Contractions have gone down to every 20 minutes. The L&D told me stress and exhaustion are probably inhibiting me from progressing. H ltook over last night at 11 and I got a good stretch of sleep. Chloe is still so miserable this morning. She doesn't have strep, apparently it's tonsillitis.
Ladies- my house is miserable. This is one of the worst illnesses we have encountered. She won't eat, she can't sleep because her mouth hurts and the ibuprofen and antibiotics are upsetting her empty stomach. I'm just done. I'm so so tired and this baby is playing games and contractions are coming and going like crazy. I feel like I'll end up with a car baby because I don't know if it's real or not. Send prayers and a good nights sleep. We need it. Also a housekeeper, because my house went to shit this weekend and it is going to make me insane.
Post by duskymonkey on May 21, 2017 23:36:45 GMT -5
Doll15, Sending you all the good vibes and prayers... I thought you alreayd had baby! hope it will be soon and so so sorry you're dealing with sickeness and going through labour. I cant imagine. I hope you've got help. DS got super sick at hte beginning of the yr and refused to eat and I resorted to giving him frozen yogurt and to get some "food" in him I made frozen chocolate milk popsicles. I used TJs midnight moo so I could control the sugar and have more milk and he actually ate some of that. Also fruit cups - he'd never had them so was like a treat. It was 4 days that I was able to get a cracker and a ocouple sticks of cheese in him. He lost so much weight.
Oh no! I can't even imagine how miserable this must be. Like literally cannot imagine. Sending healing vibes to C so you can concentrate on getting baby out!
Thanks ladies!!! I have successfully gotten Chloe to eat. It was a mission plain tortilla and some warm water with sugar in it but it's SOMETHING!!
Also I started contractions again this morning (which have again fizzled out WTF) but they were pretty intense and painful so I'm hopeful. Everything I read is that it's prodromal labor and when it continues, your labor is normally really fast. So I'm so hoping that's the case.
Also, I keep telling myself that I need to recover from c being sick before I have an infant. Like I need to wash all of out bedding and clean the floors and get the dishes all clean and sanitized. I think once that's all complete I'll feel so much more relaxed. It's crazy how much more emotionally sane I am now that I got Chloe to eat something. The worry of parenting is unreal and I legit lost my shit and ugly cried so many times this weekend. I just wanted to curl up in a bawl and sulk in my own pitifulness.
Thanks for making me smile with all of your encouragement. I have all these visions for how things should go and then when it falls apart, I take it so hard. It's my type A personality and I am really trying to get some control on that.
Thanks ladies!!! I have successfully gotten Chloe to eat. It was a mission plain tortilla and some warm water with sugar in it but it's SOMETHING!!
Also I started contractions again this morning (which have again fizzled out WTF) but they were pretty intense and painful so I'm hopeful. Everything I read is that it's prodromal labor and when it continues, your labor is normally really fast. So I'm so hoping that's the case.
Also, I keep telling myself that I need to recover from c being sick before I have an infant. Like I need to wash all of out bedding and clean the floors and get the dishes all clean and sanitized. I think once that's all complete I'll feel so much more relaxed. It's crazy how much more emotionally sane I am now that I got Chloe to eat something. The worry of parenting is unreal and I legit lost my shit and ugly cried so many times this weekend. I just wanted to curl up in a bawl and sulk in my own pitifulness.
Thanks for making me smile with all of your encouragement. I have all these visions for how things should go and then when it falls apart, I take it so hard. It's my type A personality and I am really trying to get some control on that.
While I am not in labor, I totally feel you on everything else. Is there family or friends that can help you with a deep clean once you head to the hospital so you can just come home to a nice clean house? Or even a cleaning service you can hire for a one time deep clean?
In reality I'd love to have a deep clean service come in but it's $400 and I just can't justify that when I know I'm capable(although reluctant) to do it myself. And it is a really satisfying feeling for me to get all of my cleaning done. I enjoy it so as long as I have the time and C cooperates. I'm hoping I can send her back to school tomorrow. scout251
footloose I wish I could have my H do it. I asked him twice to clean the kitchen. He put all of the dishes in the sink, wiped down the counters and that was it. No empty of dishwasher, no cleaning the stove from the very gross mess he made, and not a wipe down of a single appliance. And I complained at him about it and he said that if I had anything else I'd like to complain about a different time would be nice. So in lieu of starting a big fight on top of everything else going on, I'll bow out on this one and approach it at a different time. I don't have the energy to argue.
I really wish he could see the bigger picture and what needs to be done on his own. Don't kill yourself to do it though as you will be kicking yourself later in labour when you are exhausted.
Post by SpinsOffResonance on May 22, 2017 19:10:09 GMT -5
Um that is ridiculous, I would make your DH a *detailed* list with exactly what you need him to do before the baby comes. After all you need to rest and save your energy to push baby out. He can handle the dishes.
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