My MIL comes on Sunday for 3 weeks. I'm excited for the help and company as I quite like her but I'm irked that I will now have to wear a shirt and pants in my own house.
I hate that people think just Bc I'm home with the baby all day that I don't get to hold him when we go out to places! Also, if my MIL asks one more time if we're coming to Sunday lunch at my dh's grandparents, I'll lose it! I cannot tell you how many times Ive told her if we are coming, we will let them know ahead of time. We are our own family now and need to do our own thing and not go there every single Sunday like my husband did while growing up.
I basically ate candy for dinner last night. The Twix and Snickers Peanut Butter Squares were delicious!
We were getting our newborn photos done and DS would not stay asleep. I nursed him on and off for hours until 10 pm! I needed the sugar energy! We try again on Sunday so I will definitely be eating more ahead of time!
My mom is coming into town this weekend!! I am so excited to use her as the excuse as to why people cannot come over, "sorry my moms in town this weekend". Thank goodness!!!
I'm the guest of honor at a baby shower this weekend that was supposed to be held in July, but I went into labor 4 days before it was scheduled. I really don't want to go. I feel like an ungrateful asshole but I'm tired, my baby is fussy, and I don't feel like passing her around to a bunch of people.
After DH left this morning I pulled DD into the bed and napped with her for almost 2 hours. I'm sorry but 3 hours of sleep all night isn't enough. Every time I put her down she screamed. I couldn't take it anymore.
I am so enjoying having one LO this time around that it's giving me major mommy guilt that I didn't enjoy the twins more. I know it was because I was so exhausted that I couldn't be in the moment but I still feel bad.
My nana was driving down to see the baby this weekend, I told her it wasn't a great time since my MIL is here and having to stay longer because of possible evacuation in her area in FL due to the hurricane coming. My MIL is going to be staying at her daughters house later today, I just didn't want to have any company...
My baby pooped all over my shirt and pants yesterday while I was holding her and eating lunch. I wasn't even grossed out. My mom said "well I have lost my appetite..." And I was thinking, I would totally keep eating. I was just glad she pooped for the day and it wasn't a gassy struggle for her!
DH's dad and step mom left this morning and I'm so happy. I feel like such a jerk because they bought groceries and cooked everyday. I feel even more like a jerk because DH's mom gets in this afternoon and I'm pretty excited.
I am not the poster Mom for hygiene right now bewtween late day showers and wearing milk stained tanks.
Oh, you shower daily? ...... X_X
I was reading through these while nursing and didn't realize that she sorta fizzled out with the sucking. Then I looked down and she had spit up on my boob, her face and into her ear. Way to pay attention and burp her on time.
I cried for a solid hour because I pictured my son getting married... He is only 2 weeks and 3 days old...but I ate chicken nuggets in the shape of dinosaurs and got over it real fast!!
Lately I've been a little annoyed at DH because he's been working late. He swore it would be better after DD was born but so far it hasn't been. I may or may not intentionally send him adorable pictures of DD to make him feel guilty.... :-\"
@megvaddi This happens to me all the time, except my nipple comes out of her mouth and she will continue to suck without me noticing she isn't eating. I have hickies all around my nipple from her sucking for a good while before I notice. Mom of the year.
@megvaddi This happens to me all the time, except my nipple comes out of her mouth and she will continue to suck without me noticing she isn't eating. I have hickies all around my nipple from her sucking for a good while before I notice. Mom of the year.
This made me lol. I also wish I had the issue of not noticing when she fell off my nipple. Her habit is staying clamped down while she throws her head backwards. Not cool.
@megvaddi I literally just told @Miz_Liz that Lucy has been doing that since day 1. Its like she doesn't know how to unlatch. She even does it when she is already asleep. She bites down and pulls back until my nipple snaps out of her mouth and then just lets her head flop down. Its weird. And it HURTS. :-w
I was wearing baby in the Boba carrier when I had to pee desperately. He was sound asleep. I wasn't about to wake him...
Haha I've worn my baby to the bathroom a few times!
@SassetteSmurfling , I'm guilty of this too. I used to be so against any form of bed sharing... But my LO has some nights where she will not let me put her down at all. Out of desperation, I've allowed a little bit of bed sharing when necessary. I'm a very light sleeper though and don't move in my sleep. But still. I always feel guilty and definitely won't be sharing that with my NICU coworkers.
Just as a side note, I have become way less judgmental of other moms since having my baby (FTM here). I didn't think I was judgmental at all, but now that I have my baby, I'm doing things I swore I would never do, and I don't give a sh*t either!
