The last three nights/mornings we've had an hour+ wide awake party. Saturday night/Sunday AM and this morning it was 5am, yesterday morning it was 2 am. WTF GIRLFRIEND, GO BACK TO SLEEP.
Us too! And he’s so happy!!! Talking and cracking himself up. Not cool kid!!!!!
The last three nights/mornings we've had an hour+ wide awake party. Saturday night/Sunday AM and this morning it was 5am, yesterday morning it was 2 am. WTF GIRLFRIEND, GO BACK TO SLEEP.
I hate when they do that!
Yesterday D woke up at 530 (when I was in the middle of pooping no less) and was awake for like an hour. I just wanted to finish my trip to the bathroom and get my coffee at least!
Post by icedcoffee on Jan 14, 2020 10:06:44 GMT -5
DS2 slept on his belly in a sleep sack last night for 12 hours! Love that kid! LOL
We're going to introduce solids tomorrow (his 5 month birthday!). I'll make sweet potato. I have a feeling he's going to eat more store bought purees than DS1 did (I mostly made his). I just ordered a whole bunch. Poor second kid. LOL I just know how short a phase purees are and it just doesn't seem worth it for some of the harder things. I'll still make the easy things, but I remember things like peas had weird consistency and just seems easier to buy them.
DD wakes up at 4:30am so I have started going to bed at 8:30am immediately after dinner. Sigh. I may start using that time to go for stroller runs so at least something productive comes of her ridiculousness. I would kill to make it until at least 5:30am.
lifetaketwo and hamster, she will happily smile, grab my face, etc. Yesterday I got desperate (since it wasn't even 3am) and put her in the bouncy seat for a bit so I could at least stretch out in the recliner next to her...she blew raspberries and babbled for half an hour until I decided that so help me god she'd been up long enough. Today she went fell back asleep at 6:40 and stayed that way until 9:15 which worked out great for my husband since they leave around 9:30 but WTF man. MAMA NEEDS MORE SLEEP.
scm1011 oh he's up at 430 too, lol. Which means so am I, because I have a 5 am alarm.
osulori how old is she again? At some point I got fed up with the 3 am raspberry practice and just put him back in the crib to do it on his own time. I'd have to go back in an hour later and couldn't really sleep but at least I was in bed.
Post by farfalla2011 on Jan 14, 2020 12:06:30 GMT -5
Add us to the horrible sleep camp. For the past week, he's decided to not sleep well. Last night he woke at 1:45 and finally at 3:30 I brought him glad bed with me so I could get a little bit of sleep since he wouldn't stay asleep in his crib. This is starting to be a pattern and it sucks. Not to mention it's taking almost 2 hours to get him down for the night. I tried starting TCB and after a couple nights of it working well, everything went to shit. There's not enough coffee in the world.
Also, I'm trying to get up the courage to drop L at daycare at least for a few hours sometime this week since we're now paying for it. But with all the sleep issues - he still won't really nap on his own in the crib - I'm dreading that I'm going to get an overtired baby home and make life just that much worse. Not to mention, if I'm out running errands when he's at daycare, when the heck am I going to squeeze in pumping since he wont be nursing. I have so much stress and anxiety over all of this right now and it sucks.
Oh, and all these sleep issues are causing horrible tension in my marriage right now life is a big cluster f over here right now.
While perhaps not helpful, this is not uncommon. Being sleep deprived increases snippiness IME. I hear you on the tension. I often feel like I'm pulling (far) more than my share when it comes to MOTN stuff and then DH gets defensive and shit gets tense. The first year is hard on a marriage, but it will get better. Hugs.
Oh, and all these sleep issues are causing horrible tension in my marriage right now life is a big cluster f over here right now.
While perhaps not helpful, this is not uncommon. Being sleep deprived increases snippiness IME. I hear you on the tension. I often feel like I'm pulling (far) more than my share when it comes to MOTN stuff and then DH gets defensive and shit gets tense. The first year is hard on a marriage, but it will get better. Hugs.
Thanks for this. It actually is helpful from a solidarity side of things.
Oh, and all these sleep issues are causing horrible tension in my marriage right now life is a big cluster f over here right now.
While perhaps not helpful, this is not uncommon. Being sleep deprived increases snippiness IME. I hear you on the tension. I often feel like I'm pulling (far) more than my share when it comes to MOTN stuff and then DH gets defensive and shit gets tense. The first year is hard on a marriage, but it will get better. Hugs.
Ditto this. When we do have issues so much of them stem from sleep deprivation for me, whether it's me getting overly emotional about stuff that I normally wouldn't or feeling like J doesn't pull his weight or bugging me for sex when all I want to do is sleep etc etc etc. The first year after baby is SO rough!
hamster, she's 6.5 months. I'm hoping this MOTN party business is a phase but yeah, I'm getting close to just putting her back in bed until she either (please god please) falls asleep or starts getting super pissed.
