Horrible night last night. DH has been sick with a fever/achiness/feeling crappy since Friday so I've pretty much been on my own with the kids. Got DS down at 915 last night and I was asleep by 10. The toddler wakes up at midnight and cries out for me every 5 min until 3am. Finally I gave up and brought her downstairs. We laid on the couch together but never fell asleep. Then DS woke up at 4am. Guess I'm up for the day :/ I'm praying my in laws will take DD today so I can maybe rest a little.
I'm so freaking tired. I just want to cry.
m I'm sorry - this sounds terrible. I'm glad you have the option of possibly getting some help from your in laws. I hope they can help.
Headed to the beach with a toddler and an 8 week old - should be j retesting. Baby girl has decided the car is the devil - it's making the car ride tough, luckily we are almost there.
Just caught up! Goodness I've been busy setting up my daycare.
Yesterday had a certification class and had to watch the most horrific shaken baby video and the baby looked just like baby I and I just could not handle it, especially since I am close with a family who just lost a baby to domestic violence this week!!!! Ahhh. Can't handle the sadness.
Also feeling sad and nervous we are approaching the end of the "4th trimester" and we are sort of torn between Montessori and AP approaches to sleep independence. Mont. would have us transition baby I to the floor bed in his room at 2.5-3 months, so we are going to just try. He sleeps so well he will probably transition easily and now would be the time. This makes me so sad but I know it's not sustainable to cosleep forever. And if he's capable of sleeping alone we should let him. I'm going to be a nervous wreck the first night. We're planning to supervise naps on his floor bed so I can get it in my head that he can do it and he will be fine. I just love my baby close at night. I guess I will replace it with husband snuggles. Sob.
Thanks for the well wishes ladies. Well kinda good news on sleep update.
Got DS down in his room at 530am, pumped, and snuggled with DD on the couch. Fell asleep at 6am, woke up at 645am and DD was sleeping/snoring on me and we slept until 745am when DH came down feeling a little better. DS slept until 815.
DH took DD to the in laws for the day and I'm home with DS who is sleeping on me. I'm about to take another nap with him on me.
Horrible night last night. DH has been sick with a fever/achiness/feeling crappy since Friday so I've pretty much been on my own with the kids. Got DS down at 915 last night and I was asleep by 10. The toddler wakes up at midnight and cries out for me every 5 min until 3am. Finally I gave up and brought her downstairs. We laid on the couch together but never fell asleep. Then DS woke up at 4am. Guess I'm up for the day :/ I'm praying my in laws will take DD today so I can maybe rest a little.
I'm so freaking tired. I just want to cry.
Hugs. That sounds brutal. You are such a good mommy.
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Just caught up! Goodness I've been busy setting up my daycare.
Yesterday had a certification class and had to watch the most horrific shaken baby video and the baby looked just like baby I and I just could not handle it, especially since I am close with a family who just lost a baby to domestic violence this week!!!! Ahhh. Can't handle the sadness.
Also feeling sad and nervous we are approaching the end of the "4th trimester" and we are sort of torn between Montessori and AP approaches to sleep independence. Mont. would have us transition baby I to the floor bed in his room at 2.5-3 months, so we are going to just try. He sleeps so well he will probably transition easily and now would be the time. This makes me so sad but I know it's not sustainable to cosleep forever. And if he's capable of sleeping alone we should let him. I'm going to be a nervous wreck the first night. We're planning to supervise naps on his floor bed so I can get it in my head that he can do it and he will be fine. I just love my baby close at night. I guess I will replace it with husband snuggles. Sob.
We keep talking about when to move DD to her room too. I am so sad even thinking about it. How are our babies growing up so fast?!
Natural chemical pregnancy 8/2013 Clomid #1 and #2: BFN IVF 1 :0 to use IVF 2:4 great embryos after PGS testing. FET 1: BFP EDD 6/20/15 Chemical Pregnancy FET 2: BFP EDD 11/14/2015 MMC 9.5 weeks twins IVF #3: 2 fair embryos after PGS testing Surprise BFP during break cycle and DD born 4/2016
Just caught up! Goodness I've been busy setting up my daycare.
Yesterday had a certification class and had to watch the most horrific shaken baby video and the baby looked just like baby I and I just could not handle it, especially since I am close with a family who just lost a baby to domestic violence this week!!!! Ahhh. Can't handle the sadness.
