Week of 8/20

[shauni27]

Morning, all.

Overall we had a good weekend. Still having a tough time being a single parent, but made the best of it and spent as much time together as a family of 3 as possible. My depression and anxiety has been through the roof; the soonest my PCP could see me was a month from now so I am looking forward to speaking with her regarding a med adjustment.

S has a new favorite word--cracker! It is a new word as of Friday and he says it non-stop now. At the store on Sunday he saw a box of graham crackers and pointed (another new thing he is doing) and was saying "cra-ker" over and over. I love seeing him learn knew words and use them correctly. I think he is saying "water" too, but I cannot tell yet if he knows what he is saying or just repeating.

He also made a good switch from having him milk in bottles to being in his sippy cup (per his pedi's advice). Took about 2 days but by Saturday he was a pro.

All in all, such a fun stage, but beyond exhausting to do alone. 

[pooh8402]

Sounds like a good weekend! I'm sorry that you're feeling depressed. Huge hugs to you.



I graduated from the RE today! I'm sad because she's awesome, but not too sad because I'm hoping to get a few hours with her when I do my women's health/OB rotation through NP school, and really hoping that she would be able to hire me upon graduation (like 2 years from now).

I also had my blood drawn today for the progenity test.

[thoseareradishes]

Hugs shauni27. Wish we lived closer to each other so we could keep each other company. H was gone a lot of the weekend fixing up the old house in preparation to get it on the market.

Congrats pooh8402!

E has a nasty diaper rash. I switched diapers and I think that is what caused it; she's been having some diarrhea/looser stools and it didn't irritate her butt until I switched diapers. Also not sure what the digestive issues are all about; she's been on whole milk for over a month and nothing in her diet has changed. It's been about 2 weeks now, on and off, and she mostly seems to feel ok. Not sure when I need to put a call in to the pedi.

[mpc]

shauni27, DD's new word of the weekend was cake, haha. MIL gave her some chocolate cake on saturday and ever since then it's been cake! cake! cake! cake!

I started preparing for what I will need after giving birth - I bought a bottle of wine and a bottle of Colace. LOL

[belovedbride07]

I'm glad you had an okay weekend, shauni27, but sorry your depression/anxiety has been bad. It sucks that doctors don't prioritize mental health issues and strive to get those who need help seen sooner. I had to wait 2 months to see a psychiatrist when I needed meds for PPD. Our system is so broken.

My kids' new word this weekend was "nipple." DS discovered his after a shower, and then DD was sad because she thought she didn't have any, and it was a whole toddler thing. LOL

Yay for graduation, pooh8402!

Last night I started doing that thing where you google your symptoms and XdpXdt and then follow a message board thread to see if that person got a BFP. It's going to be a long week!

[starryfish]

shauni27,awesome! I taught S "agua" instead of water and she picked up on it right away. Much easier for her to say. Now she thinks everything but milk is "agua" (she only gets milk or water but points to our drinks as "agua")

[scm1011]

Aug 20, 2018 12:08:22 GMT -5 starryfish said:

shauni27 ,awesome! I taught S "agua" instead of water and she picked up on it right away. Much easier for her to say. Now she thinks everything but milk is "agua" (she only gets milk or water but points to our drinks as "agua")

C says agua instead of water as well! He picked it up at daycare, so I never really considered he does it because its easier to say than water (makes sense!). I'm kind of amazed that he understands rain, puddles, the bath, drinking water, etc are all "agua". Milk is "baba" because I still let him have milk in a bottle 

[scm1011]

shauni27, I'm sorry you're having such a hard time with anxiety/depression, and a month long wait to boot. Have you considered going through your OB? My OB took my anxiety super seriously and got me in immediately for a med change when I was struggling. Just a thought if you don't want to wait.

