Newborn chatter

[latte]

Jul 23, 2019 9:18:21 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

DD had her 2 month shots yesterday (a week early since we're traveling internationally next week) and OMG, my poor baby. She LOST it last night and screamed more intensely than she ever has. It even rattled DS, who started crying too because he was scared. Ugh. She eventually settled with some Tylenol and skin to skin, but it was a rough night.

DDs are Friday and I am not looking forward to it! I hope she is feeling better soon!

[woowoo]

Jul 23, 2019 10:27:34 GMT -5 latte said:

Jul 23, 2019 9:18:21 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

DD had her 2 month shots yesterday (a week early since we're traveling internationally next week) and OMG, my poor baby. She LOST it last night and screamed more intensely than she ever has. It even rattled DS, who started crying too because he was scared. Ugh. She eventually settled with some Tylenol and skin to skin, but it was a rough night.

DDs are Friday and I am not looking forward to it! I hope she is feeling better soon!

Yeah, C's are o Thursday and I'm dreading this!  
Our last night with our night nurse is tonight and I might cry saying goodbye tomorrow morning.  She's been such an angel.  I got her a card and a nice candle as a thank you.  I know it's her job but man...I would invite her to be a sister wife if I were into that sort of thing - I don't want her to go. 

My sisters were here visiting over the weekend and it was amazing...they were such great help.  My Dad is coming this weekend too (my husband is probably going bananas but I. Don't. Care). 

 

[latte]

Jul 23, 2019 10:51:49 GMT -5 melmaria said:

latte and woowoo, it may not be so bad. DD cried at her 2 month shots, but not any harder than she has at other various times...and then that night she slept for 11 straight hours (her longest stretch up until that point had been maybe 6 hours). H and I joked that we wished she could get shots every day, lol.

This is my dream. Her sleep has been overall getting worse, so I hope she is like your DD!

[pooh8402]

scm1011, latte, it may not be too bad. E1 was always pretty meh about shots. Really, it was when he turned 3 that he started to freak out after shots. As an infant/toddler, he would be extra snuggly and nurse a bit more that day, but otherwise did well.

E2 has freaked out with the shots though. Hard crying. I basically have had my boob ready, lol. Also with the extra snuggly after shots, and extra sleepy (he took a 3 hour nap last Friday afternoon, after his 4 month shots).

[gastro]

We have two month shots on Thursday. Dreading. I'm at a lovely coffee shop with no kids but can't eat or drink anything. The lab let me leave during draws for my post GD glucose check.

[Patsy Baloney]

2 month shots were ok here. Some hard crying in the moment, but settled easily. We gave Tylenol as soon as we got home and again before bed. Totally fine! I hope the same for all of you!

I go back to work tomorrow. Wah wah wah. My mom is extremely generous and watches my kids, so the transition will be fine. I’m just feeling a little weepy. This is when things start going really fast and my kids will grow leaps and bounds when I blink. Oh well, such is the way of the world.

... but work is also dumb and I don’t wanna go baaaack!

[pooh8402]

My BAYBEE has his first tooth!

[poppyseed]

Jul 23, 2019 18:50:08 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

My BAYBEE has his first tooth!

Noooooooo 😭. I’m right behind you, I think our babies are just a couple of weeks apart. We have lots of drool and some fussiness going on so I’ve been checking for teeth.

[pooh8402]

Jul 23, 2019 19:00:54 GMT -5 poppyseed said:

Jul 23, 2019 18:50:08 GMT -5 pooh8402 said:

My BAYBEE has his first tooth!

Noooooooo 😭. I’m right behind you, I think our babies are just a couple of weeks apart. We have lots of drool and some fussiness going on so I’ve been checking for teeth.

I remembered E1 had teething symptoms for like 2 months before his first tooth popped through, so I honestly thought nothing of it when E2 was super drooly and chewing on everything. I was surprised this evening when I felt it.

