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Bluebird2318 · September 2014

@Dani For some reason, the banana thing made me laugh. Poor little dude just wanted his banana back.

Re: popcorn poop. I'm baffled by the buttered popcorn connection. I've never thought that BF poop smelled awful (at least not compared to toddler poop -- holy hell, that stuff is TOXIC), but not good or popcorn-ish either. Luckily I think DD's just about ready to potty train.

@SarahL2P I used Baby Move with DD. I found it in the pharmacy section of a grocery chain. It's a prune concentrate and it just took a mL or two in her formula if I'm remembering correctly. It's intended for use in babies 6 months and up though. I know a lot of A14 babies are nearing that age already, but just throwing it out there.

michaelad3 · September 2014

I really need to get out of bed and get ready for work, but I'm struggling. Up until 3:30 DD's longest stretch of sleep was almost 2 hours, with avg being about an hour. We both seem to have a resurgence of the cold we were fighting last week, only now it's worse. Blah

olenkapdx · September 2014

Fuckin' A...this first PP period is no joke. I am actually afraid to leave the house.

Tferr02 · September 2014

I'm never going to get this first morning clean urine catch done. DS1 is refusing to use the potty now

Ashleypixie · September 2014

embear22 said:

Also have you guys read this? About 11 airliners missing. I have not seen it on any American news. I feel like this should be reported and not naked celebrity photos. https://freebeacon.com/national-security/missing-libyan-jetliners-raise-fears-of-suicide-airliner-attacks-on-911/

That is kinda terrifying. ISIS, Ebola, Russia, I'm overwhelmed by thing to worry myself to sleep at night...AND 200oz!!! I'd be so pissed. I'd take advantage of my free lawyer, 200oz is a lot of work. Where was it going?

deidremaria · September 2014

aronie82 said:
We had a midnight melt down last night. DH ended up sleeping on the couch so LO could safely sleep in bed with me. I mentioned this to a mommy friend and totally got judged for bed sharing. Let the mommy wars begin!

Fuck her! Whatever works for your family is all that matters. I bet you and baby slept well though

RedDawnsRevenge · September 2014

Bed sharing gets way to vilified. Statistically speaking the safest country for a baby to sleep in when comparing SIDS rates is El Salvador (when accounted for pop size), which has one of the highest rates of bed sharing. It is also the poorest of the 50 countries the particular study looked at. China and India either did not collect for divulge SIDS stats to researches. So out of 50 countries studied the USA had the most deaths at 2300 annually the most of any country. But again when we account for population size it actually makes it #45, which is still shitty.

https://www.mumanu.com/2013/06/09/some-shocking-facts-about-cot-death-sudden-infant-death-syndrome-sids/

Twirple · September 2014

avidkeo said:

RedDawnsRevenge said:

@avidkeo‌ are you a native kiwi or a transplant?

Native! but not a native :P

ETA I'm in a funny mood today. I hope that made sense! lol

I know EXACTLY what you are saying. I tell people I'm a native Alaskan, but not an Alaskan Native.

Twirple · September 2014

olenkapdx said:

Fuckin' A...this first PP period is no joke. I am actually afraid to leave the house.

It totally sucks, and it is taking a toll on my milk supply which is pissing off DD. I want to nap, rather than be at work.

Ashleypixie · September 2014

Ooopsbaby14 said:

I was coming home the other day and I turned down my road and it was wet in one lane. The lane I needed to drive in. Wellll, it was wet from the manure wagon that had driven down the road before me. I had no choice but to drive through the mess. Dear Lord, it has taken me 4 days and 3 car washes to get the smell off! Liquid pig poop is not a nice smell to drive around in! I drove through the automatic car wash again last night and I think it's finally gone. I bet I left a foul smelling cloud as I drove around.

That's probably a health hazard! How was it getting all over the road?! That is disgusting. There isn't a worse smell on earth, cow shit smells like roses next to pig shit.

