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@aprk: Growth spurts are so much fun! Hang in there.

What bottles is everyone using? We have Avent, which R has taken before but now won't. We tried a pumped bottle and then formula last night. Wondering if we should try something else.

I just wish one thing could be easy with her.

Sorry I keep complaining, just so easy to do all my venting here!

@shopaholic: Thanks! I think if we don't have success again by this weekend, I will go buy one of every kind at BRU on Saturday. I am having to skip dinner with friend tonight since I would be gone too long and I am afraid she won't take the bottle for DH.

She slept pretty good last night. Slept for an hour and half, woke up, but DH got her back to sleep. So I jut had to feed at 1 and 5 and now she just woke up.

I feel like I killed the thread. Where is everyone? How is everyone doing??

@Adira: LOL! It was all that bragging about your easy child

@aprk: I am jealous, my pants are still too tight, have a muffin top with them. Course it might be all the chocolate chip cookies I have been eating.

I think the Reflux medicine is working. She doesn't seem to be in as much pain. Now if only it would make her sleep. Last night it took us 4+ hours to get her down to sleep. Every time she would fall asleep, she would wake herself up. Rough. Thinking it is 6 week growth spurt.

Does anyone know how to get a baby to self soothe? I think that is the biggest issue with the car seat. She gets so worked up, she can't calm herself.

I have had a bad couple days, resulting in me crying and eating too much junk. I just hate being stuck in this house. Raining today so we can't even go on a walk wearing her.

@aprk: Breastfeeding is going okay! We still have the occasional bad latch and then I'm in pain for hours, ugh! But the majority of his latches seem to be better! I do think my pump aggravates me though... I started pumping again a couple days ago and I felt more sore, so I decided to take today off again. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I go back to work if this continues to be a problem. Maybe I need a bigger flange...

Oh my gosh, good for you putting on real jeans!!! I have yet to put on anything besides sweatpants. I'm still too scared to try on pants and have them not fit. I haven't lost any weight in the 7 weeks since Xander was born... I just started working out this week, so hopefully I can fit into real clothes before I go back to work.

@Smurfette: Awww, sorry to hear about your struggles! Glad to hear the reflux med is working though - that's definitely good! Sorry to hear about the struggles to get R to sleep though. Is she super fussy when you are trying to put her down for the night, or just WIDE AWAKE? Xander definitely doesn't sleep as much as they say is normal for a baby his age, but he's okay being awake for hours, so we just let him stay up.

I wish I had advice about how to get them to self-soothe...

@aprk: Yeah, I'm not really sure what's wrong with my pump, or maybe it's just me. I've been using Lansinoh lanolin. I've also been putting olive oil on the flange where my skin rubs against it, but I guess that hasn't really been helping. So frustrating.

So... I tried on my pants! Just as I suspected, they don't even button. I think I might be wearing maternity pants when I go back to work! Stupid pudgy belly.

@aprk: Yeah, I know what you mean. I compared my belly to jello the other day.

I keep forgetting to check in! Ah!

Things are okay in my neck of the woods. Seems like Em has decided to conform to the rest of the family. She definitely seems to have her days and nights down. She wakes up for the day about the same time Henry does, between 7 and 8. She's even started takomg an hour long nap or better about the same time bog brother goes down for his naps. I think that's mostly because it's the only time Henry doesn't harass her.

As for night sleep, she takes a bottle between 8 and 10, sleeps in the cradle until about 1. I change her diaper, then she and I camp out in the guest bed to nurse. We nurse and sleep until about 4 or 5 when she wants a bottle. Em eats 4 ounces and then back in the cradle until 7 or 8. Sometimes we nurse in bed and doze together a little but usually we have to get up because of Henry.

Eating wise, she still likes to nom on me more than a bottle but she's started to get more frustrated at the breast lately. I'm aftaid we're just going to have to start givig her bottles exclusively in the next month or so. Em's been having some really bad gas and bubbles, despite how much we burp her. Hasn't spit up in weeks so not sure what the deal is.

Still in size one diapers. Still wearing 0 to 3 and 3 month clothing. Fun fact: Em looks cuter in her older brother's old onesies than she does in any of her 'girl' clothes. More feminine. It cracks me and Gordon up.

