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@OhCaptain: Oh no, hope you feel better!!

P is consistently sleeping 6 hours, sometimes up to 7.5 my problem is that when she wakes at 3 am, I don't fall asleep again until 5, even though she's sleeping again by 3:15. Insomnia sucks!

@Mrs. Microscope: That sucks! The one good thing about wake ups is that I fall asleep quickly. (If she's with me. When I leave her with DH so I can get more sleep I take forever to fall asleep and it totally backfires.)

L had shots yesterday. She's fine (slight fever, but that's it), but it makes me so sad to see the little bruises on her leg! I wish the anti-vaxxers were right so I'd have a valid reason not to have to do it. But better shots than serious illness. Except when I'm sad right this second.

@buttermilk: Isla's sleep has been amazing since I put her in her crib so good luck! She's staying in our room til 6 months though.

I've had to pump the last few days because of Isla's awesome sleep! She slept 12 hours (8-8) the night before last, and 11 hours last night.

@Torchwood: I was a nervous wreck when Isla had her vaccines a few weeks ago! I made sure to schedule it when dh was available to come so he could hold her while she got them done and then I gave her boob for comfort afterwards. She has some more due in a couple of weeks which I'm already freaking out about - but better then having a serious illness!

@MrsStar: I definitely make DH handle the shots, and I comfort her after. Maybe next month she'll actually want to comfort nurse! But I'm scared of needles and I don't want her to pick up on that, plus I get so upset that it would make me cry to see her face when they do it. She's a daddy's girl for sure, so she's not missing out by my not being willing to be watching. And yes, so big! She's almost 12 pounds now! She's getting some chubby thighs going.

@Torchwood: SOOO cute!

Well last night's nursery experiment was terrible. She slept in the crib for 2 hrs until 11:45 and then I was up until 3am trying to get her back down. I rocked and put her in the crib a bazillion times, never asleep for longer than 5 mins and usually much less. I finally brought the rock n play up into the nursery and she slept in it until 7am.

I had set up the crib propped on one end with a pillow and made a nest with a rolled towel. Even put her RnP insert into the crib. Still swaddled & white noise. I have NO idea what to attempt tonight. What should I do ladies? Try again or just assume she isn't ready? I got very little sleep and as a result had very little milk when I woke up.

I will probably post a thread on the main board too.

@MrsADS: oh man I hope this sleeping thing is a new trend for you!!!!! FX! Have fun today and hope things go smooth with your house guests!

@OhCaptain: I haven't decided. First week was from her birthdate. But she is 8.5 weeks now and the second one hasn't really hit yet.

@OhCaptain: The app asked for due date, not birth date, so I would think that's what it's tied to. Well, as long as you're fairly sure of your dates. And I gave in and downloaded the app. All y'all's talk about it got me too curious. It says L should find her hands soon! She's already gotten good at getting them in her mouth, but she has no idea they're hers.

@buttermilk: I would wait, but I'm a bad person to ask since we don't even have a crib.

@MrsADS: Yay sleep!

I know they always say to put baby down for sleep as soon as they show cues of tiredness, and that's what I've always done, but she goes down SO much easier if I wait until she's actually fussing or her eyes are almost closing on their own. That's usually at least half an hour later. I'd say she winds up asleep at the same time regardless of when I start, because if I don't wait she just fights sleep at least that long.

Also, am I the only one whose kid has cradle cap in her eyebrows instead of on her head?

And a picture cause I can!

@Torchwood: I feel similarly about putting her down for naps. Less fussing when I do it earlier, but she just lays there for 15-20 mins until she falls asleep. And I just took a pic of it earlier today lol. We tried napping in the crib. She eventually cried so I put her in the swing. But at least she laid there quietly for 15 mins, better than nothing!

And R totally has cradle cap on her eyebrows too! Your baby is such a cutie!

@OhCaptain: Is there one coming up? Maybe your baby is just precocious.

Oh, meant to ask, did anyone wind up having their baby on August 9? Wondering if any babies are exactly L's adjusted age. I think she wound up pretty middle of the pack, by adjusted age.

@OhCaptain: Go baby! That'll totally do it.

Also he hates it too, but he just can't help himself! He admits this is an unusually busy week but idk there's always something. Ok, end rant now.

@Mrs. J hope it helps. The first session was honestly kind of painful. Not horrible but pretty uncomfortable. I guess that's why I need to doing it. Hopefully it helps.

Y'all... M slept from 9pm to 6am last night!!!! I am assuming it's a fluke but still... OMG. Awesome!

@MrsADS: Yay! These babies are pretty good about their sleep! Hope it's a regular occurrence for you!

@torchwood M is a rockstar napper in his swaddle! He will take 2-3 hour naps, it's crazy (usually just one of those a day). I guess I shouldn't be swaddling him for night AND naps, but well... it works so I am afraid to mess with it! Getting him to sleep out of the swaddle is gonna be a mess!

Today has been sleep nirvana - M slept 9 hours last night, then napped 7-7:45, then from 9:30-11:30, then we went to the grocery store and the bank and he had a little 20 min catnap at the store. Then lots of crying, finally asleep at 3:30 and still asleep now at almost 6pm! I am a little worried that with all the sleeping he did not nurse enough today and is gonna wake up all night wanting to eat!

@buttermilk you may have posted this already, but how did you make your crib nest to transition R out of the RnP? Just for my future reference, lol!

@ohcaptain at least for mine, I do exercises at home (like kegels kinda), and at the sessions, they use these little stimulators (like maybe 2 inches long). They do one in my rectum and one in my vagina (not at the same time!). The rectum one I have to squeeze for a certain number of seconds, then release, and do that for a few times. Then the vagina one stays in and I guess it "stimulates" the muscles - some people say it's like a pressure feeling or something, to me it kind of hurts a little. Anyway, that's for like 10 minutes or something. It's pretty weird.

@buttermilk: I hold her for naps, so I just pin her arms. I probably should be working on having her sleep alone, but I love holding her when she's sleeping!

She's been napping crappy too, which I think is the wonder week. In the last few days she's suddenly making eye contact for loooong stretches, when before it was a few seconds at most. And she's cried when someone she didn't know well held her, which she never did before. She's also suddenly able to get her hands in her mouth much faster. So I'm assuming all that is tied together.

@Torchwood: C was born 2:47am on August 10, so almost August 9. She'd be a good comparison for adjusted age. It would have been nice if she was born on the 9th... considering I started having regular contractions on the 8th!

Oh... how are you all in colder climates keeping LO warm at night? We have a puffy wearable blanket, but it is way too big for her and I can't seem to find a small one. We've been doing fleece nightgowns and a swaddle sack, but I worry that won't be warm enough when it gets super cold. I wish she could wear a hat at night.