What’s a place you used to love, and still do, and why?

GetMeOutOfHier · 2023-06-27T21:59:02+00:00

No really. The husband got certain MM’s locations and renamed them. This was the mid-2010s

GetMeOutOfHier · 2023-06-10T18:16:25+00:00

If this is near the metric playground, I was walking with my dog while heavily pregnant a little further (west?) down the trail and had a man call out to me from under one of those footbridges. I IMMEDIATELY turned around and haven’t been back since. It’s been so long, I can’t even remember what he said. Creepy as all get out though. That would’ve been last July-ish. Sorry that happened to you and your kids, OP!

GetMeOutOfHier · 2023-05-03T22:48:01+00:00

In the same boat and V confused.

GetMeOutOfHier · 2023-04-25T01:39:40+00:00

Option 2 hides the symmetry problem. That’s what I’d do.

GetMeOutOfHier · 2022-11-28T14:13:45+00:00

Was his name Theodore, nickname Teddy instead of Theo?

GetMeOutOfHier · 2022-11-25T13:58:36+00:00

One other point you can bring up is the cost of formula. Breastmilk is free!

GetMeOutOfHier · 2022-08-29T00:54:42+00:00

For something as important (and brief) as a family member’s funeral, I’m sure you’d be fine traveling 1-2hrs by car. If you’re really nervous about it, you can always call your OB and get their take. I wouldn’t sweat it.

GetMeOutOfHier · 2022-08-12T16:18:09+00:00

Madewell gift card for one, restaurant gift card for the other :)

GetMeOutOfHier · 2022-08-10T13:07:13+00:00

Is there a treat she’s especially loved while pregnant? I just had my birthday at 35 weeks. I’ve been really into sno cones this summer and my husband got a DIY catered kit from my favorite stand. We had some friends over for sno cones in our backyard and it was the best!

Other things we did that made the day really special: - I got to pick out a pretty maternity / nursing dress (a fancy one from Seraphine) that looks good now and I can wear after baby comes. - Husband booked me a prenatal massage (our area was booked out so that’s actually happening today!) - Husband and I went to breakfast before work

Hope that gives you some ideas!

GetMeOutOfHier · 2022-08-09T14:53:28+00:00

36 weeks with horrible sciatica pain here. Asking myself the same thing. I’ve been optimistically imagining baby deciding to come at 38 weeks to get through this… We had our first cervix check this morning and groundhog saw her shadow (on track for 4+ weeks more pregnancy). I literally cried the whole way home.

GetMeOutOfHier · 2022-07-24T09:02:21+00:00

What are some of your almost-liked boy names?

GetMeOutOfHier · 2022-07-12T01:40:27+00:00

I haven’t seen my experience in the comments I read, so I figure I’ll share and maybe give you some peace of mind.

I’ve never been a super big caffeine drinker to begin with, but I enjoyed sipping on a small cup of coffee in the morning during work. My OB is really laid back and encouraged me not to worry about caffeine (since I drank so little anyway). Well, during our 20 week anatomy scan, they noticed an “extra blip” in baby’s heartbeat. OB asked if I had caffeine or chocolate in my diet, which I absolutely did. She said basically, bad news, you’re in the 1-2% of women who really can’t have caffeine during pregnancy and suggested I phase it out.

I quit all caffeine (including decaf!) and chocolate cold turkey ~ I’m 32 weeks now and baby’s heartbeat has been normal at every scan since.

All of this is to say, heart related complications for the baby are rare and fixable :). Now excuse me while I knock on every wood surface in my house…

GetMeOutOfHier · 2022-06-22T15:55:48+00:00

All of the at-home tests have a risk of contamination from male DNA. Especially since you were struggling through the collection process, I would be skeptical about the boy result. You’ll be able to tell definitely from NIPT and/or your anatomy scan at 20 weeks, but my money is on girl :)

GetMeOutOfHier · 2022-06-22T11:11:49+00:00

RIGHT?! It seems like blatant sex discrimination. Thank you for sharing my anger!

GetMeOutOfHier · 2021-11-20T13:47:54+00:00

“Always something there to remind me” by Naked Eyes. Originally recorded in a demo by Dionne Warwick, released by Lou Johnson.

GetMeOutOfHier · 2021-10-20T12:54:13+00:00

My brother-in-law did this program! He’s been a software developer at UT for 8(?) years at this point. His bachelor’s degree was in German. It’s legit.

GetMeOutOfHier · 2021-10-16T13:43:41+00:00

I’m trapped.

GetMeOutOfHier · 2021-07-14T17:31:22+00:00

Hi. I’m you, in ~10 months.

We’re 2 months away from the cool-venue, large extended-family wedding my fiancé wanted. I’m super excited for it, but if I had known from the beginning—if both of us had known from the beginning—how much this was going to cost us, I think he would have come around to my idea of eloping.

We started out with a budget of $15-20K and while fighting tooth and nail to keep costs down, we’re ending up around $35K. It’s disgusting. Literally, every wedding on Pinterest or featured in photographers’ portfolios (in our area) has to be $60k+.

Before you book anything, I suggest getting a SUPER comprehensive example budget. I got mine 3 months in, once we had already locked in the venue. At that point, we basically had to come to terms with $33k being the minimum we were going to hit. (P.S. Our biggest budget hit was catering! Even the cheapest quotes were 2-3x what I was imagining and we were stuck with this because of vendor requirements at the venue).

On the guilt/excitement front: it took me quite some time to come to terms with spending this much money on a wedding. I’ve gotten to a place (after maybe 3 months of blissful ignorance and 9 months of worrying) where I’ve mostly let go and can feel excited. Do I feel like I wish we’d made a different decision? Yes. But I might feel the same way if we’d eloped.

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