UTIs and buyers remorse

[same_sky]

I am unwell and kind of miserable today. I seem to have come down with my very first bladder infection! It hurts! And also, it is making me achey and sore, with an added dose of back pain. I woke up with the most obvious symptoms on Saturday and have been feeling progressively worse since then. I called the obgyn office this morning and they gave me an afternoon appointment, which I was so thankful for that I didn't even argue that it was with the nurse practitioner who thought I was a hypochondriac. (And I didn't even point out to her that they made me stop working because of that non-existent hypertension, which also led to a semi-induction, after her diagnosis. I am nice.) I was fairly sure they'd make me go to my regular doctor, which I didn't want to do because there was no way I was taking Evelyn into that office full of germs, so I didn't want to press my luck by asking for someone else. The women's clinic didn't bother me because it's not full of sick people. M came home early and went with me--he was going to just stay home with the baby while I went, but we decided it would be nicer if he came. She was nice today, and I am now taking antibiotics and am oh-so-thankful to be on them. This sucks. But either it is my imagination or I am already feeling a little bit better.

I also have some buyer's remorse, because I bought a really expensive nursing bra at the hippy store on Saturday. It cost at least two and a half times more than I've ever spent on a bra in my life. Now that I'm home and wearing it, I think the band is too tight. I guess I'll buy an extender or something, but I hate it that I paid so much for something that doesn't fit. At least I supported the hippy store, though, and can stop feeling like I need to go buy something there. And I know my real bra size (plus a little bit in the band size, apparently) from getting fitted, and it is scary.

M went in to watch some television, and I went with him to sit and feel sickly on the couch, and Evelyn went to get fed. Half an hour later, I was sprawled out asleep with a sleeping baby on me and M was napping on his end of the couch. I wish someone would have been awake here to take a family picture. I bet it would have been a cute one...

Comments

[e11en.livejournal.com]

You will come to find that there simply is no such thing as a comfortable nursing bra. You can join helloheather and me in our nursing bra design business that we're going to go into one day. Honestly, why is it so hard to make a decent one? And they are ridiculously expensive!

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I found instructions once for how to turn a regular bra into a nursing bra. At this rate, I'm going to have to find that again and figure it out.. although honestly, I don't have any regular bras that are all that hot, either, so maybe not. Let me know when the first meeting of the nursing bra design business is... ;)

[ms-jacket.livejournal.com]

I only have one good nursing bra out of the dozen or so I bought. It was fantastic and I nearly had to take out a loan to buy it. I got it in Sweden and all things maternity and baby related are already super expensivo there . . . hopefully a cheap extender will help you out.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Evelyn threw her first fit in public when I was at the store buying this one, and I got a little stressed and ready to stop looking at bras, so I used some bad judgment and bought the thing because it seemed to work "okay". I have several that are "okay". I was only going to pay that much for it because it was supposed to be "great". Oh, well.

[ms-jacket.livejournal.com]

I'm smiling right now because all moms know that "public fit bit". ;-) You can't know how many times I didn't buy something or bought something ill-fitting on account of kids on the verge.

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Oh poor K1!!! I hope you feel better soon.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Yes, poor me! ;) I'm feeling better already as far as the UTI goes, though. Now let's just hope for no side effects..