Oh, and all these sleep issues are causing horrible tension in my marriage right now life is a big cluster f over here right now.
While perhaps not helpful, this is not uncommon. Being sleep deprived increases snippiness IME. I hear you on the tension. I often feel like I'm pulling (far) more than my share when it comes to MOTN stuff and then DH gets defensive and shit gets tense. The first year is hard on a marriage, but it will get better. Hugs.
Yup, this. I always feel so angry MOTN if I feel I'm doing more than my fair share, but it always gets better if we can manage to get a little sleep.
Also, it seems like daycare IME is good at getting babies to nap, even if they don't do it well at home. That was my experience at least. It may be a rough transition but it will get better!
I think DD has hit her ~9 month sleep regression 😭 she spent 2 hours awake and mostly screaming last night, and then another hour where she was semi asleep but coughing so much I had to hold her. At least she went back to sleep after waking up at 4am again...
Also, it seems like daycare IME is good at getting babies to nap, even if they don't do it well at home. That was my experience at least. It may be a rough transition but it will get better!
This may be enough motivation to get me to take him to daycare lol.
I hope someone finds this funny because right now I'm struggling.
So we're battling a yeast diaper rash on E2. I was letting him have some naked booty time before I put his cream and diaper on before bed. I laid out a big towel for him and some toys. I was putting some things away when I smell poop. I look up, thinking that I just need to close the lid on the diaper pail. Nope! He crawled off the towel and took a shit on my carpet! I had literally just changed a poop diaper 15 minutes prior. And was it a nice firm turd like he has had the last few days? Also nope! Very loose, almost diarrhea in consistency! OMG.
Also, it seems like daycare IME is good at getting babies to nap, even if they don't do it well at home. That was my experience at least. It may be a rough transition but it will get better!
This may be enough motivation to get me to take him to daycare lol.
Definitely let them do it. Re pumping, when I’m running errands I pump in the back of my car. It’s not fun, but what can you do. Good luck.
We must be in sleep regression here too. Every night it’s a struggle to go to bed and to stay asleep. I am so tired and I feel like I’m hanging on by a string. Work, home, my older kid, I have no time for myself at all and it’s starting to get to me. Also, being sick has really made everything much worse.
I was actually going to ask you how you were doing with your rash situation. DS has a small round irritated spot right on the edge of his diaper that I can't get to go away. Since it's not entirely covered by the diaper it's hard to goop it up, but I've tried light Aquaphor and Lotrimin in case it's yeast. It's not budging. I'm trying to decide if I should take him to the pedi for it. It doesn't seem to bother him, I just can't get it to go away. He doesn't have a well visit scheduled until 3/6 for a casual mention.
Susie, I started using gentian violet on Sunday, just once a day. Took him to the pedi yesterday afternoon and he said it is looking good, keep doing what I'm doing (the gentian violet once a day and the lotrimin all other diaper changes), but he gave me some calmoseptine packets to use with the lotrimin. HUGE improvement from yesterday to today! I'm hoping it stays gone but we're traveling again this weekend so we'll have about 7 hours in the car tomorrow.
That's basically what E2's rash looked like when it was starting.
farfalla2011 , how are things going? I’ve been thinking of you!
Thanks so much for checking on me. Sleep has gotten tremendously better since getting the sleep suit and starting daycare. I've even had a couple nights where he's slept 11 hours which had never happened previously!! Last night was a little bit rough since he was up a few times, but it was expected since we were traveling yesterday which got all his eating and naps off. He's still a crap napper, he usually gets 2-3 30 minute naps in a daycare, but is exhausted when I pick him up and he sleeps well at night. He's also going to sleep basically by himself which has been huge!
Baby life always seems to have a new thing to worry about, but I guess that's being a mom/parent haha. I'm getting ready to head back to work on Wednesday and am pretty much dreading it, but, it is what it is right now. Maybe in a year or so, we might have room in our budget to make some changes, but I'm not getting my hopes up. But, something will need to change in that time frame since I think my job will be ultimately gone by then since my department is being absorbed by our parent company.
farfalla2011 , how are things going? I’ve been thinking of you!
Thanks so much for checking on me. Sleep has gotten tremendously better since getting the sleep suit and starting daycare. I've even had a couple nights where he's slept 11 hours which had never happened previously!! Last night was a little bit rough since he was up a few times, but it was expected since we were traveling yesterday which got all his eating and naps off. He's still a crap napper, he usually gets 2-3 30 minute naps in a daycare, but is exhausted when I pick him up and he sleeps well at night. He's also going to sleep basically by himself which has been huge!
