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Post by tiffbabey on Apr 19, 2018 14:10:39 GMT -6
We had our best night of sleep yet. 9:00-4:00 then 6:45. I took the kids to a new indoor play space. It’s always good until we try to leave. How do I make him behave when it’s time to go?
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Post by sunfrogger on Apr 19, 2018 14:18:47 GMT -6
Also, we slept pretty well. 830-1, then up at 430 and 545 before up at 7. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
I tackled house things today. Tomorrow I have to be out for my pp check up so. I'm still tired from our shitty night the night before last but. Yawn. That's what coffee is for. I need to leave by 9 tomorrow to hit Sbux and drop E at my mom's before my appt.
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Post by tiffrobot on Apr 19, 2018 14:38:04 GMT -6
DS1 was day trained by 2.5. We just followed his lead. Our pediatrician recommended not forcing anything and it would come more naturally. He didn’t nap train/night train until 4. He just said he wanted to sleep without a diaper (he was peeing too much for a pull-up). He has an occasional accident at night still when he gets really cold or exhausted. This, exactly for my two big kids but DS will be 5 in July and still has overnight accidents. I value sleep too much to care lol. He goes through phases where he gets up overnight to pee but he still wears good nights to bed. DD1 actually had her first dry night like 2 days ago even though she’s been daytime trained for awhile! So she still wears straight up diapers to bed because girl likes to keep hydrated haha.
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Post by pippiann on Apr 19, 2018 15:03:24 GMT -6
E PT'd at 26 months so right before I went out on leave to have O. We had been trying over the weekend with the naked from the bottom down method from when she turned 2. We have a potty seat in our main living area and would rush her there. She got the concept but couldn't figure out how to tell when she needed to potty. No stress. We would just praise highly when she would go on the potty and give her like an M&M or something. We did it again in Dec- no dice. Finally at the end of January she seemed to get it. It just clicked. She had been being asked at school (where she started in early Dec). It was her last week in school before I pulled her because of leave. We also have a potty book - I think I linked it here before. she LOVES story time so we started reading to her every time she went on the potty and she slowly began to figure it out. I took her shopping for "cute" undies as SOON as we figured this was probably the real deal (so end Jan). Read- cheap. We bought Minnie, Frozen, Princess ones, and it was all about "please don't make your princesses sad today!" kind of talk. She was never in training underwear during the day. At night she stayed in pull-ups until we were ready to tackle night training. It seemed like day training actually worked for night time, too. Most days she woke up totally dry in her pull up. Once we were home with DD2, my H was home for about 3 weeks and we decided while there were 2 of us to try night training, and if that didn't work we'd try again in a few months when he was on leave again. At night is when we put trainer underwear on, just in case she leaks a little when waking up to go pee. She's only had a handful of night time accidents and was trained overnight about 5 weeks ago. As far as undies - buy the cheap ones that you can throw if they poop in them - yuck. Thankfully we only had a couple poop accidents, that was gross. She poops like a grown lady. Once they are actually PT'd I really like the Carters undies, they don't feel scratchy at all. As far as overnight, we use the Gerbers trainers and Hanna Anderssen trainers (I got them on Zulily). I really like the HA ones, they seem to have a lot of padding for the occasional overnight leak-type accident if she just catches herself upon waking up. Seriously twins to all of this, but no trainers at night, regular undies. Once it clicks, it clicks. We LOVE the carters undies too! ETA: besides M was about 3y2m before he was potty trained. Night happened a month later.
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Post by tiffrobot on Apr 19, 2018 15:13:42 GMT -6
Total eye roll at my husband - he scheduled his vasectomy and was "complaining" about what they are going to be doing. Dude. I am not going to give you much sympathy when I have had two babies. The first baby was over 24 hours of labor and a vaginal delivery. The second baby was over 32 hours of labor and then an unplanned c-section. Yeah... not much sympathy from me. I can’t really complain about H, because he just kind of assumed he’d be getting a vasectomy so it didn’t need to be a discussion which was nice. However, the other day he called the doctors office just to talk about it and find out what he needs to do to book it, and they told him there will be 2 doctors in the room so he joked “see it’s serious!” And I said “one is probably there to hold your hand” 🙄
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Post by marygracerich on Apr 19, 2018 15:34:08 GMT -6
Total eye roll at my husband - he scheduled his vasectomy and was "complaining" about what they are going to be doing. Dude. I am not going to give you much sympathy when I have had two babies. The first baby was over 24 hours of labor and a vaginal delivery. The second baby was over 32 hours of labor and then an unplanned c-section. Yeah... not much sympathy from me. I can’t really complain about H, because he just kind of assumed he’d be getting a vasectomy so it didn’t need to be a discussion which was nice. However, the other day he called the doctors office just to talk about it and find out what he needs to do to book it, and they told him there will be 2 doctors in the room so he joked “see it’s serious!” And I said “one is probably there to hold your hand” 🙄 This made me lol a bit.
