It's the weekend! Be random!

[shawnabm1320]

What do you all have going on this lovely rainy (for us) weekend?

[wildflower810]

Pretty much just housework and laundry here. H is grumpy for some unknown reason, but whatever.

[pivot]

We're at the new house right now. Windows and doors are being put in today!

[monicageller]

Working for another half hour and then home. DH is golfing this afternoon and SIL is coming over with her two kids so they can play with DS and we can hang out. If it doesn't rain, we might take the kids to a splash pad.

[shawnabm1320]

Jul 30, 2016 11:07:35 GMT -5 pivot said:

We're at the new house right now. Windows and doors are being put in today!

It's so exciting to see progress on a new house! When do you think it will be done?

[shawnabm1320]

DS woke up an hour early, which is no fun. But the advantage of being awake at 5:45 is that I've gotten a lot done this morning! And DS seems to be feeling a lot better, so I don't have to sit on the floor with him today. Yay! I already went through my maternity clothes to see what I need, packed awake some of my clothes that don't fit or won't fit for much longer, cleaned the bathroom, did the vacuuming, etc. My mom, sister, and sister's boyfriend(?) are coming over tonight for a game night. And we'll reveal baby 2 to mom.

[pivot]

shawnabm1320 Have fun telling your mom tonight!

We're shooting for Halloween but I'll still be happy if we're in before Thanksgiving!!

[shawnabm1320]

pivot, the holidays in a new house will be so much fun!

[lovebb09]

I'm at work all weekend. H keeps sending me videos of him and B doing fun stuff and I'm jealous.
pivot That's so exciting!! When is your projected completion date? I love going and walking around our new house and seeing the progress. So exciting!
Eta: I just saw you said by Halloween.. sorry I'm slow

[pivot]

lovebb09 It is exciting! Where are y'all at in the process?

[lovebb09]

Jul 30, 2016 13:41:28 GMT -5 pivot said:

lovebb09 It is exciting! Where are y'all at in the process?

The HVAC system was just installed. No clue what's next though...

[Deleted]

We went to breakfast at our favorite place and then did a Costco trip. DD has been napping since before noon and I'm laying on the couch watching Harry Potter trying not to puke.

I need some of shawnabm1320's motivation. My house is gross. You'd think MH would pick up some slack but NOPE. He literally tripped over the vacuum cleaner just a little bit ago...He likes living in hairy filth I guess.

[shawnabm1320]

Jul 30, 2016 13:50:07 GMT -5 @elodin said:

We went to breakfast at our favorite place and then did a Costco trip. DD has been napping since before noon and I'm laying on the couch watching Harry Potter trying not to puke.

I need some of shawnabm1320's motivation. My house is gross. You'd think MH would pick up some slack but NOPE. He literally tripped over the vacuum cleaner just a little bit ago...He likes living in hairy filth I guess.

Trying to not puke is work enough! If it makes you feel better, MH doesn't pick up much slack either. He'll do things if I ask, or if it's really bad. But usually he just add things to my list instead of taking things off. Which means I really don't feel bad that he has to take out the cat litter

[ls2012]

My 13yr old and I are having a Harry Potter marathon day, and making recipes from the books, before going tonight to wait in line at our bookstore for the release of the new book! It's been mostly rainy all day so the temps have cooled a lot. I love days like this!

[pivot]

ls2012 That sounds like an amazing day! I can't wait for DD to be able to get into HP Have fun at the release! I was lazy and just pre-ordered on Amazon.

[ls2012]

pivot, I love that she's still getting in the spirit of things, too. We went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando 3 years ago and had gotten her a Gryffindor robe, scarf, pygmy puff, and wand and today she's got it all on/out and being a little kitchen witch. So fun! 😊

[littleredfish]

We need rain here so badly. The grass is dry and dead and even the trees are looking wilted. Not normal for our area, even in summer time.

