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[requiressnacks]

I love that, pbandj714!!! So cute.

[dukegirlsc]

I have both babies napping in their RnP's in the nursery today, they have done so well I am even contemplating letting them sleep in there tonight. I have no idea why this makes me so sad and upset.

[dukegirlsc]

pbandj714 I love the theme! It's so cute!!

[pbandj714]

Apr 26, 2017 15:28:31 GMT -5 dukegirlsc said:

I have both babies napping in their RnP's in the nursery today, they have done so well I am even contemplating letting them sleep in there tonight. I have no idea why this makes me so sad and upset.

Yay babies! Sometimes change is harder for us as moms than for them.

[bocaburger]

Re-sleep-training since all our recent travel undid all our progress. It's the worst.

[pbandj714]

Apr 26, 2017 21:35:31 GMT -5 @feegan said:

We made it! I ended up having my Grandpa sit in the car while I unloaded and checked in after we had dinner since the hotel was on our way back to his place. Tomorrow I'll definitely try the luggage rack though!

pbandj714 Love your theme! We did something similar, rainbow colors in stripes for J and dots for L. Hooray for rainbow babies! Also, seriously, how are your babies about to be 1?!?!?!

Glad it worked out having grandpa there to assist!

Great minds think alike for party themes I always say! I seriously cannot believe they are almost 1...or that yours are almost 2!!

[mustloveerica]

I'm just here to brag that the almost 7 week old baby girls slept from 8pm to 6am. It's an end of April miracle!!!

[mc13]

Apr 27, 2017 5:54:13 GMT -5 mustloveerica said:

I'm just here to brag that the almost 7 week old baby girls slept from 8pm to 6am. It's an end of April miracle!!!

That's amazing! I hope it continues.

[DVMmomma]

Tell me your secrets mustloveerica! Mine are still too young for that stretch but damn am I jealous!

[mustloveerica]

Apr 27, 2017 8:32:55 GMT -5 DVMmomma said:

Tell me your secrets mustloveerica! Mine are still too young for that stretch but damn am I jealous!

I claiming it's because my mom came over last night and read them a bedtime story. Other than that nothing was different from our usual daily routine. I'm sure it was a fluke but damn I hope it's a sign of good things to come.

I'm also tempted to stop doing OUBU because I think H would sleep much longer stretches than E. But H is already the smaller baby so I worry about her having less feedings than her sister.

[mc13]

Apr 27, 2017 8:32:55 GMT -5 DVMmomma said:

Tell me your secrets mustloveerica! Mine are still too young for that stretch but damn am I jealous!

Ha, same. So jealous! Mine are 8 months and don't give me stretches like that...

[DVMmomma]

Apr 27, 2017 8:54:25 GMT -5 mustloveerica said:

Apr 27, 2017 8:32:55 GMT -5 DVMmomma said:

Tell me your secrets mustloveerica! Mine are still too young for that stretch but damn am I jealous!

I claiming it's because my mom came over last night and read them a bedtime story. Other than that nothing was different from our usual daily routine. I'm sure it was a fluke but damn I hope it's a sign of good things to come.

I'm also tempted to stop doing OUBU because I think H would sleep much longer stretches than E. But H is already the smaller baby so I worry about her having less feedings than her sister.

I'm in that boat too. My M is a great sleeper and she's the one that needs to gain the weight. Fx for continued amazing stretches of sleep!

[mustloveerica]

Apr 27, 2017 8:55:44 GMT -5 mc13 said:

Apr 27, 2017 8:32:55 GMT -5 DVMmomma said:

Tell me your secrets mustloveerica! Mine are still too young for that stretch but damn am I jealous!

Ha, same. So jealous! Mine are 8 months and don't give me stretches like that...

I panicked twice and ran into their room to jiggle each baby and make sure everyone was still breathing and then woke DH up to make him double check. So really....I got the same amount of sleep as usual.

[schmella]

Apr 27, 2017 8:59:16 GMT -5 mustloveerica said:

Apr 27, 2017 8:55:44 GMT -5 mc13 said:

Ha, same. So jealous! Mine are 8 months and don't give me stretches like that...

I panicked twice and ran into their room to jiggle each baby and make sure everyone was still breathing and then woke DH up to make him double check. So really....I got the same amount of sleep as usual.

