The Parenting Thread • Page 196

The fucking worst

 

You got this, it gets easier

 

my kids have both been sleeping like SHIT. 3-yo got sick like a month ago with a lung infection and was coughing himself to the point of throwing up 3 different nights so now he's scared to throw up again even though he isn't sick anymore, so we're trying to tow that line of teaching him it's ok to sleep and he'll be ok, but he'll wake up and scream for us in the middle of the night, and/or wake up early, so that's been fun. BUT at the same time, our 4-mo just hit that sleep regression and hit it HARD (was waking once a night, last night she woke like 5 times, lol) so I think we're gonna hit her with the sleep training tonight

anyway, I'm tired

 

Lol now my son just got sent home from daycare with a fever

EVERYTHING IS FINE

 

we had hand foot and mouth in the house like 2 weeks ago and it fucking sucked

baby 2 coming some time in the next week so glad it has cleared up but man that stunk

 

Also coming off hand foot and mouth and fuck that stuff man. I got it worse than my son did

 

I tested positive for Strep for the first time in probably 25 years last week, which is funny because both my kids get Strep like, 2-3 per year for each of the past 8-11 years and I never once got it from them.

This time around, I got it and nobody else in my family did.

 

Our eight-month old typically wakes up once or twice a night still. He's only up for about 45 minutes (immediately falls back asleep after eating), but it's still tough on both of us. We are working on regulating his naps better. We definitely fucked up by letting him nap with us too much for too long, or always holding him while he slept.

I don't think I would make it without adderall at work.

 

I think I posted this in this thread before, but the great solace of parenting is that nothing lasts forever. Your little guy will sleep through the night eventually, and it will be so great when he does. It took both of our girls till almost 12 months to fully sleep through.

 

If it makes you feel better, I was actually reading about this last night, studies find that night sleep and nap sleep after actually mostly unrelated when it comes to regulation. Typically kids can learn night sleep while still being held for naps, and that months later nap training or whatever you want to call it, of kinda a secondary thing.

We held my son forever on naps and still so for my daughter too, both sleep trained while doing so and in both their experiences, it worked in the end

So anyway, not sure if that helps at all, but I didn't think you should feel like you fucked up by holding him!! Those baby snuggles are something you absolutely miss when they're gone

 

so grateful that my daughter at 2.5 is still sleeping 12 hours a night since she was six months old and it was brutal but i attribute it to being rather soulless with sleep training and just never going in unless it was an obvious emergency

 

Yeah that's what we do also lol, it works but it's not easy

 

An actual sentence uttered by my son just now while playing a video game:

“Time to quit griefing and put the fries in the bag, bro. Six seeeveeen.”

We are officially living on different planets.

 

My oldest daughter is the one that has been saying 6 7. My son says kids say it at school and it annoys him lol

 

I'm ok not knowing what the hell it means

 

Baby 2 born at 3:15, 8 pound whopper

 

Hell yeah, welcome to the world phaynes14

 

my son just dropped his first (as far as I can remember) skibidi toilet yesterday…really hoping it doesn’t stick lol

 

Our 10 month old sleeps pretty decently, may wake up one time during the night and for the most part takes solid longish naps….but one thing we haven’t been able to do yet is get him to fall asleep without holding him. With our first it was pretty easy to say okay time to go to sleep and he’d just lay down and sleep, but this one is nosy as fuck and will stand up in the crib immediately if he’s awake when you put him down.

 

My daughter wakes up once a night with nightmares. Shes almost 5. Happens like a hour-hour and a half after she’s put down

 

My son is 11 now but I remember when he was around 3 or 4 years old he’d wake up in the middle of the night with dreadful night terrors. Like, he’d be so inconsolable because he was so freaked out. Used to terrify us.

 

Ugh, Emmett is definitely going through sleep regression. Which, I'm glad he's learning/retaining something new, but a Sunday night was not ideal.

 

Definitely want to play this with my oldest. Maybe I’ll get it for him for his b day next month

 

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Have had the most challenging day in recent memory with our 2.5 yo today. Has made me nervous as baby 2 coming in 3 weeks. He's not really one for tantrums or pushing boundaries too much but today was every possible opportunity.