I have a plugged duct under my left boob. I cannot get it loose. Its been like this since yesterday morning. I took a hot shower and used my manual pump which usually does it. I keep massaging and nothing. I'm gonna do another hot shower after next feeding and hopefully pumping after that helps. I hate these and get them often. I'm thisclose to renting a hospital grade pump. I never got them when my babies were in the NICU.
I had a really bad one back in October, and read online somewhere to take a really hot shower, and while in the shower do a lot of massage on the clog going from the top down toward the nipple. Then take a wide tooth comb, lube up the tips of the comb with soap or body wash or shampoo and run it over the clog. That seemed to help some. I also made a hot compress by soaking a diaper in very hot water and laying it on the clog while I nursed on that side. I massaged the clog every time I nursed on that side as well. I also nursed with DD laying down on the bed and me dangling the breast over her, which was the most helpful I think. I've heard a lot of people also say to point baby's chin toward the clog which helps break it up, but that never worked for me. Hope it gets better soon!
I survived the first time having to drive DD in the snow. I'm not a bad winter weather driver, I just don't like having to do it. I'm proud of myself that we both made it to our destinations with no one crying.
The 4 month sleep regression is killing me. We were planning to transition DD to her crib from the RNP next week while we have a few days off around Christmas, but I'm not sure I can take more wakeups than the 3 we have been averaging this week.
I finally managed to wrap some of the gifts that were unwrapped and sitting in a giant pile on our living room floor. DD helped by rolling around and playing with the bows. My poor bald little baby, I couldn't help but stick one on her head for the duration of the gift wrapping.
DS1 (6.5yo) has been a beast lately. He is moody, sassy, being mean on purpose, and has been hitting (well, more like swatting and pretending to hit or punch) when he is upset. WTF. This is totally not his personality. We have zero tolerance for physical violence of any sort. I don't know if he's modeling some behavior he sees at school or what. Then it's like he flips a switch and is his normal sweet, helpful self. We have a 2yo and 4yo as well, the 6yo is not supposed to be hard one around here. Rewarding good behavior, punishing bad behavior, neither make a difference.
I'm having a week where I'm just failing at everything. DS is sick. I'm sick. Work is insanely busy. We can't figure out what's triggering DS's sudden wheezing & coughing. Allergies? Asthma?
We took the Christmas tree out of the house at 9:00 last night, hoping we see improvement. We've already been to the pedi twice this week and need to follow up again tomorrow. He's has two prescriptions, two inhalers & a nebulizer at home. DS hasn't shown any improvement. I feel like I should be home with him, but work. I stayed home on Monday even though time off this close to year end is a big no-no. I've been late coming in every day that I've been here and have had to leave early Tue & Wed so far.
And I'm in the process of working on a promotion that's been long overdue, but this week probably isn't going to help my case the next time I follow up with my boss.
Also, I've been up since 4:30 giving DS a breathing treatment. Anyone have some Baileys for my coffee?
we are about to take our tree down too, DH & i are having a reaction to it. is your DS feeling better?
I am sitting in the waiting room for my one-hour glucose test. I couldn't stomach anything with protein for breakfast, so all I had was coffee and water and then super sugar drink. Now I feel shaky.
I'm headed somewhere for food as soon as they let me out of here!
Family drama went down last night and I have a crying hangover and feel like a big old asshole for setting boundaries and saying no.
Sorry, friend. That has been our whole December. My MIL is mad at me and my SIL hasn't really spoken to me since she had a temper tantrum about us not being here on Christmas Day. (Oh, and she's 40.)
DS1 (6.5yo) has been a beast lately. He is moody, sassy, being mean on purpose, and has been hitting (well, more like swatting and pretending to hit or punch) when he is upset. WTF. This is totally not his personality. We have zero tolerance for physical violence of any sort. I don't know if he's modeling some behavior he sees at school or what. Then it's like he flips a switch and is his normal sweet, helpful self. We have a 2yo and 4yo as well, the 6yo is not supposed to be hard one around here. Rewarding good behavior, punishing bad behavior, neither make a difference.
MOOKS, any thoughts?
This was DS after starting kindergarten until a few weeks ago.
