Monday, you suck! Randoms or Rants

[jt2378]

Hi Ladies, where are you all?? Miss you! Hope you had good weekends..Mine was too fast and nothing too exciting. Weather was lousy, blah.

I feel like I woke up with a sore throat, I will have all the rage if I'm getting sick!

[jt2378]

Jun 29, 2015 8:08:12 GMT -5 @lildiamondeyes said:

Dd woke up ready for the day at 3 am. Uh hell no, go back to sleep. Dh offered to try to get her back to bed after I had tried for an hour. His solution is to bring her to our bed. Where she proceeds to giggle and smack me. I might as well just get up and take care of it myself. I finally made him get her at 6:30 and take her downstairs to play. He is moaning and bitching about being tired. I seriously want to stab him.

Totally something my H would do too, so frustrating!

[doglover31]

DS has a stuffy nose and woke up at 4am screaming. He was so cranky this weekend too. I am beyond tired.

However it is a short week for me this week! I am off on Thursday and Friday! Yay!

[jt2378]

I feel like we are all in leap, teething and separation anxiety hell! I would not mind if DD wanted to snuggle when she wants me to hold her all the time but insteads just pokes me, climbs all over me and yanks my hair! Good times...

[jt2378]

@adulruna, big boy is getting those toothies! so cute!

I have the mesh bumpers so don't know if they cushion anything. She is starting to stand and bops her head sometime on the rail so bumpers wouldn't help for me in that instance. I wouldn't think the padded ones are a danger at this point but not 100% sure

[jt2378]

@kait20122014, sorry your still ill, totally sucks! I hope you feel better soon! maybe you should still call the dr.

[jt2378]

Would you all call the pedi if your LO's are constipated? She is still going but they are on the harder side and she has been grunting and pushing more the last couple days. I have been giving her prunes, pear, peas,etc... to try and soften it up but isn't working that well. I haven't tried juice yet.

[jt2378]

Jun 29, 2015 10:14:10 GMT -5 @kait20122014 said:

Jun 29, 2015 9:58:41 GMT -5 jt2378 said:

Would you all call the pedi if your LO's are constipated? She is still going but they are on the harder side and she has been grunting and pushing more the last couple days. I have been giving her prunes, pear, peas,etc... to try and soften it up but isn't working that well. I haven't tried juice yet.

LO has struggled with constipation since switching over to formula. Other than her regular appointments, I've never specifically called her pedi about it. I do bring it up to him when we are at her checkups and I get the same advice: prunes and pears and juice if that doesn't work. We've only had to do juice a couple of times.  It sounds like you are doing everything right. I'm not sure how much water your DD drinks, but I've found that upping the daily water intake a little has helped my DD a lot. Good luck! It's hard to watch them struggle

Thanks so much @kait20122014, do you do prune or pear juice or something else? do you dilute with water? She is just starting to take in more water and getting the hang of the sippy so maybe will just keep pushing that more. Sorry your DD struggles too

[jt2378]

Jun 29, 2015 10:29:24 GMT -5 @kait20122014 said:

jt2378, The couple of times we've had to, I've done prune juice and I mix it in her oatmeal with some water. She won't drink juice from a sippy for some reason and I don't really want to put anything other than formula in a bottle to avoid some bad habits later so my solution was mixing it in her food. She loves oatmeal so she always takes it all.

Great, this is helpful, I never thought of mixing it in oatmeal, THANKS!!

[alioop1028]

Jun 29, 2015 9:30:33 GMT -5 @adulruna said:

Oh, we got a tooth this weekend. I think that was cause of grumpiness but the top two haven't cut yet.
We'd been spotting a bump next to his bottom teeth (would those be incisors?) and we thought it'd come in later and saturday morning he smiled and I saw that it the top had already broken through and was poking out! Now he has 3 bottom teeth lol.

He only woke up once and he rolls so much at night that what's been waking me up has been his head against the crib. I could probably put bumpers now, right?

This is happening to me too!!! I was wondering about the bumpers, I have the mesh ones also. I was going to google this morning. I'll let you know if I find anything and you let me know! Haha

[alioop1028]

+ 3 jt2378, we do prune juice and water.
I dilute the prune juice in her sippy cup.

[alioop1028]

Jun 29, 2015 11:19:01 GMT -5 @adulruna said:

alioop1028

LOL!!!!

[jt2378]

ugh so what does it say to do @adulruna? keep letting your kid bonk his head all night?

[alioop1028]

Jun 29, 2015 11:49:12 GMT -5 @adulruna said:

alioop1028 everything I click says bumpers are the devil. :/

Yep... me too. Everyone is saying that hitting their heads is better than them dying. 

[alioop1028]

Jun 29, 2015 11:58:18 GMT -5 @adulruna said:

Jun 29, 2015 11:56:27 GMT -5 alioop1028 said:

Yep... me too. Everyone is saying that hitting their heads is better than them dying. 

THIS!

I read it and was like WHOA!