I hope your baby's tooth stays away for a while longer!

[hamster]

Grandma is in Europe for another week and I am SO ready for her to get back. I'm at my limit right now and and it took literally everything I had to not lose it or have a meltdown of my own during C's bath tonight.

And we are starting construction on Thursday, so I've got that to look forward to.

[goodygumdrop]

Any recommendations for faux wrap dresses or something I can nurse in that isn't specifically a nursing dress? I'm looking for casual. I find it's the nicest way to dress my stomach at this point, squeezing into pants is not fun for my csection incision still.

[Susie]

Add us to the “dreading 2 month shots” list, we’re going on Thurs. DD was always pretty chill about shots, but based on performance at his Hep B shot at 1 mo., I don’t think DS shares that chill.

goodygumdrop, I never found faux wrap dresses to work for me bc I couldn’t get the top wide enough to pump. Nursing might have been ok, but I only wanted to buy dresses that worked for both. I wear a lot of actual wrap dresses which pull to the side a little easier to nurse and open to pump. Ann Taylor, Loft, and Maggy London are my favorites for being looser and more flowy through the mid section. I just bought another one on sale at at Loft that I’m waiting to get. I also bought a Halogen wrap dress at the Nordstrom anniv sale, waiting to see how that fits.

[vlinder]

Jul 24, 2019 7:01:09 GMT -5 goodygumdrop said:

Any recommendations for faux wrap dresses or something I can nurse in that isn't specifically a nursing dress? I'm looking for casual. I find it's the nicest way to dress my stomach at this point, squeezing into pants is not fun for my csection incision still.

Lands End Fit & Flare dresses. The top opens wide enough to pump in too.

[vlinder]

I took DS in for a weight check today to make sure he was gaining like our home scale indicated so I’m not surprised at his 2 month appointment in a week and a half. He gained 20 oz in 19 days!

[lovelyshoes]

The baby just turned 13 weeks and has been napping a lot during the day, nights are another story. I can’t try keeping him up, he’s tied and cranky. Is there a growth spurt during this time? Everything I’ve read said yes, but this is so not like him. Of course he still resists sleeping in the car and mostly sleeps on me.

We had plans for a family trip in a few weeks. It’s about a 5 hour drive and now I’m worried about going. Worried about the amount of stuff we’d need to lug and just changing the routine. I don’t know if I’m overthinking it or just facing reality. I don’t know why I thought it would be such a good idea before. For what it’s worth, we would be staying in a hotel. If we had a house rental I wouldn’t be nearly as worried.

[Patsy Baloney]

lovelyshoes, I've always enjoyed staying in a hotel with my kids, and I hope you do on your trip, too. Yeah, you have to haul a lot of stuff, and that can get kind of crazy. One of our trips, I packed the whole car by myself and was so proud! ...only to find that I'd left my DD's suitcase at home. It was sitting by the door to the garage when we returned, lol. Thank goodness for a nearby Target!

Anyway, like I said, we always have fun. We go to the hotel pool, if they have one, and splash around, nap together, and get to take it easy as a unit. It's nice, and we just make sure to tip the cleaning people well, since they have to work around all of our extra stuff *and* clean up a bin of dirty diapers. We went on a long weekend when DS was a month and a half. He LOVED our shower, just cooed and cooed when we held him underneath it. During the day, we'd go out and do our tourist stuff with him in the stroller or a carrier. Baby snoozed, woke up to eat and check out the scenery, went back down, big sister was happy, and so were we.

I really do hope you have a lot of fun. It's nice to get away, even if it's a pain to have to cart half your house along with you.

[kellikans]

I'm desperate. DD is a month old today. She absolutely will not tolerate being put down. She is held pretty much 24 hours a day. She's held all day by either my mom or I, and then she won't sleep at night unless it's on me. I've tried her boppy lounger during the day, the 4moms rockaroo. I have a 16 month old to chase after and take care of, so this is not going to be sustainable once my parents leave. What can I do?? I'm at my wits end. I can't get anything done. Are there other containment devices that I should try?

