We're only on Wednesday?!?!

[winogirl]

Ugh, give me the weekend please.

[winogirl]

So F had ZERO naps yesterday while I was at work. DH said he screamed like the crib was made up of needles and acid - in fact he was doing that screaming when I got home. DH tried to let him CIO going in at timed intervals to check on him - it lasted 2 hours before he gave up and took him out.

So - I slept with a new set of crib sheets last night and put them on the crib this morning. Hopefully it goes better today. I'm not sure what we will do if he absolutely won't nap. ugh. It's weeks like this where I just want to fast forward a year to where he is sleeping and eating like a little person and get out of the baby phase.

[sassypantzz]

Hugs winogirl, that is rough. I hope it works for you.

[sassypantzz]

AFM- I am team "its only Wed???!"

[winogirl]

seriously - this has been the longest week ever. And I suddenly have a work event tomorrow morning so I can't WFH like usual. boo. And my boss is out the rest of the week so I have to at least be available on Friday or I would take last minute PTO. Hopefully today will be the turn around day - everything will get better!!!! EVERYTHING WILL GET BETTER (do you hear that universe? let's make it happen)

[sunfrogger88]

Hugs winogirl I'll be sending good vibes to DH and DS today!!!

[yummeecookee]

Hmmm, reunion of the high maintenance babies? Solidarity LT winogirl !

C was a doll during the day, but night was another story. MH and I are really trying to not go to him for every little whimper so that he can practice self soothing. But he was waking up constantly last night. Man that boy can go for an hour straight just moaning and pouting (we only go in if he is legit crying/wailing). I am so exhausted, like my vision is actually blurry this morning.

[yummeecookee]

Oh and I forgot a membrane on one of my pump valves, so I am single-side pumping today: Sunfrogger style. This takes way too long!

[colinsfebmommy]

winogirl, many hugs

My LO has been a clingy mess. With 2 teeth coming in, she doesn't care what toy or food you have. The only thing she wants is to be carried and held everywhere. You dare put her down and she screams like she is on fire.

Makes it mighty hard to do anything.

[sunfrogger88]

Jul 13, 2016 8:48:11 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Oh and I forgot a membrane on one of my pump valves, so I am single-side pumping today: Sunfrogger style. This takes way too long!

No! I am down to 20 min in total to get everything that I need... And I need a lot for little chunk! I don't mind it plus I'm only pumping the next like 4 months. Also it feels more natural! You only nurse on one side at a time.

[sunfrogger88]

Jul 13, 2016 9:00:11 GMT -5 colinsfebmommy said:

winogirl, many hugs

My LO has been a clingy mess. With 2 teeth coming in, she doesn't care what toy or food you have. The only thing she wants is to be carried and held everywhere. You dare put her down and she screams like she is on fire.

Makes it mighty hard to do anything.

We are still this way even after our bottom 2 coming thru. I wonder if more are on the way...? Hugs!

[sunfrogger88]

I signed E up for the on-site DC on Friday bc my mom was passive aggressive bitching that she wanted to go to the beach on Thursday AND Saturday but needed the day after to recover and could I please make my plans with my girlfriend at a time that's convenient for her so she didn't have to watch E ......

Um, no. She is only home for a week and has tons to do, so, I'm going to make plans with her for when it's convenient for HER.

Ugh!!!!!!! She VOLUNTEERED to watch E full time. It's since gone down to 2days/week and I'm worried she's still going to complain. What the hell am I going to do?? With Hs job we are just BARELY making it month to month until we can manage to pay off some of our debt.

Eta: H will be staying home on Mondays to watch her starting next week, I WFH T/Th, and my mom currently watches her W/F.

[younglove316]

winogirl hugs! I hope today is a turning point, sending good vibes to you!

yummeecookee we have started trying the sane with A. Every night we put her down, within 1.5 hours she is back up. The first few days I let her go and she would put herself back to sleep. The last week it's hysterically screaming and no calming herself at all. I don't get it, last night OT room almost 4 hours before she finally stayed asleep for more than 20 minutes. Sorry for the novel

sunfrogger88 I hope things work out, sorry about the way your mom is being!

[colinsfebmommy]

I am sorry sunfrogger88, That sucks big time

[yummeecookee]

Jul 13, 2016 9:21:32 GMT -5 sunfrogger88 said:

Jul 13, 2016 8:48:11 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Oh and I forgot a membrane on one of my pump valves, so I am single-side pumping today: Sunfrogger style. This takes way too long!

No! I am down to 20 min in total to get everything that I need... And I need a lot for little chunk! I don't mind it plus I'm only pumping the next like 4 months. Also it feels more natural! You only nurse on one side at a time.

Haha, that's a good point about nursing 1 side at a time.

