*+* Feb 09 Mums AUGUST chat !*+*

[sweetseven]

Hey ladies, the new month has snuck up on us.

[Lateralus]

DOH - I am never on the ball enough to remember it's a new month! Good work tiera3 :goodvibes:

[Seacretsquirrel]

Oops I blame lack of sleep!!!

Welcome to August! - Sticky Please Mods!

Had another crappy night here Riley was great only one once a 3 am popped his ddummy back in then didn't hear a peep till 5 -30 did the same thing and he is still kipping:smiliedance: Miss Z on the other hand was up at 4am vomiting (I think from the crud running down her throat and the coughing) and it took forever to settle her and then the was up at 6-30 being sick again - although she did come through to me and wasn't sick in her bed either time so :sunshine:

I sooooooo am going to leave DH with the kids on Tues if he is home and I am only surfacing every 4 hours to feed R! I need to catch up on some serious sleep!
Gosh I am sooo sorry I am having a bit of a pity party on here and on Facebook Life could be worse!!!
Okay POSITIVE!!!! hmmmm I am going to make myself a husge cup of tea in my new catterpillar mug!!!! (does that count???)
Hope you all had a better night than I did!

[Lateralus]

:hugs: SS hope your day improves and that Miss Z feels better soon!

We had another good night here (I think we can safely say that this is working - 6 nights in a row is too much to be a fluke!

I am sure Zoe is not far of crawling - we had had some forwards movement... She seems to have the right idea but just can't quite co-ordinate her arms and legs yet. I don't think it will be long though!!!!! OMG - Then life as we know it wil REALLY be over :laughing: I think today I will spend 'baby proofing' - especially moving cleaning products out of low lying cupboards... Better to be prepared early I guess!

Hope everyone has a lovely Sunday!

[parentingrocks]

Hi all.

Sorry but you are about to get served with a $hit load of negativity :crying:

Charli's bad sleeping habits are killing me :crying:
HAHA OK I'm probably being dramatic and I need to give her time to get used to not having a dummy etc etc, but I was all pumped becaause she did all her day sleeps yesterday without a dummy but last night she was a shocker.. I'm torn - she waked when she has the dummy wanting it put back in, and she wakes without it as if she has no comfort and she really is screaming for it - buut maybe I stil need to stick to it and she will get the hang of it eventually. She is just sooooo bad a self settling. She will get to sleep initially at night in her cot without the dummy after about 10 mins of crying and shooshing, but whenever she waked during the night nothing seems to settle her and I eventually resort to feeding her (just done this last 2 nights) and now I feel like she's getting into a terrible habit of feeding during the night again when I only just got her out if that.
I think I will just persevere and try to remember that change can't happen instantly, I have to give it a few days/weeks.

I'm so tired:crying:

[zephani]

August already. It's now only just over 6 weeks till I go back to work. Where has the time flown?

I can't believe the development milestones that Katherine has hit this week. She sat up in the trolley on Friday, she is drinking 200mls of water a day from her sippy cup and is holding the cup by herself and has slept 12 hours straight every night for a week. My little girl is growing up so fast! With all of this and she hasn't rolled over again since last Monday. At least I know she has done it twice.

Solsen I'm sorry that you're tired and that Charli has had problems sleeping. Sending lots of :hugs: your way.

Kate I'm glad that Zoe is sleeping well. You must feel so much better.

I'm dreading baby proofing when Katherine is starting to crawl. We have stuff everywhere on the floor.

SS I'm sorry you've had sick kids and trouble sleeping. I think you should leave the kids with DH if he is home on Tuesday. He would probably enjoy the time alone with the LO's as well.

[sweetseven]

My little bub didn't go to bed last night either.

She had dosed off in my arms around 9:30pm, but before I got the opportunity to transfer her to the cot, Miss13 & Miss10, who had been ignoring being told to go to bed, made excited noises about their computer game, and bubs eyes sprang open. After that, she wouldn't settle again. She wasn't interested in feeding (just the occasional suck or two and that was it). I checked her gums, and no sign of teething.

It got to 1am, and still she wouldn't sleep, so I tried taking her to bed, and she just cried, so I had to get up with her again. By 2am, she still wasn't feeding and wasn't sleeping, and just crying. So, dog tired, I asked Miss15 (who was still up) to take her for a little while so I could get some rest.

2:40am, Miss15 brings her in saying that she thinks she's hungry. But no, still no interest in feeding. Though she must be hungry, 'cause she's had several wet nappies. I started to wonder maybe she's got a sore throat, so gave her some paracetemol. She stopped crying immediately, and about 10 minutes later she took a feed and then finally went to sleep.

I'm still tired today, but bub seems fine.

[Purplebird]

:hugs: for those that need them. It's horrible when you don't get enough sleep.

SS - I hope little Z is feeling better and you get some decent sleep tonight. I think making a nice cup of tea always counts as positivity!

I gave Cameron a piece of cooked zuchini in his hand tonight, but he sort of looked at it and threw it away in disgust :laughing:

I am going to get DH to try a bottle for Cam next weekend so that I can go and get my hair cut and coloured. We should have tried the bottle earlier really, but there was no need and we were too lazy! I've got a hen do to go to soon as well and I'm really in need of some children-free time, so I would really love it if I can go.

Cam has been super-clingy the past 3 days, I have no idea why but he is really not getting any floor time at all as he doesn't want to be out of my arms ever. It's a bit tiresome, but then I look at my toddler and think how quickly her little life has gone, so I'm trying not to wish Cameron's babyhood away!

[Lateralus]

PB good luck with the bottle and let me know if you have any luck (and how you managed it). At the clinic the recommended that we give Zoe a bottle of formula in the evenings, but do you think she'll take it?? If anyone has any advice on how to coax a reluctant baby to take a bottle I'd be much appreciative. I am conscious of not forcing it on her - this is likely to cause her to have a complete aversion to the bottle and then we;ll never get it into her. I think if we could get a bit of extra fluid into her in the evenings it would be the icing on the cake. She is sleeping better over night but still takes a couple of hours to really get settled in the evening. My gut feeling is that she is peckish and I am not making enough of the old B juice in the evenings to satisfy her. :confused:

Like you PB, I am also starting to feel like I would like to have some 'me' time that doesn't necessarily require me to be on hand to feed her... But I am also conscious of the fact (like you said) that she will not be a baby for long and that I should probably appreciate and enjoy every last BFing moment (especially as we fought so hard to establish the feeding). A bit of a conundrum! :laughing:

[quitecontrary]

Hello!
Well, I'm glad there was a link to this new thread as it would've taken me a few days to realise we're in a new month!!!
Kate I'm not too crash hot on how to give a bottle except that I stayed out of the room for when both my bubs had their first ones. I remember at our mothers group at the clinic the sister getting a very reluctant bub to take the bottle from her dad - the bub had to as her Mum was returning to work. So, try your clinic with your dh in tow! T is such a chunker feeding baby that he has had no issues taking a bottle from anyone - though it has only been ebm so far.
I must say that I am so pleased that sleep school worked so well for you all. What a blessed relief that must be.
Hmmm, dummy ditching - I can't bring myself to do it for either of my kids. G still has one for bed and is perfectly capable of sleeping without it. T has his for bed too. For us the thought of all the travel we do without dummies would be just too scary. My mum reckons both the kids will ditch them at the same time, and she's probably right!!
All is fine here. We had a wonderful weekend. Dh and I went to the opening of Sydney Design Festival at the Powerhouse museum on Friday night, which was very swishy then down to dinner at Darling Harbour. On Saturday we went and watched my 10year old nephew play soccer then down to my parents to stay the night. Today we had lunch there with my sis and her dh and dd, and good friends from the country who hadn't met T yet - it really was a lovely day!
Tomorrow dh's boxes arrive from England - 26 removalists boxes apparently. His past has come to bite him on the bottom at long last. Quite scary really as we don't know what is in more than half of them - with the clearing of his family home and everything. Oh well, it will be revealed to some extent tomorrow, not that we are planning to unpack them, they're going straight to our back shed! There should be some nice things though.

[Purplebird]

Kate - I never had any problems with DD taking the odd bottle at about 6 months onwards, so I'm not sure how we'll go if Cameron refuses! I'm thinking of trying SS's suggestion of maybe moving straight onto the Tommee Tippee spout cups (the soft tipped ones). Cameron settles well at night, but he does wake an hour later for a top-up and then wakes quite a lot at night. I have thought about giving some formula at night once he starts solids, but I think it only helps them sleep as it is harder to digest so it keeps them fuller for longer.

It's lovely to enjoy b'feeding, but I don't think there's anything wrong with having the odd break if you can get the bottle thing sorted. Let me know how you go, maybe we can compare notes!

QC - good luck with your boxes! It sounds quite exciting. Hopefully there are some treasures in there somewhere.

I'm just waiting for Cameron to wake up as we have some friends coming over this morning.

I think I might have felt the first bit of a tooth just as I put him to bed for a nap this morning, so I'll be interested to see if it is really there!

[sweetseven]

More sleep troubles last night. I finally got her down at midnight, but she was up again twice between then and 8am, when I realised we had overslept and the girls were going to be late for school. Now she's been sleeping most of the day, and I'm tired and thought I should have a nap also (toddler crashed out on the4 couch) but just couldn't seem to get any rest, so I woken her up, changed her and she's settled into a feed, but it does really seem like she's having an evening feed preparing to slerep for night.

[parentingrocks]

where is eveyone? its not september is it, and i'm in the wrong thread?? :D

Charli has slept heaps better the last 2 nights - managed to drop ALL night feeds - good bye all night breastraunt! yay! she wakes around 5am and can't resettle so I just give her a quick cuddle and she goes back to sleep and usually ends up with around 11 hours so thats nice, I am starting to feel human again - although I must admit we had to bring the dummy back - we tried every other settling tool and she was anightmare without it on day 2 & 3 so we have started using it again, don't know how we'll ever get her off it but I suppose you have to do what works for you.

Hope you all have a good day.

Been meaning to say to FP - I am SO SORRY to hear of your friends LO's passing - I have been thinking about it so much. I just can't imagine what she is going through and her family - to only have your baby for 3 1/2 months is just horrible. I can't imagine waking up to a lifeless baby in my bed, nothing in the world could be worse. I just feel sick thinking about it, my thoughts are with you and the LO's family. xxx:hugs:

[quitecontrary]

Hi Solsen!! I don't know where everyone else is, hopefully doing all sorts of exciting things that they will share with us later. Don't worry about the dummy - if it works for you use it. I know my little sis ditched them around 8 months - but she had one around the place for her dd for quite some time after that!! I'm with you with thinking about FP and her friends LO - so so so sad, still makes me tear up.
Not to trivialise that situation at all, but it seems I am ready for tears all the time at the moment, joy mainly seems to set me off. The huggies ad for instance - thank goodness we don't watch much tele around here with ads!!
Toby is fine, poor little self reliant thing that he is. Left to his own devices so much but he seems to cope. We are about to fly out the door to Storytime then Fairy Ballet and I think the poor lad has just managed to put himself to sleep eek. Can't wait til dh can work from home a bit again so that T gets a bit more cot time when he needs it. Oh well, I've always dragged G from pillar to post so I suppose things don't change that much!
More later I guess - see if I'm talking to myself !!

[Purplebird]

Oh I'm glad it's not just me - I still feel very hormonal and keep tearing up, but mainly at happy things.

We have just got back from playgroup which was nice. It's a bit trying that Cameron won't sleep when out and about though. I think I need to get him into the pram and persevere with it a bit, I know that would do the trick :)

[A'sMummy]

Hi everyone!! I have been lurking here but didn't have time to post over the weekend as we were super busy with Anyas naming ceremony. It turned out to be a lovely day!! Great weather, great people, great times! I cried like a baby during the ceremony when I read a poem I wrote for Anya :crying: hehe.
I have posted some pics taken from my mums camera on facebook :D
Solsen- don't stress about the dummy. We still use one here to. But I am finding she is needing it less and less. I tend to feed her to sleep or almost to sleep though.. so that's probably why she doesn't need it as much as she used to. I find the dummy a saviour when she is grumpy/tired and we are out in public! hehehe As much as I would like to dicth it, I dont think I will be ditching it until I think she is ready (or maybe more like until I am ready to deal with her grumpyness). :o

[sweetseven]

As for me, I've been around, but suffering lack of sleep. (She went to bed at 11pm last night, and was up twice before I got up at 7am morning. After children were at school and I fed her, she wanted to go back to bed at 9am. I decided to be pro-active and woke her up, which she wasn't happy about for an hour. However, about an hour after her bath she settled into a feed and went to sleep, so I put her in her cot at midday. I'm still dog tired, but have a toddler as well, so no chance of rest for me.)

Like you ladies, I've been a bit emotional recently myself. I haven't been game to mention it to DP, 'cause he'll just see it as another possible symptom of menopause (which he is still suggesting, *shakes head*). It seems to be little things too.

For example, we were going to watch Eragon together, but I was out picking up the teenagers from drama class, and the baby played up so we both missed the first 10 minutes. Whilst I took bub then sat down with the children to watch the rest of the movie, he (who has never liked watching a show when he missed the start) complained that he had wanted to watch it, but now he'll go and play computer games instead. After he left the room, I got all teary about it and the kids were asking what was wrong, so I had to control myself. (After pouting for 5 mins, he came and watched the movie with us after all, and I felt better.) Silly emotions.

[ardora]

Hello

FP I am so sorry about your friend, reading it made me feel sick, I just cannot imagine what they are going through...

Re-bottles. G took it really well from the beginning, he takes it from anyone too, so that is convenient. All I have given him is EBM so that might make a difference... I was thinking of starting weaning him slowly after he becomes 6 months old but now I am thinkin gof waiting until the end of winter so he is a bit more protected... when time comes, how do you know which formula to buy?

Re-sleeping. Kate I am really happy that you are getting some sleep :) thanks for sharing what you learnt. G had started sleeping from 8 to 8 and then got sick and we are back to one feed per night most nights.... I try to calm him down with the dummy instead of feeding but it does not always work.

Re-emotional... well, I refuse to acknowledge that! :D but, yes I think I am... I am feeling like my period was about to come back.. the joy!!

And work is good but it is hard to work two days... out of the zillion of things that I need to do, how do I choose only a couple of them?? G loves kindi and the carers are excellent. He is enjoying his solids, only once a day, today he had zuchini and he loved it :)

Well. Enough from me, G is requesting my inmediate attention (plus the washing machine just finished)

Have a great day :goodvibes:

[zephani]

Morning Ladies :wave:

Last night I was in the foulest mood. I am due to return to work in 6 weeks and I heard that my boss is asking someone else to go and do training that I have already done and is asking them to then teach this to our colleagues plus encouraging our colleagues to do it. When I did this training he didn't encourage me to teach it to our colleagues. On top of that I spent thousands of dollars doing a Masters degree specialising in my field and as yet I have not been able to use this at my place of employment. I'm starting to feel like my study was a waste of time. I love to go and study again but wonder whether it would be worth it.

Then one of the women from my baby group accused PB (I think...I get confused with real names on FB and nicknames here on BH) of being spiteful about a comment she made about my status. PB I know that your comment wasn't spiteful and I sent you a message on FB. I was so proud of Miss K as she rolled over three times at baby group as this was the most she has rolled over ever. Baby group was good yesterday until I was leaving. I left a little early because I forgot to take Miss K's lunch and she was getting hungry. They made a comment about me making her stick to a routine and only feeding her when she was hungry.

Maybe I over reacted but I understand what everyone is saying about emotions. I was just over it. I even sms'd my Mum and told her not to ring me because I was in a bad mood and didn't want to unintentionally snap at her. Plus I was annoyed with DH as he couldn't understand why I was grumpy. Anyway I think I've woken up in a better mood.

QC How's it going unpacking DH's boxes? Found any treasures?

Solsen I'm glad that bubs is sleeping better at night.

Tiera3 I hope your bubs starts letting you have some more sleep.

FP :hugs: I hope yesterday went as well as it could have.

A'sMum Congrats on Anya's naming ceremony! The pictures on FB look gorgeous. It looks like it was a lovely day. The cake was amazing! Isn't it interesting that we spend more money on our babies than we would on ourselves.

DH has to leave in a few minutes to have his fortnightly allergy desensitisation injection. Hopefully this will help calm his reactions to everything.

[gizmoduckus]

I can only be quick today but will try to come back later on but I just wanted to reply to your post Zephani.

One of the main things you have to deal with when having a baby is that everyone thinks that they know better and as hard as you may try it ends up being a competition. Don't listen to anything that the other mothers say in mothers group. Only you know what is best for Miss K. If a routine works then stick with it, if routines don't work then let it go. You are the one that has to deal with her when she is tired, hungry and crabby so you are the one that can make the decisions for what is better for her.

As for PB's comment, I don't know how that other person got what she got out of that. Maybe she has copped a few negative comments about her parenting that she is already on the defense or otherwise she might be just tired and hormonal like the rest of us.... :D

[A'sMummy]

Zeph- I read that comment that was on your facebook page from, I assume, one of the other mothers in your mothers group. Sheesh talk about getting her knickers in a knot over nothing LOL!!! I don't know why everything to do with babies has to turn into such a drama and why we all just can't be happy for one another despite what our baby is, or isn't, doing!! I think PBs comment was in relation to Miss K not normally rolling as much, and then doing it at playgroup more times than ever is funny and jokingly, yep she was showing off to her little friends :raspberry: :D
When I hear people comment about what Anya is or isn't doing, or what I am or am not doing correctly, I just figure it is because of their own insecurities and not for me to worry about :hugs: Big hugs hun, I think we are in store for it right throughout our babies/childrens/adolescents lives... oh yay :o

[Seacretsquirrel]

Morning Ladies!
Well we had DH home yesterday which was so lovely although we are having major probs as we are both so tired (DH from the watches he is having to keep and me from the kids) that when he is home we don't do anything and the time just kinda goes and we aren't enjoying it or each other very much I think it is jsut cause he is only home for such a short time ATM that we don't have time to wind down and then go and do some fun stuff! Grrrr 2 nights is just not enough (esp when he is duty the first one - although he did get to come home over night but he had to go in to work for 2 hours in the morning)
Ok whinge over!

Riley is so near to crawling it is not funny! He can get up on his hands and knees and rocks so I think I better re-assess my babyproofing!


Zeph - I saw that lady from your mothers group's comment and I muxt admit I thought she totally overreacted and got a bit stroppy about it, PB I hope you haven't given it a second thought!

A'smummy - I love the pics of A's naming ceremony it looked like a wonderful day You and A looked so pretty!

Solsen & Ardora glad things are going well
T3 Hope your little girls slept better for you last night!
Sorry if I forgot anyone! :hugs:
I am off for coffee shortly so I better finish feeding R and get going.:wave:

[zephani]

:hugs:Thank you my beautiful supportive BH Mummy's! I'm so glad that you guys are here and that I can vent to you. I love you guys so much! :hugs:I got a reply from PB and she is totally cool.

SS I'm glad you got to see your DH. How long till you get to see him for an extended period of time?

[parentingrocks]

feeling crappy today. my best friend (who is my sil) changed plans on me at the last minute and now i'm stuck at home. I hate that - i was all excited to go out now I'm home bound with a sooky little girl who is clearly teething. I think I might pop over to my other mates place today because she said she was going to be off work, just so I can get out the house. :gloomy:

well I hope you mummies are all well. sorry for the negative post. just feel crappy for some reason

[Seacretsquirrel]

Solsen - I feel your pain it is dissapointing to have plans cancelled esp at the last minute esp when you are looking forwad to getting out! Hope you go over to your friends place!

Zeph - DH will hopefully be home on the either the 13th for a night then away til the 17th then off till the end of the month or home on the 15th and that will be till the end of the month (or perhaps longer it depends whether they are going to let him go on his course or not - they are not keen for him to go cause he is one of a few that is Nav qualified (and that the boss trusts to navigate in certain circumstances) and the other person on the boat that is the same rank is getting off (and they don't want her to stay longer than necessary:gloomy:)
So basically he is kinda indespensable!:laughing: so it is a bit of a catch 22 if he stays then he will be home for 4 weeks (and we can go on a family holiday perhaps to Broome:smiliedance:) but he won't get his course which he needs to do to be promoted (well it has to be done before or soon after promotion) or he is home for less time and gets his course which will hopefully mean promotion sooner rather than later! (although the boss said they will not let not going on the course effect his promotion:rolleyes: but we'll see)
anyway enough:ecomcity:ing on about it! I jsut have to wait and see! - such is the navy life i guess....
although does anyone know what they pay the city cat drivers? cause DH said he'd consider that if it is finacially viable!:detective:

[OneCheekyMonkey]

Hi Everyone ! Gosh I am soooo behind so I won't even pretend to have read the whole of july ....

Kate - D flat out refuses a bottle, a cup, a sippy cup, a teaspoon etc. The only way he will feed (other than me) is if I literally pry his reluctant mouth open and drop feed him with a syringe. Even then he tries to spit it out, it is still the same old breastmilk too !!

I am having zero luck weaning him onto a bottle. I have spent a small fortune in feeding devices and want to cry with frustration.

I really need to wean him as I need to start taking daily antihistamines for my own allergies. Gah.


Today is his first set of vaccinations, I am scared. We are getting it done at the childrens hospital and have to sit there for godknowshowlongafter, at least I know he will be safe if he does have a reaction.

Must go D is whining, I will come back and read through this thread later.

xx

[Lateralus]

OCM good luck with D's vaccinations today - like I said on FB - I am sure he'll sail through it without a drama..

Zeph gosh - you make me thankful for the wonderful supportive mothers group that I belong to. We all have different opinions and views on raising our babies but totally respect and support each other through it. Us new mums have enough to cope with without making it more difficult for each other! Like others have said, try not to take nasty comments to heart - I am sure they are just acting out their own insecurities! :hugs:

Solsen hope your visit to your friends cheers you up. I hate it when plans are cancelled at the last moment, especially when you've been looking forward to them. Hopefully you are able to reschedule with your SIL and you can look forward to it on another day!

tiera3 hope you have a better nights sleep tonight! :sleeping:

SS you are so strong - I go to pieces when DH is away for a couple of nights - I don't know how you do it for extended periods. Wouldn't it be fantastic if your DH got a job that didn't require him to be away for long periods... Is this a serious consideration or just something he's mentioned in passing? :fingerscrossed:

A'sMummy I saw the pics of A's naming day on FB - looked like a beautiful day. The cake looked awesome!!

AFU Poor Miss Z has a cold which has caused her to be a bit more unsettled again... Poor little pickle is so snotty and has a rotten cough - luckily no temp though (so I haven't panicked that she has swine flu) and doesn't seem TOO miserable with it - but I think the coughing is waking her up! Hopefully she'll be on the mend soon and we can get her back into those great sleeping patterns that we were starting to establish! :hair:

[quitecontrary]

Hello!
Sounds like things are going kind-of okay for most of us, which is good! We just have to rise above what other people say eh?
OCM eek to the stubborn little boy you have. Hope he realises what is good for him and starts drinking from another vessel soon.
Kate hope Z gets better soon.
SS boy things are complicated when it comes to the navy - I hope you do get dh home soon for longer than a night. I think that the wages on the ferries (thats what we have down here in Sydney town) aren't bad, but as you know it wouldn't have the same deal as what you get in the forces. But as so many of the guys are ex-navy or merchant the wages have to be comparable I think.
Well, we started going through the boxes the other day - and boy oh boy!! We have a lot of cutlery thats for sure!! You name it, we have it in silver, stainless steel and bone-handle!! Some very old and beautiful stuff. Oh yeah, and another Mac laptop, an arabian coffee pot, a few more candle sticks, and about 5 huge serving dishes that belonged to dh's great grandmother! Still about 9 boxes to go I think - but I think now we're down to the books!
Toby is a delight. We are home without G again this afternoon - she has been smuggled over to her neighbourhood cousins and I am sure she is having a riot over there. T and I had some garden time and now he's back in bed of course!

[floodprincess]

Evening Everyone!

Thank you all soo much for your supportive words and thoughts. Little Charlie's funeral was on Tuesday and it was the hardest saddest thing I've ever been to. I came home and just held Monique and wept for ages!!

Anyways, we survived the funeral (and after) and Charlie's family are coping, with plenty of support....

But on to happier things! Miss M has a new trick and the 2 lone rolls have become our newest game! She rolls as soon as she gets a chance, which is fantastic! Now to get her to roll from tummy to back or on the other side (she currently only rolls over towards her left - but I have a feeling that's because of the original paralysis in her R arm). I'm a bit concerned about her atm, she seems to be eating a bit less than normal - going to have to watch her weight closely, it's probably just a phase.

Kate, thanks for the advice on supply after mastitis - I'm going ok but keeping an eye on things!

Zeph, I saw the comment too and as was said, we will always get ppl who feel the need to criticise our parenting tactics (I copped a comment from the checkout chick in regards to the way I was dealing with a rambunctious, stubborn DD1 - like he's got kids her age!! For pity's sake, he's not even out of high school!! lol) just ignore 'em and I know that's sometimes easier said than done. You know K best and as long as you and her are happy with how things are going that's all that matters!

A'smummy - the photos of the naming day are gorgeous!!

OCM & Kate, keep trying with the bottles! We had the same issues with M when I had to start putting her on a bottle in preparation for my return to work.....took us ages to find the right one (which turned out to be the Tommee Tippee 'closer to nature' bottles).

Anyway, I must go - got dinner cooking and need to do a few other things. Take care girls and I'll catch up later!

[zephani]

Morning Ladies :wave:

Feeling very :sleeping: this morning. Miss K has been sleeping 12 hours every night for the last two or three weeks but because of this she is not sleeping during the day and is ready for bed by 6pm. Last night I kept her up till 7pm but she still woke at 5:55am. I know that 11 hours sleep is amazing and that I shouldn't be complaining considering she sleeps all night. Any ideas on how to MAKE her have at least one sleep during the day?

Today I have a Dr's appointment and then to GymbaROO.

Solsen Did you end up going out yesterday? I made DH take me to get parts for my car yesterday just so I could get out of the house for a while.

SS The navy life sounds very complicated. Are you in Darwin because of the navy? If DH did something else would you still stay there? You are definitely in a catch 22. I'd love for you to have your family holidays but a promotion is a great thing too.

