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Kindermama
I had "worst mommy moment" last night! Talk about carriers and all. DH had to take DS to hockey and he was wearing E in a fleece pouch. He attempted to take the pouch off and put it over my head and E fell halfway out. I caught him but I wasn't expecting it and I nearly went into shock. I started balling and felt so anxious that I didn't even go out to my friend's house for tea (with E) as planned when DH got home. I kept replaying the scene in my head until this morning. Worst feeling ever.
JJ- I'm with you on so many things in your recent posts (even the rice bag thing which I thought of doing too!). The postpartum sweating--I hear you! Ugh! My deodorant hardly works these days. It's so gross. I do try to shower every day. I take 1-2 minute showers while he fusses in the bouncy seat. Tenley and E are very much alike. I basically do what you do all day too. I feel like a prisoner some days and go a little nut-so but other days, I'm happy to just sit and stare at my baby--I think those days I'm too damn tired to feel overwhelmed! I definitely don't get anything done around the house even wearing E. I can't bend down to pick up toys or do too much cleaning or make too much noise. It's frustrating but this time goes so fast. Oh and don't make any family planning decisions in the early months.
I love seeing all the babes...JJ..can you post a pic of Tenley! I want to see her!
*hugs* Take comfort in the fact that it happens to all of us! DH was holding T above his head last night, just fooling around and playing, and she squirmed and totally slipped big time. He caught her, and if not, my arms were there instantly to catch her, but it took me a couple minutes to catch my breath and stop feeling lightheaded from the adrenalin. We're all good mamas, mistakes happen.
DH gets credit for the magic bag. We don't do it all the time, but it helps if she's super fussy. We've actually started trying to get her attached to a lovey as well, hoping it will help her to sleep alone for naps, etc, and I've noticed that she will soothe herself with it- it's just this small pink bear, but if she wakes up, she'll start stroking it's head or arm or whatever. So cute!
I've always had a problem with deodorant/antiperspirant, not that it doesn't work, but my underarm skin is so sensistive to it, and it seems like if I use it more than one day in a row, my skin gets sooo dry and itchy. I've tried natural deodorants, and they work for a little bit, and then I get to the point where I actually feel dirtier after putting them on, because they leave a filmy coating it seems like. I keep trying, but no luck on something that works well and I can wear every day-- hence the everyday showers! lol
And yeah, it's hard too now that DH has gone back to work, and that was kind of the 'changeover' of "It's ok that you're not doing anything" to "ok... I got nothing at all done today and I feel horrible. For the most part when he's at work, I'm solely watching her, and anything I get done is bonus. Once he gets home, he relaxes for 20 minutes or so, and then takes her and I do some cleaning and stuff to catch up. It gives him time with her, and I can get stuff done so much faster when I'm not worried about waking her up or banging her into the cupboard door while I'm putting away dishes! lol
Speaking of getting stuff done though-- I tried putting her down in the crib to sleep yesterday, and she slept wonderfully, and then again today for 45 minutes this morning. I think we're going to start putting her down for all her naps in there. I think it helps her to differentiate between naps in the crib, where she knows she's alone, but I'll come get her if she needs, and sleeping in our room (in bed or bassinette) where she expects us to be in the room with her the whole time. I'll keep trying and see how it goes, but so far so good!
It seems like she hit 8 weeks, and she's a different baby now. Such a relief. I'm sleeping, I feel like I'm able to get more done, and she's sitting in her swing now for 10 minutes at a time. She's actually responsive to us, and we spend time playing and cuddling instead of her either being sleeping/nursing/fussing. It's so wonderful! Definitely not making any long term decisions yet. I figure anything before 6 months is totally temporary thoughts. After 6 months I'll start taking him more seriously, but I think it would be 5 years at least before we'd do anything permanent. I've never even been on BC before, so I'm not running out for one of us to alter our bodies yet.
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Baby_Cakes
Guys, idk wtf is going on! Finn isn't sleeping well at night at all. He used to wake 2-3 times and go back in the cosleeper. Now he's up every hour or two, and won't go back in the cosleeper!!!
With us, I found that the key for me is not falling asleep while she's nursing. I wait until she's done, and then she gets 2-3 minutes to cuddle, and then she has to go into the bassinet right away. If I doze, and so she gets the chance to nurse, cuddle, nurse a minute more, cuddle, doze, nurse, etc... then she won't let me put her down again. She needs that definite end to the nursing or she will demand to nurse/sleep cycle all night long, and then in the morning both of us are exhausted. I was doing that for a while, where I would doze off while she was nursing, and then wake up half an hour or an hour later, and try to put her into the bassinet, and she would -not- have it. I have to make sure I'm awake the whole time now, even if it means turning a light on, and grabbing a book. It means that I'm more awake intitally, but because there's an end to the nursing session, and then I get my bed back, I get more sleep overall.
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MarineWife
Those probably have the most appeal to the masses because they more closely resemble sposies and can easily be used under store bought clothes. I wish more people would feel the fitted and wool love because it's getting so hard to find good ones these days.
I think a lot of it is price too. I wanted to use shorties and longies, but the price was just too prohibitive. I think if you have more control over the budget, or if your partner is more on board, but for us, DH was supportive of the cloth diapering, but there's no way I could have convinced him to buy several pairs of "$50 pants". Obviously i know there's more to it than that, but for him, that's what he sees. And it's hard to bring the price down for wool because there's so much time and cost that goes into making them.
I will try ot post photos later! I've got a bunch I need to finish going through today or tomorrow.