[yummeecookee]

Jul 13, 2016 9:26:55 GMT -5 sunfrogger88 said:

I signed E up for the on-site DC on Friday bc my mom was passive aggressive bitching that she wanted to go to the beach on Thursday AND Saturday but needed the day after to recover and could I please make my plans with my girlfriend at a time that's convenient for her so she didn't have to watch E ......

Um, no. She is only home for a week and has tons to do, so, I'm going to make plans with her for when it's convenient for HER.

Ugh!!!!!!! She VOLUNTEERED to watch E full time. It's since gone down to 2days/week and I'm worried she's still going to complain. What the hell am I going to do?? With Hs job we are just BARELY making it month to month until we can manage to pay off some of our debt.

Eta: H will be staying home on Mondays to watch her starting next week, I WFH T/Th, and my mom currently watches her W/F.

That is really annoying. I think ppl just bite off more than they can chew when it comes to babies. They get all these ideas about how fun and cutesy it is to be with babies and forget how much work they actually are.
My ILs are always saying stoopid things like "we'll watch the kids for you, anytime. blah blah blah." Then push comes to shove and I can see them tripping over themselves to come up with reasons why it wont work.  Its like - dont make these offers if you're not really prepared to help out!

[sunfrogger88]

Jul 13, 2016 9:45:06 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Jul 13, 2016 9:26:55 GMT -5 sunfrogger88 said:

I signed E up for the on-site DC on Friday bc my mom was passive aggressive bitching that she wanted to go to the beach on Thursday AND Saturday but needed the day after to recover and could I please make my plans with my girlfriend at a time that's convenient for her so she didn't have to watch E ......

Um, no. She is only home for a week and has tons to do, so, I'm going to make plans with her for when it's convenient for HER.

Ugh!!!!!!! She VOLUNTEERED to watch E full time. It's since gone down to 2days/week and I'm worried she's still going to complain. What the hell am I going to do?? With Hs job we are just BARELY making it month to month until we can manage to pay off some of our debt.

Eta: H will be staying home on Mondays to watch her starting next week, I WFH T/Th, and my mom currently watches her W/F.

That is really annoying. I think ppl just bite off more than they can chew when it comes to babies. They get all these ideas about how fun and cutesy it is to be with babies and forget how much work they actually are.
My ILs are always saying stoopid things like "we'll watch the kids for you, anytime. blah blah blah." Then push comes to shove and I can see them tripping over themselves to come up with reasons why it wont work.  Its like - dont make these offers if you're not really prepared to help out!

100% this. My mom also complains all the time on how big E is. I'm sorry she's a healthy baby?

Ultimately my mom complains about basically everything. But she was not prepared to watch E and I hate that now I'm stuck trying to figure out how else to manage this if it continues to go south.

[winogirl]

Jul 13, 2016 9:22:12 GMT -5 sunfrogger88 said:

Jul 13, 2016 9:00:11 GMT -5 colinsfebmommy said:

winogirl, many hugs

My LO has been a clingy mess. With 2 teeth coming in, she doesn't care what toy or food you have. The only thing she wants is to be carried and held everywhere. You dare put her down and she screams like she is on fire.

Makes it mighty hard to do anything.

We are still this way even after our bottom 2 coming thru. I wonder if more are on the way...? Hugs!

This is my worry too. Bottom two are through and I can feel a sort of bump on the top.

[winogirl]

Jul 13, 2016 9:45:06 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

Jul 13, 2016 9:26:55 GMT -5 sunfrogger88 said:

I signed E up for the on-site DC on Friday bc my mom was passive aggressive bitching that she wanted to go to the beach on Thursday AND Saturday but needed the day after to recover and could I please make my plans with my girlfriend at a time that's convenient for her so she didn't have to watch E ......

Um, no. She is only home for a week and has tons to do, so, I'm going to make plans with her for when it's convenient for HER.

Ugh!!!!!!! She VOLUNTEERED to watch E full time. It's since gone down to 2days/week and I'm worried she's still going to complain. What the hell am I going to do?? With Hs job we are just BARELY making it month to month until we can manage to pay off some of our debt.

Eta: H will be staying home on Mondays to watch her starting next week, I WFH T/Th, and my mom currently watches her W/F.

That is really annoying. I think ppl just bite off more than they can chew when it comes to babies. They get all these ideas about how fun and cutesy it is to be with babies and forget how much work they actually are.
My ILs are always saying stoopid things like "we'll watch the kids for you, anytime. blah blah blah." Then push comes to shove and I can see them tripping over themselves to come up with reasons why it wont work.  Its like - dont make these offers if you're not really prepared to help out!

