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Post by dizzycooks on May 23, 2018 21:02:10 GMT -6
And, dh gets home tonight from his 3 day trip. I’m honestly doing ok. I hate to say he doesn’t help much, but other than companionship he’s not a huge help M-F. The days have gone quickly. Ds sleeps like shit so I’m exhausted and that’s not likely to change. My oldest has 8 more days of school and the. All 4 are home with me for the summer. Eeks! I’m hoping this brings a calmer routine to our days since we done have to wait for bus pick up and drop off to go do things.
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Post by leatherpants on May 23, 2018 21:31:50 GMT -6
This child has been eating for like five hours. I want sleep. Fucking shots. Cease and disist Baby Mermaid. And go to sleep while you’re at it you little darling
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Post by gldnbearz on May 23, 2018 23:05:29 GMT -6
yianna yikes, that is a scary situation. Glad your daughter is Okay. Hopefully you and YH can come up with a workable schedule this summer.
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Post by alwayscheese on May 24, 2018 7:00:30 GMT -6
I'm so happy for him and you! Huh. I actually think the tongue tie has reprogrammed my baby. He’s still cranky AF when he doesn’t get his way or if he’s not asleep right at the moment he thinks he should be (um me too), he’s been talking and smiling so much. It’s seriously such a change.
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Post by alwayscheese on May 24, 2018 7:03:28 GMT -6
yianna yikes I'm sorry. Terrifying and makes the mind go crazy places. And same to dizzycooks
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Post by gldnbearz on May 24, 2018 7:25:59 GMT -6
It looks like I moved the baby to my bed around 2am and maybe fed him as my nursing tank is unclipped on just one side. I don't remember any of that.
Woke up at 6am with exploding boobs.
I'm calling unicorn.
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Post by alwayscheese on May 24, 2018 7:43:06 GMT -6
This morn I fed DS then gave him to DH while I went for a run. DH went to sleep instead of taking care of him so now DS's schedule is messed up, but I'm leaving him with DH and going to work with MIL. DH stayed up till 4am? Then complained that I dumped DS on him when he just got to bed. I informed DH I felt zero guilt, then promptly said sorry because I'm still Canadian lol. DH also complained I was making it all about me and I informed him yes today was! 😀 so ya we're still working on learning how to co-parent
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Post by sunshinedaisies on May 24, 2018 7:51:43 GMT -6
Eek yianna that’s a terrible situation but glad your daughter is okay. It will take a few days but you will get in a new rhythm. Glad YH will be there to help too. Speaking of supply issues, I’m super nervous for my upcoming trip. With DS1, our first trip out of town ruined my supply (due to inconsistent feedings) and it never recovered. I don’t want that to happen again. Also right now I pump twice a day - once after my morning feed and once EOD after L goes to bed. I’m freezing around 8 oz a day. I don’t know what to do when I go out of town because we will be gone for two weeks. I can’t just stop pumping but I have no idea what to do with the milk. It’ll likely be around 100 oz. We’ve already looked into shipping it home but that’s ridiculously expensive. Should I just pump and dump? I hate to waste that much milk but keeping my supply up is more important to me. Check in being a donor for a milk bank. I believe they supply shipping materials. I’m local to one so I don’t ship but I’m pretty sure that’s how they do it. I can PM you the milk bank I work with. Any info would be great! Thanks!
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Post by sunshinedaisies on May 24, 2018 7:58:48 GMT -6
We had an awful night last night. Last week this kid was sleeping from 8 pm - 4/5 am. The last three nights have gotten worse and worse with earlier wake ups. Last night L was up at 1:30, 3 and 4 am. He never went back to bed. DH got up with him (thankfully - he’s much better at sleep deprivation than I am) but the baby was so loud I never went back to bed either. And of course we have plans this morning. It’s going to be a long day.
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Post by gldnbearz on May 24, 2018 8:02:44 GMT -6
This morn I fed DS then gave him to DH while I went for a run. DH went to sleep instead of taking care of him so now DS's schedule is messed up, but I'm leaving him with DH and going to work with MIL. DH stayed up till 4am? Then complained that I dumped DS on him when he just got to bed. I informed DH I felt zero guilt, then promptly said sorry because I'm still Canadian lol. DH also complained I was making it all about me and I informed him yes today was! 😀 so ya we're still working on learning how to co-parent Sorry YH wasn't doing well at daddy-ing this morning. He's an adult and can control his own bedtime. Seems like he hasn't learned that LO does not care about how late he went to bed or how little sleep he's had.
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Post by mattsgirl2004 on May 24, 2018 8:11:50 GMT -6
Add me to the no sleep club and it wasn't even the baby who kept me up all night (amazingly enough he only woke twice). My 2 DD's slept horribly. So tired today and didn't get my workout in either. I'll have to do that tonight after my kids are asleep, I guess.
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Post by sweetc129 on May 24, 2018 8:33:38 GMT -6
Check in being a donor for a milk bank. I believe they supply shipping materials. I’m local to one so I don’t ship but I’m pretty sure that’s how they do it. I can PM you the milk bank I work with. Any info would be great! Thanks! PM sent
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Post by ArielMermaid on May 24, 2018 8:54:31 GMT -6
Baby didn’t sleep until after midnight last night. Just wiiiiiiide awake for hours. MH gave it a shot but she just wanted to use me as a pacifier. I’m v v v tired.
