September 2013 Moms

How crunchy are you?

foxyroxy — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:28:53 GMT

The earlier post about being a "hippie" mom reminded me of a poll my friend posted on Facebook a few weeks ago called How Crunchy Are You?

http://themoralesfamily.us/granola.htm

(someone remind me of the html to make that clicky and I will edit it)

I'll be honest: I scored a measly 26 points (thus barely "sprinkled with granola"). Obviously, the quiz has faults-- I, for one, think there needs to be an option to choose "No, after having considered it carefully."

So: how crunchy are you?

Holy crap, there are March BFPs

bexsd — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:50:45 GMT

I just lurked the March 2014 board and it is weirding me out! I can't believe people are getting positive tests due 6 months after we are!

Epidural Vs. Drug Free

smlowe9311 — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:42:00 GMT

Ok ladies, I in no way want to start a debate on here. I am only looking for good resources for both sides. I tried google but haven't been too successful other than other opinions. Also please no that I in no way intended to judge you because of your decision. I just want to be informed for whatever I decide. At this point, I am very hesitantly leaning toward a drug free birth (meaning no epidural/pain meds) because I am in love with the idea of being able to walk around after the birth. If you know of any good resources out there please pass them along. TIA!

Bottle help?

Mrshenry1111 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:09:10 GMT

What are the best bottles for use with both breast pump and formula?

Pizza...it's wfd

Skalbrecht — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:25:47 GMT

Was too busy running errands and being nesty to think about dinner. So we had pizza delivered...and I just devoured 3 peices.

Now looking forward to some cold for breakfast. Who else digs cold pizza? Bonus points if you enjoy it for breakfast!

28wk 3D U/S

Jennybenny5785 — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:37:09 GMT

I had my 28wk 3D u/s today it was so exciting to be able to see my little girls face today. We got lots of great 3D photos and a DVD as well. I can't wait to meet and hold her in just a few months.

I also had my 1hr glucose test today keeping my fingers crossed that it comes back good and i don't have to do the 3hr one.

Ugh!!!!!

katiezab — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:23:41 GMT

DH is over an hour late from work and not answering his phone. I get that he's not supposed to be on it at work but uh he can tell his pregnant wife who is home with his 1.5 year old that he is going to be late and not to wait to eat and feed DS. I'm not mad that he is late, and in not even mad that he didn't tell me in advance. I'm mad he isn't answering now or letting me know anything now. What do you think, should I be that wife who calls and asks to speak to him??

Eggs Benedict for dinner

A37licia — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:08:20 GMT

Mobile:Eggs Benedict for dinner

I'm hooked lately - made Eggs Benedict last night and tonight for dinner. So delicious, and tonight I didn't ruin any eggs while poaching. Last night I went through a few! Have you made them before?

28 weeks today and Dr. appt update

teachergurl2002 — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:48:48 GMT

Hi Ladies...just wanted to give you an update as to whats going on. Today I am 28 weeks and I had an appointment with my OB. She is still relatively pleased with our progress. At the moment my iron is incredibly low so I will probably have to have a transfusion within the next week. She's also testing me now for cholestasis. My BP is still really low for triplets and she's very pleased about that. My GD is starting to get very hard to control and its not because of anything I am doing or eating. The three placenta's are causing major insulin resistance so she really upped my insulin. I am now measuring 44 weeks. She is thinking the babies will be here sometime after the 4th. Probably at 31 weeks. I know I should want to keep them in longer but I feel like I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Monday I see MFM and hopefully the will tell me about how much each baby is possibly weighing. Hopefully they will also be on board with me delivering at 31 weeks and I will be able to start making some definite plans.

Hope everyone is doing well and is happy and healthy.

Shopping cart/high chair covers

MegStark — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:51:27 GMT

I'm a FTM and I'm just wondering if these are actually used a lot? I don't know if I want to register/get one or not just because I feel like it may be more of a hassle than it's worth.

