Home with Baby 2 after 5 days in the hospital (2 pre/3 post) but all fine and healthy. Grandparents have been a godsend the last week.
I get 10 PTO days per year to use own want and they roll over. I’ve been saving them for when we have the baby. I used 5 and will go back on Monday. Hooray for Thanksgiving break being in the middle of it
Surprisingly enough despite our son having heart issues early on we are three months in and have decided to finally use the “owlet sock” for the first time. Expecting chaos tonight by it going off by him kicking it off or us messing up putting on. Wee guy has a cold and a cough.
Toddler had initially been great since arrival of baby but we have had increasingly challenging behaviour (hitting, running out of the room, turning lights on and off) during the bed routine now after 2.5 weeks of new sister. Toddler is normally asleep between 745 and 815 with us leaving room, Friday was 10pm and currently on 9pm tonight with us having to sit and saying he's not tired. Tough storm to weather. Anyone experience the same?
My parental leave has ended and I ahve to go back to work tomorrow (for one week before christmas break starts, so dumb) and it sucks. Also it snowed here last night and I took a video of my 6 year old, 1 year old, mom, and wife all in the snow in my front yard and just taking in that scene got me choked up a bit. It's the 1 year old's first time out in the snow and he was loving it, and my oldest was loving it, and any time there's a little magic in childhood for my kids it makes me so happy.
Sleep stuff is so hard man. Feels like Thanksgiving night totally destroyed out original schedule, he was doing pretty well with training for a while but has lately taken to being up until about 11pm and still waking up right around 6am. And if he does go to be on-time (between 8 and 9pm), he's waking up at least once for a bottle in the middle of the night. Could be worse, but the past couple of nights, he's woken up like three times. I don't know if it's teething or our caretakers letting them sleep with them during the day or what, but my wife and I's sanity is being tested. Might need to do a hard reset of sorts during the holiday.
While I haven't had an identical situation, my son went through some very rough sleep problems after he broke his leg and my only quick advice here is that it will pass and it will get better, keep your head up
He somehow slept four and a half hours throughout the day yesterday and then slept through the night last night for the first time in probably a month, so nothing makes sense anymore lol. We are going to try letting him sleep as much as he wants/needs up until 4:30 and then cutting naps off and see what happens