GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@mrsjyw: Awesome news about A! Glad your day is going okay so far.
C has regressed back to one wake up a night for the last week or so. Kind of bummed but don't mind the extra chance to connect with her now that I'm back at work.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@jesslc: have so much fun on your trip!! ( i stalk the oct thread sometimes and read about your trip! totally jealous!! )
grapefruit / 4006 posts
@mrsjyw: thanks!! i am excited, but nervous about traveling with baby! how did your first day back go?
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@mrsjyw: how did A do last night?
C didn't eat a lot at daycare (drank all the breastmilk but only about half of what she usually drinks in formula). Not a huge deal since she was probably adjusting. Got her home and she was so super sleepy (napped okay, but not great). Then she was up twice last night....so we are moving farther and farther away from her STTN like before. Quite an adjustment! She was all smiles this AM though so that is good. As long as she is happy ill do whatever she needs.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@JessLC: @highwire: first day back flew by! i got home around 530 and had two hours with him before he was down for the night at 730. he woke up and fussed a lil at 3am, 5am, but put himself back to sleep. I normally wouldn't have even heard it, but I was up early from passing out at 9pm!
This morning was a lot harder than yesterday. I think that yesterday I was riding out the adrenaline of first day of work. This morning it hit me that I have all of 2-3 hours with A and that makes me so sad. But, I'm not about to change his bedtime when he's been STTN so well.
So this week I'll be working from home w-f... but going forward it'll just be two days a week. It was supposed to be more flexible than that, but I found out yesterday that our interim SVP frowns upon working remotely, so I need to be mindful of that...still grateful, but kinda sour about it initially since it was different than what I was told a few wks back.
Anyway--hope today flies by. Have a great day mamas!
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@mrsjyw: definitely had less adrenaline this morning! So hard to get out of bed.
Had two hours last night with C before bed time and it definitely felt like good quality time. We played, took a bath together, and nurses for an hour lol
persimmon / 1161 posts
We are weaning from the swaddle today. I woke up to my little guy yelling and I ran into his room (without checking the monitor) to find him on his belly. I rolled him over and he was smiling and thought it was really funny. I didn't. Should we go cold turkey and just put him in a sleep sack or do one arm out for a few nights? I also just ordered a baby Merlin sleep suit thing for him because it is supposed to help with the transition. Four more weeks if maternity leave and it doesn't look like I will be getting much sleep.
cantaloupe / 6630 posts
@ChelseaRose: Aw bless him, I love it when they're all smiley and thinking they're funny We swaddle weaned by going cold turkey and it worked. We'll be on our fourth night tonight.
@mrsjyw: @highwire: Hope you both have a good first week back, it must be so hard adjusting, and so tiring too!
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@ChelseaRose: C is working on arm completely out of the swaddle (we use Halo Sleep Sack Swaddles). I find her each morning looking like a little cave woman with one arm stretched out and her fast asleep. We may just start doing one arm out, and then both arms out, and then weaning from it completely.
Good luck!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@ChelseaRose: we swaddle weaned randomly one night a couple of weeks ago during a night wake that was not as his usual time. we went cold turkey both arms and he's been sleeping fine (and better) since! He was never really a huge swaddle fan though and I was only meticulous about it from week 6-11 when we moved him to pnp/crib sleeping from sleeping on a newborn lounger.
persimmon / 1161 posts
@travelgirl1: I hope we are that lucky. I just put him down for a nap in his pajamas only and he's actually been sleeping for about 20 minutes.
@highwire: Awww. I'm sure she looks so cute like that. He was getting one or both arms out last month on a few occasions when my husband didn't do it tight enough. He would wake himself up so we figured he wasn't ready. I guess he had to be now.
@mrsjyw: I hope we are that lucky! I think you posted that he's been doing 7-7, which is amazing. We had a lot of 9-7 nights with the occasional wake up in the middle of the night. I hope he does as well as your little guy!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@ChelseaRose: yea it kind of just happened!
