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Originally Posted by flavorfull1
Night nursing is easily 4-7 times a night and that is just about to kill my back.
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Do you nurse with a pillow behind your back? I try to keep Juju night-nursing for my supply (she's more agreeable to nursing when she's half-asleep), and as long as I have a pillow above my shoulder and another tucked behind my back, I sleep quite well that way.
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Originally Posted by Nicole730
I'm totally nervous over something that is probably silly, but I am a freak when it comes to illnesses.
Yesterday we went to a playgroup and a little girl there kept touching Elsa and getting her face and grabbing her hands (which Elsa contsantly puts in her mouth). I tried to keep the girl back, but there is only so much you can do without sounding like a rude b****. Plus, I am trying to be more relaxed about things because illness is an issue for me. Well, turns out that little girl got diagnosed with strep throat today. I just want to cry (doesn't help I am PMSing). I'm sure Elsa won't get it too bad, if she does get it, because of breastfeeding. But DS will probably get it too then and so will I. And UGH I am just dreading it. Plus, the kids insurance didn't go through (state) and who knows what will happen at the doctor's. Do I even have to go to the Doctor for strep? Anything we can do to prevent it? We have ACV and probiotics in the house, guess I better just load us up...
And linchi - that totally sucks!!
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Nursing will help! And healthy kids usually take illnesses better than adults. But next time just cheerfully 'teach' the little kids "Oops, don't touch baby's hands b/c [any reason -- they are spitty, she needs to keep them clean, whatever you think would work]!" Especially if you are cheerful about the correction, the kids won't even really think anything of it.
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Originally Posted by flavorfull1
Anyone have experience with this: DS has occasionally woken up screaming/crying hard. Nothing seems to preceed it, he will just cry and not stop. He is not actually awake and no amount of me talking, moving him, or lights will wake him up. We literally just have to wait until he wakes up. Once he wakes up, he is totally fine. Is this normal? Has anyone had this happen before?
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My oldest sleep walks and sometimes has night terrors. I have not figured out how to avoid it, but maybe it is when she is over-tired. This has happened with Juju once, and, yep, they don't wake up!
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Originally Posted by linchi
Yup, I'm getting shipped off to his folks! haha
My MIL is a good person, hell, she raised her son to be the man I fell in love with - so I really shouldn't complain too much. I just think we are very different and often our opinions fall on opposing sides. (ie. she heard from someone and now believes that babies get sick when they don't wear socks/ shoes and there is no way I am gonna put socks on a baby when it is almost 40 degrees celcius in southern Spain) So, if I come back on here in a couple of days with lots of non-smiley posts please bear with me.
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I hate when my kids don't wear socks!
But mostly the older two -- because I do not like dirty feet in bed (the floors are cleaned every day, but we still have black socks by nighttime!). I wear socks all the time, too... And so does Juju... It's pretty rare that I think it's too warm for socks, I admit!
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Originally Posted by NicoleS
Anyone have any experience with weaning where the child wasn't sleeping through the night?
We had to switch Caleb to formula - I was hoping to nurse at night but my milk dried up in 2 days. But he's used to nursing to sleep, and the bottle just isn't cutting it - he's not hungry, so gets angry when there's milk. If I try to lay him down awake he's up again less than an hour later. Last night I ended up holding him (while holding a binky in his mouth) for over an hour at 1 AM to get him to go to sleep. There has to be an easier way! My other kids didn't need to eat at night by the time they switched to formula, so we've never had this problem before.
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Not weaning, but when I have trouble putting Ju to sleep, I still swaddle her and rock her in the bouncy seat. Have used a paci only once or twice before, but Ju doesn't have much of a need to suck. She still sleeps very well swaddled.
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And Ju's first tooth came in yesterday! She turns 8 mos today (6 mos developmentally). No tears, not really any chewing or much drooling...
And I finally bought a baby book for her! Feeling a little bad about that, forgetting for 8 months... Better late than never, though, right?