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post #1 of 62
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We are into a new week already! This last week went faster than I thought it would. I am glad of that. Each day that passes is one more I don't have to worry about. I am a huge worrier at the beginning.

Well, dh and I got lots of cleaning accomplished this weekend, unfortunately we still seem to have a really long way to go. Where is all this STUFF coming from? How was everyone's weekend?

I had a meeting with my ds's new lead therapist today and I want to fire the whole company that we are getting his services through. I was basically informed that they are stopping his therapy cold turkey, and that while they will be looking for therapists to replace the ones he lost, unless I make certain changes to our living environment (basically they are saying I need to move), they probably won't be able to find anyone who would be willing to work with him. I swear that if he loses his waiver funding because this woman is being outrageous in her expectations, I will sue the company for all they are worth!!! I wanted to throttle the woman. She was commenting on rediculous things like urine and feces exposure for the therapists since dd2 is still in dipes, and how I can't keep my books on the stairs, because a therapist could fall, and how the Purel hand sanitizer that we adults use most of the day, until we can get some burst pipes fixed, just isn't exceptable. Also we somehow need to make this place bigger so that there is solitary place for ds to recieve his therapy. As she was naming off each thing I was getting angrier and angrier. If we didn't have to complete 2 more months in order for him to be able to graduate to the post intensive phase of the program I would graduate him out right now and tell them where to stick it! Can you tell this really set me off today? Ok, enough venting from me.

I hope that this week goes by as quickly as the last week did. That was such a welcome surprise for me.
post #2 of 62
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Originally Posted by Goldiemom View Post
We are into a new week already! This last week went faster than I thought it would. I am glad of that. Each day that passes is one more I don't have to worry about. I am a huge worrier at the beginning.

Well, dh and I got lots of cleaning accomplished this weekend, unfortunately we still seem to have a really long way to go. Where is all this STUFF coming from? How was everyone's weekend?
Yes, last week did pass more quickly. Two weeks ago the days dragged by SOOOOOO slowly. Ugh. I hate that.

The STUFF in my house comes from DH who can't seem to figure out how to put anything away.... so eventually I throw it out then it is clean again. He agreed that I could pick ten things out of the garage to throw out... havne't gotten around to it yet but that will be excellent! I love tossing! (not my cookies : ) We have so much stuff that we don't need and no one wants that I have no choice but to toss things. He doesn't see it though. "We might NEED that some day." Some day may never come and I will NOT live under a pile of rubble just in case "some day" we might need one of these million things!

There's MY rant for the day!
post #3 of 62
Maybe we can have a weekly thread, if the site will stay up for more than a few minutes. Gah!

Goldie, I don't know much about your son's situation, but it certainly sounds crappy what this woman was saying to you. Therapists can't walk around books on the stairs? wah. Afraid of diapers? Why is she in a business that involves children?

Excitement for the day... yesterday at Linens'N'Things I turned around to find DD at the top of a big mobile staircase thingie, like a metal piece of scaffolding they roll around. She's on this platform 10-12 feet above the ground, the only railing a simple bar at her head level. Then she starts swinging from the bar. "Hang!" she says, as she swings her feet off the platform. Now she's dangling in the air four feet above my head. Gah! Fortunately she is a good hanger and held on until DH climbed up and grabbed her. I wish they wouldn't leave those things around the store.
post #4 of 62
What is that new button next to quick reply?

kdt, I totally agree about the "might need it someday" problem. I tell him, okay, the one thing out of this hundred that we need someday, we will buy when we need it!
post #5 of 62
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What is that new button next to quick reply?
I think it is so you can quote multiple people in your reply, but I'm not sure how to use it yet.

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kdt, I totally agree about the "might need it someday" problem. I tell him, okay, the one thing out of this hundred that we need someday, we will buy when we need it!
HA! I've tried that and if that one thing happens to be needed in the next year I have to deal with SO much harassment!!! I just toss and keep quiet. Then, when that one thing comes up, he can't find it and I tell him it must be there somewhere! buried under all that other CRAP! and he goes out and buys a new whatever and uses it in his project and then forgets that I might have maybe thrown the original one out. I'm sure some day he'll catch on... but I'm also sure it won't be any time soon!

OH, and the "extra" parts he buys from Home Depot! Arg!!!!!!! Better get one extra so I don't have to come back. But then, when we really DO have one extra, you have to go back anyways to return it, which he doesn't do, so then we have spare parts sitting around all the time! :
post #6 of 62
Hello Y'all. This might be my last post here for awhile. There are way to many similarities to when I lost Alexa for me to be here right now. When my mind gets straight I hope to be back, & wish you will welcome me then. Thanks Mama's. I hope we all have live healthy babies in May 07.
post #7 of 62
Oh Cristina, I am sorry to see you go. Come back when you are ready.

