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June 2015 Moms
HoosOnFirst
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Daytime sucks!
HoosOnFirst
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Our days are longer than our nights right now, since LO wants to be active and never nap between 11 and 5.
How are you all surviving the daytime?
I try to take one trip a day between 11 and 2 to break up the day. Car rides most of the time put LO to sleep. Then I find a drive thru and eat lunch because she won't stay asleep at home long enough to eat typically. Ps I've gained back some weight, no surprise based on my eating habits.
How are you all surviving the daytime?
I try to take one trip a day between 11 and 2 to break up the day. Car rides most of the time put LO to sleep. Then I find a drive thru and eat lunch because she won't stay asleep at home long enough to eat typically. Ps I've gained back some weight, no surprise based on my eating habits.
Re: Daytime sucks!
-finally got LO's swing set up yesterday, and he mostly loves it! Trying not to overuse it
-he loves people watching. He sat on my lap for a half hour today in the park, watching people walk by and children at the playground.
-He looooves baths. Another half hour is easily spent in the tub. And is the only thing that will stop his crying during his (thankfully decreasing in frequency) witching hours
My LO still eats every 2-3 hours, so my days are broken up fairly effectively by that schedule alone. It takes him an hour to eat (boobs and bottle), then I'll change him and go wash his bottle out, and change him again (he always pees again right after he has been changed), then spend some time hanging out and talking or activity mat, anywhere 20-45 minutes usually. Then he's ready for a nap, which when he wakes up again 1 to 1 1/2 hours later, its time to eat again. Rinse, repeat. The downside to this is that its damned near impossible for me to nap, because I have such a hard time falling asleep, and I get little sleep overnight, as well.
I'm pretty fortunate in that once I began to understand him better he set this routine into place and I just roll with it. I don't mind hanging out at home solo, so that's what we do usually. I am usually able to eat lunch at some point, and eat something in the evening as well, but I haven't yet made it to where I can feel confident about cooking something and having time to eat it. Lunch or dinner is usually a sandwich or a microwave dinner - something fast and easy. Or lunch or dinner may just be a large serving of snacks that I eat when breastfeeding because he for some reason has decided not to nap for a few hours.
I do plan on doing walks, it's just been hot up here recently and by the time it cools enough in the evening I'm wiped by the day and just waiting for bedtime. I'm more likely to walk in the late morning or early afternoon. Also, once he gets his first vaccines, I'll start going to the library kids program and check that out, maybe meet some other moms (or sit in a corner, lol)
Of course, I feel a lot like most of you are WAY ahead of me and LO time wise, he is still only 8 weeks as of yesterday, so i feel like a lot of things happening to most of you (longer sleep stretches at night, larger amounts being fed, longer times awake, etc) are going to happen to me eventually. 2 weeks from now could find me with a kid who doesn't want to nap midday... we'll see
(All of this describes my days when i am home alone with LO, when DH is on duty. When DH is off duty and home, its a different game. We're more likely to go somewhere just to go somewhere, tho we do time it within the routine, usually leaving right after a feeding to maximize our success rate)
Yeah, in relation to feeling like everybody is ahead of me and LO... this was me about 3 weeks ago. So hopefully you'll be where i am soon
But week by week it's getting a little better.
I do lots of tummy time, people watching, and we like walks.
Lo only takes cat naps from 10 or 11 to 8. But I can handle it if she continues to sleep 12 to 14 hrs at night.
On other days, we hang out at home and she's much more alert. She loves when I sing to her so I spend pretty much the whole day singing, no matter what we're doing lol. I'm predicting that this girl is going to be heavily involved in music when she goes to school, whether it's through band, chorus, or musicals, or some combination of the three! I also read to her, usually when I'm trying to help her get to sleep since that's when she sits sill the best. I think she is already paying attention when I do - she can't understand the stories yet, obviously, but her eyes are glued to the book and she likes to hear my voice as I'm reading to her.
LO has been up since 530 am... It's been 4.5 hours of entertaining her and I'm exhausted!
I miss the days where she napped a bit more
ETA I realized that part of my exhaustion is holding her that whole time. I think if I crack that nut I'll be in good shape. Maybe try baby wearing again?
So let the kid sit and stare at a wall for a while. Paint your nails, take a bath, watch tv, go to work. Whatever! Stop reading the books, stop using guiding theories, and just be normal and listen to your elders because they are smarter and more normal than the shelves full of parenting theories.
This is my new parenting theory and guiding principle as I continue to read The books and articles, take 7 months off, and spend every waking moment with LO. :-@ :-\"
ETA: I'm sitting right next to LO currently but he is on his play mat happily "talking" to the owl and monkey rattles above him
I'm not trying to say my life is harder or offer advice because I wouldn't have believed it either but just put that baby down and get shit done, man.
Too many conflicting theories on parenting just clutter my mind and stress me out. I really just want to know how to help him develop (ex - "now is a good time to introduce bright colors" or "your face is the best toy right now") and go with the flow from there. Maybe that makes me a bad mom, I dunno. But women have been having babies without parenting books for ages before now, so I'll deal
eta missed some words
@lovethatcolosun we cosleep at night and in the day ill often just lay in bed with him all day only getting up to grab some type of food, because anytime i get up even when he is in his deeper sleep, he just wakes up shortly after.