Also - yes, I do like to shop and plan on taking the baby with us out to eat, etc.

Soooo tired!!!

charpe — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:18:02 GMT

For the last week or so, I feel the need to nap almost every day. I'm assuming its just a 3rd trimester thing. But this is beyond regular tired!! Today had to be the worst. I hadn't 3 hour glucose test this morning, thought I could just go about my normal routine afterwards. So I ran a few errands and nearly fell asleep driving. I came home and fell asleep for over 2 hours!!

Someone tell me I'm not alone! I don't have time in my schedule to nap daily!

Direy update - Baby is Here

SweetC80 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:09:46 GMT

direy welcomed her baby into the world this morning at 8:55am at 2lbs 7oz. Her LO has been airlifted to a bigger hospital w/ a better NICU. Her LO has a long road, but she said her LO has a strong heart. I will leave the details out for her to share with you all! I'm sure her and her family can use some T&P!

Sending you lots of love my friend!

Hard-boiled eggs (or why I should never be allowed in the kitchen)

OpheliaChem — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:14:33 GMT

Its simple: eggs in water, pot on stove, water boils, remove pot, cover with lid, wait 17 minutes. Perfect hard-boiled eggs. Except for those times you forget they are on the stove. DH came downstairs and said "your eggs are boiling". Sh!t. I say "oh ok, thanks." He says "were they boiling the whole time I was upstairs?" I lie and say "oh no, they just started." In reality, I forgot about them and yes, they were on the stove long after they started to boil. I know this because while he was upstairs showering, I started to smell something burning and figured it was just my imagination. Nope. That would be the eggs on the stove. Drat. Well, I'm going to let them sit for 14 minutes - I figure that's a good compromise since I have no idea how long they were actually boiling. Then I will attempt to eat them.

desperately needing advice about a situation with my mom..LONG

Kristonita12 — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:49:15 GMT

Hi all.. I'm sorry in advance that this will be somewhat long, but I want to give the details of my situation and receive some feedback from you ladies. I can't even express how much I'll appreciate your responses. Here's the story:

When we decided to get pregnant, both my mother and my mother in law, who live about 2 hours apart, offered to be childcare for us. This was great news and they were both beyond excited to offer, so we had no qualms about accepting these offers. We had been living closer to my in-laws for a few years and my husband was having a hard time finding a job. That being said, some space gave us time to forget that my mom and I have somewhat of a dysfunctional relationship, which seems to be more easily managed when we aren't living right near each other or are at least spending some time apart (we lived near my parents during my graduate schooling and it wasn't nearly as bad as when I had lived WITH my mom.. we fought occasionally, but were able to mostly enjoy it or put up boundaries when she was being ridiculous).

Anyway,with DH not having any luck finding a decent job and still being in school (and in a position to transfer), we felt really excited when my dad offered my husband a job as the office manager at his business. Yes, working for my family sounded like it could be trouble, but we reasoned with ourselves that we have LO on the way and need the money badly, and my dad and I have always had an amazing relationship, so we thought it was perfect. We thought that would put MIL in a less awkward position, too, because although she offered childcare, she seemed less excited than my mom and would've had to quit her job to do so. We didn't even say yes to my dad's offer until we literally ran out of our other option-my income- when I was fired for not being able to do my job while pregnant due to doctor's orders. Then I was denied unemployment. It has been an uphill battle and we felt fortunate to have this opportunity on the table. Being that I lost my job, we were left without the option to move straight into our own place and have been living with my parents for about two months now to save money while my husband works. I even found a job that is AMAZING and has great benefits/ allows me to work from home one day a week to be with LO, meaning my mom would only be watching LO for 3.5 days per week.

