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@Finfan: Glad the surgery went well! I read your full post on the experience... scary stuff! Between your story and the one on the blog recently, I don't think I'll be considering an IUD. Hope you get your strength back soon!

How is being back at work going for everyone? I go back on Feb 23, and have mixed feelings - excited for adult conversation but dreading daycare for baby.

I'm also really anxious and scared about the potential of a 4 month sleep regression, and hating that the work/daycare transition is going to happen right before that time. Wish I lived somewhere with a 6-12 month maternity leave!!

@wrkbrk: Does DW start her parental leave as soon as you go back?

DH is going to take some time with the baby so he doesn't have to go to daycare right away. I'm so happy he's doing it, but I'm kind of nervous for him too. He is GREAT with our toddler, but the baby is a bit difficult.... he can't whip out a boob when all else fails and honestly I think baby and I are just more comfortable with each other because he was in my womb for 10 months and I've been on maternity leave for 3 months. I know he'll figure it out, I just hope it's enjoyable for him and that he doesn't get too frustrated!

@AggieDaze: @wrkbrk: Thanks, ladies. I feel OK. Mostly it was a sucky thing to go through and I'm not looking forward to seeing the bills. I hope your transitions back to work go well! I'm planning on going back (again!) Tuesday as long as my healing keeps up a good pace.

I'm so sad about it because, up until this happened, the Mirena was by far my favorite type of birth control.

@Finfan: I'm glad to hear you are on the mend!!

I've been back to work for 2 weeks and it's been going pretty well. DS has a nasty cold that started on Sunday so he missed daycare today. He usually stays home on Wednesdays with DH. He's probably not going to go tomorrow either. And bc he hasn't been eating well, I have mastitis. Ugh. I feel like I've been hit by a bus. It was going so well before this!!! I'm sure you'll all have an easier time since the littles aren't going to daycare right away!

@wrkbrk: I love it!!

@AggieDaze: Haha when my first was born, I ordered her birth announcements accidentally with her due date as her birthday but she came 5 days later. I didn't realize until they showed up in the mail. I had spent so long fixated on that day that I still have to think about her real birthday even nearly 4 years later.
DD2's due date moved around a little and she came 7 days before the due date we eventually settled on.

@wrkbrk: so nice!!! I also frequently say his due date haha

We had to take DS to the ER on Thursday night. His breathing was fast and labored. He was diagnosed with rsv and bronchiolitis. We have to give him an inhaler every 4 hours but he seems much better today. I also got mastitis on Thursday bc he wasn't nursing well. It's been a rough rough week

@wrkbrk: thanks daycare germs are no joke

@peaches1038: oh my gosh you poor things, I hope he improves quickly we are in the heat of summer here, I'm dreading when winter comes and first sicknesses.

I almost threw my pump out the window last night it annoyed me so badly. I usually pump one side during the night because LO only eats one side as I'm always engorged by 5am and she gets a full tummy quickly. So I have to get up and pump the other side before my boob explodes - my medela pump somehow started pumping milk into the tubing and almost into the motor. I think it was because I used the different connector than the one I normally use. Cue 5 am fumbling in the kitchen trying to wash it out, I dropped a piece and the dog next door head it and started howling the rest of the morning GRRRRR.

I've slowly been amassing a freezer stash, at the moment I have 13 bags at 120ml each, and I think I'm getting a bit obssessed about pump/having milk in the fridge at all times/freezing. Gotta calm that anxiety down, I think its because I'm worried that she won't have milk if I'm not home - with the first I formula fed and I could leave her at any time and know she was fed. Need to just chill out a bit.

@Miss Sarah: oh poor girl! The mucus is awful. he started getting sick last Sunday. He is still coughing a lot and we have to give him an inhaler every four hours or he starts to have really labored breathing again. The ER dr said rsv usually lasts 10-14 days. I hope little Claire is on the mend soon!

@Miss Sarah and @peaches1038: so sorry to hear your LOs are sick. I hope they both recover quickly. I am so dreading daycare germs. Our first got sick constantly when he started at 3 months. It finally slowed down after around 12 months for us; but I was taking sick time at least once a month for awhile.

Has anyone's sleep gone terribly downhill??? LO had been sleeping a 6 hour stretch and then a 3 hours stretch and sometime 1-2 hours more. But, now I'm lucky if I get 5 hours from him and since he goes to sleep at 7/7:30 that means I'm getting even less sleep than I did previously. He's also waking up a lot more throughout the night. At first, I thought it was 12 week growth spurt but now I'm not so sure. A lot of times, the only way I can calm him is to offer the breast... But then, he doesn't even suck like he is hungry. At the beginning of the night, he typically falls asleep either by himself or with me patting his back (on his side in crib and then I lower him to his back). Sometimes he goes ahead and sleeps his long stretch just fine after falling asleep, and sometimes he wakes up at the 45 minute mark and continues to do that until we hold him completely asleep and set him down (did this for 2 hours up and down yesterday evening).

@Finfan: we are just doing condoms. Not the most convenient but I didn't want my body to adjust to the mini pill (I'm BF) and then adjust to a different pill when I stop, and then readjust to no pill if we go for a third (which I really want to at some point).

@Miss Sarah: ok, I sent a request but it doesn't tell me who the group owner is so I can't message you.

@Miss Sarah: