What worries are you having right now?

[dancingirl21]

I was thinking this week about how much I worried that J would never drink milk out of a sippy since he hated it so much. It was brought on by the fact that he chugged down 9 oz in his sippy the other day at dinner.

Now he's 17 months old and I'm on to speech. He babbles all day long and says daddy, uh oh, yeah, yes, no, woah, wow, down and sometimes hat.

He has had other words in the past couple of months but has either forgotten them or doesn't want to say them (all done, mama (wahh!), one).

My worry is that 1. He doesn't have enough words 2. He seems to be forgetting words (lol) 3. He doesn't have words for things. Like he can't tell me something is a ball even though he knows exactly what it is.

All this got me thinking that there's always something to think about when you are a parent. Add yours!

[Deleted]

I'm trying to take DDS nighttime diapers away. She was dry Monday night, had an accident Tuesday night. I'm waiting for her to wakeup now and see. I want her to do this...lol.

DS I don't think he drinks enough bottle. Which is a stupid worry. The kid is perfectly fine.

My big kid (the exchange student) really needs to work on his English. It's bad. He gets all defensive about it and "THIS IS WHAT MY SCHOOL TAUGHT ME!" IDK what he's speaking sometimes. It's not even British English which is what they usually learn. I want to bang my head against the wall from the constant repeated explanations over the little things. It's also unsafe esp. at work because he says he understands when he doesn't. He also doesn't drink often, but when he does...it's a lot. (which he's a 23 year old college kid so I let it slide) But H said when he came in late the other night, he saw him literally stumble up the steps for a drink of water. After the New Year we need to take care of this. He is the happiest kid and he's not easily depressed, so I'm not worried that way..I just want to take care of him.

[rugbywife]

I am wondering if it is bad form to use printed labels for our Christmas cards. There are only 30 of them. Sigh. And the cards are printed. And the return addresses will be labels too. Can I use being a new mom as an excuse?

[KaraOrNot]

Everything!

Regarding Ollie, I am worried that he isn't eating enough/not gaining enough weight. If it doesn't pick up (he was derailed by a 2 week hospitalization, followed by c-diff infection that is still being treated), we have to discuss feeding tube. I am also worried about his upcoming surgery.

Regarding me, I am worried about my back pain and my upcoming surgery. My back hurt so much last night that I almost called my mom to take me to the ER. I am worried about the surgery recovery and how Ollie will be cared for. Right now, my mom and MIL are taking turns staying over, but the surgery recovery is 4-6 weeks. That is a lot to put on them and H cant take much more time off work. Plus, I am worried that I will still have a lot of pain after surgery and I will still have a hard time caring for him.

[rugbywife]

Honestly, my real concern is how our trip to Montreal for Xmas is going to go. My family isn't low stress and we are driving 6 hours each way in the middle of the Canadian winter. I just want a restful, stress free break

[Deleted]

So many things:
J getting into preschool

J being able to keep up with his peers gross motor wise due to the hypotonia and constant battle with low strength. Twy sentwa warning - Yesterday his pt said something about how academically he could skip preschool and go into kindergarten in the fall. She was telling me about some things he had said and done when they were playing with numbers and counting and her point was to comment on how bright he is. My first thought was he needs preschool to work on gross motor, he would get trampled. This is ridiculous because it's not as though she were honestly suggesting he go to kindergarten or anything, I'm just stressing over his gross motor skills lately.

The girls never sleeping through the night before I die from lack of sleep

The girls not babbling enough/developing their speech

The girls not eating food so that I can cut back nursing at a year and especially night wean

A particularly bad case at work with a looming deadline that is slipping away

[cincodemayo]

DS... I'm worried that I will turn him into a little tantrum monster. We give in to him if it's something silly like he wants a snack, but I don't want him to think a tantrum is the way to go. I also worry that he likes tv too much already. He loves his episodes of Elmo and DT in the morning.

Me? I'm worried I'll never get my work done that is due by Christmas and I won't get to enjoy my holidays and I'm worried my in laws won't be happily with their gifts. Lame.

[zarapipe]

Dec 18, 2014 7:47:30 GMT -5 tulips said:

K isn't doing well with taking a bottle at all anymore. I go back to work in 2.5 weeks. I am afraid she'll be hungry all day and reverse cycle. She's a great sleeper and I don't want that to get messed up.

