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Post by ArielMermaid on Jan 28, 2019 14:26:31 GMT -6
It’s snowy AF here and I’m impatiently waiting for MH to get home. The plows can’t keep up. It’s a mess.
In other news this poor baby has hit her head damn near 6 times just today. She’s pulling up on everything and anything whether it’s sturdy or not. She looks like someone beat her up.
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Post by alwayscheese on Jan 28, 2019 15:49:12 GMT -6
ArielMermaid we had that weather last weekend. And the baby hitting her head reminds me that someone commented that DS not walking yet = him being smart. We were all like ?????? But she said one of her kids walked at 10 months but was too young so they didn't have enough common sense and they just ran into everything and kept hitting their head. That sounds weird now but it made sense what she meant and we laughed.
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Post by leatherpants on Jan 28, 2019 16:36:42 GMT -6
It’s so odd. It’s like April weather here lately. Chilly but barely any snow and sunny.
We have a bruised noggin over here all the time too. Baby fight club.
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Post by sunshinedaisies on Jan 28, 2019 18:43:38 GMT -6
We also have a constantly bruised forehead here. My kid throws himself head first into everything. He also started walking over the weekend. So more bruised heads are in our future for sure.
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Post by clementine on Jan 28, 2019 18:59:18 GMT -6
That’s exciting and terrifying sunshinedaisies! Add us to the bumped heads list. L is getting much more brave (braver?), but he’s not quite able to do what he thinks he can just yet. So lots of tumbles. Then tears. Although I think he cries out of frustration more than actual pain. He also thinks he should be able to push and walk behind anything he pulls up on. He gets so mad when he can’t push the coffee table. And he gives hugs on command now. And says “aww” when he does it. I die every time.
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Post by alwayscheese on Jan 28, 2019 19:19:15 GMT -6
That’s exciting and terrifying sunshinedaisies! Add us to the bumped heads list. L is getting much more brave (braver?), but he’s not quite able to do what he thinks he can just yet. So lots of tumbles. Then tears. Although I think he cries out of frustration more than actual pain. He also thinks he should be able to push and walk behind anything he pulls up on. He gets so mad when he can’t push the coffee table. And he gives hugs on command now. And says “aww” when he does it. I die every time. 😍 DS gave me a "kiss" for the first time on Saturday. He truly is so cute and sweet but I worked on that for so long and he always acted embarrassed lol.
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Post by alwayscheese on Jan 28, 2019 19:26:05 GMT -6
We also have a constantly bruised forehead here. My kid throws himself head first into everything. He also started walking over the weekend. So more bruised heads are in our future for sure. WALKING??? There's more here that are walking right? I am. not. ready. But I did figure out how to make DS try to crawl. I put him on his belly and made a trail of chocolate chips on the floor and for the first time ever he pulled himself several feet across the floor. So I wanna keep on doing it with raisins. Also I've been thinking about you sunshinedaisies. How are you doing? Do you have another appt to check betas? Also I'm curious who else is thinking about TFAS/T/etc. Should I make a thread?
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Post by alwayscheese on Jan 28, 2019 19:33:58 GMT -6
Also I had cramps all afternoon so am maybe getting my 4th period in less than 7 weeks. 🙄😤😭😡 Why, body, why?
ETA this means I have not gone two weeks period free since before Christmas. 😑
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Post by mintyblueair on Jan 28, 2019 19:41:45 GMT -6
I'm just catching up here and saw your post in the other thread sunshinedaisies. My fingers are crossed for you <3
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Post by mintyblueair on Jan 28, 2019 19:44:45 GMT -6
My baby is still not crawling, but she's desperate to stand up constantly and will walk if we hold her under her arms. Maybe she's going to skip crawling? I'm in no rush, I like my immobile dough girl alwayscheese, we've been talking about TFAT lately. My husband asked me the other day when I want to schedule my IUD removal. I got so excited/nervous at the thought of it! But haven't committed to a date yet. You should make a thread!
