I’m glad I have kept my expectations low with the transition of my 17 month old to his own bed. He was up a lot last night and I decided to go in after the third wake up. He put himself back to sleep pretty quickly the first 2 times but was struggling the third time. He lost it when I laid him down and walked out of the room. He screamed his head off. I went in and out reassuring him but he didn’t give up for an hour. Then the cat woke him up half an hour later because he snuck into the room when I was going in and out. Then my other boys woke for the day and hour after that. I’m so tired. I have basically been awake since 3am. I’m not even sure how I’m going to make it through the day. Thank God I’m not nauseous today. Oh, and I’m hosting a valentines party for my kids today. So I have to host all my friends and their kids. Luckily it’s only for 2 hours but still. Those would be the hours that I could be taking a nap like yesterday.
@emeraldcity603 that sounds like both a long night and a long day! Hopefully you can rest a bit after the party and tonight will be a better night for sleep!
I was able to eat some food at the party and I feel much better. The Zofran really didn’t help much with my nausea. My 17 month old is so tired he was just screaming about everything so I had to bring him upstairs and try to lay him down for a nap. I tried before the party started and he refused to sleep and just stood there screaming in his crib. All the guests started arriving so I had to go get him. I really hope he goes down this time because he won’t let me hold him and when I put him down he throws himself to the ground and cries. Then reaches for me. I pick him up and he starts thrashing and screaming again. Poor thing is just overtired.
We had a true snow day where even SO got the day off work! Many stores are closed so pretty much today is everyone digging their houses out. I’m not sure how much snow we actually got but some of the drifts are like 3ft deep which is mostly why everything shut down.
We got about 6inches of snow some drifts are bad and they are calling for more snow but this has been a tame winter where we are. Kids got the buses canceled but I still had to work
We are having a snow/rain storm. So the roads will be deadly. We have had a warmer winter than any winter I have ever experienced here. I thought I would prefer that but it makes the roads so deadly that it’s not ideal. I would prefer the low 20’s or even zero if that means no black ice.
It is crazy how much faster you show as a S+TM. I feel like in the last few days, I’ve just popped. It’s not blatantly obvious as I’m plus sized but I can definitely tell.
@gingermama29 yes! I feel so huge already! I was standing in line at the coffee shop and I was like my belly feels so tight like it can’t possibly get bigger but it’s going to have to😬 I definitely look about the same as I did at like 25 weeks when I’m only 15 weeks
I compared pictures of myself now to pictures last time around and I am, not exaggerating, the size I was at 22-23 weeks (and we induced early because I had a macrosomia diagnosis -- she was just shy of 10 pounds at 39 weeks). I'm 16 weeks now. I actually mentioned it at my appointment yesterday and the PA I saw was like "yeah, it's normal to show more...but I'll kind of be interested to see where this baby is positioned and where she's measuring because...I mean...yeah." Cool cool.
I hope this baby is on the smaller size and comes a little early. I feel like a 6lb baby is the perfect size. So stinking tiny and squishy and much nicer to my body on the way out. 🤪
My SO told me he was a 9lb baby and his mom was a 10lb baby. Mind you I was born 6lb and 7oz and I’m 5’1 with a small frame ☹️ I don’t think I want to push out a big baby
I kind of liked that my daughter had a little heft to her -- I didn't feel like I'd break her as easily. But I looked like a caricature of a pregnant lady going in to deliver, like I had a basketball shoved under my shirt. Pic in the spoiler box to not take up a ton of scrolling room. Suffice it to say I don't want this again but I'm thinking it's inevitable. I was 9lb 12oz, my husband was close to that too, his brother and one sister were 10+, and my sister was almost 9 at two weeks early. We just both have big babies in our family. And I'm 5'3 with a pretty short torso soooooo nowhere for baby to go but out. (But that picture will never not be hilarious to me.)
I’m 5’3 and with DS I was a whopping 103lbs (young and a dancer) his bio dad like 5’8 and 125lbs so both of us not large people, DS was 8lbs 4oz. SO is 6’2 235lbs so I’m expecting a large baby but I would love a nice little 7lbs peanut!
