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Saturday, April 5, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Something different
I ran across this and had to take the quiz.
You are Elinor Dashwood of Sense & Sensibility! You are practical, circumspect, and discreet. Though you are tremendously sensible and allow your head to rule, you have a deep, emotional side that few people often see.
I absolutely love Jane Austen; Sense and Sensibility is one of my all time favorite movies.
So if you are a fan, check it out and let me know who YOU are :)
PS Michelle - this one's for you!!! ;)
You are Elinor Dashwood of Sense & Sensibility! You are practical, circumspect, and discreet. Though you are tremendously sensible and allow your head to rule, you have a deep, emotional side that few people often see.
I absolutely love Jane Austen; Sense and Sensibility is one of my all time favorite movies.
So if you are a fan, check it out and let me know who YOU are :)
PS Michelle - this one's for you!!! ;)
Swing Shifts
That's what it's like, working swing shifts. Only, the boss(es) doesn't tell you what shift you will be on that day, they just call you in and you have to be ready to go. So, I can nap in the afternoon, go to bed early, and darn if they don't sleep that night. But I skip the nap, stay up a little later, and find myself asleep in the chair at 5 am for the first time since 12.
I'd make the full switch to nocturnal, but sure as I do, they'll decide to be up all day instead. I was actually doing laundry and cleaning the kitchen at 3 am. Might as well; Molly was awake and crying off and on anyway. No reason to get comfortable in the bed, only to be awoken by her banshee screams.
Can't keep my eyes open. 'Night 'Night (at 8 am)
I'd make the full switch to nocturnal, but sure as I do, they'll decide to be up all day instead. I was actually doing laundry and cleaning the kitchen at 3 am. Might as well; Molly was awake and crying off and on anyway. No reason to get comfortable in the bed, only to be awoken by her banshee screams.
Can't keep my eyes open. 'Night 'Night (at 8 am)
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Busted for solicitation
Anyone who spends any time with me knows that I am so not a name-brand snob. In fact, I'm a cheap snob. Er, anyway.... I am all about a bargain. If it comes in generic, that is probably the only way I buy it (with very few exceptions, because Blue Bell ice cream has no match, despite it's lofty price).
The trio are starting to get a little rich for my blood, however.
1) Specialty formula - it could be worse; I've seen cans for upwards of $25, and theirs is only $16. Still, no generic substitutions for this crowd, no sirree. And the uber-perfect and FREE mother's milk? Eh, they could take it or leave it, and generally tend to leave it. This is the second time in my life I've been really grateful for WIC.
2) Diapers - I literally have a closet FULL of every brand of diapers (Continued thanks to all who have gifted these as I am using up almost a pack a day). We've used up all the preemie ones and have moved on to Newborn. In the hospital, they used Pampers. Since we've been home, we've used almost exclusively Huggies, with the odd Luvs thrown in. But yesterday I found a pack of Pampers Newborn. Heaven! I didn't think it made much difference but they are vastly different. Now, I will never poo-poo a free diaper (Ha! Ha! I'm clever at this hour of the a.m.), but man, I'm thinking hard about seeing if Wally World will exchange a slew of diapers for me. I don't want to know how much I might lose in price difference though. Ug!
3) Buttpaste (as it is affectionately known in our house) - All of the babies, but Molly especially, have suffered from the most horrendous "diaper rash" I have ever seen. It makes me cry to see it. I first noticed it in the NICU and it has been off and on ever since. It is like open sores on their little behinds. *shudder* We addressed this with the pediatrician the other day. She recommended one of 2 diaper creams because all of the other ones have "extra crap" in them, including alcohols and acids. So, I'm having to throw out the Boudreaux's and the generic Desitin that have always sufficed in exchange for the $7 a tube Aveeno. I have used half a tube in the past 3 days. Yikes! But I love this stuff and it is absolutely working, in combination with the Pampers diapers and Pampers Sensitive wipes, to clear up even Molly's skin.
So, for those of you that have asked what we want and/or need:
Pampers (currently collecting size 1 diapers) - though we honestly will use and be grateful for any brand
Pampers Sensitive wipes refills
Aveeno diaper cream
Bottle liners, 4 oz., Target brand (that fits the Playtex) EDIT: Actually, at the rate that they are increasing the amounts of their feeds, and the number of liners I already have, we need to start stocking up on 8 oz liners instead.
And since I reminded myself about the pedi:
Emily 4 lbs 11 oz
Molly 5 lbs 2 oz
Cooper 5 lbs 12 oz
to the best of my memory. I'll be putting a notebook of some type in the diaper bag to record all of that because I'd forgotten by the time we left the office and got loaded back up on the way home.
The trio are starting to get a little rich for my blood, however.
