What were your biggest pregnancy surprises and pet peeves?

Edward Rodriguez4 said:So I went to the local Red Cross clinic today for my last blood donation, and let me tell you, the woman working there absolutely butchered me... it was like she was skinning a deer or something! And honestly, how much blood do they really need? I’m telling you, they just sell it all off later—probably straight to some butcher shop to make blood sausages or whatever. Absolute scum! Plus, why does it hurt so damn much when they hit a vein?! Honestly, I’d rather have them just go straight for the jugular; at least then they might actually hit something instead of this mess... and then she has the nerve to comment, "Oh, your veins are so deep!!" Yeah, well, thanks for noticing! 🙄
Should I ask her to use a shallower needle next time???☕

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Honestly, darling, it would probably be more efficient if you just collected your own samples in a little cup, much like when you provide a urine sample. Those people are just *so* incredibly occupied with their vital duties. In our neck of the woods, the lab officially opens at 7:00 AM, but the staff won't even grace us with their presence until nearly 8:00 because they're far too busy sipping coffee. It's truly a tragedy when they're forced to actually work until 2:00 PM, especially considering they manage to squeeze in about ten different breaks before the clock even hits noon...

I AM BEYOND LIVID!!!! because I’m practically paralyzed at this point, I can’t even move😢😢😢

Ronald Davis22 said:😂😂😂
Honestly, darling, it would probably be more efficient if you just collected your own samples in a little cup, much like when you provide a urine sample. Those people are just *so* incredibly occupied with their vital duties. In our neck of the woods, the lab officially opens at 7:00 AM, but the staff won't even grace us with their presence until nearly 8:00 because they're far too busy sipping coffee. It's truly a tragedy when they're forced to actually work until 2:00 PM, especially considering they manage to squeeze in about ten different breaks before the clock even hits noon...

Anyway, some girl drew my blood twice for me once, and honestly, no complaints there—she nailed the draw and didn't make a whole production out of it. Plus, she was absolutely gorgeous! I almost caught feelings right then and there😍 but I figured that probably wasn't the most professional way to react, right? Nowadays, when you see an older woman, people assume they've got all this "experience"... yeah, sure they do! 🙄 And you won't believe what she did to me!! She sticks the needle in the vein and then starts twisting it around like she's trying to jumpstart a car😲 God, it hurt... such a nasty sensation. I just know I'm going to be nursing a massive bruise once I peel these cotton pads off... though I probably shouldn't leave them on all day, for goodness sake😬

jadejackal11 said:I AM BEYOND LIVID!!!! because I’m practically paralyzed at this point, I can’t even move😢😢😢

Your baby is due right around my birthday party!!!! 😍😍😍
little water sign!
and my little muscle is due on January 27th—just five days after me! talk about a double celebration!
as for that "can't move" thing... yeah, I totally get you... honestly, when I'm just lying there and I really gotta hit the bathroom, I spend like half an hour debating if I should actually get up or just wait until the urge passes... 🙄

Edward Rodriguez4 said:Your baby is due right around my birthday party!!!! 😍😍😍
little water sign!
and my little muscle is due on January 27th—just five days after me! talk about a double celebration!
as for that "can't move" thing... yeah, I totally get you... honestly, when I'm just lying there and I really gotta hit the bathroom, I spend like half an hour debating if I should actually get up or just wait until the urge passes... 🙄

Hahaha!!!!! Good one. 🤣

Maybe hers will make it to your birthday too. Personally, I'm hoping mine arrives a little earlier just so I can catch my breath... 😲
And honestly, I'd much rather deal with an Aquarius than a Capricorn. I know plenty of Aquarians, but I barely know any Capricorns.

this:

pure human envy...

wanderinghawk said:this:

pure human envy...

Man, 🤦just

I’m not even gonna keep going because I don't want to get sucked into some endless debate. But honestly, by making more money, you just end up paying higher taxes, losing out on child tax credits, and whatnot. It's ridiculous.