[mpc]

Aug 20, 2018 12:19:19 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Aug 20, 2018 12:08:22 GMT -5 starryfish said:

shauni27 ,awesome! I taught S "agua" instead of water and she picked up on it right away. Much easier for her to say. Now she thinks everything but milk is "agua" (she only gets milk or water but points to our drinks as "agua")

C says agua instead of water as well! He picked it up at daycare, so I never really considered he does it because its easier to say than water (makes sense!). I'm kind of amazed that he understands rain, puddles, the bath, drinking water, etc are all "agua". Milk is "baba" because I still let him have milk in a bottle 

I taught DD the sign for water. She doesn't really do it right, but we've figured out what she thinks is the sign. It's so helpful. She tries to say it now sometimes, but it mostly just comes out as "ter".

[shauni27]

scm1011, I am sure they will get me in, and I LOVE them, but I still need to see my PCP in a month anyway, and I cannot keep missing work for various appointments.

belovedbride07, lolol at nipples haha.

Maybe we should try saying "aqua" for water and see if that works!

mpc, no numbing spray?? lol

[janegold]

Aug 20, 2018 12:19:19 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Aug 20, 2018 12:08:22 GMT -5 starryfish said:

shauni27 ,awesome! I taught S "agua" instead of water and she picked up on it right away. Much easier for her to say. Now she thinks everything but milk is "agua" (she only gets milk or water but points to our drinks as "agua")

C says agua instead of water as well! He picked it up at daycare, so I never really considered he does it because its easier to say than water (makes sense!). I'm kind of amazed that he understands rain, puddles, the bath, drinking water, etc are all "agua". Milk is "baba" because I still let him have milk in a bottle 

B too!  Too funny.  He had been saying "wawa" but he switched to "agua" after a week or two.  

[oneslybookworm]

shauni27, huge hugs lady. Hopefully they can get you sorted and feeling better, having anxiety/depression on top of everything else is way too much.


The weekend was far too short for us. Saturday we went to the gym and got in a workout, then hung out around the house. Sunday was a bit more productive, J and I had a brunch date while G was with his aunt, then we came home and I canned some peach jam and did laundry. LOL. Very glamorous live we lead!

[shauni27]

oneslybookworm, that peach jam looked SO GOOD I was about to book me a ticket to come to your state and get some, lol.

[cactuscookie]

At the end of last week, I thought H was doing better in her new room at daycare. She was quiet but okay at drop-offs, and I found out that another teacher comes in later in the morning, and H quickly got attached to her. But this morning while getting ready, H cried and cried about how she wanted to go to her old room. It was so sad.

[oneslybookworm]

Aug 20, 2018 14:05:36 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

oneslybookworm, that peach jam looked SO GOOD I was about to book me a ticket to come to your state and get some, lol.

Come on over!!!

[loira]

cactuscookie, I'm sorry. It may take awhile for her to get used to it. I feel like they're at the age now where they're less adaptable than they used to be.

We had a good weekend, despite my H being unavailable because he was marking finals. shauni27, I had actually forgotten how hard the solo thing was - it only took me 2 months to forget, maybe that's a good sign?

I took A to the beach this weekend, and she is really brave about going in the water. This time we went to one of the lakes, so I wasn't as worried about her being carried out to sea (she always wears a PFD because I'm paranoid). She put her face in the water and blew bubbles, and even let me hold her hands while she floated on her back and did flutter kicks. We haven't done any swim lessons yet, but I'm thinking we'll need to sign her up next spring.

[King26]

I go back to work tomorrow after 11 weeks off and I'm not ok with it.
Also, J turns 1 on Saturday! How did that happen? We have his party and baptism on Sundat. Busy week here.

[shauni27]

loira, sounds like she wants to swim, so cute!
King26, it goes so fast. I cannot believe he is one already!

[kellikans]

Hi all. We've been out of commission for a few weeks at our house. L got a cold at daycare, then had really bad diarrhea for about a week. The GI bug got passed on to DH. I was hoping that I got away with it, but after they were both better, I came down with it over the weekend and am still recovering. I've been taking so much sick time at work.

We're going "camping" this weekend. We've done an annual camping trip every year since 2007 (legit camping in the mountains), but I refused to take a 5 month old this year. So we're staying at a friend's nearby cabin for the nights and will go to the campsite and hang out during the day. I'm just hoping I feel better by then.

