TTC Tuesday

goatlady12

TTCers:

Cycle/Month:

CD/DPO:

W2O or 2WW?

Testing plans:

Chart stalks/rants/Thoughts:

Pregnant Girls:

How many weeks:

How are you feeling?

Rants/Thoughts/Bump pics?

Mommies:

How old are your LOs (Little Ones)?

How do you feel?

Any Milestones this week?

Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics?

goatlady12

Mommies:

How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 5.5 months

How do you feel? I NEED COFFEE!  I don't drink it everyday, only when I need it.  Anyway it's making LO super fussy when I have it.  I'm going to avoid it now unless I am desperate

Any Milestones this week?  He's getting really close to sitting up good enough that I can walk away.  Just when I think I can walk away he tips over.  He will definitely be sitting up without issue by 6 months.  He says mamamamamamamamama and bababababababa a lot.  Not with any association to me or bottles, he just likes to make the sounds.  He's started making a P sound too, He babbles a lot

Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics?  Going on 48 hours of a super fussy baby.  I'm about to pull out my hair.  It can't last forever, right?!

We had a really fun weekend.  He got to go to the drive in for the first time.  We also went to Mall of America on Sunday.  He was totally fascinated by everything around him.  I nursed him on a bench and he kept throwing the cover off of him.  He hates to be covered so much.  I'm about to just say F it and nurse cover free, plus it's too dang hot under that thing.  DH told me I couldn't take the cover off and I assured him that I could and one day I'll work up the balls to do it.  

I'm really excited about the weather getting nicer and starting to do a lot of firsts with LO.  He loves going in the barn and letting the baby goats nibble at his toes, I really want to take him to the zoo.  I think he'd love all the animals.

goatlady12

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islandmonkey8

How many weeks: 27+4

How are you feeling? Tired and my belly is a bit off today. Hopefully that passes.

Rants/Thoughts/Bump pics? Going on our mini babymoon this weekend! 4 days at the beach! Hopefully the weather holds out for us.

mpjf1001

Pregnant Girls:

How many weeks: 5 weeks 3 days, EDD is 1/23/16

How are you feeling? tired, nervous

Rants/Thoughts/Bump pics? I have to call and make an OB appointment 

Mommies:

How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 22 months +

How do you feel? tired

Any Milestones this week? not necessary a milestone but she has started hitting, when her cousin takes a toy from her, or if she wants something and i wont give it to her she has hit me, we try to redirect her to get her to use her words, i dont want to hit her back and she thinks its a game

Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics?nothing to report

ramstein1027

Congrats @mpfj1001!!!

goatlady12

Yay @mpjf1001!! Congrats!!!!!

islandmonkey8

Congrats @mpjf1001!! Today you are pregnant, take it one day at a time.

xxjen015

@mpfj1001 yay! wishing you a happy, healthy pregnancy

kittenwine

TTCers:

Cycle/Month: 15/15

CD/DPO: 13

W2O or 2WW? ??

Testing plans: N/A

Chart stalks/rants/Thoughts: nothing.  Just checking in.

kittenwine

mpjf1001!

minionlover

@mpjf1001 - Congrats!!

sjs1013

@mpjf1001 Congratulations!  I don't think loss brain goes away, I know until the day O was born, I was worrying about every single thing.  Just take this pregnancy one day at a time.

Mommies:

How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 9 months

How do you feel? I feel good, tired of working.  4 Mondays left!!!

Any Milestones this week?  O is standing independently for longer periods of time.  She is getting bolder and crawling more around the house.  H said something to her this morning and it sounded like she said "What"  I know she didn't, but the sound she made did sound like it. 

Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics? O was sleeping amazingly until about 6 weeks ago.  She started waking up a bunch of times.  We never taught her to sleep on her own, we were rocking her to sleep, then multiple times in the middle of the night.  It would range between 1-6 times.  We tried a few no cry sleep training methods and nothing worked.  We cried it out, starting Friday.  She was not as bad as we expected.  She cried for about 25 minutes on Friday, 15 Saturday and Sunday and 5 last night.  Friday, she woke up once and cried for a few minutes.  Saturday she went a longer stretch and cried for a minute or 2.  Sunday she went until 5 and just had a whimper.  She slept the entire night last night.  I am happy it is working for us and I hope that it continues to work.  H and I were really getting exhausted.

mbuckley85

TTCers:

Cycle/Month: Month 8

CD/DPO: CD24

W2O or 2WW? I'm pretty sure 2WW

Testing plans: Maybe June 1 if no af.

