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post #41 of 125
6/10/08 at 1:46pm
So hard to keep up with this thread-- by the time I finish reading, Kehau usually needs something and I can't post. But by some miracle (and thanks to the baby k'tan), I actually have both hands and time!

I'm getting better with the carriers (we have the k'tan, moby and a sleepy baby ring sling), and he's getting more head control, which is making me so much more productive (and thus happier). Don't get me wrong, my house is still a complete mess, but I managed to unload the dishwasher yesterday, and make lunch. It felt so good.

oop-- he beckons...
post #42 of 125
6/10/08 at 2:04pm
Today has been good. Being a neurotic first-time mom, I'm constantly worrying about if Toby's getting enough to eat or sleeping too much. He's a week old ( and takes 2 oz of milk at a sitting, which I know is great. He's just so sleepy! He spends maybe 2 hours a day awake. I heard all these people talking about getting no sleep in the first 2 weeks, and that's not the case at all here. I mean, yeah, it sucks that we have to get up, but I have to wake Toby up to feed him at night!

Of course this has me concerned that he has any number of horrible problems. My mom says to not look a gift horse in the mouth.

I don't know what I'd do without my Hotsling at this point. It keeps him off my incision, keeps him right near me, and I can pump and hold him at the same time. Love it!

to all who need them.
post #43 of 125
6/10/08 at 3:20pm
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OMFG, Sophie will not let me put her down today!!! She is always awake within minutes :. With the lack of sleep last night, this is making me batty. MIL has dd1, so I guess I'll go try to sleep while I'm holding her in the recliner. Sigh.
post #44 of 125
6/10/08 at 3:29pm
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OMFG, Sophie will not let me put her down today!!! She is always awake within minutes :. With the lack of sleep last night, this is making me batty. MIL has dd1, so I guess I'll go try to sleep while I'm holding her in the recliner. Sigh.
This is Olive today, too!
post #45 of 125
6/10/08 at 3:40pm
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This is Olive today, too!
Kierah too! Today and yesterday!!!!!!!!!!
post #46 of 125
6/10/08 at 4:16pm
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Originally Posted by Shanana View Post
OMFG, Sophie will not let me put her down today!!! She is always awake within minutes :. With the lack of sleep last night, this is making me batty.
It must be in the air, cause this is Marley today! If I put him down for more than a minute he is just hysterical. Finally found out this little boy can wail Sigh.
post #47 of 125
6/10/08 at 6:10pm
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I am feeling so strung out and anxious today. Held Sophie for a while, but she kept wiggling and waking me up every few minutes. Finally got her down in the co-sleeper, but then she kept wiggling and waking me up with the noise. Finally snuck away, and after falling asleep and being awakened a zillion times, I feel like a guitar string that's about to snap. I can't even sleep anymore . And now it has been 2-ish hours since she nursed, so I know she's going to wake up soon anyway.

It will get better. It will get better. It will get better. It will get better. Maybe not for a few years, but it will eventually, right?
post #48 of 125
6/10/08 at 6:12pm
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And sure enough, she's up!
post #49 of 125
6/10/08 at 6:37pm
NatureMama - thanks! I'll add that to my list of things to get at the HFS. So far I'm sorely lacking anything aside from baking soda, apple cider vinegar and yogurt. Lots and lots of yogurt in this house with a toddler around!

Sara - I know what you mean My first was just like that, I was slightly paranoid about having to wake him up to feed him and he slept ALL The time!
I'd sit there and complain to DH "Everyone told me all my time would be taken up with a newborn but honestly, I'm bored!" lol!

And despite everyone also telling me he'd wake up eventually, really he hasn't. He still sleeps 13-15hrs/day.
post #50 of 125
6/10/08 at 7:11pm
Add Kate to the clingy needs to be held list. She has been this way for quite some time. It does make me a bit nuts and touched out.

I have to remember not to watch the shows on TLC. I am watching a mom do an elective c-section because she thinks that giving birth is primative and women shouldn't have to do it. And another show where the mom is bottle feeding because she says that she doesn't have enough milk. She is only like 1 day postpartum! Totally nuts. So glad that I have everyone here.
post #51 of 125
6/10/08 at 7:42pm
Babywearing success! After an AWFUL day yesterday, I decided that age be damned, I'm trying a forward-facing hold in the Moby. I need some way to hold him that doesn't piss him off, and he doesn't like being smushed up against me. His head control's amazing, so I decided to go for it.

And... he loved it. Played fetch with the dog for five minutes, had a 10 minute conversation outside with the neighbor. I felt like a normal human being and not the prisoner of a 10-pound jailer.

GOtta run... baby is fussing and family is caring for him while I quickly check my internets....

ETA: The baby shows on TLC drive me nuts. DH refuses to watch them with me because I make snarky rude comments all the time. Like he's not snarky and rude about everything else...
post #52 of 125
6/10/08 at 7:46pm
Shana, I got the blankets. Thanks so much! They are so neat! They will help so much!

