I absolutely am not back to my pp weight. My non-buttoning pants still fit me, though, woo! I also have exactly one dressy dress to wear to the wedding I'm going to Saturday. All of my dressy dresses were bought when I was a good 20 lbs less than I am now.
fatmilkisdelish, erbear and @kej0004, come sit with me. I haven't lost a pound in months. I bought a new dress for a wedding next weekend because I looked like a sausage in everything. The "loose, flowy" style I have cultivated for myself is totally not me and makes me feel like one of the Golden Girls, but I am in denial and only wanted to buy clothes that come in s, m, l (rather than seeing a horrible number.) I feel like crap about going back to work fat, and I am SO mad at myself because at my last staff meeting I said "I'll be a lot smaller next time you see me!" (idiot.) I assumed I would be able to bf and I would be instantly skinny. Rookie mistake!
I'm looking forward to riding in the car by myself this afternoon for 3 hours. Music as loud as I want and whatever I want? Yes. Eating while driving? Yes. No screaming child? Yes. Oh the simple things.
Opted for the nap... Which was cut VERY short by my dog who decided to bark and shake his collar that I forgot to remove (a sound that the baby hates) stupid mommy. Stupid, stupid mommy.
My dog is pretty much permanently sans collar these days for just this reason!
+2 And now I'm a crazy person about making sure our back gate is shut before I let her out in our backyard...DNW to have to chase her around the neighborhood!!
Post by littlemissgrump on Oct 1, 2015 12:20:43 GMT -5
+1 on the not even being close to pre-pregnancy weight and horribly fitting clothes.
+another to a noisy collared dog. He only 'gets dressed ' of were taking him somewhere.
Speaking of dogs waking babes, ours has been getting himself shut into the baby's room and scratching at the door to get out, waking the baby in the process. MH told me this and he is also the one leaving the door open so the dog can get in.
I am definitely not at pre pregnancy weight. Last time I didn't start losing weight until I quit breastfeeding. We shall see. I have a lot of extra skin stretched out this time too!
Today is my parents 32nd wedding anniversary!
Also today, DD was having a meltdown and I couldn't calm her down. I was just wandering through the house holding her trying to settle her down and when i got into the bathroom and she caught a glimpse of the sink she stopped crying. So I wandered out of the bathroom and she started screaming again until I went back and showed her the sink again. Babies are so weird.
We're also going to do sign language with V. I do a lot of signing with my nonverbal students, and there are great videos online that demonstrate how to do basic signs if you can't access a class.
I don't know if it's "great" but we used the Baby Einstein video on Youtube to teach LBB Please, Thank you, Eat, More, Milk, and All Done.
My body is still a mess. I almost started a thread to talk about it, but it sounds like many ladies on here have their shit together and are already back down to pre pregnancy weight...and I don't want to hear that right now. I'm not even close. I went to a wedding last weekend and wore control top panty hose AND spanx (sp? ) and I looked terrible. Awesome wedding though.
I have three kids, and am so far from having my shit together. I weigh about 17 lbs less than I did at 40 weeks. Coincidentally, T weighs about that much. I have another 15-20 lbs to go.
So of course, I made pumpkin spice chocolate chip cookies today.
In case you're wondering, just use the nestle tollhouse recipe and add 1 tsp of cinnamon, and 1/2 tsp each of cloves and ginger.
mathistm and fatmilkisdelish - I'm in a wedding this weekend. Even if I had lost all the baby weight (which I haven't) I'm still kind of... stretched out? Like, my skin seems flabbier. Ha- that sounds really weird but it's the only way I can describe it. Anyways, all the SPANX all the time, all weekend. I bought myself some fabulous shoes though!
Related: I have always been a little self conscious of my weight, but now I am way more at peace with myself. I can't decide if it's because I'm like "Yeah, my body grew a kid! It's awesome!" or if it's more like "Now I have a legit reason to be a little bit bigger than I'd like." Either way, it's an improvement.
+1 for this - I haven't lost all the weight (no, no, not at all) but I've lost a good bit of it and I just feel like I'm still way larger than I used to be. think I just have much less muscle and more fat and cellulite. I just sit around and hold a sleeping baby all the time that I'm not eating to stay awake from losing sleep walking around rocking the baby at night. Viscous cycles. Ugh, all the spanx for the foreseeable future.
Also, just ate about 20 Hershey kisses, obviously demonstrating my motivation to this issue.
