Weekly Thread Dec. 13-19 - Page 3

[Jessviola]

Congratulations Carolynn!!! Welcome Aiden!!! I hope your dh gets back with the pain meds soon!

[Oregonicmama]

Welcome Aiden!!

Congratulations Carolyn.

I have been keeping up with you all, I just haven't felt much like posting. Everything is going well here though. DP has been doing a great job keeping the dishes clean, food cooked etc. Of course, it helps that friends have been bringing us dinner every night! LOVE THEM! DP is a terrible cook.
Aurora is doing great. She is nursing constantly and sleeps a lot.
Lily is adjusting well too.
someone's hungry... gotta go!

[rainy32]

hi all mamas.

I am so glad to be back on-line and getting caught up on all the excitement! congratulations to all moms who had their babies!

I am attaching a picture of wyatt -- cinnanonamon, you'll recognize his outfit! it is the ONLY thing we had small enough for him!! and congratulations on your new baby!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...y32/Mohat2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4.../SleepyBoy.jpg

nannymom -- i looked at dh at 8pm on monday night and said, "i guess we're not having him tonight" and he was born 6 1/2 hours later! i think the minute you decide it won't ever happen -- it will.

shalena -- a little blood on the cord stump is fine -- don't worry unless its pussy, green, or smelly.

nikirj -- you've had a really tough couple of weeks!

good luck to all. I've missed you!

[nikirj]

Congratulations Carolynn! He must seem so huge compared to your first!

Shalena - I really sympathize with the crying thing. My first had a really scream-her-lungs-out period every night for a long time. We never figured out what caused it - I don't eat dairy to begin with, and tried cutting some other stuff out, but it didn't seem to be digestion-related. We eventually figured a routine where right about when she started getting wound-up, we'd nurse, head for the shower, take a 30-min or so shower (she LOOOOVED being in the shower with me) and then nurse again. The hope was that she'd fall asleep after this second nursing, and usually it happened and she wouldn't spend a whole lot of time crying (although she was obviously upset much of that time period anyway). Her ped thought that it happened the same time every day because it was a psychological issue, and I agree - she'd get all wound up when everyone came home (we were living with my family = 7 people, we'd be at home alone or with just my dad and then everyone would start coming in and she'd just get more and more agitated).

Neither of my children bled from their cord-stumps, but it's not something to be worried about unless there's a lot of it, it smells funny, there's puss, or (most worrisome) there is a red line under the skin running from the cord straight upwards.

As for me....well, my life sucks right now. I am not so sick, but feeling a little crappy - the kids are doing quite a bit better. DS is SO crabby, I can't believe this is my son. He's been throwing tantrums, real live lie-down-and-kick or shove-stuff-around tantrums, something he's never done before. And DD has never done before. Stopping this behavior (which happens ALL THE FREAKIN TIME, anytime he is the least bit frustrated or hears something he doesn't want to, or his sister touches him, or...) is beyond my current realm of parenting knowledge, especially with how worn-out I feel right now. All I did today was run to the PO and the grocery store, and I now all I want to do is lie down and forget the world. But the kids need dinner and the house is a wreck and I may deliver any time now (see, I'm having a contraction right now, I can feel it working on my cervix and when my MW checked on Thursday, it was already a 'stretchy three' - way more open than the week before - that she could have kinda messed with if we wanted to speed labor, but we don't). There's more but I'm sick of listening to myself whine, you guys must be even more sick of hearing it.

[cinnamonamon]

Hey ladies, feeling better now. Once you go the medical route it I say -- go all the way! So I'm not going to try to be superwoman about pain meds, kwim? The chocolate birthday cake & raspberries & blueberries my best friend had waiting for me at my house helped too...

Rainey -- the pics are so cute! Aiden is wearing one of the tye-dyed shirts I made him at the moment too! He keeps scratching himself and his nails are still too soft to safely file or cut so I needed something with the foldover thingies...

I cannot believe how huge he is compared to how how ds1 was -- he wore the same outfit home from the hospital as ds1, but on ds1 we had to roll up the pants 4 times! It fits ds2 loosely but nicely.

Niki -- Aiden wore the diaper you made home from the hospital -- his 1st cloth diaper! I was too wore out to deal with cding in the hospital -- I was too wore out to so much as sit up, actually... The cover wouldn't fit over it, though -- I think it might fit over some premmie prefolds. They will probably only fit for a week or so, but that's okay -- they'll go straight into his baby box after that! Good luck with the tantrums, I am actually (knock on wood :LOL) stunned at how well Ian is doing. He hadn't seen me since Wednesday or Thursday night. He thinks the baby is great & is being pretty good with "just a minute"s and letting dh take Aiden 1st so I can take Ian, etc.

I'm glad the worst of the sickness is gone in your house, that would be really stressful.


Good luck to those of you in labor, and those of you waiting. G'night!

[cinnamonamon]

Dh already posted photos on his site! http://www.vulgardisplayofpower.com

[lauren]

What wonderful pictures!! Welcome Aiden!!

[Jessviola]

Aww! What a handsome little guy