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Anon says
Just needing to rant to some internet strangers who likely get it.
36 weeks pregnant with our second child and it feels like things aren’t wrapping up like I want them too, my to do list just keeps getting bigger and I’m so stressed.
Baby’s also breech this time and I know trying an ECV and getting a c-section isn’t the end of the world by any means, but it’s just adding to my background stress.
I’m so frustrated that all of this is on me as the woman. My husband is great, knows I’m stressed and will happily jump in anytime I ask for help. He just doesn’t inherently get it and views this as “everything will be fine” and “we have time off coming up soon”. No, babe. YOU have time off. I have several months of recovering from a major medical event after the marathon that was fertility treatments and pregnancy.
Ugh, thank you for letting me get that off my chest.
Anon says
If my husband described the postpartum period as “time off” I think I would have murdered him. I get that even the most supportive husbands can’t share the physical burdens of pregnancy, delivery and nursing the way women do, but if he’s talking this way (esp as a second time dad who knows what this actually entails) he’s not being supportive at all.
Anon says
Yea maternity leave isn’t “time off,” though i suppose it’s time away from paid labor to do lots of unpaid labor
AwayEmily says
Speaking just to the breech/ECV issue — I *totally* get how that leads to just a constant low-level stress. My third was also breech until 38 weeks and even though I was fine with having an ECV and/or a C-section if necessary, it was just an extra layer of aauuughhhh on top of everything else.
Because I self-soothe with massive amounts of information and spent waaaay too much time reading medical journals about ECVs, I can tell you that because this isn’t your first child, you have a better chance of the ECV succeeding. Also, the literature suggests they are slightly more successful when you get medicated first, so push for that if they’re willing. And finally — the baby may well still flip! Mine did!
Thinking of you — this last stretch is so hard.
anon says
Same to all of this. Also, my ECV turned out to be some of the most (enforced) rest I’d gotten in a long time, since they make you lay there for a long time on the monitor before and after.
AIMS says
I was very stressed out with no. 2 as well. I think it’s just hard to get ready for a new baby when you already have a baby to take care of. The only thing I will say is that I felt better almost immediately upon no. 2’s arrival .. or maybe more accurately exit from my body and entry into the world. I think being physically pregnant is just hard in so many ways and once you’re not, it’s a little easier to deal with everything (even the stuff that is definitely not easy).
Anonymous says
I have made it to Friday of my first week back from maternity leave as a full time working mom of two. wooo!
govtattymom says
Congrats! That’s amazing. Hope you have a restful weekend.
Anon says
Congrats!
TheElms says
Well done you!!! Happy Weekend!
Spirograph says
Congrats! That is definitely a win worth celebrating
GCA says
Woohoo!! Have a great weekend.
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
Thanks to Anon for your response to my post last night.
I think there’s been a root cause of a lot of things – the biggest being providers that seemed too aggressive/I didn’t fully trust, on top of a specific a stressful postpartum period, and a kid who moves at his own pace which is a fine one, just different than his older sibling.
I just really need to sit with this.
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
*Specifically – gah!
Anon says
<3
Anonymous says
Any tips on managing your own anxiety when a kid is struggling? In our situation, third grader who’s always had struggles with anger management and anxiety has just escalated a lot this summer with troubles both at home and at camp (nearly got expelled) and my spouse and I are both having a really hard time (irritable, not sleeping well, hard to focus on work). We are just so worried about him that it’s hard not to engage in catastrophic thinking. Already getting some help and looped into pediatrician to start referrals process for more help; this has been an issue since he was one, but man it’s been a hard summer. How do you focus on other things when you are worried about a kid?
anon says
I’m sorry–this sounds like a tough situation. I don’t have any advice for this significant of a problem. However, the podcast Flusterclux has really helped me understand my own patterns and given me tools to change them and help my kid with their patterns. I’ve heard it’s helpful from a friend who faces more intense issues, but ymmv.
Anonymous says
Thanks. I’ll take a look.
Boston Legal Eagle says
Hugs, OP. This is really hard. Do you have your own therapist? Often just verbalizing your feelings to a third party helps to prevent them from constantly running through your head and affecting everything else. I have a hard time compartmentalizing too, and not that it’s necessarily a good thing to do as this is a major part of your life that will affect everything else, but maybe knowing you will have that hour each week to talk through everything you’re feeling will help?
anon says
I didn’t do this, but I wish I had. We had some long, tough years with one of our kids. I became so jumpy and twitchy whenever my phone rang because I knew it was probably yet another phone call from school or daycare or whatever.
OP, I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. It’s really hard, and other parents and friends will not understand it unless they’ve been there, too. Learn from my mistakes and seek out a support system for yourself, which will likely include your spouse and a therapist and probably nobody else.