Hahaha! I remember the first time that happened, I woke up in a panic, I was SURE they had died in their sleep

[piccyami]

Apr 27, 2017 13:14:25 GMT -5 schmella said:

Apr 27, 2017 8:59:16 GMT -5 mustloveerica said:

I panicked twice and ran into their room to jiggle each baby and make sure everyone was still breathing and then woke DH up to make him double check. So really....I got the same amount of sleep as usual.

Hahaha! I remember the first time that happened, I woke up in a panic, I was SURE they had died in their sleep

It's still intermittent here, and I have to go check. Especially when they're not snoring!

[nomnom]

Apr 27, 2017 13:14:25 GMT -5 schmella said:

Apr 27, 2017 8:59:16 GMT -5 mustloveerica said:

I panicked twice and ran into their room to jiggle each baby and make sure everyone was still breathing and then woke DH up to make him double check. So really....I got the same amount of sleep as usual.

Hahaha! I remember the first time that happened, I woke up in a panic, I was SURE they had died in their sleep

I still peek in on all four kids before I go to bed. Unless they are sick and super congested or have a fever, I just look in the door. Babies I more often put my hand on them to feel for breathing or poke them to see if they react because it is harder to see them breathe. One time I caught G with the sound machine in her crib and the cord for it wrapped (loosely) around her neck.

[nomnom]

Did I mention that Target.com is taking back the quad stroller for store credit? They sent me a shipping label, so all I have to do is find a box big enough to ship it, pack it up, and take it to the post office. Except the part where the back hatch of our suburban broke again, so I have to fix that or at least find a way to open it.

I think we're going to just get a BOB duallie and do what we can with that. Do not want to buy another stroller that sucks and I can't test any triple strollers in a store.

[kate61487]

Apr 27, 2017 15:27:36 GMT -5 nomnom said:

Apr 27, 2017 13:14:25 GMT -5 schmella said:

Hahaha! I remember the first time that happened, I woke up in a panic, I was SURE they had died in their sleep

I still peek in on all four kids before I go to bed. Unless they are sick and super congested or have a fever, I just look in the door. Babies I more often put my hand on them to feel for breathing or poke them to see if they react because it is harder to see them breathe. One time I caught G with the sound machine in her crib and the cord for it wrapped (loosely) around her neck.

:eek: :eek:

[Crisco Salad]

I survived my 5 day trip to Chicago! Now to spend the next 3 days vegged out on the couch or napping.

[piccyami]

@nomnom, that's awesome that they're taking it back at all.

[DVMmomma]

Does anyone have an H that does not wake up when the babies cry? Like. Not even a little. They can be on full on screaming and nada. This is annoying because I'm reaching that point of mildly losing my marbles from no more than 5 hours of sleep overnight and no longer than 2 hour stretches. I'd like to have him get up with them for one night. Hell, even take just the first wake up so I can get 4 solid hours in. But I'm worried he won't hear them! I won't sleep because I'll be too worried they're crying for too long.

[mc13]

Apr 27, 2017 20:42:18 GMT -5 DVMmomma said:

Does anyone have an H that does not wake up when the babies cry? Like. Not even a little. They can be on full on screaming and nada. This is annoying because I'm reaching that point of mildly losing my marbles from no more than 5 hours of sleep overnight and no longer than 2 hour stretches. I'd like to have him get up with them for one night. Hell, even take just the first wake up so I can get 4 solid hours in. But I'm worried he won't hear them! I won't sleep because I'll be too worried they're crying for too long.

Ugh, yes. The only way we made it work was for DH to just stay awake until the first wakeup, while I slept in DD1's room with the sound machine. Any other wakeup, I got up then woke him up to help.

[schmella]

Apr 27, 2017 21:39:34 GMT -5 @wineandcupcakes said:

Apr 26, 2017 10:18:05 GMT -5 requiressnacks said:

A cleaner will change your life. Ours comes 2x/month and it's the best $200 I spend. HANDS DOWN.

