Weekly chat for Nov. 7-13th - Page 5

[spughy]

Hmm, apparently I couldn't be farther from indigo if I tried. According to that I'm some sort of amalgam of all the tans and yellow.

I am cranky today anyway. It's "attack of the 'roids" time in spughy-land and I am uncomfortable and not a pleasant person to be around. My dog hates me now because I keep kicking her off the couch so I can lie down and DH is spending as much time outside or asleep as possible so he doesn't have to put up with my whining. It's starting to subside now but still, the only way I can be moderately comfortable is lying on the couch with brief periods of sitting or pelvic rocks so my hips don't seize up completely. Argh. I just hope I don't go into labour until the roids go down.

Anyway I have another night of binging on Horatio Hornblower DVDs to look forward to. Tomorrow I at least have to drag myself out of the house for a midwife appt. but hopefully I'll be feeling a little better.

Back to wallowing in self-pity... hope everyone who actually WANTS to go into labour soon gets her wish!

[babykaoss]

i'm primarily blue with equal parts of indigo and yellow. hmm.

[3for3hb]

Hmm.. apparently I'm a crystal with an abstract tan as a close runner up and definitely a red overlay (though I think that it's mostly dissipated due to spiritual therapy).

[zjande]

I am whichever one listed "mighty short attention span" because I couldn't even get through that whole thing.

So is anyone else having a grand time gorging on fatty foods & junk while you can enjoy it guiltlessly?? These past weeks I've decided to inhale cookies & cupcakes & pizza & the like at a disgusting rate, because as soon as this kid's out, my rotund booty shall not be indulging in the fatty foods for a very long time.

Well then, back to my pizza.......

[BensMom]

Yeah, I have had a sweet tooth like crazy lately! Bad, bad Jenn!

So I had a few ctx tonight. I have not really had any, so even though they were just very mild crampy things, I got a little excited. I called DH, it was his normal quitting time anyway. Told him to just not worry, come home as usual. Called my first line sitter, just in case. Nothing. Still having a few cramps here and there but it sucks getting your hopes up.

Oh and SIL called and asked if we had the baby (idiots! like we would *forget* to tell them) and DH starts to tell her that something *might* be happening. I went ballistic and told him not to say anything like that to his idiot family otherwise they will be harrassing us daily. Ugh. I think he learned his lesson. I said there is no need to tell anyone that doesnt have to be at the birth or taking care of Ben. Everyone else can find out when we have a baby.

Yes, I am moody!

I hope something kicks in tonight. It would be a great night to have this baby, since we dont have good childcare arrangements on the weekend. But I guess if I have learned one things this pregnancy, its that I have no say in what happens!

[flapjack]

Yeah, have a baby!
I'm taking myself off Amy's list, because I have man flu: I'll have this little one when I'm better.
In answer to the questions: the best thing about the Indigo Children phenomenon, imo, is that it gets you into the mindset that children are not pliable or compliant, and that's a fine, fine lesson to learn. (FWIW, on those tests I come up as lavender: I have a friend who sees auras and she sees me as magenta, which is meant to be obsolete: one of the colours the indigo and crystal replaced. Personally, I think I'm just very, very me) Most of it seems like total crap: but then if you go and read any teen board, it does feel like todays teenagers are aliens compared with how we were 10 years ago: so maybe there's something in it? Talking to my mum and older friends, we can't remember there ever having been such a big generation gap.
(Bailey228, I know you're a young mom, I'm not trying to offend you. It's more the younger teens I'm thinking of here.)
BTE: Yes. With Isaac, I threw a bottle of castor oil in the bin without taking the lid off it because it was out of date. That was 5pm. No niggles, symptoms, show, anything. First contraction 3.30am, he was born at 12.30pm the next day.

[Godiva]

oh no offense taken, I usually don't think of myself as 19, I usually feel about 30, and I relate more to people that are older, I always have.

[3for3hb]

Originally Posted by zjande

So is anyone else having a grand time gorging on fatty foods & junk while you can enjoy it guiltlessly?? These past weeks I've decided to inhale cookies & cupcakes & pizza & the like at a disgusting rate, because as soon as this kid's out, my rotund booty shall not be indulging in the fatty foods for a very long time.

Heck yeah!!! I was sooo good with not eating sweets all the way up till the last month or so. Now I just don't care. And the bag of halloween candy on top of the fridge isn't helping either. But I don't seem to be gaining much weight these days so maybe I need that extra energy. Someone said that if you are craving sweets and eating them makes you gain weight that it is a sign of strain on your adrenals.

