Good luck!! DD1 is showing signs of readiness and I'm not ready to devote the time.
Confession: I'm so glad DS isn't showing signs of readiness yet. I'm hoping he waits until LO is more easily self entertained...
I am 100% planning to delay until summer. Outdoor naked time seems key to me, lol. She's only 18mo so I'm annoyed, lol. She runs to the potty and tells me when she's pooping. She's moving to the next class for 18-36mo at school so I'm kinda hoping they do a lot of it for me.
Post by dancerspose on Mar 26, 2017 14:52:00 GMT -5
Sorry been offline most of the weekend, but read to catch up and handed out love it's for support.
Yesterday was my busiest solo day with Z yet. My old boss was in town from CA so a few of us met her for lunch. Then we went to target for the last day of the diaper sale. I literally got the last three boxes of our brand size one diapers they had.
DH is home today (worked yesterday) so we took turns going to the gym.
She's been sleeping great from about 10:30 or 11 until around 4 then her gas seems to wake her up. We can usually keep her down until closer to 6 when we're trying to do the first feed/pump of the day. She's actually been going back down after that from about 7-9 or 10 am. Sometimes we manage to go back to sleep too, sometimes not.
I'm having a bit of a freak out. We still bathe Z in the kitchen because she's so little. I was picking her up off the counter and bumped her head on the bottom of the cabinet. DH was outside when it happened and doesn't know. She was crying already from the bath. She cries harder for a minute or two then calmed down. There was a red mark on her head but that faded quickly and I don't feel a bump. She ate right after that, sat awake for a little bit, and then we put her down. She seems fine, but of course I'm beating myself up and feel awful. I don't know if I should call the doctor or not just to be safe or wait and see if I notice any behavior changes over the next few hours or by tomorrow morning.
dancerspose if she seems fine, I would not worry about it. Call if you need to, but I think it will be okay.
I bumped my firstborn's head into the doorway once or twice when he was itty bitty. I felt like garbage about it. But as long as they are acting their normal self, probably nothing is wrong. It sounds bad to say, but babies are durable. Little bumps and scratches like that aren't going to seriously hurt them.
My son is showing potty training readiness, but we aren't thinking about it until summertime, lol. I'll be off from school and he'll be adjusted to baby, so hopefully it will all fall into place then. FX because if he doesn't get it then, I don't know when we'll tackle it. The summer is going to be our biggest space of time to do it.
Confession: I'm so glad DS isn't showing signs of readiness yet. I'm hoping he waits until LO is more easily self entertained...
I am 100% planning to delay until summer. Outdoor naked time seems key to me, lol. She's only 18mo so I'm annoyed, lol. She runs to the potty and tells me when she's pooping. She's moving to the next class for 18-36mo at school so I'm kinda hoping they do a lot of it for me.
Yeeesss to waiting for summer. DD2 is 16 months and I'm just not in a place right now to fight and she does not seem 100% ready. She is interested in the toilet, but hates stopping her life to have her diaper changed. I'm hoping that by summer we can just live outside, she can be nude and we can commit once DS is not attached to my nipples 24/7. DD1 was unnaturally easy to PT but she was also unnaturally easy going as a toddler. DD2 is my headstrong savage. Sad I won't be able to drink heavily while going through that with her since DH will be gone.
Just got back from my solo morning out. Spent way too much money at the dollar store. I fucking love the dollar store. Then I hit up the pharmacy for our actual needs and bought DH some scratch tickets so I could sneak my bags in while he was distracted with those. Now I'm eating girl guide cookies in bed with DS. Sunday Funday indeed.
Confession: I'm so glad DS isn't showing signs of readiness yet. I'm hoping he waits until LO is more easily self entertained...
I am 100% planning to delay until summer. Outdoor naked time seems key to me, lol. She's only 18mo so I'm annoyed, lol. She runs to the potty and tells me when she's pooping. She's moving to the next class for 18-36mo at school so I'm kinda hoping they do a lot of it for me.
They will. I am considering sending him to a full week of school and letting them to do this for me.
I made it through DDs bday party alive. It was at an indoor play space and it was a toddler madhouse. DD seemed like she had a good time, so I'm calling it a success.
I did overestimate on the food though so we'll be having bagels, quiche and muffins for the next two days. 😬
Post by flyinghorses6 on Mar 26, 2017 16:13:54 GMT -5
dancerspose exact same for us...4 am gas fest and a long morning nap.
cosmicav ditto for summer potty training. Hopefully. K screams "no" if you ask her to sit on the potty; yet tells you if she has pee or poop...lord help me. I need potty training because I'm sick of the screaming and kicking every diaper change.
Post by monicageller on Mar 26, 2017 18:30:03 GMT -5
C is 4.5 and has been potty trained since he was just over 2. I have no party training advice because daycare pretty much did it for us. He was at an in-home at the time and she texted us one day saying, "you can start sending C in underwear he's doing so good on the potty." DH and I legit thought she was texting the wrong parents, it was barely on our radar at that point. We didn't even have underwear, I had to go buy him some that night! There were two others that were a few months older than him (one of them her son), so she just worked on all 3 of them at the same time. It was amazing. R will be at a center, but I sure hope they do it for me again- but that's probably wishful thinking.
