DS has been wearing his puffy winter coat in the car seat for the past week. It has been at or below zero in the mornings and I can't justify wearing a winter coat, scarf, gloves, and boots while my 21 month old son is in a hoodie. I know it's not very safe in the event of an accident, but I've been making the straps as tight as possible without hurting him. Once it gets back to more "normal" temperatures for the season I'll put him back in his hoodie with a blanket.
Me: 33 DH: 34 DS1: March 18, 2016 DS2: due June 7, 2018
@MLS6212 my daughter wears a lighter jacket, puffy winter jacket, hat, and gloves on the way to the car. Once we get in the car I take the puffy winter jacket off, buckle her in, turn it around and slide her arms in. There are plenty of ways to keep them warm without wearing a big jacket under the straps. Sorry I'm just a little car seat crazy ha.
mytinc I read that years ago too! I never travel with shaving cream- I just use the conditioner in the little hotel bottles and LIVED By that when I was a flight attendant (my roommates and i also took every roll of TP from the hotel rooms home with us so we didn't have to buy TP because well, we were broke, lol).
Personally I wanted a boy first because I HATED ALL MY SISTERS growing up. I have 3. We all hated each other. We love each other now, and for the most part get along great as adults. I can't help but think if I were to have more than one daughter would their relationship be like me and my sisters. And its was just by virtue of being girls, there was no other reason. Our personalities were all different but we all loved and spoiled our brothers we just hated each other. Just didn't want to go through that all over again. And if I have a daughter and she turns out like one of her aunts OMG (DH and I both agree) it would be an absolute nightmare.
Second Son - born 2014 - Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) and Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV). First open heart surgery at 5 days old. He's had 3 open heart surgeries and several other procedures and is currently doing amazing. Third Son - due June 9, 2018
@ffw0617 my oldest is just like my sister that is just older than me that I didn’t get along with at all growing up. I feel like it’s some crazy bad karma thing coming back to get me for all the fighting we did as kids. Its crazy! I love my daughter beyond belief but can’t believe she’s adopted so many personality traits of her auntie!
@murraydog2008 my niece is the same way. She looks like me and acts like me. Its crazy. Our entire family is constantly pointing out how she looks like my twin when I was a baby/ toddler. And I milk it up. I call her my twin niece, surrogate daughter, and clone. Before we knew the sex, I would say I didn't want a daughter bc it would be hard to explain why her cousin looked more like her mom than she did. LOL.
I'm not a sushi fan and try to avoid most risky foods, but I'm pretty sure I exceed the 200 mg of caffeine regularly. I drink two cups of half-caf a day (I like the flavor and having something warm to drink...so I do half caf so I can drink 2). But I'm pretty sure most of my coffee mugs hold more than 12 oz... and the occasional white chocolate americano while I'm out, but who's counting?
@amys614 With my first, I loved the extra attention. I was over the moon excited and welcomed the excuse to talk about it anytime. This time, not so much. Most people are excited and supportive, but I'm nervous for the comments they might make (got PG right before DS turned 1). I did have a friend who wouldn't quit with the, "you know how that happens, right?" , "Did he slip?" (sidenote: wtf?). We were texting at the time and I couldn't help but respond, "I think what you meant to say is congratulations."
My FFFC: I haven't done anything with my 401k/profit sharing (I don't even know if that's the exact correct term) since I quit my job 15 months ago. I'm really clueless when it comes to financial things like this and it stresses me out because I'm not sure what I need to do - roll it into an IRA? And where I would go to do that? It's not a huge amount of money, but I paid into it for 8 years, so its something. And now that I've procrastinated this long, I'm not even sure who I need to call to figure it out. I'm normally very on top of things, but I've just let this go...
FFFC: I am a STM and my best friend (in conjunction with my mom and MIL) want to throw me a shower. I am letting them and I am excited for it. (I don’t know that I would have been ok with a shower if this had ended up being another boy. But since it’s a girl, I have no guilt about having another shower).
