Post by mrsmonogrammed on Sept 17, 2015 11:56:55 GMT -5
Went to go pump and found that I didn't pack one of those stupid little membranes. I thought I was doomed to pump 1 side at a time but it turns out we have them here at work! So I have an extra package in my pump bag now in case it ever happens again:) sooooo relieved that I can double pump!
Went to go pump and found that I didn't pack one of those stupid little membranes. I thought I was doomed to pump 1 side at a time but it turns out we have them here at work! So I have an extra package in my pump bag now in case it ever happens again:) sooooo relieved that I can double pump!
I need to do that. And extra bottle tops. I keep having to wrap them in Saran Wrap.
Today at Target there was an older woman (I presume was grandma from what she was saying) walking around with two small children in her cart, maybe 1yo and 3yo. I heard the youngest ask "more please" and "I want more" and I hear the lady say "yeah? How's it feel to want??". I shit you not. Turns out the kid was asking for more puffs to eat. She then went off on them about how she can't get any shopping done because she has to feed them and then talked shit about their parents for asking her to take them. He again asked for more and she AGAIN asked him how it felt to want something (in a very condescending tone). I just stood there dumbfounded in the next aisle over. I gave her THE dirtiest look I could muster as she walked by the end of the aisle I was in. It made me sick and I wanted so badly to say something, but I didn't know what to say or how to say it. I can't get over it.
Would you have done or said anything?
My dad used to say this to me all the time when I was younger, so this really pushes my buttons (he is a very self-centered, manipulative prick and we no longer speak). I don't think I would have said something but she definitely would have gotten the side-eye from me.
Reading this made my skin crawl. @bubbs119, I'd like to think I would say something, but I'm also a chicken shit who wouldn't want to deal with the confrontation.
I've another one! I often think about girpipley and I occasionally check her profile and I've noticed she hadn't been active in a while, I'm hoping all is ok with her and her baby. Anyone have any updates?
I also realise this makes me a complete internet stalker :/
She's doing well! She's 14.5 weeks. She and her new hubby just got back into the states today after a little honeymoon action. She does have an accreta again but they are being hypervilgilant about her monitoring. Little flipper will definitely be making a scheduled appearance prior to Cait's due date. How early will depend on the accreta. She can obviously use all the T&Ps that you guys have to offer that the accreta moves and baby can stay cooking as close to DD as possible!
Thanks for the update!! I've been thinking of her!
Just breathed a sigh of relief that the Feds did not raise interest rates. We are refinancing next month and I was panicked. To the newscaster today that said they will absolutely be raised he had no clue what he was talking about. Ron burgundy would not approve!
Post by carolyngrace on Sept 17, 2015 19:33:55 GMT -5
Just took a bath and was reading Anne Lemont's "Operating Instructions" (which is a journal of her son's first year of life). I was just fricking SOBBING in the bath, reading her talk about how time is moving too fast, and how much she loves him... I may have had a couple of margaritas tonight, so that's probably not helping, but I'm SO emotional about my baby today!!
Post by kemdupuis on Sept 17, 2015 21:03:58 GMT -5
Ok- weird question, but this happens every night without fail, so I'm trying to figure it out. I have a well established bedtime routine with B. We do a bath, read a book, he eats, and then we snuggle before I put him down. I try to put him down drowsy but awake, although sometimes he is legit sleeping. Anyway, EVERY night, he wakes up about an hour later, crying. He's not hungry, his diaper doesn't need changing, just crying because. I go in, settle him and put him back down, and then he sleeps until like, 4am. What gives? It's so weird... Anyone else?
Ok- weird question, but this happens every night without fail, so I'm trying to figure it out. I have a well established bedtime routine with B. We do a bath, read a book, he eats, and then we snuggle before I put him down. I try to put him down drowsy but awake, although sometimes he is legit sleeping. Anyway, EVERY night, he wakes up about an hour later, crying. He's not hungry, his diaper doesn't need changing, just crying because. I go in, settle him and put him back down, and then he sleeps until like, 4am. What gives? It's so weird... Anyone else?
Yup. This exactly, though sometimes O demands to be fed an hour later. But most of the time not. It's really odd.
Can I just rant for a minute here? I'm an optometrist and I work with two other doctors. I'm the only one that accepts medicare/medicaid patients. I rarely get reimbursed for these exams/glasses but I still do them because I believe clear sight is something everyone should get, esp children in poorer households that already are at a disadvantage. They shouldn't fall behind in school for something that can be fixed.
Anyways, a woman came in with her 7 year old daughter and I did exams on both of them. The mother wrote that she drinks about 2 fifths of whiskey a week and smokes 1 pack of cigarettes a day on her intake form. The mother had no prescription and I just went over how smoking affects the eyes esp since she has family history of certain eye diseases. The daughter had a pretty high prescription, like can't see more than 10 inches in front of her face. When I gave her a makeshift pair of glasses and told her to look out the window, she was so excited to see the leaves on trees.
So I invited them to look at frames and I hear the mom tell her kid to pick out whatever frames she likes. The optician was with another patient, so I quickly told her that she's welcome to buy whatever frames she wants, but the frames that are covered my medicaid are over here. Granted the kid frames come in all colors, but since the govt covers them, they're just basic frames. Not super cute or millions of options, but they do get replaced for free if they scratch or get broken an unlimited amount of times for one year.
