Post by applemuffins on May 6, 2017 11:30:02 GMT -5
We just finished our hospital tour. It seems like pretty much the same deal as the hospital I went to the first time, but the recovery rooms are private which is the reason why I chose this hospital even though it's further. The hospital is kosher, and so was my last one, which means food options don't seem so great, but could be worse. Even the vending machines. Not one candy in sight and the limited soda available was diet lol There are no particular things they have to help with natural birth like the balls or a tub or even shower or anything, but overall their policies seem to be in line with what I prefer.
Otherwise, it's a low key weekend. Husband and I have a lotnof computer work to do, me with finals and him catching up on stuff he couldn't get to through the week since he has been super busy.
sabrinaml I hope you can have fun for a little while! Are you planning to head home early? I went to a bachelorette party earlier this pregnancy and went to dinner and like an hour at a bar but then I went home and didn't spend the night in the hotel with the other girls.
sabrinaml I hope you can have fun for a little while! Are you planning to head home early? I went to a bachelorette party earlier this pregnancy and went to dinner and like an hour at a bar but then I went home and didn't spend the night in the hotel with the other girls.
I'm to a point where everything is making me uncomfortable. *dear child, please start to drop and get out of my lungs!* I also do not like the way 90% of my clothes look on me and MOH picked a stupid dress code (glitz and glam. Basically sequins or glitter. Cause that will look great on my 34 week pregnant self) I have a shirt that can work but no black dress pants that go with it (and I wasn't spending $30+ on pants to only wear tonight.) So now I'm going to be self conscious wearing black leggings (shirt isn't long enough for me to comfortably wear the leggings) Since I'm in the wedding it will probably be frowned upon if I try to ditch out too early. (And the stupid thing starts at 3ish.) I'm already arriving late because DH has to work today.
Low key weekend here too. It's going to be cloudy, rainy, and cool all weekend.
Yesterday was my spa afternoon and then dinner with my friend who was visiting. It was nice and relaxing even though the weather was gross - so our pool time involved sitting covered in towels as blankets - but it was still great to catch up. My friend has a 4-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy and it is so nice to compare notes and have it reinforced that the annoying things my kids do sometimes and the two working parent challenges are totally normal
Gymnastics now, then I'm bribing the kids to go to gym daycare so I can exercise - I told them that tomorrow we can all go back to the Y to go swimming. DD has a birthday party at noon. She still naps but most of her friends don't. I really need that nap so I can sit down for an hour on weekend days! So my plan is to leave at 2 and have her take a later nap, but I'm sure it will be a struggle to get her to leave her friends, especially if no cake has been served yet.
Tomorrow is DH'a birthday. So I'll let him sleep in while the kids and I bake him a cake and wrap his presents. Then I think we'll go swimming and go out for either lunch or dinner at some kind of place he likes that I'm usually not up for. Pretty low key since we have no family nearby.
sabrinaml do you have a long black tank you could wear under the sequins and over the leggings? I say you do whatever you want in terms of dress and how long you stay!!
DH and DD are up at his parents' for the weekend. I stayed back because I was too anxious to be that far from my hospital especially since I know the baby is even more high risk than we thought. I am using the time to get a million errands done and now chilling after doing 12 errands this morning.
sabrinaml do you have a long black tank you could wear under the sequins and over the leggings? I say you do whatever you want in terms of dress and how long you stay!!
Sequin top won't work out. Too tight on my belly (and pretty tight in my boobs). So my fall back is now a light blue tank top with a navy, light blue and white striped maxi skirt. Much more comfortable but doesn't go with the theme at all. Oh and my fleece because I have 0 cardigans and it's a little chilly out. I don't even care anymore. If I would have known I was going to be pregnant (let alone this far along) when the girl asked me to be in the wedding I would have said no.
sabrinaml do you have a long black tank you could wear under the sequins and over the leggings? I say you do whatever you want in terms of dress and how long you stay!!
