Good morning. DD has now slept through the night, in her crib, 3 nights in a row. She started really stirring at 5 this morning so I nursed her without unswaddling her and waking her up fully and she is still sleeping. I tried to go back to sleep and was almost there when H rolled over at 6 and said "oh did you get her back to sleep?" no sherlock she is crying in her room and I am laying here with my eyes closed for no reason.
We should be going to church but won't be. DD1 is still not feeling well and neither am I. We had the inspection on our current home yesterday so it's starting to feel more real that we're selling it and moving up! Can't wait to be settled in our new home. Chilling today; watching the Cubs game if it's on non-cable TV.
YAY for sleep! DS slept his longest stretch last night. 6.5 hours. He is still asleep after he ate at 330.
After the poor little guy has a host of small/minor things going on like eczema, lazy eye, plagiocephaly... I am sure he is developing refulx. Its making the tummy time he NEEDS to do, very difficult.
Another good sleep night for us! DS slept until 2:30 in his rock n play, then he was in his PNP for a while. He woke up once and DH soothed him back to sleep, much quicker then the night before. He started waking at 5 again, and I put him in our bed until 7:30, when I had to wake him up to nurse because my boob was hurting too much. Also the 3 of us means I had to sleep pretty awkwardly. Still better then not sleeping.
Sadly LO has a cold and is coughing a bit. He doesn't seem to mind that much. I'm pretty sure he picked it up in the 1.5 hours we were at his day care. Visions of what is to come!
We are going to go for brunch in a bit, then not sure what else we are doing today, but its another perfect day, so I'm sure a walk is in our future.
I am enjoying what is probably going to be my only quiet time today if today is anything like yesterday. DD got up at 6:45, I fed her, then put her back down to sleep more. For whatever reason, she's great at going back to sleep after her morning feeding (it's sort of our MOTN feeding, anywhere between 5 and 7) but any other naptime during the day is hit or miss. I can put her down seemingly wide awake and after maybe 15-20 minutes of wiggling and grunting she'll pass back out without a fuss.
I may crawl back into bed and snuggle with my husband, I was pretty crabby with him yesterday (pretty positive I started my period right after getting my IUD inserted, I don't think this is just insertion bleeding at this point, so yay PMS) and I feel bad about it. He was a pretty good sport about it though, but he keeps asking me if I'm okay. I think he's more worried about me getting Postpartum Depression than I ever was, but I'm sure I'm fine aside from getting frustrated sometimes but that's normal.
Little bit slept from 10-7! The sleep was amazing but my boobs. Ouch. I had to pump right after I fed little bit her bottle. I just filled two bottles each side and started a third.
But... Best thing about it all -- zoolander is on tbs.
Blue steel! I love this movie and it never gets old.
Post by jensoprano82 on Apr 19, 2015 8:16:41 GMT -5
miniwheat - go get the miniminiwheat some Zantac. It's safe, cheap, and works great for most babies.
I'm glad you brought up plagiocephaly, I was thinking about starting a thread on it.....! I wonder how many babies at their 8 week appointment are advised of it and how often it's spontaneously resolved by 6 mos. my LO has it as well (pedi says its VERY common in reflux babies btw, because they tend to press their little noggins back hard a lot when they're arching and spend a lot of time on their backs because they despise tummy time). It took back burner to a lot of more pressing medical issues in the last two weeks but I think about it a lot because I SO don't want the helmet. But he loves sleeping with his left cheek turned in. Loves it. I try to get him on the other side and he cries, or just falls asleep and switches three minutes later.
I have bought a $15 Boppy pillow with a doughnut hole in the middle for his play mats and such. Hard to tell if it's working or resolving because I'm with him 24 hours a day
I need to be better about going to bed closer to when DS does, especially when it's later. He went down around 10-10:30, but I stayed up with DH until nearly 12. Well who got up around 12:30? And he wanted to sleep in my arms after that too. Sleep got a little better over night, though and now we're up for the day after his fart fest.
miniwheat - go get the miniminiwheat some Zantac. It's safe, cheap, and works great for most babies.
I'm glad you brought up plagiocephaly, I was thinking about starting a thread on it.....! I wonder how many babies at their 8 week appointment are advised of it and how often it's spontaneously resolved by 6 mos. my LO has it as well (pedi says its VERY common in reflux babies btw, because they tend to press their little noggins back hard a lot when they're arching and spend a lot of time on their backs because they despise tummy time). It took back burner to a lot of more pressing medical issues in the last two weeks but I think about it a lot because I SO don't want the helmet. But he loves sleeping with his left cheek turned in. Loves it. I try to get him on the other side and he cries, or just falls asleep and switches three minutes later.
