Monday Ugh

[mrsclark731]

Today is the "original BG's" (baby girl's) birthday...my faithful mutt is ten years old today! I can't believe I've been responsible enough to take care of a dog for 10 years. Makes me feel super old.

[aggiebug]

Hiya. I am tired. I stayed up late watching the basketball game and the we were so amped up neither H or I could fall asleep for another hour

[lilyelayne]

Another rough night. Think I'll try a bedtime dose of Advil tonight and see if it really is teething that's bothering DS.

I can't believe it's Holy Week already. I feel like it was just Ash Wednesday.

[dreemkin]

mrsclark731 happy bday to your doggy!

My randoms: I have my annual at my gyne today ugh. My ob/gyne is a bitch. And bc I'm a sensitive soul, I always feel violated after these appointments. Plus, bc it was "easter" I've gained like 10 lbs over the last few days. Whatever...I need my bc pills renewed (oh yeah and paps are good to stay up to date on).

[lilyelayne]

Omgosh. DS only has two bottom teeth, so I figured his next teeth would be bottom teeth, following by molars. I've been inspecting his gums with all this awful sleep & food fussiness, nada, so today I checked and he's working on his upper molars! One has almost broken through! FTM fail.

[dmorgendorffer]

DH and I both took today off since our flight got in at 8pm last night we wanted time to get all our weekend errands done. So glad I didn't have to get up and go to work this morning. DD mostly did well but the end of the flight was overlapping with her normal bed time so she got a little cranky.

I am starting to get annoyed by people commenting about DD's size. On our way home yesterday 3 different people made comments about how chunky she is, and I know most people don't mean it in a negative way but I really don't like the people who feel the need to reassure us that she'll thin out once she starts walking (she is already). She was in the 95th percentile for weight at her 1 year appt but I'm not worried about her being overweight and neither was our pedi, and I'd appreciate if strangers didn't make it sound like we should be worried about it.

[dreemkin]

My dad said so seriously, "Annie has a big belly" over the weekend. Wft, family should be supportive not judgey. PS: I don't think her belly is big. She's a baby...

ETA: love tits given for support!

[dreemkin]

And, happy Spring everyone!

[taberbtb]

dmorgendorffer I don't know why people feel it's ok to comment on anybody's weight. Adult or child.

B has always been in the 75th percentile or so for weight but has been walking close to three months. I joke that she looks like a little Ethiopian baby now. She's a little skinny twig with a baby beer belly on her. They really do lean out when they start walking.

[tortor4]

dmorgendorffer omg my MIL is constantly saying "don't worry, she'll thin out". Ummm I'm not worried? Wtf is wrong with people?!

[mishka29]

Mar 21, 2016 13:02:53 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

My dad said so seriously, "Annie has a big belly" over the weekend. Wft, family should be supportive not judgey. PS: I don't think her belly is big. She's a baby...

ETA: love tits given for support!

Everyone says that about both DD1 and LO. But bc they are/were smaller babies they really do have these ginormous bellies. After dinner it's actually quite comical how big they get. 

[mishka29]

Dh stayed home with DD1 this am while I ran to work for a couple of hours. She had a crazy fever of 104 last night. She was waking up every 30 minutes until 9 then slept like a dream.

[mrsclark731]

Mar 21, 2016 11:25:57 GMT -5 dmorgendorffer said:

I am starting to get annoyed by people commenting about DD's size. On our way home yesterday 3 different people made comments about how chunky she is, and I know most people don't mean it in a negative way but I really don't like the people who feel the need to reassure us that she'll thin out once she starts walking (she is already). She was in the 95th percentile for weight at her 1 year appt but I'm not worried about her being overweight and neither was our pedi, and I'd appreciate if strangers didn't make it sound like we should be worried about it.

Totally feel your pain. DD came out at 10 pounds and hasn't slowed down. She's been in the 99th percentile for height and weight since birth. Today a lady in Home Goods was chatting us up with her baby (smushed into an infant carrier at 11.5 months) and she kept going "She's big! What a big girl! She's so big!" Yes, I get it. My six foot self is standing right next to you...we are big.