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Jan 28, 2019 20:20:32 GMT -6
DD2 (9.5mos) is cruising and taking steps here and there - only a couple at a time though. It’s aforable and awful - she has no idea what’s she doing and is a head injury waiting to happen 😂
We’re done. I’m super jealous of everyone ready to TFAS. Our family is definitely complete but I love the pregnancy/newborn stage of life. I’m all up in my feelings about it and just need to get over it.
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Post by mrsmonogrammed on Jan 28, 2019 21:49:52 GMT -6
Playing catch up, sunshinedaisies thinking all the good thoughts for you❤️ O is just starting to actually crawl but is also pulling up on everything and trying to stand up from a sitting position. Who knows when we’ll see actual steps but I was appreciating having a (fairly) non mobile kid!
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Post by sunshinedaisies on Jan 28, 2019 22:29:44 GMT -6
We also have a constantly bruised forehead here. My kid throws himself head first into everything. He also started walking over the weekend. So more bruised heads are in our future for sure. Snip Also I've been thinking about you sunshinedaisies. How are you doing? Do you have another appt to check betas? I’m okay, thanks for asking. No more betas unfortunately. Which means I’m very annoyed at my OB’s office because they are not being very supportive. When I got beta #2, the nurse was so great and said based on my history of early losses and low progesterone, they’d get me in early to make sure everything looked okay and monitor if they needed to adjust the progesterone, my numbers just needed to come up so they could see something. When I got beta # 3, she forgot I was even on the progesterone, seemed to have no recollection of our prior discussion, and basically just said “everything looks fine, see you at 9/10 weeks.” I was kind of in shock from the low number and I sort of just hung up without processing what she said. I called back today to follow up and see if I could move up my appointment and, shockingly, she was “busy” and never returned my call. I keep telling myself it won’t change anything either way but I’m still frustrated.
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Post by alwayscheese on Jan 28, 2019 22:35:33 GMT -6
I'm sorry they're being so frustrating sunshinedaisies. It might not change anything, but being monitored and Dr office having their ducks in a row would surely make the limbo less. T&P will continue ❤
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Post by polson on Jan 29, 2019 5:31:00 GMT -6
sunshinedaisies how incredibly frustrating. i will be thinking of you - keep us posted
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Post by polson on Jan 29, 2019 5:37:42 GMT -6
daycare was closed yesterday and they’ve already called off tomorrow due to temps. h is on call thursday, friday and again on sunday. i don’t want to go anywhere like the library or the zoo because theyll probably be so busy with all schoo closures happening. it is going to be such a long week. dd2 is basically spending all of her time on her feet - no walking, just some cruising. she has also started climbing stairs. she’ll be 11 months next week. just how? h has always said he wanted 3, i’ve been firmly in the 2 camp. it seems we’ve switched positions at this point. Leaf 🌱 i’m with you - i think we’re done and i’m having a lot of emotions about it. dd2 has been such an easy baby (outside of sleep, which hasn’t exactly been horrible) and that is what has changed my mind. i’m not ready to close this chapter of life yet. i just can’t wrap my head around the logistics of 3 at this point.
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Jan 29, 2019 7:03:19 GMT -6
LOL polson having such an easy second baby (like you, were not having the best sleep experience but it’s nothing compared to DD1) and that makes me really want to be done. I love love love having two girls and I feel like we’re going out on a high note after a relatively easy pregnancy/delivery/babyhood. I worry I’m tempting fate if we go for a third 😂 plus it’s 100% me being selfish. I don’t want another kid - I just want to l be pregnant/have a newborn again. /word vomit. sunshinedaisies ugh that’s so frustrating. The only silver lining is that they aren’t seeing anything concerning enough to call you in.
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Post by ArielMermaid on Jan 29, 2019 7:05:38 GMT -6
LOL polson having such an easy second baby (like you, were not having the best sleep experience but it’s nothing compared to DD1) and that makes me really want to be done. I love love love having two girls and I feel like we’re going out on a high note after a relatively easy pregnancy/delivery/babyhood. I worry I’m tempting fate if we go for a third 😂 plus it’s 100% me being selfish. I don’t want another kid - I just want to l be pregnant/have a newborn again. /word vomit. sunshinedaisies ugh that’s so frustrating. The only silver lining is that they aren’t seeing anything concerning enough to call you in. This is basically me 😂 DD1 was hard AF. DD2 is easy going but still won’t sleep. I can’t do the no sleep again.
