July Thread

[Mushe]

scm1011, they are sooooo cute! I’m so happy for you that she’s a chill baby.

We have AP2 coming at the end of July, and I’m really excited. She’s already an AP, and her host family says she’s amazing. We just laugh at this point at how ridiculous things are. She’s a very nice person, but Jesus. She actually tapped a truck in a parking lot on Monday, and didn’t bring the diaper bag when leaving the house for hours to take B to an audiologist (I met her there). 😳

[scm1011]

Oh vey, Mushe. I’m glad you’ll be getting more competent help soon!

[thoseareradishes]

Ugh, E's sleep has been terrible since we got home from vacation. She didn't sleep well in the hotel and naps were either skipped or very short. I thought she got caught up on sleep over the weekend but the last couple of nights she has been screaming at bedtime and saying she is sad. I explain that I'm downstairs but she's so upset. This morning she was up at 5am - which is unheard of for her. I'm not sure what time she normally wakes up, but she always just waits in her bed until I get her up at 7:30. I don't know what, if anything, I can do to help her feel better.

[King26]

Jul 16, 2019 19:02:55 GMT -5 thoseareradishes said:

Ugh, E's sleep has been terrible since we got home from vacation. She didn't sleep well in the hotel and naps were either skipped or very short. I thought she got caught up on sleep over the weekend but the last couple of nights she has been screaming at bedtime and saying she is sad. I explain that I'm downstairs but she's so upset. This morning she was up at 5am - which is unheard of for her. I'm not sure what time she normally wakes up, but she always just waits in her bed until I get her up at 7:30. I don't know what, if anything, I can do to help her feel better.

Was she sleeping with you at the hotel? J slept with us when we went and then had a hard time sleeping in his bed for a few days when he got home. He also skipped naps or car napped. Its stressful and im sorry!

[thoseareradishes]

Jul 17, 2019 7:24:36 GMT -5 King26 said:

Jul 16, 2019 19:02:55 GMT -5 thoseareradishes said:

Ugh, E's sleep has been terrible since we got home from vacation. She didn't sleep well in the hotel and naps were either skipped or very short. I thought she got caught up on sleep over the weekend but the last couple of nights she has been screaming at bedtime and saying she is sad. I explain that I'm downstairs but she's so upset. This morning she was up at 5am - which is unheard of for her. I'm not sure what time she normally wakes up, but she always just waits in her bed until I get her up at 7:30. I don't know what, if anything, I can do to help her feel better.

Was she sleeping with you at the hotel? J slept with us when we went and then had a hard time sleeping in his bed for a few days when he got home. He also skipped naps or car napped. Its stressful and im sorry!

Basically - we brought her mattress so she slept on the floor and I slept on the bed.  She was up screaming at 11 last night but then slept the rest of the night and waited until I went in to get her.  She's napping now without tears.  I told her Huckle Cat (her very favorite character) sleeps by himself so maybe that made her feel better?  We'll see tonight.

[King26]

Jul 17, 2019 11:49:03 GMT -5 thoseareradishes said:

Jul 17, 2019 7:24:36 GMT -5 King26 said:

Was she sleeping with you at the hotel? J slept with us when we went and then had a hard time sleeping in his bed for a few days when he got home. He also skipped naps or car napped. Its stressful and im sorry!

Basically - we brought her mattress so she slept on the floor and I slept on the bed.  She was up screaming at 11 last night but then slept the rest of the night and waited until I went in to get her.  She's napping now without tears.  I told her Huckle Cat (her very favorite character) sleeps by himself so maybe that made her feel better?  We'll see tonight.

Good luck! Transitions of any kind are tough but we have to live our lives!

[shauni27]

thoseareradishes, ugh, I am sorry. That sounds exhausting. My guess is she will sort it out naturally in the next day or two. Sorry, friend.

S has been such a sassy and touchy the last couple of weeks. Like, meltdowns out of nowhere, over nothing. Lots of hitting when we do something he doesn't like. It is exhausting to constantly use these moments as teaching moments.

