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We’ve mentioned this popular sheath dress before, but I like the fun stripey version, available in green and brown, a fun black-and-white abstract pattern, and even a few fun patterns. It’s well priced, available in plus sizes, petites, and talls, and machine washable. Score. The pictured version is $79, full price. Lands’ End Stripe Welt Pocket Sheath Dress
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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
KJ says
More sleep training questions!
My husband and I have been trying to come up with a plan to sleep train our 6 month old. She generally goes to sleep at bedtime without any trouble but wakes up a few times during the night and usually won’t go back to sleep without nursing. The plan right now is to take the next couple of weeks to decrease the night nursing and then try Ferber.
Last night Baby threw us a curveball by crying at bedtime. It took maybe 45 minutes to get her to sleep with rocking/bouncing. She woke up three times in the night, nursing twice and going back to sleep pretty easily. Then this morning, what do I find? Her very first tooth! My guess is she had some discomfort from the tooth at bedtime, and that’s what caused the crying. I didn’t see any other signs of teething like fussiness during the day or fever or anything like that. She has been ferociously gnawing on everything for at least a month now.
So my questions is: How do you work sleep training with teething? I hate the idea of letting my baby cry if she is in pain, but how do I know the difference?
KJ says
Also, if anyone else is in the throes of sleep training angst, you might enjoy this as much as I did: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2014/09/10/night-wean-your-baby-in-50-simple-steps/
CHJ says
Dying laughing at this! This is my life right now.
Nonny says
Me too. It’s only funny because it is SO TRUE.
Anonymous says
ha! So true!
mascot says
Does Tylenol help here? Maybe a pacifier? My guy wasn’t really interested in pacifiers from months 2-5, but wanted one again once he started teething. I once read that the teething pain bothers babies at night more because they don’t have as many distractions then. During the day, they are too busy with other things to focus on consistent low level discomfort.
pockets says
This is what my pediatrician (on his website) says:
“Yes, teething can definitely interfere with sleep. But it is only during those few days when the teeth are cutting through that the baby is in true pain. During those days, I would recommend going to the baby at night to console him with a lot of love and maybe a little meds. The other days, if they are mostly happy and playful during the day, I wouldn’t change the nighttime routine or alter an attempt to sleep train because of teething. ”
He also cautions against blaming too much on teething, which I think is really good advice.
JJ says
At least for my kids, if you run your finger over their gums, you can feel the teeth as they’re about to break through the gums. That’s how I figured out when they were actually about to pop some new teeth out. The two days before the teeth popped were usually the worst.
NewMomAnon says
Here is the wisdom I have aggregated about night time teething pain:
– First, teething pain should last only 48 hours or so as the teeth are breaking through the gums. If the crying lasts longer that, it is probably not teething.
-Advil offers better pain relief than Tylenol. My pediatrician said we could give Advil starting at 6 months, but check with your pediatrician first. Tylenol is really best for fevers.
– You can give Tylenol between Advil doses if needed. But be really careful about Tylenol dosing, because even a small overdose is dangerous for a baby.
– It is better to wake baby up to give pain relievers, rather than letting baby wake up from the pain; painkillers take about 20 minutes to work, so if baby wakes up in pain, you’ve got 20 minutes or so before they’ll fall asleep again.
– Nursing is a great pain reliever, so my pediatrician recommended nursing whenever baby wanted while teething.
And having said that – my kiddo popped the first tooth with no sleep disruptions immediately before or after, so go figure. I’ll probably pay for it with the next tooth.
Sleep Training Questions (Paging Nonny?) says
KJ, you and I are at the exact same point with our kids. I am the poster from earlier this week. Our guy has two little teeth and chews on everything all day long, although I don’t think another tooth is about to come out imminently . We are going to try spacing out the feedings first (maybe starting this weekend) and then go for Ferber technique if needed after that. Our daycare provider also told me today to have my husband go in and comfort baby at night. I have been doing so until now, but she says that if dad goes in baby will learn to dissociate falling back to sleep with nursing.
eh230 says
Another way to help disassociate sleep with nursing is to make sure that you nurse as the first step in your bed time routine instead of the middle or last step.