Totally, this is my mom. She bitches all the time about never getting to babysit. I told her that dh was willing to bring F over any day of the week at any time she would like. She's been busy since, which is going on 4 weeks now

[fuzzylogic]

sunfrogger88, I'm sorry your mom's being a jerk and so self-centered. That really sucks. I've been lucky with MIL that most of the time she's cool with taking E when I need her to. Next week they're driving back from Knoxville, which is like a 12 hour drive, on Monday and will be back around 9pm but she's taking E the next morning for me so I can take my kids to a yearbook workshop that day. She never once even considered not doing it.

winogirl, I wish I had some help to give, so I'll just have to give creepy internet (((HUGS)))

We're doing a lot better on overnight sleep! E went down at 8 after only a half hour of protesting. I was able to have some sex with the H AND take a quick walk around the block to enjoy the nice evening. I didn't know what to do with all that time! She woke at 11:30 to eat, 2:30 to whine (I sat in my chair near the crib and verbally reassured her and it took about 10 minutes total), 5:30 to eat, then she was up at 7:30.

However, I'm noticing naps are suffering. She's not falling asleep as easily, or at all, OR she falls asleep for 5 minutes then pops back up. Is that a thing that happens?

In my WTF front, H's parents are talking about doing a "reverse mortgage" again. They just don't want to have a mortgage on their house, but if they do this, they would leave H with no inheritance, which is pretty shitty. They can afford anything they want, it's not like having no mortgage payment is suddenly going to increase their wealth to a point that their lifestyle will dramatically change. They complain about having no money but H sees the checks they write for themselves at the office and he thinks they're full of shit. #overit

[ldubhawksfan]

Rough night. Clingy baby woke upn3 times. I think I spent over 2 hrs in the glider last night.

She is so clingy this morning. Starting a CD load and the washer wouldn't turn on. Finally got it but F I hope it's not going out on me!

We have her 8 mo appt today and DD is more sick again today. She got sick from my neice last week and SIL text me saying she went to the dr and had an ear infection and is on meds. I'm hoping just to get that from the dr today because snotty sick baby is no fun and her symptoms are getting more and more like niece's.

Because she is sick, I'm not sure about swim class today, but at $25 a pop it hurts me not to have her go. Boo

[winogirl]

ldubhawksfan, oh no! hope she feels better.

[ldubhawksfan]

Jul 13, 2016 9:55:30 GMT -5 sunfrogger88 said:

Jul 13, 2016 9:45:06 GMT -5 yummeecookee said:

That is really annoying. I think ppl just bite off more than they can chew when it comes to babies. They get all these ideas about how fun and cutesy it is to be with babies and forget how much work they actually are.
My ILs are always saying stoopid things like "we'll watch the kids for you, anytime. blah blah blah." Then push comes to shove and I can see them tripping over themselves to come up with reasons why it wont work.  Its like - dont make these offers if you're not really prepared to help out!

100% this. My mom also complains all the time on how big E is. I'm sorry she's a healthy baby?

Ultimately my mom complains about basically everything. But she was not prepared to watch E and I hate that now I'm stuck trying to figure out how else to manage this if it continues to go south.

[


I'm sorry. I was worried about this with MILans glad I stuck to my guns about 1 day a week. Babies are hard and people forget that. I hope you find a good solution that doesn't put you out too much. ((Hugs))

[sunfrogger88]

ldubhawksfan oh no! I hope she feels better and you catch it just in time!

[littleowl913]

hugs to winogirl and sunfrogger88.

So I need AW a little bit. DH took E to their second baby and me swim class and E did amazing! DH thought the class was at 10:30 so when he showed up at 10:15 he missed most of it but the instructor let them stay for the dunking class. He went under the water 3 times with no problems and actually did the whole swimming motion. The instructor used E to demonstrate every routine. She said he should be in level one now. I'm not sure what that means but I'm such a proud mamma! I actually got a little teary-eyed when DH was telling me all this lol.

[littleredfish]

That sucks hard sunfrogger88, that is one of my reasons for not wanting MIL to watch the girls (among many). I see it being a huge issue. We missed BILs wedding for money issues and she's been super passive aggressive ever since. I have no desire to add fuel to the fire that's always quietly burning.

Today sucks. It's so hot outside we can't even go out. My nausea is back today, and DD2 gave me a terrible night last night. Up every hour from the time we lay her down then every 2 hours after we went to bed. Just crying. Not wet, not hungry, didn't even want to be held. Then her usual seriously overclingy self today. Not sure if it's teeth or what but I can't handle it again tonight.

[winogirl]

hugs littleredfish! sounds like a rough night

[ldubhawksfan]

Fucking dog barking at the fucking UPS guy. I spent 30 mins in baby jail and several attempts at putting her down for her nap before success. All I got accomplished was brushing my teeth and putting away the pumped milk before she was awake again. I think he felt the dager eyes.

[sunfrogger88]

littleredfish all the hugs!!

[colinsfebmommy]

littleredfish, Oh no! hope you feel better

ldubhawksfan, Ugh I feel you, I have 3 dogs, I am constantly running around tell them to shut up so they don't wake the baby