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Baby sleep says
My current 3-week-old will not be put down to sleep. I’ve tried a variety of sleeping surfaces, tried her on her tummy, etc. Anyone have suggestions, or a comforting word that this is the thick of it and she may straighten out soon? A chiropractor, as I’m feeling desperate?
Last night was particularly bad, but I had a hunch it was a stomach issue and sure enough she had a blowout at 4am, then settled a bit. My husband and I are splitting the night currently, but with her eating every couple hours I’m only getting like 3-4 hours of sleep a night. And we have three other kids home all day for the summer!
This is my fourth baby, but how quickly we forget…
Anon says
Snoo. It’s available for rent now!
Anonymous says
Pretty normal at this age. Will she nap in a wrap or baby carrier so at least you’re not stuck on the couch holding her?
Can you put the kids in daycamps for a couple weeks so you can sleep in the daytime when she sleeps?
Mine were winter babies so they liked their crib to be prewarmed with a hot water bottle. Do stroller naps work? Even if you are walking circles in your driveway because you can’t leave the other kids and then roll the stroller into the backyard while the kids play outside.
Lastly, maybe hire a high school student as a mother’s helper to either occupy the kids so you can nap or to hold the baby while baby sleeps.
Anonymous says
I’d say it’s normal. I definitely only got 3-4hrs/night with my first kid (second was a better sleeper).
Anon says
Are you breastfeeding? Does she have reflux? Very gassy? Might need to try a different bottle or formula or could be an issue with what you eat re breast milk.
Anonymous says
Food diary is a good idea. My oldest hates it when I ate quinoa – brutal gas.
Anonymous says
Mine would not be put down until I ordered a Snoo in desperation at 5 weeks, and it helped so much.
Anonymous says
I am flying cross-country today. Please send all good vibes, prayers, etc. I have been away all week and kiddo is a basket case.
Cb says
Fingers and toes crossed for you! We flew back from my parents’ yesterday so seemed to just miss it.
Clementine says
My BFF and I have something we affectionately call ‘Cigars and Bourbon parenting’. It’s that point where… if your kid asked you for a cigar and some bourbon, you wouldn’t say yes but you would seriously consider it for about 90 seconds. Examples of when you’re in that ‘cigars and bourbon parenting’ zone include: being at a funeral when you can’t go outside with the kid, being stuck on the last part of an international flight, being at a major ceremony which was delayed a little too long and your kid has hit their expiration date but you can’t leave…
This travel experience – embrace the Cigars and Bourbon parenting experience. Screen time all the time? Sure. We all chilling at the airport bar? Absolutely. Sending good vibes.
OP says
I am on a business trip and kiddo is at home, having nightly meltdowns on FaceTime about how much she misses me. I am allegedly rebooked tomorrow on a multi-airline itinerary leaving at 0 dark 30. We shall see where I get stuck. I may be the one demanding bourbon before this is all over.
Anonymous says
Do you always FaceTime? Our kids ask to but they have a way harder time when they FaceTime with DH everyday vs just the first day so they can visualize the hotel room where he is. It’s like the virtual connection reminds them of the absence.
Anon says
My kid also has a harder time with video chat when a parent is traveling. Seeing the parent makes her more sad, somehow. We use it for chatting with out of state family and friends only.
OP says
This kid is old enough to have a phone so she initiates it. It’s actually easier to FaceTime because I can turn the camera around and just show her stuff around town instead of just listening to her whine on text or voice.
I have checked into the airport hotel and am now sitting in a pedicure chair. Fancy chocolates have been purchased and I am considering a wine tasting, if I think I can trust a winery two miles from the airport.
Clementine says
You definitely deserve some bourbon. Or an ice-cold Diet Coke with lemon…
CCLA says
Good luck on the rebooked flights! Sorry that kiddo is having a rough go of it, but also, don’t feel guilty (can’t tell if you are) – it’s out of your control, kiddo is presumably safe and cared for by someone else, and will still be happy to see you when you make it home. Also, yes to the bourbon or drink(s) of choice. Get as comfortable as possible, throw money at it if you can, and lean into a drink, book, tv show, lounge, whatever you can to make yourself comfortable. Or if you have lodging still, order up some room service!
Anonymous says
We do videos instead of FaceTime– easier to fit in, as don’t need to worry about schedules aligning. Whichever parents traveling will record a minute-long video showing our kids the hotel room we’re staying in, talk a little about our day, ask the kids how their day was, and say they miss them and see them soon. We can rewatch as desired.
Clementine says
I’m really excited that I said what I actually want and just need to share it…
I have a milestone birthday happening next year. I just told my husband that I want to be taking a trip on my actual birthday. He was thinking we would take a trip when the kids were off school within a few months of my birthday and it would be a general ‘Mom’s Milestone Birthday’ trip. But… he kept thinking we will somehow be able to like magically go to the Azores or Hawaii for 10 days and have somebody willing to watch our kids… I don’t know why he thinks this is a thing likely to happen as we don’t have that kind of a support system…
So I told him what I want. It’s not special or super fancy, it’s a direct flight and a family friendly resort we’ve been to before. We’ll do a long weekend and the kids will miss a couple days of school. I want it because I know that between the logistics and planning, it will be easy and fun. He kind of tried to suggest some other ideas and then had this moment of realization that I was opting for this because it’s the trip where Mom knows she doesn’t have to worry about everyone enjoying themselves and being happy with the accommodations/food/etc. I still have time, but… I’m so glad I just said, ‘No. Love the idea of a trip to Europe and doing bikes through Germany but we have 3 kids and I actually want to be able to enjoy myself.’
