justhat
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We're at my mom's house in NJ now. We left Friday night after going to this Christmas display with our friends and didn't get here till 2am! I was so exhausted. We had to stop so many times cause Madison is sick and kept having these coughing spells where she'll cough till she gags and/or vomits. We thought she outgrew it as she hadn't done it in awhile, but I guess not. Well then I started thinking, she would get like this after every cold last winter and then was okay with colds in the spring, summer and fall, but now is back to this chronic cough. So I'm a little worried she might have a mild asthma so when we get back home in January we're taking her to the dr again. The thing is, I know kids get sick a lot, especially once they start daycare/preschool, but for every single cold to last forever (seriously, she's been 'healthy' maybe 4 days total since late September when she got a cold) and then turn into this horrible congested cough with vomiting is a bit much. I don't know how much longer I can take the vomiting every few minutes for weeks at a time so hopefully the dr will have some new insight. Up to now they've just been saying 'she'll outgrow it'. I feel bad too cause now there's baby vomit all over my mom's living room and it smells really bad. So if any of you have any ideas to get the smell out of her couch and carpet, I'm open to suggestions.
Today we're going to a 1st birthday party for my friend's son. This is the friend I mentioned awhile back who thinks she is the world's most experienced parent, despite the fact that this is her first kid, he's not even 1, and her mom is basically the kid's caregiver. They live in the DC area now, but her mom lives in NJ and she literally spends about 3 weeks a month in NJ so her mom will watch her son, including waking up with him during the night. She turned her son forward facing in the car when he was about 8 months old because she said the 'rule' is when their feet touch the back of the seat then you turn them around. She is pregnant with her 2nd kid and, like I think it was Alice28's friend, is totally convinced this baby is a girl. She likes her son and all, but is sorta visibly disappointed that he was a boy and I think that's why she got pregnant again so fast. She asked me in October, right before she found out about #2, if I thought she should try for #2 to come next August. I told her no, that she seems overwhelmed with 1 kid let alone 2, so she should wait till the next August when her son will be 2.5yo (the reason she wants August, get this, is that she wants her 'daughter' to be born on her birthday-okay, like there aren't a million variables involved in that equation). I felt kinda bad when she told me #2 is coming in June since I told her what a bad idea I thought it was, but I had no idea! I hate to say it, but I really want to see how she handles 2 kids when she's constantly telling me how much help she needs with just her son. Not that I want to see anyone have a hard time, but it's just kinda amusing when she tells me all the time how she knows everything, but then how she just 'needs' to go to NJ so she has help from her mom, sisters, and dad. I really don't know how her husband deals with it.
Hmm, oh, and I'm starting to think we really might be having baby 2 sooner than I thought. I have another day or 2 before I really can find out, but I generally know by know that that time of the month is on its way. The weird thing is that as bad as the timing is, I really think I'll be sorta sad if there isn't a baby, but at the same time I really hope there's not. You think that's weird? Now that my husband likes Cleveland best, we'd have to move there in June, so that's what is really freaking me out, that I'd have to find a new dr when I'm about 7 months along. Gosh, I really don't even know what to feel at this point. I think I tried to prepare myself so much over the past 2 weeks that I am sorta getting excited-I guess it's nature's way of helping you adjust.
Anyway, my grandfather just got here to give Madison her Christmas gift before we leave for the birthday party so I should go. Hope everyone's enjoying their last weekend before Christmas without too much craziness.
Today we're going to a 1st birthday party for my friend's son. This is the friend I mentioned awhile back who thinks she is the world's most experienced parent, despite the fact that this is her first kid, he's not even 1, and her mom is basically the kid's caregiver. They live in the DC area now, but her mom lives in NJ and she literally spends about 3 weeks a month in NJ so her mom will watch her son, including waking up with him during the night. She turned her son forward facing in the car when he was about 8 months old because she said the 'rule' is when their feet touch the back of the seat then you turn them around. She is pregnant with her 2nd kid and, like I think it was Alice28's friend, is totally convinced this baby is a girl. She likes her son and all, but is sorta visibly disappointed that he was a boy and I think that's why she got pregnant again so fast. She asked me in October, right before she found out about #2, if I thought she should try for #2 to come next August. I told her no, that she seems overwhelmed with 1 kid let alone 2, so she should wait till the next August when her son will be 2.5yo (the reason she wants August, get this, is that she wants her 'daughter' to be born on her birthday-okay, like there aren't a million variables involved in that equation). I felt kinda bad when she told me #2 is coming in June since I told her what a bad idea I thought it was, but I had no idea! I hate to say it, but I really want to see how she handles 2 kids when she's constantly telling me how much help she needs with just her son. Not that I want to see anyone have a hard time, but it's just kinda amusing when she tells me all the time how she knows everything, but then how she just 'needs' to go to NJ so she has help from her mom, sisters, and dad. I really don't know how her husband deals with it.
Hmm, oh, and I'm starting to think we really might be having baby 2 sooner than I thought. I have another day or 2 before I really can find out, but I generally know by know that that time of the month is on its way. The weird thing is that as bad as the timing is, I really think I'll be sorta sad if there isn't a baby, but at the same time I really hope there's not. You think that's weird? Now that my husband likes Cleveland best, we'd have to move there in June, so that's what is really freaking me out, that I'd have to find a new dr when I'm about 7 months along. Gosh, I really don't even know what to feel at this point. I think I tried to prepare myself so much over the past 2 weeks that I am sorta getting excited-I guess it's nature's way of helping you adjust.
Anyway, my grandfather just got here to give Madison her Christmas gift before we leave for the birthday party so I should go. Hope everyone's enjoying their last weekend before Christmas without too much craziness.