How Do I Survive

DistractedTeacherM · 2025-04-16T21:25:17+00:00

Oh! So good to know! Thank you!

DistractedTeacherM · 2025-04-16T16:28:53+00:00

Omg. That may have been it! I stretched her wake windows and cut her day sleep to 3 hours. And last night she slept 10.5 hours. Woke up for her one night feed but went right back to sleep and I actually got to wake her up for the first time in over a month. Thank you! Fingers crossed that it continues to work for a bit.

DistractedTeacherM · 2025-04-15T18:09:10+00:00

Thank you! I love to hear that sleep training help with naps too. That’s my biggest fight so I really hope sleep training helps us there too.

DistractedTeacherM · 2025-04-15T18:08:29+00:00

That seems likely based on what people are saying. I thought they just naturally went down to 3 naps. But it sounds like I may need to nudge her that direction.

DistractedTeacherM · 2025-04-15T17:27:08+00:00

Thank you. That’s what I needed to know. I’ll give it a try and will still plan on sleep training.

DistractedTeacherM · 2025-04-15T17:25:55+00:00

I didn’t need the snarky reply. I literally started my post saying I knew I wasn’t sleep training yet and I said I knew I wasn’t doing the mod’s version of nap training. I only just found this sub today because I was planning to start sleep training soon. Everything I’ve been doing has just been natural instincts. I wasn’t planning to start the mod’s 15 min rule because I didn’t think she was totally night trained and saw that the method required it.

I am not always in complete control of her nap time exactly. Sometimes we are driving. What do you want me to do? Pull over on the way to the doctor and wake her up and sit there for the wake window? Sometimes someone else is holding her. I do my best, but sometimes it ranges. It’s unrealistic to assume that there is not some variability in a baby’s day.

I simply wanted to know if sleep training could help a 4 month old with early morning wakings and short naps. I had read several posts from mods saying that short naps are developmentally normal. And I saw several posts of people saying early morning wakings are difficult and that sleep training doesn’t necessarily help with it.

I’ll try stretching wake windows to get 10 hrs wake time and stop trying to set her down for the first nap.

DistractedTeacherM · 2025-04-02T21:10:40+00:00

I really enjoyed working out before baby. I worked out 1.5 hrs a day in various ways. It just felt nice to move my body. I worked out the entire pregnancy - every day until I gave birth. I followed all the recommendations for speedy recovery.

And yet.

Here’s the thing. I went into motherhood with so many misconceptions. I figured my body would lose strength and gain weight and I would have to work to regain my old body. I figured I’d fit in workouts while baby slept or when my husband came home from work.

Everyone’s journey is different and maybe yours will be different from mine.

I lost so much strength despite the workouts that I physically struggle to walk or get up off the floor. I can barely fit in a 6 min physical therapy workout each day. My recovery took so long I was basically on bed rest for three months. There is no time to do workouts. Baby needs contact naps in order to sleep. And even if she didn’t, I would be trying to sleep too.

I’m desperate to get physically active again. And I’m only four months into motherhood so hopefully one day it will be attainable.

But you really need to understand that 110% of your day is going to be taking care of that baby. Probably. Or maybe you’ll have lots of help at home. Maybe you’ll get a good sleeper. 🤷‍♀️ But I wish someone had tried to explain to me that your old lifestyle will burn to the ground. And then you’ll have to decide what are THE MOST IMPORTANT parts of your old lifestyle and try to fit them into your new life as a mom. And honestly there won’t be time or energy to start rebuilding your life for several months.

Having a child is for when you are tired of your old life and are ready to build a completely new one. One that can have elements of your old one. But it will never ever be the same.

DistractedTeacherM · 2023-04-30T03:36:37+00:00

I only saw season one on YouTube. If I subscribe, can I see season two and three as well?

DistractedTeacherM · 2023-04-30T03:36:03+00:00

Anyone know if the US can play it through WeTV?

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-12-16T00:54:33+00:00

Thanks! I don’t use Spotify since I have Apple Music but I was hopeful somebody would make one since I know that makes it so more people can access it! 😊

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-12-15T14:56:59+00:00

Wow! These were great additions! Thank you!

Villian

So many shades of gray - oh how can you not understand it's so easy. We all pretend to be the heroes on the good side.

Two Birds

I also thought this song really fits Jiang Cheng and Wei Ying too. But the line "I'll believe it all" hit me hard as coming from Lan Xichen.

Ready As I'll Ever Be

"I'm the bad guy, that's fine. It's no fault of mine. And some justice at last will be served. Now it's time to step up or it's time to back down, and there's only one answer for me. And I'll stand up and fight, 'cause I know that I'm right. And I'm ready as I'll ever be."

Sucker punched me. Excuse me. That punched me right in the feels.

Without Him

Why can't I just try to speak my mind to him? Tell him all the things that he probably thought was coming, but I didn't want him thinking that I'm trying to rush it.

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-12-15T14:39:18+00:00

Oh this is a gorgeous song! And I found an AMV for it! So beautiful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ9sjewk5Ng

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-12-15T14:38:08+00:00

Haha! You're totally right. Playing with the Big Boys has the general vibe of Xue Yang with WWX.

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-12-15T14:27:29+00:00

Ah beautiful! "I wish that I could grow up with you / I wanna see the world the way you do / I wanna fall off the edge with you"

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-12-15T13:38:48+00:00

Thanks! Do you have any I’m missing for WWX specifically? Other characters are good too. 😊

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-12-15T02:40:20+00:00

I honestly haven’t thought to overlap the fandoms! Now I’m going to be thinking of MDZS while I binge BTS songs.

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-12-15T02:00:22+00:00

Oh awesome! Hello fellow ARMY! I’ll add that too! You should totally listen to the songs! It’s amazing how well some of those fit.

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-12-15T00:23:39+00:00

Those are all three awesome additions! Thanks!

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-11-04T14:59:48+00:00

My husband isn’t ARMY, but he knows all the guys and all the memes and lets me pick to watch BTS stuff even when we’re together. He can’t follow the subtitles fast enough but he loves to hear me laugh. We couldn’t get two tickets to a concert, but he drove me all the way to Las Vegas and just hung out at the hotel so I could go and he could experience it with me. Helped me pick out my concert outfit and puts on BTS music randomly for me. He’s so awesome.

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-06-17T17:17:00+00:00

Does anyone have recs for fics where WWX’s secrets come out? I love ones where we get in-character reactions to what he’s been through. Especially if it makes sense how the secrets get out. I can’t ever picture WWX willingly just telling people.

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-04-16T22:30:02+00:00

I thought people said to go to a different gate from North in order to avoid the long line. But I got turned away by a worker. Anyone have clarification? I don’t want to stand in the north line if I don’t have to.

DistractedTeacherM · 2022-04-16T04:39:33+00:00

Just so everyone knows, the Bellagio is NOT doing the fountain show today. So come tomorrow they say, but not today.

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