H left on a business trip thus morning. He will get back late tomorrow so not a big one.
Meanwhile back at the ranch DD starting screaming because she got her foot stuck through the slats for the first time last night. H unstuck her and she fell back asleep on her own. Then she was up again for who knows why, but she was chatting away at herself for a good 30 minutes before she fell back asleep. Silly girl.
We are supposed to have a pool party today but it is sooooo foggy! It better burn up quick.
Post by toadandbuggie on Jul 7, 2015 5:20:32 GMT -5
Morning! LO was up a bunch last night! Not fun. I'm going to start sleep training as soon as I am done with work. Next week is my last week. Mixed feelings, yo.
Apparently I was exhausted last night. I fell asleep on the couch sometime after midnight. Around 2 DH is shaking me to wake up because Brady has been screaming in his crib. I usually hear him when he is just stirring, but I didn't hear anything last night.
I'm nursing him now in hopes he will go back to sleep for a couple more hours. I'm not ready to get up yet.
Just had a nice lunch with the rest of the PhDs. For everything they plan I just sit there quietly and then when they ask if I can join it's always been yeh! if I can bring Jake. Oh wait, Jake goes to bed at 7.30. Sorry no can't make it I love my life as a mom but sometimes I wish DH was around more in the evenings so I could join in some things.
DS hasn't thrown up since late afternoon on Saturday! Hopefully we're done with all that.
Warning: mil rant ahead
MIL didn't get much better as the weekend went on. DH was rocking DS back to sleep Saturday night and then asked if I wanted to take over. He wasn't being fussy, just didn't want to go to sleep. Well mil jumped up saying, "I'll do it" and snatched him away. She then was talking to him and making these weird clicking noises. She says he wanted to stay up to watch the fireworks and was pointing him to the tv. I was like wtf, you're keeping him up. He doesn't even know what fireworks are! Then she starts in on, "oh he must be hungry, do you want me to make him a bottle". Ugh! Finally I took over and he fell asleep after shushing, without eating.
Everyone in my house is still asleep this morning but me! My back hurts so bad I cant lay down anymore. It's going to be a long rainy day, so no outside time for the 3 year old. Hold me .
DS hasn't thrown up since late afternoon on Saturday! Hopefully we're done with all that.
Warning: mil rant ahead
MIL didn't get much better as the weekend went on. DH was rocking DS back to sleep Saturday night and then asked if I wanted to take over. He wasn't being fussy, just didn't want to go to sleep. Well mil jumped up saying, "I'll do it" and snatched him away. She then was talking to him and making these weird clicking noises. She says he wanted to stay up to watch the fireworks and was pointing him to the tv. I was like wtf, you're keeping him up. He doesn't even know what fireworks are! Then she starts in on, "oh he must be hungry, do you want me to make him a bottle". Ugh! Finally I took over and he fell asleep after shushing, without eating.
blugh. Does she do that kind of stuff often? Yay though for the lack of throw ups!
toadandbuggie I can't blame you and your mixed feelings. It's a big part of your life you are leaving behind even if it isn't forever
lotsofdotts I hope you feel rested. I have done that before except I was the one that finally heard DD. I was out of bed so fast it startled H awake and I couldn't go back to sleep for forever.
cougarette glad your LO is doing better! I can relate on the MIL rant. We were visiting 2 weekends ago when we were starting nap sleep training. She would jump up to get her when she fussed (we told her just to do shhing), and would start talking to her in an excited voice, claiming she was wide awake...and she just wanted to pump DD full of milk for sleepy time, which we're trying to avoid!
DS hasn't thrown up since late afternoon on Saturday! Hopefully we're done with all that.
Warning: mil rant ahead
MIL didn't get much better as the weekend went on. DH was rocking DS back to sleep Saturday night and then asked if I wanted to take over. He wasn't being fussy, just didn't want to go to sleep. Well mil jumped up saying, "I'll do it" and snatched him away. She then was talking to him and making these weird clicking noises. She says he wanted to stay up to watch the fireworks and was pointing him to the tv. I was like wtf, you're keeping him up. He doesn't even know what fireworks are! Then she starts in on, "oh he must be hungry, do you want me to make him a bottle". Ugh! Finally I took over and he fell asleep after shushing, without eating.
blugh. Does she do that kind of stuff often? Yay though for the lack of throw ups!
Well I think part of the problem is that she doesn't see DS often (not our fault). We were up at their mtn house for the weekend and I think it was this "let me get in all this time with him" thing.
Also, bil and sil did sleep training early on and didn't let her rock my niece and whatnot. If I understood mil correctly anyway.
But she's been all about the bottle since day 1. I will never forget how she said breastfeeding wasn't working when we were at the hospital and DS want quite 24 hours old yet. While we did have trouble latching, the nurses didn't say anything because it was fine.
She had never been supportive and always criticizes everything. I don't know how DH survived.
Also, apparently babies only get upset because they're hungry *eye roll*
Well we made it through the night with no Merlin suit. He was up a lot but seemed to get better as the night went on and most of the times he woke up he put himself back to sleep with no intervention from us. Fingers crossed tonight is easier.
blugh. Does she do that kind of stuff often? Yay though for the lack of throw ups!
Well I think part of the problem is that she doesn't see DS often (not our fault). We were up at their mtn house for the weekend and I think it was this "let me get in all this time with him" thing.
