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March 2022 Moms
goldfishcraker
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Monday B*fest- WO Dec 6
goldfishcraker
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Let it all out ladies!
Re: Monday B*fest- WO Dec 6
I’ve been feeling pretty ok nausea-wise but randomly puked at midnight last night. I’m blaming the rich hazelnut chocolate bars I made and the fact I ate several before bed. I think the resulting heartburn/acid just didn’t sit well at all. Ugh. Baby girl is kicking up a storm today so I’m also going to assume she’s elbowing my stomach routinely. So I guess I’ve reached the point where I need to just eat tiny meals more often until she arrives. It’s for the best but it’s also annoying. Same thing happened with DS, pretty normal feeling 2nd tri and then right before 3rd tri the heartburn made the nausea come back like a beast.
My mom was VERY resistant to my parenting requests when DD1 was born and insisted that things she did with us 40+ years ago were better. I simply told her all the research and studies show that those practices were totally unsafe and if she was going to help out she needed to follow our guidelines. Honestly I just made sure she followed anything that was a safety issue and anything else I just let slide. It just wasn't worth the arguments.
@Panaceia ohh yeah, variances and just permits alone can take over a year here. So it makes sense your timeline would be even more drawn out given covid and weather. Hopefully the next two years fly by for you! Sorry about the parent woes. That's tough.
I’m sorry your mom is like that.
Hoping things go faster than expected for you in terms of your new home so you can get out of there.
My rant today-WHY do random strangers , an older male customer think its entirely okay to comment on a woman's pregnant belly size?! A customer just asked me, getting a Christmas baby, huh? Umm...no, he will be here in March...."Well!!! You're gonna have a BIG boy, aren't ya?! " I'm terrible about keeping my mouth shut now so I immediately said, im glad random strangers think its appropriate to comment on a pregnant woman's size..have a great day
🙄 RUDE!
When I was 14, I got the pill from my Dr because my periods were debilitating. I wasn't sexually active. But Doctor wanted to do a pap. So the nurse was in there, "chaperoning", and it's of course painful and uncomfortable. I was wincing, and She looked at me and "tsk tsk. Well, maybe if you made better choices and didn't have sex so young, you wouldn't be going through this right now, would you?"
Excuse me?!
Some people just don't think before speaking...
My mom hasn't gotten to babysit because she is the same way. She constantly tells me we "oversleep" my son and that "kids will sleep when they are tired, structured nap times are ridiculous" and "missing one nap, or pushing bedtime by an hour, isn't a big deal."
Uh..yes. it is.
If bedtime is 730, he sleeps till 730. If bedtime is 8, he's up at 5am and cranky ALL day.
It's actually hilarious that mom does this. Because my entire life she has told the story of how HER mom didn't listen when my big brother was an infant. Baba put brother down for a nap at a bad time and brother was up Aaaaaall night for mom.
So you would THINK my mom would understand that I know MY child best, and make decisions based on what is best for us.
She also doesn't take his allergies seriously.
I personally don't care of grandparents want to give the grandkids extra dessert/treats.
But you damn well better follow saftey issues, and sleep schedule!
We also don't let DHs antivax family near DS. I don't care if it pisses people off. I don't care if people are offended. That's their problem. I'm not putting my child (or my sanity) at risk because they can't follow the rules and get butt-hurt.
I almost wonder if their brains go “If I had to deal with it, so do you.”
I know my mom was always keen to remind me how her father never respected her choices and she would be yelled at for how she felt and I should be grateful, (even though she was totally putting me through the same BS)
Was funny when my mom tried to insinuate I was going to be taking the easy way out when I decided on getting an epidural with my son because she did it ‘natural’ only for my dad to chime in like “No you didn’t. You had an epidural, you actually slept for a bit. I was there.” Lol
Currently DH is salty with me because I noted he would need to watch DS during the baby shower later next month.
But the place my MIL and SIL have found for us to have it isn’t really a good place for him to play and there won’t be other kids.
DH says he wants to go, but I know if that happens I’ll be stuck running after DS the whole time because DH tends to abandon me at gatherings to go socialize. He doesn’t do it on purpose, I think, he just gets distracted because of his ADHD and gets excited to have a conversation with someone.
I never got a shower for my other two pregnancies for different reasons and I just want to be able to enjoy this one without having to run myself ragged trying to keep DS out of trouble in a place that isn’t baby proof. Is that selfish?
And it's not selfish at all! You deserve that time to relax and celebrate!!
@Sarah0335 I think you are totally correct! It's like an instant wipe 😅.
My mom, my WHOLE life, told me that as a baby, I "slept 12 hours straight, but it was through the day instead of the night, and I had to move you back, 15 min at a time."
All my siblings have heard her say it dozens of times.
Yet now she denies it and says I didn't sleep more than 6 hours in a row until I was a year. And my big brother was 5 before he slept more than 3 hours a night....
Uh-huh... Funny how the memories go 😅 (in her defense, she was always consistent that brother didnt sleep more than 3.5 hours a night. But never-until I had a child- did she claim it lasted until he was in school....)
DS had a meltdown of epic proportions today. After an hour, I was actually at a loss. Literally NOTHING worked. He just kept escalating. I tried everything from deep breathing, to distractions, to bribes, to trying to let him tire himself out, having his space, singing, counting, cuddling, reasoning..
There was utterly no way to win.
At one point He started hurting himself and I had to restrain him.
He wanted to go outside. But he didn't want to be outside. But he didn't want to go inside. Because he wanted to go outside. But he didn't want to go outside. But he wanted to go outside...
At one point I literally thought I was going to have to get him to the ER to be sedated. (Obviously wouldn't happen...even at the time I was aware my brain was being irrational. But I started looking for medical causes for the inconsolable crying. Especially given the new introduction to his allergen..)
I was in tears at one point. He was hurting me, and I couldn't put him down because he would hurt himself. I was so overwhelmed.
Oh no.