Alice, that sounds hard, being in Houston without your husband right now.

Katie, I loved your birth stories, especially Darlene's with all the bouncing. And the Jehovah's Witnesses! Too crazy.
post #8 of 62
Well, here we go on week five. Im paranoid!! This is normal right??? I am so afraid of losing the baby. Everyone tells me that first preg. usually miscarry in the first Tri. Please tell me this isnt likely!!!!!
post #9 of 62
What? Usually? My butt! No, miscarriages are not that common. It is normal to be nervous, though, especially your first pregnancy.
post #10 of 62

Hey ladies Right now I am sitting in a filthy house and am too damn lazy to do anything. I have an hour and a half until dh gets home, so I better get BUSY. Poor kids are even benign neglected right now Bah. Just no energy! Ofcourse yesterday I had a VERY busy day (that lasted until 5am this morning) so maybe that explains part of it...
Goldie - I am a little confused by what the therapist is or getting all pissed about, (sorry, little slow on the uptake here) but I can tell you I would BE WAY MAD if someone came into my house and started picking things apart. Sorry, if you want to explain things to me more then I can be more sympathetic

KD: I am SOOOOO the same way with my husband. GAWD! That is our like #2 marital annoyance. His crap is EVERYWHERE, and he is a PACKRAT! A disorganised, sloppy, packrat!!

Christina: I understand. You are in my heart & thoughts every day. Wishing you love and healing, and all of us healthy baby vibes.

Jesi: Dear god, I was long winded with Darlene's birth story. Daphne's was so..so...HARD that it was like - I don't even want to GO into too much detail. Both of them are so wonderful, and I thank the universe every day for my fortune.

Beating: Ok, well the truth of the matter is - Yes. Typically if you are going to miscarry you do so in the first trimester. ITA with Jesi above though. The good news is: Everyone is paranoid right along with you! And for the bad news: It never ends! Even when your baby is 2 you'll still look at him or her and think "What if something happens to them?!" Someone use to have a sig on MDC that said: "Choosing to have a child means to have a piece of your heart outside of you walking around forever" or something much more eloquent than that. It's true, you really don't realize true vulnerability until you become a mother... Our love for our children makes us so vulnerable, but its the greatest thing in the world!!! :heart
If you start cramping pretty bad, even at like, 8-9 weeks - Try not to stress too much. IME, I did a LOT of cramping the first 12 weeks, but I think it was everything stretching and growing, and being concerned about the baby - everything down there was 'amplified'.

Sorry to ladies, just procrasinating my housework!
Much love,
Katie
post #11 of 62
Oh I wanted to ask for you mama's who have had many pregs, is it possible to hear the heartbeat at 9 weeks? I've never tried that early. With Darlene I was 11 weeks, Daphne I was 10..so wondering if maybe it's easier/earlier with each additional kid. I don't see how, but...just was curious
My bonehead question of the week! (I'm allowed one!)
post #12 of 62
Depends how you're listening I guess. My midwife expects to hear the heartbeat with the doppler at 7 weeks.
post #13 of 62
Another week. I posted here about being exhausted (I tend to get anemic) and it was really really exhausted - just laying there was painful, even sleep wasn't really enough - I started taking chlorophyll in addition to my iron pills. It seems to have done the trick, I have been so much better.

Goldiemom s I don't have any experience with that, but it sounds like a terrible experience and I hope you get everything worked out

jessitron - that is scary, my daughter likes to hang too, though she tends to be pretty cautious. I think if I saw that I would have a heart attack!

Debstmomy - sorry to see you go, I feel terrible if I caused you pain by bringing up alexa. I was torn about whether I should mention it at all. I will be thinking of you.

Beating - what helps me relax about the possibility of miscarriage (well other that the fact that I have two kids and haven't had one) honestly is that there isn't anything you can do. So I can relax because I know if its going to happen it will and if it isn't it won't and there isn't some level of vigilence or worry which will change things.

Darsmama - the heartbeat - to some degree it depends on your weight. If you have more belly fat it will make it harder to hear. I've never had it pick up before 12 weeks, but I have a good inch and a half in between at that point, kwim? It's also possible some docs/midwives own higher end doppers that can detect sooner? (However I don't know if that's true or not)
post #14 of 62
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Oh I wanted to ask for you mama's who have had many pregs, is it possible to hear the heartbeat at 9 weeks? I've never tried that early. With Darlene I was 11 weeks, Daphne I was 10..so wondering if maybe it's easier/earlier with each additional kid. I don't see how, but...just was curious
My bonehead question of the week! (I'm allowed one!)
Its totally possible! I worked OB/Gyn for 4 years and I was usually successful finding FHT's at 7-8 weeks. If a momma was carrying weight around her middle it makes it harder to hear them that early. When I was pregnant with dd1 (and no flab on my belly....those were the days!) I found her heartbeat at 8 weeks.
post #15 of 62
Hello mommas I am having a rough week. The bloating is better, but I am exhausted. Anybody else dragging around? I'll get bursts of energy, but when I do too much (like...walk to the bathroom) I get tired. I've been napping everyday. Thank goodness for nap time, I have no idea what I'd do if Maddie didn't nap for a solid 2-3 hours every day.