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Post by sunfrogger on Apr 19, 2018 17:10:19 GMT -6
I don't understand. My H works all day and has no patience for our toddler in the 3 hours I need him to parent. If he would just have a little patience... I fucking do this all day.
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Post by sunfrogger on Apr 19, 2018 17:38:38 GMT -6
My H proposed a little family vacation to Baltimore for our 5 year anniversary this year. Yay! It's 5 months away. But I'm so excited!
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Post by sunfrogger on Apr 19, 2018 17:43:21 GMT -6
OK. So. How many naps are your babies taking? I'm wondering if our sleep was a crap fest because we're in a nap transition? I anticipated her taking a 5th nap but instead she stretched her last awake period and is in bed for the night. I tried to take notes today. I think if we hadn't taken her with us to Es room for a nap she would have had a better nap three(in counting the two sleeps as one nap bc she usually takes one long one around then) I'm one of those people who needs an answer which is why I'm grasping at straws here. Her eats though do indicate reflux with two feeds spaced pretty closely. Thoughts? You can also think I'm insane. That's cool too.
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Post by marygracerich on Apr 19, 2018 18:02:31 GMT -6
sunfrogger sorry I have no answers. However I am sort of go with the flow. I do everything by cues.
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Post by flippinchica on Apr 19, 2018 18:06:50 GMT -6
sunfrogger that schedule looks pretty normal to me at 7 weeks.
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Post by sunfrogger on Apr 19, 2018 18:41:59 GMT -6
sunfrogger sorry I have no answers. However I am sort of go with the flow. I do everything by cues. I prefer to read her cues too but I was starting to get confused. Must be lack of sleep 😂 and just looking for answers on why she didn't want to sleep the other night!!
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Post by benandjerrys on Apr 19, 2018 18:44:27 GMT -6
sunfrogger, good question. J will be 12 weeks tomorrow and has only just started to take semi decent naps. Maybe 3-4 per day? I'm going to count tomorrow. Your schedule looks normal to me too. J eats before and after naps as well.
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Post by benandjerrys on Apr 19, 2018 18:46:09 GMT -6
DD potty trained at 25 mos. Since then she's been great with pee but still basically poops only in her diaper at night or nap. 😒😒.
She's had some issues with constipation so at this point we are riding it out rather than take away the diapers.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 18:47:54 GMT -6
sunfrogger I think we had 4 naps today but none longer than 45 minutes. He’s 9 weeks almost 10 weeks. And I give you props for how often you’re nursing. H eats about every 3 hours and some days all I feel like is a milk machine.
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Post by ajetter on Apr 19, 2018 19:11:32 GMT -6
sunfrogger today she took 3 naps between 7am and 8pm but one was 3.5 hours. Yesterday it was like 4 or 5 naps but none of them were longer than 40 minutes. She’s 13 weeks.
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Post by ajetter on Apr 19, 2018 19:16:30 GMT -6
On potty training... DD1 was very verbal and also did not like pooping in her diaper. She started asking to sit on the potty to poop at 15 Months. But fought us so hard on the pee training. Like purposefully peed on the floor. It was a lot of back and forth. When she was about 2.5 we ran out of diapers on accident and I was like well, there aren’t any more diapers you have to wear underwear. And that was it. She was potty trained. 🙄
DD2 pee trained right about 2.5, but had serious constipation issues and hated pooping in the toilet. She was well over three before we got that figured out.
DD3 (Jul ‘15) is finally kind of figuring it out. And I think we could have potty trained her in the last month or so. But we’re going to Disney next week and dnw a newly potty trained toddler at Disney. When we get back though it’s on.
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Post by yellow711 on Apr 19, 2018 19:28:11 GMT -6
DS1 was day trained by 2.5. We just followed his lead. Our pediatrician recommended not forcing anything and it would come more naturally. He didn’t nap train/night train until 4. He just said he wanted to sleep without a diaper (he was peeing too much for a pull-up). He has an occasional accident at night still when he gets really cold or exhausted. This, exactly for my two big kids but DS will be 5 in July and still has overnight accidents. I value sleep too much to care lol. He goes through phases where he gets up overnight to pee but he still wears good nights to bed. DD1 actually had her first dry night like 2 days ago even though she’s been daytime trained for awhile! So she still wears straight up diapers to bed because girl likes to keep hydrated haha. My big will also be 5 in July! tiffrobot
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Post by tiffrobot on Apr 19, 2018 19:59:27 GMT -6
On potty training... DD1 was very verbal and also did not like pooping in her diaper. She started asking to sit on the potty to poop at 15 Months. But fought us so hard on the pee training. Like purposefully peed on the floor. It was a lot of back and forth. When she was about 2.5 we ran out of diapers on accident and I was like well, there aren’t any more diapers you have to wear underwear. And that was it. She was potty trained. This was EXACTLY DD1! It was awesome, I went months without changing a poopy diaper before N was born lol! But she almost always peed on the floor..not usually on purpose but running to the bathroom so I’d have a stream all down the hallway from whatever room she came from to clean up. And I always put a diaper on her when travelling because I couldn’t trust what she would do if she had to pee in public or the vehicle. She was 2.5 when N was born and a few weeks in to having 3 kids I suddenly realized I hadn’t cleaned up pee since she was born and had only been putting diapers on N. I don’t know if it was the feeling of being a big sister or the fact that we were just too busy in newborn fog and were forgetting to put or offer diapers on DD1 for travel anymore, but oddly, having a baby was the switch that ended that problem.
