Is this thing on? I’ve been having a lot of issues with posting through the iPhone wordpress app, so I haven’t posted in a while.
Here’s a picture to tide you over:
Old bear Louis finally is letting Oliver get close! I’m so happy.
I finally dyed my hair last weekend. Bangs are purple, the rest is pink. The pink should have been red, but pink works!
Oliver is 37 weeks old today! He is getting so big. I don’t write in here nearly enough. He started giving kisses a couple of weeks ago, open mouth and sloppy, but they’re baby kisses, what more could you ask for?
Tonight he seems to have finally broken the bad sleeping schedule of being awake from 1230-4 am each night. It’s 206 and he’s still sleeping.
I should take advantage of this and sleep. Going to try at least.
Good night!
So, Oliver’s new sleep pattern seems to be sticking. He’s been doing the same thing for about 6 weeks now. Which isn’t such a good thing. If he falls asleep for even 5 minutes anytime between 7 and midnight, he will be wide awake at 1am. I’ve given up on trying to keep him up til midnight. When he wakes up at 1-130ish in the morning it takes at least 2 hours for him to calm back down to sleep.
We have tried dropping a nap, moving naps, feeds, anything else we can think of. Once he wakes me up I can’t fall back to sleep. It is 502 and I’m so happy it is Sunday and I don’t have to be up in 3 hours. This doesn’t work well during the week when i’m working.
Anyone have any suggestions to calm him back down quickly or help him sleep longer?
I do love watching him sleep though. So sweet and peaceful.
Oliver has a bad phleghmy cough, but no fever. Hopefully antibiotics will help clear it up.
I have a lot of sensory issues. I have learned(forced myself) to deal with the majority in a way to ignore them as much as possible.
Sometimes a single touch will make me want to gouge my eyes out. Oliver is close to 8 months old, and is still almost exclusively breastfed (he does have a random nom of our food or cheerios or kix.) Tonight is one if those times that the feeling of him touching me is making me want to scream! I just changed his clothes to see if that would help, his bare feet touching me had to stop, so new socks. We cosleep, and we nurse at night til he falls asleep, and he is finally not fighting keeping his hands still and falling asleep.
It is all worth it for this living breathing gorgeous boy! I can do it, and I will not scream, it is not his fault.
I’m not much of a writer. Most of my writing is done on my iPhone, typing with my thumb. I am much more a reader. I have been reading my whole life. I started reading before the age of two. I knew my alphabet, really knew it, by the age of 17 months.
I started getting bad migraines in 7th grade. My first migraine was almost exactly 12 years ago, January 1998. I went through so so many medications to try to prevent/treat the headaches that I couldn’t even tell you all of what I have been prescribed. A lot of the drugs were being prescribed for off label use and were not recommended for use by kids under 18. In late 1998 I was put on zoloft to try to prevent the migraines. It did not do that, but I did have a rather rare side effect – I lost the ability to read. Going from someone who read constantly and really loving reading to having to have tests in school read to me was really bad. I still could read a bit, but I lost a lot of comprehension and ability to retain the info. I would read with a pencil or a bookmark under each line or word to be able to read at all.
Once I stopped taking zoloft, I slowly but surely regained the ability to read. I doubt I will ever be able to read as fast as I could in seventh grade.
My husband is a wonderful father with so much love for our Oliver.
So 2009 is over, the year in review…
January: 01/01/2009 was the first time Jim actually felt Oliver kick. EDD 06/10/2009.
February:
had my ultrasound, found out we were having a boy! Switched care from OB to the Madison Birth Center and the wonderful midwives.
March: started the natural birthing classes at MBC.
April: had my baby shower 04/26! Tammy came down, she was due 06/15/2009. Her son Austin was born 04/30/2009. She had bad preeclampsia/HELLP syndrome.
May: getting close! Made it to 36 weeks, so considered to be full term and be able to have the baby there!
June: at about 39 weeks the midwives diagnosed me with preeclampsia. switched to a hospital birth (different post i’ll do later) and Oliver was born on 06/02! 7lbs 3oz, 20.5″, healthy boy.
He had dropped to 6lbs 10oz by the time we left the hospital. I only was able to take 192 hours off of work, since my work just has the FMLA for maternity, not a seperate maternity leave. My migraines were really bad while I wad pregnant, so I had already used a lot of my time.
July: went back to work the Monday after the fourth of July. Pumping and Jim would bring Oliver to work for lunch.
August: turned 24! We went to a nice japanese restaurant. The sling and breastfeeding made it possible! Oliver has been wanting to stand all the time by now. He has super strong legs! At Oliver’s 2mo appointment he was 14lbs and 25.25″!!
September: it has been a year since I first found out I was pregnant! 09/28/2009 was our 5th anniversary.
October: Oliver was a monkey for halloween. Whole family got the flu. Missed a week of work.
November: first thanksgiving, got to play with potatoes. Lots of fun. Visited Jim’s family, Oliver was passed around. He is such a happy baby!
December: 6mo old!! Sat up by himself, figured how to roll over to get to what he wants. Still breastfeeding! First Christmas, met more extended family.
All in all, not a bad year. Spent the first half pregnant and the second with Oliver. He is seven months old today!
