My nurse was terrible! She didn't even write down when I took my pain meds. Thank goodness I did. When they switched shifts she even told the other nurse she hadn't kept track. Stay on top of them. Call at least 45min to half an hr before you're due to take them. Don't feel bad. I'm sorry yours suck too.
That's pretty scary. My hospital scanned every pill and could see when it was administered.
Same. Every med I took was scanned along with my bracelet.
Post by shananagins on Apr 25, 2016 5:17:18 GMT -5
Good news: LO just slept for a 5.5 hour stretch.
Bad news: I pumped over 2 full ounces before bed and DH took it downstairs and set it next to the fridge and never put it in. Insert wailing emoticon here.
shananagins oh no!!! I'm sorry Last night I hand-expressed out 2 oz after DS went to bed. I *almost* dropped the open milk bag on the floor. I have no idea how I even caught it in time.
DS decided 11:30-1:30 was a great time to be wide awake. I'm exhausted.
Bad news: I pumped over 2 full ounces before bed and DH took it downstairs and set it next to the fridge and never put it in. Insert wailing emoticon here.
I've heard that breastmilk is okay left out for a few hours....
Omg it took DS 3 hours to go to bed for real last night. I got him to fall asleep on my chest a couple times, but when DH would grab him to put in the PnP, he would start fussing/crying/screaming. I wish it was safe for babies to sleep with you because I was so cozy with him on my chest that I dozed off too (DH was right there).
Why does her latch get worse in the middle of the night? Eff my nips hurt. But hooray for late night television. I love Jimmy Fallon and James Corden
I think I might try pumping (I've just been hand expressing some til now) to have milk in bottles at nighttime. DS has improved during the day, but at night he is such a lazy eater. It's easier to keep a bottle nipple in his mouth than my nipple.
The first night at home was rough. All LO wanted was the boob or to be held. I can't wait to be mobile again and not cringe every time I try to stand up.
Yep I got no sleep the first night home. It definitely got better after that. Though we've still had a few rough nights since then (like last night...kid would not stay asleep without being held).
Post by wittyandwaiting on Apr 26, 2016 23:12:12 GMT -5
After four weeks of dealing with an 'inflammatory reaction' to my Vicryl stitches my midwife removed them today. They weren't dissolving at all and I was having pain and bleeding at every stitch.
Anyway....LO is fast asleep and I'm wide awake because having the stitches pulled and dug out hurt.
Well I just got the cold shoulder and some awful comment about "how I treat him" from MH because I asked him to come change the baby's diaper at 7:30. This child kept me up all night long, and I wanted 30 seconds more to lie here... But that's a trivial little thing, and I should have just gotten up, clearly.
Oh for pete sakes. Bunch of man babies. We change diapers literally all day. Stop complaining when you are asked to change one!!
Well I just got the cold shoulder and some awful comment about "how I treat him" from MH because I asked him to come change the baby's diaper at 7:30. This child kept me up all night long, and I wanted 30 seconds more to lie here... But that's a trivial little thing, and I should have just gotten up, clearly.
What the hell is wrong with these people?
C made a flippant comment to me the other day about how I was treating her in a similar situation.
Imagine an Anna Kendrick eye rolling Gif here because I don't know how to do it from mobile via Tapatalk.
Post by sopranomama on Apr 28, 2016 0:31:04 GMT -5
I have a wicked sore throat and feel like crap, so MH offers to burp the baby so I could get some rest... Excellent. Well he burps him for about a minute (unsuccessfully) and then puts him back in the cosleeper (right next to me) and (shocker) baby is grunting and fussing almost immediately. I give it a second, because dude... I'm laying down and tired... And before I can get fully up to pick him up and burp him MH is throwing the covers off himself and angrily getting out of bed to pick up the baby. I said I could do it, I just wasn't moving fast, and he insisted I rest since I don't feel great. Ok, fine. Just as I start to drift off I hear a thud. He had climbed back in bed with him, drifted off, and dropped the baby! DROPPED OUR FUCKING BABY on the floor. He seems fine. I nursed him again and he's now happily sleeping on my chest and I'm terrified to put him down. But the kicker, the big kick in the face, is MH is now ASLEEP!!!!!! He fell back asleep almost immediately. I'll probably be up all night with worry, but he'll have sweet dreams as he snores away next to me. I'm incredibly stabby right now.
sopranomama oh my god I am so sorry!! That had to have been terrifying! I would have killed DH. For dropping him and then for just falling back to sleep like "oh well." Smothered him right then and there with a pillow.
