What's going on w/o 1/8

[swiftlyirun]

I've been hanging out on GP and MMM a lot more recently but just wanted to stop by and check in with you ladies!! How's life in the New Year?

We're currently out of school today for possible "ice" it never even sprinkled last night... I'm thinking that some school district reps just wanted extra tailgate time for the National Championship  .

[oneslybookworm]

Not much going on here! G is sick again (thanks daycare) so we’re taking a sick day to rest. Otherwise, just trucking along! He was 6 months last Friday and I’m constantly amazed at how fast time is flying!

[King26]

We are off for ice too. None yet but on the map it looks like it will be here within the hour.

J has been sleeping horribly and I don't know what to do. He's up multiple times at night now.

However he rolled tummy to back twice this week so that was exciting. We also started oatmeal on friday. He is unsure about it lol

[scm1011]

DS has discovered pointing at things, and while its adorable its also kind of annoying/exhausting. Most of the time I don't think he actually wants the stuff he's pointing to, he's just delighted that he finally has an effective communication tool!

I think he's weaning, and its giving me the feels. While I'm so proud we've made it this long (he'll be 14 months this week, omg), I wanted to get him through the winter. We're down to only nursing before bed and he's becoming disinterested even in that. The last few nights he just keeps pulling off, clicking his tongue (another new trick!) and smiling at me, lol.

[starryfish]

scm1011, hugs. Weaning is SO FREAKING EMOTIONAL!!! OMG!!! BUT I can tell you that once you STOP it is SOO freeing and I really dont miss it at all.

S is 1 year old and turning 13m this week! WHERE did my baby go? She is looking like a toddler now. She is still not standing on her own yet but getting close. She is SUCH a sweet happy baby. She has TWELVE teeth, and 10 are new in the past 2 months including 4 molars. Poor baby.

[shauni27]

King26, S is waking up 3 times a night for the last few nights too. Very frustrating. Also, with regards to the oatmeal, are you mixing it with your breastmilk or formula? That always helps. We also notice that whenever S tries a new food it takes him multiple tries to actually enjoy it, but then he does.

S went swimming for the first time and seemed neutral about it. We dunked him under the water and he just blinked like, what was that? He is rolling all around and loves blowing raspberries. He will be 6 months in two weeks.

I am constantly feeling sad that he is growing so fast and excited and happy that he is hitting new milestones. It is such a conflicting feeling! I love this age though, he is really fun.

[scm1011]

Jan 8, 2018 12:34:43 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

I am constantly feeling sad that he is growing so fast and excited and happy that he is hitting new milestones. It is such a conflicting feeling! I love this age though, he is really fun.

I constantly feel this way! I'm sad that my tiny baby is becoming an actual boy, but at the same time every stage he is more and more fun!

starryfish, I know, I'm sure once its done I'll feel slightly relieved, too. I can't believe S has 12 teeth! C still only has 6, and hasn't gotten any new ones in like 4 months. WTF? lol.

[thoseareradishes]

All E wants to do is pull up to standing. We have a huge area rug for her to play on but she always wants to be on the hard floor trying to pull up on the furniture, which makes me so nervous. H lets her hold his hands and stand but I won't, she gets frustrated with me but I'm not going to stand her up all day. She needs to learn to do it herself. I put her activity table on a couch cushion on the floor and she thinks that is great, she loves to pull up and stand there making noise.

I've been giving her tastes of peanut butter the last couple of days. So far so good! Next up eggs or yogurt.

[loira]

Another one who's home with a sick kid. She probably could go to daycare, but she had a rough night last night coughing and generally not sleeping well. H is still here for 2 more days so I figured he could take care of her while I worked. It... isn't a great solution. "Can you watch her while I shower? Let me just check my emails. Oh, she didn't seem hungry to me." Gah! It's not really his fault, since he's stuck being a visiting parent. The routine keeps changing on him and so does her behaviour. I told him I've been using the 1-2-3 system with her, and the next thing I hear is "A, do you want me to count to 3? Papa will count to 3." Lordy, it must be a learning curve for him each time he gets here, but it's like training a new employee every 3 months and I'm sick of it. May can't come soon enough!

[dellabear]

We’re doing great. DS is 19 mos now and super cute. His vocabulary is exploding and he spends the day singing his ABCs and counting to 10. He has also started to throw tantrums a bit but they’re so cute it’s hard to be annoyed. Yet. Haha

He is starting to hide in the corner when he needs a poo and it has me wondering about potty training. I know it’s super early and boys are even supposed to start later than girls but he seems to know when he has to go. Anyone have any potty training advice for boys?

