Liz, when are you due again? I forget and it's on old ILE. I keep hoping to feel something (16 weeks and 2 days) but it's still early days yet I guess, and the placenta's at the front which could mask it until later :0(
― vicky (Vicky), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Liz, there's not a huge amount you can do about the SPD I don't think - I was told to keep my legs together as much as possible (!) ie bring both feet together on each step when you go up stairs, get out of bed by swinging both legs to the side etc. Also, sleep on your side with a pillow in between your knees. I had a lovely V shaped pillow which was a livesaver (and is still handy now for support when feeding).
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Thanks, Archel. It isn't a definite diagnosis but I'll talk to the midwife next week & try the pillow thing anyway.
― Liz (liz), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link
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The OBGYN was a professor, I don't think he put my mum at risk though.
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― vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/index.html
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― Bellicose Veins (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
On a lighter note, here is my baby brother (25 years my junior). He's just about to crawl, by the looks of things.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/396562899_4042640fe5.jpg
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― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
How are YOU doing? Is she sleeping through the night yet? I think that is one of the most important things that make it much easier for the parents: a good night sleep. :-) Shit, at the end of the year I'll have to give this up. Oh dear! :-)
What I am thinking about is taking the baby to a daycare (?) a couple of days a week. Most of my friends keep saying I should keep the baby (like I did with Ophelia) but I know how hard that wat (running a shop while taking of the baby). I don't think I'll cope with two kids... I feel guilty saying it but I do have to stick with the plan. I feel a bit like a bad mommy though.
― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
She had her first vaccinations yesterday as well - barely blinked, the brave little tinker :)
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link
How is old is she now exactly?
Yay for not crying! :-)
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― vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Here's something great about having two kids: they play together. Sometimes this devolves into fighting (at our house they even fight about imaginary things), but sometimes they play together so nicely and it's really great.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm wondering about a health issue. Cyrus, now 1.75, likes to carry around a bottle - it's his comfort item. It's time we should make him switch to a cup, but we haven't had the fortitude to deal with the crying. My real question is not so much about that, but about the volume of liquids he drinks. I know it's best not to give a kid that age more than a measly 4 oz. of juice. We only give him 100% juice and we water his bottles down so much that he only has a bit of juice. But he wants to have a bottle of milk or juice all the time. He wakes up in the middle of the night asking for a bottle a few times a night. Last night he drank 4 bottles during the night. He wakes up with his diaper soaked through. He cries and cries for it. He's also had sort of chronically loose poop, which makes me think he needs the liquid.
I know the answer already -- we have to be tough and just limit his bottles. But I'm wondering if maybe he's got some digestive/intestinal thing going on that makes him thirsty all the time.
― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I find it hard about daycare but I know that it'll be a good thing. In march OPhelia will go two days a week. A friendn said that she'll make big jumps as they are stimulated* a lot. My mom and best friend however are adamant that keeping a baby as long as possible is much better. Hmm, I think I'll contact the daycare and see if I can still reserve a place. It's quite difficult.
― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Maria, can you ask a doctor about the intestinal/digestive question? Because that has got to be really hard on your son's teeth. One possible compromise to make the transition easier: switching to water only bottles at night. Then he still has the bottle but at least it's not anything that is going to cause dental caries.
― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
oh and regarding gestation, pregnancy lasts 40 weeks from date of last period, 38 weeks from fertilization.
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
We have discussed whether there might be a no.2 one day, but we're going to see how we get along with one - right now I'm really not convinced I could go through pregnancy again (and I haven't even done childbirth yet). Mind you, I was doing fine until I went overdue - it's just this past week I have been somewhat miserable.
― Meg Busset (Meg Busset), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
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― schwantz (schwantz), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Our kid's going to daycare at six weeks. I sure hope you don't feel guilty about sending a one-year old to daycare!
― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaq (jaq), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
It seems like so many people I know are pregnant now, and I'm finding that I really really really want another one. Clearly not going to happen, and come on, I'll be 35 this summer, I'm already at the "advanced maternal age" period of my life, but wow, I WANT ONE.
Learning to live with "yeah, probably not gonna have any more" is sort of sad and a little hard.
― luna (luna), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
As the dad of two kids 21 months apart, this rings so many bells with me it's practically a campanologists' convention.
It's very tough at the moment; I'm not sure we'd have coped so far without the network of neighbourhood mums (people Pam met at the weekly drop-in centre when Ava was very young) who helped us out when Pam was in hospital and occasionally give her a break by taking Ava for an afternoon. Ava loves her sister very much but has a tendency to express it in a slightly unrestrained manner - the other day she almost gouged Tallulah's eyes out in her enthusiasm. I look forward to when the dynamic of their relationship is a bit different to the constantly dangerous scenario of the rambunctious 2-y-o running wild vs helpless 3-m-o tot who gurgles happily even when 2-y-o is dragging her off the couch to "play" with her.
Free time just vanishes when you have two, I find. One child might seem draining of your time and energy but you will pine for those days of just one kiddie. And, as Jaq says, the logistics of looking after/transporting/doing anything social with two is massively complicated vs one child.
No one should ever give you grief for relying on daycare or other outside help even if you have just the one child. Whatever helps you get by, whether financially or emotionally. Parenting seems to be this continuous balancing act between what you need to do to just to cope and what the prevailing expert opinion on any specific topic is telling you to do (whether feeding, sleep routine, weaning, toilet training, etc).
It's all worth it, though. I think.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link