I say go for it and just be mindful of with you give them to LO. DD is a 3 and a book worm but at terrible 2's as an act of defiance she'd rip the pages out knowing I'd get mad. Just something to keep in mind. I love giving books over toys. I say if you're going to buy them either way get them on sale.
Oh, they'll be put up out of reach once we hit the terrible twos and threenager stage. FI likes reading to DS already (seriously, the kid isn't even 4 weeks yet) and I figured this is better than the current read of Harry Potter...
Blasphemy. There is nothing better than reading Harry Potter.
You know you're a mom when a blissful afternoon means that your ILs took your two-year-old on an errand and DH is supervising DS2 taking a nap, so you have 20 minutes to pump and enjoy your hot chocolate in peace. Ahhh.
Oh, they'll be put up out of reach once we hit the terrible twos and threenager stage. FI likes reading to DS already (seriously, the kid isn't even 4 weeks yet) and I figured this is better than the current read of Harry Potter...
Blasphemy. There is nothing better than reading Harry Potter.
Hope everyone is having a great day!
True, there's not but he's a little young for the last 3 books
His poor face has been getting so bad. First it was just bumps. Then it got rough and dry. Then came flakes. Now he has yellow crusties on his ears in the mornings. So we are heading to the doctors. It has gotten so red I'm afraid it's hurting him.
He's a cutie! But I hope it's nothing serious
Thanks. They told us to use hydrocortisone twice a day and it should clear up. The doctor called it something and when i asked that that meant she just said basically his skin is irritated and that it's common for babies to have skin troubles. Everything else looked good! He is 9 lbs 12.5 oz 22.25 inches long.
Is there really such a thing was a 6 week growth spurt/sleep regression? the past couple of days have been really bad, and the past 24 hours have been brutal. He's been screaming more than he's been sleeping, and seems to only sleep for 20 min at a time.
Is there really such a thing was a 6 week growth spurt/sleep regression? the past couple of days have been really bad, and the past 24 hours have been brutal. He's been screaming more than he's been sleeping, and seems to only sleep for 20 min at a time.
Yup. 6 week growth spurt is brutal. The dictator has been like this too. He's 6 weeks today.
Post by nachomomma on Feb 14, 2015 16:45:45 GMT -5
My husband is really confused and seems to believe he should be getting a lot of sleep. He's even more confused, because he complains to me. I'm sick of his bitchiness when he doesn't get a full night of sleep.
My husband is really confused and seems to believe he should be getting a lot of sleep. He's even more confused, because he complains to me. I'm sick of his bitchiness when he doesn't get a full night of sleep.
Mine seems to suffer from this same confusion. He is playing really dirty too trying to pass things off that he was supposed to do by mentioning them in front of my daughter like it is something fun that we could do together so then if I say no I seem like a jerk who doesn't want to spend time with her. Really it is because he thinks he should just be able to sleep all day and let me do everything. Then he is grouchy when I bring him the baby to watch because I am not going to bundle him up and take him out in single digit temps. He thinks that because he does 1 feeding a day (I breastfeed but do 1 bottle a night) around 3 AM that he is set on taking his turn with anything child related. He is in for a rude awakening when I go back to work, it will be him and two kids all day.
My husband is really confused and seems to believe he should be getting a lot of sleep. He's even more confused, because he complains to me. I'm sick of his bitchiness when he doesn't get a full night of sleep.
Oh geezz! I know what you mean! My husband has done 1 motn feeding and didn't even stay awake to get M back to sleep, I had to do that. But the next day he was in a horrible mood!
Worst mom ever moment. Last night as I side-nursed baby, I dropped my phone on his little head. I cried longer and harder than he did.
Don't feel bad I've done this with ds 1, and I was sitting upright in a chair...stupid butter fingers! Dh bought 3 boxes of chocolate, good man :-) My inlaws brought over chocolate croissants unannounced...I would be mad except for the chocolate croissants. Of course they wanted to see the baby but he was sleeping in my room which is a mess so I said no but called back when he woke up so that counts for something right?
