Today is my daughters 3rd birthday!!!! We have a cake, balloons, im cooking a special lunch, and have a trip to the park planned for her and a ton of cool Hello Kitty swag for her to open! This is is her first experience being old enough to understand what "its my birthday" means and she's in her room singing Happy Birthday to herself while lying in bed she is my entire world and nothing can go wrong today!!!
I think the nesting is kicking in. I just sent myself to the basement to get the laundry all folded. I hate laundry. It's my arch nemesis. (I'm also shamefully awful at folding)But I happily plopped myself down on the floor and folded a couple of loads. Been working on getting the house more organized too and will probably wash the clothes I have gathered for LO this week. Now if only I could get that boost of energy I'm still owed from my 2nd tri...
I spent all New Year's Eve deep cleaning my house and had a whole load of stuff to either give away, trash, or sell. I feel so much better without the unnecessary clutter.
I'm sitting at the hospital waiting out my 3hr glucose test and the chime they sound over the PA when a baby is born keeps going off and making me tear up! I can't believe it will be my turn so soon!!!
My nesting instinct is setting in too... today I cleaned out all the kitchen cupboards, organized and labelled our spices, and reorganized the non-perishable food. As if the baby will care if the spices are organized or not?! But I feel so much better after knowing it's all clean and neat!
Agree with the nesting instinct. It has been helpful in packing up for our move, but my desire to reorganize DH's boxes that he has already packed to make it suit my organizational pattern is driving him crazy.
Also, I am doing my 1 hr glucose tolerance test as I type, and I am happy to report that the fruit punch flavored drink is better than the orange one they gave me last pregnancy!
I have nothing done for baby, and i'm starting to get anxious as the nesting instinct is starting to kick in! Pretty sure the whole nursery was done for DD by this point. I'll be the one stashing all the diapers at the hospital because I have none at home.
I bought a bulk box of size 1-but @CanadianintheSouth I'm totally also stashing newborns size from the hospital. DD was only in them for a week or two.
kid numero 2 is so different in general though! No nesting instincts in sight here. I've really done nothing over the past months but pull some bins of old baby clothes and things out of a closet ... otherwise there isn't much I NEED to do. When I do get a nesting instinct (IF I do) I hope to use it to do freezer/crockpot meals!
I'm the person at the hospital that steals every one of those ugly pink and blue blankets in sight. We still use them to change DS on and he's 16 months lol. Plus when the blowouts are real bad I feel no issue throwing it out! I'm down to like 4 so this baby's coming just at the right time
I'm the person at the hospital that steals every one of those ugly pink and blue blankets in sight. We still use them to change DS on and he's 16 months lol. Plus when the blowouts are real bad I feel no issue throwing it out! I'm down to like 4 so this baby's coming just at the right time
I'm the person at the hospital that steals every one of those ugly pink and blue blankets in sight. We still use them to change DS on and he's 16 months lol. Plus when the blowouts are real bad I feel no issue throwing it out! I'm down to like 4 so this baby's coming just at the right time
Lol take everything not nailed down.
^^yasss. My answer to FTMs who ask what I'm packing in my hospital bag should be: nothing. Just packing an empty bag and going to FILL. IT. UP.
I know not everyone is a fan, but I also personally LOVED the granny panty disposable undies for myself too! I left with an extra pack of those and the hospital heavy duty pads to get me through my postpartum fun.
DH gave me a gift card for a prenatal massage that I finally got to use tonight...it felt so nice to relax. I'll probably go back in another month and get one more before D-Day
Me (37) Hubby (39)Marriedsince 4.2009 EP: 2.17.2016 DS: 3.4.2017 DD: due 7.16.2019
The inability to fall asleep tonight is killing me... and I'm getting flashbacks to when my husband can just sleep and not hear a baby!
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@shines721 I hear you on not sleeping. I've been falling asleep okay, but I'm waking up at 4am the last few nights, and I'm awake for like 2 hours! I feel like a walking zombie. At least it's practise for when the baby comes? right? right? at least that's what i'm telling myself...
Idk about any other STMs, but i slept so much better during the newborn stage compared to the third trimester. Yes, id wake up a few times to nurse, but I went right back to sleep after and slept like a log-and always could sleep in like a pro!
