Randoms Dec 16-22

shamrocandroll · December 2019

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soprano19 · December 2019

@shamrocandroll I am laughing way harder at that gif than I should.

I've almost made it to Christmas break! Only a day and a half more of instruction, an elective ultrasound (YAY) a day of cleaning, two days of finals, and a holiday concert to go!

mamaj1220 · December 2019

@shamrocandroll this GIF made my day I am laughing so hard right now lol.

I am just counting the days until this crazy work month is over! I feel like I have got most of my caseload back under control but it is hard when you come in the middle and things were not done! Also I need to motivate myself to finish Christmas shopping.

ruby696 · December 2019

Guys, I ordered a car! Eeek! I cannot even describe what a relief this is. I had my car appraised and test drove a Suburban while I waited. They offered me more than I expected for my Jeep, so I ordered a Suburban while I was there. It has captains chairs and I'm not giving up my leather seats and seat heaters. MH is so happy I went for a Suburban, he doesn't even care that he didn't drive it or help pick the color. A win for everyone! 😁

Eta: autocorrect

m6agua · December 2019

@ruby696 Yay! I love suburbans! When I worked in car rental I loved every chance I got to drive one, they were all loaded too.

miss_lynn9 · December 2019

@shamrocandroll I'm with everyone, that gif made my day. Thanks for that.

@ruby696 I'm glad everything worked out with your car!!!

I've been training my new employee the past two weeks, which is very exciting but it's also putting me even more behind on everything else. Plus side is she is a quick learner so I don't expect this to go on too long.

drkoyya · December 2019

Anyone else miss drinking a glass of wine while cooking dinner after a long day? I do 😩

sunshinesea22 · December 2019

@drkoyya I’m with you but then again I’ve been having a few ounces of wine about once a week. Call me a terrible mom but I feel comfortable with my tiny ration due to my reading of “Expecting better.” Turns out those studies that our American doctors like to quote as the reason not to drink during pregnancy actually found the women they studied were also using cocaine during pregnancy, so the cocaine is the more likely cause of behavioral issues in the children, not the light drinking. European women are not told they cannot drink while pregnant and they don’t have huge numbers of kids with fetal alcohol syndrome, their rates of FAS are equal to or less than ours. European women are generally light to moderate drinkers (1-2 glasses wine daily). So basically don’t do cocaine while pregnant but a little wine is okay. If you want to read it for yourself, Expecting Better is by Emily Oster.

jhysmath · December 2019

DD woke up early and when I wouldn't let her get out of bed she threw a fit like she normally does but decided to cry into my stomach, well I'm guessing baby #2 didn't like that because it started moving around and "kicking" which I thought was hilarious. I can't wait until it can be felt from the outside, I think they'll already start fighting before it's even born.

shamrocandroll · December 2019

It makes me irrationally happy that people love the GIF I picked out, haha. In my other mom group, I posted what I thought was the best meme for our randoms thread last week and sooooo many people didn't get it, and I was sad, haha. But who hasn't heard Losing My Religion by REM!?!?

lisush · December 2019

Haha @shamrocandroll both are great! Really love the unicorn.

emlettuce · December 2019

Did I miss the day on school where everyone learned how to wrap presents? Cause I'm pretty sure I'm at a 6 year old level

soprano19 · December 2019

@shamrocandroll I am totally stealing that REM one for the next time I start the randoms thread in my other moms group!

rox7777 · December 2019

DS1 has surgery Friday, we have to do Christmas shopping this weekend, Monday is my anatomy scan, Tuesday my dad is coming into town and then it’s Christmas. Everyone in my family went way overboard buying for the boys and we’re already on limited space with them now sharing a room. Basically I’m having a meltdown.

ruby696 · December 2019

@rox7777 Ugh, I'm sorry. First and foremost, I hope your son's surgery goes well. Just another week and it will all be behind you. Hang in there!!

rox7777 · December 2019

@ruby696 It’s a routine surgery for him. We’re in the teens at this point, so no big concerns there! Thank you!

shamrocandroll · December 2019

@soprano19 I hope your mom group has better taste in music than mine!

pirateduck · December 2019

There is no insulation in the walls of my office. I have the heat cranked and my feet are freezing, it's so drafty and below zero out today. Ugh. We've made improvements over the years, but it's far from perfect. End rant.

soprano19 · December 2019

The last thing I want to be doing right now is teaching. My elective ultrasound is this afternoon and that's all I can think about. Is it 5:00 yet?

mamaj1220 · December 2019

I am binge watching Hoarders, it makes me want to finish my mental health masters to help people.

