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***First Year Check-In***
Welcome to the First Year check-in!
If you'd like to join the group, please post your child's birth date, sex, and name/nickname if you'd like.
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T&P's to Cagle's daughter Sarah and beginning enzyme treatments.
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QOTW: How do you feel about DH's rapport with the baby?
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Updates: Let us know what's going on with your LO!
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intheatx--DD
(Katie) 3/16/11
amycathy?DS (Andrew) 3/18/11
flymansWife--DS 5/11/11
Mrs.Purdue--DD 5/11/11
cia--DD 5/20/11
rssnlvr--DS 5/25/11 (DD-9/15/09)
BSE--DD 5/30/11
ssinca--DS 6/1/11
bluestreet--DD (Mags) 6/9/11
jml5q--DS 7/6/11 (DD-1/1/09)
NoVA-grl?DD 7/7/11
(DS-5/28/09)
CagleBaby?DD (Sarah) 7/11/11 (DD1-4/25/08; DD2-12/31/09)
SarahPLiz--DS (ATL "Sparky") 7/20/11
brooke152?DS 7/27/11
MammaOwl11?DD (Alexa) 8/22/11
MrsNole?DD 8/23/11
BoxerMomma--DD (Beatrice) 8/26/11 (DD1- )
JenniferL923--DS 8/28/2011 (DD 3/24/2010)
sozay23?DD 9/5/11
El_twirpo?DS 9/20/11
ebat?DD 9/29/11
(DD1- )
colleenor?DS (Jakob/Jake) 10/13/11 (DS1- )
kpowersw?DD 10/18/11
(DS-3/12/07; DS-10/20/08)
txbabs?DS (Lucas) 10/26/11 (DD-6/13/09)
Duckie07?DD 11/5/11
(DD1- )
PHCaulfield?DS 12/2/11
amyliisa?DS (Dawson) 12/20/11 (DS1 7/10/08)
KittyFX?DS (Henry) 12/24/11 (DS1- )
BabyTime01032012?DD (Claire) 1/1/12
Dear Bump: You suck.
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Re: ***First Year Check-In***
QOTW: How do you feel about DH's rapport with the baby?
DH is pretty good with the kid. he has a lot more patience than i do, so when DS is being difficult going down for the first stretch of the night, DH works his magic to get him to sleep. i do wish that he would put his laptop and cell phone down more often to actually PAY ATTENTION to DS when he plays. i feel bad when DS is staring at DH and wondering why his dad isn't looking back at him. i know i'm guilty of it too at times, so i have to remind both of us to put our electronics down.
Update: DS turned 5 months this week and still as busy as ever. besides the middle of the night feedings, he is just a wiggle worm when i try to nurse in the morning and early evening. he's starting to pull away really fast with my boob still in his mouth, which hurts like a mother! he's also doing something weird with the latch where he gets on open-mouthed but somehow ends up chewing on just the tip. :- i feel sore like i'm nursing a newborn. busting out the lanolin again. besides that, his sleep seems to be improving a little where he'll go back down somewhat easily after eating. i'm still dragging ass at work though.
ooh, twirpo, I know that pulling feeling. That's what DS started doing a lot when he first started teething. Talk about painful! It's like he would clamp down the jaws of life on my nipple, then decide he wants to pay attention to whatever is on the opposite side of the room, jaws still clenched. I'm sure it is nothing next to an actual bite though. Not looking forward to that!
QOTW - I love, love, love his rapport with DS. DH is so good with him and much more patient than I am sometimes. He makes up the best songs to sing to him and when he comes home at night, DS's face just lights up with Glee when he sees Daddy. I love it! DH takes care of him in the morning, getting up with him and getting him fed/ready since I leave for work right after he wakes. DH feeds him solids at night and really enjoys doing that. And bathtime is a family event every night. I couldn't be luckier, DH is really great and helpful with DS.
Updates - It looks like the top two teeth are starting to come in. DS is not happy about it! Swim class was a success, he did great and was having so much fun in the water. He showed off his kicking skills and promptly fell asleep while DH went to get the car (it was pouring rain). He did get cranky towards the end, but he had been up for 4 hours and he usually naps after 2, sometimes 3 in the morning. He is eating more solids now, just tried apples and he loves them. It's so cute to see him reach across the table for it. :-) I just got a jogging stroller on clearance (and with a trade in coupon!) at BRU this weekend and I am loving it! I feel so crappy about myself because I'm not exercising so I hope this will help.
