Green just wanted to let you know what we are doing and have done in the past.
Raise the end of the bed and change table.
Sleep on tummy with legs tucked under. (I know totally bad, I try and do it only during the day when I am awake but sometimes it is the only way he will sleep. We also have a motion monitor, so no movement all the bells and whistles start.)
Infants friend, you get it from the chemist and boy is it working. Was at the shop yesterday and his farts we so loud people were looking sideways at me. But before this all that wind was trapped in his bowels.
Chiropractor, when are paying off our chiros morgage this is how highly I recomend it. Xavier was all jammed up in his intestine area and his bowels hopefully the adjustment will help releive some of the pain.
As for the soy if this is a permanant thing, like Campbell. He will have to encounter soy as he gets older. We have sourced soy alternative for lots of things, like icecream and yogurt. It becomes a life style thing. I do get some funny looks when I order a soy babychino.
Oh when Campbell was on formula I always added an extra 10 mls of water then recomended to help stop him from getting blocked up.
Hope this helps, but what I always say to new mums and I did this with Campbell was listern to the advice and then do what works for you.
Hope everyone is doing well, I am a bit tired today got one boy back to be at 6 only to have the other one wake up at 6.30.
Great to hear you are getting more sleep. About Linc having problems with his bowel movements. How long has last done it? Formula can really change a baby's habits. Formula fed babies could go for days without passing anything. Lyla is formula fed and don't normally pass anything for 3-4 days without being constipated at all. However, if Linc is having problems, first thing you must try is water and lots of it. Give him 10-20 mls every hour or. Good luck. You are doing a wonderful job by the way.
BW - how is Sam? How are you holding up? I was very heart broken when I first returned to work but it gets easier each day and I always look forward to seeing my LO at the end of work.
Kelly, yes, I wasn't prepared to buy walking shoes for Lyla until she is over 12 months but had to order proper shoes the other day. She found it strange with the shoes and prefers to sit, pull her feet to her face and mouth the shoes instead but is loving every chance she gets to practice walking and climbing though. I believe Tara would probably be the same because she is doing what Lyla was at the age. so be prepared my dear friend. I see in your sig that you are planning for #2 in Jan 2011. We are planning that for late 2010 or early 2011 so never no we might be having our second one at the same time and be belly buddies.
BG - how is Miss E, any new words or should I ask whether she is giving you sentences? Lyla clapped her hands today... I think. I picked her up from Family Day Care and she suddenly clapped her hands. She doesn't do it on command though so can't say that she understood "clap your hands".
Murph - I know Queensland is under flood at present, are you affected by it in anyway. Thinking of you anyway.
Grub - how are you doing? Ash's is so cool
Saph - take care of yourself hun.
To everyone else, hope you have a peaceful and relaxing weekend.
Kahlan, I'm really touched that you remembered us and asked how we are going! I've been slammed by work and life this week... A man I used to work with (didn't know him well but he was only 25) died suddenly and his funeral was on Wednesday. Had another man in our church pass away on Tuesday morning (cancer, but still quite sudden and unexpected, he was struck down by an infection) and his funeral was on Thursday. I wasn't able to go to either, so have been feeling fairly sad about that. Throw a nasty situation with a problem student on top, needing to set four tests in the next week (and the horror of marking soon to come!) and I'm just ready to crawl under a rock and hide from the world for a while. But we keep plodding onwards... I just don't get much time to read BB, let alone reply at the moment. Makes me feel a bit lonely and isolated, so it really was nice to be remembered and asked about!
Anyway... Sam is going fantastically. I was starting to get quite worried about his apparent lack of speech (especially when I hear about the super-advance miss E so often! ) But all of a sudden in the last week he has suddenly started repeating sounds to us when we speak to him. It's coming along! He just loves having DH at home and gets to spend a lot of time "helping" daddy maintain the back lawn... He's got a real thing for carrying around random objects and yesterday he chose a broom. A full-size broom, not a toy broom. Unfortunately it caused him to trip and he's got a nasty bruise on his beautiful face, lots of tears last night (from me, too!) but doesn't seem bothered by it today. He's also getting more into the swing of daycare, too. I dropped him off this morning and for the first time I managed to leave without the sound of him crying his little heart out following me to the car. One of the carers took him to the other room to show him some baby chicks. Apparently that was pretty cool, but when he looked up and saw me the tears started again. But I'd already said goodbye so I just stepped out of view and watched him turn straight back to the chicks and stop crying. He seems to love daycare days now - apart from the drop off!
