"Newest" Moms Hangout... take 2!

[caitty13]

Patsy I just bought this today at CVS for $9.99. Not sure if it the same as what cmskok was talking about? I got a $2.00 off coupon and if you spend $15 on neutrogena products you get $5.00 EBC.

http://www.neutrogena.com/econsumer.../sun/pure-freebaby-sunblock-lotion-spf-60.jsp

 

[hulagirl87]

Here's a question... Would you or did you leave your baby to go away for a couple days? I have the opportunity to go down to WDW and run the half marathon in January. DD will be 11 months at that point. DH would stay home and take care of her. I don't want to look like a bad mom if I go. Plus, I don't know if I (or she!) would have separation anxiety... Just looking for anyone that might have done this, or wishes they had

 

[Piecey]

I'd go!
Then again, I'm not typical. My parents have been keeping Lucas overnight since he was about 2 weeks old. My MIL kept him for 2 or 3 nights the week of Thanksgiving.. I'd say he was about 5 months old then.

It doesn't bother me. I trust my parents and I know they'll take care of him... I think it's healthy to be able to leave him with someone else. He's gotten used to being around other people and he doesn't seem to mind so much when he's not with us.


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Thanks for the sunscreen info! I printed the coupons and will head out this week and try to do the ECB deal. DH wants me to call the pediatrician but I think I might just buy a tube of this stuff and test it on him.

 

[yellowfish78]

We are leaving Alex for a week in August to go to Vegas. He'll be two weeks shy of a year old (ack!) and DH and I are TOTALLY looking forward to a trip with just the two of us. We really need to reconnect. Then I'm headed down to Disney in December with some girlfriends. I know I'm going to HATE to leave, but I think it'll be ok.

I forgot to mention the consignment sale was OK. It was slightly on the small size, I arrived 15 minutes late and all the big toys were gone. They had TONS of girls stuff and very little in 9-12 month and 12-18 month boys. I did find this adorable dress shirt with vest and (real!) tie for a wedding we are going to next week. I'll be sure to post a picture of that one!

 

[MinnieFan4ever]

Here's a question... Would you or did you leave your baby to go away for a couple days? I have the opportunity to go down to WDW and run the half marathon in January. DD will be 11 months at that point. DH would stay home and take care of her. I don't want to look like a bad mom if I go. Plus, I don't know if I (or she!) would have separation anxiety... Just looking for anyone that might have done this, or wishes they had

I have actually left Natalie 3x's. The 1st time was 5 nights when she was 5 months old, DH and I went to WDW after Thanksgiving. The 2nd time was for 2 nights, we went to LasVegas. The 3rd time was this past March for 6 nights. We went to WDW with my Brother and SIL. We have a 5 night trip planned to DL in September and a I know we will be doing something over Memorial Day weekend too. Each time my parents have stayed with her. I really think it was harder on me than her. Natalie is the only grandchild so my parents are THRILLED to watch her and spoil her. So GO and HAVE FUN. She will be just fine.

 

[december]

I think it just depends on you and the baby! Katie is breastfed, and is a total mama's baby. She does go to daycare from 7:10 until around 4 every day. But if I'm running late to get her, she starts throwing a fit. She has totally rejected the bottle (but will drink real milk from a sippy cup), but wants to nurse for hours after we get home. And she nurses to sleep and sleeps with me at night. No way could anybody else do anything with her! My fault, but that's how it is. Dh would hide if he thought he had to keep her overnight. He can barely keep her for me to run to Walmart.

My parents have NEVER kept any of my kids overnight. My mother wants us to visit, then go home. She has no patience. I really don't understand why she had 4 of us.

Dh's father has only kept the older two once or twice, and they were much older-not preschool aged.

Dh's mother has kept the older two more, but wouldn't be able to handle Katie at this age. She says she likes them better older. And she has a maltese that bites! He bites them (mil and her dh, not my kids)! So Katie couldn't go there anyway. I am planning to leave both girls with her next summer, when Katie is 2, to take a trip with ds12 for his 14th birthday. He wants to go to Universal without his sisters

I've never had much help with my kids. It was a shock with the 1st 2, but with Katie I knew what I was getting myself into.

 

[hulagirl87]

Thanks for the quick responses! I feel like I will be fine to go by then, it's still 8 months away, but I guess I'm just thinking about how she is now and so dependent on me. DH helps out here and there, but I am the one that gets up with her at night and I stay home with her all day (I'm not going back to work). He actually is encouraging me to go, so I think I might. Still have a little time to think about it

 

[cmskok]

Caitty, here is the sunscreen that I am talking about:
http://www.neutrogena.com/econsumer...segment=women&catId=3&subCatId=9&pagingPage=4

The baby and kids one (pink bottle) broke my daughter out too....this is the plain old sensitive skin one.

Also, a couple of days away would not be the end of the world..I left my daughter for the first time when she was 17 months. She was better than I thought!

