Weekly thread, March 21-28 - Page 9

[sehbub]

Originally Posted by rhiOrion

Whoa. Someone from the January 2010 DDC is pregnant again.

Not laughing at her, just laughing. I remember announcing to the June 2006 DDC (the one I was in with DD3) that I was pregnant again...before most of them had even had their babies. That's what happens when you have a 30wkr and then get pg 2 weeks later! You're announcing your pregnancy before she was even due!

Eep!

[loveneverfails]

Oh, today looks like it's going to be a long day. The toddler is demanding his 3rd muffin in the last 30 minutes, and the 3 year old is refusing to wear pants because pants are "annoying." And she's running around, whining to watch Madagascar. Except she can't quite say "Madagascar" so she's actually running around, asking to watch "@$$car."

Can I go back to bed yet?

[rhiOrion]

Originally Posted by loveneverfails

Except she can't quite say "Madagascar" so she's actually running around, asking to watch "@$$car."

Someone should have thought of that before they named the movie!

[Pepper44]

Originally Posted by rhiOrion

does anybody know if i can take immodium for diahrrea? this is getting ridiculous. i'm considering running to the store at 1:30am just to find something to take, but the internet is very confusing when you're looking for medicine/pregnancy answers, and I don't really want to disturb the on call midwife for this!

I hope you're feeling better by now! I've taken Immodium during pregnancy--I figured it was better than getting horribly dehydrated. I think it's category B.


I would cry if I was pregnant again with a 2 month old...partly because of my supply dropping and partly because of the thought of feeling like crap for a whole other set of 9 months so soon.

My baby is doing flips. She's been nicely tucked in the same perfect position for the entire pregnancy until last night. Why now, baby??? I'm only 36 weeks, so she still has time...but what is she thinking?

[smeisnotapirate]

My poor nipples............... cracked and bleeding and I'm not even nursing the new guy! I don't want to wean DS, but OWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I'm oiling them up like you wouldn't believe, but even THAT hurts.

[rhiOrion]

Originally Posted by Pepper44

I hope you're feeling better by now! I've taken Immodium during pregnancy--I figured it was better than getting horribly dehydrated. I think it's category B.

Better than yesterday, at least. I'm sitting here trying to avoid going to the bathroom though, because... well... my butt hurts!

I did have my first practice with saying yes when someone offers help, though. My friend, who lives about 20 minutes away, offered to bring me whatever I need, and I actually took her up on it. She brought me some saltines, imodium, gatorade, minute made frozen ice things, and an odwalla smoothie.

I'm hoping the imodium starts to help quickly. I am at least managing to get down a bit of gatorade, etc throughout the day, so hopefully i'm avoiding being too dehydrated.

At this point I'd just like to not have diarrhea.

[sew_crafty_girl]

Sorry that you're having butt problems too Rhi.

MPP, I'm jealous of your sleep. I had 2 half decent nights in a row then back to crap sleep last night.

It was discouraging to read about claire's Ryan getting worse when she's had pretty good updates recently.

My DD has a Dance competition tonight but I can't travel that far so I'm feeling the mama guilt. The same guilt I'm going to feel if this baby is born while my kids are at their dads.

[Carita]

glorious chiro! she may have fixed my old man achy hip - at least temporarily - it feels GREAT! just need to figure out how to celebrate LOL

rhi - so sorry!!! all that diarehha might start labor! eeek!

sme - DS is teething and I had that big trip a couple weeks back, and between the two I just haven't nursed him at all since I've been back. ((hugs)) It was just so painful, and I just decided it was better to wean him now than try to do it later & I don't feel entirely guilty seeing as how he'll be 3 this summer, but it was still a difficult decision. He now called them Yudani's tates and still will try to grope or pretend nurse, but not so often. Are you planning to tandem? KUP on how it goes!

[smeisnotapirate]

Planning on tandeming. DS will be all but 2 when this one is born and is still really into nursing, so I'd feel really guilty weaning him right before my milk comes back in. Besides, with all his food allergies, it's good to know he's still getting mama's milk to even things out.

[nikirj]

DS had so much trouble with his "sh" and "cr" sounds coming out as "f" sounds. "fockodile" (crockodile). "tennyfuck" (ten o clock). And of course, the ever popular "fuck!" (truck).

Sara, ouch! I tandem nursed my first two but really didn't have that much of a problem (a tiny bit of rawness at the end), is your toddler's latch ok? Sometimes they get lazy... The biggest benefit of tandem nursing for me was that the toddler could take care of the engorgement problem. She did self wean about 2 months after DS was born, though.

AFM: I took the kids to their Y classes yesterday after skipping on Monday (my sister was in town, we went out to do other things instead of making her watch kids having their classes) and I got a million "we thought you'd have a baby next time we saw you!" "You weren't having a baby on Monday" and even "we were betting whether you'd show up with a boy or a girl" from people who, yeah, DON'T EVEN KNOW MY NAME. WTF.

