Randoms, Thursday Edition

[lupincat]

Morning everyone!

I'm thinking about going with H and DS to Ikea to look at big boy beds for DS. Am I crazy for dragging DS along? It's been a while since we've been to Ikea.

[icedtea]

lupincat, they have a cafe at IKEA, right? Maybe if he gets antsy you can just go there?

I am so tired. My sleep for the past week or two has been awful, and it's really catching up with me. Last night I dreamt I sat and cried to someone about how tired I was.

On the plus side, 26 weeks today!

[BabyStandish]

lupincat there's usually a little play area at the cafe too so you could take him there if he needs to burn off some energy. We took DS there a few months ago and it went okay. He definitely got cranky in the cart so maybe bring some snacks/toys along.

[BabyStandish]

I feel you icedtea. I think I woke up 10x last night.

[sleepymonkey]

lupincat, DD loves Ikea, mainly because she likes to try out all the beds, chairs and couches. It's usually pretty chaotic in the store we go to so if she gets a little loud, no one notices, which is a good thing.

[BabyStandish]

I'm awake, but tired. My body is still pretty sore from body pump on Tuesday. I plan on going to yoga later this morning and then we have one of our running clubs tonight.

Well it finally happened. I definitely "snissed" last night at our other running club. I was walking towards the bathroom to pee before the run started and sneezed and yep....peed my pants. Luckily we were all headed out the door for our run about then so it was able to dry by the time we got back. I told my other pregnant friend who was there about it and we had a good laugh.

[sleepymonkey]

DD has a cold but we sent her to daycare today. She's mainly just congested and has a slight cough. But she does tend to get fevers on and off when she has a cold (MH is the same way and they both get over colds really quickly) so I am half expecting a call sometime today telling me to pick her up. They're ok with colds but fevers are an automatic send home.

I finally got the results of my GTT and I passed. Yay! I am mildly anemic, which I'm not surprised about so I have to start iron supplements. Not looking forward to that on my already crappy stomach. I ordered some of the gentler ones last night so hopefully it's not too bad.

[jennyelf]

Feb 16, 2017 8:52:02 GMT -5 sleepymonkey said:

Yay! I am mildly anemic, which I'm not surprised about so I have to start iron supplements. Not looking forward to that on my already crappy stomach. I ordered some of the gentler ones last night so hopefully it's not too bad.

Yay for passing!

I have pregnancy anemia (did with kiddo 1 too) and have been taking iron supplements since I got pregnant this time around. I found that the slow release ones are a lot happier on my stomach, but I need a really high fiber diet now. Also remember to take the iron with vitamin C for maximum absorption. 

[txcatlady]

icedtea I feel you on the terrible sleep. I had a dream that I was sleeping... So that was weird.

I was super productive yesterday and today I have zero motivation. On the bright side I got the process started for maternity leave and have a couple of options for pediatricians. I just need to make appointments to meet them

[sleepymonkey]

jennyelf, I had pregnancy anemia with DD as well (I normally tend to be on the low end of normal anyway) and my ob at the time gave me rx iron that was supposed to be easy on your stomach. The midwife suggested getting Feosol Bifera, which is supposed to be easier on your stomach and you don't need vitamin C with it. I ordered some from Amazon last night so hopefully it helps, especially since it cost $17 for 30 pills. I'm definitely going to need to start taking my Citrucel daily again to hopefully combat constipation.

[katie0919]

I am at a loss of what to do with kid 2. 16 months old and his sleep is worse than ever, almost as bad as the dreaded 4 month sleep regression where he LITERALLY did nothing but cry at night for 5 weeks straight. I was just crying all day, every day (even at work), I was so tired and I'm starting to get to that point now.