[Seacretsquirrel]

Morning ladies well I am another day down:smiliedance:
Zehp/Kate - to answer your Q's I don't know if DH is totally serious about getting out if he did it wouldn't be till after his long service (2 years away) and we have to look pretty hard to see if it is a finacially viable because we are on a very good deal with the ADF with rent/medical etc.
The Navy is a rather complicated life I think the thing that makes it so complicated is that there is so much red tape and to-ing and fro-ing before anything gets done (and then you still don't count on it until they are actually there/home/wherever) Yep we are in Darwin because of the Navy we spent 3 years in Melb before this posing and were here in Darwin before that. My DH like the "small boats" which means that our choices are limited to Darwin or Cairns (if he liked big boats we could be in Sydney, or Perth and there are a few one or two man postings elsewhere - usually recruitment or the like) If he got out we would def head to Brisbane (or the sunny coast) which is were all both of our families are but the only posting to south ead Qld or northern NSW is the recruiting in Coolangatta (one of our friends has this posting ATM) Bring back a Navy base in Brisbane I say:yes:)

we are all doing well not much to report
I'll pop back later to check how everyone else is going!:wave:

[A'sMummy]

Morning all!
Thank you to everyone for your lovely comments about Anyas naming ceremony :hugs:
It was a day I will NEVER forget! :flowerz:
OCM- I hope you're having come success with the bottles. It must be frustrating to go through so many brands and teats trying to find one he likes! And also would be even more frustrating and stressful knowing that you have to go on antihistamines and also I know you're back at uni so it would be helpful for someone else to be able to feed him occasionally :hugs:
Solsen- hope you were able to have a lovely day out and about yesteday depsite your friends cancelling last minute on you. I would be pi$$ed off too!!
FP- Yay for Miss M rolling!!
KJ- I hope Miss Z's cold is short lived and she is back to her happy self soon

As for us, nothing exciting, about to try Anya on solids for breakfast for the first time (she has only had a small amount around 6pm previously). I steamed apples and pears and mashed it and froze it the other so I am going to try a bit of that mixed with rice cereal and milk. I hope she likes it :chef:

[abybaby]

Hi Everyone,
Another month has flown by without me even noticing!! Having a school aged child makes the days fly, seems like i have just dropped her off and its time to pick her up again.

A's Mummy - Sounds like you had a great time at the naming ceremony, it is fantastic to celebrate your LO with family and friends!

OCM - I hope the vac's went well - let us know. We are also having no luck with bottles - i have to go back to work in a little under 3 months so we will keep trying. Someone told me to try to really cheap "no name" brand of bottle so i might have to give it a go.

QC - Sounds like you found some good little treasures - must have been like christmas!

AFU - We had a little bit of success with butternut pumpkin the last two nights - Miss E still isn't overly interested in solids but she actually opened her mouth and came forward for it so we might be turning a corner! She is sleep around 9 hours through the night but goes back for a good 2 - 3 hours at around 10am, so that is nice. It gives me time to get housework done (which i should be doing now!!).

I also found these MCN's on ebay - they look so so cute, what do you think? I think i want to use them for at home. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/3x-AIO-fitted-cloth-PUL-nappies-Bib-singlet-sml-med_W0QQitemZ160353440017QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Nap pies?hash=item2555cf5111&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14

[A'sMummy]

Abybaby- Those nappies look really cute :goodvibes: The only thing I would worry about with them is that their absorbant material is micro fibre. I tend to go with a nappy that has bamboo or hemp as the absorbant material as it seems to work much better. But it also depends on how often you plan on changing them and also if you plan to have bubs nap and sleep in them. They are a very good price so even if you want to try them out there is no huge loss if they aren't suitable atleast. Hope that help :o

[Purplebird]

Oh my! How embarrassment, lol! :o Never post FB comments in a hurry guys - 'ha ha' suddenly turned into 'ha!' and got me in a heap of trouble. Oops - this is me sometimes! -->:footinmouth:

Anywho, moving on...

Zeph - I do hope you can stick with your baby group. They do sound very judgmental, which probably comes down to their own insecurities (without analysing them too much!). Having said that, once your little one is a toddler it's very nice to have a regular group to meet with. If you can't find that in baby group though, a playgroup is always good of course. Don't let them get you down - hopefully they will all relax a bit and not be so uptight once the babies get a bit older :hugs: Anyway, I'm so sorry again, I didn't mean to add to the competitive atmosphere!

A's mummy - Congrats again on Anya's naming day. You all looked so happy and beautiful - it will be a real memory to treasure.

OCM - I hope your little man is OK and went fine with the vaxs. Good luck with the feeding - I'm sure you'll get there eventually. I guess it will be easier when he is having regular solids too?

Cameron is seeming incredibly hungry of late. I'm guessing it's a 'growth spurt' again, but I feel like I can hardly keep up. He's still feeding every 2 hours round the clock. This weekend we may move him into his own room which I'm very sad about. It's time to get the night feeds down a bit though and I know moving him away will help a lot.

Cameron is very fat and lazy - he still has only managed a full roll once. If he goes on the floor he just flounders around and gets bored.

[Lateralus]

DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH

Poor Zoe has caught a terrible cough and cold and we are heading back towards the old sleeping patterns - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Not fair. Poor little chicken. She is so congested. Hopefully she'll get over it quick smart and be back to her well rested, good natured new/ old self soon :hair:

[A'sMummy]

KJ- Oh no!!!! I hope Miss Z gets better EXTREMELY quickly!! I am sure all your hard work wont go to waste and once she is feeling better she will be back to her happy and restful self. :fingerscrossed:

[Lateralus]

thanks A'sMummy - I know this is just a temporary blip (that is my mantra!)

[zephani]

PB I'm not sure about baby group. I had a mental health assessment at the Dr's as I am on anti-depressants. My Dr was surprised by my score and asked what had been happening lately. I explained the siutation at baby group and she said it sounded like a very negative environment for me. I told her I was thinking about leaving and she said that was a good idea. She in fact she said was proud of me for trying to solve the problem. So I'm thinking about looking for a playgroup. Plus when I go back to work we will have to change Miss K's GymbaROO lesson to Tuesday, which is right in the middle of baby group. Please don't feel sorry about the FB thing. Everyone here has said that too much was read into your comment.

OCM I hope D's injections went well. How long do you have to wait for the next ones?

KJ I'm sorry to hear that Zoe is sick, especially with how well she has been doing with sleeping. Fingers crossed she gets better soon and remembers her great routine.

I'm going to go and read in bed for a while before going to sleep. These 5:55am wakings are tiring me out. I held Miss K out till 7pm again tonight so hopefully she'll sleep till 7am.

[quitecontrary]

Zeph does Miss K go back to sleep after her early rise? I find T usually does after his First Breakfast if its before G wakes up. I also find with both my kidlets that keeping them up makes not an ounce of difference to the time they awaken. Especially with my 2 year old.
Kate you be strong with that Z Girl - once she's over the cold you know how to get her back into better routines - for everyone!
PB shut down that 24 hour breastaurant! Poor Cam, I'm sure he's just gorgeous and not really fat and lazy!!
Gosh, we had a busy day today. I even had a nap when both the kids were down this afternoon! This morning I took G for her first haircut with the two neighbourhood cousins - so it was a bit of a three ring circus but she did get a trim and looks even cuter for it. I doubt that T will need a cut before he's two and a half either! After that little trauma we came home for half an hour then charged out the door with the kids in the p&t to playgroup. After G not sleeping last thurs I decided to stop in the park on the way home as sleep is guaranteed after that.
Toby had a great old time at playgroup, there's one other bub that is the same age so they were laying down on their rugs next to each other gurgling away in a very contented second baby fashion!
I am using our new-to-us mac laptop and it is much swisher than my old one, all white and new(ish) and shiny. Bit sad really to think we got it for my dearly departed m-i-l so they could skype with us - but they did use it, which really was a miracle when you think neither of them had even ever typed before!
Hope everyone is having a calm evening with their little ones!

[Purplebird]

Kate - nooooo! Get well soon Zoe. I'm sure she'll be back in fine sleeping form before too long.

Zeph - well, only you know what's right for you and if BG is affecting your mental health that doesn't sound good.

Cat - I'm sure you'd be over the moon to have DH at home all the time if he left the navy. It sounds a bit complicated though, so hopefully everything works out for him with the promotion. I was reminded again tonight how hard you work as my DH was out until 9.30. Doing the dinner, bath and bed thing alone is no mean feat!!

QC - I know, poor Cam! He is absolutely gorgeous. I think I am a bit baffled by him as he is so much more laid back than DD ever was. That's a good thing though! I sort of had 6 months as my mark for better sleeping and less feeding, so we are nearly there. I will indeed be closing the breastaurant doors between midnight and 6 am now. DH will have to do some resettling for a while.

[janiceg]

hi girlies,
can you believe it's august and bubs are more or less 6 months old?!:eek: what happened to our little bubbas?
dd is almost crawling it's so scary! and a little yakky, eating machine! she is eating solids three times a day and i've started feeding her until she's full. she eats about 1 cup of food or more at each meal!!! and still gets about 10 or more breastmilk feeds a day! she's not overweight so i guess we'll just keep on trucking.
we've also started some protein, dairy and grains..bailysmum i think you asked on fb how i did it. i just cut chicken into very tiny bits (with rice and steamed veg)...sometimes she's fussy for dh and he'll puree it for her but she'll eat whatever mum's eating!
think tuna's on the menu tomorrow for her!
we move next week to a beautiful place on the beach..it will be so much quieter than our place now and it will be a dream to fall asleep to the waves crashing instead of the traffic! hope dd doesn't find it too tramatic moving:fingerscrossed:
i got an early birthday pressie today!:smiliedance:dh got me a janome and arranged to take dd so i could have a lesson! i've never used a sewing machine in my life! made a litte tshirt tonight for dd and it turned pretty well, if i do say so! can't wait to start making my own mcns!!!

quitecontrary, love naps!!

zephani, dd always wakes at 5:50! like she has an alarm clock or something in her sleeping bag! she's always on time!

katejo, pooooooooooor little zojo:hugs:

abybaby, i have some microfiber nappies and they work fine..just as good as my bamboo ones! it's a lot of trial and error in the nappy world to see what works for your bub, i've found. i'm a bambooty freak (as a'smummy already knows!)

:hugs: to all those with colds, pains and jabs this week

[Seacretsquirrel]

Morning All,

Kate - Hope wee ZoJo feels better soon it is entirely miserable when they are unwell. :goodvibes:

Zeph - Mummies groups can be fantastic but they can be less than supportive too so if you are finding them to be a negative influence in your life then it might be better to try a playgroup or try to forge more friendships at other activities. I also agree with QC if bubs is waking to early try putting her back after a feed Z always did this (up at 5am for a feed then back down till about 8 or 9 which was lovely) and if R is up that early I try to do the same but he doesn't sleep as long cause little miss has suppersonic hearing and at the first murmer likes to yell at the top of her voice "R is aaaaWaaake mum" :hissy:which of course is he end of sleeps for R. If I am doing the 5am feed I treat it like a night time feed no lights no talking etc (I also try not to change the nappy too unless it is really full or dirty)

Janice - I am sure the move will be fine When we move we jsut make sure all the familiar stuff is in the kids rooms first! (so ask for that to go onto the truck last so it comes off first) and clearly lable the boxes from her room so you can find them and get her sorted first!
Advice for the move - if they are putting lables on stuff make sure you don't let them put them in visable place on your furniture esp fabric things (grrrr learned that the hard way some of our stuff still has sticky spots:hair:) check if it is normal but our removalists are required to unpack the kitchen boxes (crockery ect) to make sure it is unbroken so that is one thing we let them unpack (most of the rest we do) - not sure if that is a DHA think or just a removalist thing so worth asking (they only unpack onto a flat surface but it is still better than doing it your self:D)
Yay for sewing machines - I think I want one too (prob just a cheapie cause I am unlikely to do too much but it would be handy at times)

Abybaby - those nappies are super cute I would be tempted my self but they would be too small for my wee fatso!

AFU - We are off to a tuppaware party this afternoon which should be fun- A GF is having it for me (I think well that was the original plan so I'd get all the bonuses but I am not 100% sure if that is still the go)
I better go Miss Z is wanting me to play playdoh with her!

[zephani]

QC This morning Miss K woke up at 6:40am, so that was much nicer. I haven't tried putting her back to bed after she has woken up early. The other morning when she woke up at 6am she fell asleep about 8am. Maybe I should try putting her back to bed and do it like a night time feed if she wakes up before 7am.

janiceg Good luck with the move. On the beach sounds lovely.

What dairy have you introduced to your LO? We are trying chicken for dinner for the first time tonight. I cut it into small chunks and steamed it with sweet potato, broccoli and cauliflower. Fingers crossed she likes it cause I made up a weeks worth.

Kate How is Zoe going?

AFU For the last few weeks Miss K has been drinking water from an Avent Magic Cup with a teat from her bottle. Today I tried to introduce the 6 month soft spout. Miss K found it so hard to suck the water out of the spout that she got frustrated and threw a tantrum. I put the teat back in and she drank a full 200ml.

So lots of questions. How did you introduce a sippy cup? What age was your LO? What sippy cup did you use? How long did it take for your baby to adjust to a sippy cup? Did you find that the valve made it harder for your baby to use?

Tomorrow we are off to swimming lessons and then I am having a 90 minute massage. Mmmmm...

[janiceg]

What dairy have you introduced to your LO? just yoghurt so far..next will be cheese, i imagine.
We are trying chicken for dinner for the first time tonight. I cut it into small chunks and steamed it with sweet potato, broccoli and cauliflower. Fingers crossed she likes it cause I made up a weeks worth.
I cook each day..never freeze stuff so i don't have that problem..just give her some of what we're having..makes me eat healthier, too!


How did you introduce a sippy cup? Just gave it to her while she was eating.
What age was your LO? 15 weeks-ish
What sippy cup did you use? Nuby all the way!
How long did it take for your baby to adjust to a sippy cup? No adjusting needed..
Did you find that the valve made it harder for your baby to use? Nope. She'll suck on anything!
I also just use a regular cup...tilt it so the water is near the edge and her lips and she sucks it right up!

dh is away working in brisbane tonight :no: hate it! but bubs is already fast asleep so i'm going to make some babylegs...after i finish the laundry:crying:
good night all!

[Lateralus]

Hi All...

Zeph - thanks for asking. Poor Zoe is still pretty miserable. I ended up taking her to the doctor today because her cough was getting worse & she was starting to sound quite wheezy - they weren't too concerned though and think it's just a virus - but possible mild bronchialitis... Just have to keep up with the fess & the humidifier. Poor little pickle. It's heart breaking to see her sick and struggling to feed and breath through all the gunk :(

DH id away over the weekend, home monday and then off to Jakarta for a week. I am a bit nervous (a) because it is Jakarta and there has been a bit of dangerous stuff going on there with the bombings & (b) it will be the longest that he has been away since Zoe was born. I am sure we'll be ok ( we have to be right - no other option!) but I am feeling a little nervous all the same... So apologies in advance if I am a little sookie in the coming week :laughing:

[gonnabeaGR8mum]

:no: poor little Zoe, i hope she recovers quickly Kate so that you can all get back to those great sleeping habits you are doing do well with

zeph i think we need to make sure that we surround ourselves with positive suportive people (especially those of us prone to depression) so i think finding a playgroup is a great idea. our bubs are just about at that interacting stage so meeting other older children will be good for them, plus talking to mum's with older kids is great for us :yes: i hope you find a good one soon (p.s. you are still more than welcome to come up for our weekly Newcastle meets, but i think you said Thursdays were bad for you?? i will keep sending you the details and hopefully you can make it along one day)

QC funny you should say that about second babies, we were talking about that the oher day, how the second child often seems to be the calmer of the two, i'm guessing cause they often have to just slot in with what their older siblings are doing. i can just picture the two little ones chttering away to each other over to one side, very cute

SS i hope you have fun at the tupperware party, i love the stuff but i just can't justify the cost, especially when i seem to misplace so many of my plastic containers.

Janice ooh a move to the beachside sounds absolutely divine! i'm green with envy! i hope the move all goes smoothly...as for little miss maybe make sure she has her old bedclothes to sleep on (for the comforting smell??) i know Elianna sleeps better when she has her "blankie" in a strange house.

PB goodluck closing those breastraunt doors, i hope he doesn't object too much. i'm too afraid to do it to Elianna as she is a terrible daytime feeder and the only time she takes a decent amount of milk is during that late night and early morning feed. please let us know whow you go :D

AFU Elianna had her 6 month needles today (will be 6 months next tuesday) she was very unimpressed for a while but she seems fine now (if a bit sleepy) i had an interesting comment from my Doctor though- tell me what you think of this comment "oh you don't need to breastfeed her anymore, now that she's 6 mnths she can get her nutrients from solid foods"....WTF??:confused: she then went on to say that she only needs about 500mls a day of milk so i shouldn't worry if my supply is dropping (i asked for an alternative to the minipill cause of the effect on my supply) - needless to say i am an intelligent woman who will take her advice tempered with comonsense and my own research!

had an upset today- one of our good friend got married in april and i mentioned to him today that we don't see him much anymore, after some pressing he admitted it was because his wife can't accept that i have decided to stop my PhD to be a SAHM, apparently that means i don't deserve her respect. i have to admit i am floored by this. i didn't really think people still felt this way.

anyway sorry for the :ecomcity: hope everyone is keeping well, and those that are unwell are on the mend :hugs:

take care
Kath

[parentingrocks]

:no:

had an upset today- one of our good friend got married in april and i mentioned to him today that we don't see him much anymore, after some pressing he admitted it was because his wife can't accept that i have decided to stop my PhD to be a SAHM, apparently that means i don't deserve her respect. i have to admit i am floored by this. i didn't really think people still felt this way.
Kath

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wasn't going to post until I read this! Just wanted to say that is ridiculas!!!!!! His new wife sounds like an effing *********! :laughing:

[parentingrocks]

OK sorry I should say something nice now........

Hi everyone.

We are well. I am pooing my pants with nerves to leave Charli tomorrow night with my mum for an allnighter - its my first one - we are going to a wedding in sorrento and staying at a hotel so will leave here at midday and won't be back until the afternoon on sunday. :crying: I'm going to miss her like crazy!!!!!!

I'm really nervous because lately she has been extremely unsocial - every time she looks at another person up close (like family members that pop in and talk to her up close) she just screams and cries!!! I don't know how to stop her from doing it. Its like she gets a fright from them. Its so embarrassing!!
Well I hope she outgrows that habit soon because I don't want that to continue.

I am off to do some washing and pack bags for our night away.

Hope you all have a great weekend

xxx

[Purplebird]

GBAGM - thanks for the good luck wishes - I know it will take a good few weeks of adjustment to improve the night sleeps, but I'm ready to do it now and I know Cam will be fine in the end. He's a big boy! How astonishing about your friend. That is really sad, I didn't know people felt that way any more either. And, wow, your doctor's comment - that goes against everything I understood to be the case. Food is just a supplimentary thing until the age of one - to get bubs used to tastes, textures, flavours and social aspects of eating. I thought milk was still the most important source of nutrition til one, not 6 months :confused: Ah well, as you say, you're intelligent enough to do your own research and seek advice as you need to.

Will keep you posted about the night feeds :)

Kate - best of luck for your week without DH. I hope it goes quickly and that he is soon home with you :hugs:. Any luck with the bottle? This is our weekend to try! Will let you know.

Janice - best of luck with your move. I would love to live on the beach - sounds gorgeous!

SS - hope the tupperware party goes well and you get lots of lovely freebies!

We had a lovely day at Ikea today with some friends. It was a big ask of DD to walk round nicely for so long. She was pretty good, but she has taken to hitting now which is quite awful :( Anyway, we need to address this before it gets worse (not sure how exactly). Sorry, just pondering out loud.

We have some nice things planned this weekend - I'm looking forward to it. Have a lovely weekend everyone :goodvibes:

[Purplebird]

Solsen - have a great weekend. I'm sure Charli will be fine without you - at least you know your mum is looking after her. I think our bubs are getting to the age when they prefer to be with mum and dad most of the time, so she might cry when less familiar people talk to her, poor chook.

[quitecontrary]

GBAGM I'm sorry to hear about your friend and his wife - though I have to say at least they're honest and you know why the friendship is falling by the wayside. I have a few friends that have been flying below the radar since we got married, and I wonder whether I did something or its just them. It is a bit harsh to judge you on your own decisions re: further studying or whatever. As for your GP and the b/fing comment - thats why they're not early childhood nurses!!
PB yes these second babies just have to be a bit more relaxed! Good luck with the end of the overnight feeds. You never know, Cam might just surprise you and go back to sleep quite easily - that was the case with Toby and I wasn't expecting it at all.
Solsen you are braver than I - the only time I've left G overnight was in her own home when I was having T, dh put her bed before coming back to stay with me at the hospy and my sis stayed the night. My parents arent exactly rushing to have another grandchild staying over from what I can work out. We're more likely to take the sitters away with us!!
Last night T went to bed a bit later than usual and I went earlier - so I didn't feed him again before I went to sleep. So, he was fed in our bed at midnight, and I didn't fall asleep with him there but put him back to his cot. I thought this might've staved him off til after 5 but it didn't - but he did go back to sleep til 8. Luckily for us T sleeps through Miss G yelling "Toby is awake" when she comes into our bed for a play in the morning. In fact he sleeps through her yelling this most of the time!! And also luckily for us, G has been sleeping til 7 the last few mornings!!
Got Toby's form for preschool this morning - hilarious I know but the little preschool G is attending has a huge waiting list and I'd rather get him on it near the top!! Its just a little community based one but its next to an infants school (there are only 8 in the state now apparently) so its in high demand it seems.
Apart from that we did the gym/creche thing this morning and a trip to another local park afterwards. This evening we went and picked up dh and G announced she wanted to go to a cafe so we went to the fish and chip shop along from his work. It has a little restaurant out the back and the food was delish - G ran around dancing to the greek music and no-one else was eating in - talk about perfect for us! Lucky find really!

Oh with solids etc one of the dairy things we added early with G was cottage cheese, and for protein washed baked beans - the tomato sauce is a bit too much apparently but the bean are a great protein source. Another thing one of my pals used to cook all the time was polenta which she then grilled - I did that a few times too. This time around I'm really dragging the chain with solids but T seems to be thriving. As one of my pals at playgroup said, it doesn't look like he's missed many meals!!

[gizmoduckus]

Hello everyone! :wave:

First off I would love to send some big :hugs:'s to Zephani because I know that you need them tonight. I hope you were able to sort it all out.

KateJo - I hope that Z gets better really soon. Poor little bubba!

GBAGM - Your "friend" is an idiot! I just have no words to describe what I think....

Solsen - I hope that you are able to relax and have a great night away. I am sure Charli will be fine.



Cameron is very fat and lazy - he still has only managed a full roll once. If he goes on the floor he just flounders around and gets bored.

:laughing: Sorry but as soon as I read this I just got this image of this tubby little baby just flailing his arms around but not going anywhere. It just made me laugh

AFU We took L to his 6 month pediatrician appointment to see how he was going with his issues. The paed thinks he is going really well and is hopeful that he will be off his meds by 10 months. I can't wait. I just have to be very careful introducing solids to him. I have to leave dairy and wheat as the very last things that I give to him. No problems with that at the moment because he isn't very interested in it.

We also took cues from KateJo and weaned him off of his dummy. It was easier than I expected and every now and then he has been self-settling which is fantastic. Thanks for you tips Kate. :thumbsup:

Well tonight I am home alone. DH went out for dinner after work with some guys he has been friends with since uni. I am happy that he went because he hardly ever goes out but at the same time I missed having him here. It was even worse because both the boys played up tonight and now I'm exhausted.

Well that is enough from me. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

[mummyJ]

hey crew...Sorry I always find myself reading without posting!!! naughty me!!!

Just a couple of I-couldnt-not-respond personals:
GBABM - Am so unimpressed by your "friend". That is a REALLY judgemental thing to say!!! Nasty nasty!!!! :thumbsdown:
Also, WEIRD about your GP...sometomes you gotta wonder how people get through med school!!! Ahhhh well...PTL you know what you're doing!!!

Solsen - Hope little C is perfect for your mum and you have an amazing time at the wedding! So hard not to think about them endlessly.

KJ - looks like lots of people have taken your lead your sleep school insights!! Hope Zoe is still going well at night even if she's sick again!

well we are on holidays which I am just thrilled about!!!!! In Coffs Harbour for a week! We flew which was just luxury!!! 40 mins instead of a dreaded 6 hours in the car!! :yes:

Also I resigned from my job!! Crazy!! Leila was just getting more demanding as she gets older and even though I worked from home, I just didn't think I should keep working. So it will be financially....interesting!! :confused: But feel its the right decision, so gotta fly with it!!! Just trying to enjoythe holiday...Our last stint with money!!!
So if people have good money tips...bring them on!!!!

Leila is slightly coughy again :( I just hope it doesnt get worse while we're away...Not sure if there's anything I can give her for it...
Anyway...Gonna get back to sleep...For some reason I felt the urge to BubHub after I resettled her in bed :confused::o

Chat soon...x x x

[megaminz]

Hi Ladies,
I am another guilty of reading but not posting. I am finding so hard to keep in contact that I don't know WHAT to post as I am out of it so much.

Its all a bit much lately working and trying to care for a sick bub. My boss is one of those who can't understand why I should have time off to care for M and not my husband. Apart from the fact DH doesnt drive so he cant take him to dr, he just isnt as good at it. M wouldnt get his medication when he needs it, would be put to sleep as much as he needs it etc....

We have been battling through over the last 6 weeks, first he just had a cold , a sore throat and a small ear infection, got over that, then he got a middle ear infection, was pretty good for about 10 days then he has come down with bronchiolitis or however its spelt. We have been to hospital twice, both times he was almost admitted but both times we have just been observed for a few hours. I am knackered. The drs have told me to have M sleep with me to monitor his breathing so if it changes we can take him straight back. Which in effect means I don't sleep cause I am listening to his breathing. He is only sleeping at about 20-40min intervals when I can get him to sleep then he coughs and cries for 30mins min until I can get him back to sleep. DH can't help out either cause he literally can sleep through him screaming so I am it. I am so tired it all hurts but M doesnt sleep during day really either and so neither do I. Its been 6 weeks of no proper sleep and am just about done.

I am also having a few issues with DH. He was so good on his last days off cause he actually did proper housework. Like proper stuff and that should have been great right??? Well it was a mixed bag. My libido hasn't been crash hot since M was born. But over the last month its come back and almost normal. Usually I don't mind him looking at p0rn as he only ever looked at it once in a blue moon. But on his last days off he was looking at it every day. This upset me a wee bit for some reason. Its weird cause once and a while no problem but different every day. Anyway that wasn't the worst, I found a picture on his MP3 of one of my friends from melbourne who is well endowed. I am a bit shattered by it. It has left me quite cold. I almost feel like he has cheated on me, I know that sounds silly but I feel quite betrayed. He doesnt' have contact with her or anything so I don't believ there is anything hinky going on but I am quite destroyed by it. I said to him that I came home feeling in the mood and now I don't even want him to kiss me goodnight. I just feel repulsed. I also told him I feel thhat I don't want to DTD cause I will think he is just fantasising about her. He really didn't have a good reason for it nor did he really apologise.

