@megsb615 Sneak Peek is just an at home blood test that you send into a lab and then they telling you what you're having, so no pictures or DVD. It's actually legit and science based, not like some of the other "gender predictors" on the market. Yay baby girl! That pink ornament idea is SO CUTE!! If DS won't cooperate maybe you could hang a "big brother" ornament next to it? We're taking our family photos at a Christmas tree farm next weekend and I'm thinking I'll get one pink and one blue bow and take a picture with each on my stomach, hopefully incorporating DS somehow, and use that as our combined pregnancy and sex announcement. Also, I'm so sorry about your husband's grandfather. All the hugs ❤️❤️
Can someone refresh my memory, I've looked all over the board but can't remember where or when it came up.. What is that manual breast pump that we were talking about using on the breast you're not nursing on to catch milk?
@DuchessOfCambridge Ooh.. I was thinking it was one of the early ultrasound places. $60 still isn’t bad for a blood test though! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that he changes his mind! 🙂 I love the bow idea at the Christmas tree farm! That’ll be so cute! Maybe DS could stand beside you with a sign that says big brother or I’m getting a brother/sister! All of this is so exciting!
I was off work since Wednesday last week, then Sunday night it dumped 6+'' of snow on us and school was cancelled yesterday. It's soooo weird to be back at work today.
@knarlytaurus Still not done, but close? We have a panel ready fridge and the only thing left in the kitchen is putting the panels on and installing the range hood. We're not sure why our kitchen guy didn't do that when he came a week and a half ago. He said it was going to be all the final finishing touches, but I walked into the kitchen and immediately said, "Ha! I knew it! Not done!"
We're also waiting on countertops for our laundry room from him. He's supposed to be the "best of the best" in the area in terms of kitchen design and build, but he's slow as molasses.
We also have a bunch of stuff to do in our attic bedroom - closet doors, toilet room door, shower tile, bathtub install. DH keeps talking about doing the tile himself, which is one of the reasons things are going so slowly there, but it's a very low priority space so I don't care nearly as much.
DD1: June 2014 - VBM4lyfe DD2: October 2016 DC3: coming May 2019
Okay, did TB just lose its mind for anyone else? It was a whole two hours I didn't know what to do with myself. I had to poop without scrolling through the app, it was terrible. 😂
@DuchessOfCambridge I'm not active on social media at all, no Facebook and my Instagram has like 30 people I follow and like 5 update regularly 😂 same with Snapchat. So I felt so lost 😩😂
@eatinwatermelonseeds I was also going a bit crazy... thinking if it never came back, we wouldn't all ever be able to talk to each other again and I'd have to start over on one of those other boards...
@brie_and_almonds I thought that too. Honestly I'm dreading when we move to Facebook but it would be nice to have a back up. I just... Don't have a Facebook 😂 I created a fake one where I have no friends and fake name so I follow my old pregnancy forum on there because we're still close and for my nursing cohort Facebook because I kept missing shit. But I feel like it's going to be weird if I join, no one will trust me 😂 might just change it to my actual name worst case. But I do not want to reactivate my original account and all the drama inside lol.
I got a call that all the repairs are done on the house 😬 realtor is scheduling a reinspection. Mortgage company is getting the last of our paperwork sent in and we're on the last leg of the process. 8 days until we close and my body is working against me.
@eatinwatermelonseeds I am so excited/mildly jelly that you'll be in before the holidays!! That was my dream and it's pretty much shot now since they're JUST now listing SO's house this week.
TB went down at naptime at our preschool and i was *so bored* laying in the floor in the dark next to my sleeping child with nothing to browse.
Also I feel like super woman because I made it to the gym TWICE already this week!!! After not going for two weeks (and being a regular 5-6x/week girl). I feel so much more like "me". Also it totally justifies the chips and salsa I'm downing right now 😉
@eatinwatermelonseeds FX everything goes without a hitch! Just thinking about your process is giving me so much anxiety. I do NOT do well with large purchases.
@k2k2tog - what a remodel! It must look great. I have to admit to frequently binge watching This Old House, a public television show what they do all sorts of remodels additions, etc. I hope your last few small details in the kitchen comes together soon, and good luck to your DH on finishing the upstairs bathroom. Is this his first tile job?