At this rate, the most profitable thing to do in America will be to just stay unemployed.😠

Rebecca Vaughn7 said:My mom is driving me absolutely insane. She’s been unemployed for ages, she’s drifted away from her entire social circle, and I’m basically all she has left. Because of that, every single emotion she has—the good, the bad, and the ugly—is aimed directly at me. Her whole sense of purpose revolves around those few hours a week when I come over to visit. When I moved into an apartment with my boyfriend—now my husband—she cried for two straight months like it was some endless monsoon. And yeah, I ended up crying too, just because she wouldn't stop.
There were plenty of other gems, but I won't bore you with the whole list...

Get this: when guests started congratulating her at our wedding, she shut them all down. I quote: "I haven't achieved anything; I just lost my daughter."

She even told me straight to my face that while she's glad I'm happy with my life, she shouldn't be expected to act cheerful about the fact that I don't live under her roof anymore and have my own family where she isn't the center of the universe.

Like I mentioned, I’m not pregnant yet (though we're trying), but one of my biggest fears regarding pregnancy is how on earth I'm going to break the news to her if it actually happens.

Anyway, sorry ladies, I'll stop venting now!!! Love you all 😍

So, I’m thinking maybe she really needs to talk to someone professional about this... I mean, it's incredibly hard for a parent to be left alone, especially when they haven't figured out how to handle it, and she definitely hasn't... No, listen, if she doesn't find a way to move forward and actually learn to be happy seeing her child moving on with their own—hopefully totally normal—life, she's just going to spend the rest of her days stuck in this loop of worry and sadness🤷👎 and if she can't pull herself out of it on her own, maybe some therapy would actually help things click🤷🙂

Edward Rodriguez4 said:So I went to the local Red Cross clinic today for my last blood donation, and let me tell you, the woman working there absolutely butchered me... it was like she was skinning a deer or something! And honestly, how much blood do they really need? I’m telling you, they just sell it all off later—probably straight to some butcher shop to make blood sausages or whatever. Absolute scum! Plus, why does it hurt so damn much when they hit a vein?! Honestly, I’d rather have them just go straight for the jugular; at least then they might actually hit something instead of this mess... and then she has the nerve to comment, "Oh, your veins are so deep!!" Yeah, well, thanks for noticing! 🙄
Should I ask her to use a shallower needle next time???☕

I mean, alright, that's basically their way of saying, "It's not that I don't know what I'm doing, it's just that it isn't working"... and sometimes, honestly, there really isn't anything else they can do 😉

Anyway, my mom is actually a lab director (not at the Mayo Clinic one, obviously 😬), so even when I went to see her recently to get blood drawn—and I literally told her, "Mom, please get me someone gentle, you know how much I hate needles"—this nurse ended up stabbing me seven different times just trying to find a vein. Three times in the left arm, three in the right, and then once more in the left again. And once she finally found it, the blood wouldn't even flow properly because, besides my veins being super hard to find, my blood pressure was low... so she had to practically mash the needle around in there just to get things moving 😳👎 even though, you know, she knows she's drawing blood from the boss's daughter and all that. My mom usually makes sure everyone does their job perfectly, whether it's a stranger or me... but I still walked out of that lab with two massive bruises on my inner elbows. 😳

Usually, they pull from other veins when people have those really tough, hard-to-reach veins, like with addicts or patients who need constant draws until the ones in the crook of the arm just aren't an option anymore 😉

Edward Rodriguez4 said:So I went to the local Red Cross clinic today for my last blood donation, and let me tell you, the woman working there absolutely butchered me... it was like she was skinning a deer or something! And honestly, how much blood do they really need? I’m telling you, they just sell it all off later—probably straight to some butcher shop to make blood sausages or whatever. Absolute scum! Plus, why does it hurt so damn much when they hit a vein?! Honestly, I’d rather have them just go straight for the jugular; at least then they might actually hit something instead of this mess... and then she has the nerve to comment, "Oh, your veins are so deep!!" Yeah, well, thanks for noticing! 🙄
Should I ask her to use a shallower needle next time???☕