He got shingles about 3 weeks ago and hasn't slept well since...but the rash is gone and he never really seemed in pain so I'm not sure why he won't sleep. We've been bringing him in our bed out of desperation but that is starting to backfire because he just sits up, cries, lays down, tosses and turns, for 2-3 hrs at a time. DH and I are SO tired and this isn't going to fly when we have a newborn in our room. Any mamas experienced with getting a toddler to sleep better? Kid 1 was an amazing sleeper from the start so I didn't learn any tricks with him. lol. I need help, ASAP! He has really only slept through the night maybe 2 months since he was born. He was doing really well around months 11-12 and then it just stopped. This mama is exhausted! HELP.

[katie0919]

Feb 16, 2017 10:27:38 GMT -5 sleepymonkey said:

jennyelf , I had pregnancy anemia with DD as well (I normally tend to be on the low end of normal anyway) and my ob at the time gave me rx iron that was supposed to be easy on your stomach. The midwife suggested getting Feosol Bifera, which is supposed to be easier on your stomach and you don't need vitamin C with it. I ordered some from Amazon last night so hopefully it helps, especially since it cost $17 for 30 pills. I'm definitely going to need to start taking my Citrucel daily again to hopefully combat constipation.

I had pregnancy anemia with both kid 1 and 2 as well - I forgot to be proactive this time and start on iron. Oops. I will not be surprised one bit next week when I go take the glucose test if I find out yet again that I have to start supplements!

[BabyStandish]

One of the childcare workers at my gym is giving me all of her pocket diapers. Score!! I think they are mostly cheap brands but I don't care. More diapers!!

[PirateCat]

Feb 16, 2017 11:04:10 GMT -5 BabyStandish said:

One of the childcare workers at my gym is giving me all of her pocket diapers. Score!! I think they are mostly cheap brands but I don't care. More diapers!!

All the diapers! 

[emmalynn]

Pregnancy cravings are so weird. I just ate half a bag of frozen peas. And I'm still hungry. Must be time for ice cream ;-)

I'm feeling like making a weekend away for H and I before baby comes. I should get on that before we run out of weekends that DD can stay at her grandparents.

[hpnegirl]

katie0919 at the advice of our pediatrician, we did CIO like this: Check on him, make sure he's okay. Set a timer for 10 minutes. At that mark, go to the door (have his room door shut all night), don't open it, and talk through the door telling him "it's okay, you're okay. It's night night time. We love you." Repeat until it stops. After a few days, move the timer to 15 minutes and so on and so forth. If we went back in, we were to restart the clock.

If you use a monitor, turn it ALL the way down or turn the sound off.

We still struggle with him going down, but it eliminated the night time crying. The only time we go in is when he is yelling and/or screaming to signify something is wrong

[setsuna17]

sleepymonkey, we're twinsies! I also passed my GTT but am anemic and I'm taking Feosol. It actually doesn't hurt my stomach that bad. I haven't (fx) been constipated at all, which is surprising.

I'm sick today. I don't know what it is, I just don't feel well. I feel groggy and sort of nauseous. Not fun.

But last night I went to a consignment sale and got the Baby K'tan I wanted and lots of other goodies, so that was cool!

[rosesquared]

Happy Thursday everyone! I had a mw appointment this morning. I officially need to cut back on sugar as I'm getting into the "gaining too much weight range". I watched it happening but my food self control has been awful! I got my drink for the GTT in a few weeks and was thrilled they had the lemon lime flavor. Also she said I can eat some protein too so that seems like it won't be too bad!

Add me to the exhausted club even though I'm not sleeping that bad. I have as big presentation in class tonight but I just want to take a nap now instead of getting ready.

[lupincat]

We found a bed at Ikea that we liked but we'll have to go down next weekend to get it since we were stupid and didn't think to bring H's truck. Luckily they're running 15% off all beds until the end of the month.

DS did really well in the store until the end because we wouldn't let him spend 9000 hours climbing up and down the stairs.

[sagen]

FFTC I have the order to do my GTT, but I haven't yet, and a small part of me is like... well I have never had it before, maybe I will skip it. I will probably just do it, but not looking forward to it of course. You just go to the hospital lab anytime, they give you the drink, and then you wait.

