May 2016 Moms

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  • arj14arj14 member
    @tgortney  I have to cut S's nails again... don't want to because like you I'm worried I'll end up getting her skin.  However she managed to gouge herself on the top of her head so I know I have to.  :/
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  • arj14 said:
    @tgortney  I have to cut S's nails again... don't want to because like you I'm worried I'll end up getting her skin.  However she managed to gouge herself on the top of her head so I know I have to.  :/
    Good luck @arj14
  • Lo will be a month on Thursday and she still spends about 98% of her awake time screaming. I see other people's young babies and they're able to do tummy time and independent time while the baby is awake. but not mine. It really makes me sad. Honestly, idk if it's just her personality to be so clingy and needy  or if I've spoiled her already. I guess my confession is that I'm guilty of comparing my sweet baby to others and feel sad about her characteristics sometimes. 
  • @1mae2016 my baby also spends a lot of her awake time screaming. She is 6 weeks now and it's starting to get better. It was really bad but it gets a little better every day. Hang in there!
  • @yogahh I had a super long conversation with her pedi about if I could spoil her this early and assured me I couldn't but it's still a fear. Lol.
  • missnc77 said:
    @1mae2016 My LO will be 7 weeks on Friday, and I feel like all she does is cry sometimes. Our routine goes like this -

    Nap
    Wake from nap - Cry
    Change Diaper - Cry
    Prep to feed - Cry
    Finally put her on the boob - Happy for 10 minutes 
    Poops herself while eating so go to change the diaper - Cry
    Walk back to feed - Cry
    Continue feeding - Happy
    Done eating so burp - Eh...
    10 minutes of looking into space - At least she's quiet
    Attempt to put in swing - Cry
    Attempt to rock - Cry
    Attempt to do just sit and cuddle - Cry
    Tummy Time - tolerates for about 5 minutes then Cry
    Admittedly rock to sleep for nap - Semi-cry, semi-sleep, until she finally passes out
    Repeat

    I admit, I compare my LO to others on here, but I remind myself we all have our own share of issues. I'm jealous of those that have LOs that will just cuddle and lay on their chest and relax. I feel like mine has to constantly be rocked, I can't just sit still and hold her. 


    God forbid she fall asleep in my arms and I stop moving. When we sleep at night I can be still, but not during the day. She's slightly high maintenance. Ha!
  • vinerievinerie member
    edited June 2016
    missnc77 said:
    @1mae2016 My LO will be 7 weeks on Friday, and I feel like all she does is cry sometimes. Our routine goes like this -

    Nap
    Wake from nap - Cry
    Change Diaper - Cry
    Prep to feed - Cry
    Finally put her on the boob - Happy for 10 minutes 
    Poops herself while eating so go to change the diaper - Cry
    Walk back to feed - Cry
    Continue feeding - Happy
    Done eating so burp - Eh...
    10 minutes of looking into space - At least she's quiet
    Attempt to put in swing - Cry
    Attempt to rock - Cry
    Attempt to do just sit and cuddle - Cry
    Tummy Time - tolerates for about 5 minutes then Cry
    Admittedly rock to sleep for nap - Semi-cry, semi-sleep, until she finally passes out
    Repeat

    I admit, I compare my LO to others on here, but I remind myself we all have our own share of issues. I'm jealous of those that have LOs that will just cuddle and lay on their chest and relax. I feel like mine has to constantly be rocked, I can't just sit still and hold her. 


    This Sounds familiar… The first couple weeks he wasn't like this, but the last two weeks, it's been a lot of crying while he's awake :( Mine likes to be "walked and jiggled." I wish when he was awake we could sit down together, but no.
    Me: 38; DH: 41
    DS: Born 5-17-16 

  • @vinerie Your arms will be awesome though! ;)  DS1 was a walk and jiggle/walk and swing baby. No sitting was allowed in the newborn stage.
  • 1mae2016 said:
    Lo will be a month on Thursday and she still spends about 98% of her awake time screaming. I see other people's young babies and they're able to do tummy time and independent time while the baby is awake. but not mine. It really makes me sad. Honestly, idk if it's just her personality to be so clingy and needy  or if I've spoiled her already. I guess my confession is that I'm guilty of comparing my sweet baby to others and feel sad about her characteristics sometimes. 
    *****stuck in the box******

    DD1 was a really high maintenance baby and just turned into a high maintenance toddler. It's obvious now that it was just her personality. DD2 is super laid back, thank goodness! I can't have 2 high maintenance kids at the same time..
  • 1mae2016 said:
    Lo will be a month on Thursday and she still spends about 98% of her awake time screaming. I see other people's young babies and they're able to do tummy time and independent time while the baby is awake. but not mine. It really makes me sad. Honestly, idk if it's just her personality to be so clingy and needy  or if I've spoiled her already. I guess my confession is that I'm guilty of comparing my sweet baby to others and feel sad about her characteristics sometimes. 
    *****stuck in the box******

