Almost to the weekend! Help keep me awake- I just put my students' papers in the fridge instead of my lunch.
What's on the agenda for today?
After work I'm baking with DS1. His birthday is tomorrow (whhhaaat) and he wants to bring in dinosaur cookies. We are making sugar cookies and stamping them with a dinosaur footprint. Best I could do!
Post by sarcaztic10 on Jan 19, 2017 9:17:22 GMT -5
I always wanted to get those sugar cookie cut outs that make the dinosaurs that actually stand up... this goes on the list of things I never had time for.
I am currently pumping and I have to pee really bad. The didn't have time to stop at the restroom because I don't want to miss any of my time to pump. I am going to try to delicately bring working from home up to my boss again. It would seriously solve like 80% of the stress and problems we have on a daily basis. I would love not being gone from home and the kids for 12 hours a day.
S now rolls from back to belly almost automatically. Then he looks around like he doesn't know how he got on his tummy.
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I need a TP Thursday... So. We had daycare lined up to start February 6th. My MIL was with us for those few weeks and my husband has been home since December 21st on his FMLA leave (he's a teacher so he can take his sick leave for it and get paid). So we were able to delay daycare until Mikayla was 6 months, which was awesome! We had found an in-home daycare center that we really liked, and the woman was in the process of opening up a full center. There wasn't a space for us at the in-home but we were all good to go for when the centered opened February 1st. She had already bought the building but needed to do some minor construction before opening, like installing fences, etc. Awesome! This was all set up back in November. Well, we hadn't really heard from the woman in a while so I called her last week about getting things firmed up and she told me she was still working on changing the verbiage of her contract to change from in-home to a center (i.e. removing things like a yearly vacation, etc). Seemed valid so I let it go. Well.. she calls me yesterday to tell me one of her permits for construction was "stuck" and the opening was going to be delayed... UNTIL MID APRIL. She offered us a free week of care if we stuck with her. So now we're scrambling to find someplace that has an opening in two weeks. I am livid. To add insult to injury.. I posted on our local childcare facebook group looking for care and the woman calls me back and says her "friends" in the area saw I posted and "knew I was going with her, so they wanted to check before stealing her business" and she wanted to know what I was looking for before she passed on my information. I'm sorry, your "friends"?? Just tell me you saw my post. It totally creeped me out. I also started talking to another mom in the area who is in the same boat.. except she signed on in SEPTEMBER and was originally told the center would open in December. After hearing that, I'm officially done with this place. Hoping to find a permanent solution rather than just someplace to get us to April.. and that we get at least some of our deposit back. Although I can already see her saying it was totally out of her control and if we would have waited longer there wouldn't be an issue so its our fault for backing out and we're not getting our money back. I'm so irritated. Mostly mad at myself for not getting more things in writing ahead of time. Lesson learned I guess.
We're going to a fun museum exhibit with my parents in a little bit. I'm excited.
Naps are becoming an even bigger disaster here and I'm so frustrated. I feel like we're stuck in a crappy phase between needing 3 naps and dropping to 2. She was waking at 7, napping 45 minutes starting at 9 or 9:30, napping 1.25-1.5 hours at 1.... but then she's awake at 2:30, bedtime isn't til 7, and she will NOT nap at 4:30/5 ish but is dead tired by 6. So I start bedtime at 6:20 pm, then she's awake at 5:45 AM.
My oldest had such a good nap schedule by now and it made everyone's lives so much easier and happier. I feel like every day I work so hard at good naps and it is still chaos.
ginabini ugh, sorry for the daycare trouble. That would be very frustrating. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise in the long run and you'll end up finding a better place for M to go. I've got my fingers crossed that something comes along quickly for you!
Post by littlesthobo on Jan 19, 2017 13:04:28 GMT -5
ginabini sorry your daycare fell through! That totally sucks and I agree that you should move on from this lady altogether. I hope you find something fast!
melody330 your pumping post made me lol. I'm sure they can't hear you, but you can always say you were pumping up soccer balls!
Post by littlesthobo on Jan 19, 2017 13:10:38 GMT -5
Send thoughts and prayers, DH has the flu. He was up half the night being sick. So far he's the only one, part of me wants to check into a hotel tonight with the boys to keep everyone away from him!
Not much going on here, we're doing yearly evaluations at work and I have NO idea what I'm doing. Went to one of my colleagues to see if they knew and she's just as confused, so that's good.
