I'm watching DD eat dinner / throw food on the floor. She only wants sausage and nothing else, ha.
We had a semi successful day without nursing, but in the afternoon she had a meltdown and refused the bottle, and DH wasn't around so I gave in and nursed. My goal is no more daytime nursing by the end of the month, morning and bed still OK. Doing OK with dropping the one feed but today DD fell asleep without nursing in the AM, so I pumped and didn't expect to still nurse in the PM. Oh well. I have cut down to one pump on the days I work, so there's that.
For daycare clothes - do you only label the "extra outfits" that stay at daycare, or do you also label any clothes that you send your kid wearing that day?
DD's eyes were gray at birth, and I figured they would turn brown since I have brown eyes, although I had been hoping for hazel eyes my whole pregnancy because DH has hazel eyes. When they lost the gray her eyes were still light and they are definitely hazel, at a year old.
We did for 3, 3.5 months, then she was getting too long for the bassinet, so we moved to the crib. We still co-slept part of the night/early am for a couple months after that though.
We aren't big on nicknames, and had considered a longer name for Eva like Evelyn or Evangeline, but decided we'd never use it and didn't like it as much. We call her Eva or Eva Jean about equally though.
I've been crazy all week, just trying to get work done and loose ends tied up before we leave for a week and a half, partly vacation and partly visiting family.
It's been extra hard though, coming off of a really rough weekend. My youngest BIL, who is 14, was in the hospital for 3 days with a 103 fever, and has been diagnosed with Lyme's disease. He's back home but still weak and not feeling great. He got a tick bite at the family lake house, which is where we are headed this weekend. Then on Monday morning, we found out that one of DH's friends, and former coworker of 10 years, suddenly died of cardiac arrest. He was 36 years old. No previous health problems that we know of, and his dad is a doctor and was home when it happened, friend was sitting on the couch. It's been hitting DH really hard, and of course he wishes he had spent more time with him recently.
We were going to leave Friday afternoon, but now we are going to the wake and leaving Saturday, cutting the visit to my mom down, which also sucks. I'm hoping for a nice time away, since we extra need this right now.
Most days that I'm home, I just wear very casual clothes, leggings or jeans and a basic tee or tank. If I have a meeting with a client I'll dress up, but otherwise no. So like right now I'm in shorts and a plain oversized T-shirt.
I don't usually bother with my hair either so it's in a dirty messy topknot.
Yup.. most of the time I end up snacking, or forgetting to eat until 2 or 3 because I'm just working and not thinking until my stomach is too loud to ignore, ha!
Last year I did pretty well with salads and made a bunch of hard boiled eggs ahead of time to make it easy to throw together. This year not so much.
My husband doesn't wear shorts, period. Except for swimming. We don't really have this problem. But I think cargo shorts or pants have a place if you are outdoorsy and go hiking or fishing. But an everyday normal wear, no way.
Does the event have a Facebook album with photos from the past events that you can check out?
The dress and shoes are great and IMO totally appropriate, but the thing that's giving me pause is the luncheon part. That maybe a more daytime look would be better.
You could ride the line by adding a great blazer to the dress (remove if you need to), and changing the shoes to something like a brightly colored pump.
DD has started expressing interest in helping with things to get ready, including brushing hair. She will take the comb from me and place it on her head, not really understanding how to actually brush her hair. I let her do it then I have to take it away so I can actually put her hair up, or she'll try to brush her ponytail and get the comb stuck. 😂 She also found a hair tie on the floor once and proceeded to put it on top of her head. So cute and funny.
shelbyann, yep KOKO My DD was on 2 meals at 6 months also, added in a third around 7 or 7.5 I think. She loves food, but still nursed and didn't slow her intake until closer to 9-10 months.
I just picked up a few tees and leggings at Target today. I'm sure once I pull out fall I may still have a few gaps as far as coordinating tops and bottoms though. DD has a few cute casual dresses and sweater dresses. So maybe a couple more things and lots of socks and I think we are set for fall!
I would also try some cold applesauce or cold yogurt. Worse case it should pass in a couple days, but I know it's hard to watch them in pain and worry about their food intake.
I know some Targets are sold out of the Future President tees.. I found one for DD and saw there are 2 more in a 4T and 5T. If anyone wants them, I can pick up and ship to you!
ETA: I'm not at Target anymore but I did buy them JIC. Will return later this week if no takers.
I get that it sucks that they weren't welcome with the babies, but really she should have called ahead and asked first. Since she didn't I don't really find it that surprising that they didn't allow it.
I'd also be mad as a movie patron if I went through the trouble of arranging my own childcare and assumed going to an R rated movie at 7:45, that there wouldn't be other people's small children.
