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PS Mommy Thread-Newborn to 12 months!

Tao 9 months.

MGal Isn''t it amazing how fast they can crawl?? It is wild! For your sake I hope he holds off on walking for a little while
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Hunter just started walking around furniture and had stood on his own for a second or so. I think we have a few more months, but I suspect it will be by 12 months.
 
MGal FWIW Max and Dex have been holding onto furniture and letting go and standing by themselves for a few months now and neither of them is walking yet. They do the "lunge" and then decide to drop to their knees instead.

So you might still eke out a bit more time! Then again you might not, lol. Sorry that probably wasn''t helpful.
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Tao also 9 months. We had only ONE night of crying. He was ready. It was the right thing to do at this time. Would it have gone as well if we'd done it sooner? Who knows. I wasn't comfortable with it before 6 months since I figured he might need to nurse overnight prior to then.
 
Date: 12/24/2009 12:35:05 AM
Author: TanDogMom
Tao also 9 months. We had only ONE night of crying. He was ready. It was the right thing to do at this time. Would it have gone as well if we''d done it sooner? Who knows. I wasn''t comfortable with it before 6 months since I figured he might need to nurse overnight prior to then.
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So is he sleeping all night now TDM?
 
NF - thanks, I was wondering how long he might stay at the standing stage. He''s been crawling for 3.5 months already, so I kinda though he would be walking by now, but he gets around so well crawling that I don''t think he really sees the need to go upright.

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So yesterday when kyle was napping at daycare he managed to pull off his pants, and his diaper, and proceeded to start shoving poop under the mattress of his PNP
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We''re headed off to Palm Springs for x-mas, so I hope all you ladies and your beautiful babies have a great first Christmas together!
 
Tao - Good luck with the gifts! I hope that everything''s manageable for you. I was vocal about having NO STORAGE SPACE so we''ll see what happens. And I don''t know what it is about Daddies and clothing. Haha!

Gross motor dev - George is crawling but doesn''t like it. He''ll crawl over to the nearest big object, pull up to standing, and then SLOWLY "walk" along the object towards wherever he wants to go. He doesn''t have the balance to stand unassisted right now, although he keeps trying. My in-laws are thinking that he''ll probably walk on the earlier side rather than the later side, particularly as he wants to move in a standing position rather than crawl. My mom keeps comparing him to her boyfriend''s grandson, who was walking at George''s age (8.5 months), and honestly it''s getting annoying. It''s perfectly fine not to walk at 8.5 months or 9 months (which is when I started), and it doesn''t mean that he''s walking late. And even if he does walk late by normal standards, as long as it''s within the realm of normal and our pediatrician doesn''t have concerns, that''s fine too.

Other stuff - we had a family get together last night. DH''s cousin''s 2 year old is obsessed with belly buttons, and whose is where. She runs up to everyone and wants them to show her their "button", and if they''re willing to show it to her, she''ll poke it. Anyways, I was changing George''s diaper when she ran up and yelled "BUTTON!" and pointed at his boy bits and started to try to poke them. LOL. I think her mom practically had a panic attack.
 
Date: 12/24/2009 9:05:45 AM
Author: Blenheim
Tao - Good luck with the gifts! I hope that everything''s manageable for you. I was vocal about having NO STORAGE SPACE so we''ll see what happens. And I don''t know what it is about Daddies and clothing. Haha!

Gross motor dev - George is crawling but doesn''t like it. He''ll crawl over to the nearest big object, pull up to standing, and then SLOWLY ''walk'' along the object towards wherever he wants to go. He doesn''t have the balance to stand unassisted right now, although he keeps trying. My in-laws are thinking that he''ll probably walk on the earlier side rather than the later side, particularly as he wants to move in a standing position rather than crawl. My mom keeps comparing him to her boyfriend''s grandson, who was walking at George''s age (8.5 months), and honestly it''s getting annoying. It''s perfectly fine not to walk at 8.5 months or 9 months (which is when I started), and it doesn''t mean that he''s walking late. And even if he does walk late by normal standards, as long as it''s within the realm of normal and our pediatrician doesn''t have concerns, that''s fine too.

Other stuff - we had a family get together last night. DH''s cousin''s 2 year old is obsessed with belly buttons, and whose is where. She runs up to everyone and wants them to show her their ''button'', and if they''re willing to show it to her, she''ll poke it. Anyways, I was changing George''s diaper when she ran up and yelled ''BUTTON!'' and pointed at his boy bits and started to try to poke them. LOL. I think her mom practically had a panic attack.
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haha about poking the boy bits.