Thanks all. We've got an interview tomorrow at a center. We indirectly know the director so I'm hoping it works out. Its a great deal more expensive because its one of the school-type daycare centers, but I'd rather pay a little more and have some peace of mind. I've also been talking to a SAHM who used to be a nanny that has offered to help through a community childcare facebook group... but I'm a little iffy on a non-licensed provider. She seems nice enough but the world is full of crazies.
Day 2 of stressing over my skinny baby. Once again he just plain would not eat for a 4 hour span this morning. How am I supposed to get more calories into him if he just won't eat?? Frustrating.
An LC just called me back though, so hopefully I can talk to her soon, and may go to a nursing moms group tomorrow.
ginabini hope the center works out for you and I really hope she gives your deposit back since even though it's out of her hands, she should understand that it's also out of yours and you need childcare.
Day 2 of stressing over my skinny baby. Once again he just plain would not eat for a 4 hour span this morning. How am I supposed to get more calories into him if he just won't eat?? Frustrating.
An LC just called me back though, so hopefully I can talk to her soon, and may go to a nursing moms group tomorrow.
I hope you can get in with the LC soon and hopefully the moms group is able to help and reassure you. Keep us posted, I have been thinking of you. Lots of (((hugs)))
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Oh no jenn83 . I am sure that is doubly traumatic to have your baby in the hospital after all you went through with T. I hope she's on the mend and out of there ASAP.
Day 2 of stressing over my skinny baby. Once again he just plain would not eat for a 4 hour span this morning. How am I supposed to get more calories into him if he just won't eat?? Frustrating.
An LC just called me back though, so hopefully I can talk to her soon, and may go to a nursing moms group tomorrow.
That just plain sucks. what is with these crazy babies? I hope the LCS has some good suggestion.
I got hit last night and my car was towed away. I'm so thankful I'm ok, the kids weren't with me, and everything. I'm really hoping my car gets totaled and I get a new car but I'm stressed out no matter what. My husband commutes and there is no public transit option so I'm carless for now.
Post by rungirlrun on Jan 19, 2017 17:49:03 GMT -5
What a crappy Thursday for so many of you. Hang in there - tomorrow is Friday!
Sorry for the added stress ginabini. Good luck figuring everything out!
Big hugs comicSans. I'm so sorry for the added stress. I hope you can figure something out. But if your son seems satisfied and has enough wet/dirty diapers, shouldn't that be enough? Some kids are just skinny regardless of how much they eat.
Oh that is so rough jenn83. Hope she is out of there asap. I'm so sorry.
I'm glad you're ok cabbagecabbage, but that sucks about not having a car :-(
Post by rungirlrun on Jan 19, 2017 17:54:30 GMT -5
Someone explain to me why every day my older son chooses to be difficult at the exact moment the baby is screaming. Come on now. Can't you see that your little brother is beyond exhausted and hungry? I need to put him down for a nap. Why are you acting like a jerk at this exact moment? Every morning, I wake up and tell myself that today is the day where I won't lose my cool. I won't yell. Still waiting for that day to come. Ugh. Parenting 3 year olds is not for the weak.
Big hugs comicSans. I'm so sorry for the added stress. I hope you can figure something out. But if your son seems satisfied and has enough wet/dirty diapers, shouldn't that be enough? Some kids are just skinny regardless of how much they eat.
Thanks, I'm stressing and obsessing because if there's an issue I want to fix it asap. When I told the pedi he never seems like he's not satisfied, her response was baby's don't and 98% of the time when there's a weight gain issue they see it resolve with more calories. Of course that 98% was not a scientific study she was quoting lol. It makes sense that yes, if I could get more calories into him he'd gain more, but volume wise he seems to me to be getting enough. In the morning he'll go 4 hours between feeds and the rest of the day it's more like 3, and I can not get him to eat more by offering more often. Output is good, and he is growing, just not gaining as fast or as much as expected. When he eats I can sometimes get him back on after he pops off, but then he spits up, so definitely seems like he's getting all he can handle.
He had a pretty bad cold around Christmas and he got 2 teeth then as well, and his latch gets bad when he's teething. So maybe that had some effect. Hoping the lc can look at the whole picture and either give me some fixes or just say keep doing what you're doing and hopefully the next weight check shows good growth. Always something new to worry about with kids!
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