Idk about any other STMs, but i slept so much better during the newborn stage compared to the third trimester. Yes, id wake up a few times to nurse, but I went right back to sleep after and slept like a log-and always could sleep in like a pro!
well it was looking like I was gunna get lucky this morning... throw in some boob leaking and LO kicking DH and I might as well kiss sex goodbye until April...grrrr
@Gators&BoSox LO always decides to party as soon as I sit/lay down. Freaks DH out so I'm right there with you. Last night I thought we were all set and as soon as we laid down in bed we passed out. Oops.
Alex married to M since 6.13.09 T - 3.3.14 A - 2.24.17
@Gators&BoSox and @datalover13 I'm with y'all. No sexy times happening here for a quite a while. I think DH is weirded out by the combination of my changing body/leaky boobs and that there is a real baby moving inside my belly. Pretty much once the baby started moving, he lost interest in sex. It's gonna be a long and boring winter.
Me: 27 DH: 33 Furbaby: Walther, 4 year old Rottweiler/Coonhound mix EDD: 3/7/17<img
I haven't experienced the leaky boobs yet but I know that'll freak out both me & DH when it starts to happen lol... I was told about 2 months ago to stop having sex until I reach week 28 (today, woohoo! but I'm still gonna hold off till I get the ok from my dr at my next appt to be sure) because of my short cervix. I hope if/when they do give us the ok that it won't be too weird with all the baby's movements & all.
Waking up at 4am is becoming my normal lately too haha I've been moving downstairs to try to fall back asleep on my couch curled up next to my dog. Baby loves to go crazy with kicking that time of morning.
+1 to the no actual intercourse. DH is willing to fool around in other ways for me when I ask cuz I'm usually a crazy horny lady--but he's not feeling the whole baby bump look, pregnancy weirdness AND added work. Hah.. It was the same way with DD--I was very upset by it last time around, didn't feel sexy or desired... but this time around I just laugh at him and agree that we both can't wait till I have my body back.
BUT, i warned him he WILL be prepared to have actual sex with me starting around Due Date time! --was reading yesterday sperm has the same exact ingredients as induction medications to open the cervix -- so he had been warned hah.
@kjd291 LOL to you warning your husband! I think I'd have to tie mine down, and not in a fun way
Bahah. Right!? I'm sure it won't be easy to convince him... but a crazy hormonal full term pregnant me will get her way ha. sure we'll all be sharing these super fun stories soon enough.
Apparently our landlord's management company paid to have our gutters cleaned - awesome. They didn't tell us they were going to, and gave us no warning... waking up from a nap to a stranger on my roof - super not awesome.
Also, it's raining cats and dogs around here so I have doubts as to how effective their leaf blower was up there...
LO is moving around a lot! Great....but she keeps kicking the same EXACT spot all day long. Again, so happy she's moving around, but I'd love for her to not kick the same spot each time she kicks.
Also - I wish I could have had more time off for the holidays.
I'm feeling so stressed out! We put an offer on another house this past weekend and if they accept, we'll close on Feb 15. I was originally thinking that I wanted to wait until we had the baby before moving, but I posed my dilemma on a mom's group on Facebook, and every single person said that we should move before baby. It does make the most sense, but I didn't like the idea of finding new providers late in the game. I'm mostly stressed about uprooting my toddler from his home and daycare and then welcoming a new baby on top of that. There's so much changing for him and I feel awful about it. He's not going to go to daycare right away when we move, so he'll be home with me. There's just so much going on and I feel all flustered. I'm normally very laid back and have a go with the flow mentality, but I'm starting to feel anxious, which is not a feeling that I'm used to.
