MOTN 9/9

[cnumbers]

Baby just will not settle. As it's on demand feeding his routine has been a bit up in the air lately. I think he's having a growth spurt. Anytime I put him down he screams the house down. I'm like a geriatric sloth every night. I finally get him sleeping, I inch over to the basket, stand on my tippy toes and lean over as much as possible. He grunts, arms fly out. I freeze. One leg in the air in an absurd pirouette, Holding my breath. CAREFULLY I set the tiny guy into the crib, and prepare to make my getaway

WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

I instantly grit my teeth and quickly pretend I didn’t (because “good parents” never feel frustrated at their helpless babe, right?).

I'm laying down a proper structured routine tomorrow, I shall win this. LO is currently in my arms.. I'm going to try and put him down now. Wish me luck..


Any advice would be great

[wegrowsheep]

Sept 10, 2015 19:48:15 GMT -5 cnumbers said:

Baby just will not settle. As it's on demand feeding his routine has been a bit up in the air lately. I think he's having a growth spurt. Anytime I put him down he screams the house down. I'm like a geriatric sloth every night. I finally get him sleeping, I inch over to the basket, stand on my tippy toes and lean over as much as possible. He grunts, arms fly out. I freeze. One leg in the air in an absurd pirouette, Holding my breath. CAREFULLY I set the tiny guy into the crib, and prepare to make my getaway

WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

I instantly grit my teeth and quickly pretend I didn’t (because “good parents” never feel frustrated at their helpless babe, right?).

I'm laying down a proper structured routine tomorrow, I shall win this. LO is currently in my arms.. I'm going to try and put him down now. Wish me luck..


Any advice would be great

My advice? Get a comfy recliner and settle in. He will soon be too big to snuggle in your arms all night. As my grandmother (to 6 kids, 15 grandkids, and 21 great grandkids) told me, enjoy these years, they are the best.
And yeah, I held my sick, growing baby for all but about 2 hrs total today. When it's all that works, we just go with the flow.

[holliberry28]

Sept 10, 2015 19:48:15 GMT -5 cnumbers said:

Baby just will not settle. As it's on demand feeding his routine has been a bit up in the air lately. I think he's having a growth spurt. Anytime I put him down he screams the house down. I'm like a geriatric sloth every night. I finally get him sleeping, I inch over to the basket, stand on my tippy toes and lean over as much as possible. He grunts, arms fly out. I freeze. One leg in the air in an absurd pirouette, Holding my breath. CAREFULLY I set the tiny guy into the crib, and prepare to make my getaway

WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

I instantly grit my teeth and quickly pretend I didn’t (because “good parents” never feel frustrated at their helpless babe, right?).

I'm laying down a proper structured routine tomorrow, I shall win this. LO is currently in my arms.. I'm going to try and put him down now. Wish me luck..


Any advice would be great

Fisher price swing him!

[nchauhan]

I'm extremely irritated with MH. I got my wisdom teeth pulled yesterday and have been in a lot of pain since then. I took tomorrow off work and MH was going to take T to daycare for a half day so I could catch up on sleep without having to nurse every 90 min during the day.

Well, MH's best friend came over to watch football together. They're both huge into fantasy football and decided the best way to celebrate was to get drunk during the first game. Ok, I was fine with that. T was being amazing and the guys were up in the man cave, taking care of the dogs while watching. T went down at 8:30, for once without a 90 minute ordeal, and I went to bed around 10:45. Around 11:30, MH comes stumbling in the room, crashing around. He locked our dog out and almost woke up T. When I went to go get the dog, I found his best friend just standing at our front door. Turns out, these two geniuses ordered pizza from a place that no longer delivers to our house. But they took his credit card info, and he was trying to be considerate by looking out for them so they wouldn't ring the doorbell and wake T. Ps, he's STILL waiting, although now he's waiting in his car since he wants to take the pizza home over my objections of him driving after drinking.