    DD1 was a really high maintenance baby and just turned into a high maintenance toddler. It's obvious now that it was just her personality. DD2 is super laid back, thank goodness! I can't have 2 high maintenance kids at the same time..
    Yep.... Same with my DD.  The firey ones are feisty from a young age apparently.  It's fascinating to be able to make sense of newborn behaviors 2 years down the road.  My daughter STILL wants to be held and walked around when she's in a bad mood.
  • @Jparke2 I love that I am not the only one who hides the evidence!! LOL!!! I have a friend who says... "If you ate it in the car, it didn't happen" HAHA!
  • slfezz said:
    I don't really mind having my baby sleep on her side or belly during the night. I just want her to be comfortable enough to stay asleep instead of waking up after 10 minutes. All of my girls preferred side or belly over back and hated being tightly swaddled. 
    Lurking from July

    I don't want to over step or be judgemental but this could potentially be putting your baby at a higher risk for SIDS. There are a lot of studies that support this theory, even though they haven't pin pointed an exact cause. You may want to ask your doctor or do some further research of your own. Hopefully this doesn't come across as condescending or rude- sometimes there's just so many do's and don'ts that it gets confusing for all of us and hard to keep track of! 
  • Kit&Cat said:
    @Jparke2 I love that I am not the only one who hides the evidence!! LOL!!! I have a friend who says... "If you ate it in the car, it didn't happen" HAHA!
    I love this!!! That's going to be my motto from now on 
  • @camillaandcarson Yes! Even drive-thru milk gallons and produce would make my life so much easier.
  • 1mae2016 said:
    Lo will be a month on Thursday and she still spends about 98% of her awake time screaming. I see other people's young babies and they're able to do tummy time and independent time while the baby is awake. but not mine. It really makes me sad. Honestly, idk if it's just her personality to be so clingy and needy  or if I've spoiled her already. I guess my confession is that I'm guilty of comparing my sweet baby to others and feel sad about her characteristics sometimes. 
    *****stuck in the box******

    DD1 was a really high maintenance baby and just turned into a high maintenance toddler. It's obvious now that it was just her personality. DD2 is super laid back, thank goodness! I can't have 2 high maintenance kids at the same time..
    Yep.... Same with my DD.  The firey ones are feisty from a young age apparently.  It's fascinating to be able to make sense of newborn behaviors 2 years down the road.  My daughter STILL wants to be held and walked around when she's in a bad mood.
    DS1 too! I just had to walk and bounce him yesterday when he woke up startled at naptime yesterday. Thankfully, he doesn't require that level of soothing daily anymore.
  • I have never in my life wanted everything to have a drive thru like when I became a mom. Suddenly my perspective changed. With each baby the wishing became more real.

    Why can't the summer fruit stand have a drive thru? Grocery store? My favorite Mexican restaurant? The children's place clothing store, gap, and carter's? Book stores, even the library? The inside of the gas station? Wal-mart?  I need everywhere to just have a drive thru now. 

    Amazon has definitely benefited from when I became a mom.
    100% this! My town doesn't allow drive thru's so there have been some days I'll drive to the next over in order to use the drive thru at Dunkin donuts 
  • yogahhyogahh member
    kbrands7 said:
    @camillaandcarson Yes! Even drive-thru milk gallons and produce would make my life so much easier.
    There's places on Long Island that do this! 

    https://www.dairybarn.com/about_us.html

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  • Count me in for thinking my baby looks funny...I keep seeing Vincini (sp?) from Princess Bride. "Inconcievable!" And she's a girl.  She's not ugly at all and does have her super cute moments and expressions but I'll definitely admit she isn't the prettiest baby In the universe. I'm kind if glad I can admit that and I'm not one of those blind moms!

    I tried cutting her nails in week 2 or 3 and clipped her finger on the first try. I cried for half an hour (at least) out of horror and guilt and still get upset thinking about it. She just has to live with Velociraptor claws for a while. Not trying that again any time soon.

    My big confession is that I am REALLY looking forward to her starting daycare in a few weeks. So far DH and I have been "rotating" our schedules around each other. Which really means I have her by myself on nights and days that he works (he does 3-4 12hr shifts a week)" on varying days) and we share her the rest of the time. I own my own business and do a good amount from home, so my flexible schedule means I don't really get dedicated time to actually work like he does, unless I have an actual client appointment to go to. It's near impossible to get any good amount of computer work done with her so awake and fussy or screaming most of the time. I'm really getting behind. Daycare is like the light at the end of the tunnel. I can drop her off, then spend the day getting real work done, catching a nap or two if she kept me up that night, get chores (our house is a disaster!) or grocery shopping done...and even catch a movie or sexy time with DH when we have a weekday off together. Man, I miss the movies...


  • Another sleeping position related one: there have been a couple of nights I've let LO sleep on the boppy. He is obviously so much more comfortable on it than in his crib or RNP and even though I know it's wrong I've let it happen so I can get a few decent stretches of sleep. bad mom alert
  • @slfezz Our pediatrician told us that sleeping on the back is one of the few recommendations they make that isn't based on a scientific study, but on observations from firemen that visited homes on 911 calls. Apparently they noticed that almost all of SIDS cases involved kids sleeping on their stomachs or sides, and put that together with the significantly increased number of SIDS cases in the US versus other countries, where it's not common practice for babies to sleep in any position other than their backs.

    Not telling you what to do either way, just passing on what I heard. And I think t makes sense that this would be something that they wouldn't want to do a controlled study on. 
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