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Sif is firmly in the grip of her 4 month sleep regression. She links maybe 2 sleep cycles together per week during her naps, but her cycles are down to about 30 minutes, so it's super hard to get anything done during the day. Her wakeful cycles are longer now, too. My wife goes back to work in 2 weeks, so things are about to get complicated.
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Kid has been coughing the last couple days, school won't let her back without a pcr test. I don't mind getting her tested, but the pcr part is things annoying.
But also getting tested at all here stupid hard. One hospital is only open from 9-11 by appointment, another from 1-2 also by appointment. Absolutely insane that this thing we should be able to just do anywhere is near impossible.
Well, had to measure the little guys head so my mom could knit him a hat. Turns out he's got a 2 year old sized head at 1 year old. Not a surprise, but still, damn dude.
School called me today because my daughter had the sniffles.
*Jasper Beardsley voice* “That’s a Covid test”
Sigh. I really wish we could move past this Covid shit already.
We should be vaccinating kids before the end of the year I think. We're close.
5-year-olds at least.
*glares at my 4-year-old for not being older*
So in BC vaccination has been based on year of birth, regardless of actual birthday, so if your kid was born in 2017, they would be able to be vaccinated January 1st if the same protocols are used for this age group and in your area.
Sad goblin child was well enough to go to daycare today - yay! So my week off isn’t totally blown. But he’s in bed right now crying and fidgeting every hour or so, because he is teething and it sucks. He’s got a light sub-fever we’re trying to keep down with tylenol, he’s dribbling everywhere, and the sadness is high.
Hopefully it’ll clear up tomorrow, because he needs to eat more, and also we need sleep.
Can't remember if I posted it in here or not but we're finally getting somewhere with getting treatment for my wife's endometriosis.
After the NHS consultants told her to remortgage our house and do a bunch of IVF then have a hysterectomy my wife decided to get a third opinion through her works private health insurance.
The consultant immediately scheduled an MRI scan and was astonished that she'd never had one before.
Turns out her womb is fused to her bowels and one ovary is completely knackered and the other it attached to her stomach. Which would explain a lot of the pain she's been having.
He told her in no uncertain terms to not get pregnant with surgery to seperarate everything as having a baby will cause the womb to expanse and potentially rupture her bowels.
Kinda want to mail this report to the previous consultants so they know they were talking bollocks.
This is the problem with endometriosis few understand what it actually is and how to treat it.
So until we know wether or not her insurance will cover the surgery our plans for a second are looking precarious.
Saturdays usually means Mrs Moon taking Athena with her to her parents' which is great because cousins are over there and Athena gets to play with other kids all day long.
However, by the time I come pick her up to let Mrs Moon spend time with her family without being in Mom mode, Athena is usually exhausted and she usually has a sleep-drunk emotional explosion at the thought of being separated from mama. I'm used to bearing the brunt of being the mean dad that's taking her away from her mom and cousins, so this is actually the most positive pick-up I've had.
On the way to school, the kids each sang their own unique songs. Luke’s was called Surprisingly Ken and Abigail’s was called Fish Climbing Up the Road. Fun game time! What would you think each song was about?
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Heating’s been out for two days. In Canada. In autumn. Do not like. Should be back on today though! (It’s just the building changeover from heat to cool, but it always seems to happen in a cold snap!)
But in better news, tiny human actually slept through the night, 19:30-07:30. This could be a game changer, if it’s consistent. We might actually get some sleep!
Heating’s been out for two days. In Canada. In autumn. Do not like. Should be back on today though! (It’s just the building changeover from heat to cool, but it always seems to happen in a cold snap!)
But in better news, tiny human actually slept through the night, 19:30-07:30. This could be a game changer, if it’s consistent. We might actually get some sleep!
It was not consistent.
There was a lot of fussing at 01:30, which turned out to be a very heavy diaper and a slight leak. Fair enough.only just gone up a size in overnights, might need less fluid before bed.
An hour later we are intermittently loudly fussing every 15-20 minutes, and I am quite tired.
ETA: two hours later.
ETA2: 2.5 hrs later. Separation anxiety, snoozes fine while I was on the floor next to him. Starts up fussing when I leave. Excellent.
ETA3: 3 hours later. We are still fussing whenever I leave. Everyone is getting up in 3 hours to go to daycare/work. I have had an hours sleep so far.