I feel like I'm doing some very early nesting. I have always disliked our bedroom, so I went out today searching for the perfect comforter set. I found one I really like and now I can't wait for dh to get home so we can put everything together. I want our bedroom to be nice and cozy, so I'm breaking out the flannel sheets that have been put up since last winter.

I was saying in a thread last week that I don't really feel pregnant, but the last 2 days have certainly changed my mind about that. My boobies are SO sore. My tummy is sticking out (surely due to all this constipation and gas! yipee!). I'm tired, moody, pimply, and did I mention totally sexy with my gas-filled belly?

jessitron: holy smokes! I would have had a heart attack! Yesterday I was shopping with dh and dd2 when I reached down to hold dd's hand and she was gone! In like 2 seconds she had turned down an aisle and ran all the way to the end. I was yelling for her but she didn't answer. I finally found her clinging to a Dora backpack a few aisles away. I was so upset. THEN, that night I went to her room to see what she was doing and she was sitting on her window sill (on the 2nd floor of our house) with the window wide open. She was leaning against the screen. I swear that child is trying to give me a heart attack. We put a lock on the window.
post #16 of 62
My boobies have been killing me too!! I have to hold onto them when I get out of bed every morning!!! Im just SO glad that the cramps have ended. The cramps were the reason I took the POAS test. My DH thought there was something wrong with me and wanted to take me to the hospital.
Did anyone else have REALLY bad cramping the first 2 weeks??? Now its just a twinge every now and then, I can deal with that. I just ask the baby to go back to sleep, LOL

Feeling crappy the last while too. Caught a cold somewhere and I really wish I could breath thru my nose, LOL

Anyway, thanks to everyone for the reassurance. I think Im gonna be uber paranoid for the next 2 months. Once I know we are into the 2nd Tri. I think Ill be able to relax .... well, maybe only a tiny bit.
post #17 of 62
I was pretty crampy right at about 4wks-5wks
post #18 of 62
Hi everyone,

I want to reply to individual post but I am so exhausted right now I can hardly keep my eyes open. It was a long day at work. My house looks like a tornado went off in it.
This morning was my wake up call. Last week I was congratulating myself for having lots of room left in my work pants. I had weeks and weeks before I need maternity clothes. Ha ha my pants were snug this morning. ARGH. I caught my reflection in the mirror at work and said OH MY I LOOK PREGNANT. I do not want to tell work until November. I do have a comeback if anyone at work ask if I am pregnant, I am going to say its dangerous to ask a woman that question. Well I am off to bed. Ya I know its 6:30 pm my time.
post #19 of 62
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I wanted to throttle the woman. She was commenting on ridiculous things like urine and feces exposure for the therapists since dd2 is still in diapers, and how I can't keep my books on the stairs, because a therapist could fall, and how the Purell hand sanitizer that we adults use most of the day, until we can get some burst pipes fixed, just isn't acceptable. Also we somehow need to make this place bigger so that there is solitary place for ds to receive his therapy.
I don't think I could have held my temper! I noticed from your Sig that DD2 is only 1 years old! I have never met a 1 yr old NOT in diapers! Is there some one you can contact about her behavior? Just plain WRONG!

My weekend kid of sucked. Sunday, I stood up and there went my back! I really hate muscle spasms! Dh stayed home yesterday but couldn't today. I hope it gets better soon.

And yes we are all scared about miscarrying. But I try not to think about it.

Ok it's my turn to vent
Dh is trying to transfer to WA so we can be closer to family. Well he put in for 2 positions 2 weeks ago. Well the stupid lady who is in charge of sending all necessary info FORGOT! She hasn't sent it yet! So he is unlikely to get either one of the positions! We are trying to get out of here before i gets cold. We live in Alaska. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO angry! Sometimes it just seems like we get no breaks.

Tomorrow had better bring some GOOD news!
I did find out today that I am OFFICIALLY PG!....LOL Like the 3 test I took at home weren't true!
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what helps me relax about the possibility of miscarriage (well other that the fact that I have two kids and haven't had one) honestly is that there isn't anything you can do. So I can relax because I know if its going to happen it will and if it isn't it won't and there isn't some level of vigilence or worry which will change things.
These are fine words of wisdom.
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