u/lone_ly_eye_s

Alright guys, hopefully not too touchy of a subject but not sure where else to turn.

My daughter is 8 months old. When I was 19, I weighed around 195 pounds. I had gained that weight really rapidly, and found out that I had PCOS. I started birth control and lost that weight in about 6 months. Since then, I’ve been roughly 120ish pounds and haven’t had any issues with cysts in my ovaries as long as I’m consistently taking my BC.

When I got pregnant with my daughter, I made a significant effort to eat good, high protein meals and have a balanced diet. If I was craving sweets, I tried to eat fruit or yogurt to curb that craving. It wasn’t about my weight at that point, moreso about what was best for the baby. I stayed active, I was constantly on my feet and would walk my dogs a mile each every night. The day I gave birth, I was 195 pounds. Within a month PP I was around 165. I didn’t breastfeed long because my supply just never came in, I tried and tried and it just didn’t work. That being said, in the last 8 months, my weight has fluctuated so much. At this point, I’m 164 pounds despite barely being able to eat during the day because I’m so busy entertaining my daughter.

I scheduled an appointment for bloodwork, but wondering if anyone else experienced this issue with stubborn weight loss postpartum potentially related to PCOS. What can I do? I try to make healthy choices, I try to stay active (I’m up and down with the baby all day anyway) and I’m just not understanding how I’m holding weight like this.

I know that my body created life. But I just don’t feel like myself. I miss my clothes, I miss feeling comfortable in a bathing suit. I miss having some semblance of control over my appearance and it just feels completely lost right now. I just don’t know if this is a waiting game or something I should be changing about my lifestyle because weight is just sincerely harder to lose when you have PCOS.

My daughter is almost 7 months old, just popped tooth number 2, and teething took her sleep and flipped it upside down. All the old tricks stopped working, and we’ve FINALLY found the best system for getting her down.

1. Bath. Clean her face and butt, the rest is just small potatoes at this point. Some catfish noodling (she dives at her toys as aggressively as possible) seems to do the trick for getting the rest of her body clean and I cannot wrestle a soaking wet baby to save my life.

2. Bottle. Obvious answer. Used to be the one that put her sleep, but not anymore.

3. Bedtime playtime. Aptly named. Put the baby in a sleep sack, we all get in bed and just let her go crazy. No noise from the tv, just us in bed with her favorite stuffy to wrestle while she goes back and forth between licking my face and licking her dad’s face. We do this until she’s OBVIOUSLY tired.

4. Rocking and lullaby. Down in two minutes, sleeping through the night.

Absolutely completely hectic from beginning to end. But, it works. I have tried everything under the sun and this is just our routine now, and honestly… we kind of love it. We all have fun and unwind before going to bed, and it just feels so special. I remember when it was just a bottle and she was out for 8 hours. Sometimes I miss it, but I don’t think I would trade nights for anything.

What are you guys doing to get LO down for bed? Have we all reached a point of genuinely needing these babies to just wear themselves out?

Not really sure what category to put this in, my daughter is almost 7 months old and can confidently get herself up to sit with no support and has started to crawl, but very clumsily. The sitting is what scares me… she’s realized that she can just throw her body around any which way she wants to go from a sitting position. She’s a big girl, (95th percentile for weight, 87th for height) and we don’t have much space. That being said, I can tell that she is quickly outgrowing the playpen in the sense that it’s hindering her ability to really learn how to crawl successfully.

I’m wondering if maybe I’m being a little too paranoid about the flooring in our house. We can’t have carpet or put down area rugs (older dog that gets confused when we do) so I’ve been relying on enclosed spaces for her to play independently and spend all of her floor time. I guess I’m mostly paranoid that she’ll sit up and then fall backward and bump her head. Obviously I would be with her the whole time, but she is INSANELY quick. She’s very movement motivated. That being said… parents with no carpet or rugs, when did you let baby explore on the floor?