I woke to feed the baby at 2:30am, dd1 came down for snuggles at 3, I took her back to bed, dd2 heard us and started crying, at 3:30 she was still crying so I went to her room to snuggle her and then she puked on me, herself and all the bedding. Showers. Took her to my bed because I'm too lazy to change sheets and she's too far away to be sick if she's up there. Dd1 wants to know what's wrong. 4:45 dd2 puked in my bed on dh. Now they are showering and I have an hour before he goes to work. Obviously dd2 won't be attending daycare. Oh and the baby wants to eat again. Fml.
Oh man that sounds miserable, sorry some days the gross laundry just keeps coming!
I actually have a vent. Due to a mud slide yesterday-thanks brush fire a week before El NiƱo rain-my usual 45-55 minute commute from work to pick ds up from daycare turned into a nearly 2 1/2 hour ordeal. By the time I got to him, he was the second to last kid left, he was acting wild because he was tired and I the director had to hold the door open so I could put him under one arm since he was thrashing And not listening and all my bags under the other arm because he had a few accidents. Then I slipped in mud (but didn't fall oh geez that would have been hilarious and awful). Man! That was a day!
My vent is that I had the worst headache last night and had a terrible time sleeping. DS woke up twice asking for snuggles and the 2nd time I just had him come in our bed and sleep. He was literally sleeping as close to me as he could possibly get. When DH got home at 2 I made him move him back to his bed. Then DH snored like you wouldn't believe. Just as I was getting comfy and thinking I could catch a few more minutes of sleep before my alarm went off we had an earthquake.
Sorry dizzy, I hope it's one of those overnight things and there's no more puking today! Days like that I feel like just putting everyone's puke laundry in the garbage and starting over fresh.
My kids were up a ton last night too. Is there a full moon or something?
My vent is that DS comes home from preschool so exhausted and crazy that I almost don't feel like it's worth it for him to keep going. Yesterday he was horrible. Yelling, sassing me, head butting DD any time she got within 2 feet of him and crying at the drop of a hat. I hate it! I ended up yelling at him so many times, and then feeling like crap.
Ugh, that's awful. But why are you nighttime parenting the older 2 with a 1 week old? Tell your h to get on it.
Hope no one else gets sick!!
Ditto!
I'll be hornet that before DD was born I did all of the nighttime parenting mostly because of DH's schedule. But once we had 2, he got up with DS and I got up with DD.
Your H needs to help too! But I get it, if he's got a difficult schedule that's hard. I always felt bad when DH got home at 2 or 3 am and got up at 4 with DS
Ugh, that's awful. But why are you nighttime parenting the older 2 with a 1 week old? Tell your h to get on it.
Hope no one else gets sick!!
Ditto!
I'll be hornet that before DD was born I did all of the nighttime parenting mostly because of DH's schedule. But once we had 2, he got up with DS and I got up with DD.
Your H needs to help too! But I get it, if he's got a difficult schedule that's hard. I always felt bad when DH got home at 2 or 3 am and got up at 4 with DS
Yes exactly. Our rule was for the first 2-3 months or so he was responsible for older kids totally. Then it evened out some again as the newborn grew and could be more easily settled by dad, etc. before the middle was born I did most if not all of it. While my husband gets up very early he does work a standard m-f schedule, so that helps.
I'll be hornet that before DD was born I did all of the nighttime parenting mostly because of DH's schedule. But once we had 2, he got up with DS and I got up with DD.
Your H needs to help too! But I get it, if he's got a difficult schedule that's hard. I always felt bad when DH got home at 2 or 3 am and got up at 4 with DS
Yes exactly. Our rule was for the first 2-3 months or so he was responsible for older kids totally. Then it evened out some again as the newborn grew and could be more easily settled by dad, etc. before the middle was born I did most if not all of it. While my husband gets up very early he does work a standard m-f schedule, so that helps.
It takes him 20 minutes to change a diaper in the middle of the night, I do not have patience for that bs. He also could sleep through a tornado so waking him is a joke. I gave him dd2 at 5 and he went to the couch after they showered. He also does evening issues until he goes to bed around 10 and I usually crash by 8:30 or 9. I figure he's working, I'm not, and they settle pretty quickly, but nights like last night are just brutal.