This this this.

And I don't want to go back to work. And I'm worried about her new dc. I know it will be fine but just getting to know the place more.

[magpie]

I'm worried that DD is going to keep waking up at 4:30am for the rest of her life! She's waking up with separation anxiety too (not sure if that's what is waking her, but when she wakes, she's crazy/shrieking unless someone hangs out with her or we bring her to us). we've started going into her room and sleeping on the floor there until it's a more reasonable time to get up. She'll sleep if one of us is in there. She's 14 months and in worried that we're spoiling her or making it worse by going in there and sleeping in her room. We tried cio for 30 minutes once instead and it totally didn't seem to subside at all, so sleeping on the floor seems easier.

[rbp]

That I'll never sleep again.

[rupertpenny]

dancingirl21 my daughter is about the same age and she almost only says nouns and I worry about that!

I'm no expert, but it sounds like your son has a decent amount of words and is doing fine. I know it's hard not to worry though.

[matildasun]

I am worried about A at school today. She has a new cast and is struggling with it. I would have kept her home to practice, but they are having silly sock day in ho or of her, so she needed to go.

On a larger level, I am really nervous about going back to work in September, and what to do with M. There are so many moving pieces, and I just need to trust that they will fall together.

[bowies]

I'm worried that DS's sleep just dramatically changed. I know, I know, I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but it was such an abrupt change that I'm wondering what's up.

[Deleted]

DS: we're moving him into a toddler bed very soon, and that terrifies me. He'll be alone in his room, when I can't see him!!! What if he hurts himself? What if he doesn't sleep? What if the toddler bed ruins his mostly STTN? What if he drops his nap?!?! Ahhhh!

I also just had a HUGE argument with DH about babyproofing his room. DH *insisted* that his 100lb antique dresser was "too heavy for DS to ever pull over" so it didn't need to be bolted to the wall. NO. THAT's EXACTLY WHY it DOES need to be secured! Same goes for the cord to the blinds and the cord to the baby monitor. "He never touches those" is NOT an acceptable reason DH. You can SIT DOWN NOW.

[Deleted]

Soon-to-be DD: my upcoming GD test, which I'm sure I'll fail again. I fucking hate GD. I love carbs, love sweets. I am SO DEPRESSED at the idea of cooking carb free for 3 months. What will I feed DS?!?

I'm also having occasional BH contractions. Seems early to me. I had legit pre-term labor twice with DS at 36 and 38 weeks, so any contractions scare me. With DS I had bright red bleeding, contractions, overnight monitoring in the hospital. I don't want to scare DS if that happens with DD.

[everafter07]

She's 17 mo and not walking. She crawls and cruises like a champ.

Speech. Like @vicmo, mostly pointing and babbling or whining. She really doesn't say anything at all, unless it's animal noises. She knows a lot of those, but they're not very intelligible unless you know what animal she's trying to mimic.

I'm not really "worried." I've come to know her and know that she just really takes her time with everything. She's very cautious and does pretty much everything perfectly, WHEN she finally starts doing the motor skill. And she's so damn smart. She can point out any letter I ask her to, colors, some numbers, etc. I know she's fine, but it's still hard when the pedi puts timelines and stipulations on things.

[MNH2013]

I'm worried about what I should be doing with her at 8 months. (I never even did the breezy quiz because I already knew I wasn't lol)

I don't want her to be bored and I know Christmas will provide new things for her to do.

[sillygoosegirl]

Will this baby go back to sleep when she is done nursing? We are in day-at-a-time mode. Or perhaps even feeding-at-a-time mode.

[dancingirl21]

Dec 18, 2014 8:24:51 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

dancingirl21 my daughter is about the same age and she almost only says nouns and I worry about that!

I'm no expert, but it sounds like your son has a decent amount of words and is doing fine. I know it's hard not to worry though.

Thank you! I keep comparing him to other kids, which is so bad to do. Our good friends have a daughter 2 months older than J and she talks so much! He walks up to her and screeches in her face and she just stares at him. Logically I do know that 2 months is a huge amount of time when he is only 17 months old.

[Deleted]

I am not that worried about DS right now (thank you Zoloft). I think he may be a little behind in speech, but I just figure he will catch up eventually. After all, his bday is 4 days after the cutoff so I will be doing govt. mandated "redshirting".