Also, it doesn't help that my MIL called my husband last night to ask if it would be ok for his sperm donor of a father to call him. His father walked out of my husband's life when he was about 2 and he's never had a relationship with him. My husband holds no animosity towards him because he made peace with the situation years ago and moved on. I guess his father had brain surgery and also buried a close family member, and that made him realize what a piece of shit, dead beat of a father he's been and now he wants to reach out to both my husband and my BIL. What pissed me off though was my MIL was all about how my husband and BIL needs to forgive their father. Umm, no, this is not how this works. You don't get to walk back into someone's life after having disappeared for over 30 years and just expect forgiveness. My husband isn't angry, but he would have every right to be angry if that's how he chose to feel. He also feels like he doesn't need to forgive him since he's made peace with the situation and he told his mom that he has no problem speaking to his father, but he said it would be like talking a random stranger on the bus and doesn't feel like there's anything to talk about. I already told you all about the ridiculous crap that she said and did while we were in Dallas during Christmas, so I'm already annoyed as hell with her. Her piling this on top of the stress of moving doesn't help matters.
@kiyamurph I'm so sorry you're having so much stress right now - with the moving situation I hope that things can lock into place easily for you once you move, and your son will handle the change well. It's a lot going on with a new baby coming - but you can handle it!! Hopefully your STM experience will help you get through it all with as much ease as possible.
As for your MIL and your DH's father - all I can say is - forgiveness is sometimes difficult and complicated, which it sounds like you know. I have a deadbeat father too, who I haven't seen for about 25+ years. He took a lot of money from my mother at the time he left, and left us with literally nothing, while my mom's father was dying. He expressed an interest (via facebook, seriously??) about 7 years ago about reuniting with my sister and I, and we decided that so much time had gone by that forgiveness wasn't really an option anymore. It wasn't that we continued to hold onto a grudge, more like we just no longer cared. And weren't interested in a renewed relationship. It was broken and just couldn't be fixed. Luckily we didn't have someone like your MIL pushing us to find forgiveness though. I mean, people have to go through things in their own way! I know how your DH feels though - he's made his peace, why bring it back up. It seems selfish on the part of the father. Ugh - hope your MIL can back off and let your DH and BIL figure it out for themselves!
Got my official appointment for my scheduled c-section today for 2/24. Ish just got real. Still have little hope she will come on her own before then so I can deliver naturally but my babies come late so probably not.
On the topic of sex, we have been off the wagon since the beginning of October when I had some bleeding that lead them to discover my partial previa. We were ok for a while, but we've both been feeling particularly randy the last couple of weeks. I'm getting checked again on Jan 13th and it can't come soon enough. Hoping for the all clear!
@kiyamurph I'm so sorry you're having so much stress right now - with the moving situation I hope that things can lock into place easily for you once you move, and your son will handle the change well. It's a lot going on with a new baby coming - but you can handle it!! Hopefully your STM experience will help you get through it all with as much ease as possible.
As for your MIL and your DH's father - all I can say is - forgiveness is sometimes difficult and complicated, which it sounds like you know. I have a deadbeat father too, who I haven't seen for about 25+ years. He took a lot of money from my mother at the time he left, and left us with literally nothing, while my mom's father was dying. He expressed an interest (via facebook, seriously??) about 7 years ago about reuniting with my sister and I, and we decided that so much time had gone by that forgiveness wasn't really an option anymore. It wasn't that we continued to hold onto a grudge, more like we just no longer cared. And weren't interested in a renewed relationship. It was broken and just couldn't be fixed. Luckily we didn't have someone like your MIL pushing us to find forgiveness though. I mean, people have to go through things in their own way! I know how your DH feels though - he's made his peace, why bring it back up. It seems selfish on the part of the father. Ugh - hope your MIL can back off and let your DH and BIL figure it out for themselves!
Yep, everything you said is how my husband feels. Like why even bring this all back up? And yes, I agree this is a selfish want on his father's part. My husband learned yesterday that his sperm donor has a total of 7 kids, including a set of twins. I'm not sure how active he is in his other kid's lives, but it sucks to know that my husband has half brothers and sisters out there that he doesn't even know. It would've been one thing if my MIL called to say that she spoke with his father and he can do whatever he wants with that info, but to push forgiveness is plain selfish.
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married to M since 6.13.09
T - 3.3.14
A - 2.24.17
Me: 26 Hubs: 28
Married: 6/6/15
Baby Girl: 3/22/2017
SaveSaveAlso, I am doing my 1 hr glucose tolerance test as I type, and I am happy to report that the fruit punch flavored drink is better than the orange one they gave me last pregnancy!