I plan on going on a juice diet for 3 days each month after the first 6 weeks and then doing a 10 day juice fast at 5 or 6 months postpartum to clean all this junk out of me (and the baby ... At least I do draw a line and am not eating stuff with MSG or Trans-fats (okay, Twix bars have PHO's but...)


Anyway, I have been having pretty regular contractions all day yesterday and today... I'm just ignoring them until they get bad enough to really grab my attention. I know it's probably just hot air but I'll say it anyway... I hope this baby comes so I don't have to worry about the ultrasound and stuff. I really don't want to have it done. But if I wake up tomorrow and am still pg well then I guess it's meant to be.

[samsmamma]

With ya on the lousy eating. Halloween kind of did me in because there is candy everywhere. I guess I feel kind of like, well, I'm still just under the 50lb weight gain I set as an outside limit, so since the baby could be coming at any time, I may as well live it up! I'm mildly freaked out by it but no one else is, so I'm not worrying.

In the meantime...since we found out the kiddo is a he, we also decided on a name! His name is Karl! It's a wild experience to have a real name for him right now and know that it is his. If we ever end up having another baby - which I highly doubt - maybe we'd find out the gender earlier on, because this is kind of fun right now.

Sam's colds just are not going away. So far I haven't gotten them, but with my luck I will right when I go into labor. It's a drag. He has a cough that just wo't quit. Each time he starts getting better, he gets a new one. I know this is what happens when they go to school, but still. He also is a nose-picker (i Know!) and that doesn't help matters any, so I'm trying to work with him more on hand-washing. But he slept in my bed last night and DH slept in Sam's bed because he was just so sad and coughing and it was heartbreaking. It was nice to have him there anyway and enjoy one of our last nights as a family of 3...

[nataliekat]

HAPPY DUE DATE TO ME!!! and all my due date buddies!

Oh, yesterday was so hard. I had absolutely nothing to give and Maisie and I both suffered for it. I tried to take her to a playgroup that we haven't been to in months. She told me she wanted to stay home and I should have listened to her. We drove all the way down there and stayed 10 minutes while she cried and whined, and then drove all the way back home. BTW, I cried the whole drive back. Then the rest of the day I was so depressed and down.

I don't remember being so weepy and depressed at the end last pregnancy. But maybe it's because when I did feel down I could just eat and watch TV or read or go to bed or do WHATEVER I WANTED!! Now I have to play and entertain and be sympathetic to all the foibles of a 3-year-old. That's mighty hard when you're jam-packed with hormones, am I right?

And she just can't bear to be apart from me right now. Last night when Tim got home I asked for 30 minutes in bed by myself. After 15 they came up and she was crying and telling me how worried she was about me and that I was lonely. Oh, sweetie. We're probably in for more of the same when baby finally makes her appearance.

No ctx or anything new. Last time I was induced three days overdue, so we'll see.

samsmama - we're sick over here, too. Mine never really turned into anything, thank GOD. Just megadosed on Vitamin C. Tim and Maisie are improving as well.

My mom is coming Saturday morning so I really do want to hold on until she gets here.

Here's to a Saturday birth for me!

[PicnicBear]

Yes, it's my due date, too, today -- and I'm up early although I slept well (relatively). I've been so BORED the last few days -- which is so weird since I haven't been bored in years -- I usually have so much to do. As far as school work, I have a ton but I cannot face it now. As far as housework, of course there is stuff I could do, but the major stuff is done and I'm certainly no perfectionist when it comes to the home. Even though yesterday I went out for a quick shopping trip in the AM and then visited a friend with a newborn in the PM, I still felt like I did nothing and was bored all day. Last Friday I went into school so that I wouldn't be bored, but it was so tiring, especially the 2-hour ride home in Chicago traffic -- so I don't know if I want to do that tomorrow. Last night DH said we could go to a matinee today and then come come and make choc. chip cookies to pass the day. But I looked at the theatre listing and all of the movies looked like crap. BooHooo!

[nataliekat]

I hear you on the boredom, plagio. I'm just trying to get through each day. It's like I can't get excited about anything except giving birth!

I can't even talk to people any more.

Them: "How are you feeling?"

Me: "fine."

Them: "Everything ready?"

Me: "Yes! Jesus, I'm ready!"

