@emilyliz135 @nailpolishsoup My biggest problem is that we share a room and I’m just not sure what to do about that. Cuz I will hear it all night long
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@maternalgroyp
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@maternalgroyp @nailpolishsoup It’s hard on every mom to hear their baby cry. When we finally sleep trained my 2 year old, my husband, mom, and sister took the monitor and I either went for a walk or took a shower with loud music on the other side of the house. She cried a total of 14 minutes over three nights
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some fun facts about me & sleep:
-the longest stretch of sleep I’ve had since 2020 is a single 5 hour stretch and 9 nights I had a 4 hour stretch (yes I know it was 9 times because each one was a documented miracle)
-newborn sleep stage is when I get the most sleep (3 hour chunks)
-my babies all wake up every 30-90 minutes the entire night arouns 6/7 weeks and onward until at least 12mo.
- I have virtually been waking up between 1-3 hours all night, every night, for almost 6 years STRAIGHT.
does anyone else out there function on this amount of sleep? Does anyone else have babies that will not sleep longer than that?
I’m completely exhausted but no one seems to have good sleeping advice other than leave them to cry.
I don’t know what to do …all my other goals seem impossible while being in such a state of constant sleep deprivation.
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A conundrum. A catch-22.
husband treats wife terribly because she’s fat and no longer attractive.
wife wants to get hot again and then he’ll be kind to her- but then she’ll resent him for treating her so badly when she was having a hard time. And then she’ll treat him terribly.
What to do. What to do. . .
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@mangobunnn def had some moments around night 623 where I told my husband “just get your rifle and shoot me please”
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my baby waking up every hour the first few weeks was enough to make me heavily consider being one and done. & im so freaking terrified of the 4 month regression bc now he only wakes up once & knocks out asap after i feed him... i thought i was gonna sudoku myself lmfao
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some fun facts about me & sleep: -the longest stretch of sleep I’ve had since 2020 is a single 5 hour stretch and 9 nights I had a 4 hour stretch (yes I know it was 9 times because each one was a documented miracle) -newborn sleep stage is when I get the most sleep (3 hour chunks) -my babies all wake up every 30-90 minutes the entire night arouns 6/7 weeks and onward until at least 12mo. - I have virtually been waking up between 1-3 hours all night, every night, for almost 6 years STRAIGHT. does anyone else out there function on this amount of sleep? Does anyone else have babies that will not sleep longer than that? I’m completely exhausted but no one seems to have good sleeping advice other than leave them to cry. I don’t know what to do …all my other goals seem impossible while being in such a state of constant sleep deprivation.
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I’m not saying there aren’t good foster people. And I don’t think she was *just* in it for the money either. But it was a factor.
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This is true.
My neighbor (60 yr old lady) did foster care and had a young boy about 10. Sweet kid. He gave her some trouble. I remember one time she said “I told them I was going to give him back, but they got him on some medication and now I get more money so I’ll keep him longer “
Never looked at her the same again.
Shawn Ryan@ShawnRyan762
Foster Mom Exposes the Demonic Fraud Inside Foster Care “She goes, ‘Oh honey, I make $28,000 a month on foster care.’ I was like, ‘What?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, because I have this many kids.’ She goes, ‘Here’s the thing. You want to make sure they fail in school. If they fail in school and you can get them on medication, your rate goes up. Every time they don’t pass a grade, your rate goes up because they’re a more difficult kid. Every time they need medication, your rate goes up.’” @jen_lilley
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@maternalgroyp You dont suck. God blessed you with these babies. He wanted you to have these babies.
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@stefiegriff @sim_kiever She she just gagged on it and cried and spit it out my mom said.
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@Lady_Grimaldus We haven’t been trying to have the last 3 kids. We’ve tried *not* to but clearly suck at NFP
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@maternalgroyp Im being serious. If you desperately need sleep and you have the need to be present with your infants, it's time to start taking 2 or so year long breaks between them. So you can sleep and be present for your other children
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@skroni @throughchrist17 I’ve been cosleeping since birth
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@throughchrist17 @maternalgroyp Cosleep. Look up the safe sleep 7 from La leche league. Sidecar a crib or buy an Alaskan king.
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@sim_kiever @stefiegriff I have glass Philips avent bottles yes
Yes she was hungry. I left her with my mom while I did a work thing and she would have normally been nursing at that time.
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@maternalgroyp @stefiegriff Have you tried with a bottle when she’s very hungry? And have you tried the Philips avent bottles? Those worked like a charm for me when others failed.
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@Liberty38129118 Yea they’re in the bed next to me
Which I honestly love but I’m not getting any sleep
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@stefiegriff @sim_kiever I couldn’t get her to take a bottle of breastmilk either though :/
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@maternalgroyp @sim_kiever You can also pump & do half+half that way they get used to it. There's definitely ways to do it. I didn't introduce formula to any of mine until around 9 months. One liked it cold, one liked it perfectly 98 degrees. Both liked diff nips. Sleep improved so much every time.
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@maternalgroyp Take a break from having babies is the only advice I have that would align with your goal of not letting your little babies cry it out. Or sleep training.
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If you want to be a smaller size, you have to be willing to accept that you're going to be hungry more often. That's it. That's the secret. I used to think hunger was a "problem" to be solved, but it's fine to let yourself be hungry sometimes. Not STARVING, but hungry. Even on a low dose of Reta, I usually go to bed a little hungry most nights.
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@2wiceB @teachrobotslove I’m right where you are - when I try to cut carbs out or down, my supply tanks
Calorie counting arouns 2000 is fine but if I go under then supply dips
Each person is different tho
But I’m staying fat for now
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Oh yea I have a next to 0 tolerance for screaming crying babies.
I will hold them the entire day and night basically their first year.
If they want to be on mom - that’s what they get. lol
If the baby fusses LESS with me holding than someone else holding - then I’m holding.
I cannot function at all while a baby is screaming / crying. I have to fix that immediately before I can attend to anything else.
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it sounds like we have very different tolerances for fussing babies! my youngest (my bad sleeper) was so pissed off at life for like the first 6 months of his life that he’d even scream and fuss while someone was holding him and there was not much anyone could do. so for us some screaming at bedtime didn’t even faze us
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Like this baby for whatever reason, between 4-6 months FREAKED OUT in the car if it was after 4pm. Earlier in the day? Totally fine.
As soon as it was 4pm or later it was nonstop screaming.
So for those 2 months I just committed to NOT driving after 4pm for that reason.
And anything else that conflicted I just didn’t go to
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so what would you do if your baby was screaming and crying and losing their mind in the car but you HAD to keep driving because you were late to an important appointment? no one would argue that it permanently messes up your baby to do that because people have to drive and some babies simply hate the car. I view a couple of nights of sleep training the same way!
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@smalltown_wife @Hestia_Esq We have the option of putting the baby in with our 5yr old & 2 year old (they share. Room)
Or with our 4 year old
They’re all upstairs though. And we are on the main floor - so I don’t know how good it is to have a baby screaming waking all the other kids up … hmmm
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we had to put ours in a separate room. honestly he was one of those babies that cosleeping simply did NOT work for. even now he’s a super light sleeper and stuff will wake him up that would never have bothered my other kid. if you have a way to put his crib in a separate room I’d definitely try that
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