ETA4: 4 hours later, Mrs traded me and is now the one sleeping on the nursery floor. Small man is fast asleep. Getting up in 2 hours. Have unprintable opinions about separation anxiety.
I am watching every update on the 5-11 vaccine. Because my little guy just turned 5 and he's getting pretty sick of being stuck inside for the lion's share of 1.5ish years.
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My daughter has a yearly checkup on November 11. Already have her scheduled for a flu shot, and the office does provide 12+ vaccines already. I was hoping she'd get the covid shot before then, but it's looking like that may be her day.
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Round 2 began an hour ago at bedtime tonight and has not stopped for…40 minutes.
Christ.
All I have to do to stop this is spend the next six months sleeping on the floor at 19:30 with my hand jammed through crib bars I guess.
ETA: he finally gave up and went back to sleep at 21:00. After going down at 19:30, waking up at 19:50 and screaming for 70 minutes, bar any time I was in there with him.
Round 2 began an hour ago at bedtime tonight and has not stopped for…40 minutes.
Christ.
All I have to do to stop this is spend the next six months sleeping on the floor at 19:30 with my hand jammed through crib bars I guess.
ETA: he finally gave up and went back to sleep at 21:00. After going down at 19:30, waking up at 19:50 and screaming for 70 minutes, bar any time I was in there with him.
Someone tell me it’s.a 12m phase.
So, then, you're asking us to lie?
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Heating’s been out for two days. In Canada. In autumn. Do not like. Should be back on today though! (It’s just the building changeover from heat to cool, but it always seems to happen in a cold snap!)
But in better news, tiny human actually slept through the night, 19:30-07:30. This could be a game changer, if it’s consistent. We might actually get some sleep!
It was not consistent.
There was a lot of fussing at 01:30, which turned out to be a very heavy diaper and a slight leak. Fair enough.only just gone up a size in overnights, might need less fluid before bed.
An hour later we are intermittently loudly fussing every 15-20 minutes, and I am quite tired.
ETA: two hours later.
ETA2: 2.5 hrs later. Separation anxiety, snoozes fine while I was on the floor next to him. Starts up fussing when I leave. Excellent.
ETA3: 3 hours later. We are still fussing whenever I leave. Everyone is getting up in 3 hours to go to daycare/work. I have had an hours sleep so far.
ETA4: 4 hours later, Mrs traded me and is now the one sleeping on the nursery floor. Small man is fast asleep. Getting up in 2 hours. Have unprintable opinions about separation anxiety.
This is why we settled on a clear schedule. I'd handle 8pm-12am, and wife would handle 12am-until morning, since I'd then wake up and go to work. That way both of us got a solid 6 ish hours of sleep every night. (Offer not valid if breast feeding, since then mom has to be up whenever the baby is hungry)
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Heating’s been out for two days. In Canada. In autumn. Do not like. Should be back on today though! (It’s just the building changeover from heat to cool, but it always seems to happen in a cold snap!)
But in better news, tiny human actually slept through the night, 19:30-07:30. This could be a game changer, if it’s consistent. We might actually get some sleep!
It was not consistent.
There was a lot of fussing at 01:30, which turned out to be a very heavy diaper and a slight leak. Fair enough.only just gone up a size in overnights, might need less fluid before bed.
An hour later we are intermittently loudly fussing every 15-20 minutes, and I am quite tired.
ETA: two hours later.
ETA2: 2.5 hrs later. Separation anxiety, snoozes fine while I was on the floor next to him. Starts up fussing when I leave. Excellent.
ETA3: 3 hours later. We are still fussing whenever I leave. Everyone is getting up in 3 hours to go to daycare/work. I have had an hours sleep so far.
ETA4: 4 hours later, Mrs traded me and is now the one sleeping on the nursery floor. Small man is fast asleep. Getting up in 2 hours. Have unprintable opinions about separation anxiety.
This is why we settled on a clear schedule. I'd handle 8pm-12am, and wife would handle 12am-until morning, since I'd then wake up and go to work. That way both of us got a solid 6 ish hours of sleep every night. (Offer not valid if breast feeding, since then mom has to be up whenever the baby is hungry)
I mean, this is 13 months. He’s been in a settled routine for, well, at least four or five of those. This pivot to demanding our presence is new and exciting.