[boiler717]

Jan 8, 2018 17:06:24 GMT -5 dellabear said:

We’re doing great. DS is 19 mos now and super cute. His vocabulary is exploding and he spends the day singing his ABCs and counting to 10. He has also started to throw tantrums a bit but they’re so cute it’s hard to be annoyed. Yet. Haha

He is starting to hide in the corner when he needs a poo and it has me wondering about potty training. I know it’s super early and boys are even supposed to start later than girls but he seems to know when he has to go. Anyone have any potty training advice for boys?

We PTed my son at 22m! He’s still not 100% but I wish I would have done it earlier!

[boiler717]

My baby is 2 ! I can’t believe it!

[pooh8402]

Jan 8, 2018 17:06:24 GMT -5 dellabear said:

We’re doing great. DS is 19 mos now and super cute. His vocabulary is exploding and he spends the day singing his ABCs and counting to 10. He has also started to throw tantrums a bit but they’re so cute it’s hard to be annoyed. Yet. Haha

He is starting to hide in the corner when he needs a poo and it has me wondering about potty training. I know it’s super early and boys are even supposed to start later than girls but he seems to know when he has to go. Anyone have any potty training advice for boys?

Wait until he's ready. It's developmentally normal for him to seek privacy when pooping. E did that as soon as he started walking, pretty much. I bought a potty and put it in his bathroom when he was a little younger than 2, but I didn't pressure him at all. Then one day, it was "I want to go tee-tee in the potty" and that was basically it. I waited a few weeks to see if the requests would continue (they did) and for an opening in my schedule. He basically trained himself in like 2 days. He's day time and nap time pee trained, and almost 100% on poop (the aforementioned privacy issue means he doesn't always tell anyone he needs to poop). He still wears a pull-up for nighttime.

[loira]

Jan 8, 2018 17:06:24 GMT -5 dellabear said:

We’re doing great. DS is 19 mos now and super cute. His vocabulary is exploding and he spends the day singing his ABCs and counting to 10. He has also started to throw tantrums a bit but they’re so cute it’s hard to be annoyed. Yet. Haha

He is starting to hide in the corner when he needs a poo and it has me wondering about potty training. I know it’s super early and boys are even supposed to start later than girls but he seems to know when he has to go. Anyone have any potty training advice for boys?

No advice but I will likely be potty training A next month. She's asking to go on the toilet, although the few times we've sat her on her little seat she's never produced anything. She likes to poop in bed though, right before she goes to sleep. She'll even tell me "I'm going to poop in bed" but refuses to poop with me in the room. I'm not looking forward to trying to break that habit.

I'll probably do some sort of 3 day pantsless method, but have been lazy about starting because it's just me and no H for backup. Luckily, my parents have a dog, so aren't too attached to their carpets.

[dellabear]

I trained DD pretty early and it worked...until it didn't. And then it was a roller coaster year and a half of wonderfully trained phases marred with five poops in her panties days that had us tearing our hair out. I'm hoping to improve my technique a little this time around.

We do have a couple of DDs old potties hanging around so I think I may clean them up and put them in the bathrooms and see if he shows any interest.

[konapoppy]

We are transitioning the girls to their cribs starting with naps. C did great for two naps yesterday, but J is not liking the crib as much (we got her down once, finally). It isn’t fun but I am glad we are going to get them in their own room before I return to work. H will still be off, but we both need sleep and this will help so much.

[knx9211]

P tried peanut butter for the first time yesterday and it went well! This kid is a PIG. He just wants to eat and eat and eat. He's getting some serious thunder thighs. We got him a jolly jumper and he's been going ape shit in it lately. It's so funny to watch him bounce.

On the monitor yesterday, I caught him up on his knees rocking like he wanted to crawl forward. While his hands were down, he can't figure out how to be like that with his head up off the ground. I'm not in a hurry for him to be mobile, I like getting up to pee and knowing he won't go anywhere while I'm gone.

[knx9211]

Jan 9, 2018 10:33:30 GMT -5 konapoppy said:

We are transitioning the girls to their cribs starting with naps. C did great for two naps yesterday, but J is not liking the crib as much (we got her down once, finally). It isn’t fun but I am glad we are going to get them in their own room before I return to work. H will still be off, but we both need sleep and this will help so much.

Moving P into his own room made a HUGE difference for both of us in how we sleep. Turns out we were keeping each other awake. I still kind of sleep like garbage because I always have, but he sleeps so much better. Hope that the transition goes well!!

[King26]

Jan 9, 2018 11:38:59 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

Jan 9, 2018 10:33:30 GMT -5 konapoppy said:

We are transitioning the girls to their cribs starting with naps. C did great for two naps yesterday, but J is not liking the crib as much (we got her down once, finally). It isn’t fun but I am glad we are going to get them in their own room before I return to work. H will still be off, but we both need sleep and this will help so much.