Can I ask a question about this...I'm kind of down a lead rabbit hole stemming from a fire in my ILs 1930's home. I have since learned that even vinyl blinds can contain lead. We have those in our home from some old owner. I've also learned lead can be in dust...and I never dust. Hardly ever. Like, maybe a few surfaces every few months. Is anyone else as awful as I am? Convinced I'm going to give my children lead poisoning somehow and considering a cleaner to come deep clean and dust all surfaces every other week...requiressnacks - you just started with the cleaner during pregnancy, right? And you are in a HCOL area, right?

So... My understanding is that lead in dust is created by degradation of lead paint, it's not just in all dust- let me know if I am misunderstanding. So before you drive yourself crazy, I'd pick up some lead testing kits and check out the paint.
No sense in stressing over a non issue!

[schmella]

DVMmomma- did you see my post about me coming home to my kids screaming so loudly I could hear them outside while my husband was asleep in our bedroom with our sound machine on and the monitor off?
That said, he has taken baby duty for the night and we all survived. He slept in our guest bedroom with the monitor as loud as it goes, right by his head and I slept through the whole night with our sound machine on (and the aid of a Xanax). He said it was really hard to sleep when he knew he was in charge... So there's hope

[schmella]

@wineandcupcakes, if dust was so dangerous I'd be dead by now 😉.
We dust when company is coming- and by company I mean MHs family. Mine DGAF.

[nomnom]

Apr 27, 2017 22:58:41 GMT -5 @wineandcupcakes said:

Apr 27, 2017 22:31:13 GMT -5 schmella said:

@wineandcupcakes, if dust was so dangerous I'd be dead by now 😉.
We dust when company is coming- and by company I mean MHs family. Mine DGAF.

Ok...so I'm not crazy for not having dusted windowsills in like 2.5 years? Thinking ahead to mobile babies, I want to dust just so they don't track dust everywhere and get it all over their clothes (best) or become irritated do the dust (worst) but the prospect of dusting super dusty areas (top of fridge, etc) sounds daunting.

A cleaning lady might be what we need for this stuff and floor cleaning...

I suck at dusting too.

[requiressnacks]

@wineandcupcakes, I started with the cleaner at the end of my 2nd trimester. I live in Connecticut so fairly HCOL. It costs $100 each time - so $200/month. We had an initial meeting before I hired her and we talked through what I wanted her to focus on (for me it's floors, bathrooms and dust) and that was it! She offered to do laundry and dishes and stuff like that, but I don't really need help in those areas.

I literally know nothing about lead dust though, admittedly.

[pbandj714]

Apr 27, 2017 20:42:18 GMT -5 DVMmomma said:

Does anyone have an H that does not wake up when the babies cry? Like. Not even a little. They can be on full on screaming and nada. This is annoying because I'm reaching that point of mildly losing my marbles from no more than 5 hours of sleep overnight and no longer than 2 hour stretches. I'd like to have him get up with them for one night. Hell, even take just the first wake up so I can get 4 solid hours in. But I'm worried he won't hear them! I won't sleep because I'll be too worried they're crying for too long.

*raises hand* 

Our first night in the hospital, both babies were SCREAMING, and I wasn't allowed to get out of bed bc CS. DH was out. Didn't hear them. Didn't hear me yelling at him. I had to throw a box of tissues at his head to get him to wake up. It was so infuriating at the time but so hilarious now.

He's gotten a little better, but I still got so mad at him in the early days. He actually said to me, "well I'd wake up if you weren't here. My subconscious knows you're here and that you'll wake up so I don't hear them." WTF dude. 

[pbandj714]

@wineandcupcakes, I may have only dusted my blinds twice since we moved into our house 4 years ago. I guess I'm gross. Living in a completely clean/sterile environment can actually be detrimental to your and babies' immune systems. A little dirt never hurt anybody!

[requiressnacks]

Apr 27, 2017 20:42:18 GMT -5 DVMmomma said:

Does anyone have an H that does not wake up when the babies cry? Like. Not even a little. They can be on full on screaming and nada. This is annoying because I'm reaching that point of mildly losing my marbles from no more than 5 hours of sleep overnight and no longer than 2 hour stretches. I'd like to have him get up with them for one night. Hell, even take just the first wake up so I can get 4 solid hours in. But I'm worried he won't hear them! I won't sleep because I'll be too worried they're crying for too long.

MH sucked for the first 3 months, but I'm actually surprised at your H. You guys have had a baby before!