Post by housecarder on Mar 24, 2015 14:31:43 GMT -5
Speaking of Facebook posts: my family had 4 babies born in the last year to cousins and two of my sisters and another 3 cousins are currently pregnant and expecting before June. My younger sister just posted that after everyone is done having their babies that she needs us all to take a break because she needs a time out for a while from the baby fever. And she knows we are TTC so I feel like it was aimed at me. Also she and my brother (who has stated that he isn't having any until at least a year or two after his wedding this summer) are the only other ones without a new baby. I posted in response that I wasn't making any promises.
My nanny knows we are trying to have another baby and I'm pretty open with her about my treatments because she's the only "friend" I have down here. Plus I have to drop off DD at her house every time I go to the RE so things eventually come out. We were talking about my old boss having IUI done, who is 38. She said, "Isn't she too old to be even having children?" And I said, "She's 38." And then she said "Yeah, that is waaaayy too old. I can't even imagine having more kids at my age." SHE JUST FUCKING TURNED 34 LAST WEEKEND! I said that she's not even considered advanced maternal age and that I planned on having kids up until 40 if that's what it took to get me the family I dreamed of. She looked at me like I was out of my damn mind. I am so angry at her.
ETA she had her kids at 19, 21, and 23.
I would not have been able to restrain myself from saying, "Well, I can't imagine having a child as a teenager - waaaaaaaaay too young! Luckily we aren't constrained by other people's narrow-minded imaginations, amirite?" Or maybe, "Yeah, I guess you could be a GRANDMOTHER at 38, right??" UGH.
Lol, good point. I should just start calling her "grandma".
teraiin, I can't believe she tagged you, that's fucking messed up. I would be livid. What the hell with those comments, too? How humiliating, JFC. I'm so sorry. @emilie818, when we didn't have kids yet, I would just sigh, roll my eyes and say "When the time is right for both of us."
Mine is the coworker who said to me, "Time to have another one!" when I made mention that my toddler will be 19 months on Sunday. If she only knew my struggle...
I think I have the same coworker!! And neighbor...
I don't have any kids yet, but how do you guys respond when you get the inevitable "are YOU guys thinking about having kids?" question? I just say, "sure, one of these days" and change the subject. But man, it seems like I have people asking me several times a week now (coworkers, friends, family). Because obviously it is 100% their business.
It's a bit different since we already have one, because they're always like "you need another one!11elventy!" But people definitely asked us that before too. We just sort of shrugged it off.
Here too. 30 seconds after Smudge was born people started asking when we were going to give him a sibling. Um, eff you. Maybe we should see if we majorly screw up the first one before we have another? I kill cacti, people should not be so anxious for me to procreate.
This is pretty common with white gold rings - but it's often not the white gold that people are sensitive to, but nickel. Nickel is in most white gold jewelry (though I know some places are starting to phase out the nickel alloy in favor of palladium due to the large number of people sensitive to nickel). It could also be dermatitis from moisture under the ring (I get this from my non-white gold ring sometime).
Yes! I have a nickel sensitivity and my ring begins to itch when my ring needs to be re-dipped. White gold is an alloy of gold and at least one other white metal (nickel, palladium, etc). Then the whole thing is plated (dipped) in rhodium for durability. After a few years (or less, depending on the acidity of your skin and how often you handle chemicals, etc) white gold has to be replated with the rhodium or the gold and white metal will come in contact with your skin.
Rhodium! That's what I couldn't remember - thank you! I gotta go get my rings dipped - I'm sad not wearing them, but the red welt on my finger is gross too
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