Blllleeeeehhhh sorry for the long all about me post, especially seeing as I am never on here anymore. I don't really want to offload to anyone in IRL cause they will always have a biased opinion and then know too much about our personal life.

[Seacretsquirrel]

Yikes it is all happening on here isn't it!

MM :hugs: poo to your less than understanding boss, and a bigger poo to your DH fro not being helpful and esp with the pic on the MP3 that is a bit strange, hopefully you guys work things out!

GBABM - I cannot believe your "friend" said that it is unbelievable! and your Dr's comments were a bit :confused: too!

Solsen - Have an awesome time at the wedding I am sure Charli will be fine - they do grow out of the freaking out thing and once you are not there Charli will be fine with your mum - I think they seem to be worse when mummy is there to come to the "rescue" once you are gone from the equation they settle fine for whoever is giving the cuddles!

KJ - Hope zojo is on the mend and you can get back to your sleeping again! Oh and all the very best with doing it on your own when your DH is away! you'll be great :flowerz:

Mummy J - Enjoy your holidays and your time with Leila and you will find that you live to your means anyway (so the more money you have the more you spend so if you don't have it you can't spend it!)
PB - Yay for sucessful Ikea trips and hope you have a lovely weekend!
Gizmo - yay for ditching the dummy (I am working towards the same thing) and well done for doing it on your own with the boys last night! it is a tough gigg esp with 2 when they both decide to play up!
QC- Gotta love the "Bub is Awake" shouted at the top of the lungs huh! I agree that 2nds seem to be more laid back cause they have to be - although one of my girlfriends her 2nd is a nightmare at 16 months she is still waking many many times a night (and has been like this since day dot!) I am really reccommending she trys a sleep clinic but her DH is in the navy too (she is too) so it is hard to know what to do with her oldest as she has no family here either. And extra :smiliedance: for finding a fantastic little place to eat out!



AFU - we are still all sick although Z seems to be on the mend I keep relapsing and poor R has a very snotty nose and a nasty cough. I ended up taking him to the after hours clinic near us cause he hadn't had very many wet nappies (like 3 all day and they weren't very wet) but they said it just looks like a viral infection and it will prob run its course I felt a bit silly taking him in cause he was all chirpy and smiles but both the nurse and Dr said I did the right thing cause of the nappies - better to get him checked now than wait till he is dehydrated! The DR gave me a script for amoxilin incase he is getting worse (to save me going back tonight) which was really nice of him I will see how he goes the cough is still quite nasty today and his nose is worse than yesterday but I don't really want to dose him up with too many anitbiotics if I can help it!

So we are having a quiet weekend cleaning etc before a GF and her bub come to visit for 10 days from Adelaide while her DH is here on course!

Hope you are all having a good weekend!

[Lateralus]

Sounds like a few of us have Bubs who are under the weather... :hugs: MM I was thinking about you just this morning wondering how you have been going. Poor Milan - 6 weeks is a long time for him to be crook and for you to have to watch him being sick :( And to add to all that having to find the picture of your friend on DHs phone... I can't believe he didn't even try to explain or apologise... I am sure there is some simple explanation though?!

MummyJ hope you are having a wonderful holiday on the banana coast... And hope you are enjoying your new status as SAHM - good on you. If it feels right than it IS the right thing to do! :smiliedance:

SS I hope your troops are on the mend soon! How exciting that you have a friend coming to stay for 10 days!! Hope you have a blast catching up!

AFU
A friend has loaned us a beautiful old wooden high chair, but it doesn't have any safety harness to strap Zoe in. Does anyone know if (and where) you can buy such a harness?? I have been googling all morning and haven't been able to find something suitable so far... any ideas? :flowerz:

Another question that might fall under then "TMI" banner - OK.. So it's been almost 6 months since Z was born... Should I still be finding it painful to DTD?? It is so uncomfortable that it's put me off wanting to do it at all... I have heard that breastfeeding can cause it to be a little, um, drier down there - so we use plenty of KY - but it still doesn't feel right. Am wondering if I need to get it looked at (literally :o).

[quitecontrary]

MM eeekkk. I don't get the whole porn thing at all, esp when your wife is a megaminx, and as for the photo of your friend on his phone WTF?? Sounds like you have been doing it hard, with Milan being so ill and being back at work and not getting that much support at home. I have been wondering how you were going, apart from a few facebook status updates. Sorry to hear its been a hard time for you lately.
MummyJ it is lovely to have a holiday - and to be a SAHM! I am sure it will all work out for you!
Kate perhaps for a harness you could try a bootmaker? Seeing they do bags as well they might be able to make you up something suitable, especially if you have the specifications you need. Have you tried baby kingdom? Sorry to hear things are still uncomfortable "down there", go and get it looked at.
Well, we had a funny old night with Toby, he really was an unhappy little camper. Yes, he too has the snuffles and was doing a lot of complaining overnight. I ended up feeding him at about 2, then again at 5 and after both feeds he stayed in with us for a while - it was the only place he slept quietly though of course I was hardly sleeping at all. Of course he slept like a lamb all morning though - just as well, he needed the catch-up. On that note I am going to join my sleeping family - I think they're all sleeping again now, even dh!

[Seacretsquirrel]

KJ - what about one of those fabric harness things you can buy that you can use everywhere they fit on all regular chairs etc...
http://crafts.sleepingbaby.net/chairseat.html

hope this is ok mods:D

with the down there did you have stitches?? cause I found things a little uncomfortable for a while (even well after the stiches disolved) it was a bit like things were stitched a bit tighter than before it did ease off with practice ;) but if it ia really uncomfortable I'd see about it too incase it is a prolapse or something.

[Lateralus]

thanks SS... as it happens I was talking to my parents on Skype this afternoon and they happened to come across (of all things) a high chair harness at a garage sale this morning bought it on a whim... How lucky is that?!

re stitches - yes, I did have some after my episiotomy... I had been presuming the discomfort was just due to some scarring and (hehe) tightening (as you put it) but I would have thought it should have eased up a bit by now. In saying that though, we have only DTD about 1/2 a dozen times since Zoe was born - so maybe we just need to give the old girl a proper work out :o:laughing::o

[megaminz]

just a quick post whilst my wheezy baby isnt screaming....

he is really raspy today but has slept better today...probably due to exhaustion no doubt. I even managed a nap with him thus arvo and feel better.

house is a mess though, dh better not get cranky with me when he comes home cause he better not push it. still dont know what i am gonna do there

anyway m is getting cranky, will try to talk more often

keep well ladies

[sweetseven]

Sorry ladies, I haven't been posting much in this thread lately, 'cause when I read it, it is getting all jumbled up in my head and I'm not really following what everyone else is doing.

Bub is sleeping a tiny bit better, but still very poorly. Miss13 was nice this morning, and when bub woke up, she got her up, changed her nappy, and played with her for a couple of hours, letting me have a sleep in. DP woke up, looked at the empty cot, then at the bed, then panicked 'cause he couldn't find bub. Miss13 had her outside on the swingset.

[zephani]

Kate Good luck while your DH is away. I'm sure you will be fine. You are a great Mum and ZoJo is lucky to have you. Fingers crossed she will get better soon.

Gizmo Thanks for everything! It's great to hear that L went well at his paed appointment and that you have a light at the end of the tunnel concerning his medication.

SS Sorry to hear that you are all still sick. Sending lots of get well vibes for way. Yay for having a GF and her bub come and stay. Enjoy!

Solsen I hope you are enjoying the wedding. I fret everytime I go out without Miss K but she handles it really well. Although we haven't done an overnighter yet. I'm fretting about leaving her to go back to work in 5 weeks time. The only thing keeping me sane is knowing that she will be with DH the three days I am at work because he works at home.

GBAGM I can't believe your 'friends' comments! Who has the right to say whether or not you deserve respect? E is your focus right now and if you can be a SAHM fantastic! You can always go back to your study when she is older. I had a guy end a relationship with me once because he said my degrees made him feel inferior to me and because of that he couldn't be with me.

Thanks for inviting me to the Newcastle meets. Unfortunately Thursday are bad for me. But let me know when the next one is and Miss K might just have to 'miss' GymbaROO that day. Once won't hurt her. Plus do you have meets in the school holidays? Cause gym isn't on then. Do you drive? Maybe you and E and K and I could meet at the McDonald's at Swansea for lunch one day?

MM I hope that M (I love his name btw) is feeling better soon. Six weeks is a long time to be sick. I understand your exhaustion. Don't worry about your house. Getting DS better is way more important. I would be devestated if my DH had a picture on his phone of one of my friends. :hugs::hugs::hugs:

AFU I slept from 8pm till 6:30am this morning when Miss K woke up. DH and I got takeaway for dinner and some cruisers and were planning to enjoy the night watching Coyote Ugly (an oldie but a goodie) but ten minutes after my last drink I was so tired I went to bed. For the first time in days I slept really soundly and didn't have stressing stuff flying through my head.

Two of the playgroups I emailed have replied. K and I are going to try one tomorrow. The co-ordinator of the first one has a bub who is 5 weeks old so Miss K won't be the youngest. In her reply she said 'I love playgroup because it's a such a great source of socialisation and support for your child AND you! It's a good way to make new friends. Come and have a cup of tea
with us and a chat, the girls would really love to meet you and your little one. That sounds really positive and relaxing. I feel really calm after making my decision and maybe this is why I was exhausted and slept so well last night. Yesterday I sent messages to those involved informing them of my decision and explaining why.

[Purplebird]

MM - :hugs::hugs:. I honestly don't know how you do it - working with such a young bub. You must be exhausted. Add a sick bub and a DH who is less than supportive into the mix and you are doing very tough. I hope M is better soon and that you and DH get to talk things through.

Zeph - well done on making a good decision and being at peace with it.

Kate - I am off to the doctors soon with the same problem as you. I had the same thing after DD and it never got better (and that's even through lots of 'practice' when we were trying for Cam for 3/4 months). Now I don't know how much is psychological and how much is physical pain. I hope you can get yours sorted out too.

Get well soon to the sickies and lots of sleep vibes to those who need 'em!

I'm still too chicken to cut the night feeds so I haven't yet! We were out last night so this wasn't a good weekend to do it (will there always be an excuse? :laughing:) DH is all set with some EBM and a bottle for tomorrow though so I can get my hair done. Hopefully it will work out so that I can go to the lunch/evening hen do in a couple of weeks.

Cam loves his new Ikea highchair. He sits with us at mealtimes and chews on his little teething ring! Not long now and I will give him some pieces of cooked broccoli and carrot sticks instead.

[sweetseven]

Well, I've given up putting her in her cot. Looks like we have to cosleep now. :crying: And to top it off, she wants to be held all day also!

[Seacretsquirrel]

T3 - you poor thing sounds like you need some TLC and bubs has decided that AP is what she wants I don't know what to suggest!:hugs:

Zeph - glad you have found a couple of other options for you and K hopefully they are much more supportive than you mothers group!

PB - my GF is bringing me an ikea high chair for R too I can't wait it will be heaps better than feeding him in his bouncer thingo! Hope you get your time out! perhaps this hensnight might be the start of the end of the all night buffet!

Kate- it is amazing how sometimes things just work! glad you found a harness that will hopefully work for you! Hope Zojo is feeling better!

MM - hope M is feeling better too!

AFU - well after a horrible night of up and down (Z at midnight, me at 1 and 2 am with an upset tummy and R every hour thereafter till 7am when we got up!) we have had quite a good day and we all had an afternoon nap too which was great.
However Miss Z then decided that a haircut was in order and cut off a couple of her curls (luckily they are behind her ears and not too noticeable) with my scrapbooking scissors while I was still asleep she came through to me with a curl hanging from her hair and I got rather cross so hopefully she won't do that again! All I can say is thank goodness she has curly hair caue if it was straight I am sure it would be more noticeable!

[Lateralus]

Those of you on facebook might have already seen this... worth putting your 2 cents worth in whether you breastfed or not....


"The Allen Consulting Group has been commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing to develop a National Breastfeeding Strategy for consideration by the Australian Health Ministers' Conference (AHMC). The Australian Government as well as state and territory governments are committed to promoting the value of breastfeeding and improving breastfeeding rates in Australia.

The purpose of this project is to develop a National Breastfeeding Strategy for consideration by the AHMC. The new five-year (2010-2015) Strategy will provide a framework for priorities and action for all Australian governments to guide the promotion, support and monitoring of breastfeeding in the community."


link to survey (http://www.allenconsult.com.au/news.php?id=119)

[zephani]

I have a quick question. How do you remedy servere constipation? Miss K has been constipated for over a two weeks. Only poo'ing every three or four days and they are long hard poos. We tried giving more water, in fact she has 200mls a day, plus we've tried giving coloxyl, 0.5mls three times a day and this still isn't working. One of my friends suggested putting juice in her water? We even used a suppository and that gave us one long hard poo.

[gizmoduckus]

I have a quick question. How do you remedy servere constipation? Miss K has been constipated for over a two weeks. Only poo'ing every three or four days and they are long hard poos. We tried giving more water, in fact she has 200mls a day, plus we've tried giving coloxyl, 0.5mls three times a day and this still isn't working. One of my friends suggested putting juice in her water? We even used a suppository and that gave us one long hard poo.

Prune juice has always worked really well for us. We don't even use a lot of it. We used to add a few drops to E's rice cereal.

[zephani]

Prune juice has always worked really well for us. We don't even use a lot of it. We used to add a few drops to E's rice cereal.

Thanks Gizmo! I went and bought some prune juice and put 10ml in her 200ml bedtime bottle. It probably tasted disgusting in her formula but it was bed time and we wanted to try it. Tomorrow we will put it in her water. Hopefully it will help.

As you know we had to change her formula recently, due to her previous formula being discontinued and their new product constipating her, and DH just realised that her constipation has been around since we changed formula. But tonight she had really bright red, hot cheeks, so we are wondering if the constipation is due to her teething? We'll give the prune juice in her water for a few days and if that doesn't work we'll have to re-evaluate her formula.

[Seacretsquirrel]

Zeph pears are good for constipation too so perhaps adding some to her fruit meals otherwise a little bit of brown sugar in water is suppose to help too (and not as harsh as prune juice can be apparently)

[janiceg]

my two cents:
i use pears and extra water if dd ever gets 'stuffed up' and cut out iron fortified cereals and bananas!

[zephani]

janiceg I just read that bananas can be a cause of constipation so I taking them off the menu this week. I hadn't thought of iron fortified cereal causing the problem. But I just looked at her Bellamy's Organic Apple Cinnamon Breakfast and it doesn't seem to be fortified.

You responded to my thread in the weaning and solids section about heinz cook at home bolognaise saying that your LO has what you have. I am lazy with our food, using store made dolmio sauce to make spaghetti, would that be alright for Miss K?

SS She loves pears and has been having some everyday. That doesn't seem to help either.

[janiceg]

check the ingredients..tonight, for ours, this is what i used mince, onion, zucchini, carrot, green beans, tomato, basil, and garlic.
you'd just want it to be as natural as possible and with no salt/sugar.
good luck!

[floodprincess]

:wave: ladies!

I'll try to keep this short, but apologise in advance if I end up rambling.....

Zeph, I'm so glad you seem to be on a more positive track for you and K! It will make all the difference! As for constipation, I have no idea, can't recall DD1 ever having the problem and we haven't yet encountered it with DD2 (touch wood).

T3 - at least Miss 13 was kind. I remember what it was like with Monique always wanting to be held, I don't know what it's like to co-sleep but I hope you find your solution soon!

MM - stay strong! You can do this, my heart goes out to you though; I know how difficult it is juggling work with baby (although I haven't had to suffer sick baby yet; but sick child is hard enough). As for DH, give him a slap round the ears and tell him to wake up to himself!!! I can understand you feeling so gutted over the pics, but you need to remember that you're shouldering most of the family life and deserve better - hard as it is, maybe you need to confront him? :hugs: & I hope it gets better soon for you.

AFU: we're travelling ok atm. I'm feeling guilty over returning to work after having a week off crook (thank god DD2 hasn't picked it up). I just want to stay at home :rolleyes: (on that note GABG8M - how dare they??!!?? As Zeph said, you can always go back to your study at a later date.....I cut dozens of friendships when they told me I was wasting my life and wouldn't amount to anything when I had DD1; and honestly, if they were going to say that then IMHO they weren't really friends in the first place).

So, back to us......how on earth did you girls manage to get your bubs sitting so well so soon???? I've been looking at the photos on FB and noticed that this seems to be a trend? Not that I'm worried, DD2 will sit when she's ready, I'm just a little amazed.

Anyhow, I'm off to shower and bed before work tomorrow. Take care all!

[zephani]

janiceg Did you use spaghetti or spiral pasta or something?

FP I'm glad you are feeling better and that DD2 didn't get sick.

Miss K can sit up when supported eg strapper into her stroller or her booster chair, sitting against the cushions on our lounge or leaning forward on her bouncer but she isn't sitting up by herself on the floor yet.

[janiceg]

just quick ladies
:wave: ladies!

So, back to us......how on earth did you girls manage to get your bubs sitting so well so soon???? I've been looking at the photos on FB and noticed that this seems to be a trend? Not that I'm worried, DD2 will sit when she's ready, I'm just a little amazed..
she just did it on her own! don't think you can teach them that sort of thing..she's amazingly good at it and rarely topples over..freaks me out a bit! but don't worry, every bub is different..i'm sure your lo can do something she can't:)


janiceg Did you use spaghetti or spiral pasta or something?

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spiral pasta

[Seacretsquirrel]

Zeph the first pasta I used for Z was the tiny star shaped - I think you are supposed to use it in soups etc it was great I didn't have to worry about choking and it went a really long way too! as soon as she started on some finger foods I gave her whole penne or spirals to chew on!

FP glad your DD is on the mend and that DD2 didn't get it.
AFU - R is sitting very briefly - he is fine in his pram and bath seat but falls forwards if he is on the floor (in kinda slow motion which is funny:laughing:). For R though I think that it is a lot to do with the fact that he has tummy slept from day one! he is nearly crawling (he actually gets forward momentum in a kinda comando crawl) and gets up on his hands and knees and rocks which Z wasn't doing till about 8 months.
It is amazing the rate at which all the bubs are developing it is so exciting to see all the new things they are doing.:yelclap::yelclap:

[sweetseven]

Wow! I feel human again. It is amazing what a difference some sleep can make. (And now I look back over this thread and realise it's been nearly two weeks; I was thinking it was only four or five days.)

I think choosing to givie up on the cot made all the difference. It got rid of the repeated attempts to transfer her. And I came up with a solution for not being comfortable with a bub in the bed also; Once she was asleep, I put a pillow in between us. When she woke, she was anoyed and gave a grizzle, but the pillow was easily removed to give her more cuddles.

Rereading this thread, I saw mention of six months, and realised that you are right. Here I was thinking she was still five months. (She was born at the start of the month, so definately six months now.)

I hope the sick little babies improve soon. It never seems fair when little ones are sick.

megaminz, good to see you again. When I saw your post it had a feeling of familiarity, probably because I read a lot of your posts when I first joined here (about four months ago).

Good luck with the constipation. Let's hope it is just teething, and save you the trouble of experimenting with different formula.

On that note, still no sign of any teeth here.

*thinks about the six month mark*
This is supposed to be the time that they are either crawling or sitting, so I wonder which each baby will choose. I'm thinking mine is more likely to go for sitting based on her behaivour.

[ardora]

Hello everyone,

G has been sick again, he finished with his second ear infection (different ear this time) and got conjuctivitis, he then shared it with me (lovely) and now the three of us, DH, G and myself are kind of fluish- doesn't feel like the flu yet but seems like we might be going down with it... GREAT! I am starting to feel as some kind of benefactor to childcare, paying fees without taking the baby... I wonder whether they will allow me to recover at least a couple of days!

Zeph- I wouldn't give bubs pre-made food for adults because of the salt and sugar that they usually have. As far as I know, baby's food cannot have salt... perhaps making some sauce only for her and freeze several portions will work for you?

FP and SS- G is sitting up by himself too, he does it for some time and then tips over to the front or to the side (in slow motion SS! haha!) He is also trying and desperate to crawl but on the floor, all he manages is some backwards comando movement that frustrates him even more as he gets away from his toys.

Kate- I hope that zojo (love the zo-jo name!) is on the mend and that she goes back to her just learnt sleeping patterns. G is normally a good sleeper and he goes all over the place when he is sick and needs to learn again afterwards so remember the magic word of consistency and be sure that she will soon be sleeping like a little angel again.

MM- I am with the rest of the girls, perhaps you need to confront your DH; it seems not fair by any means. Have you tried giving him responsibilities with the baby and then leaving him to do it? I feel that sometimes I am too keen and get DH out of the way, or insist of things being done my way... I had a chat with DH about that and even though he denied that I was being pushy, I think I was and I have modified my behaviour so he is more involved and has a say in how things are done (I don't know it I am making any sense here... in any case, i don't think that there is a excuse for the porn and photo issues)

QC- how are the boxes going? I hope you find more treasures and that this is not too hard for your DH. How was the powerhouse exhibition? I am thinking of perhaps going next week.

T3- good luck with the sleeping...

Now I must go. Will try to post more later with all the questions I have about starting solids...

:goodvibes:

[quitecontrary]

Hello!
Ardora the Powerhouse Sydney Design launch was fun. If you hold off going for another week there will be another artwork that dh has had a hand in, they've been "building" a "Thingalyzer" (don't ask) and a pocket map thing for it. To say it's been keeping him busy is an understatement!
T3 I'm glad that the co-sleeping is working for you. I've always been pretty bad at it, it always comes as a shock to me to wake up with T in the bed. But if it works for you thats fantastic! So good to be sleeping better eh?

Toby is moving around the place albeit on his tum in a circular fashion!! I imagine he'll be crawling at around the 6 month mark - our little bub has only just clocked the 5 months here though! He still has a bit of a cold, and the overnight "driver reviver - only open when needed" is back in use, but soon to be closed - I don't like feeding him in the middle of the night at all. Its not turning into a 24hour breastaurant again thats for sure.
Monday is our lazy morning - I'm still in my dressing gown which is just lovely. Both the kids are sleeping and I think I might join them, we have G's swimming this afternoon so it will be busy later! Probably should pop some more washing on the line - I've found it doesn't dry too well in the machine!

[zephani]

T3 I'm glad that you got some sleep and are feeling human again. I hope the co-sleeping works for you. I'd be really worried that I'd roll over and squash Miss K if she was in my bed. I'm really lucky that she went straight into a cot from the day she came home from hospital.

Adora I'm sorry to hear the fam is sick. Sending get well vibes your way.

AFU Miss K has spent most of the afternoon screaming. Well except when she has had something in her mouth :laughing: But I can't keep feeding her rusks all day. Her face is really red and hot and I'm wondering if her teeth are giving her grief.

She is currently sitting in her bouncer leaning forward, nearly in half and falling off, but the cute this is she's holding on to the edge to keep herself sturdy.

Playgroup went well this morning. There were three Mums and three ladies that run FDC. The youngest was 5 weeks old, then Miss K and then a 14 month old. The rest were two or three. We couldn't play with the older kids or join in with the craft but the ladies got a baby gym so Miss K could roll around the floor and then we all chatted. They were telling me that theres an excursion in a months time so that should be nice. Miss K 'nearly' rolled from her tummy to her back, which she has never done before. She rolled from back to tummy again this morning and tried to do it in her sleep last night. I think she's finally got it down pat.

She's screaming again...so that's my call to go...

[megaminz]

Have missed so much so am just replying to a few

ladies!
So, back to us......how on earth did you girls manage to get your bubs sitting so well so soon???? I've been looking at the photos on FB and noticed that this seems to be a trend? Not that I'm worried, DD2 will sit when she's ready, I'm just a little amazed.Milan isn't sitting unassisted either yet. He is rolling everywhere, in both directions and ways, can sit in his pram and in high chair but not on floor unassisted.

Wow! I feel human again. It is amazing what a difference some sleep can make. (
I hear you. I got a good sleep saturday night and last night left DH with M and had a big glass of wine and went to bed!!! woohoo, still haven't quite replenished the sleep loss I have had but am a darn sight better.

As for teeth M has been teething for months apparently but nothing peeking through yet.

Hello everyone,

G has been sick again, he finished with his second ear infection (different ear this time) and got conjuctivitis, he then shared it with me (lovely) and now the three of us, DH, G and myself are kind of fluish- doesn't feel like the flu yet but seems like we might be going down with it... GREAT! I am starting to feel as some kind of benefactor to childcare, paying fees without taking the baby... I wonder whether they will allow me to recover at least a couple of days!:goodvibes:Adora am sorry to hear you all are sick, makes life so hard doesnt it. I hear you re the daycare too...$280 a week its costing me and he has been away more than he has been there since june!!!



Playgroup went well this morning.
am glad you found a nice playgroup, I miss my mothers group so much, we had a lovely one. they are having a sunday catch up this week so am hoping Milan is well enoguh to go.

AFM: Thanks ladies for letting me offload on the weekend, was feeling so down and drained. Am better after sleep, still dont know how to get past the picture but am not as depressed about it. He has apologised but its not really good enough, it shouldnt have happened in the first place.

Not much to report, have booked milan into swimming lessons starting next week so hoping his health clears up enough for that. His all black cloth nappies arrived in the post late last week so will take some photos to show the staunchest supporter in his gear!

[Lateralus]

Zeph glad to hear you had a more pleasant sounding experience at your 'new' play group! Maybe with a good mix of ages there people won't feel the need to be so competitive as all the kiddies will be reaching milestones at different times anyway!

QC I have slid back a bit on the feeding regime since Zoe has been sick too... It's hard to maintain when they're sick... I just hope it's not too hard to get back into the good routine we established when we were up at the sleep school.

The thing I find hard about trying to close the boobie bar overnight is that it takes her so long to resettle without feeding her... It's like an hour of resettling without the boob verses 5 minutes to resettle with the boob. But I guess I am trying to make things easier for myself in the long run - even if the benefits aren't obvious immediately.

Zoe is so unsettled today - she has only had an hours sleep since 8am and she is so cranky... Have been trying to settle her for about 3 hours... :hair:

[megaminz]

Kate I hope you and Miss Z got some rest in the end. When Milan has days like that I just wrao him up chuck him in pram and cover and rock it in lounge... figure if he is gonna scream regardless i might as well watch tv
:)

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[ardora]

Helloooo!!

Nasty weather today and we are all still sick; I thought I was over when I was feeling pretty well last night but woke up feeling miserable again :( I am really looking forward to the end of the winter! It hasn't been really bad but it feels LONG! G has also been feeding at night... hopefully he will take again on sleeping through the night once he is not sick again.