Same thing happened to me... except she basically shredded my left arm first. She couldn't find a vein to save her life, then had the audacity to say, "Let's try the right arm instead. Your left vein is too deep and your skin is way too soft!" Like, excuse me?? WTF??? I ended up walking out of there looking like I’d just survived a street fight with bandages wrapped around both arms. 😠

Edward Rodriguez4 said:So I went to the local Red Cross clinic today for my last blood donation, and let me tell you, the woman working there absolutely butchered me... it was like she was skinning a deer or something! And honestly, how much blood do they really need? I’m telling you, they just sell it all off later—probably straight to some butcher shop to make blood sausages or whatever. Absolute scum! Plus, why does it hurt so damn much when they hit a vein?! Honestly, I’d rather have them just go straight for the jugular; at least then they might actually hit something instead of this mess... and then she has the nerve to comment, "Oh, your veins are so deep!!" Yeah, well, thanks for noticing! 🙄
Should I ask her to use a shallower needle next time???☕

Oh, don't even get me started! You can't believe how bad it gets. A few months after my last visit there, my arms were covered in these massive bruises from where they poked me. Every time I went in for a routine checkup, the doctors were staring at me like I was some kind of junkie!🙄

Edward Rodriguez4 said:So I went to the local Red Cross clinic today for my last blood donation, and let me tell you, the woman working there absolutely butchered me... it was like she was skinning a deer or something! And honestly, how much blood do they really need? I’m telling you, they just sell it all off later—probably straight to some butcher shop to make blood sausages or whatever. Absolute scum! Plus, why does it hurt so damn much when they hit a vein?! Honestly, I’d rather have them just go straight for the jugular; at least then they might actually hit something instead of this mess... and then she has the nerve to comment, "Oh, your veins are so deep!!" Yeah, well, thanks for noticing! 🙄
Should I ask her to use a shallower needle next time???☕

Look, I work in transfusion services, and I swear on my life that not a single drop of blood goes anywhere except to the lab, and then straight to the incinerator after seven days. 😍But hey, even when my own colleagues try to draw from me, sometimes it just doesn't work. I've got veins as thick as my thumb, so you'd think it couldn't go wrong, but sometimes the needle just won't take. It's just how it is...😁

Jesse Evans85 said:Reading this feels like listening to my own mother and mother-in-law. They call me every single day just to tell me it's snowing. Please, I'm not blind! Personally, I love the snow, and my husband and I still take our daily walks around the neighborhood. If I actually told my mom that, I think she'd lock me in the house and throw away the key. Other people haven't really given me a hard time yet because my bump isn't super obvious, but I have no doubt they'll start up soon enough.

And don't even get me started on my mom... while the snow hasn't melted yet, she's been calling me like ten times in a row asking if I went outside, telling me to watch my step, watch this, watch that... she's driving me absolutely insane. And then I actually do go out, and everyone else starts in on me too.🙂

I am seriously starting to loathe Chase Bank more than ever! :2up:

Oh, ladies, 🙂
I’ve honestly come to feel that pregnancy might just be the absolute perfect window of time to finally clear some space in your life by distancing yourself from certain people if you need to, even if it means cutting ties for good.🥳 That way, at least when you enter this whole new chapter of your life, you can step into it feeling completely unburdened and at peace.🙂🙂

Ugh, I seriously just got totally wrecked by this lady at the grocery store... so there I am, just standing there waiting for the cashier to get to me so I can grab my bread, right? And then this old woman just absolutely bulldozes her way right past me in line! Like, it wasn’t even hard to see I was pregnant because, let's be real, I’ve got a massive baby bump going on right now. So naturally, I lost my cool a little bit and snapped at her, asking if she really thought I was just standing there for the fun of it, and she has the nerve to look at me like *I'm* the crazy one and says she "just needed some pastries." Like, excuse me?? I was trying to buy a whole loaf of sourdough, not a handful of muffins ☕ misssslim.. 😠