Right? I was like 

[designaddiction]

I think once they hit a year you can get a little more relaxed on the bumpers because the risk of SIDS goes down...but I'm not an expert

[jt2378]

I thought SID risk is way down after 6 months? Is this something else I should currently be stressing out about? lol add it to the list

[jt2378]

Jun 29, 2015 12:39:52 GMT -5 @beckaroo said:

Jun 29, 2015 12:16:05 GMT -5 jt2378 said:

I thought SID risk is way down after 6 months? Is this something else I should currently be stressing out about? lol add it to the list

Seriously. I'm just now adjusting to the fact that my kid likes to sleep face down. I figured once they were strong enough to roll/push up/sit up, that we were past the SIDS zone?

+1

[alioop1028]

I thought the same thing as the rest of you. The internets is sometimes is a really bad place to research. Lol

[jt2378]

Yes I'm going to stop googling now, UGH

[doglover31]

I think sids is a risk until 1 year? But I'm not sure. But I think the risks do go down after like 6 months or so.

[doglover31]

So I left work early because DS was screaming non stop with DH. I get home and I can hear him screaming from outside. I try and calm him down which doesn't work. I turn on his Tickle Me Elmo and as soon as Elmo started laughing so did he. And now he has been his normal happy playing self. Talk about mood swings!

[melw629]

I think DS reacted to tomatoes over the weekend. I might try giving them one more time to make sure, but they'll probably be going on our list of foods he can't eat.

We're leaving for vacation on Wednesday, and MIL is joining us on Friday. DH is counting down the days, but I'm having a hard time getting excited. I hope we at least get some nice weather!

[alioop1028]

Jun 29, 2015 13:51:16 GMT -5 doglover31 said:

So I left work early because DS was screaming non stop with DH. I get home and I can hear him screaming from outside. I try and calm him down which doesn't work. I turn on his Tickle Me Elmo and as soon as Elmo started laughing so did he. And now he has been his normal happy playing self. Talk about mood swings!

Yikes! But yay for leaving work early? Haha
And seriously the mood swings! Ah!

[alioop1028]

Jun 29, 2015 13:58:35 GMT -5 melw629 said:

I think DS reacted to tomatoes over the weekend. I might try giving them one more time to make sure, but they'll probably be going on our list of foods he can't eat.

We're leaving for vacation on Wednesday, and MIL is joining us on Friday. DH is counting down the days, but I'm having a hard time getting excited. I hope we at least get some nice weather!

Oh no! I hope it's not a reaction.

Preparing to travel is stressful and it's hard traveling with a baby. Hopefully you'll get in the mood on your way there and vacation mode sets in though.

[jt2378]

Jun 29, 2015 13:51:16 GMT -5 doglover31 said:

So I left work early because DS was screaming non stop with DH. I get home and I can hear him screaming from outside. I try and calm him down which doesn't work. I turn on his Tickle Me Elmo and as soon as Elmo started laughing so did he. And now he has been his normal happy playing self. Talk about mood swings!

Oh my, you gotta love these crazy moods?! Glad he is ok!

[jt2378]

Jun 29, 2015 13:58:35 GMT -5 melw629 said:

I think DS reacted to tomatoes over the weekend. I might try giving them one more time to make sure, but they'll probably be going on our list of foods he can't eat.

We're leaving for vacation on Wednesday, and MIL is joining us on Friday. DH is counting down the days, but I'm having a hard time getting excited. I hope we at least get some nice weather!

That stinks melw629, I hope not. Did his eczema act up again?

I hope your going somewhere great for vaca! So sorry your not excited but don't blame you with your MIL in the mix.

[melw629]

jt2378 yeah, while he was eating he broke out all over his mouth and chin. 

We're heading to a cabin at a state park. It's a lot of planning and preparation, but hopefully it'll be relaxing once we get there. DH is super excited to get away, so I'm trying not to be too much of a Debbie Downer.

edit because apparently I can't construct a complete sentence

[jt2378]

Just back from getting 5 stitches in my finger, cut it on a ceramic bowl that flew out of my hands. Now I need to see a hand surgeon to rule out tendon damage! Happy freaking Monday

[judyblume14]

jt2378, yikes and ouch! Hope it's not too serious!

Monday. Shitty, shitty Monday. Had to take off work today to wait around for cleaning/restoration crews to come deal with our condo (see Saturday's rant about my building being a swampy mess due to flash flooding, a backed up sewer, overflowing toilets, etc). Sent L to day care anyway because it's so loud at home right now (3 big industrial fans, a HEPA filter and a huge-ass de-humidifier running).

I was worried they weren't going to let her stay at daycare because she's had a rash for the past 2 days. No fever, or any other symptoms. But she's been extra cranky. I first notice the rash on her hairline Saturday night after she had been screaming bloody murder for a few minutes at bed time. I though it was heat rash from getting all sweaty and worked up from screaming. But yesterday/today it's on her belly and back too. She has her check-up on Thursday, so if she doesn't display other symptoms, I think we'll jsut ask about it then if it's still there.

On the brighter side, since I took off work today, I was able to sort through 2 trash-bags of hand-me-downs. We're NEVER going to have to buy this kid any clothes!