We are currently gutting our upstairs bathroom (our main bathroom for showing) and have had lots of help from my dad and each of my brothers. We're likely going to be ready to install the waterproofing system for the new shower this weekend which is a first for us. We're going to Schluter the crap out of that bathroom! Then the tiling, which will also be a first for us. Just as long as we have a functioning shower then I'm happy. Our renovation got moved up because of this LO - we had a claw-foot run for our main shower and I'm sure I would have busted my ass 9 months pregnant. And ourour I bathroom had this spectacularly tiny shower that I know I won't fit in for the last month or two!
@knarlytaurus it was very extensive! If you're interested, I have an instagram for the house so you can see where it started. I haven't got many 'afters' up yet, but maybe we'll get around to taking a few updated pictures this weekend. There are very few parts of the house that are really polished. PM me if you want to check it out!
It's not DH's first tile job. We renovated a whole (tiny) house doing all the work ourselves 7 years ago. So, he did a little tiling then, and he's generally pretty handy. But, he's busy and we don't often want to give up our weekends to house projects, so they move pretty slowly.
My random for the day: the grade 1 classes have a turtle rescue visiting today with all sorts of live turtles to see. And, of course, they're doing the presentation in the learning commons, which means I get to see turtles too!
DD1: June 2014 - VBM4lyfe DD2: October 2016 DC3: coming May 2019
I am super jealous of all of the home renovation projects! I am married to a contractor so that means my house is one big project and nothing gets finished...
Ugh! A mom of two kids in DD2’s gymnastics class (same kids are also in her preschool class) that all 4 of her kids woke up with pink eye this morning after having been at gymnastics last night. DD is still fast asleep and I am so scared to wake her...
@mrskoz428 as an adult, I agree. But preschoolers are so gross, lol. It’s impossible to keep it from spreading amongst them. I’m sure she probably avoided it, I’m only a little worried because she already super tired from a messed up sleep schedule so eye and face rubbing were heavy last night. I kept her home from school today just because she hasn’t woken up yet. I’m hoping a good sleep in will help us avoid a nap today and get back to regular bedtimes. Just a bonus that we’re avoiding all the other kids who are in both gymnastics and preschool too, lol
Ugh. One of my besties from my first BMB is having marital problems and last night her husband broke down their bathroom door, smashed her phone and hit her in the face twice. I'm absolutely sick over it and trying to convince her she needs to file a PFA. She's of course saying she provoked it. I have much rage.
@sleepy33 omg that is so scary! I really hope she gets out of there. There's a girl in my last group whose husband got super heavy into heroine and other hard drugs and started becoming violent. She got out of there immediately, though, thankfully. He's still harassing her, she tried to go to their house (she's on the mortgage still) to get something and he was hitting and pushing her. He called the cops on her and she was actually brought in for "trespassing" until they realized it's still her house and she showed them video she had taken of her going there and him hitting her. He was arrested. It's all a big mess.
I hope your friend realizes she needs to get her and her kid out of there quick. There should be nothing you can do to provoke violence in that way, I'm sorry. Real men can control themselves. And God forbid her kid "provokes" him somehow. No.
@eatinwatermelonseeds they've been talking about separating/divorce before this, and leaving an abuser is the most dangerous time for a woman. She's all on about he's never hit me before. I just keep reiterating that this is how the cycle works and he's escalating now that he thinks she's really going to leave and he won't be able to control her anymore. I've worked with DV victims a lot, volunteered for shelters, etc. It's just hard when I'm halfway across the country. I think she's just really in denial that this is actually happening to her. Everyone thinks this happens to other people, it could never happen to me, we just fight like normal couples, etc, not knowing that this is not normal. But they've been together since high school so she doesn't know any different.
So I finally have my meting with my boss's boss scheduled for today. She tries to do skip levels every 6 months or so to get to know the broader team, which is great, but this keeps getting moved. Anyways, my first one was pretty soon after coming back from maternity leave in January (might have been Feb or March) since she started a month and a half before I had DD. We talked a lot about being a working mom since she has 2 kids. It was a great conversation but I don't want to announce my pregnancy to her today, I'd like to talk about me and my career growth, etc. since she doesn't get too much visibility to the more strategic parts of my role. There was another pregnant mom I was friends with a month ahead of me last time so it was pretty broad knowledge that we were both pregnant when I told around 13 weeks, so I'm getting an odd sense of entertainment by keeping this one to myself longer (my boss knows but that's it and with the SCH she said she'd let me tell people and wouldn't say a word). Sadly, all of my mom friends at the office with younger kids (aka those who aren't old enough to have bought houses before everything blew up in the past 15 years) have all moved away to be able to afford more than a 2 bedroom house/apartment so I don't really have anyone who will spot it when I am occasionally in the office (mostly work from home). Wish me luck. I'll be in a meeting with all of my boss's peers for an hour and then with our CCO this afternoon so I am going to see everyone!
