Week of Oct 9

[pooh8402]

congrats konapoppy!

thoseareradishes, I think my E was well over a year before he went more than 2 hours without eating or drinking a bottle during the day. He never took more than 5 oz in a sitting, more like 3-4. He nursed overnight until he was 15 months. Even now, he gets cranky if he's gone more than 3 hours without food.

So it may be a long time, or never, before your E drops a daytime feeding. 5 times a day is really not too often, especially at her age.

[thoseareradishes]

Thanks loira and pooh8402. Good to know it's normal!

[pooh8402]

Oct 12, 2017 11:19:07 GMT -5 King26 said:

Congrats konapoppy,
thoseareradishes, I'd love to know too. J eats about 10 times a day. He takes 6 or 7 bottles during the day and 3 during the night. He takes 2 or 3 ounces at a time and I'd love to up it but we've tried 4 oz. twice and he has spit up so badly both times I'm afraid to try again.

J is still a newborn, and it is definitely normal for him to eat up to 12 times a day right now. I know it's exhausting, but the time passes in a flash.

[dollyllama]

Congrats konapoppy!

[dellabear]

Congrats konapoppy!

[loira]

Congratulations konapoppy! Can't wait to see photos!

[boiler717]

Congrats konapoppy!!

[boiler717]

loira and cactuscookie I have found RIE advice super helpful for all the toddler drama! I know everyone has different things that work for them but it has been great for us.
T was out of sorts this week (full moon? Mercury in retrograde?) and I thought he was completely possessed. Turns out he had an ear infection!

[oneslybookworm]

Oct 10, 2017 10:19:07 GMT -5 starryfish said:

Oct 10, 2017 9:05:32 GMT -5 @daylily said:

I had to take DS to Kohls yesterday for a few things and he insisted on picking out something from the baby section for his little sister. I haven't really bought anything for her yet--too scared--but he was so excited I couldn't say no. He picked out a set of Eric Carle rattles, some socks with faces on them, and two little outfits with flowers on them. It felt good.

Someone on GP posted an Amazon deal on Rock n Plays this morning, so I bought another one for our second floor.

Ahhh it feels like a bad omen to buy this stuff! Am I going to jinx it? But I can't help but feel excited. So I guess that is an improvement, since until now I haven't even been able to get excited.

I felt that way too, but then I read a blog by someone who dealt with IF and she said that IF something bad happens, it is going to SUCK regardless if you bought stuff or not. So try to enjoy buying stuff. Worst case-you throw it in a closet or donate it. I bought stuff all through my pregnancy and I have no regrets. So excited for you! Enjoy it 

This was our mentality when we were matched with our first (fiasco).  When it fell apart and we ended up not bringing home a baby, it SUCKED!  It would have sucked regardless of whether we had stuff in the room (which we did, a fully stocked nursery, with a ton of girl stuff).   I packed it up a month or so after, and sent it to a friend having a baby girl.  Keeping it was too hard.

[oneslybookworm]

Things are going well here. G is sleeping well at night (at most, 1 wake-up, around 2-3am, but half the nights he just sleeps thruogh until around 5am, when J gets up anyways), and the overall day crankiness has really subsided. He's smiling at everything, and I think he's started teething. Drooling all over the place, biting everything, and his gums seem really hard. Who knows...he might just be a drooler too, couldn't be anything.

We are about halfway there to finalization. I keep counting down the months until Jan/Feb, when we'll get our court date. I'm ready for this to be done and dusted. He has his 4 month shots in a few weeks, which I'm dreading, but he didn't have any reactions to the 2 month ones, so I'm hoping it's the same.

[loira]

Oct 13, 2017 5:13:21 GMT -5 boiler717 said:

loira and cactuscookie I have found RIE advice super helpful for all the toddler drama! I know everyone has different things that work for them but it has been great for us.
T was out of sorts this week (full moon? Mercury in retrograde?) and I thought he was completely possessed. Turns out he had an ear infection!

A's new dayhome teacher is a fan of Janet Lansbury. I've looked at the site and some of the stuff is really good - other things aren't really in line with my personality (I find it a bit too North American / cult of the child). I like that her teacher likes it, though. She's so calm with the kids, it's amazing to watch.

Poor T! I hope he feels better soon.

