Hellobee Boards

Not going to lie. I suck responding to this. I read it and keep up with you guys though! Lol.

I was thinking, of any of you guys have IG we could keep up with each other on there too.

@JamieLee: OMG!!! That smiles melts my heart!!! I totally can relate on trying to capture a smile on camera. DS has smiled/laughed/coo a lot but it's always off camera. When I bust out the camera (iPhone), he stops and I'm sad... LOL!!

@.twist.: Collin had his 2 month shots last Monday. He was sleepy all day afterwards and was clingy the following day, but was normal otherwise. No fever! Yay! How about Lukas?

@.twist.: I think I already seems you a request. Its klshef

@JamieLee: adorbs!!!!

Last few days have been rough. Hannah cluster feeds all evening. Last night I'm pretty sure she drained me dry because she became inconsolable when she tried to nurse after the first couple of hours! I tried offering her a soother to give myself some time to a) fill back up and b) get ready for bed. She gagged on it and then vomited (not spit-up) everything that she had eaten all evening. All over herself and me... I could have cried!

She's a different baby in the mornings... This pic is from her 1 month birthday!!

@redsmarties: so nice to know its normal behavior! I hope for both of our sakes that its over soon! However, DH did bring up a good point...it could be happening in the middle of the night!

@Ocean girl: I find myself holding DS a little longer as he's falling asleep for his naps during the day since I go back to work soon. Agree that they're just so darn cuddly!!

@Mrs Hedgehog: What's IG?

@JamieLee: Adorable! I stalked N like it was my job to get a smile photo too.

@.twist.: a little late to the party here but that's awesome L slept 5 hours! You must have felt like a new woman. Let us know how the sleep training goes!

@JamieLee: so cute. I'm loving the smile pictures! I'll try to snap one of Liv tomorrow. I get the most smiles in the morning!

@Ocean girl: she has been cluster feeding the last few evenings too. She's sleepy also at this time so she'll fall asleep and lose her latch which wakes her up and she cries until my boob is back in her mouth. Poor babies.

@Alivoo01: glad C did well with his 2 month shots. I'm not looking forward to that but ours aren't til the 18th. I can't believe some of our August babes have had their two month appointments already!

@Sapphiresun: adorable!! Love the scrunchy nose!

@skipper2010: sorry for you ladies that are gearing up for going back to work

I had my shower yesterday which was great. Liv got lots of amazing gifts. It was a bit overwhelming because we already have so much stuff! It wAs great to see people that I don't get to see often. I'm glad we had our shower after she was born so everyone could meet her. She was a bit out of sorts in the evening because she missed her afternoon nap and was passed around to lots of different people. However, it was still a great day.

I had my 6 week appointment today and doc says everything looks like it has healed. I've never looked down there myself. Haha. I'm feeling good and am excited to start running again.

Thanks to all who commented on bottle feeding. I was having DH and the grandmas do it, not me. I should leave the house though. I try to stay away but then hear her cry and intervene. We have weddings this weekend and next and she is being babysat so hopefully she can figure it out this week.

Here's my fav picture so far. Can you tell we were team green? There's a pink blanket somewhere underneath!

@JamieLee: We have days like that, too, where she just decides that napping isn't for her. Our worst day was an awake stretch from 2pm to 10pm. Yikes.
@delight: Wahoo for healing! Our 6 week appointment isn't until Wednesday, but I'm hoping that everything's clear. Our 2 month shots are on the 17th - so sad.

Since you're all posting adorable photos, I need to share, as well. Here's K at 6 weeks.

@JamieLee: Ah so sweet! What a cute smile! Our babies are twins--M is usually a decent napper but she would not nap today. It was super frustrating. Luckily she passed out after her bath. I hope she sleeps a longgg time!

@Ocean girl: M spits up a lot and every time she does a little piece of me dies as I watch my liquid gold cover her clothes and mine. Such a cute pic! I am so glad they're all smiling now

@Sapphiresun: Aww! Cute little face!!

@delight: Her lips are gorgeous! Glad your shower went well!

@redsmarties: Cutie!!

@StrawberryBee: I am going to have to find one big pumpkin if I am going to get M to fit inside! Sooo cute!! Sorry about the infection

We had M's two-month checkup on Friday. She was not a fan of the shots but I nursed her immediately afterwards and she was fine. She weighs 11lbs 7oz (62nd percentile and 4lbs up from her birth weight!) and is 22.75 inches long (73rd percentile). Last night her first stretch of sleep was 7 hours...it was amazeballs.

Here's a pic of her from yesterday...she actually likes tummy time!

@.twist.: Thank goodness for the longer sleep! You must have felt amazing. As for food, I think tomatoes mess with her system. I was eating a lot of them out of the garden for awhile.

What cutie pie smiles! I'm still only getting sleep smiles. I can't wait for the real thing?

@Ocean girl: I hope the cluster feeding ends soon! I think Paige sucks me dry sometimes too, but I know it's not true. I do think it gets to the point where it's coming out too slow for her liking!