Me, I am a little worried that I won't get the job I interview for this week. At least I know I made it to the end because they flew me out for an interview but there are literally zero jobs posted right now that work for me. I know it's the holidays and I've only been out of work since November but I am not cut out to SAH for long.

[Deleted]

Dec 18, 2014 8:59:33 GMT -5 dancingirl21 said:

Dec 18, 2014 8:24:51 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

dancingirl21 my daughter is about the same age and she almost only says nouns and I worry about that!

I'm no expert, but it sounds like your son has a decent amount of words and is doing fine. I know it's hard not to worry though.

Thank you! I keep comparing him to other kids, which is so bad to do. Our good friends have a daughter 2 months older than J and she talks so much! He walks up to her and screeches in her face and she just stares at him. Logically I do know that 2 months is a huge amount of time when he is only 17 months old.

Also I hate to stereotype but boys generally talk later. DS is a couple months younger than J and we are in the same boat.

[Deleted]

I worry that we'll get no sleep when we travel post-Christmas. I hate sharing a room with my kids. They're sleeping fairly good, but part of that is that I shut doors and use no monitor.

[gibbinator]

I'm worried that the 4 month wakeful is coming to ruin my unicorn baby. This brought to you by being up 5 times between 9am and 6am.

[mrsjrd23]

Dec 18, 2014 8:32:10 GMT -5 @supergreen said:

DS: we're moving him into a toddler bed very soon, and that terrifies me. He'll be alone in his room, when I can't see him!!! What if he hurts himself? What if he doesn't sleep? What if the toddler bed ruins his mostly STTN? What if he drops his nap?!?! Ahhhh!

I also just had a HUGE argument with DH about babyproofing his room. DH *insisted* that his 100lb antique dresser was "too heavy for DS to ever pull over" so it didn't need to be bolted to the wall. NO. THAT's EXACTLY WHY it DOES need to be secured! Same goes for the cord to the blinds and the cord to the baby monitor. "He never touches those" is NOT an acceptable reason DH. You can SIT DOWN NOW.

I could have written this exact post!  The toddler bed transition scares the crap out of me!!  And when we transition him, he is moving into a new room and it's on the first floor and we are on the second which only adds to my anxiety  What if he tries to climb the stairs at night and falls? what is someone breaks in and steals him?  What if he figures out how to get outside???  I may never sleep again when we do this.

[Deleted]

mrsjrd23, we are turning the doorknob around on his bedroom door so we can lock him in at night. He simply can't wander the house, too dangerous. He can open the front door, we have a wood stove that we often run at night, he can open the dog's crate and she'll chew stuff. I know locking him in will upset him, but it has to be done.

[Blue Moon]

I'm worried that B's ear infection did not clear up and that's why she was up literally all night again.

I'm worried that I'm going to cause an accident due to lack of sleep.

I'm worried about going back to work on Monday. I have to be on at my job 100% of the time and I can't even think straight right now.

I'm worried about preparing Christmas Eve dinner for 25 people with a baby who won't let me put her down.

Basically, I'm one big ball of worry. I wish I could take something to help but I'm bfing.

[Deleted]

That one day dd2 will be successful in one of her attempts to commit suicide by throwing herself off the couch.

I need to childproof my couch.

[biscoffcookies]

That I will find out I had a missed miscarriage when I go for my NT scan next month (I'm 8w4d now).

All the symptoms I was having from 5 to 8 weeks have disappeared this week. And, ever since I found out about this prengancy, I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. I was told in college I would have a hard time getting pregnant, but I got pregnant with both DD and this baby on our first month of trying. Plus, my pregnancy and delivery with DD were super easy and complication free, and DD has been healthy and amazing. I feel we've been too lucky.  In other news, DH thinks I am crazy.

[Saudade]

ugh so much right now.

DS1: He'll have a hard time adjusting to the new house, he won't get over not living with the grands, that he'll never like his baby brother/

DS2: That he'll never sleep again (he has a cold/teething and not sleeping), that he isn't eating enough, general development.

Life: Our house will eat up all our money, we won't have enough money, DH won't pass his boards, DH won't like his new job, we won't deal well with partially living apart, I won't get into grad school, money, health insurance (see today's randoms post), that my parents won't respect our space.

[sunshine608]

That we will co-sleep forever and he will never sleep without the boob.
I tried unsuccessfully to curb this habit this week and failed miserably.