Post by housecarder on Apr 13, 2016 6:54:31 GMT -5
How's everyone 's week going?
My OB told me yesterday that she doesn't like how many contractions/cramps I've been having coupled with all the pain and swelling especially after work. She said it was my call since my cervix is still nice and closed, but she's feeling nervous about me continuing to work.
H and I talked it over and decided that we'd rather be tight financially than risk me or the girls and I'm going to start leave today. She gave me a note for my HR department saying it was medically necessary. As much as I hate leaving work short my job is too physically demanding to keep pushing myself.
housecarder, well that kind of sucks. I hope everything calms down for you. I've had a lot of contractions and BHs this past week too, but only once or twice has it really been anything intense. Mostly just annoying. Tell those girls to settle down in there!!
I had the hardest time making it through the teaching yesterday. I thought I might pass out. The room was hot, I was hot. I'm not sure anything coherent was said.
DS has been having a week of toddler tantrums out of nowhere. He is testing us constantly and last night it took him an hour to go to sleep. And this morning he had a meltdown when I dropped him off at DC. Ugh. And this is the weekend we are leaving him with my parents to go out of town for a night. Now I am stressed about him and how he is going to be for them. C'mon kid, get it together!!
Good for you, housecarder, nursing must be absolutely brutal on your body. I hope you get some good rest and your body cooperates!
Ray, I can't tell you how many times I've had to hop out of bed in the middle of the night because of a calf cramp! So awful. I found they're less frequent if I'm super hydrated, but then I'm peeing all the time, so...
I'm on the hunt for a dresser for the baby's room. Hopefully I can find something old that fits my vision, but if not I'll have to go with an Ikea hack. Ikea is just so far away, I don't want to go through all that hassle.
I keep waking up with brutal calf cramps. I googled it - turns out calf cramps, especially at night, are a common third tri symptom.
Pregnancy is so weird.
I got one in my calf and one in the arch of my foot the other night at the same time. It's a whole new level of torture. One night I had one in each leg so bad I just got ice packs and then ended up in a hot bath trying to relax them. H woke up and was like "why are you in the tub at 3am?"
I'm on the hunt for a dresser for the baby's room. Hopefully I can find something old that fits my vision, but if not I'll have to go with an Ikea hack. Ikea is just so far away, I don't want to go through all that hassle.
I was so thankful for the gift cards I got on Sunday at my shower and that Amazon had the dresser I wanted in stock. It should be delivered today. I'm going to make H assemble it so I can slowly work on organizing everything.
I'm on the hunt for a dresser for the baby's room. Hopefully I can find something old that fits my vision, but if not I'll have to go with an Ikea hack. Ikea is just so far away, I don't want to go through all that hassle.
OMG. The freaking dresser hunts. For J, we ended up finding a changing table dresser on Craigslist that was in really good shape but that was after months of looking. For his new room, we ended up buying something off of Amazon. All I wanted was a decent low top, 4-6 drawer dresser and I was amazed how hard they can be to find. We looked at a couple stores, but they were so freaking expensive.
I'm on the hunt for a dresser for the baby's room. Hopefully I can find something old that fits my vision, but if not I'll have to go with an Ikea hack. Ikea is just so far away, I don't want to go through all that hassle.
OMG. The freaking dresser hunts. For J, we ended up finding a changing table dresser on Craigslist that was in really good shape but that was after months of looking. For his new room, we ended up buying something off of Amazon. All I wanted was a decent low top, 4-6 drawer dresser and I was amazed how hard they can be to find. We looked at a couple stores, but they were so freaking expensive.
So TL;DR, I feel your pain.
Yes! Everything I actually like is $1,000+, which is just not going to happen. Praying to the dresser Gods to bring me something good.
I'm on the hunt for a dresser for the baby's room. Hopefully I can find something old that fits my vision, but if not I'll have to go with an Ikea hack. Ikea is just so far away, I don't want to go through all that hassle.
OMG. The freaking dresser hunts. For J, we ended up finding a changing table dresser on Craigslist that was in really good shape but that was after months of looking. For his new room, we ended up buying something off of Amazon. All I wanted was a decent low top, 4-6 drawer dresser and I was amazed how hard they can be to find. We looked at a couple stores, but they were so freaking expensive.
So TL;DR, I feel your pain.
Ugh don't tell me this! We need a new dresser for DS bc all of his furniture is going to the baby. We are moving and haven't found a place yet so we can't even begin to look until we know the bedroom details. I'm weirdly calm about it all though. Like I'm still kind of in denial that I'm pregnant and that we are moving. If I ignore these facts, life is totally fine!
Ugh sorry to hear I'm not the only one with cramps. tootsie - I'm willing to bet it's at least in part to do with dehydration. I'm terrible at hydrating - my day usually consists of a coffee, juice box at lunch and maybe something a dinner. Boo to me lol
Ugh sorry to hear I'm not the only one with cramps. tootsie - I'm willing to bet it's at least in part to do with dehydration. I'm terrible at hydrating - my day usually consists of a coffee, juice box at lunch and maybe something a dinner. Boo to me lol
The one thing that helps is that we have ice machines and coolers everywhere at work. I have to remind myself at home to get water.
Been a rough day here. All the kids are acting like fools and the long term sub for my one partner teacher is the worst. She has no classroom management at all and when I come in for the period they are absolutely off the wall. I only get 60 minutes with them and it takes me 10 minutes to calm them the hell down enough to focus on actually learning.
I can't wait until my partner comes back...not until June
housecarder I think you made the right decision, you and the girls are #1 priority!
Ray I used to be the same way when it came to staying hydrated! Get yourself one of those big water bottles, it really helps. I find that if it's sitting in front of me I'll drink it, but weekends when we're out running around I'm still awful at remembering to drink.
+1 to trying to find a decent dresser that doesn't cost an arm and a leg! We're very frugal so it's hard to justify spending $230 on one. Luckily I have hundreds of dollars in credit card points saved up and one of the partner sites is Amazon, otherwise we'd probably be finding a $50 one on Craigslist and painting it!
I have to share a sweet moment from last night. H and I decided to get into bed a little earlier than usual to read our baby books. I'm reading Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, H is reading The Birth Partner, in preparation to try and have an unmedicated birth. Every now and then H would turn to me excitedly and say "did you know that ______ can happen?!" and we'd talk about it together and discuss what I'm hoping for when it comes to labor, etc. It was pretty awesome and made me so excited for the big day, it's fun seeing H learn all of this and I can't wait to go through everything with him!
housecarder I'm glad you're deciding to take leave and are able to. Pregnancy is hard enough with one baby in there and especially with a demanding job! Hopefully the cramps and swelling calm down for you now.
I've been miserable all week with a cold/cough and we're doing a rummage sale starting tomorrow and I've been running around trying to get stuff done. My head is going to explode! I'm also trying not to cry selling all of DS's old clothes. They grow too fast, waaah.
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