I've always gotten errors (shakes fist) but I'll admit I've been holding off on updating my iOS because there's a post from the admins saying it's had issues.
Unrelated to our bump gripes, but still not cool, man. DH just texted me, one of my hockey teams have traded away or allowed to leave in free agency two of my favorite players! %-( One went to the Blackhawks. The Blackhawks! :-O Bah
DS brought home another cold from preschool. We both woke up with a sore throat this morning. Well at least we had three days without boogers. Time to bust out the airborn.
My daycare providers daughter has mono - which I already posted. But apparently it's so bad she's in the hospital. I'm not sure she will open tomorrow, which I would understand, but would royally blow for me ... To take a day off when my kid isn't sick. Although I'd be freaking out if mono landed my teenager in the hospital!
My daycare providers daughter has mono - which I already posted. But apparently it's so bad she's in the hospital. I'm not sure she will open tomorrow, which I would understand, but would royally blow for me ... To take a day off when my kid isn't sick. Although I'd be freaking out if mono landed my teenager in the hospital!
You know - I'll admit to being one of those people who totally understood when parents had to miss work because of their kids, but at the same time was really annoyed by the leeway parents received when it came to missing work. Kid is sick and you have to miss work to take it to the Dr, no problem. Cat is sick and you have to miss work to take it to the vet, huge strike against you. Not saying parents should get in trouble if they have to miss work for their kids, hell no. Even before I had a kid I never felt that way. But I do feel that its unfair that someone who is childless is not afforded a similar type of leeway when it comes to pets, is all.
Moral of the story - really, there isn't one except me bitching, lol. But enjoy your day home with your LO!
After poor LO rolled off the changing table (he's FINE - landed in a box of diapers, score! On DH's watch, not my doing - double score ;-)), I tried to cut his nails while he napped...and took a chunk out of his finger. Ugh!! He didn't even wake up, and it didn't seem to bother him at all today. But it bled quite a bit. Poor baby!! We will be better parents tomorrow. X_X
At church, we haven't been taking LO to the nursery for Sunday school bc the lady in there is old & all she does it rock the baby. It could be screaming it's head off & she's rocking away shooshing it. She's a little crazy. Well we've had about 5 or 6 people tell us it's hurting her feelings that I keep her in my Sunday school class (to which I don't give a flying flip), but last Sunday she was dedicated & she went in there for a bit with her & was okay. This Sunday, she is asleep on the way to church & needs a full nap so I was going to keep her in the service (small southern church, no big deal). This woman walks over to take her & I tell her no she's going to nap. She picks up the carrier and WALKS OFF WITH MY BABY... My DH looked at me like we were going to hurt her. Another woman saw & took the diaper bag & went with her. I go in after church & she hasn't napped... So I tell them she NEEDS to nap (I'm trying to be civil, this is church). Another lady comes to get me 20min into SS because she's crying her head off, still no nap & she's ready to eat. I have to pry her from the woman to feed her & I say, SHE MUST NAP. She plays with her. My poor baby is SCREAMING when I pick her up & this crazy lady is like, "she doesn't like me anymore..." She passed out before I could buckle her in. I complained to our pastor & I refuse to let her near by baby again....... Ughhhh.
^^ whoa. NOT COOL. Something like this is exactly the reason I am reluctant to leave my LO with the YMCA kid care person. I don't know this person and they don't know me, and would see me and LO so infrequently I'm afraid they would just do their thing instead of listening to my instructions (which would be simple - let him sleep unless he wants to play). I hope the pastor speaks with her not just about her not watching your LO anymore, but that in general she should not just walk off with someone's kid without their permission.
Friday and Saturday nights LO was up earlier and more often wanting to eat. She was up well before midnight both nights. I usually pump before bed, but then I didn't have enough to feed LO and get her to sleep more than 2 hours. One night, I even warmed up milk from the fridge. So last night, I didn't pump before bed so I would be able to do a good feed when she woke up. Aaaaaand you guessed it: she slept until 4:30 so my boobs were rock hard and ready to explode. Thanks for the sleep but let's try to get on the same page.
@lovethatcolosun i was also wondering how it was going in croup-land. He feeling better today? Bless his little heart, I was thinking about you guys off and on all day yesterday and last night
Thanks for checking on us @mellymar and @klkonwi. DS is feeling better today. His cough isn't as severe, meaning he doesn't cry every time he coughs now. He's still a little wheezy, but not struggling to catch a breath like yesterday. He added a new symptom last night before bed...a bloody nose. We had two more in the middle of the night. It wouldn't be so bad if he didn't struggle every time a tissue touched his nose, whipping his head back and forth. He immediately got in the bath this morning after he woke up with his arms, hands, and face covered in dried blood. Getting a toddle to use a tissue on his own in the middle of the night without us prompting is nearly impossible. Hoping for an easy day today.
So last night I was at a young life club (youth group sort of thing!) and the people whose house it was at were enthralled that a baby was there. I have only met these people a couple of times, and wouldn't even call us acquaintances. But as soon as I walked in the man was like "ooohh a baby. I will just keep him and you can go downstairs." I just stayed cause LO was just crying. They were almost pushy for me to leave and go down with the high schoolers but we're just like don't take him down there it's too noisy. I was insistent that I am taking my kid and not leaving him with basically strangers. (Ps my LO loves loud music. He fell asleep to it last week.) Then their dog kept jumping on LO and the man threatened the dog 6 or 7 times of "I'm going to put you outside." But never did. LO is still just screaming. Finally they decided LO is just a really colicky baby because apparently the guy has never met a baby that didn't like him. I just wanted to say, or you took him away from his mom while he was crying and kept walking away from mom and letting a dog jump on him. Once I got LO back I sat down on the floor so the dog could sniff LO without jumping on him and LO was fine with it.(we have two dogs, he isn't really afraid of them) Once the dog was able to sniff/lick him a time or two he left LO alone. It wasn't the dog bothering him but the dog jumping on him while a complete stranger holds him. He isn't really that colicky anymore. Just wants something familiar in an unfamiliar place.