Here's where the trouble starts. My mom has been picking fights left and right since I got my new job and since we put money down on an apartment to hold it for mid-July. We have cats, which my mom was totally accommodating about before we moved in, and she is now trying to force us to give our cats away if we want to stay/ making us keep them in a tiny room until we move. Fine, we can do that, even if it makes us really sad. Well now, she has decided that not only that, she refuses to watch LO at our place and is demanding it be at her place. No big deal, right? Wrong. My mom smokes like a chimney and we discussed and agreed upon the plans before a) moving down here and b) putting money down for this apartment..the plans being that she watch LO at our place.. we even got a really NICE apartment with a ton of space and a patio for her to use for smoking (a sizable fee). She's changing the game now because she thinks we're disempowered to do anything now that we put money down, I think. She "refuses" to be around animals and straight up told my husband and I that LO will have allergies and be "sickly" all from crawling around in "cat shi.t" and then criticized us for having a "filthy house," being "animal hoarders" and putting the animals needs above our child's. Let me just say this, YES we have 4 cats, it's too much, but we came into this marriage with two each and we love them. If anything were a problem with LO and the cats, of course the cats would be gone. We're not insane.Additionally, I'm kind of a clean freak and my house is MUCH cleaner than my mom's.. so it was all just really nasty stuff she said to be hurtful, but lacking in truth.

I'm so hurt and appalled by this behavior from my mom. I don't know what to do. Realistically, our options are A) Hope she stops acting a fool and sign our lease here, or B) Move back where we came from, switch OBs again, neither of us have jobs and be stuck living with my in-laws for a long time. They aren't the easiest people to deal with either, honestly. I should have expected this.. my mom has ALWAYS put her needs and desires above mine, but she was never unsafe and she loves me very much. If anyone is familiar, my mom refuses to go to therapy because the words "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" and "Borderline Personality Disorder" are some things she's heard before. Can you tell I've been in my own therapy to learn how to handle this?

My point in posting this is to hear how other moms to be and BTDT moms would handle this. I feel as though I am without choices for my little one and I want to make sure we're caring for our daughter to the best of our abilities. I know my mom will never harm baby, but she also doesn't see sitting for her in a smoker's house as a problem/seems to already be passing judgement on our parenting and making this relationship difficult. She also keeps saying "aw, you're so emotional and hormonal!" to me every time myself or DH react to the hurtful things she says.I also suspect she's nervous about her own abilities (very insecure usually) and trying to make ME say she can't do it so she doesn't have to try. The other things she seems upset about, that I suspect are the main issues, are that we have a video monitor we can check from our iPhones at work (she refers to this as a "psycho nanny cam"...even though we will only be using it when we're home..and she will be using it too) and we don't want her smoking around the baby (hello, SIDS). I think she thought she could get away with it and is noticing that we ALWAYS know when she's smoking inside. Anyway, HELP! I appreciate all of you who made it this far.

Rude Alert

mslove03 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:00:26 GMT

I am waiting for my oil to be changed and the gentleman that does this made a rude comment in regards to my being pregnant. He looks at me then at my stomach heck I am 6 months and of course am showing and says how old are you? I reply 28 I look like I am barely 20 he's like "I was gonna say why would you go and do a stupid thing like that." In regards to my pregnancy. I'm just like what...I give him a blank stare. Some people should just keep their mouths closed in my opinion.

Any one else dealing with rude people today or am I the only one?

Nursery painted!!!

Pattern — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:30:31 GMT

Well the nursery is painted...still pretty empty though...I feeling very behind with this little one....does everyone else have the nursery decorated and ready to go?

Pickles---can't get enough!

zanephoebe — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:30:30 GMT

I could eat pickles all day, every day. I seriously can not get enough...I have 2 jars at the house at any given time, because the world would end if I ran out. At least I am getting the low sodium ones...that should help, right :/ Any weird cravings?

I'm so proud of my breasts!

ejb23 — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:47:19 GMT

I know this sounds crazy but I was having a lot of anxiety about breast feeding. Not labor, not sleepless nights, just being successful at breast feeding. So I went to a free class today PSA for anyone in the DC metro area the breast feeding center in DC has awesome free classes!! and in the class the instructor suggested that we go home and try hand expression if we weren't high risk. I was doubtful it would work but it did!! Both nipples produced a tiny amount of what the instructor said would be colostrum! I stopped quickly after seeing the results but feel so happy that it worked and hopefully it means I can relax a little about having a successful breast feeding experience !!