[loira]

I feel you, shauni27. The other day, A had a giant meltdown because she was waving her arms around, holding a slice of cucumber and it fell to the floor where the dog promptly devoured it. First she accused me of taking it, then when I finally managed to convince her I hadn't, she calmed down and asked where it went. I told her the dog ate it - cue an anguished cry of "he ate it?!!!!!" Followed by more wailing.

[shauni27]

Jul 18, 2019 9:52:34 GMT -5 loira said:

I feel you, shauni27 . The other day, A had a giant meltdown because she was waving her arms around, holding a slice of cucumber and it fell to the floor where the dog promptly devoured it. First she accused me of taking it, then when I finally managed to convince her I hadn't, she calmed down and asked where it went. I told her the dog ate it - cue an anguished cry of "he ate it?!!!!!" Followed by more wailing.

yes! like the weirdest stuff sets them off. I did have a good talk with my friend who is a child psychologist last night and found  it really helpful.

[Mushe]

Shauni and Loira, those meltdowns over nothing are my favorite. Those memes about crying over a broken cracker were spot on for us. DS still hates broken granola bars. 😂

[King26]

shauni27 we are also currently in meltdowns over nothing and hitting when we are mad. Its exhausting. I work with behavioral kids 4 and uo so i know the strategies and such but its so tiring.

[shauni27]

Jul 18, 2019 10:33:19 GMT -5 King26 said:

shauni27 we are also currently in meltdowns over nothing and hitting when we are mad. Its exhausting. I work with behavioral kids 4 and uo so i know the strategies and such but its so tiring.

it is SO tiring.

[loira]

Jul 18, 2019 10:17:41 GMT -5 Mushe said:

Shauni and Loira, those meltdowns over nothing are my favorite. Those memes about crying over a broken cracker were spot on for us. DS still hates broken granola bars. 😂

Yeah, I kind of wish I'd captured that one on video. 😂

[pandora89]

Our second of our back to back cycle didn’t go as well as we had hoped, we once again only had one egg fertilize but we ended up with one 5AB blast so hoping that it only tastes one. Doing a FET probably in August or September.

[kellikans]

I'm sorry your cycle didn't go as planned pandora89. Good luck with your FET! Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

[shauni27]

pandora89 I am sorry to hear about your cycle :/ But it's true, it only takes one!

It was so GD hot here this weekend. And S was trying my patience. But then this morning he was SO fun and silly and sweet.

[icedcoffee]

pandora89, so sorry you didn't get as many as you liked. But I'm living proof it only takes one (we got 1 blast per cycle, both were successful). I have everything crossed that blast is your take home baby!

Daycare has started potty training DS. I wasn't planning to do it now, but whatever. He's gone in the potty quite a bit at school. At home he has not gone once. Finally on Saturday I said eff it and took off his pull up and went back to diapers. I was so tired of asking him to potty, him sitting and nothing, but more importantly pull ups don't hold anything and I was tired of changing his (more expensive) pull up every hour. Daycare can deal with this and pull ups if they want. At home we're sticking with diapers for the time being.

Of course he's been at school for less than 2 hours today and already peed in the potty twice. WTF?!?!

3.5 weeks (at most) till DS2 is here..........

[shauni27]

icedcoffee, that would be SO frustrating!

[icedcoffee]

shauni27, it is frustrating. Initially, my plan was to be super breezy at home and let daycare do their thing in the meantime, but I found myself getting super over invested and bribing him and begging him. My H was like "get a grip, woman". And he's right so we went back to diapers at home. Once I feel like he's getting a better hang of it at school we'll just do the 3 day method at home, but this pull ups at home thing just wasn't working for me.

I am glad daycare is having some success. That's pretty cool. I just don't understand why it doesn't translate to success at home at all. Like...not one drop of success.

[cactuscookie]

H's most ridiculous tantrum recently was because she got some pee on her underwear and we told her she needed to take them off and put clean underwear on. She screamed for AN HOUR. Well, I suppose it was half an hour about the undies and then another half an hour when we told her that, due to the time already wasted on the tantrum, we didn't have time for our normal post-dinner 15 minutes of television.