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Post by dizzycooks on May 24, 2018 9:07:54 GMT -6
Baby didn’t sleep until after midnight last night. Just wiiiiiiide awake for hours. MH gave it a shot but she just wanted to use me as a pacifier. I’m v v v tired. Ugh. That was my Monday night. I hope you got a bit of sleep and find really good coffee. We are at the clinic for my 6wk pp appt. my house is getting cleaned today so we have to stay put all afternoon. It’s going to be 90...I bought three cleanings bc I figured I’d have this figured out by the time the third one rolled around...hahahaha. Nope. Still a hot mess in her here. Someone asked me the other day how they could help me. I had no answer. If you were offered help, what would you want/need most these days? I need an answer.
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Post by tinyjoys on May 24, 2018 9:23:16 GMT -6
Someone asked me the other day how they could help me. I had no answer. If you were offered help, what would you want/need most these days? I need an answer. Someone to hold the baby so I can eat, pee, cook, etc with two hands. Or just sit without the baby attached to me. Or so I can shower without sticking my head out the curtain every .3 seconds because I swear she made a noise.
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Post by nevertoomanyshoes on May 24, 2018 9:29:32 GMT -6
dizzycooksSomeone to hold baby while I take the longest uninterrupted shower ever. Take my toddler out/entertain him. Keep me company and talk grown up stuff. Hold baby so I can clean my disgusting floors.
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Post by ArielMermaid on May 24, 2018 9:43:30 GMT -6
Yes. Baby holder and or toddler wrangler.
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Post by stardust84 on May 24, 2018 9:49:16 GMT -6
+1 to baby holder. My mom came over to paint a room for us and she held DS2 while I was able to fold laundry with both hands.
100 times prefer her doing the painting but those few minutes were great.
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Post by stardust84 on May 24, 2018 9:52:46 GMT -6
So DS1 has never slept in as a toddler but sometimes did as an infant. I never knew how lucky I was then. DS2 has decided that 5 to 5:15 is an appropriate time to wake up every day regardless of the last time he was nursed. He will come into my bed for awhile but we are almost always up by 6:30. At least he is starting to give me one longerish stetxh at night.
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Post by gldnbearz on May 24, 2018 13:08:31 GMT -6
+1 to holding baby. I fantasize that I can sleep > 3 hours. +1 to helping me declutter. I'm just too sentimental and what-if and end up with keeping too much stuff.
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Post by cp3 on May 24, 2018 13:10:23 GMT -6
Add me to the exhausted club. The baby had her shots last Thursday and since then our sleep has been awful. She's finally getting back on track but with D1 sick I haven't gotten much sleep this week. Her fever spiked to 106 on Tuesday and her fever has been around 104/103 since Monday. I've taken her in twice and ruled out strep and a UTI and told it is a really bad virus. I'm not sleeping since her fever gets higher at night and keep checking on her all throughout the night. She threw up last night and ended sleeping in our bed which was no fun.
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Post by cp3 on May 24, 2018 13:11:50 GMT -6
+1 to holding baby but also feeding baby. This week really made me wish I wasn't breastfeeding so someone else could feed her but me.
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Post by cp3 on May 24, 2018 13:13:20 GMT -6
I'm sorry about the daycare situation yianna. That is terrifying.
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Post by whatsit on May 24, 2018 13:27:59 GMT -6
+1 to holding baby but also feeding baby. This week really made me wish I wasn't breastfeeding so someone else could feed her but me. I have those moments too. I love that I’m able to breastfeed this time but man... I’d love to pass on the responsibility for a while.
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Post by mrsmonogrammed on May 24, 2018 14:16:16 GMT -6
+1 to holding baby but also feeding baby. This week really made me wish I wasn't breastfeeding so someone else could feed her but me. I have those moments too. I love that I’m able to breastfeed this time but man... I’d love to pass on the responsibility for a while. Omg this x82935. And I’m so over waking up to pump at night and the continued pain while nursing. Whyyyyy does it still hurt 6 weeks in?!😩
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Post by gldnbearz on May 24, 2018 15:15:49 GMT -6
I have those moments too. I love that I’m able to breastfeed this time but man... I’d love to pass on the responsibility for a while. Omg this x82935. And I’m so over waking up to pump at night and the continued pain while nursing. Whyyyyy does it still hurt 6 weeks in?!😩 Have you checked in with a LC? Pain while BFing is miserable. Maybe the LC can figure out why you're still hurting at six weeks.
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Post by gldnbearz on May 24, 2018 15:16:09 GMT -6
+1 to holding baby but also feeding baby. This week really made me wish I wasn't breastfeeding so someone else could feed her but me. Ditto. Amen.
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Post by mrsmonogrammed on May 24, 2018 15:20:02 GMT -6
Omg this x82935. And I’m so over waking up to pump at night and the continued pain while nursing. Whyyyyy does it still hurt 6 weeks in?!😩 Have you checked in with a LC? Pain while BFing is miserable. Maybe the LC can figure out why you're still hurting at six weeks. I was just there last week, she said his latch is fine. I’ve just been using lanolin and trying to ride it out☹️
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Post by nevertoomanyshoes on May 24, 2018 15:57:15 GMT -6
I wish H could breastfeed, mostly so I could go out sans baby and get my hair done or wander target for 2+ hours. Alone. At present baby wants to nurse like every 1.5-2 hours and loses his mind if I leave him with H or my mum so I can get out of the house and duck to the shops for 20 minutes. His milk radar is strong.
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Post by stardust84 on May 24, 2018 16:19:58 GMT -6
I am trying to figure out the logistics of going to the dentist. If it was just a quick cleaning it would be fine but I need some fillings replaced. I don't know how to do this with a baby that is STARVING after 1.5 hours. I went for a bikini wax and had to nurse him the whole time which was interesting but only lasted 10 min. I do not see me being able to do anything like that at the dentist. Maybe I should start pumping a bit so that I have some available but I don't know if he will take a bottle.
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