QC- I know you said not to ask but I really have to... what is a thingalizer? :D and which preschools are in the area? i know one in Daceyville... perhaps we can PM each other regarding this.

Zeph- I am glad that playgroup was good. I haven't joined any mothers' groups as most of my friends already have children but you are supposed to get support instead of grief! good luck that they keep on being nice.

MM- glad to hear you are feeling better. I still think that you should be firm about your position :) and get some well deserved rest! Our childcare is almost $90 per day :crying:

Katejo- all the best with getting zojo back into good sleeping patterns and hope that you get back to getting some sleep. How is your week alone going?

AFU- still sick and feeling over the winter... we have some friends over for dinner so that should put a bit of laugh in our day :flowerz:

Have a great day (and night)!! :goodvibes:

[megaminz]

oh dont worry A i am def making myself clear. I think its sinking in to him but my bday is next week so time will tell if its sunk in enough!!!

am sorry to hear you are sick.

We are night feeding at the moment too, I hope its just cause he is sick and he doesnt need it soon its very tiring

[parentingrocks]

hey everyone :wave:

sorry to those who are battling colds and sleppless nights. :hugs:

we had a great weekend at sorrento (we went to a wedding).. I had to pack for both of us because Kris went for a surf in the morning and left me to do everything.. which resulted in me forgetting his shoes, belt, condoms (I'm not on the pill and we were staying at a hotel say no more :o) and everything else!!!!!! We bought him shoes at the last minute and he didn't end up wearing a belt.. and well.. lets just say I hope I'm not pregnant because we just risked it!:o

We came back on Sunday afternoon and I picked CHarli up from mums - she went against EVERYTHING I told her to do which resulted in a very unsettled girl for the first half of the night - mum ended up giving her more bottles and panadol to shut her up which I wasn't all too happy with - if she just stuck to the routine I left her Charli would have been fine.. but never mind these things happen.

After months of waking quite often during the nights Charli finally slept from 7.30pm - 4.30am last night... it was GLORIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!:flowerz: I feel so good. Plus I had cleaned the house yestersday and caught up on most of the washing so I felt so fresh when I woke up this morning - house clean and a well slept baby. yay... finally! I am going to do the exact same things as last night to try and get another big sleep out of her again tonight.

Anyway I better get back to dinner - I just put a roast in the oven, I need to get vegies in.

Hope you are all well
xxx

[quitecontrary]

solsen I had to laugh at you having to pack for your dp. My mum has always refused pointblank to pack for my Dad - he had to borrow shoes to wear to my wedding, and they were just getting dressed at someone else's place for a Sydney wedding!! Hope you're not pg - you duffers!
ardora apparently the thingalyzer is a web tool that you can enter your favourite "thing" and it will find collections of this "thing" on the web for you - at least thats what I think it will do. Its linked with an interactive artwork that should be in place in the Powerhouse later this week.
MM saw your pics on facebook - hahaha, poor lad being indoctrinated! God bless you and keep you, and all your newzealander-ish-ness!!
Yes, it is a pain about childcare. I used to work as admin in a centre, and it was awful having to explain why we charge when the children aren't there. At least it gets cheaper once the kids are older.
Everything is basically fine here, apart from the rest of them all having colds. Somehow I've avoided it, just as well! I'm back at weight watchers on tues evenings and I take T with me to the meetings (G goes to my sister's) - he is such a sociable little chap, he just sat on one of the other members lap the whole meeting, smiling and "chatting" away! The ladies there love him and he loves all of them too! We had a day at home, G's cold and runny nose meant she was quarantined for a change!

[zephani]

Solsen Congratulations on the nearly all nighter. It shows that it is possible. I had to laugh at you packing for DH. Your experience with your Mum is the exact reason I am a bit hesitant about my Mum ever having Miss K over night.

SS How's the baby proofing going now that R is crawling?

AFU After trying coloxyl, pears, peaches, stopping bananas, extra water and prune juice we've changed Miss K's formula to see if that was the cause of constipation. She's now had four bottles of the new formula and poo'd five times yesterday. Four of them with still hardened but the fifth was a poonami! Yay! Hopefully this will work. When she does her next poonami I will decrease the dosage of coloxyl until she doesn't need it and then I will decrease the prune juice.

I'm off to the hairdressers today. I will be away for nearly two hours. During that time DH will have to feed Miss K her lunch and bottle and try to put her down for her afternoon nap. It will be good practise for when I go back to work in five weeks times.

[ardora]

Hello!

Solsen- wel done on he sleep and waking up to a clean house!! :flowerz: I would never pack for DH because: (1) his arms are not broken and (2) I would not know what to pack. Thankfully he is very indenpendent and packs him own stuff, buys his own clothes etc... I have enough with my own stuff :)

QC- thanks for the explanation about the thingalizer, I might wait a bit for going to the exhibition. About childcare, I undeerstand why I have to pay, but that does not mean that I embrace it ;). I am thinking of speaking with them and see if I can recover a day or two, i.e. taking G on a day when they have a spare place (because another bub is sick)... although I don't know if that can be done in terms of liability.....

Zeph- Yay for K getting rid of her constipation! you reminded me that I need to go to the hairdresser too...and I have a voucher for getting a free manicure with a haircut and plus they have childcare.... might look into that today :) It will definitely feel good!!

AFU- we are still sick but definitely on the mend. G slept from 7:30pm to 6:30am (yay!!!) with only one incident about 10:30pm (I was still awake) when he was crying but still sleeping... odd... I though he might have a sore throat (both DH and I do) so I gave him some water and nurofen and he then slept all night. He has done it before and I always tried to feed him but then he did not drink much.. that is why I tried the water and meds and it worked.

We had friends over for dinner last night and it was great :flowerz:

Have a great day!! :goodvibes:

[Seacretsquirrel]

Morning,
Just a quick one to say hi and catch up on what has been going on!

MM - I love M's new nappies they are super cute as is your wee man!

QC - poor G hope she feels better soon! and well done going back to WW hope you get great success!

Solsen - Hope you are not PG, fingers crossed for you! glad you had a nice night out though even if C was a bit unsettled for the first bit of the night!

Zeph - just watch with the poonamis remember that once they are on solids their poos change and will get more pastey (not hard) - obviously you know this and hopefully the new formula helps the situation I would however be careful using the coloxyl and prune juice you don't want to upset her tummy too much perhaps one or the other might be better.

Ardora - Hope you are feeling better and glad that having your friends visit was great! One way to tell if they have a sore thoat is to smell their breath - if it smells a bit like acetone (nailpolish remover) then it is likely they have a sore throat (or a teething) but if you and your DH have one the odds are bubs does too!

AFU - as most of you have prob read on FB R is crawling!!! it is amazing watching him move around so much poor Z is a bit put out as she can't leave anything within reach anymore or he can get it - as she found out with her little container of dry cheerios this morning!!!
My GF and her little boy (2 weeks younger than R) and her DH are staying with us ATM which is lovely it is so nice to have company and it is good for me to actually cook real meals not the slap together stuff Z and I live off when DH is away!

DH is on hols as of Tues (I think) which will be great we ar trying have a bit of a change of plans and are thinking we migh leave Darwin early and drive across to Cairns and then down to Brisbane (a bit of a family road trip and holiday) and then DH will fly from Bris to Melb for his course then back to Bris so we can drive back! hopefully this works as it would be great to spend some time together as a family plus having my car in Brisbane will be really great!
anyway I better go !
Take care all!:hugs:

[Lateralus]

with a haircut and plus they have childcare....

what a bloody fantastic idea - a hairdresser with child care!! Where abouts is this place?

SS be sure to let us know if/ when you head to Brissy - I have been meaning to get off my butt to go & meet up with BM & MM (anyone else in Brissy??) so it'd be great if we could catch up with you too!

AFU - just had a nice catch up with some of the girls and bubs from our antenatal group - it was a morning coffee that turned into lunch... I love those sorts of days :sunshine:

Miss Z slept from 17:45 - 8:30 with only feeds at 22:30 & 4:30 - am SO stoked!!!!!!!! More of that thanks sleeping gods!:smiliedance:

[Seacretsquirrel]

Kate - I would love to catch up with you brissy BH girls I'll update as we know what is happening! :D and go zojo with the sleeping!:yelclap::yelclap:

not much to add here will pop back later to see how everyones day was!:wave:

[zephani]

Adora I love the idea of a hairdresser with childcare. My hairdresser has a professional type room set up out the back of her house. She was saying today that I should feel free to bring Miss K if I need to in the future.

KJ It sounds like ZoJo is going well with her sleeping. Sending lots of sleeping vibes your way.

SS Thanks for the advice on the coloxyl and prune juice. I halved her dose of coloxyl today and will half it again tomorrow if her poo'ing going well. The Dr said that taking her off it straight away will have the opposite effect of putting her on it and could harden her up again.

Your roadtrip sounds great, especially since it means spending more time with DH.

AFU We had a pyjama morning this morning and then Miss K stayed at home with DH while I went to the hairdresser. I had a nice relaxing time and have new blonde foils in my hair. Then I went home and had lunch, dressed Miss K and visited work.

Speaking of Miss K she is grumbley and sucking on her hand, so I think she wants her bottle, pjs and bed.

[sweetseven]

About childcare, I undeerstand why I have to pay, but that does not mean that I embrace it ;). I am thinking of speaking with them and see if I can recover a day or two, i.e. taking G on a day when they have a spare place (because another bub is sick)... although I don't know if that can be done in terms of liability.....The childcare centre I used (over 10 years ago) actively stated that they would allow makeup days (on your non-booked days) if space was available (due to other children being away). The problem was, they usually couldn't confirm availability until quite late (such as 10am) so it wasn't very useful.

SS be sure to let us know if/ when you head to Brissy - I have been meaning to get off my butt to go & meet up with BM & MM (anyone else in Brissy??) so it'd be great if we could catch up with you too! *raises hand* me too

[sweetseven]

Bub fell asleep wearing her Itti Bitti today, and I popped her on the bed, having given up on the cot. Unfortunately, she flooded it, soaking the bed and one of the pillows I was using as a barrier. Then, whilst the woolen underblacket was on the line, a quick storm went past and now it's soaked.

[quitecontrary]

Oh tiera what a pain! Hope you get everything dry before tooo long.
SS your driving holiday - which is what we used to have lots of growing up - sounds like it would be really good. Having your own car at your destination would be handy too I'd imagine.

Sounds like things are going okay for most of you! Toby Tucker had to be fed twice between 9pm and 7.30 - a bit too much if you ask me, but he's not asking - demanding is more to the point. The poor mite does have a bit of a cold so its not usual. Just really hoping he gets better soon, and not too used to the 24hr service!

[Lateralus]

Good morning ladies - hope everyone had a restful night and that all those with colds are on the mend. We had another excellent nights sleep - Zoe fed at 9:15pm, 2am & 8am & slept soundly inbetween - so so so so excellent only having to get up once over night! :smiliedance:

Not much else to report here today - we tried some banana for the first time this morning which she wasn't too taken with... It's the first thing she's really not liked so far, so I figure that's not too bad. I am thinking of hitting the shops this afternoon. I need to get a rug or a big mat or something for our floor - Zoe is rolling up a storm now and keeps rolling off her little play mat and conking her head on the wooden floor :o

Will check in later and see how everyone is going :wave:

[zephani]

Just a quick post to say...


:hugs::babydust2: Happy Birthday Janiceg! :babydust2::hugs:


Hope you have a great day and get spoiled heaps!

[firsttimepreg]

Hello to all the yummy feb mummys!
I've been silently reading all these posts, right back to the due in Feb ones, but never really posted myself. But I figured now was a good time to start. I hope you don't mind me joining so late! I have a beautiful (aren't they all) baby girl Charli (another one in this group) who is just over 6 months now. How quickly that 6 months passed! We've experienced so many of the same issues as everyone in here and when I read your posts its so like our own journey that its scary! But sooooo reassuring as well knowing that others are going through the same thing.

Charli sits on her own and crawls backwards. Cant seem to take my eyes off her for a minute or she disappears behind something! She wont take a bottle, and wakes during the night a couple of times still. Good work to everyone who has managed to get their bub sleeping all night, and to those that haven't - I feel your pain.

I'm not up with how to fully use this site so bear with me :)

Hope everyone is having a good day!!

[zephani]

KateJ I hope you find lots of specials at the Big W sale. The catalogue looked good. If Miss K is better we are going to Sydney on Sunday to go to the Baby and Kids Market that OCM mentioned that she went to a little while ago. Here (http://www.babykidsmarket.com.au/) is the link if you want to find out when it is coming your way. It seems they go to every state except NT (Sorry SS!).

Firsttimepreg Welcome! I agree that it is reassuring to know that other people are going through the same things as we are. You will find the people here lovely. They have definitely helped me during a difficult period in the last few weeks :yes: :valentine: :hugs:

AFU Miss K has come down with a cold :( She is grizzley and grumpy but still having her fluids which is good. She spent half the night coughing and I woke up everytime I heard it through the monitor. Today she sounds like she has a wet rattley chest. We have put Euky rub on her and turned the vapouriser on in her room. Are LO's this young able to have cough medicine or do I just keep her fluids up and give her panadol if she gets a fever? We are keeping her home from GymbaROO today. :fingerscrossed: she gets better soon otherwise she won't be able to have her needles next week.

On a lighter note at one stage last night she sounded so miserable I asked DH to go and get her some panadol. When he went into her room he found that the reason she was complaining was because she had rolled onto her belly and couldn't get back onto her back.

[Lateralus]

:wave: welcome to firsttimepreg and congratulations on your baby girl Charli! Looking fowards to hearing more about your adventures as a Mum!

Zeph my understanding with cough medicines was that it's best to avoid them (for anyone - not just babies) - the cough is your body's natural response to increased phlegm and helps to dislodge it and bring it up. By suppressing the cough it makes it harder for the body to get rid of all that cr@p! Hope Miss K is feeling better soon. Zoe has just had the cough and cold and it took about a week for her cough to start getting better.

Zoe and I just went up to the Big W sale and I spent WAY too much money on summer clothing for her. Oh well - it's all stuff she needs and at least it was all on special. They have some of the cutest stuff! I must say, I am not one for dressing Zoe in really girly clothes - and I am pleased to say they had lots of alternatives to pink, pink or pink! I also got a big jig-saw mat to keep her from conking her head on the wooden floor boards (although I am sure she'll roll of it pretty quick smart :laughing:). I bought myself the new Kate Millar-Heidke album which is ok - not as good as I thought it would be - but it's the first album I have bought for myself in about 6 months so I am determined to enjoy it! I ran into so many people we knew at the shops today which was nice... Lots of chatting and catch ups :goodvibes:

It is SUCH a nice day here today - hard to believe it's winter and I am getting around in shorts and a singlet top. Love it :sunshine:

[Seacretsquirrel]

:wave:Welcome Firsttimepreg (from here forwards me thinks you will be simply FTP - unless it bothers you) glad we could be of help it really is amazing how many people go through similar things with bubs even though they are all so different!

Zeph - I agree with Kate no cough medicine esp under 2's - the chemist wouldn't sell it to you anyway (or they shouldn't) have you tried the euky rub on her feet with socks on it is supposed to be better than on their chests.
Hmmm when is the baby market on in Brisbane I wonder will have t have a look (prob over before I get there:()

Kate - well done with your bargains! and yippee for pink alternatives - I try for Z to have some changes but there is so little (plus she likes pink!:raspberry:)


AFU - we are off to the mindil beach markets this afternoon which will be nice hopefully the kids all behave!
popped into target this morning and got R a swim hat -could only get one of those caps with the back flap bits (can't spell the propper name:o) which is a bugger but better than getting his real hat wet! also got him a floaty thing too as we are off to berry springs on Sat (while we wait for DH to get home!) and then maybe to the wave pool on sunday
anyway off to have a bit of a lima lima delta :sleeping:

[quitecontrary]

Welcome Firsttimepreg - looking forward to hearing more about your little Charli!
Yes, you have to have a prescription for infant dimetapp these days. We used it for G a bit, also the sedative part of it came in handy for the poor little darling. Luckily T hasn't been that crook with his little cold.
This morning we all trundled down to playgroup which was fun. G is really enjoying it these days - thank goodness - and Toby gets to kick back and relax with his little mate which is fun for him too! Afterwards we got some fruit and veg and then I actually managed to get into Target and get a whole heap of clothes for both the kids. I think its the first time I've gone in with both of them! G was in a good mood, which makes a big difference to the shopping experience! Then we called in at the playground and park down the road - and one of the little playgroup friends was there too, so G was in heaven. Now she is sound asleep and T is about to join her I think.
One of the funniest things he's done lately is get himself under our couch, he complained bitterly when I dragged him out of there! He is having a lovely chat to himself at the moment, but there are a few tired signs!

[floodprincess]

Evening Ladies!!

Welcome FTP (and our second Charli) it's always great to hear that you are not along in your trials and tribulations!

Yay Kate & Zojo for a good nights sleep!!

Zeph, I can only agree with the others on the cough medicine! I know it's hard listening to them struggle through coughing and the rest!

AFU we had a great day, I took the day off and caught up with a couple of girlfriends who have bubbies. I never realised just how much I've gotten 'into' this being a mum. I never wanted to sit and listen to women talking nothing but babies and labour and kid stuff when I had Tiffani, but this time round it was really good. I wonder if that's mainly because they are two good friends and I'm a little starved of company outside my immediate family?

Either way we had a great day and Monique was so well behaved, flirting with the other two boys and anyone that looked her way.

Anyway, I'm out to do dinner, I'll catch up with you all later! :wave:

[BoyCrazy]

hey ladies! :wave:

well to those who dont know, ive had a name change! i was Baylismum, but i thought that was a bit outdated now that im mum to both boys!

so i have been extremely slack in posting in here this month, i find myself on FBook quite often, and i catch most of your news on there :D

Firsttimepreg- hi! congrats on your girl Charli, i love that name, and how you spelled it, its gorgeous! I think Charli is one of two feb bubbas who are actually crawling! (seacretsquirrels bubba boy riley is crawling too!) anyhoo welcome & hope to get to know u better :)

KateJo- like i said on FB, u did so well at the bigw sale! im heading back there on monday! hope they have some decent stuff left! I already got Jasper some clothes, i love the new bonds range! especially the babytails! so cute!

FP- sounds like u had a nice day with your friends! im very jealous..i need some new friends that have kids! my 'friends' all vanished when i fell preg with Bayli (sad isnt it!?)

SS- omg you sound like you have the best weekend planned..am very jealous!

zeph- i wouldnt do cough mixture either without going to see your GP first. hope little K gets better soon!

question to those starting swimming for their bubbas, i rang up yesterday to get jasper in, and turns out theyre half way thru the term? doesnt mean he cant join but im wondering if it will matter that hes missed a few classes? or should he be ok?

to those BFing mums, how many feeds a day are you giving bubs atm? seems like now that hes eating food not drinking as much? hmm

oh and i forgot! MEGAMINZ! great to see you back!!

AFU- Jasper is growing so fast! 8.6kgs and 70cms, had his 6mth jabs, he didnt even cry!! has been a bit unsettled at night though, waking every 2-3hrs, so im trying to wean him from the wrap, now that hes almost crawling & its starting to get warmer. its not going so well though!! must persevere though i know! well im off, gonna make some spaghetti jaffles for dinner..my DF has tomorrow off so its a long weekend for us! :smiliedance:

[zephani]

BC Miss K started swimming lessons week 6 or 7 of term 2. It was harder for me as I didn't know the routine or some of the songs they were singing, whereas she loved it! Her biggest problem was when she missed a week cause she was sick, then missed the next week due to the instructor being sick, then she missed two weeks of school holidays. Maybe try his swimmers on the day before or take him to the pool to get him familiar with it before the lesson.

AFU Thanks for the advice about the cough mixture. It's hard when you feel helpless and don't know how to help them. Miss K was really whingy and not her chirpy self today. I think she must have a sore throat because everytime she swallowed the cried. I was trying to work out how to soothe her throat. At first I tried to break up an icecube but made a big mess, so I ended up giving her a frozen green bean to suck and chew on. DH sat with her and watched that she didn't choke. She went well! We were going to try some finger foods soon, so this is a good sign.

[BoyCrazy]

zeph- have you got one of those mesh bag feeder thingos? (sorry dont know their actual name) but u can put bits of fruit/veg etc in them. U could try putting icecubes in that bag, and let her suck on it (no bits will escape the bag to choke her).

other than that lots of panadol, r you bfing? (sorry cant remember), but bub may want extra drinks. if you FFeed, maybe offer her a bottle of cool water as well.

thanks for the info bout swimming! and great idea about taking him earlier! its been so hot here i might take him to the pool on the weekend! yay! then first class monday :D im quite looking forward to it!

[floodprincess]

Hey All...

Finally dragged myself away from FB to come here for a chat :)

Mel. Monique has dropped roughly 1 boobie/bottle feed a day (we comp because I work FT), but the milk feeds she does have are a little bigger than they used to be and this is directly attributed to the solids I think. My mum says it's normal, and when you stop to think about it, at this age, they would be getting more nutrients from the solid and not need as much milk. For us it varies from day to day depending on her moods and how much solids she wants....enjoy your long weekend (just remember - nothing more till October 2012!!!)

The BigW sales sound great, I've gotta get some more summery type clothes for Monique, all we've got is a pile of winter all in one suits and a couple of 00 pieces that will do for the cooler spring weather, but nothing for when it really heats up!

[firsttimepreg]

Morning everyone!

We got 6 hours solid sleep last night which is very unusual. Charli went to bed at 8, had a feed at 11.30 and then again at 5.30. Its so nice to get a 6 hours in a row!!!

We had a look at big w yesterday as well but walked out empty handed. I didnt know what to choose. Might go back on the weekend.

FTP is fine for my name. Firsttimepreg is a little outdated but I have no idea how to change it.

BoyCrazy - Charli's only crawling backwards, we have yet to master going forwards! She has also started swimming but she started at the beginning of this term so I'm not sure how mid entry goes. But I know she absolutely LOVES swimming and I think its such a great idea. She bfeeds roughly 3-4 hourly during the day (I'm not sure how many per day it works out to) and she also has a couple of lots of solids. The child health nurse we saw for our 6 month check up said we should be working towards 5 solid feeds a day, and to try feeding solids before the BF so she's hungry and will eat a lot.

Its a gorgeous day here today (SA) so we'll probably go for a walk. I only have 1 close friend with a bub so we dont get out a lot during the day. A walk will do us good.

Has anyone else started thinking about the next baby? We pretty much decided to wait about 2-3 years before number 2 but hubby has been talking about it a bit and seems to want another quite soon - like if I got pregnant now he'd be really happy. When we were trying for Charli he wasnt heaps interested but says now that "babies are addictive". I think I'd still like to leave it a bit longer so I can enjoy charli a bit more and give her my sole attention. Any thoughts?

Have a great day :)

[janiceg]

Just a quick post to say...


Happy Birthday Janiceg!


Hope you have a great day and get spoiled heaps!

:yelclap: thank you!
i had a great day!
pancakes for brekky with dh and dd..met some friends in the park with their bubs and had a little picnic...and for dinner we had some really nice cheeses, fruit and crackers.. after dd went to bed i had some champers i'd been saving since i was preggo...was drunk and in bed after two glasses by 8pm!:laughing:

dd has been so clingy, has a nappy rash and runny/mushier than normal poos..not sure if it's teeth or from her jabs on wed..any ideas?

we pick up the keys for our new apt today!!! i'm so excited! dh is working in brissy for the weekend as usual but we'll officially be moved in on sunday!:smiliedance:but dd and i will go over today and check it out..get her used to it a bit.

dd is still having her usual feeds and eating a cup or more of solids at each meal (3x/day)..dr said it was fine as she is only 7.2kg..the only problem is she refuses any jarred food atm. we are going to noosa next weekend so i have been trying to get her used to jarred food but she'll have no go of it..but the big problem is our 30hr flight to canada!:no: anyone know if i can take homeade food for her? will have to call the airline and try to find out

glad to hear everyone is doing well..or hanging in there anyways! have a great weekend!

[floodprincess]

Good Morning all!!

Janice, how exciting! Hope the move and settling into your new place goes smoothly....I can't offer help with the homemade food on the plane (my first thought was to cheat and bottle some homemade stuff in a heinz baby food bottle, they'll never know the diff) but that's obviously not the wisest move :o

FTP I can say that we've been thinking of #3 here and definitely plan to not have as big a gap between #2 and #3 as there is between #1 & #2 (11years). But we go hot and cold on the issue....lol.

Well, just a quick one for me this right now....hope you all have a great weekend, it looks like I might get to pick up a new car if hubby managed to extract digit and finalise our end of the paperwork.

take care, I'll probably float in and out today and over the weekend....

[zephani]

janiceg Glad to hear you had a greate birthday. Good luck with the move. I'm sure DD will be fine, especially since you are taking her over for a while today.

Miss K doesn't eat jarred food either. I've never pureed her food just mashed it with a potato masher. So jarred food for her age is always too smooth. My thought was the same as FP suggesting putting homemade food in a heinz jar.

FTP We are going to start TTC #2 in February when DD is 1.

AFU Miss K seems happier today. She still sounds rattley when she coughs but is her old self again. We had the vapouriser on all day yesterday and put Euky rub on her chest and feet (thanks SS!).

We have weaned her down to 0.1ml of coloxyl as she has been poo'ing soft poos roughly everday or second day. So I'd say the constipation was the formula.

I just made up a batch of beef stew for her this morning. It had potato, pumpkin, carrot, green beans, peas, a little beef mince and a 1tsp of tomato paste. It tasted nice. I'd eat it, so hopefully she likes it.

We are having a bbq with my sister and her family tomorrow for Miss K's half birthday. She is 6 months old on Sunday.

Hope everyone is having a good day. Will check back later.

[floodprincess]

Gosh and golly gee...I didn't think I'd find myself back in here so quickly today lol (guess that's what happens when one's computer decides it can only do one thing at a time, and you end up on another which doesn't have any of your files so you can't work)

Anyways, I've been reading with some interest all the fun things you ladies are introducing to your LOs in the way of solids (Zeph that stew sounds yummo). I have the same prob as you - Monique does not like the smooth pureed stuff that you buy for their age group off the shelf. But I have a dilemma; I currently have a few of these tins in my cupboards as 'emergency foods' but she HATES them. anyone got any ideas for 'chunking' them up? Do you think if I mashed like pumpkin or potato (or parsnip - Monique LOVES parsnip) and mix it in it would go OK?

Also am thinking of introducing home done meats (the tins have beef and lamb in them but see above prob). Anyone got thoughts on how that worked best for them??

