Coffee anyone ?

[Margali]

Making coffee before I wake the minions. I miss early morning sun.
My ankle is feeling much better this morning. I remembered I had a bag of epsom salts with arnica, ginger, and other stuff. I soaked both feet for close to an hour. That was fun arranging in a tiny rv bathroom.

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

@Cecilia's-herd I would have baby crib in your beddroom sidecared to bed if it fits.
All 3 of my kids roomshared if not bedshared (w bassisnet) until about 1yr. They slept thru the night from day 1. I slept much better as well. Friend that bottle fed did same but had tiny fridge w bottle warmer replacing normal night stand.

Somebody was hungry, reach over feed while lying down, put back in crib. Somebody started making scared sounds, flop hand on back, murmur soothly. No getting up and stumbling down hallway half asleep.

Yeah I figured that would have to be the plan. The fact that there are 2 of them though. I don’t want them to choke each other. Is that possible?

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

worked on the hot wire on the back yard and got it working. I put the dogs (3) on the porch most of the day. Since my husband died, when I leave, I put Trip on the porch because he jumps the fence. The two dogs Trip was raised with died and it was heartbreaking watching him nose bumping Polly, the Australian Shepherd, pulling her fur with his teeth, trying to get her up. We cried for losing Polly, then cried harder watching Trip. He guarded her while we dug her grave, then laid on her grave the rest of the day. When we took Parker to the vet, Trip tried to jump in the truck to go too. Parker's insides were eat up with cancer (we didn't know). The vet called us and we put Parker down. Trip was heart broken again. So when BJ didn't come back, I think Trip knew. But there was no physical body, BJ was cremated. There was no way for me to show the dogs what happened to their Daddy. Trip is anxious, wants to be close to me, like 125 pounds of Great Pyrenees in my lap, and when I leave, he jumps out looking for me. So I close him up on the porch.

Way to start the morning off with some fun conversation bay! Got me in tears reading this. Tell Trip I love him. Poor baby. Sounds like something Rory would do. After we lost one of our chickens she looked and looked for her. Heartbreaking.

 

[Margali]

Yeah I figured that would have to be the plan. The fact that there are 2 of them though. I don’t want them to choke each other. Is that possible?

First thing- all the cute crib railing bumpers, pillows, blankets, etc are DANGEROUS. They are the choke hazards. Babies on plain bedsheet in sleeper pjs. I think sleeping on back is currently recommended but my kids never did due to reflux. They slept on tummy / side on wedge placed under sheet.
The danger spot with sidecarring a crib is the gap between bed and crib. Make sure crib is strapped tight to bedframe. I also took a thin sheet of plywood and used it to span the gap under baby mattress and my bed's foam topper.

There is 23 months between my youngest 2. Cassandra often crawled in crib with the new baby. No issues.

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

I knew blankets and pillows were dangerous. Didn’t know there would be a gap between the bed, helpful thank you! I was in the NICU for the first 3 months of my life so my parents don’t have much experience with this sort of thing.

 

[promiseacres]

Good morning. All this baby talk! Got to take care of a month old in the nursery Sunday at church. So very sweet. But I think I'm happy at the stage we're in now. No diapers and they're getting useful. Getting new internet this afternoon.. I hope! Have a month to make sure it works.

Girls have been riding, new pony is doing well. Not perfect but doing ok, DD1 feels comfortable on her so that's the goal. She's got some time before the 4H shows next year. DD2 is wanting to ride more finally! She even slid off of the pony yesterday but didn't get hurt and jumped back on.

Have 5 bunnies on their way to their new homes tomorrow (possibly a couple more) Need to touch tattoos... of course my tattoo pen was broke... fortunately can borrow a friends.

 

[Bruce]

Read all the books!

Or all the journals here! Especially fun ones like latestarter's. We lost him Feb 2019. He was a fun and funny guy. He was also on BYC. Baymule knew him personally as did Mike & Teresa (they now have his GP). The flying pig emoji is a tribute to him. You'll have to read his journal to find out why

Joe's journal

I'll go find a twin and full size mattress and put them on the porch,

Why buy them now when you'll just have to move them? Why not wait until you have moved in and get them direct to that house?

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

@Cecilia's-herd this is the set of cloth diapers I got, the brand had really good reviews when I was researching.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...oliid=I1U7YLUBEOHDMV&ref=br_mb_ov_item_detail

You might be able to find them cheaper on the company's direct website, I just went through Amazon as that is where my registry was located. I also recommend looking at used baby clothing stores like Once Upon a Child if you have one near you, they have really good prices for gently used kid stuff.

Highly recommend using a bassinet in your bedroom for the first few months, one for each child. As was previously stated, current guidelines are kid sleeping on back in bare crib/bassinet. Once they are older you can change things up, the danger when they are new is that they don't usually have the reflexes/strength to roll away from something that is squishing their nose and obstructing airway, so you have to make sure they can't manage to suffocate themselves. MIL bought us an Owlet? I think it's called, little device that goes on foot and tracks the kid's heartbeat and oxygen levels. We haven't used it much as it was freaking out when I tried to breastfeed, apparently you are supposed to take it off when you breastfeed the kid as it messes up the readings.

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

Won’t they cry more being separated? I can tell they like each other. Lots of wiggles and kicks.

one for each child.

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

Good morning. All this baby talk!

Haha yes sorry! Since I can’t really take care of my animals right now, all I can think about is these babies! So very wiggly