Just a quick wave from me this morning. I've finished breakfast so my computer time is at an end for now... Just hoping I don't walk back out to poo issues like I did yesterday!
Grub - so happy to see you in here!!!! Sorry to hear Ash is having problems with wind. Trent has had troubles since birth too and there isnt much you can do for it unfortunately. I have asked the MHCN and our GP and they basically have told me I need to "ride it out" Ive used Infacol drops since 4 weeks which has helped a little but not lots. I also changed him to Novalac (Colic) formula on New Years Day as I gave up b/feeding on Christmas Eve due to my small milk supply. This still hasnt really helped him much. I know with b/feeding and wind, you need to avoid LOTS of food. Such things like chocolate, caffeine, spicy foods and have even read dairy can set them off. I did LOTS of research on the net!!! So you may want to consider changing your diet. As for the needles, I found Trent was fine straight after them, only cried for a few seconds. Mind you, I was a MESS before hand, started crying because all these other babies were upset around me and Trent was sleeping peacefully and it upset me thinking what was about to happen I gave him baby panadol that night and he slept fine but was unsettled generally for about a week afterwards. Hope this helps.
Mako - sorry to hear your sad news and glad your not doing too bad. Im sure you will have your bad days and thats totally understandable. We are here for you
Neptune - WOW, thats fantastic that Adam is now sleeping 12 hrs I hope Trent miraculously does that soon. He's not bad now, he sleeps anywhere between 6 - 8 hrs a night if Im lucky but with his wind pain he sometimes wakes earlier the poor little thing. Im HOPING that by 12 weeks the pain will settle down. I found the thickener has worked for Trent although he still throws up but not as bad, lol I often found crusty bits of formula stuck to his face and hair when he wakes from a sleep!
Marcellus - hope all is going well back at work. I used to love it when it was quiet at work and I could get onto BB, hehe What a bugger your little man hasnt slept for the sitter. That part worries me with Trent and leaving him with others to take care of him. Even my DP has problems getting Trent to sleep for him Sleep is so important for them.
Hello to Janie, Kelly, BG, BW and everyone else
AFU - I took Trent to get his hearing tested yesterday as I was concerned he may have not been hearing everything sometimes and all is fine. I think he is just easily distracted, typical male! I have also picked up some great bargains on clothes on ebay for him. He is growing out of his 000 clothes. Its sad as it means my little boy is growing up so FAST. Cant believe he will be 11 weeks tomorrow! I want to get that hand and feet impressions done before he does grow up anymore and isnt so little. He is smiling and laughing lots, its just so adorable when he does it, even in the wee hours of the morning! We saw the pediatrician last week and everything else is good with him
E was a shocker for holding onto her wind - couldn't get her to burp at all - even now she does it - no solutions just sympathy!
she has been pretty good as far as bubbas go. sleeping through came to an end a little while back - about the same time teething started in earnest. still no toofs, but that's ok. she'll get there! she managed seven hours last night - i stayed up expecting her to wake around midnight for her feed - ended up going to bed, kicking DH out of bed in a panic about 2 cos she hasn't surfaced but she was fine - just full and tired! woke about 5 for a feed, went back to sleep for 20 mins, then woke screaming in pain while she filled her nappy - another nappy change, comfort feed - and she slept for 3.5hours (none of us surfaced til half nine!).
last night she had her cousin here for a sleepover (miss 9) and she is here til tomorrow - so E is in her element. having a sleep at the moment, but will be out and full of smiles for her cousin soon. Miss 9 is just gorgeous with her - went in the pool with her the other day (with about an inch of water in it - so it was great for E - not so much for her cousin! but they had a ball. last night she decided to change her first nappy - did pretty well actually! damn shame it was the one between the two horrifically stinky dirty ones! lol
ummm, still not crawling, but working on it. she is very mobile with her rolling though! has everyone wrapped around her little finger with her smiles and sweet attitude.
awwww i think i'm in love with my poppet! can you tell
Grub: So happy to see you over here, it is completely different to the pg thread as now we are trying to work out what these little creatures want. Sorry about the wind, Tara doesn't seem to have any problem with hers (luckily), so don't really know what to recommend.
Neptune: Hey, wow Adam is so big. Tara is probably around 6kg's now and has also been sleeping through for about 6 or so weeks, although she has been waking herself up early a couple of days (around 7am) as she has needed to do a massive poop... and if I don't get it straight away it leaks everywhere.... Therefore she wakes up when getting a nappy change and won't go back to sleep. Hopefully you can get the reflux under control as well, I have found that I have had to double the recommended dose in Tara's bottles to make them thick enough now and even then I generally get about 1 day every week and a half where she has a big chuck up day. I'm counting down the days now until I can start the solid foods as I'm hoping this will help the reflux and fingers crossed because she has been having thick bottles her tummy will be used to having something more solid in it.