Anon says
Yay! Good for you for saying (and getting) what you really want!
Clementine says
Thank you! I literally sat him down and told him, ‘I know that is what you want. That is not what I want. What I want is X.’
SC says
Good for you! I celebrated my 40th birthday this year. My parents were willing to take care of my son for a long weekend, but I still wanted something that was logistically easy and required little planning. DH and I took a 3-day weekend, drove to a fancy hotel a few hours away, and enjoyed a nice dinner, got massages, walked around the cute town, and spent a lot of time relaxing.
Initially, my parents wanted me to throw a party and even offered to pay for half of it. I threw a party for DH’s 40th birthday and really didn’t want to spend several months planning or spend a lot of money to host pretty much the same 50-60 people. DS’s birthday is the day after mine, so we had a party for close family only–still around 20 people. We hosted in our backyard and served lunch, the kids had a great time playing together, it cost around $500, and it was great. DS also had a “friends” party where we invited the whole class to a mini-golf place.
Clementine says
While I love throwing parties, somehow a big party would actually be a nightmare for me… I would worry so much about it that it would lose any fun. Also, there are too many personalities who could potentially cause drama – I don’t want to worry about divorced parents or my cousins (sisters) who haven’t spoken in a few years but who I am individually close to both of, or any of that.
Your trip sounds FAB. We’re basically looking at a direct flight, a lot of time chilling at a pool, and a place where my kids can order chicken tenders and I can get a good garlicky salad and I don’t need to spend time researching restaurants or hotels or whether I need to show up at the national park when gates open…
Mary Moo Cow says
Good for you! I hope it is a wonderful, memorable-in-a-good-way trip!
Clementine says
Thank you! We went to this resort when my oldest was maybe 2? And I remember waiting in line behind a happy mom who was like wearing a 40th birthday sash. Her kids were playing in the pool and she was laughing and chatting that this was her way to be excited about 40. This random woman with happy kids has no idea that somehow she became like a model of what I hoped my future self would be, but… when I thought about it, I kept going back to ‘I want THAT.’
anon says
I’ve had to have the same conversation a couple times. We used to do big adventure trips pre-kid and it’s definitely like no dude we can’t do that until kid is like 10 and could go to grandparents for a week without being a complete menace.
I had my kid fairly young so when I turn 40, the trip I want to do with lots of hiking will be doable for him too.
Clementine says
Yeah, post-COVID we’ve done some pretty adventurous trips. Not the 20 mile pre-kid hikes in national parks, but still doing 2-3 mile ones. The last few trips have all involved like, Mom coordinating multiple destinations at the place, transportation from Location 1 to Location 2, etc. They’re absolutely fantastic and I enjoy them, but they are definitely Type 2 fun and not relaxing for me.
Anonymous says
I feel this in my soul. Your post assuaged my guilt about taking the kids back to the same beach spot in Italy 3 years in a row and not ‘touring’ with them more.
A vacation is not a break if it involves mom having a second job as a tour guide.
Anon says
Don’t feel guilty about taking your kids back to the same spot! It’s so fun for kids to develop traditions and get to know a place like a second home. We rarely go back to the same place because I have serious wanderlust, but my 6 year old still talks about the Florida beach house we went to twice during peak Covid (when she was 2-3). I feel guilty about not going back, but I don’t really have that much interest in that part of Florida now that the world is more open.
Clementine says
Absolutely feel no guilt. See, my biggest stress point is that husband and I have always been ‘eat the local fare! Eat off the beaten path!’ folks… and the kids are good about this, but if you all knew how much stress it causes me to be the one to not only research the best local X place near-ish us, figure out where it is and how to get there, then figure out the timing between when nobody’s hungry and everybody is starving to the point that they can’t hold it together… and factoring in a wait… I literally think about this all day.
I love our vacations, I really do. I love that my kids have tried deep dish pizza in Chicago (heads up, minimum 40 minute cook time from when you order, plan accordingly), I love that they’ve had great food from the can’t miss place with a 90 minute line… but that’s not what I want for my 40th.
Anon says
I hear you! I planned a big family trip for a few months after my 40th, but I told DH I want to go away just us on my birthday, because I want the actual day to be special and I want to get an actual vacation, not just a trip.
Anon says
Having a major turning-into-my-mom moment… when I was a girl, my mom didn’t let me do cheerleading because she thought it was anti-feminist and I was so disappointed so I vowed I would let my daughter do it if she wanted. I signed her up for a cheer camp this summer at a local dance/gymnastics place. And now I’m clutching my metaphorical pearls. For the performance they have to wear tight booty shorts and have their t-shirts tied up around their midriff. It feels so s*xualized, and these are little, little girls (mine is 6, some are as young as 3!) The teachers were telling them to suck in their stomachs (!!) when they posed for pictures. 95% of the girls are blonde and most were wearing make-up at practice. My daughter has danced for several years so I’m comfortable with things like make-up for performances, but we’re lucky to be at a very diverse, body-positive dance studio that doesn’t feel like it’s training little girls for beauty pageants and this is…. so so different.
