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Mums Bumps & BBTs
Hi ladies.
HOw is everyone? UPs? Downs?
QOTW: For the Mums put there who transitioned LO out of co sleeping / moses basket how did you do it and when?
~BUMPS~ globalwife (Colombia) - Due September 5 - team PinkLadyMadrid08 (Spain) - Due November 2 - team PinkMarista99 (US) - Due November 17 - team Bluebeannie (UK) - Due November 25chelbel7 (UK) - Due December 16 - team PinkShekels831 (Israel) ? Due January 2 -team BlueCtgirlingermany (Germany) - Due January 3titicole (Kora) - Due January 14Fififa21 (Mexico) ? Due January 16Brit's Luna154 (India) - Due January 16rpic81 (UK) - Due January 24txlioncub() - Due MarchJohlise(US) - Due April 18Pittpurple (UK): Due 19 April bail229 (Australia) ? Due ? ~BUMPS-TO-BE~LoopyNoodle (Ireland) ? TTC #1Treesapplaud (Sweden) ? TTC #1Blueberries8 (Israel) ? TTC #1Mavjen (UK) ? TTC #1sushisamba (UK) ? TTC #1 http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/308f00ondjima (Namibia) ? TTC #1 http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/26f699 StumpyG (Japan) ? TTC #1oneslybookworm (Netherlands) ? TTC #1 in 2012Just Peachy (Qatar) ? TTC #2mrshooi (Indonesia) TTC#2Mrs. DRJ - TTC #1txlioncub - TTC #1 ~BIRTHDAYS~January5: Melaina25's (Scotland) DS, 20107: LizzieandGar's (Ireland) DS, James, 200921: LAChurch's (USA) DS, 200923: lyvienna's (Vienna) DS, Owen, 200823: titicole's (UK) DS, Micah William, 2010February6: beannie's (UK) DS, T, 20098: lyvienna's (Vienna) DS, Everett, 201010: andrea922's (US) DS, Finlay, 2008March1: Irishgal (Ireland) DD, Niamh (pronounced Neeve,) 20112: Nanner's (Singapore) DD, Hannah Jeanne, 20074: kellibelli04 (Guatemala) DD, 20116: bahamasbride.04.07's (Germany) DD, Luisa, 200911: katrina_pharmd (NZ) DS, Michael, 201112: cee-jay's DD, Lina, 2008April5: andrea922 (US) DD, Lila, 201116: kelly321 (Germany) DD, Rebecca Vivian, 201121: nestinginjapan's (CA) DS, Levi, 201022: twopeasinapod's (Netherlands) DS, Quint, 200828: stephanieVM's (ARG) DS, Lucien Andre, 2007May9: vivjek's (Australia) DD, Isobel, 200910: dubliner's (Ireland) DS, Henry, 201020: pandi02a (Germany) DS, Dominic, 201121: rocket2japan's (Poland) DS, Anders, 201024: Bananas0827's (Scotland) DS, Daniel Alexander, 201031: hamilton.ja's (US) DD, Evelyn Therese, 2010June12: KimiCas's (UK) DS, Sebastien, 200822: Linnya's (Germany) DS, Seamus, 200822: ExpatFamily06's (UK) DS, Leo, 200923: Nanner's (Singapore) DS, Samuel Ezra, 200525: MouseInLux's (Luxembourg) DD, Eleanor, 201127: welshgirl's (UK) DS, William, 200827: brainie's (UK) DD, Elizabeth Jane, 201029: cakenbake's (Italy) DS, Jonathan Wesley, 201029: xnickerx's (the Netherlands) DD, Sabrina Rachel, 1999July2: bigfatgreekwedd's (Netherlands) DD, Una, 20072: newporter's (Ireland & NYC) DD, 20093: plainjanie1's (Japan) DD, Aeris Noelle, 20105: expatjen's (India) DS, 20105: MoniqueJW's (Australia) DD, Genevieve Joni, 20105: newporter's (Ireland & NYC) DD, 200715: stephanieVM's (ARG) DD, Rose Margo, 200921: azure_azure's (France) DS, Morgan, 200825: stever's (USA) DS, Mikey, 2009August1: sarahkelly's (Netherlands) DD, Sadie, 20087: ExpatFamily (UK) DS, Ajax, 20119: Tofumonkey's (UK) DDs, Kaitlynn and Lochlynn, 201012: Emily523 (UK) DS, William, 201013: FayeD's (Italy) DS, Baby D, 