Having a lazy day adjusting ourselves back to our timezone. Baby seems angry with her ears today but no fever. Does it happen that ears can hurt after being on a flight? Even a couple days later? My ears don't even pop much on the plane so I don't know. She seemed fine on the plane. Just wondering if it could be related.

[notagoddess]

I've been having bad hip and lower back pain the last couple of days. It seems pregnancy related since I don't have a history of random pain. My posture has been awful lately, which could be contributing, I always thought I'd be one of those super healthy, glowing pregnant women. Instead I'm pretty miserable and only focused on getting through each day.

[sweetieheart32]

notagoddess I would bet on it being pregnancy related. I'm sorry you are feeling so miserable. I have always been jealous of those women who somehow skip the hardest parts and talk about feeling great and glowing. Hopefully at least you may be past the sickness part soon!

ETA I think some ladies on here may have gone to a chiropractor for hip pain. Maybe someone can chime in with a recommendation.

[ktl23]

It had been so long since I've checked in, sorry! It has been such a crazy month. DS turned 1, we had a big party and now we are preparing for a week away and then I go back to work right after that. I am feeling super emotional about leaving my DS but I have to keep reminding myself that in 7ish months, I'll have two babies to stay home with! Just a big transition for me right now.

My first prenatal is in 3 weeks, excited to hopefully hear LOs heartbeat and be able to share the news with everyone officially.

Hope everyone is doing well! Missed it here!

[EmMilAlly]

We had dominoes for dinner with cinna-sticks!!! I felt like I was in college, but soooooo good.

[Deleted]

Jul 30, 2016 19:26:59 GMT -5 sweetieheart32 said:

notagoddess I would bet on it being pregnancy related. I'm sorry you are feeling so miserable. I have always been jealous of those women who somehow skip the hardest parts and talk about feeling great and glowing. Hopefully at least you may be past the sickness part soon!

ETA I think some ladies on here may have gone to a chiropractor for hip pain. Maybe someone can chime in with a recommendation.

notagoddess- last pregnancy I went to my Chiro monthly. As my belly grew my posture changed so the Chiro help Ed me a lot. A good one can also show you exercises you can do at home. IME - if a Chiro wants to set you up for a treatment plan I run. Mine is cool with me coming every few months. She wants me monthly now so I trust her that I need it.

[CoffeeOnIce]

Jul 30, 2016 14:38:13 GMT -5 shawnabm1320 said:

Jul 30, 2016 13:50:07 GMT -5 @elodin said:

We went to breakfast at our favorite place and then did a Costco trip. DD has been napping since before noon and I'm laying on the couch watching Harry Potter trying not to puke.

I need some of shawnabm1320's motivation. My house is gross. You'd think MH would pick up some slack but NOPE. He literally tripped over the vacuum cleaner just a little bit ago...He likes living in hairy filth I guess.

Trying to not puke is work enough! If it makes you feel better, MH doesn't pick up much slack either. He'll do things if I ask, or if it's really bad. But usually he just add things to my list instead of taking things off. Which means I really don't feel bad that he has to take out the cat litter

+1 I explain things to dh like I'm teaching an 11 year old how to clean for the first time. -all you have to do is get a wet soapy cloth and wipe down the sink, without being asked...-

It's like it literally never occurs to him to clean any of the obviously falling behind chores. Can I get some help?!?!

[CoffeeOnIce]

Jul 30, 2016 14:53:59 GMT -5 ls2012 said:

My 13yr old and I are having a Harry Potter marathon day, and making recipes from the books, before going tonight to wait in line at our bookstore for the release of the new book! It's been mostly rainy all day so the temps have cooled a lot. I love days like this!

Omg so jealous! I absolutely can't wait to get my kid(s) interested in HP. One of them will have to be a reader, right?? 🙏🏼

[shawnabm1320]

Jul 30, 2016 14:53:59 GMT -5 ls2012 said:

My 13yr old and I are having a Harry Potter marathon day, and making recipes from the books, before going tonight to wait in line at our bookstore for the release of the new book! It's been mostly rainy all day so the temps have cooled a lot. I love days like this!

