BF MONDAY 04/27/2015

[yalllow]

What's your bitch?

[yalllow]

1. It's Monday and I hate Fucking Mondays.
2. I meet my new boss today.
3. My right arm is killing me from shoveling dirt and raking it out yesterday. 
4. End of month= paperwork.

[meggsm]

LO is sick, and she puked on her, me and the bathroom. And she has a fever. And I have a project deadline in two days. So I'm sitting on the couch snuggling her and will totally be messed up for te rest of the week. But the snuggling is nice.

[babycaps]

I have two full days of "not being in my office" things this week because of hospital projects that are hardly related to the NICU. This kind of week SUCKS for my productivity.

[ellabee]

1) AF is here. Boo.
2) Had a bad day yesterday. DD was the whiniest and clingiest I've ever seen her. She fought her nap and wouldn't eat anything I offered her. Getting clothes and diapers on were chest-arching screaming battles. She found a way to push her sippy cup spout in such a way that milk will leak out and she repeatedly did this all over the house despite me telling her no and trying to employ all of my patient calm discipline/distraction/diversion techniques. To top it all off, she bit me. I think it was an accident because she was just trying to mouth my shirt, but damn baby teeth are sharp. She was rubbing her eyes and yawning during dinner (which she refused), so I ended up putting her to bed a full hour early. Even though she was tired, she cried before she fell asleep, which she never does. I felt like such a failure. I curled up in a ball in bed at 6:30 and cried. Sigh... I feel awful for thinking "thank god she's in daycare today". I'm a terrible mother.

ETA: thanks for listening to my pity party. 

[younglove316]

DD & I were supposed to go on a walk today with my friend and her son and once again the weather decided to become cold & rainy.

Also really sick of my in laws saying comments about never seeing DD or stupid stuff yet they never reach out to us and then yesterday we see they all got together for the day and dinner.

[younglove316]

@ellabee you aren't a terrible mother, we all have our days! It's rough with them because they cannot tell us why they are acting out or what is wrong and sometimes no matter how hard we try, it just isn't good enough. Good news is though that you did try and it shows you care by how upset you got! I'm a SAHM but I will day there have been a few days that I count down until bedtime and that's the highlight of my day.

[katka512]

We had hardly any family time this weekend. ILs came at noon on Saturday and didn't leave until 4 on Sunday! They did babysit so we could go out to dinner Saturday night, and I really appreciate that. But they should have gone home Sunday morning! So I feel like I had hardly any weekend.

And mil refuses to acknowledge that LO bears any resemblance to anyone in my family. LO looks just like my mom did as a baby and when I told mil and showed her pics, all she could say was I think LO and (her daughter's LO) look soooo much alike. All I've heard since Los birth is how much she looks like someone in mil's family.

[fishbulb]

ellabee, we all have those days. We had a couple last week right before his first molar broke through the gums. When in doubt, I blame it on teething.

[yalllow]

Apr 27, 2015 9:02:17 GMT -5 ellabee said:

1) AF is here. Boo.
2) Had a bad day yesterday. DD was the whiniest and clingiest I've ever seen her. She fought her nap and wouldn't eat anything I offered her. Getting clothes and diapers on were chest-arching screaming battles. She found a way to push her sippy cup spout in such a way that milk will leak out and she repeatedly did this all over the house despite me telling her no and trying to employ all of my patient calm discipline/distraction/diversion techniques. To top it all off, she bit me. I think it was an accident because she was just trying to mouth my shirt, but damn baby teeth are sharp. She was rubbing her eyes and yawning during dinner (which she refused), so I ended up putting her to bed a full hour early. Even though she was tired, she cried before she fell asleep, which she never does. I felt like such a failure. I curled up in a ball in bed at 6:30 and cried. Sigh... I feel awful for thinking "thank god she's in daycare today". I'm a terrible mother.

ETA: thanks for listening to my pity party. 

I wish I could tell you differently on how you feel - but I've so been there and done that. The times we will end up bawling ourselves to sleep.... hugs mother to mother!

[yalllow]

... it's not even 11AM here in MI and the bitches are out at my work. HAPPY MONDAY. 

[human1]

LO is consistently waking up between 5-530 am. I really don't know what to do or how to fix it. It doesn't make a bit of difference when she goes to bed, still up at 5. This has been going on 2-3 months now. For a couple weeks it seemed to help just leaving her and she'd go back to sleep. But now she just makes so much noise she wakes up the whole damn house. Not crying, just yelling "hi mammaaaaa" and "doggie? Where doggie?" And throwing anything she can reach, etc. So I either go get her out of her crib when she starts making noise at 5 am, or I leave her and by 515 the whole house is awake and I have a tired baby AND a crabby 2 year old.