[starryfish]

Oct 13, 2017 9:11:33 GMT -5 oneslybookworm said:

Things are going well here. G is sleeping well at night (at most, 1 wake-up, around 2-3am, but half the nights he just sleeps thruogh until around 5am, when J gets up anyways), and the overall day crankiness has really subsided. He's smiling at everything, and I think he's started teething. Drooling all over the place, biting everything, and his gums seem really hard. Who knows...he might just be a drooler too, couldn't be anything.

We are about halfway there to finalization. I keep counting down the months until Jan/Feb, when we'll get our court date. I'm ready for this to be done and dusted. He has his 4 month shots in a few weeks, which I'm dreading, but he didn't have any reactions to the 2 month ones, so I'm hoping it's the same.

S started this around that time too but didn't get her first tooth until 7m. Its a LONG process lol 

[pandora89]

11 weeks today! I did the panorama blood test on Tuesday and my NT scan is next Monday. The wait for the panorama results is going to be the longest 7-10 days of my life. I am so nervous for this and the NT scan.

[oneslybookworm]

Oct 13, 2017 9:51:04 GMT -5 starryfish said:

Oct 13, 2017 9:11:33 GMT -5 oneslybookworm said:

Things are going well here. G is sleeping well at night (at most, 1 wake-up, around 2-3am, but half the nights he just sleeps thruogh until around 5am, when J gets up anyways), and the overall day crankiness has really subsided. He's smiling at everything, and I think he's started teething. Drooling all over the place, biting everything, and his gums seem really hard. Who knows...he might just be a drooler too, couldn't be anything.

We are about halfway there to finalization. I keep counting down the months until Jan/Feb, when we'll get our court date. I'm ready for this to be done and dusted. He has his 4 month shots in a few weeks, which I'm dreading, but he didn't have any reactions to the 2 month ones, so I'm hoping it's the same.

S started this around that time too but didn't get her first tooth until 7m. Its a LONG process lol 

Oh, I figured. I’m just waiting it out...every kid is different so no telling when one will pop through.

[janegold]

thoseareradishes, B is 10 months and we only dropped from 5 to 4 (milk) feedings a day about a month ago. He was nursing twice a day plus getting three 5 oz bottles. Now he nurses twice a day and gets two 7 oz bottles, plus solids.

Congratulations konapoppy!

mpc, are you open to sleep training? We sort of did all those big changes at once, too - move to crib at night, unswaddle, sleep training. I just figured it was better to get everything done at once rather than drag it out. This was all at about 6 months. Sleep training took 3 weeks for us and it was miserable but after that, B could fall asleep on his own rather than us having to rock him to sleep and pray he didn't wake up when we put him to bed.

[mpc]

Oct 13, 2017 10:58:59 GMT -5 janegold said:

mpc , are you open to sleep training? We sort of did all those big changes at once, too - move to crib at night, unswaddle, sleep training. I just figured it was better to get everything done at once rather than drag it out. This was all at about 6 months. Sleep training took 3 weeks for us and it was miserable but after that, B could fall asleep on his own rather than us having to rock him to sleep and pray he didn't wake up when we put him to bed.

We did sleep training (Ferber) with my DS and it was wonderful. We didn't use it to eliminate any wake ups, but just to make it that I could nurse and immediately put him back in bed and he would go back to sleep on his own. Sounds like what we need with DD, lol. The funny thing is that until about 2 weeks ago I was thinking that she was relatively easy and didn't even need it. Either way, I was adamant about not doing it before she was 6 months and well, she is 6 months today (!). 

One issue is that it looks like I will be traveling 3 of the next 4 weeks, so I'm not sure when to do it. We might wait and see how it goes next week - maybe she will react differently to DH in the middle of the night than to me. But then next weekend we are camping, so we wouldn't do it then, then I'll be gone again. So at earliest I guess we'd start 2 weeks from now... 

I'm a lot more hesitant this time. Maybe I shouldn't be. When we did it with DS the first night really sucked, but it got better pretty quickly after that. I just don't feel ready... but I also feel like a walking zombie at this point. I've always said, sleep is the hardest part of caring for a baby. If we could just sleep, then the rest would be easier. 

