Weeeeeeeeekend Raindoms

[wildflower810]

7:30, sleeping baby, H is at work... what to do? I finished my year+ long craft project today so now I have no idea what to do in my freetime. The apartment is clean enough for me to not feel guilty about not cleaning... do I just punt and go to bed way early?

[jjh1119]

nerdalert my hair doesn't get greasy because I hardly wash it. Coarse wavy hair. The longest I've gone I think was 10 or 11 days without washing. I used dry shampoo in the beginning, now I don't need dry shampoo until like day 6 or 7.

wildflower810 veg out, then yeah, definitely go to sleep way early lol.

Bath time in a few minutes here then bed for baby. Mama isrightafter

[sadie74]

wildflower810 read a book? H doesn't get off work until 1am so IF baby goes down well tonight it's a bath with a drink and a book for me. Probably jinxed myself, but a girl can dream right?

[songbirdsinging55]

I spent the entire day with sister and her 2 year old. Breakfast, shopping for stuff for my picnic and crafts. She got me an adorable insulated picnic basket for my Birthday. Many tantrums but we also had Isaac make his first painting. I put down some tape to spell out Dada and moved the canvas around while he slid his hands all around. Required a nice bath in the sink but he loved it.
Tomorrow I have a play date with one of the birth class moms. Her son is just a few weeks older and is very much like Isaac. They seemed to enjoy each other's company. Then lazy day at home until I meet up with seller of the beco carrier. I can't wait!

[songbirdsinging55]

sadie74- Happy Birthday!

[zengal]

sadie74 I hope your wildest birthday wishes of a bath and a book came true!
And I hope everyone else got to bed early like they wanted.
I'm actually watching tv in the basement. This hardly ever happens anymore!

[songbirdsinging55]

spikesmom-hoping LO is okay and it will clear up soon

[pixie523]

Hungover with baby. Please send better judgement and an egg sandwich, greasy.

[jjh1119]

Good luck pixie523!

[gldnbearz]

Happy birthday sadie74.
wildflower810 Have an early night?
pixie523 Was it fun?

[gldnbearz]

spikesmom Fx crossed for you.

[sadie74]

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes! LO gave the best present and sleep from 7:30-7:45with only one wake up!! Wholly engorgement this morning, but yay sleep! I even took a bath, read my book and had a beer. Now hopefully today's sleep isn't all messed up.

@songbirdsinfing55 I hope you have a great play date.
zengal I hope you had a good time watching tv in the basement.
pixie523 good luck this morning ::hands greasy egg sandwich:: hair of the dog?

[zengal]

My tv watching was very pleasant, but short-lived. Get me stationary with no need to focus and I'm out like a light!

[pixie523]

I've got a good man. He Went out with LO after first nap, I went back to bed, and he got me all my needs. Juice, frozen pizza, scrambled eggs.

And yes, lotsssssss of fun. And lotssssssss of sake.

[ninergirl52]

pixie523 - handing you a greasy breakfast sandwich.
sadie74 - your night of sleep sounds amazing, glorious even. I'm in complete awe & green with envy! That sounds like an amazing birthday gift.
spikesmom - I've been thinking about you & hoping your Lo is ok!
jjh1119 - I just looked at the huevos ranchero breakfast sandwich you just posted. That looks amazing!!!

Lo went to sleep at 9, dh & I at 10:30. When Lo woke up at 11:30 I thought for sure it was 2 am. Brought him back to bed with us & he proceeded to fuss & thrash around all night. Dh got up with him for an hour (at 6 am) to let me sleep. Then brought him back to bed (asleep) while dh got ready for church. He ended up going without me cause Lo & I were out. Oh to have something that resembles normal sleep again. What is going on that these cherubs can't sleep?!?

[spiraltheory]

My girls' night sucked. I got into it with one of my friends. Long story long, I said that I had been working on moving on from my lifetime hatred of my body. I said my body just did the best thing I could ever ask for (have a baby) and I'm going to be thankful for it and not treat it as the enemy. My friend said she thought I was attacking her for always talking about her weight/diet/exercise obsession. In a way, I was trying to shut that conversation down because that's all she talks about. I don't want to spend my precious adult time having the same conversation that I've been having since I was eight years old. But I wasn't attacking her. Tears. I was home by 9:30.

Tl/dr - I told my friend I didn't want to talk about weight. She got defensive. I left in tears.

[ninergirl52]

spiraltheory - I'm so sorry your evening did not go well. I have friends who talk way too much about their workouts & diet plans, so I kind of get it. Sucks when people assume you're talking about them. I'd imagine your friend is rather insecure.

