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[dramacat]

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[dramacat]

Up early with LO who is still battling his first cold. Poor kid is miserable. He has coughed do hard he has thrown up. A tricky thing when he takes oral seizure meds... The only thing that has worked well so far is a stream bath. It gave us a good night, but he woke up super congested. looks like I'll be trying another stream bath when he wakes up again so he can keep his meds down.

[flyster]

LO made it thought the night in his crib! He was up 2 times to eat, and one time early just fussing. The 2nd time he was up to eat (4:30 am) he didn't seem like he wanted to go back down, so I passed him off to DH after I fed him/had tried rocking him. DH put him in the crib, and he just went to sleep () what is that magic?

I got up a bit late to get to the gym, but feel much better then I have for a week since we started trying to transition him. I'm going to try and get to work early instead. My boss is out of town at a conference this week, which means lots of time start researching for a project I need to get started on at work.

[cloe111479]

Hope all our ladies made out ok last night. It was apparently really bad around us in Nola but DH, dd and I all slept through it. But tons of people out of power and there was a tornado that touched down.

[hollydfromtn]

Night 1 of trying to transition DS out of our bed and into the PNP = FAILURE. I nursed DS to sleep and waited until I thought he was in a deep enough sleep to move him and as soon as his back hit the PNP his eyes popped open. He then laid there and fussed/cried off and on for 20 mins before he became hysterical and I gave in and picked him up. He passed out immediately in my arms, so I just brought him in bed with me then. On the plus side though he STTN with only one wake up between 10-6 at 2:00. He hasn't slept that good in weeks! It was like he was saying "Don't make me sleep over there mommy. I can be good, I promise." Lol. I have a feeling this is going to be a tough habit to break.

[misshart00]

May 26, 2015 6:23:09 GMT -5 dramacat said:

Up early with LO who is still battling his first cold. Poor kid is miserable. He has coughed do hard he has thrown up. A tricky thing when he takes oral seizure meds... The only thing that has worked well so far is a stream bath. It gave us a good night, but he woke up super congested. looks like I'll be trying another stream bath when he wakes up again so he can keep his meds down.

When my first had colds, I would turn my shower on super hot, close the door, then sit in the bathroom with her. It always seemed to help a lot right before bed.

[hollydfromtn]

May 26, 2015 7:10:11 GMT -5 misshart00 said:

May 26, 2015 6:23:09 GMT -5 dramacat said:

Up early with LO who is still battling his first cold. Poor kid is miserable. He has coughed do hard he has thrown up. A tricky thing when he takes oral seizure meds... The only thing that has worked well so far is a stream bath. It gave us a good night, but he woke up super congested. looks like I'll be trying another stream bath when he wakes up again so he can keep his meds down.

When my first had colds, I would turn my shower on super hot, close the door, then sit in the bathroom with her. It always seemed to help a lot right before bed.

I did this with DS and held him up towards the ceiling since that's where the steam is the most dense. It worked like a charm.

[dacora]

DD slept just fine last night after being a bit of a fussbutt when I went to put her down for the night. I still didn't sleep well though, every little noise had me stressing, thinking she was going to wake up and start crying again. Eventually I fell asleep and still slept better than some of the awful nights I had last week.

So DD has some little bumps on her arms and legs, they're not red and it doesn't look like a rash. Could it be because of her lotion? Any ideas?

[mommadozer]

First night back after camping in the mountains for three nights was awful. He sleeps with me in the trailer because the PNP would be in the open area and the heater just does not pump enough heat out there to keep him warm. Up every other hour just screaming.

And to make things worse, I go back to work tomorrow. My anxiety levels are starting to creep up and up. Hopefully, DH is going to be a little more helpful tonight.

[flyster]

Oh apparantly it's my 2nd anniversary today! Totally forgot (so did dh) until my MIL texted us lol. Good thing I defrosted steak last night so we can have a fancy dinner at home lol.

My grandma just emailed us too.  Wow, we are bad at this. 

[flyster]

That was a lot of lols.

[missys]

flyster happy anniversary!
Sorry to those with bad sleep and colds
We have 3 more days of school left and I'm ready to be done. Hoping to duck out a little early with our half day and grab lunch with MH. He is doing a soccer camp now that his school is already done and I want some time with him baby free.

[michelle142]

We spent most of the day outside yesterday, it was wonderful!! Both kids were in bed by 7:30 and slept hard. Everyone else was still asleep when I left for work (lucky ducks!).

dramacat we also use a steamy bathroom to help with congestion. We also run a humidifier at night and that really seems to help.