Oh! One year ago today was my egg retrieval for IVF, so LO was conceived a year ago today! I love October.
I was four days post transfer this day last year. In fact today is one year from the night I cried myself to sleep because I just knew it hadn't worked because I had a BFN and someone else who transferred the same day as me got a BFP on that day. And tomorrow is the day I got the first BFP. It so strange to think where I was then vs. now.
Post by carolyngrace on Oct 1, 2015 18:33:19 GMT -5
Okay.. Question... Would you leave a 10 year old and a baby in the car, locked, while you ran in the store?
I had a 10 year-old "mother's helper" over today. A neighbor.
We went to the grocery store and I decided last minute to just run in and get a couple of things. I realized I was too tired for a full on trip. So I asked her to sit in the car with the baby while I ran in.
Once i got in the store I felt super anxious and worried something could happen to them. After maybe 5 minutes I went back out. The baby was crying and the girl looked a little worried, but was fine. I brought them in with me and finished the shopping trip.
I've been feeling pretty anxious the last couple of days so I can't tell if I still feel anxious about it because it was a really stupid thing to do, or what...
This. Dont beat yourself up over it, but i wouldnt personally leave a 10 year old in a car by herself, much less with a baby
Ok. Thanks everyone. I guess that's what my gut told me after I did it. I'm really glad I went back out and got them. 10 is a weird age to me. She seems very mature in some ways. But it's different than a teenager, she's still very much a kid.
Post by ravinraven216 on Oct 1, 2015 20:17:34 GMT -5
The mild cold I had last week is back with a vengeance. I'm coughing something fierce and I have crazy sinus pressure. I haven't been sick since last December and LO is going to daycare now, so it was inevitable. He's been mucusy himself, but not enough to do anything about (no other symptoms).
Okay.. Question... Would you leave a 10 year old and a baby in the car, locked, while you ran in the store?
I had a 10 year-old "mother's helper" over today. A neighbor.
We went to the grocery store and I decided last minute to just run in and get a couple of things. I realized I was too tired for a full on trip. So I asked her to sit in the car with the baby while I ran in.
Once i got in the store I felt super anxious and worried something could happen to them. After maybe 5 minutes I went back out. The baby was crying and the girl looked a little worried, but was fine. I brought them in with me and finished the shopping trip.
I've been feeling pretty anxious the last couple of days so I can't tell if I still feel anxious about it because it was a really stupid thing to do, or what...
Was just faced with this decision the other day, for the first time. SO, his just turned 11 yo son, baby girl and I were all in the car running errands and we stopped to grab coffee and use the bathroom. Both SO and I had to go inside the place but baby was asleep so didn't want to unpack her, so I said we'll just take turns going in. He said lets just run in, Son is old enough to stay in the car with Baby. I was like, uhhmmmm.... uhhh... IIIII.... I was seriously tripped up in how I felt about it for a minute because on one hand he's about the most responsible 11 year old I can think of but on the other hand, you just never know. I say all this to say, you're not alone in your indecision and anxiety, and if I wasn't there SO would have left them without thinking twice. It never ceases to amaze me the many aspects of coparenting I never thought of that have come up in a few short months!
I just got the weirdest call from the HR department at my work. I was supposed to start back to work on Monday. He called to let me know that they aren't ready for me to come back yet and that I can come back starting 10/19 but that they will start paying me my full pay as of this Monday. I'm tripping!!! I just had a glass of wine to celebrate.
I just got the weirdest call from the HR department at my work. I was supposed to start back to work on Monday. He called to let me know that they aren't ready for me to come back yet and that I can come back starting 10/19 but that they will start paying me my full pay as of this Monday. I'm tripping!!! I just had a glass of wine to celebrate.
My body is still a mess. I almost started a thread to talk about it, but it sounds like many ladies on here have their shit together and are already back down to pre pregnancy weight...and I don't want to hear that right now. I'm not even close. I went to a wedding last weekend and wore control top panty hose AND spanx (sp? ) and I looked terrible. Awesome wedding though.
This. I was in a wedding last weekend wore spanx that I barely could squeeze myself into and the dress was very flowing but still looked like a beached whale. I'm so flabby its out of control. I feel like I just stopped losing any of the weight. Also, I would be a lot less worried with all the weight if I didn't have this saggy flab section that hangs out over my csection incision.
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