helps you feel any better at all, I keep telling myself that the baby comes around income tax time!! CHA-CHING!! lol
Checked my bank account and then immediately felt sick to my stomach. I thought by now I'd be making more money and not feel like I'm 22 and struggling so hard. I have I no idea how we are going to support a child.... queue panic attack....
for a second, I read this and was like "I don't remember posting this!"
Cheers for those in the struggle.
Glad I'm not alone....not that I would wish this on you or anyone haha. What sucks is we can't even cheers anything worthwhile... I miss beer
100% this. How do people afford kids?
I keep asking people in our area/ pay range "how did you afford daycare with the kids?" 100% of the time the answer was either "I quit my job because we couldn't afford it" or "My parents were our daycare."
@LivingLaVidaGinger We just dropped $1500 when my dog was hospitalized with pneumonia a few weeks ago. The bank account took a big hit with that one...
Checked my bank account and then immediately felt sick to my stomach. I thought by now I'd be making more money and not feel like I'm 22 and struggling so hard. I have I no idea how we are going to support a child.... queue panic attack....
for a second, I read this and was like "I don't remember posting this!"
Cheers for those in the struggle.
Glad I'm not alone....not that I would wish this on you or anyone haha. What sucks is we can't even cheers anything worthwhile... I miss beer
We spent extra money while we were on vacation late August, and we are still playing catch up... not fun at all... if this helps you feel any better at all, I keep telling myself that the baby comes around income tax time!! CHA-CHING!! lol
Haha ya, unless you OWE the IRS money, like I do. This is why contract jobs suck. I'm still paying off taxes.
For real guys, money blows. I don't even know how we are going to do daycare either @Gretchypoo we don't have those options either. I keep seeing an "inspirational" picture that says "you weren't born just to pay bills and die" welllllll that's what it freaking feels like
Checked my bank account and then immediately felt sick to my stomach. I thought by now I'd be making more money and not feel like I'm 22 and struggling so hard. I have I no idea how we are going to support a child.... queue panic attack....
for a second, I read this and was like "I don't remember posting this!"
Cheers for those in the struggle.
Glad I'm not alone....not that I would wish this on you or anyone haha. What sucks is we can't even cheers anything worthwhile... I miss beer
We spent extra money while we were on vacation late August, and we are still playing catch up... not fun at all... if this helps you feel any better at all, I keep telling myself that the baby comes around income tax time!! CHA-CHING!! lol
Haha ya, unless you OWE the IRS money, like I do. This is why contract jobs suck. I'm still paying off taxes.
Yeah I guess in that case income tax time could suck instead lol... my husband claims 0 on our current family of 4 so basically when tax time rolls around my husband and I get as excited as our kids do for Christmas haha
For real guys, money blows. I don't even know how we are going to do daycare either @Gretchypoo we don't have those options either. I keep seeing an "inspirational" picture that says "you weren't born just to pay bills and die" welllllll that's what it freaking feels like
I saw this today on Facebook. It made me just want to....
I get panicked about money...DH tries to remind me that this is what it costs to start a family, and that's helpful but it's still overwhelming.
And I hate taxes! I file self employed so we get hit with absolutely everything, I have a seperate bank account just to save for taxes lol. It really sucked being married with no dependants, our taxes last year were insane. Hopefully once we can claim a good chunk of mortgage interest (and our kidlet too) taxes will be more palatable.
@Xstatic3333 This was just such a perfect day for you to post that. Thank you. I had my heaviest teaching load today, I just got home and I am exhausted. I came home today feeling like this
and your post hit me in just the right way. Thank you so much. And also, you have no idea how much relief your presence brought to the teachers you came in for today! Those days when I have a well-structured and completely lesson appropriate guest speaker come in just feel like beautiful beautiful gifts...
I used to love taxes because I always got money back. Last year sucked for us though because DH and I got married and our combined salaries pushed us to a new bracket. All of the deductions I used to get for student loan interest and such were no longer accepted. This year is prob going to be worse...
But happy news: DH felt the baby kick for the first time tonight!!
Me: 33 | DH: 34 Married: October, 19, 2015 EDD 2/22/17 DS1 born on 3/2/17 EDD 3/8/20 DS2 born on 3/10/20 EDD 11/24/23 (Formerly Marriedhamstermom Feb ‘17)
+1 to DINKs here, although we are technically DINKWADs...Mortgage interest and prop tax deduction is the best thing ever, but we still get hit big at tax time.
@kswiger06, if you withhold so much extra you are actually just giving the government an interest free loan every year. Obviously a refund is fun but in the long term that is money you could be using/investing on a monthly basis instead of once a year.
I don't know why - I will never give up the fact that "no ragrets" gets me every time. I always start cracking up. If you have no idea where it comes from, you need to watch We're the Millers!