200916: alwyzbsy's (Germany) DD, Alexandra, 201021: Just Peachy's (Qatar) DS, EM, 200831: Linnya's (Germany) DS, Owen, 2010September10: bugabean's (Denmark) DD, Bean, 200814: LAChurch's (USA) DD, Zareen, 201015: northgal's (Qatar) DD, Vesper, 200921: mrshooi's (South Africa) DS, Otto, 200926: Amy726's (Australia) DS, Benjamin Ernest, 201027: cakenbake's (Italy) DS, Jeffery, 2008October13: bugabean's (Denmark) DD, Bug, 201015: xnickerx's (the Netherlands) DD, Florence Rebecca Maria, 201026: bigfatgreekwedd's (Netherlands) DS, Nestor Arthur, 201027: jillana's (UK) DS, Costa, 2008November?: hamilton.ja's (US) DS, 20072: traveling turtle's (Germany) DS, William, 20109: gblake's (Australia) DS Thomas Cole, 201010: EnidFalcor, DD, 201010: Choensa's (Korea) DS, 200912: MarlaDossett's (USA) DD, Irene Caitlin, 200812: lelia's (Germany) DD, Frances Caroline, 201028: amwallac's () DD, Georgia, 2010December6: welshgirl's (UK) DD, Matilda Jane, 20108: lorilane4's (US) DD, Stella Lane, 201016: northgal's (Qatar) DD, Neve, 200620: BlushingMama's (UK) DS, James Edward, 200720: ashleynicoles's (Netherlands) DD, Chlo? Isabella, 201023: sandradpage's (Australia) DS, Brayden Luca, 201026: kahleorourke's (US) DD, 2009
Re: Mums Bumps & BBTs
Ups: We're getting smiles and they are too cute!
Downs: she's stuck to my boob and it sucks...I think its just for comfort I wish I wasn't so against a paci!
QOTW: we did it super early because DH couldn't sleep with her in our room. It wasn't too hard for us, she took to it better than sleeping in our co-sleeper!
Afternoon!
Ups: I think I *maybe* felt the baby move. I'm not sure, but it was a distinct pressure under my belly button that moved slowly from left to right, then stopped. It didn't quite feel like gas. Also, I bought a few maternity items while I was home and I feel so much more comfortable now! I have no idea why I waited so long to get into the leggings trend.
Downs: My sleeping has been eratic. Sometimes my hips hurt ad wake me up. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes I have to wake up to pee, sometimes I don't.
QOTD: H is a crazy sleeper. He tosses, turns, talks, kicks. There's no way that baby will be co-sleeping.
Why are you against a paci? Just curious. I have no opinion on this yet.
my sister and I didn't have them and personally I hate seeing kids walking aroud with them all them time. I also don't want to have to ween her off of one too.
ups: W has a great sense of humor.
downs: he is all over the place and so squirmy. though he's a great napper/sleeper, the past few days he's been tired, but not wanting to sleep the first time I try to put him down. Then he gets really fussy for about 45 minutes and then he'll go down for a nap.
QOTW: we just did it. He stayed in our room for the first month and a half because we had family visiting and felt better having him close to us. When he complained, we moved him, but never gave up putting him in his crib and in his room. I think he prefers his own space.
Re: pacifiers. I was also against them. I didn't have one as a baby. I decided not to do them the first month as I tried to establish breastfeeding (I had read about this). My MIL, for some reason, was really against us not using it. She didn't understand. I also hate the way they look.
