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...

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[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.