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Post by Leaf 🌱 on Jan 29, 2019 7:15:13 GMT -6
LOL polson having such an easy second baby (like you, were not having the best sleep experience but it’s nothing compared to DD1) and that makes me really want to be done. I love love love having two girls and I feel like we’re going out on a high note after a relatively easy pregnancy/delivery/babyhood. I worry I’m tempting fate if we go for a third 😂 plus it’s 100% me being selfish. I don’t want another kid - I just want to l be pregnant/have a newborn again. /word vomit. sunshinedaisies ugh that’s so frustrating. The only silver lining is that they aren’t seeing anything concerning enough to call you in. This is basically me 😂 DD1 was hard AF. DD2 is easy going but still won’t sleep. I can’t do the no sleep again. I just went through the newborn sleep thread and TBH, I can 100% handle newborn sleeplessness. It’s the older infant regressions that I cannot ever do again. We’re over the hump of sleepless death with sleep training DD2 (PLEASE GOD I HOPE AND PRAY WE ARE) and I will. Not. Go. Back. DD1 was untrainable. DD2 defitnileu required training but it got better. We did all the things with DD1 and it never got better. She’d scream all night long. Throw herself out of the crib. Bang on the door. Undo gates and locks. ...also fuck no to not swaddling a new baby. Are people insane these days?!?
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Post by ArielMermaid on Jan 29, 2019 7:21:00 GMT -6
This is basically me 😂 DD1 was hard AF. DD2 is easy going but still won’t sleep. I can’t do the no sleep again. I just went through the newborn sleep thread and TBH, I can 100% handle newborn sleeplessness. It’s the older infant regressions that I cannot ever do again. We’re over the hump of sleepless death with sleep training DD2 (PLEASE GOD I HOPE AND PRAY WE ARE) and I will. Not. Go. Back. DD1 was untrainable. DD2 defitnileu required training but it got better. We did all the things with DD1 and it never got better. She’d scream all night long. Throw herself out of the crib. Bang on the door. Undo gates and locks. ...also fuck no to not swaddling a new baby. Are people insane these days?!? I feel so close to you right now 😂😂
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Post by polson on Jan 29, 2019 8:01:20 GMT -6
woof ...i just read that sleep thread. i’m pretty sure the people making those recommendations have no kids. they can pry my swaddles out of my cold, dead hands. and both our girls were in their own room from the first week home. 🤷♀️ dd1’s first ped took a look at us at the one week appointment and was like put that baby down. you need sleep.
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Post by calendula on Jan 29, 2019 8:48:43 GMT -6
Good luck sunshinedaisies. I also had a history of early losses and got booted from my RE after 3 betas and a dating ultrasound at 7 weeks. My OB's office was very hands off until 10 weeks, and I think until you have a history like yours/mine, its hard to describe how much of an eternity that feels like. Hang in there. Do you mind my asking how low your betas were? I can't imagine they are that low if the doc wasn't concerned?
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Post by woodenshoes on Jan 29, 2019 9:05:35 GMT -6
How frustrating @sunshineanddaisies it is hard for me to comprehend that kind of attitude from an Ob/Gyn office because mine knew how nervous I was with L and wanted to support me. I am thinking of you and hope everything ends up being okay.
I would love to try for a third, but due to two ectopic pregnancies I have no tubes. So IVF or adoption would be our only choice. I have low ovarian reserve so I feel like the likelihood of IVF working on the first try again is low. I love my boys, but I have all the feels about never having the opportunity to raise a girl and wondering if she would look like me. My H thinks it is pathetic I feel that way even after meeting another mom of all boys who has expressed similar feelings.
I also read the GD sleep thread and also was WTF to no swaddling. L had bad reflux and my pedi could not recommend that he sleep at an incline, but he did mention it off the record.
L is not walking yet out he pulls to stand on almost anything he can. He has definitely bonked his head a few times. The other night he slipped I. The bath tub and split his lip, so he has a bit of a fat lip right now.
