Humpday Spamtime

[anchovies]

Who is up? Thanks to DH I've been up since 3:45. Got LO back to sleep finally at 4:55, only to have DH's alarm wake us up at 5:20!

He took forever too turn that crap off!

[anchovies]

Hoping to get DS back to sleep again. I tried to see if he would fall back asleep but he just went between cooing and mild fussing for almost an hour. I gave up and I fed/changed him.

Also, MIL is coming over around 11. She wants to try watching him for a couple of hours by herself. I signed up to go workout and I'm hoping he does well for her.

[ace226]

DS was fast asleep with his head resting on my ankles and body between my shins. I move him to his pack and play and someone is super bright eyed now. Noooooo! I can't sleep like that no matter how cozy it is, kid.

I recently re-discovered Glee on Netflix. I forgot how much I liked it! The new ones aren't quite as good but I like the music still.

anchovies: good luck on the workout!!

[aggiebug]

Morning ILs left yesterday morning and DD sttn again. I don't think it's a coincidence.

Not much on the schedule today just a huge grocery run and small group this evening.

[lilyelayne]

Good morning, ladies! Hope y'all got some sleep!

Add me to the #babyinabar club. Yesterday DH got off work early & his sister wanted to have a beer, so we met them at the local bar. It's fun to go in the afternoon because a group of older men (70s age range I'd guess) meet there to watch Jeopardy every weekday.

[pitdigger]

We had a rough night; G wasn't feeling well and would wake up whenever we put him down. However, he had a massive poop/fart session 10 minutes ago and apart from some hiccups, is all smiles.

Not much planned for today, but hopefully the washing machine repair guy comes today/early. Oh yeah, start button broke yesterday, so another couple days without. I truly never thought this would be the greatest barrier to cloth diapering on the island.

[aggiebug]

pitdigger sorry it was a rough night and that your washer is broken. That is rough. I am glad he seems to be feeling better now.

[hollydfromtn]

After 24hrs on the antibiotics I can already tell an incredible difference in the mastitis. Still a little tender but nearly as bad as it was. Thanks for all the well wishes ladies.

DS is 3 months old today! I can't believe how fast time is flying. Also I turn 27 tomorrow. This past year has been full of so many huge blessings and changes in my life. I was promoted at work, DH graduated grad school, I quit my job of 8 years, we moved to his home town, and then we had the most amazing little baby boy. Sorry I get a little nostalgic when birthdays roll around.

[hollydfromtn]

lilyelayne I haven't joined the baby in a bar club yet but I did buy beer while wearing DS at the grocery store yesterday and got some really fantastic looks. I did a pick 6 pack where you get to build your own, so I spent a considerable amount of time in the aisle studying my options lol.

[pitdigger]

aggiebug Thanks. The washer is the more annoying part of it all because in the two weeks it's been since we moved in, this is the second thing to go on it.

We definitely are members of the baby in a bar club, with only one caveat: we regularly hang out at the bar of the amateur theatre here and it's a much more casual atmosphere than the bars, also he has a 9 month-old buddy who's also a regular. We did totally take him to a sports bar for a playoff game, though.

[anchovies]

Apr 29, 2015 6:43:49 GMT -5 pitdigger said:

We had a rough night; G wasn't feeling well and would wake up whenever we put him down. However, he had a massive poop/fart session 10 minutes ago and apart from some hiccups, is all smiles.

Not much planned for today, but hopefully the washing machine repair guy comes today/early. Oh yeah, start button broke yesterday, so another couple days without. I truly never thought this would be the greatest barrier to cloth diapering on the island.

I hope your LO feels better! Poor little guy and poor you guys and your nonsleep

[junebugjam]

Another rough night over here. LO was up 4 times in the MOTN, longest sleep was only 3 hours.

Does anyone else have to fight their baby to nap? He has to be swaddled to sleep for both bed and naps. I can usually get him to bed at night without him screaming bc I nurse right before bed. But no matter how ready he is for a nap, he fights me tooth and nail every time and it's exhausting. I've tried eliminating the swaddle for naps and just rock him, but usually he'll just thrash around so much that he'll never sleep, or if I do get him to sleep he wakes himself up.

These sleep woes are running my life right now. And we have a landscaper coming for an estimate sometime this morning so I can't even nap with baby.

[miniwheat]

lilyelayne, I would go to bars if they were Jeopardy bars!

I went out for lunch with a couple of girlfriends yesterday. It was really nice. They held, fed and changed LO for me and I ate my entire meal uninterrupted! I love those girls! And DS was clearly in love with the attention. He was a smile explosion!