Ashleypixie · September 2014

Anyone's LOs move around non stop? I don't remember what my other two did, but this girl kicks, hard and frantic, NON STOP. if she is awake her arms and legs are all over the place and when I'm holding her she will almost jump out of my arms! When I was pregnant it was the same way and I was miserable. Is this normal? I'm so worried about when she starts walking, I will have to get one of those backpacks with a leash! Is this normal?! It's like she's on crack.

avidkeo · September 2014

RedDawnsRevenge said:
Bed sharing gets way to vilified. Statistically speaking the safest country for a baby to sleep in when comparing SIDS rates is El Salvador (when accounted for pop size), which has one of the highest rates of bed sharing. It is also the poorest of the 50 countries the particular study looked at. China and India either did not collect for divulge SIDS stats to researches. So out of 50 countries studied the USA had the most deaths at 2300 annually the most of any country. But again when we account for population size it actually makes it #45, which is still shitty.

https://www.mumanu.com/2013/06/09/some-shocking-facts-about-cot-death-sudden-infant-death-syndrome-sids/

Man thats depressing, NZ is the worst. No idea why but I can tell you that bedsharing is something that is taught to be a risk here. Makes you wonder. Though these statistics are 10 years old and I know a lot has changed

Ashleypixie · September 2014

mom2boxers said:

jodibolivar said:

Anyone's LOs move around non stop? I don't remember what my other two did, but this girl kicks, hard and frantic, NON STOP. if she is awake her arms and legs are all over the place and when I'm holding her she will almost jump out of my arms! When I was pregnant it was the same way and I was miserable. Is this normal? I'm so worried about when she starts walking, I will have to get one of those backpacks with a leash! Is this normal?! It's like she's on crack.
This exactly. FIL thinks it's abnormal but everyone else that's seen the kicking said he's just a happy, energetic baby. Pedi wasn't concerned either but I'd love to hear others thoughts on this. I'm just praying we don't have the makings of a hyper child!!

Mine kicks up a storm too. Especially at diaper changes. He's a little over 5 months old. Could be something developmentally.

<Runs to Wonder Weeks App>

Apparently we're in the midst of the leap concerning relationships, including distance, and realizing his world is very big and he's small.

I can see that about the distance thing. She has to see where I am at all times, if she lets me put her down at all! I can't get anything done. If I go around the corner she just loses her damn mind, and once she can see me she smiles. I'm sure my husband thinks I'm lazy as hell when he has to pick up the slack but I honestly cannot get ANYTHING done.

RedDawnsRevenge · September 2014

Ashleypixie said:
Anyone's LOs move around non stop? I don't remember what my other two did, but this girl kicks, hard and frantic, NON STOP. if she is awake her arms and legs are all over the place and when I'm holding her she will almost jump out of my arms! When I was pregnant it was the same way and I was miserable. Is this normal? I'm so worried about when she starts walking, I will have to get one of those backpacks with a leash! Is this normal?! It's like she's on crack.

This was and still is my DD1. She is my ADHD child. She never stops, never sleeps. Maybe you'll wnd up with a 7m old walker like I had.

avidkeo said:

RedDawnsRevenge said:
Bed sharing gets way to vilified. Statistically speaking the safest country for a baby to sleep in when comparing SIDS rates is El Salvador (when accounted for pop size), which has one of the highest rates of bed sharing. It is also the poorest of the 50 countries the particular study looked at. China and India either did not collect for divulge SIDS stats to researches. So out of 50 countries studied the USA had the most deaths at 2300 annually the most of any country. But again when we account for population size it actually makes it #45, which is still shitty.

https://www.mumanu.com/2013/06/09/some-shocking-facts-about-cot-death-sudden-infant-death-syndrome-sids/
Man thats depressing, NZ is the worst. No idea why but I can tell you that bedsharing is something that is taught to be a risk here. Makes you wonder. Though these statistics are 10 years old and I know a lot has changed

I don't know about kiwi land but very little has changed here in the USA in the 10 years that this was written. The SIDS rate still remains too high. I think a little bit of it may also be mislabeling of SIDS by medical examiners. For example we had a baby brought in code white. The baby was covered in blood, it was horrible. The baby had been in bed with mom, dad and a toddler. EMS said there was blood all over the room, we didn't have much to go on as the family spoke no English. CPS dropped the case after visiting the home site. The ME called it a SIDS death. I completely disagree.