Also @shamrocandroll I just laughed at the REM one too

how did they not get it???

Linsbins · December 2019

Anyone have GD? If there’s anyone else to commiserate with, is life to start a thread.

sunshinesea22 · December 2019

@rox7777 Hoping everything goes well with your son’s surgery...I’m sure it’s still anxiety provoking even if there’s been many others. Maybe you can purge some old toys since the Christmas gifters went nuts this year

miss_lynn9 · December 2019

Does anyone have any recommendations on sleeping books?

Also, has anyone read Like a Mother by Angela Garbes? I bought it and I'm 40ish pages in and it's not what I was looking for so far. I wanted to learn about anatomy, what happens to theb at birth and breast feeding. There seems to be chapters on those topics but I'm wondering if you actually learn anything or if it's more about woman's rights and how the medical system works. Interesting information, but again not what I'm looking to learn.

catem07 · December 2019

@jess09lynn baby sleep? IMO they all suck. There’s a really good Facebook group for sleep training called respectful sleep training/learning.

mokay19 · December 2019

@Linsbins I’m sure there will be more people but most people won’t get diagnosed until 28-30 weeks so you might not have a group until then.

jhysmath · December 2019

@Linsbins
I'm going to take my early screen this afternoon if I remember after work and will likely be GD as I was with DD. I did pretty good last time around and if you need any tips or meal ideas let me know. If you're on facebook, there's a really good GD group, I can't remember the name of it but I got a bunch of meal ideas and snack ideas from them. I think the first week after my diagnosis was the hardest and I cried probably every day about it because I didn't think I would be able to deal with it, but after your body decides it doesn't crave the sugar anymore it's actually pretty easy.

jhysmath · December 2019

@jess09lynn
I have heard good things about takingcarababies on instagram. I follow them for the tips but she does online courses and stuff and from what I've read doesn't do the CIO method of sleep training.

As for birth books, I really like the Ida May birth books and breastfeeding books. They have a lot of birth stories and breastfeeding stories within the medical information and I preferred being able to have some first hand stories along with the medical information. They're also really good as audiobooks.

rox7777 · December 2019

@jess09lynn I agree that Taking Cara Babies is a good one. She has a private FB group too. The safe sleep group on FB has some good advice. Just beware that most infant sleep groups can be pretty strict rule followers and not everyone will agree with the same methods. And not all babies will sleep the same. I have two insomniacs with night terrors and the only thing that helped them was their pediatrician and certified sleep expert. We spent a lot of money trying infant sleep classes. Be prepared to be flexible. Those first few weeks are mind boggling and exhausting no matter how much you try to prepare for it.

Also, even if you don’t want to, I encourage looking into safe co sleeping. A lot of people don’t plan for it and it happens anyways. Being prepared can make the process a lot easier for new parents.

shamrocandroll · December 2019

@jess09lynn Do you mean like sleep training books? They won't be ready for that until 5+ months, but I had amazing luck with the Ferber method. He has a book, but I didn't really need it. It was gentle and very effective. Only a few rough nights and DS has been a magical sleeping unicorn ever since. I plan to do it again.

ETA: luck, not lick.

rox7777 · December 2019

@shamrocandroll I tried Ferber desperately with DS2 until I had to clean exorcist puke off the walls at 2am. BUT I’m fully prepared to dive in again this go around because I know so many people that rave about it.

