Miranda, are you sure there isn't ligament damage? My sister "twisted" her ankle walking down some steps last year and actually tore her ligament she later found out. Ouch!
Madi - that sounds like a great job!
Miranda - I bet a doc would just tell you to keep the ankle immobilized as much as possible for a sprain... Sorry it's bothering you again though!
Carlin - No I can't believe how fast time flies!! It is INSANE!!
Nuku - I totally missed your post about the hurricane! I'm so sorry...
Spacing - one nice thing about DS1 being so young is that if I don't feel like going downstairs and making breakfast he is totally happy to just nurse... It has made things a lot easier... He has been getting super chubby from the newborn milk. it's so cute!
CD- I got my new kushies in the mail a couple of weeks ago and I finally decided I am ready to take on more laundry so I will go back to clothe during the day this week... I'm tired of all the sposies! The scent gives me a headache, but I have found that store brand sposies have MUCH less fragrance than name brands.. In case anyone is like me and sensitive to that...
feeling competent or awful - I definitely have moments of both, though I feel relatively competent most of the time, but that is mostly ecause I told myself that success is both babies are feed and taken care of and as happy as I can make them... I hope I don't sound like I think I know everything, cause I really don't... That is just how I have survived..
AFM - I am a little more bummed out than I should be about not having visitors... Seriously NO ONE from work has asked to come over and see the baby.. I shouldn't be upset because some of these people are the same people who treated so horribly on fb so I don't get why I feel like this.. idk... I want to meet some people from LLL but the closest meeting is 30 min away and I still haven't ventured out of the house with both boys except to my moms... I just feel really cut off right now, which I guess I don't mind right now but I know I will eventually... Sorry for the pity party!
Jules, I'm sorry you're feeling bad about the lack of visitors. Maybe it's all for the best, though- from the FB drama, it sounds like even if they did come over the nature of their visits might not be the most supportive. Heading to a LLL meeting sounds like an awesome goal- when do you think you can go?
Madi, cue the eye roll.. some people really just can't contain themselves. (My favorite so far has been a stranger at the Botanical Garden: "Oh, don't let that baby get sunburned!" Oh, wow, you know, I was planning on it, but now that you mention it maybe I shouldn't.) They should include Parenting Advice Impulse Control Disorder in the next DSM.
Miranda, no helpful information here, just commiseration.. I messed up my ankle year before last and those injuries just seem to take a long time to really heal. I felt more or less better within a couple of weeks, but it was a couple of months before it stopped bothering me/I stopped having flare-ups.
CDing- to clarify, the 'crunch fail' comment was totally tongue-in-cheek! I don't feel bad- I really do believe that we all have to do what works for us, and I love that this group in general seems to feel that way. On another note, I was super happy to see that the GMD prefolds retain like 90% of their value on diaperswappers. I'm going to resell my two dozen NB prefolds to finance the purchase of some fitteds in the next size up.
AFM- Unexpectedly, I think I've felt more stressed out with my husband here than when he's at work. I'm not going to get too worked up about it- this is our first weekend alone with the baby in weeks, and it's our first kid. There's clearly going to be a learning curve. What we really need to work out are our differing expectations. I think he (understandably) sees the weekend as his time to relax and do little to nothing after a long and stressful week, and I see it as time to a) get things done in/around the house that I can't do by myself during the week and b) get a little bit of a break from holding the baby. You can see how these desires are less than fully compatible. Yesterday was rough. Today has been a bit better so far. We went to church for the first time since R. was born (where people were sure to tell us how pro-BFing they are, go UUs!) and he has her now. I think this is doubly important, not just about a break for me- I can really see what an impediment working FT+ outside the home is to him knowing his daughter (at this point, her likes/dislikes and when her non-crying noises mean something good vs. something bad), and they need time to catch up. Hopefully at some point he and I can get time to catch up, too- between weeks of visitors and him working a ton, we have been pretty out of touch since the birth. Feels like we're coworkers rather than romantic partners- we get the practical stuff taken care of, but that's about it. All in good time, I guess.
Madi - that sounds like a great job!
Miranda - I bet a doc would just tell you to keep the ankle immobilized as much as possible for a sprain... Sorry it's bothering you again though!
Carlin - No I can't believe how fast time flies!! It is INSANE!!
Nuku - I totally missed your post about the hurricane! I'm so sorry...
Spacing - one nice thing about DS1 being so young is that if I don't feel like going downstairs and making breakfast he is totally happy to just nurse... It has made things a lot easier... He has been getting super chubby from the newborn milk. it's so cute!
CD- I got my new kushies in the mail a couple of weeks ago and I finally decided I am ready to take on more laundry so I will go back to clothe during the day this week... I'm tired of all the sposies! The scent gives me a headache, but I have found that store brand sposies have MUCH less fragrance than name brands.. In case anyone is like me and sensitive to that...
feeling competent or awful - I definitely have moments of both, though I feel relatively competent most of the time, but that is mostly ecause I told myself that success is both babies are feed and taken care of and as happy as I can make them... I hope I don't sound like I think I know everything, cause I really don't... That is just how I have survived..
AFM - I am a little more bummed out than I should be about not having visitors... Seriously NO ONE from work has asked to come over and see the baby.. I shouldn't be upset because some of these people are the same people who treated so horribly on fb so I don't get why I feel like this.. idk... I want to meet some people from LLL but the closest meeting is 30 min away and I still haven't ventured out of the house with both boys except to my moms... I just feel really cut off right now, which I guess I don't mind right now but I know I will eventually... Sorry for the pity party!
Jules, I find that seventh generation sposies have no scent at all. I agree I hate the scent of sposies. We use sposies at night and one pack of 7th gen lasts quite awhile so worth the expense IMO for no smell.
Mora is finally in her cloth pocket diapers. I stripped them and I think she got chubbier, either way the leaking is gone and we couldn't be happier with the Bum Genius and Happy Heinys we have from DD1. However, I really do love a sposie for night-time....
My family is still struggling with no access to their town r homes, if you are my friend on FB I'm sure you've seen my updates. My mom is staying with us until further notice but she is totally a wreck most of the time with worry.
@Miranda- when S is acting like you described "constant boob touching plus popping on and off plus crying for the boob so hard that he wouldn't accept it and start sucking." I've learned that it's because he isn't actually hungry! He keeps trying for the breast because it is there, but if I give him to my sweetheart when he acts like that, so that S is away from the tantalizing milk, he then settles down and gets happy again.
We have the boob popping, bopping, scratching thing going on here too. It's normally in the evenings, I guess he needs a break from the cluter feeding stuff before going back for more, so I hand him to DH for a little while and all is well...but today it was all day and no husband around so it was a bit rough. Luckily DD took a good nap at the same time as he calmly nurse napped with me so I got a bit of a break then. I think he's having a growth spurt but I already have oversupply so I don't really need him upping that!
Oh snacks, I'm so bad at having stuff on hand which is horrible because my two year old keeps getting toast for her snacks and I'm starving all day and end up picking the few bad/super sugary things we do have. And I still have 30 lbs to go! I'm trying not to worry about the weight since I've already last 25 since his birth and I gained about the same last time but by 9 months after baby came I was under my starting weight - but I would like to have more than 3 outfit options but am too cheap since I'm a SAHM and don't really need them.
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