Weekly Randoms: W/O 4/30

emmaaa · April 2018

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catlady2015 · April 2018

@emmaaa - that picture

catlady2015 · April 2018

only working a half day today and my motivation is complete crap. i just want to shop for baby stuff i have no business buying yet because we're moving in 3 months.

thecoldbothersme · April 2018

@catlady I am totally with you! I just want to go to target or buy buy baby and hug a stroller and sob in joy.

emmaaa · April 2018

I want to go ahead a buy a couple of bases for the car seat we are going to use and start stocking up on diapers but I'm forcing myself to at least wait a couple of weeks

emmaaa · May 2018

Anyone else obsessed with sill peeing on all the sticks to see if the line is darker? I can’t stop myself.

sfgiantsgamerbabe · May 2018

I can’t wait until I can wear my maternity clothes. I loved my maternity clothes!

oldiebutgoodie80 · May 2018

@emmaaa Me!! My husband thinks I’m ridiculous, but I can’t help it.

catlady2015 · May 2018

@emmaaa - I had to this morning too. I hadn't tested for five days (had been holding strong!) but lack of tiredness and not feeling yucky yesterday freaked me out and I had to do it again. whatcha gonna do? Peace of mind (to me) is more important that the money for the pregnancy test.

rooonilwaazlib · May 2018

@catlady2015 haha same! Isn’t it whacky how we get worried when we don’t feel good?! I plan to do another by Friday or Sat as I just had beta Bloodwork rerun today. I wish the HPTs could tell me the amount of HCg!

catlady2015 · May 2018

@rooonilwaazlib - the test got nice and dark quickly, so i felt MUCH better about it. FX for awesome beta results for you today!

emmaaa · May 2018

@catlady2015 I'm using the excuse that they are cheapies (Wondfos) and expire in June anyways so I might a well use them. Yay for darker lines!

Whitmore1027 · May 2018

@emmaaa I am surprised at myself for not peeing on the sticks! I think since I went to my first OB appointment, I feel more confident, and at this point I would know if AF suddenly showed up. But I don't blame you for wanting to pee on sticks still! Last week my H and I had a FIGHT about me needing to buy more tests because I was scared and was having some brown spotting. (I actually didn't tell him that part), but he was all "You already got a positive, why waste money on more tests?" and I am like "Peace of mind! And so I can cancel doctor's appointment if I am no longer pregnant!" He finally gave in, and I bought the FRER. And I told him then that I had spotted and was scared and he said "Why didn't you say that?!" lol I am not the best with communication.

emmaaa · May 2018

What is everyone's biggest vice they are going to have a hard time giving up? I already mentioned that I love wine and drinking but it won't be too hard to give that up. What is killing me is cutting back on coffee. I used to only drink one cup a day but somehow got up to 2-3 cups of coffee every day and I am cutting back to 1 and it's killing me.

olivemomma · May 2018

I’m also still enjoying my morning pee on a stick to see the darkening line

olivemomma · May 2018

@emmaaa I’m also struggling on the caffeine front! I can drink a cup of coffee at 9pm and still be comfortably asleep an hour later, so needless to say caffeine and I are buds. Also, with every pregnancy I always find myself craving the things I shouldn’t eat even though I don’t normally want them when not pregnant. I’ve been thinking about an amazing turkey sandwich all week!

emmaaa · May 2018

@olivemomma That was me with hotdogs last time...I LOVE hotdogs but I always feel like I NEED them while I'm pregnant.

Whitmore1027 · May 2018

@emmaaa Mine will definitely be Diet Dr. Peppers. I drink like...4-5 a day already. Sooo my attempt is to go down to 1...but I'll have to wean myself. I usually only drink one cup of coffee a day, so that is good. I have felt super thirsty so I have been drinking more water automatically so that's a good thing.

catlady2015 · May 2018

@emmaaa @Whitmore1027 - I am also struggling with caffeine/diet soda. It was seriously like 5 a day. I had to force myself down to 2 - one at breakfast (because I can't function w/o morning caffeine and think both coffee and tea are disgusting) and one at lunch to get a little more in me. But after 12, it's over and it's just water or juice. The midafternoon tiredness slump is awful and it's so hard not to reach for another to get more caffeine to push through.

Whitmore1027 · May 2018

@catlady2015 I totally understand that problem! I am big about needing a soda anytime I eat a meal. So I feel like I HAVE to have a soda at Lunch and Dinner at the least. I just hate eating food with water...blek! I can drink water any other time of the day.

