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@ShootingStar: Ugh, I'm wishing she'd nurse to sleep! Haahhaa, lately she won't nurse to sleep anymore so it takes a loooong time to get her sleepy/sleeping! I totally agree with sleep getting lighter as the night goes on, which sucks cause she goes to bed at 7ish, so from about 1:00 on, it just gets worse until, like today, she's up at 5:45.

In other news, I just clipped her thumb...oops! Luckily it wasn't as bad as the first time I clipped her, I dint think this one even bled, but she still complained for a minute!

@ms.janedoe: clipping nails is SO hard!

Catching up while M naps! And I just sent a request to join the group. Hopefully I'll be better about reading there, hah.

We're almost exclusively pumping now after all of our tongue tie issues. I still think M has a lip tie, but the fight has kinda gone out of me. I pump and feed her during the day and breastfeed her at night, because she seems to latch better when she's sleepy. We're still working on suck training her and trying to overcome her wicked gag reflex.

@ms.janedoe: I always make my husband do the nails! I'm too scared, still.

@sweetooth: I am glad things are going better for you now that you get your boobs back, ha. That must have been a hard decision, but you gotta do what works best for you. How is being back at work?

@stine_ciro: We can get him to go to sleep with a few minutes of bouncing and shushing, especially if I put him in the swing. I guess my issue is not how to *get* him to sleep. It's almost how to *not* get him to sleep during nursing...but then get him to sleep without a crutch.

I'm pretty sure that a couple of us have mentioned avoiding dairy at some level or another. I'm too lazy to go back and figure out who it applies to anyways.... I'm also avoiding dairy in its obvious forms of milk cheese ice cream etc. so this past weekend I noticed trader joes has coconut milk "non dairy dessert" next to their ice cream. It totally hits the spot! I got chocolate but they also had strawberry. At first it has a bit of an unexpected coconut flavor but now that I'm used to it I just think mmmmm chocolate ice cream!

That's all. Enjoy.

@sweetooth: Re: the 7 hour stretch of sleep--I'm curious about it too! The night it happened we didn't do anything any differently, and normally he sleeps in 3-5 hour stretches (usually 3). The 7 hours only happened that one time, so it's a mystery to me! I'm surprised you're waking your babe to eat--I'd let him sleep if I were you, so you get some more shuteye! Also, I'm sorry to hear about your painful BF experience. That sounds so difficult, but it also sounds like you made the best decision for all of you. Hugs!

@sweetooth: Aww I'm sorry. I fell behind then also got directed by our nifty FB group

She's doing well. Finally had a BM today after 9 days of not having one, so that was exciting lol. She has been nursing non-stop that last few days so we were wondering if it was a growth spurt, her finally starting to feel well again, and/or a comfort thing (we know she is teething). We have a weight check next Monday scheduled from when she was in the hospital and she hadn't really gained weight during that ordeal. She loves to laugh...you look at her and talk or smile and she belly laughs right back. She has also been rolling up a storm from back to belly and therefore wants to sleep on her belly!! Ugh! But today she also rolled stomach to back so if she masters that a little more I will be less freaked out about her sleeping on the belly (side note: with DS he also was rolling back to belly super super early and wanted to sleep on his belly. The doctors has me flip him over for awhile in his sleep, but it wasn't long before he was so efficient at rolling that he would just roll back. They then said that if he is able to roll back to belly he probably has the head control to be able to sleep on his stomach. Still mad a me nervous as a FTM).

@sweetooth: To answer your question, it depends - if it's a middle of the night feed, definitely stop and change diaper. Every time I've done it after, we've been up for hours trying to get him back to sleep. If ti's during the day, I'd probably let it go until after.

OMG guys, I let him have access to his fist last night (instead of swaddling both hands down) and his sleep was so much better! He slept close to 6 hours the first time, then 3/1.5/1 Usually he does more like 3/2/1. And now he's napping in the swing :).

I'm home today with him DH because it's supposed to snow pretty good here and DH is still recovering. I didn't bring my laptop home today so it's pretty much a PTO day. It actually feels pretty good after the weekend I had. Baby + Dog + Sick husband + sleep deprivation is just too much for me on my own :(. I really wish my parents lived nearby. And that they weren't at their winter place in FL. I almost begged my mom to get on a plane. If they'd been at their house in NY I totally would've had her drive out to help me. But DH's up for helping out again and baby slept so much better so I feel almost human again :).

@sweetooth: Dude, just make a fake-y Facebook JUST for the group, you don't even have to use your real name so your family/friends won't know it's you (Jane Doe is always a good one!)! Then just join out group and don't use it for anything else!

Hellooooo There????? I just joined HB and I have a Nov 2013 baby... are there any other threads? I searched and this was the most recent one...... ??

Sure... Do you need to add me? Or should I search for the group?

@MrsTiz: that link isn't working on my phone or on my pc..?

@MrsTiz: OMG I opened this thread and it went to the first page with that pic of Jack. He's so teeny tiny and precious there! I can't believe how big they've all gotten.