 

[KristEn87]

Jamie and I went to WDW in late Feb early March and left Evan at home with my parents. He was 3 months old at the time. I felt really guilty at first for leaving him and thought that I was being bad mom, but now looking back it was a good decision. He was young enough that he wouldn't really realize it. It was way harder on me than him! I've never ever wanted to leave Disney but by the 4th day I was ready to get back to him and practically ran off the plan to get to him. I'd do it again thought... Jamie and I got to reconnect and I think being able to spend sometime away to relax and focus on yourself can help you be a better mommy. I'd say go!

 

[ArielRae]

I'm curious how long your 2 month olds were sleeping at night?
DS is at that age now and seems to be sleeping longer.

 

[cmskok]

My two had very different sleep routines. My son, who is now 8, slept 2 1/2 hours at a time, until he was 10 months old. Then he started sleeping 12 hours a night, and he STILL DOES! My 6 year old daughter, on the other hand, was sleeping 6 hours by the time she was 2 months old and she then slept an average of 10-12 hours a night. They are just different, as all kids are!

 

[TiggerStac]

leaving kids: I'd leave my kids w/certain people overnight. My mom (and my dad is there) absolutely I'd leave them and my aunt (who is CJ's godmother).

That's about it!! My brothers forget it...my hubby's entire family, forget it. Now that Ty is older (8.5) I would probably let him spend a night w/hubbys father, but thats it and only cuz he's self sufficient.

Sunscreen: I'm very confussed what to do w/CJ this year. I ended up getting 2 different ones to try. We have to be careful w/him because of his skin issues, so we get the aveeno baby. But...it has to be rubbed in!! Can't rub his skin or his hives pop out! So I got some I believe coopertone spray on 70..it isn't the spray and rub, the straight spray. I am going to put the aveeno on his face, as it has to be rubbed in anyways. But I'm going to try a little bit of the coopertone on his arms/legs and see how his skin reacts

He finally figured out sippy cup this weekend. He likes the 1st years ones..they have a squishy spout, but are spill proof. Off to target today and got 7 or 8 more (a few for daycare, rest for us).

They are transitioning him out of the baby room at daycare!! I'm very excited as the teacher in the toddler 1 room is our babysitter, so they get along great But...he's a toddler! A couple things they do, we need to modify, but no problem, I've already discussed it w/them. they paint w/pudding, so I went out and got some that they can make for him w/his soy. Then they also frost sugar cookies. I did some investagating and some of the frosting is made w/milk, some soy. I need to ask which one they use and if it's the milk one, I'll just grab him a jar of soy.. or I'm sure they'd just change bradys. I think it was pillsbury that was made w/soy. He'll still be eating in high chair, so we don't have to worry about him stealing other kids food, yet.

It's funny we talk about transitioning him and I bumped into our babysitter 2x this week...at 2 totally random places. I've never seen her outside of daycare in the 15 months my kids have gone there...now twice since wednesday!

off to bed, my house is a mess trying to pack!

 

[BabyTigger99]

I just picked up Elliott about an hour ago from spending the weekend with my parents. DH's boss at his base was retiring, so I went down to the ceremony (about 2 1/2 hours away). My parents picked him up on Friday, because they were going to their cabin (they had DS10 as well), and today, we had a brat fry for my son's Cub Scout Pack, which I ended up working at for 7 hours (and have a sunburn now!!), and then I had a board meeting for DS's soccer, so Elliott was gone for just over 48 hours. And now, I am just about ready to crash hard into bed!

 

[december]

I mentioned this discussion to dh, who had been gone all day with ds12, again, and his response was-if you ever did that there wouldn't be a reason to come home. So welcome to my world! I wouldn't leave her anyway, but what a nice attitude he had about it. He just really doesn't get it.


He had the same kind of attitude the first time I took the kids to WDW (2006), but once he saw that I was really going, he backed off. He isn't happy about my trips, but he quit arguing about them.

 

[amandaluvsgoofy]

So need to vent. You guys remember the link I showed you to a house that we were looking at? It's listed as a 3-2, plus a guest house. Well, we pull up Saturday afternoon and the realtor meets us outside only to say "It's actually a 2-1, plus the guest house is a 1-1, thus bringing the total to a 3-2". I'm sorry, but that is totally misleading! Is this common for listings? I'm just bummed because this house was in a perfect neighborhood and just within our price budget! I do have to remind myself that we haven't even listed our home yet, so there's really no rush But it still kind of stinks. Oh well, now we can focus on cleaning our house up before we list it. Plus I have to remind myself that things will work out the way they're supposed to!
Anyway, thanks for letting me vent! I hope you all have a great Monday!!

 

[ADAMANDLISA]

So need to vent. You guys remember the link I showed you to a house that we were looking at? It's listed as a 3-2, plus a guest house. Well, we pull up Saturday afternoon and the realtor meets us outside only to say "It's actually a 2-1, plus the guest house is a 1-1, thus bringing the total to a 3-2". I'm sorry, but that is totally misleading! Is this common for listings? I'm just bummed because this house was in a perfect neighborhood and just within our price budget! I do have to remind myself that we haven't even listed our home yet, so there's really no rush But it still kind of stinks. Oh well, now we can focus on cleaning our house up before we list it. Plus I have to remind myself that things will work out the way they're supposed to!
Anyway, thanks for letting me vent! I hope you all have a great Monday!!