Ashleypixie · September 2014

@RedDawnsRevenge‌ My mom keeps telling me that I passed along my ADHD. Actually, everyone says that! I hope not! I was a handful.

livin541 · September 2014

My LO is also an out of control baby ninja wannabe. I am always surprised by how hard he can kick. It legitimately hurts! I hope we are not in for it once they start moving independently, but I'm thinking child proofing is going to be important around this house!

RedDawnsRevenge · September 2014

The scrap metal guy said he's picking up a lot of stuff from people leaving the valley. Maybe the central valley will be the next great ghost town? All my crap is gone now. He gave me $20 for helping him load the junk. One step closer to being moved.

Bluebird2318 · September 2014

Why do all Disney characters have fabulous singing voices? Even the villains... There needs to be some nails-on-a-chalkboard princess representation!

Tferr02 · September 2014

At the dr, finally getting some birth control. DH comes home soon and I don't want to be the next BFP in RTT.

edoliesmom · September 2014

Bluebird2318 said:

Why do all Disney characters have fabulous singing voices? Even the villains... There needs to be some nails-on-a-chalkboard princess representation!

Yeah! I agree. I've only seen Brave once. Does Merida sing?

Ashleypixie · September 2014

Maybe I'll crumble some off my adderall in a bottle and see what happens. My mom won't shut up about it, I'm surprised she hasn't suggested that. If anything, she's super fun to watch in her jumper!

tamaraaaa · September 2014

I've always wondered how much reported is actually SIDS and how much is other stuff... It seems like a nicer way to place the blame on something "unknown" rather than blame the parent who is dealing with the loss of a child.

Obviously I know there are many cases that they don't have a cause for, but a local girl that we knew lost a child to SIDS, when in reality she took a nap with him and he suffocated. She was not all there, and was taking a drug-induced nap with him when this happened, but I think being told it was her fault would have sent her over the edge. So, it was SIDS. Not a super accurate for all the reports you read, and the fear they put into new parents...

thomas930 · September 2014

Can't wait until Friday. DH and I are leaving the big kids wth my parents and are getting away fot the weekend. We are taking Logan but he is so easy that it wont even matter!

Serenla · September 2014

poru said:
My friends lost their 2.5yo -- he threwup while sleeping and apparently didn't roll over as a toddler normally would and asphyxiated. It was still classified as SIDS.

oh my goodness, I can't imagine.

Twirple · September 2014

poru said:

My friends lost their 2.5yo -- he threwup while sleeping and apparently didn't roll over as a toddler normally would and asphyxiated. It was still classified as SIDS.

This is horrible. I can't even imagine. Suddenly, I'm very happy that DS wakes me up a lot when he's sick. I would rather he sleep poorly than this.

Ashleypixie · September 2014

SIDS scares the ever living fuck out of me. Some mornings DH gets up with the baby and lays her down between us. Our bed is really puffy and she rolls towards him because he's heavier than me. I don't sleep at all after that, checking to make sure he doesn't roll on her. I keep telling him to stop doing that. We never did bed sharing mostly because my SIL did and her kids wouldn't sleep in their own beds until they were much older. Her husband had his own room for about 10 years! No thanks. @poru, that is awful about your friend. My heart breaks for her, that is one of my biggest fears.

RedDawnsRevenge · September 2014

These 12m pants give Ryver camel toe. Does this mean they're too small? I'm tempered to take a picture but if she finds it later in life it might be horribly embarrassing?

