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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 10:30 am
Becky, if both sets of grandparents live far enough away they need hotel rooms, you could make it a special treat for Emily. Grandma and Grandpa are coming to visit and you get to go stay with them overnight! Caleb stayed with grandma and grandpa for three days when Kota was born and thought it was a great treat (even though they lived a couple miles from us.) Of course they went out of their way to spoil him rotten while he was there, lol. We had decided for Darren not to take Caleb home with him because I wanted him rested! Dakota was born five days before my sisters wedding, at which I was the maid of honor and I knew as soon as I got home I'd have to deal with wedding stuff (like clothes shopping.) After about 12 hours of labor and several more after she was born he headed home in the early evening to sleep. Worked out great cuz after he had a couple nights of sleep he was able to stay up our first night home with her and the next day I was feeling alright enough to tackle the mall and half the clothing shops in town, lol.
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Beckyann675
Member
01-06-2006
| Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 2:16 pm
Spitfire, I am at home now. Decided to start my leave over Christmas break and the plan is to return to teaching after Spring Break. Staying at home has really helped the blood pressure, but the sugar got higher. I really have to watch the sugary drinks now, that was what was doing it to me. I am taking an online class right now for my masters' program. I don't know why I decided to do that. It's an intense 3-week class and I am so hoping I don't have this baby during this term. I have a midterm due tomorrow night and 10-page research paper due next Wed. and then the final is due next Friday - It's just a whirlwind! Anyway, I think it's good you are keeping Sam in his crib as long as he wants too. It will keep him from getting out and coming to wake you up in the middle of the night as I have heard can happen! Wargod, I thought Emily would like the hotel room thing with my parents too, but she sleeps awful when someone is in the room with her (unless she can get in bed with us, which is what we end up doing with her when we travel) But DH thinks it would be best for her if she can stay in her room at home with less disruption. The more I think about it, the more I don't mind DH staying at home instead of in the hospital with me. We are only about 5 min. from the hospital anyway.
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 6:33 am
Beckyann have you ever tried Crystal Lite? They make individual sized packets so you just add it to your bottled water or glass. I'm not a juice or pop drinker so it never bothered me to not have them but I got really tired of water and that was my way to spice it up some.
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Beckyann675
Member
01-06-2006
| Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 4:27 pm
My mom used to drink Crystal Lite all the time. I never tried it. It's a good idea though 'cause I do get tired of plain old water and really shouldn't be drinking all those diet sodas anyway Thanks!
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Kimmo
Member
05-02-2003
| Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 12:57 pm
Spitfire, I agree to let Sam sleep in his crib as long as he wants! Rowan never tried getting out of his crib. We told him his new bed was a birthday present and got it the week of his 3rd birthday (a month before Ada's due date). He got to go to the store and pick the headboard. He was very excited about sleeping in his "present"! I was lucky, I started contractions when I woke up in the morning, was able to get Rowan to daycare before anything happened. So Rowan was at school and didn't have to experience anything stressful related to Ada coming out! Rowan spent that night with my parents the day Ada was born, and DH slept at home that night to get rest. My sister stayed with me in the hospital, that was so nice.
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Enbwife
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, January 20, 2006 - 9:35 am
It's so exciting when new babies are going to be born soon. Good luck Beckyann and Escapee. Just around the corner now... My mom came to our house and slept here with Nate while we were at the hospital (we went at midnight and Starr was born at 8:30am). My mom just got Nate up the next day and took him to daycare as usual, then Neil went to get him at 4:30 as usual... They came to visit me at the hospital then Neil put Nate to bed and his dad came over while Neil came back to the hospital. Worked great! We bought Nate a talking Spiderman doll as a gift from Starr when he visited us at the hospital. He loved it and still says "Starr gave that to me". It was a great idea. Spit, maybe you could move Sam to his new room with the crib and let him choose some of those decal stick on decorating things. You can get them from Walmart. We did Nate's room in Winnie the Pooh when he was first born, then just recently I took him to Walmart and he chose some Nascar car stick ons. We both stuck them on the two walls around his bed to make his room "big boy" like. He says Winnie the Pooh is for babies. 
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 3:56 am
Coughing help needed here....DD was up for 2 hours last night coughing. Any tips to get a person to stop a dry hacking cough. I did tylenol with codiene, vicks, tsp of sugar, cough candy, vapourizor, ventilin, cold cloth, and head over a tub of hot water with a towel over her head. any other ideas or tips...please share oh she is 8 1/2 years old
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Beckyann675
Member
01-06-2006
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 5:23 am
I would have suggested codeine, it seems to be the only thing I have found that really helps with a cough. Since you say it is dry, maybe she needs some Robitussin that will help break that crud up and make it easier for her to get it out. my DD (2) was up most of last night with a nasty cough also. She also had a 102.5 fever, down to 100.6 right now, waiting for the dr's to open so I can call. I hope both our little girls get to feeling better soon!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 5:32 am
Thanks Beckyann, yes the codeine was recommended by my doctor. They talked about cough syrups on the news a couple of weeks ago and that they are really not all that effective. I tend to agree with that. Some people don't like the idea of codeine being used as it's a narcotic..but you have to do what you have to do for your kids sometimes to get them feeling better. The cough sounds more broken up this morning so hopefully she will be better after laying down today and doing nothing. Hope your dd is feeling better too. Are you alternating between advil/motrin and tylenol for fever? That helps to break it too. A cold cloth has been helpful for Julia as well.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 5:33 am
Mucinex is wonderful. Not sure the ages for it though... But worth a try! (There is one certain type of cough it does not work on. Ask your pharmacist for more details.)
