And sorry about the period. Does that necessarily mean it will effect your supply? Hope not.
Thanks!! I hope not, but I've read online it does effect a lot of people. I still was able to pump 3oz this morning, a little less then normal but trying not to be super concerned!
Post by harfamilyof3 on Jan 15, 2017 12:24:33 GMT -5
Something that drives me crazy- why do baby clothes have to have listed genders on the tag. I bought a gray onesie with the words "I can't baby today" from Kohl's and directly on the tag it says "BOYS" right under the size. Really!?
Something that drives me crazy- why do baby clothes have to have listed genders on the tag. I bought a gray onesie with the words "I can't baby today" from Kohl's and directly on the tag it says "BOYS" right under the size. Really!?
Post by littlelion on Jan 15, 2017 12:40:48 GMT -5
Sunday is the day for rest, right? I could sleep all day. Alex kept waking up last night. We had plans. But then my sister wanted to do lunch with the family at my place. Waiting on that.
Hope to do a target run afterwards. For groceries and some pacifiers...see if that helps keep Alex asleep at night. And then maybe send dh with Leo to his cousins' house. I need some quiet time.
My FIL is in town, and we all stayed up way too late watching the Patriots game. Of course I am exhausted, and somehow both my husband and FIL are napping while I have the baby, even though I had her for most of yesterday evening trying to keep her quiet during the game (boo football). Jokes on them because as soon as one of them wakes up, I'm going to take a shower, then feed her and go to a wine bar for a few hours. FIL needs his baby time, right? That's why he came to visit.
We finally got the Christmas decorations packed up last night, so the house feels somewhat normal again. Hoping to actually accomplish a few things this week beyond being trapped under a baby.
I've been trying all week to get the k'tan to work. I could not get DS to feel secure in it. I went to BRU to return some shit and I bought a new carrier with like backpack straps and he's happily snoozing in it right now and I've been putting laundry away, eating breakfast etc. Game. Changer.
I put his NB clothes away this morning (wwwwwaaaaahhhhhh)
I tried his cloth diapers yesterday... there are still huge gaps in the leg holes. Poor boy has skinny little legs and no butt like his daddy. Looks like we're stuck with disposables for a while.
Oh! And he fits in his swaddleme's now. I swaddled him last night and he slept (!!!) from like 10:30-6, waking up ONCE between 1-2. HALLELUJAH
What carrier did you buy? I've tried the ktan and the medium was way too big and the small is too tight... I have a Bjorn but she wasn't a fan.
I need schedule advice... I've been trying to eat/wake/sleep with baby but the sleep/daytime nap thing is not happening. She eats, is happy and awake for an hour, then starts to melt down and I've tried even swaddling her in a dark room at the first yawns and rocking her to sleep... she'll only sleep for a few minutes. Trying to get her to nap around the house is difficult because she's really sensitive to noise. She also hates all of the equipment we've used.... I'm starting to wonder if she needs to eat/sleep/wake instead.
Can you tell me about your daytime routines? This grouchy no daytime napping thing is so frustrating and I want to resolve it asap!
Post by lastnamewithheld on Jan 15, 2017 14:54:30 GMT -5
Winnifred, i think the brand was infantino (it was like $20 or something. I figure I could hate it for that price!) I love it and Tommy does too (at least I think so... he doesn't freak out in it!!)
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Post by lastnamewithheld on Jan 15, 2017 15:08:52 GMT -5
Winnifred, T has pretty much always konked out after a bottle, so I think we inadvertently are doing eat/sleep/wake. No daytime naps suck. I hope you guys can figure something out!
harfamilyof3 booo pp period. Nora is so cute! I can't believe she's 2 months old already!!
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Winnifred, DS usually wakes up hangry, so I always feed him right when he wakes up. But sometimes he's hungry again after he's been awake for awhile, so I nurse him again and he falls asleep on the boob. That's probably really unhelpful, but really we just do whatever seems right at the time. He's actually a really good napper...night time we're still working on. We just started him on Zantac for his reflux, and that's helped. He'll sleep most of the night with minimal wake ups, as long as he's sleeping on me, so now we just need to get him used to sleeping by himself.
Post by mrsp121308 on Jan 15, 2017 16:05:24 GMT -5
harfamilyof3, I just had my second PP period and I have t noticed any drop in supply, so it's possible it won't. I started it back fairly quickly after both older girls and continued to BF DD1 for 15 months and DD2 until she was over 2, so just keep up with regular feedings and pumping if you need to.
I need schedule advice... I've been trying to eat/wake/sleep with baby but the sleep/daytime nap thing is not happening. She eats, is happy and awake for an hour, then starts to melt down and I've tried even swaddling her in a dark room at the first yawns and rocking her to sleep... she'll only sleep for a few minutes. Trying to get her to nap around the house is difficult because she's really sensitive to noise. She also hates all of the equipment we've used.... I'm starting to wonder if she needs to eat/sleep/wake instead.
Can you tell me about your daytime routines? This grouchy no daytime napping thing is so frustrating and I want to resolve it asap!
We do the dark room, with a white noise machine, swaddled in their Rock n Plays. It's the only way I can get anything more than a cat nap.
