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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
FFFC!!
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Re: FFFC!!
I get concerned and frustrated when pregnant people on TB or IRL say they are spotting a little bit and everyone else tells them it's normal and not to worry about it. It probably IS nothing, but it's NOT normal and a call should be made to your doctor! I know everyone else is trying to keep the pg person from stressing out, but what's common isn't necessarily normal or alright.
but running is soooooo boring! it's noooooo fun!!!! it's way more fun to sit on the couch eating cheetos and popping pills!
seriously though, his doctor needs to have a heart to heart w/him, b/c those pills, especially lipitor for cholesterol, only work in conjunction w/a healthy diet and exercise regimen. unfortunately it is something way too many people in my family deal with. i was diagnosed w/high risk cholesterol at age 19.... i was skinny, in shape, and young. sometimes genetics suck.
Part 1. I haven't had a sex drive in months. This morning, I had a "delicious" dream involving my HS boyfriend. Now I'm horny as all get out.
Part 2. I'm too uncomfortable to make the effort and I know DH is way "overdue."
Yep. I also get very annoyed with the poster. My first thought is, "call your doctor!" I'd have been on the phone with mine or on my way to his office WAY before I'd post on TB about it.
Yep yep.
Mush, Charlie is at daycare today. On my docket are: wax appt in 20 minutes, hair appt at 3pm and shopping and lunch in between.
I just ate breakfast in peace, and am sipping some tea as I type.
And I think that the fact that people put these in FFFC just shows you how tightly wound some of the mothers on this board really are. This isn't an FFFC. Taking a break from your child/work/whatever, for a day to yourself is not a bad thing. I promise
(Mush, that's not directed at you, just in general)
I kept her in the little tub until she started climbing out at maybe 13 months. I put it in the big tub for the last few months she was in it. LOL. It saved alot of water.
bite your tongue! some of us think pg sex is awesome
DD is still in the baby tub. She's afraid of the big tub. Since she just started enjoying bathtime in the last 3 months or so, I'm not in a big rush to have bathtime fights again. WHen she's too big for the tub or when she's willing to be in the big tub... that's when we'll switch.
I don't know if this is a confession... maybe to some of you it's flameworthy. I let DD CIO for her nap yesterday even though she's sick. In my defense, she had been nostly up for 14 hours and was only interested in being held, but wasn't sleeping that way. So I put her in her crib, she cried for about 5 minutes, and then slept for 5 hours. She was a different kid when she woke up, so I feel pretty justified in doing it. Still, I felt like a jack@ss while it was going on.
I don't know if this is an FFC, an UO or just a vent but anyway-
I cannot STAND when people come on here (there has been like 5 or 6 in the past year) and say they need advice and then say "my friends baby is NOT cute! What do I saaaaaaaaaaay?"
Um...Say they are cute and get on with your life? I don't know. Do you really need a message board to help you thru such a petty little problem? And if so, how do you function in life? I have to dodge people's feelings all day and it really isn't that hard.
about the bath - I still give Michael baths in the sink because he hates bath time with me - screams claws to get out, etc and he's much calmer in the sink
VV - I agree with you on the meds - I work with emotionally disturbed kids and some are on way too many meds that they don't need
my confession: I haven't taken nearly as many pictures of Joseph as I did of Michael
and I already want another baby, that makes me officially crazy, right?
Before I was a SAHM, I called these work days "in-house vacation" days. Enjoy!
We have this neighbor upstairs that I've vented about before. Well, she gets home at 3AM, generally, and is loud a lot of the time until about 6AM, when I assume she goes to sleep.
Today, at 6:30AM, DD woke up and started talking. I left her in there because she will go back to sleep. She started screeching and talking (happily), and the lady upstairs started pounding on the floor. Liliana thought it was a game, I guess, and started screeching even louder.
The lady kept pounding on the floor. I didn't get DD out of bed for thirty more minutes. Oops. Pay back is a biitch, huh?
Completely appropriate in my book.
To add on to that, I think meds are drastically overprescribed for everything, especially for kids under 18.
DD #1 passed away in January 2011 at 14 days old due to congenital heart disease
DD#2 lost in January 2012 at 23 weeks due to anhydramnios caused by a placental abruption
umm ... you DO realize that the other board is just as public as this one, right?
I did this too. Hey, you have to catch up on your sleep and everything else before going back to work...especially if you have a high-pressure job!
ETA: regarding staying home on maternity leave while LO is at daycare
Haha, this made me LOL because I ALWAYS think the same thing. And I agree that it's irrational... just always jumps out at me, for some reason. Too many years of feminist psychotherapy training, I guess.