My husband's boss got a call from the department of transportation in Colorado seeking a new engineer to work on bridges (I.e. my husband). It's just interesting how things are sometimes. Been dying to move back for what? 6 years now? And now that we're buying a house, my best friend lives here, my only friend there is moving back to NH, the opportunity pops up. 😒 Oh well. Maybe if we keep waiting something will pop up somewhere really sunny 😂 think they need a bridge designer (person-thing?) In Hawaii? 😂
@imrachellea That's awesome! The gym has been life changing for me this pregnancy. It puts me in such a better mood. Plus, I get out all my road rage aggression on the stair master hahah
@sleepy33 That's insane! Good thing she has you to talk to and give support. I hope she gets out of there as fast as possible with her kids.
@kvh22 Good luck! Career growth is so hard when you're in the middle of having kids. Perfect that it's still a secret at this point!
There is a crazy person (if it’s not a troll they legit need mental health counseling) on the Babies on the Brain board saying that being AMA is more dangerous to your child than smoking while pregnant. Needless to say being AMA myself I was livid. She also thinks that a large penis is a requirement for her future baby daddy so she can ensure her son will be well endowed 🤦🏻♀️. Seriously. She posted a chart about penis girth.
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@knarlytaurus Still not done, but close? We have a panel ready fridge and the only thing left in the kitchen is putting the panels on and installing the range hood. We're not sure why our kitchen guy didn't do that when he came a week and a half ago. He said it was going to be all the final finishing touches, but I walked into the kitchen and immediately said, "Ha! I knew it! Not done!"
We're also waiting on countertops for our laundry room from him. He's supposed to be the "best of the best" in the area in terms of kitchen design and build, but he's slow as molasses.
We also have a bunch of stuff to do in our attic bedroom - closet doors, toilet room door, shower tile, bathtub install. DH keeps talking about doing the tile himself, which is one of the reasons things are going so slowly there, but it's a very low priority space so I don't care nearly as much.
DD1: June 2014 - VBM4lyfe
DD2: October 2016
DC3: coming May 2019
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Also I feel like super woman because I made it to the gym TWICE already this week!!! After not going for two weeks (and being a regular 5-6x/week girl). I feel so much more like "me". Also it totally justifies the chips and salsa I'm downing right now 😉
We are currently gutting our upstairs bathroom (our main bathroom for showing) and have had lots of help from my dad and each of my brothers. We're likely going to be ready to install the waterproofing system for the new shower this weekend which is a first for us. We're going to Schluter the crap out of that bathroom! Then the tiling, which will also be a first for us. Just as long as we have a functioning shower then I'm happy.
Our renovation got moved up because of this LO - we had a claw-foot run for our main shower and I'm sure I would have busted my ass 9 months pregnant. And ourour I bathroom had this spectacularly tiny shower that I know I won't fit in for the last month or two!
@knarlytaurus it was very extensive! If you're interested, I have an instagram for the house so you can see where it started. I haven't got many 'afters' up yet, but maybe we'll get around to taking a few updated pictures this weekend. There are very few parts of the house that are really polished. PM me if you want to check it out!
It's not DH's first tile job. We renovated a whole (tiny) house doing all the work ourselves 7 years ago. So, he did a little tiling then, and he's generally pretty handy. But, he's busy and we don't often want to give up our weekends to house projects, so they move pretty slowly.
My random for the day: the grade 1 classes have a turtle rescue visiting today with all sorts of live turtles to see. And, of course, they're doing the presentation in the learning commons, which means I get to see turtles too!
DD1: June 2014 - VBM4lyfe
DD2: October 2016
DC3: coming May 2019
I hope your friend realizes she needs to get her and her kid out of there quick. There should be nothing you can do to provoke violence in that way, I'm sorry. Real men can control themselves. And God forbid her kid "provokes" him somehow. No.
@sleepy33 That's insane! Good thing she has you to talk to and give support. I hope she gets out of there as fast as possible with her kids.
@kvh22 Good luck! Career growth is so hard when you're in the middle of having kids. Perfect that it's still a secret at this point!