Oct 24th week!

[awick14]

((EllenGriswold)) obviously no experience with sleep regression yet, but I think that whatever you need to do to get baby to sleep is ok right now.

I found a change table on a local shop and swap for $10, in pretty proud of myself for finding all these things online for cheap. It is also funny though because I always said I didn't want a change table I would just use the top of a dresser. But the dresser we have for the nursery is taller so that won't work, so now I would have to get a different one which would probably be more then $10. So I'm getting a change table. Lol

[sophie223]

starryfish , I'd be annoyed too! You've waited so long for your shower.

Congrats mpc ! Baby girls are so much fun.

We got R's "school pictures" back yesterday and they are hilarious. She was only 2 months old when they were taken, so they propped her up on her elbows. They've got fake pumpkins, a photoshopped "faux autumn" background, the works.

EllenGriswold , I feel you on the sleep regression. I'm not sure if that's exactly what we're going through, but R is getting too big for her swaddle wrap so we've been trying to have her sleep without it. It's not going so well. We usually make it about 4 hours into the night before giving up and just stuffing her into it for our own sanity.   :?  (I swear that's not as painful as it sounds). 

[loira]

EllenGriswold, do whatever you need to do. I have been bringing A into bed with me a lot more than I'd like to lately, but it often gets me an extra couple of hours of sleep if she gets up too early.

[thoseareradishes]

We saw the heartbeat today! I'm feeling much better. I've had some spotting the last couple of days, so that had me super nervous.

[pooh8402]

E's 2 year transferversary was yesterday. I can't believe it's been 2 years since then. Time flies.

[cactuscookie]

Oct 27, 2016 12:20:47 GMT -5 EllenGriswold said:

We are in the middle of the 4 month sleep regression here -- OMG it's awful! And I worry I'm setting up bad habits because I'm letting him nurse back to sleep or sleep in his mamaroo because that's the only way I can get him to settle down, but FUCK I need sleep too! FX this is just a short phase...

We got hit HARD by the 4-month sleep regression. I started nursing her to sleep around then, and, to be honest, it did create a bad habit. It got worse and worse so that she'd wake up every.single.sleep cycle and need nursed back to sleep - this meant 35-minute naps during the day and getting up every 1.5 hours at night. She was exhausted and we were stressed and frustrated. We sleep-trained at 6 months, which wasn't as brutal as I was expecting, and she sleeps well now (although still not through the night).

I read somewhere, which makes sense, that one challenge with the 4-month sleep regression is that it isn't temporary like the other ones. It's a permanent change in how babies sleep. For us, that meant that we couldn't just suck it up for a while and wait until it got better, because it ended up just getting worse instead.

That being said, H had always been a bad sleeper, so she's probably a particularly bad case and hopefully you don't have the same problems!

[pooh8402]

Oh man, the 4 month sleep regression. Ugh. It started for E at 14 weeks (so more like 3.5 months), and it lasted until he was 6 months old, when we sleep trained. To get through it, he spent the first part of each night in his PNP or RNP, then would come to bed with us. I would nurse him about every 2 hours so he would go back to sleep. I wasn't comfortable ST at 4 months, though I know some do. It was brutal.

[Muddled]

For us, 4 months coincided with a trip to see my parents. We weren't sure exactly what to attribute the problems to. I still think it was travel as much as anything. This kid still doesn't like to sleep in strange places.

Just survive. I nurse DD to sleep as a general rule, but by that point we were only doing one MOTN session. H went in to get her if it wasn't time to nurse. She wouldn't calm down for me if I didn't nurse. It lasted a couple weeks, but eventually passed and she's slept through the night since- unless she's teething or sick or something.

[grover]

I am pretty sure I felt baby girl kick once last night and again a few times on my way home.

I also angry ugly hormonal cried today at work. They only pull me to sub ever (been like this past three years) even though there are four other coteachers on my floor alone that could have been pulled. Today was the day of the student assessment in my class that affects MY evaluation for the entire year. Administrator said he didn't care, there were no extra bodies but me. As I stormed upstairs I lost it. Another co-worker went down to volunteer to cover one of the classes, and the admin came upstairs, saw me bawling, and finally changed things around so I could test my sped kids.

[Chrysanthemum]

Oct 24, 2016 22:23:30 GMT -5 awick14 said:

I've been thinking of you Chrysanthemum , have you felt any movements yet? (If you have and posted about it I may have missed it.)

Yes!   And they're a huge anxiety reliever!  It was probably 25-26 weeks until I felt them but for I feel them every day now.