[gastro]

Jul 25, 2019 18:28:48 GMT -5 kellikans said:

I'm desperate. DD is a month old today. She absolutely will not tolerate being put down. She is held pretty much 24 hours a day. She's held all day by either my mom or I, and then she won't sleep at night unless it's on me. I've tried her boppy lounger during the day, the 4moms rockaroo. I have a 16 month old to chase after and take care of, so this is not going to be sustainable once my parents leave. What can I do?? I'm at my wits end. I can't get anything done. Are there other containment devices that I should try?

I have worn all of my babies when they were little because they didn’t want to be put down. Have you tried any wraps so you can have her on you and be able to use your hands.

[pooh8402]

Jul 25, 2019 18:32:34 GMT -5 gastro said:

Jul 25, 2019 18:28:48 GMT -5 kellikans said:

I'm desperate. DD is a month old today. She absolutely will not tolerate being put down. She is held pretty much 24 hours a day. She's held all day by either my mom or I, and then she won't sleep at night unless it's on me. I've tried her boppy lounger during the day, the 4moms rockaroo. I have a 16 month old to chase after and take care of, so this is not going to be sustainable once my parents leave. What can I do?? I'm at my wits end. I can't get anything done. Are there other containment devices that I should try?

I have worn all of my babies when they were little because they didn’t want to be put down. Have you tried any wraps so you can have her on you and be able to use your hands.

Agree. Both of my babies loved to be worn.

[vlinder]

Also agree with babywearing, kellikans. DS spent a lot of time today in the Lillebaby so I could walk the dog, chase after DD (age 3) at the playground, and get dinner ready. He’ll sleep a lot of the time when he’s being worn too.

[hamster]

D has been quasi cluster feeding the last week or so. Whatever. Except he's tonight and I'm going to have to pump before bed at this rate. I cant go to bed with lumps already there!

[woowoo]

We had our 2 month well visit yesterday, and sure enough, the Dr was concerned about how much he's been eating (he ate as much as 42 oz one day), and how fussy he's been over the last two weeks. Nights haven't been awful, but he's started crying for long stretches during the day because of how uncomfortable he is, and then he's eating too much because he's so uncomfortable.

She's switching our formulas again after listening to his belly after a feed. I feel validated because I KNEW something was wrong, but man....5 straight days in a row of nonstop crying all day and barely any napping seriously wore on me.

I finally went to my OB yesterday for PPA....my anxiety level just shot through the roof with all the crying and culminated with my throwing a full bottle across my living room breaking a candle....and the expensive dr. brown bottle. I scared myself enough to ask for help.

I've never struggled with mental health before but have lots of friends and family that have so I knew when to ask for help. And it was still very very hard to do.

Gah. Two steps forward and three steps back.

[knx9211]

Huge hugs to you, woowoo - I’m glad you were able to get in to talk to someone.

[lovelyshoes]

woowoo hugs to you. The crying is it’s own hell an ad poor sleep on top and it’s unbearable. I hope the switch in formula does the trick and you all feel better. I’m glad you asked for help too.

[clseale]

Hugs, woowoo. That kind of crying was basically my life from wks 2-10 & in hindsight I think it definitely gave me PPA. I’m glad you’re seeking help/support. Hang in there!

[pooh8402]

huge hugs to you woowoo! I'm so glad you went in to see someone.

[kellikans]

Hugs woowoo.

[gastro]

woowoo Thank you for sharing and getting help! I hate that with my third I’m now realizing I had PPD with my second.

[pooh8402]

E2 got his SECOND tooth in today. Wtf kid, stop trying to grow up so fast!

[namasteak]

woowoo I am so proud of you for getting help! As you know, I struggle with anxiety so please PM me anytime. We can even text if you want ❤️