This is so cute. I'm really hoping I'll have at least one kid who is obsessed with reading like I was growing up.

[shawnabm1320]

Jul 31, 2016 6:07:04 GMT -5 CoffeeOnIce said:

Jul 30, 2016 14:53:59 GMT -5 ls2012 said:

My 13yr old and I are having a Harry Potter marathon day, and making recipes from the books, before going tonight to wait in line at our bookstore for the release of the new book! It's been mostly rainy all day so the temps have cooled a lot. I love days like this!

Omg so jealous! I absolutely can't wait to get my kid(s) interested in HP. One of them will have to be a reader, right?? 🙏🏼

DS sits on the floor for like 10 minutes flipping pages in books, and I know it doesn't mean anything, but I'm always like "Ah, he loves reading!" I mean, lol, because he's one. A mama can dream.

[loves2shop4shoes]

DH and I went to a family cookout yesterday and then snuggled up and watched movies last night. Today will probably be the usual groceries, tidying, meal prep.

Friday was eventful. Went to the OB's office and the appointment was a disaster start to finish. If I have another appointment like that, I'm going to look for a new OB. Not kidding.

So we get there and they ordered an early glucola test for me. So I had to have my blood drawn exactly one hour from
When I finished my drink. So when I check in, I tell the admin that. She asks what time I finished the drink. I said "a half an hour ago" and she's like "well what TIME?" And I said "a half an hour ago." And then she snapped at me and was like "Do you expect me to do the math for you or something?"

Ummm, rude, party of one, your table is ready. So I look down at my watch, say "2:00 exactly, so now 31 minutes ago." And she shuts up and directs me to where I need to go.

So then I wait for my ultrasound, but the wait is so long I have to stop by the lab to get blood drawn first. The phlebotomist takes my blood and I knew I needed more than just the glucola blood work done, so I let him know this. He looks through the records and confirms he has everything he needs. Ok perfect.

So I go back to ultrasound and as soon as she takes me, she is all flustered saying I'm going to need to get blood drawn again because she forgot to order my blood work. And how it was really my fault because they usually only do glucola at 28 weeks and how was she to know they were doing one early and therefore other blood was needed. I shit you not.

Ok. So then we go in for the ultrasound. She sees the baby right away and notices that the baby's back is to us. She needed a profile. So she starts slapping my stomach with no warning to get the baby to
Move. I said, "what do you think you're doing?!?" And she explains she's trying to make the baby move and starts lecturing me about how far inside me the baby is and that the baby can't feel anything. She then takes a call and proceeds to talk to some Doctor about how the patient before me had apparently lost her baby and that there was no heartbeat. In front of us!!!

Ok then she does the ultrasound. Communicating nothing. We heard the heartbeat. 156. Ok good. I ask if the baby is measuring the right size. She asks me to confirm my due date SIX times. Then says yes. The baby is measuring correctly.

So the baby is wiggling and kicking and waving like crazy and I said to my husband, "Oh look at its little hands and feet." She then barks at me, "You don't know it's a HE." I corrected her and said "I said ITS hands and feet." Then she barks "Well why are you referring to the baby as "it". It took every ounce of self control not to go postal and say, "Listen, bitch. It's my uterus. I'll call the kid whatever the fuck I want. Maybe you should focus on doing your job competently because you haven't don't so the entire appointment."

At this point, DH and I were both agitated big time. We get our photos and go upstairs to see the OB. After a 25 minute wait, he asks me about my symptoms, assures me they're all normal, and then tells me I'm good to go. I remind him that I need more blood taken and wanted to confirm that it was for the proper tests this time. Again, they had forgotten to order blood for two tests and if I hadn't said anything, it wouldn't have gotten done. I also had to remind him that I had had no urine sample and that I should probably leave one.

Then I got the joy of waiting another 30 minutes to have my blood redrawn. They missed my vein 3 times and I now have bruises.

If anything like that ever happens again, I'm getting a new doctor. I'm still so mad.