My doctor is strange, and I don't want to switch because it took forever to get insurance sorted out with his office, so I am sticking it out. He sees his patients once every 5 weeks. This last time I went in a little before 24 weeks, and he said he wanted to see me again at 30. With scheduling it will be past 30, and over 6 weeks. Just glad I can feel the baby. I am not a huge fan of appointments, but I like to make sure everything is ok.

[sleepymonkey]

sagen , that is a strange schedule for appts. Mine were every 4 weeks until 28 weeks and now they're every other week until 36 weeks when they go to weekly. Do you know if he's going to go to more frequent appts after your next one? I agree that being able to feel the baby definitely helps but it's still nice to go in and hear the heartbeat and make sure everything looks ok.

[sagen]

Yeah luckily it goes to normal after my 30 week appt, every two weeks, then every week at 36.

[sleepymonkey]

So MH is bringing DD down to his parents house tomorrow for the weekend. I was ok with it until today when I am feeling so much anxiety and sadness about being away from her. I have never spent a night away from her in the 3 years since she's been born. I think it would be a little easier if we were going somewhere but we'll just be home while she's gone and it will be weird. I also don't trust MIL to stick to the simple instructions we give her so I don't know what kind of shape DD will be in when we pick her up on Sunday.

[irish14]

sleepymonkey we're going to a wedding next month and it's the first time we'll both be away at the same time. I'm a little nervous about t but he'll be with grandparents and I'm trying to see it as our last ditch weekend for us before #2 comes. Still mama guilt though...

[irish14]

katie0919 I feel you, mine didn't sleep thru til at least 18 mos. At a year we were still carrying/walking him to sleep so we did a little light sleep training like this - while he's in crib, sit in his room in a chair. talk to him, tell him everything's ok, sleep time, if he gets really upset pick him up for like a min (or shorter if he calms down) but then he goes right back in the crib and we go back to the chair. Move chair toward door every couple of nights. We never actually made it out of the room, but it helped him get used to falling asleep in the crib. There were still tough nights but it got a lot better.

I think the first night he cried for 3 hrs until I finally picked him up and sat with him and he fell asleep. But that only lasted a couple nights, it got better.

We still had to sit with him til he fell asleep until about age 2 - he's just starting to fall asleep on his own now (it's a freaking miracle and I am so excited).

So there's hope!!! Different things work for different kids (and parents - I cannot emotionally handle CIO or really even timers) but hey get there eventually.

[hpnegirl]

irish14 I can't really handle the screaming either. I hide in the farthest area from his room until it stops. H is stronger willed than I am but I hate listening to DS cry (as he cries now because I won't read a third story tonight and it's bed time. Sigh)

[irish14]

Feb 16, 2017 19:24:16 GMT -5 hpnegirl said:

irish14 I can't really handle the screaming either. I hide in the farthest area from his room until it stops. H is stronger willed than I am but I hate listening to DS cry (as he cries now because I won't read a third story tonight and it's bed time. Sigh)

yep I get the third story appeal too. Also getting out of the bathtub is like the worst thing that's ever happened lol

[hpnegirl]

Feb 17, 2017 9:16:30 GMT -5 irish14 said:

Feb 16, 2017 19:24:16 GMT -5 hpnegirl said:

irish14 I can't really handle the screaming either. I hide in the farthest area from his room until it stops. H is stronger willed than I am but I hate listening to DS cry (as he cries now because I won't read a third story tonight and it's bed time. Sigh)

yep I get the third story appeal too. Also getting out of the bathtub is like the worst thing that's ever happened lol

Bath time is awful. He hates it. That's probably why we only do it once a week... he hates it so much

[irish14]

Feb 17, 2017 9:40:48 GMT -5 hpnegirl said:

Feb 17, 2017 9:16:30 GMT -5 irish14 said:

yep I get the third story appeal too. Also getting out of the bathtub is like the worst thing that's ever happened lol

Bath time is awful. He hates it. That's probably why we only do it once a week... he hates it so much

awww boo. Mine loooooves it and just never wants to get out. He'd stay in there til the water was ice cold if I let him.