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 5:35 am
I have never heard of this Mucinex before....we may not have that in Canadian pharmacies..but I may check it out if the cough persists. Thanks Julie
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 7:19 am
Skootz, http://www.mucinex.com/ hope this helps some!
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Beckyann675
Member
01-06-2006
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:05 pm
We are giving DD Robitussin Congestion. It seems to help with the coughing. The fever ws better today so the dr. said not to worry, just keep her hydrated, and now it has gone back up again tonight, with some diarrhea. I am guessing it is some sort of virus, I wish there were more I could do for her. She is not wanting to eat or sleep much, pretty much laid on the couch all day and watched TV. Skootz, I hope your daughter's cough has gotten better, This crazy weather here isn't helping anything!
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Beckyann675
Member
01-06-2006
| Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:22 pm
I meant to say Triaminic Chest Congestion is what we are giving her. I put her down about a half hour ago and so far so good. Let's hope it at least works long enough for her to get a decent night's sleep.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 10:59 pm
It's not often I get to come and ask ya'll here for advice, but I figure soon to be new mommies are good people to ask. For my sisters last baby shower, I made a diaper cake. Roll the diapers up, place them on a large tray in a circle, stick baby stuff in the center, then do a smaller layer the same way, then another, etc. Ends up being a lot of diapers with baby goodies (washclothes, bottles, onesies,) mixed in. My little adopted sister is getting ready to have her first baby (due in June) and I've been asked to do another diaper cake for her. Since sis' was for a second baby, I put in things I knew she could use and didn't have a ton of left over from her first baby. With little adopted sis, because it's her first, I'm thinking I need to add a broader assortment of stuff. But, it's been a long time since I've had a baby and outside of the bottles, washclothes, nightgowns and onesies I'm coming up short. I want to start picking stuff up now, a few things here, a few things there, so that come May when we have her shower, all I'll have to do is put it together. Is there anything you absolutely can't live without with a baby? Some item you recieved that you think every new mom should have? What are things that you got six of and wished no one else would get for you (for me it was those sets of toilitries, soap, powder, lotion.) I'm trying to think in terms of first time, new mommy. The items have to roll up to a size thats comparable to say, an 8-9 oz baby bottle size or smaller. I tried rolling up recieving blankets for sis' and they came out so bulky that if I remember right, I ended up wrapping them seperatly.
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Beckyann675
Member
01-06-2006
| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 7:52 am
I would suggest the real useful stuff: burp cloths, washclothes, crib sheets, onesies. I also received a lot of the baby toiletries, but they did come in handy, I always need wipes, Desitin, baby lotion etc. you could also throw in some hygiene stuff: baby brushes, combs, tiny fingernail clippers, thermometer etc. Sorry can't think of much else right now. Hope some of this helps!!
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 8:48 am
War, I'm an "old" mom, but maybe an assortment of over the counter medicines a newborn may need in the middle of the night.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 9:06 am
Yes it does, thank you Becky! I would have forgot a few things (like the grooming stuff and thermometer.) Ddr, that's a good idea too, especially for first time moms because a lot of times they're really not sure what should be in the medicine cabinet for baby. I'll have to call up my friend who works in the peditricians office and see what some of the meds are they recommend for infants (I remember using infants tylenol, teething tablets, and those gas drops off the top of my head.) When Caleb was born the hospital sent us home with a diaper bag. Attached to it were some cards (hard, plastic ones) that had first aid and cpr intructions, and they were hooked together with a clip that you could clip onto the diaper bag or around the house. Thank God we never had to use them but I was always glad to have them because even though I was cpr and first aid certified I wasn't sure if in an emergency with my own baby I'd be able to do do what I had to do. By the time Dakota was born they'd stopped giving those out, I'm wondering if I can find something similar? Has anyone seen anything like that?
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Enbwife
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 10:47 am
I could not live without the stringy bag that you attach to the stroller. I have one on every stroller. Should roll up quite small. Also baby drugs, zinc diaper cream, cheerios (in the mid months)... now I'm just getting silly. 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 11:36 am
don't forget a snot sucker!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 12:04 pm
LOL at the cheerios. I'd already decided on putting some blow pops in the cake! Little adopted sis was horrible when all the nieces and nephews were little babies (maybe 2-3 months old) of letting them lick off her lollipops. Used to drive us nuts, so I'm aiming at some payback, lol. You're talking about those little mesh bags, Enbwife? I remember having some little mesh sock bags (put the socks in them and throw the whole bag in the laundry) we used it for carrying meds back and forth, lol. Loved that thing cuz we could send it to moms with the kids meds and it'd all come back home. Snot suckers are an absolute neccessity! You guys are great, if you have any more ideas, let me know! I picked up some bottles today, so I'm already getting ready for it, lol.
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Buttercup
Member
09-10-2000
| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 1:25 pm
Purell hand sanitizer. I bought a bunch of trial sized ones which for obvious reasons don't take up much space I always had one handy in the car, diaperbag, pram, etc. As a matter of fact, I guess they're still there I just don't use them like I did when Butterbaby was just a teeny weeny preemie infant.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 1:48 pm
What is a pram? That's a good idea though, I'll have to grab some of that too. Especially with all the cousins cuz they will want to touch and hold the baby. Plus with all the diaper changing and wiping up spit up, yep good idea. Thanks!
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Buttercup
Member
09-10-2000
| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 2:14 pm
Here's a picture of what I call a pram, though, I guess you could just as easily call it a stroller
Butterbaby has outgrown the "bassinet" part, so now we have the "sports-seat" on instead 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, January 30, 2006 - 2:27 pm
Ah ha, now that I recognize, lol. Figured it was just a word I couldn't put to something I knew.
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