[PicnicBear]

yeah, it's bizzare, people call and there is really nothing to talk about -- I have been so busy the last ? years, whenever I had time off I was so thrilled to just veg out that I was not bored in the least, just savoring the monents of laziness. So this is totally weird.

[Frigga]

I'm blue with a tie in violet and indigo...hmmmmm.

[samsmamma]

Plagio - the Wallace and Gromit movie is a riot in case you have not seen it yet...

[PicnicBear]

that's funny -- that one is not playing at the theater near us (we are in suburban chicago so of course there are plenty of theaters throughout the area, but we like to go to the close one, which has about 12 movies anyway). Also, Proof is not playing there, and we wanted to see that since it was filmed on our campus and we have "run into" Gwyneth 2 times (once when she was on campus, and another time on Long Island) so we joke that we have this "thing" with her (I hope DH is not secretly stalking her . . JK, actually the second time he was so wrapped up smiling at her daughter that he didn't notice the mom!)

Anyway, the theater near us seems not to show some of the better movies. But OK, I will stop complaining since I'm sure there are some of you out there that are too busy too see a movie today anyway and don't appreciate my whining!

[HoneyTree]

School blues

Plagio, Belleweather, and other mamas in school, what are you planning on doing regarding the end of the semester? I have a paper and a research write-up hangiing over my head, and it makes it so that I feel guilty just sitting around being pregnant since I'm not writing. I'm trying to tell myself to get as much done before the baby arrives as possible, but it's so hard to make myself sit still and concentrate on something that I'm rapidly losing interest in!!! But when the baby comes, who knows when I'll even be able to spare the 1/2 a brain it takes to write a paper. Are y'all working still? Taking incompletes? Did you play it way smarter than me and finish all your stuff early?

[3for3hb]

Originally Posted by BeTheEarth

Plagio, Belleweather, and other mamas in school, what are you planning on doing regarding the end of the semester? I have a paper and a research write-up hangiing over my head, and it makes it so that I feel guilty just sitting around being pregnant since I'm not writing. I'm trying to tell myself to get as much done before the baby arrives as possible, but it's so hard to make myself sit still and concentrate on something that I'm rapidly losing interest in!!! But when the baby comes, who knows when I'll even be able to spare the 1/2 a brain it takes to write a paper. Are y'all working still? Taking incompletes? Did you play it way smarter than me and finish all your stuff early?

I'm not in school anymore but I was when I was pg with Willem... and I would definitely recommend that you get as much done now before the baby, even if it seems like you don't have the concentration to do so... it's sooooooo completely different, living life with a newborn. You don't know what "kind" of baby you are going to have and if by chance you have a fussy/highly sensitive one... school will be the LAST thing on your mind. Between not being able to sleep the night through (or even as much as you can now) to recovering, to dealing with postpartum hormones... you also have to remember that the holidays are right around the corner and depending on where you live, weather and transportation could be an issue as well. Trust me, I know the feeling of not being able to sit still and do stuff you're just not interested in. Schoolwork was a cloud hanging over my head after Willem was born and I wished I had done more in prep in that reguard.

Good luck all you schoolin' mamas, I know it can be rough but you'll pull through!

[BensMom]

OK, so unlike the rest of you, I DO NOT want to go into labor in the next 3 days.

Just got back from a visit with my Dr and he is not on call Fri/Sat/Sun. He said that one of his backup Drs is a younger guy and probably not trained in breech delivery. The other is older, with breech experience, but very conservative, so would probably not support a vaginal delivery. But in both cases, he told me to talk to the doctors (if it came to that) and present my case and see what they say. No guarantees, though.

So hopefully now this babe will hang tight until Monday! Besides, we have much worse childcare arrangements for Ben on the weekend, so it would be an all around inconvenient time to go into labor. (If you listen closely, you will hear the sounds of God chuckling....)

Although I admit to only you guys that I am still secretly hoping to go into labor, have my HB MW arrive to check things out and suddenly find a baby hanging half out of me. Ooops.

ETA: GBS came back NEG! Woo hoo, one less battle to fight with the hospital staff.

[snugglebutter]

Jenn, I am also wanting our baby to stay in over the weekend. My midwife is off-call and her backup midwife changed practices about a month ago so it would have to be an OB attending the birth. I have cut out all walking, EPO, and "baby please come" vibes this week. LOL


Today my cervix pressure has shifted to PAIN. It really takes my breath away. Sometimes I wonder if they are contractions but I really don't feel anything otherwise.

The food choices in this house are completely unsatisfactory right now. LOL