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@ShootingStar: Hope your first day back goes well! What are you doing for childcare? I feel like I am the only one who doesn't have family to leave my baby with.

Also, as far as pumping into bags, I tried it once while at home and I thought I had to sit too still to make sure it didn't spill. I pump into the Medela bottles and then transfer what I pumped during the day into the Advent bottles that we use to actually feed the baby. I transfer at night to get bottles ready for the next day. I'm getting 2-4 extra ounces a day, so once I have extra 4 ounces I transfer that to a bag and freeze it.

@sweetooth: @ms.janedoe: I've been using the swing for naps, and not gonna lie...it's awesome. I can put him in drowsy but awake and he goes to sleep after a while without a problem. At night I have get him all the way asleep before I can put him down.

So I'm not sure, but I think baby girl might be starting to teeth. She will be 3 months on Wednesday (WHERE did the time go?!), and I thought that would be too early, but we were looking at DH's baby book over the weekend and he got his first tooth at 3 months and my mom was telling me that my brother had THREE teeth at 3 months.

She is definitely drooling so much and gnawing on her hands pretty much constantly, even after she has eaten so it's not a hungry thing. I am not looking forward to her having teeth...that just sounds so painful for BFing.

@ms.janedoe: Yeah, I thought it was too early, but who knows. She has been doing this almost yelping crying thing occasionally like something is hurting her. And she doesn't cry much at all in general.

@MrsTiz: You excited?!

@MrsTiz: Yes! They're saying that the coast is going to get the most snow (which never happens!). Fingers crossed for you!!

@lilteacherbee: we have a cold day today and tomorrow!

@lilteacherbee: enjoy your snow day! We had one last Tuesday, which was supposed to be my second day back. Baby cuddles instead of work while it snows might be my new favorite.

@ShootingStar: so exhausting! I did end up waking her up. Gave her a bath and then nursed. She is back down in her crib...here's hoping she stays down until morning....

@lilteacherbee: we had yesterday and today off because of the cold! I'll take it
@NeekieRose: omg 10 hours? So jealous! I was excited with 5 tonight. About to put him back down... We'll see for how long.

@Mrs. J: in this way daycare has been great. Ideally, if I can keep her awake in the evening, she sleeps from about 8 to 6. Before daycare it was more like 10ish to 5ish. With daycare she is sleeping a lot less during the day.

So we just got back from an abdominal ultrasound. I posted about her facial swelling last week and well she has just been off ever since. Last night she had blood in her stools. Pedi confirmed a reaction to the rotavirus vaccine and suspected reaction to another vaccine leading to the facial swelling. The ultrasound was ordered as a precaution because she may have had inssusception which would mean surgery. The report was stat and she doesn't have it, but she has barely drank and is very sleepy. She has only gained 2 oz in the last week when she has been gaining at least 8 oz or more so the doctor was also concerned about that. I'm waiting for him to call back with any further instructions.

@anbanan15: Oh no! I hope she's okay.

M had her shots today and did better than I thought she would. She wailed on the last one but was smiling by the time we got home and is sleeping now.

We started her on ranitidine yesterday and she seems less miserable. It's just a one-month trial to see if it helps/she's actually suffering with reflux, but she's spitting up a bit less already and slept better last night.

She's drooling like crazy, though! I don't know if it's related to the tongue tie clip or what, but she's soaking onesies.

Question for those who battled thrush -- did it get worse before it got better? The miconazole helped nearly immediately but this is day 4 and there's still a lot of redness.

@MrsDragon: Thank you! Hope you get some answers from the med trial.

When M was at the pedi today he said that her two bottom teeth were really close to the surface! It's possible her drooling is teething.

@sweetooth: Thanks. No signs of intussusception on u/s so no surgery, thank goodness. I just spoke with the pedi and here are a few things he wants me to call back for (stops eating, more blood, less than 3 wet diapers), but overall thinks she'll be doing better in a few weeks.

He thinks the facial swelling was a separate reaction so we are going to proceed with caution on future vaccines and spread them out. We are staying away from the rotavirus all together.

I've been following along, but my mind is so elsewhere right now to remember what I read to respond I'm sorry mama's! I hope everyone is stating warm and enjoying their snow/cold days with their lo's!

@Cara M. 17: Same thing as Zantac!

@anbanan15: That is so scary! I'm glad that you have it under control and she should be all better soon! Baby girl loves sucking on her whole fist and sometimes a couple fingers, but she has either not found or is not interested in just her thumb.

@Cara M. 17: I'm headed back on the 10th. I pushed it one more week. I'd like to ease back in too. But my team is currently trying to schedule two all-day meetings in the office that first week back. Can we say - overwhelming?

ETA: How did you find your nanny?

@Cara M. 17: you're the second November mama to have success on care.com. I think I need to get serious and post an ad. I only made an account and looked around so far.

@NeekieRose: Thanks. That's how she was too! Whole first and that area between the thumb and index finger was starting to get raw from sucking, then she found her thumb. the lady that did her u/s yesterday commented how she already found her thumb so maybe it's early?

@ms.janedoe: I think it might be-- we get tons of daytime sleep (when of course I can't sleep, still, which is obnoxious) and are down to very little night sleep- and we're heading into our 3rd leap this week... things were great after the last leap-- even with random longer naps during the day she was starting to sleep longer stretches at night now we're up every 2 hours if we're lucky and she wants to stay up from 11-2:30 again