Chart stalks/rants/Thoughts: it would be funny if I got pregnant this cycle since we are starting monitoring next cycle. I'd say we put in a good effort. We dtd 4x in the time frame that I think I was fertile.

Mommies:

How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 15.5 months

How do you feel? Fine

Any Milestones this week? He's more consistently sleeping in in the mornings. We've had a few 14 hour nights/9:30am wake-ups. He gets his sleeping ability from his parents, lol.

He fell asleep coming home from the Memorial Day parade in his wagon. It was hilarious. We took a video. It's on facebook, but I think I'm only friends with one of you! Feel free to friend me.

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=71700720


Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics? Eating his favorite thing, pb&j at panera. We were out running errands.

magpie87

Mommies:

How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 8 months on Saturday

How do you feel? Tired. But, Wren has been sleeping a lot better, usually only waking up once a night.

Any Milestones this week? She started crawling last Wednesday! She's starting to pull herself up to a standing position, but still forgets to hold on the whole time. I think she'll be walking soon. Oh, she has been clapping her hands for a while now, but the other day, her teacher noticed that she was clapping in time with a Veggie Tales song. I'm so hoping she gets some musical talent from H/his family or from my family. I sorta got skipped, but I'm hoping it passes through me to her!

Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics? No pics today

ETA: another milestone

Willy1020

Congratulations @mpjf1001! 

Mommies:

How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 1+

How do you feel? Great! I think we've finally reached a new sleep normal. He is only waking up once, and H goes in there. So....we MAY be night weaned!!!

Any Milestones this week? Nope 

Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics? Nothing this week, boring...

mana8503

Congratulations @mpjf1001!!!! 

Mommies:

How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 8 Months

How do you feel?  Don't even know if I'm coming or going.

Any Milestones this week? She claps, blows kisses, stands... it's always something new everyday.

Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics?

I'm at my wits end with sleep.  I haven't gotten more than 3 hours straight in 2 months.  My fuse is so short, I can't function at work, which is beyond crazy right now.  Jeff has been working 6 day weeks, but gets to sleep in the truck, uninterrupted for 10 hours 3 days a week.  I'm getting jealous and resentful. I've tried everything and the only way she'll sleep is me to feed her.  If I ask Jeff to take a bottle in, he'll just take her downstairs to play #nothelping.  He sees it as me getting sleep, but it's not helping her learn TO SLEEP.  She puts herself to sleep when she wants.  She'll play and fall asleep.  If she's crying she will cry herself horse.  I'm waving the white flag.  Jeff is off 4 days this weekend, so I plan to talk to him and get on the same page.  We have got to figure something out this weekend or I'll be going to the loony bin ASAP.

Willy1020

@mana8503 - I just had a coming to Jesus with H about exactly what you are describing above.

He finally woke up (no pun intended) and realized how much it affects me to not get any sleep. He is now taking the first wake-up of the night every night.

Hang in there, friend. It WILL eventually get better!

mana8503

Willy1020 said:

@mana8503 - I just had a coming to Jesus with H about exactly what you are describing above.

He finally woke up (no pun intended) and realized how much it affects me to not get any sleep. He is now taking the first wake-up of the night every night.

Hang in there, friend. It WILL eventually get better!

H thinks letting me nap on weekends is going to fix it.  No, I need SLEEP AT NIGHT.  I've been napping and now our house is beyond gross.  I feel like my whole life is "cluttered".  There's no consistent thing in it, except sleep deprivation. 

I'm speed reading Ferber now.  I already started our convo on him helping, and that's getting her to sleep, not playing. 

sjs1013

@mana8503 Good Luck!  We tried Ferber's method and us going in to soothe O made her even worse.  We tried some no cry methods, but there were plenty of tears here.  We had to just let her cry.  Our pediatrician told us it is alright as long as she was safe.  We are on night 6 and she is asleep on her own in under 5 minutes and has been sleeping without a peep for 10-11 hours.

mrshall1027

Congrats @mpjf1001!!  So happy for you!!