If you want to get all technical...my doctor said no more than 300mg of caffeine a day. A can of diet soda is about 39mg. A cup of coffee is about 95mg. So, technically you can get away with more than you think. HOWEVER. The sugar in the soda isn't the best either.

I drank sodas throughout my whole pregnancy with my son, and he was the healthiest babe the whole entire time. Haha. So I am by no means giving up sodas, but I for sure will be upping my water intake like crazy, and I think if I can get away with 1 cup of coffee and 2 sodas a day, I'll be good.

dubcompanion · May 2018

@emmaaa I'm not ashamed to say I miss my whiskey and rum! #teacheroftheyear

catlady2015 · May 2018

thanks @Whitmore1027! I set my threshold at two so I had some wiggle room to have more if it was a really hard day and I would still be under my limit. I'm also concerned about the sugar because I have quite the sweet tooth and I'l be darned if I give up cupcakes. I'm basically hurting myself becuase i'm trying to eat more whole foods to be healthier and the diet soda and cupcakes are completely making that harder. Whoopsies! Oh well. I feel fortunate to not feel sick yet and I want to take advantage of that, I'm sure it's coming.

emmaaa · May 2018

@catlady2015 @Whitmore1027 I usually consume all my caffeine in the morning and sometimes get more at lunch with a coffee or iced coffee. I started cutting back this weekend and had a migraine Monday and Tuesday but today I'm feeling a little better. I'm sure after a week or so I will be fine.

I gave up coffee during lent one year and it took about 10 days to get past the hump.

@dubcompanion You're a teacher...you deserve it lol.

FFWC? I had sips of champagne and wine on Saturday because I was in a wedding and had gotten my real BFP that morning but didn't want people to know. I had actually drank a few glasses the day before at the rehearsal before I tested before bed.

BitterBetty12 · May 2018

SUSHI! Giving up sushi is sooooooo hard. I am sooooooo happy H and I got sushi a few days before my BFP. I admittedly ate cooked sushi with DD and probably still will this time. But it isn't the same.

Alsoooooo + 1 for peeing on sticks. I actually stopped at 4+1 and was super proud of myself for it. Wellllll yesterday I maybe had a momentary freak out and all I had left was a clearblue digi. It's possible I maybe took it with a 30 minute hold and then pried the test open to see the actual part with the dye....

(ETA - freakout also caused by feeling mostly good and not having a ton of symptoms except for random mild nausea)

rooonilwaazlib · May 2018

@BitterBetty12 sushi for me too! I am a sushi fanatic and love the plain raw pieces and not too complicated rolls even more than the fancy ones. I love tuna, salmon, etc. that is going to suck bc it’s just not the same when everything’s cooked! UGH!

dubcompanion · May 2018

@BitterBetty12 I'll miss my sushi too!! Although what inadvertently helps is that the last time I ate it, I came down with the stomach bug a few hours later.

While that hasn't hurt my love of sushi, I've been on a hiatus from it since then anyhow.

galactickates · May 2018

@emmaaa coffee is definitely one of my vices too. I have to ease into it. I'm down to half a cup. Ive been using the smallest size on the kuerig and filling my cup the rest of the way with milk. I've been drinking about half. Its been a good trick.

zamoraspin · May 2018

@emaaa Apparently my biggest vice is runny eggs. Because I keep making over easy eggs and then remembering I'm not supposed to eat raw egg. And then googling because how can that little bit of raw yolk hurt anything? And then deciding it isn't worth the risk and eating around the uncooked parts.

dubcompanion · May 2018

@zamora_spin I’m going to miss over easy eggs too. Scrambled, hard-boiled, what have you just ain’t the same.

emmaaa · May 2018

@galactickates My OB with my DD said if I kept it at 1 cup I was fine so that's what I was assuming was fine this time too. Though, I do have a friend who's doctor says absolutely none.

BitterBetty12 · May 2018

@zamora_spin yes to funny yolks! One of the first things I wanted after I had DD was go fo to a diner and get some over easy eggs! I kind of accidentally broke my coffee habit a couple of weeks before I got my BFP (I was getting caffeine withdrawal headaches when I wasn’t drinking it and it was making me mad) so I think that will make less coffee easier on me.

sfgiantsgamerbabe · May 2018

My vice is caffeine too. I enjoy wine but cutting back on caffeine is hard. I had headaches for a couple of days from caffeine withdrawals. I’m down to half a cup of coffee in the morning and a regular soda at lunch.

emmaaa · May 2018

Y'all, I have a problem. I am constantly going to Old Navy or Cater's websites and loading my cart with like $500 of stuff only to buy the $5 dress on sale for DD.