I have bought a $15 Boppy pillow with a doughnut hole in the middle for his play mats and such. Hard to tell if it's working or resolving because I'm with him 24 hours a day
I think starting a thread on it is a good idea. Its super common, so I suspect there are more of us here that are working on correcting it. Also, it could get lost in spam and I would love a thread to go back to for other ideas to try.
Last night was night 2 of DS sleeping in his crib and in his own room. Another success! It's only been a couple nights and I know it could still change but so far this transition has come with the unexpected benefit of an earlier bedtime (for him). He was going down around 9:30-10 but since he's been in his own room he's down at 8. My only guess as to why is that perhaps before he was following our cues on bedtime. If I tried to put him down before we were in bed it would never last more than 5 minutes before he was up fussing. We couldn't even sit in bed quietly reading. He would only stay down once we were in bed, going to sleep. Since he is no longer in the room with us, when we go to bed seems to no longer be an issue.
Loving all the sleeping babies! DD is getting better at it and now sleeps 2x3-4h a night. Not quite enough for her tired mama, but def ok!
For the second time in DDs life she and I are stuck OUTSIDE a concert hall while someone in her family is singing. Last time it was her grandpa and his choir and now it's her dad and uncles and their choir, which is also my choir. I tried to bring her in but the noise level was too high. I just wish she'd be a little bigger so I could put headphones on her. Oh well, I guess she'll grow up fast enough anyway. I caught some of the performance during the rehersal so I guess that's good for now. I miss being on stage with them though...
DH told me I just needed to suck harder on the Nose Frieda. I let him try it on DS, and he apologized saying he didn't realize how hard he could suck and still not get all the snot.
DD woke twice last night (0230, 0530). Can't really complain bc she BF in 10min then I hand her off to DH to burp, diaper, swaddle, rock to sleep.
Post by junebugjam on Apr 19, 2015 11:58:36 GMT -5
I am so jealous of all the sleeping babes. Mine slept about 3.5 hrs then up every 90 minutes and decided 7 am was time to wake up. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks! My husband is going to be horrified when he finds out how this thing works.
Mine said, "is that safe? It looks like you're sucking out his brain". Hahaha!
DH said the same thing!! He said "careful! He has delicate little brain cells!" I said "don't worry, he stole my more robust ones." I've been a little spacey. Haha.
Post by hollydfromtn on Apr 19, 2015 13:32:37 GMT -5
I spent part of yesterday afternoon cleaning out my old mustang to sell. I've had it for about 7 years now and only stopped driving it because it's not very car seat/baby friendly. I'm sad to see it go but it's not doing us any good sitting in our driveway. Well we put signs on it yesterday around 4 and we already have a very serious buyer. He was in the driveway when we got home from church. He asked us to take the signs down until he gets paid Wednesday so that he can come back and get it. This means my Durango that I drive now can finally get new tires this week. The timing couldn't be better because I am supposed to be one of the drivers for our church women's retreat next weekend and I was worried about the extra miles on my old tires. God is so good!
We were going to attempt church today, just me and DS, but it's not looking like it's in the cards. Oh well! More sleep and/or cuddle time. Aaand it's DH's last day of work before he has his week off! Woooo! After "taking a raincheck" this morning on diaper duty, he promised to do all nighttime diapers next week. We'll see how that works;)
Very cute this morning though, he picked up DS while I was working on getting up and ready to feed him and DS smiled at him sooooo much! More than I've ever seen him smile. DH was so happy he cried
Post by misshart00 on Apr 19, 2015 14:17:19 GMT -5
My kid is so weird. Twice today, I couldn't get him calmed down. I tried feeding him, changing him, bouncing him. He just screamed. Finally, I just sat him in my lap facing out and he crashed. Both times. Almost instantly fell asleep.
We were going to attempt church today, just me and DS, but it's not looking like it's in the cards. Oh well! More sleep and/or cuddle time. Aaand it's DH's last day of work before he has his week off! Woooo! After "taking a raincheck" this morning on diaper duty, he promised to do all nighttime diapers next week. We'll see how that works;)
Very cute this morning though, he picked up DS while I was working on getting up and ready to feed him and DS smiled at him sooooo much! More than I've ever seen him smile. DH was so happy he cried
That is so sweet! I can't wait for DS to smile more. He's just now starting to give us real smiles.
Dang, I was going to go to target tomorrow to get some Lily Pulitzer stuff but apparently it's sold out everywhere.
A friend posted a few pictures. I guess she went before they opened and stood in line and then took pictures of the empty racks 10 minutes after the doors opened. Crazy. I don't think she got anything.
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