Confessions??

[kona]

Jul 7, 2016 15:50:43 GMT -5 karlamo said:

Jul 7, 2016 12:15:53 GMT -5 Stringy said:

That'd be great if my wife wasn't back at work already! Luckily I can send the toddler off somewhere most days.

She's 3. Is that no longer a toddler?

That's rough. MW took a month off then I was solo with both kids full time. I'm glad M has a place to go. It's hard juggling them both when dealing with newborn. We hit a turning point at 5 months when it got easier.

All of this terrifies me...

[Stringy]

Jul 7, 2016 18:50:14 GMT -5 kona said:

Jul 7, 2016 15:50:43 GMT -5 karlamo said:

That's rough. MW took a month off then I was solo with both kids full time. I'm glad M has a place to go. It's hard juggling them both when dealing with newborn. We hit a turning point at 5 months when it got easier.

All of this terrifies me...

Yea 5 months is like forever from now.

[karlamo]

Jul 7, 2016 19:33:41 GMT -5 Stringy said:

Jul 7, 2016 18:50:14 GMT -5 kona said:

All of this terrifies me...

Yea 5 months is like forever from now.

I'm sorry I totally laughed when I read this. It is forever away. God, I can't tell you how many days I cried in the beginning. It's so freaking hard and nothing like when our wives had our first. They got to be catered to and had so much help around. For me, it was like day 2 I'm at the f*cking park with a toddler who wants to run around while I'm wearing a pad the size of a phone book. I honestly remember thinking to myself, I will never be pregnant again. It's not for me. The pp recovery was not something I was prepared for. It's brutal.

Hang tight strings. Unfortunately the only cure for the newborn phase/adjustment period is time.

[Stringy]

Jul 7, 2016 20:24:53 GMT -5 karlamo said:

Jul 7, 2016 19:33:41 GMT -5 Stringy said:

Yea 5 months is like forever from now.

I'm sorry I totally laughed when I read this. It is forever away. God, I can't tell you how many days I cried in the beginning. It's so freaking hard and nothing like when our wives had our first. They got to be catered to and had so much help around. For me, it was like day 2 I'm at the f*cking park with a toddler who wants to run around while I'm wearing a pad the size of a phone book. I honestly remember thinking to myself, I will never be pregnant again. It's not for me. The pp recovery was not something I was prepared for. It's brutal.

Hang tight strings. Unfortunately the only cure for the newborn phase/adjustment period is time.

And there's a reason to keep our board around. No one else gets how freak ing easy it was with the first kid. I had time off. We were both home with one baby for months. She had a vaginal birth. We rented.

Now it's like super long commutes for her- back a week after I was home from a c section and need to cart a toddler around. Honestly if my mom wasn't around im not sure what we'd be doing. Oh and the lawn needs mowing lol.

[wittyandwaiting]

Jul 8, 2016 7:43:07 GMT -5 Kristykristyleelee said:

Also, no one ever posted a gif.

So here ya go.



/appropriate
/relevant

Lol. Perfect GIF.

[2brides]

Granted I didn't have a toddler and a newborn, but L went back to work PT (aka as full time) at 2 weeks and FT (aka 50 hrs/week +) at 4w. I used to bawl my eyes out. I was so exhausted and so hormonal and L would leave the house for work saying, "I'm scared to leave you home with them." That made me feel awful.

I am wearing a sleeveless shirt today to work. I feel so naked.

[cetcar]

This is our longest dry spell. I would say we used to have sex at least once a week but since M was born, we are mainly focused on just going to sleep.

Maybe we all should remember, sometimes it's best after a break! We lived on opposite coasts for two years and I would find that to be the case whenever we saw each other.

To answer an earlier question, personally, I think it's hormonal changes post pregnancy, feeling queasy at night and being pretty large there at the end that it wasn't as comfortable (though we did try to speed things along during labor), M sleeping in our room (the rest of our house has big windows and not much privacy), and out of the habit of doing it.

I don't know but a challenge may make me feel nervous.....perhaps it's just me.

[cetcar]

Post pregnancy, I have incontinence issues. Horseback riding and jump jacks are particularly troublesome. Not something I expected when we talked about having a baby.

[esquette]

We haven't had sex since we got our BFP. I haven't felt good enough most of the time, and Sweetie is honestly a little freaked out by pregnancy. She's been a champ and completely supportive, but I think the concept of having sex with the baby in there freaks her out. I'm afraid we'll end up in the Its Been Years camp. It really does worry me. I kind of liked when we were TTC (at home) because it meant we were fooling around once a month.

[wittyandwaiting]

I have the Kimoji app on my phone.

And I use it.

Also, like cetcar, a challenge may make me nervous. I'm just going to go for it v