So, my doctor sent me off to get tested for inhalation allergies and mentioned I should head over to the area across from the Mayo Clinic to get it done. She reckons they don't take appointments there. I'm just wondering, where exactly am I supposed to go and who can I actually call to figure this out? (Apparently, it's that old health center building). Since we just moved to Chicago, any bit of info would be a lifesaver. Is that part of Mercy Hospital, or am I just totally tripping?
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What were your biggest pregnancy surprises and pet peeves?
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Laura Barnes42 said:Hahaha, a Southern extremist?! That's a new one on me. Why don't you ask her if there's any distinction between different types of extremists in her neck of the woods? 🤣🤣🤣 I'm actually cracking up here. It sounds like you might have married into a family from a similar region as mine.
As for the face thing, people told me my features changed around week 14. I have no clue what that implies to anyone else, but apparently, everyone can tell just by looking at me that I'm having a girl. According to that old superstition from my dad's side of the family, if you're carrying a girl, she takes all your beauty away and you end up looking a bit rough, but if it's a boy, you stay looking picture-perfect. 🤣
So, I'm guessing when they say they can tell it's a girl, they really mean you look like a total mess right now. 😂
I didn't marry into California, but my mother-in-law spent her 18th birthday out there, so clearly 35 years in the Midwest wasn't enough to teach her how to make normal comments during Easter lunch... 🤣
The whole idea that a baby "takes" all your beauty is just something I've heard from women before, but I don't get how my face is supposedly "preparing" for birth... like, sure, the body prepares—hips widen, Braxton Hicks, whatever—but the face?? 😕 😕
What were your biggest pregnancy surprises and pet peeves?
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I mean, I’m not exactly shocked, but honestly? This just makes my blood boil...
1. So, my mother-in-law recently dropped this absolute bombshell on me (right after I got home from the hospital) claiming that my face was starting to "prepare itself" for childbirth. Like, can someone please explain what that even means? I’m still totally lost, especially since I was only 24 weeks along at the time.
2. Then—and this has nothing to do with being pregnant, I assume—she goes out of her way to say I act like some hardcore, old-school Southern extremist. Again, totally nonsensical, but definitely not exactly a compliment.
IBM says she's originally from some tiny rural town in the Deep South, so I guess that's why she keeps making these weird, outdated comparisons...
1. So, my mother-in-law recently dropped this absolute bombshell on me (right after I got home from the hospital) claiming that my face was starting to "prepare itself" for childbirth. Like, can someone please explain what that even means? I’m still totally lost, especially since I was only 24 weeks along at the time.
2. Then—and this has nothing to do with being pregnant, I assume—she goes out of her way to say I act like some hardcore, old-school Southern extremist. Again, totally nonsensical, but definitely not exactly a compliment.
IBM says she's originally from some tiny rural town in the Deep South, so I guess that's why she keeps making these weird, outdated comparisons...