Itzbeen

[mommax3]

Re: Itzbeen

I wouldn't have used it. I was not a scheduler.....just not me. Had DH been the stay-at-home parent, he would have been all over that.

Sally

[SuzySunshine]

Re: Itzbeen

I think its interesting that most people here picked up the "scheduling" part of it. I'm not a scheduler either but I think I would have used it more as a reference. i.e. Adele is crying - ok when was the last time she was fed/changed/napped to then figure out what she might be crying about.

Interesting, maybe they need to change their marketing of it.

Re: Itzbeen

Having had a fussy baby, I don't know if it would have helped me. I usually ran through the list of stuff in my head. I guess I had a good enough sense of having fed her recently or thinking it might be long enough that she needs to be fed. The memory aspect would be key for me (maybe I should make my own!).

Before Anna was born, some friends and I came up a mnemonic device for taking care of newborns. I wish I could remember all of it but it was based on "dipshit" as in the baby screaming and saying "come on, dipshit, help me out here." Something like:

Diaper
Intestines (gassy)
Position
Sleepy
Hungry
Illness
Temperature (warm or chilly)

[SuzySunshine]

Re: Itzbeen

That about sums it up, doesn't it.

[mommax3]

Re: Itzbeen

By the time I had my third (most fussy) baby, I was just on fumes. If he smelled, I changed him. I was constantly groping myself trying to decide if it was time to feed him again, and which side I should start with. I could have used that dipshit device, Nellie! (Maybe you should market it! ) Being called a dipshit during that period of my life would have been a compliment.....I was not functioning well at all.

Re: Itzbeen

You guys with the fussy third baby are scaring me ....

Nellie - market it and sell it. Although you'll probably want to sell it under 2 names. DIPSHIT will work for parents on their 2nd or 3rd baby, but first-timers probably wouldn't appreciate the reference.

[mommax3]

Re: Itzbeen

and conversely, why baby #4 never came for us at all......

Re: Itzbeen

and conversely, why baby #4 never came for us at all......

So true! DH says all the time that Evie wants to make sure she is the last.

Re: Itzbeen

and conversely, why baby #4 never came for us at all......

So true! DH says all the time that Evie wants to make sure she is the last.

We are already saying that about our #1 :thud: