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tropicbreeze · March 2015

i miss everyone! What have you all been up to?

junebugjam · March 2015

Nothing special here. Just hanging with the babe all day whil my H is at work. I want to start venturing out shopping or something but I'm still a little scared to go alone.

My H is bringing home Applebee's carside for dinner. Someday I'm going to have to cook again and it'll be terrible. How do I time dinner with a newborn? I swear he has a sixth sense and wakes up every time I'm about to eat.

mommaa1615 · March 2015

Today was my first day solo while hubby went to work. He Needs sleep for his job so he really cant help but I will be able to get a 2 hr nap in soon. Actually had a great day w my LO..hopefully it continues. Its sooo dead on here.

mommaa1615 · March 2015

Applebees sounds so good..love there pretzels

tropicbreeze · March 2015

We have an appointment Wednesday to get LOs tongue tie taken care of. I'm praying I can get him back to nursing. I would love to not be pumping every 3 hours.

cndupree15 · March 2015

I spent half the day at the hospital bc of mastitis. Totally not fun.

tropicbreeze · March 2015

@cndupree15 ouch! I hope you feel better soon!

StephanieLBerg · March 2015

I just found out that the rocky relationship my mother and stepfather have been experiencing, has been because of me, hubby, and our LO. I guess the fact that my mom spent the last month and a half of my pregnancy helping me get the house and nursery finished for her arrival, really upset my stepfather. To make a long story short, my stepdad defines everyone by their job. Sadly, my hubbys job was government based and government funded, so when the project he was working on finished and funding wasn't renewed, everyone in his department was laid off. He's been able to collect unemployment, and I'm sure he'll be able to find a new project that will hire him once his paternity leave is over, but needless to say my stepdad isn't happy that my hubby decided to not start looking for a job until after the baby was born. Its not like we've been hurting for money or anything, so I don't understand what his problem is concerning it.

Anyway, he also takes a lot of prescription drugs for high BP, kidney stones, depression, and low T. And sometimes his meds make him fly off the handle something fierce, and I guess it's been happening more increasingly lately. Everytime he gets this way he starts in on my moms job, says she needs to go out and find a real job that pays her a steady paycheck. Not working for Costco selling blinds for commission only (of which she makes EXCELLENT money at btw!), then he starts in on how he took care of my mom while she was unemployed for a year before she found the job she has now and how big of a financial burden she was then. Then he starts in on me, says that he wants his name off of my one private student loan he helped me get because he "can just see me allowing his credit to dump into the shitter by not paying it"; that's a direct quote.

He basically makes my mom feel like she's been nothing but a burden when in all reality she has been paying her half of their bills with no problem and still has money left over every month. He's cheated on her 4 times in the last 8 years, each time she has forgiven him. Says he wants out of the relationship, away from her, wants my hubby and I to move in with her so we can help her keep the house they rent, and just wants to be done with her. But then, a few days to a week will pass, he'll calm down, say he's sorry, says he doesn't want to leave, and blah blag blah. But this whole time my mothers feelings and emotions have been in shambles and he acts like nothing ever happened or that it wasn't a huge deal.

I feel awful that she's going through this, but even more awful that he has now made my husband and I feel like we caused part of the problem. And I feel worse that there is nothing I can do to help her, or make her feel better. She doesn't deserve this, especially when she's trying to basque in the happiness of having her first grandbaby, and he's just ruining it for her! I see it in her eyes that she's not as happy and excited as she was a week ago and it's my stepfathers fault. Seeing her in such pain and knowing how big of an asshole he can be really pulls on my heart strings right now, especially while I'm trying to combat the baby blues and PPD!

Sorry for ranting, but I really needed to get that off my chest.

tropicbreeze · March 2015

@StephanieLBerg how awful for you and your mom. I really really hope things get better soon.

Alyllyra · March 2015

@StephanieLBerg I have no advice to offer but I'm really sorry about your situation. I hope you can get something working for you because it sound really shitty.

anxiousmommy85 · March 2015

@junebugjam-we call them "family dinners". Basically I go with trying to get food on the table and then feeding LO while we eat.

@StephanieLBerg- I'm sorry to hear of your stressful situation. Your stepdaughter sounds like my father, emotionally abusive. I hope the problem resolves quickly and to everyone's benefit.

junebugjam · March 2015

How do I get my LO to sleep more than 2 hours at once? This is more of a rhetorical question, but I'm so jealous of everyone who gets longer stretches.

