TTC and Beyond!

[frsttimemama]

I agree.. baby pics please!

Katrina, how awesome! !

Amanda, hope you are doing well!

Nikki and Waves, I hope your girls sleep better tonight!

I am so sore! I was sore when I got up, I think I overdid it yesterday. My back, left hip, and inner thighs are in agony. Then add a double shift, and I have swollen ankles to add. Hot shower and hot rice pack here I come!

 

[brunettebimbo]

Sorry girls only a quick skim read whilst I'm away.

Molly congratulations!
Julie beautiful pictures, you sound like your doing great!
Sandy try and get some rest, hope you feel better soon!

AFM - What a nightmare it was getting here!

We got about 40 minutes into our journey and hit almighty traffic, we couldn't turn round and there wasn't any junctions we could get off at. We crawled about 3 miles in 2 hours. There had been a lorry and a trailer on fire a few miles ahead. We managed to get to the service station and decided to eat lunch there. As we parked up we realised our car was leaking diesel We ended ringing the AA who came out to us (they also got stuck the the traffic coming to is) who luckily managed to fix it, I thing something needed tightening. We then set off again and hit the traffic. About 10 minutes in the roads cleared and we made it. A journey that should have taken 2 and a half hours took us from 10am to 4.30pm!

The lodge is gorgeous, we have squirrels and ducks on the doorstep and a lake out the back of the patio. We went swimming after the kids had eaten, the pool is amazing, it's full of palm trees, slides and waves, there's even a but that you go through on the inside and it takes you to a warm pool outside and rapids. Tristan is loving it, he's been down all the big slides already even though Hubby chickened out

This morning we are off to do something called Creepy Crawlies. Should be fun because I don't like spiders!

Temperature is gradually going up and boobs are very sore so hoping I've ovulated! I don't know how much more sex we can take

I will try and update when I can but signal isn't too great. Hope your all ok

 

[goldstns]

Ugh...shes not sleeping again! She went down at 830pm...up at midnight and now its 220 and were up...usually it just gets worse at this point in the night. I just want to cry.

 

[goldstns]

I am think this is 4 month sleep regression... Ugh!! They said it lasts for 2-4 weeks. Dh and I might switch to each taking her every other night until this is over. He can give her a bottle. But I read about it and it totally sounds like what Alia is going threw.... First 5 hr of sleep r great and then its ever 90 min waking up.

 

[TTCaWee1]

Oh no Nikki! Try keeping her up later or maybe give her a breast milk bottle so she gets nice and full? I'll have to look into this 4 month thing. Sounds like it sucks. Ellie has gotten into a routine of waking around 3:30 and up for the day around 6:30. I didn't take any fenugreek yesterday and she wasn't crabby at all. I wonder if it makes the milk taste funny since it makes my pee smell? I didn't even associate the crankiness with the fenugreek till you mentioned it. I'm going to stay off it for a few days and see if I get my happy baby back.

 

[goldstns]

Rachel- I suggest looking it up. Apparently it is a phase as their sleep pattern changes from infant to adult (like ours). It lasts 2-4weeks and then will go back to normal. She isn't hungry the 5x she wakes.... Her sleep pattern just wakes her. However that is very interesting with the fenugreek.

 

[CantHrdlyWait]

Had to call my OB at 3:30 am this morning. Ugh.. Yesterday at about 11am I got this really intense headache that came on really quick and with it came nausea. I had it all day but it died down a little in the afternoon. By dinner time though, it was back. So I just laid on the couch all night and had to take a tylenol at 10:30pm. Woke up at 1am with my head screaming. I just felt "off" So I laid there for two hours before calling my OB. He didn't do much. Asked me some questions and told me to take some benadryl to fall back asleep. I didn't because I knew i'd never be able to get up for work, but somehow I did fall asleep.

Slight headache still lingering. I have an appointment on Friday. Not sure if I should move it or not.

 

[Cowgirl07]

Bb I'm sorry your trip got off to a rocky start. I hope it's smooth from here on out and you have a lovely time.
Nikki oh no, I hope she gets some sleep soon.
Sandy I hope your feeling better today.
Afm: I'm tired but didn't have any real side effects from femara yet.

 

[CantHrdlyWait]

Moved my appointment to this morning because headache is still here. I'm sure it's nothing, but I feel like I shouldn't wait until friday to get looked at.

After that i'm going home to rest since I got about 3 hours of sleep last night.

 

[frsttimemama]

Yiked Nikk! I'm sorry. Poor mama!

Bb, crazy trip! Glad you are having fun!

Katrina, yay for no side effects!

Britt, hope you feel better!

Afm, I'm alive this morning. Exhausted and sore, but alive! Lol. Longggg week at work. Lots going on and lots of hours. I'm craving griiled pork chop and baked potato with sour cream and asparagus so Hubby is going to make that for me tonight

 

[wavescrash]

Good luck Britt. Keep us updated!


Leah didn't sleep well last night either. She normally goes 6-10 hours between her bedtime feeding and waking in the middle of the night but last night she only went 5 hours. OH got up to feed her and she only took 3 oz and then wanted no more so he tried to put her down but she was still hungry (he gets lazy with late night feedings... if she doesn't easily take it he assumes she doesn't want more which is NEVER the case lol) so she was fussing. She sleeps on my side of the bed so when she's fussing, I'm awake the entire time. He finally got back out of bed to try getting her to finish the bottle (which she did) and she finally went back to bed. She fussed on and off after that again and then woke up screaming around 7. She wasn't hungry so I changed her diaper and just sat with her, rocking her in my lap and she dozed off. After awhile I transferred her still sleeping to her swing and had breakfast, then laid down on the floor next to the swing and napped for maybe a half hour until she woke up and ate. She barely got through the bottle and was fast asleep again and now she's in her swing so I can catch up on things online, do the dishes and plan out my crock pot dinner for tonight.