It's actually good when something like this happens. Now you can get your house ready to get sold. If you had fallen in love and it sold before you sold yours, you would be heartbroken. Trust me!!! It sucks! We were so in love with a house that now we compare it to every other one we see. (This probably isn't a good thing, since it was an 1890's house that had been modernized!)

 

[harleyquinn]

I have been lurking on these boards for a bit, but I am actually a pregnant Diser...due around September 23rd. This is baby#3 for me so I don't know if I qualify as a "new" mom but I figured I would still say hi!!

As for IKEA, we drove to the Pittsburgh one from Cleveland last week...we love it there! My kids are always excited to visit Pittsburgh's children's museum on out trips. It is great!!

Hey! We're neighbors! I live in Lake County.

I forgot to mention the consignment sale was OK. It was slightly on the small size, I arrived 15 minutes late and all the big toys were gone. They had TONS of girls stuff and very little in 9-12 month and 12-18 month boys. I did find this adorable dress shirt with vest and (real!) tie for a wedding we are going to next week. I'll be sure to post a picture of that one!

I'm glad I didn't drive out. A big group of us are going to The Big Red Wagon sale on May 15th in Berea (I think). There's a website I can get you the link to if you are interested. They are the best in the area from what I hear.

I'm curious how long your 2 month olds were sleeping at night?
DS is at that age now and seems to be sleeping longer.

I can't believe how hard it is to remember...Lily had her days/nights mixed up for the first 6 weeks, so by 2 months she was finally sleeping at night, probably anywhere from 2 to 4 hour stretches.

She has no normal sleep pattern at night. She was sleeping for 4 hour stretches, but with this cold she's down to 3. I'm hoping it'll go longer again now that she's FINALLY starting to get better. Of course she's also right near the 9 month sleep regression, so who knows what'll happen.

When it comes to slepp every baby is very different.

 

[staley7580]

Here's a question... Would you or did you leave your baby to go away for a couple days? I have the opportunity to go down to WDW and run the half marathon in January. DD will be 11 months at that point. DH would stay home and take care of her. I don't want to look like a bad mom if I go. Plus, I don't know if I (or she!) would have separation anxiety... Just looking for anyone that might have done this, or wishes they had

I left my kids with my husband when the twins were 11 months. By that time.. I NEEDED a break. I hadnt been away from them for more then an hour or two since they were born. I was gone for 4 days. Honestly.. the only ones that missed me were my husband, because he had to do all the work.. and my four year old. She would sing to me over the phone about three times a day. The babies didnt seem to care, and my 8yo didnt care. He got to play video games the whole time I was gone!

I mentioned this discussion to dh, who had been gone all day with ds12, again, and his response was-if you ever did that there wouldn't be a reason to come home. So welcome to my world! I wouldn't leave her anyway, but what a nice attitude he had about it. He just really doesn't get it.


He had the same kind of attitude the first time I took the kids to WDW (2006), but once he saw that I was really going, he backed off. He isn't happy about my trips, but he quit arguing about them.

NICE. My husband would be pulling my shoe out of his butt if he said that. He also loves when I take off for a weekend with the kids. Video games and Pizza!! All weekend! I havent done it since before the twins came... I dont know if I could fly by myself with the twins.

On another note.. Today is my baby girls birthday!! She is five. My dh is having a REALLY hard time with it. He caught her when she was born.. and ever since she has been a full on daddies girl.

 

[MinnieFan4ever]

I am just lucky that I have great parents to watch the baby when we want to go out of town. They keep asking when we are going away next. Since my parents live 3 hours away, they don't get to see her every week so I think this helps to. They always come out here to watch her and the doggies.

My husband is actually pushing me to make my girls trip reservation soon. We get together every year, but last year I missed because Natalie was only 5 1/2 weeks old when they got together. We take a long weekend together. Fun Fun Fun!

Lots of talk about sunscreen here. I just got the Aveeno baby and I hope it doesn't bother her skin.

 

[december]

So need to vent. You guys remember the link I showed you to a house that we were looking at? It's listed as a 3-2, plus a guest house. Well, we pull up Saturday afternoon and the realtor meets us outside only to say "It's actually a 2-1, plus the guest house is a 1-1, thus bringing the total to a 3-2". I'm sorry, but that is totally misleading! Is this common for listings? I'm just bummed because this house was in a perfect neighborhood and just within our price budget! I do have to remind myself that we haven't even listed our home yet, so there's really no rush But it still kind of stinks. Oh well, now we can focus on cleaning our house up before we list it. Plus I have to remind myself that things will work out the way they're supposed to!
Anyway, thanks for letting me vent! I hope you all have a great Monday!!

That is very misleading! And it was such a darling house.

I tell dh all the time that he is lucky to have me because no one else would put up with his ornery self. He has always been like an old man, set in his ways. Even at 16 when we got together. I love him, but sometimes I want to strangle him.