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Post by cornpop on Nov 12, 2018 12:40:04 GMT -6
It's a new week!
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Post by cornpop on Nov 12, 2018 12:40:48 GMT -6
I felt great this morning. Then I went to the chiropractor and now I have a migraine coming on. Womp.
It was quite a weekend. I feel like I need a vacation.
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Post by mrsmonogrammed on Nov 12, 2018 13:49:56 GMT -6
I definitely did not keep up with my water intake this weekend and my pump output today has been showing it😬
It’s my long day at work and already 1/2 way through so I’m hoping the rest of the time passes quickly!
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Post by nevertoomanyshoes on Nov 12, 2018 14:30:03 GMT -6
My house is a bomb site.
I’m trying to figure out when the baby needs his nap because he dozed on H for a bit this morning because I didn’t want to deal at 5:15 this morning.
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Post by nevertoomanyshoes on Nov 12, 2018 14:31:10 GMT -6
Yesterday the baby was such a screaming mess that he went to bed at 4:30pm. Still woke for feeds at 9 and 12:30. Then awake at 5. I think I’d like to go to bed at 4:30pm too actually.
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Post by auri on Nov 12, 2018 14:49:09 GMT -6
Hope you feel better cornpop. Migraines are the worst. DH is home today because of Veterans Day. We went to lunch and the bookstore, so it was nice. The only downside is that J’s nap schedule is messed up today. He slept in the car when we were going to lunch, so now he doesn’t want his afternoon nap.
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Post by snowmoon on Nov 12, 2018 16:18:43 GMT -6
E officially started crawling over the weekend and she's really frigging fast. Also cutting a fourth tooth and absolutely miserable.
Eta: fifth tooth, apparently.
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Post by sunshinedaisies on Nov 12, 2018 17:28:10 GMT -6
We had a boring weekend here. We mostly stayed inside because of the SoCal fires, the air is just so atrocious and it’s been causing a ton of issues with breathing for all of us. I feel bad even complaining given how many been have been affected and lost everything.
On the baby front, L decided last week he was going to learn to crawl and walk at the same time. Like I was joking about him trying to walk but he is already cruising and moving from one object to another. I’m not ready for this. Like a firm no to an early walker. I’m hoping he will be happy he’s crawling and get distracted. That happens right?
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Post by clementine on Nov 12, 2018 18:48:43 GMT -6
It’s been a crazy couple of days but here are the highlights: - sleep training: super sucky first night, but things are progressively getting better. I won’t say anymore for fear of jinxing it. - teeth: he all of a sudden is cutting both top lateral incisors. I wondered if he was teething, but I couldn’t feel anything and he would hardly let me look in there. But tonight when giving him his medicine I saw them. Poor guy. Isn’t that a little out of order? He doesn’t have the central incisors yet. - work: I will officially be cutting my hours starting in December. I’ll be getting off at 4:30 instead of 6. I am beyond happy about this!
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Post by ArielMermaid on Nov 12, 2018 20:09:02 GMT -6
We had a boring weekend here. We mostly stayed inside because of the SoCal fires, the air is just so atrocious and it’s been causing a ton of issues with breathing for all of us. I feel bad even complaining given how many been have been affected and lost everything. On the baby front, L decided last week he was going to learn to crawl and walk at the same time. Like I was joking about him trying to walk but he is already cruising and moving from one object to another. I’m not ready for this. Like a firm no to an early walker. I’m hoping he will be happy he’s crawling and get distracted. That happens right? Knock him down. DD1 walked at 8 months. WORST. I’m actively preventing DD2 from following in her footsteps because I’m an asshole.
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Post by ArielMermaid on Nov 12, 2018 20:09:49 GMT -6
I finally got the cold. The girls have had runny noses for 4 weeks now. It was a good run I guess.
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Nov 12, 2018 20:24:32 GMT -6
HUGE NOPE TO WALKING BABIES. HELL NO. OMG.
I’m currently sitting in a sea of laundry. Like my entire master bedroom is covered in it. We went from 80 degree days to 40 degrees and both girls grew a bit so they needed new stuff. Plus DH and I have been traveling a lot and never really caught up or unpacked anything for the entire month of October. So. Literally everything we own is on my floor right now. I am ashamed. And annoyed AF that DH is very ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about it. He’s about to get a HUGE rude awakening bc I’m 100% done picking up his slack.