Nonny says
Yes, I have moved nursing back from the final step now too. Not doing it as the first step, but we have separated nursing from sleep now with a book in the middle. May move it further back still, but at the moment it is working…
NewMomAnon says
How did you move nursing back in the routine? My kiddo seems to fall asleep while nursing 80% of the time. Do you wake your baby up and then read a book?
Nonny says
Well, previously my baby would fall asleep nursing too. But we were starting our evening routine at 6:45 and typically didn’t start nursing until 7:15 or so. Recently we’ve been more diligent about starting bathtime at 6:30 or even earlier, so that we start nursing by about 6:50. I find that’s just early enough that she can nurse without falling asleep completely. I still have to be vigilant that she doesn’t start to fall asleep. It helps to switch sides halfway through. I also sing to her once we get to the second side, and pull her off if it looks like she is getting too drowsy (at that point she isn’t actually eating efficiently anyway). She is normally awake enough to read a book and then go down in her crib at about 70% drowsy, if that makes sense. Except last night, of course, when she was just so tired that she fell completely asleep while nursing and I couldn’t even rouse her enough to read a story.
NewMomAnon says
My 9-month old developed separation anxiety in the last couple weeks after I was hospitalized unexpectedly. Before the separation anxiety started, husband and I had decided to sleep train, but neither of us are comfortable leaving a terrified baby crying alone in the crib. We had resolved to have my husband handle night wakings as an interim step, but even that isn’t working because she won’t be calmed until I’m holding her. This is not fussing – this is wailing with tears and vomit and banging head against the sides of the crib (or against dad’s chest). Does anyone know of good resources for handling separation anxiety? The stuff I’m finding is about leaving babies at daycare, which isn’t a problem since my husband does daycare drop off and the anxiety seems to only occur when I’m nearby.
Nonny says
I don’t know of any resources but just wanted to say this sounds awful. Your poor daughter, and poor you! I’m so sorry you are going through this! For this kind of issue, would it be best to hire a sleep consultant?
Meg Murry says
If you hold her and then pass her to your husband does she flip out? What if you started with you comforting her, then passing her to him and having daddy put her in bed? Maybe that would help her re-learn that daddy can comfort her too. That is what we did when my kids were infants – if I was holding them and then set them down, they freaked out. If I was holding them and passed them to my husband or one of the grandmothers, they fussed a minute, then fell back asleep and then the other person could put them down in a bed or crib.
Alternately, could you go to a pack-in-play in your room, then move the pack and play to her room? Would that help with the “mommy is right here, see” aspect?
Ask Moxie has some good info on whether your kid is a tension increaser (starts crying and only gets more worked up) vs tension releaser (cries for a few minutes before going to sleep on her s!te. Here is some of it, you can find more by googling for Ask Moxie and tension increaser: http://askmoxie.org/blog/2006/06/babies_and_cio.html
NewMomAnon says
That’s a good idea, I think we’ll try passing her off to dad once she is calm. I suspect she’ll freak out, but it’s worth a shot. That Ask Moxie post is a perfect description of my kiddo! Holy cow. I think my husband and I were worried about sleep training being a lesson in escalating sadness and fury, and that article gives me confidence to give it a try and quickly declare it a failure if it is, in fact, a failure.
On a related note – I really appreciate the collaborative and accepting nature of these sleep posts. I feel like there is a ton of agenda-pushing in the sleep literature and even in some of the baby boards. The cry-it-out people warn that your child’s brain will not develop without 11 solid hours of night sleep and will be a permanent insomniac, and the attachment parenting folks keep quoting that horrible passage about babies feeling abandoned in their crib and claim that your child will be a pyschopath if you don’t co-sleep. It’s nice to have somewhere to get advice without an agenda. Thanks to everyone.
mascot says
I wish I had read that Moxie article when mine was a baby. He was a tension releaser but we didn’t have a name for it. We just knew that he had to fuss it out in order to go to sleep. We felt bad about just letting him scream, but things were always worse if we stayed in there and tried to “comfort” him. Even now, he still needs some time alone in his bed to talk to himself and fall asleep.