Also feeling sad and nervous we are approaching the end of the "4th trimester" and we are sort of torn between Montessori and AP approaches to sleep independence. Mont. would have us transition baby I to the floor bed in his room at 2.5-3 months, so we are going to just try. He sleeps so well he will probably transition easily and now would be the time. This makes me so sad but I know it's not sustainable to cosleep forever. And if he's capable of sleeping alone we should let him. I'm going to be a nervous wreck the first night. We're planning to supervise naps on his floor bed so I can get it in my head that he can do it and he will be fine. I just love my baby close at night. I guess I will replace it with husband snuggles. Sob.
We keep talking about when to move DD to her room too. I am so sad even thinking about it. How are our babies growing up so fast?!
I've decided that at 3 or 4 months in going to move to the spare bedroom next to the nursery until 6 or so months before I go back to the master bedroom. Our master is on a different floor hence why I'm going to move to the spare first...
Post by nerdykitten on Jul 17, 2016 11:54:55 GMT -5
Sometimes I feel so bad because so many of you have all the feels about baby not cosleeping anymore. I didn't want to cosleep, but I did a bit just to get sleep, and am totally happy with the kiddos sleeping in their own cribs pretty much the whole time they have been home. Maybe it is because they were in the NICU and there are three of them.
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Sometimes I feel so bad because so many of you have all the feels about baby not cosleeping anymore. I didn't want to cosleep, but I did a bit just to get sleep, and am totally happy with the kiddos sleeping in their own cribs pretty much the whole time they have been home. Maybe it is because they were in the NICU and there are three of them.
I'm in this boat. Neither of our kids ever slept in our room and never coslept and never wanted to. I like everyone in their own room in their own space. And honestly we all sleep better that way. But I don't judge those that do any of those things. Just not for us.
I have no feels about co sleeping. Our toddler is in our bed because we formed a bad habit with her as a toddler. between pregnancy and now with the new baby it's been easier to leave it and deal with it later. Getting her back in her bed will involve some screaming objections from her so I just can't do that right now. But she has been talking more about her big girl bed latley - maybe it will be easier than we think?
I've brought LO into my bed in early morning to get that extra hour of sleep but I love that she is in her crib. I need that alone time after you put them to bed and I can go relax for a bit before sleeping myself ( this is really nice when out of the newborn stage and everyone is sleeping better in general)
Sometimes I feel so bad because so many of you have all the feels about baby not cosleeping anymore. I didn't want to cosleep, but I did a bit just to get sleep, and am totally happy with the kiddos sleeping in their own cribs pretty much the whole time they have been home. Maybe it is because they were in the NICU and there are three of them.
You're not alone!! Although I love the snuggles, I can't co-sleep and wish we didn't have to be in the same room. I want independence and that works for me! Co-sleeping = shitty sleep for me = cranky mom.
Sometimes I feel so bad because so many of you have all the feels about baby not cosleeping anymore. I didn't want to cosleep, but I did a bit just to get sleep, and am totally happy with the kiddos sleeping in their own cribs pretty much the whole time they have been home. Maybe it is because they were in the NICU and there are three of them.
I can't share a bed for sure. DD has to have her own space and so do I. Don't feel bad!
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Cosleeping works for us because I actually sleep. Aside from a few times a night to feed him where I don't really wake, I sleep from 9-6 almost straight. (He makes a little noise, I wake up, feed him, he goes right back to sleep) If I had to fully rouse to get him and feed him, I would be up for anywhere from 20 mins until I needed to be awake until the next day.. I have a VERY hard time falling asleep and sleep so lightly that I would never get any sleep. With DD, she was in her own room by 6 weeks. I fed her and the would spend the next 30-45 minutes getting her to fall back asleep, and then trying to get me to fall asleep... Only to have to do it again a few minutes later!
I dread him moving to his own bed for that reason alone.
Sometimes I feel so bad because so many of you have all the feels about baby not cosleeping anymore. I didn't want to cosleep, but I did a bit just to get sleep, and am totally happy with the kiddos sleeping in their own cribs pretty much the whole time they have been home. Maybe it is because they were in the NICU and there are three of them.
I can't share a bed for sure. DD has to have her own space and so do I. Don't feel bad!
