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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 12:49:12 PM   
Flintejae


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I echo Ruth. You aren't a bad mom. The crying didn't hurt him. He didn't feel abandoned. He knew you were there. He just didn't know how to self soothe himself to sleep. The only way he knows to self soothe, right now, is being on mommy's breast. He can and will learn different techniques. :)

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 1:17:43 PM   
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Lily and Megan, you might want to see if your libraries have THIS book, I have not read it but it gets good reviews from my friends(and Amazon).

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 1:25:00 PM   
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Thank you, Jae. I guess I need to convince myself that feeling frustrated doesn't mean I'm a bad mom. I feel like if I'm not always calm, patient and perfect that I'm messing up. How do I get over that?

Thanks Ryanne - I'll peek at the book.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 1:42:58 PM   
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Lily I'm reading that sleep book Ryanne recommended and so far it's good.

He starts by breaking down where you want them to sleep and why and goes from there on how to get to your goal without major 'trauma' to both of you.

Another book that gets rave reviews is the Happiest Baby on the Block. The author will be speaking here soon and I haven't decided if I want to go yet.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 1:48:20 PM   
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Thank you, Jae. I guess I need to convince myself that feeling frustrated doesn't mean I'm a bad mom. I feel like if I'm not always calm, patient and perfect that I'm messing up. How do I get over that?




Give yourself a good slap?


(and allow yourself to be an errant human being like the rest of us!!)

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 2:18:33 PM   
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Hey, the guilt is bad enough - now I'm supposed to smack myself too? LOL

I know what you are saying though. Thanks, Manda.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 2:26:36 PM   
Mrs.Wifey


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Ladies, HERE is an AP Support thread I started, over in parenting.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 6:00:25 PM   
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Hey, Kat, how is Luke doing now? Any better?

Ryanne, look at that little cutiepie in your avatar! Ohmygoodness -- she is so CUTE!!!

Hey, Jae -- just another 9 days till Jadon is 7 months, huh? NO WAY! When did our boys get so OLD?

I hope everybody's little ones and the big ones (parents) are doing well today.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 6:12:48 PM   
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I second what Ruth and Jae said- just because you tried something different, and baby cried does NOT mean you are a bad mum in any way shape or form, because then a few of us around here would be considered that too. You did what you had to do and tried something different. There is nothing wrong with that at all. You get over feeling guilty by not worrying what other mothers do and say. We ALL have tried different things. The AP parents, the CIO, the CC and the other methods. We are all looking for the same goal in the end, happy and healthy children. It doens't matter how you get to that point...

(hugs) to all the mums not getting sleep!

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 7:07:37 PM   
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I think Ryanne had a good idea to make a separate thread. I also started one for controlled crying because I think it needs a different place than this thread to talk about it.

Here is the thread link:

LINK

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 8:35:15 PM   
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Thanks, Nicole. Hopefully tonight will go well (for all of us).

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/3/2008 11:23:18 PM   
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Luke seems better. His color was back this evening but he was running a low grade fever. Turns out 8 of the 15 little ones in his class were also out with tummy troubles. We'll see how tomorrow goes.

Ryanne, love the new avvy! What an adorable picture! Reminds me that I must try pigtails on Kenna soon. I've been waiting for her to have enough hair to do something with. I'm just no sure she'll sit still long enough. When I comb or brush it now she snatches the brush from me and tries to do it herself.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 12:24:35 AM   
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Aww, love your avatar pic Ryanne. You and Micah are gonna have to beat 'em off with a stick.....or, your firearms LOL!

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 1:33:51 AM   
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Kat glad to hear that he is doing better!! praying the rest of the family are ok!!

Ryanne- I commented in the other thread, but I echo the others. She is very very cute! She looks sooo much like you don't you think?

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 1:41:05 AM   
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Thanks, Ladies! We are rather partial to her cuteness :)

Kat, we just started giving Gabby pigtails. I have been waiting, and waiting and drooling in jealousy over Chelsea's Mary and her pigtails. Gabby's are rather thin, but still cute!

Christina, we just figure we'll chain her in the basement and homeschool. That should work until she's at least 25.

Nicole, she actually looks a good deal like both of us... Micah at about 9 months and Me at abotu 10 months.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 1:58:27 AM   
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I think she's closer looking to you
I am jealous of your girl's pigtails too!! I love Mary's!! Grace hated her hair up and still does!!

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 2:14:22 AM   
Mrs.X


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Awwww, you were both really cute babies too. Man, look at those rolls on Micah, Hehehehe. I have to agree with Nicole, I think she looks more like you as a baby.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 6:36:26 AM   
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Ryanne,

Is it that she has more Micah's face shape but with your features?

Lovely pic btw.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 9:21:30 AM   
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I'm spending my first morning alone with Isaac today....scary.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 9:38:01 AM   
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Erin, have a WONDERFUL day with your little man!!

Ryanne, she is C-U-T-E!

Kat, try giving her another brush and having her brush a dolly's hair. Hannah still likes to do that. I have seen little black babies with elaborate braiding and wondered how on earth they get their babies to be still to do that! LOL


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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 10:07:09 AM   
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Erin, how wonderful! A week ago did you think this day would come? I'm so excited for you! Have a great day with him!

Josie has been terribly constipated. It seems everything I try isn't working. I'm going to make a HUGE effort to give her apple juice twice a day instead of just now and then. Hopefully that will clear it up. Sometimes the "rocks" are black...does that mean anything? The only think I can from my research is it's from giving the child an Iron supplement. Well, she doesn't get one. She's on formula (about 20-32 ounces a day) and gets two tablespoons of oatmeal (which has iron, I think).

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 10:32:29 AM   
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Isaac is also very constipated. Actually he just got a glycerin suppository just now and he's "working on it". Isaac is on Iron though, in both the formula we are fortifying with and his vitamins.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 11:26:10 AM   
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Tammy, IME, some kids don't do well with the standard iron recommendations. I'd talk to her doctor about going to a lower iron formula. Does she eat any other solids besides oatmeal? If not, maybe you could start with some applesauce and prunes to help her out?

Erin, do you have home health nurses coming out? Just curious how that works...

I don't know why Esther is so cranky these past couple days, but I am definitely sick with something or other, so maybe she has a touch of it too? She's not screaming, just squawking here and there and generally making unhappy noises.


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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 11:51:59 AM   
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nope no home health. i just take him into our regular doc every couple of weeks. the monitor people will come pull the data every few weeks. and he goes to physical therapy every week or so.

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RE: Baby Chat (take 5)!!!!! - 10/4/2008 12:54:06 PM   
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quote:

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Josie has been terribly constipated. It seems everything I try isn't working. I'm going to make a HUGE effort to give her apple juice twice a day instead of just now and then. Hopefully that will clear it up. Sometimes the "rocks" are black...does that mean anything? The only think I can from my research is it's from giving the child an Iron supplement. Well, she doesn't get one. She's on formula (about 20-32 ounces a day) and gets two tablespoons of oatmeal (which has iron, I think).



Have you tried her with prune juice at all?

Also, does she drink much plain water? Increasing her liquids should help regardless of what they are.

Is she eating much wheat? Wheat can tend to bung you up a bit sometimes.

Are you due to see your doctor with her for anything soon? If it was me, I'd probably double check with the doctor, with the stools being black.

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