My hair is falling out all over the place. This stinks! Having thick, shiny hair was the only good pregnancy side effect I had and now it is literally going down the drain
@AlwaysSunny1012 ditto. It just started happening the past week or so . I've always had thin hair, and it got a little thicker during pregnancy. I was dreading it falling back out again.
^^ I am also joining the hair loss club. Cleaning out my brush is scary. I could stand to loose some though. It's ridiculous how much hair I have. LO seems to be enjoying it too. She loves yanking on it and my necklace.
We went out for early dinner, got back around 5 and I was kinda bummed because I am tired of being in the house. But I couldn't think of anything or anywhere else to go. So I went upstairs and got in the shower and was just rinsing out the conditioner from my hair and mutha-effa if I didn't realize right then I could have gone to the Y and finalized my dream of the jacuzzi from last week (or the week before? Who knows). But I'm certainly not going to go and put my freshly washed hair into mad chlorinated water, so ONCE AGAIN I missed out on the jacuzzi. Well played, cruel fate, well played. :-w
(And just to tie into the posts above - yes, when rinsing I lost enough hair to make a cat toy)
When I got my hair cut a few weeks ago the stylist actually said it was a little thinner on top. WHY would you ever say that to someone, they will just obsess over it.
@dancegurl1118 some friends of mine said that once breastfeeding stops the hair loss stops. My sisters hair started falling out around the 3 month mark, and she never breast fed. I think she stopped losing hers a few months after that.
@virginiaunicorn11 don't feel bad. Dd fell off the couch last weekend, on my watch. She cried for maybe 2 minutes,so I tried not to be too hard on myself. I have the philosophy that its eventually going to happen so try not to stress.
Are there any tips to lesson the hair loss? FFFQ maybe but why does it happen? Are we missing some sort of nutrient we could supplement?
ETA: to make clear I was talking about hair loss
My understanding is the hair loss is hormonal? Our bodies adjusting back to not having all those pregnancy hormones raging around? If so, I was expecting this to last about 9m to a year, since that's when its generally accepted that your body has finally returned to it's pre-pregnancy state
@chardeemacdennis my hair stylist said the same thing! She recommended taking Biotin, but I'm lazy and haven't picked any up yet. My husband said he can't believe I have any hair left with the amount of it that is in the shower drain and bathroom floor. My hair is thin to begin with...so it is extra depressing to be losing so much of it.
I heard it gets better around 8-9 months pp? That seems so far away.
Amen. I have a pixie cut and I'm still shedding a ton. I don't remember it lasting that long with DS but I also feel like my memory isn't as good as it used to be.
An hour after the movers finished packing up our lives, my boss emails to tell me we actually are not allowed to move in January. Maybe March or by June, hopefully. DH and I are discussing whether to wait it out, or whether to find another job. I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with this organization.
An hour after the movers finished packing up our lives, my boss emails to tell me we actually are not allowed to move in January. Maybe March or by June, hopefully. DH and I are discussing whether to wait it out, or whether to find another job. I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with this organization.
That's like the icing on the cake for your frustrations lately. Good luck with your decision.
An hour after the movers finished packing up our lives, my boss emails to tell me we actually are not allowed to move in January. Maybe March or by June, hopefully. DH and I are discussing whether to wait it out, or whether to find another job. I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with this organization.
@virginiaunicorn11 are you serious? I work for a non profit in Georgia and we usually have openings.....come work with me and we'll be mom friends (I mean this in a non creepy way)
Re: The Daily Gripe
Moral of the story - really, there isn't one except me bitching, lol. But enjoy your day home with your LO!
Poor baby!! We will be better parents tomorrow. X_X
This Sunday, she is asleep on the way to church & needs a full nap so I was going to keep her in the service (small southern church, no big deal). This woman walks over to take her & I tell her no she's going to nap. She picks up the carrier and WALKS OFF WITH MY BABY... My DH looked at me like we were going to hurt her. Another woman saw & took the diaper bag & went with her. I go in after church & she hasn't napped... So I tell them she NEEDS to nap (I'm trying to be civil, this is church). Another lady comes to get me 20min into SS because she's crying her head off, still no nap & she's ready to eat. I have to pry her from the woman to feed her & I say, SHE MUST NAP. She plays with her. My poor baby is SCREAMING when I pick her up & this crazy lady is like, "she doesn't like me anymore..." She passed out before I could buckle her in.
I complained to our pastor & I refuse to let her near by baby again....... Ughhhh.
I hope the pastor speaks with her not just about her not watching your LO anymore, but that in general she should not just walk off with someone's kid without their permission.
(And just to tie into the posts above - yes, when rinsing I lost enough hair to make a cat toy)
@ChardeeMacDennis people are morons.
I have the philosophy that its eventually going to happen so try not to stress.
Not a chance
ETA: to make clear I was talking about hair loss
Edited cause I posted too soon
DH and I are discussing whether to wait it out, or whether to find another job. I feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with this organization.