My shower is still taken apart. On the positive side, we know what the problem was now, there was really no mistaking it; whoever installed the shower door and tiling had made a very big screwup, cutting the tile around the bottom door rail rather than cutting the rail to size (so water was pouring along the rail and out through the literal hole into the wall). On the not-so-positive side, there's at least one more full day of work involved in fixing the problem, and then the bathroom floor will be replaced once we're sure things are all set up properly and nothing is getting saturated anymore.

Also on the positive side, handyman's family has had a homebirth and he was totally happy to chat about my intended hose-to-shower hookup for the birth pool.

I'll hit 37w on Tuesday. And the waiting game will begin in earnest.

[OneWithTwo]

Originally Posted by rhiOrion

Aww, Ericka. Think of it this way, a couple of months ago you would've said there was no way you could handle having him in NICU while parenting Campbell, too. But you did it! You did it wonderfully, all the while fighting stupid drs and nurses. You're used to your NICU routine, but you'll find a home routine that works for you, I know you will!

Do you think, now that you're home and will be spending a lot of time there, that you could send your mom or a friend or someone out to the store to pick some stuff up for you, so that you won't have to leave the house?

no...people seem to like to say they will help and if I need anything to ask..I ask and everyone is busy or sick

Originally Posted by MaterPrimaePuellae

Rhi, thanks for the update on Claire.

Ericka, , I know it must be *so* difficult. I hope Campbell really comes through for you over the next few days. Are you parents any help at all?

Sara, thank you... I talked to my sister last night, and I think that's the plan we're going to go with.... she'll stay through 40 + 4, and then my MIL will come for three more days, so *hopefully* that will get us through the birth. Hopefully.

P&H, I'm thinking about you and your family today!

Dena, I read your "commemorating the pregnancy" thread. I'm in the same sort of situation w/ fewer good reasons. I kindof suspect that DS won't be clamoring to read a pregnancy journal or hang a belly cast on his dorm room wall (), but I still feel bad that my pregnancy with DD was such a big deal, and this pregnancy has been sortof an afterthought the whole time. That's been the reality, though, so I'm not sure how exactly to change it now.... That's not what I expected when I found out I was pregnant, but I'm thankful that he and I have been healthy enough that I've been able to focus on all the other stuff going on in our lives.

Sleeping: after waking up 20-30 times on M and T nights, I finally asked my midwives if valerian root is okay to take while pregnant. They said yes and that I could drink a glass of wine, too, if I wanted to... woohoo! So last night, I had a glass of wine with dinner, waited 2 hours, then had 450 mg of Valerian root with a cup of sleepytime tea. I woke up *once* and immediately fell back to sleep.... I slept from 10-6! I was SO very pleased.

my mom is NO help. I mean, she'll come over but all I hear is judgment and bitching how I don't do this or that. Then she does this thing with campbell that drives me NUTS..she gives her a gift, then if campbell doesn't do what she wants, she threatens to take the gift back so campbell does what she wants. pisses me off. campbell also cries more when she is around. it really stresses me out. does it sound mean that I need them to help pay bills, but I wish they would leave me alone otherwise?

[ivymae]

Thinking of P+H today. Sending all my peaceful vibes her way.

Rhi - Don't let yourself get dehydrated! Early early labor felt like diarrhea cramping to me, but if it get's timeable, consider going in for fluids.

I'm still here and reading. Yoga, cranial sacral and acupuncture have certainly helped with this constant contracting, but it's just drained me. This pregnancy feels like the universe's way of saying "Yeah.. maybe this one should be your last." Between 6 months of throwing up 10 times a day, then SPD, gestational diabetes and now a week of contracting every 5 minutes without getting anywhere... it's about as far from my "I love being pregnant, I am a goddess!" pregnancies as I could get.

In other news, my grandmother died yesterday, and while it is sad, we were not very close, and since she was an exceptionally religious woman, I am happy FOR her, because she's been looking forward to "going home" for a long time. I was a little glad baby didn't choose yesterday to come though, since it would have been too weird to have those two dates forever tied together.

[smeisnotapirate]

Originally Posted by nikirj

Sara, ouch! I tandem nursed my first two but really didn't have that much of a problem (a tiny bit of rawness at the end), is your toddler's latch ok? Sometimes they get lazy... The biggest benefit of tandem nursing for me was that the toddler could take care of the engorgement problem. She did self wean about 2 months after DS was born, though.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure his latch is good. Maybe when my MW comes over on Wednesday, I'll have her take a look at it and see. A different perspective might help.

I didn't even think about the engorgement. SCORE.

Originally Posted by erickalynne

does it sound mean that I need them to help pay bills, but I wish they would leave me alone otherwise?

