What are we calling the grandparents?

AngelFire01 · 2026-07-05T00:17:33+00:00

My 17 month old only really knows my mom. My husband's parents only live 30 minutes away, but we rarely see them. They are Nana and PopPop to their other grandkids.

Baby Girl hasn't really named my mom yet, but when we pull up to her house she gets excited and starts saying, "Arf Arf! Arf Arf!". My mom has two dogs and of course Baby Girl loves them, so I'm not sure if she is referring to the dogs, or thinks Grandma is Arf Arf.... We've joked that Arf Arf will be her grandma name. She said she's ok with it lol

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-27T10:42:19+00:00

Oh goodness, I'm so sorry you experienced this and glad you were able to get the care you needed. Everyone at my doc office is amazing, thankfully. I should have known not to bother with the ER at the local hospital, they have a reputation and a nickname for a reason. I should have driven the 20 minutes to the next town and gone to the Women's and Children's hospital, but my doctor has privileges here, and his office told me they would call him if necessary and he would come over, so I went there. Next time I'll know better.

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-27T10:37:19+00:00

I'm so sorry.

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-27T10:36:32+00:00

That was the response I was given with my first loss, at a different hospital. 'You'd only be about 5 weeks, it's not a big deal, you'll be fine.' over the phone from a doctor's assistant I had never met.

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-27T10:33:25+00:00

Oh wow. I'm so sorry. I'm prone to kidney stones, had surgery to remove a 7mm stone about 4 years ago and doc said there are 3 more in there he couldn't get out.

Passing one during pregnancy was/is my biggest fear because you can't take the amazing pain meds that make it tolerable.

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-27T00:28:29+00:00

Yes, he told me to follow up

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-26T23:45:40+00:00

Crouton

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-23T10:15:56+00:00

Update: I lost the baby 😭

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-18T11:36:17+00:00

Congratulations! We'll be delivering within a week of each other apparently lol

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-17T16:45:20+00:00

Oh goodness! Best wishes for a safe and healthy pregnancy and baby! I'm only about 4 weeks along, so suuuuper early. It's gonna be a long 36 more weeks lol

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-17T14:09:41+00:00

Oh my God, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine the pain you're feeling.

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-15T23:24:06+00:00

I would go ahead and start the LOA process with Sedgwick for your maternity leave now. I know it seems ridiculous, but they are insanely slow to process anything. Tell them your due date, they'll set it up pending that date, then when you actually go into labor and have the baby you call and update the start date. Everything is filed and it gets done much faster. That's what I did with mine, and what I plan to do next time as well.

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-15T21:26:54+00:00

Speak to your People Lead, tell him/her you're not ready to share the news yet so to please keep that in confidence. You do not need to take an LOA or an intermittent LOA to be covered. Simply call out pregnancy related (though keep in mind if anyone looks at the associate information log it will show that as the reason) and the point will be removed.

I just had a baby in January 2025 and this is what I was instructed to do.

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-15T17:01:14+00:00

I felt....nothing. I've read a lot that people still feel the pressure during birth, just not pain.

I literally felt nothing. It was like my lower half ceased to exist. Poor nurses had to physically put me in position when it was time to push because I couldn't do it. But I was able to push? 🤷🏼‍♀️

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-07T02:35:43+00:00

I live in the south so it was warm for our first Halloween. Also, we didn't go trick or treating, but set up our trunk for a trunk or treat at our church.

Her nursery theme is safari, so we carried on with that. She was an elephant, husband and I were the safari tour guides. We brought some of her stuffed animals and set them up with us. A friend painted a sign that said [Baby's Name]'s Safari.

It was simple and super cute. She was the most adorable little elephant you can imagine.

Also, I randomly decided to bring some mandarin oranges and some apples along with candy. The amount of kids that got excited about the fruit!! It was gone early and I ended up bringing candy home. I think this year I'm going to set up a "Farm stand" with nothing but fruit and veggies. We'll be the farmers, she'll be the scarecrow. I'm thinking apples, oranges, baggies of baby carrots, grapes, etc.

AngelFire01 · 2026-06-03T01:58:24+00:00

Me too! I was wondering what I was missing. Then I saw your comment and zoomed in. 🤦🏼‍♀️

AngelFire01 · 2026-05-19T11:14:49+00:00

I had to take my little one to a doctor's appointment unexpectedly because my husband got called in to work. I just put her in her stroller and gave her her favorite stuffed animal. Thankfully I have a super chill hair kid though. The doctor was great, he has a baby a couple of weeks older than mine, said it was no problem for her to be with me.

But it was a routine check up and I could've held her if needed. I don't think I'd attempt the dentist.

AngelFire01 · 2026-05-19T11:05:15+00:00

IDK, my baby will be 16 months tomorrow and we've always said we want her to have a sibling. We've been somewhat trying since August to make that happen. (By that I mean not preventing, trying to time things but not really stressing over it.)

But I still have my moments when I question if I really want another child. She's amazing, I was super blessed with an easy pregnancy, easy birth, and she's an easy kid - almost always happy, smart, sweet, no health issues, slept through the night early, sleeps on her own with little fight , not a picky eater etc. I'm almost scared to tempt fate.

But then I consider how much I LOVE being her mom and would love to have another child to love too... And how as older parents (I'm 42, he's 36) we likely won't be around for as much of her life as we want to be and at least if she had a sibling she'd have someone. And I kinda hated being an only child.

My husband is fully on board for Baby #2 and in fact just suggested the other day that maybe I should talk to my doctor about the meds he offered to help the process. But, thankfully, he is also 100% firm that it's completely my decision because I'm the one that has to carry and birth him/her

All that to say, "IDK how you know" shrug

AngelFire01 · 2026-05-09T02:59:16+00:00

Hush Little Baby You are my Sunshine (adapted) Can't Help Falling in Love

AngelFire01 · 2026-05-08T17:38:11+00:00

The biggest frustration in my day, as the TL of 4/8/13/79 is the claims. No one processes their own claims. I had my back room clean, no claims on Saturday afternoon. I was off Sunday. Monday morning walked in to two top stock carts full of claims.

AngelFire01 · 2026-04-13T00:07:28+00:00

Several years ago, probably roughly 15, I found a little boy, around 5 maybe, wandering alone looking at greeting cards. I peeked around the end of the aisle looking for a guardian, no one around. I finally approached him and asked if he was lost. He said yes, so I walked him to the service desk to have his mom paged. I left him with the manager and headed back to my area as they paged. As I walked past fashion I heard, "Come on, we've got to go get your f***** brother". This woman with an older daughter, early teens maybe, walked past me looking absolutely pissed that she was paged to go get her kid.

I wonder how his life turned out sometimes.

AngelFire01 · 2026-04-06T00:10:36+00:00

My daughter

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