It's gotten a little quieter over here so I thought we might want to start combining our random days together again. Thoughts?
Anyways, I saw this on Facebook today and it is everything I'm feeling these days reminds me that it's normal. I wanted to share this with you ladies to remind us all that we will get ourselves back eventually!
Great article jennybeans. I didn't really feel like myself again until DD was 1.5-2, and I'm finding it really hard to have someone need me so much again. The fact that it took me 2 hours to get LO to bed tonight (while DH was out doing one of his hobbies) & now we're up again isn't helping. I need to remind myself that it will get easier.
Reason #36643567 I need the Indians to win - we are going to a wedding in Chicago this weekend (my H is s groomsman). If the cubs win, their parade will be sat. DNW to be traipsing around a new city with a 9 week old and a victory parade for the opposing team. Also, this will be E's first travel experience. We are leaving DS with grandparents but it's our trial run for thanksgiving when we schlepp both kids to tennessee..
I'm so excited for tomorrow to be home with my baby girl. Lack of sleep and going to my internship the past couple of days has been rough. I'm really glad that I have a few weeks of just my internship before I start work too.
Me: 28, all tests normal DH: 34, very low count, motility, morphology DX - MFI 11/14/09 - Married 01/01/14 - TTC #1 01/06/15 - Started working with RE 04/06/15 - Recommendation - straight to IVF w/ICSI 09/04/15 - Started working with new RE Nov/Dec 15 - IVF w/ ICSI #1 - 11R/8F - 1 transferred, 3 frozen
Good morning all. Emotionally I'm feeling a bit better today. Thanks to H I was able to get about five hours of sleep last night. Which makes me functional. I woke up to discover DS1 has pink eye. H is staying with him and taking him to the clinic to get eye drops. I LOVE giving a three year old eye drops. Just like I love having an ice pick jammed through my temple.
Some exciting news! SIL is being induced on Monday! Ack I'm going to be someone's aunt!
Post by watermelonseed on Nov 2, 2016 9:48:48 GMT -5
Well the new job means I get to squeeze in a little more time on my mat leave!
We had about 10 straight good days of 6+ hour stretches about 1 wake up and now gone backward the last week with multiple wake ups and fighting at bed time. Maybe 11 week growth spurt?
DS's daycare sent home a note yesterday saying HFM is running through again. Ugh. I'm hoping DS doesn't catch it. He avoided it last time. DD is off today. She's been extra fussy, spitting up more than usual and will only sleep on me. She was awake virtually all morning. Hopefully it's just a quick thing and she's not getting sick or something. I'm hoping it was just something my friend ate that particular day that transferred into the milk and it doesn't agree with DD. She has no temperature, poops and pees are fine.
Congrats watermelonseed! Extra mat leave makes it even better.
In-laws are here for a few days so they helped me chase the toddler around the children's museum. They also took us to dinner last night and bought me coffee today. I could get used to this.
@snuff9861 O has spent most of the last two nights sleeping on me. I'm also hoping it's just a phase.
FFWC: I don't do overnight duty. Someone has to sleep on DS's floor currently (night terrors and won't sleep in his room alone), so I do it as it hurts DH's back. He takes care of the baby from 11pm-7am. He said she's spent a couple of nights on him or beside him. Them co-sleeping doesn't really bother me since he's always heard the kids before me (MOTY right here).
@snuff9861 O has spent most of the last two nights sleeping on me. I'm also hoping it's just a phase.
FFWC: I don't do overnight duty. Someone has to sleep on DS's floor currently (night terrors and won't sleep in his room alone), so I do it as it hurts DH's back. He takes care of the baby from 11pm-7am. He said she's spent a couple of nights on him or beside him. Them co-sleeping doesn't really bother me since he's always heard the kids before me (MOTY right here).
Sounds like a good deal to me! My husband is the one that sleeps through everything and wouldn't wake up to a kid crying unless I shook him. I unfortunately am the light sleeper in the house.
The toddler was sent home with loose poops again today (if you recall he was sent home on Friday, we never saw any). He napped for an hour woke up and won't let me pick him up and has been crying for daddy in his crib for a half hour now. Waiting not so patiently for DH to get home. Thankfully he agreed to come home early since the baby has barely slept all day and has been a terror.
Good morning all. Emotionally I'm feeling a bit better today. Thanks to H I was able to get about five hours of sleep last night. Which makes me functional. I woke up to discover DS1 has pink eye. H is staying with him and taking him to the clinic to get eye drops. I LOVE giving a three year old eye drops. Just like I love having an ice pick jammed through my temple.
Some exciting news! SIL is being induced on Monday! Ack I'm going to be someone's aunt!
My optometrist taught me a trick for people who can't stand getting eye drops. Have him close his eye, put a big drop in the inner corner of the eye and then have him open it. The drop will run right into the eye. Save
DS's daycare sent home a note yesterday saying HFM is running through again. Ugh. I'm hoping DS doesn't catch it. He avoided it last time. DD is off today. She's been extra fussy, spitting up more than usual and will only sleep on me. She was awake virtually all morning. Hopefully it's just a quick thing and she's not getting sick or something. I'm hoping it was just something my friend ate that particular day that transferred into the milk and it doesn't agree with DD. She has no temperature, poops and pees are fine.
K did this same thing at the 3-4 week mark. She seems to do it around growth spurts. Save
MIL took bedtime duty last night, so I got to sleep from 10pm to 5am mostly uninterrupted. I did get up briefly around 11:45p because K was crying, but apparently MIL had only put her down like 20 mins before and was still awake, so she got to her before I did and took her downstairs to change her and get her another bottle. Gotta say, 7 hours with only 5 minutes or so being awake in the middle was awesome.
K is starting to outgrow some of her newborn stuff. Mostly her pants and PJs - anything that involves her legs. Poor little monkey is going to have issues finding pants that fit her, like her mommy does. I've started tossing anything that doesn't fit her into a big gift bag - we've got two friends now expecting early next year, so whichever one has a girl (or doesn't mind girly clothing for their boy child) will get a big bag of clothes, a wipe warmer (I have 2 and use neither #moty), and whatever else K isn't using by the time they have a baby shower.
I'm trying to decide if it's worth it for me to buy a new vibrating chair. The one we have is a hand me down from a friend who had it handed down to her from someone else - K is the fourth baby to use it, and the motor seems to have officially kicked the bucket. Our friend says it used to sometimes not turn on for her, but now it won't turn on at all, period. MIL keeps complaining that K won't fall asleep during the day in it unless she rocks the chair, which gets tiring after a while. But the kid's about to outgrow all this stuff... Maybe I'll see if the consignment shops in town have a cheap one. I keep telling MIL to just put her in the swing when she's trying to get her to sleep and use the chair when she just wants to put her down but it doesn't matter if she sleeps or not.
I have a job interview tomorrow! Heading out after K's nap with MIL to run some errands. MIL needs to get her car tabs renewed, I need a shirt to go with my jacket and slacks for this interview, and a new pair of heels. Plus I need to stop somewhere and get 5 copies of my resume printed for the interview. And I should probably buy a little thermal lunch bag to store the milk I'll be pumping all day tomorrow (interview is 2+ hours away, but I'm flying down on a little commuter plane, spending a big portion of my day in the airport to make that work... so worth it).
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