I wish I could nap more but then dishes and dinner would never get done. I'm just going to try to go to bed at a normal hour tonight assuming she does as well.


Unrelated and has nothing to do with anyone in this group, I just need to vent. It's really hard to keep my mouth shut when it comes to some parenting abilities. I'm farrrrr from the perfect parent & I definitely don't know everything about anything. But there's this mom in my due date group that is driving me crazy. She's a first time mom and her daughter (3 days older than Leah) is having a very hard time napping during the day. She's very fussy all the time, VERY overtired (she barely naps during the day) and the mom is always complaining about it. So people offer suggestions and we give all kinds of advice and she just ignores it and makes excuses why she's not going to try this or that. She's had a few times where she's been very concerned about the baby and we tell her she needs to call her pediatrician and she says "well we have an appointment in 2 weeks so I'll just wait until then." If your child is not sleeping and is screaming all day and night and you're seriously worried enough to keep asking for our help, call the damn doctor and see them sooner. Maybe there's a deeper issue going on or they have a better suggestion than we do. She says her daughter will nap if she's holding her but refuses to do that because she doesn't want her to develop it into a habit which I can understand but if your child is seriously NOT sleeping all day long and her eyes are bloodshot from overtiredness and she's screaming and miserable and clearly tired, why would you not do WHATEVER it takes to give your child some relief?

I don't mean to put her on blast like that... I'm just so frustrated because it's been going back and forth again this morning (has been like this for a little over 2 weeks now.) There are so many things she can be doing to help herself and her daughter and she just refuses and makes excuses but continues to complain about it. I just feel so bad for her baby, how tired and exhausted (from crying and lack of sleep) she must be. She said her daughter was napping with the pacifier in her mouth but would spit it out and wake up screaming for it so she wanted to take the pacifier away so she didn't have to worry about constantly putting it back in her mouth. Just hold it in the baby's mouth and let her get some freaking sleep

Ugh. Sorry... like I said, don't mean to call her out like this but I'm just so frustrated over it and she's not listening to anyone's help and I just feel for that poor baby.

 

[TTCaWee1]

Poor baby waves! She sounds selfish. That makes me mad. I am probably the worst when it comes to calling the dr bc of what I do, BUT if my baby was screaming all the time, I would definitely be calling! Is she bf or bottle feeding? Maybe she is hungry? Or colicky? Ugh I still don't know what I'm doing but I do know if Ellie was crying and had bloodshot eyes from not sleeping, I would hold her standing up on one leg if that got her to sleep....

 

[Cowgirl07]

Britt I hope you feel better soon.
Amanda that is so sad I feel sorry for the little baby. I snuggle to much with my dog according to Dh, I would much rather cuddle with a baby.
Still feeling relatively human, no headaches, hot flashes or sweats yet.

 

[goldstns]

Poor baby, waves. I mean Alia is acting different and first thing I did this morning was call her doc (still waiting to hear back). Next thing is no more fenugreek today since Rachel saw a difference. By baby's comfort comes first.... Even if that means a little less milk. I'd rather one day go to formula if I run low but know she's able to sleep well now (aka stop the fenugreek if that's effecting her). End result is baby comes first!!

 

[wavescrash]

Exactly... she seems to be worrying too much about what all the books/websites say. She's talking about training her baby to not need the pacifier or to nap during the day. It's not a dog, you don't train them at 8 weeks old. You cater to them until they're a bit more mature developmentally. She's bottle-feeding and went from saying the new formula she tried is working to now saying no formula has worked. I suggested hypoallergenic formula in case her baby is dealing with a milk intolerance (which Hannah went through & was on Alimentum because of it) but she just went on to say her current formula seems to be working. This was maybe a week ago? Now she's saying the formula isn't working so I again suggested trying a hypoallergenic formula and she just ignored me lol.

It's so hard to not force my opinions on her because she's free to parent how she chooses, I just feel for that baby

 

[goldstns]

Ok thank u fenugreek...iv never made so.much milk in one sitting.... However rt boob made 7oz and left boob made 2.5 oz....is this normal? Do I need to call my ob?

 

[CantHrdlyWait]

Just got back from doctor.. no protein in my urine and my BP was 128/84. It seems my diastolic number keeps climbing however. It was 78 over the weekend and it's normally in the 60's. Still the doc said she wasn't TOO concerned yet but that I did have a lot of classic pre e symptoms and to come back on Friday for my regular appointment. She took two vials of blood as well. She told me to come home and take a tylenol PM and go to bed. So i'm doing just that. Hopefully some sleep will kill the headache.

 

[Cowgirl07]

Britt Fx you get better, hope you get some sleep.

 

[TTCaWee1]

Wow that's awesome Nikki - 7 oz?! I have no idea what's normal or not bc I have broken boobs. Ellie has been crying since 10 am and fed at 6:30, 8, 10, 11, 12 - bottle, and I finally just gave the boob again and she passed out eating....cluster feeding sucks.

 

[RobertRedford]

Mirolee, Of course you were on the list. I'll check on your gift!

Waves, how awful of that momma. Maybe i'm overly concerned but I will probably be at the doctor every.single.time something happens to my children!

Nikki, I hope you can get some rest, that sleep pattern changing sounds rough! hugs.

I vote that we also need more pictures of all the babies!