BG: So cute about E and her cousin, it is so nice to see how kids interact with each other even with such a big age gap.
Miss M: They grow so fast dont they, Tara has been in 00 for about 3 weeks now but more for length, I think Trent might be for both length and width...am I right??
Celeste was very colicky Grub. I tried LOTS of things, Brauers Colic relief helped a bit. THe best thing I found was massaging her belly clockwise and also "bicycling" her legs which was the best at helping move that air. She always preferred to rest upright against me partially cause of reflux and also to press her tum against me for wind pains. I think time was really the only thing that fixed it I'm sorry to say!
Glad to hear all is ok with Trent's hearing MissM. 11 weeks already!!!
Hope you are doing ok Mako. ♥
Today is Celeste's 2nd birthday!!! I can hardly believe it! I remember everyone going on about how short a time they are babies for and me thinking "Oh ok whatever" because at the time it feels like a blooming long time to be gettng vomitted on and having no sleep etc. Now that I look back though I really do see that. There is almost no baby left about her. Just the nappies and that's not long for either I think. 2 years we have had her with us!!!! It feels like shes always been here but also I cant believe that 2 whole years have gone by since her birth. Last night I was lying in bed thinking "this time we went to theatre, this time they started.." She was born at 1 past midnight so she has had her birhtday the longest possible time: ALL day She has learned sooooo much in that time! Just this week she has learned to count to 10 on her own with almost no mistakes!!! Then theres all the walking, talking, feeding herself etc. It's no wonder they get tired !
A big happy 2nd birthday to Celeste! Wow Sazz - she sounds so grown up already. Counting to 10 is very clever.
BG - Miss E just sounds gorgeous and she must be having a lot of fun with her cousin. Isn't it amazing how much they love big kids! Jasmine just loves playing with her older cousins.
Tania - good to hear that Trents hearing test went well. Sounds like he is growing up so fast.
Neptune - wow 13 weeks and 7.5kgs! You do have a lovely big boy. Jasmine was 8.17kgs at her 8 month check up!
Grub - Jasmine was very colicky and I tried everything. Some things helped a little, but unfortuntely the only thing that really helped was time - SORRY! I know I hated to hear that from everyone when I went through it.
Mako - hope you are doing ok x
Hello to Kelly, BW, Marcellus, Acacia and anyone I have missed - hope you are all well.
I am not even going to comment on all you lucky ladies with babies sleeping through the night! Jasmine has never been a great sleeper, but this week she has had 3 top teeth come through and it has been terrible! Her 2 bottom teeth popped through without any trouble, but these upper ones seem to be causing her all sorts of pain the poor love.
Apart from that she is coming along in leaps and bounds. She chatters away but only really has 3 words I can make out which are mumma, dad dad and me me me. She is crawling like a demon, pulling herself to standing, letting go for brief moments and cruising around all the furniture. We are really looking forward to our holiday to LA and Hawaii - leave in 2 weeks tomorrow! Can't wait - it will be our first proper holiday as a family.
Janie, the top teeth really seem to give them grief. Sam's first two bottom teeth came through and we didn't even know he'd been teething (just went off his food for a week and then ate with gusto once they were through). But he had his four top teeth all coming down at once and he was miserable for weeks. In the end three came through and one only made it part way through and then went back... and we had another dose of the miseries when it tried again. I think the top teeth just seem to hurt more. We still only have five and a half teeth now at 13 months... he's a bit slow with teeth!
Sazz - good to see you around again! A very special happy birthday to Celeste too - I just can't believe it's been two years already! I sometimes think it seems so unreal to us because we spend so much longer than most trying to get pregnant so the pregnancy feels a lot like blink and you miss it... The time we've had Sam plus his pregnancy now only adds up to the amount of time we spent doing IVF, so it still hasn't really sunk in yet! But at the same time - I can hardly remember life without him now.
Have to go get ready for a paed appointment later today. Hoping to get the all clear on Sam's possibly not fully descended testicles... Something I'm extremely paranoid about after all we've been through!
I remember hearing a radio program where this guy was saying they'd done studies of babies all around the world and found they all cried more in the second month of life. 98% of the time there was nothing wrong. Call it unsettledness, colic, reflux, whatever you will, it's just the way babies are. 2% of the time there's a problem - that's why it's good as a new parent to always see a professional if you're concerne,d just in case. You don't know what's normal anyway, so you have to check.