Boston Legal Eagle says
Was this the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders training ground?! Yikes. The sucking in the stomach thing is problematic.
Lily says
I’d take my daughter out of there immediately. Those kinds of comments have lasting effects.
We just signed up our daughters (3 and 5 years old) for gymnastics. I was pleased to see both girls and boys in the younger groups, but the older classes (7+) appeared to be all girls. I was surprised at the level of difficulty of what they were doing. I don’t think it’s something I’m going to let them do for more than a year or two. We do ballet, but it’s a low key studio. Some moms do makeup for recitals, I do not, and have never felt pressured.
Cheerleading would be a hard no from me, no matter how many tears.
Anon2 says
+1. I have three boys and a girl. Football is a hard no in our house, because it is dangerous physically and mentally (the whole “tough guy” culture). Same applies to cheerleading, IMO.
I am aware that never doesn’t always mean never in parenting, lol… still, I can’t think of a situation where I would relent, given there are so many alternative and similar activities to choose instead.
gym mom says
The higher-level classes are separated by gender because boys and girls do different events. Gyms also tend to be stronger with one gender or the other. My daughter was on the girls’ team at a gym that regularly produce elite men. The boys’ team was much larger than the girls’ team and they never got a girl past JO/DP level 7. Before that she’d been at a girl-focused gym with just a handful of lower-level boys. So if you want to see boys in the gym, shop around.
Anon says
That would be a hard nope from me if only because many men without children will be in the audience and it’s not for innocent reasons. There have been exposes recently about “dance moms” pimping out their daughters on social media with full knowledge that many of the followers are p*dophiles. That’s not what you’re doing, but you’ll run into the same nasty crowd at in-person performances.
anon says
oh man, this would be hard for me; I was a competitive cheerleader and wrote an honors thesis for my feminist studies degree on how cheerleading is/can be a very body-positive feminist space that works against restrictive gender stereotypes… but this program sounds like not that. I’d stick with the dance studio and drop the cheer camp or try to find a different program (not always easy, I know).
Anon says
Thankfully it was just a one week camp, so it’s over now. She enjoyed it, but not any more than the many other camps she did this summer, so I plan to just not mention it again and I doubt it will be a big issue next summer.
Anonymous says
My PKer begged for cheer when her two besties did it. I was going to let her but my husband grew up in football country and was a HARD HELL TO THE HELL NO. We talked about what she liked about the idea and what she didn’t and came up with ways for her to spend time with her friends, do flips, wear cute skirts, etc. She was also surprised to find out she had to attend football games and cheer for boys- she didn’t want to do that!
She’s 11 now and none of her friends do cheer anymore-I think one might still do it but if she does, this will be her last year. So my take away is (1) she is totally fine that she never did it but also (2) long term it’s really NBD even if she had done it, she’s not 11 and still shaking her butt. Other interests quickly take over! And I thought what was most important was exploring her interest, validating what was important to her, and finding something for it.
Anonymous says
Speaking of relationships with moms, I had a good week with mine at the beach (not always the case) and then on the drive home my 5 year old daughter told me grandma told her that “when boys hit you, that means they like you” and now am full of annoyance and wondering what other messages I need to counter.
Anonymous says
My go to response for grandparents or older people saying this kind of stuff is that in the olden days people had different ideas and now we know better’ and then I use examples like interracial marriage or gay marriage being banned or people hitting their kids to discipline them or women not being allowed to work in certain jobs. Basically that sometimes older people say crazy things that we know better about now.
anon says
I hear you about needing to counteract messaging; it can be so frustrating. On this particular issue, I think grandma is literally correct, and therapy has taught me the importance of acknowledging “the kernel of truth.” From there you can dive into the implications about consent, aggression, and double standards.
Anon says
I dunno. What’s the value of that truth? or the value worth trying to explain it to a 5 year old? What does it matter if he likes her? Hitting isn’t okay. Full stop. The reason is irrelevant to the girl. From there you can explain aggression, bodily autonomy, double standards, or saying no. But the truth that a boy likes her should never be louder than the truth that hitting is not okay.
Anonymous says
+100
Anonymous says
OP here- I do remember that from grade school. But I refuse to teach my daughters to feel like it’s a compliment if some kid hits them. It’s not their job to interpret his feelings; it’s never ok to hit. I just feel like that attitude is the very beginning of girls learning to defer to boys.
Anon says
I think it’s correct if you’re talking about 9 year olds, but at 5 most kids hit other kids they have conflict with, not kids they like. My daughter had lots of male friends in preschool and even a “boyfriend” in K, and the kids that hit her were always the aggressive kids that were getting physical with pretty much everyone in the class. It isn’t about crushes at that age (not that hitting someone you have a crush on is ok either!)