[Deleted]

Jul 31, 2016 7:53:58 GMT -5 loves2shop4shoes said:

DH and I went to a family cookout yesterday and then snuggled up and watched movies last night. Today will probably be the usual groceries, tidying, meal prep.

Friday was eventful. Went to the OB's office and the appointment was a disaster start to finish. If I have another appointment like that, I'm going to look for a new OB. Not kidding.

So we get there and they ordered an early glucola test for me. So I had to have my blood drawn exactly one hour from
When I finished my drink. So when I check in, I tell the admin that. She asks what time I finished the drink. I said "a half an hour ago" and she's like "well what TIME?" And I said "a half an hour ago." And then she snapped at me and was like "Do you expect me to do the math for you or something?"

Ummm, rude, party of one, your table is ready. So I look down at my watch, say "2:00 exactly, so now 31 minutes ago." And she shuts up and directs me to where I need to go.

So then I wait for my ultrasound, but the wait is so long I have to stop by the lab to get blood drawn first. The phlebotomist takes my blood and I knew I needed more than just the glucola blood work done, so I let him know this. He looks through the records and confirms he has everything he needs. Ok perfect.

So I go back to ultrasound and as soon as she takes me, she is all flustered saying I'm going to need to get blood drawn again because she forgot to order my blood work. And how it was really my fault because they usually only do glucola at 28 weeks and how was she to know they were doing one early and therefore other blood was needed. I shit you not.

Ok. So then we go in for the ultrasound. She sees the baby right away and notices that the baby's back is to us. She needed a profile. So she starts slapping my stomach with no warning to get the baby to
Move. I said, "what do you think you're doing?!?" And she explains she's trying to make the baby move and starts lecturing me about how far inside me the baby is and that the baby can't feel anything. She then takes a call and proceeds to talk to some Doctor about how the patient before me had apparently lost her baby and that there was no heartbeat. In front of us!!!

Ok then she does the ultrasound. Communicating nothing. We heard the heartbeat. 156. Ok good. I ask if the baby is measuring the right size. She asks me to confirm my due date SIX times. Then says yes. The baby is measuring correctly.

So the baby is wiggling and kicking and waving like crazy and I said to my husband, "Oh look at its little hands and feet." She then barks at me, "You don't know it's a HE." I corrected her and said "I said ITS hands and feet." Then she barks "Well why are you referring to the baby as "it". It took every ounce of self control not to go postal and say, "Listen, bitch. It's my uterus. I'll call the kid whatever the fuck I want. Maybe you should focus on doing your job competently because you haven't don't so the entire appointment."

At this point, DH and I were both agitated big time. We get our photos and go upstairs to see the OB. After a 25 minute wait, he asks me about my symptoms, assures me they're all normal, and then tells me I'm good to go. I remind him that I need more blood taken and wanted to confirm that it was for the proper tests this time. Again, they had forgotten to order blood for two tests and if I hadn't said anything, it wouldn't have gotten done. I also had to remind him that I had had no urine sample and that I should probably leave one.

Then I got the joy of waiting another 30 minutes to have my blood redrawn. They missed my vein 3 times and I now have bruises.

If anything like that ever happens again, I'm getting a new doctor. I'm still so mad.

[

Wow.....I'm not sure after that entire offices lack of professionalism and communication is even bother with appt #2. Unless they were highly recommended then I'd try once more.

[loves2shop4shoes]

Jul 31, 2016 8:03:21 GMT -5 @jacks605 said:

Jul 31, 2016 7:53:58 GMT -5 loves2shop4shoes said:

DH and I went to a family cookout yesterday and then snuggled up and watched movies last night. Today will probably be the usual groceries, tidying, meal prep.

Friday was eventful. Went to the OB's office and the appointment was a disaster start to finish. If I have another appointment like that, I'm going to look for a new OB. Not kidding.

