When all our own kids were little, did we know about sleep regressions? I don’t remember reading that in my Dr. Spock book!
My daughter and SIL ready everything about sleep training, and took online classes about it. My daughter is a by the book person, so if I dare to make a suggestion about anything, I get a reply that it isn’t done that way anymore! My GD actually was sleeping through the night very early, but is a terrible napper. Even now at 21 months, if she naps for a hour, they are lucky. A typical nap is 30 minutes. Currently she sleeps 11 hours at night, but went through a 2 weeks period where she slept 12.
I certainly didn’t know anything about sleep regressions with my first … mainly because she was a terrible sleeper for nine full months (until the day she walked). Can’t remember with my son, because it’s all kind of a blur now. I think compared to D, anything he did was fine!
So Easter Gender reveal - it is a BOY! Joining big sis (almost 3) and big brother (almost 2); baby due early Sept.
Enjoyed our time together today. I will be seeing mom and kids during SIL’s 4 day reserve duty next weekend, and GS and mom will travel with H and me to the grandparents’ memorial service in May (they both recently died) - SIL can handle GD but not both kids easily…so we had a good solution.
Hope its OK to join in here, we are new Grandparents to be and thrilled!
It will be the first for both sides.
Our DS and DIL sent us video of their gender reveal doggie cake event yesterday on Easter. Never heard of it!
Only the baker they hired knew what color to bake inside the cake. So they were surprised along with everyone else.
Blue cream in the middle.
Its a boy!
Coming in August.
My GD just started sleeping through the night. No, this is not the time for me to mention sleep regression. It would be like telling someone about the birthing process.
My son-in-law is going back to work in 2 weeks (after 3 months of paternity leave). D1 is going to wait until end of Jun. She finally found a full time babysitter who could start a week from now. The sitter is fully vaccinated and comes highly recommended.
We found with both our sons, sleep regression corresponded 1:2 with a big growth spurt or acquisition of major motor skill. Rolling over, sitting up, crawling, standing, walking – all caused some disruption. Both my kids tried to crawl in their sleep. Was funny to watch!
They were both excellent sleepers, so the regression was noticeable, but fairly short-lived.
@musicmom ~ Congratulations! Welcome! We love being grandparents.
I don’t have anything to tell y’all, because I don’t know anything… But I’ll have something to tell you soon, when D and SIL officially tell me some very exciting news. I’m thinking I’ll know something in about eight days, after D sees the doctor/ultrasound tech.
D1 said it is harder than she anticipated and the GD may be the only child. I am whispering in the GD’s ear to be good so she wouldn’t be the only one making decision on her parents’ nursing home choice.
Our oldest son and his wife have announced baby #2 to us! So happy. She’s very early into it right now so we don’t know the gender. GD will be 3 in Nov.
So much exciting news! S and DIL had the final growth scan this morning and the baby could be here any day according to the doctor. They’ve scheduled a C-section for the 23rd (her due date) but DIL would like to try a VBAC if she goes into labor naturally before then and her doctor is on board as long as there are no complications like the first time. In any case we are now officially “on call” to head in to be with GS if DIL goes into labor. D lives about 7 minutes away from them so she will be the first call if time is tight and we’ll relieve her. @oldfort, can’t say that GS has been easy but S and DIL were pretty sure they didn’t want an only if nature allowed them to provide him a sibling. Luckily, nature complied, though since my DIL is 39 there were no guarantees.
My D was originally due April 26, and hoped for a VBAC. But unfortunately, B#2 is as transverse as its big sister was, and not changing position, and also large, so they have scheduled a Csec for the 19th, to forestall, hopefully, labor starting. D is resigned and actually decided that she might as well go through what she already knows, rather than take the chance of starting one way and then having to switch to CS anyway.
I’m on call to take care of GD while parents are at hospital.
I have received a single space six page google doc of instructions. (In truth, not because they don’t think I know what I am doing, but because GD is about as OCD as her mom, sigh, though an absolutely enchanting child, and D feels that the more I know her routines, the happier we both will be.)
Overall, she’s a very self-directed, easy to be around kid, and D was actually wondering why she was putting herself through this difficult pregnancy at 38 and heading toward the whole tiny baby routine, when things are going so well.
I reminded her that she loves having a sibling, plus having two kids means they keep each other busy a lot of the time once the second is not a baby.
Our Publix gender reveal cake had blue small candied jelly type beans in the center. The parents already knew (they cheated and lied…) which was only told to us when it was time to cut the cake “Maybe someone should cut the cake that doesn’t already know…”
Re-joining this thread after a few months away. Oldest S and D-i-l are expecting their 2nd child, a boy, in July. D-i-l had complications with low platelets with her first pregnancy (GD, who was 2 in Dec., was born a little early/small, but fine), a miscarriage last year, and now her platelets are starting to fall again in this pregnancy. S says he thinks this baby will also be a little early. Meanwhile their daughter has been diagnosed with ASD. She has qualified for therapy through the local school district, but therapy is online for now. (Very challenging to get a child who won’t pay attention to live humans in the room with her to respond to someone on a screen.) GD really needs to play with other children, but has been isolated the last year due to Covid. Also, they moved last summer and don’t know a lot of young families in their new location. S shared that D-i-l has been reading books about autism and worrying about their daughter’s future. Besides being late to walk on her own (22 mo.), and saying very few words, GD does not have some of the more serious behavior issues (meltdowns, etc.) that can sometimes accompany ASD. She is quiet, seems intelligent, likes books, is able to figure out how to operate mechanical toys, electronics, etc. S is Aspie himself, and was also obsessed with gadgets as a child. However, he was a big talker–paragraphs at 16mo.
Our oldest D had a baby girl in Dec. We have seen her twice so far. D had a rough recovery (internal tears/stitches–she was kept in the hospital a couple extra days), and went back to work after one month. Her baby is huge on all the measurements they do. I think she will be tall. She’s very cute, mostly calm. Did keep them up at night a lot the first couple months. D has been pumping/bottle feeding from early on. Even with help of multiple lactation consultants, she couldn’t get her baby to latch on. But the pumping is working. D has a whole freezer full of milk and her baby weighs over 15 lbs at 3 months.
My D has a three month old who never latched, despite sessions with a lactation consultant. She has been bottle feeding breast milk, and it’s working out great for her baby, too.