Anonymous says
That’s a pretty common age for separation anxiety to start or peak, IME. I’m sorry. There’s really no quick or relatively quick solution that I know of. It will get better with age, and probably time since it was spurred on by a recent event.
In line with Meg Murry’s link, I suggest sleep training with a Sleep Lady Shuffle or No-Cry Sleep Solution type of method. For my mama-only child, I did essentially a slow motion version. I’ll be honest and say that it took probably six months instead of the three days with Ferber’s method with my tension-releaser, but she DID eventually STTN.
Alternatively, if it gets you more sleep, then bedshare for a while and see if her nervousness settles a bit. If possible, I find it helpful to have a bed in the child’s room, so that they are where they should be sleeping. (My husband sleeps best away from the bedsharing baby anyway).
Nonny says
Now for something actually on-topic: Do any of you have this dress? I like it but am wondering if it is actually nice enough to wear in a biz-cas environment, or if it reads as too casual in real life. FWIW, I am eyeing the brown striped version.
Meg Murry says
I have the solid version, and I like it. I work in a pretty casual environment, so its actually probably the dressiest item I wear to work. I like to wear it with a wide belt, which may not be the most modern styling, but it makes me feel better to have the waist definition. The pockets are more for show or “quick place to stash my ID and card when heading for coffee” than actual pockets I would keep my wallet and phone in all day. I also like to wear it with a tissue tee turtleneck underneath as shown in the picture of the black and white one.
Because of the slit placement and the fact that its so fitted though, I often feel like its a tad on the short side for me. I ordered it in both regular and plus sizes and wound up keeping the regular since it was cheaper and fit ok, but if I order another color I will probably want to go for either plus size or tall to give me another inch or two, although then I might have to have it taken in a touch in the bust. Its not indecently short on me by any means, more just enough for me to be self conscious about the length and whether my Skimmies or Spanx are showing (they usually aren’t, but I get paranoid about it).
I think someone at the catalog may read this s!te, as the catalog was loudly announcing it as “The Sheath” a few catalogs back, the way we refer to “the skirt” around here :-)
For (former) preg 3L - thinking of you! says
I hope that the separation from your husband is progressing as smoothly as possible – thinking of you and your baby girl!
(former) preg 3L says
Thank you! Today is absolute h3ll.
For (former) preg 3L - thinking of you! says
The only way out is through. The only way out is through. Just keep telling yourself that. He’s making you miserable now, but you are depriving him of the ability to make you miserable every day for the rest of your life, so STAY STRONG and GO YOU!!! #team(former)preg3L
JJ says
Yes – when it gets especially difficult, remember that you have an entire cheering section here for you.
Walking Pregnant says
Does anyone have recommendations for how to reduce belly pain when exercising? I am 6 months and training to walk a 10K (after having been on absolutely no exercise restriction for two months of this pregnancy, which turned my body into mush.
But now, I find that whenever I walk more than about 20 minutes at a time, the muscles that “hold up” my belly – the ones sort of where my hip bones are – get really sore, both while I’m walking and afterwards.
Does anyone have recommendations either for exercises or for some sort of belt or “holding in” device that would make walking less uncomfortable? I can only imagine this problem is going to grow as I continue to do so.
rakma says
I found the belly bands to be a big help. I really liked the It’s You Babe Mini Cradle–was enough support to help, with out being too uncomfortable. I think I wore one every day for the last 2 months of my pregnancy.
Spirograph says
I have one of those belt things too. I got it on Amazon upon recommendation from my OB office, and it’s called the “Soft Form Maternity Support Belt.” I think I may have gotten a size too large (medium, I’m 8-10 pre-pregnancy and wear a medium in most maternity things), because I have to overlap the velcro a ton to feel much support, and then the edges aren’t secure and curl up and it seems very bulky under my clothes. If you’re just wearing it to exercise and don’t care about whether your dress is draping right, though, it is very effective and comfortable.
Katie says
The stripes and pocket placement on this dress do that model absolutely no favors in the hip area. Seems like it’d be cute in another print, though.