He old took one good nap today (3 hours!) and was awake the rest of the day, so I was hopeful he'd sleep well tonight. Nopr, down at 9:15, up at 11:20.

tropicbreeze · March 2015

I hope you get a good nights sleep! @junebugjam

tropicbreeze · March 2015

Has anyone heard from @Masseybaby or @HayleyBug55?

junebugjam · March 2015

I think @maasybaby has been over on the other boards

mands1125 · March 2015

Haleybugg checked in on the other group today. Her LO has been in and out of the hospital but it sounds like things are going good now!

junebugjam · March 2015

How do I successfully do eat-activity-sleep when my baby seems miserable and cries 90% of the time he's awake/not eating? Help

t8keepr03 · March 2015

Well my little guy is 2 weeks old and appears to have caught the cold his older 18 month old sister has.... Sigh. We tried everything to keep her germs away from him. I feel like I failed at protecting him. Now it's just a waiting game and hoping he doesn't get worse. His pediatrician said to watch for a fever higher than 100.4 and breathing troubles. So far no fever just a runny nose. The cold DD has is just a runny nose so not a bad one for her. I really hope and pray his doesn't become worse!

StephanieLBerg · March 2015

junebugjam said:
How do I successfully do eat-activity-sleep when my baby seems miserable and cries 90% of the time he's awake/not eating? Help

Do you have a bouncer seat? Or an activity gym? I find that if my LO is super fussy and crying a lot, putting her in her bouncer or her activity gym helps. I also am trying out newborn pacifiers on her and they help somewhat as well. Sometimes all they need is something to keep them occupied, or to suck on between feedings.

junebugjam · March 2015

StephanieLBerg said:

Do you have a bouncer seat? Or an activity gym? I find that if my LO is super fussy and crying a lot, putting her in her bouncer or her activity gym helps. I also am trying out newborn pacifiers on her and they help somewhat as well. Sometimes all they need is something to keep them occupied, or to suck on between feedings.

We have a mamaroo, no bouncer. He pretty much hates it unless he's already asleep when you put him in. Activity gym is hit or miss. Sometimes he likes it, other times not. And so far he refuses every kind of pacifier we've tried. My H even searched Amazon fit pacifiers made for babies who don't like pacifiers and he hates those too.

Thanks for the ideas!

tropicbreeze · March 2015

Have you tried to play music? My Lo falls asleep to country music when all else fails. (Prenatal conditioning my DH says. We line danced and went to 7 concerts thought my pregnancy lol) we happened to discover that on accident.

cndupree15 · March 2015

I need a spam thread!!! My LO just threw up all down the front of my shirt. So much it went under my boobs, down my stomach under the shirt and into my pants. It was horrible. It was on me. On her. And the worst part was... I wasn't grossed out. Just wet and cold.

anxiousmommy85 · March 2015

cndupree15 said:
I need a spam thread!!! My LO just threw up all down the front of my shirt. So much it went under my boobs, down my stomach under the shirt and into my pants. It was horrible. It was on me. On her. And the worst part was... I wasn't grossed out. Just wet and cold.

I had a similar encounter the other day. Only my top half was me springing a leak and my bottom half was her diaper.

katiebranz · March 2015

It breaks my heart how quickly my freezer stash of breast milk shrinks. I'm not going back to work yet, but even the practice bottles take a decent stash. Come on, boobies!

kbellebelle · March 2015

katiebranz said:
It breaks my heart how quickly my freezer stash of breast milk shrinks. I'm not going back to work yet, but even the practice bottles take a decent stash. Come on, boobies!

@katiebranz Don't you pump when you give a practice bottle? I couldn't imagine the engorgement if I skipped a whole feeding, the most I've gone is 1-1.5 hrs past DD feed time without pumping and that felt like torture.

katiebranz · March 2015

@kbellebelle, I'll pump if I'm home. DH gave a couple while I've been out once or twice and my back up stash didn't get replaced. I was full but LO fed again soon, so I didn't get to replace the stash.

kbellebelle · March 2015

katiebranz said:
@kbellebelle, I'll pump if I'm home. DH gave a couple while I've been out once or twice and my back up stash didn't get replaced. I was full but LO fed again soon, so I didn't get to replace the stash.

@katiebranz I've had that happen a few times. If DH is home to watch DD when that happens I pump 30 mins to an hr after her feed and I usually get my normal 3-4.5 ozs. Good luck!

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