1) Specialty formula - it could be worse; I've seen cans for upwards of $25, and theirs is only $16. Still, no generic substitutions for this crowd, no sirree. And the uber-perfect and FREE mother's milk? Eh, they could take it or leave it, and generally tend to leave it. This is the second time in my life I've been really grateful for WIC.
2) Diapers - I literally have a closet FULL of every brand of diapers (Continued thanks to all who have gifted these as I am using up almost a pack a day). We've used up all the preemie ones and have moved on to Newborn. In the hospital, they used Pampers. Since we've been home, we've used almost exclusively Huggies, with the odd Luvs thrown in. But yesterday I found a pack of Pampers Newborn. Heaven! I didn't think it made much difference but they are vastly different. Now, I will never poo-poo a free diaper (Ha! Ha! I'm clever at this hour of the a.m.), but man, I'm thinking hard about seeing if Wally World will exchange a slew of diapers for me. I don't want to know how much I might lose in price difference though. Ug!
3) Buttpaste (as it is affectionately known in our house) - All of the babies, but Molly especially, have suffered from the most horrendous "diaper rash" I have ever seen. It makes me cry to see it. I first noticed it in the NICU and it has been off and on ever since. It is like open sores on their little behinds. *shudder* We addressed this with the pediatrician the other day. She recommended one of 2 diaper creams because all of the other ones have "extra crap" in them, including alcohols and acids. So, I'm having to throw out the Boudreaux's and the generic Desitin that have always sufficed in exchange for the $7 a tube Aveeno. I have used half a tube in the past 3 days. Yikes! But I love this stuff and it is absolutely working, in combination with the Pampers diapers and Pampers Sensitive wipes, to clear up even Molly's skin.
So, for those of you that have asked what we want and/or need:
Pampers (currently collecting size 1 diapers) - though we honestly will use and be grateful for any brand
Pampers Sensitive wipes refills
Aveeno diaper cream
Bottle liners, 4 oz., Target brand (that fits the Playtex) EDIT: Actually, at the rate that they are increasing the amounts of their feeds, and the number of liners I already have, we need to start stocking up on 8 oz liners instead.
And since I reminded myself about the pedi:
Emily 4 lbs 11 oz
Molly 5 lbs 2 oz
Cooper 5 lbs 12 oz
to the best of my memory. I'll be putting a notebook of some type in the diaper bag to record all of that because I'd forgotten by the time we left the office and got loaded back up on the way home.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Figuring it out
Scott says it's my fault. He says they are "my" children and that they are night owls. But hey, I was going to bed by midnight when I was pregnant with them, so it's not as if they've ever been subject to my up-all-night habits. Staying up until 3 and 4 in the morning is only fun if you are going to get to sleep in, NOT if you're going to get back up in 2 hours.
I'm trying a new tactic. I'm making myself go to bed before 10 so that I can sleep a couple of hours before the fun begins. Sure enough, last night, after the 11 o'clock feeding, at about midnight, Scott laid them all in the bed........and none of them went to sleep. So I got back up and was up pretty steadily until 4. That part wasn't bad; since I'd had a little nap, I was feeling ok. The part that sucked was the short sleep until about 6, after which I was NOT ready to get up. But, after that round of feeding, they like to sleep all morning. So, Yes, evil mother of newborns that I am, I don't wake them to feed them. If they wake, we eat; if not, we sleep. So we've been sleeping all morning, and have become lazy bones who stay in bed until 11 or so. Then we spend the day trying to get back on "schedule".
Whatever works.
I'm trying a new tactic. I'm making myself go to bed before 10 so that I can sleep a couple of hours before the fun begins. Sure enough, last night, after the 11 o'clock feeding, at about midnight, Scott laid them all in the bed........and none of them went to sleep. So I got back up and was up pretty steadily until 4. That part wasn't bad; since I'd had a little nap, I was feeling ok. The part that sucked was the short sleep until about 6, after which I was NOT ready to get up. But, after that round of feeding, they like to sleep all morning. So, Yes, evil mother of newborns that I am, I don't wake them to feed them. If they wake, we eat; if not, we sleep. So we've been sleeping all morning, and have become lazy bones who stay in bed until 11 or so. Then we spend the day trying to get back on "schedule".
Whatever works.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Sleepless in Seattle
because...
It is the crying that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
Somebody started crying it not knowing what it was
And now they just keep crying it on and on just because
It is the crying that never ends....
Our hospital 3 hour, and then much easier, much saner, home 4 hour schedules have gone to shi......er, the dogs. Noone taught them how to tell time apparently. For some God-only-knows reason, Molly wakes up, like clockwork, an hour before feeding time. Now, this would be all fine and good, if she didn't scream like a banshee all night. So I tried holding her off until the next scheduled feeding, except that she started spitting up all the time and the pediatrician says this is because she's getting all worked up and sucking down air with all of that "fretting" so try not to let her "fret". Er, right. Tell her that.
