***Infant Check-in 4/28***

[sarcaztic10]

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How are you?



QOTW: With Mothers day coming up, are any of you expecting gifts or planning anything special to enjoy your rainbows and/or to honor your losses? 

[glb30]

Thanks for the check-in sarcaztic10

Age: 9 weeks

Milestones: Since I last updated, we've had a few! Social smiles are common now, she grasps her toys, can follow stuff with her eyes and rolls over. She also scoots around during tummy time.

Challenges: She screamed her head off the day after her 2 month shots. Tylenol solved this. Not sure why I waited til hour 7.

Funny/Cute Story: I took her to the zoo with my sister, nephew and another mom/daughter. The monkey exhibit smelled AWFUL. We walked in, and she scrunched up her little nose and started fake crying.😂

How are you? I'm doing well. I lost my mind on the crying day, and my husband has suddenly been helping a lot more. I've slept 7 plus hours the last 2 nights.

QOTW: We'll have brunch at my parents country club, and then hopefully H will have planned something. I am using qeepsake, and I plan to write a sweet, personal letter to J, my rainbow.

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Age: 11.25 months

Milestones: Learned to say no, but only says it to mean that she doesn't like something. Like when h doesn't pick her up or we run out of strawberries. It's pretty cute.

Challenges: She's discovered that the toilet paper unravels.

Funny/cute story: We made her first blanket fort and now she's obsessed. She loves peaking her head out to get my attention and then giggling.

How are you? Meh. I had a surprise cd1 and a super short cycle and it's giving me a lot of feels about being OADNBC.

QOTW: With Mothers day coming up, are any of you expecting gifts or planning anything special to enjoy your rainbows and/or to honor your losses? The thought of mother's day still makes my stomach sink. I don't know. I'm torn.

[sarcaztic10]

glb30 yay for sleep and social smiles! I'm glad YH is helping more, MH has suddenly started doing this too. S takes shots pretty hard too so I am pushing pain meds just before they give him the shots now.

@led blanket forts are awesome! Sending you hugs for the CD1.

[sarcaztic10]

Age: 9 months old! How has the time passed so quickly?!?

Milestones: he is scooting a bit on his hands and knees but just needs to coordinate his movements. He says dada now and is really working on mama

Challenges: Sleep as usual... still no teeth.

Funny/cute story: woke up last night at 2:30 am to him saying mama over and over again and caressing my arm and face. I am so tired (2:30 am!!) but I would be lying if I said that I didn't enjoy his little voice saying mama and his soft hands petting me,

How are you? Tired but good

QOTW: With Mothers day coming up, are any of you expecting gifts or planning anything special to enjoy your rainbows and/or to honor your losses? No special plans and I don't know if my boys will do anything. I plan to remember my lost babies and know that I am a mother to them as well.

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Apr 30, 2017 11:03:51 GMT -5 sarcaztic10 said:

Funny/cute story: woke up last night at 2:30 am to him saying mama over and over again and caressing my arm and face. I am so tired (2:30 am!!) but I would be lying if I said that I didn't enjoy his little voice saying mama and his soft hands petting me,

OMG, how cute is that?!? 😍😍😍

[glb30]

May 2, 2017 12:34:16 GMT -5 HeyMrsPotter said:

Thanks for the check-in, sarcaztic10 . Hearing the word mama must just melt your heart, MOTN or not. So sweet!

glb30 , LOL at her scrunchy face and fake cries. And hooray for YH stepping up!

@led , blanket forts FTW. How fun. Also, "no" for "don't like" is pretty darn cute.

renegadewhit , yay for 6 hours of sleep. May C continue doing this for you regularly.

AFM:

Age: 13 weeks


Milestones: Nothing new this week. They're continuing to smile and laugh a lot.

Challenges: We're developing a clear "witching hour" pattern now of significant fussiness around the time of their last feeding before bedtime. We're trying to make sure they get enough naps and an early enough bedtime to not be overtired, we try to avoid overstimulating them in the evenings, and we're careful to try to burp them often. Anyone have other suggestions for getting through it?

Funny/cute story: MH does this sweet/silly thing where he makes up his own words to existing songs for the boys. The other day Beethoven's "Fur Elise" came on while he was playing peek-a-boo with Sam, so he started singing along: "Sam is the peek-a-boo champion of the world... of the world... of the world." I don't know why I find this man so funny sometimes, but I laughed until I cried.

