I know we had a thread on where our LOs are sleeping during the day, but any tips & tricks to get LO to nap in a crib/PNP? I thought we had a good method: take LO to nursery at first tired sign (usually a yawn), draw shades, turn on white noise, change diaper, swaddle, do Baby Whisperer sit technique until LO is asleep & then lay him in the PNP. I know you're supposed to lay them down drowsy rather than asleep & then shush/pat if needed, but we tried that with disastrous results (I.e. No naps for days). Our method seemed to work at first, but LO has been taking longer & longer to settle while sitting & now has started flat-out refusing naps (we've now been trying to get him down for an hour this morning). I'm happy to have him nap in the stroller or carrier some of the time, but I really want one nap a day in the PNP so I can relax. He'll be 5 weeks tomorrow, so I know it's still very early; I'm just mentally & emotionally drained from have no true breaks during the day.
I second thoes who mentioned the swing. J for whatever reason will only sleep in his PNP for like half and hour to an hour if im lucky but will sleep for hours in his swing. I try to put him in his PNP after a while and sometimes he'll stay sleeping sometimes not. DH and I figured that with him sleeping in his crib in the hospital so well sleeping at home would be no big deal. Boy where we wrong. But the swing is his happu place so for now I'll take it.
Post by lovetruly2015 on Nov 4, 2016 11:04:55 GMT -5
Speaking of sleep we had a aweful night here. J would not fall asleep last night so we both stayed up. I let him lay there whiney until about 3am when whines turned into screaming. So. Tired.
pismoduo how'd the interview go? And did you survive without the pump?
The interview went great! I'm feeling very good about it. Hopefully I'll know something by next week.
I managed to make it to about 4pm before it got really uncomfortable. At that point I did some hand expressing. Managed to actually get about a half ounce, which isn't bad considering I normally get about an ounce if I pump.
caz1221 K started having a similar issue at the 5 week mark. Most days she totally boycotts naps, nothing will get her to sleep for more than 20 minutes or so. Some days she'll sleep in the bouncer, but only as long as it's bouncing, which means one of us has to sit there bouncing it because the motor is dead. When I get really desperate to get her to sleep I put her in her car seat and go for a drive. As long as the car is moving she's usually sleeping.
I hope you all don't mind that I'm probably going to live blog this wedding weekend on here since I have a feeling I'm going to be stuck hiding in random places or our hotel with a sleeping or nursing baby and it's lonely. DH is in the wedding so he's at the rehearsal and we meet them later for the dinner at 7pm central which is bed time for E. I didn't think this weekend through very well and I'm starting to think it would have been better for me to just stay home with her. We haven't slept in the same room since we brought her home. I'm so worried we are all going to be up all night waking each other up..
pismoduo how'd the interview go? And did you survive without the pump?
The interview went great! I'm feeling very good about it. Hopefully I'll know something by next week.
I managed to make it to about 4pm before it got really uncomfortable. At that point I did some hand expressing. Managed to actually get about a half ounce, which isn't bad considering I normally get about an ounce if I pump.
That's good it went well!
I've also heard hands expressing can be pretty efficient, glad to know it works if I'm ever in a bind.
Props to jennybeans & watermelonseed for attending weddings with infants! DH's cousin's wedding was 4 days after my due date out of state, so we obviously declined. Another one of DH's cousins is getting married in February (also a plane ride away) - I told DH I may send him alone rather than dragging both kids with us or leaving them overnight.
Post by annapunkalunka on Nov 4, 2016 17:07:08 GMT -5
DH and I are going out on a spontaneous date night! Just heading to dinner, but it's something! My mother looked terrified as I left her with the kids (my dad's there, too). Hopefully it'll be fine. Everyone will survive, that's all that matters. Haha
Post by LadyNymeria on Nov 4, 2016 17:34:56 GMT -5
Definitely time for a new phone. I'm getting really annoyed with pictures of DS that should be perfect ending up blurry when I look at them after I take them.
Not what I want to spend money on while not working, but my S4 is over 3 years old and clearly needs to be replaced. DNW all my memories of DS this young blurry.
Rant brought to you by bath time pictures that were focused and taken in a bright bathroom but turned out to be blurry when vied post-bath.