Green - when it comes to FF babies and poo... Sam was an every 4 days like clockwork baby. We stressed a lot about him being constipated and we tried all the tricks, but nothing worked. Then we stopped and thought about it - when he did poo it was still soft, so it wasn't constipation. He just had a 4 day poo cycle. You could just about predict to the hour when he would poo, though! I know they say that FF babies should poo every day, but Sam pretty thoroughly proved that one wrong! When we changed to step 2 formula and introduced solids he slowly moved to once per day. As long as his poo is soft, then don't panic if he doesn't go every day. Is that enough poo talk yet?
Ugh! We have some seriously inconsiderate jerks living over our back fence now. They like to play their music way too loud and we are frequently assaulted by doof doof doof constantly. They've just started up and it just gets way too stressful to stay in the study with that going, so I think I might go turn on a fan (helps make the doof doof less obvious if you drown it in a gentle hum) in the bedroom and try to get some sleep. And I've just remembered that it's Friday and I need to take my methotrexate and that will knock me out pretty thoroughly anyway... but if I don't take it soon I'm likely to spend most of the weekend feeling dreadful.
Hi everyone, I have finally gotten the guts up to post in here, it still feels really surreal for me and I just can't quite believe my luck that I finally made it here.
I also wanted to celebrate my lovely new Avy!!
Will take some time to get up to date on where you are all at so will be reading between feeds and will be back once I know what is going on.
Welcome baby dreamtime! and congrats on your little princesses
Green - i know i FF, but have done a bit of reading on formula and poop (given BW and I talk baby poop far too often lol) and it seems that introducing or changing formula will often lead to baby having issues with their tum for a few days while they get used to the new formula. as BW said, if all is soft when it does happen, it should be ok.
Kahlan - thanks for asking after us hun! E is quite the chatter box. will happily string a couple of words together (boob mum, up mum, fooooooooooooooood mum) - and is coming out with new chatter regularly. i was trying to dismiss a lot of it as just garble - but she repeats and repeats and will let you know what she is talking about. she answers questions with yes or no (nods head, yesssssssssss, or crazy head shakes for no) - and will answer some things the same every time (latest is "do you love x (x being mum's sister) - responds with pfffffft and big raspberries - so cute!). i have come to accept that she is advanced with speaking (as apparently i was) but is struggling a little in comparison to some of her baby buddies with other things. she still doesn't crawl properly, just a rather rapid commando crawl. she has only just started dragging herself up on furniture where some of the others are already actively walking. every baby is different (BW!!!!!) - E's just got the gift of the gab like her mum!
i'm off to get my day going a bit. E has been really unsettled lately. stupid teeth, and i think we're going through a growth spurt. i don't mind cluster feeding - but cluster feeding from midnight to 5am - NOT my idea of fun! last night we got 14 hours of "sleep" - the first few hours were really unsettled - she woke every hour or so in distress and wanted me to feed and resettle, then woke at almost midnight (just as i went to bed) and decided it was time to play. ummm nope! feed and off to bed - she then slept for five hours which was fantastic after five nights of bugger all sleep. hopefully this is a nice turnaround for us and we're heading back to the way she used to be!
I have been reading and catching up, but I am so busy with my poor dog, Adam and all the study I have to do I don't have time to get on here much.
Welcome to the thread Saph and BDT!!!!!
Our doggie is having pretty much a total knee reconstruction this week. She then has to rest for 8 weeks, we even have to walk her outside on a lead to wee and poo. After 8 weeks she can walk a few more metres, and then after 4 months she can start getting longer walks. I am so upset about the rehab, she just loves her walks and now will get very depressed I think. I love the walks too, so it's going to be hard on all of us.
Wednesday will be a night mare. DH at work from 6am so he can't help me. I have to pack for my trip to Melbourne, get it all in the car, get the dog to the vet (45 minute drive) by 8am, get home and to the local train station and then get Adam and myself on the train to the airport. I need to be there by 930ish. I will have Adam in a baby bjorn, a back pack as a nappy bag, my lap-top and my enormous suitcase. It's going to be fun getting down the 30 stairs at the station!!! I'm just hoping someone takes pity on me and helps me onto the train LOL!
I'll be in Melbourne staying with my folks for 3 weeks. DH will be down the following week for the GP, so that will be nice.
Adam is a cutie pie, he is just so much fun at the moment!
Hope you are all well. Thanks for listening to me vent!
BDT: So happy to see you made it across to join us, although not too scary as the same old faces here as in the pg thread. I'm looking forward to hear how you are doing with your beautiful girls. Oh, is DH so rapt around their little fingers yet??
BG: So funny about E and her gift of the gab. Tara is a full on chatterbox when she is awake, starts as soon as she opens her eyes and only stops when something is put in her mouth, although saying that she is adept and taking and blowing raspberries with a dummy in .
Grub: Gotta love that Ash is now so much more alert with the world, you thought before was "fun" well guess what the fun really starts now.
BW: Sounds like you had a very horrid week but good to hear that Sam is loving daddy time and is adapting to CC for you as well.
