Hello, Dorothy is back from Oz
Thanks for all your well wishes, I certainly didn't want the house blown away and doubt I cold have sat on the steps like you Grub, this house is slightly less rigid and wouldn't hold its own in a Category 2 blow, let alone a Larry 5. There is not a room without a lovely view but also not a room with solid walls. I know what you mean about your mango tree, my friends parents have one of the only massive old curtain fig trees that we know of other than the protected ones and they got married under it just months earlier. It was the most spectacular tree, then Larry did his work and stripped the poor bugger. It had been there for generations on their family property. They are still trying to save it 4 years on.
Sorry about the tree talk girls. Now for a few comments on parenting. First to KellyD, I haven't noticed the hair coming out in clumps or any more than usual. I have lots of hair and probably nothing a comb-over wouldn't fix
Grub, about the weight loss, sorry but I'm in the same boat as KellyD (tho I can't believe with that tummy that you didn't gain 20 all in front Kel). I think I did the same lose a couple, gain about 6 and when she was out, I was my pre-preg weight. Just different bodies I suppose like our different babies. The best comment I heard about losing the baby weight though is that it took 9 months to put it on, so you should expect it to take 9 months to take it off and not be too alarmed if it doesn't come off overnight. You will get back you shape with time and until then, you look gorgeous in the mummy afterglow. go and buy a few new things for yourself just for this phase and you'll feel better.
Kahlan, hello and welcome back. Lyla sounds like a feisty little one. Wow, rolling over by 3 months! She does sound like she keeps you on your toes. I don't really have advice but I have heard that's about the time when babies start to trust only you and are suspicious of other people. This is when they say to introduce security blankets and special attachment toys I think. Does she have anything like this to feel safe with or is this something you want to do? Just a thought. I hope you get answers on here about the crawling, standing and falling. I can't imagine it but sorry, it does sound gorgeous. I think when they start out this advanced, they dont slow down, that's just their innate nature. My brother's daughter was literally climbing up the internal door frames (to the top) like a monkey when she was 8 months old! She has had buckets of natural sporting ability all her life and has never slowed down - hopes to be an Olympic hockey player. You may have a little star on your hands.
I will have to come back later, to say hello to you Bella, Miss M, Marcellus and everyone else I haven't caught up with. My laptop battery is running flat and I'm in bed with Miss Jasmine who has tangled herself up in my aerial and thinks it's very amusing, keeps looking at me and laughing for a reaction. xox
Hi Everyone - finally I think I have a couple of minutes to do some persies.
Murph - good to hear you are all safe and well.
Kahlan - great to see you back. It sounds like Lyla is getting separation anxiety - Jasmine went trough some time where she just would not play on her own, I had to be with her every moment. She has grown out of that phase and now plays quite happily for a while on her own. I don't really have any useful suggestions except that they do get more capable of being on their own. In regards to the moving around the cot - I have the same problem with Jasmine, so will be interested in anyone elses suggestions. I did ask my MCHN and her only advice was to try a sleeping bag to slow down their ability to move - I haven't got around to buying a summer weight one (only have a winter one), but will do so in the next few days. I also introduced a 'snuggly' toy which Jasmine now spoons to sleep - if you get something nice and cuddly that to start with you hold in your arms as you rock them to sleep - then eventually you can get to the stage where you put them down with the snuggly when they are sleepy. It is a hard time with the sleep regression at that age, but keep in mind how many new things your little one is learning - she is wanting to practice at all times of the day and night. I am holding on to the mantra that they will grow out of this stage eventually! Hope some of that made sense - trying to think and type quickly as Jasmine is about to wak up.
Kelly - good to here your MG went well and that Tara was in fine form! Hope the plumbing situation got sorted out.
Sorry girls that is as far as I can get today as Jasmine has woken up - best go tend to the masters needs
Hi to everyone else and I will try and get back later for more of a catch up.
Kahlan - hi! Sounds like lyla is doing so well!
Just quickly, wanting to always be with you is totally normal. You are the centre of her universe. And, at this age she probably hasn't learned object permanence yet, so when you're out of sight, you cease to exist (which is a pretty scary thought). They usually develop this skill around the 8-9 month mark.
Separation anxiety tends to peak from time to time too, especially when they're learnig new skills (particularly moving...).
