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@mrs. Blue: I so enjoyed your update, especially the photos!!!! So handsome indeed. Love all the nicknames too! It's awesome that you were able to get a spot in a top choice daycare although too bad that the first one isn't working out.

@mrs. High heels: what us it that you don't like about daycare? I feel like daycare is such a hard thing bc you only get to tour these centers for like 30 minutes before trusting your previous babies to them! I hope we like ours in September but you just never know.

Sleep training night #4 is a bit of a regression. We were out shopping today and he didn't get great naps in. So, he was super tired this evening and we put him in his crib about an hour earlier than the past two (very successful) nights. So far, he has been screaming for ten minutes and it seems louder/more intense than even the first night. I feel so badly but I know he is overtired and just needs sleep. Poor baby. I really hope he's snoozing in the next ten minutes or I might cave...

@QueensBee: fingers crossed for you!!

@Mrs. High Heels: aww, thanks!!! I am so glad you joined the March group!

@Mrs. High Heels: @Smurfette: I read the same thing about breastfed babies, but I feel like Xander has always gained slowly. If he was gaining what he was supposed to, wouldn't his percentages stay the same instead of dropping? Oh well, at least @Smurfette and I are in the same boat. And Xander certainly doesn't seem hungry.

@Mrs. High Heels: Yikes... your description of your daycare doesn't give me warm fuzzies! I'm sorry that you're dealing with this! And that peanut butter issue is so scary!!! It's crazy that teachers would give that out to kids!

@Adira: i know, i feel like anyone with some common sense would know not to do that! makes me question the legitimacy of their early childhood education licenses, or how up to date they are with the current recommendations. luckily now they have every child's allergies posted on the wall for all to see - you'd think they would've known to do that even without DD having to go through such a terrible ordeal.

@Mrs. High Heels: Communication is a big part of our issue, too. It is SO frustrating. Hope yours gets better soon. It makes dropping them off so hard when you don't have complete confidence in them, especially with critical things like the peanut butter issue.

@Adira: oh i really hope it's a fluke for you and that you get good rest tonight!

@Mrs. Blue: glad you have an alternative soon, and hoping that it turns out to be a good fit!

@Mrs. Blue: your boys are just so adorable! That is so cute that they chew on each others arm. It is going to be so great for them to have each other growing up. Sounds like sleep training wasn't too bad. Glad you are able to change day cares.

@Smurfette: I hope she is feeling better soon and goes back to longer sleep stretches. I don't know how you make it through the work day. Isaac still wakes up 3-4 times a night, but luckily I don't have to be anywhere in the day so I can nap with him.

@Adira: Well I hope Xander doesn't wake up again tonight, it is not fun when they decide to switch up their schedules.

@Mrs. High Heels: Having to choose a daycare is not something I look forward too. How do you know ahead of time all these little things. It is good your lo's are happy when you pick them up.

@QueensBee: I hope he fell asleep and stayed asleep. Putting to bed an overtired baby is the worst.

Today was another day of travel for our family. We left with DH from his sisters to his moms. We had 3.5 hours of driving and Isaac was great. We only had to stop once and other than that he slept. We are now here until the end of the weekend. Then it will be back to my moms while DH goes back to work. At least this time will only be 2 weeks.

I feel so bad for Isaac. It has been so hot. He has spent a lot of time in the last two days hanging out in his diaper.

OMG an hour and 20 mins again. What is going on??? She isn't that congested. She isn't coughing.

@Smurfette: Ugh.... I just want to cry for you. Sleep deprivation is absolute torture! *hug*

Xander didn't wake in the MOTN, but I did! Woke up at 3:45 and couldn't fall back asleep. I'm tired... though probably not as tired as @Smurfette.

@Mrs. High Heels: Despite the peanut butter scare, your husband still doesn't want to switch schools?

@Smurfette: We're still in size 2's, and for the most part, they work, though sometimes he does have blow-outs. Is that the sign to move to a bigger size? I'm not sure Xander's even to the recommended weight to go up to them, so I feel like he'd be swimming in them!

@ALV91711: Glad to hear your travel day went well! I've decided to visit my grandmother's for the 4th, which is a 3 hour drive, so I'm kind of nervous about how it'll go! Especially since we're just going there and back all in one day. It'll be a lot of time in the car... hope Xander's cool with it.

@Smurfette: Yeah, I actually did leave Hubs to do the bottles. He was annoyed with me, but whatever! I asked him to do them last night!

Oh my gosh, fighting while you have a crying baby (and you're crying) is the worst!!! Sorry you had to deal with that. How much sleep did you all end up getting? You might have to resort to doing what I used to do and go to bed at 7:00 or 8:00 and let your husband deal with R for the evening. That used to be the only way I got any sleep back when Xander was a newborn.

@Smurfette: Ugh, that's definitely not enough sleep! And I think you could try going to bed after you get R down. If she does her longest stretch right at the beginning, it might be your only chance to get a decent amount of sleep. OR you could try what I do and wake her up to feed her before you go to bed. Then maybe her long stretch will be right after that.

