Have you had this kid yet?

[curlyfry]

I swear, if I hear this one more time! A friend of mine just e-mailed me and asked me...so I wrote back...

"Yes. I had the baby last week. I just forgot to tell everyone. Could you do me a favor and tell my Mom and Dad for me? Thanks."

: Ugh!

[Autumn Breeze]

LMAO! Nice reply. I think I'll have to think up a smarty reply for any e-mails I get. It really is crazy that people think we won't update them.

Reminds me of my step mother. I had a list of people to call for after Jack was born. We found out I was going to have to be induced, so I made a quick call to everyone to let them know and to ask them to pray for a good outcome. It wasn't a huge list, I did this while dh was in the shower. Well, I left a message on my bio-dad and step mom's machine, and when they came home for lunch, they immediately called information for the hospital #... I had been admitted at 12:00, she called at 1 the first time. And she called every hour until he was born. He was born at 9:53 pm and while they were stiching up tear the nurse popped her head in again "your step mom is on the phone again (the ringer didn't work on our phone) do you want me to try to transfer?" So I talked to her at 10 pm while they were stiching me up. I didn't have a weight, length or anything but a name and time for her. Crazy woman. Good thing I'll be able to turn off my ringers here and not have anyone ask me if I want to take the call. LMAO

[mamabeth]

Oh, so sorry...that is so very annoying to hear and I think it's worse with the first baby. People are so excited that they forget that it's, like, the dumbest question ever. I had the first person call yesterday (I'm only 37 weeks) to ask "so, how are things GOING? how are you FEELING?" :

Those are bad, but I really hated it when the baby was, oh, four weeks old, and people start asking, "does she sleep through the night?" :

hang in there...rant anytime.

by the way, your username always makes me want fries....mmmm....fries...curly or regular...or maybe crinkly....is it lunchtime yet?

[curlyfry]

Originally Posted by mamabeth

by the way, your username always makes me want fries....mmmm....fries...curly or regular...or maybe crinkly....is it lunchtime yet?

hehe :LOL I should have thought about that before I picked a "food" name on a pregnancy board!

Amanda...that's hysterical! I'm surprised you took the call! You're too nice. I'd be like, "um...maybe after I'm stitched up and all in one piece, thank you very much!"

[ZeldasMom]

I like your reply too. :LOL

And you are even a ways away from you EDD! I feel your pain--my EDD is 9/19 and my younger sister has been calling every day to ask when I am having the baby--like I know!

Originally Posted by DoulaMommy

Reminds me of my step mother. ...she called every hour until he was born. He was born at 9:53 pm and while they were stiching up tear the nurse popped her head in again "your step mom is on the phone again (the ringer didn't work on our phone) do you want me to try to transfer?"

Argh! I would have hated that, Amanda! When we took our hopsital tour last time the woman giving the tour recommended unplugging the phone in your room until after the baby came. But even that wouldn't have worked with someone who was THAT persistant. We have people wanting us to call when I go into labor this time. I totally don't want to, but DP already said yes to his parents. :

[Autumn Breeze]

Lisa, ya know, part of it was me being nice, the other part was wanting her to SHUT UP AND GO AWAY! I knew she'd continue to call (I hadn't allowed the hospital to release any info about the baby to anyone on the phone) so I took the call, so that when my friends left, I could spend time with my new little family. And it worked great. My friends left at about 10:30-10:45 and dh and I called our mom's, then he sat on the edge of the bed while I held the baby. The lights were low, and Jack was sleeping...it was nice. And you just KNOW if I hadn't answered the phone she'd have called all night long. Crazy women.

This time we told them I was pg at 13 wks....then I e-mailed them about our e-mail addy change...haven't heard anything from them since. They wlll be about 2 hrs away in October camping, and had asked if they could come visit us when they were in Georgia.Right now, I'm not so sure. I refuse to e-mail them to update them on the pg...and they seem to not really care/remember since when they replied to my change of addy e-mail nothing was asked/said about the baby. Oh well, their loss!

[Galatea]

Originally Posted by mamabeth

Those are bad, but I really hated it when the baby was, oh, four weeks old, and people start asking, "does she sleep through the night?" :

Yes. Being asked "how are you feeeeeeeeling?" 20 times a day is infinitely preferable to the asinine questions you will get about the baby's sleeping habits. Sleeping is a cultural obsession. Drove me crazy. Use these stupid questions about still being pregnant to hone your snarkiness for the inevitable questions about how the baby sleeps and aren't you going to crush him in the middle of the night and how do you know he's getting enough milk and when are you going to circumcise him and blah blah blah...

[sarahloughmiller]

I can't beleive people are asking you so much already, you not even due for a few more weeks! I am getting it constantly, it is soooo annoying. I hate going out at all anymore because people that I don't know offer to help deliver the baby or make othe comments about me having them right then. I think it is a little worse for me as far as strangers goes because I am so huge, I don't remember people saying these things when I was preg with ds. My mom also calls me several times a day, like I wouldn't call her. Anytime anyone can't get ahold of me they think I am having them, I get several messages a day. So annoying, like I am not annoyed enough already not having had them, I don't need any reminders. I like your response, I guess I need to work on mine a little more.