So I went to the bathroom and try to settle back into bed. All I can think about is that I'm missing out on this amazing stretch of sleep, that our frihust is just sitting in our driveway and I'm half afraid the doorbell will ring and our dog will go crazy and wake T. Then, MH rolls over in his sleep and throws up. Yuck. He's never thrown up from drinking in the four years that I've been with him. I just finished cleaning him (and the bed) up the best I could, since he isn't waking up. Thank god it doesn't smell.

So now I'm just up, with a swollen jaw, ranting online :/

Tl;dr: my kid finally is sleeping for longer than a 4 hour stretch and my drunken husband ruined it. He vommed on himself and his friend is still just outside the house. All while I'm recovering from my wisdom teeth being pulled.

[wegrowsheep]

nchauhan Clearly, you should do the mature thing here, and get out your best Sharpies. Time for some artwork on his face. Or wherever.

I can't even imagine, you poor thing!

[wegrowsheep]

Aaand we're up again! He could starve if food doesn't happen at least every 3 hrs.

[erbear]

Baby just slept 9 hours.

She has to be going through a growth spurt. We got 7 hours the night before plus she ate four bottles while I was gone yesterday (instead of three).

We're going to a friend's party tomorrow so she'l be up a lot,. That's how these things work!

[holliberry28]

M fell asleep early last night, around 6 because he missed his afternoon nap bc of a doctors appointment. He woke up at 2:30 to eat and then was noisy from 5 to 6 pm when I got him up.

Doctor changed our zantac dosage from 0.4 ml 3x a day to 0.8 twice a day. I gave him his morning dose and forgot the out the cap on the medicine bottle for an hour. Should it still be fine?

Also we assumed after 8 days the Nutramigen hasn't helped much and switched back to Gerbee gentle but now he's passing gAs and seems struggling to poop. Now I'm worried we took him off the Nutramigen prematurely.

I agree at this age let them sleep whichever way lets them get the most rest. I'm obviously creating bad habits letting M sleep in his swing, but I'll start worrying about that at 4 months...

[carolyngrace]

cnumbers - yup, swing and swaddle are my advice. Oh, and don't beat yourself up for being frustrated, seriously!

Eta: I worried about creating bad habits with the swing, but DB transitioned just fine to the RNP, and then to the crib after that. You gotta do what works at the time.

[cnumbers]

Sept 11, 2015 5:39:52 GMT -5 budders said:

Sept 10, 2015 19:48:15 GMT -5 cnumbers said:

Baby just will not settle. As it's on demand feeding his routine has been a bit up in the air lately. I think he's having a growth spurt. Anytime I put him down he screams the house down. I'm like a geriatric sloth every night. I finally get him sleeping, I inch over to the basket, stand on my tippy toes and lean over as much as possible. He grunts, arms fly out. I freeze. One leg in the air in an absurd pirouette, Holding my breath. CAREFULLY I set the tiny guy into the crib, and prepare to make my getaway

WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

I instantly grit my teeth and quickly pretend I didn’t (because “good parents” never feel frustrated at their helpless babe, right?).

I'm laying down a proper structured routine tomorrow, I shall win this. LO is currently in my arms.. I'm going to try and put him down now. Wish me luck..


Any advice would be great

It has zero to do with on demand feeding, and it's not about winning at this point. He's not a toddler who's intentionally manipulating you.

V feeds and naps on demand, we have no set schedule at this point (though he follows a predictable pattern most days). If he is sound asleep, he'll let me put him down. If not, he screams and I just get more snuggles. Now that I'm back to work, I cherish any extra opportunity to hold my baby and love that he loves to snuggle.

I was making a joke about winning, It may not have came across that way in the post though. I know he isn't manipulating me as he's only in survival mode at the moment and thinks he's been abandoned when I set him down. I do love his snuggles too and snuggle him most of the day. It's only at night when it's bedtime. He's currently playing in his swing so I may finally have free hands to do some housework haha.