So I swung by my sister-in-law's place yesterday to drop off some Kinder Bueno for her... and wouldn't you know it, her mom—aka my mother-in-law—was right there... ugh, just my luck!
..She immediately started dumping all this "expert" advice on me about how I’m doing everything wrong... first, she was badgering me to use a baby carrier for a week-old newborn. I told her straight up: no way. I’m not interested in carrying anyone else's kid, especially one that tiny, and I definitely don't want someone constantly lugging my own baby around in a wrap. She goes, "Oh, come on, just hold him..." and I'm like, look, if it were mine, I'd be holding him and carrying him myself because he's mine, but I'm not touching someone else's baby, period. But honestly, you can't explain logic to her... and oh my god, the way she was holding that poor little thing... seriously, heaven help us. My sister-in-law told her a hundred times to watch the baby's head, and she just goes, "Oh, mine was fine." 🙂 Then she moved on to telling me never to give a baby a pacifier... then she started going on about how back in her day, they used to wash diapers in a creek or something. Like, excuse me? Am I supposed to go find a stream and wash diapers in the woods now? And then she brought up how she used to bathe her kids before the umbilical cord even fell off. I told her, absolutely not, I am not risking an infection like that, it's just not safe. She just insists nothing bad will happen. 😠 Then came the absolute nonsense, like wearing a red string around the wrist for luck, or how a baby isn't allowed to leave the house until they've been baptized... it's just too much. Finally, my husband just snapped. He told her he was totally fed up with all the unsolicited advice and basically said everyone here had their turn being parents and proved they weren't exactly experts, so they should just let us raise our kid our way. If I want to use a pacifier, it's my call; if I want to use a bottle, that's my business. That shut her up for a second, but then she started bragging about how hard she worked during her pregnancy (meanwhile, I'm just chilling at home with my six housekeepers doing everything for me) talking about how she carried heavy buckets of water and even painted the house right before she gave birth. Like, girl, are you actually serious? Just... wow.
..Then she had the nerve to ask me why I'm not baking anything for Christmas. Honestly, I wanted to tell her: I won't be. I'll just send my husband to the local soup kitchen to pick up some food for us since I don't cook a single thing or do anything for her. Such a cow... she thinks just because I don't brag about making a specific meal or a batch of cookies that I don't know how to do it. Last weekend she acted so surprised when she asked my husband if he was hungry (she always asks him because the poor guy barely eats anything) and he said he'd had some chili. She's like, "Where did you eat it?" and he says, "At home." I'm pretty sure she doesn't have the slightest clue how to make chili herself... grrrrrrr... she irritates me so much. If my father-in-law had been there, she would have completely lost her mind. 😠

Hey Sophia Taylor872, I honestly feel like your mother-in-law can be just a little bit much sometimes, maybe even slightly overbearing in how she tries to jump in 🙄
I suppose I should probably brag about mine just a tiny bit, because she’s miles ahead of that situation—she doesn't really try to lecture me or push her unsolicited advice on everything 😉
though, I guess there will always be plenty of other people out there who will step in to fill that gap anyway 😛

😂 Noah Ramirez7 my mother-in-law is constantly hovering, asking him if he’s hungry the second he walks through the door and trying to push food on him immediately... it's enough to drive him crazy.
Honestly, I just tune her out. I pretend I didn't hear a word because, frankly, I have zero interest in her commentary...
She also keeps insisting that I'm definitely having a boy just because she thinks my bump looks a certain way. 😂
Apparently, according to her, that's how you carry a boy... but since I was 16 weeks along, everyone else has been telling me it's a girl. Even when I had my scan at 39 weeks, the doctor confirmed it was a girl. But no, my mother-in-law still disagrees.
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Ugh, she is just way too much... honestly, every single time she opens her mouth she pulls some ridiculous stunt that sends my blood pressure through the roof immediately.
..and then there’s the whole thing where she tried telling me I was carrying a boy, even though since the 12-week mark both my doctor and the specialists at the hospital have been dead certain it’s a girl, but you know how it is, you can't explain basic facts to someone who's just stuck in their own little world.🙄
mambi, seriously, you are so lucky you don't have to deal with this kind of mother-in-law drama... I'm just trying to tell myself that once I actually have the baby, I'll finally get some peace and quiet because I won't have to see her for a while, and eventually she'll show up again and I'll just have to find a way to survive it (thank God for NordVPN 😂)