Lol..you'd think I'd never done this whole solids thing before (guess that's what I get for leaving such a big gap - you forget all the hard learnt tricks)

[zephani]

FP I'm sure you're using your computer as an excuse for not working :p

The mashed potato or pumpkin would thicken up the jar food. I also thought rice or the pasta stars you can buy in the baby aisle or maybe even spiral pasta. Sorry if that sounds like a dumb idea. It was just the first thing that came to mind.

We've just introduced meat to Miss K. Last week I cooked chicken and grated it so it wasn't too chunky, then mashed it with steamed vegies. This week we're doing beef mince. Thanks for saying the stew sounded yummy.

I bought Annabel Karmel's book 'Feeding Your Baby and Toddler' and she has some good ideas.

[Seacretsquirrel]

FP - I am sure bulking the jarred stuff would work!

Janice - I think you can kinda reseal the jars (the way you do jams etc) so that might let you get away with it when are you flying because you may be able to give more finger food type stuff by then - which might be easier to find to travel with.

Zeph - have a look for the star pasta in the regular pasta asile too (it is used for soups I think) it is heaps cheaper than buying the stuff for baby! - it is so rude that they up the price like that!
AFU - 1 more sleep!!!!!!!! till DH is home YIPEEEE :smiliedance::smiliedance: his tax $$$ is in the bank and we have a nice weekend planned so it is looking up all across the board - plus we all seem to be on the mend too (I still have a bit of sniffle and cough but much better since I got some cough medicine) although after a preg scare (well a bit of a naughty with DH when he was home the other day and a very vivid dream) I got the morning after pill and now I have my AF which is a bummer I was rather enjoying it being absent but on the plus it means no bub (or twins like i dreamed) so that is good hmmmm really have to get DH into the Docs :yes:
Off to get R measured again in a sec so I report back later!

ETA - Zeph I just noticed your wedding date ours is the same but for 2 numbers 08/10/2005! neat huh!

[quitecontrary]

Hello!
Janice how old will Charlotte be when you are going to Canada? I took food for G when she was 11 months, but she liked everything, so we had a lot of those "sacks" of Rafferty's Garden (? I think thats the name). You may find that C tolerates jars etc as she gets older, keep perservering. One thing I will say is do not overfeed your dd on the plane! We did that flying to Bangkok from London and she did the biggest vomit you could imagine, about 30 minutes before we started to land - they ended up moving us it was so awful. But you will be able to take food from home, they will poke and probe it but it will be fine.
All's well here - I should be getting on with things whilst the kids are both asleep!

[gizmoduckus]

Hi all!

I'm not really going to get into personals because I am having a shocking day today and I really can't be bothered thinking too much. :dizzy:

I just wanted to say a big welcome to FTP! Finally there is someone else from Adelaide here. Which side of town are you from?

[Lateralus]

OMG - Zoe has put on 950 grams in 3 weeks!!! Seems sleep and solids agree with her! :D

[floodprincess]

:yelclap: for Zoe!!! How's the sleeping going with Zojo getting over a cold? Hope it didn't get too thrown out of whack....

lol....I logged on with plans to ramble on about something, and now I've clean forgotten what it was....oh well, couldn't have been important!

Thanks for the tip about the food, will be giving it a go over the weekend.

Oh, that's what it what was.....Miss M has taken to screaming when her Nan & Pop (especially Pop) come round here to look after her while we are all at work....but she only does it when her Dad is home before they get here. Do you ladies think it might be an attachment thing she has with her Dad, or do you think she might be objecting to something Pop does with her?? Apparently she settles down fine after a few moments.....

I only know this because DH rang to tell me about the new car and I could hear her going off her brain in the background.....was rather distressing (I know I won't ever be able to really tell what's going on, but wondered if anyone else has ever heard of this??)

[megaminz]

Giz I hope you are okay!!!

Janice have you tried that sachet baby food?? in the wee plastic pouches, I think its raffertys? it may be a bit more to her liking

Yay for Zoe putting on weight!

FP I am constantly forgetting what I was gonna say CONSTANTLY and sometimes mid sentence!!!
As for the screaming thing it could be a couple of things. As unPC as this is gonna sound old people can kinda "smell" different. Maybe nan and pop have a scent M doesnt like??

or maybe she just doesnt like them lol maybe they pinch her cheeks or something

i have a neighbour who has kids and my M always screams when we go round there...can't work it out. Nothing bad has happened to him there

[janiceg]

hey girls
thanks for all the suggestions!
she'll be 7mths when we go
we started with the rafferty's and she hates them now..tried only organic and heinz too! :no: no dice
i'm thinking of putting homeade food into jars and resealing them like a few of you said..from what i've read you're allowed to take enough for the flight so :fingerscrossed:
if they take it i'll just have to buy some stuff at the shops after i go through security..i could prolly get some yogurt or something and i'll bring some rusks or something with me
i have ordered her a baby meal but who knows what that will be!

:hugs: girls!

[gizmoduckus]

Thanks MM, I'm fine. I just had a day with everything going wrong. From having E smear banana down the hallway and L vomitting everywhere when we were running late to dinner going wrong to E hitting and pushing other kids in playgroup. It didn't matter what happened yesterday it just all went wrong.

Now to catch up on personals. Forgive me if it's long.....

Seacretsquirrel - Have fun with your DH when he gets back.
KateJo - It's good to hear that Z has gone back to sleeping well after she was sick and well done on the weight gain.
zephani - I hope K is feeling better. I agree with BoyCrazy (it's funny referring you by that!) about those mesh feeders. They are really good.
quitecontrary - That's funny about T getting stuck under the couch. L did the same thing but he got his head stuck under there. He was not impressed!
firsttimepreg - We are umming and ahhing about the next baby. We always said that we would have 3 kids but after L having a few issues after his birth we are kind of a bit wary now about going through it all again. It has been very draining this time around
floodprincess - Sorry I have no advice on the grandparent situation. It might just be something that she will grow out of.

AFU, L has started to sit as well. Not for extremely long periods but he is doing well. He even did a bit of a bum shuffle when he was trying to get my MIL's keys. He is also spinning on his tummy really well to get anything that is close to him. He isn't going on all fours yet so I don't think he will be crawling for awhile. Oh well, I guess it will happen before we know it.

Today my mum is taking E for the afternoon which I am really looking forward to. So hopefully this means that I will have a better day today. Hope everyone has a great day too....

[firsttimepreg]

Another unusally warm, but very windy, day here. Looks like I'll get a lot of washing dry on the line though, ah the excitement!

How exciting about the new car FP. DH just got a new old car. Very old, but new for him. Its a ute so not practical for family outings but he assures me it is practical in many other ways.

I hope the BBQ goes well today Zephani. Its hard to believe our bubs are already 6 months, its such a sweet idea to celebrate it!

Hi Gizmo, we're in the Southern suburbs. Which side are you on?

Great effort on the weight gain for Zoe KateJo. You're obviously doing something right. Charli has lost weight the last 2 times I've weighed her. Only about 100g each time. She's still in the 50th percentile though so they say not to worry. And shes a real shorty so she still looks nice and chubby.

Sorry if I dont do all personals, I forget who has written what by the time I start writing!

We're still struggling with sleeping through the night. Thought we'd try controlled crying last night but I caved after letting her cry for 2 mins and I fed her, but she went straight back to sleep after.

My posts seem to be really long - sorry about that!! Hope everyone has a nice weekend planned :)

[Purplebird]

Welcome FTP - look forward to getting to know you :)

I don't really seem to have much to say at the moment so I haven't been around much this week. Cameron has tooth number two coming through - he is quite snuffly with it as well. I remember DD being the same.

We aren't doing much this weekend thank goodness. I'm feeling quite tired again and I have pulled a muscle between my shoulders - I think it's from sleeping in an odd position with Cameron in the bed.

Hope you're all enjoying your weekends :goodvibes:

[firsttimepreg]

Thanks for the welcome Purplebird. I hope you can manage a rest or something today to help boost your energy levels.

I just had a horrible experience, sorry if this is TMI. Poor charli was very constipated and was so upset and in pain trying to do a poo. A got her to squat and pushed her legs up to help her get it out. Eventually she did and it was really solid. She hadnt quite finished and did some more while her nappy was off (on her change mat so it was ok) but she had such a hard time. It had us both in tears. And it really wore her out. She could hardly keep her eyes open afterwards so after a cuddle she went to bed. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm not sure what to do, I dont want her to go through it again. She's been having more solids, a fair but of avocado, but still breastfeeds every 3-4hrs.

Sorry for the rant but it got me (and charli) quite distressed.

[megaminz]

hi ladies

i am in a quandry
my next door neighbours brother was one of those killed on the kokoda flights. He was a nice man.

she has just come home after they have retrieved his body.

How long do i wait to go over. we are friends not just neighbours, i dont want to crowd her but am just wanting to be there for her and give her a hug.

i saw another lady come with her who i haven't met so she isn't alone but I dont know if i should pop straight over, wait a few hours, days ....

[zephani]

MM I'd probably wait a day or so before going over. Maybe make an evening meal and take over. I know food doesn't help in this situation but it was all I could thing of. My thoughts are with them. It would be so hard.

FTP I feel for you with the constipation. We've had the same problem recently. A few people here suggested prune juice and that has worked a treat for us. I've been putting into her daily water. She drinks about 200ml of water everyay. I've been putting it in at a ratio of 1:4. For example in 100ml of water I put 20ml of prune juice and 80ml of water.

Also never apologise for writing long posts or ranting. We all do it from time to time. Especially me :D

I used to forget personals too. I now have a secret. Once you press post, if you scroll down the page you can see the last ten posts. So I start my post and then scroll down to re-read the other posts so I can do personals. Then I don't have to remember. And if you want to read more than the last ten posts you can press click here and it opens up the whole thread in a new tab :yelclap:

PB I hope that your shoulders get better soon.

Gizmo I'm sorry to hear you had a bad day yesterday. I hope you enjoyed your E free time today.

Kate Yay for ZoJo's weight gain!

SS I will look for the star pasta. Thanks for the suggestion. Sounds like your holidays and time with DH are coming together well.

How cool is it that our wedding anniversaries are so close! I can't believe our first anniversary is coming up. We got together on 5/10/2007 and got married 5/10/2008.

AFU DH and I are feeling a little disheartened about our bbq today. One of our friends didn't come because Miss K has a cold and she didn't want her children exposed to it. I totally understand, but that meant 8 people not coming (her and her 7 kids) and our next door neighbour didn't come because 'something came up'. My sister, her DH and daughters came but were 90 minutes late because they got stuck in traffic due to an accident. We had a nice time once they turned up, although DH doesn't know if he wants to have a 1st birthday party for her now.

I am exhuasted :sleeping: Miss K woke up screaming four times last night. She is going really well with her rolling and rolled onto her tummy in her sleep. When she couldn't get back onto her back she would scream. She did this at 8:30pm, 2:30am, 4:30am and 5:30am. Today we have given her a heap of tummy time and when she is sick of being on her tummy we leave her there a little longer and then show her how to roll from her tummy to her back. I'm hoping that if we do this she will learn to roll from her tummy to her back and fall asleep again or become comfortable sleeping on her tummy.

[Lateralus]

afternoon ladies - I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend so far! DH made it home safely from Jakarta - unfortunately he was only home for a few hours and had to go out for another job tonight - but after that, we have him home for almost a whole week :smiliedance: Zoe and I have had a nice afternoon - we went and watched a few friends play netball and helped manage the creche (a few of the girls have bubs and the dads take it in turns to come and look after them but they're often grateful for an extra set of hands).

MM Such awful news about your neighbors brother. It is such terrible news. I think if you're friends and you want to let you know you're there to support her, then go over sooner rather than later. You can just drop by quickly and let her know you are just next door if she needs anything.. Zeph's idea of bringing food is a good one - grief does make one forget to eat sometimes, so bringing a wholesome meal round is a great idea.

FTP poor Miss Charli. Zoe was having a bit of trouble pooing today as well (I think it's the banana that bungs her up). I gave her some brauer's stomach calm at lunchtime and by 2:30 she'd managed to poo. Might have been a coincidence, but it has worked for us before. I have heard that prune juice is good too (thanks for posting the ratios Zeph - I have never been 100% sure how much you are supposed to give so have avoided it so far).

Zeph hope you had a great time at K's 1/2 birthday party despite the no-shows. It is disheartening when people pull out at the last minute, but try not to let it detract from the good times that were had!

PB hope your back feels better soon :hugs: And I hope Cam's toothie peg comes through without too much bother!

[quitecontrary]

Hello!
Zeph as Kate said, I hope you had a good time at the bbq! No-shows are always a disappointment. Its another 6 months til our babies turn 1 - I am sure your dh will be wanting to celebrate that milestone!!
MM so sad to hear your neighbour's news. I'm with Kate too on this one - just a little pop in to let her know you're there for her. Even if you take a tea bun or something like that - she can offer it to visitors if she's not a cake person. Plus I'm sure if you take Milan with you when she's up for it he will put a smile on her face!

We are fine. Nothing much to report. We went and stayed at my parents last night and T slept through til 5.45 for the first time in ages, such a blessed relief. G woke up when she heard him but Mum and Dad took her at 6.30 and we slept for another 2 hours! Such a lovely day here today - we were all out in their garden for a couple of hours, some of us sat around reading the paper whilst others gardened, and G ran around being a very busy helper.

[parentingrocks]

Hi all!!

WOW So much chatting is going on I can't keep up!! No longer can I leave it a few days before posting... all you girls are like :ecomcity::ecomcity::ecomcity: h :laughing:!!!!!!

Welcome FTP!!! yay we both have Charli's!!!!! Great minds think alike!!

So sorry for the lack of personals (even though I hardly ever do them because I forget who said what by the time I reply) but I don't have much time up my sleave before I have to head out.

We are going ok. Charli got her first tooth today, she also has a runny nose so struggling to breathe a bit.
She is still waking every now and again during the night I think I 'cooked' her the other night, she can't handle a onesy and a sleeping bag at night I just have to have a singlet with the sleeping bag or she gets too hot, then needs to feed to re-hydrate and then the next night she wakes thinking 'where is that free feed I got last night??!'.... so trying to break that habit at the moment.

I better go we are supposed to be out for lunch at Midday but of course she is sleeping longer than normal.. I feel too cruel to wake her because she obviously needs the sleep but I'm going to have to wake her now we are reeeeally late.

By all, have a great Sunday
xxx

[zephani]

MM How is your neighbour doing? Did you go over and see them?

KateJo I'm glad you got to see your DH even if it was only for a little while. I bet your looking forward to having him home for a week.

Speaking of having a DH home...SS where are you? What could you be up to? :p

QC It sounds like you have a lovely night and next day at your parents place. Yay for sleeping T.

AFU Miss K is 6 months old today. I can't believe how quickly the last 6 months have gone. DH and I sang 'Happy Half Birthday' to her this morning. She had no idea what we were doing but she spent the time grinning. I think she could tell we were happy. What a blessing she is :yes: I put some new photos of her up on FB last night.

Last night I put her to bed on her back, but she instantly rolled over onto her tummy. She slept on her tummy from 7pm til 4am without crying. Then I rolled her onto her back and she slept till 6am. It looks like she is going to be a tummy sleeper like her Mum. I'm glad because when I had to get up five times the other night to roll her back I was exhausted. Although last night I kept checking there was a gap for her nose cause she is still snotty, chesty, coughy and having trouble breathing. I think I'm going to have to cancel her needles for Wednesday and make them next week.

Onto the subject of poo...we got two big smooth ones off Miss K today...without coloxyl and without prune juice. It looks like the formula has worked :D

I swear it is maniacs day on the road today. We drove to Sydney to go to the Baby and Kids markets and nearly had an accident twice. I'm glad DH got new tires the other week with good grip on them otherwise it could have been worse.

I think it is time to see if Miss K will have an afternoon sleep. Mummy definitely needs one :sleeping:

[Seacretsquirrel]

Zeph- I am still around not too much ;) going on we have 2 kids and visitors :D

I have totally forgotten what everyone was up too but I'll just say :wave: to everyone and hope you all had a great weekend I look forward to a catch up soon!

[gonnabeaGR8mum]

welcome FTP :wave:don't worry about the long posts, you should check out some of my posts, i'm a shocker!

MM your poor neighbour. i hate that situation, i would pop around tomorrow with a cake or a dinner (great suggestion Zeph) and offer your shoulder if she needs it!

Zeph :hugs: i HATE it when you get all organised (and excited) for an event and then people start cancelling left right and centre. even when they have legit reasons you can't help but feel a bit unimportant! (bear in mind that we LOVE BBQs so if you ever have that many cancellations again, just give us a little warning and we'll be there with bells on! :laughing:) - oh and you should come up for the B&K's market in Newcastle (next weekend) we could meet up :thumbsup:- p.s. i hope Katherine feels better soon

kate yay for ZoJo'z weight gain! what an awesome effort.

FP re. M's seeming aversion to your dad...could it be that she's developing a little bit of seperation anxiety? i've noticed that E gets very upset when i leave her in one room on her own, and this weekend when we were up at DHs parent's place she got very distressed on occassion when she realised we were n0 longer in the room (and when she couldn't see us when her Aunty blew out her candles and the room went dark). apparently its related to the development of a sense of self, which i have noticed she's begining to recognise the fact that the baby in the mirror is in fact her reflection, its very cute when she sees us come up behind her in the mirror and turns around to us with a big grin :D

solsen yay for a new tooth, it so much better when they finally break through. E has two now (bottom middle) but has all 4 of the top ones trying to come down at once- not fair!

AFU
E is almost completely recovered from her cold now (only 3 weeks after she caught it- grrr). as i said above she's developing a little bit of seperation anxiety, so i'm trying to socialise her a bit more to get her used to other people. We're in the middle of establishing a bub hub mother's group up here in Newcastle. we had 6 mums last week but have another 4 or so sho wanted to come but couldn't make it- it was really nice to get out of the house!

tonight i am attempting the first closure of the breastraunt. (from 8pm to 6am) I've found that she's been feeding up to 3 times over night but is not interested in milk feeds AT ALL during the day, very very frustrating (i'm lucky to get her to have 4 x 4min "stop-start" feeds). So here's hoping it doesn't take too long for her to learn to adjust her patterns. i don't want to starve her but i also would prefer her to eat during the day.

this motherhood lark is getting really exciting now! E's sitting really well and reaching for her toys and balancing herself. she's also trying really hard to crawl, but just keeps going backwards much to her own frustration- but she can get around very well by rolling and dragin herself!!!
We've been trying to get her onto solids properly but she doesn't seem overly interested most of the time, she certainly doesn't get her lack of interest in food from me :no:

ok so this post is probably long enough now, i'll save the rest for another time, hope you're all doiing well
take care
Kath

[sweetseven]

I was trying to drink a glass of water with bub sitting on my lap this evening. Every time I brought it to my mouth, she reached out and grabbed it.

I considered giving her a taste, but it was chilled water so I didn't want to risk a shock. So I filled up a bottle with warmish water instead. She dranks some, then had a ball playing with it over the next hour.

[gizmoduckus]

I think I have missed a period. :eek:

Going through my diary I was supposed to have it nearly 2 weeks ago but I have been slack updating it so it could be wrong. I have flicked through trying to remember if I had it when we went somewhere but nothing comes to mind. Although, my memory has been shocking lately so maybe I am just forgetting I had it.

I don't feel pregnant. Usually I feel a bit spaced out at the beginning but I feel fine. Just tired and forgetful but that also happens when you have children.

I don't know if I want to tell my DH and give him a heart attack only to find out that I am way off the mark.

:dizzy:

[quitecontrary]

gizmo - eek! go and pee on a stick before giving anyone a heart attack!
I keep thinking mine is going to come back any day, not that I feel like I'm getting my period, just that it will be any day!
Toby is back in bed and G is watching ABC Kids on the couch. Washing in the machine ready to go out so I suppose I should get out there! Looks like another beautiful day here!

[A'sMummy]

Oh my gosh I have been so slack in posting! My computer sometimes logs me out of BH and then I have to go back to my emails and find my BH password and log back in, lol it has taken me a whole 2 weeks to log back haha whoops.
I have been keeping up with everyones posts. Welcome to FTP!!
Giz- let us know how you go with the poas!! Thinking of you!
GBAGM- how did the closing of the breastauant go last night?? I am having so much trouble with Anya sleeping through the night, I am still feeding her twice during the night, usually around 12am and again at around 5am. I am so so tired!! I think I might trying popping the dummy in instead of feeding but I am worried that she will then wake up even sooner :( And I really can't afford to miss anymore sleep than I already am. I am falling so behind with work atm! I will be interested to see how you go.
Zeph- sorry to hear about your no shows. I would also be very peeved off! It's so annoying when you have gone to alot of effort to make lunch and have people over and then they pull out. GRRR:hair:

Anya has her first cold but she is coping really well. Just a little bit of a runny nose. Hopefully it doesn't get worse. As I mentioned previously, we are having lots of sleeping difficulties at the moment and I am stumped as to what I can do. She settles back to sleep very easily, but then wakes up so regulary. I am so tired I think my eyes are going to fall out of my head.
I went on a shopping spree for Anya over the weekend and spent over $300 at Pumpkin Patch and another $100 at big w, whoops :o. But my reasoning is that she has stopped growing so rapidly and that these clothes SHOULD last atleast until xmas (I hope hehe).
Also have some custom mcns due in the mail any day which I am super excited about, and also ordered a custom taggie blanket (she is OBSESSED with playing with tags!).
Hope everyone is well! Hopefully my computer wont log me out again and I will post again soon :p

[Lateralus]

A'smummy hope you start getting some more sleep soon!

OK all you cloth crazy mummas - I need some advice. I am finally thinking of getting round to buying some cloth nappies and need some advice on where to start. I think we'll just go part time cloth for now (I can't really afford the overheads to go 100% cloth at the moment). So - what would be a good brand to start with? I am totally clueless but I know some of you are MCN mad and would have some good suggestions! Thanks in advance..... :D

[A'sMummy]

KJ- I would start with something like itti bitti dlish for day use in size medium and baby beehind magicalls in medium for night use. I love my itti bittis and sometimes add the extra snap in bamboo booster to my sewn in ones to make them last longer. Or I hear the snap in one itti bittis last longer aswell and don't need extra boosting. Also with the baby beehind magicalls, I pop an extra trifold bamboo booster in the pocket at they last all night (12-13hrs).
Welcome to the lovely world of cloth, it wont be long and you will be addicted to the cute fluffy things like the rest of us LOL. Beware! ;)

[floodprincess]

:wave: Ladies

Hope we all had a pretty good weekend? Wasn't on as much as I thought I might have been so it's been interesting catching up on it all.

Giz - thinking of you! I'd POAS asap just to be sure....

GABG8M - I'm with Zeph, how did the closure go?

AFU - I think you gals might be right about the separation anxiety, it's funny that it only seems to present itself with her Pop but that's life! lol.

Well, it's been 6 months since my latest bundle of joy and hard work entered the world...wow, I can't believe it, before long she'll be talking and walking and all that other fun stuff!!!

OOooh, while I think of it....another one of these questions that you'd think I'd know the answer to after already have 1 baby :o when is a tooth classified as being cut? Is it when it's all the way out or when it's broken the gum? lol, we've got one that I can find that's broken through the gum and slowly making it's way all the out - and I was just curious (lol I feel like such a spaz).

Anyway, I best run, gotta start organising myself to head out to a meeting. take care everyone!

[zephani]

T3 Miss K loves water. She has between 200 - 300ml a day in a sippy cup or bottle.

Gizmo Have you poas yet? Thinking of you. Let us know.

GBAGM It would have been great to meet up at the B&K's markets next weekend but unfortunately we are having lunch with my Mum. Another time.

How'd the closure of the breastaurant go?

KateJo You're a brave girl asking questions about mcn's around here. Seems we have a few msn crazy Mum's. I'm too lazy and just use sposies.

A'sMummy I hope you start getting some sleep soon. Seems few people are having sleeping problems at the moment, whether it is for night feeds or because they've rolled over on their tummy and can't get back (and yes I'm talking about you Miss K :p). Although she seems to enjoy sleeping on her tummy now and it only annoyed her once about 4am and then she was fine till she woke up at 6:30am.

How hard is it not to go on spending sprees? Especially in PP. They have some very cute clothes. GBAGM pointed me to the PP esale site and I've been spending up big in size 1's ready for summer.

FP Interesting question about 'cutting' teeth. I'm interested in hearing the answers. Don't take this the wrong way but I like hearing that a 2 time Mum is as clueless sometimes as I am :laughing:

AFU Miss K is still sick. Her face goes so red when she coughs and she has green snot in her nose. Unfortunately she won't be able to have her needles on Wednesday but we will keep her appointment to see if the Doctor can suggest anything.

The funny thing is she has been quite hungry while she has been sick. I increased her solids from 2tbs a meal to 3tbs as she was crying for food around 5pm whereas I usually don't feed her till 5:30pm. Hope that doesn't sound too much. She doesn't seem to want more than that though.

Question: Is anyone giving their LO's morning or afternoon tea? Or both? What do you offer?

I give Miss K a Mum Mum teething rusk for both with water but she wants both rusks in the packet and means that we go through two boxes of rusks. I've tasted them and they taste just like cruskits. I'm wondering if there is a problem offering her a cruskit instead? And would you give it to her plain or with a spread? If a spread, what type?

I'm also considering offering yoghurt with her fruit at lunch but will ask the Doctor on Wednesday because DH is allergic to dairy fat and my understanding is you can't give low fat things to babies?

Dinner is smelling nice on the stove so I better go dish it out. Hope everyone had a nice day.

[megaminz]

KJ- I would start with something like itti bitti dlish for day use in size medium and baby beehind magicalls in medium for night use. ! ;)
I agree, i LOVE my ittis/ I used to be totally in love with my Bumgenius but really love my itti snap ins, they are so easy to wash and get dry. For night though my new Bundleofbuns are the BEST nappies ever they are brilliant, no leaks NOTHING

AFM - havent seen my neighbour much, she only popped home the other day to get clothes to go back to her family, she is in melbourne with them at the moment. so sad...

Poor Milan has the worst nappy rash and he has never had nappy rash, the girls at daycare think its cause of his teething, has anyone else heard of that?

[gonnabeaGR8mum]

well closing the breastraunt went off really well, Elianna had a good long feed til around 8pm (which i let her fall asleep doing, normally i'll pull her off after 10 mins each side, which is when my boobs feel completely empty, but this time i let her keep sucking til she' fell off) she woke around 11:45 and i put the dummy in and shhhhh'd her til she settled and she then slept through til 6:10 this morning. which would've been WONDERFUL if i had been able to sleep myself but i woke up at least 3 extra times trying to listen to see if she was waking up.:hair:

TODAY she was super unsettled i'm trying to push her feeds out to 4 hrly again and get her to eat some more solids because at the moment she will only have 1-2 TBSP twice a day which is a fight. It threw her out completely. normally we sleep-feed-play but she won't stay awake much longer than 2 hrs without getting very grizzly and overtired and then won't sleep for more than an hour, which means she's awake for another hr before i feed her and she's getting all confused. any tips ladies??