My advice - don't fight, but find ways to include her. Some days that might mean carrying her around with you, if she's particularly clingy (some days they are), but generally it might just mean sitting her nearby where you are so she feels involved.
Set her up with an activity that puts her close to where you are. Talk to her about what you're doing. As she gets older you can give her 'chores' to do to help mummy (they LOVE that).
DS is a lot older now and helps with the sweeping and mixing when cooking and stuff like that, but when younger i would sit him in his high chair in the kitchen when cooking, for eg, so he could see what i'm doing. when a litle older i gave him a brush and dust pan so he could help sweep.
The more I try to engage him, the easier he would be! Cause if I gave him a few quality minutes of attention (maybe a breastfeed, or read a book, or play together), then he'd be "recharged" with "mummyness" and would happily go play by himself for a bit (only very short stints when younger, but longer and longer now). And giving him helpful tasks to do had the same effect.
The restlessness at sleep time is probably a phase - hopefulluy it'll get better once she masters her moves. Sometimes I think they just have to work these things out of their systems.
Hello girls. I hope everyone is very well as well as their little bubs.
All's well with me. Just wondering if anyone's baby developed a flat head as a result of sleeping on their back? Adam has developed a flat side which is the side he favours. I am trying all the things such as putting him up the other end of the cot, putting all the things he looks at on the other side, heaps of tummy time, and I've booked to see the MCHN next week but it's now quite pronounced and I'm a bit worried!
Apart from that he is just fine.
AFM; about to start studying in a couple of weeks and bizarrely looking forward to it!
I've heard of babies developing a flat spot on there heads, the MCHN has told me Tara's head is a bit out of shape on one side (not flat, but her head shape is not round) and told me to get her to lay on the opposite side. Yeah, like that's going to happen she turns her head whichever way she wants to and I can't stop her from turning her head.
I was very excited last night as Tara has now learnt how to turn onto her side from laying on her back, she hasn't mastered the tummy to back roll (as she just hates tummy time) so it looks like she may learn the back to front roll first. DH spent ages with her on the floor last night helping her to roll from back to front to back again so she gets the jist of what to do.
Neptune - Your MHN will be able to tell you if it is any flatter than what they would normally expect. I think all babies get it slightly as with SIDS guidelines they always sleep on their backs now days. Jasmine did have a slight one, but it rectified itself as soon as she was able to spend more time on her tummy and particularly once she started sitting. If it helps at all, my nephew who was born at 24+4 weeks had an extremely flat spot - obviously due to the extra weeks spent out in the world on his back when he should have still been in his mum. He is now 19 months old (actual) and it is almost totally gone - and they didn't have to do anything special to help correct it. In fact the only reason you can notice it at all on him is because he is still quite bald the little love if he had hair you wouldn't even know it was there. It is so hard to get them to turn their heads to the other side. I know with Jasmine that the MHN showed me some gentle stretches to do with her as it appeared that the reason she was favouring one side was because she was a little tight in her neck muscles on one side - apparently this is quite common. Everything you are doing sounds right, so get it checked out and don't worry too much as I am sure that it will correct itself once he is a little more mobile.
Kelly - how exciting! Well done little Tara. Watch out before you know it she will be rolling all over the place!
Hi to Marcellus, Murph, Kahlan, Bella, BG, Acaica, Tania, BW, Lenny and anyone else I have missed.
AFU - getting very excited as it is now only 6 sleeps until we go to LA and then onto Hawaii - can't wait for our first family holiday together. Jasmine now has 6 teeth (4 top and 2 bottom) and seems to have got through the worst of this bout of teething. We are still having problems with night waking, but it is mainly due to her sitting up or crawling in her sleep - she then wakes up as she can't lie back down again whilst still sleeping. So off to buy a summer weight sleeping bag today to see if that helps to restrict her movements at all. She is just such a delight that the night wakings really don't worry me too much - I know she will grow out of it in her own time. However, I say that as someone who can survive on very little sleep - my DH on the other hand does find them quite diffifult!
Thanks KellyD and Janie, that is very helpful. I'll be interested to hear what the nurse says next week.
Janie - Jasmine sounds so cute! I do think a sleeping bag will help, especially if she us half asleep whilst trying to get up - the restriction should hopefully just discourage her from struggling too much and she can fall back asleep. Best of luck with it. Have a FANTASTIC trip!
Tara is a clever little thing KellyD. How exciting that she can do that now. Adam not quite there yet.
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