He was a 6-8 hour stretch at best waking 1x to nurse, then for a few weeks he was at 2-3x a night to nurse and I was dying. But, suddenly at week 11 he was sleeping better and at exactly week 12, he slept through the night 12+ hours, self soothing with thumb when he briefly woke up a couple times during the night. It's been every night since last Wednesday. CRAZY! Even if it's a fluke I'll take it!
it literally went from swaddle weaning at week 11 to STTN a week later! (i think he was just ready to be sleeping arms free!)
GOOD LUCK!!!
pear / 1616 posts
@ChelseaRose: we are on day 4 of swaddle weaning. we went cold turkey into a sleep sack. LO's naps were pretty bad the first day. she usually takes 3 - 2 hour naps but she kept waking up after 30-45 min and crying. surprisingly her night time wasn't affected at all (still sleeping 10+ hours!). yesterday her naps were almost back to normal.
the other day LO rolled over from tummy to back! Okay i think the only reason she did it was cause her head is too heavy and she just kind of fell over. but it still counts right??
glad you guys had good first days back! i have 2.5 weeks left. kind of looking forward to being around adults again but sad at the same time! i am going to work from home as much as possible as well. @mrsjyw: are you watching LO when you're working from home? i plan to. hopefully i can balance the two! my job is pretty flexible in that i just need to get the work done. but i don't want to neglect LO. we'll see how it goes the first couple weeks.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@kodybear: yea my job is pretty flexible as far as work, it's my own project and time management. My mom will be with us this week so I can figure out my work from home groove (i'll be remote w-f)...and then starting next wk, i'll be remote wed/thur or thur/fri depending on the week. I'll let you know how it goes, but I think outside of our busy slopes, I should be able to manage work+watching A.
persimmon / 1161 posts
@kodybear: I hope his night sleep goes well. I only have one month until I have to be a regular functioning adult at work and not just at home with him.
grapefruit / 4006 posts
@mrsjyw: that is so awesome about A's sleep! L is still inconsistent, sleeping sometimes 11 hours, and other times 1 wake up per night. the last three nights she slept 11 hours straight. she didn't have her arms swaddled but i think it was a coincidence. we had been doing the 1-arm swaddle for awhile, but she sometimes sleeps unswaddled for naps and it doesn't bother her.
@kodybear: um that totally counts! that is how my LO rolls over, her big head just propels her over. its so cute. she looks confused.
@ChelseaRose: let us know how the swaddle weaning goes. my friend has the sleep suit thing and she says it works really well.
@highwire: yay for more milk!
persimmon / 1161 posts
Day time swaddle weaning was a failure on my part. He slept for 40 minutes this morning in just pajamas in the crib. Then we went to the mall and he slept for over an hour while being continuously pushed in the stroller. This afternoon my mom was playin with him while I ate lunch an she let him get overtired. He was crying and really needed to sleep. I put him in the miracle blanket (less tight and secure than the swaddleme that we use at night) and in his crib. He's been sleeping for almost 2.5 hours. It is 430, so I either need to get him up now with the hopes of him getting in a short catnap before his usual bedtime starting at 830. The other option is to let him sleep longer and just start his bedtime routine when he gets tired again. Never mind. He's waking up on his own.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
Tried swaddling C with one arm out, cavewoman style last night. I think it was a success! She slept for 9 straight hours (8 PM - 5 AM) which is the longest she's done in a week or two. Then she continued to doze on and off from 5 AM-7 AM.
She also ate and napped MUCH better at daycare yesterday! She's got a raging diaper rash, but other than that she is doing okay. It looks awful but she isn't fussy or upset by it at all. So that's good at least. I sent two different types of diaper creams with her today. They provide their own diapers, so she might be having an allergic reaction to those. After the diaper cream experiment, we may start sending our own diapers if necessary.
Additionally, she's also been having a ton more bowel movements ever since my mastitis last week, so I don't know if that is contributing to the diaper rash. That was also when I was pumping a lot and we've been sending some of that frozen milk for her to eat at daycare (and freezing some of what I've been pumping the last few days). Today, we sent only the fresh milk I pumped yesterday to see how her poops do today. If they are better, we are going to toss my frozen milk.