I’m feeling so defeated right now. We are going on week 2 of being down with the stomach bug. I had 24 hours of symptoms then 3 days of no symptoms. Then I got hit for 4 days really bad. Then I have been fine for the last 2 days. Yet, I woke up last night with a massive wave of nausea and stomach issues again this morning. Apparently I’m not over the virus. Oh, to make it even better two of my kids spiked really high fevers (102) yesterday evening. So we have a cold, the stomach flu, and now some other virus that is causing 2 of my kids to spike a fever. I’m done. We won’t get to leave the house again for who knows how long.
@emeraldcity603 ugh that blows. Around here the stomach flu has been going around like crazy and lasting for more than 24 hrs and then seems like it’s gone then comes back. Whatever virus that’s causing it has been something else! Hopefully it ends soon for you and that the whole house gets better asap!
@justyouraveragemama DH said he saw a lot of people at the ER who were there for vomiting and diarrhea. So it’s all over the city. I’m so over all the viruses we keep getting. We can’t recover from one before getting hit with something new.
So much solidarity with the sick kids crew... After 3.5 years, my daughter got something (I actually think food poisoning from an iffy hot dog at my husband's basketball game) and yarfed all over her carpe, then in the bathroom, and then every hour for the next three hours. We had set up her cot in the living room, where we have engineered wood floors, since cleaning chunks of undigested hot dog out of the carpet was ROUGH, and I stayed with her dozing off and on on the floor until 4am when my husband tapped in. This SUCKS. I can't believe we made it this far without puke but holy smokes did she make up for that tonight. My husband leaves Wednesday for California for five days so I'm just praying PLEEEEEEASE let this just be a quick thing...
@ki1244 We keep Zofran in the house and give it to whoever is vomiting. We started doing that when my husband was in residency and I got a nasty stomach bug and he couldn’t come home to help me take care of the kids. So now he writes us prescriptions for it with refills so we never run out. Life saver!!! Especially for me. There is no way I can hug a toilet for days and take care of 5 kids.
@priyadoc I don’t know a doctor’s family that doesn’t do this. To me, it’s genius. My kids stay well hydrated and we rarely have to clean up vomit messes. I had one really nasty virus that the Zofran didn’t touch and I was sooo sick. Couldn’t move or I would vomit. It ended up taking 4 Zofran to finally get it to stop. DH had to take all the kids to the store to get supplies because we were at a hotel and I wasn’t able to care for anyone. He came back and told me people were so impressed he was out shopping with 5 kids that someone actually applauded him and several people told him what a great dad he was. I was like, what?! Where is my applause? My “good job mom!?” I don’t get any of that. 🙄
@emeraldcity603 I'll be your first! My dad was a family doc and I had never heard of zofran until my first pregnancy. But we also just very rarely got stomach bugs for some reason. We were more of a respiratory virus magnet. That seemed to carry over into my family now -- literally this was the first time my daughter has vomited, and she turns 4 in June, but this fall we wound up in the ER four times in six weeks because of rhinovirus-induced hypoxia. Knock on wood, she seems to be rebounding fine, and hasn't thrown up since about 2:30 am, so I'm thinking either food poisoning or just swallowing too much mucus (she's had a nasty cold since Friday, so thank God for Asmanex keeping her oxygen levels up!). She skipped nap and is now sleeping on me while we (l) watch VeggieTales Lord of the Beans. If she does puke again though, I'm asking Dad to call in a favor with a friend and get us some zofran STAT though (he retired a few years ago so can't write the rx himself anymore, boo).
@ki1244 we give our younger kids half a 4mg every 12 hours. We used to get stomach bugs once every few years and since COVID we get them every few months. It’s been awful. Having Zofran on hand makes it bearable. I’m not sure how I would survive without it. Make sure you ask for some refills.
We don't get stomach bugs often (thankfully, fingers crossed) but I definitely keep it on hand for carsickness etc (for myself, lol - have never given it to DD!)
@priyadoc Does it work for you for motion sickness? My husband says that’s a different pathway and Zofran doesn’t work for that pathway. I hate taking Dramamine. It makes me so tired and I basically pass right out. I’m useless and can’t take care of the kids. Which isn’t ideal. I want to go out on boat tours to see the marine wildlife here and it makes it hard.