The normal range for walking is 9 to 18 months, and walking early doesn''t mean anything at all. Actually, crawling longer is healthy for a baby''s development because the act of coordinating the alternating leg and arm movements helps to encourage communication between the different hemispheres of the brain. They actually do crawling therapy for adults who have trouble with skills that require such communication, like playing the piano (because you are reading and also using your hands, which use different sides). Anyhoo, this is what I say to you mom
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In general I feel like so many people are in a big rush for kids to grow up and accomplish milestones. I suppose it is competitive to see whose kid is the brightest and smartest? Seems crazy to me. I don''t plan, for example, to teach Hunter to read early and potty train him early and all those things. An enrinched environment means something different to me I guess. I know he will be bright and will learn things just because his dad and I are smart and talk to him a lot. He has years to learn to read in school, why rush it? Anyways, that''s my thoughts about that. Same holds for walking in my mind. It will happen when it does.
 
Date: 12/24/2009 11:53:54 AM
Author: dreamer_dachsie
Date: 12/24/2009 9:05:45 AM

Author: Blenheim

Tao - Good luck with the gifts! I hope that everything''s manageable for you. I was vocal about having NO STORAGE SPACE so we''ll see what happens. And I don''t know what it is about Daddies and clothing. Haha!


Gross motor dev - George is crawling but doesn''t like it. He''ll crawl over to the nearest big object, pull up to standing, and then SLOWLY ''walk'' along the object towards wherever he wants to go. He doesn''t have the balance to stand unassisted right now, although he keeps trying. My in-laws are thinking that he''ll probably walk on the earlier side rather than the later side, particularly as he wants to move in a standing position rather than crawl. My mom keeps comparing him to her boyfriend''s grandson, who was walking at George''s age (8.5 months), and honestly it''s getting annoying. It''s perfectly fine not to walk at 8.5 months or 9 months (which is when I started), and it doesn''t mean that he''s walking late. And even if he does walk late by normal standards, as long as it''s within the realm of normal and our pediatrician doesn''t have concerns, that''s fine too.


Other stuff - we had a family get together last night. DH''s cousin''s 2 year old is obsessed with belly buttons, and whose is where. She runs up to everyone and wants them to show her their ''button'', and if they''re willing to show it to her, she''ll poke it. Anyways, I was changing George''s diaper when she ran up and yelled ''BUTTON!'' and pointed at his boy bits and started to try to poke them. LOL. I think her mom practically had a panic attack.
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haha about poking the boy bits.


The normal range for walking is 9 to 18 months, and walking early doesn''t mean anything at all. Actually, crawling longer is healthy for a baby''s development because the act of coordinating the alternating leg and arm movements helps to encourage communication between the different hemispheres of the brain. They actually do crawling therapy for adults who have trouble with skills that require such communication, like playing the piano (because you are reading and also using your hands, which use different sides). Anyhoo, this is what I say to you mom
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In general I feel like so many people are in a big rush for kids to grow up and accomplish milestones. I suppose it is competitive to see whose kid is the brightest and smartest? Seems crazy to me. I don''t plan, for example, to teach Hunter to read early and potty train him early and all those things. An enrinched environment means something different to me I guess. I know he will be bright and will learn things just because his dad and I are smart and talk to him a lot. He has years to learn to read in school, why rush it? Anyways, that''s my thoughts about that. Same holds for walking in my mind. It will happen when it does.
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Well said Dreamer. Except about potty training. I want these darn kids out of diapers ASAP!!!
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Date: 12/24/2009 12:06:10 PM
Author: neatfreak

Well said Dreamer. Except about potty training. I want these darn kids out of diapers ASAP!!!
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I have a couple of friends who have been sitting their baby''s on pottys from basically the start. I guess their kids are very regular and they try to predict when they will go and have them go on the potty. Interesting idea. One of them was asking me why I don''t try it with Hunter. He poops 2x per day, when he wakes in the early am and again after his morning nap. I don''t know how I would catch him ready to go unless I could predict when he woke up! But both these moms cosleep so I guess it is easier.
 
Date: 12/24/2009 12:41:11 AM
Author: dreamer_dachsie
Date: 12/24/2009 12:35:05 AM

Author: TanDogMom

Tao also 9 months. We had only ONE night of crying. He was ready. It was the right thing to do at this time. Would it have gone as well if we''d done it sooner? Who knows. I wasn''t comfortable with it before 6 months since I figured he might need to nurse overnight prior to then.
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So is he sleeping all night now TDM?
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Not to jinx it but yes he is - so far so good!
 
Just a quick drive by, have so much to do (can you believe I''m STILL shopping?!)

I want to wish all the PS mommies and babies a very Merry Christmas. I hope baby''s first Christmas is magical!
 
Well said, DD!

Sitting baby on a potty... I''ve thought about it. For the most part, George poos first thing every other morning. Very predictable. Catching it in the toilet would keep me from having to deal with a poopy diaper.