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Post by dizzycooks on Nov 12, 2018 21:12:07 GMT -6
I can’t keep up around here. Nope to crawling. Nope nope nope to walking!!! We have a double ear infection here for ds so things have been super fun. Ds is working on two lower teeth, my almost three year old is getting her 2y molars finally and my 6yo has two teeth hanging by threads. Everyone’s mouth hurts. Dh is out of town all week and we go in vacation Saturday. No problem. I’ve got this. I’ll get everyone packed and try to get the house in some sort of shape so mice don’t move in while we are gone. Ugh. We are back on the “we need to move NOW train” but I keep looking at all our crap and go “how??” And like monogrammed I did not drink enough water. I’m convinced my supply is tanking. I’m hitting the calories and oatmeal hard, but ...it’s not working? Idk. I’m frustrated. I don’t pump often but when I do it’s sad. And ds seems to want more lately than I have. It’s too soon for this to be a problem. I guess we can table sleep training until my supply improves.
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Post by ArielMermaid on Nov 13, 2018 9:11:00 GMT -6
At what point do I take the baby in for her never ending cold? I don’t know if there is anything they can do. But she doesn’t sleep, she’s not herself, the snot is only getting worse. There is no end in sight. I’m exhausted, she’s miserable.
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Post by leatherpants on Nov 13, 2018 10:33:00 GMT -6
I can’t keep up around here. Nope to crawling. Nope nope nope to walking!!! We have a double ear infection here for ds so things have been super fun. Ds is working on two lower teeth, my almost three year old is getting her 2y molars finally and my 6yo has two teeth hanging by threads. Everyone’s mouth hurts. Dh is out of town all week and we go in vacation Saturday. No problem. I’ve got this. I’ll get everyone packed and try to get the house in some sort of shape so mice don’t move in while we are gone. Ugh. We are back on the “we need to move NOW train” but I keep looking at all our crap and go “how??” And like monogrammed I did not drink enough water. I’m convinced my supply is tanking. I’m hitting the calories and oatmeal hard, but ...it’s not working? Idk. I’m frustrated. I don’t pump often but when I do it’s sad. And ds seems to want more lately than I have. It’s too soon for this to be a problem. I guess we can table sleep training until my supply improves. When my supply seemed to be sucking, I started taking fennel and basil oil drops in a capsule. My friend (who loves her crazy oils) convinced me and it seemed to work. Google told me that it wasn’t totally crazy. I hated that feeling and I hope you can sort it out.
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Post by cornpop on Nov 13, 2018 10:41:54 GMT -6
ArielMermaid, legit LOL at knocking the baby down. I think N walking is going to happen sooner rather than later as well. She's already trying to stand up. She's so teeny it's just so comical looking. Leaf 🌱, I stopped picking up H's laundry slack about a year ago while I was pregnant. I will wash all the clothes but instead of putting them away, they get folded and put on his side of the bed. Now...he wears the same like 5 outfits over and over again and has a HUGE mound of laundry in his walk in closet that he has to deal with at some point. It's out of my sight so I couldn't care less honestly. Although I am mad that he's wasting closet space. Part of me wants to offer a deal where I'll put his clothes away again, if I can have 60% of his closet. But....nah not worth it.
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Post by cornpop on Nov 13, 2018 10:45:33 GMT -6
I got the Christmas photo proofs back yesterday. There were way more cute ones than I expected. A lot N looks miserable AF in but there's one where she's bawling and E is comforting her. It is the sweetest thing in the entire world. But it seems weird to make that my christmas card photo. There's one where they're both smiling and one where N is seconds away from stealing E's cookie so I think those are the ones we'll end up using.
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Post by snowmoon on Nov 13, 2018 10:47:17 GMT -6
Glad you got some good ones cornpop. I'm not so patiently waiting for ours still.
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Post by leatherpants on Nov 13, 2018 11:01:33 GMT -6
We are off to get Christmas pictures taken today. I’m very excited because the boys’ outfits are adorable.
And I get so tired of doing shit for SO too. He’s very much “just tell me what to do and I’ll do it”. Which is true but goddamn why do I have to tell you all the time? Just fucking take a look around. Do you have clean dishes? Do you have clean clothes? Are you drowning in dog hair? Are the children looking hungry and/or sleepy? All clues to figure out on your own.