@monicagellar our center potty trains! Another parent was telling me her kid was PTed in a week, all by DC. Those toddler DC teachers are Goddesses Among Women. They know their stuff and have probably PTed hundreds of kids.
@monicagellar our center potty trains! Another parent was telling me her kid was PTed in a week, all by DC. Those toddler DC teachers are Goddesses Among Women. They know their stuff and have probably PTed hundreds of kids.
Seriously this ^^^. We tag teamed with DC (a center) when we PTed J. We did the 3-day method over Memorial Day weekend and she was good to go! Good luck to everyone PTing. We waited until J was waking up dry 100% of the time at naptime and bedtime. She told us she peed/pooped a long while before that, but we waited. Looking back it made training so much easier.
AFM, sorry I've been MIA. I've been slammed this weekend. Yesterday we cleaned and played outside all day. Today we went to my parents' house for a visit.
We also got some great news - some friends of mine are moving back to our area after being away for over ten years! We've been friends since high school and I'm thrilled they'll be local again. We have kids around the same age... Should be fun watching their shenanigans LOL
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Post by shawnabm1320 on Mar 26, 2017 20:20:42 GMT -5
I'm still working on getting DS to tell me when he needs a diaper change , so I'm guessing we're far from ready. Sometimes he'll tell me; other times he walks around pulling at his pants, so I know he's gone. Other times he doesn't want to stop playing and the only reason I know he's gone is the foul stench coming from his direction. Then I have to wrestle him to the diaper changing station. I will say, he's always been pretty calm once he's getting his diaper changed. Thank goodness.
Post by shawnabm1320 on Mar 26, 2017 20:22:57 GMT -5
We got Clara to go down for a nap around 7:30 when we were ready to put F to bed. It's now almost 9:30 and she's still asleep. I guess I'll have to wake her... I want to go to bed, but I know she'll wake up as soon as I close my eyes if I just go to bed now!
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Post by loves2shop4shoes on Mar 27, 2017 1:57:45 GMT -5
I think I'm either getting hormonal or over sensitive.
I finally hit the 6 week milestone after which my OB said I'd be cleared for sex, and DH didn't even try to make a pass at me. Just made me feel sad and undesirable and kind of rejected.
And I feel like we had a little bit of family quality time with E, but no real couple quality time.
Sometimes it bothers me how much time he spends reading articles on his phone and not being present in the moment...
Maybe I'm being too idealistic and setting my expectations too high?
I think I'm either getting hormonal or over sensitive.
I finally hit the 6 week milestone after which my OB said I'd be cleared for sex, and DH didn't even try to make a pass at me. Just made me feel sad and undesirable and kind of rejected.
And I feel like we had a little bit of family quality time with E, but no real couple quality time.
Sometimes it bothers me how much time he spends reading articles on his phone and not being present in the moment...
Maybe I'm being too idealistic and setting my expectations too high?
Why didn't you initiate? Or remind him of the date? It's possible he didn't know it was 6w. Or didn't know if you were ready. Husbands aren't mind readers.
Re: couple time... I personally think you need to adjust your expectations for the next few months. DH and I have about 45 minutes of couple time a day...and by that point we are both exhausted and not feeling like talking or anything. We do what we can, but our days and hours and minutes are full of these tiny humans. It's just a season. Things will get a little easier when there are reliable naps and an early bedtime.
I think I'm either getting hormonal or over sensitive.
I finally hit the 6 week milestone after which my OB said I'd be cleared for sex, and DH didn't even try to make a pass at me. Just made me feel sad and undesirable and kind of rejected.
And I feel like we had a little bit of family quality time with E, but no real couple quality time.
Sometimes it bothers me how much time he spends reading articles on his phone and not being present in the moment...
Maybe I'm being too idealistic and setting my expectations too high?
Why didn't you initiate? Or remind him of the date? It's possible he didn't know it was 6w. Or didn't know if you were ready. Husbands aren't mind readers.
Re: couple time... I personally think you need to adjust your expectations for the next few months. DH and I have about 45 minutes of couple time a day...and by that point we are both exhausted and not feeling like talking or anything. We do what we can, but our days and hours and minutes are full of these tiny humans. It's just a season. Things will get a little easier when there are reliable naps and an early bedtime.
Exactly that ^
After my 1st things were super painful so when I had my 2nd DH told me to let him know when I was ready because he did not want to be the first one asking to put anything up there. Maybe he's just letting you come to him when you're ready.
We're also lacking in couple time. It happens though. DH and I go through these stints where life stacks up and we feel more like roommates in passing than a couple. Right now he's sick, deployment is looming, 3 kids- 1 teething, 1 attached at my nipples, he starts nights on the couch whenever DS is having a rough night....list goes on so right now I honestly don't remember the last day we kissed that wasn't just a routine goodbye kiss as one of us heads out the door. I know we hugged yesterday because I was overwhelmed by DD2 at one point. But the intimacy and "coupleness" is lacking. We end up finding each other again but sometimes you have to make that time on purpose because it won't always just happen any more.
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