Week 1 Check in w/o 12/26

Re: Week 1 Check in w/o 12/26

• lyse01 member

  December 2018

  Due date: 4/2, which makes me 26+1, which means today is the day DD was born. Not in labor yet. 
  

  Any appointments? Questions? Nothing. This is very weird.

  Rants/Raves? MIL seemed to think I was wrong for not dressing DD in a red dress for Christmas services and/or Christmas dinner. And that my mother or I should have bought her one. Sorry, what? It was like 17° - I got her winter fleece pjs so she’d sleep warm this winter and dressed her in pants for church and green for dinner. I will never see the point in holiday specific clothing.

  Rave: DH’s gift to me made me cry happy tears. 

  How are you feeling? All the emotions. Nervous energy today (see above...let’s please not go into labor) plus a whole lot of decompression still required from the holiday. Also back pain, fatigue, easy tears, sensitive nipples, general stretched-out-ness, and my belly button maybe starting to pop.

  GTKY: Do you have any resolutions for the New Year?

  Get my Christmas, I mean New Years, cards out. Organize my office and catch up on correspondence. Unpack boxes from our move a year ago and downsize.

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• s_montgomery member

  December 2018

  @lyse01 I understand your position on christmas clothes. DH and I don't go all-out for Christmas and it's unusual to others around us. Congrats on making it farther with this LO, also. 🎉
  
  Due 4.2
  
  No appointments until January 11th when we're in the 3rd trimester. I'll get the whooping cough vaccine at that appointment.
  
  Rant: DH and I stayed at my brother's house for Christmas. His wife is expecting in April as well and they have a 3 year old son. Their son was sick but they didn't tell us until the morning after we arrived when they decided to take him to the ER. He was diagnosed with Croup and his mom called me to say he isn't contagious. As a FTM I obviously don't have a whole lot of knowledge, so I looked it up and everything I read said that croup is contagious until the fever breaks or for the first 3 days of symptoms. So I figured he had had symptoms for a while then. Until the day before we left when I overheard my SIL telling someone, "He still has a fever though, he woke up with one this morning."
  So that's wonderful. Neither of us are showing symptoms though.
  One of my husband's coworkers sent him home with a wipe warmer the other day. It's one of those things that I regret not complaining to him about ahead of time. When I asked him about it, he said "____ said she never used it." Yes, honey, I know why!
  And then he followed that up with "[another coworker of theirs] gave it to her after his last kid." Mhm. I'm still debating whether to just put it in the attic and never use it or experiment with it and see how it affects my baby's attitude about diaper changes.
  
  Rave: We stopped at a friend's house on our way home and they gave us their daughter's entire wardrobe, plenty of diapers and some wipes, a carrier, a swing, a couple sheets, etc. since they don't want any more kids. So our daughter is good for at least the first year and a half, or until she outgrows the hand-me-downs. I was so excited! My mother also gifted us things that were on our registry which was a big surprise. I was expecting her to get things we either didn't need or didn't want (like a wipe warmer) because that's more like her. We were really blessed by our family. A different SIL got Mother's Milk tea for me, which I really appreciated. My MIL said it works well so I'm looking forward to trying it.
  
  I'm feeling fine and I'm wondering if I'm nesting or just being myself. I pulled everything out of the attic so my husband could re-insulate it. And that lead to me going through everything we have in the attic and shed and throwing away or donating all that I can in preparation for the amount of things we will accumulate with our family growing next year. I think now is the best time to do it so I think it's rational. My husband wasn't happy that I wanted him to go through his things too, but the alternative was for me to decide what he keeps and gets rid of and I didn't want to do that to him. He would have felt disrespected, but it would have been so much easier for me to do that.
  
  No resolutions.
  
  Update: DH's car still isn't fixed. I'm starting to wonder if we will still only have 1 car when baby arrives. People do it, and I'm sure we could make it work fine. But I don't like knowing that if anything happened to my van we wouldn't have a second vehicle to jump in to. My car is a 2004 and I bought it at a transmission repair shop 3 years ago with already 200,000 miles on it. Trying to talk him into looking for a new car is difficult. He won't accept his car is not coming back from the dead. 😒 And what really irritates me is that it's a 2 seater anyway. Almost useless to us now. Y'all, I need peace and patience.
  
  Thanks for reading my novel.

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