What’s most frustrating is that he has zero issue doing that when I’m not here. So. Wtf man?
Anyways. We talk about it. He makes efforts. Then eventually I’m like - hey wait a minute - here we are doing the same shit again. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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Post by leatherpants on Nov 13, 2018 11:05:44 GMT -6
But what actually drives me the craziest - since I’m in a complainy-type mood - is that his idea of schedule is so unlike mine.
When either of us say, hey we need to do this errand today - I’m thinking “ok we have a 2 hour window to do that in so we better get dressed now so we are ready when the baby wakes up so I can feed him, get L ready, we should also do this other errand at the same time while we are already out and be back so B can have a crib nap otherwise bedtime gets messed up and we’ll have to make supper etc etc” and he’s thinking “we have all day”. So he’s taking his sweet time and I’m busting ass to get things done.
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Post by snowmoon on Nov 13, 2018 11:43:35 GMT -6
But what actually drives me the craziest - since I’m in a complainy-type mood - is that his idea of schedule is so unlike mine. When either of us say, hey we need to do this errand today - I’m thinking “ok we have a 2 hour window to do that in so we better get dressed now so we are ready when the baby wakes up so I can feed him, get L ready, we should also do this other errand at the same time while we are already out and be back so B can have a crib nap otherwise bedtime gets messed up and we’ll have to make supper etc etc” and he’s thinking “we have all day”. So he’s taking his sweet time and I’m busting ass to get things done. This especially drives me crazy. Whenever we have to go anywhere with SO it ends up being too close to lunch or naps and everyone is pissed off an hour later.
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Post by cornpop on Nov 13, 2018 12:13:38 GMT -6
So I really lost it with my H this weekend. I just got to my breaking point of needing to be the responsible one. I usually make sure EVERYTHING is dealt with and handled and he just basically shows up .
We were supposed to go out, and my parents were going to sit at our house with the girls. I would normally have been the one to make sure they had everything they need like a charger for the monitor, a bottle in case N wakes up, etc. BUT my mom got stuck in Philly so I had to pick her up and literally in the door, dropped my mom off, and ran out.
We were 45 minutes away when I found out my H didn't give them a bottle, didn't clean up the floor so it had tripping hazards every where. And the only reason they had a charger for the monitor was I gave it to them.
So Sunday I literally GAVE NO FUCKS. I parented like my H does the entire day. I would help E out if she asked. I would take care of N if she cried but otherwise, I just chilled. I took a bath and a nap in the middle of the day. It was LOVELY.
And 1) he handled everything else so I know he is capable. 2) he was fucking exhausted at the end of the day so now I think he finally realizes at least somewhat how large the discrepancy of responsibilities is.
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Post by dizzycooks on Nov 13, 2018 23:08:01 GMT -6
So I really lost it with my H this weekend. I just got to my breaking point of needing to be the responsible one. I usually make sure EVERYTHING is dealt with and handled and he just basically shows up . We were supposed to go out, and my parents were going to sit at our house with the girls. I would normally have been the one to make sure they had everything they need like a charger for the monitor, a bottle in case N wakes up, etc. BUT my mom got stuck in Philly so I had to pick her up and literally in the door, dropped my mom off, and ran out. We were 45 minutes away when I found out my H didn't give them a bottle, didn't clean up the floor so it had tripping hazards every where. And the only reason they had a charger for the monitor was I gave it to them. So Sunday I literally GAVE NO FUCKS. I parented like my H does the entire day. I would help E out if she asked. I would take care of N if she cried but otherwise, I just chilled. I took a bath and a nap in the middle of the day. It was LOVELY. And 1) he handled everything else so I know he is capable. 2) he was fucking exhausted at the end of the day so now I think he finally realizes at least somewhat how large the discrepancy of responsibilities is. clementine , Do tell how you managed to do nothing and get him to do stuff? Mine would join me and 'relax' and stay on the couch or whatever when the crying starts.
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Post by polson on Nov 14, 2018 5:28:02 GMT -6
leatherpants i get the “just tell me what to do and i’ll do it” all the time. it makes me rage. like how about you just open your eyes??? dizzycooks i hope you’ll at least get to relax a little next week while you’re on vacation (which probably isn’t a vacation, but more of a trip?)