Mommies:

How old are your LOs (Little Ones)? 4+ weeks

How do you feel? Meh.  My incision opened up and got infected and it's been extremely painful.  I've been having to take Norco again to take the edge off, so I've been totally out of it (which is why I haven't been on here).  I'm finally feeling better today.  I'm on oral antibiotics and also using a antibiotic ointment.  I've never had an infected wound and it really sucks!

Aria's thrush wasn't getting any better after two weeks of meds, so she's now on a new medicine.  I'm also taking medicine for it just in case I have it too and gave it to her when I was breastfeeding her in the beginning.  I don't know why the doctor didn't prescribe this new med from the beginning.  The first medicine had to be given 4 times a day and also brushed on her tongue.  Needless to say, she hated it and it was very difficult to give to her.  This new med is once a day and half a single dose of the first.  I just hope this one clears it up and she starts feeling better asap!  

Any Milestones this week? Turning a month old!  She's changed so much since birth and it makes me sad.  I feel like I'm going to blink and she'll be walking already.

Rants/Thoughts/Baby pics? I've been reading about how to get babies to sleep through the night at 6-8 weeks and I'm hoping I can follow the recommendations and it will work for her.  She's been sleeping longer stretches at night, but it would be great to get more than 3-4 hrs straight of sleep.  It's particularly rough because after she feeds, I have to pump.  After it's all said and done, I'm up for 1-3 hours depending on how quickly she goes back to sleep.  It's not so much of an issue right now, but it will be once I go back to work.

Here's her one month pic - 

mana8503

sjs1013 said:

@mana8503 Good Luck!  We tried Ferber's method and us going in to soothe O made her even worse.  We tried some no cry methods, but there were plenty of tears here.  We had to just let her cry.  Our pediatrician told us it is alright as long as she was safe.  We are on night 6 and she is asleep on her own in under 5 minutes and has been sleeping without a peep for 10-11 hours.

@sjs1013 - Yea, I think I'm going to have to do the same thing.  I tried to go in and soothe and she SCREAMED.  I feed her enough to calm her down and put her back in the crib.  She cried for 10 mins and went to sleep.   I knew the basics of Ferber, but it wasn't working so I thought I should read it...  So far I'm not learning anything new. 

mana8503

@mrshall1027 - I wish someone told me this: just because they sleep good at 8 weeks doesn't mean it'll stick.  E slept though the night at 8 weeks, and then at 3.5 mons all hell broke loose with the 4 month sleep regression.  Slept mostly through the night at 5-6 months, for 2 weeks 11 hours straight!  And now I'm struggling through another regression since early april.  IT SUCKS. 

 

ETA - I hope it works for you!  I just let those good sleep times lull me into a false sense of security. 

goatlady12

@mana8503 so true. A has never kept the same hours of sleep consistently for longer than a week or two. Just when I think I can count on X hours it changes.

Willy1020

@mrshall1027 please don't try to get her to sleep through the night when she is so little. Books like "Babywise" and other programs that do this have been linked to things like dehydration and failure to thrive. Here is an article from the American Academy of Pediatrics. 

She is growing and developing very rapidly and needs the milk at night. She also needs to have a caregiver close for emotional support. Sometimes babies just wake up. Not always out of hunger, but out of emotional need to be close to someone.

This period she is in now, up until about 12 weeks, is considered the 4th trimester. She is just getting acclimated to being in the outside world and everything is new and loud and scary and exciting and overwhelming. 

Be there for her. I know it sucks and I know how hard it is. Believe me. My kid still doesn't sleep through the night. But, it is all worth it and you WILL figure out how to function. 

Just remember, this phase is temporary. She will start to sleep longer. Let her do it on her own time. Or, at least wait until she is at least 6 months old to begin sleep training.

chasemamabear

Congratulations @mpjf1001!!!

Accidentally posted my update it the last thread oops

mrshall1027

Thanks for all the input ladies.  I definitely don't expect her to sleep 8+ hours a night this young, but 4-5 would be good.  I'll have to read more about it and I'll check out that article you posted @Willy1020.