Kahlan: we get to be belly buddies together. We decided next Jan would be a pretty good time to start again and in everything goes to "plan" then there should hopefully only be a 2 year age gap. Although if a miracle happens in the meantime then we will run with that plan instead.
Well DH has gone out this morning on some errands and one is to "buy some baby gates" after Kahlan's prediction I think we better get baby proofing ASAP. Oh, and Grub forgot to mention yeah the change in routine...Tara now finds 5.30am the perfect time to wake and have a chat and a play for oh 30 minutes or so. She thinks it's a hoot seeing mummy with her eyes hanging out of her head at that time of the morning and gives us high pitched squeals to show how good it is. Luckily once she is back to sleep she will sleep again until about 8am and then another 20 minute play and back to sleep until 10am.
Speaking of which she is sleeping now so better get into gear and get dressed I suppose.
oh poor you and linc green big hugs hunny and hang in there sweety i know its terrible when they need to do pooys.
i found that if i used the coloxyl drops they would work but i tell ya what ill never use them again i rekon they give them more pains in the tummy than anything
so my trick i have found is PRUNE JUICE ONLY A TINY BIT LIKE 1-2MLS IN WATER once every couple of days hun even if he wont drink it in the water i trick charlie and put in it her formula bottle and ive also got another awsom trick hun lots of belly rubs around the belly button ,rub both ways ( clockwise and anti clockwise)just nice and gently and also when he finally does poo lift him up over your shoulder sort of gives them a better pushing motion .
it will get better sweet girl i was sooo stressed about this pooy bizz but all seems to be going really well for us now ,his first poo may hurt a bit if he hasnt done one for a while but after that they should soften rite up and he will prob still cry but i think it just takes a while for them to get use to the sensations of pooing
please do not put any extra water in his formula bottles ,thats not what we are suppose to do still follow the dirrections on the tin hun as wrongly made bottles can make them very sick and he wont be getting a proper feed GIVE HIM WATER SEPERATLY KK and also in the water old wives tale or not i still put a bit of brown sugar in the water makes her think its not just water lol...
hun i sure hope this helps let me know how you get on ...good luck baby linc xoxo
a big hello to you all this beautiful rainy weekend ,i hope your all going well,thinking of you all take care beautiful mummys xoxo.
afm... all good except my girl wont sleep shes confused i think with night and day cheeky monkey lol but all good here
oh bw - i can't imagine how hard it is to walk to the car while hearing bubba cry out for you! but glad he's settling into care a bit better. and pft to sucky neighbours.
BDT - yayay. Welcome love how are you? I've missed it... what did you call your girls? ox
hi kahlan - lol yes ash is so cool hahaa. Do you have frosties for number 2 or having to do another full cycle?
saph - hi there lovely preggy thread friend i second your comment about Infant's Friend. it has really helped ash but when to stop giving it to them?
kellyd - don't you wish they would tell us 'okay mum i've decided i'm going to ditch the old routine and do this/that now' lol. I think Ash is going through a change too. But yes, sleep is good. isn't it funny, we worry when they aren't sleeping and worry when they are!
green - sounds like you are comign to terms better with your new feeding role and just think DH can help more with the feeds too. This week i've decided that breastfeeding is really hard work but maybe that's just me as it's not that enjoyable when your baby is in pain/cry etc.
hi smithy, marcellus, bg, lenny, janie and all the lovely mummas here
MURPH -where are you? moving house?
We stil don't have a clue what ash is wanting atm. but the huge screaming bout of the arvo didn't happen yesterday. he seemed to want a feed at 4pm, then a nap, then a short feed at 6pm, bathed him, and started to grizzle so right to bed by 7pm and he was a good boy.
He wanted another feed at 9pm and then i dream fed him at 11.30am and he slept to 3.30am and had another feed. His night feeds all went for about 30 mins. he took both sides He then woke about 7.30/8am had a feed and a play and wanted bed again by 8.45am and has been a kipping ever since.
so i was happy with that but not sure if it will be the same tonight. hmmm
he's definitely more aware of the world thesedays too. it's lovely.
Also, Aldi is selling these most gorgeous hand puppets (safari theme) for $5 atm. If anyone wants to get some, they are gorgeous. theres a lion, giraffe, zebra, cheetah, and tiger and they are a really good size, dh's hand fits in them!
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we get to be belly buddies together. We decided next Jan would be a pretty good time to start again and in everything goes to "plan" then there should hopefully only be a 2 year age gap. Although if a miracle happens in the meantime then we will run with that plan instead.
and ive also got another awsom trick hun lots of belly rubs around the belly button ,rub both ways ( clockwise and anti clockwise)just nice and gently and also when he finally does poo lift him up over your shoulder sort of gives them a better pushing motion .
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