I dread holidays now that we have DS. I wish we could stay home and enjoy the holiday as a family instead of running around to both sides of extended family. It is exhausting and not enjoyable in my opinion.
DH's mother lives an hour away (which is not that far I realize). We always end up going to her house first and I can never get DH to leave so we can visit my family before DS starts to get crabby. I was furious at Christmas b/c we spent so much time with his family that by the time we got to my parents it was getting late and DS pretty much whined/cried the whole time. So we had to tear open gifts and be like"thx for the stuff, see you later!" I was pi$$ed.
Now Easter is coming and the whole cycle repeats.
I gave our tub away when DD was small. We used it once and it was a pita! She loves the bath and swims around and plays. I don't understand why anyone would still be using the baby tubs either!
Good for you! Hopefully, you scared him enough that he won't be late anymore.
I hate my body. I am completely grossed out by myself. I know that this is a huge contributor to my general unhappiness these days, but yet I have done nothing about it. Every week I plan to work out but then I make excuses.
What it comes down to is that I really don't want to have to get up at 5 am to work out then get myself ready, get DD ready, take DD to daycare, go to work, come home, make dinner, feed DD, give her a bath, put her to bed and then clean up. I hate that every minute seems to be scheduled and there never seems like enough time in the day. I want to sleep until 7 and then take DD to the park or for a run. I want excersize to be an enjoyable part of my day, not something I have to squeeze into my early morning schedule. Just another reason why I hate being a working mom this week. Vent over...
Ok, I rememberd it.
My DH says he would be completely content with not having any more kids ... although he doesn't mind having more because he knows how important it is to me, and more little Tottys can only be a good thing (because the one we have is so awesome).
Really, I think he just loves the toddler phase and is dreading another newborn phase ... and I don't care. He's going to have to suck it up.
The Mouse ~ 06.12.08 | The Froggy ~ 02.23.11
Uhm, I'm doing this all next week. I'm off from work and taking DS to day care so I can get my taxes done and get a ton of stuff done around my house. I simply couldn't do either if DS was home with me.
My DD is terrified of the big tub. So she is still in the inflatable ducky tub despite being 27 lbs and 3 ft tall. It is hilarious to see her in it.
I don't mind it at all though--takes less time to fill up, I can have her lay down (with legs hanging over) to rinse her hair--it just makes bathtime so much easier.
I perscribe meds for kids, and I diagnose them with things like bipolar disorder. It irks me too when kids (or parents) think a pill is going to fix everything, but it can help. And if a pill for ADHD can help a kid do better in school, have more self-esteem, have more friends, be better able to follow rules at home, and have a better relationship with his/her parents (which are the relationships that set up the pattern for relating the rest of your life), then it's a good thing. Of course pills aren't going to make you a good student or have good relationships, but they can be one tool among many that help.
I'm right there with you. I've gotten up at 5am to workout and it lasts maybe a week and a half then I slack and just want to sleep in. I'm really in between sizes right now and nothing fits me properly. I either need to gain 7-10lbs or lose 5lbs. I just need another hr in the day to fit in working out.
Our final hearing is April 13, and we are requesting payments be made via direct deposit, or via the courts (with a 5% fee he will have to pay). Did I also mention our judge is female and has 6 year old twin girls? This, my dears, is a sign of karma or some other cosmic mumbo jumbo.
Don't feel bad hun. It's hard to wrap your head around things like this sometimes. It doesn't make you a bad person. I was wondering how things were going with your DD as I know you said she may have some special needs.
My DS is in the Eurotub - it is HUGE!! It is made for infants & toddlers. I love it.
I've been sleeping at night with my newborn snuggled up on my chest. We could be trying harder to get her to go into the PnP on her own, but I secretly love it and for these first couple of weeks, I just want to enjoy the snuggly-babiness. And she's doing 3-4 hour stretches that way, and both DH and I are way more inclined this time around to do whatever we need to, to get sleep. :P
Also, it's soooo much easier to feel like a good mama to a newborn. She sleeps a lot, she BFs so I don't have to cook for her, and she's generally pretty easily satisfied. It's not the constant, active management that goes on with my toddler, or the emotional up-and-downs, testing boundaries, figuring out appropriate reactions and discipline, etc.
I'm really nervous about handling both of them when my mom leaves and my DH goes back to work, especially since I don't feel anywhere near 100% yet after having a c/s.
DD1, 1/5/2008 ~~~ DD2, 3/17/2010