@izza2 your feelings are very valid! After struggling with infertility & loss, I would probably feel the same way if I was in your shoes (and definitely have felt those very same feelings towards many women/couples in my own life!) No flames from me!
@rnielsen321 I don’t know what I’d do without cold cut sandwiches! Also had a sip of beer with dinner last night, it was so delicious!
@Austenista we’ve been getting the exact opposite response since announcing we are having another girl.. people are automatically like “well, I guess you’ll just have to try again for a boy!” First of all.. everyone knows we’ve struggled for years with infertility, experienced two heartbreaking losses, conceived both of our daughters using donor sperm.. we can’t just snap our fingers and *poof!* we have a boy! Conceiving has always been & will always be difficult for us. So it just turns me the wrong way to have people already talking to us about having another kid, when our current miracle baby hasn’t even been born yet. Second.. in regards to my previous point, we literally don’t know if having another child will even be possible for us. Would I love another child? Yes! But we just can’t look that far into our future.. this could very well be the last pregnancy I’ll ever experience and that is so heartbreaking for me. So to have people already asking us about another child.. it kind of triggers me. And third.. what is it with people assuming that all men NEED a son?! I mean, sure, if we had a son I know DH would love it, and that boy would be such a blessing to him. BUT! he loves being a dad to girls, too, and is perfectly content with just having girls.. idk, it all just seems silly. I guess this is my FFFC/rant
@bkrahnI don't get the need a boy thing either. DH loves being a dad to our daughter. He has actually said multiple times that he hopes this baby is a girl too. I'm happy either way. I don't like when people feel they need to make assuming comments about anything dealing with pregnancy or someone's family planning choices.
Re: FFFC
Me: 33 DH: 34
DS1: March 18, 2016
DS2: due June 7, 2018
TTC: 08/2017 EDD: 6/11/2018 FTM
First Son - born 2013
Third Son - due June 9, 2018
TTC: 08/2017 EDD: 6/11/2018 FTM
@amys614 With my first, I loved the extra attention. I was over the moon excited and welcomed the excuse to talk about it anytime. This time, not so much. Most people are excited and supportive, but I'm nervous for the comments they might make (got PG right before DS turned 1). I did have a friend who wouldn't quit with the, "you know how that happens, right?" , "Did he slip?" (sidenote: wtf?). We were texting at the time and I couldn't help but respond, "I think what you meant to say is congratulations."
My FFFC: I haven't done anything with my 401k/profit sharing (I don't even know if that's the exact correct term) since I quit my job 15 months ago. I'm really clueless when it comes to financial things like this and it stresses me out because I'm not sure what I need to do - roll it into an IRA? And where I would go to do that? It's not a huge amount of money, but I paid into it for 8 years, so its something. And now that I've procrastinated this long, I'm not even sure who I need to call to figure it out. I'm normally very on top of things, but I've just let this go...
I’ve also been pretty lenient with eating runny eggs and sandwiches.
@rnielsen321 I don’t know what I’d do without cold cut sandwiches! Also had a sip of beer with dinner last night, it was so delicious!
@Austenista we’ve been getting the exact opposite response since announcing we are having another girl.. people are automatically like “well, I guess you’ll just have to try again for a boy!” First of all.. everyone knows we’ve struggled for years with infertility, experienced two heartbreaking losses, conceived both of our daughters using donor sperm.. we can’t just snap our fingers and *poof!* we have a boy! Conceiving has always been & will always be difficult for us. So it just turns me the wrong way to have people already talking to us about having another kid, when our current miracle baby hasn’t even been born yet. Second.. in regards to my previous point, we literally don’t know if having another child will even be possible for us. Would I love another child? Yes! But we just can’t look that far into our future.. this could very well be the last pregnancy I’ll ever experience and that is so heartbreaking for me. So to have people already asking us about another child.. it kind of triggers me. And third.. what is it with people assuming that all men NEED a son?! I mean, sure, if we had a son I know DH would love it, and that boy would be such a blessing to him. BUT! he loves being a dad to girls, too, and is perfectly content with just having girls.. idk, it all just seems silly. I guess this is my FFFC/rant