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At 7 months pregnant, all 3 times, I was still reliably throwing up around 2 am most nights, most mornings, potentially a handful of other times a day (like when my husband sprayed his deodorant because there were only two doors and a flight of stairs between us so it was RIGHT IN MY FACE and completely overwhelming but asking him to switch to a rollerball seemed unreasonable given that objectively it really wasn't... Or potentially if I needed to bend down and pick something off the floor). Second and third time around, I was trying to convince a small person that they really did want to start going to sleep all by themselves/in a room with their sibling and not with me. I had pelvic girdle pain and was waddling. First time around, I was dealing with untreated Raynaud's of the n****e because I didn't realise it could be triggered by pregnancy/breastfeeding. I was working full time because I wanted to maximise my mat and holiday leave for baby time so stopped around 8.5 months each time. I was TIRED and uncomfortable.
People who don't accept "oh, my wife is very pregnant, we're not really up for hosting a distant relative" as a reasonable reason not to host probably aren't the sort of people who'd be considerate, unobtrusive houseguests you wouldn't mind hosting while massively uncomfortable!!
It's more common for people to be told they're probably having a girl and to have a boy but in my online "expecting Oct 2014" group there was one lady who thought she was having a boy and produced a girl. It is literally "can they see something there? Y - boy; N - girl" on the ultrasound when they check that everything's developing as expected - the penny only dropped on that one for the husband third time around (our first two are girls) when the technician explained what they were looking at while calling "boy". If Baby has their legs crossed or is an awkward position, it can be impossible for them to get a good view. Not sure how false "looks like a boy"s get called - I'd have thought the b***d flow in the umbilical cord would be sufficiently different to easily rule that out?- Maybe a stray hand or foot underneath from the angle. And I think there's "only" a 2-3 month window that things are sufficiently developed, but Baby is not too squished, in which they can expect to get a good view.
It's a lot more accurate than when my uncle was expected to be twins because the midwife feeling my grandmother's stomach thought his bum/hips were a second head. It isn't foolproof.
Stealing your third-trimester-pregnant sibling's baby name because you were told the wrong gender, rather than thinking about family names, friends who you as a couple really value, names you just really like, etc, together is TA move. Calling out TA, making it clear how angry and hurt and that this is not something you are prepared to gloss over, does not make you TA.
If brother dearest was assuring his wife you wouldn't mind and she really wasn't expecting the level of upset - he is doubly TA.
That was the first option? She buys all her own food, it gets stored clearly separately and everyone else knows it's completely off limits. If she's buying ALL of her own food then by definition she isn't eating other people's either and it works both ways!
Nope. She isn't insured. She has a past history of not respecting your things. You need that during the mornings and days to get yourself to work (or hope to do so shortly). It's not a viable solution.
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