Unpopular Opinion Thursday (2/15)

doxiemoxie212 · February 2018

The Olympics are dumb. Not necessarily the sports themselves, but the concept of the Olympics and country affiliation mattering is dumb. It bankrupts the cities it's held in every time. It is bizarre.

krash_ · February 2018

@doxiemoxie212 I think the concept of having a different host city for every games is ridiculous. The time and money spent on building the infrastructure to host all the events for just a few months that will inevitably go unused after that. I think there should be a handful of places that they rotate between. I do like the sports though and critiquing things like I know what I'm talking about. Also MH does curling every Sunday night and its funny to see people that never care about the sport get all exited about it.

AFM...feeling the baby moves freaks me out and sometimes gets annoying. I was so anxious to get to feel the movements and I know if I wasn't feeling any I would be really concerned but it's weird and I'm not sure I enjoy it. They did a flip last night while I was trying to fall asleep and it startled me so much I jumped and I could feel them slithering up my whole abdomen.

doxiemoxie212 · February 2018

@krashke sometimes when she's kicking too much it starts to feel like that feeling when you've had the hiccups too long? And you're just waiting like ....is it over? Have we finished? Oh nope, it's back. etc. Sometimes it's fun, but sometimes it's annoying AF, especially when she gets in a rhythm on my cervix.

krash_ · February 2018

@doxiemoxie212 it kind of makes me feel motion sick sometimes but like motion sick from the inside. But MH was able to feel the kicks for the first time last night while we were watching a movie so that was kind of fun but I even asked him if he like feeling it and he said it was weird too.

sunshineandwhiskey · February 2018

@krashke with ya on it being weird haha
@doxiemoxie212 I think the overall concept of having countries compete is kinda cool (World Cup fan here), but I don't like the actual Olympic set up either.

AFM: i really wanted a good UO today, but i'm stuck so mine is - I hate, like really hate, being pregnant. I know its beautiful i'm bringing life into the world yada yada yada, but honestly, that is the only upside. and the ONLY reason i'm pregnant again.

doxiemoxie212 · February 2018

@sunshineandwhiskey I was so convinced I would hate being pregnant. Like, I thought it would legit be the worst thing ever. And for me it's been............. fine? so far lol. I keep waiting for something terrible to start, but I mostly just feel like a completely normal person who is getting a fat stomach and huge boobs. Dangerous because DH comes from a big family (he has 3 brothers) so he's always said he wants a ton of kids, and now I don't even have the excuse of pregnancy being terrible. Oh well, maybe delivery will be terrible

krash_ · February 2018

@sunshineandwhiskey I'm with you there. I never really thought I would enjoy it. If you would have asked me when I was 16 I would have told you I'm never getting pregnant. I haven't had a difficult pregnancy. No morning sickness or complications but I just don't feel like myself.

sunshineandwhiskey · February 2018

@doxiemoxie212 Haha! Maybe you'll end up like the Duggars

And i think a lot of my hatred does come from my bad experiences with DD. This one is definitely tamer, but I still hate what it does to my body, emotions, stress, and soul. So i guess i selfishly hate it hahaha

doxiemoxie212 · February 2018

@sunshineandwhiskey hey man, you're allowed to hate it 100%. I always thought it would feel like I was stuck on a roller coaster ride approaching the top, and that I'd want to get off, but I wouldn't be allowed to -- do you know that feeling I'm talking about? I thought it would feel confining, and I'm a really unemotional person typically so I thought I would turn into this hormonal, emotional mess and that would be awful. And I thought that because pregnancy seems to typically be like that for most women, it just isn't for me. So I definitely would hate it if it changed my life really at all. I just somehow ended up with like zero symptoms (I'm not even more emotional), so I can't really complain. AND PLEASE NO DUGGARS! Oh my god. I would have to be sober so long to have that many kids!

sunshineandwhiskey · February 2018

@doxiemoxie212 the soberness!! besides the obvious, that is definitely reason #1 i would never have 19 (*TW -20 i think) kids. That is almost 17 YEARS of being sober. Yup, now i sound like an alcoholic.

May14th2011 · February 2018

@doxiemoxie212 not to rain on your parade, but I think every pregnancy gets harder. My first was a breeze, my second was hard and this one is also hard. I've heard this from other people too, so it's not just me.
If all my pregnancies were like my first, I'd have 6 kids lol

doxiemoxie212 · February 2018

@May14th2011 perhaps there is still hope for me being able to complain to DH about pregnancy then! lol

marcus7676 · February 2018

@doxiemoxie212 I didn't mind pregnancy with DS (this one was harder, which is common). It was the first 4 months. I'm already starting to freak myself out about the sleep deprivation. I was almost one and done as a result of the newborn months.

izza2 · February 2018

@sunshineandwhiskey - I'm with you 100% girl. I'm starting to feel better about the pregnancy and like it's maybe not so horrible, but then I remember what the last 20 weeks were like and I feel enlightened.
I told my mum I didn't like being pregnant when I was in the glory days of week 10 ish where I had all day throwing up and fatigue and general horrible feelings... and she told me that pregnancy is beautiful and I should enjoy that I'm bringing another living being into the world.

