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Man. :T Can you make her get her annual check ups?
LO's sleep and my messy house are my biggest stressors.

My husband's thesis. I've been editing hundreds of pages and figures. I'm about to go insane.

I hope your mom is alright.

Too many things!

@banana: I'm sorry to hear that I stress out about my dads health & well being a lot & he is like talking to a wall It's really hard having to worry about your parents!

My biggest stressor of the week is LOs first birthday party this weekend...but I am also VERY excited about it!!

My LO's sleep schedule. Somedays he does so great, taking two 2-hour naps and going to bed at 8pm. But half the week is like today, never sleeping for more than 20 minutes unless he's in my arms. It's tough.

Keeping up with work--performing at the level I know I need to--while also taking care of myself and not pushing too hard when my body tells me I should be resting. I plan to go back to work full-time after butterbean arrives, but part of me wonders about what would happen if I didn't. We would be fine on DH's income, but I hate the idea of everything being his burden. It will all resolve itself, and I am pretty sure that I would be happier with at least working part-time which may be an option, but it is making me incredibly anxious lately.

My dad is the same way. Very stubborn about not getting his health checked up. And he thinks he doesn't have to worry about his health because there's medicine for most thungs. Luckily, we can we can now encourage him to see the doctors and try to be healthy for the sake of my LOs.

LO has been sick back to back. Ear infection a week ago and now roseola. She is just miserable
I'm at a crossroads with work and really have to evaluate what I want to be doing next.

My husband's health, my messy house, the four house guests I'll have this weekend and preparing my house for the shower this weekend. Someone tell me why I thought having a shower at my house would be a good idea????

@banana: Ugh, sorry : ( I get kind of stressed about MIL - she is healthy and active but she never goes for mammograms. I mini-lectured her recently about it.

@MsLipGloss: Have you talked to them about part time work post-baby? The women in my office have gone back 4 days, or 75% billable hour time and pay. Major pay cut, but I'm going to do it for our sanity.

I'm mainly just concerned about going into pre-term labor again but following doctor's orders and just laying around to prevent it.

@WinnieBee: I haven't talked to them about it . . . yet . . . but I know that several women here who are (or have been) on part-time status, so it wouldn't be a new or novel concept. I am really lucky that there have been at least 6 women who have had babies in the past 2-2.5 years, so the way has been paved. When I told one of my bosses that I planned to return full-time he said, "we'll see . . . " I'm sure that was his experience talking. Part-time options were also discussed with me during the interview process, so maybe I just need to suck up my pride and ask about it.

And yeah, the loss of income would be a consideration, but we would be okay on just DH's salary, so it's more of an issue to me and what I feel like I bring to the table. Although sanity is worth (double!) its weight in gold.

Work and TTC. Two of our upper management employees left and new hire requisitions have been denied. Since the two employees were Operations, that leaves me as the only personnel on the team with some knowledge as I have a background in both IT and Operations. Rest of the team is strictly IT.