Good morning! What a busy morning!
You know, I think you'd have to mess up pretty bad to be responsible for your baby being too overweight or underweight due to something you did, iykwim. Babies will be who there are, you'd have to do something extreme to change that. As long as you are offering a healthy diet and they are thriving, then they are how they are, and other people shouldn't tell us otherwise. Obvisously we'll always look out for 'other' factors, but in reality, adults come in all different sizes, so why should babies all be expected to look the same?
Toni - hooray for STTN! We're still far from that!
Liz - sorry about your dilemma with the wedding, but I agee that (unfortunately) you should go. However, what a p***off about FIL! You know, DH's dad is similar in a way. He is a snob, and was an absentee father. When DH became an adult, they sort of developed a relationship, and FIL thought everything was gravy. But it's like he would only want to see us when it was convienent for them (him and his wife). They mostly live at their cottage, so for all holidays they would expect us to drive there (2hrs or more depending on where we were), which was ok until we had the baby. They would want us to stay over, but they'd invite all the rest of the family (like 10 other people staying over too), and I said no way because we'd have to sleep on a mattress on the floor in a noisy cottage with all these other people and a baby, so we would go but then have to drive home the same day. Well, I would ALWAYS ask that dinner be early so we would be on the road early (especially in winter when it is dark early and roads are bad), and they would ALWAYS make it late, so I would get so angry. Finally, we both had enough of his selfishness and I was so happy when DH decided it was better off if we never saw them again (there's more to this story, but that's enough for now). He was a jerk anyway, a terrible father, a terrible person (always found him really creepy, and a creep!) and would be a terrible grandfather, and I just don't need people like that in Tristan's life. I hope the weekend goes better than you expect, and you and J can make the most of it.
It's really frustrating when people don't understand the importance of routine and consistency with a baby, isn't?
Alyssa, I too have often thought about starting a new thread for my routine! I feel like we're just such a mess, I just need to start over anew. Well, I'll keep plugging away at it a little while longer, it's got to get better soon, right?
Sorry about the rough start, hope your day gets better soon!
The good and the bad of our night...ok the bad: Tristan woke very upset at only 10:30, and it took about 15 mins and some motrin to get him back down. He NEVER wakes that early, so I was a bit upset. The rest of the night was fairly usual, woke at 3:00 and again at 5:20. The good: after feeding him at 5:20, he went back to sleep until 7:15!
When I went in there he was standing and smiling.
Here's my worry right now: since he's been teething pretty much for months straight, I had been giving him meds before bed only for awhile now. So last night is the first night I didn't as I'm worried I give them too much. It's the only thing I did different and he woke at 10:30, he was acting like his teeth were bothering him. And he went back to sleep easily once I gave him the meds. So do you think I've created something of an addiction? I mean, his teeth probably really are bugging him as the next one is just under the gums, but I thought about it and I only give them before bed, so by 3:30am when he wakes it would have worn off, and he never needs more to go back to sleep. What do you think? I'm all freaked out now.
Sorry about the long post, I should get on breakfast!