We started doing 1-2-3 Magic and read Your 6yo to try to understand him better. It's helped a lot.
we are about to take our tree down too, DH & i are having a reaction to it. is your DS feeling better?
It's too early to tell. We took it out last night after DS went to bed. He did need a breathing treatment around 4:30 am, but his room is upstairs, away from the tree... so I'm not even sure if that is what's triggering it? Nothing else has changed in the house.
This morning he was only awake for a little while before going off to daycare. DH is going to do a more thorough cleaning before DS & I get home this evening. We literally just threw the tree out on our deck, it still has lights on it along with a few crappy ornaments I didn't bother to grab yet!
I'm not sure how soon we'd notice a difference? This is my first experience with allergies or whatever this is.
Family drama went down last night and I have a crying hangover and feel like a big old asshole for setting boundaries and saying no.
Ugh, I'm sorry. Family drama is the absolute worst. DH's family tip-toes around each other around the holidays because no one can decide on a time to do gifts on Christmas Eve because we all have babies and nap schedules and our own individual family plans, etc. And god-forbid I decide we are going to my side instead. Holidays can totally be the suck with family drama.
I am sitting in the waiting room for my one-hour glucose test. I couldn't stomach anything with protein for breakfast, so all I had was coffee and water and then super sugar drink. Now I feel shaky.
I'm headed somewhere for food as soon as they let me out of here!
This was me too. It's terrible. I failed the 1 hour test so had to take the 3. By the last draw of the third, my glucose was at 58 and I was shaking so bad it hurt. I got home and was talking to H and he was legit concerned for me. Get that sucker done and go get thee some food ASAP!
Post by bluelikejazz on Dec 18, 2014 11:01:40 GMT -5
Apparently I waited until after pregnancy to nest. While I was pg, I couldn't have cared less about cleaning/organizing/cooking. But yesterday I cleaned our bedroom/closet, went through all my clothes and sent two huge bags to goodwill, and one to the trash.
Other projects I want to do now-deep clean the kitchens and bathrooms, go through all the junk in storage in the basement, organize my handbags and toss/donate at least 1/3 of them, help DH clean the garage, etc.
we are about to take our tree down too, DH & i are having a reaction to it. is your DS feeling better?
It's too early to tell. We took it out last night after DS went to bed. He did need a breathing treatment around 4:30 am, but his room is upstairs, away from the tree... so I'm not even sure if that is what's triggering it? Nothing else has changed in the house.
This morning he was only awake for a little while before going off to daycare. DH is going to do a more thorough cleaning before DS & I get home this evening. We literally just threw the tree out on our deck, it still has lights on it along with a few crappy ornaments I didn't bother to grab yet!
I'm not sure how soon we'd notice a difference? This is my first experience with allergies or whatever this is.
ETA: I hope you and your DH feel better soon!
thanks, i cant decipher if its a cold or allergies. but its been 9 days now that we've had the tree up and we still have scratchy throat, watery eyes and i'm stuffed up. dh is going to buy a fake today after work
MIL is asking me what initials I prefer, presumably for a monogrammed gift. Except all of the possibilities she listed (JVdS; JVD; JdS; ; JDS; JVDS) assume I took DH's name, which I didn't. I don't really care; but at the same time, depending on what the item is I may prefer it to be correct (something for work I'd want right, since people only know me by my maiden name; otherwise I don't really care).
Should I just give her some variation of her last name to make her happy, or say, "I prefer JVT if you are monogramming"?
yes I would say that. Doesn't she know your name? That is weird to suggest a monogram that is not even yours unless it is like a passive agressive thing.
MIL is asking me what initials I prefer, presumably for a monogrammed gift. Except all of the possibilities she listed (JVdS; JVD; JdS; ; JDS; JVDS) assume I took DH's name, which I didn't. I don't really care; but at the same time, depending on what the item is I may prefer it to be correct (something for work I'd want right, since people only know me by my maiden name; otherwise I don't really care).
Should I just give her some variation of her last name to make her happy, or say, "I prefer JVT if you are monogramming"?