Nope, I get it. I always say that the best thing that ever happened to my relationship with my mother was that I moved over 500 miles away. Seriously.

Hope you get the help you need. Remember, you're still adjusting. Give yourself time and loosen your standards a bit.

to your butt, Rhi. That sounds miserable. I'd go for the Immodium, totally.

[OneWithTwo]

Originally Posted by smeisnotapirate

My poor nipples............... cracked and bleeding and I'm not even nursing the new guy! I don't want to wean DS, but OWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I'm oiling them up like you wouldn't believe, but even THAT hurts.

I sympathize. I am not nursing, but pumping and I want to scream everytime I turn on the pump

[Pepper44]

My nipples are INCREDIBLY sore lately! I want to cry anytime something brushes them. I'm still nursing my DD, but I only let her nurse at night because I can't stand the pain. It makes me sweat, and I am not a sweaty person in general.

She's 3.5...which is longer than I ever dreamed she would nurse. It's so important to her though. Despite the pain I'm still dedicated to child led weaning! DD must be dedicated too because she's continued nursing and begging to nurse even when there's not a drop of milk. OW.

[Dena]

MPP I agree - I think asking your sister down would be a good idea, and maybe help you relax and go into labor. I hear you about doing less for this pg too - I did less for my second than my first, and even less this time. Honestly, though, when I think about it, I don't know that there are even pictures out there of my mom pg with me, let alone professional ones. She certainly didn't do a journal or a belly cast, and I haven't missed any of it. So I am hoping my girls feel the same way....

Sme So glad you got your phone working! I would be so lost without mine!

Rhi I take immodium daily for a spastic colon. It is category B, and for me it is either that or constant diahrrea - I figure it is better to get nutrients into my body than have the baby get a small dose of meds. And both my girls have been born with just the one head and all. Hope it works fast for you and you feel better soon!

Ericka Going from one to two is a huge learning curve - it took me about nine months to adjust, and that was without having had a preemie in the NICU. But you can do it. You have done such an amazing job through this pg and Jennings' birth, I know you will make it through this too.

sew_crafty_girl Oooh, I hear you on the mama guilt. Dd1 was honored in an assembly yesterday. The school is just four blocks away but between the u/s Tuesday and the stress of yesterday, I was seriously afraid that any physical activity would put me into labor. At least her dad was there, and taped it for me. She was sweet about it, but I still felt sad.

Niki Hope the shower gets fixed today! And bonus about the plumber being happy to talk about birth tub hookups!!


afm Dh got our insurance applications in last night, and went to the store and brought me cookies, cake, and ice cream, so I got my fix. I also informed him that Sofie and I had decided we were going to need doughnuts this weekend.

So, today I just have two more briefs to do, and I am officially on maternity leave!! And my friend is coming to do our last set of pg photos. I even waxed my brows and shaved my legs - two things I really wanted to get done before the photos and birth. So once my work is done and the photos are done, I will feel ok if I go into labor, even if it is a little early. Which, of course, means it will be at least another week at a minimum, if prior experience holds true, before anything happens.

[smeisnotapirate]

Not ready for a baby over here! Still getting used to being pregnant, so all of you who are talking about "another week" or whatever, hush!

Ericka, with the pumping. When DS was first born, we had such an awful time nursing that I pumped a lot. It helped for me to switch from lanollin to coconut oil for the nips after pumping. It's thinner and moisturizes just as well (better, I think). I ended up switching b/c I was allergic to the lanolin, but the oil was sooooo much a better consistency.

Dena, yay for sweets and shaving! Have you noticed not needing to shave as much? I have, and am eternally grateful for whatever hormone is responsible for that.

[nikirj]

Ericka (and anyone else who anticipates pumping a lot), if you didn't know already, you can spread a little lanolin on the inside of the pump shield; that will take away a lot of the rubbing problem.

[rhiOrion]

Thanks for the reassurance about the imodium, everyone. I took some this morning at about 10 am and haven't had to use the bathroom other than to pee since then. I don't know what's going to happen once I do need to use the bathroom, but at least I've gotten a bit of a break.

I am peeing, so I assume I'm not dehydrated.

I just finally ate a couple of waffles as my first real solids of the day (a few saltines was all i'd had otherwise, and then liquid stuff like gatorade, popsicle, smoothie). My stomach is upset, but not as bad as I'd feared.

*sigh*

I'm just thankful that all of this diarrhea didn't send me into labor. Actually the braxton hicks have calmed down a lot. I wonder if my body realized that now was NOT a good time for labor. I honestly don't know what I would have done. I was panicking at the thought of labor while feeling THAT bad.

[sew_crafty_girl]

Guess what I just lost? My mucous plug! Now I know it may not mean much, but with my son I had him the next day!