Also, bil and sil did sleep training early on and didn't let her rock my niece and whatnot. If I understood mil correctly anyway.
But she's been all about the bottle since day 1. I will never forget how she said breastfeeding wasn't working when we were at the hospital and DS want quite 24 hours old yet. While we did have trouble latching, the nurses didn't say anything because it was fine.
She had never been supportive and always criticizes everything. I don't know how DH survived.
Also, apparently babies only get upset because they're hungry *eye roll*
Aaaaaah thanks. I understand my baby so much better now **runs off to make another bottle** My mom was jealous that I was breastfeeding when she had to stop with me quite early on and kept asking why the hell I was exclusively pumping. At one point I told her I don't have money to buy formula (just to stab at her because she buys my sister everything and us nothing because we're "independent") but then she suddenly changed her tune at told me how good it is that I EP. Dafuq mom?! That generation is generally weird :-P
aggiebug, DH is a musician so he teaches in the evenings and then has gigs around 4 times per week at night. He also has a day job 3 days a week and takes care of DS 3 days as well while I work. I don't know how he does it all :/
Why did I think it was cute/easy/sweet to try and take a nap with DD in my bed? Now she is asleep and I have to be quiet in my room. And since it's not her crib I will now be staying in here with her. Ha dumb move mom, dumb move.
DD put herself to sleep last night without any rocking AND STTN - and she's still sleeping. Going on 12.5 hours, but DH will have to get her up soon for daycare.
My boobs were super pissed this morning though. Yowch.
Yesterday we somehow managed to get a free box of diapers from Amazon. The order showed up on Friday, in a big Pampers box per usual. Then yesterday more showed up repackaged in a brown box (diapers still sealed in sleeves). Same tracking number on both boxes and our account was charged once...score!
My house still smells like maple syrup. I'm going to try to investigate the pantry today and start to eliminate possible sources.
We are going to go mattress shopping this weekend. We spent a bunch of money about 5 years ago on a new Sterns and Foster pillow top that is complete shit now. My lower back is constantly sore. After I woke up and fed DD at 4:30 this morning I took the monitor with me to the guest bed and slept on the temperpedic and it was glorious. I don't really want to blow 5k on a mattress.... But sleep is so valuable nowadays...
Post by AppropriateChocolate on Jul 7, 2015 7:22:30 GMT -5
Happy Tuesday.
DD was up a lot last night. Ended up in our bed way early than usual. My wrist is hurting worse than yesterday I seriously think somethings wrong. And of course DD seems to think I'm her playmat and is wiggling, blowing spit bubbles and blowing her nose. She's all over the place. Where the hell did this baby come from?
I was so sad yesterday. I came home, LO was already in the middle of his bedtime.routine with DH. I didn't get to play with him in the morning or when I got home. I decided that after I'm more caught up on sleep. I need to go to work early and come home at 4.
On better news, I no longer am on the project with all the asshats. No international travel. Just what I wanted!
DD was up a lot last night. Ended up in our bed way early than usual. My wrist is hurting worse than yesterday I seriously think somethings wrong. And of course DD seems to think I'm her playmat and is wiggling, blowing spit bubbles and blowing her nose. She's all over the place. Where the hell did this baby come from?
I had wrists pain bad enough that I was getting PT twice a week. It was caused by how I was holding LO. I started keeping your wrists straight when I hold the baby upright instead up cocking my hand up and my wrists got better.
Kiddos went to bed at about 6:30 last night because they were driving me nuts. It stormed super hard last night. I happened to see on the monitor DS wake up about 10:15, wiggle around, fuss, then fall back asleep.
I woke up at 7:45 this morning and bothkids were still asleep. Too bad it had to be when H had to get up and go to work.
DD was up a lot last night. Ended up in our bed way early than usual. My wrist is hurting worse than yesterday I seriously think somethings wrong. And of course DD seems to think I'm her playmat and is wiggling, blowing spit bubbles and blowing her nose. She's all over the place. Where the hell did this baby come from?
I had wrists pain bad enough that I was getting PT twice a week. It was caused by how I was holding LO. I started keeping your wrists straight when I hold the baby upright instead up cocking my hand up and my wrists got better.
DH said he thinks it comes from that too. Im gonna try that. I may use my old wrist brace To help
Oh and to all those terribly worried (lol), I POAS. I found one in the back of my drawer. I was only a day late but the same thing happened when I was pregnant with DS. DD was 7 months, I was a day late, and I had a positive pregnancy test. I had also taken my pill up until that day.
Edit: it was negative. Apparently I think faster than I type and have confused everyone. Sorry.
toadandbuggie enjoy your last couple weeks at work! cougarette yay for LO getting over his tummy troubles and ugh ugh ugh for your MIL. Did she give you dirty looks every time you laid him down for a nap too? miniwheat sorry about your back! Chronic problem or acute injury? junebugjam glad everyone survived without Merlin! mrsclark731 last summer we got a Sealy memory foam mattress and it's been worth every single dollar of the thousands we spent on it. Don't break the bank, obviously, but I considered it a great investment. PikoPiko glad you can flex your work hours like that. Hope today is less of an IT disaster!
Oh and to all those terribly worried (lol), I POAS. I found one in the back of my drawer. I was only a day late but the same thing happened when I was pregnant with DS. DD was 7 months, I was a day late, and I had a positive pregnancy test. I had also taken my pill up until that day.
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