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So I haven't been on here in a while. I've had lots of stress and most recently illness. Between prepping for Nova's arrival and waiting for SO's moms biopsy results we've been a mess. To top it all off I've been in and out of the hospital the later two days for a migraine that was spiraling out of control. I'm feeling loads better after this last visit. It's super snowy here. We are on Day 2 of snow days which the timing has been perfect. With me being in the hospital DD came down with a bug and was sick today. Hoping that the snow day tomorrow gives her the time she needs to feel better.

Is anybody using a bassinet?

I saw people listing off names so I'll throw ours out there. We have Nova Jade for LO3s name. LO1 is Scarlett Rayne and LO2 is Hunter James.

@littleblessings: Yikes, when it rains it pours. I hope you and your LO feel better and can enjoy the snow day. We use a rock-n-play next to our bed for the first few months then transition to the crib in the nursery around 4 months.

@ValentineMommy: Good idea! Thanks! I also think about nicknames too, but nothing as cool as khaki peas or chip, lol!

@littleblessings: Yikes! Hope you both feel better soon. I'm jealous of everyone's snow days- it never really snows here (maybe once a year and then it's less than 2 inches ). We have a rock n play in our room for the first 4-5 months. With my boys, I then transitioned them to the crib but it was still in our room until 12ish months. I'm thinking about keeping her crib in her room, but I guess that depends on how great of a sleeper she is because her room will be right next to her brothers' room. One of my boys STTN at 3 months and the other woke up 3-4 times a night until 13 months, so who knows.

@ValentineMommy: Yep! We just moved them in October. I was nervous, too, but it really hasn't been bad. The only issue is that my 3 year old has been waking up once or twice at night screaming (night terrors?) and sometimes it wakes his brother up. Most of the time, they both go back to sleep fairly easily. It's actually kinda nice in the mornings because they'll talk to each other for awhile before yelling for me

My doctor just called - my NIPT test came back "low risk" and the baby doesn't have Trisomy 18. Phew! I think I just took my first deep breath in 2 weeks.

@ValentineMommy: Yeah, that's happened to us, too. It's not so bad on days DS1 goes to school because they have to be up by 7:30 anyway. But ugh! One day last week, DS1 stayed with my mom and DS2 slept until 8:30 that morning! I've just moved his bedtime a little earlier since his brother usually wakes him up a little earlier now.

@psw27: Yay, that's great!! I'm sure you're so relieved!

@lilteacherbee: Yea, we've been working the past few weeks coordinating their bedtimes (pushing DS2's back a little and moving DS1's up a little) and it's been working out so far....so hopefully the mornings won't be too bad.

@JennyPenny: Are you concerned about the new recommendation to sleep in the same room for the first 6m? I ask only because we moved both boys into their own rooms very early also (5w for DS1 and 8w for DS2), and the new recommendation has given me pause about it.....but I don't know that it will really change our long term plans. Both boys slept better in their own rooms (and so did I), but I'm nervous about it now.

@psw27: That's exactly how I feel. DH snores horribly. He would keep the baby up. Every noise the baby made kept me up. It was a vicious cycle. Moving them into their own room helped everyone sleep! Both my boys slept 10-12 hours a night before 3 months old....I can't imagine that would have happened if they had stayed in my room.

@JennyPenny: We have the angelcare too, though I've been thinking of getting the owlet monitor this time, based on a friend's recommendation. I don't know though. And yea, I lack the mommy instinct while sleeping...sleep overrules everything lol

@JennyPenny: @ValentineMommy: I'm going to have to look into this angel care thing. I tend to not be overly paranoid about this kind of thing so I didn't buy one last time. Mostly because LO had just gotten out of the NICU and I couldn't stand the thought of more monitoring (yes that might sound crazy, I know.) My best friend has an Owlet I could borrow, does it ever go off by accident? I think I would have a heart attack.

@bubblegum: Me too! I wouldn't want people to nickname him Kill tho. Lian would work as a nickname. Still not sold on any one name yet. The search continues.

@psw27: Fantastic! That's great news!!

@JennyPenny: @ValentineMommy: @psw27: We have the Angel Care monitor too. The darn thing went off a few times with LO1 and really, really scared me. She would always snuggle right up to the edges and corners of the crib and the monitor would sound an alarm, startling me awake in the middle of the night. Eventually I got fed up with the false alarms and stopped using it.

@JennyPenny: I'm slightly jealous that you were able to narrow your list of names down enough to have a short list.
I started putting her down for daytime naps in the crib almost immediately and we had the Angel Care set up. So we were using it from newborn to about 5 or 6 months, when I eventually got fed up with it. LO1 was always a wiggler and started rolling and moving around to the edges of the crib really early so that's probably why I had issues with the monitor. It wasn't going off all the time, only a handful of false alarms, but scary to hear and would wake up baby.

@MapleMoose: I wouldn't be too jealous. DH isn't on board with any of my short list so it's basically useless...

@JennyPenny: Keep working on him, there's still time!

@bubblegum: I know, right?! I only say that because my dearest husband was like "Killian? Great name. I'll call him Killer. That's so cool." Seriously, DH, are you 12? Lol, men!!

@MapleMoose: hahaha sounds like something my DH would say!

I'm glad we nailed down a name already because it was not easy! DH is a teacher (and I used to be), so there are sooo many names we can't use because of we associate them with certain kids We basically just picked the first name we both agreed on. Boy names were hard because we've already named two boys, but girl names were a little easier.

@lilteacherbee: I can only imagine how hard that would be if you were around lots of kids! DH and I totally disqualify names because we had friends with those names as kids or we knew a bad kid with that name! LOL.

@bubblegum: I don't know him very well, but he doesn't seem very nice so it sort of goes with him.

@lilteacherbee: I know what you mean. We immediately nixed several names because we already know someone with that name. I can't imagine being a teacher, you must have a ton of name-person associations in your head!

@psw27: See, that's what I'm trying to avoid!

@ValentineMommy: Interesting - mine was all in 1 with the AngelCare.

@JennyPenny: Ha! Any Michael Buble song makes me cry right now because his son has cancer. I feel ya!