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I mean, it's going to be different for every kid. My kid will still get out of bed and climb into ours if we put him to sleep on "his bed", which means functionally it's my bed since who he's looking to cuddle is his mama, so even if I'm the one to put him to sleep, generally speaking he's gonna want to sleep next to my wife. So if I put him down in his bed, which is in our very long bedroom, and we're both sleeping in the big bed, he gets up around 1-2am and rambles over, climbs up, and lays right between us, then pokes, prods, and headbutts my back with his sleeping kid body until I get off the bed.
And if he and I are both on the bigger bed, midway through the night he'll get up to join his mama on his bed. Because I'm required to put him to sleep (he won't go to sleep for the wife), but mom is the night snuggles. We've had breaks in this off and on for the last three years now where he'll sleep without the mama. But then he cycles right back to needing to cuddle her middle of the night.
I guess what this is all meant to note is that kids and sleep are weird, man.
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I'm very glad my kid just sleeps in his own bed. Only when he is sick he very much likes it if someone is sleeping in his room and I indulge him with that. I guess we got lucky, but we also repeated often that we'd be sleeping in our own bed and we're right in earshot of each other.
To be fair to the little goober, once he went to sleep, he absolutely stayed asleep. Of course he only went to sleep once his mum brought him into bed and gave him a cuddle, at which point he basically passed out. Putting him back in the crib with infant snores was very cute, but ominous.
Hopefully he’ll get over it in a few days; fussing when we put him down isn’t unusual, but this move from <15 mins to <60 isn’t really sustainable.
Sleeping is one of those things that every kid does differently. No idea what it is, but everyone gets in their own bed eventually?
I wish my wife was more 'put them into their own bed' but then again, waking up in the morning with my daughter snuggled next to me and her feet inexplicably laid over my stomach is also very nice.
We've been trying to teach the 'Four Things You Always Can Tell Mom and Dad' - when she's scared, hungry, angry, or needs to use the bathroom. It's been working, mostly.
My 5 year old sleeps in his own bed if he has school the next day, and we let him sleep in our bed (so I sleep in his) on Friday and Saturday nights.
The 3 year old is in a completely biphasic sleep schedule (4 hours sleep, 8 hours awake, repeat) paired with separation anxiety. I can count on one hand the number of times he has slept all the way through the night. I know eventually it'll level out, but going on four years of no good sleep has taken a bit of a toll.
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Ellie has slept through the night maybe twice. Maybe?
She has consistently woken up at midnight. No matter when she went to bed, it's always been midnight. Sometimes, maybe, she'll make it to 1am.
We have mostly coslept with her. Right now, she starts off in her bed and when she gets up at midnight, she comes into our bed. it's the only way to get us all sleep. if we tried to get her resettled in her own bed, we're up fighting and crying for another 2 hours. And nobody has the time or the energy for that.
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Saw him on the monitor sit up half asleep, mutter "pizza" then fall asleep again.
Definitely my son :P
But also getting tested at all here stupid hard. One hospital is only open from 9-11 by appointment, another from 1-2 also by appointment. Absolutely insane that this thing we should be able to just do anywhere is near impossible.
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I'm thinking about editing out that can in one of them because I really like that one. The sitting down one is the one he wants to use for yearbook.
He just can't get over that thief Spider-Man's actions
*Jasper Beardsley voice*
“That’s a Covid test”
Sigh. I really wish we could move past this Covid shit already.
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We should be vaccinating kids before the end of the year I think. We're close.
5-year-olds at least.
*glares at my 4-year-old for not being older*
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So in BC vaccination has been based on year of birth, regardless of actual birthday, so if your kid was born in 2017, they would be able to be vaccinated January 1st if the same protocols are used for this age group and in your area.
Hopefully it’ll clear up tomorrow, because he needs to eat more, and also we need sleep.
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After the NHS consultants told her to remortgage our house and do a bunch of IVF then have a hysterectomy my wife decided to get a third opinion through her works private health insurance.
The consultant immediately scheduled an MRI scan and was astonished that she'd never had one before.
Turns out her womb is fused to her bowels and one ovary is completely knackered and the other it attached to her stomach. Which would explain a lot of the pain she's been having.
He told her in no uncertain terms to not get pregnant with surgery to seperarate everything as having a baby will cause the womb to expanse and potentially rupture her bowels.