Follow-up question about Tdap vaccine

OpheliaChem — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:46:20 GMT

Some of you mentioned having your SO, grandparents, etc get a booster too. I totally agree with this. Here is my issue: DH got a Tdap in May 2011, so just two years ago. This was confirmed (date and type of vaccine) by the doctor who did the injection. We moved last year and our new PCP doesn't want to give him the booster again because its only been two years. I can't find anything concrete about the length of time between vaccines for family members so for those that are having your SO get vaccinated, what do you consider the cut-off in terms of when the vaccine was last given for him? One year ago? Two years ago? Five years ago?

Localized upper left abdominal pain

AsMom2011 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:44:13 GMT

Has anyone been experiencing similar localized pain? It feels like a burning, throbbing pain about two inches above and to the left of my belly button. My back is also sore directly behind where I'm experiencing the pain. Going to the doctor in the morning to be on the safe side, but just curious if anyone else has had the same experience.

Hiccups!

smlowe9311 — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:24:55 GMT

I think I felt Zoey have hiccups for the first time today! After my OB appointment and lunch with my mom I was sitting at home relaxing and could feel little pops which reminded me of the first few kicks and movements I felt. During this time I could also feel and see her moving at that same time. The "pops" were so consistent and lasted maybe about 5 minutes which makes me think she had the hiccups. I know this is normal for this time in my pregnancy (I'm 26 weeks 3 days) but it was so sweet and I just wanted to share!

Breast pump- insurance

carolrohrsetzer — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:53:17 GMT

Hi,

I know someone had posted about this before and I just wanted to share my experience. I have Aetna insurance and today after calling and verifying my coverage for a breastpump they gave me a list of providers I could use to order the pump.

One of the in network providers they have is http://yummymummystore.com

and they have the MEDELA advance pump in stock! Since it is the pump I really want I called and comfirmed that they would bill the insurance directly and I was able to place my order online!!! They will take a few days to verify the insurance info and then they contact you back to let you know it has been approved and ship your pump.

all other providers I called that have the same pump needed me to fill out paper work and fax it but this place had everything online and it was very easy to order the pump....

I was expecting it to be much more complicated so I am super excited it was easy and that it is one less thing on my to do list !!!

I hope this helps some moms on the board too, they have a list of all insurance providers they take it is not just Aetna!!!

Maternity Support Belts

JocelynB0911 — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:54:35 GMT

Why didnt anyone tell me about these sooner?! I stopped at a home medical store on my way home to see if they carried them and they had one left. I got it, put it on, and had immediate relief! I think I love this more than my weekly burrito stops!

I will say though I should have went with the smaller size but will more than likely order it tomorrow and just have it shipped. So if you were thinking about one... just do it!

What are reasons to opt out

*HiS ChAmAoLe GiRL* — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:17:59 GMT

of the GD test? I was telling a coworker that yesterday I had done my one hour and she said she refused to do it. When I asked why she said bc the drink was gross.

Are there legit, medical reasons why to opt out or is it just a personal choice ? Thoughts?

Sorry doc, gotta go

JocelynB0911 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:23:00 GMT

I had, had is the key word here an ent appt at 1230. I was told he had an emergency situation and was running 30 min behind. Well I have an ob appt at 2. It's now 120 and I'm going to leave. He walks in like I haven't been waiting for over an hour (I like to be early and not one of those patients that show up late and push the whole schedule back) as I'm walking out asking why I'm leaving and giving me the excuse of well it was an emergency. My reply? I can't let your emergency hold me back from what I still have to do today. Have a good one. Yup. I'm pissed.

ETA: Edited for punctuation mobile ate