Now I am preparing my first weekly meal plan. I hope I can pull this out cause we have been awful at 5pm having NO idea what to eat/make for dinner so we eat anything and everything.

[miniwheat]

hollydfromtn, I am so glad you are feeling better. I know your situation all too well. I was the mastitis queen with my first. I hope you never get it again!

[anchovies]

aggiebug happy to hear your good sleeper is back now that things returned to normal.

hollydfromtn glad the antibiotic is doing the trick!

lilyelayne we are pro #babyinabar! We go out to restaurant/our local dive bar. The staff and customers loved checking out DS at our local watering hole. We just have a beer each and some food.

ace226 babies fall asleep in the weirdest positions! And hooray for good Netflix! We are currently watching Orange is the New Black. Good stuff

[mishka29]

junebugjam, this sounds exactly like both my girls. With this LO I've been napping with her feeding her to sleep, wearing her, running errands so she'll fall asleep in the car. For me it's just a matter of doing whatever it takes to get her to nap bc otherwise she'll be a monster and keeping my eye on the prize. The prize in this case is sleep training.

[anchovies]

Apr 29, 2015 7:28:03 GMT -5 junebugjam said:

Another rough night over here. LO was up 4 times in the MOTN, longest sleep was only 3 hours.

Does anyone else have to fight their baby to nap? He has to be swaddled to sleep for both bed and naps. I can usually get him to bed at night without him screaming bc I nurse right before bed. But no matter how ready he is for a nap, he fights me tooth and nail every time and it's exhausting. I've tried eliminating the swaddle for naps and just rock him, but usually he'll just thrash around so much that he'll never sleep, or if I do get him to sleep he wakes himself up.

These sleep woes are running my life right now. And we have a landscaper coming for an estimate sometime this morning so I can't even nap with baby.

I'm so sorry for the rough night

DS is a terrible napper too. He will take a nipple nap on me or nap in his car seat on a car ride/stroller. I really don't know what to do. I've tried rocking him/bouncing him and he wakes within 10-15 minutes of laying him down. I'm praying his daycare will be able to get him to nap.

[dacora]

junebugjam We don't have any problems at night, but for whatever reason DD is awful at consistently napping in the afternoon. Not every day, but often enough she needs to be held and walked around to fall asleep between 4 and 6. I don't know if she's getting overtired or what, but she will start wailing if I try to sit down or set her in her swing.

I'm just looking forward to when she's old enough for a legitimate napping schedule and sleep training for naps (if I have to).

[flyster]

My mom is heading out today. Yesterday her staying with LO so I could go to work didn't go so well. She couldn't get LO to eat from the bottle, so he was screaming at her for an hour or so. I'm really hoping day care works out ( he eats from a bottle from me and DH whenever we are out and I don't want to breast feed, so I"m hoping its just something about how she was doing it. He's also taken a bottle from my MIL. I don't think my mom was happy when I mentioned that.

[junebugjam]

anchovies I've been telling my husband he's going to get kicked out of daycare because he won't sleep flat (still in the RNP trying to wean him off vibration...) and he won't take a bottle. Thankfully he doesn't start until mid-August, but at the rate we're going it might take that long to get him on track!

[flyster]

Apr 29, 2015 7:51:35 GMT -5 dacora said:

junebugjam We don't have any problems at night, but for whatever reason DD is awful at consistently napping in the afternoon. Not every day, but often enough she needs to be held and walked around to fall asleep between 4 and 6. I don't know if she's getting overtired or what, but she will start wailing if I try to sit down or set her in her swing.

I'm just looking forward to when she's old enough for a legitimate napping schedule and sleep training for naps (if I have to).

Could she be hungry? My LO used to do that and now whenever he gets winy after about 5 I feed him. Pretty much once an hour/hour and a half or so. Before I did that he was very cranky in the evenings and wouldn't let me put him down/refused to sleep.  Now he is just on a much shorter cycle then. Sleep for 20-30 minutes, play for 30 minutes. Held for 20 minutes, repeat. 

[flyster]

Apr 29, 2015 5:46:11 GMT -5 anchovies said:

Who is up? Thanks to DH I've been up since 3:45. Got LO back to sleep finally at 4:55, only to have DH's alarm wake us up at 5:20!

He took forever too turn that crap off!

Ugh, thats the worst.

[flyster]

lilyelayne, we've being going out also a few times. The place we go has a sit down restaurant part too. DS is pretty portable and easy at this point. He likes sitting on laps just staring around and doesn't fuss much because there is so much fun to look at.

