Me: 39 DH: 39 DS1 born Sept 1999 Married Nov 2010 TTC 2010 2011 BFP ended in ectopic RE Aug 2014. Unexplained infertility Sept 2014-Dec 2014 fermera/IUI/TI BFN's
August 16, 2015 baby Boy M is born and our hearts melt!
ampaints, I kept the kids up late so they could see DH tonight. Fortunately they were all in pretty good spirits despite being tired. The morning was pretty frustrating but I got through it. I'm just exhausted from waking up all night last night and needing to keep Abigail basically within arms reach at all times here because the house isn't child proof. I can't wait to be back in a space that is safe for her to roam.
On the plus side, Abigail has gotten much more comfortable with my family and no longer freaks out if I'm not right by her. My brother, in particular, has gotten some good bonding time with her. He and I took the kids to a local farm today to see the animals. Abigail has also started standing independently and is pretty excited and proud of her new skill. She was giggling and squealing tonight. She has also sort of taken a step or two in the past couple days. I suspect she'll be walking by her birthday in mid-august. If so she'll definitely be my earliest walker.
aydee you deserve ALL the wine in the world for having to have completed sleep training with TWO babies at once!! All you momma's of multiples amaze me! Seriously!
Thanks redandblue. Sleep training my twins has probably been one of the hardest things I've done as a parent. That was absolutely brutal and is some special form of hell reserved for parents of multiples. As for how to cope with twins, we moms of multiples learn to figure things out because we have no choice. It's sink or swim. You get very creative sometimes, lol! I'm amazed at what I've been able to manage independently, and it's been really empowering and given me a lot of confidence.
aydee, did you go in to soothe or did you just let her go? I think I'm going to go in at my normal 8 minutes and soothe, then 15 minutes then 30 mins etc...
I would say that really depends on the baby. It works for M but packmomma can't do it with W, it winds him up. Good luck lady, many of us have been there. It's tough, but the end result is worth it.
Huh? No I go in to soothe at timed intervals. We generally wait 10 minutes now. I pick him up and rock him and then once he's calm I place him back down..sometimes he'll fuss for a bit once I lay him down but he usually calms down pretty quickly. My advice would just be consistent at whatever it is you do. So decided on a plan you can stick with. Good luck! I hope it's going well
@janetheconquerer also in the sleep training thread I copied a bunch of the book and pasted it there. It breaks it down on how to progress the waiting each night.
Post by RandomName on Jul 26, 2016 23:47:01 GMT -5
packmomma me too. My house is quiet yet I'm away watching a million YouTube videos.
I watched Late Late with James Corden with Christina Applegate and Mila Kunas spill your gut or fill your gut. I'm still gagging over what I saw. I wish I could un-see it.
Oh man RandomName I'm so glad I finished reading your entire postnbefore searching. Lol I'm just up trying to catch up on threads. I didn't take my sleeping pill tonight and we watched mr. Robot before bed. That show is the best in that it's intriguing but the worst in that it always gives me weird awful things to think about. I haven't been very good about posting lately. Ever since W started walking he is trying to hurt himself hourly. He's got so many bruises. I know kids are padded at this age but damn!
packmomma my husband texted me the other day with "both kids are injured but fine". J jumped off the couch and caught his chin on H's knee. While he was tending to J, C somehow managed to pull one of our kitchen chairs onto her head. These things happen. I'm starting to get used to all the bumps and bruises now that we're almost 3 years in.
Though, after the double whammy I did say I was going to make the nearest ER our "home" destination in the GPS. I was only half joking.
Today is our last intern event. They all leave between this Friday and next Friday. I'm so behind at work because of the summer program, but I'm still thinking of taking a full day off on Friday. It's our anniversary, I have to pick up a cake, I have a dentist appointment midday and I really need to go bra shopping.
Good morning W woke up at 2 and like I chump I brought him in to bed with ne. He nursed/slept until 3 (when he got fidgety and I put him down in his crib) and then proceeded to wake up every hour in his crib. His sleep has been off since Friday so I'm going to need to work on being consistent again. We're headed to story time today and then maybe grocery shopping.
Morning! I was up super late last night and randomly decided to go through my closet and purge clothes. I tried on a million things. There was a post on parenting recently (or FB I can't remember for sure) that was about only keeping clothes that make you feel good and that fit. It talked about that as step 1 to change how you feel about your body. It felt so good to let go of pants and tops I've had since my undergrad that just haven't fit but I hoped "id one day get back into them".
One of my coworkers has turned into someone who does nothing but complain. The first thing I heard this morning when I got in was her complaining. Same on Monday. And she keeps stopping by my office with more complaints.
And some of it is ridiculous. Like when she's on a rant about how she was assigned two claims that weren't filed on time, and how could the attorneys be that stupid. Well, they probably aren't familiar with our statute - but still she goes on and on about how they're idiots and wasting her time. All. Freaking. Day.
C got up for good at 4. H came out at 4:30 and I went back to bed until 6.
At the gym. Today I am shopping getting a pedicure and a massage. I am so freaking excited to be pampered. (If only I had a magical personal shopper who could find exactly what I want and it'd fit perfect!)
So tired this morning but feeling some how optimistic about the day. I've had rough couple of days with DS1 and we needed to have big conversations about some recent stuff. He decided last night at almost 11 was the time to have this conversation. Resulted in me bawling, because Parenting is hard shit. Overall I think it was productive. Then I had a long conversation with DH about it, which rolled into us having our own conversation that has needed to happen about our relationship and how disconnected I've been feeling lately. Also ended well, so I feel good that some big stuff has been addressed, but so tired. Pass the coffee!
Me: 39 DH: 39 DS1 born Sept 1999 Married Nov 2010 TTC 2010 2011 BFP ended in ectopic RE Aug 2014. Unexplained infertility Sept 2014-Dec 2014 fermera/IUI/TI BFN's
August 16, 2015 baby Boy M is born and our hearts melt!
C got up for good at 4. H came out at 4:30 and I went back to bed until 6.
At the gym. Today I am shopping getting a pedicure and a massage. I am so freaking excited to be pampered. (If only I had a magical personal shopper who could find exactly what I want and it'd fit perfect!)
Nordstrom. The personal shoppers are free and will pull whatever you ask for. I've gone in for jeans and they pulled every single one in my size from every department so I just walked into the fitting room and everything was waiting for me. Saved so much time.
Woohoo, thewop , I saw you ordered your wine!! What'd you end up going with?! I'm already planning August's box and I'm on my 2nd bottle from this month's delivery, a delicious Chenin blanc.
Hey! I got Alma Libre Red Blend, Wordsmith Red Blend, and Pacificana Zinfandel. I was kind of in a hurry because I had to order it on my phone at work (our internet has alcohol sites blocked- lame). I did the profile and picked the first few that sounded good based on their picks for me. I can't wait! It should be here tomorrow. AND the H is gone on a golf trip all weekend! Woot!
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