Hopefully isolating the different issues will help us uncover what is causing the diaper rash/frequent poos.
The pediatrician, my OB, and two lactation consultants said there is nothing wrong with the milk you produce when you have mastitis, but I'm still worried (and DH is too). I don't want to throw out my little freezer stash but I definitely will if these issues clear up instantly after she stops drinking milk from that period.
persimmon / 1161 posts
@highwire: I'm glad you guys had a successful night with one arm out. We had the worst night ever in just a sleep sack. We are obviously going to do something different tonight because he kept waking up over and over again. He went back to sleep easily without nursing or picking him up, but I can't continue getting up every 1-1.5 hours. I nursed him at 6am, swaddled him in a miracle blanket, and he's been sleeping since then (2+ hours).
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@ChelseaRose: Is he in his own room, or your room? If he's waking up and putting himself back to sleep with no issues, can you just try to sleep through it?
C is in her own room and I have the monitor turned down to where I can only hear her if she is really crying. If she wakes up and wiggles around and goes back to sleep happily, I am glad to just sleep on through that little period LOL
persimmon / 1161 posts
@highwire: He's in his room and I have a video monitor on my nightstand. When he was swaddled he would usually wake up at some point fuss around and then go back to sleep without really crying. Without the swaddle he was actually waking up crying and not settling. During the day he will suck on his hands when he has access to them, but he wasn't doing it to self-soothe during the night at all. I'm actually feeling really guilty now for causing us all to have such an awful night, like I was torturing him or something.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@ChelseaRose: Aw don't feel bad! So much of this is just trial and error. We've got to try different things to figure out what works (or doesn't work)!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@ChelseaRose: It took A a few nights/days to really find his thumb. I was up on the hour every hour for a couple nights, but still left him unswaddled, then the third day is when he STTN! All about trial and error! Don't feel bad!! Keep it up mama! Infant sleep is so hard to figure out!
persimmon / 1161 posts
@mrsjyw: I'm glad that he figured it out so quickly! I wish I knew that's all that it would take for W. If I knew it would only be another night or two then I would definitely stick it out. Right now I'm feeling very torn. It is so hard to know what is best.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@ChelseaRose: it's definitely a gamble! i had no idea, and of course it was the night dh offered to get up and paci him for the wakings... my goal starting out was to night wean him from his 1x feed because he'd hit 14+ lbs (15+ now)... and then the sleeping part just sort of happened! thinking of you and W hope that you find a sleeping groove soon!!
persimmon / 1161 posts
@mrsjyw: Maybe we will just try to stick it out too. I'm tempted to stop using the pacifier int he middle of the night and letting him figure it out. I was reading the Moms on Call book (I never really followed it before because he was already sleeping 8-10 hours for several weeks) and it says that it takes them about three night to find their comfy spot in the crib and make it through the night. I might try delaying when I go in to him so see if that helps. I just swaddled him for a nap again, but I need to shower so he needs to sleep!
pear / 1616 posts
@ChelseaRose: it took abt 3 days to get LOs sleep back to normal as well. I've read that it takes that long to reset their routines. So I told myself that if my LO didn't show significant improvement after 3 days I'd re swaddle. So maybe try another night? I know how u feel tho. It's hard to know if they'll adjust
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
So, my pumping output is increasing! 6.5 oz on Monday, 7 oz yesterday. And I already have 6 oz today with another two pumping sessions to go (3 PM and 9 PM after LO goes to bed).
