Friday MOTN/Randoms

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We took DD to get blood work done for her 15 month exam and it was such a horrible experience! It took me and two technicians to hold her down. One of the techs took forever to find a vein. His hands were shaking when he poked her which did not inspire any confidence. And then afterwards I got lectured by the other tech for not holding dd hard enough. Something along the lines of "I know you love your baby but you need to be stronger" Ugh...definitely not going back to that lab!

Between that experience and both feeding and physical therapy today, she had no trouble falling asleep tonight!

[statlerwaldorf]

Jul 18, 2014 23:55:46 GMT -5 @itsbubs said:

We took DD to get blood work done for her 15 month exam and it was such a horrible experience! It took me and two technicians to hold her down. One of the techs took forever to find a vein. His hands were shaking when he poked her which did not inspire any confidence. And then afterwards I got lectured by the other tech for not holding dd hard enough. Something along the lines of "I know you love your baby but you need to be stronger" Ugh...definitely not going back to that lab!

Between that experience and both feeding and physical therapy today, she had no trouble falling asleep tonight!

I am still traumatized from having to take dd to get blood drawn after her 1 year check up. What is the point of lecturing you after the fact?

[statlerwaldorf]

I just had an awesome nursing session. I really needed that after he's been refusing the left breast at half of the feedings today and spent most of last night crying and refusing to go back to sleep.

[MadamePresident]

It's 1 am and there are birds chirping outside. What's up with that? Aren't they supposed to sleep in the dark? I'm tired, but can't fall asleep thanks to contractions. I just hope these actually lead to something.

[marie3246]

Dd has been up since 2. She's fed, changed but still not happy. The last few nights have been awful with her being up. Dh leaves for three nights on Sunday and I hate that he's going to get sleep.

[jackie011]

DS had a hard time falling asleep. We did so well last week while DH was away. We had a nice little routine going. This week started out well, but we've moved farther and farther away from the routine. I knew that would happen! Can only imagine what will happen tomorrow (tonight) when we try him out in the crib.

I filled out all of the papers for DS to start daycare, including the authorization to charge our CC a crapload of money each month. It didn't really bother me at the time, but now, I'm starting to freak out. I keep reconfiguring the budget to make it work. It stresses me out that this is all a big joke to DH. Any time I bring it up he says "we're broke , right? Might as well get used to ramen ". Not exactly, but we sure don't need to be spending as much as we do.

[jeaniebueller]

3rd wakeup tonight. Shoot me now. I am exhausted.

[hockeywife]

Third wake up here. Very tempted to go back to the swaddle and only 1 wake up per night...

[rugbywife]

I need to know how bad the 4 month wakeful is. So far my baby has not slept more than 2 hours straight in the past day...previous days she made it 3 hours, now we are down to 2.

Is this it or does it get worse? I don't know how much worse I can take. I can't believe there were times when she slept 5, 6, 7 hours straight and now I am back to this?

[rupertpenny]

Jul 19, 2014 3:55:57 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

I need to know how bad the 4 month wakeful is. So far my baby has not slept more than 2 hours straight in the past day...previous days she made it 3 hours, now we are down to 2.

Is this it or does it get worse? I don't know how much worse I can take. I can't believe there were times when she slept 5, 6, 7 hours straight and now I am back to this?

That sounds about right. For us the worst part lasted about a week.

We sleep trained the minute she turned 5 months. I was in the verge of a nervous breakdown.

[bowies]

DS knocked out a 3.5 hour stretch of sleep tonight. Hallelujah!

Why can't he do this on weeknights?

[lulu21]

Where has my 7-7 baby gone??? Were up again after being up at 2 and 4. I've turned into a zombie mom. Of course his sleep is all messed up when were away without H

Eta- I guess this is a bragplaint but man his sleep was good then boom, 3-4 wake ups a night.

[lulu21]

Jul 19, 2014 3:55:57 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

I need to know how bad the 4 month wakeful is. So far my baby has not slept more than 2 hours straight in the past day...previous days she made it 3 hours, now we are down to 2.

Is this it or does it get worse? I don't know how much worse I can take. I can't believe there were times when she slept 5, 6, 7 hours straight and now I am back to this?