I just got back from the midwife. I did not tear. It's still all swollen and kinda inside outish. She said she can see how it looked to dh like it was torn. I'm so relieved!!!! She checked out Noah's arm and he's moving it so much more. He's moving his shoulder now, not just his hand. I was a bit worried he wasn't getting enough to eat because it's not unusual for him to go 4 hours between nursing so we weighed him. No worries. He's 10 lbs 15 oz. He was 9 lbs 14 oz at the ped last Monday. Another relief!
post #53 of 125
6/10/08 at 8:44pm
thats good to hear seren!!! hope it gets the rest of the way better soon!

Kaden is in sleeping with his daddy right now. I already have so many pictures of this but I keep taking them cause it just so cute.... but we have no pictures of me with him... ronnie needs to take some.
post #54 of 125
6/10/08 at 9:14pm
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Oh good, I'm glad they arrived Seren. And good news on not tearing and Noah's arm improving!!!

Yay for babywearing success and cute papa/baby sleeping .

Now I'm going to bed.
post #55 of 125
6/10/08 at 9:57pm
Baby is 4 weeks old today. I'm still struggling with feeling completely overwhelmed at times. Soooooooooooo many people told me, "Oh, going from 2 to 3 is easy . . . going from 1 to 2 is the major adjustment." WTF-ever is what I say to them. Going from 2 to 3 is HARD! Going from 1 to 2 was a breeze for us, man. DD has become quite clingy the last few days and w/C nursing non-stop and only napping when he's being worn, I'm starting to feel a bit touched out also. I just want some sense of normalcy in my life!

Enough with the whining . . . we have smiles here! C is sooooooooo cute when he smiles that it really makes the chaos that is our lives totally worth it. And he's started cooing some. It's so cute but at the same time it's a bit sad b/c he's growing up so fast. He doesn't even look like a newborn anymore!
post #56 of 125
6/10/08 at 11:18pm
Yea so I got absolutely NO packing done today, and I really need this done by sunday! Is there some 4 week growth/nursing spree I seemed to have missed? thank goodness for 10 yr olds who love helping!!!

And those TLC shows I admittedly watch, but I think it's cause I like making tons of comments at them.

seren - so glad to hear baby's arm is getting better and there is no tear

Shanana - hope your getting some sleep

sweetcheeks - I def found going from 2 to 3 harder, with 3 it can seem you're just completely outnumbered. But it does get easier
post #57 of 125
6/11/08 at 10:19am
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DD1 took a nap yesterday, so refused to go to bed until midnight last night, and spent the better part of that time in hysterics. She got up at 6 AM today.

Sophie has decided no one but me can hold her during her fussy period in the evening.

Between the two of them I got 3.5 hrs of sleep last night.

MIL came over this morning to watch dd1 so I could try to get some sleep. Sophie was super wiggly and wouldn't stay asleep. Finally had a poop, and I thought maybe that was it (never mind that mil had to leave 30 min later for a doc appt, so I would have to care for dd1 again). Then she starts screaming hysterically and after a minute has a huge, projectile vomit . Soaked herself, me, the pillow and blanket. Sigh.

Now it's just the three of us, and everyone is tired and cranky. MIL is coming back after her appt. Cannot happen fast enough ...
BIG HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
post #58 of 125
6/11/08 at 10:35am
I'm there with all you guys on the baby who will NOT alllow me to put her down for a SECOND. I was at my WITS END Sunday and Monday with this. DH had to stay home from work on Monday because I didn't think I could take another second of it. Thank God, because she was fussy all day. The arching, griuting, wiggling is what gets me....just when I think I have her relaxed, it starts all over again. Same with putting her down when she falls asleep in my arms or the carrier....10 minutes goes by and she is perking up, rooting, griuting...

Good news is she seemed much better yesterday. Could be a growth spurt and some caffeine/dairy in my diet (which I am now sooooo done with). She slept on and off all day, and just when I thought I had it, she broke bad on me about 7---which I thought was just the usual fussy time, BUT, it lasted until 2:30 am. It was a LONNNNNNG night. She usually settles by 9:30-10, but just could not get there last night. I was ready to jump out of the window and quit counting how many times I thought I FINALLY got her to sleep, laid in the bed and started to relax only to have her wake screaming.

We'll see how today goes....life with a newborn, huh???

DD1 is doing well. Yesterday was so much better with her since dd2 was sleeing regularly and I was able to spend more time playing with dd1. What a huge difference even 30 minutes of one on one time makes!!!!!!!!!!
post #59 of 125
6/11/08 at 10:42am
sweetcheeks - I hear you on the going from 2 to 3. I don't know how I'm going to do this.

Shanana - From a mama of a fussy babe to another BIG

Gage had a terrible early evening period last night, he was super gassy. Thought we had him in bed by 11:00 but he was up at 11:30 screaming again. DH was up with him until about 1:00.

He scared me last night, he last nursed around 10:30 and didn't wake up again to eat until...... 6:30!!!!!! That doesn't mean I got any more sleep, since I was constantly checking on him! Plus I had to get up twice to pump an ounce or so because I was so engorged I was lumpy and I didn't want another plugged duct.

Oops, he's up again.....I'll be back
post #60 of 125
6/11/08 at 11:18am
Ds is one week today Nursing going well so far.

-Angela
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