@megvaddi I literally just told @Miz_Liz that Lucy has been doing that since day 1. Its like she doesn't know how to unlatch. She even does it when she is already asleep. She bites down and pulls back until my nipple snaps out of her mouth and then just lets her head flop down. Its weird. And it HURTS. :-w
@megvaddi I literally just told @Miz_Liz that Lucy has been doing that since day 1. Its like she doesn't know how to unlatch. She even does it when she is already asleep. She bites down and pulls back until my nipple snaps out of her mouth and then just lets her head flop down. Its weird. And it HURTS. :-w
@megvaddi I literally just told @Miz_Liz that Lucy has been doing that since day 1. Its like she doesn't know how to unlatch. She even does it when she is already asleep. She bites down and pulls back until my nipple snaps out of her mouth and then just lets her head flop down. Its weird. And it HURTS. :-w
I miss working. I can't help wishing DH could stay home while I work. I thought I'd be back at work in mid-September, but the daycare cannot take LO until the second week of October! I won't be getting paid after September 15, so that is another stressor.
@megvaddi This happens to me all the time, except my nipple comes out of her mouth and she will continue to suck without me noticing she isn't eating. I have hickies all around my nipple from her sucking for a good while before I notice. Mom of the year.
This made me lol. I also wish I had the issue of not noticing when she fell off my nipple. Her habit is staying clamped down while she throws her head backwards. Not cool.
Omg yes. DD does this too and it takes all my self control not to scream out loud!
A pipe under the kitchen sink broke, hot water heater broke so we didn't have hot water last weekend, now this weekend we're in a hotel because they have to pull up the kitchen floor to dry it out. Can it please be September already? This is on top of the 4 days I was in the hospital being induced 2 wks ago. I'm exhausted.
DD's umbilical cord was hanging on by a thread this morning so I ripped it off. MOTY
TTC#1 for 19 months with PCOS and MFI IUI#3 + injectables = BFP!!!! Beta#1-134(13dpiui) Beta #2-392(15dpiui) #1 born December 2011
TTC#2 - Beta #1 -51@10dpo Beta#2 -1353 @16dpo #2 born May 2013
TTC # 3 June 2014 BFP 12-1-14
#3 born August 2015 #4!!!!!!! due June 2017
I'm at the hair salon with DS.. everyone with a voice keeps telling me how it's too early to bring him out. I have cabin fever and I missed my summer with DD I'm not doing that this time. New England winters are Bipolar and I'm not risking it.
DD goes down for a nap between 12-1230 everyday and I usually wake her up at the 3 hour mark. We are above birth weight snd doing great, so I just want to see how long she will sleep. She went down at 12 today, its 335 and no sign of waking up. I need to get this stretch flopped to night time! Cant complain there either really though. We go down around 1030 - 11, wake up around 130-2 and then asleep until almost 6. I just hope im not getting spoiled this week and all of this change after having done this a week straight. Its like heaven.
When I pump upstairs I have DH take the milk to the fridge downstairs. Today I asked him to take the milk down. He took down an old bottle of formula that I had overnight since LO was supplementing until clearance today from The doc. He mixed formula with a near full, almost Ready to freeze bag of BM. Once I noticed my pumped Milk was still here, I figured out what happened and cried like a newborn.
We use different types of bottles for pumping vs feeding the supp. So I really don't know why he mixed it up. But these tears were REAL!
When I pump upstairs I have DH take the milk to the fridge downstairs. Today I asked him to take the milk down. He took down an old bottle of formula that I had overnight since LO was supplementing until clearance today from The doc. He mixed formula with a near full, almost Ready to freeze bag of BM. Once I noticed my pumped Milk was still here, I figured out what happened and cried like a newborn.
We use different types of bottles for pumping vs feeding the supp. So I really don't know why he mixed it up. But these tears were REAL!
I've been so tired lately that I wore a shirt for 2 days that LO spit up on (I smelled wonderful) and ate rice krispie treats all day because I didn't want to cook for myself. 8->
Went to the park today with my baby and my boobs leaked everywhere. The one time I forget to wear booby pads =/ She's been sooooooo much better with nursing but I still do formula at night. My inlaws really piss me off. I just *JUST* found out that a whole mess of DH's family will be at my house tomorrow. Needless to say I'm pissed and I super duper hate my MIL. I hate their stupid culture. I'm exhausted meanwhile DH complains he's tired when I haven't waken him up from his slumber while I feed and change our baby in all hours of the night. He told me today the living room is a mess. Sorry. I was taking care of OUR baby.
Things that frustrate me: -my milk hasn't come in yet (DD is a week old today) -my mom came over yesterday and took baby out of my arms without asking or even letting me finish feeding her. She spit up all over me as my mom was lifting her. -we sometimes strip down DD during feedings to try to keep her awake and my mom kept telling my daughter "they're being mean to you" over and over. That really pissed me off. She came over to "help out" but all she did was sit on the couch with DD and take a million pictures of her. -baby girl was up from 11pm to 9:30 this morning from being fussy and crying all night. Hubby and I both took turns holding, rocking, feeding, changing, playing music, etc to try to get her to sleep and nothing would work. Had a check up with the pediatrician today and found out it's time to up her feedings to 2oz, and realized she was probably hungry all night from only being fed 1oz each time. I felt terrible. (Btw I both pump and supplement)
However, I'm grateful for hubby for trying to help out (unlike my mom).