Post by requiressnacks on Jan 15, 2017 18:34:00 GMT -5
Answer my Post above is laughable because I did all that and then spent 45 minutes trying to get the babies to sleep. (How MANY times can a pacifier fall out???)
Thanks, everyone. It does seem to me that she's do better sleeping after eating, but at the same that's like the only window we get to enjoy a happy awake baby before the meltdown begins. Maybe we'll just keep trying to get her to sleep after eating.., works fine overnight but daytime seems to be a totally different story.
All of this makes me feel like a shitty mom who has no innate sense of what her baby needs. I'm completely terrified to spend February and 1/2 of march home alone with her during the day.
Thanks, everyone. It does seem to me that she's do better sleeping after eating, but at the same that's like the only window we get to enjoy a happy awake baby before the meltdown begins. Maybe we'll just keep trying to get her to sleep after eating.., works fine overnight but daytime seems to be a totally different story.
All of this makes me feel like a shitty mom who has no innate sense of what her baby needs. I'm completely terrified to spend February and 1/2 of march home alone with her during the day.
You are not a shitty mom! This is hard work! My husband works from home, and I was struggling so much I asked him to work downstairs instead of upstairs to be closer. How pathetic is that!? We're all just trying to make it through each day.
Post by requiressnacks on Jan 15, 2017 20:27:58 GMT -5
Winnifred, you are not a shitty mom! Give yourself a break.
If it makes you feel any better DS was out of his damned mind tonight and was inconsolable screaming for like 30 minutes. I tried everything. Eventually he ate 2 oz of a bottle and passed out. Guess he was tired?
Post by mrsp121308 on Jan 15, 2017 20:41:24 GMT -5
Winnifred, don't be so hard on yourself. 95% of parenting is trial and error because none of us know what we are doing. Even being a third time mom, I still don't know what I'm doing because each kid is different. You will get in your own routine eventually. Try not to stress, babies are hard and some get into a routine easily and others take time.
Post by legalbeagle on Jan 16, 2017 3:01:41 GMT -5
We are eat/scream on and off boob for 1-1.5 hrs/sleep over here. To be honest she has few contented and alert periods bc it takes her so long to eat and then she's exhausted and falls asleep. We fit her second bath in today and she only had one major spit up episode so progress?
I just got almost four hours of only slightly interrupted sleep! Bottle didn't happen fri or sat night -- DH didn't thaw milk in time on Fri and Sat was just too frustrated with her -- but tonight we tried again and even though I could hear the screaming I was just so tired that I fell back to sleep. The baby app said she ate 1.5 oz but not sure how accurate that is since these kiinde bags are a bit difficult to read. I'll ask DH tomorrow how it went but we are making progress on bottle acceptance! Now to swaddle this baby and pump a bit since I skipped a feeding.
What are people doing tomorrow? DS has a short soccer camp in the AM and then a friend is coming over for lunch. Maybe if DH and I are well-rested from tonight I can convince him to tackle some apartment stuff when she naps. Exciting!! :/
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Answer my Post above is laughable because I did all that and then spent 45 minutes trying to get the babies to sleep. (How MANY times can a pacifier fall out???)
They slept for 20 minutes. 😖😖😖😖
This sounds like my Friday night/Saturday morning. Minus a baby. DS lost his goddamned mind. He was better the next night, but Jesus. H and I took turns trying to calm him down because we were both getting so frustrated with him.
Winnifred, you are in no way a shitty mom. This is hard and as you can see, every decent night where we feel like we have this shit under control is completely undone the next night LOL. Like kcnumbers (sorry, I forget your numbers for the tag) said: were all in the trenches and in survival mode. Trust your gut. You got this!
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Post by legalbeagle on Jan 16, 2017 9:43:36 GMT -5
crimpgirl my personal favorite is screaming bloody murder but spitting up a little bit of the last feed on me. I mean what? You are clearly at capacity, little one.
Post by legalbeagle on Jan 16, 2017 10:16:01 GMT -5
@kc295905, omg AWFUL.
Baby asleep, DS at camp, DH at grocery store. Playing with my dog (so he'll be less annoying later) and ordering 0-3 and 3-6 mos clothes online. I really forgot how fast they go through clothing!
I'm squeezing DS into his last few wears of NB clothes. Lol. I need pics in some of these cute outfits. It's the last time I'll ever use them. Wah!
Speaking of... I'll Pinterest it later, but I was wondering if anybody has seen or done any cute ideas to save some pieces of baby clothing. I've seen quilts. I'm crafty, but not that crafty.
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MC Sept '10, MC Dec '10, DS born 2012 Clomid + TI = BFP #1 March '13, MC April '13 Gonal F + trigger + IUI #1 = BFP #2 10/21/13, MC 10/31/13 Gonal F + trigger + IUI #2 = BFP #3 1/16/14, ectopic w/ heartbeat & rt salpingectomy 1/29/14 IVF #1 - ER 5/9/14 transfer cx'd due to high P4 FET #1 - 6/26/14 transferred 1 AA blast BFP!! EDD 3/11/15 Beta #1 13dp5dt - 1548 Beta #2 15dp5dt - 2748 Beta #3 18dp5dt - 7586
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