SaveSavekid numero 2 is so different in general though! No nesting instincts in sight here. I've really done nothing over the past months but pull some bins of old baby clothes and things out of a closet ... otherwise there isn't much I NEED to do. When I do get a nesting instinct (IF I do) I hope to use it to do freezer/crockpot meals!
My answer to FTMs who ask what I'm packing in my hospital bag should be: nothing. Just packing an empty bag and going to FILL. IT. UP.
I know not everyone is a fan, but I also personally LOVED the granny panty disposable undies for myself too! I left with an extra pack of those and the hospital heavy duty pads to get me through my postpartum fun.
EP: 2.17.2016
DS: 3.4.2017
DD: due 7.16.2019
1 Samuel 1:27
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married to M since 6.13.09
T - 3.3.14
A - 2.24.17
DH: 33
Furbaby: Walther, 4 year old Rottweiler/Coonhound mix
EDD: 3/7/17<img
Waking up at 4am is becoming my normal lately too haha I've been moving downstairs to try to fall back asleep on my couch curled up next to my dog. Baby loves to go crazy with kicking that time of morning.
BUT, i warned him he WILL be prepared to have actual sex with me starting around Due Date time! --was reading yesterday sperm has the same exact ingredients as induction medications to open the cervix -- so he had been warned hah.
Also, it's raining cats and dogs around here so I have doubts as to how effective their leaf blower was up there...
Also - I wish I could have had more time off for the holidays.
DH: 37
DD: 03/17/17
DS: 12/06/19
I'm feeling so stressed out! We put an offer on another house this past weekend and if they accept, we'll close on Feb 15. I was originally thinking that I wanted to wait until we had the baby before moving, but I posed my dilemma on a mom's group on Facebook, and every single person said that we should move before baby. It does make the most sense, but I didn't like the idea of finding new providers late in the game. I'm mostly stressed about uprooting my toddler from his home and daycare and then welcoming a new baby on top of that. There's so much changing for him and I feel awful about it. He's not going to go to daycare right away when we move, so he'll be home with me. There's just so much going on and I feel all flustered. I'm normally very laid back and have a go with the flow mentality, but I'm starting to feel anxious, which is not a feeling that I'm used to.
Also, it doesn't help that my MIL called my husband last night to ask if it would be ok for his sperm donor of a father to call him. His father walked out of my husband's life when he was about 2 and he's never had a relationship with him. My husband holds no animosity towards him because he made peace with the situation years ago and moved on. I guess his father had brain surgery and also buried a close family member, and that made him realize what a piece of shit, dead beat of a father he's been and now he wants to reach out to both my husband and my BIL. What pissed me off though was my MIL was all about how my husband and BIL needs to forgive their father. Umm, no, this is not how this works. You don't get to walk back into someone's life after having disappeared for over 30 years and just expect forgiveness. My husband isn't angry, but he would have every right to be angry if that's how he chose to feel. He also feels like he doesn't need to forgive him since he's made peace with the situation and he told his mom that he has no problem speaking to his father, but he said it would be like talking a random stranger on the bus and doesn't feel like there's anything to talk about. I already told you all about the ridiculous crap that she said and did while we were in Dallas during Christmas, so I'm already annoyed as hell with her. Her piling this on top of the stress of moving doesn't help matters.
As for your MIL and your DH's father - all I can say is - forgiveness is sometimes difficult and complicated, which it sounds like you know. I have a deadbeat father too, who I haven't seen for about 25+ years. He took a lot of money from my mother at the time he left, and left us with literally nothing, while my mom's father was dying. He expressed an interest (via facebook, seriously??) about 7 years ago about reuniting with my sister and I, and we decided that so much time had gone by that forgiveness wasn't really an option anymore. It wasn't that we continued to hold onto a grudge, more like we just no longer cared. And weren't interested in a renewed relationship. It was broken and just couldn't be fixed. Luckily we didn't have someone like your MIL pushing us to find forgiveness though. I mean, people have to go through things in their own way! I know how your DH feels though - he's made his peace, why bring it back up. It seems selfish on the part of the father. Ugh - hope your MIL can back off and let your DH and BIL figure it out for themselves!
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