galactickates · May 2018

I just realized that our old neighbors who adopted and us will both have babies the same age, turns out our other best friends in the neighborhood are having a baby EDD middle of Dec!! The three of us couples were all in the same cul de sac together. we're all going to have babies the same age!!!! That's the dream!

rooonilwaazlib · May 2018

My apartment complex was bought by a big corporate company a few months ago and now they're making all sorts of random and unnecessary aesthetic changes to our complex. Stonework which was nice but whatever. And they just replaced all our dark green solid front doors with white doors that have glass in most of the top half of the door. It's nice to have more light in my entryway but it feels more vulnerable...like someone can easily come by and smash the door and break into my apt. We live in a nice area, but I felt very exposed walking into and out of my home today. Time for some Home Alone-style booby traps at the front door!

olivemomma · May 2018

@rooonilwaazlib you should do it!

Ghostie625 · May 2018

Have to rant/vent- hope this is the right place for that...

Basically, I'm conflicted about whether or not we should take the time to visit DH's mom and grandma and tell them in person that we're pregnant.

DH suggested we drive up to my parents house, 4 hours from us, to tell them the good news this weekend. We originally were going to wait until memorial day because of the 3 day weekend and because it would be after my first dr appt, but he suggested we go this weekend which was awesome and unexpected!

I suggested we stop by his mom's on the way home and maybe take her and his grandma out to lunch and tell them in person too. It would also be our Mother's Day celebration with them. Their house is about an hour out of the way so he doesn't want to go, but it makes more sense then making a separate trip all the way out there. I feel kind of bad because we see them the least of all our parents. We haven't seen them since Christmas and if we don't go now I don't know when we'll see them next and she'll end up being the only parent we don't tell in person. This will be the first grandbaby on both sides, and his grandma's first great-grand child, so it's kind of a big deal. So on one hand I feel like we really should just suck it up, take the extra 2-3 hours out of our day, and go tell them.

On the other hand, he doesn't have the best relationship with his mom. She's selfish and manipulative, among other things, and she hates that DH actually calls her on her shit, unlike everyone else. She's also the most likely to spill the beans and start telling anyone and everyone before we're ready to tell our extended family and friends. (Thanks, Facebook!) Since we're not telling his dad's side until next weekend when we see them, I really don't want her to let the cat out of the bag. Not gonna lie, I'll be really pissed if she robs us of our chance to tell people ourselves. Also, part of the reason we never see her is because she decided to move out to east Jesus nowhere, taking her mother with her, and it's not an easy drive to see them, so the fact that we don't very often is kind of on her. But, now would be a good time to go and put a visit in the bank, so to speak.

Anyway... just need to vent a bit. Thanks for reading if you did.

berg · May 2018

@ghostie625 if there is even a slight chance DH's Mom will blab, I wouldn't risk it. You can't get that moment back, esp. with the first. I'd wait. But that's just me.

catlady2015 · May 2018

@Ghostie625 - I agree with @berg. I wouldn't tell her if you know she'll spill the beans. If she's as manipulative as you say, she won't have any compunction about letting other people know, and might even use the news as a pawn. Whether or not you tell someone early is (to me) indicative of the type of person they are. Really loved people who'll be excited for me, and can keep their mouth shut until I tell them it's ok? Absolutely. Anyone who's going to harsh my buzz or tell people before I'm ready? Sorry, no bean news for you. If it was me, I'd call them JUST before I posted on Facebook. Like literally type the words out, call her and tell her, and then post before you hang up with her. I'm big on boundaries and someone robbing me of the chance to tell my loved ones I'm expecting is so wrong.

For most of our families (and it is our first, we just are not going to get good visiting time) we aren't going to get to tell people in person. My family lives about ten hours away and I was just back over Easter, so going back again to tell them the news in person won't happen. DH's family, I think he'll go alone and tell them them, because he's planning to take a week off over the 4th to see them and I need to save all my time for maternity leave. I'm going to have him FaceTime me when they open their announcement, so I can at least see it.

mrsmang · May 2018

Speaking of telling people, any good ideas on how to hide it? Particularly the no drinking? We want to wait til Father’s Day to tell our families since that’s past our first appointment (which isn’t til June 6th and that’s killing me!) but we will see family on two separate occasions before that. I never pass up a glass of wine regularly, and they are big wine with dinner people, so I’m worried it’s going to be painfully obvious!

catlady2015 · May 2018

Can you sneak in some sparkling cider or grape juice and do a switcheroo? You can also always play the antibiotics card (can't drink while taking them).

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