***First Year Check-In***

Re: ***First Year Check-In***

• SarahPLiz member

  November 2011

  QOTW: Best advice ever has come from Taytee. When life with the LO gets tough, constantly repeat to yourself, "This too shall pass".

  Update: Sparky took his first formal photos on Saturday morning and totally hammed it up. His sneak peak is up on Life In Motion's blog. He loved the camera. We are so lucky he is so chill because we put him through 2 hours and 4 outfit changes.. 5 if you count the nekkid ones. I can't wait to see how the rest come out.

  The rest of my update is in my thread from earlier this morning. 

  
  

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• ssinca

  November 2011

  QOTW: I like Sarah's "this too shall pass" and in regards to BFing, I kep reminding myself to take it one day at a time and try to make it two weeks before deciding to continue or not. 5 months later, we're still good:) bad advice has been about sleeping - no, he will not sleep better at night if he doesn't nap during the day. Big. Fat. FAIL. ETA: kep should be kept

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• bluestreet

  November 2011

  Update: Mags is the bomb. She's a mellow and happy baby. Rosie more than makes up for this fact by regressing in a way that is crazy-making, crawling into bed with us nightly, throwing tantrums, but at least she's quit pinching Mags when nobody is looking! Lucero is in hog heaven; she's the uber older sister- a know-it-all, a tattler, and sweet as can be.

  QOTW: Worst advice- Dr. Sears' spiel about commercial daycare only being used as a last resort. What a stupid head. 

  Best advice- There are only three must-haves for your baby- your boobs/bottle, some diapers, and lots of love. The rest is totally optional. Amen.

  (edited to prevent WWIII- by initially just writing "boobs" I meant sustenance more generally.)
  

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• Mrs.Purdue

  November 2011

  QOTW:  Best advice was from a friend that visited us when E was about 10 days old and encouraged us to try swaddling again (we had stupidly given it up for no apparent reason.  I think we were just tired and forgot that it was good).  We started again that night and we're still doing it 5.5 months later (greatly modified now since she's huge).   I want to kiss them for reminding us that swaddle=sleep!

  General update:  E is amazing.  She did roll over once last week (probably by accident, but I'm counting it).  Now I feel like I can stop obsessing over that milestone.  She's sitting up by herself now for about 30 seconds or more, until something catches her attention higher than eye level, which makes her tip her whole head back and then boom!  She laughs when I sing this stupid "Ellie Belly" song that I made up.  She laughs in the morning when her dad gets her out of the crib and he sings "Good morning Misses Ellie Bird.  How did you sleep last night?"  I watch it on the monitor and it makes me smile first thing.  She was a cute lion for Halloween.  We tried Sweet Potatoes last week and although she made terrible 'ick' faces the whole time, she still ate them.  weirdo.  she's lovely. 
  

    
  

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• jml5q

  November 2011

  qotw: the best advice i can think that of right now is actually some i gave myself based off my breastfeeding/pumping trials from DD. I will not stress over pumping milk and if i have to supplement with formula it's not the end of the world. i beat myself up about this last time and i refuse to put that pressure on myself this time.

  updates: ds had a earlier this week and i think it was messnig with his sleep. two nights ago i was up every hour to hour and a half putting the paci back in. but last night we was back to once to eat. lately dd has been playing peek a boo with ds and he smiles and laughs at her, it's the cutest thing ever!

  

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• sozay23 member

  November 2011

  I'd like to join! Hailey, female born 9/5/11 QOTW: the best advice for us was also a gift- to use the miracle blanket! We broke it out around day 3 at home and never looked back. DD could break out of any other swaddle and refused to sleep unswaddled so it was truly a life saver. We are slowly trying to get out if the swaddle and have moved to the summer swaddled which she eventually gets one or two arms out of. As long as we put her down fully swaddled though she seems to be fine. We tried cold turkey at first and it did not go well! She's only about two months so we are not in a big hurry. The worst advice? The good ole sleep when they sleep never really worked for me. The first few weeks when the nights were more broken I would get one nap in but I need to get stuff done! Feeling productive makes me happy! LO has found that her hands are controllable! Hours have spent lately staring at them working on getting those pesky hands into her mouth. It's incredibly amusing to watch her concentrate so hard!

  

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• sozay23 member

  November 2011

  Sorry for the lack of formatting- bumping on my phone.

  

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• BSE

  November 2011

  QOTW: i think the best advice for me is that all babies are different and you can't compare their development to each other. that really helps keep me sane, i know she'll do what she's going to do when she's ready.

   

  update: dd is doing great. she is always super happy when she wakes up! its awesome in the mornings and makes night feedings not so bad. she's still semi swaddled most nights. we are down to 1 feedings a night but with lots of trips to put the paci back in her mouth. she's starting to figure out her hands and i can't wait for her to use them for the paci! i dont think she knows she has feet yet this weekend we are going to start cereal and i cant wait. 
  