[spiraltheory]

ninergirl52 thanks. Most of my friends are runners and really active. I don't mind if they talk about it, but it seems as if this friend *only* talks about it, and she has some pretty disordered thoughts about restrictive eating and exercise. It is honestly a trigger for me, and I can spiral into that body shame pretty quickly. It's just hard because I know she's incredibly smart and fun and interesting when she's not talking about sugar free jello and how terrible she is for eating a sweet potato fry.

Ughhhhh. Vent over.

[jjh1119]

ninergirl52 the breakfast sandwich is awesome!

spiraltheory sorry your girls' night sucked.

Currently trying to take a family nap. liam keeps kicking daddy in the face but he's almost asleep! This might work.

We went hiking this afternoon and then off to dinner later for a graduation celebrations.

[spikesmom]

ninergirl52 thank you we seem to be doing better after a long night of pooping but thankfully no more blood. As long as that continues we will be following up with his doctor first thing tomorrow because I'm still freaked out about the blood even though it has stopped. We are nursing lots trying to stay hydrated and his appetite seems completely fine.

I have so many projects I should be working on in our house but I'm on the couch snuggling my lo :-) and I only feel a little guilty.

[sjp03]

Hopefully everyone is enjoying their weekends. Mine has been moderately lazy. Today I am getting very little done - LO has been sick. Yesterday it was just a stuffy nose and slightly elevated fever (around 99 degrees). Today his fever has been climbing. Started at 100 this morning and is now around 102. He had been very fussy. We are still letting it run its course as we monitor symptoms. I am debating on giving him some Tylenol to bring down the fever but the box says to talk to a doctor if baby is less than 2 years old. Have any of you been in this situation? What did you do? Why do babies get sick when the doctors offices are closed??

[zengal]

spikesmom, So glad the poo is back to normal! Snuggle the day away, guilt-free!

[zengal]

sjp03 I had a similar situation with my baby and the rising fever. My pedi gave me a table of how much Tylenol to give. If your bottle says 160mg in each 5ml, then you can give him 2.5ml every 4-6 hours. Good luck with your sweet sick one!

[nerdalert]

sjp03 I've given LO Tylenol for teething a handful of times. Do you have Infant or Children's Tylenol? I'm pretty sure my infant tylenol has dosing instructions on the package. My doctor also gave me a table as well though.

[nerdalert]

spiraltheory Sorry your night sucked. It annoys me when people will ONLY talk about negative things, weight or otherwise. It really doesn't help anything.


My baby has turned into a unicorn sleeper the past few days... It is SOOO weird because she was sleeping terribly for so long. Last night she slept from 9:30-7:45 with one wake up. It was glorious. And... Let's just say things have drastically improved in the DTD department. LOL

This morning it finally worked out with LO's feeding schedule to leave her in the nursery at church. Usually I'm nursing her during the service. It was easier than I thought it would be to leave her, and it was very nice to not have to try to entertain her quietly!

[pixie523]

nerdalert, :whispering: we're going unicorn too... we'll see how long it lasts. Sadly she still thinks waking at 5:30 IS JUST FINE. It's uh... not my favorite. DTD still ain't a thing though.


spikesmom, I've been thinking about you and LO. Glad the blood has stopped!

spiraltheory, sorry to hear about your shitty night. it's weird what people will take personally.

Hangover update: surviving. It seems like it's fading, thankfully. Historically I'd get worse as the day wears on, but frankly I can't wallow so I'm feeling better because I've got to feel better.

[spiraltheory]

Sending good thoughts to the sick babies and worried momas.

[jjh1119]

Yay for no more bloody poops spikesmom

Yay for unicorns nerdalert and pixie523. Liam slept better last night too, thankful for that!

[jjh1119]

Just cut Liam's hair. For the third time. Glad I'm a hairdresser lol
*poof"

[gldnbearz]

Solid food poopsplosions are the game of the day here.

We put some sweet potato in a mesh feeder for the kiddo today. She enjoyed the experience, but wasn't able to hang onto it by herself. Instead she gripped our hands as we held the feeder for her. Not entirely surprising as she doesn't have great hand control of her pacifier.

We'll be going iver to the ILs for dinner tonight. We'll see how this goes.

spikesmom Glad no more bloody poops.
spiraltheory Sorry about the bad company last night.
pixie523 Glad you're surviving.
jjh1119 If the bride game gets tiring, maybe time to try your styling on the tykes?