No, I don't have to find vomit, gas, sore nipples and snotty noses beautiful. I don't HAVE to enjoy pregnancy. I can be absolutely miserable and still be happy that I'm having a child. It doesn't mean I love him any less.

izza2 · February 2018

My UO is that, regardless of the conversation that I know happened in the past regarding not circumcising, and the points made and information shared... I'm still circumcising my son.

(Eta: that's really a FFFC, but god knows i wont rememver it tomorrow!)

doxiemoxie212 · February 2018

@marcus7676 yes I am imagining that the newborn phase will be the worst time of my life. And if by some miracle I end up with a kid who sleeps and eats like a champ, I'll know it's because I'm lucky, not because I'm a rockstar parent lol.

krash_ · February 2018

@izza2 FFTC...I agree with most of the points for not circumcising and if it were only up to me I probably wouldn't do it but MH wants to so if we have a boy we will circumcise him.

doxiemoxie212 · February 2018

@izza2 @krashke honestly, the best part about DH being Jewish and half my family being Jewish is that we don't ever have to have the circumcision discussion. If we ever have boys, they're getting cut (but, uh, by a doctor, not by a rabbi).

aharv77 · February 2018

@marcus7676 I'm freaking out too! I just texted DH this morning about how nervous I am to go through the sleepless newborn stage again. I'm more prepared for what's about to happen with labor and breastfeeding and not sleeping because I lived through it as a single parent with DD but now I have a fully committed partner, stable employment, paid leave, good healthcare. I'm in a much, much better place than I was when I had DD but feel so much more nervous about what's to come than I did with her! Maybe this post is more for the mental health check-in but this feeling has been creeping in for the last week or so.

LaceyBee522 · February 2018

@doxiemoxie212 I agree...I don't like the Olympics. Everything you said aside, I hate how it consumes a month of TV coverage. It even takes over Bravo sometimes, which I find so annoying. Also, the Today Show is painfully boring when all they do is talk about the athletes...blah blah blah. Also, none of the sports in the Olympics (winter particularly interest me).

@krashke The babies moving totally freaks me out. I think I've only just started feeling them and not gas. Last night it felt like one was rubbing its head or butt on me and it was almost ticklish. Don't love it.

@sunshineandwhiskey I kind of love being pregnant. I know I'm lucky or maybe it is because I'm just a FTM, but MS was minimal, I'm still doing all the activities I love to do. The most effed up reason I like it is that I have a socially acceptable reason not to drink. I think being sober has made me a better person and probably better wife. But I live in such a drinking-focused world/social circle that it was impossible for me to stop drinking without this excuse. I joke that I'm just going to keep getting pregnant and become the east coast liberal version of the Duggars. I tell MH someone has to counter-balance that family!

@izza2 Samsies. I think if it were up to just me, I wouldn't do it, but MH is adamant that if they are boys, they're getting circumcised. He has very strong feelings, which I won't share here, but I absolutely will not fight him on this.

silvergreen · February 2018

@doxiemoxie212 There is actually a growing Jewish movement against circumcision. Not trying to argue for or against - just throwing it out there!

doxiemoxie212 · February 2018

@silvergreen haha not in this family there isn't

silvergreen · February 2018

@doxiemoxie212 Lol, fair enough!

katelynrae86 · February 2018

My UO regarding baby sleep: I would rather get up 1 or 2 times in the night and sleep in a little later in the morning (if the baby settles quickly...being up for hours is another story). DS is sleeping through the night, but wakes up around 5am every morning. Occasionally he will wake in the night, then give me another 30-60 minutes in the AM and it feels like a total win. Might be a "grass is greener" thing though and I'd complain if we were getting up every night

lisa2589 · February 2018

@katelynrae86 same- I have an easier time waking up and functioning with DD during the night than I do at say 6 or 7 AM.

catlady1215 · February 2018

@izza2 I'm with you. It's never even been a question for us not to circumcise. I think with ds it went 'we're circumcising?' 'Yup' 'ok'. And we haven't even discussed it with this one, it'll just happen.

mytinc · February 2018

@katelynrae86 - I am with you there... until the option to sleep in is gone when I have to return to work. Then there's no way to "catch up"

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