  

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• brooke152

  November 2011

  QOTW - The best advice might just be what BSE said - every baby is different.  I really need to remember that when I am stressing out because he hasn't hit X milestone yet.  The worst advice was sleep when he sleeps.  Yes, it sounds logical but it's just impractical.  Cleaning/picking up the house made me feel normal and I needed that time to just think.  Plus in the beginning I may or may not have been obsessed with watching him sleep.  I can't believe he actually sleeps in a different room than us now.  I never thought that would happen!

  Updates - Last week we got two days of 7+ hour sleep stretches, but then last Thursday, the day he turned 3 months, he would.not.sleep unless we held him.  For three days.  I don't know what happened.  It was the first week with the nanny, so maybe it was separation related.  He would be asleep in our arms for a long time and as soon as we'd so much as lean over to put him down he started crying.  I felt horrible!  We are back to 4+ hour stretches with two wakings now.  Not ideal but I'll take it.  He really smiles a lot now and is starting to talk more.  I am really trying to savor all of the snuggles now, he is growing so fast!

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• SaraLouiseBride08

  November 2011

  QOTW: What is the best advice you've received so far? The worst?

  The best advice I've received .... was actually advice I got during my wedding, but I've tried to apply it to Olivia. Someone said, "It goes by so fast. You blink and it's over. Try to absorb every moment and enjoy them all." I was easily able to do that at my wedding. I'm trying SO hard to "absorb" every moment with Olivia. Somtimes when we're playing, I look at her and think, "Remember this moment. Remember this feeling."

  The worst advice ... die her hair She had almost black hair when she was born, and it's lightened up to a medium brown with blonde highlights. A girl I know said, "Oh her hair is so light! She was so pretty with that dark brown hair and blue eyes. But that's okay, you can die her hair." What...the...F? Thanks a lot, lady.

  Updates: She's still working on perfecting the last milestones. Her first 10 or so steps almost seemed accidental. She was standing there and kind of "fell" forward with her feet. Now she's intentionally taking steps. Still one at a time, but you see her standing there and thinking SO hard while looking at her feet. She'll take a step, and look up at us SO proud. Haha, and then fall over

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• rssnlvr

  November 2011

  Love reading about all these babies!!!

  QOTW: best advice was to always remember, "this too shall pass." The good stuff and the bad stuff is ALL temporary, so savor the good and don't worry about the bad. The worse advice was "sleep when the baby sleeps." Yeah, my babies sleep 30-45 minutes for naps. By the time I would fall asleep, the baby would be waking up in like 10 minutes. It was awful and made me so mad that they weren't sleeping longer so that I could too. As soon as I gave up on trying to nap with them, I was a much happier momma!

  Updates:  DS is getting up on his hands and knees, sitting independently, and talking with all kinds of fun "babaaabababuh" and "guh" noises. So.stinking.cute. He's gotten much easier to put down at night, justintime b/c DH is going to be gone for more of the month of November than he's actually here. He's still waking once a night to eat, but usually after a 9ish-hr stretch, so that's not too bad. And he goes back down immediately and sleeps another 2-3 hours. We're not starting solids until 6 months, but he's got the "I want that food" stare down so well that I feel bad eating in front of him. He's just awesome.
  

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• txbabs111 member

  November 2011

  I'd like to be added, please! DS- Lucas 10/26/11

  QOTW: Best advice is along the lines of what SLB said- try to take it all in because it really goes so fast. DH and I were just talking last night about how hard it is to remember this stage with C so I'm trying to soak up the moments. 

  Worst advice was from a nurse at the hospital who told me that you have to turn a child FFing in the car once their feet can touch the back seat. Um, no. I could see DH preparing for me to argue with her but I just nodded. I am thinking about mentioning it on the hospital survey they sent me though. 

  Not much to update, since DS is new. He is a sweet, easy-going baby and we are all enjoying him so much. DD is adjusting pretty well, she does get jealous when I'm feeding him and can't play with her but thankfully my mom is here until the 12th and DH is off until Monday, so there are plenty of extra hands around right now.
  

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• el_twirpo member

  November 2011

  QOTW: best advice - don't immediately pick up the phone when you don't want to deal with last minute visitors. i got to exercise that one this past week. they stopped by anyway, but to literally drop off an item and leave.

  i like the mentions of swaddling - i kind of forgot about that since DS is fighting so much when i try to wrap him up, but when he's overtired and keeps himself awake by flailing his arms and legs, he needs it. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding is kind of anti-swaddling but the alternative is to hold him in my arms all night which means no one sleeps.

  Update: we're trying to get through this 6 week growth spurt and thrush. monday night, he was back to "normal" with 1 peaceful night feeding and going back to sleep. but he's back to cluster feeding and waking up every other hour today. i'm exhausted. "this too shall pass", right??!?

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