I'm just so tired. Not to mention then this kid wants to nap at 730 am, and that just effs up the whole day.

[kimberpoo]

ugh. I said last Monday that I didn't have any bitches...be careful what you wish for!!!
LO keeps waking up earlier and earlier. I usually just leave him and he falls back asleep, but he's been sick for the last few days so he can't fall back to sleep because he's too stuffy&uncomfortable. poor guy.
I miss my LO. I feel like I don't get any quality time with him during the week and then not enough of it on the weekend. something's gotta change. I miss my kid.
DH has been driving me NUTS. he uses 'being tired' and his 'crappy work schedule' as an excuse for everything. but /I'M/ the one who does everything, plus I work full time. laundry? me. cleaning? me. taking care of lo? me. grocery shopping and cooking? me. I'm so sick of it. some days he is awesome and does a lot...but a lot of days he doesn't even do the dishes (his one chore) so then I'm stuck doing them because I need clean bottles for lo. does he ever get LO's stuff ready for the next day? nope. does he ever make ME lunch? nope. and then last night he was acting like a jerk and then he wonders why I'm so cold to him this morning. then he tries to blame being mean to me on 'being tired'. He seriously needs to learn to apologize...and I'm about to teach him.

[ellabee]

Thanks younglove316, fishbulb, yalllow.

Daycare just called and said that DD has had 3 diarrheas and has to come home. Maybe that explains some of yesterday...who knows.

[babycaps]

Yet again I'm in a meeting about a meeting and there is absolutely no reason for me to be here but I can't leave.

[zandeela]

kimberpoo, I am right there with you. DH will do some small task then want so much praise for it. Like I put the dishes in the dish washer, well goody for you, sis you do laundry, fold it and put it away, did you clean the house, Did you take care of DD, or empty her diaper bin, or feed her? Well I did all that and cooked dinner. I don't want a cookie for it, but help with all of that would be nice. I am really tempted to leave DD with DH for a weekend so he can see what all is involved. I don't think he understands how exhausting watching her is.

[sanibel21]

Apr 27, 2015 9:52:28 GMT -5 human1 said:

LO is consistently waking up between 5-530 am. I really don't know what to do or how to fix it. It doesn't make a bit of difference when she goes to bed, still up at 5. This has been going on 2-3 months now. For a couple weeks it seemed to help just leaving her and she'd go back to sleep. But now she just makes so much noise she wakes up the whole damn house. Not crying, just yelling "hi mammaaaaa" and "doggie? Where doggie?" And throwing anything she can reach, etc. So I either go get her out of her crib when she starts making noise at 5 am, or I leave her and by 515 the whole house is awake and I have a tired baby AND a crabby 2 year old.

I'm just so tired. Not to mention then this kid wants to nap at 730 am, and that just effs up the whole day.

We are early risers here too! Its just awful.. Sleep deprivation/disruption is just the worst... This morning she slept later than she ever has and the only thing different was that she still seemed hungry last night so we gave her a peanut butter sandwich. I'm thinking maybe the peanut butter is calorie dense and kept her full longer?? Or it was just a fluke, but you can bet shes getting another one tonight!!

[angelsnight]

kimberpoo,same here. I do everything for LO save for the occasional diaper change MH will do. I put her to bed every night, I give her her baths, I feed her, do her laundry, everything.

Last night I wanted to go to my brother's to watch Game of Thrones. LO would be asleep, she usually doesn't wake up but so what if she does, he's her FATHER and he can deal with it. He gave me crap about going. When the time came, I got ready, handed him the monitor and left. He claims she woke up three times. That could be true since she somehow knows when I leave....but he could very easily have made that up to make me feel guilty, which I dont....at all.

[angelsnight]

My B, Lo hates things on her head. We got all ready to go for our first bike ride in the bike trailer, I strapped her in, tried putting on her helmet but no, she kept taking it off before I could snap the chin strap.

I kept telling her we can't go for a bike ride without the helmet (more so for my neighbors' sake so they don't think I am torturing my kid since she was crying so hard) but she wouldn't leave it on so we couldn't go.

I was so bummed, I was really looking forward to it. My only idea is to force it on her in the house for like 5 minutes a day and hope she gets used to it so we can ride.

