u/Englishontrail

Can't stand plain water, or diet soda. Probably shouldn't keep having a Sonic slushie every day.

What's everyone driving 😂

My best friend is a wonderful, lovely woman and she is my first child's godmother and will be godmother of this one as well. She's kind, caring, we have been there for each other through everything for 15 years and I cannot imagine my life without her lol.

HOWEVER. She is texting me literally dozens of baby names a day, ever since I told her about the pregnancy two weeks ago. Some of them are funny, most of them are harmless because I simply would never pick them and we both know it. But there are several every day that I would have seriously considered, and now if I choose one of those both this child and I will never hear the end of "I picked your name!"

I know this is mostly a me problem, this is her way of showing she cares (in addition to going to get my weird pregnancy cravings with me and going to the appointments my husband can't make), and it really does not matter big picture. But it is driving me completely bonkers. It's the same feeling as when you were going to do something and then someone tells you to do it, so now you don't want to.

I've gently suggested she stop. No luck. She is on the spectrum, and had a traumatic miscarriage that made her unable to have children. She did this the last pregnancy and I had to block her for a week to get her to finally stop, because it feels a little like she's making my pregnancy hers.

I'm very blessed that she loves my children so dearly, spend so much time with them, loves them more than me in pretty sure. But oh my God. I just want her to STOP SENDING NAMES.

Had an early scan due to bleeding and everything came back clear, viable and healthy, plus after four weeks of vomiting 6-10x/ daily we left the OB office with nausea meds and permission to live off of blue coconut slushes 😂 hallelujah

I'm pregnant with my second. I'm not throwing up *too much* yet, but I am so ridiculously nauseous and tired. By like 3 pm, if I haven't had a chance to nap or at least rest decently, I'm very shaky and sore all over, and I'm really struggling to eat or sleep. I know it will pass, but there's definitely a few more weeks.

I wfh and my daughter hasn't started her new nursery since we moved, and won't for a few more weeks. I feel so horribly guilty. She's probably getting 2-3 hours of TV daily right now so I can get a little rest and work. I just don't have any energy to run around a playground with her. Until this we have been pretty strict with ourselves that unless she's seriously sick, we are screen free most days- she might have watched an hour a week.

My husband and friends have been so lovely stepping up to take her to go play, do activities and crafts, etc. I am trying to do easy setup activities she likes while I work, like play dough, coloring and magnet tools. But I feel like the new baby isn't even here and I'm already fobbing her off with the electric babysitter.

We have just moved back to the area. I'm not registered with any providers yet-- I can't seem to find a PCP with availability. I've found out I'm pregnant, but I have complications that make me high risk for sure.

Where can I go for pregnancy care for now? Everywhere I call expects me to already be registered with an OB, but as we just moved I am not.

In Missouri/ Kansas.

Trying to get booked in with an ob for high risk pregnancy as well as for imaging for suspected cancer (don't recommend both at once).

My Dr office is part of the ku med system. They will not allow me to have the referral/ requisition for either in order to go somewhere else that's more cost effective, like diagnostic imaging or university physicians women's center. It is not a question of insurance coverage.

They are saying I must complete all of the required testing and appointments with their system. Ie:

For the cancer screening, I must have an appointment with their "nurse navigator" at a hefty price to confirm the need for imaging, even though the imaging is ordered already by my dr and pre-authorized already by my insurance, then I have to have all of the imaging together at their imaging center.

For the ob referral, they've said I have to go to a ku med urgent care to have the pregnancy confirmed, and cannot go anywhere else. Then I am only able to see a ku med ob and they will not refer me to any other system, even if another ob is a better fit for my condition.

Is this legal? Normal? I thought I had a right to take my testing orders wherever I preferred and choose my own doctors, as long as they have availability. Can ku med really refuse to see me without all of the extra appointments and without doing all testing in their system?