The mother starts yelling at me that the higher end frames aren't covered and that she shouldnt be discriminated against getting whatever frames she wants for free. After several minutes of this, I finally snapped and suggested that if she wanted higher end frames that maybe she should cut down her drinking to one fifth a week and her smoking to half a pack a day for one week and come back and buy whatever she wanted and it'd be good for her health too. She grabbed her kid told me that she hopes I go to hell and stormed out. I ran after her to give her the kids prescription and said that regardless what she thinks of me, her kids NEEDS glasses and that I didn't care where she got them from as long as she got them. And then this bitch accused me of being a liar and said that she didn't even believe her kid needs glasses and that I probably made that up to get money. Then she ripped the prescription and tossed it on the pavement before leaving.
Ugh, I hate when stupid, selfish, assholes have children. I wish you had to take a test of common sense, compassion, prioritization etc before you could procreate. Is that an UO?
Tl;dr: dumb bitch gets mad that medicaid doesn't cover designer frames, and I'm still incensed about it three hours later
Post by kemdupuis on Sept 17, 2015 21:44:17 GMT -5
budders and carolyngrace do you think they'll just grow out of it? I don't know what to do, and it's breaking my heart that he's waking up crying every night
Ok- weird question, but this happens every night without fail, so I'm trying to figure it out. I have a well established bedtime routine with B. We do a bath, read a book, he eats, and then we snuggle before I put him down. I try to put him down drowsy but awake, although sometimes he is legit sleeping. Anyway, EVERY night, he wakes up about an hour later, crying. He's not hungry, his diaper doesn't need changing, just crying because. I go in, settle him and put him back down, and then he sleeps until like, 4am. What gives? It's so weird... Anyone else?
V does this sometimes too, although he's always sound asleep when he goes down, and if he's going to wake up it's usually within 20-30 minutes. I pick him up, sway him until he falls back asleep, and then lay him back down. I think on those nights he's just not as asleep as he needs to be.
+1 to this as well. I think she just wants extra comfort and cuddles before going to bed for the night.
budders and carolyngrace do you think they'll just grow out of it? I don't know what to do, and it's breaking my heart that he's waking up crying every night
Yes they outgrow it. DS did it for the entire first year though. Now he never does that
Can I just rant for a minute here? I'm an optometrist and I work with two other doctors. I'm the only one that accepts medicare/medicaid patients. I rarely get reimbursed for these exams/glasses but I still do them because I believe clear sight is something everyone should get, esp children in poorer households that already are at a disadvantage. They shouldn't fall behind in school for something that can be fixed.
Anyways, a woman came in with her 7 year old daughter and I did exams on both of them. The mother wrote that she drinks about 2 fifths of whiskey a week and smokes 1 pack of cigarettes a day on her intake form. The mother had no prescription and I just went over how smoking affects the eyes esp since she has family history of certain eye diseases. The daughter had a pretty high prescription, like can't see more than 10 inches in front of her face. When I gave her a makeshift pair of glasses and told her to look out the window, she was so excited to see the leaves on trees.
So I invited them to look at frames and I hear the mom tell her kid to pick out whatever frames she likes. The optician was with another patient, so I quickly told her that she's welcome to buy whatever frames she wants, but the frames that are covered my medicaid are over here. Granted the kid frames come in all colors, but since the govt covers them, they're just basic frames. Not super cute or millions of options, but they do get replaced for free if they scratch or get broken an unlimited amount of times for one year.
The mother starts yelling at me that the higher end frames aren't covered and that she shouldnt be discriminated against getting whatever frames she wants for free. After several minutes of this, I finally snapped and suggested that if she wanted higher end frames that maybe she should cut down her drinking to one fifth a week and her smoking to half a pack a day for one week and come back and buy whatever she wanted and it'd be good for her health too. She grabbed her kid told me that she hopes I go to hell and stormed out. I ran after her to give her the kids prescription and said that regardless what she thinks of me, her kids NEEDS glasses and that I didn't care where she got them from as long as she got them. And then this bitch accused me of being a liar and said that she didn't even believe her kid needs glasses and that I probably made that up to get money. Then she ripped the prescription and tossed it on the pavement before leaving.
Ugh, I hate when stupid, selfish, assholes have children. I wish you had to take a test of common sense, compassion, prioritization etc before you could procreate. Is that an UO?
Tl;dr: dumb bitch gets mad that medicaid doesn't cover designer frames, and I'm still incensed about it three hours later
Unfuckingbelievable. I absolutely have no words. Except that maybe this is finally the place to throw down this gem I've been saving for a while.
We have open house tonight and I am DREADING it. Since my students have severe disabilities, I only have 4 students and they all have pretty much individualized education, especially for reading, writing and math. It's hard to talk in general terms about what we're doing in the classroom, and I always get cornered into individual conversations, which is the opposite of what it supposed to happen.
Also, I miss out on pretty much an entire day with my baby.
I had open house last night too. It ended at 745 & I had planned to pump after the parents left since I have an hour commute. Nope, instead a parent that walked in at 735 wanted to talk about her kid. Granted I've already had to speak to her multiple times about his behavior, but lady I've been here since 715 am, please leave!
Jumping back in late to say nchauhan, you are such a wonderful person for accepting the Medicare/Medicaid patients. I'm sorry if some are treating you like crap. I'm part of a Facebook group for parents with kids with glasses and some of the stories about the differences the glasses make are so amazing.
Post by dogmama22 on Sept 18, 2015 17:27:56 GMT -5
pghtruelove I just switched pediatricians for the same reason. I was really disappointed because I did a ton of research on pediatricians when I was pregnant and it was rough to have it not work out.
pghtruelove I just switched pediatricians for the same reason. I was really disappointed because I did a ton of research on pediatricians when I was pregnant and it was rough to have it not work out.
That's terrible. At least I can say I didn't waste a ton of time researching them. I just chose the same practice I went to growing up.
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