DS has been up for over an hour fussing and I don't know what's wrong. He is fed, dry, burped, been swaddled and unswaddled, held in different positions, put down, picked up, tried the swing...I'm going to go nuts. I let DH sleep away from DS and I tonight since he has an exam for work tomorrow. But if DS keeps this up I'm going to have to wake DH to hold DS before I go crazy.
sopranomama oh my god I am so sorry!! That had to have been terrifying! I would have killed DH. For dropping him and then for just falling back to sleep like "oh well." Smothered him right then and there with a pillow.
Post by sopranomama on Apr 28, 2016 2:26:38 GMT -5
I finally put him down only to wake myself up a half hour later with an absurdly vivid nightmare about bad things happening to him. Joy. (Nothing related to falling, just bad in general) I literally woke myself by crying "no, no, no!" Over and over and weeping. Because, that's normal, right? *le sigh*
In other news, DH woke up to comfort me from my dream, and he had set an alarm to check on DS. He feels really badly. It's just the 2.5 year old has decided she's not sleeping this week... At all... And he takes nighttime toddler duty on his own so he's been up all night for days
We are now going on 3.5 of being fussy and not sleeping. I've gotten about 2.5 tonight. I don't know what to do. I'm going to go fucking ape shit soon.
Post by shananagins on Apr 28, 2016 5:13:37 GMT -5
sopranomama, Holy crap, I'm so sorry! I'd have possibly killed him. With a bit of sleep deprivation, I'm always terrified I'm going to nod off and drop R.
jags8, No advice, but feeling for you. R took 3 hours to relax and finally sleep last night. Tried changing him, feeding him, holding him, burping him, swaddling him... Nothing was working.
Our Owlet monitor hasn't worked for a few days now. The company was great and shipped us a new sensor right away, and we just got it yesterday. I nearly forgot how much better I sleep in between feedings with the monitor on him. I love the live feed to my phone reassuring me he's ok and his pulse/oxygen are in normal ranges. It's the first night I've slept in bed normally (vs laying at the foot of my bed waking up every half hour to stare at him and make sure he's still breathing...)
We are now going on 3.5 of being fussy and not sleeping. I've gotten about 2.5 tonight. I don't know what to do. I'm going to go fucking ape shit soon.
First i am sorry. Its exhausting I've been doing skin to skin and music when this happens.
We are now going on 3.5 of being fussy and not sleeping. I've gotten about 2.5 tonight. I don't know what to do. I'm going to go fucking ape shit soon.
He finally fell asleep around 4:30. He let me sleep til 6:40, but then was fussing in his sleep. I changed and nursed him and now I couldn't go back to sleep. I finally decided to take advantage of him sleeping and took a quick shower. So I got a total of about 4.5 hours. It's days like these I regret going back to work at my PT nanny job. I don't get to nap anymore.
He finally fell asleep around 4:30. He let me sleep til 6:40, but then was fussing in his sleep. I changed and nursed him and now I couldn't go back to sleep. I finally decided to take advantage of him sleeping and took a quick shower. So I got a total of about 4.5 hours. It's days like these I regret going back to work at my PT nanny job. I don't get to nap anymore.
Man, I'm sorry. That stinks that you have to work! I can't imagine going to work after some of the nights I've had, and I'm back in 2 weeks. I regularly get 5 hours at night. I hope you get to catch up tonight!
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