You can do you head in, running round and round trying to find the magic fix, though.
Reflux and throwing up is normal too. Babies digestive systems are so immature, and their stomach flap thingy that keeps stuff down (ok, dunno the name) doesn't work too well, so that's why they tend to vomit. But it's a good thing, really, cause if they get too much, or things are quite right down there, it comes up again, easy. For most babies the only real problem is with mummy's clothes or the furniture (or whatever).
The biggest trick to parenting is learning to trust. Trust that your instincts are right. Trust that your baby knows what they need. and listen to them. In the early months particularly, it's all about survival. Path of least resistence - do what works best. If your baby is colicky, the best thing often is carrying them around as much as possible. Co-sleep. Feed them to sleep. Get your mum/someone else in to watch baby while you catch up on sleep during the day. Forget about the housework. Get your partner to do as much as possible. And so on.
Things settle down in time - try to make things as easy as you can so you can enjoy those precious early weeks. There's no ponit worrying about routines, or bad habits, or sleeping patterns in the first few months because everything changes so fast.
girls,
well i was wondering if i could join your group now as have little charlie after a very long journey like all of us.im finding it a bit hard to leave pgaltttc its been such a wonderful support for me for almost 3 yrs,ive met so wonderful friends in there and its been a real comfort to me but i guess im not pg anymore so its time to leave
so if its ok ill pop in here from time to time but it will take me a bit to catch up so bare with me lol.thank you girls love smithy
have a great day .
Hello! Some of you might know me from the PGLTTC thread. My little boy is here now so time to move!
Literally have only two minutes before my LO will want to be back on the boob so not much I can say. Having a hell of a time bf ing at the moment as it turns out my latching that all the midwives said was great, is actually wrong and he is only taking in nipple and I am starting to hurt. I am finding it impossible to get him to open his mouth wide enough to take in enough breast tissue. When he does actually get enough breast tissue in he cannot cope with the extra flow and wriggles back to the old bad position that he got used to over the last two weeks or so or thrashes about and gets too much wind and lurches off for winding which means the struggle to attach again. I don't have cracks yet but I am sore. Arghhhhhhh!!!! I don't know what to do!!!
Yay for Smithy & Poppy joining us. You will see lots of familiar faces in here plus some mum's who have been around much longer but are a huge support to us newbies.
It is so hard leaving the pg thread, but I've felt so much better about being here because everyone will eventually move across and it still feels like a family but instead of sharing pg issues we now just talk about our babies and all the changes happening with them.
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Sorry to hear Ash is having problems with wind. Trent has had troubles since birth too and there isnt much you can do for it unfortunately. I have asked the MHCN and our GP and they basically have told me I need to "ride it out"
Ive used Infacol drops since 4 weeks which has helped a little but not lots. I also changed him to Novalac (Colic) formula on New Years Day as I gave up b/feeding on Christmas Eve due to my small milk supply. This still hasnt really helped him much. I know with b/feeding and wind, you need to avoid LOTS of food. Such things like chocolate, caffeine, spicy foods and have even read dairy can set them off. I did LOTS of research on the net!!! So you may want to consider changing your diet. As for the needles, I found Trent was fine straight after them, only cried for a few seconds. Mind you, I was a MESS before hand, started crying because all these other babies were upset around me and Trent was sleeping peacefully and it upset me thinking what was about to happen
I gave him baby panadol that night and he slept fine but was unsettled generally for about a week afterwards. Hope this helps.
I hope Trent miraculously does that soon. He's not bad now, he sleeps anywhere between 6 - 8 hrs a night if Im lucky but with his wind pain he sometimes wakes earlier the poor little thing. Im HOPING that by 12 weeks the pain will settle down. I found the thickener has worked for Trent although he still throws up but not as bad, lol I often found crusty bits of formula stuck to his face and hair when he wakes from a sleep!
I can hardly believe it! I remember everyone going on about how short a time they are babies for and me thinking "Oh ok whatever" because at the time it feels like a blooming long time to be gettng vomitted on and having no sleep etc. Now that I look back though I really do see that. There is almost no baby left about her. Just the nappies and that's not long for either I think. 2 years we have had her with us!!!! It feels like shes always been here but also I cant believe that 2 whole years have gone by since her birth. Last night I was lying in bed thinking "this time we went to theatre, this time they started.." She was born at 1 past midnight so she has had her birhtday the longest possible time: ALL day
She has learned sooooo much in that time! Just this week she has learned to count to 10 on her own with almost no mistakes!!! Then theres all the walking, talking, feeding herself etc. It's no wonder they get tired !
Celeste for yesterday. Wowzers! 2 years already
girls,
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