Poor Milan has the worst nappy rash and he has never had nappy rash, the girls at daycare think its cause of his teething, has anyone else heard of that?

yep i've heard this. apparently when they are teething they produce a LOT more saliva (as i'm sure you've noticed) a lot of this is swallowed and when it goes through their system it changes the acidity of their urine and thus can cause a rash if the nappy isn't changed very very regularly- HTH

[quitecontrary]

Hello!
Zeph I think its the consistency of rusks that make them attractive for kidlets - you can make them out of bread in the oven - like croutons. I think when they get a bit older cruskits are okay - they would have more additives I'd imagine.
MM I have heard of the nappy rash/ teething link, though we didn't have that problem when G was teething and T isn't yet. Is it something to do with the swallowing of saliva? Someone else may be able to set you straight!
I was reading a great book about feeding babies and toddlers today called "Eat Right, don't fight" and the bit about babies taste buds was really interesting - they have so many more than we do, thats why they like bland food, they get more out of it!
This afternoon I ran around getting the kids ready to go to G's swimming lesson, woke Toby up, got them both in the car, and the blasted thing wouldn't start. I was so upset. My parents by chance pulled in out the front, and the car wouldn't start even with jumper leads. So, we were housebound - I got a new battery from the NRMA - and G kept asking when were we going to swimming. Such a pain. I cannot wait til we get a new car.

[gizmoduckus]

Well I POAS and it was :bfn:
:smiliedance:

I was not ready for another one just yet.

[quitecontrary]

Oh thank goodness for that gizmo! You must feel very relieved!

[megaminz]

oh giz I hear you...I did a poas just last friday cause I can't remember if I had af last month or not...its possible I didn't and I just haven't had af due to stress and tiredness and the possibility of even being utd with the "contact" i have had with DH was extremely remote but I still did feel a bit sick to my tummy til I got my bfn.

GBAGM thanks for the info, I don't know if its a nappy thing with M cause I was changing him CONSTANTLY over th weekend, he was pooing all the time so it was sooo frequent I did two loads of nappies!!! But I am wondering if I put him in sposies til it clears a little cause of the whole wetness liner thingo

[BoyCrazy]

mm- i too have heard about the teething/nappy rash link. Jasper had a shocking nappy rash last week, right when tooth no2 decided to cut through the gum. it coincided with his injections, so the doc actually perscribed him some hydrazole cream (u can get it over the counter too). if u do get him some, use it really sparingly, and put just vaseline on the rest of the uninfected area iykwim. dont bath him in anything other than water, as using soaps/potions/lotions will make the rash worse. :thumbsup:

fp- i think a tooth is 'cut' when it actually comes through the gum fully. id say seperation anxiety too, it can start as early as 6mths. mine is being quite clingy too.

argh..mind blank!!

AFU- not much going on, DF got a promotion at his new work, means dodgy hours tho, he starts at 2pm, and could get home as late as 2am!! ugh! beggars cant be choosers tho i suppose!
Jasper is pretty much sitting up on his own now, and has finally finished cutting his second tooth. i tried him on some beef n vegie mash over the weekend which he seemed to like, (dont know if i liked the consequences in his nappy tho lol)

anyhoo, thats it for the moment, need to find some dinner for myself! :)

[BoyCrazy]

mm- id go sposies til his rash has cleared, hope he gets better soon!

[firsttimepreg]

Hi everyone!
Hope you all had a great weekend and a good start to the week yesterday.

I have also heard that nappy rash can get bas when teething. Charli's just getting her 2nd tooth, but the nappy rash hasnt been too bad which is good. She's had it bad in the past though and we just did lots of no nappy time and used paw paw cream to help sooth it.

I WISH i could close the night time breastrant. Charli went to bed at 8.45 last night, woke at 12 for her dummy and then kept waking until I decided the feed her at 3. Then awake at 7. I know it was only 1 feed but she was still awake a lot beforehand. I really thought she'd sleep well. We had swimming lessons at 5.30, she had a big feed of solids and a breast feed before bed and was so tired when we put her to bed. I'm not sure where we're going wrong!

Zephani - I try and give charli 3 solid feeds a day and she probably only has 2 table spoons each feed. I made up some apple and mango, and some pumkin and sweet potato. I give the fruit during the day and the veg at night. Not sure if I should be giving her some sort of dairy or cereal?

Well the poo situation seems to have gotten better. I think it may be from the extra fruit. We've got our second tooth coming through which has made charli a bit more cranky than usual but not too bad. I'm really getting into making my own baby food, Charli LOVES the apple and mango so I'm on a winner there. I'm sure the novelty will wear off soon, it makes a LOT of dishes to clean up. Not much else to report. I'm watching Charli work her way around the lounge room floor by rolling. Like some of the other bubs in here, she gets pretty frusterated that she can only crawl backwards, so rolling seems to be the latest mode of transportation.

I'll probably be back later, dont have plans for the day :(

[ardora]

Hi everyone!

By the volume of conversation, I guess we are all getting really well how to deal with our little ones :yelclap::laughing:

I have been going well with G but I have been really busy with work... A's mum, I am also falling behind at work and it is getting to my nerves. I have already decided to increase one more day a week (I am currently 2 days) as soon as I get an extra day at day care. That day I will just lock myself in my office and get uniterrupted work done...

Welcome FTP! I am too making all of G's food but I do larger amounts and freeze small portions of steamed veggies once or twice a fortnight. Then is just thawing and perhaps mixing it with a bit of EBM and rice cereal.

Zeph and T3- are you giving yogourt? which one? I am considering it too... but then I get lost trying to decide.

QC- I hope your car gets sorted soon... I was without it for a day last week and it ended up being a bit of an adventure as I decided to walk all along bondi, clovelly, randwick and maroubra!

No time for more personals sorry!

AFU- G is sitting on his own happily and it is really all he wants to do. Trying to crawl but not really getting there (good!) but getting frustrated. Lots of signs of teething yet not sign of a tooth. He likes his veggies better than his fruit and we are currently doign fruit in the morning and veggies for lunch. I am thinking of starting giving him some more fruit as afternoon tea... thinking of starting weaning as well... slowly so we make it to the end of winter but working and BF is really tiring. How do you choose a formula?

Have a great day!! :goodvibes:

[BoyCrazy]

ive been giving yogurt to bub for the last month now..i give him the baby yoplait one. sometimes i give it to him on its own, or sometimes mix a little bit of fruit with it..he loves it! :D

[zephani]

Adora I bought the baby vanilla vaalia today and will give it to Miss K for the first time tomorrow. I will be giving her 1tbs of yoghurt with 2 tbs of mixed fruit. The Doctor told us to get the one that has the lowest sugar content.

AFU We took Miss K to the Doctor today and it looks like she has viral bronchiolitis. We have to take her back on Friday to see if she needs antibiotics. DH has his usual fortnightly allergy appointment tomorrow and if I think she isn't getting any better or is actually getting worse I will take her with him in the morning.

I am making a big batch of chicken with broccoli, cauliflower, peas and beans plus a packet of the Heinz Cook at Home white sauce for Miss K. Hopefully she likes it. She loved the beef stew that I made last week.

I also asked the Doctor today about trying Miss K on eggs. She said that I could at this age and it was okay to try the yoke and the white together. Has anyone else tried their LO on egg? Did you introduce it together or separately?

[sweetseven]

My poor little bub. Every time I changed her nappy today, there would be one little nugget of poo in it, and whilst I was changing her, she would open her anus and I could see more fecal matter inside, but after a little while she would just close it again, and not squeeze any out. By midday she was rather unsettled, and wouldn't feed properly, only taking one or two sucks then pulling off, and a few minutes later trying again. Around 1pm, some blood pooled around her anus. I dabbed it clean, gave her bottom plenty of fresh air, and finally put a nappy back on her again. About 1:45pm, I was carrying her on my hip, and I felt her stomach muscles tense, as if she was trying to poo, but stop when they encountered my arm holding her. She also cried a little, indicating pain. This time her nappy was wet only. About 2:10pm, DP was changing her nappy, and it had a little nugget in it again, but whilst he had her nappy off, she opened up and squirted out of whole lot, toothpaste style. And it started with a fair amount of blood. After cleaning her up, I put some "botty butter" (sample from PBC expo) on her anus, and a clean nappy and liner. Then she settled into a good long feed and went to sleep.

So I think. It appears she's been a bit constipated today. What changes have there been to her diet lately? She ate a wheatbix yesterday, and another the day before. Could that be the culpirt? (Pity, 'cause she seemed to really enjoy them whilst eating them.) Well, no wheatbix for a few days. I guess it is back to yoghurt for her, even though she seems to be sick of yoghurt. Or I'll have to get some more pumpkin soup for her; she really loved that towards the end of last week.

A I believe it was you that asked about which brand of yoghurt. I've been giving her vaalia (their baby one) but didn't really make a conscious choice. I was just given some samples to start with, and since they worked well continued with them.

ZI'm sad to hear about Miss K's bronchitis. It is not good when little ones are sick. Also, I haven't with this bub, but I used to give some of my older children cruskits instead of rusks. They are very abraisive and dry so deserve extra caution. (I gave the plain, but with a spead might make them a little more gentle. I would be concerned about that encouraging tooth decay however.)

KJ You asked about MCNs, and I think you've also mentioned coming to Brisbane at some stage. There is The Cloth Nappy Shop at Woodridge where you can go and look at a whole lot of different MCNs available.

gizI happy that you are relieved with BFN. (What does the "B" and "F" stand for; I know it means a pregnancy test, but haven't been able to work out what the letters could be.)

[A'sMummy]

Well we ventured to Costco today (the first store in Aus opened in Melbourne yesterday). I felt like I was on that episode of the simpsons where they had no money and had to buy everything in bulk (LOL no one probably knows what I am talking about, I am a Simpsons fan :o). They had supersize EVERYTHING, from nappies, to steaks, to bras to cotton buds.
I came home with a really HUGE Hungry Caterpillar book (loved that book as a child), a soft froggy toy with a book in his mouth (sounds strange but it's very cute), DKNY jeans and tshirt, knickers and bras for me, Dickies jacket and calvin klein shirt for cam, supersize centrum multivitamins, supersize cans of WD40 (cams goes through that stuff like there is no tomorrow), 24 pack of kinda surprises, and a few other odds and bods. It was quite fun there actually :o but now I am pooped and Anya is having a nap so I might join her. Sorry for the lack of personals, will catch up tomorrow!

[zephani]

T3 It definitely sounds like constipation and that it could've been the weetbix. Here (http://www.bubhub.com.au/community/forums/showthread.php?t=258109&highlight=weetbix) is a link where it is suggested not to give weetbix till at least 9 months because of its fibre and sodium content. Although it sounds like the jury is still out. Does weetbix have a lot of iron? There have also been threads on iron fortified rice cereal causing constipation.

A's Mummy Costco sounded like fun. I don't think it's a place I'd go every week but every now and then. We are coming to Melbourne at Christmas so I might get to try it out then.

[Lateralus]

Hi lovely ladies... Hope everyone is having a great start to the week :goodvibes:

My wee baby ZoJo is 6 months old today! :eek: How did that happen? It seems like just a few weeks ago we were bringing this little tiny thing home from the hospital! I am pleased to say that after 5 & 1/2 months of dramas and sleepless nights and tears, we are finally loving being parents. Neither DH or I are afraid to admit that we didn't enjoy a lot of the first few months. Of course we absolutely love Zoe to bits - but it's hard to enjoy the experience when you have a baby who doesn't sleep and who spends the majority of her waking hours screaming. It makes one feel rather inadequate and like a bit of a failure. However the last 3 weeks has seen a total turn around - Zoe is sleeping, we're sleeping. She's happy, we're happy. She has the cheekiest little personality and is a pretty smart cookie! DH and I can actually spend time together, sleep in the same bed, cook, eat together, have sex - it's great. I thought that because all you wonderful girls have put up with me complaining over the last 6 months, that you should also get to share in the fact that things are looking up, up, up!! :hugs:

Anyhow - enough about us...

tiera3 poor bubba! We mix some prune juice in with Zoe's cereal every morning and it seems to help keep things moving along in the poop department. I have also been told pears or pear juice help. If Zo hasn't been in a few days and seems to be struggling a bit, I also give her a bit of the Brauer's stomach calm and so far we've had a 100% success rate with that!

A'sMummy hehe - I am a Simpson's fan too - CostCo sounds cool!!! We love the Hungry Caterpillar in our house too - but we just have the regular sized version :laughing:

Um - I am sure there were more personals I intended to write, but can't remember them... Meh - you'd think with all this extra sleep my brain wouldn't be quite so fuzzy still!

[Purplebird]

Naawww - happy 6 months to Zojo! Glad things are looking up for you Kate. I am going to go against the grain a bit and say I'm not a huge fan of Itti Bitti nappies. That may well be because I have a fat baby and they do not sit well on him though :D It's good to try lots of different brands as they all suit different babies. My current faves are my Genesa Forges and my Baby BeeHind Magicalls (minky). I agree with Tiera - great idea to go and have a look at some first.

Tiera - poor bub, I hope she is over the worst of it. Yes, I've also heard weetbix can bung them up a bit.

Giz - phew! That would have been a small age gap and lots of hard work.

A's mummy - we used to live round the corner from a Costco in the UK. We loved it! I have persuaded DH that we should join this one and go at the weekend. I am super excited!! Sounds like you got some great bargains :) Maybe we should do a Melbourne meet at Costco one day? :laughing:

GBAGM - sorry, I have no great advice for you as I have never managed a good routine with either of my babies. I also never got DD into a 4 hourly feeding thing until she got to about 9 months. I must have booby addicts :o

Sorry, I can't remember who was asking about yogurt, but we used to give DD the unsweetened natural yogurt, usually greek style. You can stir fruit purees through it for natural sweetness. DD would even eat it on its own.

Cameron is getting ridiculously clingy. He seems quite unhappy and spends so little time on the floor that he is not moving much as he gets no practise. As soon as I put him down he screams. I wonder if he is teething and really suffering with it (he is drooling like crazy and chomping heaps). Or I guess it could be his personality and he doesn't like being alone. It's getting really difficult though and it's taking it's toll on DD - poor thing even asks me now if I can help her 'with one hand mummy', as I always have Cam on my hip. Ho hum.

One positive about him always feeding though is that I have lost heaps of weight and can now get back into a size 12. Hooray! That's without doing any dieting too. Double hooray! :D

[quitecontrary]

Hello!
Too much going on here today!
FTP I think what we need to remember is that "they" classify sleeping through as 6 hours straight - even if its when we don't want it! Toby "slept" through last night, but he had a lot to say at 3am! I think most of us are feeding at least once overnight - which is not much consolation. I don't think you are doing anything wrong!
GBAGM these days with T I've (usually) stopped feeding him as soon as he wakes up during the day, as it is often not that long since his last feed. Our routine changes all the time! He generally goes 3 hours between feeds, but it can be only 2 hours - if thats the case he usually whinges but still has a pretty good feed.
With yoghurt - we did the same as PB and gave dd Jalna full-cream natural yoghurt as it has all the good things you need from yoghurt - we added stewed fruit to it, and she would also eat it plain. In fact she has only recently switched to kiddy yoghurts as she has noticed them in the fridges in the supermarket.
PB I'm sorry to hear that Cam is so clingy, it must make it hard on all of you. Well done on the weight loss too!
Kate I'm so glad to hear that things are going so well for all of you now - and you feel good celebrating 6 months of Zoe-ness!!
Well, after a new battery yesterday our bl@@dy car was mucking up again this evening - I had the two kids in the car coming home from my sisters and it wouldn't go into gear. I was going to walk home with the kids in the pram, which was in the boot but my b-i-l volunteered to drive us. I am about to make an executive decision and buy a new car - I cannot stand that something has happened to the car twice in as many days. When I talked to dh about it when he rang on his way home I could tell he was very sheepish about it. He's home now so will leave this here!

[Purplebird]

Best of luck with the chat QC! I hope you get your new car! There's nothing worse than being car-less, especially with two children to entertain :)

[zephani]

KJ I'm glad that you are loving the 6 month anniversary of ZoJo's birth and that you and your DH are starting to spend time together again.

PB Congratulations on the weightloss! I've struggling with my weight at the moment.

QC I hope that your DH relents and lets you get a new car. Two breakdowns in two days doesn't sound right, especially with the kids in tow.

Speaking of cars...DH wants to go back to having a Hilux and I'm looking at getting a wagon or another type of car that has a lot of space in the back for when we go away. What cars do others have? We are looking for 5 or 7 seater car with lots of space. Suggestions so far has been the Subaru Outback or Forrester or the Hyundai Santa Fe. If we can find a 7 seater car with HEAPS of space that we can afford...DH might let me have a third child :p (even though we still need to have a second).

AFU Miss K just tried baby yoghurt for the first time for lunch. She really loved it and was champing at the bit for more. Fingers crossed she doesn't vomit it up like she did with her bottle this morning. I think the yucky stuff on her chest might be starting to break up. Hopefully she will be less rattley tomorrow so she can go to her GymbaROO lesson. I now understand what others say when they pay for childcare and still have to pay it when their child is sick. We have paid for swimming and GymbaROO for the term and we don't get it back if she misses it.

[Lateralus]

:party:happybirthday:party:

Happy birthday to our lovely MM & PB!!! Hope you have a wonderful day!! xoxo

[zephani]

We're off to do the shopping and give the 20% VIP card that I got emailed from Pumpkin Patch a workout. But I just wanted to say...

Happy Birthday Purplebird and Megaminz! Hope you two have a fantastic and special day!

Will check back later...

[quitecontrary]

Happy birthday to our birthday twins - the Minx and the Purple One - here's to a great day for both of you, and a wonderful year full of joy, laughter and happiness!

[Seacretsquirrel]

Hello wonderful feb mummies!!
Soory I haven't been on in a while we've been pretty busy getting organised for driving to brisbane plus enjoying having DH home for a change it has been amazing once we got over the initial tiredness (it always takes a couple of days for DH to unwind) and now we are like a normal family :smiliedance:
:party: Happy birthday wishes to PB and MM hope you both have a wonderful day:party:

Zeph - We have a nissan patrol (7 seat wagon) it is perfect fo us as we do a bit of 4x4ing and camping when DH is home and it allows us to all fit in the car when we have visitors (usually my parents of IL's but we have managed to fit our friends with their LO in ATM) We traded in our dual cab SR5 hilux and my nissan pulsar to get this and are really happy with our choice - we tossed up between it and the toyota Prado but the Nissan came with AC, and most importantly all the safety features (ESP,ABS etc) as standard whereas the prado EVERYTHING was an added extra!!!!!

KJ - Happy (belated) half birthday Zojo
PB - Congrats on the weightloss well done:wave:
QC - goodluck on getting a new car it sounds like you might need it with 2 break downs in as many days.
T3 - Your poor wee girl I hope the constipation is getting better it is horrible to see them in such pain.

Argh I can't remember any more and I better go check what little miss is up to.
(DH and R are both having a sleep in :sleeping: which is nice)

[Purplebird]

Aww, thanks so much everyone for the birthday wishes! It means a lot, especially as I have no family here to share it with. I'm off out for lunch with a good friend and her little one :)

[gonnabeaGR8mum]

yay happy birthday purplebird and megaminz, hope you both have awesome days!!

[sweetseven]

Well, I had an eventful day yesterday.

Whilst feeding bub in bed in the morning, my stomach started to hurt like hunger pains. And the longer it went on the more noticable they became. Finally, she finished feeded around 5am (she probably would've relatched if I had given her the opportunity, but I scarpered when she let go).

I got up, had a half a glass of milk and sat down at the PC to see if I would start feeling better. After about half an hour, I went to the toilet, and discovered diaroeah.

Over the course of the next hour, I went at least six times. At one point DP brought bub out and I changed and fed her, then handed her back whilst I went to the toilet again. Upon returning, I declined taking her again due to feeling so poorly. DP complained "It's not fair" and that he was tired and needed sleep. It wasn't long after that, I was on the toilet again, moaning in pain. DP gave me a vitamin tablet, which I promptly threw up, into the potty, but that only caught about half of it.

After that, I got really woozy and was shaking, so asked for the phone to call the ambulance. During the coversation with the operator, I started losing coherence. They arrived at 6:30am and said that I looked very pale, and took my BP at 80/50. They elevated my feet, which had a remarkable effect; I could feel clarity return within minutes. However, that is also when I started to feel very cold.

I was taken to hospital for IV fluids, and regular BP checks. The diagosis was hypotension and dehydration, and I had six blankets to keep me warm. As time progressed I slowly developed a fever, and was discharged at 10am when my BP had climbed to 87/59. Also, when changing bubs nappy at hospital, it was very messy, so I'm wondering if she may've had the diaroeah also.

On the way home, I asked for some form of juicy fruit, so DP bought me strawberries. I ate about 500g immediately, and a further 500g over the course of the rest of the day/night. I slept most of the day, but found it difficult to sleep at night, by which time I had a very noticable fever. Bub was also a bit wimpery as the evening progressed. Eventually, DP gave me ibuprofen and I was able to sleep.

This morning I woke feeling normal. However I am still a little weak, and my cordination is off; putting up my 6yo's hair was very clumsy and not neat at all.

DP seems to think I was a little too hasty to call the ambulance, because "most people dont call the ambulance just because they are feeling bad". Personally I thought the rapid deterioation warranted it. However, at another point, he commented that he hadn't realised how much I had excreted and if he had known that he would've given me some water 'cause dehydration could've been catastrophic and I was showing early signs of shock.

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I'm afraid I havent really caught up on what the rest of you have been up to, though I saw mention of some birthdays, so happybirthday happybirthday .

[firsttimepreg]

Morning everyone!

Happy birthday to the birthday girls. Hope you have a nice lunch today purplebird.

Tiera3 - That sounds horrible. Could it be some sort of food poisoning? And I feel for you're bub too. Charli had similar the other day but not quite as bad as there was no blood. I hope all is better now.

For the first time we had a good sleep last night. Charli went from 9 until 5.30 with only 1 or two wakes for her dummy but no feed. YAY!!! I cant think of anything we did differently last night, so not sure why the big sleep. We'll see how she goes tonight...

She's back in bed now and we're off the the shops later to get some birthday presents and meet up with a friend from my Mum's group. I love having something to do during the day, having a reason to get out of the house helps relieve the monotony!

We're off the the out-laws tomorrow for a couple of days so that should be good too.

We've got some sun again today so I'm off to hand out some washing.

Have a good day!!:flowerz:

[zephani]

T3 I'm sorry to hear you and DD were so sick. Sending lots of :hugs: and get better vibes your way. I hope you both start feeling better soon. Your DH sounds like he needs a big slap :confused:

[quitecontrary]

Tiera sounds like you've been through the wringer - I do hope you are feeling much better soon. I think ringing the ambulance service was a very good idea. If you had just trundled up to Emergency it might have been some time til you were seen to. I don't know what to say about your DP, I hope he is feeling like a goose for not believing how ill you really were.

We have just come in (well, almost just!) from playgroup, a bit of shopping and a play in a different playground. I took the kids in the pram - which means I've had my exercise for the day too! I am yet to perfect the art of not buying too much to carry easily with the P &T, our Beema Q has such a bigger basket. I kept thinking I was going to knock poor T in the head with the broccoli I couldn't fit underneath nor in my backpack!! The kidlets are sleeping now!
Dh took the car around to the mechanics this morning, thank goodness. I really only need to use it on Mondays and Tuesdays but even so, its useless when its useless. We had a State of the Union Car and Trip chat this morning - so hopefully at least by the end of the month we will have booked our trip back to the UK. The fares jump considerably after that, so much more noticeable when you are buying 3 basically full fares and an infants ticket - the taxes are the same even if the "ticket" is less. Oh well, we need to go and see my F.I.L before he loses his memory altogether. Plus I want to show Toby off to the rest of dh's family too!!

[Lateralus]

Oh tiera you poor thing... sounds like a dreadful experience for you! I think you did the right thing calling the ambulance. When I was pregnant I had a similar thing (with the stomach upset, dizziness and wooziness) and I drove myself to the doctors and got a right telling off for not calling an ambulance! You can tell your DP that Nurse KateJo said you did the right thing and that he sould just pipe down and give you a foot rub! :hugs:

FTP :smiliedance: Charli for making it through the night without snacking at the breastaurant! Isn't it funny how when you have a particularly 'good' night you wrack your brains trying to work out what you did differently from every other night... Hope you can replicate it again!!

AFU we had a fun morning catching up with some Mums and Bubs from our group and then visited another one of Zoe's little friends who has been sick with croup. She's on the mend now, but her poor mum has a serious case of cabin fever so we thought a pop in was in order!

Poor Zoe didn't sleep at all this morning so she was really difficult to get down for a sleep this arvo - poor little chook grizzled for almost 2 hours before I got her to sleep. Good old mesmerizing ceiling fan!

Our list of things that Zoe can eat is getting steadily longer. I have been fairly strict with the 'trying one new thing every 3-4 days' because of her past sensitivities. So far banana is the only thing that seems not to have agreed with her. She's loving her sweet potato & pumpkin, adores her pears and apples & tolerates the green beans! Carrots tomorrow. hehe - is it really sad that I get excited when it's 'new food day'?! :laughing:

[floodprincess]

Hi Girls...

Just a quickie from me.....happy birthday MM & PB hope you have a great day!

Zeph - we just bought a 7 seater territory to provide extra room for DH's enormously long legs (he gets cramped in the front seat when bub's in a capsule and Miss M is a little ways off going forward facing). I have found that with all 7-seaters (pajeros, patrols, territorys and the like) that when the rear row of seats are up there isn't a lot of space for storage. Our Territory allows for the rear row of seats to fold away flat when not in use, and the Pajero Exceed does the same thing.

Got a quick question for you ladies that have used the Brauer's Teething Relief & Calm products - can you use the 2 together safely? Miss M has had a shocker of a night and as a result I've now been awake for 36hrs (she just could not sleep last night) and panadol is not helping. So DH goes to the pharmacy and brings home both Brauer things on their recommendation (along with more baby panadol just iin case). but because I wasn't there I don't know if I can use the two together????

Tiera - you did the right thing calling the ambulance! Better safe than sorry and the rapid escalation of symptoms could have been something incredibly serious! Hope you can revert to something closer to normal soon! :hugs:

Have a great day, Miss M is grizzling, again. Going to try just the teething relief.....hopefully something works tonight.

TTFN

[Lateralus]

FP I am not sure about using both the calm and the teething relief together - but there is a product information number on the back of the box (1300 308 640) - I am sure they'd be able to give you guidelines for what is safe.