Funnily enough my mom is anti-early-potty training. Evidently I potty trained in just one day, because she did it when I was ready and not when she decided she wanted me out of diapers.
 
Date: 12/24/2009 4:21:58 PM
Author: Blenheim
Well said, DD!

Sitting baby on a potty... I''ve thought about it. For the most part, George poos first thing every other morning. Very predictable. Catching it in the toilet would keep me from having to deal with a poopy diaper.

Funnily enough my mom is anti-early-potty training. Evidently I potty trained in just one day, because she did it when I was ready and not when she decided she wanted me out of diapers.
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My friend did the same thing with her daughter! Maybe it was 2 days. I plan to do the same. I think it usually strikes around 2.5 to 3 years.

Seems like a long time
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Merry Christmas to everyone too!!

I am sitting at home waiting for me new BGD e-ring to arrive!!! DH and Hunter went to do the last grocery shopping. It has been such a lazy day.

For our first Christmas dinner by ourselves we are having pizza and watching a movie
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That is one good thing about having a baby who goes to bed at 6:30pm, you get a nice evening to yourselves. The not so great thing is waking up at 6am every day
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Tomorrow my mom and her bf come over and we will do proper Christmas dinner.

TDM Yah!!
 
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

We celebrated last night w/ DH''s family...very nice time! And this morning Lex loved going crazy opening his gifts. Today we are off to my dad''s, tomorrow to my mom''s...busy busy....

Hope everyone has a great holiday!

Merry Christmas from our little stud
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one more pic...because it''s just too cute....Lex enjoying opening his 1st Santa gift....hehehe....look at the "claw"

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Love the look on his face!
 
cdt--
Adorable...love it!
Lex is a chunky monkey huh?
Love your tree too.
 
Tao - His face was so cute...he actually seemed excited by the gifts..given his age, I was surprised how into it he was!

lili - thanks! yup...he''s a chunky monkey for sure
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he''s got the chubbiest legs...I just love them!!
 
Happy Monday all!
Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! Ours was very low-key, but still nice.

Jackson has been working like crazy on his motor skills! He is now proficient at rolling from back to belly (and loving sleeping on his belly!) and getting better at belly to back. He''s pushing up with his arms like crazy, and I have a feeling he will be moving soon!

He''s also teething and starting to get a bit congested (I think he finally caught the cold/cough that I''m still struggling with).

With all this going on, we''re really having nap issues. Specifically with his first nap of the day. He is fighting it like crazy lately and a lot of mornings ends up not taking one at all! I''ve tried putting him down earlier in case he was overtired, tried putting him down later in case he wasn''t tired enough, tried holding him tight and rocking him and giving him the paci (which he hasn''t taken at all since we sleep trained), and tried just leaving him be to work it out on his own. And nothing is really working. He''ll cry (not a consistent cry though, just off and on), then stop for 5-10 minutes, then cry again. If I''m lucky he''ll finally fall asleep for about a half hour before being up. So frustrated because if he doesn''t get a good first nap, it throws him off for the whole day!

We''ve also been really working on eating solids because the pedi wanted us to cut back on how much formula he was getting (he started eating 40 oz a few weeks ago!) so he''s now getting 3 meals a day and we''ve done almost all the veggies, and we''ll be adding fruits next week...Jacks will be 5 months old on the 31st!

And here''s a pic from our Christmas, although this was taken before dh was home from work. Unfortunately, he was teething so bad I gave him tylenol, so when dh finally got home and we were ready to OPEN the presents, Jacks was still out of it and took no interest in the presents whatsoever.

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I hope everyone had a great holiday!

We made it to Palm Springs and back with no problems. Kyle even slept 2.5 hours of the 4 hour ride home! Kyle received a ton of gifts from the grandparents, and we couldn''t fit them all in the car. The in-laws seem to have a thing for very loud annoying toys, while my family didn''t get him anything battery operated
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. The best (worst) part was when I opened my birthday gift from MIL. She gave me a cross-stitch, and while I do cross-stitch, I''m pretty picky about the ones I choose to make. She got me an Eeyore birth announcement one, "so you can make it for the next baby"
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. She knows I don''t want any more kids...

Here''s a pic of Kyle playing with his cousin''s ring-toss game on x-mas day.

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Hope everyone had a great holiday!

Evan cleaned up at both the inlaws and my parents. I still have stuff in my car that I haven't brought up because the car was so full I couldn't carry everything up!


Yesterday, my parents watched him for about 2 hours so I could catch a movie with my sister. We saw Nine. I was so upset by the end because I only get so much time away from the baby and I wasted it on the movie. It just was boring.

