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Post by flamingo on Jun 9, 2017 11:04:23 GMT -6
purple carrot and beet flavor for the win! Edit beet not beer She would probably take the beer flavor too. It takes every ounce of strength I have to keep her away from open beer bottles and cans within her eyesight. Full on flings herself towards them. I'm so screwed. This is C exactly, too. My dad (affectionately) says she's destined to be in a sorority bc she always has a bow in her hair and wants to chug beer. (FTR, all the women in my family--myself included--were in sororities, so we get the joke...he means it lovingly, lol)
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kleigh
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Post by kleigh on Jun 9, 2017 11:13:20 GMT -6
sophiegrace We are having a particularly hellish time right now too. I really think it's either separation anxiety or teething, but either way I trust it won't be permanent. She just wakes up screaming for no reason and doesn't want to settle down. Hang in!!!
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Post by sophiegrace on Jun 10, 2017 18:39:46 GMT -6
sophiegrace We are having a particularly hellish time right now too. I really think it's either separation anxiety or teething, but either way I trust it won't be permanent. She just wakes up screaming for no reason and doesn't want to settle down. Hang in!!! LY, thank you. I'm not happy that I have someone to commiserate with, but I'm happy that I feel more normal knowing there are other non sleeper. I think you're a really amazing mom, one of the best, so if your babes aren't into sleep than maybe it's one of those 'this too shall pass' scenarios.
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Post by sophiegrace on Jun 10, 2017 18:41:57 GMT -6
She would probably take the beer flavor too. It takes every ounce of strength I have to keep her away from open beer bottles and cans within her eyesight. Full on flings herself towards them. I'm so screwed. This is C exactly, too. My dad (affectionately) says she's destined to be in a sorority bc she always has a bow in her hair and wants to chug beer. (FTR, all the women in my family--myself included--were in sororities, so we get the joke...he means it lovingly, lol) I love this. Are you hoping she goes to a Florida school?
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Post by sophiegrace on Jun 10, 2017 18:48:27 GMT -6
Up until last night I was following the plan to a T. Putting down awake, and only feeding her if it's been 4+ hours. It's been about a month? The initial put down goes great now. And that was my biggest issue because it was taking hours. But the rest of the night has gone to complete hell. So much crying. For so many hours. And then she's been waking up for the day miserable and upset and not willing to nap. I'm weak and just so tired so I picked her up last night every time she started whining. Our hourly wake ups went to every three hours. I'm fine with that, but at a loss. She's 7.5 months and I think I need to just accept that her will is ironclad. This is a really tough time for them, crawling and the seperation anxiety is terrible. If you go to her can you try just patting her bum, and almost laying one arm across her back/tummy so she feels you, fo say 5 minutes and then leave? I've started doing this with J because her only calm method to date is nursing and although i dont mind a couple wake ups anything before midnight is just emotions and not hunger. Hang in there, you're doing awesome You always make me feel like I'm not totally messing everything up. Thank you. I'm not sure what it is about your posts, but I always appreciate them. The patting/arm laying was what I have been doing to get her to go to sleep. And then again if she woke up before the recommended 4 hour mark. Except for last night, it works pretty well when I initially put her down and works ok before midnight if I get in there before her whining turns to crying. For some reason though she's waking up after midnight in a crying panic and not settling down. After doing that every hour for a week I was just too tired to do it again. I'm back to it tonight though!
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Post by vino on Jun 10, 2017 19:34:37 GMT -6
sophiegrace I PROMISE you, you are not messing anything up. We've got their teenage years to do that 😉 Keep on trying and take a break from 'the plan' when you need to, you know your baby best, end of story. If you feel you need to nurse, do it without guilt, there is no wrong way to do any of this when it's clear you love that little firecracker more than life itself.
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Post by flamingo on Jun 10, 2017 19:47:13 GMT -6
This is C exactly, too. My dad (affectionately) says she's destined to be in a sorority bc she always has a bow in her hair and wants to chug beer. (FTR, all the women in my family--myself included--were in sororities, so we get the joke...he means it lovingly, lol) I love this. Are you hoping she goes to a Florida school? In my perfect world, both my kids will go to UF. My whole family and I went there (DH is literally the lone outsider). I started B's indoctrination pretty early so now I'm just working on C
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