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@Pumuckl: It is frustrating! Can't tell if my intuition is telling me something's wrong or I'm a paranoid FTM.

@snowjewelz: Pretty much! She was smiling and "chatting" with the doctor as she was being examined.

@Smurfette: Hooray for LO doing well today! A nap together sounds so sweet. Good luck tomorrow, hang in there!!

@IRunForFun: Ugh this is the worst part of parenting an infant that can't tell you anything! Always worrying and wondering! I guess in this case just trust the dr and keep observing?

@snowjewelz: Yeah just watch and wait I guess is all I can do! Of course she had a huge blowout in my bed this morning! But she hadn't pooped for like 14 hours so I guess she was due.

@Smurfette: Yeah I kinda feel like her poops haven't gotten better and it's been over a month without dairy! That's why I thought maybe MSPI. Then if it isn't I wonder am I restricting dairy for no reason? Thinking of you today, hope it's going/goes well!

I'm really working on getting DD on a schedule using "The No-Cry Sleep Solution." Her naps are so short for the most part. Put her down in the crib 5 mins ago and hoping she stays asleep.

ETA: I don't have anything against cry it out but I'm doing the no cry sleep solution thing because she's so young.

I'm going to a meeting with my doula network this evening at 6:30 and they all want me to bring her. I'm already stressing over bed time!

@IRunForFun: maybe it isn't dairy even. Could be eggs. What do her poops look like? Has the pedi seen them? Have you had any slips in that month? I am just counting me being dairy free for a week now. Since I was eating dairy and not knowing it, aka CFA and in boxed stuff.
What's the No Cry Sleep Solution?

LO went to bed around 8, but then was up a couple times for the paci till 10. Up at 230 to eat, I probably could have given her the paci, cause she can go longer without eating, but I went ahead since I was up. Then she was up at least every hour, sometimes twice an hour. I finally just got up and got ready for work early. I hope it wasn't cause she was over tired from not napping good at day care. Fingers crossed today and tonight are better.

@IRunForFun: Is it still a lot of mucus or smaller amounts? Any blood?
These babies. Why don't they get how great naps are.

@snowjewelz: I hate when meetings are when you need to pump. I got three requests this morning and that was the first thing I looked at the time, before what it was even about.

@Smurfette: Haha, those babies will be wishing they could still nap in twenty years or so! Hope you are having a good first day back. Pumping is so darn inconvenient.

@IRunForFun: oh the watery and slimy are the worse. I would go ahead and cut soy and see if that improves it. Or you can do the TED diet and then slowly add stuff back in.
@babypugs: DH and I say all the time we can't wait till they are 16 and want to sleep. Ha, we are going to wake them up at 5 for no reason as payback
@snowjewelz: I got 8ozs this morning. So that was two bottles for tomorrow. About to go pump again. She is going to eat at 4 but I am going to nurse her when we get home around 515 and then again before bed, 7:30-8:00, depending on her nap when we get home.

I'm going insane here with the napping. DD has napped an hour and 45 minutes TOTAL all day. Her longest nap was 45 minutes and all the rest were under 25. I've tried it all - napping in my arms, in the crib unswaddled, in the crib swaddled with a pacifier, in bed with me. She just won't go to sleep or stay asleep. I'm so frustrated with DH because we finally got her sleeping in the crib at 4:45 and then he slammed a door and it woke her up. I'm out of ideas for getting her to sleep.

@IRunForFun: I agree with @Smurfette: if you haven't already tried it wearing her while you go for a walk or a stroller walk always work to get my lo to nap .

Also for the poops my lo has had pretty funky looking poops since birth and both my midwife and doctor said as long as she's gaining well and not unhappy to just not worry about it (unless there's blood of course).

@Peasinapod: @IRunForFun: my pedi said she isn't very concerned with the mucous as long she is gaining and no blood. But I am still hoping with time it will go away.

Poor baby was nursing tonight, stopped, and just zoned out. She is so tired.

@IRunForFun: Do you have white noise on too? How long is she up between naps?

@babypugs: woot on sleep!

LO slept 8:30-4:30! I slept 9:30-4:00, so I feel amazing. I didn't really get back to sleep after I fed her, had to get up at 6, but at least I got a good stretch. I didn't even need my morning diet coke. I did feed her again before we left even though it had just been two hours. She must not have been really hungry but wanted to nurse, cause I am pretty sure most of it ended up back up on her and the couch. But at least I didn't have to change me as well.

@Smurfette: That's awesome! Sounds like being so tired from yesterday actually paid off!! Feels sooo good to feel good, right?!

@Smurfette: Nice! For DD1 she goes to sleep so easy during the week when she goes to school too haha!

I want sleepy dust!!! We are at every three hours on the nose through the night the last bit. I want my first stretch of the night back!!

We did pro pics this am!! B did great and I can't wait to see them! I have never had baby pics done before and just said screw it, do it!!

I'm tired. The last few nights, B has had me up 3-4 times, then the big kids and dog have combined for another 2 wakings for various reasons. Tomorrow my Mom is taking DS and I have a gf coming in the am with her baby and plan to NAP with B (hopefully!) in the afternoon. Oh what I would do for a nap.

@sunnyday: Yes! I want a nap too!

@snowjewelz: Haha well I've been going to bed ridiculously early. Got in bed with her last night and I fell asleep around 9:30. Gotta do what you gotta do!

@IRunForFun: Like @babypugs: sometimes she fights the carrier. But if I pop the paci in and walk, pat her, she will settle down. Usually then she falls asleep. If that won't work, then drive down for an hour or so. Or could you walk the mall and she would sleep in the stroller?
@sunnyday: I love doing pictures. I'm sad we aren't doing all the ones we did with LO1(newborn, 4m, 8m, 12m, 18m) but two kids in day care we just can't afford it. So we won't do an professional again for her till her 1st bday.
Are things better with your DH?
@sunnyday: @Pumuckl: Naps are so awesome and really do a world of good for you physically and mentally!

@snowjewelz: I would just try and just give her the boob when it is time to feed her.
It is so hard trying to do baby stuff and spend time with the older one. DH and I try and each be on one child duty. So he has to get her asleep while I play with the older one.

@IRunForFun: awe. I don't even try to put S down other than at night, so don't feel badly!