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Post by sunfrogger on Apr 19, 2018 20:25:13 GMT -6
sunfrogger I think we had 4 naps today but none longer than 45 minutes. He’s 9 weeks almost 10 weeks. And I give you props for how often you’re nursing. H eats about every 3 hours and some days all I feel like is a milk machine. FFFC? I really like nursing. I love the bond, I love the eyes looking up at me, I love it. with DD1 we made it to 21mo nursing before my supply dried up. I feel like amazing that my body can make a baby and nourish it. If I could have ANY job no questions asked I'd be a lactation consultant. I've already looked at it since I'm not married to my career path but, the income isn't there right now. But I have a passion for it so when I get free time back I want to volunteer with LLL and stuff.
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Post by ajetter on Apr 19, 2018 21:27:25 GMT -6
Is it weird that my babe almost never looks at me while nursing? I’d say she has her eyes closed 85-90% of the time. It makes her so sleepy, whether it be first thing in the morning or after a short nap. We follow an eat wake sleep routine and have since like a week old, but she still struggles to go from sleepily nursing to the wake portion of the routine because she is half asleep.
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Post by pippiann on Apr 19, 2018 21:28:12 GMT -6
sunfrogger I hope you get to be a LC one day. I talked to so many LCs being having L in the NICU for so long they were all supportive but I had a bad experience once he was out and could of easily made me give up. I didn’t and overcame my struggle but I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone.
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Post by helloerrbody on Apr 20, 2018 5:55:49 GMT -6
We had our best night of sleep yet. 9:00-4:00 then 6:45. I took the kids to a new indoor play space. It’s always good until we try to leave. How do I make him behave when it’s time to go? A snack works for me. I remind DS he gets a snack when we get in the car.
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Post by helloerrbody on Apr 20, 2018 5:57:34 GMT -6
sunfrogger I think we had 4 naps today but none longer than 45 minutes. He’s 9 weeks almost 10 weeks. And I give you props for how often you’re nursing. H eats about every 3 hours and some days all I feel like is a milk machine. FFFC? I really like nursing. I love the bond, I love the eyes looking up at me, I love it. with DD1 we made it to 21mo nursing before my supply dried up. I feel like amazing that my body can make a baby and nourish it. If I could have ANY job no questions asked I'd be a lactation consultant. I've already looked at it since I'm not married to my career path but, the income isn't there right now. But I have a passion for it so when I get free time back I want to volunteer with LLL and stuff. That’s wonderful! I also love nursing. I have terrible low supply because of IGT but still nurse DS1 at 2 years old. I dried up around 14/15 months but he just continued comfort nursing. You’d make a wonderful LC.
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Post by helloerrbody on Apr 20, 2018 6:02:50 GMT -6
Is it weird that my babe almost never looks at me while nursing? I’d say she has her eyes closed 85-90% of the time. It makes her so sleepy, whether it be first thing in the morning or after a short nap. We follow an eat wake sleep routine and have since like a week old, but she still struggles to go from sleepily nursing to the wake portion of the routine because she is half asleep. Baby doesn’t look at me yet while nursing. He’s either eyes closed or just looking straight forward.
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Post by easternshoregirl on Apr 20, 2018 6:04:40 GMT -6
We had our best night of sleep yet. 9:00-4:00 then 6:45. I took the kids to a new indoor play space. It’s always good until we try to leave. How do I make him behave when it’s time to go? A snack works for me. I remind DS he gets a snack when we get in the car. I try to do the same! I make sure to bring one when we go to the park so he has something to look forward to getting in the stroller for the walk home. The other day, he even decided it was time to go because he wanted his snack.
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Post by sunfrogger on Apr 20, 2018 13:36:22 GMT -6
FFFC? I really like nursing. I love the bond, I love the eyes looking up at me, I love it. with DD1 we made it to 21mo nursing before my supply dried up. I feel like amazing that my body can make a baby and nourish it. If I could have ANY job no questions asked I'd be a lactation consultant. I've already looked at it since I'm not married to my career path but, the income isn't there right now. But I have a passion for it so when I get free time back I want to volunteer with LLL and stuff. That’s wonderful! I also love nursing. I have terrible low supply because of IGT but still nurse DS1 at 2 years old. I dried up around 14/15 months but he just continued comfort nursing. You’d make a wonderful LC. Thank you! My gf from work said the same thing the other day. She is a FTM and is nursing so she has all the questions. I'm just glad to help people!
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