She's gotten used to the swing. Still content in the car seat. Haven't tried baby wearing her although we did order a Beco Gemini. Looking forward to trying that out soon! Getting out with both babies is fun - Henry rides in a cart with Gordon pushing and Em rides in her car seat, clicked in her stroller with me pushing. Having the stroller in the back of my car and both car seats doesn't leave much room for purchases, though.

And I think that covers everything! My postpartum visit is the 23rd, her 2 month and Henry's 15 month is the 8th. We'll know more then about weight and such

@Arden: Only one wake-up??? Jealous! What time did she go to bed and what time did she get up for the day?

@NaturallyCathy: Em hasn't spit up in weeks??? How did you manage that? Xander still spits up every morning without fail! Also, sounds like Em is a pretty easy-going baby, like Xander. I've heard second-babies tend to be like that, though I suspect ours will probably be a terror since we already have our easy baby.

@Smurfette: Sorry you're having bottle issues. It's so frustrating to waste breast milk!

@shopaholic: Way to go K on the car ride!!
My doctor told me to not give her probiotics. That there was no need for them if I am BF. The only thing I hate about the Zantac is giving it to her 15 mins before she eats. So it can be a problem when she wakes up hungry. I think that we are going to start just giving it to her, 3 times a day, whenever. Not like she gets it before every feeding anyway.
R will nap during the day. I have to hold her till she is out out, but once I put her down, she will sleep 20-30 mins. Unless I hold her, then she will nap about 2 hours in the afternoon. She is a pill at night if she doesn't get at least one really good nap in.
I have tried numerous toys hanging from the car seat. Nothing seems to hold her attention. When she is ok in the seat, she just looks outside. I think that I am going to BRU tomorrow and going to look for some kind of white noise and see if that will help.
I did buy a WubbaNub and that is how she has taken the pacifier today. So thanks!! She looks so cute holding onto the little elephant.

@shopaholic: I would post a picture but DH and I agreed not to post pictures of the kids. I'd have to get special permission and probably a Gold membership so no one could see them just by flipping through the boards before he'd let me.

@Smurfette: Oh it's true. DS is his father's son - even tempered and a joy. DD is her mother's daughter - sweet to strangers, hellish to her parents. At least I'm getting more sleep (*knocks on wood*)

@Adira: I used to get told by other mothers to enjoy Henry because he would only cry when something was wrong - dirty diaper, needed to be fed, or something scared/hurt him. I was also told the first one is always easy, which is why people have a second one. They're tricked into thinking the next one will be easy too. I should have listened to them

But seriously, she'sa handful of trouble but that's just because she has to contend with someone twice her size for a y attention (in her mind). So she has to be that much louder and that much more demanding.

@NaturallyCathy: @Smurfette: I always thought the second one was easier, because they just get used to not being #1 right off the bat, so they tend to be more go-with-the-flow. Of course, there are always exceptions! We should do a poll!

@Adira: @Smurfette: Maybe it's just a southern thing or maybe it's just because people couldn't believe, looking at him, how good he was... And yeah, I always thought the second would be easier too. After all, I've had the experience of the sleepless nights, the projectile vomit, the explosive poops, the colic that never. ends. But instead, although I feel more confident with her since I've already had my baby crash-course and I can function on less sleep because I've had a whole year of interrupted sleep, she's just a little... tricky. Tricky is a nice word. What worked with him, doesn't work with her and it's hard enough juggling one running around and one who can't lift her head very much.

@Smurfette: Yeah, I was REALLY nervous, which probably didn't help, because I was probably tense. Hubs seemed to think since it has been seven weeks, I'd be totally back to normal. He thought I was being silly by insisting that we use lube and go slow! Then when we started and I was all "Ow ow ow" he realized I wasn't just being paranoid, haha. The hardest part is actually finding the time to do it! We have to find a time when Hubs is home from work, Xander's sleeping, and I'm not trying to sleep myself!

Do you guys remember how many oz your kids ate at 2-3 weeks? I don't know when to expect for E to be ready to take more than 2 oz at a time

Oh wow every hour or two? Mine eats every 3-4....she still struggles to eat the last 10ml, though

@blackbird: Mine are chubby bunnies who like food. Not over weight mind you but they liked food the first few weeks, then slowed down to every few hours.