Kinda want to mail this report to the previous consultants so they know they were talking bollocks.
This is the problem with endometriosis few understand what it actually is and how to treat it.
So until we know wether or not her insurance will cover the surgery our plans for a second are looking precarious.
However, by the time I come pick her up to let Mrs Moon spend time with her family without being in Mom mode, Athena is usually exhausted and she usually has a sleep-drunk emotional explosion at the thought of being separated from mama. I'm used to bearing the brunt of being the mean dad that's taking her away from her mom and cousins, so this is actually the most positive pick-up I've had.
time to introduce them to this classic:
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But in better news, tiny human actually slept through the night, 19:30-07:30. This could be a game changer, if it’s consistent. We might actually get some sleep!
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It was not consistent.
There was a lot of fussing at 01:30, which turned out to be a very heavy diaper and a slight leak. Fair enough.only just gone up a size in overnights, might need less fluid before bed.
An hour later we are intermittently loudly fussing every 15-20 minutes, and I am quite tired.
ETA: two hours later.
ETA2: 2.5 hrs later. Separation anxiety, snoozes fine while I was on the floor next to him. Starts up fussing when I leave. Excellent.
ETA3: 3 hours later. We are still fussing whenever I leave. Everyone is getting up in 3 hours to go to daycare/work. I have had an hours sleep so far.
ETA4: 4 hours later, Mrs traded me and is now the one sleeping on the nursery floor. Small man is fast asleep. Getting up in 2 hours. Have unprintable opinions about separation anxiety.
Goodreads
SF&F Reviews blog
I am watching every update on the 5-11 vaccine. Because my little guy just turned 5 and he's getting pretty sick of being stuck inside for the lion's share of 1.5ish years.
Round 2 began an hour ago at bedtime tonight and has not stopped for…40 minutes.
Christ.
All I have to do to stop this is spend the next six months sleeping on the floor at 19:30 with my hand jammed through crib bars I guess.
ETA: he finally gave up and went back to sleep at 21:00. After going down at 19:30, waking up at 19:50 and screaming for 70 minutes, bar any time I was in there with him.
Someone tell me it’s.a 12m phase.
Goodreads
SF&F Reviews blog
So, then, you're asking us to lie?
This is why we settled on a clear schedule. I'd handle 8pm-12am, and wife would handle 12am-until morning, since I'd then wake up and go to work. That way both of us got a solid 6 ish hours of sleep every night. (Offer not valid if breast feeding, since then mom has to be up whenever the baby is hungry)
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I mean, this is 13 months. He’s been in a settled routine for, well, at least four or five of those. This pivot to demanding our presence is new and exciting.
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And if he and I are both on the bigger bed, midway through the night he'll get up to join his mama on his bed. Because I'm required to put him to sleep (he won't go to sleep for the wife), but mom is the night snuggles. We've had breaks in this off and on for the last three years now where he'll sleep without the mama. But then he cycles right back to needing to cuddle her middle of the night.
I guess what this is all meant to note is that kids and sleep are weird, man.
Hopefully he’ll get over it in a few days; fussing when we put him down isn’t unusual, but this move from <15 mins to <60 isn’t really sustainable.
Goodreads
SF&F Reviews blog
I wish my wife was more 'put them into their own bed' but then again, waking up in the morning with my daughter snuggled next to me and her feet inexplicably laid over my stomach is also very nice.
We've been trying to teach the 'Four Things You Always Can Tell Mom and Dad' - when she's scared, hungry, angry, or needs to use the bathroom. It's been working, mostly.
bonus if you can manage all four at the same time
The 3 year old is in a completely biphasic sleep schedule (4 hours sleep, 8 hours awake, repeat) paired with separation anxiety. I can count on one hand the number of times he has slept all the way through the night. I know eventually it'll level out, but going on four years of no good sleep has taken a bit of a toll.
She has consistently woken up at midnight. No matter when she went to bed, it's always been midnight. Sometimes, maybe, she'll make it to 1am.
We have mostly coslept with her. Right now, she starts off in her bed and when she gets up at midnight, she comes into our bed. it's the only way to get us all sleep. if we tried to get her resettled in her own bed, we're up fighting and crying for another 2 hours. And nobody has the time or the energy for that.
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