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[lostineden]

This morning I was cuddling in bed with E. I heard her poop, but it took me a minute to get out of bed. As I'm pulling off her clothes, there is poop all over her left leg (ie, not the side I was lying on) and her outfit. But her diaper is dry because apparently she just pumped it right out the side. I look at the bed... Poop. Everywhere. On the sheets. On the mattress cover. Everywhere.

Happy Monday.

[aves0708]

Huge hugs lonelydoll. 6 weeks really is too soon to have to leave your LO

[lepeters]

A is 3 months old tomorrow. Crazy!
We had a checkup today because it has been two weeks since A has been on his reflux medicine. They decided to do all his measurements (2 weeks ago they just did his weight). Since his two month check He has grown 7cm (I think the doc over measured a bit) but in the last month his head circumference hasn't changed at all. Is that normal? A month seeks to be a long time with no change. In two weeks he gained about 4 ounces so not a lot but not bad. Went down from the 5th percentile to 0.9 percentile, but he was a month early so not worried about percentiles. Any insight into head circumference would be great.

[vshumway]

((hugs)) lonelydoll,

[vshumway]

G is getting his upper lip tie cut tomorrow. I know that it is a pretty basic and short procedure, but it was weird to have to get pre-op paperwork filled out by his pedi today. I'm hoping that this helps with all of his spitting up and gas. I know it won't go away, but I'm hopeful between this and me cutting out all dairy from my diet that this little stomach starts to feel better soon.

[peachey]

lepeters did you check his head size on the charts? I think it's supposed to grow.

My DS1 was a month early. I looked at his chart and his head definitely grew between his 2 month and 4 month check. I would think if there is still no change at his 4 month appt. that you should bring it up. I should add that DS1 grew a ton after about 6 weeks of age and went from 50 percentile to 97+.

[lepeters]

Dec 14, 2015 23:46:11 GMT -5 peachey said:

lepeters did you check his head size on the charts? I think it's supposed to grow.

My DS1 was a month early. I looked at his chart and his head definitely grew between his 2 month and 4 month check. I would think if there is still no change at his 4 month appt. that you should bring it up. I should add that DS1 grew a ton after about 6 weeks of age and went from 50 percentile to 97+.

A was a month early too.
I checked it on the chart and his head circumference is at 1.8 percentile at 13 weeks. When it was measured at 9 weeks it was at 30.8 percentile. Since there was no change in size that is a big decrease in percentage. All his other measurements went up, he even grew 7cm in length in a month. Hopefully his head grows over the next month.

[mrsh82414]

Dec 15, 2015 13:21:28 GMT -5 @lildiamondeyes said:

I thought that breast feed babies weren't able to over eat. N keeps spitting up. I don't think it is reflux as it is not all the time and doesn't seem to bother her. I feel bad for the poor kid though.
Anyone with any insight?

My LO was spitting up like crazy and so upset. She was spitting up like half what she ate. When this happened I was giving her both boobs every three hours. We ended up changing her feeding to one boob every two hours and it made a big difference for us. It's kind of a pain, but we only do every two hours during the day and we let her go up to 5 hours at night. Idk about your LO, but mine seems to spit up much more during the day then at night. It's weird.

[mrsh82414]

DH and I went to lunch alone on Sunday. This was our first time leaving LO. It went well and while I felt pretty comfortable about it, but definitely missed her and was so happy to be back with her. Friday I have a hair appt and I have no idea how it's going to go. Typically my hair dresser takes 3 hours to highlight and cut my hair. I told her she needs to be fast bc I feed my baby every 2 hours and I don't want to bring her to the hair salon. I have breast milk in the freezer, but she hasn't had a bottle since the first weekend we brought her home and I'm worried she may not take one. I guess I should try one before Friday just to make sure she will take one otherwise Daddy may have to bring her to the hair salon for me to feed her there.

[peachey]

Oh hello 4am. We seem to meet like this every morning. Can someone explain to the baby that it is in fact not party time?

[vshumway]

G did great yesterday! He slept through the procedure! We met him in recovery where he was still sleeping. He ate right away. His mouth does hurt some (I'm guessing based in the cues he's giving us), so it is still hard to get a full latch, but the doctor said it should be automatic within a week or so. We have had no blood at all, which was their only concern.

[vshumway]

Dec 16, 2015 6:30:59 GMT -5 peachey said:

Oh hello 4am. We seem to meet like this every morning. Can someone explain to the baby that it is in fact not party time?