Baby life always seems to have a new thing to worry about, but I guess that's being a mom/parent haha. I'm getting ready to head back to work on Wednesday and am pretty much dreading it, but, it is what it is right now. Maybe in a year or so, we might have room in our budget to make some changes, but I'm not getting my hopes up. But, something will need to change in that time frame since I think my job will be ultimately gone by then since my department is being absorbed by our parent company.
I was hoping the merlin was doing wonders! I’m sorry that you have to head back to work! I can only imagine how hard it is.
DD is STILL SICK. It has been 3+ weeks and she is still vomiting from coughing daily. We have been to the doctor several times and its just a recurring cold and there is nothing to be done but wait it out. I am home from work, again. I am so so over this.
DD is STILL SICK. It has been 3+ weeks and she is still vomiting from coughing daily. We have been to the doctor several times and its just a recurring cold and there is nothing to be done but wait it out. I am home from work, again. I am so so over this.
Poor you and her. We are in week 3 as well and I have been to work 3 times only. We also got 2 teeth during this time and now a sleep regression. I hope things improve for you guys. 🙁
DD is STILL SICK. It has been 3+ weeks and she is still vomiting from coughing daily. We have been to the doctor several times and its just a recurring cold and there is nothing to be done but wait it out. I am home from work, again. I am so so over this.
Poor you and her. We are in week 3 as well and I have been to work 3 times only. We also got 2 teeth during this time and now a sleep regression. I hope things improve for you guys. 🙁
Ugh, solidarity. Here’s hoping both our babies regain their health ASAP.
Post by dreamcrisp1 on Feb 3, 2020 21:51:48 GMT -5
We have been battling some major issues here. L has severe eczema that turned into a bacterial infection on his head and face. I kept going to the doctors trying to get action done and it took 4 visits before they finally listened when I said he needs a topical antibiotic. 4 in January. This doesn’t include the November and December visits. It has worked wonders since starting on Wednesday afternoon and I’m pissed they didn’t listen to me before this. We also got a referral to a dermatologist for him.
He has a lip tie and slight tongue tie but the ENT was all hesitant about clipping it. But I decided to go back again and see him because of his weight gain issues.
Still struggling on weight (and height) here. Could be due to his body fighting the eczema and infections for so long. Could be an allergy. Could be the lip tie. So many variables. But we’re exploring all the options. I have worked hard on my latch and he gained 400g in January, which is unreal. It’s more than he gained in November and December combined. I’m hoping we can continue and his calories go towards growing because he needs to catch up.
So I’m overwhelmed with all this stuff and stressed to the max which sucks for PPA.
dreamcrisp1 Hope the infection clears up quickly and that you get some answers. It is so frustrating when there are so many variables to what could be causing an issue for baby. I’m on a major elimination diet to find out what’s causing problems for my LO. Maybe it’s something in the breastmilk, maybe not - I’m getting a lot of just wait she’ll outgrow it advice. Not helpful.
dreamcrisp1 I'm so sorry. We are finally at the tail end of serve eczema breakouts (been a battle since birth). I'll pass along what DD's dermatologist told us in case any of this is helpful to you:
-Allergies, Eczema, and Asthma are all related. Immune reactions presenting differently (or something like that). Then he went on to say that more often than not, eczema is not traced/triggered by allergies so he didn't recommend massive eliminations from my diet unless I noticed a trend. (I had eliminated 99% of dairy (I needed a piece of chocolate once and a while) and 100% of wheat from my diet with no positive effect. They will allergy test at 6 months though just to cross that off the list)
-Once they have a flareup pretty much the only way to get rid of it is a steroid cream (hydro cortisone until they give you a script for something better). Don't use the steroid creams on any one spot for more than a week or two (depending on strength).
-Try as hard as you can, but flareups will happen, just treat as they happen (I was really struggling with the idea that I wasn't doing enough to prevent them and frankly I was fucking tired of trying everything--see diet above).
-Vaseline/Aquaphor at least twice a day, every day (he didn't like balms, creams etc, he really emphasized using ointments since they were less likely to 'burn')
-Baths no longer than 5 minutes. Pat dry and load up the skin with ointment immediately
-Vaseline/Aquaphor/A&D every diaper change
-Be brand loyal. Find a brand and stick with it.
-Everyone's clothes need to be washed in dye-free, scent free detergent not just the baby's he said this keeps the actual washer free from everything and since you'll be holding the baby a lot presumably its a good idea
He also gave us a massive script for 'baby benedryl' (I don't remember the drug name). But he highly recommended for naps/bedtime during bad breaks outs so DD wouldn't scratch so much.
I hope you dermatologist appointment is soon, I really did find ours to be so helpful especially with the prescription ointments for flareups (our flareups were gone within 3 days as opposed to taking forever with hydro cortisone to go away)