[janegold]

Oct 13, 2017 11:40:42 GMT -5 mpc said:

Oct 13, 2017 10:58:59 GMT -5 janegold said:

mpc , are you open to sleep training? We sort of did all those big changes at once, too - move to crib at night, unswaddle, sleep training. I just figured it was better to get everything done at once rather than drag it out. This was all at about 6 months. Sleep training took 3 weeks for us and it was miserable but after that, B could fall asleep on his own rather than us having to rock him to sleep and pray he didn't wake up when we put him to bed.

We did sleep training (Ferber) with my DS and it was wonderful. We didn't use it to eliminate any wake ups, but just to make it that I could nurse and immediately put him back in bed and he would go back to sleep on his own. Sounds like what we need with DD, lol. The funny thing is that until about 2 weeks ago I was thinking that she was relatively easy and didn't even need it. Either way, I was adamant about not doing it before she was 6 months and well, she is 6 months today (!). 

One issue is that it looks like I will be traveling 3 of the next 4 weeks, so I'm not sure when to do it. We might wait and see how it goes next week - maybe she will react differently to DH in the middle of the night than to me. But then next weekend we are camping, so we wouldn't do it then, then I'll be gone again. So at earliest I guess we'd start 2 weeks from now... 

I'm a lot more hesitant this time. Maybe I shouldn't be. When we did it with DS the first night really sucked, but it got better pretty quickly after that. I just don't feel ready... but I also feel like a walking zombie at this point. I've always said, sleep is the hardest part of caring for a baby. If we could just sleep, then the rest would be easier. 

That's understandable - we delayed because of travel too.  Better to do it when you can be consistent and have the energy to stick with it.

I hope your daughter is as easy as your son was.  For us, I almost gave up because I had heard so many people say that it only took a few days.  A few friends and I had luckily hired a sleep consultant for advice around the same time, and she mentioned that it took some babies a few weeks.  If I hadn't had that advice in the back of my mind, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have had the motivation to keep going!

[kellikans]

pandora89, my results came back in 5 (business) days. I had my blood drawn on a Wednesday and had results the next Wednesday. Hopefully yours will be just as quick!

[pandora89]

Oct 13, 2017 13:34:34 GMT -5 kellikans said:

pandora89 , my results came back in 5 (business) days. I had my blood drawn on a Wednesday and had results the next Wednesday. Hopefully yours will be just as quick!

They told me 7-10 "calendar" days so hopefully I have it within the week. My doctor is only in the office Tuesday, Thursday and Friday's so I will probably lose my mind if it comes in on the weekend or Wednesday lol.

[cactuscookie]

Oct 13, 2017 11:55:42 GMT -5 janegold said:

Oct 13, 2017 11:40:42 GMT -5 mpc said:

We did sleep training (Ferber) with my DS and it was wonderful. We didn't use it to eliminate any wake ups, but just to make it that I could nurse and immediately put him back in bed and he would go back to sleep on his own. Sounds like what we need with DD, lol. The funny thing is that until about 2 weeks ago I was thinking that she was relatively easy and didn't even need it. Either way, I was adamant about not doing it before she was 6 months and well, she is 6 months today (!). 

One issue is that it looks like I will be traveling 3 of the next 4 weeks, so I'm not sure when to do it. We might wait and see how it goes next week - maybe she will react differently to DH in the middle of the night than to me. But then next weekend we are camping, so we wouldn't do it then, then I'll be gone again. So at earliest I guess we'd start 2 weeks from now... 

I'm a lot more hesitant this time. Maybe I shouldn't be. When we did it with DS the first night really sucked, but it got better pretty quickly after that. I just don't feel ready... but I also feel like a walking zombie at this point. I've always said, sleep is the hardest part of caring for a baby. If we could just sleep, then the rest would be easier. 

That's understandable - we delayed because of travel too.  Better to do it when you can be consistent and have the energy to stick with it.

I hope your daughter is as easy as your son was.  For us, I almost gave up because I had heard so many people say that it only took a few days.  A few friends and I had luckily hired a sleep consultant for advice around the same time, and she mentioned that it took some babies a few weeks.  If I hadn't had that advice in the back of my mind, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have had the motivation to keep going!

We delayed because of travel too and ended up doing it around 6 months. It was probably a few weeks for it to really take with H, but it went in fits and starts - she'd have a few good days and then regress and cry forever again. Still, in the end, LIFE-CHANGING - for everyone, because even she was drastically under-rested before she learned to fall asleep on her own.
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