Sequin top won't work out. Too tight on my belly (and pretty tight in my boobs). So my fall back is now a light blue tank top with a navy, light blue and white striped maxi skirt. Much more comfortable but doesn't go with the theme at all. Oh and my fleece because I have 0 cardigans and it's a little chilly out. I don't even care anymore. If I would have known I was going to be pregnant (let alone this far along) when the girl asked me to be in the wedding I would have said no.
Wear what is comfortable. Don't worry about the dress code. I find those dumb anyway. You're pregnant, very pregnant, so you get a pass on clothes and also leaving early. Go home when you need to.
I'm kind of glad my friend's bachelorette party is the same day as my shower and my family will be in town so I can't go at all. It's an all-day thing and I definitely don't have the energy for that right now.
sabrinaml I hope you can have fun for a little while! Are you planning to head home early? I went to a bachelorette party earlier this pregnancy and went to dinner and like an hour at a bar but then I went home and didn't spend the night in the hotel with the other girls.
This is only baby #2. But my son was born at 41 weeks by dates. However that was really 40+2 if you go by his dating ultrasound. It was 5 days off but they won't change the date until 7 days. In any case, I'm quite confident in the correct due date for this guy. Hopefully he makes his appearance right on time. Although I was not complain about at 38-39 week delivery.
We got our maternity pics back. The more I look at them, the more I love them. Really excited about our photographer doing our newborn session in just a few weeks! Here are some of my faves (under spoiler). I blurred out our faces for internet privacy.
H loves them as well, but doesn't understand why we need more than one photo. I've trained him fairly well about photography (being a photographer myself), so he got an eyebrow raise, but I'll let it slide.
marshian the maternity pics look great! I always find it hard to justify spending money on a photographer so I've never had maternity or newborn pictures taken. I should, because I'm terrible at taking pictures myself, as are my family members. I think this fall I will hire someone to do family pictures.
sabrinaml I'm late, but also on team wear what's comfortable and leave when you're tired!
I feel like I've been absent and just popping in with a couple random posts recently. We finally have nice weather so I've spent almost every spare moment outside working on my yard this week. I'm getting some projects checked off and it feels great. I've always been nervous to prune things because I don't really know how and didn't want to wreck anything, but this year I decided to just go for it. So I've been hacking away at overgrown shrubs/trees and my apple trees. I still don't know what I'm doing, but it looks a lot better!
Post by applemuffins on May 6, 2017 15:59:54 GMT -5
brandiewine11 just yesterday I was thinking how glad I am that my due date is towards the beginning of the month this time. It seems to make things go faster, even though it's all the same amount of time. DD was due at the the end of the month and it definitely felt like it took forever for her due date to approach.
Me: 29 DH: 35 NTNP since May 2013 charting since June 2014 dx: Graves disease (radioactive iodine), Crohns disease (abdominal surgeries) MMC October 2015 (9 weeks) Severe MFI diagnosis July 2015
brandiewine11 just yesterday I was thinking how glad I am that my due date is towards the beginning of the month this time. It seems to make things go faster, even though it's all the same amount of time. DD was due at the the end of the month and it definitely felt like it took forever for her due date to approach.
Ditto. DS was due July 21st and was born on the 31st, so I was definitely in the caboose. Being due the 13th of the month this time definitely feels faster!
My pregnancy rage is bad this weekend. I can't control it, I swear. Then immediately after, I feel horrible. Please tell me I'm not the only one 😭 Any plans I had for this weekend are gone because I can't even. Lol.
I have a bachelorette party to go to tonight. Wish me luck, I'm not looking forward to it at all.
Obviously I'm late to the game but I'm team use your pregnancy as an "excuse" to go against dress code and to leave early (it's hardly an excuse imo because being comfortable and not exhausting yourself are important when you're pregnant and I hope they respect that.) I hope you're having fun!
brandiewine11 just yesterday I was thinking how glad I am that my due date is towards the beginning of the month this time. It seems to make things go faster, even though it's all the same amount of time. DD was due at the the end of the month and it definitely felt like it took forever for her due date to approach.