How are you? Good. Getting back into the groove on my second week back at work.

QOTW: With Mothers day coming up, are any of you expecting gifts or planning anything special to enjoy your rainbows and/or to honor your losses? Our wedding anniversary is this same weekend, so we're going away Saturday night for a show and fancy hotel stay while my mom and aunts watch the boys. We plan to make them a Mothers Day brunch when we return home on Sunday. I have no idea if MH understands he also should do something for me from the boys for Mothers Day. I hope so?

At 10 weeks, we started having a "witching hour" as well. Enough sleep during the day seems to have cured it. I also started feeding her again after an hour, and she still eats her whole meal and then goes to bed after!

[shandorfml2]

hi ladies, joining in for my littlest rainbow!
Willow Jade, Rainbow #2 born 4/21. Joins big brother Caden, age 2. angel DD would be 4 and watches us from heaven.

Age: 3 weeks today

Milestones: Gained back birth weight by 2 weeks. Up to 3 oz bottles.

Challenges: gas/constipation. Just like her brother. So I've been giving a very tiny amount of prune juice daily, which is seeming to keep her poops regular

Funny/cute story: Forgotten how strangers will come up to you, touch your baby and ask inappropriate questions. I just want to glare at them to go away lol

How are you? Good. Tired. I had a rough c-section recovery due to adhesions, now I'm dealing with a rash near my scar which sucks. Other than that though, I'm good. Little miss sleeps better than big brother did at her age, so we're getting 2-3 hour stretches at a time with occasional 4 hour stretch.


QOTW: With Mothers day coming up, are any of you expecting gifts or planning anything special to enjoy your rainbows and/or to honor your losses? Money is tight right now but I'd like to go to DD1's grave on a nice day for a picnic. Would be nice to have all three of my babies together...I know that sounds weird but I bet you ladies get it.

[iheartbroccoli]

Age: 6 days

Milestones: has already started gaining back the weight lost after birth.

Challenges: he only sleeps on my or MH's chest right now, so we're working on getting the him to sleep in his bassinet (or anywhere not us. Lol). It's hit and miss still.

Funny/cute story: at the dr's office, they asked us to take off his clothes and diaper so they can weigh him. He immediately started peeing and it got all over the wall and the blood pressure cuff.

How are you? Exhausted. Emotional. Physical recovery is going well, though sometimes I forget I still need to be careful and will move in a way that hurts my incision.

QOTW: probably nothing this year. I told MH I didn't want anything for MD and things have been so busy he hasn't had time to shop. And DS2 isn't old enough to be around large groups of people anyway.

[shandorfml2]

iheartbroccoli, DS would only sleep on us as well. Eventually he would sleep in the RNP (I know there are now warnings about that) but we found out he had reflux and needed an incline. Good luck!

[iheartbroccoli]

May 12, 2017 15:21:03 GMT -5 shandorfml2 said:

iheartbroccoli , DS would only sleep on us as well. Eventually he would sleep in the RNP (I know there are now warnings about that) but we found out he had reflux and needed an incline. Good luck!

I bought a RNP today actually. Lol. He seems to hate sleeping flat, which the bassinet is, so it's worth a try! I'm glad to hear it worked for you!

[glb30]

iheartbroccoli congrats! I'm so happy to see you over here!

[shandorfml2]

May 12, 2017 18:55:49 GMT -5 iheartbroccoli said:

May 12, 2017 15:21:03 GMT -5 shandorfml2 said:

iheartbroccoli , DS would only sleep on us as well. Eventually he would sleep in the RNP (I know there are now warnings about that) but we found out he had reflux and needed an incline. Good luck!

I bought a RNP today actually. Lol. He seems to hate sleeping flat, which the bassinet is, so it's worth a try! I'm glad to hear it worked for you!

It seriously worked miracles. Last night I tried putting DD2 in her pack n play, nope. Back to the RNP.

[sarcaztic10]

Sorry I haven't posted a new check-in everyone!! Between the stomach flu last weekend and now a terrible cold I am feeling like death! I promise I will post a new check-in soon!

[trisha098]

My heart goes out to the people who have lost their babies. Miscarriages and stillbirths are so cruel. I have never had one. But I know what it must have been like for all these people. It is just so hard to deal with it. The constant suffering is just too much. I hope such people feel better. Time heals. Praying for such people.