We are there too. J would sttn and last night he was up at 8,2,4 and now 6.

[rugbywife]

Jul 19, 2014 4:10:27 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

Jul 19, 2014 3:55:57 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

I need to know how bad the 4 month wakeful is. So far my baby has not slept more than 2 hours straight in the past day...previous days she made it 3 hours, now we are down to 2.

Is this it or does it get worse? I don't know how much worse I can take. I can't believe there were times when she slept 5, 6, 7 hours straight and now I am back to this?

That sounds about right. For us the worst part lasted about a week.

We sleep trained the minute she turned 5 months. I was in the verge of a nervous breakdown.

I can handle a week. I can't handle until 5 months since it would appear that she has started early, lol.

Also HTF do you all do this and go to work?? Right now I am freaking out because I go back to work in September and DH will be off, that alone is stressing me out

[rupertpenny]

Jul 19, 2014 6:18:37 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Jul 19, 2014 4:10:27 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

That sounds about right. For us the worst part lasted about a week.

We sleep trained the minute she turned 5 months. I was in the verge of a nervous breakdown.

I can handle a week. I can't handle until 5 months since it would appear that she has started early, lol.

Also HTF do you all do this and go to work?? Right now I am freaking out because I go back to work in September and DH will be off, that alone is stressing me out

I wasn't going back to work yet, but yeah, idk either. I really don't know how people do it.

By sept you will def be able to sleep train.

[lg28]

Jul 19, 2014 6:18:37 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Jul 19, 2014 4:10:27 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

That sounds about right. For us the worst part lasted about a week.

We sleep trained the minute she turned 5 months. I was in the verge of a nervous breakdown.

I can handle a week. I can't handle until 5 months since it would appear that she has started early, lol.

Also HTF do you all do this and go to work?? Right now I am freaking out because I go back to work in September and DH will be off, that alone is stressing me out

I went back when DS was 4 months and a shitty sleeper and honestly, now that i have a newborn again I realize 4 months was probably too soon because of MY lack of sleep. Otherwise it was totally fine.

[holly116]

Jul 18, 2014 23:20:59 GMT -5 turtlegirl said:

Boys are in bed and we are finishing up getting everything prepped for DS2's bday party tomorrow.

We also looked at a house tonight that had lots of potential. Great layout, minimal work needed. But it's at the very tip top of our budget. But the neighborhood is very nice with a huge park and school within walking distance. It isn't our ideal neighborhood. It's a little newer and snootier than we would like. Our dream is to live in the charming historic district of our town and it kinda feels like selling out to move to cookie cutter central. But the historic area has much smaller houses and is rarely has anything for sale. Blah!!!

We had a similar dilemma. We knew we'd need to move eventually and we had a ridiculously small area that we wanted to be in, oh and we needed 4 bedrooms and over 2000 sq ft. And not a whole lot of work to do and we wanted to stay under x amount. So we casually went to open houses and even a showing or two for a year or so.

Then I got pregnant with #3 and we found a newer house, without all the charm we were hoping for, a few miles out of where we wanted to be, in like 2 days lol. But it's all good. At least there's less work to do on the weekends because yeah, no time for that. We'll live somewhere me "us" when we aren't raising kids, for now, I'd go with the huge park and close schools.

[rugbywife]

Does sleep training actually help them sleep longer? My kid has no problem falling asleep, she just wakes up to feed very often.

I can imagine being 'okay' with listening to her cry if she needed to fall asleep but I don't know if I could do it if it was the middle of the night and I knew she was hungry - especially because she is such a little skinny mini and I figure she needs every ounce

[statlerwaldorf]

Jul 19, 2014 1:05:32 GMT -5 MadamePresident said:

It's 1 am and there are birds chirping outside. What's up with that? Aren't they supposed to sleep in the dark? I'm tired, but can't fall asleep thanks to contractions. I just hope these actually lead to something.

Did it end up leading to anything?

[MadamePresident]

Yep

[statlerwaldorf]

Jul 19, 2014 13:39:05 GMT -5 MadamePresident said:

Yep

Yay! Good luck!