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11:53:58 |
Mod_ariana |
Hello! |
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11:54:11 |
downundermum |
hi |
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11:54:21 |
Mod_ariana |
How are you doing today? |
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11:54:32 |
downundermum |
good u? |
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11:54:47 |
Mod_ariana |
Ummm, I had some coffee this morning so
I'm kinda hyper |
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11:55:05 |
downundermum |
oh ok |
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11:56:17 |
downundermum |
how old r your kids? |
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11:56:27 |
Mod_ariana |
5 years and 2 1/2 |
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11:56:31 |
TurboClaudia |
hi, mamas! |
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11:56:33 |
downundermum |
hi |
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11:56:39 |
Mod_ariana |
Hi TurboClaudia |
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11:56:46 |
TurboClaudia |
hi downundermum abd ariana! |
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11:57:15 |
Mod_ariana |
How old are both of your children? |
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11:58:03 |
downundermum |
mine r 10 8 8 5 2 and 7m |
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11:58:12 |
Mod_ariana |
twins? |
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11:58:15 |
downundermum |
yes |
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11:58:31 |
Mod_ariana |
so you have a 5 and 2 year old just like
me but you also have 4 others!! |
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11:58:36 |
TurboClaudia |
mine is 1.5 years |
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11:58:45 |
downundermum |
yes lol |
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11:59:17 |
Mod_ariana |
I think I remember you talking about
your kids last time because I remember
saying that I come from a family of 6
kids |
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11:59:45 |
Mod_ariana |
TurboClaudia is your baby" still
nursing?" |
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11:59:54 |
downundermum |
thats right |
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12:00:04 |
TurboClaudia |
yes, but only once a day or maybe even
once every other day |
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12:00:16 |
TurboClaudia |
i'm feeling bittersweet about it... |
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12:00:18 |
Mod_ariana |
My son is really slowing down on nursing
too. |
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12:00:25 |
Mod_ariana |
I totally understand the bittersweet of
it! |
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12:00:34 |
Mod_ariana |
My son is nursing once or twice a day |
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12:00:55 |
downundermum |
oh i sort of wish my 2yo would slow down |
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12:00:55 |
Mod_ariana |
I think it'll take a good while to fully
wean but I know it's coming |
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12:01:00 |
TurboClaudia |
the other night i lifted up my shirt to
nurse before bed and he took a few sips,
like 20 seconds, and came off and said
bye bye and waved |
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12:01:14 |
TurboClaudia |
and then i offered him the other side
and he just waved and said bye bye again |
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12:01:28 |
Mod_ariana |
Hi threalocelot! |
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12:01:35 |
Mod_ariana |
TurboClaudia isn't that hard |
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12:01:58 |
Mod_ariana |
My older son self weaned between 2 1/2
and 3 and I was sad-ish |
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12:02:07 |
Mod_ariana |
but I was pregnant so I knew I'd be
nursing another one soon |
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12:02:21 |
Mod_ariana |
this time when James is done nursing I'm
done nursing so that's going to be
really hard for me |
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12:02:42 |
TurboClaudia |
yeah, again the bittersweet of it. he's
communicating a lot now and letting his
wants and needs known. |
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12:03:38 |
downundermum |
its a challenge have a 2 1/2 still
attached |
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12:03:38 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
i actually remembered that the chat was
today ... |
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12:03:58 |
Mod_ariana |
downundermum I can see where it'd be a
challenge with a 7 month old too |
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12:04:10 |
Mod_ariana |
sugarcoated_poison_apple Woooooo
Hooooooo |
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12:04:17 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
heehee |
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12:04:23 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
yeah, i made it |
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12:04:32 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
had to tear myself away from my
obsessive knitting |
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12:04:43 |
downundermum |
hi |
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12:04:48 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
hallo ^_^ |
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12:05:55 |
Mod_ariana |
Ok ladies -- talk amongst yourselves for
a few minutes I have some diaper duty.
I'll be right back. |
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12:06:39 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
not too many of us yet ... how is
everyone today? |
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12:07:14 |
downundermum |
sugarcoated_poison_apple how old r yuour
kids? |
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12:07:20 |
downundermum |
good |
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12:07:20 |
downundermum |
u |
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12:07:37 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
one is 3 years, the other is 9 1/2
months |
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12:07:52 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
i'm doing ok ... tired, but that's the
norm. *lol* |
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12:08:41 |
downundermum |
lol |
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12:09:06 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
it's my own fault, really; i stay up too
late and of course i never get to sleep
in |
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12:09:37 |
downundermum |
yes i am the same but i do get woken
alot |
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12:09:47 |
TurboClaudia |
what parts of the world/ country is
everyone in? i'm in oregon, northwest
usa |
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12:09:56 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
i'm in central new york |
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12:09:57 |
Mod_ariana |
I'm back |
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12:10:03 |
Mod_ariana |
I'm in Los Angeles, CA |
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12:10:32 |
downundermum |
sydney australia |
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12:11:02 |
Mod_ariana |
well I was guessing australia. ;) |
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12:11:18 |
Mod_ariana |
Darcy! :D |
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12:11:22 |
Darcy |
Good morning! |
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12:11:32 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
i nurse amorette (my baby) to sleep and
put her down in her crib, and stay up a
while longer ... when she wakes up in
the night i go get her and bring her to
bed with us for the rest of the night.