My son definitely wanted a pacifier, though. He tried to suck on everything. I would use my finger to calm him down, and it worked, but I thought that maybe I should just let him have a paci instead of having him suck on my finger all the time. (He also sucked on his hands a lot, too) We eventually used one when we had to go to the US consulate. Then when it was just me and W at home, I would use it if he got over fussy and I couldn't figure out what else could be bothering him. It seriously calmed him down. I read so much that using a pacifier as a soother makes parents lazy to getting to the bottom of what is really bothering the child, but I really think for him it was that he just wanted something to suck on. He only took it when he really wanted it and if something else was bothering him, he had no problem spitting that pacifier out and crying to let us know.
After a few months, we just kept it for when he sleeps and when he's out and about and is in a stressful situation. He's now just over 9 months and mostly uses when he's tired. We keep a paci attached to his stroller, but he mostly likes to just play with the pacifier clip.
When we eventually have our next child, I'd like to try not giving them a paci too. We'll see how it goes.
Mouse, I know exactly how you feel. Believe me. And believe me when I think in the long ru it will be easier. All of my friends who used dummies are struggling with them now - around their LOs' 3rd birthdays.
Ups: We had our results from some of M's tests and they're 90% good.
Downs: M is full of cold and a cranky so-and-so. W is cranky as a result.
Random news: my BIL's barely-20 but 17 weeks pregnant girlfriend has befriended me on FB and turned me into an agony aunt/ear to listen to her complaints. It's weird. Very weird.
QOTW: Different stories. With W, we tried a lot of things, but nothing worked very well, so we ended up just sucking it up until I felt he was old enough to use CC (Ferber) at nearly 8 months. In one day he was in his cot and sttn. With M, it's been a longer process. We started with one spell a night. I'd get her asleep on me, and then we'd put her in bed between us, with towels rolled up, so she couldn't get right against me. Then we moved her to the moses basket in between us - same for getting her to sleep on me, and wait ever so carefully to move her to her moses basket without waking her. The moses basket started between us in bed, then went into the cot next to the bed. Once we got hte first spell down pat, I tried the second spell, and so on. Around 5.5-6 months, we used a bit of CC to get her going down better, and staying in all night (I suspect we did very little with that, but at least we speeded up the falling asleep process from about 2 hours to 20-30min.) Over the next few months we worked at getting her consistently in her bed and not in ours - though she is still in our room, and will be until she's sttn well, so as not to disturb W (and he's mature enough to not disturb her!).
I was anti-paci with Bean too, and then I finally got her one at 3 months and felt like a huge moron for not getting one sooner. It was a godsend. She weaned herself of it before she was a year old. Bug is more attached to hers than Bean was, but it's still not a big deal. She doesn't require it for naps, which is how most kids get 'addicted.'
Things are going generally well here but no real news. Just two awesome kids.
QOTW: Our "co-sleeper" is just a crib. We had it attached to the bed and now it's not. It was a seamless transition. Just put the side back on the crib and then move it away from the bed. We did it around 3 months with Bean because that's when she became annoying to sleep with. Bug didn't move around so much so it was around 8 months when we did it. She still wasn't annoying to sleep with, but she was consistently sleeping all night without nursing, so it just seemed like there was no point anymore, and it made our lives easier to have the freedom to move the furniture in other ways besides crib-right-next-to-bed. I don't think I've ever seen a Moses basket in person, but I thought they were for carrying the baby around when they were really small?
UPs: Next week this time we will be arriving in Japan being greeted by DH. V really misses him so it will be awesome...I miss him too!
DOWNs: Next week this time we will be coming off a 13 hour flight with V in my arms...
QOTD: We never used a Moses but a PNP in our room. We never exclusively co-slept, but V would sleep in bed with me from her 4-5am feeding on in early months. She transitioned with no problem from the PNP to crib. We stopped the a.m. co-sleeping because she would just get more and more awake after feeding because she saw us and was aware and wanted to play. I started doing that last feeding in a chair instead of side-lying so I wouldn't fall asleep, and I'd put her in the crib when she was done. If she cried out, I'd wait a minute or two and usually she'd fall back asleep.