QOTW: It's been reeeaally interesting the second time around. The first time, I often felt like DH was a better parent than me. He always seemed calm, confident, etc. This time, though, he seems much more easily frazzled and frustrated. I think a lot of that is because DD was a totally predictable, textbook baby, and DS is kind of all over the map. His sleep is still erratic, his eating is unpredictable, etc. Pretty much the only thing we can bank on is him being in a good mood. ;-) Anyway, DH really thrives on predictability, and I think he's just been thrown for a loop this round. Even with all that, though, he gets up with the baby at night, he lets me sleep in whenever possible on weekends, he encourages me to get out for some me-time, he washes pump parts and rotates bath and bedtime duty with me...he's totally 100% involved, even when that involvement stresses him out. I couldn't have asked for a better parenting partner!
Update: It appears that we have a brief reprieve from teething, thank you babyjesus! Recently, DS has started climbing furniture and standing independently. zomg. I had a friend visiting on Sunday and she was mindblown when she saw him signing "more" and "all done." Sometimes it's fun to see your children through the eyes of others--we get so used to his tricks that I forget how amazing he is.
oh gosh. i really hope DS stops with the distracted pulling when he gets teeth. hopefully we're still a month or two away from teeth (i can hope, right???) so i can try to correct this behavior. super not fun.
Rapport with DH:
Sparky loves his dad. He thinks he is hilarious, but that may be because he wears glasses and they are fascinating. When we get home and DH isn't there, Sparky looks around, in ever room we go in, I assume looking for his dad. DH is better with him than he thinks he is. He is always worried that he doesn't know how to entertain him, but its really not that hard (toys or jumper or both can go on for at least 30 minutes). He has only done bedtime alone once and did just fine. Lately he has been wanting to hold him and interact with him more, and I love that. Of course, BLW freaks the everloving freak out of him because he is so afraid Sparky will choke on EVERYTHING he puts in his mouth. I have to remind him to trust him and let him learn how to move the food around and only help when he's really choking (which he hasn't yet). DH takes amazing care of me and the boy and I couldn't imagine raising this child without him.
Update: The formula change saga continues. 2 days after we switched him to soy, the story broke about the arsenic and WF pulled it all from their shelves even though there wasn't really a recall. So we switched when we ran out this weekend.
The boy continues to refuse to roll over and still pukes during tummy time. His teeth are almost there, but not quite. I can feel the change in his gums every morning. I predict we will have 2 bottom teeth by next month.
QOTW: DH is amazing with DS. DS is so happy to see him when he gets home from work--he gets the best smiles. Boring ol' mom is with him all day....DH makes up the most hilarious songs for him. And DH has been really good about watching DS in the mornings/evenings/weekends so I can get some work done or take a shower or do something like go to my book club.
Updates: DS rolled over from his tummy to his back for the first time last night! He even seems like he's trying to roll from his back to his tummy, though I'm sure that won't happen for several months. As a newborn, DS was super colicky, and he seems to be getting better in the last week or so. He's only had one or two really bad days, and there have been some days where he's had very little crying at all. It may be the removal of dairy from my diet, or just that he's getting older, but I'm VERY excited about that.
For us, the pulling started sometime in November and lasted about a month maybe. maybe less. He just got his bottom teeth a couple of weeks ago. So, there is hope!
Speaking of teeth, glad you are getting a reprieve, Rssn!
QOTW: How do you feel about DH's rapport with the baby?
It's getting better. It was hard in the beginning because we have three so we did a lot of divide and conquer. DH would take the boys and I would take the baby. DD has been our toughest baby so it got to the point that I was feeling a little suffocated. That said, he is awesome with the boys and has taken over bath with DD...and even stayed with her on his own a few times on the weekend now. I think it's just easier for him to connect when there's a little more interaction, so I have no worries that he's going to be a wonderful dad for all our kiddos.
Updates: Let us know what's going on with your LO!
DD had been starting to get less fussy, but the poor thing got her first cold and ear infections this week so we're regressing in fussiness and sleep. She's generally doing fine overnight but am so looking forward to some more predictability in the daytime....and some real naps!
3/17/2011, DD, Bree