[younglove316]

Apr 27, 2015 9:52:28 GMT -5 human1 said:

LO is consistently waking up between 5-530 am. I really don't know what to do or how to fix it. It doesn't make a bit of difference when she goes to bed, still up at 5. This has been going on 2-3 months now. For a couple weeks it seemed to help just leaving her and she'd go back to sleep. But now she just makes so much noise she wakes up the whole damn house. Not crying, just yelling "hi mammaaaaa" and "doggie? Where doggie?" And throwing anything she can reach, etc. So I either go get her out of her crib when she starts making noise at 5 am, or I leave her and by 515 the whole house is awake and I have a tired baby AND a crabby 2 year old.

I'm just so tired. Not to mention then this kid wants to nap at 730 am, and that just effs up the whole day.

We are in the same boat here except she will go to about 6 and if I'm lucky 630. She's awake though and absolutely will not go back down but then by 830 she's a cranky mess. I wish she understood me when I say if you would just sleep later we wouldn't be in thus predicament haha

[angelsnight]

I have one more...last month I Od for the first time since LO was born. I started metformin so that is probably why. It was around CD19 (wasn't temping so can only go by OPKs) which is the norm for me. I've been testing with OPKs now for over a week and still nothing, today is CD25. I know a late O isn't weird, but I am tired of going through my stash for one cycle.

Plus we're trying to track O as a form of birth control and we'd rather not use condoms. Of course when I can't do it because I could O soon, is when I've kind of felt like it lately.

[bebeski]

I live in Baltimore. I work right where the chaos is. Nuff said.

ETA: can't wait to get the eff outta here.

[karebear]

Work sucks today.

[meggsm]

Back from the doc and the verdict is in- 1 roaring ear infection and a case of stomach flu. Fun - guess they're just going to have to wait for those drawings at work eh? Poor LO - she's miserable and meds aren't helping much. Mummy cuddles seem to do the trick tho:) fx antibiotics work quickly.

Also @ellabee could LO have the stomach flu? Mine had loose poops and diahrrea for a few days before she threw up. It's running rampant around here.

[lakecountrygal]

ellabee we went through that last week, I hope she feels better soon!!

My bitch: DH has a meeting the 1 night I asked him to take me out to dinner this week because we were both off according to th calendars. He should have known to put the meeting on the calendar right away so stuff like this didn't happen.

[linzerd]

Soooo...my brother is moving in upstairs, and we cannot get out of here fast enough. He was up there all weekend making a ton of noise and on Sat. night when I went up there to tell him he needed to be quiet b/c I was putting A to bed, he gave me total attitude because he is a 40 year old going on 15 who is beyond self absorbed and has no consideration for ANYONE but himself. Seriously, good luck to his fiance, she's so cracked for marrying this loser.

Then my father has been re-doing our stairs outside so there is no railing on them, so my brother just HAD to move out a bureau from upstairs right then, and my dad fell OFF the stairs while trying to move it and broke his ankle last night. So now the stairs and nothing else will be able to be finished or worked on for like 2 months.

Lastly, I have been working at home since the beginning of the year and my neck pain has been steadily increasing making it hard to do my job. I had to go into my office yesterday and while I was there, I asked my psycho boss if I could take my old chair from the office home since it works well for my back. The crazy that is my boss suggested I take some crappy chair from the conference room. Well then she went into the conference room for a meeting, and I found my old crappy chair at another empty cube. So, no one was using it. So I took that. Then I check my email today and she had emailed me about taking the wrong chair. So I just emailed her back WITH pictures to show her how crappy this chair is AND that it is falling apart, and she hasn't responded. She is just so crazy and I know this story doesn't really convey that, but seriously. Control freak to the maximus this woman, and I know she is just pissed because I didn't take the chair that she had control over me taking. I'm going to try to insert a pic here, but I don't think I know how to do it right...

[yalllow]

Apr 27, 2015 17:03:32 GMT -5 bebeski said:

I live in Baltimore. I work right where the chaos is. Nuff said.

ETA: can't wait to get the eff outta here.

how is it going today?? Sorry this is happening to your city.

[younglove316]

Apr 28, 2015 14:54:29 GMT -5 yalllow said:

Apr 27, 2015 17:03:32 GMT -5 bebeski said:

I live in Baltimore. I work right where the chaos is. Nuff said.

ETA: can't wait to get the eff outta here.

how is it going today?? Sorry this is happening to your city.

This. Not trying to start a debate but I don't get the logic behind destroying your own city.

[yalllow]

Yeah- destroying hard working people's things/ businesses, etc. seems like an oxymoron to people's rights.

[bebeski]

yalllow - thanks for asking. Things are starting to calm down. National guard is still in front of my hospital/on corners. It definitely is scary and I have had to change how I get to and from work. I also don't take walks outside anymore; I just don't feel that safe yet. younglove316 - There is no logic; they have destroyed their own community and livelihood. But there is more good happening now than earlier this week.