u/StoopKidScurred

Last night we lost power in the evening as a tree knocked down a bunch of wires. We called the power company and they estimated it would be restored in the morning. It was getting dark, was hot and my phone was dying. I’m 7 months pregnant and already running hot/heat intolerant and the thought of no electricity or AC for the night seemed unbearable especially because our house runs super hot (way hotter than other houses). I just wanted a good night’s sleep. Ive been dealing with pretty awful pregnancy-induced eczema rashes and sweating and getting hot makes it even worse (family knows about this).

Plus one of the wires knocked down was an internet cable so even when the power company planned to restore electricity in 12 hours, we’d have no wifi in the morning for my husband to work (he works remotely). The idea was we’d have to call verizon to fix that wire after the electric company cleared and fixed the live wires.

Anyway, my parents live about 15 mins away. I figured i’d call to ask if we could sleep over that one night and then work from home there the following day until verizon restores the wifi. We wouldnt be in their way-my dad goes to work in the morning and my mom was gonna babysit my sister’s kid at my sister’s place. We’d be gone before they even got back.

For some reason my mom started yelling at me and getting pissed and made it clear she didnt want us to sleep over and work from their place tomorrow. Her biggest qualm seemed to be that we’d have to bring the “fucking dog” with us.

Her attitude about our dog has suddenly gotten more hostile since we moved (partly due to family’s insistence) back home to be closer to them for help with our upcoming baby. Sort of our of nowhere theres this anger about her.

Ive had my dog for 5 years and while my mom never was a dog person she never was so angry about its existence until we moved closer. My dog is 12.5lbs, doesnt shed, isnt hyperactive, isnt destructive, perfectly house trained, and when ive had to bring her over to visit my parents in the past (we used to live further away so leaving her at home alone for a weekend wasnt possible), my mom never would flip out like this and wouldnt really care.

My little dog literally just follows me around at their house and snoozes next to me when shes not sniffing about in their backyard. Thats it. The one “annoying/bad behavior” she has when we visit is that she does excitedly bark and run around the house looking for them when we first get there bc she’s happy to see them but she stops after a couple mins and then is chill and does nothing the entire rest of the time.

So after that phone call we pretty much werent invited, felt super unwelcome and just stayed home the rest of the night sweating uncomfortably and sitting in the pitch black. My poor husband stumbled around and brought the mattress from upstairs to the basement in the dark bc it’s naturally cooler down there and I grabbed a couple of uncomfortable hours of sleep on the basement floor with the mattress.

Today im pretty pissed at her for being so unwelcoming and making us feel like shit and i feel like she was a total asshole and we couldve easily had a comfortable night of sleep there. But maybe im wrong, maybe i shouldnt have even asked and just quietly figured it out myself like how we sort of did idk.

Im 28 weeks 6 days and today had a rountine growth scan. They said my son is almost 4lbs (!) which makes him in the 99+ percentile. I took my 1 hour glucose test 24 weeks 6 days and it was totally normal, not even borderline, like middle of the road normal/perfect.

Im 5’6 and was average sized at start of pregnancy. I was born 40 weeks 6 days at 8lbs. My husband is 6ft and slim, he was born quite big at 38 weeks and 9lbs 1oz.

I know my dates are 100% accurate (was tracking everything).

I wasnt afraid of labor but now i am…am i destined for a c section? 🥺

I go back in another 4 weeks for another scan bc he’s so big.

It’s 90 degrees out and this thang is just what the doctor ordered 🤟

Everyone keeps doing the whole “just you wait” and “your whole world is about to change” and “get ready for no sleep” thing or asking if im scared to give birth.

Honestly the fear-mongering isnt affecting me at all. Im not scared to give birth or deal with the hard work of a newborn because im so excited to NOT be pregnant anymore. I feel so uncomfortable being pregnant. I am looking forward towards working towards getting my body back, not being out of breath from minimal shit, no more aches and pains and discomfort, no more restrictions

Bring on labor, bc i am so over being pregnant
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I was tested at my insistence at 11 weeks and 5 days and was cmv negative. So ive been nervous of it all pregnancy. Caught a cold from my husband at 15 weeks 6 days. That made me anxious. Now im around my 8 month old niece a lot and that’s making me anxious. My sister tended to her (i think even gave her her pacifier) then handed me a cookie right after w/o washing her hands that i stupidly ate. I have been freaked out about this for a couple days now. Every fucking interaction is making me anxious. This is a miserable way to go through pregnancy. I may be one and done bc i cant do this much stress and anxiety again.

I need cmv negative reassurance.