Infant Check-In 10/25

[tkford216]

Sorry I'm a bit late today. I have a cranky tantrum baby on my hands today. Ugh.

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Age:

Milestones:

Challenges:

Funny/Cute stories:

How are you?

QOTW: What was your favorite Halloween costume growing up? 

[megrae12]

Age: 8 mo/almost 7 adjusted

Milestones: Sitting on knees, eating all the food, and alllllllmost crawling

Challenges: he's sick right now. A virus according to his doc with high fever. He spiked a 102.4 fever this morning. We've been fighting fever and crankiness and He is on his FIFTH nap of the day. So yeah, it's been a long miserable day.

Funny/Cute stories:

How are you? I'm tired. I think I'm getting sick so that's fun.

QOTW: What was your favorite Halloween costume growing up? I was a ninja turtle once. Pretty amazeballs.

[sarcaztic10]

Age: will be 3 months old this week!

Milestones: talking all the time and laughing

Challenges: sending him to daycare has been a challenge. It's hard on me because I don't get to see him much through the week. He doesn't nap well there so when he gets to me he is so exhausted he just passes out and I don't really get to see him awake.

Funny/Cute stories: when I picked him up from daycare today I kissed him on the cheek and he started laughing.

How are you? Doing ok.

QOTW: What was your favorite Halloween costume growing up? We didn't live in the city so I didn't really dress up or go ToTing

[taberbtb]

Age: 3.75 months

Milestones: Starting to grab at her toys

Challenges: Not much this week. She's a pretty easy going baby.

Funny/cute stories: I can never think of any. Our days/funny stories always seem to blend together.

QOTW: I remember when my mom made me a Dalmatian costume. I LOVED 101 Dalmatians for a good 10 years of my life as a kid.

[tkford216]

8m + 1w

Let's see. He now crawls efficiently. Pulls to a stand in his crib, pack n play, and just about anywhere else. He wants to walk (us holding his hands) constantly. He's biting pieces off of food with his two tiny teeth. Oh and he can get into a sitting position from laying down.

Omg. This week has been rough so far. He has hit separation anxiety phase. He doesn't like to nap much. He wants to do all the things and get into all the bad things and gets easily frustrated. He's tantrum city (he throws himself to the floor to cry). It's been great..

He apparently thinks splurping is hilarious. We had spaghetti the other night and my H slurped up some noodles and the kid just lost it in a fit of giggles. So naturally my H kept slurping and the kid kept laughing. It was quite funny/adorable to watch.

Me? I'm stressed, exhausted, you know, mom things. My H is in politics so he's extremely busy and so I'm on my own basically until the election cycle is done. Two more weeks. I can't wait.

QOTW: I was Raggedy Ann like 4 years in a row..

[ellebelle]

Age: 3.25 months

Milestones: Pushing up onto elbows during tummy time, blowing bubbles, and starting to babble consonants.

Challenges: Sleep. And bottles. I go back to work in less than 3 weeks and she won't take a bottle at all.

Funny/Cute stories: Nothing specific, she just has the sweetest smiles when she wakes up from a nap or in the morning.

How are you? I'm an anxious mess about the feeding stuff. And the sleep regression is making me feel like a failure. 3 months has been way harder than 2 months on me.

QOTW: What was your favorite Halloween costume growing up? Unicorn.

[gratefulgirl]

ellebelle - 2-4 mo. can be so hard, peaking around 3 for me. ((Hugs)). You are definitely not a failure!

I was talking to a mom two weeks ago who dropped her baby off at daycare and said, "She refuses the bottle, good luck!" (I hope that wasn't her actual way of putting it, but you get the idea). The now-toddler is just fine.

[megrae12]

@tkford The 8 month tantrums are super, huh? I'm very unhappy no one warned me about them. Maybe this will better prepare us for toddlerhood?

[gratefulgirl]

Oct 26, 2016 19:14:39 GMT -5 megrae12 said:

@tkford The 8 month tantrums are super, huh? I'm very unhappy no one warned me about them. Maybe this will better prepare us for toddlerhood?

It's a mini 2s. I remember reading after that age about how discipline starts between 8 and 10 months and it was like a lightbulb moment.

Sadly the best parenting In infancy can't stop the 2s because memory isn't long enough. I keep hoping I can prevent further cases of the 3s around here *shudder*.

[tkford216]

megrae12 sorry little man is sick. I hope he feels better soon (for his sake and yours!)

sarcaztic10 laughing babies are the best! Sorry daycare has been rough.

ellebelle sleep regressions are the worst. I don't have any advice on feeding but I've heard women say babies can be really particular about the type of bottle they like? I hope she takes one for you soon.

[tkford216]

Oct 26, 2016 19:14:39 GMT -5 megrae12 said:

@tkford The 8 month tantrums are super, huh? I'm very unhappy no one warned me about them. Maybe this will better prepare us for toddlerhood?

Ugh, it's awful. I have a copy of the Wonder Weeks book that I follow along with, and it is so spot on with the last leap and with this one. I think this one is extra bad simply because not only is it a major learning time but it's also sleep regression and separation anxiety on top of it. Everything collides into one awful period of weeks for us mommies to endure. Not fun at all.

[hollyberry]

Age: 3 months

Milestones: baby boy is hetting better at tummy time but he still falls over
The physiotherapist goal is for that to stop. So lots of practice. Baby girl can't get as high up but it's coming. Lots of tummy time is supposed to happen in this house. I fear we don't do it enough. But we do what we can. SMILES!!!! they are much more reliable now. It took a while to come but they are here now!!!


Challenges: just doing everything the physiotherapist wants us to do. Its hard fitting it all in, and still have bottles cleaned and supper made and laundry done. It seems as though the physio gets on the sideline.i feel like a bad parent at times But we do our best.

Funny/Cute stories: the other day my neighbour was holding baby boy and I baby girl and they were facing each other and they smiled to each other. It was adoreable!

How are you? Doing ok. Other then physio stuff I feel like we are doing well with baby twins!

QOTW: What was your favorite Halloween costume growing up? I was never too creative and was often a witch. I was Big bird once when I was really little.

[taberbtb]

hollyberry try not to beat yourself up, you are doing great! I am pulling my hair out with one infant somedays, you are absolutely killing it girl!

[hollyberry]

Oct 27, 2016 14:44:42 GMT -5 taberbtb said:

hollyberry try not to beat yourself up, you are doing great! I am pulling my hair out with one infant somedays, you are absolutely killing it girl!

Thanks a lot, sometimes you ju justat need to hear you are doing a good job!