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Post by polson on Nov 14, 2018 5:31:28 GMT -6
anyone else freaking out about thanksgiving next week? i did get christmas cards ordered, but that’s about all i have done from list i made a few weeks ago.
also i have conferences for dd1 thursday and i know it will probably be no big deal but i’m worried she’s having behavior issues there. i’m crossing my fingers she is just like this at home.
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Post by cornpop on Nov 14, 2018 7:55:16 GMT -6
dizzycooks, that was the most frustrating part, he just knew what to do! This whole time he's been saying he "You just know what to do better" blah blah blah, but he was fine. And he knew I was pissed AF and sitting on the couch was not an option. Anyone else's MA18 baby way more interested in actual food than bottles at this point? We've been really good about giving N our food at dinner and now she wont' take a bottle at that time anymore.
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Post by auri on Nov 14, 2018 8:33:26 GMT -6
Our number one biggest fight right now is housework. My h will see something needs to be cleaned and he’ll ask me to clean it instead of doing it himself. I do about 90% of the housework because I stay at home. But it really annoys me when he’ll see something and not clean it.
J is drinking less from the bottle. He gets distracted so easily now and doesn’t want to sit still to drink.
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Post by sweetc129 on Nov 14, 2018 9:22:27 GMT -6
cornpop Hope you are feeling better. Gotta lose it on DH every once in awhile, I did last night. ((Hugs)) mrsmonogrammed hope you were able to get your output back up nevertoomanyshoes hope everybody was able to get some sleep yesterday auri glad you and DH got a nice day, car naps are the best/worst snowmoon yay for crawling, boo for teething sunshinedaisies those fires are scary, please take care. FX for no walking....yet clementine hope sleeping is going well. That’s so exciting about work. ArielMermaid Noo teamnoearlywalkers. Hope you’re feeling better Leaf 🌱 I hate laundry, I can never keep up and I don’t travel so I don’t have an excuse dizzycooks hope dis feels better and everybody enjoys vacation. Could you (or mrsmonogrammed) be getting your periods back? Could be cycle supply dip too? leatherpants hope you got some good pictures. My DH is the same, ugh what’s up with these guys polson Shit, Christmas cards!! I sent them from the hospital when my middle was born on 12/16 (because I wanted her to be included so I preprinted and got labels/envelopes ready. Sent picture photo to one hour photo and had DH swing through and picked them up with my pain meds), but now I feel like I have no excuse) J is crawling all around. He is really struggling with sleep, like bad. I got literally 2 hours of sleep the other night and he’s not napping more than few min spurts in the car. I tried to have him CIO, I went in after 20mins to find he cut his ear (he pulls it when tired/stressed and I’m always cutting his nails), and he had blood and snot all over his face. We are moving to our new house in Feb, so we have been lining up contractors and picking materials because we are doing a big remodel in Jan. We are also finishing some things in our current house to get it on the market and are starting to pack up the house. With the holidays it’ll be stressful, but hopefully will help distract from the first year without my mom.
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Post by clementine on Nov 14, 2018 10:52:56 GMT -6
sweetc129 sorry about the sleep troubles. The first time we let L sort of cry it out, he scratched his ear and it bled for forever. I feel like it doesn’t matter how short his nails are, they’re just so sharp. I’ll jump on the H frustration train. I need our house to be picked up. If it’s messy and cluttered, I get so flustered and can’t relax. Clutter doesn’t really bother H, so he just never thinks to pick stuff up. Also it’s annoying that I can spend 5 min running around the house, picking things up, loading the dishwasher, etc. while scarfing down dinner, and in the same amount of time he has picked one sock up off the floor.
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Post by clementine on Nov 14, 2018 10:57:10 GMT -6
Also since we started sleep training, I haven’t nursed MOTN for the past 4 nights. I wasn’t planning to night wean, but the recommendations from the sleep consultant were to only nurse if he wakes between the hours of 12:30 and 4. The first night, he woke before midnight and then around 5, so I didn’t nurse. And then when she heard that he fell back asleep both times without nursing, she recommended not going back to night feeds at all. And now... I’m crampy today. If I get my period back after only 4 nights of no nursing I’m going to be so mad.
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