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Post by woodenshoes on Jan 29, 2019 9:13:42 GMT -6
polson I am sorry daycare is closed for you today and tomorrow. I am on my 2nd snow day right now and I am pretty sure there will be another one tomorrow due to the temperature. Some schools around us also have already closed for tomorrow. Our daycare stays open all the time. I typically keep the boys home when I have snow days, but when I need a break it is nice to know daycare is open. I get major cabin fever when I don’t go to work because that is about the only time I get out of the house during the week.
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Post by calendula on Jan 29, 2019 9:28:01 GMT -6
I have more feelings about being done with kids than I expected. I'm very certain that I don't want any more babies. But when I think about my kids being older, and becoming adults, I wish for them that they could have another sibling.
I guess its less being sad that we are done (which is a decision I actively make at this time) and more sad about the circumstances of our IF. We spent 8 years TTC--I wish we had more than 2 kids to show for that time, but at this point, the ship has sailed and we are closing the chapter.
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Post by cornpop on Jan 29, 2019 10:25:08 GMT -6
I'm kind of on the same page as Leaf 🌱. I don't want a third child, but I am missing the newborn snuggles. And for a while I was making myself feel better by focusing on when my brother has a baby, but him and his GF told me they are planning on only adopting, and I doubt it'll be a newborn so that's out and now I'm more upset about the newborn stage being over. BUT then I caught a few minutes of Tully while it was on and I started having just an overwhelming anxiety come over me. I cannot handle the constant nausea for 9 months again and since I was super lucky with really easy sleepers both times, I cannot risk that. I would not handle no sleep well. So basically, I'm ...okay being done. But if anyone even mildly close to me has another, I will take all of the snuggles.
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Post by sunshinedaisies on Jan 29, 2019 10:49:27 GMT -6
Good luck sunshinedaisies. I also had a history of early losses and got booted from my RE after 3 betas and a dating ultrasound at 7 weeks. My OB's office was very hands off until 10 weeks, and I think until you have a history like yours/mine, its hard to describe how much of an eternity that feels like. Hang in there. Do you mind my asking how low your betas were? I can't imagine they are that low if the doc wasn't concerned? Yeah this is the first time I haven’t been monitored by my RE. My RE is out of state, otherwise I would have called and asked for early monitoring through them. The numbers are 135 at 16 dpo, 457 at 19 dpo, and 1637 at 24 dpo. (Also I know everyone who has done IVF can relate - I had to convert these to Xdp5dt bc I don’t understand actual days post ovulation 🤦🏻♀️). I do typically always have “low” betas compared to average at the beginning so I’m not worried about the first two numbers. Just the third. So the first doubling time was 40.36 hours and from my second to my third was 65.19 hours. I didn’t even think about this until just now, from my first to my third is 53.33 hours, so not bad. Knowing that has (slightly) made me feel better. Also - I’m not too surprised by my OB’s office. My OB is lovely but the staff is terrible. It’s par for the course here - too many people in too small of an area so customer service in all industries tends to be lacking.
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Post by calendula on Jan 29, 2019 11:24:48 GMT -6
sunshinedaisies those are solid numbers and doubling IMO. My RE always aimed for 3 day doubling, never held to the 48 hour standard that seems to be par for the course on the internet. Are you confident in your ovulation date? Sympathies for the crappy OB. I hope you are able to get in touch with the OB directly and bump up an appointment. Good luck!!
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Post by leatherpants on Jan 29, 2019 11:26:34 GMT -6
sunshinedaisies, I’m rooting for you! I’m sorry the nurse was unsupportive though. That would be tough. I’m sending you all my love and good thoughts ❤️
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Post by leatherpants on Jan 29, 2019 11:29:55 GMT -6
I’ve been feeling a bit achy for a newborn again. Like what is this magic? It’s so easy to forget all the crappy stuff of pregnancy and labour and a newborn, but man I can instantly recall feeling the baby move for the first time or snuggling a newborn or the first moment of seeing your new baby and I’m ready like right now to have one.
I did think the other day that my sister might have a baby in a couple of years and then I can snuggle the crap out of the baby.
I do wish I was younger though and had more money. I always wanted to have lots of kids.
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