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For those who celebrate - how are your babes doing with the festivities?

post #1 of 10
11/27/08 at 6:44pm
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Addie is way overstimulated, but at least she's being only minimally fussy. She just isn't sleeping! She's slept a total of an hour so far today... and not in one go either! And she's fighting the sleep b/c she's obviously tired. I think she just doesn't want to miss out on anything. She's also getting lots of "stranger" time; my family is taking her every chance they can get. I've been trying to take her back when she seems like she needs some Mommy time - I even went into the bedroom to nurse and get her to sleep... she just didn't stay that way. Yesterday she fought sleep all day too and ended up not sleeping well last night either, so I'm getting prepared for another long night. Maybe we'll both go take a nap after dinner in the bedroom, or try to!

On the other hand, she's been showered with gifts and love from my family and is rewarding them with lots of smiles and interactions.

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post #2 of 10
11/28/08 at 12:08am
Murphy's Law struck today/last night. Calla woke at 4 am and would not go back to sleep! She wanted to nurse and nurse and nurse and fuss fuss fuss. This would happen the night before we go to DH's folks' house for dinner!

By the time we went to the in-laws, she was sleepy, grumpy, and a bit gassy. Her three cousins, ages 7-11, adore her, so of course she was soon overstimulated as well. Even though she wasn't herself, she wasn't too "bad" - just obviously not happy and a bit fussy. I put her in the wrap and she was happy again (and asleep).

Oh well, maybe she will enjoy Xmas more.
post #3 of 10
11/28/08 at 12:22am
Tyler hasn't had too much overstimulation, and surprisingly - at 3 weeks - he's been pretty good. We stayed home, so it was just my dh and my 4 kids, and it was awesome. So far, so good!!
post #4 of 10
11/28/08 at 1:04am
We went to my mom's house and there were 17 people there. Quite loud and busy. She had a rough car ride there and was fairly grouchy when we got there. My sister changed her dipe for me and then handed her off to my "aunt." I adore that woman, but asked for Hazel back when she started fussing. I nursed her and she was still fussing. So I then took her upstairs to sway her to sleep in the quiet guest bedroom. She then slept for 3 1/2 hours!!! My mil kept asking when she'd wake up and I kept saying "Right as I'm about to take my first bite." Of course that's what she did

I played pass the baby a little as I ate my food and after dinner until she started to fuss again. My sister handed her off to my mil instead of me and mil beelined it out of the room. I, of course, chased her down with mil protesting she should get more time with Hazel and we had a good long nurse. Then we went home. I'm hopeful tonight will go well despite all the stimulation.

We also do essentially a repeat of what we did tonight tomorrow night and then will have a brunch at my house on Saturday. :
post #5 of 10
11/28/08 at 6:05pm
She did awesome! She even slept through dinner so I could eat hands free.

Hugs to all of you with overstimulated babies...that is the hardest part about newborns. Luckily they will out grow it pretty soon. My 1st dd always got over stimulated and then wouldn't sleep the whole next day. I think she got over it at about4 months.
post #6 of 10
11/29/08 at 10:42pm
Ally Rae was also completely overstimulated. We were away from home for a week and had to visit several people in DH's hometown not to mention all the passing around within my inlaw's house. : I'll give more details later on of my woes during the holiday week but for now, DH is sitting very near me and I'm not ready to him to know how upset I was all week over everything.
post #7 of 10
11/29/08 at 10:55pm
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Originally Posted by TaraRae82 View Post
Ally Rae was also completely overstimulated. We were away from home for a week and had to visit several people in DH's hometown not to mention all the passing around within my inlaw's house. : I'll give more details later on of my woes during the holiday week but for now, DH is sitting very near me and I'm not ready to him to know how upset I was all week over everything.
Tara. I hope you guys will sort everything out when you're ready to talk about it. I'll be here to listen (read) when you're able to tell us.
post #8 of 10
12/1/08 at 2:09am
We survived ..... visited my Mom (aka stayed at her house) and family Fri-Sun (just got home tonight).

Baby Samuel adores my Mom... he gave her HUGE grins repeatedly.... I've never seen him smile that much ! But yes he definitely got over-tired and was over-stimulated.

Thankfully I did wrap him to sleep a few times (and there was some whining from people about 'when' he'd come out so they could hold him).

Mostly I fed and changed, and put him to sleep, everyone else got to hold him during his happy awake periods (NO Fair!!!!).... I'm not exactly sure how that was supposed to help me lol.. (cause they would call it 'giving me a break' when they would take the happy baby from me....)

One time I had my DH get the baby from my SIL.... because he was getting over stimulated/tired and she seemed clueless about it, since he needed to change the baby before putting him to sleep anyway.. it seemed simply like a diaper change not like 'taking' him from her lol. Amazingly DH got the baby to sleep for 3 hrs!!!!!!!!! Of course we did end up with a fussy evening/night go figure. The first night we were there he slept really quite good for his age (8:30-1:15 2ish-6). But Saturday night, he fought sleep from 9:30-11:30 slept fitfully in the wrap from 11:30 to just past 12 when I exhaustedly handed him off to DH who walked and rocked him till 2am!!! Then he slept till six in his bed.

All of this doesn't count the whining and behavioural issues we had with my older two kiddos..... but then that's just to be expected when you have a 4yr old, 2 yr old and 2 month old all taking a car trip together, ha our 3.5hr drive took 5 hrs down and I think 7 hrs back up lol..... oh well if we didn't have to STOP all the time it would help lol. And when we stopped it seemed everyone had needs.

BUT over all it was a great weekend, we had a fun visit..... and I'm glad we went .
post #9 of 10
12/1/08 at 2:21am
our family rented some cabins and we spent from Wed. to Sat. there. A few siblings werent able to make it so it was only about 20 ppl (small for teh P family). Zen did great in the car...amazingly so!!! And he did fine while there but there was a respectful level of taking baby from me. Sleep was mostly on me b/c we couldnt hang his hammock up but other than that, things were good. Both kids went to sleep without much ado, though late...but all in all it was great. No internet, no tv...just good food and family! DP was going crazy! lol!
post #10 of 10
12/1/08 at 4:44pm
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Originally Posted by mamanurse View Post
Tara. I hope you guys will sort everything out when you're ready to talk about it. I'll be here to listen (read) when you're able to tell us.
Thanks. I posted the basics of the week over on the Weekly Chat. I'm so happy to be home!
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