[cginge]

Second night of putting LO in his RnP in his room went well. He slept from 7 PM - 2 AM in there and I fully intended to put him back in it but fell asleep nursing him in my bed. Tonight I'm just going to tough it out and nurse him in the glider in his room. When I went in at 2 AM to get him, he looked at me, gasped, and  gave me this HUGE smile. It was so adorable.

H is working nights this week. So we're going to try to get out and stay out again today so he can sleep. I'm thinking gym when gym-care opens at 8 AM and maybe a Panera stop after. I'm reading "The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up" and reading while drinking something tasty (and shoving a bagel into my mouth) sounds amazing.

...Mt. Baby just erupted. You know you're a (new) mom when you hear that and you're just glad your baby has finally pooped.


eta: words

[michelle142]

DD pooped on Saturday for the first time in 10 days (seems to be a theme for her). This was my face after hearing the unnaturally loud noises and smelling the foul smells that emitted from my sweet baby girl:

[miniwheat]

I have no spam.
I am just so HUNGRY... DH and I are doing a pretty restrictive eating plan for 30 days and I am in a lack of sugar and carbs fog. All I can think about is how bad I want a cheese sandwich... with like 3 kinds of cheese on it and butter. I don't fit into a single pair of shorts right now so I have to stick with it. Ugh I also want a big slice of sugary birthday cake.

[dacora]

@holachica Ah that makes sense! They didn't seem to bother her so I wasn't too worried, but I keep worrying that DD is going to wind up with eczema because DH has bad skin...

I kind of want to smack my mom and DH's mom. They keep using pictures I post of DD as their profile pictures on facebook and it pisses me off. It's totally irrational, but I just want to tell them to quit using MY child as their picture. That's not you, or YOUR child, so quit it.

MIL also keeps tagging herself in pictures of DD. Like, no you are not in that picture, stop. I deleted the tags. I told DH that I'll change the privacy settings of pictures that I post to Friends of Friends so if she shares the post her friends can see them so she'll stop tagging herself. He's supposed to talk to her about it at some point I guess.

Anyone else irrationally irritated at Facebook etiquette?

[jensoprano82]

Night one of cold turkey no swaddle. (He rolled back to belly yesterday and I did tons of research and this is where every expert recommends no more swaddling). It's ok so far. He's done his 10:30 to 6:00 stint without any major wakeups. (I do dreamfeed at 12am).The bigger hurdle is now, the extra sleep tail at the end. He's super squirmy and clearly doesn't want to settle. Comeon little guy! You can do it!

[mands1125]

Morning all. Sounds like a lot of us are going through sleep transitions right now! We pulled the wedge last night from the crib so she is now flat. Naturally it took 2 hours to get her to fall asleep but she made it 6 hours without a wakeup so we will take it!

[missys]

May 26, 2015 8:15:41 GMT -5 dacora said:

@holachica Ah that makes sense! They didn't seem to bother her so I wasn't too worried, but I keep worrying that DD is going to wind up with eczema because DH has bad skin...

I kind of want to smack my mom and DH's mom. They keep using pictures I post of DD as their profile pictures on facebook and it pisses me off. It's totally irrational, but I just want to tell them to quit using MY child as their picture. That's not you, or YOUR child, so quit it.

MIL also keeps tagging herself in pictures of DD. Like, no you are not in that picture, stop. I deleted the tags. I told DH that I'll change the privacy settings of pictures that I post to Friends of Friends so if she shares the post her friends can see them so she'll stop tagging herself. He's supposed to talk to her about it at some point I guess.

Anyone else irrationally irritated at Facebook etiquette?

Yes!! I don't have a Facebook so it doesn't make sense to me if I'm not posting my child why are you? My mom and sister will at least ask if they can...others don't and while I know it's irrational it bothers me. Also when people say "our boy" and you're not me or my husband. He's mine and I'm going all toddler mode thinking "MINE!"

[dramacat]

May 26, 2015 7:16:26 GMT -5 hollydfromtn said:

May 26, 2015 7:10:11 GMT -5 misshart00 said:

When my first had colds, I would turn my shower on super hot, close the door, then sit in the bathroom with her. It always seemed to help a lot right before bed.

I did this with DS and held him up towards the ceiling since that's where the steam is the most dense. It worked like a charm.

That's what I meant by a "steam bath" I think that stream is the only thing that let him sleep through the night. The problem was I didn't give him one first thing in the morning, just suctioned and used saline solution. Apparently it was all bypassing his nose and going down his throat because he kept gagging and coughing no matter what I did till he puked. I've been running his humidifier since Saturday, but I wonder about the effectiveness of cold steam vs hit steam, because I don't know that his humidifier is doing much...