PoppySeedWindsor · September 2014

Tferr02 said:
At the dr, finally getting some birth control. DH comes home soon and I don't want to be the next BFP in RTT.

Joiiiiiin meeeeeeeeeee

PoppySeedWindsor · September 2014

Also...In-N-Out!

Double also, have my first doctors appointment scheduled for the Monday we get back. I've officially gone from freaked the fuck out to super excited about baby #2 even though we have zeeeero idea how the heck we are going to manage it. Eeeeeeks!

RedDawnsRevenge · September 2014

Must be the day for poop-splosions. The problem with the baby in the 12m cloths is that they are all shirts and pants. So since I had to drag the poop covered shirt through her hair we got to take an early shower. And best part is the poop angel she made in her crib as she did a 360 in it! Haven't had a poop-splosion in so so long.

PoppySeedWindsor · September 2014

We had one too on our way from Petaluma to San Fran. I thought she was fussing from a wet dipe so I put my hand under her pants to take them off and BLAMO! Creamy peanut butter poop all up in my wedding and engagement rings. Mmmmm. Poop.

Eta: Will putting poop-stained baby clothes in the sun bleach the stains out like it does for cloth diapers?

avidkeo · September 2014

RedDawnsRevenge said:

Anyone's LOs move around non stop? I don't remember what my other two did, but this girl kicks, hard and frantic, NON STOP. if she is awake her arms and legs are all over the place and when I'm holding her she will almost jump out of my arms! When I was pregnant it was the same way and I was miserable. Is this normal? I'm so worried about when she starts walking, I will have to get one of those backpacks with a leash! Is this normal?! It's like she's on crack.
This was and still is my DD1. She is my ADHD child. She never stops, never sleeps. Maybe you'll wnd up with a 7m old walker like I had.
Bed sharing gets way to vilified. Statistically speaking the safest country for a baby to sleep in when comparing SIDS rates is El Salvador (when accounted for pop size), which has one of the highest rates of bed sharing. It is also the poorest of the 50 countries the particular study looked at. China and India either did not collect for divulge SIDS stats to researches. So out of 50 countries studied the USA had the most deaths at 2300 annually the most of any country. But again when we account for population size it actually makes it #45, which is still shitty. https://www.mumanu.com/2013/06/09/some-shocking-facts-about-cot-death-sudden-infant-death-syndrome-sids/
Man thats depressing, NZ is the worst. No idea why but I can tell you that bedsharing is something that is taught to be a risk here. Makes you wonder. Though these statistics are 10 years old and I know a lot has changed
I don't know about kiwi land but very little has changed here in the USA in the 10 years that this was written. The SIDS rate still remains too high. I think a little bit of it may also be mislabeling of SIDS by medical examiners. For example we had a baby brought in code white. The baby was covered in blood, it was horrible. The baby had been in bed with mom, dad and a toddler. EMS said there was blood all over the room, we didn't have much to go on as the family spoke no English. CPS dropped the case after visiting the home site. The ME called it a SIDS death. I completely disagree.

that's so sad, and yes I agree with you about mislabeling. Here anything where an infant dies that's not NAI pretty much gets put down as SIDS - even situations when mum has drunk so much she passed out and smothered baby in their sleep gets put down as SIDS. That's not a SIDS death, there is an explanation for that. So terrible and it does happen.

PoppySeedWindsor · September 2014

honeyzoo said:
These SIDS stories are giving me PPA. They need a warning or their own thread.

Love tit because I'm right there with you!

Twirple · September 2014

PoppySeedWindsor said:

These SIDS stories are giving me PPA. They need a warning or their own thread.
Love tit because I'm right there with you!

I agree, and I am at work right now so I can't even give my kidlets a big hug.

avidkeo · September 2014

purespark said:

@poru that's so sad. Oh god. I just have to keep reminding myself that it was a freak thing, otherwise I will never sleep again.