Anon says
+1 for therapy for yourself and maybe couples therapy if this is causing tension in your marriage. This is tough. Sorry you’re going through it.
Anon says
School is asking for dismissal info for our incoming kindergartner. We apparently can’t change it for the first two weeks, after that we can change it but it seems like it’s a complicated process (involving notifying teacher + principal) and not something we can or should be doing on a daily basis. This seems rigid to me – we had hoped to use aftercare only 2-3 days per week, and on the days we pick up directly from school, we planned to sometimes walk and sometimes drive. I realize most people are all or nothing on aftercare, but I imagine a lot of people switch between walking and driving based on the weather? Am I way off base here? Does the teacher really want constant emails from me about our dismissal plans (the kids will also have labels on their backpacks that mention how they’re being dismissed). It seems like so much unnecessary communication, but I’m new to K-12 school so maybe this is normal….
GCA says
Eh, they just need to know where the kid goes. I’m sure they would be fine if you said ‘parent pickup M & F and aftercare T, W, Th’ or something like that – they don’t need to know transport mode, surely. We live within walking distance and sometimes walk, sometimes drive depending on the weather, parent commutes and other plans. Some of DS’s friends go to aftercare only 3 or 4 days a week because a parent or grandparent picks them up on the other day/s.
Anon says
They do need to know walking vs driving apparently because are the kids are released through different doors. We had not planned on setting specific days for aftercare, but it seems like we’ll have to (in addition to the school dismissal thing, aftercare is pressuring us for an exact schedule).
Anon says
You could also have her go to aftercare every day and then just pick her up early from aftercare on days you don’t need care. Just wait until the dismissal rush has calmed.
It’s helpful for kindergarteners to know the plan so they don’t get lost. They’re little and it’s a lot of kids.
GCA says
Ah, got it. Agree with just picking kid up from aftercare early if you don’t need it, and that it helps kindergartners to know the routine. Plus with staffing shortages ongoing, I can understand why the aftercare program would want a schedule. A number of our aftercare staffers are college students who work a couple of days a week and fit it in around their class schedule.
FVNC says
Other than the no changes for the first two weeks, this sounds pretty consistent with our experience last year with Kinder. For us, changing the plan wasn’t hard, but did require emails. For switching between walking and driving, I’d email the registrar or whoever sent the email, and see what they recommend. You communicating with the school is the only way the teachers and aides know where to get your kid at the end of the day.
My experience is that everything seems very rigid and complicated at the start, but things tend to run pretty smoothly and efficiently (and sometimes, less rigidly) once the school year is under way.
Anon says
” My experience is that everything seems very rigid and complicated at the start, but things tend to run pretty smoothly and efficiently (and sometimes, less rigidly) once the school year is under way.”
This is good to hear – I do understand why some rigidity is needed for new kindergartners, it’s just a little overwhelming coming from daycare where they didn’t really care about anything we did as long as we wrote tuition checks.
anon says
I think this is pretty normal. My kids’ school also strongly prefers a consistent plan for each day of the week. They have no issue with kiddo being a car rider on Monday and Thursday and a bus rider the other 3 days, but each K teacher has 25 kids they’re trying to get into the right line at the end of the day and it’s vastly easier for them if they can just refer to the list posted in the classroom rather than having to sort through messages from all the parents about the plans for that day. We definitely do one-off dismissal changes (in which case yes, we message the teacher) but doing it daily would be frowned upon.
In your case, are walkers and car riders dismissed from two different spots? At my kids’ school all those kids go into the same line, so no one actually cares which you’re doing on a given day.
Anon says
Thanks, sounds like we will need to set specific days for aftercare, but we can do that. And yes, walkers and car riders dismissed from different doors so they need to know.
anon says
Yeah, I think in that case you set up a plan that you expect to follow most of the time, and then just have to send emails of “Hi teacher, kiddo will be a car rider instead of a walker today (Monday). Thanks!”. Switching from daycare to public school can be a little bit of a shock–the admin staff really isn’t trying to make things challenging for parents, but they have a ton of kids to get in the right spots and lots of parents who get very vocally frustrated when things are messed up.
Anon says
We just got this same email and form from my kid’s school (first kiddo, rising K). We don’t have the 2 week lock out (that I don’t love – schedules and routines are new and may need to be modified?) but the rest seems on point. I’m honestly loving it – they want to know where every kid goes. It’s a safety thing, 100%. A lot of communication, but I’m here for it in this day and age.
It’s def a departure from my own upbringing but I also try to remember that my only frame of reference for elementary school was literally starting in the 1980s (’84 baby here) and the world is a vastly different place.