I don't know what we're doing today. I had a pretty bad night with D and am exhausted. I think I want to go home today instead of tomorrow.
Who knows what DH's plan is though. Normally Friday after Thanksgiving he takes off with "the men" for golf, getting drunk at the bar all afternoon, and then meeting up with the rest of the family in the evening at the steakhouse. As far as I'm concerned, zero of those things are happening today.
Although potentially he could take DS with him to the bar for a little while, which would give me time to do a little shopping downtown. I'm kicking myself extra hard right now for leaving the baby carrier at home.
I'm officially 40 weeks today! I'm with waitwhat, and decorating for Christmas!! I'm blasting Christmas music to my hearts content while putting up lights, decorations, the faux tree, etc. It's my favorite time of year! I may even make/eat and decorate sugar cookies! (Not in that order...lol)
waitwhat I am excited for leftovers and pie today too! I think last night was the least I've ever eaten at Thanksgiving dinner. Gotta make up for it today!
My night was kind of inverse from yours. LO was pretty much up from 10:45 p.m. to 3 a.m., with two 45-minute catnaps thrown in there. The rest of the time she alternated between eating and staring at me, wide awake. We both finally fell asleep from about 3-6:30.
She's out again now so once H gets out of the shower he's going to take her so I can nap. Gotta love 8 a.m. naps lol
danib Woo hoo!!! I'm so glad your H is coming home today!!!
dashook Is there anywhere to buy another carrier and then you can resell it or keep it there or another family's house for "emergency". Not ideal, but I agree it's a bummer you don't have it with you.
I might make like @waiwhat and do some Xmas decorating.
We had a rough night also as I mentioned in the Thursday thread. I can't tell if it was overstimulation or just that lovely "witching hour" because this happens every night around 6:00 - they (esp A) fusses inconsolably and can't/won't fall asleep until about 1-2am no matter what I try. I found a trick last night that worked so I'll try it again tonight and see if it was a fluke or not.
Leftovers today!! Except neither H or I had the free hands or time to carve the rest of the turkey and so it sat out overnight soooo leftovers sans turkey.
All my sympathies for the mamas who had rough nights. Caroline did pretty well last night but the two previous ones were fairly hellish. DH said he doesn't remember B having nights like this...I told him that's nature's way of ensuring the continuation of the species.
Thanksgiving was great...we had quite a crowd at my parents', the food and drinks were terrific, and the kids did really well despite the long day/late night.
Today is my ILs' last day so not sure what we're doing, but I want everyone out of the house for awhile. We're going out to eat tonight, but that is the only set plan. Otherwise, DH is going to get the Christmas stuff down so I can decorate tmrw 😁
Post by goldenlove3 on Nov 25, 2016 8:49:54 GMT -5
Morning everyone. It totally doesn't feel like it's almost 9 right now. I miss sleep. Last night C woke up about an hour after H put him back down. We think he was just gassy so I gave him some gripe water and he calmed right down and actually gave me the cutest smiles. I offered him my boob and he actually took it for a few minutes and passed right out. I'll take it considering he hasn't latched all week!
Post by goldenlove3 on Nov 25, 2016 9:06:22 GMT -5
danibpandabrrramberlie Question for you guys since we're all Halloween babies. When do you consider your LO's monthly birthday? They're going to be 4 weeks on Monday (can't believe it!) but 4 weeks isn't really a month. Do you use the 1st? It's all so confusing.
kleigh we had a big witching hour with O when he was like 2 weeks to 6 weeks. At first walking outside (it was June) was the only thing that helped. Then i went to a mom's group talk about sleep. They suggested doing an actual bedtime in a quiet, low light room whenever it tended to start and putting him down in his bassinet. I had been just feeding him in the living room as we were watching tv and hoping he'd fall asleep on me. The change actually worked; however I don't know if it was developmental because she was older and more developed by the time I actually tried to change.
My own personal thought is that he wasn't eating enough during the day, and since I had under supply, he wasn't getting enough in the evenings either. So I've probably been overfeeding are this time in hopes to avoid that. So far, she is content in the evenings.
dashook I'm sorry you had such a rough night. We've had some of those, too. Hopefully you can get a nice nap and enjoy some leftovers today.
waitwhat I don't usually decorate for Christmas until December, but I may do it today/this weekend since DH is home and next weekend my ILs are coming down.
danib Yay! Glad to hear your H will be back today.
kleigh That "witching hour" is rough. Lillian had one that was about that long and then wouldn't sleep more than 2 hours once we got her down. Lilah's is better. About 6:30/7 until about 10. She's not so much inconsolable as just wants to eat and inbetween she fusses. I feel like the witching hour thing ended after like 3 or 4 months with Lillian, but the difficult sleep...she's only recently become a good sleeper like the last 6 months.
We had a nice Thanksgiving at my dad's. It seems like it wore out the baby because she slept from 10:30-4:15 and then from 5-7:30. Um..what? Lillian was a bit more difficult as she insisted that I put her to bed. Usually DH does it so I can get Lilah ready for bed and nurse her. At least once I got her to settle down she was out in about 10 minutes.
So far today I'm just hanging out with Lilah. DH took Lillian to go to the park and feed ducks again. First he has to take care of my mom's dog. I don't because he always tries to attack me. Unfortunately he apparently got all crazy with DH last night and this morning. He sent me a picture of the dog in the doorway with his teeth bared. I really don't like that dog. Never again. We also might go to a nursery to find a tree for Lilah. DH planted lillian's tree yesterday so our big pot is free for a little Lilah tree. I may also do some Christmas decorating. Painting the patio furniture will have to wait since it's supposed to be rainy today.
