Today I am 28 weeks 6 days pregnant. We told our parents that I was pregnant on Mother's Day. We thought it would be fun to wait until the baby was born but I really am showing and we were afraid the kids would blab. It went well with my parents. We went with the put-a-big-brother-tshirt-on-the-toddler-and-see-if-anyone-notices method. One of my sisters caught on right away and asked if I was pregnant. I said I was and she was shocked, as was my other sister. I think mom was surprised but was happy. I don't think my dad really cares all that much, but he's a dad and I would imagine it is weird for him anyway so I don't expect a huge reaction from him. My husband told his parents as the toddler and I weren't around. His mother wasn't all that impressed that we waited so long to tell. OH WELL! Lots of other family members don't know yet. I wish we never had to tell them. It doesn't seem to always go well.
I went to the chiropractor a few weeks ago and I HAD to tell her I was pregnant because there are things that shouldn't be done. She was SHOCKED, I think mostly because I hadn't told my mom yet, but also because it IS number 5. SHE asked me if I knew how it happened. She was laughing when she said it so I tried to take it in the fun joking way, but now that I think about it, I think it still bothered me.
Last week I went to meet a friend that I haven't seen since my oldest was like 2 (he's almost 14 now). While we were hanging out another friend from high school that I haven't seen since probably 1992 also stopped by. When friend number one asked me if I knew what I was having, friend number two said something like "you are pregnant AGAIN? Maybe it is time to think about some kind of permanent birth control" I was FLOORED!!!!!!!! Who says that to someone they haven't seen in years? It isn't like I am the Octomom or Michelle Duggar. This is ONLY kid #5 and I take care of my kids. They are cute, mostly clean, pretty well adjusted and behaved (in public) and we aren't on any kind of welfare...so WE are paying for them ourselves. I still can't believe she said it.
It happened again yesterday at Meijer. The check-out chick said something about being hot. I said "oh good it isn't just me, I thought I was having some sort of hormonal issue". She asked me how old I was and after thinking for a few minutes I said 33 and she said "oh so you must think that all the time" W T F? "um, no, I am pregnant" Then she does a quick headcount "so this is FIVE? Don't you know how that happens?" GRRRRRRRR As if that wasn't bad enough she then proceeded to tell me that she was 30 and was trying to decide if she was going to have anymore kids. That's not the bad part. Last week she went to the Dr. to have her IUD removed (get warmer) and at the last minute she told the Dr. not to take it out "she told me to calm down because she couldn't find the string anyway and then reminded me that it has to come out in 6 months" UM HEL-FUCKING-LO, I am a customer, standing here with my 4 kids, one of whom is almost 14 and standing next to me and you are telling me about your last gyny visit. Could that BE any more wrong? I can't even imagine what kind of face I made.
Wow I feel so much better. I am hoping that this blog can kind of serve as a little end of pregnancy diary where I can bitch about stupid people , talk about my cravings of the day, maybe if I am brave post some belly pics and just talk about what I am feeling. Hopefully it won't be full of bitching like today :-)