I would love to. But first I need to get my own kid to understand that! It would be in thing to get up, eat, and go back to bed. But why stay up?  Every other time of the day eating puts you to sleep. Why, in th middle of the night, does it make you alert and active?

[vshumway]

Dec 16, 2015 8:44:13 GMT -5 . said:

Sitting at the OB office, doing my PP GD test. Didn't miss that orange drink, that's for sure! Pleeeease remind me that my chances of still having glucose issues are super low... I'm feeling paranoid!

You will be fine and eating all th sugar in the world!

[vshumway]

Dec 16, 2015 8:49:52 GMT -5 snowbird said:

Dec 16, 2015 8:29:31 GMT -5 vshumway said:

G did great yesterday! He slept through the procedure! We met him in recovery where he was still sleeping. He ate right away. His mouth does hurt some (I'm guessing based in the cues he's giving us), so it is still hard to get a full latch, but the doctor said it should be automatic within a week or so. We have had no blood at all, which was their only concern.

I wonder why they were concerned about that? I know a lip tie is probably different than a tongue tie, but when they clipped DS's tongue tie two years ago, it didn't bleed at all and they took that as a good sign. Anyway, it improved things for him. We had LO's tongue clipped a few weeks ago and it did bleed just a teeny bit, but everything was okay. Glad your little guy did great!

They told us that the upper lip tie bleeds the most out of the three (upper lip, lower lip, and tongue). That is the reason why he likes to do them in the surgery center compared to the office. Because he wanted us to be in the recovery room with the nurses for longer. 

[sewfie2]

lostineden, weve had so many side blow outs during morning cuddles. What a way to start the day!

randomosity, mine doesn't snort, but she does bray like a horse!

lonelydoll, we went through that last week, LO had total colic-like meltdowns with MH. It's the worst, but it got better. Does LO have anything else going on? Ours had a little cold that contributed to her being Captain Cryfest.

@lildiamondeyes, mine overeats, usually due to comfort nursing.

[sewfie2]

I forgot to bring a second bottle for pumping at work. Luckily I left a mason jar (with a lid no less) here before I went on leave.

[lepeters]

Dec 16, 2015 21:51:32 GMT -5 @tmg14 said:

Does anyone else feel like they are getting a good routine going? I feel like DS is starting to really know what comes next in our day, especially at bedtime. He is so much easier to get to sleep at night now, then compared to 3-4 weeks ago. It used to take us 2 hours to get him to sleep. Now its 15-20 min. Or maybe its me just learning about him and his cues better.
Anyway, this will probably all go to hell when I'm back to work.

I feel like we have a routine for bedtime now. Over the last two weeks it has really become consistent and it wasn't me trying to force it on him I feel he just picked it up on his own. He usually eats somewhere between 8 & 9 then I swaddle him and hold him and a lot of the time he falls asleep right away. Then he will usually sleep till 4 or 5am then eat and go back to sleep for another two hours. Last night he was asleep at 9 and he woke up at 7:45am. Crazy!! He just turned 3 months old and almost slept 11 hours straight. It was awesome.

Daytime we have no routine and it is a struggle to get him to nap. I have started having him nap in my bed with me beside him and now he will nap during the day. At night he has no problem sleeping in his own bed. Weird.

[flyoffeve]

Last day of work before two weeks off for the Holidays. My eyes are so heavy. Need sleep or caffeine. I don't drink coffee and schools no longer have cokes in the vending machines. I might have to leave campus to go get some soon.

[flyoffeve]

Dec 18, 2015 8:36:59 GMT -5 . said:

Dec 18, 2015 7:32:11 GMT -5 flyoffeve said:

Last day of work before two weeks off for the Holidays. My eyes are so heavy. Need sleep or caffeine. I don't drink coffee and schools no longer have cokes in the vending machines. I might have to leave campus to go get some soon.

Love tit for last day of work. Go getcha some energy, girl!

Thanks. Found some sugar at the feast admin provided. Yummy treats!

[lostineden]

E STTN for the last two nights. I'm trying so hard not to get my hopes up, but my hopes are up.

[lepeters]

Dec 18, 2015 9:01:39 GMT -5 lostineden said:

E STTN for the last two nights. I'm trying so hard not to get my hopes up, but my hopes are up.

A has been doing that the last couple nights too but then last night he did not. Woke up at midnight and then 5am then up at 8am. At midnight he was screaming bloody murder. I think it is because he hasn't had a decent sized poop since Monday night. Had a tiny one Wednesday and that's it. Poor guy really needs to poop. I can tell he is uncomfortable.