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Hello! I'm doing well. Having my parents here to help me has been wonderful! Dh and I are getting to rest and relax and it's just been great. My bleeding has just about stopped and I am feeling pretty well aside from a heavy crotch feeling.
UPS: Leo has been FANTASTIC with having Jax around. He's been a bit more clingy to J and I, but even that is starting to taper off a bit the more my mom and dad are here. He's always asking to hold his brother and he likes to give him kisses and hugs. My heart just melts.
DOWNS: I know dh has to work, and yes my parents are here helping, but I feel like I haven't seen dh in weeks. We haven't gotten to just sit and talk and unwind together for a few weeks now and it's bothering me.
QOTW: N/A, both Leo and Jax have been put in their beds from the beginning.
Ups: Baby Sheks is an active little boy lately. He has defined sleep/awake periods and is a little kicking machine. DH says he is learning Krav Ma'ga in there. Every single time he moves it puts a giant smile on my face.
Downs: Who gets heartburn from a peanut butter sandwich? This guy.
QOTW: I plan to keep the baby in our room until he is at least STTN. We'll see!
My Israel Blog!
Good morning!
Ups: She's almost here! What else could make me more excited?
Downs: I'm tired of all the lab test and appointments. I just got home from the lab (blood and urine work) and having a nonstress test (3rd time in a week) and this afternoon I have an appt to look at the results. ingers crossed that they can let her bake a little longer before inducing me.
QOTW: I'm interested in reading all these answers.
Glad your doing well. I got a bit of the heeby-jeebies remembering the heavy crotch feeling.
What is the heavy crotch feeling? Or do I not want to know?
And Expat, I love your new siggy. The boys are super cute.
Well I guess you can add me. Surreal. Pittpurple (UK): Due 19 April 2012
So, so strange.
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
Ups: I'm going home to the states tomorrow, my baby shower is on Saturday, and lots of gifts have been arriving at our flat already.
Downs: My belly button is about to pop! The baby had been moving a lot and now today I really haven't felt her move which is making me nervous...I'm trying not to panic and hoping she's just sleeping a lot today.
QOTD: No experience yet. We don't plan to co-sleep, but the baby's crib will be in our room. (Does that count as co-sleeping?)
Ups: D started playing with his friend Jack for the first time yesterday, instead of just acknowledging he was there.
Downs: I think we hit the terrible twos WAY too early. He's started laying himself down on the floor and screams whenever I tell him no. No tears, just screaming.
D has two of his canines really close to the surface. He's been waking up at 4 am the last few days in so much pain he's shaking. Last night I gave him some teething gel, a sippy of milk and a full dose of paracetemol. He fell asleep on my pillow, right in the middle of the bed and stayed there til morning.
QOTD: D is still in our room, and we occasionally bedshare. I'd love to move him to his own room, but our flat is only a 1 bedroom.
hello ladies,
ups: DS has such a cute personality now. his smiles melt my heart. EC is going really well. he's growing up way too fast.
downs: 5 month jabs last week knocked the wind out of DS's sails. he's still not quite himself. not sure if it's b/c of the jabs or a growth spurt or that he's ready for solids sooner than i thought. oh, and the polar blast hitting NZ has been rough. we haven't been out of the house since saturday. cabin fever has long set in!
qotw: i thought transitioning DS from his bassinet to his room/cot would be terribly difficult. however, when we went on a short holiday when he was 3 months old we had this huge apartment and there was a room for DS, so we tried putting him in it. he slept fine on holiday so we just came home and put him in his own room/cot. he's been absolutely fine.
re: pacifiers. i was against them at first too. but then he was having a witching hour and it seems to be the only thing to soothe DS. at about 4 months, he didn't use his paci for the whole day and so i just stopped offering it, and he's never had it since. eh, just goes to show that i have been proven wrong at everything i thought was going to be so hard to do
BFP #2 10/19/10 CP 10/27/10 (4w6d) EDD 6/30/11
BFP #3 5/10/11 Lucas Abelardo born 12/29/11 at 37w3d
BFP #4 12/10/12 MC 1/14/13 (9w3d) EDD 8/16/13