Every time I start freaking about SIDS I try remind myself that statistically only 0.05% of children born each year die of SIDS, and most of those have something else happening as well, such as parents who smoke. The bed sharing thing I don't believe is actually SIDS as I said above. Quoting the NZ SIDS prevention website "The average incidence of SIDS in New Zealand, as in many other western countries, is now about one in two thousand live births"

Last year there were 58,717 babies born in NZ and only 44 died of SIDS - and I know at least one of those was a smothering situation.

It is pretty devastating and its also one of those things that get so over reported that it causes everyone to panic about it, when the reality is its not that common.

I hope that helps a bit - I'm a bit of a statistics freak...

Ashleypixie · September 2014

mommyofmac said:

It definitely keeps me up at night some nights thinking about him (or worse I usually imagine what it was like to find him). It was a freak incident that is very unlikely to happen. They have 2 more children now and use angel monitors with the sensitivity all the way up. Their most recent child came 10 weeks early. They are the most wonderful, fun, amazing family and it breaks my heart all they have had to go through. It's one of those things that makes me say "there obviously isn't a god...."
Your last line, exactly. It may be considered "UO," but I can't stand it when people say "it's in gods plan." ....oh really? Because you have a secret diary with all of his plans written down that no one else knows about? That saying rubs me the wrong way in so many ways.

I heard that a lot after my miscarriage. My SIL lost her 3 month old and even she says shit like that. It doesn't help anyone, especially someone who doesn't believe in god because it feels like people are just brushing off a persons tragedy. Thanks god, that was completely pointless but I suppose I should chalk it up to your mysterious ways and get over it.

edoliesmom · September 2014

mommyofmac said:

It definitely keeps me up at night some nights thinking about him (or worse I usually imagine what it was like to find him). It was a freak incident that is very unlikely to happen. They have 2 more children now and use angel monitors with the sensitivity all the way up. Their most recent child came 10 weeks early. They are the most wonderful, fun, amazing family and it breaks my heart all they have had to go through. It's one of those things that makes me say "there obviously isn't a god...."
Your last line, exactly. It may be considered "UO," but I can't stand it when people say "it's in gods plan." ....oh really? Because you have a secret diary with all of his plans written down that no one else knows about? That saying rubs me the wrong way in so many ways.

Sorry, have to jump in. I believe in God (the one from the Bible), and I understand that many here don't. I can understand how that would rub people the wrong way, and most of the time, if not every time, it's said in what's supposed to be a helpful way but usually isn't, and actually has the opposite affect. But for me and my own life, I believe God does have a plan. I found my husband dead when I was 20, but I never doubted that God existed. I'm now married to my current husband, and we have a sweet, perfect baby together. If my first husband was still here, Edolie would not exist. My friend (who was my sister-in-law before he died) pointed this very obvious fact out to me... I just hadn't thought about it. She said she believes Edolie was meant to be here and will do great things in her life. I believe that too. Anyway... while others try to say it to people to comfort them and typically fail, I say it for my own life, and it helps.

Ashleypixie · September 2014

I respect people's belief in god and honestly believing he has a plan, it's just that when people say that to me it's like my devastation makes THEM uncomfortable. Even if it was a part of a divine plan, the right thing to do is let someone feel what they feel. That expression always seems to close the conversation. Sorry to hear about your husband, @edoliesmom‌ that must have been horrible! I don't know what I would do or how I would deal with something like that, I'm sorry you had to go through that. I'm happy you have found happiness again, you have a beautiful family.

speechie517 · September 2014

I complained at the hotel last week when they told me they didn't have crib sheets. So not only a problem for me, but an issue for other families traveling. The GM emailed, asking me to call to discuss compensation. What does RTT think is a fair or appropriate compensation?

I'm looking at you @Vinny424‌

RedDawnsRevenge · September 2014

Teething necklaces are on zulily today.

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