So I decided to try a little demand feeding. Feed the ones that are hungry, then wake the others and make them eat, too, so that they are all on the same schedule, even if that schedule is weird and unpredictable.
How you wanna guess THAT worked out?? I've slept one 2 hour stretch since before midnight. AGAIN. I even woke Scott up to help because it got so out of control. And dangit if Molly AND Emily weren't up after a mere 2 hours! While I was feeding them, Cooper was lying in bed "fretting" so I got him up after the girls were done. And he wouldn't take a drop. Sh.......oot. Now he'll be up in 30 minutes wanting to eat.
I'm a little delirious and hysterical. Of course, now that I've completely given up on sleeping during this calendar day, they're all stone cold out in there.
I give up.
It is the crying that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends
Somebody started crying it not knowing what it was
And now they just keep crying it on and on just because
It is the crying that never ends....
Our hospital 3 hour, and then much easier, much saner, home 4 hour schedules have gone to shi......er, the dogs. Noone taught them how to tell time apparently. For some God-only-knows reason, Molly wakes up, like clockwork, an hour before feeding time. Now, this would be all fine and good, if she didn't scream like a banshee all night. So I tried holding her off until the next scheduled feeding, except that she started spitting up all the time and the pediatrician says this is because she's getting all worked up and sucking down air with all of that "fretting" so try not to let her "fret". Er, right. Tell her that.
So I decided to try a little demand feeding. Feed the ones that are hungry, then wake the others and make them eat, too, so that they are all on the same schedule, even if that schedule is weird and unpredictable.
How you wanna guess THAT worked out?? I've slept one 2 hour stretch since before midnight. AGAIN. I even woke Scott up to help because it got so out of control. And dangit if Molly AND Emily weren't up after a mere 2 hours! While I was feeding them, Cooper was lying in bed "fretting" so I got him up after the girls were done. And he wouldn't take a drop. Sh.......oot. Now he'll be up in 30 minutes wanting to eat.
I'm a little delirious and hysterical. Of course, now that I've completely given up on sleeping during this calendar day, they're all stone cold out in there.
I give up.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Running Tally
In the past 5 days with 3 babies, we have gone through:
5 packs of diapers
4 containers of wipes
2 cans of formula (since I'm BFing and pumping)
3 boxes of bottle liners (I use the Playtex)
6 loads of laundry (I do a daily baby load)
14 faxes and phone calls to the pediatrician and WIC to get more formula
200 text messages and phone calls from Daddy and DiDi with baby updates and calls for help (as well as a few mostly unanswered or unreturned calls from other family and friends)
Whew! What a week :)
And lest you should think that it is all sunshine and roses, I was awake with one to three of them last night from 1:30 to 7:30. I slept 3 half hour stretches between 11 and 7:30. This has happened twice, both times after I mentioned how surprisingly easy it was with 3 babies at home.
And, I learned another little Murphy's Law of babies: If you dress them, they will spit. The other day I changed them all into coordinating outfits before I fed them. And they all spit up half of a bottle worth all over those adorable little clothes.
Oh, and if you are already exhausted and a little hysterical, that will be the night you will lose a binkie, forget to refill the wipe container, and someone will spit up all over the bed so that you have to change the sheets at 5 am.
And, I'm having another bout of the gallbladder today (at least that is what we are guessing it is) with abdominal pain, nausea, and um, lots of trips to the bathroom.
I look forward to Saturday so Daddy can take over for a couple of hours and I might actually leave the house :o
5 packs of diapers
4 containers of wipes
2 cans of formula (since I'm BFing and pumping)
3 boxes of bottle liners (I use the Playtex)
6 loads of laundry (I do a daily baby load)
14 faxes and phone calls to the pediatrician and WIC to get more formula
200 text messages and phone calls from Daddy and DiDi with baby updates and calls for help (as well as a few mostly unanswered or unreturned calls from other family and friends)
Whew! What a week :)
And lest you should think that it is all sunshine and roses, I was awake with one to three of them last night from 1:30 to 7:30. I slept 3 half hour stretches between 11 and 7:30. This has happened twice, both times after I mentioned how surprisingly easy it was with 3 babies at home.
And, I learned another little Murphy's Law of babies: If you dress them, they will spit. The other day I changed them all into coordinating outfits before I fed them. And they all spit up half of a bottle worth all over those adorable little clothes.
Oh, and if you are already exhausted and a little hysterical, that will be the night you will lose a binkie, forget to refill the wipe container, and someone will spit up all over the bed so that you have to change the sheets at 5 am.
And, I'm having another bout of the gallbladder today (at least that is what we are guessing it is) with abdominal pain, nausea, and um, lots of trips to the bathroom.
I look forward to Saturday so Daddy can take over for a couple of hours and I might actually leave the house :o
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