Maybe I should have been a more frequent pumper during my maternity leave! But those first three weeks where I was told to nurse, pump, and formula feed after every single feeding was so horrible I had to cut one out. And then the just looking at the pump gave me anxiety lol.
persimmon / 1161 posts
@highwire: Thats awesome! I've heard from one of my mom friends IRL that when you get on a pumping schedule that you usually see an increase as you go. She said that Monday she usually pumps the least amount and increases over the course of the week.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@ChelseaRose: Awesome to hear! It is so much easier to pump on a schedule!
persimmon / 1161 posts
@kodybear: I'm glad to hear that you had a similar experience to MrsJYW. Did you go back in to soothe and give a pacifier (if you use one)? I may try to stick it out again. We also may need an earlier bed time. We usually start around 8:30 and he goes down between 9-9:30. Everything I read about infant sleep suggests that is too late.
pear / 1616 posts
@ChelseaRose: nope i didn't go in. it was so sad but i wanted her to try to figure out how to self soothe. i definitely had to turn off the sound on the monitor many times cause it was just too sad. from about 8-12 weeks old she got into a good routine where she didn't need her paci to fall asleep or to soothe if she woke up early so while we were swaddle weaning i didn't give her a paci cause i knew she was able to go without it. also, my Lo is now 13 weeks and she still goes to bed at 8:30-9. i figure she'll let me know somehow when she wants to start sleeping earlier.
clementine / 824 posts
Gosh, I’m so jealous of all of you ladies who have already been able to get away from the swaddle! Em hasn’t gotten any rest at daycare, I think because of this. I finally got them to let me bring a sleepsack in that they will wrap around the belly only (arms out), so hopefully this will help. She does one arm out at night, but we just can’t get to two yet.
Soooo, we made it three days in daycare before the poor girl got sick. And I mean SICK. She had a fever Friday night into Saturday and then came down with a really bad cough and got all stuffed up. I assumed that it was just something that had to run its course, so we held off on taking her in to the doctor until yesterday. I guess I’m a negligent mother because it sounds like they would have wanted us to take her in right away (and even have them paged in the off hours)….YIKES! It turns out she’s got a pretty good ear infection and a respiratory virus. I feel so bad I let her go so long. We started antibiotics last night, so I’m hoping that she starts feeling better soon. Hearing her cough and cry so bad is just so heartbreaking. Needless to say, she’s out from daycare for the week and my husband had to take the week off work. Since I just started back last Wednesday, I was afraid it was look too bad if I already had to miss work.
For those of you pumping at work, how many times are you doing it? I’m doing 8am, 11am, & 2pm, but there are a couple days that I was only able to do it twice. I feel like ALL I do at work is pump…such a pain!! I’m getting about 14oz at work but – so far – have been able to make up the difference in the morning/evening. We’re still feeling out how much and how often she needs to be eating at daycare, since she hasn’t been on the bottle for very long. I’ve been sending five 4oz bottles and she’s usually come home with one still left, so don’t know if I should try out four 5oz bottles. If you don’t mind sharing….how often is your LO eating now and how much at a time???
persimmon / 1161 posts
@kodybear: I'm not sure I'm ready for that. How did you get rid of the pacifier?
pear / 1616 posts
@SLR: LO eats 5 times a day. i EP so she has 4 bottles of 5oz and the nighttime bottle of 6oz.
@ChelseaRose: i only used the paci to prolong sleep. like for nighttimes i would give it to her instead of feeding her. once she started sleeping through the night she didn't need it anymore. i did the same for naps. when she woke up after only 30-45 min i'd give her the paci and she'd go back to sleep. then she started sleeping 2 hour naps without waking up so we stopped using the paci for naps too. i do give her the paci if i need to settle her down before a nap but i take it out before i put her in the crib. paci-pong sucks
pomegranate / 3225 posts
You guys are so brave! I'm so scared to stop swaddling and using the paci. I hate to mess w success!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
@slr: aww poor baby!!! Get well soon!! A Eats six times a day. 715am,.930am, noon, 3, 5 and 7pm. He'll usually have 5+oz in the am then 4 or 5 oz for the next five. My supply obvi goes down for the 5/7 feedings so sometimes I top.him off.w.a.2 .oz bottle. I think he drinks about 25-30 oz a day total.
I usually pump 3x at 930, noon and 3. Getting 12-15 oz. 15 oz. Is my goal each day.
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