How is everyone?

[eachatelain]

Just wanted to check in on everyone! Hope you're all doing well, along with your little ones. Has anyone else went back to work yet? If so, how's that going? And how is baby sleeping at night for everyone?

I've went back to work, as some of you may know already...the only thing about it I don't like is being away from Mickey. Other than that -- I LOVE GETTING OUT OF THE HOUSE, OMG. I didn't realize how long I'd been without any interaction other than close friends and family. It'd been TOO long, lol. Mickey sleeps at least 6 hrs straight every night, and then goes back to sleep for another 3-4, and some nights he even sleeps as much as 9 hrs straight. I am sooooo thankful. But boy is he hungry when he wakes up, LOL. (To be expected, though.) He has his 2 month checkup and vaccinations on Nov 10th -- I'm really not looking forward to the shots. It'll end up breaking my heart......ughhh. But it's gotta be done, so I guess I have to be a big girl (haha).


Hope everyone's doing wonderful and so are your beautiful babies!!! Give them all some love for me! :P

[Latrice414]

I went back to work today and it was a four hour shift. It was H E L L.  I was so lost, i didnt have a clue of what was going on and what i was suppose to do.  All the time i was working i kept thinking about Trinity, (My aunt kept her a few hours and my sister picked her up at 6pm, when i walked threw the door and wispered in her ear, she couldnt see me but she started kicking and i thought she was gona jump out my sisters arm.  I felt good bcuz she missed her mommy.  When we got home, she was looking around the room smiling like we are at home and bouncing up and down on her brothers lap while he was holding her)Those 4 hours took a lot out of me, i interview with this family on Monday to do private duty and take there child to school, he has a few medical issues but that would b better than the hospital bucz i wll b starting the 12 hour shifts soon, im grateful they are letting me work short hours and work my way up to the 12 hour shift, my next shift will be a 6 hour shift. Not looking forward to that, but i am looking forward to the money :)  I feel so bad that i have b een struggling to pay my bills since my leave from work, but things are starting to look up for me.

For some reason i cant sleep and im up responding again to this post lol. Trinity is sleeping and she looks so cute,she is layn on her side, her hands are closed together like a prayer formation and she is layn on her hands, she is to grown lol. im not sure if they are suppose to do this at 6weeks but when i put her on her stomache she can roll herself on her back, so no more leavn her on the couch while i go potty.

I am hosting Thnx Gvn at my house only bucz my ex-fiance mother and brother is coming down to see the baby and will be stayn with me.  Im expecting 35 family members, not including close friends, gona be a rough week during the holiday.

[sphillips]

Eli is getting sooo big. He'll be 3 months on friday. He weighs 12 pounds now! That might not seem very big but that is more than double his birth weight. He's very long too, 24 inches! He's smiling, 'laughing', babbling, trying to sit up, and loves to stand up and bounce on my lap (with help of course). His record is sleeping 5.5 hours at night. I really don't want him to sleep longer yet because he still has some catching up to do. We've been able to save enough money that I don't have to go back to work til Feb. Hopefully DH gets a better job and I won't ever have to go back. DH is a great daddy and actually cried to me the other day because he was so stressed with work and school and felt like he didn't have enough time for me and Eli. He's such a sweet guy! We've started going to therapy once a week to help us cope with being new parents. We weren't having a lot of problems or anything, we just wanted to make sure our blessing of a baby brought us closer together instead of pushing us apart (I've seen it happen too many times and didn't want it to happen to us). Breastfeeding is going really well. I'm able to pump once a day so I can save up some milk in the freezer, just in case. I already have 30 oz in there! Eli doesn't really like bottles though, you can tell he'd rather be snuggled up to mommy's boobie. I still haven't gotten AF. I've had two bouts of spotting for a couple days but no cramps or anything. I hope af stays away for a whole year. That would be awesome! The only complaint I have is that I lost all my pregnancy weight and then started to gain it back. I've been trying to not over eat and I'm working out again so hopefully I'll get that number down again. I was about 10 pounds over weight when I got pregnant so I have a little extra to lose still. Other than that, my life is perfect! Hope you all are having a good day! And I hope you find motherhood very rewarding!

[therese101]

Hey everyone. we are doing well on my end. Lily is now 10 1/2 weeks she has just gone 4.3kg not sure how much that is in pounds. She is sleeping through thank god last feed at midnight then up at 8 she feeds again then down till 11.

other than that she has her days where she will fuss non stop by the end of it i am so glad to see dh home from work so i can give her to him for a while. I work occasionally at a high school, have done a few shifts since Lily was born, she comes in with me and 'helps' lol. Its an all boys school and they just love seeing her, they think shes a little doll. She has started smiling and has a little giggle here and there and when she is in her bouncer she plays and talks to her toys. its so cute!

My only concern is she does this weird gaggy thing when she wakes up in the morning, it freaks me out, then she spits up and seems to be fine after that. Shes done her 8 week shots, that was horrible for her she screamed for almost an hour after then ended up with a fever for the next 3 days. I'm not looking forward to the next lot of shots! Still no sign of AF but i haven't really finished spotting yet so i guess it could be a while.

All your babies are just beautiful i like hearing updates on all of them! keep them coming.

[Michele, Katy, TX]

Ladies, I HAVE MISSED EVERYONE!!!!!