DS2 is 4 and doesn’t sleep through the night and DS1 is 6.5 and only sleeps through the night due to a low dose anxiety medication prescribed by his oncologist. I haven’t STTN in 7 years and I’m about to lose my mind. When they’re teens I fully plan to install an alarm in my house that goes off every hour on the weekends for funsies.

rachelg777 · December 2019

We co slept until DS was 15 months but did the Precious Little Sleep extinction method when we finally had to because of daycare naps. He wasn't sleeping because she couldn't rock him and it wasn't fair to him. I do also follow Taking Cara Babies.

I was dreading it and of course it was a little traumatizing but it worked well. Within a few days he was falling asleep on his own quickly and sleeping through the night. He still has some issues of course when he is teething/etc. and he went through an awful regression over the last couple weeks but overall it worked. I don't know yet if/when we will do it with #2 or if I will co sleep for awhile again. I did love co sleeping. We will see!

bananapanda · December 2019

@rox7777 ugh I can't even imagine not being able to get a full night of sleep here or there. At least you have a payback plan!

I'm nervous because DD1 was such a great sleeper. And by that I mean we do still lay with her at night to put her to sleep, and she often winds up in our bed, but I will gladly take those for her having slept through the night more or less since about 10 weeks old and even as an infant when she woke up all she wanted was fed or diaper changed never just crying for hours on end. I feel like there's no way we will get so lucky again with another good sleeper.

shamrocandroll · December 2019

@rox7777 Oh my god, that sounds horrible! Sorry you have such stubborn sleep resistant children! We love our sleep. DS sometimes yells at me to go away because he's not done sleeping when I go in to wake him up during the week.

shamrocandroll · December 2019

@bananapanda This scares me also. DS1 looooves his sleep.

rox7777 · December 2019

@shamrocandroll It’s MH’s fault. He has night terrors and is a raging insomniac. Unfortunately for me he was active duty when the boys were little and rarely home to sit up all night. Now he works nights and it seems baby girl wants to follow in their footsteps because she has nightly dance parties from 11-2am and I never sleep. Woooooo.

Please remind me why I thought this was a good idea again?

pirateduck · December 2019

Currently an insomniac and having been up since 3:30 this morning I totally read that as sleep for self not sleep for baby. Now to face the day one confusing misunderstood moment at a time!

m6agua · December 2019

@linsbins I think for most who aren't getting tested early for GD, the test is around 28 weeks. So end of January or beginning of February. You could start a thread, I am not diagnosed as of right now, but I did have it last time around.

@rox7777 I hope the surgery goes well!

@jess09lynn I think there is a product spotlight for stuff like this, I will revive it.

mokay19 · December 2019

@shamrocandroll my DD sounds like your DS. When you go wake her up she like rolls to the side and goes “I STILL SLEEPING!!” Haha if this is her at almost 2.5, I can’t imagine her sleepiness in her teenage years!

soprano19 · December 2019

I’m blessed with a great sleeper as well (except for last night, thanks croup). She’s been STTN in her crib in her own bedroom since she was 6 months old. The biggest challenge for us was figuring out how to put her down awake without her freaking out, but once we solved that our life is SO much easier at night.

jhysmath · December 2019

For me the easiest sleeping arrangement was co-sleeping because when I went back to work DD refused the bottle and ended up reverse cycling and eating all night for so long and I couldn't keep waking up and getting her. She just started STTN really around 15 months though she does wake up from her bed around 11 and I go bring her to bed with us. She will also wake up looking for me calling mama mama and fall right back to sleep once I tell her I'm there.

I must say I feel like I got an easy sleeper because as soon as I fed her she'd go right back to sleep. I never had to walk around the house with a crying kid who refused to sleep, aside from when she was sick or a couple times when she decided she'd like to play in the middle of the night.

bender29 · December 2019

We bought a twin pack and play for our room, because I’ll just say I am a sleeper!! I didn’t think I’d want a baby in our room, and I was never going to be that parent with a baby in their room (I know 🙄)

But I cant even imagine trying to feed two babies in the middle of the night and having to get up and actually go to the nursery.

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