I'm trying really hard not to be jealous and annoyed/mad at DH and his freedom this weekend. I knew he was going to have to do groomsman duties (aka having fun 😡) and I was going to be on baby duty. I am taking comfort in knowing this is the last time it will be this hard at an event and both kids will be able to be babysat in the not so far future. At least E has been napping relatively easy all day even if only for short periods.
The interview went great! I'm feeling very good about it. Hopefully I'll know something by next week.
I managed to make it to about 4pm before it got really uncomfortable. At that point I did some hand expressing. Managed to actually get about a half ounce, which isn't bad considering I normally get about an ounce if I pump.
That's good it went well!
I've also heard hands expressing can be pretty efficient, glad to know it works if I'm ever in a bind.
It took a bit to get going, and it was somewhat messy. But it worked and I even managed to catch it in a bottle of brought to pump into.
Props to jennybeans & watermelonseed for attending weddings with infants! DH's cousin's wedding was 4 days after my due date out of state, so we obviously declined. Another one of DH's cousins is getting married in February (also a plane ride away) - I told DH I may send him alone rather than dragging both kids with us or leaving them overnight.
No props for us! My IL's watched P! Good plan to stay home or pass. An infant cried during all the dances tonight.
Post by hurricanerek on Nov 5, 2016 4:32:56 GMT -5
pismoduo you may consider getting a manual pump. I've never responded well to the double electrics, like less than an ounce from both sides. I bought a manual last weekend and have been pumping 3-4 oz from just one side every morning. I can't believe what a difference it made!
pismoduo you may consider getting a manual pump. I've never responded well to the double electrics, like less than an ounce from both sides. I bought a manual last weekend and have been pumping 3-4 oz from just one side every morning. I can't believe what a difference it made!
Interesting. I'll have to think about that. Lately K has been refusing the boob in favor of a bottle (more flow), so I may be pumping more in the future.
pismoduo you may consider getting a manual pump. I've never responded well to the double electrics, like less than an ounce from both sides. I bought a manual last weekend and have been pumping 3-4 oz from just one side every morning. I can't believe what a difference it made!
Interesting. I'll have to think about that. Lately K has been refusing the boob in favor of a bottle (more flow), so I may be pumping more in the future.
You should try paced feeding, if you aren't already. It mimics breast feeding so babies don't feel like they are getting more from a bottle and reject the boob. Kellymom has a good explanation of it or you can look up YouTube videos.
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Has everyone already started trying bottle feeding? A is almost 10 weeks and I'm worried that we may have missed our window. We never could get C to take one. Granted, there was never a serious need to so multiple times and bottles ending in crying was all the effort we put into it.
We started at 4 weeks. We waited until 6 weeks with C and struggled to get her to take one, so I tried earlier this time. We've had no issues. He's pretty chill about everything, though, so he probably would have been fine at 6 weeks. I'd just start now with a bottle once a day at the same time.
R had his first bottle in the hospital because he wasn't latching so a nurse had me pump colostrum. Looking back it probably wasn't necessary but oh well.
I've kept a bottle of pumped milk in the fridge in case I needed MH to do a feeding since R was a couple weeks old so he had his first bottle at home at 2 or 3 weeks.
Only has maybe one a week and he still takes it ok.
I've been combo feeding since around 7 weeks (he is 10 now) but I introduced a bottle with pumped milk around 2/3 weeks. He struggled a bit but I found he did better with a wide neck bottle than a standard.
We haven't tried yet (LO is 5 weeks old). I have about 25 oz. of frozen pumped BM, so we should probably introduce a bottle soon to make sure he takes it. I had to pump & supplement for a couple months with DD, so she got her first bottle at 2 weeks old & never had an issue.
With DS1, he was formula fed almost right from the beginning due to zero supply, sleepy newborn and tongue ties. He did well with the playtex nursers.
I had to start supplementing with DD at day 3 or 4, and she didn't like the playtex ones. She's currently using the gerber essentials and seems to be doing well. Theyre much smaller than the playtex ones.
Post by merryrissmas on Nov 7, 2016 11:02:46 GMT -5
Ugh I'm struggling today. I sneezed earlier and felt an ab muscle do something awful that felt like tearing, so that's terrifying. D has been super fussy all morning so I've missed my usual pump time, I'm still in my PJs, and have so much to do today.
I feel like I should be enjoying my leave so much more than I am, instead I just feel unmotivated, lazy, and isolated. I've been crying off & on all morning.
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