@JamieLee: Oh that's a rough nap day! I had one like that last week, eventually I just gave up and let her be awake. My aunt came later that day to visit and used her fresh energy to get her to sleep. Ugh, that was a frustrating day!

@lawbee11: 7 hours!!! Wow - I can't wait.

Glad the shots seem to be going well!

@Grace: I think tomatoes are a thing too. Quite a few people brought us lasagnes/other tomato type cassaroles and I started noticing after about 4 times eating them that she seemed to be way fussier on the tomato days too.

@delight: I'm giving the baby acetaminophen (mine's just generic) after the shots, mostly because on the bottle says between 0-3 months or before 11lbs to consult your dr for how much to give. So, I won't know dosage until she's weighed and the dr tells me how much she can have.

@StbHisMrs: oh, I probably said that to get an idea of weather somewhere?? I'm from Vancouver Canada (so technically our pacific south west I suppose) but since most people on this site are American it's sometimes easier to explain that it rains all the time but doesn't get very cold with a comparison to the pnw.

@lawbee11: E does the same thing with the spit up! She has spit up after every single freaking feeding since my milk came in. It has gotten a bit better lately though, so I'm hoping her digestion is improving to the point where she'll stop soon. As you say, liquid gold lost ;_;.

OMG, M's smile is the best! And I think you'd be surprised at what she could fit into ;). If you have to you can cut out holes for her legs, but I just kinda tucked E into it and she was fine for the few minutes I snapped photos.

@Sapphiresun: Now that you mention it, this did start when I started doing a few more nursing in bed feedings (on our sides). She definitely has a worse latch then, I 'ooh' the whole time she sucks. Lazy vs. pain.

@delight: Thanks! I also want to take her to a pumpkin patch and snap some pics, but this way the pumpkin itself was only a $6 grocery store investment.

My SIL sent me this article on tylenol and vaccinations. Worth a read. I was told not to dose beforehand because I wouldn't know her weight to know how much to give her. I think I'll only give it to her afterwards if she has a significant temp.

http://children.webmd.com/vaccines/news/20091015/tylenol-may-weaken-infant-vaccines

Poor E, she has gas right now, so she keeps on squirming and tooting in her swing ^^;;. It must not be enough to really irritate her because she's not crying, just grunting lol. Woke her up from her nap, though!

@StrawberryBee: This is it, exactly. When I nurse her in bed, I'm so happy to still be laying down, that I don't care that her latch is crap. Until my nipples start to hurt like crazy, and she ends up drooling milk all over the sheets. Lazy mama FTW.
@StbHisMrs: Hope your day at work is going well (or...starting well? I guess you're a few hours behind me, haha).

Took K to the mall today to exchange some clothes, and try to get her used to the stroller (she usually hates it). She squawked a bit, but then fell asleep, and I walked around shopping for almost an hour. Only had to leave because I realized that the diaper bag was out of diapers. Mama fail. But I got my Starbucks, and a sweet new sweater and winter hat for K.

@StbHisMrs: Ugh, back to work already? I hope you have a good day!

@redsmarties: Yea for a successful mall trip!

@Alivoo01: I'm curious about bedtime too. We're definitely not close to a routine yet, so it'll be great to see what you ladies do!

@Grace: I don't really know what "bedtime" is. We usually start the bedtime routine (bath every few days, change her sleeper, read a couple books and have a snuggle, rock to sleep and then put her in her bed with soft music) around 7pm and put her to bed around 8, but she wakes up around 10 and likes to party a bit, and usually again at 1230ish to eat but goes right back to sleep. Then goes back to sleep at 1am and sleeps until 6 or 7am. So, if you count when she starts her longest sleep, she goes to bed at 1am, but that sounds soooo bad!

@redsmarties: Did you get the sweater and hat from Baby Gap? A lot of their clearance stuff was marked way down. I got a Sherpa-lined jacket for $5.99 and their tights were marked down to $1.99!

@Alivoo01: we start our routine at 8 (bath, lotion, pjs, nurse). She is usually asleep in the pack n play by 8:45. M eats very regularly throughout the day (usually every hour or hour and a half). It sucks to have to nurse so often but I do think it helps her sleep longer at night. I usually talk or sing to her when she nurses during the day, but not at night. She still sometimes drifts off to sleep anyways.

@Alivoo01: I'm in the same boat as you. Paige eats really quick and often falls asleep in the middle, so she's getting even less. I've also wondered if i could get her to eat more, if she'd sleep longer. I do my best to tickle her ears/ back of her neck. I used to do a diaper change mid-feed, but I found it woke her up too much, so it took longer to get her to sleep and so it didn't make much of a difference to total sleep,

@.twist.: She had a funny rash on her bum and when I googled it, they talked about rashes from acidic foods. Tomatoes was one of the culprits and was the most likely because I was trying to eat the tomatoes from the garden which meant I was eating 3-4 a day.