Maternity Monday: Short-Sleeve Empire Dress

I posted a while ago (maybe a week ago, I honestly don’t remember) about thinking I was going to have to wean soon. Truth be told: I don’t want to wean because I don’t want to have to make a decision about it. I want to just keep pumping at work 2x/day until the milk isn’t there anymore. DD is almost 11 months. Am I crazy? Will there come a time when I’m ready to stop?

I’m having a terrible day. STBX says I owe him for the ($6k) hospital bill when our daughter was born. Never mind that I was pregnant for 10 months and delivered a child.

So I’m not site what exactly I’m looking for, but I thought I’d put this out there to see if anyone has any suggestions.

I had a fairly traumatic vag1nal delivery of my daughter about 16 months ago. Labor went pretty well until she got stuck on my tailbone and had to be vacuumed out. I ended up with a very broken tailbone, severe tears, and a beautiful dd. It took 5-6 months before I could comfortably sit or move because of my tailbone so we waited a long time to try to dtd. When we finally did try at about 6 months it was horribly painful and I couldn’t manage it. Finally by about a year I could manage, but it was roughly equivalent to doing it with a chef’s knife. So painful. I finally went to a doctor and he said that I probably had a bad reaction to the dissolvable sutures and everywhere I tore is now a different type of tissue and that’s what hurts. He did a series of painful chemical peels to try “resurface” the tissue to no effect. His next suggestion is to cut out all of the bad tissue and hope it heals better next time. This sounds horrible to me, but there don’t seem to be any other options.

Now at 16 months things are maybe a little better, but far from good. I usually end up sobbing. My husband is traumatized from lack of s x.

I think I’m going to try to tough it out and try for a second asap. This will be painful, so I really need to get knocked up fast. I’m hoping that magical pregnancy hormones heal things, or at least that I can just go through getting cut open once after the additional damage from the second delivery. Does this sound crazy? I’m already dreading the pain of ttc. I really don’t want the surgery (what if it makes things worse?) but I want another child and happy husband.

I have another question for you guys . . . my husband and I are taking a babymoon next week. I have a voicemail into my doctor, so of course I’ll wait to see what she says too, but wanted to hear if anyone else was ever in this situation. I feel like an idiot for not checking before, but to get to our destination, one of our flights is a short (26 minute flight) in a small 9 passenger plane that is not pressurized. Google says non pressurized flights are bad for pregnant women, but I’m wondering if the short flight makes a difference. Thoughts?

Anyone have this dress or a reasonable facsimile? Work appropriate for a business-casual environment?

Good morning ladies and happy new year!

I have some questions for current moms (I am pregnant with my first, due in April). I am currently working on getting the nursery together. I’d like to add a shelving unit to store books/pictures/etc. but a part of me is wondering if there are any safety concerns I should have? As in when baby gets older, would it be possible for her to somehow knock the shelving unit over. The one I’m looking at is tall and study but just wondering if you guys would recommend somehow securing a piece of furniture like that to the ground somehow, or avoiding it altogether?

Thanks in advance!