I haven't used it for seasickness but I've used it for carsickness and it's helped. But to be honest it's usually been the morning after alcohol consumption when I'm more prone to nausea anyway
Sending a message to my daughter's doc. She was fine all day today until we got halfway to taking my husband to the airport, and she threw up in the car (thankfully into her bucket). And now both of us feel gross and nauseous. We took some antacid (I think that's the deal with her, actually) but not sure how effective it'll be. Gonna beg for some zofran tonight.
Edit: have been puking my guts out for three hours. On call doc on the OB line wouldn't do zofran, only phenergan. My dad is picking it up to bring over. I'm just praying I live long enough to take it. Stomach bug I hate you
Ok gals, I need your "what about this" ideas. At 46 hours since her last emission, my daughter woke me up to help with her bucket, and threw up again. I've never heard of a norovirus that takes 36-48 hour breaks between vomit spells so now I'm wondering if that's not what's going on. She has literally never thrown up, aside from one time as a side effect of a mega dose of Albuterol for an asthma attack, until this week. But it's been like every other night (Monday night/a little overnight, then Wednesday night until 3am, and now tonight at 1am) and she's totally normal in between. My husband is entirely unaffected so far, knock on wood, but he left Wednesday for California so has been gone for 2 of the 3 vomit spells. I obviously got knocked down hard too on Wednesday night, but have gone more than 24 hours now without diarrhea and haven't thrown up in almost 48. What the hell is happening here? Food poisoning? Allergy? Noro? All of the above? I'm so confused right now.
@ki1244 this happened to us. My daughter got it was ill for days. Symptoms stopped for a 2 days span and then started back up for a few more days. I got it and was sick for 24 hours. I had no symptoms for 3 days and then became really sick for a good 4 days. Symptoms disappeared for another 2 days and then reappeared for another 24 hours. My youngest had a stomach bug that did the same kind of thing. He was sick for 24 hours, fine for another 48. Then sick again for 48 hours. This repeated for almost 2 weeks. As long as you’re keeping her hydrated that’s really all you can do. We give the Zofran so our kids will eat something. Our 5 year old still didn’t really eat much even with the Zofran.
I randomly bought my first item for baby today. I saw the cutest Easter basket at Michael’s and was ready to buy one for DS, then realized we’ll need two eventually so I got two
@ccmrc143 I went on a shopping spree when I got my NT results back. I went a little crazy buying all the kids different things. My husband finally came and asked if my spending was going to slow down or continue. Oops! I got a little carried away.
So I went into buy buy baby and I’m not sure if it’s just the location around me, but they don’t help with baby registry anymore? Did anyone go through this? It’s all through your phone now. Anyways I had a sour taste from my experience there and realized everything costs so much vs Amazon baby registry. Anyways I went to the second floor and there was the baby section in TJ-Maxx and the baby clothes!!! I can’t deal! So cute too! And yes I bought this
DH comes home tomorrow THANK GOD. I'm so exhausted. I thought we were out of the woods Friday when we saw my daughter's doctor just to check in, but she threw up again all night that night and I just started thinking this didn't add up right. She never had diarrhea, just vomit, and only at night every other day. And then it hit me -- I don't think this was noro at all. We usually live by the "if you hear hoofbeats, look for horses" theory and noro seemed like a bigass horse, but I think this was the exception and we have a couple zebras instead. My daughter had reflux really bad as a baby, and occasional constipation I'd all but forgotten about. Over the last two weeks, between basketball games and my MIL in town and such, her diet has been a little offkilter. She also finally started pooping in the potty, so when we ran out of sticker charts two weeks ago, I didn't bother getting new ones since we'd finished potty training. And we finally ran out of the baby probiotic drops we used to use that I bought a TON of when they were on sale and switched to a kid's gummy. Any one or two of those things probably doesn't mean much, but all together it added up to: the probiotics solidified her poop too much, and she doesn't *want* to poop without a sticker, so she's held it and gotten really backed up to the point it's created an obstruction and her stomach isn't emptying properly. Meanwhile the layers of less healthy food (gameday hot dogs, chick Fil a with MIL, burger with my parents...) has led to overproduction of stomach acid, and her esophageal sphincter is too weak to keep it all down. So out it comes. When I thought she was normalizing from noro, it was just that her tummy wasn't being filled