If I were giving something monogrammed to somebody (which I probably wouldn't do in the first place), I'd want to put whichever initials on it that the gift receiver preferred. Otherwise it's not very useful. I assume she knows you didn't take your H's last name, right? I'd just tell her what you actually prefer. If she didn't care, she wouldn't have asked.
ETA: Now I'm curious to know what the gift is. I'm envisioning a monogrammed cheese board or bath robe or something.
I cannot, for the life of me, get R to feed himself. I break food up into chunks and leave it in front of him. Nope. He'll happily move it around and play and talk to it, but not a bite makes it into his mouth. He LOVES eating though. He sits there like a bird begging me to drop another piece in.
lol. I can't get L to NOT feed himself. He has some like food-radar and instantly knows if something is food or not. If it is, in it goes. Plus he notices now if we eat and he isn't and stares at us until he gets some too. So long snacks
I don't know if it would work, or if it's stupid, but when we adopted my cat he couldn't figure out that the bowl of food in front of him was for him to eat. The cat was watching H eat, so H pretended to eat the cat food (LOL) and it for some reason clicked in the cat's head that the bowl of kibble was for eating. Maybe eat HIS food/demonstrate? I don't know.. haha.
lol at pretend eating cat food
we make a big show of eating with R, both as we're eating our own food and eating bites of his. no dice. when he's holding on to a piece of food we try to move his hand towards his mouth, but he will drop the food and then stare at us mouth agape like "why aren't you feeding me?! why is there no food in my mouth?!" he knows food when he sees it. when i have a snack in the living room he's right next to me, mouth open, begging. he hasn't met anything edible that he doesn't like.
he doesn't put toys in his mouth either which i was oh so happy with thinking that we don't have to worry about germs as much, until i realized that it also meant he wouldn't feed himself. the no toys thing is proving to be a pain with teething, too, because i think he'd find some relief and maybe cut teeth sooner if he'd chew on something.
Post by waterchurch on Dec 18, 2014 12:52:00 GMT -5
My mom comes today, she should arrive during nap time. Just have to get through the morning then I'll have help! I'm really tired of my boobs hurting. I think she's just bruised the crap out of me because my boobs are so big and she's so small. Sigh. Hopefully I toughen up soon.
I woke up at 1 am from a nightmare in which I was bitten by a snake. I was soaked with sweat and had to get up and change clothes. Then I couldn't go back to sleep forever, and K was up a million times after that. She has a stuffy nose and probably wasn't feeling well.
Staples still hasn't finished my holiday card order that I placed Monday evening. Yesterday at 3:00 the guy said I was 10th in line and would most likely be done that night, but still no email. I'm going to stop by again after work to check the status. I get that they're busy because of the Groupon but don't say next business day if you can't do it! I did get the envelopes so they are all ready to go once the cards are done.
MIL is asking me what initials I prefer, presumably for a monogrammed gift. Except all of the possibilities she listed (JVdS; JVD; JdS; ; JDS; JVDS) assume I took DH's name, which I didn't. I don't really care; but at the same time, depending on what the item is I may prefer it to be correct (something for work I'd want right, since people only know me by my maiden name; otherwise I don't really care).
Should I just give her some variation of her last name to make her happy, or say, "I prefer JVT if you are monogramming"?
Definitely tell her what your initials are. I really like monogrammed things and we did Christmas with some of H's family last weekend. H's cousins (who are teenagers) are so sweet and thoughtful and gave me a monogrammed necklace and a hat (which is NMS, but whatever). But they both have the wrong initials. I took my H's last name, but made my maiden name my middle name. It's partly my fault because his one cousin gave me a monogrammed blanket the first year we were married and I hadn't changed my name yet so I could understand that it was assumed that I dropped my last name for H's (I also never said "So my initials really JSJ, not JNJ" because that is awkward). I'm a sentimental weirdo who will probably keep these things and never wear them because I feel bad about it. Ugh!
Every day when I head upstairs to my office to work (or leave to go to the office) J will ask "who's house are you going to work at today mama?" And then each day he comes up with a different characters house I visit for work. Today it is the Count from Sesame St. Yesterday it was Elmo's house. Other days it is Mickey, or Grover etc. Oh kid, I wish I worked at Elmo's house. I'm sure there he isn't worrying about serving a summons at Christmas time