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Confessions/Vents/UOs/AWs
Ok, just started a feeding session so please entertain me.
Vent: I hate when skinny minny girls like Kelly Ripa act like their so fat. On her show, they wanted Kelly to step on a scale and she was 'oh, no, I ate a ton last night' blah blah blah. Ok, I get girls of any size can have body image issues but seriously? You weigh 5 pounds.
Confession/vent: The Our365 people that take the ridiculously expensive hospital photos came to the house for a 6 week old photo shoot because I got a free 8x10. I knew ahead of time it was a ploy to get me to order more expensive photos and I was going to resist, but boy, did that backfire and I feel terrible for getting sucked into their ploy. There were some good pics but others weren't good and at all (awful, posed shots) but of course when you pay the for CD, you pay an arm and a leg. I'm embarrassed to tell Mr.D that I spent almost $400 for the CD and a bunch of prints and I'm even more sad that I could have used that money for a baby photo shoot with a great photographer that would have done much more artistic shots instead of stupid, posed shots.
Another confession: I go back to work on Monday and I'm more torn about going back than I thought I was going to be. I'm going to miss spending my days with him more than I thought, however, it will be nice to get back to a somewhat normal schedule and feel more productive since I feel like all I do is sit on the couch and nurse right now. I wished I would have taken the full 12 weeks but the rational side of me knows that we couldn't afford missing a month of pay so I've got the guilt coming from both sides.
And now for an AW: tonight is our first dinner out without the babe!
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Re: Confessions/Vents/UOs/AWs
yay for jen and mr d date night! where are you going?
confession 1- we are going to a party in nyc tomorrow night. i am scared to death to leave the baby over night. like anxiety attack, been nervous for days, scared. i know its normal and i know i will leave him alone at some point, and he is 9 months old- but i don't wanna. i want to stamp my feet and stay home.
confession 2- i had a crappy day at work yesterday and i really just wanted to leave, get ds, and go home. i felt like i wasn't spending enough time with him and work was putting some less than reasonable demands on my time for the evenings and weekends coming up. i was lucky that when i put my foot down everything worked out but i am in a residual funk from yesterday.
E- just out for dinner to the Porterhouse (in Peddler's Village) with Mr.D's sisters and BILs
Sorry about your crappy day but good to hear things worked out with work.
I have no experience with being away from J overnight yet but try and enjoy yourself tomorrow. I'm sure you are going to leave baby in excellent hands and the night will fly by.
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Ering it's a just a night! You'll both be fine. Worst case scenario One night of crappy sleep won't ruin either of you.
I YELLED at the Our360 girl. Who does that?
She came in right after they told us not only DS would not be going home with us due to jaundice, but that there would be nowhere for me to stay to breastfeed him outside of rocking chair I could live on in the well baby nursery.
The 365 girls says, "Can we take you baby's picture?" I say, "No, he is in the well baby nursery under the lights" and she actually says, "Oh, we can go in there and take the picture!"
I flipped holy shiit on her.
DH said something to me last night that hurt my feelings, and I'm still upset about it today. Even though he clarified his point and I did mine. I'm holding a grudge.
ETA: JenD- have fun on your first outing, and Erin- everything will be fine!
AW: Hunter's 4 month appointment was yesterday. He is 15 lbs 5 oz (50%) and 27 inches (98%)!! I packed up all his 3 mo clothes and put them in the attic, and it made me a little sad. I can totally see I am going to be *that mom* who hoards all her children's clothes.
..and his 4 month picture:
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FFS, the people would come in and drop off my food and then come back like 5 minutes later to pick up the tray. I was like, 'Dude, I'm not going to get to eat this for an hour. I'll call you to come get it!' Lather, rinse, repeat. Drove me nuts.
Ladies I am 25 pounds below pp weight
45 pounds down from when I had milo.
And ten pounds away from my college weight.
Hell yeah.
Ps all my jeans that fit on my hips still don't fit.