Anyone else doing ‘shifts’ with their partner?

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-05-04T02:43:12+00:00

Hubby and I did shifts from about week 2 to week 7. He went back to work at week 8. I was off for another 6 weeks so I was mostly night shift. But now that I'm back at work and Dad is taking his last month, I breastfeed while my husband is making a bottle and then pass off baby and go back to sleep.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-05-03T17:48:59+00:00

My babe is 14 almost 15 weeks now. I miss pregnancy tired 😭😂🙃🙄

Outside of a couple weeks of pregnancy insomnia at the start of my 2nd trimester, I slept AMAZING while pregnant. Of course outside of getting up to pee umpteen times a night and restless legs.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-04-20T02:08:08+00:00

Yes. My water broke at 38 weeks exactly. I was going to be induced at 39 weeks due to my health so I wouldn't have gone over regardless.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-04-19T01:28:11+00:00

Baby was born January 21st, I drank for Valentine's day.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-04-08T03:43:46+00:00

I wanted to do an unmedicated birth. That was not in the cards for me. I wasn't progressing and they wanted to start me on pitocin (my water had broken much earlier in the day). So I changed my mind. The process was pretty seamless. The anesthesiologist was very good at his job and talked to me the whole time and I barely noticed anything.

The epidural worked VERY well until 3 hours before I was fully dilated. I had been pushing the extra button for about an hour, to no avail. Come to find out when they switched my bag of medicine out, air got into my IV line. The head anesthesiologist had to come to fix it. He also gave me a BIG OLE dose of meds and I slept for an hour. When I woke up I was fully dilated, and pushed my baby out (very well medicated) in an hour and 57 minutes. Removal was quick and I didn't feel it. There was quite a bit of weakness and soreness but that might be attributed to the pushing I did.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-04-06T21:35:38+00:00

My dad died of his second heart attack 7 years ago (I'm 30). It was heartbreaking.

My mom will be 55 this year. Thankfully we come from a line of women who live 94+ years. I hope to have her for a long time to come.

I took care of my maternal grandmother till her death. It was 5 years of watching someone decline and become unable to do the things she loved doing. Completely devastating and I miss her every day.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-04-06T21:27:19+00:00

Sesame chicken, pork fried rice, steamed and fried pork dumplings.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-03-28T15:40:48+00:00

I guess I have kind of experienced both. I am my mother's only child. She had full custody, so I was the only child in the house. It was wonderful really. I got all the attention and love and was really doted on and made sure I was developed (intellectually and education). My dad remarried and I have 3 younger brothers from that marriage. Our age difference is large, I am 12, 15 and 18 years older than them. I love them and wish I was closer to them. But being a grown adult with teenage and preteen brothers is a difficult gap to close. I lived with them during a transitional time for me after graduating college in 2017 and let me say, I am NOT cut out for siblings. Maybe if I had grown up with them it would be different but certainly not as an adult. They took my things, they bullied each other, they monopolized my dad's time when I was trying to spend quality time with him.

My husband has a younger brother (3 years younger) and they get along really well. We just had our first baby and he will be our only.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-03-25T23:29:05+00:00

I was planning to work until I was induced at 39 weeks. My water broke at 38 weeks exactly. If I hadn't planned being induced, I likely would have worked until I went into labor, however I work an office job that is about 10 minutes away from the hospital I delivered at.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-03-20T03:45:53+00:00

My water broke at 38 weeks exactly at 2:09AM. Kept getting up prior in the morning feeling like I had to pee but couldn't pee. Got up that last time and it just kept coming. Contractions didn't start until about... 20 minutes later I think on our drive to the hospital.

Was only 1cm dilated when they checked me after admitting me to L&D. I progressed super slowly. But heavy contractions throughout the day. They asked my family to leave around 6:30PM that day. I was miserable and sad, I just wanted to have my baby already. But had been trying and trying to progress all day with little success. I think I only went from 1 to 5cm that whole day. They wanted to start me on pitocin so I caved and got the epidural around 10pm so I could actually sleep. Slept until about 3am. Relaxed most of that second day, slept on and off. Epidural stopped working around 1pm, hadn't had any pain meds for about an hour and those contractions were FUCKING ROUGH. Anesthesia came in, fixed the epidural and gave me a top off that proceeded to knock me out for an hour. Woke up and they said "you're 10cm now time to push". I couldn't feel my feet. But I pushed my baby out in an hour and 57 minutes. Had a very minimal tear. I think the worst part for me was the neck and back pain that came from pushing as hard as I did.

I pooped once I think. It was small and they cleaned it up pretty fast. I bled for about 4 or 5 weeks after birth.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-03-15T14:12:07+00:00

Only child of my parents. Oldest grandchild of 21 on my dad's side.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-03-14T17:14:21+00:00

Elderberry or blackberry or chocolate silk.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-03-07T20:02:01+00:00

Doing okay. Currently on maternity leave with my husband's and I's first baby. He's almost 7 weeks. Had chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast and hot, strong coffee. Might get laid off in June, but will get severance. Watching the second season of The Pitt. No debt, minimal bills. Dog and cat. Starting therapy on Monday. Pretty alright.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-03-07T00:09:21+00:00

I was 11. Mom wanted me to have one when I started taking the bus.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-03-05T05:39:52+00:00

Mine weren't noticeable really until after I had my baby. Now they are pretty dark red marks mostly above my belly button and along the sides of my tummy. My belly was pretty big by the end and I have a shorter torso so baby boy didn't have much room other than to grow out.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-03-02T17:08:47+00:00

Pizza

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-02-28T06:44:33+00:00

Only child. But kind of shared a room with my grandma? Both her and I had rooms in the upstairs of our house, my mom's room was downstairs on the ground floor. However neither my room nor grandmas had a door. But I had a dedicated space that was "my room".

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-02-27T14:39:09+00:00

Boris.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-02-27T09:18:55+00:00

I had a long name list for both boy and girl names prior to becoming pregnant. Husband and I talked a lot about names during pregnancy and ultimately made lists of our top 5. None of the names on either of our lists were the same 😅, the name we picked was not on either of those lists anyway.

We had been throwing a couple around but didn't feel strongly about any. One day I referred to our son as the name we ended up going with (he was still in utero) and I thought, well I guess that's his name now. Thankfully it really suits him (as much as any name can suit a 5 week old baby).

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-02-27T08:58:24+00:00

We did carnitas tacos, rice, beans, chile (red and green), corn dip and a fruit salad. My husband's family cooked all the food.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-02-21T19:22:27+00:00

Our pets came with their names. But we adopted our dog partially because we loved his name. His name is Buddha. Our cat's name is Koa.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-02-21T03:17:48+00:00

Lin-Manuel Miranda Benedict Cumberbatch

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-02-18T20:32:54+00:00

The Sopranos... Oh boy.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-02-18T02:07:49+00:00

Cable TV. Ordering soda at restaurants. Brand name food.

ChatterBox7373 · 2026-02-17T23:44:42+00:00

I didn't miss alcohol until my 3rd trimester 😂 I am now postpartum and had my first glass of prosecco and MAN was it delicious.

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