Hung out with SIL and BIL last night. After they left, hubby was not tired and wanted to stay up. I handed him baby and got 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep! LO slept for 5 hours herself. I told H that was a great valentine's gift in itself and I didn't need anything else. It was wonderful! We decided to not spend the money and not go crazy today. We will be going out to dinner, but with baby, SIL & BIL. Then we are coming back to the house and playing games. A nice quiet lovely evening at home. I'm sorry some of you are having issues with husbands. Mine was like that earlier in the week. After staying up drinking beer and playing video games until 3am, he wakes up at 1pm and bitches that he's tired. I finally ripped him a new one and he apologized for his behavior, which is a big deal. He is a very prideful man and has a hard time saying the words "I'm sorry", so when he does he knows he messed up big. I hope things get better for you all! Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
Post by 4littlebears on Feb 14, 2015 17:46:35 GMT -5
I am crying on Valentine's day, again. I think if I could just have gotten a shower that maybe it would have gone better. But ok, so we got home late last night from our family excursion for 1 night, so I didn't get to sleep until nearly 1:30 am. Kids slept in this morning which meant I got to sleep in until 9:30. Nice! But Simon woke up choking because he hasn't burped enough at his last feeding. So I sat up with him and couldn't lay back down because my back is killing me. 2 hrs later and dh finally gets forced out of bed by dd1 who made THE sweetest Valentine's for us while dh was sleeping. Now he's useless and no where to be found except for 1 feeding for S. Fast forward, he decides to go to the store because he's not prepared for v-day. I'm left alone again. Still no shower. But having fun with dd1 and her easy bake oven. Then she burned her finger, and cue mommy breakdown... Brownies and chocolates if you got this far.
To sum up, abandoned on Valentine's day, headache, back ache, mommy guilt over a hurt finger and tears.
I have 4 little bears, just like my name says. 2 girls 2 boys ages 8,5,3, and my newest babe. 2 of my little bears have life threatening food allergies, feel free to ask me more about that!
Omg! Z latched and didn't kill my nipple! I suck at pumping but want to keep BFing and I was terrified to put her directly onto my boob again because she literally bit off part of my nipple last time she was on.
Well, my BIL and his (never stops talking. I'm pregnant again so I'm going to whine about everything and you should sympathize because you were just pregnant) wife and their 1 year old are here because H's dad is supposed to be in town later. Of course the guys bailed on us to cut back more trees behind the fence so I got stuck with her. Instead of telling her she's a giant ass baby and I don't give a shit about her toe pain. I decided to face my fears and try to latch Z and she was so good! A little pissed that my milk didn't come out as fast as the formula in a bottle but she still ate! I'm going to have to venture out eventually and make her a bottle because I'm pretty sure she isn't full and my boobs are empty, but for now I'm enjoying her happy boob face
Just got asked what I do with all my time staying at home. Ummm clearly you don't know what taking care of a newborn is like.
Sorry to hear about so many people's husbands being douche bags. This was DH's first week back at work after being home with us the first three weeks. He was really sweet checking in asking how I was doing and telling me not to worry about cooking, cleaning, etc...just to get sleep when I could. I think seeing what it's like to parent a newborn 24/7 made him appreciate what I'm doing on a daily basis. I wish anyone who makes comments like this could spend 24 hours in our shoes so they understand how quickly a day goes by without really doing anything other than assuring our tiny humans stay alive and happy.
My Valentine's Day has been spent lying in bed sick. But my DH has completely taken over watching the kids, made me food, and brought me movies to watch. I think that's the best Valentine's gift he could have given me today!
Love tit for you being taken care of, not because you're sick.
Post by lasawyer91 on Feb 14, 2015 19:16:36 GMT -5
DH decided that today was the day to do home Reno. We had put it on hold towards the end of my pregnancy because I couldn't handle all the stimulation. So needless to say I have been dealing with a three week growth spurt alone all day while he has been caulking and painting. I appreciate him doing it, but couldn't it wait? It's Valentine's day for Pete's sake
So my thank you notes have arrived (thank you shutterfly) but the announcements are 2 weeks out, do I wait for those to arrive our send thank you notes to people who have given gifts already? I used some of the same pictures so I don't want to take away from all the hours it took me to design my announcements, as I used a stock thank you from shutterfly and just dropped in photos whereas I designed the announcement from scratch. Any thoughts?
Bad parents over here... This is not a great picture of LO, but DH and I have decided the resemblance is uncanny.
My SO says that our baby looks like him all the time!! I don't know if our two babies look like that man or if that guy just looks like a newborn baby!!
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