So we get there and they ordered an early glucola test for me. So I had to have my blood drawn exactly one hour from
When I finished my drink. So when I check in, I tell the admin that. She asks what time I finished the drink. I said "a half an hour ago" and she's like "well what TIME?" And I said "a half an hour ago." And then she snapped at me and was like "Do you expect me to do the math for you or something?"

Ummm, rude, party of one, your table is ready. So I look down at my watch, say "2:00 exactly, so now 31 minutes ago." And she shuts up and directs me to where I need to go.

So then I wait for my ultrasound, but the wait is so long I have to stop by the lab to get blood drawn first. The phlebotomist takes my blood and I knew I needed more than just the glucola blood work done, so I let him know this. He looks through the records and confirms he has everything he needs. Ok perfect.

So I go back to ultrasound and as soon as she takes me, she is all flustered saying I'm going to need to get blood drawn again because she forgot to order my blood work. And how it was really my fault because they usually only do glucola at 28 weeks and how was she to know they were doing one early and therefore other blood was needed. I shit you not.

Ok. So then we go in for the ultrasound. She sees the baby right away and notices that the baby's back is to us. She needed a profile. So she starts slapping my stomach with no warning to get the baby to
Move. I said, "what do you think you're doing?!?" And she explains she's trying to make the baby move and starts lecturing me about how far inside me the baby is and that the baby can't feel anything. She then takes a call and proceeds to talk to some Doctor about how the patient before me had apparently lost her baby and that there was no heartbeat. In front of us!!!

Ok then she does the ultrasound. Communicating nothing. We heard the heartbeat. 156. Ok good. I ask if the baby is measuring the right size. She asks me to confirm my due date SIX times. Then says yes. The baby is measuring correctly.

So the baby is wiggling and kicking and waving like crazy and I said to my husband, "Oh look at its little hands and feet." She then barks at me, "You don't know it's a HE." I corrected her and said "I said ITS hands and feet." Then she barks "Well why are you referring to the baby as "it". It took every ounce of self control not to go postal and say, "Listen, bitch. It's my uterus. I'll call the kid whatever the fuck I want. Maybe you should focus on doing your job competently because you haven't don't so the entire appointment."

At this point, DH and I were both agitated big time. We get our photos and go upstairs to see the OB. After a 25 minute wait, he asks me about my symptoms, assures me they're all normal, and then tells me I'm good to go. I remind him that I need more blood taken and wanted to confirm that it was for the proper tests this time. Again, they had forgotten to order blood for two tests and if I hadn't said anything, it wouldn't have gotten done. I also had to remind him that I had had no urine sample and that I should probably leave one.

Then I got the joy of waiting another 30 minutes to have my blood redrawn. They missed my vein 3 times and I now have bruises.

If anything like that ever happens again, I'm getting a new doctor. I'm still so mad.

[

Wow.....I'm not sure after that entire offices lack of professionalism and communication is even bother with appt #2. Unless they were highly recommended then I'd try once more.

Well my first appointment went so well that the divergence in behavior was really shocking. I think I'll give them one more chance and just say that I don't want to work with that ultrasound technician EVER again.

[notagoddess]

Jul 30, 2016 22:06:21 GMT -5 @jacks605 said:

Jul 30, 2016 19:26:59 GMT -5 sweetieheart32 said:

notagoddess I would bet on it being pregnancy related. I'm sorry you are feeling so miserable. I have always been jealous of those women who somehow skip the hardest parts and talk about feeling great and glowing. Hopefully at least you may be past the sickness part soon!

ETA I think some ladies on here may have gone to a chiropractor for hip pain. Maybe someone can chime in with a recommendation.

notagoddess - last pregnancy I went to my Chiro monthly. As my belly grew my posture changed so the Chiro help Ed me a lot. A good one can also show you exercises you can do at home. IME - if a Chiro wants to set you up for a treatment plan I run. Mine is cool with me coming every few months. She wants me monthly now so I trust her that I need it.

I have never been to a chiro before but if this continues, I am setting up my first appointment ASAP. Thank you, that was helpful!