@Adira: I have no idea how I am functioning either

@Smurfette: You're a strong lady!

@Adira: on the diapers, I usually move them up to the next size when they are a pound or two away from the official start weight. I feel like the old size gets too tight and causes blowouts, but if I just cinch up the new size it seems to work better.

@Smurfette: Do you think she's hitting the 4-month sleep regression a couple weeks early? I'm so sorry about the lack of sleep. That suuuucks! Hope you can drink lots of coffee today!

@Mrs. High Heels: Well, I hope for your LO's sake that your husband is right and that she'll never get fed peanut butter again! And I can see the perspective of not wanting to switch her from someplace she likes unless you can find somewhere that's amaze-balls.

@Mrs. Blue: Ohhh, interesting! Maybe when I run out of my current set of diapers, I'll try the 3's.

@travellingbee: Xander woke up like that a couple times in the past couple days, but he was definitely just hungry because feeding him calmed him down (and he was due for food). Not sure what's going on with your LO! Could something be making him uncomfortable? Like his diaper or his outfit?

@Mrs. Blue: I think now it is the 4 month sleep regression. . I thought that at first cause it was sick. That or she got use to use soothing her when she woke up when sick, so now she won't put herself back to sleep. I wish that I liked coffee.

@Mrs. High Heels: Aww, poor N. Maybe you need to get her some ear plugs so you can sleep train J. We moved R up to size 2's early cause they were getting tight on her chunky thighs, so bad leaving marks. Usually when she has a diaper explosion, it comes out the sides cause the poop will all go on one side, depending on how she is sitting. But I think I am going to pick up some at Target this weekend and try them. We usually buy 200+ box at Costco. But I don't want another 200 2's if she will need to move to 3's before then. She is only 12.7lbs so she is still a while from the weight for the 3's.

@Mrs. Blue: I have no idea you sleep train two at once! It's pretty amazing they can CIO with the other right there. Yea, she was concerned.. she went in and asked, "What's wrong Baby Jaren, what's wrong?" - I think what we'll try in the future is put J down first and let him CIO... then once he's asleep, put N down. J usually falls asleep around 7:30, and N around 8:30-9 so I think that should work.

So I'm off dairy because of the suspected milk allergy for L but last night I had goat cheese b/c I thought that would be ok. He has been spitting up majorly every few minutes this am. So I guess we can't do goats milk either.

Good lord this thread moves fast!

@travellingbee: We've had this happen occasionally too, for a couple of days at a time - no explanation but I feel your pain! The only times we thought we might have some idea of the cause was when we'd move one of the girls after she was asleep - we tried having them sleep on separate floors when we were sleep training but couldn't put them to bed that way because our pack-n-play is in the living room. We gave up because Kate seemed so scared when she'd wake up downstairs.

@Mrs. High Heels: I can't imagine the conversation you had with your daycare director after the peanut butter incident. I would have been playing it out in my head over and over for months after. That is absolutely outrageous.

@Smurfette: I hope things turn around for you soon! You are doing an amazing job on so little sleep - when our sleep was at its worst I was so frustrated, and you manage to just be sweet about R even when you are exhausted. Hoping she feels better and you both get a good night's sleep soon - you both need it!

@Adira: We are still in size 2's also and I hate trying to figure out whether or not to order more of this size or go up to the next. We moved up from size 1 after a few leak incidents. We haven't had anything happen yet in 2's, but they are starting to look small, and I still have most of a big case left - I hate to waste them! We can definitely pass them on to friends with newer babies, but there is something so satisfying about having the exact right amount.

@ALV91711: While I don't wish a hot baby on anyone, I am 100% convinced that a baby in just a diaper is about the cutest thing that exists. So at least there's that!

@Mrs. Blue: We sleep trained at around 3 months and didn't have much, if any, regression - just a few days of waking up once or twice, but nothing that required more than a pacifier. Worst case scenario we may have swaddled one of the girls in the middle of the night. I was so nervous waiting for the other shoe to drop, though - once we sleep trained I think I still lost sleep worrying about whether we'd be able to keep them on track at 4 months. Funny thing - I mentioned being worried about a sleep regression at 4 months to our pediatrician and he had never heard of that being a particularly difficult period. I sometimes wonder if we make more of these things because it helps remind us that there is an end in sight - like blaming any kind of fussiness on teething. Bottom line is that I think all babies are different - but for @Smurfette's sake I hope that this is a phase and sleep gets back to normal soon!

Last night I was up with Caroline at 3 - she was crying a lot harder than it sounds when they are sort of fussing in their sleep. So I went in and discovered that the source of her frustration was that she had rolled onto her stomach! I have never seen her do it, but she was doing a ton of tossing and turning from one side to the other this morning, so I think she must have carried herself over with momentum. And then forgotten how to roll back over. So maybe we can't quite call her an expert roller yet. She's moving around so much in her sleep now! When I got her this morning she was on her side with her feet sticking through the slats of the crib. I am a little worried she is going to hurt herself or get them caught, but I don't know if I want to put in a bumper either. Any advice?