Blimey, Nov 05 Mamas - It's March! - Page 14

[spiritmomma]

Hey everybody!
Sounds like lots of families are in transition this week...
Amy: Hope you guys get some concrete news soon... Good luck to your DH as he interviews these next few times. Sorry about the parenting woes, hope you guys get a chance to check in with each other soon. That's hard. It will work out, though, and you WILL find some peace and time to talk.

Alicia: It's AAAAAALLLLMOST Wednesday! How exciting! Are you sleeping, or are you way too excited. I can hardly wait to see the pictures!

Gabriele! Glad to have you!~

Isa is doing some new things, so I thought I'd share. She is using actual words! She has begun saying down and pointing to the ground when she wants to run free but is being held. She also says "sssss" while she signs juice. It's a start Other than that, it's been run run run all day either at the Children's Museum or the Park. We've been having some really fun days.

[Phoenix_Rising]

Originally Posted by *Amy*

So I started my period sometime in the middle of the night. This explains so much about my feelings this past week. I'm really kind of irritated with how irregular my period still is (18 days last month, 30 this month! : ) because it's so unpredictable. But at least I know I'm not losing my mind.

um, yeah. i just got my period for the first time postpartum. and boy, have my moods been showing it! i hate that part.

Originally Posted by flapjack

And I'm on the virtual orange juice : : : :

???? did i miss something important ????

[spughy]

Hello mamas! Kaspirant, I'm so excited for you!!! I hope your wedding is beautiful and blissful and wonderful.

Spiritmomma - yay real words!! Rowan's been saying a lot more identifiable things lately too. Bus, duck, Mog (her new favourite book), Daisy, Dada, up, hop on pop (it really does sound like that - it's her other new favourite book), apple, date, etc. This morning she even said "Ma!" and pointed at me

My mom is visiting and it's going so-so. She let Rowan scream at the top of the stairs for me when I took laundry downstairs - I thought she was going to get her and Rowan was just resisting Granny's attempts at pacification, but NO, when I got back upstairs (albeit less than a minute later) Rowan was still screaming for me at the baby gate and my mom was sitting on the couch knitting. Then she had the gall to say something to the effect of "you're going to have to let her do a whole lot more of THAT" and I just yelled "What the hell are you TALKING ABOUT??" at her then realized that was just upsetting Rowan more so I took her into the bedroom and cuddled and nursed her. Whereupon she fell asleep, 3 hours before she was due for a nap. I considered having the "our parenting style is not yours and you'd damn well better respect ours if you ever want to look after Rowan" talk with my dear ma but I was all calmed down and mellow after our cuddles and I decided not to pick a fight right then, because we'd probably wake Rowan up. So I will bait her later this evening when DH comes home and describe what happened from Rowan's point of view, which will probably get my mom to say something rude and inappropriate at which point I will tell her off. Is that wrong???

Rowan's sleeping again - it's a two-nap day. Oh, but I almost forgot the really good thing that happened - yesterday we took the little bug for a looooong walk in the morning then her daddy took her for another loooong walk in the afternoon and she slept all night last night in her crib -woke up at 12:30 and 5:30 and not a peep out of her the rest of the night! Woohoo! So today - more running around for our girl. I was suspecting she wasn't getting enough exercise and it looks like I was right. Amy - it's worth a try for you guys too - get Brynn outside and make her run around for at least 2 hour and a half stretches, and see if that doesn't make her sleep better! And never mind the weird looks from people with strollers.

[Gunter]

kavita- that is complete craziness about your house! i would freak out.

gabrielle- i live near you; we are in the triangle area.

gotta take the babe to bed with me...hope to catch up later.

[Queen of Cups]

I agree about exercise being necessary. We go out almost every morning and every afternoon to wear Killy out. The park, the children's farmstead, the children's musuem, the zoo, the pool (during the summer), the library, the science museum... We visit them all, almost all on a weekly basis! There are three parks within a mile of our house and we visit one almost every day! As long as its over 40 degrees, we go outside! If its under 40 or its raining, we go play at the mall (I walk for exercise with the kids in the stroller, then they play in the play area). Oh, and we usually spend a couple hours outside every day playing in the yard. But Killy still doesn't sleep through the night and he's almost three!:

[flapjack]

Susannah- yep, you're right, that was the announcement. And everyone else missed it But I started bleeding right when I should have anyhow, so things obviously weren't meant to be :

[*Amy*]

Awww Helen. The emotional roller coaster of TTC is *so* hard.

QoC & Spughy - I've had the same thoughts about exercise, but it seems like even when I know she's totally worn out, she still sleeps as poorly as ever. It does make a difference with naps, though, but not night-time sleep. : That being said, exercise is important enough in its own right, so I try to get her out as much as possible now that the weather is warm enough!

Oh, and Spughy, that is hard about your mom. I don't think it's wrong to wait and pick a fight though.

Susannah, isn't it the worst!?? I was telling DH, I never had PMS this bad before I had Brynn! And then I was like, well, yeah; I wasn't sleep deprived then, either, and I could also get away and be by myself when I needed to, or just zone out and watch TV, read, etc. I told DH we need to have a strategy for next month so that I get some relief *before* things get so bad!!

Has anyone started an April thread yet?

[flapjack]

Nope. Bad things happen when I start threads Besides, the longer I can pretend it's March, the further away my birthday seems :
Amy, thanks for the hugs. I just find it so overwhelming that in my early twenties my life was a complete mess and if my then husband so much as sneezed, I'd be pregnant, contraception or no. Now at close-on-30 and with a lot of friends struggling with the peri-menopause, I really want another one and it doesn't seem to be happening

[spughy]

New thread here...