sometimes she won't sleep in the crib,
tho ... |
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12:12:00 |
Mod_ariana |
That's what I used to do with my first |
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12:12:02 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
... those nights she usually wakes me
every couple of hours to switch breasts
and won't let me get any solid sleep, so
i'm like a walking zombie the next day |
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12:12:23 |
Darcy |
sugarcoated_poison_apple we're dealing
with that, too. |
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12:12:24 |
downundermum |
i can relate sugarcoated_poison_apple |
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12:12:24 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
hi darcy |
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12:12:26 |
Darcy |
Hi! |
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12:12:27 |
Mod_ariana |
Now a days I finally got with it and go
to sleep when my kiddos do |
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12:12:43 |
Darcy |
Baby really wants someone with him, but
if it's me he's gotta be hooked up the
whole night. |
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12:12:52 |
Darcy |
It's really hard on my back. |
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12:13:03 |
Darcy |
The other night my husband slept with
the baby and I slept like a baby! |
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12:13:26 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
i was really stupid when angie was a
baby ... i would nurse her before bed,
but sometimes i would put her down and
she'd wake up, and i let her cry herself
back to sleep |
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12:13:30 |
TurboClaudia |
i'm sort of distracted here, mamas... my
littly guy is learning how to feed
himself with a spoon and i have half an
eye on the screen and half an eye on him
and his oatmeal... :D |
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12:13:48 |
downundermum |
lol |
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12:14:01 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
looking back i feel really shitty about
it, but i was 20 and i didn't know
better because i hadn't really learned
as much as i have now |
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12:14:22 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
aww, that sounds so cute, claudia |
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12:14:34 |
Mod_ariana |
sugarcoated_poison_apple I think it's so
hard for moms |
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12:14:39 |
Darcy |
You can't do anything about it except
take it as motivation to continue to get
more educated. |
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12:14:40 |
TurboClaudia |
he's very persistent with that spoon |
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12:14:46 |
Mod_ariana |
The info on natural, instinctual
parenting is really kind of hard to come
by |
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12:15:24 |
downundermum |
it sure is for ages i was just thinking
i was a freak |
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12:16:14 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
i really couldn't so-sleep with her then
because her father and i were living
with my parents, and all we had was a
twin bed. i tried having her co-sleep
once when i was dead tired, and she
rolled off the bed (onto blankets) and
he almost took my head off |
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12:16:44 |
TurboClaudia |
our son's latest thing is after our
nighttime routine (get into pjs, brush
teeth and hair, read books, nurse, lie
down in bed together if he's not already
asleep) is that he will start to sing
and use us as a climbing toy. |
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12:16:51 |
Mod_ariana |
sugarcoated_poison_apple my boys fell
off the bed several times |
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12:17:16 |
TurboClaudia |
but if we leave him alone for a few
minutes and he cries a bit and then we
go back into the room and offer a drink
of water and then lay down, most of the
time he will lay down immediately and go
right to sleep. |
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12:17:43 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
amorette fell off our bed once (steve
and i have a queen size) and then i put
up a bed rail ... and then she rolled up
next to it and got stuck between the
rail and the bed, so we have pillows up
against it now, but it works really well |
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12:18:18 |
Darcy |
sugarcoated_poison_apple what size bed
do you have? How old is Amorette? |
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12:18:29 |
Mod_ariana |
Our bed isn't too high off the ground
and we have carpet so I stopped worrying
about it after a while. ;-) |
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12:18:36 |
TurboClaudia |
we have these two giant pillows on
either side of the bed and although he
can crawl over them when he;s awake, he
doesn't roll over them during the night |
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12:18:37 |
Mod_ariana |
Once William rolled right off the bed
and kept sleeping |
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12:18:59 |
Darcy |
Mod_ariana that is hilarious. Good
sleeper (at least once he's asleep)! |
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12:19:00 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
claudia - that's really sweet, i put my
3-year-old to bed a lot like that but i
kind of miss nursing her at bedtime. she
self-weaned at 18 months because my milk
crapped out on me |
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12:19:35 |
Mod_ariana |
Darcy I was *terrified* and couldn't get
back to sleep for a while but he was
happy as a clam sleeping on the floor |
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12:19:39 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
darcy - my boyfriend and i have a queen
size bed, perfect for the 3 of us. ^_^
amorette is 9 1/2 months old now. |
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12:19:56 |
Darcy |
We have a queen and can't get cosleeping
to work, |
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12:20:15 |
Darcy |
but I think we're going to need to do
something because we agree that baby
isn't ready to sleep on his own. . . |
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12:20:30 |
Darcy |
so if we want to sleep together, we're
gonna need a bigger bed and a better
plan |
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12:20:32 |
Mod_ariana |
We have a twin bed pushed up next to our
queen |
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12:20:46 |
Darcy |
We're thinking about getting ourselves a
king size bed for Christmas |
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12:20:58 |
Mod_ariana |
It's not a good idea if you have an
infant who could get caught between the
two, but for older toddlers it's great I
think. |
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12:21:11 |
downundermum |
i have a king but its still full |
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12:21:16 |
Darcy |
Yeah - I think Joseph is too young for
that. |
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12:21:22 |
sugarcoated_poison_apple |
we manage ok ... it helps that steve is
skinny as a rail. *lol* |
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12:21:24 |
Darcy |
downundermum - how many in the family
bed? |
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12:21:44 |
downundermum |
3+ kids |
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12:21:54 |
Mod_ariana |
I bet it varies from night to night |