Moving P into his own room made a HUGE difference for both of us in how we sleep. Turns out we were keeping each other awake. I still kind of sleep like garbage because I always have, but he sleeps so much better. Hope that the transition goes well!!

[br
I think we need to do this buy I don't want to and I know DH really doesn't want to but all 3 of us are sleeping horribly at night.

[thoseareradishes]

knx9211, it's been quite the adjustment with E being mobile and trying to stand all the time. Our only containment device is her pack and play, so either she goes in that or I take her with me if I need to leave the room. She has gotten many "lessons" on how her bottle is warmed up and where her dirty diapers go!

[awick14]

konapoppy- like knx9211 said when we moved DD to her own room we all slept better. We are currently at the ils for a few days and she set up the crib in the room we are staying in. I moved some stuff around in the room they are using as storage and moved the crib in there. So much better. Lol

scm1011- how did you go about getting down to just the night time feeds? I would love to get DD down to only the morning and night time feeds. But I don't want to be engorged at work as I can't just take a quick break to pump if I need to. I'm nervous but I think it needs to be done for my sanity.

[scm1011]

awick14, I gradually weaned off the pump starting around 11.5 months (from 2x a day to 1x and then none, probably over the course of a few weeks). At about 12.5 months we sleep-trained/night-weaned (he was still waking up to nurse 2-3x a night at that point and I was DONE). I had planned to nurse just at wake-up and pre-bedtime, but DS started refusing in the morning. He LOOOOOOVES cows milk, so he gets that in the morning, and we still nurse to sleep at night.

DS has never been a boob fiend, so it was fairly easy to cut down from that perspective. He's never reached for my shirt or anything like that, and honestly if I cut the night time nursing session and gave him a bottle of milk I know he'd be just fine. I'm just a) not ready to be totally done and b) would like to get him through the winter.

I had a few instances of uncomfortable engorgement, but my body adjusted quicker than I expected. Good luck!

[shauni27]

please tell me this is normal or at least that some of you have experience with this:

S is all of a sudden just about refusing solid foods. He was eating everything happily and seemed like he was loving it--smiling, opening his mouth with enthusiasm, etc. Now he REFUSES all solids. Shuts his mouth, moves it away, pushes our hands away when we try to feed him, etc. This started about a week ago. I thought it tied in with the new highchair we got him--before we were (terribly...) feeding him while he stood in his exersaucer about 90% of the time. I wanted to break that habit and it seems like his resistance has lined up with the introduction of the highchair.

HELP?!

[scm1011]

shauni27, at his age I wouldn't push it or stress it. At 6 months (?) he's getting most if not all of his nutrition from formula. "Food before 1 is just for fun" and all.

Ideas:

-Have you tried finger foods yet? Cal started refusing to be spoon fed, but he'd happily munch on cheerios, peas, etc. that we left on his tray.

-Cal was also a bit resistant to the high chair at first. I gave him a small toy (little car, block, whatever) to play with while we fed him/he fed himself. I think it was a good distraction, and he'd mindlessly eat since his attention was elsewhere.

[thoseareradishes]

shauni27, maybe you could put him in the highchair but instead of feeding him, give him a toy to play with? Get him used to it and make it a fun place. Maybe give a few finger foods to play with, and a spoon to hold.

[oneslybookworm]

Ugh, G has been sick all week and we just got the labs back...Influenza. Poor little guy, I just want him better!

[shauni27]

Jan 11, 2018 10:02:09 GMT -5 oneslybookworm said:

Ugh, G has been sick all week and we just got the labs back...Influenza. Poor little guy, I just want him better!

no! So frustrating and scary. Fingers crossed for a quick recovery for all of your sakes!

[Mushe]

Hey guys! I’ve been emerging from a work fog, and missing interacting with you all. Most of the peeps I talked to daily on TTTC are here now, which is so awesome! I never really posted here since I didn’t “graduate” from IF, but I have a kid, soooooo.

I do have some news. Unsurprising from the girl who cried pregnant, but I’m pregnant again! We’ve been NTNP, and I got a BFP on the 29th, making me 6w now. I have an appointment next week, and refused to do betas. I veer between very little confidence that this will work out (ahem, 7th pregnancy in my attempt for #2), and thinking that it’s all just a matter of a good egg dropping, so why not now? I’m 39 now, and freaked a bit about what it will be like if it actually does work.

[mpc]

oh Mushe I know it must be so hard to know what to think right now. I will send all my good thoughts your way! <3 <3

[scm1011]

AHHHH Mushe!!!!! I have everything crossed that this is the one!!
I've missed seeing you around, don't be a stranger!