[dreemkin]

Infant carrier at 11.5 months...?

[mrsclark731]

Mar 21, 2016 16:54:11 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

Infant carrier at 11.5 months...?

Yes! It took up the entire cart and he didn't look comfortable laying down in it, unable to see his surroundings.

[lilyelayne]

Wtf at people commenting on kids' body shapes.

mishka29 how's your older daughter feeling this evening?

mrsclark731 not only can I not fathom smooshing my nearly one year old into an infant carrier, I surely can't imagine hauling the whole thing around! At least you know he's still rear facing...?

[aggiebug]

Mar 21, 2016 16:54:11 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

Infant carrier at 11.5 months...?

My friend still puts her 18 month old in an infant car seat. I don't get it. And he is not a small kid! I actually made a comment because I don't know how he hasn't out grown it.

[mishka29]

lilyelayne it was really a day of ups and down. She had a nice long nap but then had a little poop in her pull-up. So trying to clean that up she is screaming like a banshee but also holding her head and yelling it hurts, it hurts!

It took me 20 minutes to convince her to take some medicine and I only accomplished that by say 'oh I was thinking we would go to the library if you were feeling better but I guess we can't go if you don't take your medicine'. It was either that or hold her down and toss it in. Lol. We of course had to make a library trip where she was running like a nutter.

Hopefully she can go to daycare tomorrow!

[mishka29]

Mar 21, 2016 20:14:53 GMT -5 aggiebug said:

Mar 21, 2016 16:54:11 GMT -5 dreemkin said:

Infant carrier at 11.5 months...?

My friend still puts her 18 month old in an infant car seat. I don't get it. And he is not a small kid! I actually made a comment because I don't know how he hasn't out grown it.

I feel like the height limit would be surpassed at 18 months....

[dmorgendorffer]

Thanks for the commiseration everyone. badw0lf, you would think a receptionist who works at a pedi office would really know better than to make stupid comments like that!

mrsclark731 I can't imagine trying to lift DD in an infant carrier at 11.5 months. We had to switch around 6 months just so our apparently giant baby would be more comfortable in the car, and it was already hard to lug that thing around.

[kartish]

I think I probably said stupid things like that before I was a mom. Now, I get nothing but he's huge! a million times a day. Yes, my baby is tall. But also I get comments like "he sleeps through the night right?" No he doesn't and why do you care? You don't have to get up with him, random person.

I only bring up questions like that if I'm asking for BTDT advice from other moms. Then hopefully it's not annoying.

[seamonster]

Mar 21, 2016 10:18:28 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

Omgosh. DS only has two bottom teeth, so I figured his next teeth would be bottom teeth, following by molars. I've been inspecting his gums with all this awful sleep & food fussiness, nada, so today I checked and he's working on his upper molars! One has almost broken through! FTM fail.

Molars take forever to finish. For DS one edge cut and then the other, but the middle is still under the gum.

DS gets the so big comments too and has since birth. Yes, DS is tall. H and I aren't short and his brother is 6ft and my dad and uncles and male cousins are all over 6ft. I was only disappointed to learn that sleepers stop having the hand sleeves at 6 months because he was in those early and I'd totally use them now so he couldn't pull off his mittens.

Baby bellies are cute. Our GP always compliments DS's belly and tells him that it's the kind of belly they like to see on babies. Some people act like your baby or toddler needs an ab program.

[aggiebug]

Mar 21, 2016 20:23:15 GMT -5 mishka29 said:

Mar 21, 2016 20:14:53 GMT -5 aggiebug said:

My friend still puts her 18 month old in an infant car seat. I don't get it. And he is not a small kid! I actually made a comment because I don't know how he hasn't out grown it.

I feel like the height limit would be surpassed at 18 months....

Yep. I am still suspicious he has outgrown it but I don't know what else to say. They also don't tighten appropriately.

[taberbtb]

kartish my response to anybody asking how my baby sleeps has always been "she sleeps like a baby". Anybody with a child can interpret that into what it really means!