[dacora]

May 26, 2015 8:41:23 GMT -5 missys said:

May 26, 2015 8:15:41 GMT -5 dacora said:

@holachica Ah that makes sense! They didn't seem to bother her so I wasn't too worried, but I keep worrying that DD is going to wind up with eczema because DH has bad skin...

I kind of want to smack my mom and DH's mom. They keep using pictures I post of DD as their profile pictures on facebook and it pisses me off. It's totally irrational, but I just want to tell them to quit using MY child as their picture. That's not you, or YOUR child, so quit it.

MIL also keeps tagging herself in pictures of DD. Like, no you are not in that picture, stop. I deleted the tags. I told DH that I'll change the privacy settings of pictures that I post to Friends of Friends so if she shares the post her friends can see them so she'll stop tagging herself. He's supposed to talk to her about it at some point I guess.

Anyone else irrationally irritated at Facebook etiquette?

Yes!! I don't have a Facebook so it doesn't make sense to me if I'm not posting my child why are you? My mom and sister will at least ask if they can...others don't and while I know it's irrational it bothers me. Also when people say "our boy" and you're not me or my husband. He's mine and I'm going all toddler mode thinking "MINE!"

THIS. So much this.

I'm the one posting the pictures to Facebook in the first place, because so many of my family and friends aren't in town (on both sides of the family, the in-laws are 3 hours away) so it's the best way for folks to see her. I just hate that MIL is practically hijacking MY pictures. You just shouldn't use other people's kids as your profile picture. Heck,  the picture I'm using for myself is a picture of myself and DD, not just her, because it's MY profile. Just, ugh, lol. The internet just complicates this whole Mom thing even more.

[hollydfromtn]

Speaking of getting irrationally mad about others and your baby. I got mad this weekend at a graduation party because DS fell asleep really easily on DH's grandmother's lap. No rocking, No shushing, he just passed out! This particular grandmother is a horrid excuse for a woman and no one in the family can stand her. She has made my poor MIL's life hell for the 35 years she's been in the family. I was so mad about it. I really want him to hate her and cry every time she tries to hold him. I know, I'm an awful person. Maybe I should have saved that for a FFFC?

[mrsclark731]

Ugh. Our microwave broke this weekend. Wtf. I've never had a microwave break... Nonetheless a $500+ one. It's about 5 years old so no luck on a warranty. H is googling now to see if there was a recall or known defect. On the bright side, at least we'll catch a new one on Memorial Day sale?

Hugs to everyone going through sleep transitions. A is going to be 13 weeks on Tuesday and I'll be heading down the transition path myself. God help me.

[michelle142]

mrsclark731 we moved into a new house a little over a year ago. Since living there, we're on our THIRD microwave. It's ridiculous. Doesn't matter if we buy a cheap one, an expensive one... they all quit working! Basically all we get is store credit to use towards a new one.

Things just aren't made to last anymore.

[mrsclark731]

michelle142, boo for things made so crappily (I think that's a word). We built the house 5 years ago and this is the first appliance/major cost item to go. I'll definitely be looking in a lower microwave price range.

I can't believe I threw out perfectly good bacon for our cheeseburgers last night because I thought there was something wrong with it! We didn't realize it was the microwave till just now when H tried to heat up coffee....

[GeekBeagle]

First day back at work. I haven't cried for a while, so I guess that's a good thing.

My coworkers are awesome, though. I got a hilarious weekly recap with photos and quotes from the time I've been gone and this gift basket:


Plus, someone brought in Timbits in my honor. Six more hours until I go home...

[hollydfromtn]

DS seems to be running a low grade temp this morning. At what point do you ladies give Tylenol to see if that will bring it down vs. letting it run its course? It's not at full blown fever of 100.4 but it's around 99.5. I think it's teething related.

[cloe111479]

Is it just me or do people jump to ask questions when they could easily Google the answer?

I can not count how many times I have seen in a Facebook group. -- my baby didn't finish the bottle of breast milk, I have to throw it out right? Or I had a drink, I have to pump and dump right?

Google people! Google!

-- mini rant over!

[flyster]

May 26, 2015 9:30:36 GMT -5 hollydfromtn said:

Speaking of getting irrationally mad about others and your baby. I got mad this weekend at a graduation party because DS fell asleep really easily on DH's grandmother's lap. No rocking, No shushing, he just passed out! This particular grandmother is a horrid excuse for a woman and no one in the family can stand her. She has made my poor MIL's life hell for the 35 years she's been in the family. I was so mad about it. I really want him to hate her and cry every time she tries to hold him. I know, I'm an awful person. Maybe I should have saved that for a FFFC?

I luckily don't have someone like that in my life but I'd totally be rooting for a well timed poosplosion.