Parent Thread

How did your second round of shots go? Ours was actually much better than the first in terms of the following 2 days.

Virus number 4 started Thurs. Yippee! Fri he had a 101 fever but baby Motrin and over night seems to have fixed that. So just cough and congestion.

If you're talking to me, our 2nd round of shots went amazingly well. Last time around, he screamed for like 10 minutes after the shots and then was super tired and just wanted to sleep the entire rest of the day.

This time around, he had 1 oral immunization, and then 5 shots, 2 in 1 leg and 3 in the other. Screamed during the shots but picked him up afterwards and was almost immediately fine. Then was totally fine the rest of the day too, wasn't overly tired or anything. Was in a generally good mood(despite all the teeth coming in).

I was horrified of what the combo of teething + shots might do to him, but it's like he totally forgot about the shot by the time we left the doctors office.

Our 4 month was fine. She actually only had two shots and one oral immunization. They have some combo shot where they can put 3 vaccines in one or something, so that was nice. She screamed after the second one but it was time to eat so we shoved a bottle in her mouth and she calmed right down.

She was definitely not as tired as the first time and we had no fever either. Still not pooping everyday so we are doing 2 oz of prune juice everyday and we got the go ahead to do some solids so we are trying avocados. Rice cereal a little as well. She is still in the 98th percentile for height and 80th for weight, so averaged out or whatever she is in the 50th percentile for a 7 month old. She is long though and doesn't look too chunky.

Also she has favored her right side when laying down since she was born so the back of her head is kinda flat on that side... actually its pretty noticeable, so we are done with the swing and bouncy chair and basically holding her upright or switching arms when we snuggle her. Doctor said if it hasn't corrected itself when we come back for 6 month we will have to see cranial specialist and get her a helmet

So today was Parent Teacher Conference day. I've mentioned before that my son is autistic and this is really the first chance we've had this year to sit down with his teachers and get a sense of his progress outside of what we've observed at home. He has a speech therapist, a special education teacher that works within his general education class (it's an integrated class since he's not at risk of being disruptive to the learning process), an occupational therapist (helping him cope with his sensory needs), and general social counseling. On the whole he is making excellent progress in everything but writing and there is substantial progress in many of the social areas that he struggled with last year. Things like maintaining eye contact, holding a conversation, displaying the correct emotion for a situation, etc. Things we take for granted that are just foreign to an autistic kid. He still has a long road to travel. He's in second grade reading at an "end of Kindergarten" level, and still struggles to cope with pressure situations, i.e. timed tests. We constantly work with him at home, help him try to understand the necessity of some of the things he needs to do. Some days are good, some are bad. We're having more good than bad lately, so it's clear the work everyone is doing at school and at home is starting to have an impact.

He's helped tremendously by his sister. She's one grade behind and they have a very close connection. This was sort of hyper confirmed today because it was the first thing both their teachers brought up. Like, sometimes they'll get rewards for the good work they do in class and a lot of times instead of choosing something for themselves they'll choose something for each other. My daughter's teacher said she's never seen this level of devotion to a sibling in her sixteen years of teaching. Not too proud to say that felt damn good. You always wonder if what you're teaching your kids at home is having an impact. Safe to say we've succeeded there.

Oh, and her conference... for the time being I don't have to worry about my daughter. Apparently her teacher wants "twenty just like her". Tracking ahead on everything, always helping out either her or the other students. Just completely different from her brother.

Yep, our 6 month old is still jacked up. He was sleeping until 6:30-7am every morning, and now he's been up 5:30-6am every day since the time change. Going to bed has adjusted fine, he's going to sleep at the new adjusted time, but still keeps waking up early. No clue how to fix it, I'm just hoping that as we get into December and it gets darker and darker in the morning again he'll sleep in a bit longer.

Erronius_sl said:

I hope that you aren't offended when I say that I think I can see a resemblance

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He's basically a mini-me. Looks exactly like I did in my baby photos(and really even still looks like me know, minus the goatee) Everyone even jokingly just calls him Joey Jr.

No need for a paternity test here

My 7 month old daughter has terrible sleep patterns. She went from waking up once a night to now waking up like 2-3 times. Starts crying and will calm down once you pick her up. It's driving me crazy now, this lack of sleep is wearing on me.

We usually have ner nap once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Maybe something in between if she's really tired. Then she goes to bed around 7 or so. She's going to bed fine but it seems shes waking up crying every 2-3 hours until we go to her. I'm of a mind to let her try to put herself to sleep again, but I can't let her wail forever.

Ugh So tired.

Is she teething? That's what jacked up our kids sleep patterns at 6 months.

I duno, she might be, but I don't see anything coming though her gums and her Dr visit 3-4 weeks ago saw nothing. She doesn't seem to be in any pain. She cries a bit, then you pick her up and she's off to sleep again. From the experience my friends have had with their kids, it seems like teething is painful and there is a different kind of crying.

Any increase in drooling lately? That's usually a good sign. Our kid was pissy off and on for a good week to 10 days before we could even feel a tooth in his mouth, and then it was another week or so before you could visibly see anything.

Deathwing_sl said:

I thought kids learned how to manipulate before 7 months.

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Some definitely do. At 5 months, our kiddo would scream when we laid him down for a nap, then if we walked into his room and stood over his crib he would immediately smile & coo & laugh. Take 2 steps away, scream. 2 steps back, smile. Wouldn't make any physical contact at all and he'd do that.

Babies are smarter than we sometimes give them credit for.