Poor Monique - I hope she (& you) get some sleep soon. A few people have highly recommended hyland's teething tablets (http://www.hylands.com/news/teethinginfo.php) to me - I haven't used them personally but have heard good things about them. I think you can just get them from the chemist.

[quitecontrary]

FP Kate said it already - I'd imagine that with both those products there would be a few similar ingredients anyway. We have used both of those on G, but not at the same time.

The kids are both in bed and I think asleep - again! Their naps went for over 3 hours this afternoon - for both of them at the same time! Dh is on his way home and my parents left a food parcel on the front verandah when I was in the midst of putting both the kids to bed - life is pretty good really!

[zephani]

A few people have highly recommended hyland's teething tablets (http://www.hylands.com/news/teethinginfo.php) to me - I haven't used them personally but have heard good things about them. I think you can just get them from the chemist.

:iagree: We've used Hylands Teething tablets with Miss K. They are tiny and dissolve on the tongue. They seem to really, really calm her and she doesn't mind having them either. I'd highly recommend them.

[BoyCrazy]

happybirthday megaminz & purplebird!! hope you both had a wonderful day!

tiera- hope your feeling better!! i think you definately did the right thing calling the ambulance!

re the hylands, (cant remember who asked) the teething tablets are fantastic, i recomend them as well. theyre great for the restlessness that comes with teething! and like zephani said, theyre very easy for bub to take.

ftp- great work with charli's sleeping last night! got any tips?? lol mine is waking 2-3 times a night for feeds!

QUEstion-- does anyone still wrap there bub at night? im having a bit of a dilemma getting jasper off being wrapped..when he isnt wrapped, he keeps waking himself up with his hands and fussing around..then he'll get back to sleep, but will have lost the dummy! (that thing will be the death of me!!! )
so how do i get him to sleep without being wrapped up? especially now hes sitting, rolling and nearly crawling!! HELP!

[Lateralus]

BC we went cold turkey off the wrap & the dummy at the same time :eek: Zoe did flap her arms around and wake herself up a bit in the first 24 - 48 hours (but she had been sleeping so poorly before it didn't really make a difference to us) but then she seemed to get used to having her arms out and calmed right down. Up at the sleep clinic they said another way you can wean the wrap is to gradually wrap them looser and looser so they can get their hands out if and when they want to. Another way they said you can do it is to wrap them with one arm out one day, then with both arms out the next day (but with body & legs wrapped) then gradually loosen the body wrap over the next few days. They said this works for some babies who are particularly attached to their wraps. Good luck Mel!

[floodprincess]

Thanks Girls!!

I rang the number on the box and they said that while it can't hurt to use both, there's really no point because they've got such similar ingredients...

She calmed a little with the teething one, but it wasn't enough to help her sleep so in the end I relented and gave one last dose of panadol...thankfully she slept and slept well waking once at 2320 for a brief feed and stirring at 0300 (but not waking). When she rose fully at 0520 this morning I'd almost had my angel baby back (a great relief from demon baby yesterday!)

But I'm going to get DH to source some Hylands tablets when he's finished work....the more options on hand the better I think (especially when I had to work yesterday and driving in and out of the city on no sleep almost killed me).

Anways enough b!tching, I feel almost normal today!.

Wrapping - Mel, I've got no idea, I'm still wrapping Monique but for some time now her legs have been left pretty loose, now that she's more mobile, I've noticed that she's preferring to have her arms looser so I'm just going with that for now (thankfully though she's showing no signs that she wants to roll around in her cot). Good Luck! A few have been using those sleeping bag thingies with the arms inside out to help wean their LOs off wrapping...

Have a great day, I'm going to try and do some work (head still fuzzy, could use more sleep but I'll hopefully get it tonight)

[ardora]

Hello!

G was 6 months old yesterday! I just cannot believe how fast time is going... I am now starting to wean him slowly, I am working two days a week and wil increase to three soon so it is gettign quite hard to have enough EBM for that many days... even worst on days las yesterday when I run from meeting to meeting without half a chance of expressing... that was hard!

happybirthday (belated) to the birthday girls :)

Thanks for the great advice on yogourt, I think I am jsut going to go withthe greek style one and see how we go.

About wrapping... I guess he will end up unwrapping himself... he is sleeping pretty well, most days he only eakes up for one feed and more and more he is really sleeping almost 12h straight... so why fixing what is not broken?

And the banana does not agree with G either! he is now on a 'diet', i.e., he has decided that he will not eat his solids... only rusks and soft bread!

G is awake... how do you manage 3 hours sleeps? I wish...

:goodvibes:

[zephani]

FP How's Miss M today? I'm glad she seemed chirpier this morning. The Hylands tablets are great!

BC With wrapping we basically did what KJ suggested from the sleep clinic. We stopped wrapping her legs and only wrapped her arms like a cumabund (sp?), then we only wrapped one arm on alternate nights and then we stopped wrapping her altogether.

AFU We took Miss K back to the Doctors today and she was given antibiotics and a repeat. It looks like she has developed a chest infection. Even the Doctor said she could tell she wasn't her normal self because Miss K wouldn't smile at her. Hopefully the antibiotics kick in quickly and she gets better soon.

We are meant to be meeting my Mum and sister at Bulahdelah for lunch on Sunday. She hasn't seen Katherine for nearly 2 months. Weird place I know but it is half way between my place on the Central Coast and Mum's place on the Mid North Coast. If Miss K doesn't start to pick up tonight and tomorrow I'll ring Mum and postpone it till next weekend.

[sweetseven]

FP: Yay for the new car. (I'm still looking for one for me, so I understand how much of a relief it is to have that task over and done with.)

QC: Good to hear things are falling into place for you today.

Zeph: Aww, poor little Miss K. I hope the medication works for her. I'm feeling guilty feeling sorry for myself when your poor innocent little baby is unwell.

========

DP was a real grouch on Thursday, and I was still weak and recuperating and didn't feel up to dealing with his poor mood. I just felt like telling him to go home and leave me be.

He makes a big deal about being around to help all the time, then when I feel that I really do need the help and support, he has to behave like this.

He had taken Miss8 and Miss13 to school, and returned complaining about how ungrateful they were and that they hadn't thanked him or even said goodbye, not even when he wished them a good day at school. He said he didn't want to, shouldn't have to, and wasn't going to, drive them around anymore. I was feeling my reflexes weren't safe enough to be driving and had been terribly unco-ordinated doing Miss6's hair that morning, that I decided to err on the side of caution and consulted train timetables to go and fetch my girls that afternoon. Then just when I'm about to leave, he offers to go and get them. I really wasn't up to what would've likely entailed about two hours walking so accepted the offer, but was made to feel like he was doing me this really big favour doing something he really doesn't want to do.

Miss6 and Miss8 missed out on going to drama (45 minute drive away), because there was no way I was going to be capable of taking them that far, and I wasn't about to ask him with his attitude. Poor Miss6 didn't understand why she had to miss out. When she asked I responded that I wasn't well enough to take her, and she asked "Couldn't <DP> have taken us?" and all I could say is that he didn't want to.

I really didn't feel up to making dinner so assigned Miss13 the task. She put it off, and didn't finish the job until 8pm, but succeeded, and I think it was a good experience for her.

By the evening I was feeling a little better and felt capable of drivng them to Girls Brigade (only 9 minutes away), so was preparing to leave. Ten minutes before departure DP offers to take them. Considering I'm still not 100% I respond that it would probably be best. However, as time progresses, I am starting to feel better, and remember that I really need to talk to one of the leaders. So when he anounces there is one minute before they need to leave, I inform him of those two facts, and take them instead. I return to him grumbling that he could've gone out, but had stayed around because I had said I needed him to take them, then I took them anyway. He was really upset that he had wasted his whole evening because I changed my mind. (It was only nine minutes between doing so, surely nine minutes doesn't take up his whole evening.)

Friday, he was fine, no longer in a bad mood. I am also much improved, physically, but have been feeling emotionally down all day. My toddler has also been naughty with attention-seeking behaivour, which I think is really understandable. I spent an hour actively playing with her and she is much better, though I am rather exhausted.

I'm glad to say that bub is well and showing no further signs of distress so it appears she has not sufferred my ailment. That is a great relief. (As someone suggested, food poisoning does seem a reasonable explanation, but if that were the case, then others in my family should be showing symptoms also. The only thing I've eaten that no-one else has is my vitamin tablets, and I don't consider them candidates for food-poisoning.)

I know everyone has bad days and should be given some slack, but why does he have to choose a day when I could really use his support to be his "bad day"? I know I'm not as forgiving as I could be. I just feel I have enough on my plate without having to pander to his sensitivites.

Oh, and as a sidenote, tonight, he said that I did do the right thing by calling the ambulance. And he started being really nice and considerate, just before heading out this evening.

[Lateralus]

wow - it's been quiet in here over the weekend - hope that means everyone had been out doing lovely fun stuff?!

We have had a nice weekend despite the fact that DH has been away. Yesterday Zoe and I went into town to watch the Banana Festival Parade - lots of floats and vintage cars parading down the main street - it was the first one I had actually been to and was kinda cool in a daggy sort of way. Zoe was captivated by the floats - but cried every time one of the trucks blew its horn :crying:

Today we met my best friend (who is 8 weeks pregnant) and her two little ones down at Bangalow markets and had a wander round. So much beautiful stuff but I managed to refrain from spending any money. Zoe was so good - it's awesome to be able to go out and do stuff without her crying the whole time. She was good despite the fact that she didn't really have more than a cat nap all day - subsequently she crashed early tonight and we were fed, bathed and in bed by 5pm!

We have her 6 month injections tomorrow which (as usual) I am not looking forwards to. Her last 2 vaccinations have turned her feral for weeks afterwards, so I am hoping the new and improved Zoe will be a little less unsettled by them. Keep your fingers and toes crossed for us.

OH - other exciting news.. She has started to say DADA - very cute (I have posted a clip on FB if anyone wants to see - I am sure it's more exciting for me than for anyone else, but.....). DH has been really low the past 6 weeks or so, so whenever he is out, I spend so much time saying DADA DADA to her - I am stoked it's worked!! Also - she managed to drink 40mls of water out of her sippie cup - this might not seem like a big achievement bit we've been tying for weeks to get her to drink from something other than me! :smiliedance:

[sweetseven]

Yay on the dada. My little bub said Mum twice yesterday, when I was trying to get her focussed in playing with her sister, but she had other ideas. I was thinking it was a little too early, but I feel better now to know she's not the only one.

She's still not crawling or sitting yet, but seems to be getting closer to sitting.

[zephani]

T3 Please don't feel guilty about feeling sorry for yourself. You had every reason to! Hopefully you are feeling better.

KJ Good luck for the injections this week. Hope the new and improved ZoJo goes well. Miss K has her injections this week too (if she is healthy again and doesn't have a fever :fingerscrossed:).

AFU I updated a heap of new photos of Miss K on Facebook. I know we probably overload Facebook with heaps and heaps photos of Miss K but DH's parents live in Melbourne and have only seen her once. So we try to update the pictures regular so they can see her.

We drove to Bulahdelah today to have lunch with my Mum and Sister. We had a lovely day. We got fish and chips and sat in a park by the river. Miss K sat in her stroller to be fed and then we put down a picnic blanket and she rolled around playing. She only had one coughing fit today and played it up cheekily for Mum and my sister. So I think the antibiotics are working and that she is getting better. We aren't going to playgroup tomorrow but there is a Central Coast BH meet on Wednesday so hopefully she will be well enough for that.

[Purplebird]

Zeph - great to hear Miss K is better and that you had a lovely day with your mum and sister.

Tiera - :hugs: it sounds like DP is giving you a bit of a hard time. Glad you are all better now.

Kate - I'm sure Zoe will go fine with her needles now she is much happier and more settled. Great that she is saying dada. All I say to Cam is 'mumumumum' but the little tyke is obsessed with 'dada'. So unfair!

I've had a good few days. Left Cam and Miss Two with DH yesterday so I could go to a hen do. DH coped really well and looked nice and frazzled when I got home! Cam is taking a bottle with gusto, so I am very pleased and relieved about that. It means I can leave him when I need to. I missed two/three feeds yesterday when I was out and my boobs were about to explode by the time I got home! It has taken all day to get back to normal.

[quitecontrary]

Tiera I hope your dp is being kinder to you, and that you are continuing to improve re: your health
Zeph glad to hear you had a great day out with your Mum and sis - the photos look great!
I can understand using FB as much as you do.
PB Yay for a big day out, I'm glad to hear that Cam (a) took a bottle (lets give it up for Cam!!) and (b) suitably frazzled your dh!!
Kate I'm glad that the Banana Parade was a success!! We went to Jaca (Grafton's Jacaranda Festival) 3 years ago, and to the parade - sounds similar really!! Dh couldn't believe everyone calls it Jaca - he's so English! Good on you getting Zoe to say Dada!! Toby likes a good chat but apart from occasionally saying Hullo (G did the same!) its just chattering!
We've had a busy weekend. Yesterday we went and got G her ballet shoes, and that was a hoot. We got them from the same place where I got my first ballet shoes (not that I was ever much of a ballerina) so it was nostalgic for me. T just took it all in his stride! Today we went for a walk at Maroubra (thought of you ardora) and once again T fell asleep in the ergo. In the afternoon we went over to my little sis's place - and both the kids were knackered by the time we got home.
Toby met a couple of people I called Aunty and Uncle growing up - so that was lovely for all of us. Their youngest grandchild is 7, so they're not expecting anymore, nor wanting any great grands - their eldest is 19! So they had a good time cuddling Toby!
I'm glad this good weather is forecast to continue - I am sure there is a mountain of washing to be done here tomorrow!
Hope you're all doing well!

[floodprincess]

:wave: ladies!

Nice to see most of us have had good weekends....Tiera, I hope DH pulls his head out and realises that you're really not well and he needs to be more of a grown up :hugs:

Just a quick question....is anyone else's LO deciding that they're not interested in drinking anything?? Miss M seems to be doing this (and it's not much that she's no longer drinking) but it's enough to make her wee's really acidic (and there's not many of them).

I know teething affects the acidity etc of the urine, but I'm wondering if she's beginning to dehydrate, adding to the acidity??

Thankfully my mum has her today and has instructions to try and pump as much fluid into her as possible....but I"m wondering if anyone else has had/does have this problem and what we might do about it?

TIA...will catch up properly later when I'm not dressed in towels and getting ready for work :o

[Lateralus]

FP Zoe doesn't seem to be very interested in drinking at the moment - and when she does she on;y sucks for a minute or two then says she's done. I have just been offering her lots of little feeds during the day and bulking out her solids with more fluid - makes it a bit runnier, but means she gets more fluid on board.

[gonnabeaGR8mum]

BC- I'm having the same problem weaning off wrapping. E just knocks her dummy out and won't settle if we leave her arm out and if we wrap her loosely she is out within 2 minutes. i have the sleep clinic nurse coming for a visit tomorrow to sort out our day sleeping (or not sleeping) habits, hopefully she will have some ideas

Ardora- good on you for expressing and feeding as long as you have- i think that is a supremely awesome effort and you should be so proud of yourself. How is the weaning going now? E won't touch formula anymore (just spits it at me:no:) so I'd hate to see how i went weaning, i guess I'll have to make sure i can BF until she doesn't "need" it anymore

T3- glad to hear your hubby pulled his socks up, the last thing you need it an 8th child to look after. I hope you are feeling normal again now, how scary for you!

KJ- i saw the video of zoe saying "da-da" on FB, soooo cute. E is not really saying anything yet, but every now and then it sounds like she's saying hello or Elianna. I'm trying to get her to say dada for the same reasons, to cheer DH up as she's already showing signs of being a mummy's girl and refusing to go to DH which is making him feel a bit left out :( I hope Zoe's needles go well today and she settles down quickly. E was much better with these ones as she didn't have to swallow the rotavirus one, apparently it tastes really bad

zeph- glad to hear that the antibiotics seem to be helping Katherine's chest infection. i hate it when the little one's are so sick and it just seems to hang on! i hear you about the FB photos, i have to say i think you all are very restrained, have you seen just how many photos i put up? DH family (except his mum and siblings) are all still in the UK and FB is just so easy for sharing photos. by the way Katherine is looking like a beautiful little cheeky miss- just as the name implies ;)

PB- hope you had a good time at the hen's night. it must be good to know that you can leave Cameron with your DH and he will be fine (and that your milk supply is good!!). Unfortunately it seems i can only leave Eli once she's gone to bed for the night as she will only drink BM and I'm not able to express enough for a full feed. i guess if we were in a pinch she could have solids and some water but i wouldn't feel happy about it.

QC- sounds like T is really cruisey, which must be a blessing with a toddler running about as well. i had my washing day yesterday- DH was really good and took all of it off and folded it and put it away yesterday so today i have none left to do :smiliedance:

FP- Elianna has become very fussy since i have upped her solids to be actually meals rather than just tastes of food (IYKWIM?) her milk feeds are much quicker and she definitely isn't draining one side and very often doesn't even look at the other side. thankfully she finds drinking water to be quite fun so I'm hoping enough is being swallowed that she won't get dehydrated. i have also been doing as Kate suggested and watering down her food a lot more (or expressing off the second boob into her solids so at least she's getting the nutrients she needs- at least i hope she is!)

AFU- we had a lovely weekend. Friday night DH and i went to the movies leaving E with her uncle. then on Saturday we got up early for a video call with DH dad in the UK, it was the first time Elianna had been awake when he called since she was 2 months so he was amazed at how big she had grown and how active she is (DH's step-sister has an 8 month old that is very gentle and placid apparently, polar opposites!)- i think that hat if we don't get over there early next year we may be up for a visitor soon! Then we went off to help our pastors get their house ready to put on the market- gardening and painting with a wriggly 6 month old is not advised! then came home and we all had a nap on the lounge and DH made dinner.

Yesterday we had a roast lunch and my mum came up for a couple of hours, it was so good to see her and she was so excited to see Elianna after so long. its funny how much closer we are now that I'm a mummy. after she left we all fell asleep (slept though our evening church service oops). After a dinner of leftovers Dh suddenly remembered that he was rostered on for "cake day" at work today so we madly rushed around baking cakes and making cookies so that his workmates wouldn't throttle him lol.

today is off to a good start. E woke up at 7 for a feed and is back asleep now. Its such a beautiful day today that i think E and i may go for a walk down the road and get some chips for lunch and sit in the park... assuming she wakes up in a good mood.

sorry for the mammoth post about nothing. i hope you're all enjoying the early arrival of spring
take care
Kath

[BoyCrazy]

:eek::eek:

its gonna be 33 degrees here today!!! blergh its not even spring yet!!!

[Purplebird]

:eek::eek:

its gonna be 33 degrees here today!!! blergh its not even spring yet!!!

That's kinda freaky! Even though it's still chilly here I can't say I would fancy it being 33 just yet. It would be a shock to my system :laughing:

See you all later :)

[quitecontrary]

PB its a sunny warm one here in Sydney town too, not as hot as Brissy though. Bit of a breeze blowing and my third load of washing is ready to go on the line - about 3 more to go I think!!

Our little boy is growing up! I had both the kids out in the garden for a while, and T did a chicken run off the mat, and I turned around to see him eating dirt and grass!! So he was whisked inside for a quick dirt removal operation, the grass was a bit hard to swallow and he didn't appreciate what happens to dirt when it gets wet - but he is clean, bf-ed again and back in bed now. I think he's stopped debriefing himself and is napping! G is ready for a nap too I think though I'll spin her out til midday I think!
I will have to dig out the playpens I think!! We have an old wooden one for the garden - and I think T needs to be in it!! The other one will be handy inside I feel, seeings he's on the move so much - its going to be fun when he gets up and crawls - he's fast enough rolling!!

[A'sMummy]

Hi Ladies, hope you all had a good weekend!
FP- I am also finding that DD isn't drinking that much and her urine is sometimes concentrated. I have been offering her water between feeds and also watering down her solids a bit more with milk.
KJ- sooooo cute that ZoJo says Dada!! Bless her cotton socks! Since hearing that she has been able to say dada I have been constantly saying dada to Anya. It is DHs bday on Wednesday and it would be so so sweet if she could say it then!! I think I am dreaming but its worth a try :D
T3- Hope you're feeling better!!
Zeph- Hope MissK is feeling better soon! Poor little chooken.

As for us- well nothing exciting here as usual. Anya is going well. Still waking about twice a night which is ok by me (better than the previous 7 times!). She has 2 solid day naps now. One around 11am for around 1.5-2hrs, and another nap around 3 for 1.5-2hrs. Its great knowing when she is ready for a nap and having a kind of routine. Also she is not fussed when we throw it out of whack and spend the day out and about, she will just have her two naps where we might be, car, pram, other peoples houses, it's great!
She is LOVING her solids, at the moment she has apple and pear mixed with organic rice cereal for breaky, and sweet potatoe, pumpkin, carrot, zucchini and brocolli for dinner. She also loves munching on various things throughout the day like strawberries and celery which I just give her whole and raw.
Anyway, have a good day everyone! Will pop back in later:wave:

[BoyCrazy]

thought id pop in and update on the wrapping situation...

i put jazzy to bed last night with his arms wrapped..i went to check on him about a hour later, he had rolled onto his tummy :eek: im so glad i went to check him! what if he couldnt roll back from being too restricted by the wrap?!

anyway, thought to myself, really cant do this anymore now that hes getting mobile.

decided to go cold turkey.

he woke up ONCE for a feed at 1pm..thats it!!!!!:yelclap::smiliedance: no dummy searching either!!! YAY! i reckon the wrap was half his problem with all the frequent night waking going on!

[zephani]

KJ How'd ZoJo go with her needles? Ours are on Thursday if Miss K is better :fingerscrossed:

GBAGM How'd the visit with the sleep clinic go? I'm starting to wonder if Miss K is having some night terrors. Apparently DH had them a lot as a child. About once during the night she'll start crying, but she's not awake when she does it. You can lift her out of the cot and change her and put her back and she'll still be crying but not awake. Does anyone else's LO do that?

Thank you for saying that Miss K looked beautiful. We're pretty partial to her :p We should really meet up. What do you think about meeting up at Charlestown for the Babes in Arms movie session either next Wednesday or the Wednesday after?

QC I can just see T munching away on the dirt. Sounds cute although dirty.

A'sMummy Way to go Anya loving your solids. The dinner combination sounds yummy.

BC Well done with going cold turkey on the wrapping! I'm glad that we don't wrap Miss K anymore because she always sleeps on her tummy. We put her to bed on her back and she instantly rolls over. The other night DH got the video camera and while she was asleep I rolled her onto her back three times and rolled back on to her tummy everytime.

AFU Miss K is coughing less and less and I think her nose is starting to dry up. :fingerscrossed: she gets better soon. We have already missed two GymbaROO and swimming lessons.

We are going to go down to The Entrance today for lunch. We thought some fresh air and a walk in the sun would be good for her.

Last night I gave Miss K about 1/4 of a slice of bread while we were having dinner, she'd already had hers, and she LOVED it. The only problem she had was when she squished the last bit of it into her hand and tried to shove her whole hand into her mouth to get the last bit out.

Time to go and get ready for the day. Will check back later.

[Seacretsquirrel]

Good afternoon ladies!!!

Just popping in quickly to say hi :wave:

Zeph - glad K is feeling better

KJ - Hope you had an okay run with zojos needles.

GBAGM- Hope your sleep clinic visit went well (I must have missed that you were going)

QC -Yummy Dirt silly boy although I used to eat it out of the garden and pot plants as a child and I am (mostly:laughing:) normal.

A'sMummy - Go Anya with her solids You girls seem to be doing some awesome combos poor R is havign apple, pear, and peaches in mango and that is it so far I think I'll try carrot once we get to mums cause I don't want to mess with him when we are about to do a big drive esp if it doesn't agree with him.

BC - Hope the not wrapping is going well it is hard when they are used to something.

AFU - R had his 6 month needles yesterday (a week early cause it is too hard to get into a Dr in Brisbane as a visitor) he was pretty good just did that "how could you do that too me" face that is too heartbreaking but a little funny too). We are also going to have to fave the dummy weaning soon too (maybe at mums she can help:D) cause I don't really want it to continue for too much longer.
I think we are off either late tomorrow (if we get done with our tasks) or Thursday we are driving straight down the middle now as we won't have the time to enjoy the Savannah Way properly so it will be another holiday I think.
anyway I better get back to cleaning car door trims (bloomin salt water:hair:)

[Lateralus]

Hi everyone..

well - Zo did ok with her needles yesterday - was a little grumpy in the afternoon (but that could have just as easily have been from the heat) and then slept for a whopping 9 hours straight last night... Hehe - I woke up in a pool of milk! Because she'd gone back to feeding every 4 hours I hadn't worn breast pads so I was soaked as were the sheets and the mattress cover :laughing: After 9 hours sleep though, I wasn't complaining!

[zephani]

SS Good luck with your trip. Have fun and safe driving :wave:

KJ I'm glad ZoJo went well with her needles. Yay for a 9 hour sleep :smiliedance:

AFU You know your a tired Mum when...you make pancakes realising knowing you have no jam...and you decide to defrost a serve of DD's apple and pear mash to use instead :laughing:

[firsttimepreg]

Hi Everyone! :)

Charli is still wrapped, I've put her to bed unwrapped but she always pulls her dummy out and wakes up. Maybe its time to consider getting rid of the dummy and the wrapping??

She was a bit funny with her 6 month shots. She didnt even flinch with the first needle, and then when the nurse put the cotton wool on it she giggled because it tickled. But she screamed for the second needle...

We had a good weekend away at the in-laws. But its been hard work since we got home. Teething is a real issue at the moment. There is one tooth through but the second is taking a while and looks like its blistered where its coming through. Charli's been pulling at her ears a bit and last night she woke every hour so we went to the dr this morning and he said her ears and throat are fine so its just the teething.
I think we'll get the hylands teething tablets that a few people have recommended. Are they in the supermarket or chemist?

Does anyone else feel like they're losing their milk supply? I'm taking motilium and i've tried the cookies but nothing seems to help anymore. I feel terrible but dont know what else to do to increase it. And charli wont take a bottle. She's still gaining weight (7.5kg) so i guess its ok. She's a shorty though (61cm) but I'm not even 5 foot so I guess that comes from me.

I have a job interview on Thurs with baby bunting. Its weekends and thurs evenings so that means we wont need child care as DH can have her, but it brings up the bottle issue. She'll need to take one. And when I try and express I hardly get anything so she'll need to have formula. And if I dont express while I'm working will me milk start to go completely? Oh the dramas!!!!

Hope you all have a good day :)

[BoyCrazy]

well tonight is night 3 of the unwrapping! so far, FANTASTIC!!! he is only waking once a night (around 1am) for a quick 20min feed. :D next we will aim to get rid of the dummy..but im not too worried about that, maybe when he gets to 1yr old.