My DH is truly amazing, but I still deeply resent him when he's sleeping soundly while I'm doing a million things in the middle of the night.
Last night DS just would not close his freakin googly little eyes. DH sat up with him til 12.30 so I could snooze a bit, then I took over. I gave DS a bottle and a formula top up and he spewed it back over me so I had to change all his clothes and all of mine. I put him in his bassinet awake as I had to pump, so I'm hanging over the bassinet with one hand holding pump to boob, the other hand patting DS. Started pumping and DD called out that she needed to wee. Stopped pumping and got DD on the potty and back in her cot. meanwhile DS is crying. Back to pumping and shushing DS. Eventually he went to sleep about 2.45am and I got my pumping done and in bed by 3. All the while DH is snoozing peacefully in the next bedroom (
@megvaddi This happens to me all the time, except my nipple comes out of her mouth and she will continue to suck without me noticing she isn't eating. I have hickies all around my nipple from her sucking for a good while before I notice. Mom of the year.
I have to use a nipple shield when I BF and I kept nodding off from being up with her all night. I woke once and realized the shield had slid down to the bottom of my boob with DD still latched onto it and (finally) sleeping. @-) Uh... Yeah.
At the hospital, our LC taught me a couple tricks to gently keep DD awake to nurse. Last night, DH and I were laying in bed snuggling and he was rubbing my back. He kept starting to fall asleep and stopping. I discreetly used the same techniques to keep him awake longer and extend my backrub.
Re: **FFFC**
I was reading through these while nursing and didn't realize that she sorta fizzled out with the sucking. Then I looked down and she had spit up on my boob, her face and into her ear. Way to pay attention and burp her on time.
@SassetteSmurfling , I'm guilty of this too. I used to be so against any form of bed sharing... But my LO has some nights where she will not let me put her down at all. Out of desperation, I've allowed a little bit of bed sharing when necessary. I'm a very light sleeper though and don't move in my sleep. But still. I always feel guilty and definitely won't be sharing that with my NICU coworkers.
Just as a side note, I have become way less judgmental of other moms since having my baby (FTM here). I didn't think I was judgmental at all, but now that I have my baby, I'm doing things I swore I would never do, and I don't give a sh*t either!
Bahahahaha
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TTC#1 for 19 months with PCOS and MFI IUI#3 + injectables = BFP!!!! Beta#1-134(13dpiui) Beta #2-392(15dpiui)
#1 born December 2011
TTC#2 - Beta #1 -51@10dpo Beta#2 -1353 @16dpo
#2 born May 2013
TTC # 3 June 2014 BFP 12-1-14
#3 born August 2015
#4!!!!!!! due June 2017
The doc. He mixed formula with a near full, almost Ready to freeze bag of BM. Once I noticed my pumped Milk was still here, I figured out what happened and cried like a newborn.
We use different types of bottles for pumping vs feeding the supp. So I really don't know why he mixed it up. But these tears were REAL!
She's been sooooooo much better with nursing but I still do formula at night.
My inlaws really piss me off. I just *JUST* found out that a whole mess of DH's family will be at my house tomorrow. Needless to say I'm pissed and I super duper hate my MIL. I hate their stupid culture.
I'm exhausted meanwhile DH complains he's tired when I haven't waken him up from his slumber while I feed and change our baby in all hours of the night. He told me today the living room is a mess. Sorry. I was taking care of OUR baby.
-my milk hasn't come in yet (DD is a week old today)
-my mom came over yesterday and took baby out of my arms without asking or even letting me finish feeding her. She spit up all over me as my mom was lifting her.
-we sometimes strip down DD during feedings to try to keep her awake and my mom kept telling my daughter "they're being mean to you" over and over. That really pissed me off. She came over to "help out" but all she did was sit on the couch with DD and take a million pictures of her.
-baby girl was up from 11pm to 9:30 this morning from being fussy and crying all night. Hubby and I both took turns holding, rocking, feeding, changing, playing music, etc to try to get her to sleep and nothing would work. Had a check up with the pediatrician today and found out it's time to up her feedings to 2oz, and realized she was probably hungry all night from only being fed 1oz each time. I felt terrible. (Btw I both pump and supplement)
However, I'm grateful for hubby for trying to help out (unlike my mom).
Last night DS just would not close his freakin googly little eyes. DH sat up with him til 12.30 so I could snooze a bit, then I took over. I gave DS a bottle and a formula top up and he spewed it back over me so I had to change all his clothes and all of mine. I put him in his bassinet awake as I had to pump, so I'm hanging over the bassinet with one hand holding pump to boob, the other hand patting DS. Started pumping and DD called out that she needed to wee. Stopped pumping and got DD on the potty and back in her cot. meanwhile DS is crying. Back to pumping and shushing DS. Eventually he went to sleep about 2.45am and I got my pumping done and in bed by 3. All the while DH is snoozing peacefully in the next bedroom (