[trijosie-mama]

I love the sarcasm here!!! It feels so good to know I’m not alone!! My mother calls at least every 6 hours, I’m truly thinking about not calling her when it does happen because I don’t need her stress in the same building I’m trying to deliver in! The first thing out of peoples mouths at work this morning, “oh your still here”, where was I supposed to go? Don’t these people, especially other women, understand that I am getting very uncomfortable and don’t need reminders of it every 2 minutes??!! If I breath funny people jump, it I don’t talk people assume I’m having contractions. Just leave me alone and I’ll be fine. I decided to stay at work so I would have something distracting me from being pregnant and now I just have people constantly reminding me. And if one more person tries to cheer me up I‘m going to tell them where to shove that sunshine! I don’t feel like being happy today, I just want to be my moody hormonal self, if allowed to do this I will eventually cheer up!

I need sleep!.....

[Full Heart]

I get it too, mostly from my mother. First she wanted to use it as an excuse toget out of meetings. "I don't really want to go to day, are you sure you aren't going to have that baby?" Like I know. Yes, I am psychic I will have the baby at 11pm tonight . Then it was because she was dying to go shopping...she was actually just going to buy one of each color and take the others back :LOL My mil calls and asks if I have had the baby yet too like we would actually forget to tell her. Shes a fruit loop though anyway so she might actually forget if we did have a baby lol.

I don't think I have gotten any stupid questions about the baby once they re born...don't really remember the early weeks too well. lol My friends mother did ask her though after she had #4 if her midwife molded the babies head : We didn't know wether she was serious or not!

Michelle

[Goldiemom]

[/QUOTE] I don't think I have gotten any stupid questions about the baby once they re born...don't really remember the early weeks too well. lol My friends mother did ask her though after she had #4 if her midwife molded the babies head We didn't know wether she was serious or not! [QUOTE]

You can mold a baby's head?

[mom2threenurslings]

This is my fourth child, so family knows not to call and friends actually have faith in me that I'll call/email them when Moonbaby arrives!

BUT my parents are going to get sick of the phone calls soon! All my family members know that I see my parents at least twice a week and that they are going to be attending the birth - so they call my parents instead of me! :LOL

This time around when family asks when I'm due, I say middle to late September, hoping they'll hold off on calling. If I gave them the Sept 16 EDD, the calls would start around now. I'll have to ask my mom if she's gotten any calls when I see her this week.

Completely OT, but I had to share: My daughter (3) just walked by, went into the bathroom, ran the water for 3 seconds, and walked by again and up the stairs - with a plastic frog cupped in her hands. Then I hear her exclaim, "He's not dehydrated anymore. I saved him!" :LOL Now she's singing, "Slimeing the toad! I'm slimeing the toad!"

[Goldiemom]

Amanda, your daughter is cute! I am glad the frog has been saved though.

[Full Heart]

Originally Posted by Goldiemom

You can mold a baby's head?

Exactly!

Michelle

[danaan]

I'm getting tired of the how-are-you-feeeling crap, too, but mostly I feel bad for my dh. He works, I don't (and fortunately few folks are calling to say -- have you had that baby yet??), and he works mostly with women. So he gets asked a hundred times a day, "How is your wife??? How is the baby???" No one ever asks how HE is. And then today we got the usual when-are-you-due-girl-or-boy-firstone? from the checker at Office Depot, followed by the knowing nods, and he got the, "Oh, you're in for it; before you know it boys will be showing up at the front porch" Then she told us it was now time to start trying for the boy! :

I started thinking about it and got really mad. The thing about how boys are harder to raise when young and girls get difficult at puberty -- in a culture that lets little boys run wild and makes girls behave, then boys be independent as teens and girls have to stifle self expression, well OF COURSE that's the case. But not for my kids. Raising anyone is hard.

I'm off topic here, sorry. But I am just so happy to have other AP hippie moms to talk to on MDC.........

[Autumn Breeze]

ya, everywhere I have been in the last week I've gotten "When are you due" "Do you know what your having" "Aw, got a boy and a girl" "So, are you guys 'done' after this"

As if that last one is ANYONE's business...and the rest are just annoying. I liked it at first because NO ONE asked me that with ds.

[sarahloughmiller]

So, I went out today and had 2 people ask if I am having triplets! Why would you ask someone that? What if I was having 1 baby, then it would really piss me off. I would say in the 3 stops I made today I had at least 10 people comment on how big I was, when was I due, was the baby gonna just fall out in the middle of the aisle, etc. It just gets so old, I don't want to go anywhere anymore just to avoid the comments. :

[liz217]

We went to a Labor Day celebration here on the base, and I got told by several (at least 4) people that I looked like I was "ready to pop". What does that mean anyway? Like your uterus gets to a point and pops like a baloon.

Everywhere I go I get the same comments as you guys, from total strangers too! And at church everyone swears I'm gonna go early. "When are you due...oh I hope you don't go that long."

I'm not even 38 weeks yet, leave me alone!

And then my mom.....She is flying into the country to help with baby on the 25th, so if I go over, I just know she'll want me to be induced (she's only gonna be here for 2 weeks and its a $2000 plane ticket).
But yet, she doesn't want me to go early either . So I have this window when i am allowed to have the baby, lol.