[starryfish]

Hey all. Our first iui cycle for TTC#2 resulted in a BFN.
I’m grateful for my dd but still sad. Hoping we can get pg again

[King26]

thoseareradishes hope the diaper rash gets better soon.
shauni27 I hope your anxiety gets better and your H can spend more time at home

[King26]

cactuscookie I hope daycare gets better and quickly

[cherryvalance]

Aug 21, 2018 6:34:50 GMT -5 King26 said:

I go back to work tomorrow after 11 weeks off and I'm not ok with it.
Also, J turns 1 on Saturday! How did that happen? We have his party and baptism on Sundat. Busy week here.

Girl. Godspeed.

We survived the party and baptism through roseola and 800+miles of travel and I will never plan two major events close together ever again, even though it has to be this way. NEVER.AGAIN.

I hope it's way easier for you.

[thoseareradishes]

Anybody else's kid not really play with their toys? We went to speech therapy yesterday and the therapist asked what toys she liked to play with, and I was like, uh, the cat? her dishes in her kitchen drawer? she likes to wander around the yard holding her bubble wand? She'll play with toys a little if I sit down with her.

[oneslybookworm]

J leaves tomorrow for his "guy's trip" which I gave him as an anniversary / father's day gift. He'll be gone for 4 days, hiking in Zion and then in Vegas for a day or two. I'm super excited for him, but lord, not looking forward to single mom-ing it for the 4 days. That said...it's a week until the Beyonce concert!!! I can't wait!

[icedcoffee]

Aug 22, 2018 10:14:21 GMT -5 thoseareradishes said:

Anybody else's kid not really play with their toys? We went to speech therapy yesterday and the therapist asked what toys she liked to play with, and I was like, uh, the cat? her dishes in her kitchen drawer? she likes to wander around the yard holding her bubble wand? She'll play with toys a little if I sit down with her.

Yes--DS is 21 months and only in the past few weeks has he really started to "play" with toys.  Sometimes I need to show him how to play with his toys.  Usually he just walks around the house with a baseball bat.  LOL  I think playing is something that some kids just learn later.

[belovedbride07]

I’m so sorry, starryfish. The emotions of trying for another are different and still hard.

DS has a cold, and I think it’s taking me out, too. We just entered our third hour of TV for the day. It’s not how I planned to spend the day (Wednesdays are a Mommy Day and I had planned to take them to Michaels and pick up googly eyes and then paint egg carton caterpillars this afternoon), but oh well. Poor DH is so swamped at work I can’t ask him to come back home unless I become completely non-functional. I’m trying to muster up the energy to get stuff done now so I can nap when the kids do.

[cactuscookie]

Aug 22, 2018 10:35:02 GMT -5 icedcoffee said:

Aug 22, 2018 10:14:21 GMT -5 thoseareradishes said:

Anybody else's kid not really play with their toys? We went to speech therapy yesterday and the therapist asked what toys she liked to play with, and I was like, uh, the cat? her dishes in her kitchen drawer? she likes to wander around the yard holding her bubble wand? She'll play with toys a little if I sit down with her.

Yes--DS is 21 months and only in the past few weeks has he really started to "play" with toys.  Sometimes I need to show him how to play with his toys.  Usually he just walks around the house with a baseball bat.  LOL  I think playing is something that some kids just learn later.

Yeah, I definitely remember talking to DH about how H didn't play with toys at that age. Emptying the kitchen drawers of plastic containers? The best! Playing with any of the room full of toys we have for her? Meh. Well, she kind of liked emptying them from the baskets we had them stored in and spreading them around the room.

Another thing she liked back then was playing with water. I'd lay a couple towels down and give her a big bowl of water and some cups and spoons to mess around with. That would amuse her for 10-15 minutes.

[cactuscookie]

Aug 21, 2018 20:17:43 GMT -5 starryfish said:

Hey all. Our first iui cycle for TTC#2 resulted in a BFN.
I’m grateful for my dd but still sad. Hoping we can get pg again

I'm so sorry. IF is the worst, at any stage.

[lo]

I was getting so irritated the other day when my 2 kids were fighting over playing with ONE OLD SOCK. Like for real, you literally have a room filled with toys.