Stacey Henson | The (Fort Myers, Fla.) News-Press2 hours ago
FORT MYERS, Fla. — All new mom Brookynn Cahill wanted was a night out with friends, but her fears were realized when she was asked to leave a movie theater.
Cahill and fellow breastfeeding mom Juliana Valverde, both of Fort Myers, had looked forward to meeting up Friday with friends at the trendy tapas restaurant Cru and the just-released R-rated movie Bad Moms starring Mila Kunis at Regal Cinemas at Bell Tower Shops in Fort Myers.
A group of 50 friends were excited to have a ladies night out Friday when a more
Through Facebook, a few friends had started an event to meet and to go out with their friends. Those friends kept inviting other friends until the group grew to more than 50 women. Forty-six of the women, including Cahill and Valverde, bought the tickets presale and chatted all week about their excitement of getting out of the house for fun. That all went bad in an instant.
"No one had communicated that children under 6 were not allowed in R-rated movies," said Amber Cebull, of Fort Myers, whose group had the cost of their tickets refunded. "We had breast-feeding moms with infants, one 4 weeks and one 7 months, and they refused them entry."
An R-rated movie means it's restricted – and younger than 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. The rating is given for strong language and violence, nudity for sexual purposes and drug abuse. Regal Cinemas adds the restriction that no children younger than 6 may attend an R-rated movie after 6 p.m. The women were going to the 7:45 p.m. showing.
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Listed phone numbers for the local cinema are directed to a answering service with no way to connect to a person. Regal Entertainment Group, in Knoxville, Tenn., is closed Saturday and calls were not answered.
Cahill and Valverde, the only women in the group with infants, were singled out after they picked up their tickets and in front of lines of moviegoers..
"All day I had anxiety and was so nervous how she was going to be," first-time mom Cahill said of her daughter. "I was coming up with ways to say I couldn’t make it, but I need to get out. I have to do this and trust that she is going to be an awesome baby."
The employee told Cahill where to find the movie, then mentioned she needed to go to customer service because her daughter wasn't allowed in the show. They directed her and Valverde to Ice Age: Collision Course, which had been playing for an hour.
"They made me feel like a terrible person for bringing my child," Cahill said. They slipped back into Bad Moms, the babies sleeping. She said the manager caught up to them again and told them to leave.
"I think that they have a right to have their rules for their theater," she said. "But I think it needs to be a little different with the age limit. Young babies are sleeping and being perfectly fine. If our babies are going to make a noise, we know how to handle this situation."
Lawyer Gerry Olivo of Wilbur Smith Law Firm, and a friend Cebull, said it appears the company hasn't participated in any discrimination, in part because breastfeeding mothers aren't a protected class.
Valverde said, however, other patrons not with the group were accompanied by children who appeared to be between 3 and 5. She said she and Cahill took precautions, sitting on aisle seats, ready to head to the lobby if the children started acting up.
"They can't leave their child because the child doesn't take a bottle," Cebull said. "The option is to miss out, which is unfortunate. We were hoping he would be more flexible on that."
Florida is among states that allow women to breastfeed in any public or private place and exempts breastfeeding from public indecency laws.
Cebull and Valverde said the man they identified as the manager was unmoving, and once he realized Valverde was breast-feeding while talking to him, demanded she cover up. They said he also refused to let them talk to anyone higher in management.
"I am very modest about breastfeeding and, because of the fact I was doing it, I was even more embarrassed. I always have a blanket to cover," Valverde said.
Regal CEO Amy Miles told the trade publication CinemaBlend in March: At Regal, it's our job to provide the best moviegoing experience for our patrons, and we want to make sure there are minimal interruptions during R-rated movies. We best achieve this through controlling the number of children in these films.
"This is the type of the thing why policies need to be flexible," Cebull said. "When they are written, they don't cover every situation."
She said with the power of the 50 women in their group, they had hoped their purchases and willingness to monitor themselves would be enough to sway the manager.
As the conversation went nowhere, Valverde said she began to cry. That's when the other women took notice.
"I said, OK then, we're going to get our people out of the theater and leave,and you're going to refund our tickets?," Cebull said. "And he said 'OK'.
"And one by one, then four, five six, seven, eight started walking away," Valverde said.
Cahill said that's when she realized she was part of a "super awesome" group.
"I feel so loved by all of them and couldn't thank them enough," she said. "...We didn't just leave each other, we went and enjoyed our night in a different way."
Cebull said more than 35 members of the group walked out of the theater, and two-thirds of them continued the fun at Cantina Laredo.
I should be more invested in fall since I can start wearing normal (non nursing) clothes during the day soon. I need to evaluate my closet and see what I need to fill in. I'd love a new pair of loafers if I can find something fun and funky.
I know I need more tops but am not sure what I want yet. I saw a cute chambray peplum top at Banana Republic I may snag.