Great question goldenlove3 I had the same one! So it sounds like we should use the actual date for "month" celebrations - they were born on the 5th so I guess I'll go with Dec 5th as their one month.
hangry You always have such good advice/insight. That's exactly what we're doing, we're usually in the living room watching tv with the lights on etc at that time, so tonight I'll try taking them both to the bedroom to feed where it's dark and quiet and let them doze off there - HOPEFULLY.
If your baby rolls to his/her side do you readjust him/her every time?
Alec and Adeline both roll to their side and seem not to like being on their back.. If I'm supervising I'll let them stay on their side but if it's bedtime I'll wrap the extra cloth of their swaddle into a bunch by their feet and it sort of keeps them on their back - debating if it's really necessary or if I can let them roll
Post by ClassyMrsA on Nov 25, 2016 10:49:41 GMT -5
kleigh I let Lilah sleep on her side if she rolls to it at night. I can't stay awake and watch her all night so I don't disturb her. Mostly she stays on her back when swaddled though. If she was doing it all the time instead of just a few times I don't know. Maybe someone else has better advice or maybe your pedi can suggest something/put your mind at ease.
hangry Good luck! I think I was almost to a liner, too, but then I definitely did too much yesterday. Boo.
danibpandabrrramberlie Question for you guys since we're all Halloween babies. When do you consider your LO's monthly birthday? They're going to be 4 weeks on Monday (can't believe it!) but 4 weeks isn't really a month. Do you use the 1st? It's all so confusing.
I never convert weeks to months, because if you did using 4 weeks there would be 13 months in the year. Since his birthday is in the 31st, then I will call a month (or 2, 3, etc) at the end of each month (whether the month has 31 daya or not)
I never convert weeks to months, because if you did using 4 weeks there would be 13 months in the year. Since his birthday is in the 31st, then I will call a month (or 2, 3, etc) at the end of each month (whether the month has 31 daya or not)
Same.
Thanks pandabrrr and danib. I figured weeks wouldn't work but in my head the first would have been more accurate with number of days but then you run into February and it's a mess. I'll just use the last day of every month!
+2 (3?) the advice about implementing a bedtime routine early on. I remember our then-pedi telling me that and it really did make a difference (for the better) as to how B was sleeping.
vinolove and LizInFL So we would like to do this, but how do you make a bedtime routine for them?
As it stands now, we are still sleeping on the couch in the living room. We could and probably should transition to our bedroom but when we got home from the hospital I was in enough pain that going up/down stairs was rough and their pack n play bassinets were more flush to the couch height than the bed height and it was easier to see them and also get them in/out with me in a seated/lying position. Also everything we need MOTN is right here.
So, as it stands - we do not purposely keep them up, ever - day or night. We open the curtains during the day - we get a ton of natural light in here and make sure we sit by the windows when holding them or that teir RnPs are nearby windows. It gets dark here around 5:30, so we start to turn indoor lights on at that point and the tv is still going. So yes their sleeping space is tainted, so to speak, with electronic frequency and lights. But we haven't started an actual bedtime routine with reading, bath time, white noise, etc - we kind of just do the same thing 24/7 - let them eat and sleep on their own clock.
I've spent a lot of this afternoon reliving what was happening this time last Friday. Right about now I was maybe 5 pushes away from meeting this LO. I didn't even know yet that she was a girl! It's pretty wild.
vinolove Thanks for sharing your bedtime routine. I haven't given it much thought but it would be nice for DS1 to have both of us available at bedtime. DS2 has been up from 10-12PM the last two nights and I'm wondering if he is overstimulated.
We've been hibernating the last two days. We ended up skipping Thanksgiving because a few family members had a cold. I'd like to get out of the house tomorrow while the weather is somewhat mild.
C has already outgrown his newborn diapers and most of his newborn clothes at 5 days old. I'm glad I didn't open the giant box of nb pampers I bought a few months ago.
Post by goldenlove3 on Nov 25, 2016 17:54:06 GMT -5
We're going to our first restaurant to see H's cousins, aunt and uncle. Luckily they got a private room and it's a pizza place so it won't be horrible if he starts crying. Hope he does well though. Wish us luck!
Post by goldenlove3 on Nov 25, 2016 17:57:39 GMT -5
buckyb We just opened a giant box of newborns yesterday. I was looking at him today and was thinking we probably should have tried on the 1s just in case they fit him. Oh well. We'll get through what we can.
Yup, I opened a box if newborns before birth because I had used then for weeks with O and couldn't imagine doing anything different with this one. Rookie mistake. She wore like 5 of them. I gave the unopened package to a pregnant friend and will donate the opened portion to a diaper drive (I know of 2 going on right now).
Bedtime routine: -,Bath (if a bath night. We only did bath every few days and eventually to every other day. If not a bath night, skip to next step) - Lotion, diaper, and pjs - Sound machine on, bedside light on, big light off - Books - we settled on 3ish a night. I picked one, H picked one, and then we alternated pages on a third book (Sandra Bounton - the Going to Bed Book) - lights off - nurse to sleep - place in crib
I am a hypocrite because I haven't started this with E yet as she has been just falling asleep on me in the living room. She usually wakes around 9 or 10pm when she has her last awake time including diaper change. Then I nurse her again in my room to sleep before putting her in the bassinet. I'll probably start the earlier routine with her soon.
The above routine what we did with O as an infant. I know you shouldn't nurse to sleep either, but it worked for us.
Post by ClassyMrsA on Nov 25, 2016 19:57:07 GMT -5
waitwhat Lillian walks on her tiptoes all the time. She can walk flat, but prefers not to. Pedi said it's fine as long as she is able to walk normally.
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