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[wickedcherub]

Liam just fell asleep now. I don't know how to move his bedtime earlier, but I have to, it's driving us all mental.

Was looking at staying at home all day today because I spend so much money when I go out, but it was likely to drive me crazy. I didn't know my phone wasn't working until Adam facebooked me to say 'what's wrong with your phone?'. A quick reset and my phone was flooded with messages with 'want to meet for lunch?' but it was too late by then :(

So I Liam to Target today, they were having a 30% sale off clothes and I picked up a few cheap tops. I don't own any tops that aren't band t-shirts. My entire wardrobe consists of high-necked dresses and I simply cannot breastfeed in them. At least with a top/jeans, I can just lift up my top. Bought him some bibs (banana stains so much!) and a couple of books. I read so many books to him every day, that even though he has quite a collection and I re-read the books over and over again, I am *so* sick of it! Ended up spending $70.

I was so hungry today that I had cooked dinner by 4 and Adam and I had a full meal by 4:30. Yeah, we're both secretly 80 years old. It left a strange amount of time in the evening though.

We started watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tonight - I had seen it at the cinemas, but Adam wasn't keen. He hasn't read the books and damn sometimes things don't make sense if you haven't read the books! Plus none of the quirky details are there, and none of the story details that make it all so great. Just saying 'you know, Bathilda Bagshot.. she wrote A History Of Magic' and Adam was like 'what book? so?' Bill and Fleur were getting married and Adam was all 'oh, is there another Weasley'. Such a pity he won't read the books. He hates children's movies and TV. Even Pixar!

Has the definition of friendship changed for anyone else who has watched Community? Like, you can no longer call anyone your best friend because you don't have what Troy and Abed have?

Liam's crying. I don't know why :(

eta: he woke up wailing like someone stabbed him. He woke up every hour last night, but I think it's because I finally just brought him into bed with me. He tends to wake up more then, but I don't know whether that's just cos I bring him in on bad nights, or because he's in bed with me.
I didn't pick him up - I just patted him and rocked him in the cot and shooshed him until he wailed himself to sleep. It frickin sucked. 20 minutes worth of wailing. My only other option was to nurse him, but I over-feed the guy, trying to get him to go to bed each night. I also turned on his Soothe and Glow Seahorse. It's not really worked in the past, but maybe I can get an association going, I DON'T KNOW. I have uni tomorrow and I'm already exhausted.

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[laurenthemself]

I need to get up to date on Community; I've only seen season one but it was awesome. And Adam needs to learn to watch kids' stuff, else he's going to have issues when Liam gets older and wants to go to movies...

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

Why do you think you overfeed him? Does he spit up a lot?

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think it was a bad choice of words. I definitely try and force feed him sometimes because I have no other way of putting him to sleep. He sucks once or twice then jerks away.

If I had picked him up then and tried to feed him when he wasn't hungry then I would have had no weapons. I would have done it if he had cried or a minute or two longer though.

I have worked out that his wailing is really his protest cry. He does it for a few seconds everytime I set him down somewhere, before he realises it's really okay. His emotional cry is a more normal wah wah wah cry that he can't stop. Last night it was just wailing.

[ms-hecubus.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK. That makes a lot more sense. I think you're right, the wording confused me.

[bluedano.livejournal.com]

On a random note: I REALLY want a ringtone that sings "Troy and Abed in the Morn-ing!"

[skittish-derby.livejournal.com]

my husband is the same way about HP-- except i convinced him to come with me to the last 3 movies on dates.. he actually loved them. Now that Hazel is old enough we have been reading them for story time and he has been getting WAY into the story.

:shrugs:

[sueg.livejournal.com]

I always figure the more milk we get into them before they go to sleep, the longer they're likely to sleep without waking up hungry! You really can't overfeed a breastfed baby anyway - they'll just eat less at a different time. But I wonder if he's having his 4-month sleep regression, or teething pain?

I agree so much about the HP movies. When I saw the first one, I was like, "That was SO truncated, did it even make sense to anyone who didn't read the books?" I haven't seen all of them though.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

He ended up only waking up twice last night, which is A+++++.

I chose the wrong word for 'overfeed' but I explained it to Ms Hecubus here (http://wickedcherub.livejournal.com/880184.html?thread=7602744#t7602744).

I can't feel any teeth, so I don't know. I think it might have to do with the solid food? He pooed yesterday while I was holding him and he was in *so* much pain. When I changed his nappy, his poo looked like a nappy full of peanut butter. Usually his poo is much wetter. But it wasn't constipation, I guess. So I guess he had the food rolling around in his digestive system causing him discomfort and he needed to get it out. Maybe.