In other news, the baby started daycare yesterday. I was sad for a few minutes, but now I'm loving it. I work at home, and I've been working while home with her. It's been so stressful and frustrating to try to squeeze in work around a baby's 30-minute naps. She's only going for half-days now, but even that is so helpful. And she's doing well there so far.

[red]

We had our ultrasound today, its a BOY!
I ended up being an emotional mess in the ultrasound. The tech really irritated us. First she started out asking if this is our third baby... no, third pregnancy, first baby due to early losses. She starts the ultrasound and about 5 minutes in runs over to the door and says sorry, she'll be right back. No further explanation. Leaves me and my husband in the room thinking something is wrong for several minutes. I start to cry because I am an anxious mess. She finally comes back in the room and my husband immediately asks her if everything is fine with the baby and she brushed it off and said she just heard someone out there that she needed to relay a message to. I can't stop crying for some reason. She apologized but the whole thing was ridiculous.

[cactuscookie]

Ugh, red, I'm sorry you had to deal with that. Apparently the tech has no experience with anxiety due to previous loss. I'm so glad that everything is looking good though!

[loira]

Red, I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. Wtf was the tech thinking?

[shauni27]

red, I got anxiety just reading that. I am sorry for your experience, but I am so glad you know that you are having a healthy baby boy! How exciting! I hope you are able to start enjoying this pregnancy even more now

[shauni27]

S is 2 today! He came in at exactly 50th percentile for his height and weight (27# and 2'10"). He weighed a lot more than I thought he did! And he stopped growing like a beanstalk finally, lol. He was a champ for his shots and bloodwork and after the phlebotomist but the bandaid on his arm he hops out of the chair and goes "thank you! bye!" lol.

[knx9211]

Jul 25, 2019 8:27:40 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

S is 2 today! He came in at exactly 50th percentile for his height and weight (27# and 2'10"). He weighed a lot more than I thought he did! And he stopped growing like a beanstalk finally, lol. He was a champ for his shots and bloodwork and after the phlebotomist but the bandaid on his arm he hops out of the chair and goes "thank you! bye!" lol.

What shots did he have? P didn’t get any at his 2 year appointment, did I miss some??

[shauni27]

Jul 25, 2019 10:04:57 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

Jul 25, 2019 8:27:40 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

S is 2 today! He came in at exactly 50th percentile for his height and weight (27# and 2'10"). He weighed a lot more than I thought he did! And he stopped growing like a beanstalk finally, lol. He was a champ for his shots and bloodwork and after the phlebotomist but the bandaid on his arm he hops out of the chair and goes "thank you! bye!" lol.

What shots did he have? P didn’t get any at his 2 year appointment, did I miss some??

I think he was unable to get his second dose of HepB at his 18 month because he was sick.

[knx9211]

Jul 25, 2019 10:13:11 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

Jul 25, 2019 10:04:57 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

What shots did he have? P didn’t get any at his 2 year appointment, did I miss some??

I think he was unable to get his second dose of HepB at his 18 month because he was sick.

Ohhhh ok! Glad he was such a trooper! P whined through his entire 2 year visit because he must have had flashbacks of prior shots. Ha.

[shauni27]

Jul 25, 2019 10:14:48 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

Jul 25, 2019 10:13:11 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

I think he was unable to get his second dose of HepB at his 18 month because he was sick.

Ohhhh ok! Glad he was such a trooper! P whined through his entire 2 year visit because he must have had flashbacks of prior shots. Ha.

oh sage whined. he was SO bored. the friggin appointment took 2 GD hours.

[knx9211]

Jul 25, 2019 10:17:23 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

Jul 25, 2019 10:14:48 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

Ohhhh ok! Glad he was such a trooper! P whined through his entire 2 year visit because he must have had flashbacks of prior shots. Ha.

oh sage whined. he was SO bored. the friggin appointment took 2 GD hours.

Oh I’d be so mad.

I am currently going through this with my OB office. They had two doctors retire in the last month or so. So it’s impossible to get my appointments scheduled and at my 28 week appt I sat there with P for 45 minutes waiting to be called back. So glad I’m almost to the finish line.