Also +1 to the #webroke category when it comes to kids. I will be losing money for the next few years until DD moves to regular school because the cost of daycare for two exceeds my paycheck. But I love my job and I know it will be very difficult for me to take a leave of absence and return years later so we are just budgeting HARD and sticking it out until then. It will be nice to get a $1000 a month raise when she moves to kindergarten..
@kswiger06, if you withhold so much extra you are actually just giving the government an interest free loan every year. Obviously a refund is fun but in the long term that is money you could be using/investing on a monthly basis instead of once a year.
Not that I know anything about kswigers finances but the regular middle class American is so shitty at not spending money if they have it this is a way to help them force savings. I get what you're saying but I think this depends on people's financial habits.
So sorry you had a tough day @poetryandoceans! Glad my post was helpful. I am really am amazed at how you guys do that every day!
With you all on the money concerns. We do have family daycare to start, which I'm grateful for, but I don't expect it to last indefinitely and need to have a backup plan in place. Currently I'm just worried about saving for my medical bills. My deductible isn't bad, but our family OOP max is $10,000 so I have no earthly clue what to expect. And no, neither my practice nor my insurance will tell me. I don't think we'll hit the max, based on my statement of benefits (no coinsurance after meeting the deductible, just copayments) but "everyone" tells me I simply must be wrong about that.
@yogadevil I totally hear you on the taxes. I just got mine finished last night. Yep, three days before the 6-month extension was up. Because that's how I roll. I only owe $232 so that's a win overall. Being self employed is awful. I'm lucky I have the best accountant ever.
Money really is dumb unless you have tons of it. I am freaking out about money + work + childcare for two kids. Glad I'm not alone.
Re: Weekly Randoms (10/10)
I would look into local midwives who are "bradley certified"
I was recommended this class by a friend who I trust. I had no previous knowledge of the bradley method, but I can already feel myself becoming a cult convert.
FTM, 2 Furbabies
married 03/17/07
lived in Houston, Austin, Los Angeles and NYC
due: 2/15/17
As far as the computer goes, 95% of the time with the macs that I see, the hard drive has failed. New HDDs run $60-70 typically, but Apple makes the OS available for free--as long as you have access to another apple computer. You'll need a 16gb flash drive to make the OS recovery to put on the new HDD. Of course you can always try the flash drive recovery and there's a very slim chance it could be successful. Did you have important data that was not backed up?
My NP, who I adore, is leaving my OB practice.
I am SO BUMMED.
Cheers for those in the struggle.
Big Bro 7/14/13
Little Bro 2/6/17
Glad I'm not alone....not that I would wish this on you or anyone haha. What sucks is we can't even cheers anything worthwhile... I miss beer
I keep asking people in our area/ pay range "how did you afford daycare with the kids?" 100% of the time the answer was either "I quit my job because we couldn't afford it" or "My parents were our daycare."
I don't have either of those options. #panic
Yeah I guess in that case income tax time could suck instead lol... my husband claims 0 on our current family of 4 so basically when tax time rolls around my husband and I get as excited as our kids do for Christmas haha
And I hate taxes! I file self employed so we get hit with absolutely everything, I have a seperate bank account just to save for taxes lol. It really sucked being married with no dependants, our taxes last year were insane. Hopefully once we can claim a good chunk of mortgage interest (and our kidlet too) taxes will be more palatable.
and your post hit me in just the right way. Thank you so much. And also, you have no idea how much relief your presence brought to the teachers you came in for today! Those days when I have a well-structured and completely lesson appropriate guest speaker come in just feel like beautiful beautiful gifts...
I'll do that. And when I can't pay my bills and the debt collector calls, I'll just tell him that I took a risk and jumped. That should do the trick!
Big Bro 7/14/13
Little Bro 2/6/17
But happy news: DH felt the baby kick for the first time tonight!!
Married: October, 19, 2015
EDD 2/22/17
EDD 3/8/20
EDD 11/24/23
(Formerly Marriedhamstermom Feb ‘17)
But this upcoming year with ivf and interest I will be a thousandaire.
With you all on the money concerns. We do have family daycare to start, which I'm grateful for, but I don't expect it to last indefinitely and need to have a backup plan in place. Currently I'm just worried about saving for my medical bills. My deductible isn't bad, but our family OOP max is $10,000 so I have no earthly clue what to expect. And no, neither my practice nor my insurance will tell me. I don't think we'll hit the max, based on my statement of benefits (no coinsurance after meeting the deductible, just copayments) but "everyone" tells me I simply must be wrong about that.
Money really is dumb unless you have tons of it. I am freaking out about money + work + childcare for two kids. Glad I'm not alone.