FTP- the hylands u can get at any chemists. i havent seen them at coles or woolies. Apparently one of those 6mth needles (the 3vax in 1 shot) is quite painful & 'stingy' as my GP told me. Apparently the 12month ones are the worst (yay, something to look forward to! not!)
Good luck with your job interview on thursday! About the supply issue, theres a few things you can do..the cookies, motilium, and fenugreek are good..but the best thing to increase your supply is give bubs more feeds. Put her on the boob once every hour (might sound alot, but even if its a 5-10min feed it will signal to your body that it needs to make more milk), oh and skin-to-skin contact! theyre the best bits of advice ive been given. you could always call the ABA (australian breastfeeding association) for any advice..they have a 24hr helpline 1800 686 2 686. sorry for the ramble :o

SS- travel safely! maybe we can catch up for a coffee when u get to brisbane :D

KJ- yay for zoe sleeping 9hrs straight!! i hope you got to catch up on some zzzs too! glad to hear the vaxxs went well.

Zeph- glad to hear K is getting better...not sure about eating her mash on pancakes LOL

hi to everyone else!! :wave:

[BoyCrazy]

FTP- here is some info about increasing your supply from the ABA website

http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/bfinfo/supply.html#make

hope this helps :)

[firsttimepreg]

Thanks so much BoyCrazy for the ideas and the link. I hadnt even thought to check the ABA website. I think I'll need to do the feed more often option. And thanks for the good luck. I'm pretty nervous. Fingers crossed. :)

Its been so quiet in here today!!! I hope that means everyone has had lots of interesting things to do.

[BoyCrazy]

Thanks so much BoyCrazy for the ideas and the link. I hadnt even thought to check the ABA website. I think I'll need to do the feed more often option. And thanks for the good luck. I'm pretty nervous. Fingers crossed. :)

Its been so quiet in here today!!! I hope that means everyone has had lots of interesting things to do.

no worries at all :D

[Lateralus]

MOrning ladies... :wave:

FTP re. your supply... All the things you have been trying are good. As BC said, feeding (or expressing) more often also helps signal to your body that it needs to make more milk. Make sure your iron levels are adequate, as low iron levels can affect supply too. I have also been taking a homeopathic remedy called ricinus (pronounced rye-sinus) that seems to help too. I got it from a homeopath without a consultation & it only cost about $8! It's a reassuring sign that Charli is still putting on weight though - what makes you think your milk supply is dropping? (this isn't supposed to sound rude - just curious). Oh - and as BC said - get in touch with the ABA - they are fantastic (and free!).

SS hope you are traveling safe! Be sure to be in touch when you're in Brissy and we'll try to organise a northern mummies catchup!

AFU Zo has been really cranky the last few days after her needles. She is not sleeping at all during the day (and subsequently is getting SO overtired). Hopefully she settles down soon as she seems so unhappy :( Luckily she is still sleeping reasonably well overnight (although she is waking at around 2 or 3 am and staying away for an hour or two) - but other than that, it's not been too bad overnight.

[zephani]

FTP You buy the Hylands teething tablets at the chemist. I haven't seen them at the supermarket either. They are great! Miss K has been struggling with teething too. Her first tooth is there and you can feel it but it hasn't cut the skin yet. She has the most amazing chewing motion even though she doesn't have teeth. She chewed through a big chunk of pineapple yesterday.

Good luck with the interview today. Sounds perfect for you. :fingerscrossed: you can increase your supply and that bub will eventually take some formula.

BC Great news on the unwrapping! :fingerscrossed:

AFU We've just come home from taking Miss K to the Dr's for her 6 month needles. She was a real trooper and didn't cry at all.

I asked her about introducing Miss K to rice and couscous and she said that was fine. I also asked her about cooking her food with skim milk and low fat cheese. She said usually the recommendation is no but she is fine with it because Miss K is a bigger baby. I'm pleased about that otherwise I would have to buy skim milk for me, soy milk for DH and full cream for Miss K plus low fat cheese for DH and I and full fat cheese for Miss K. Makes life a bit easier and cheaper.

Life is getting pretty much back to normal here. Miss K's chest infection has nearly gone. She's hardly coughing at all. We are back to GymbaROO today and hopefully swimming on Saturday.

Yesterday Miss K and I met up with some Central Coast Bubhubber's. It was really fun meeting some new people. We went to Chipmunks. The kids played, Miss K rolled around and we talked and ate cake. I'm looking forward to catching up with them again :yes:

Miss K is constantly saying 'dada' all the time. Currently DH is sitting there trying to teach her to say 'mumum' so I don't feel left out. He is so cute :valentine:

[sweetseven]

Last night, whilst I was cuddling DD1 goodnight, I say, "I love you", and DD1 responded, "I love you". Then after the same amount of pause again, little bub piped up from the next bed, il la yoo. We all heard it and it was really clear as three discrete words, not slurred together at all.

It's amazing. She must hear it a lot, but wow!

[debplus3]

Hello there long lost feb '09 mummies!!!!:wave:

I have missed you guys....it has been months since I was here!!

I just wanted to say hello and will attempt to do some catch up reading over the next week or so. Bradley is doing ok. We have had some drama's which I will fill you in on soon.

Look forward to seeing how you and your not-so-liitle-anymore bubba's are doing!!!!

Deb xo

[BoyCrazy]

hey deb! been wondering where you were! look forward to catching up x

tiera- thats so cute about your DD@! i can just imagine it in babytalk too! :cloud9:

zeph- cute on the dada! im trying to teach Jazzy to say mumum! DS1 said dada first, so i am determined to have Jazzy say mumum first for me :laughing: Have you tried K on cottage cheese? it went down a treat here! glad to hear that K is better & you guys can get back out and about!

KJ- i found that Jazzy was a bit unsettled for about 2-3 days after his 6mth vaxes. Apparently that rotavirus (the liquid one) is a live virus strain, so i spose they might have a bit of an upset tum til they get rid of it. maybe? i dunno! lol..has Zojo got any teeth?

ok, well thats it for the moment, gotta get the two boys to bed. :wave:

[Lateralus]

Deb :wave: welcome back again. Sorry to hear you've had some dramas with your little man - nothing serious I hope?! :hugs:

BC we didn't get the rotovirus liquid with the 6 month vaccinations - just the 2 jabs... But I guess they alone could be enough to have her feeling a bit crummy. We have no teeth yet - but I think they are moving around a bit because she does get the rosy cheeks and scream and gnaw on things.... We've been giving her the Hyland's teething tablets and they seem to settle her down.

tiera how cute - it'a amazing what our little ones can surprise us with! :bee:

AFU Zo seems a little more settled now - she woke every 4 hours over night for a feed - but that's not too bad. At least she settled quickly after each feed. She seems fairly happy this morning. We're off to our Mum's group morning tea this morning which will be nice. It's so much fun getting the Bubs all together and watching them interact! (plus catching up on all the latest with the girls!)

[firsttimepreg]

Hi Girls

Had a rough night last night and a worrying morning. Charli woke up for a feed at 2.30 and was really warm. Checked her temp and it was 39.2. She seemed ok, had her feed and went back to bed (minus a few blankets). Checked her again at 3.30am and she was 38.2, and then 37.6 at 5am. But then at 8am she was up to 39.4. The earliest I can get into a dr is 11.40. She is a bit sookier than usual, but other than that still seems not too bad. She's back asleep now. Not sure if I should have taken her to the hospital, or if I still should. Or just wait to see the dr. Like I said, she doesnt seem too bad but I would feel horrible if something was really wrong and I didnt take her. Not sure what to do. Its only and hour and a half til the dr now.

[Purplebird]

FTP- i hope Charli is ok now. In that situation all i would do is give panadol and check that it brings her temp down. hope all is well :hugs:

[gonnabeaGR8mum]

FTP- I'll assume you're on your way to the doc now as its been a while since you posted. i would've given panadol to bring the fever down and went to the doc because speaking from experience it can take much longer than 1.5hrs to be seen at the hospital and if the doctor thinks it necessary he can have you admitted to the hospital much quicker.

Kate- I'm glad Zoe's feeling better. have a great time in the park this morning (i hope its as lovely weather as we are having today) - I'm loving my weekly bub hub meets in the park!

ya deb :wave:welcome back- glad everything is OK with MrB

Zeph, i would love to do the movies at hoyts charlestown, but I'm not sure they do babes in arms sessions? by all means correct me if I'm wrong, I'd be happy to play hooky from playgroup one week to meet you and the gorgeous Katherine.

I've forgotten what else i was going to say, oops:doh:

AFU- i had a very worrying 40+ hours where i thought i may be pregnant with AF well and truly overdue, morning sickness, fatigue, and a stuffy nose coupled with one night's indiscretion about 5 weeks ago i was absolutely panicked - thankfully i did a POAS and it was negative, phew! i feel like i dodged a bullet. i didn't realise how NOT ready for another baby i am right now until there was a possibility of one appearing shortly after Elianna's first birthday. needless to say we will now be being extra extra careful lol

i hope the lack of activity in here lately has been because everyone is enjoying this frighteningly good winter weather,

take care, chat soon
Kath
xoxox

[Purplebird]

Lovely to have you back Deb - I hope all is better now?

FTP - how's Charli? You really did the right thing by going to the doc's. If in doubt always pop along, I've never been made to feel bad for getting my kids checked out - and as GBAGM said, they have access to hospy quicker than we do. That Panadols great stuff whilst you're waiting though!

GBAGM - no frighteningly good weather here in Melbourne sadly. It's been blowing a gale for about a week. Glad to hear you got a BFN, that must have been a scare! I always think a close age gap would be lovely when they are older, but I don't think I could manage two babies or two toddlers - eek!!

Cameron is so happy at the moment - still not sleeping, but that's another story! I love this age. I can't believe he's 6 months next week, although most of your guys and girls are there already. Looking forward to getting some food into him, although he still shows little interest. But then, he doesn't know what he's missing yet! :)

Hope you all have lovely weekends. I am off to bed now, night night :sleeping:

[zephani]

T3 How cute! I love hearing Miss K chatting away.

Deb Welcome back! Sounds like you've had a rough time. Hope everything is ok now :)

FTP How's Charli? You did the right thing taking her to the Doctor. I agree with the others that panadol works till you can get into the Dr. I keep telling our Doctor that she must think I'm a hypercondriac (sp?) because we are in there so much. But she said they have first time Mother's in there all the time and that you are better safe than sorry. I hope Charli is feeling better now.

GBAGM I'll ring Hoyts and see if they do babes in arms and PM you.

I'm glad that you got the result you wanted with your BFN. We are planning to try *when* Miss K turns one but I couldn't imagine having a second one when she is one.

KJ We are the same as you. No oral liquid with the vaccs. Miss K has been restless since the injections on Thursday. We also have no teeth yet but lots of teething. We also use the Hyland's.

BC We haven't tried cottage cheese yet, but I added mozzarella cheese in the chicken risotto I made for her yesterday. Well she had a *tiny* bit of cottage cheese when she tried some cob loaf spinach dip, which she loved!

AFU Miss K is feeling so much better and we are all sleeping better. We've been out and about again this week. Went to the central coast BH meet on Tuesday, GymbaROO on Thursday and we are going swimming this morning. After we go to playgroup on Monday we will be back at everything. Yay!

Time to get ready for swimming. Argghhhh do I *have* to pull out my swimmers?

[Lateralus]

quiet in here today...

thank goodness for Bubhub... I had failed to write down the dates for some of ZoJo's milestones (rolling from front to back, sleeping in the cot, first smile etc) so this afternoon I trawled through old posts and worked out the dates so I could update her baby book. I also went up to Kmart and got all the photos printed up for her baby book ("first" smiles, bath, PJs, food etc). My sister thought it was strange that I am putting a picture of Zoe on the boob as her first "meal" rather than one of her eating solids - but I think it's fine - especially with all the work it took to establish the feeding - I am rather proud of it & want it immortalised in her baby book!! :laughing:

Zoe had a nice long 2 hour sleep this afternoon :smiliedance: But is pretty unsettled tonight. She seems to find it difficult to settle in the evenings. I was starting to wonder if it was the start of some separation anxiety - she's ok if we're in there with her patting her - but the second we leave the room she starts howling. Anyone else starting to get any separation anxiety? Is this how it manifests itself? Oh well - she'll settle eventually. Better go and get dinner on the boil. Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. :flowerz:

[firsttimepreg]

Hi Girls

Just a quick one -

Charli is much better today. Went to the dr who then sent us to hospy. waited about 2 hours to see soomeone and then spent about another 2 hours in there having her monitored. Her temp had gone down to 37 so all looked good.

Started work today. Its customer service so I was on my feet ALL day and its been ages since I've done that so I'm a bit sore. But it was good, and even better to come home to Charli. DH managed fine with her, although she wouldnt take the bottle and went all day with only drinking about 30 mls. We really need to do something about that.

I'll be back tomorrow to do personals. :)

[Purplebird]

Kate - I think it's lovely to have a pic of Zo on the boob for her first meal. I have a few pics of DD, but you've reminded me that I don't have any of me feeding Cam, so I will have to get onto that. I'm pretty sure Cam has separation anxiety - at least I'd been wondering if that's what it is. He hates not being able to see us. If we put him down he is fine as long as he is looking directly at us, but if he sees us leave the room he just screams. Poor bubba :( It has thrown me because DD was not really like that, so I wonder if it means he will have a different personality to her.

FTP - poor Charli. Do you know what was wrong with her? Hope she's all better now. Have you tried a sippy cup or soft tipped drink bottle (like NUby or Tommee Tippee) for her milk? It might be worth trying maybe. I know Cameron loves his sippy cup now - we use it for him to have water occasionally. We are lucky that he takes a bottle (or he has on the 2 occasions I've had to leave him).

Zeph - it sounds like K enjoyed her risotto heaps! Cam is 6 months on Tuesday and I'm just starting out on baby lead weaning which I'm looking forward to getting into. If he takes to food like DD did we will have great fun with it!

Cameron is still not moving around much at all. I wonder if it's partly because he's a bigger baby. DD was never a roller even though she crawled pretty early. I can't help but feel a little bit worried though as he seems to lack motivation to do anything (except grin!).

I'm just starting to give Cameron some pieces of food now. He can only get them to his mouth about half the time, so he is only getting small tastes and licks. He has definitely ingested some carrot though! I will do the same as I did with DD and mix up the BLW with giving some foods on a spoon too - maybe in a few weeks time.

I'm now so tired that Cam is spending most of the night snuggled into me as I can't stay awake to get him back into the cot! It is lovely to have him next to me, but I will be ready to put him in his own room by the time we move. It's going to be a heck of a job though! I suspect we will end up part time co-sleeping.

[quitecontrary]

PB if Cam has a smile on his face, I don't think there's much to worry about!! Sounds like he's got it sorted out with a mummy who carries him where he needs to go, and a big sister to watch!
We went out last night and left both the kidlets with my little sis. T woke up hungry (about 2 hours after his last feed mind you) so she gave him a bottle of ebm and apparently he was so annoyed at tne end of it that he pinched her! He then cried himself to sleep in a cranky manner! We had a fun night out though! I find it kind-of surreal to go out amongst it in the evening and see all sorts of people wandering the streets of the inner city - to think I used to live there and be out all the time!
We were having eggs for breaky this morning and Toby was watching us and said "Egg" - which was quite surprising and lovely! I made him some rusks and he munched into it with gusto. Dh is doing the hunter gathering with G right now, and has instructions to get some farex - I suppose T does need to start solids soon as he is nearly 6 months by the calendar!!
We're off to a barbie for lunch today which should be fun - even if we are all a bit weary!

[Lateralus]

Ouch - looking grim for an early start tomorrow - Zoe wanted to go to bed at 4:30 this afternoon.. I managed to string her out 'till 5pm, but she was getting ridiculously tired by that stage. NOT that I am complaining about the fact she's gone to sleep without a fuss - it's awesome. I just get the feeling she'll be up at sparrows fart tomorrow!

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend! We had a quiet day today. Did some steaming and freezing of veges for next weeks meals for Zoe and caught up on a bit of washing and reading. Have a play date tomorrow morning then DH gets home from Sydney :smiliedance:

[Lateralus]

Oh & QC yipee for a good night out!! What did you get up to?? :smiliedance:

[quitecontrary]

Hi Kate! (and anyone else lurking around here!) We went in to a bar at Taylor Square that you had to give your name and number at the door and they would let you know when you could go in - just a bit too cool for this old mum from the 'burbs!! Luckily we were let in quickly - don't really know why, but I was annoyed enough already. I think it was to do with licensing numbers - it was pretty small. Oh yeah, and you couldn't get in the front door, you had to walk around to the back lane! It was fun to see some old friends though - two of dh's groomsmen were there, they're nice fellows. When we did get home - not that late - I then had to watch Rage - for old times sake really!!! The kids had us up nice and early as per the usual though.
Today we went to a friend's place for a barbecue which was lovely. They have two little girls and there were a few other rugrats there too. G had a ball, and T was his usual sociable self.
Feeling tired now I must say!
Monday is our stick-around home day, and I'm looking forward to staying in my dressing gown for quite a while!!
Hope you've all had great weekends!

[zephani]

FTP I'm glad Charli is feeling better. It is very scary when things happen and you don't know what to do :hugs:

PB Good luck with BLW with Cam. We are going to start some finger foods soon.

KJ What ridiculous hour did ZoJo wake you up this morning? I get worried when Miss K goes down at that time, wondering whether I should wake her up for dinner or something.

QC Why did you have to give your name and number at the door of the bar you went to? Sounds a little wierd to me. Maybe I'm too uncool :cool: Glad you had a good weekend.

AFU We had a good weekend. Miss K went back to swimming on Saturday. There was an 18 month old who wouldn't put her head under the water, whereas Miss K sits on the side of the pool and then falls straight in when we Humpty Dumpty. I was so proud of her.

We went looking for cars after that and now I'm confused about what sort of car I want.

Yesterday was a bit dramatic. Miss K was sitting up on our bed leaning on DH's pillow. I leant over to get his phone for him and she rolled over and ended up on the floor. I screamed for DH, she just screamed. I felt so guilty :( She seems fine. She has a lump on her head but other than that you wouldn't know it happened.

Our big news yesterday was that Miss K said 'mumum' for the first time :yelclap: She's only said it twice. But at least now I know she can say more than just 'dada'.

We are off to playgroup today so I should go and get organised. We've only been once because we missed three weeks when Miss K was sick. Although DH made a comment last night that since I've stopped going to baby group I more confident as a Mum and that I don't doubt myself anymore. I can stand and stand proud and say I am a good Mum :laughing:

[zephani]

Oh and before I forget....


happybirthdayhappybirthday

Happy, Happy Birthday OCM. Be spoiled and enjoy!

:party::party:

[Lateralus]

:iagree: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to OCM hope you have a great day! :party:

QC sounds live a great night out. Sounds like a pretty swanky bar! - haha - I only ever catch the morning end of Rage now... Old fart that I have become :laughing:

Zeph sorry to hear about K's little misadventure off the bed - glad she's ok! Have fun at playgroup today - I hope the new group continues to meet your approval!

GBAGM I bought that book (buy buy baby) that you recommended (it may have been on facebook). I am only a chapter or two into it, but it is REALLY interesting! Will make me rethink what and why I buy for Zoe! Thanks for the recommendation! :thumbsup:

AFU - despite my 'fears' Zoe woke up at the fairly reasonable time of 6:45 & chatter away to herself until 7:15 - so not too bad at all. We have a play date this morning with a friend from our ABA group. We've been trying to catch up for weeks and weeks but one or other of the babies would be sick. Thankfully everyone is healthy now! We are meeting at my friend's place and she is a MCN addict - so I'm going to get a crash course in MCNs and hopefully work out which ones to buy - there are SO many out there it's hard to know where to start!

On something non-baby related - I have been reading up a lot on permaculture and I am getting really keen to start developing our own vege garden. I am still in the planning stage but will hopefully start preparing garden beds and planting soon. Does anyone else grow any of their own produce? Any tips would be appreciated as I do not have the greenest thumb! :laughing:

[firsttimepreg]

Good Morning!

KateJo - Glad Zoe didnt get up too early! My dad came over a few weeks ago and set up some planter boxes for me to put some herbs and veggies in but I havent done it yet... Good luck with yours - I reckon it would be so satisfying eating things you've grown yourself. Also, you asked why I thought my milk supply was low - well charli seems to feed really quickly ( only a couple of mintues each side) and every time I try and express I dont even get 30ml and thats from both sides. I did manage to get 80 when I expressed at work but that was after not feeding for 7 hours!

Zeph - I wouldnt worry too much about K's accident, as long as she seems fine. I'm guilty of hitting charli's head when putting her in the car... And well done on being proud about your abilities as a mum!!!!! You should be proud!

QC - sounds like a good night out! I havent had one of those yet, but once Charli is on the bottle better I'll feel ok about leaving her with someone so DH and I can have a well deserved break!

At the hospital they couldn't really see what was wrong with Charli, they checked her wee and said there was no infection but she was slightly dehydrated. And she had a tiny bit of a red throat. That red throat seems to have developed a bit more and now she's quite croaky, but she seems happy enough (the croaky voice is incredibly cute). She's gone off her food a bit, yoghurt is the only thing she will willingly eat. But is still happy to BF so I'm hoping she'll get back to normal when her throat is better. She's not on anything for it, just a bit of panadol once or twice a day.

Hope you all have a good day :)

[A'sMummy]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OCM!!! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Seems like everyone is travelling along nicely atm which is great to hear.

We are still have lots of sleeping problems here. Anya is still waking up anywhere from 2 times to 7 times per night. I am sooooo tired! She is easily settled with a feed or dummy or cuddle though but just wont STAY asleep. I am thinking of looking into sleep schools etc, but I am giving her till 7 months (3weeks away) before I fully decide what to do. I just don't have the courage to leave her there crying (which I think might be the why she is the way she is :o), everytime she cries, mummy comes running. :rolleyes:

Anyway, I have a question for you all... I am introducing some more fruits to Anyas diet. She currently has apple and pear mixed with rice cereal for breakfast. I am thinking of adding kiwi fruit and strawberries to that. Currently I have the apple and pear simmering away on the stove and am wondering if I can also steam the strawberries and kiwi fruit to soften them up?? They are ripe, but not overly ripe, so a little hard to fork mash. I was thinking steaming might soften them up, but was worried it might make them loose too much nutritional stuff (if that makes sense LOL).

[Lateralus]

A'sMummy I have found this website (http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/combos.htm) really good for giving guidelines of how and when to introduce different foods and how to prepare them. It says that both Kiwi & Strawberry can be given uncooked, although it says it's best to wait 'till 12 months to give strawberries because of potential high allergens in the fruit. I does however also say that cooking can kill most of the potential allergens, so maybe if you're really keen to start Anya on strawberries, pre-cooking them might be the way to go?! I hope her sleeping settles down for you - I can fully sympathise and can't recommend the sleep clinics enough! And don't fear - when we went to the clinic it was not a controlled crying thing at all - we never let her cry for more than a minute or two!

FTP glad Charli is on the mend! The reason I asked about why you thought your supply might be low, was because I have gone through periods where I have felt the same way. I have been reassured by councillors from the ABA and a lactation consultant that sometimes when babies are older they get super efficient at drinking and can drain a breast in minutes. Also - I was the same as you - not getting much when I expressed & apparently this can be normal because the breast pump is so much less efficient that a baby's suck - they can extract heaps more milk than you can with a pump. I was also worried because my boobs never felt full anymore - but again this is normal as your body works out the supply and demand equation a but better and doesn't make an over abundance of milk like in the early days - it just makes what your baby needs! I was told a much better way to judge how much milk bub was getting was by wet nappies and weight gain... I found this reassuring - hope you do too! :hugs:

[A'sMummy]

KJ- thanks for the website, it was really helpful. And as for going to sleep school, I am glad to hear it worked so well for you, it gives me hope!! I heard you can get people to come over and spend a couple of nights at your house and they give you tips about what to do, when to go in, how to comfort them and when to pick them up etc. I am thinking about looking in to getting someone to come over it's available down here :confused: With me still working fulltime it might be easier to do that that to go away to sleep school. I will have to do some research!

[A'sMummy]

Well I have found this:
http://www.sleeprescue.com/
And they come out and spend 1 night with you in your home. The lady sounded really lovely over the phone. It is $420 plus $20 to get them to come out to us in outter Melbourne. They have an availability on Sunday night so I am going to talk to DH about it tonight. I might start a thread in the parenting issue thread and see if anyone else has had success with them

[zephani]

A'sMummy although it says it's best to wait 'till 12 months to give strawberries because of potential high allergens in the fruit.

:iagree: Our Dr said this to us too. She said not to introduce nuts, fish, strawberries, honey.

As for combinations of food...I spent a day in the babyfood aisle writing down the combinations in jarred food to give me some ideas. I can email it to anyone or post it here if I'm allowed and people are interested.

[Purplebird]

A'smummy - that sounds like a great service. I've also heard BabyBliss is good. I would definitely consider using something like that if I had to get up and go to work! I would probably go to sleep school if it didn't mean leaving my toddler. It would be good to have someone come to you though. I hope it works out. Please don't doubt what you do - our babies are still so young and I reckon they need us when they cry :) You're doing a great job - maybe it's the dummy that's making her wake so much? Cameron still wakes 3 or 4 times a night :rolleyes:

Zeph - poor Miss K. I let my DD roll off the bed twice before she was one :o You think I would have learnt wouldn't you?! Add to that I actually dislocated her elbow last week (obviously by accident!) - it was quite awful. Great to hear you're feeling so much better about yourself!

[janiceg]

:iagree: Our Dr said this to us too. She said not to introduce nuts, fish, strawberries, honey.



oops! i give fish and berries! she loves them though!

i've only heard not to give nuts, honey or eggwhites on their own

we don't have any food allergies so i'm not too worried.

anybody getting the 'you're still breastfeeding?:eek:"... my bro in law's gf asked me tonight like i was stabbing her or something! and my mom is always on my case about it, too! anyone have some ways to tell people to mind their business in a somewhat subtle way?

katejo-i highly recommend bambooty nappies if you're still on a hunt. my friends all use issy bears (aussi made) i started making my own tonight so if you have a sewing machine that's an option too! i'm surprised how easy it was!

dd was only up once a night for months but the last two weeks she can get up up to five times a night..i've been told it's just what they do at six months! so i feel the pain of those having to get up..luckily we cosleep so i really don't have to "get up"!

:ecomcity::ecomcity: night ladies

[zephani]

Happy first day of spring :D Just started a new September thread http://www.bubhub.com.au/community/forums/showthread.php?p=4038034#post4038034 .