I generally like being due at the beginning of the month too, except my last kid was due the 3rd. He came 10 days late and ended up being one of the last babies born on the board. I was so incredibly jealous!! This time, I think I'm so anxious for my rainbow that the whole pregnancy is dragging.
My pregnancy rage is bad this weekend. I can't control it, I swear. Then immediately after, I feel horrible. Please tell me I'm not the only one 😭 Any plans I had for this weekend are gone because I can't even. Lol.
Soul sisters. My BFF thinks super pregnant me is hilarious to watch sometimes because I just have no effs to give at this stage in the game.
Post by teachermomtobe on May 7, 2017 6:13:22 GMT -5
applemuffins, can you bring your own food/snacks to the hospital? sabrinaml, hope the bachelorette party was ok. Was it for a friend or family member? I think I would have understood if a member of the bridal party was pregnant and they didn't stay the whole time! marshian, great maternity pics! bagels, sorry you are feeling the pregnancy rage!
I'm at my parents for the weekend because I had another shower at their house yesterday. It was very small and mostly my mom's aunts and cousins and friends. It was very nice. Our registry is pretty much finished and we got some cute clothes! DH stayed home to do stuff around the house. I'm laying in bed still at their house and the bed sucks. Definitely no more traveling now for me, I just want to be home and nesting!
ETA: oh and my allergies suck so bad this week. So bad!
Update in last nights bachelorette party. Was for a friend who has no clue what it's like to have small children or be pregnant. She seemed pretty ungrateful about everything. What I stayed for she spent 85% of the time texting on her phone. Add the cigarette breaks and I feel like she was pre-occupied the entire time. I arrived around 4:15 when some of the girls were still getting ready. We were supposed to head next door for cocktail hour at 5. We got there right at 6 when our murder mystery started. (Sorry to the girl who sat at the bar alone waiting for everyone to finish getting ready. I didn't really know her and wasn't volunteering to meet up with her, especially since I couldn't drink.) dinner reservations were across town at 7:30. We had to bump them back to 8:15 because of course, running late. I believe it was 9:15/30 before I got my dinner. I was hoping to be home and in bed around 10. Didn't get home until 11. Bride seemed annoyed that I was leaving at 10:15. Thankfully no one said anything about me not following dress code (though I can see bride making a comment after I left.) Also, I have never had so many people just start rubbing my belly!! Thankfully it was just some of the girls I was with but still. It's one thing I can't stand and of course there was no asking first.
applemuffins, sadly no. Everyone there was over 25. (There was only 1 person under 33 there. Took so long getting ready because it was one girl having to do hair and makeup for 3 other people besides herself.) But as a bridesmaid there was no way I could have backed out unless I was on bedrest or in labor. I will not be staying that late at the wedding and if someone other than my husband touches my belly I will probably lose my mind.
Post by starsandshamrocks123 on May 7, 2017 8:22:38 GMT -5
sabrinaml you are way more patient than I would have been! I would have opted out in the first place.
The only event I've committed to is a baby shower in 2 weeks. TBH I'm looking forward to it so much because DH will watch DS, I get and afternoon out, a lovely meal, and I'm in perfect frame of mind to see all the cute baby gifts!
sabrinaml - Sounds like an irritating night. I can't stand being late, especially when other people are waiting on you (i.e. that girl at the bar). Also WTF is up with the bride on her phone the majority of the time? I can't stand people who do that. Especially since everyone was there for her! You are better than me because dinner so late plus the belly touching would have had me being extremely curt if not mean to people.
Post by starsandshamrocks123 on May 7, 2017 8:52:32 GMT -5
Ugh so I'm a private person and sort of superstitious. I've intentionally kept any pregnancy news off FB and asked my family to do the same. I've been excited for it to be a surprise when she arrives!! Well my mom indirectly outted me in a picture that a few family members are tagged in. Something along the lines of "all of our grandchildren, but expecting another in 3 weeks"... I'm not tagged because I have my privacy settings as such, but she tagged my sister who has like 800 friends, too. It's obviously not my sister due in 3 weeks (she's in the pics) so I kind of freaked out and called her and was like WTF, take that comment down and hung up. Am I overreacting?!
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