again (she barely ate Tuesday, and Thursday we both did a 24-hour liquid diet after we were up so much throwing up/crapping in my case). So I started a laxative + antacid + the omeprazole that did miracles for us as a baby, and just doing small meals and an extra snack if she needs it (she hasn't), and finally today she did poop (and got excited about pooping again when I put a new chart up in the bathroom with one sticker *per day* now instead of per poop -- that's my compromise, and in a couple months I'll add more to it like brushing teeth, putting paste on her toes before bed, etc, along with a couple chores each day). I'm praying that continues and we can normalize for real this time. But meanwhile, I did still have something, which was just really unfortunate timing, but since she never seemed to get quite what I did, I think it was food poisoning rather than something contagious. But just to be safe I'm still behaving as though it was noro and bleaching basically everything we own, but only after my daughter goes to bed (which she's been stalling a LOT) so I'm operating on a combined 8 interrupted hours of sleep the last two nights (5 last night, 3.5 the night before) and this is the first time I've sat down in three days. I still have a HUGE list to do in the next 18 hours, before he walks in the door, but at least the end is in sight when I won't be the sole caregiver and having to disinfect everything by a hard deadline.
@ki1244 wow you’re a super mom for figuring all of that out. I’m so sorry you’ve been going through this. And thank you for sharing. Especially because my son also had reflux as a baby and I have a feeling it’s turning into a more chronic acid reflux problem. I’m so hopeful these new changes will put her back on track to wellness and I’m so glad your husband will be back soon!!
@ccmrc143 not super mom, just know enough to know something wasn't right. She was up again a lot last night and never actually vomited but was SO uncomfortable. So today we tried a telehealth appointment, but the NP said she needs to be seen in person. So we head to the urgent care up the street, but they don't have imaging capabilities and the provider there said he suspected I'm right but can't definitively say without x-ray. So over to the ER we go! Thankfully it was EMPTY so no wait, the staff and doctors were all SO kind, and we were in and out in under 2 hours. Turns out she's not *fully* obstructed but severely constipated, and a combination of multi-doses of Miralax and an actual laxative and she should be back to normal. Whew! I felt a little silly going to the ER for that to be the answer but I'd rather feel silly than be told it's something serious I should have taken her in for.
And by the time we got home from the hospital, my husband was back and I could actually feel myself relax for the first time in five days. I didn't finish the cleaning (still haven't, in fact...but he can wash his hands if he touches one of the very few things I haven't bleached -- I passed out holding my daughter last night because laying down was too uncomfortable for her but I physically couldn't stay awake longer) and he fell asleep next to her so I haven't actually gotten to talk to him as just adults without her present yet. But the last five days were WRETCHED and I can't fathom how single parents function.
@ki1244 I’m glad you got everything figured out for your LO.
We were at a troop meeting tonight and someone’s son started vomiting all over the gym. The mom DID NOT leave with the child. Nope, just sat there with him so he could spread more germs around the room. Ugh, if he has a different stomach bug and we end up puking in a few days I’m going to actually die. THEN one of the troop leaders told her not to bring him to some event of some kind they are attending tomorrow and she says, “I have no choice but to bring him.” Umm, what?! No you don’t. You cancel your plans and stay HOME! Ugh, this is why we keep getting sick. I’m not one to stay home for every sniffle but when it comes to diarrhea, vomiting, and fevers we stay home. Those are the three things that all plans get canceled and we stay put.
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Edit: have been puking my guts out for three hours. On call doc on the OB line wouldn't do zofran, only phenergan. My dad is picking it up to bring over. I'm just praying I live long enough to take it. Stomach bug I hate you
And by the time we got home from the hospital, my husband was back and I could actually feel myself relax for the first time in five days. I didn't finish the cleaning (still haven't, in fact...but he can wash his hands if he touches one of the very few things I haven't bleached -- I passed out holding my daughter last night because laying down was too uncomfortable for her but I physically couldn't stay awake longer) and he fell asleep next to her so I haven't actually gotten to talk to him as just adults without her present yet. But the last five days were WRETCHED and I can't fathom how single parents function.