[cloe111479]

Little bits cough hasn't gone away. I know we are probably being too cautious but in waiting to take her to the doc this morning. I'm sure ifs just sinusy congestion but I'd rather be safe than sorry especially since she is still under 3 months.

[dacora]

Apr 29, 2015 7:55:28 GMT -5 flyster said:

Apr 29, 2015 7:51:35 GMT -5 dacora said:

junebugjam We don't have any problems at night, but for whatever reason DD is awful at consistently napping in the afternoon. Not every day, but often enough she needs to be held and walked around to fall asleep between 4 and 6. I don't know if she's getting overtired or what, but she will start wailing if I try to sit down or set her in her swing.

I'm just looking forward to when she's old enough for a legitimate napping schedule and sleep training for naps (if I have to).

Could she be hungry? My LO used to do that and now whenever he gets winy after about 5 I feed him. Pretty much once an hour/hour and a half or so. Before I did that he was very cranky in the evenings and wouldn't let me put him down/refused to sleep.  Now he is just on a much shorter cycle then. Sleep for 20-30 minutes, play for 30 minutes. Held for 20 minutes, repeat. 

I don't think it's because she's hungry, but I could be wrong. I wouldn't even know what to do about that since she's formula fed and being offered 5oz at every feeding, which she tends to not finish especially in the afternoons. She tends to go 2 or 2.5 hours in the afternoon between feedings, and will sometimes start refusing the bottle after only 2-3oz. Sometimes it takes her a half hour to get her to eat that much which is super frustrating, and I'll keep the bottle near me for the entire hour it's 'good' to try to offer her more after a little while. 

This is sort of her feeding 'schedule' right now. Wake at 6-7am and eat. Asleep again an hour or so later, will sleep until anywhere between 10 and 12 (so she goes at least 3 hours between feedings, sometimes goes 5, but usually 4). So bearing that in mind, her feeding schedule on a typical day goes something like this: 6:30, 11, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 (down for the night). 

[miniwheat]

Apr 29, 2015 7:51:35 GMT -5 dacora said:

junebugjam We don't have any problems at night, but for whatever reason DD is awful at consistently napping in the afternoon. Not every day, but often enough she needs to be held and walked around to fall asleep between 4 and 6. I don't know if she's getting overtired or what, but she will start wailing if I try to sit down or set her in her swing.

Mine is like this too. Same time and everything. I think its witching hour. DS just can't settle and needs more closeness.

DD (almost 3) also has a rough time through these hours too. 

[ChickenOnSunday]

Those daycare workers can perform miracles when it comes to napping and taking a bottle. Have faith ladies. Yes it will be a transition period but more than likely things will work out. My Addie is going from taking all her naps in a swing at home to being in a crib at daycare.

I have a variety of bottles and we are still trying to decide which bottle is best for feedings. I send five bottles per day to daycare (3 frozen milk and two fresh) and knock on wood she does great with all.

My need is for daycare to teach Addie how to self soothe so she can start sleeping through the night. I'm currently popping out of bed to get to the nursery before any super loud noises are made because I don't want her waking big sister (rooms share a wall). I think Addie could go for longer stretches since she barely nurses at the second waking.

[dacora]

Apr 29, 2015 8:37:45 GMT -5 miniwheat said:

Apr 29, 2015 7:51:35 GMT -5 dacora said:

junebugjam We don't have any problems at night, but for whatever reason DD is awful at consistently napping in the afternoon. Not every day, but often enough she needs to be held and walked around to fall asleep between 4 and 6. I don't know if she's getting overtired or what, but she will start wailing if I try to sit down or set her in her swing.

Mine is like this too. Same time and everything. I think its witching hour. DS just can't settle and needs more closeness.

DD (almost 3) also has a rough time through these hours too. 

Yeah, that's what I attribute it to. It used to really annoy me, but because it's around the same time every day that it happens I know it's 'normal' and just expect it. I just tell myself she won't be like this forever.

[ChickenOnSunday]

Apr 29, 2015 9:17:41 GMT -5 @nolagal said:

I have more posts than ChickenOnSunday ! I'm on my way to Bronze Reg, where I will make a thread she can't post in.

Mwahahahaha!

I will take on this challenge! I have the Taptalk app thing on my phone but it doesn't work. Are you behind these shenanigans so I can't be a posting hoar?

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Tapatalk is being a bitch today and won't let me log on. I usually like it, but not today. I hope it gets fixed soon!

No real spam today. After our 10 day poop wait ended this morning DD and I are just relaxing and recovering on the couch.