I have been having computer problems and have not been able to get on.  It has been killing me too!!!!  I have been able to read threads but not post.  I have really wanted to update myself and can't give much of an update right now.  Mary is still up and I swear I can't get her down until like 1 or 3....sometimes even later....Sooooo, when I get her down tonight, I will try to get on and update.  I need to vent about DH anyways.....

I will also try to read everyone elses responses as well.  I have really missed you ladies more than I can say.  Talk to you later ladies......

Oh, and I got a new phone too so I can text if anyone is interested.  My number is different than the one I gave you ladies over the summer :)

[slzerbst]

I'm sorry this might be b!tchy because I'm so frusterated!!!  I just wish that everything was a h3ll of alot easier.  Sorry I have my f-ing period so I'm just crabby, however, I haven't been on here in goodness knows how long.  But here goes how my life has been going...

Tomorrow I start back to work, yey me!  I hate thinking I wont be around Owen 24/7, but at the same time I can't wait until I have more than DH, close friends and family to communiate with, my only goal for tomorrow will be not to get short with one of the RN's because I unfrotruantlly know that I'm gunna' get stuck working with her.  Oh well though we'll see how things go.  As for baby sitting, my parents will be taking care of that, and DH's parents will be takening care of him while my mom is working on the weekends I work and DH is away at drill.  So that will be good, I wouldn't ever even think of putting my son in daycare because I have had terrible expericaes as a child in them.  

Any who, what's new in my life... DH and I are in the process of buy a house, which is terriblly confusing and complicated... and AHHH I just wanna' scream right now, there is so many things that we have to do and I'm returning to work... and well I just can't do this all any more, so I ened up braking down last week and getting into an agrument with DH because I was just so stressed.  Any who everything is going well besides that.  Ummm... today I have my OB put my IUD in and that didn't hurt AT ALL!  LoL I think my OB throught that I was in terrible ammounts of pain because I was holding onto the exam table and just looking up... cuz I truefully thought that it would hurt alot more than just a few crams afterward.  Any who now I'm an avodcat of getting and IUD!!

As for Owen, I have his 2 month apt on the 16th, so we'll see how much he weighs at that apt. I put him on the scale a few days ago and he came out to be about 11lbs... man how time flys when you're having fun.  He started smiling a week or so ago, and it's the cutest thing in the whole world, not to mention he half laughs sometimes now too.  I almost can't wait until he starts responding more to me and DH.  

Other than that Owen seems like he's coming down with some cold, that I'm not even sure where he's got it from, which is frusterating because today he's been spitting up like crazy, and I'm talking about a good 1-2oz of his 4-6oz bottles, which is a bit dishearting, not to mention frusterating.  along with we are now back down to only sleeping in 3 hour strches at night, yet he's up alot during the day... and he seems like he's having trouble passing gass and/or having a bm... he's still only having a bm once a day, but the passing gass thing will wake him up from his naps, thus my house is a mess 24/7 cuz of him.  *sigh* so i'm just frusterated!!  Tho since DH and I's fight he's been steping up alot more than before!

[Latrice414]

hope everyone is doing ok, i still have ppd takn zoloft but it has not kicked in yet.

[Latrice414]

Well i picked up a half shift this thursday at the hospital and a half shift next week to ease myself back in b4 i start doing the 12 hour shifts.  Not looking forward to that.

Trinity has her 2 month appt on the 13th. Im curious to no how much she weighs, she was 10lbs 4oz @ 4weeks. She is only sleeping 4 hours str8, i cant wait until she sleeps 6 hours str8. when 8oclock comes around she is up for 3 hours talking & wanting to b entertained.

[jenntanis]

I think they recently said that giving Tylenol before their shots isn't a good thing.  I didn't give it to my DS, and he did fine.

Matt had his 2 month appt last week, and he gained a pound and a half in a month.  He was wide awake and being cute, like always, to the doctor.  He started daycare on Thursday, and has been doing well.  I get a good report every day!  He's been sleeping in his crib in his own room for about 2 weeks, and has been sleeping 4-6 hours at his longest point.  Unfortunately, he caught the cold that I had last week, and now he's having a problem breathing, so it's been more frequent wakeups recently.  He's getting baptised in two weeks. He's also doing well on his increased dose of Zantac.

I started back to work on Thursday, and have been doing well.  I didn't cry the first time I left him at daycare, but I did call to check on him both days last week.  I would've done it today too, since he was sick, but I left my cellphone at home, and I didn't have the number.  Still taking the zoloft and my BP meds, and my weight has been steady.  Just waiting for darn AF to finally show.  I've had some spotting, but nothing else.  It's now been 5 weeks since I stopped pumping, so I assume it should be coming soon, and I have had cramping.

[NicMom]

Glad to hear everything is going well! Be sure to give the baby some tylenol about 30 minutes before your apppointment it will help with the shots.

Bella is 10 weeks old now and doing good. She's up to 9 1/2 pounds and we just started putting her into her own room at night. She still gets up at least 2 times a night always at 2 and 5 sometimes at 12 and 3 also. Although they have been trying to get me to go back to work I'm just not ready. I work from home and still can't get into work mode. I think it would be easier if I was at an office and away from the baby.

The ppd is getting better every day. I even started working out again I'm so excited about that. I hope your all doing good. I hardly ever have time to get online these days. Oh Bella is laughing now. It's the cutest thing in the world I just love it!

Nicole