The best news from yesterday and through the night. Evan fell asleep in the car on the way home after the movie--when I came home I put him down without a feeding (he ate at my parents house about an hour and a half earlier). He didn't wake back up until 4!! He normally gets up at 1:30ish to eat and then gets up again around 4. He dropped the 1 o'clock feed. I hope he keeps this up---it was wonderful to have that straight amount of sleep. But one slight problem--my body woke up at around 2 and then again at 3 because I thought, "Oh any minute now...he'll get up." Then of course the mommy worry settled in and I almost went in to wake him to make sure he was okay. But I decided not to when I heard his little sleep grunts on the monitor finally. I need dust that this keeps up!

Also, I started doing Wii fit today! It's fun so far, but Evan is being a little clingy today so I'm having to do the program around him (which isn't so great for the aerobics part!) So I went through to just learn the different activities and I'll put together a program later on I guess when he naps.
 
I hope that everyone had a great time over the holidays!! All of the Christmas pictures are adorable.

We just got back from New Jersey, where George got to meet some more family for the first time. I think they were enamored with him, and DH''s uncle (in his late 40s or 50s) and cousin (age 18-19) were both talking about wanting to have babies of their own now... oh dear. George did great for the most part but had a complete meltdown in the car yesterday, for the last hour we were on the road. We tried pulling over and he was fine the second he got out of his car seat, and there wasn''t anything really wrong other than the fact he was tired of the car. So unfortunately there wasn''t really any way of solving it for him other than just forging on. Ugh.

Much to my relief, George was mostly given clothes which is something that he needs and is not bulky. He now has a bunch of super cute new outfits, and I''ve had a great time dressing him up. He also got some stuffed animals, a stacking train, some blocks, a drum (my SIL''s a drummer and was impressed that I found him a baby-sized actual drum), a pull toy, and some gift cards. We were very vocal about having little storage space, and I think that people really listened.

I''m feeling a ton better and I think I''m going to work out for the first time in a week later today.

MG - Oh dear on the not-so-subtle suggestions there.

CDT - aww! He looks much more into the gift-opening that George was.

Pushing milestones - at Christmas Eve dinner, just after the posts on this, I got to hear all about how my uncle is VERY into the Your Baby Can Read DVDs and flash cards for his 7 month old. I didn''t say anything, but I did notice my brother rolling his eyes more than once.
 
Blen - we have the Babies Can Read stuff, given to us by a family friend. We put Kyle in front of the first one a few times when he was like 4 months, and decided it was a waste of time and money. I still have them, but I''m thinking of selling it. Kyle is way too active to make him sit in front of it, the whole idea of the system I wasn''t too thrilled with, and the DVDs are on the boring side (and way too long). And they don''t recommend TV for kids under 2 anyway
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MG - Good to hear your review. I know that DH was watching an episode of Penn and Teller''s Bullsh*t once that said that they really don''t work. My brother was naturally an early reader (I think he started reading on his own at about age 3), and I know it was hard for my mother as he could read things that he wasn''t emotionally ready to handle. I mean, I guess that can happen whenever they start reading, but she did tell me not to push reading. Walking, on the other hand...
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Love the pics Sabine and Mgal!! Super cute!

Blen - too bad I didn''t know you were in NJ...we could have had a little PS get together
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Where in NJ were you (it''s ok if you''re not comfortable sharing)?

I wish I had been more vocal about no toys....we got a TON
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Seriously it''s out of control! Lex will definitely not need any more toys for a LONG time. We did get clothes too though so I was excited about that, and honestly everyone was so so generous. It was a really nice 1st Christmas w/ Lex.
 
CDT - we were just in the northern corner of the state for less than a day, so not much time at all. But if that''s in your general vicinity and we''re ever there longer, a get together would be so much fun! I have a feeling that Lex and George would have a blast together. I''m glad to hear that your first Christmas went well! Rotating toys may help it to feel less overwhelming.
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Mommy confession of the day

We did not manage to take many pictures of Hunter on his first Christmas... none actually. So we re-enacted Christmas morning with him this morning and took some pics of him playing with his new toys
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Ha Dreamer! I totally did the same thing!!!
 
hahaha Dreamer - LOVE it!!!

Blen - we''re up north too, but really close to the city.

Well nothing is official, but it looks like I''ll be a SAHM for awhile....word is our company is relocating to VA. The official annoucement will be made by the end of January. I''ve been told they will make me an offer to go, but my DH makes way more than me so it wouldn''t make sense at all for us to relocate.

If any of you remember, I mentioned a comment made to me by my boss my first day back, something along the lines of "you could just stay home"....well this is why he said it. He''s known for awhile that it was likely we were relocating.

I''m super sad since I have an amazing boss and if I have to work in my field, I wouldn''t want to work anywhere else. But I''m trying not to get ahead of myself, although it''s about 99.9% happening
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So we''ll see...if it does become official, we''ll all be phased out by June 30th (that''s when we have to vacate the building).
 
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