This is me too.
I just blame a combo of ftm nerves and my bedroom being on a different floor for the reason why I'm sleeping in the same room LOL
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I'm not attached to cosleeping at all. We had A in our room until he started sleeping through the night with only 1 wake-up (8ish weeks) then he was in his nursery. We didn't bed share at all. With Cam, he's been such a poor sleeper that we had to bed share quite a bit in the beginning or I wouldn't have been a safe caregiver for my toddler during the days. Now that he's sleeping better, he's in his own room. He ends up in our bed 4-5ish maybe 3 nights out of the week but I sleep way better when he's in his own bed all night.
We went to the farmers market this morning and got some yummy veggies! Then we spent the afternoon in the pool. Now we're trying to get the kids down for a little nap so we can lay in the sun for a while! Perfect summer Sunday!
I found a dress for J's baptism in a few weeks!! I'm so excited and it wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be . Still, my brain has me at my pre-pregnancy body and when I tried dresses on, it was like oh this is my new normal.
I found a dress for J's baptism in a few weeks!! I'm so excited and it wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be . Still, my brain has me at my pre-pregnancy body and when I tried dresses on, it was like oh this is my new normal.
I have to find a dress for DSs dedication... And I have a wedding in October and November...
I found a dress for J's baptism in a few weeks!! I'm so excited and it wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be . Still, my brain has me at my pre-pregnancy body and when I tried dresses on, it was like oh this is my new normal.
I have to find a dress for DSs dedication... And I have a wedding in October and November...
We went to BR, WHBM and finally Nordstroms, where I got my dress. When is the dedication? A lot of stores had decent deals because they're trying to bring in the fall stuff so summer clothes were marked down significantly.
I have to find a dress for DSs dedication... And I have a wedding in October and November...
We went to BR, WHBM and finally Nordstroms, where I got my dress. When is the dedication? A lot of stores had decent deals because they're trying to bring in the fall stuff so summer clothes were marked down significantly.
Date hasn't been set yet but most likely in August or September. I'm leaning toward September because August is coming up awfully quick lol
So LO has a temp reading of 99 I am aware this doesn't fully count as a full on fever yet and she is totally in good spirits but I wish I didn't have a house full of people right now. She has had greenish watery poop for a few days ( I've been randomly check her temp since) and I just hope it doesn't go any higher and turn into something. We have her 2 month check up tomorrow at 8:30 which makes me feel better about this.
I got my first ever negative comments about nursing in "public" (friend's house) from my friends grandmother. Didn't care, kept on going.
I have actually nursed in public WAY more already with this little than I ever did with DD1. I'm super proud of myself. No comments from anyone yet
Me too. With A I was always super conscious and would either use a huge nursing cover or go to another room. This time I'm like forget that noise, I don't have time for that. Plus hot. I use the 2 shirt method now and if I'm feeling particularly modest I'll use a burp rag lol
So LO has a temp reading of 99 I am aware this doesn't fully count as a full on fever yet and she is totally in good spirits but I wish I didn't have a house full of people right now. She has had greenish watery poop for a few days ( I've been randomly check her temp since) and I just hope it doesn't go any higher and turn into something. We have her 2 month check up tomorrow at 8:30 which makes me feel better about this.
Hope she feels better soon and that it doesn't turn into anything!
I have actually nursed in public WAY more already with this little than I ever did with DD1. I'm super proud of myself. No comments from anyone yet
Me too. With A I was always super conscious and would either use a huge nursing cover or go to another room. This time I'm like forget that noise, I don't have time for that. Plus hot. I use the 2 shirt method now and if I'm feeling particularly modest I'll use a burp rag lol
+1. Although I gave up on the two shirt method. I'll use an A&A blanket if I'm concerned. (I was actually USING the damned blanket today when someone said something)
I'm pretty bold about NIP but I also live in a very open minded community. MH feels very strongly about women's right to bf in public (that fb video going around made him livid) and I joke that if he's ever wanting to let out some testosterone we can go bf in one of the more conservative towns out in the county and see what sort of comments we get. Joking, of course.
Also, I'm now realizing I attachment parented my puppy so OF COURSE I'm attachment parenting my baby. I just can't help myself when. The good thing is ds is going to grow up, whereas my dog thinks he is forever my first child.
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