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September 2022 Moms
kboydbowman
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Weekly Randoms 3/28
kboydbowman
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Sooooooo random.
Current pregnancy -
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.
Four prior losses, no living children - 1 first trimester miscarriage, 1 blighted ovum, 1 chemical, and one extreme premature live birth daughter who died at 15 days old.
Re: Weekly Randoms 3/28
blessed that hubs and I both make good money but not to the level that we’re like, “oh $2500, totally doable” haha😅 I always wanted to be a SAHM but we don’t want to lose my income. Especially living here!
@pangolindrome right! My mom is a saint and is basically retired so I’m hoping if I play my cards right, we can get her to nanny for a while to kill as much time as we can. I mean, can she really pass up the opportunity to spend that much time with her first grandson? We could let her live in our 3rd bedroom and pay her $1k PLUS food and still save $1000 over paying daycare haha. I can’t wrap my head around it.
I don't know why I'm sharing this. I think I just want to make you feel more comfortable about the decision you're making to keep working. I ask myself several times a week if I want to go back to work because I don't use my brain the way I always did before. The grass is greener and all that...
There's really not a great answer to this big question, unfortunately.
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I can't even imagine having to pay that much for care! Around here one of the better centers near me is about $1200 for full time, and is probably the route I would go if I ever went back to work. I understand that good care can be expensive, but my goodness, how difficult to pay that every month just to be able to work outside the home.
Right now we pay $205/month for twice a week care at 3 hours each day at the local Lutheran preschool. It seems that those associated with churches tend to cost less, but I know that's not everyone's cup of tea. It's nice to have a couple hours to myself twice a week, but I'm already wondering how the summer will go once the school year is over. 🤔
Anyone thinking of buying one it's a great deal on a good brand.
I hope you end up liking it!
I am super excited, it was the brand I was looking into for the longest time but couldn't bite the bullet due to cost and already having 2 moby wraps and an ergo. I wanted something that was faster to use and it looked that way to me, but I know there's a learning curve and I wasn't sure if I wanted to learn. I bought a used woven wrap that is likely one size too small so I couldn't get it on quickly when my second was now too large for moby wrap but I wanted something more snuggly than the ergo. I'm hoping this will work well and maybe I'll get smaller and have a smaller baby and be able to use the woven wrap this time too.
I literally didn’t grade a single assignment in all of MARCH due to exhaustion. Seriously. This is completely unprecedented for me.
I wish our family planning worked and I was getting ready to go on Maternity leave soon instead and I had the whole summer to snuggle baby like I did with my first two and didn't have to worry about what getting paid was going to look like.
As my nutritionist advised me after I had my daughter, "Enjoy your food, but limit the portion size of the unhealthy stuff." Stick with whole grains and the like to really get what you need. My sister is 13 weeks along and struggling with the weight gain, and this is the same advice I gave her. I'm no expert, but I know what's been working for me.
Also, I agree with @jhysmath. Your policy seems to be double-dipping and I can't wrap my head around how it's fair.
An average-sized, healthy human’s weight is likely to fluctuate up to four-five pounds from day to day depending on liquid retention (drink little one day, retain more liquid. Eat more salt, retain more liquid… vice versa), food intake vs. bowel movement, and hormones. That was a very brief overview of what affects daily weight, but it’s the gist.
It might be a nice option is possible, there is plenty of time left to sign up. I wouldn’t have known about it if my friend wasn’t literally using it right now.
My OB wasn’t too worried but I wanted to talk to someone, so she referred me to a dietician. The dietician said it’s quite common for women who are restrictive in their diets and go hard with their workouts pre-pregnancy to gain a lot of weight early on in the pregnancy when they can’t (and shouldn’t) maintain that same lifestyle, and then later in pregnancy it all tends to level out. She said I should keep up with my healthy choices and portions and continue to work out as many days as I can. She had some suggestions on how to get the most nutrition out of snack time and to increase my protein content, but did not seem to think I needed to change much. It made me feel a ton better because I was focusing on the number on the scale and beating myself up for it. I’m not sure if that rings true for you in any way, but I just thought I’d throw it out there, in case it makes you feel any better!
@pangolindrome I'm pretty sure for short term disability you need to be enrolled before pregnancy to qualify. This has been what I've seen in most postings about it.
On another leave note, this past fall a male coworker took 48 days of sick leave for his paternity leave. I thought how awesome and progressive of this district. My husband had to run to the central office today to pick something up and HR tells him that he only gets 15 days per contract and that the guy who had it in the fall or was a paper work mishap and an accident that he got that much time off. Now I'm worried they're going to say I can only get paid for 6 weeks like my last district said. I told my husband he's taking all 15 days if that's the game they're playing. He doesn't want to have to make plans and grade for 15 days worth of work though. I'm also trying to convince him to come up to the high school next year because the teacher next to me is leaving and he needs some high school experience even if I don't want to have to teach next to him.
This week's fun with stats:
(Once again, data is primarily gathered from the introductions and ultrasounds posts, with occasional additions from the weekly updates thread).
1) We currently have 70 women who are active in this board. "Active" in this case being defined as having posted within the past two weeks. Of our active ladies,
- 1 is due in middle August but has chosen to hang out with us
- 16 are due in the first week of September (9/1-9/7)
- 19 are due in the second week of September (9/8-9/15)
- 19 are due in the third week of September (9/16-9/22)
- 15 are due in the last week of September (9/23-9/30)
2) In terms of age, of our active ladies,- 1 is under 25
- 15 are age 25-29
- 21 are age 30-34
- 12 are age 35-39
- 4 are 40 and over
- 17 have not disclosed their age
3) What baby number is it for our active ladies?- For 36 of us, it's the first baby.
- For 17 of us, it's the second baby.
- For 9 of us, it's the third or more baby.
- For 7 of us, this data is unknown.
4) Where are our active ladies?- 9 are outside the U.S. (Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Norway)
- 9 are in the Pacific coast states (CA, OR, WA)
- 7 are in the Midwest (MN, NE, WI, undisclosed)
- 2 are in the Northeast (MA, NH)
- 5 are in the Mid-Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)
- 5 are in the Southeast (GA, NC, SC, VA)
- 1 is in the Deep South (TX)
- 32 have not disclosed their location.
- So far we have no ladies who have reported their location as the Southwest (e.g., AZ, NV), Applachia (e.g., KY, TN) or non-continental states (HI, AK)
6) For gender, so far...- 16 mamas have announced for team blue
- Planned boy names: Wyoming
- 13 mamas has officially announced for team pink
- Planned girl names: Hazel Gale, Cecilia Rose
- 6 mamas have reported they plan to be team green
*Note that these tallies indicate specific usernames who have stated explicitly the gender of their baby(ies) - this does not encapsulate the total courts on the "I'm Just Here for the SEX" post, which are higher.7) So far, only one of our active ladies has reported they are having twins (but we do have some inactive ladies with multiples as well).
8) Other factoids:
If you don't think I'm accounting for your data (or you want to check), let me know and I'll update my spreadsheet.
First BFP on 1/4/22. Due date 9/13/22.