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!
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
Do you mind if I pop in here? My DS was conceived after four treatment cycles (IUI) following 18 months of TTC.
I'm also feeling a lot of time pressure to start TTC number 2 (although some days I think we should just stick at one), as I have no idea how long it will take, or if we'll need assistance again. I'm still BF (although have had to complement with formula since DS was 3 months, due to low milk supply) and AF has not returned, which makes me a bit anxious. I enjoy BFing DS, but am putting pressure on myself to stop so my cycles can return. I change my mind every day as to what I should do.
Anyway, that's enough about me. Looking forward to chatting with some other likeminded people.
HB
xx
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Hi Honeybee. I hope I won't freak you out when I say I think I remember who you used to be.
I'm the same age - and also feel the pressure some times that I should be going for #2 ASAP, but DH and I are pretty comfortable waiting. Also pretty comfortable with only having one child if that's the way it turns out. I'm on some fairly nasty medications and need to have stopped them for 6 months before I can go back to IVF so it's a big decision to go again. Although, we do have the advantage of having a couple of frozen embryos from Sam's cycle... So I can wait until I'm 39 and still have the same chance of getting pregnant that I did with Sam at 33. Without that, I think I'd be in a bigger hurry to get back to assisted conception, though.
Interesting day here - Sam appears to have decided to skip his afternoon nap but both DH and I are ready for one.
Thanks Smithy! Congratulations on the birth of your DD!
Hi BW - It's good having a couple of frosties in storage for if/when you want to get back on the rollercoaster. I hate thinking about it, makes me stressed. Am currently thinking I will give it until DS is 18 months, then try to do something about it. But as I said, I change my mind every day.
Hope you get some sleep today!
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Had a late night so Lyla is still asleep so I get to go online
Welcom BDT and Honeybee. BDT, the first few months can be stressful but hang in there, it gets better each day as we become more atuned to our LOs.
BW, what a horrid week you had. Glad Sam is doing well. About the speech, we can't really use Miss E as an benchmark. I read a research paper that said at this early stage (1 year old) the most important thing is that they understand us and communicates with us in their own way. We should be worried (but not alarm) if they don't point or make eye contact (especially the finger pointing).
BG, Miss E sounds so cute. I am turning bright green!
Grub, I've got 4 frosties from Lyla's batch of embies and although I do feel positive about them I must play down my expectation so I wouldn't be so dissappointed if they don't work. I will be content with 1 because I don't think emotionally, I could go through another stimulated cycle.
Kelly, Lyla did the "tuck feet under bum" thing for a week or two and then "see saw" crawl with feet pushing but head still down or get into "push up" stance without getting anywhere to finally crawling at 5 months. Although she does skip the "natural crawling" soon after for the "monkey walk" and then pull to stand. Will be very interested to see what Tara does.
good morning my beauties ,i too hope you all have a nice sunday.
im am also sitting here all be myself everyone else is still in bed and its me who needs the sleep lol oh well.
kahlan thanks for thinking of little miss charlie girl hun hugs to you.
BG. love your ticker pic hun way cute
BabyDreamtime oh welcome and welcome. Congrats and glad to see you
Grub I think that's why I stoped BF Linc was screaming at my breast and was being so fussy I took it to heart as when he's being fussy around a bottle who cares. Oh DH is a PIG he's not in my good books and frankly he could have stayed away! Also a friend recommended the DUNSTON Baby Language DVD I've ebayed it and will let you know re what baby wants.
Briggsy oh my 5 hor cluster feeding. you are doing so well. hope teeth come in soon and she's not a biter.
Neptune hope you doggie is doing better
KellyD oh baby gates wow that's a scary thought isn't it.
Smithy thank you funny I was thinking about prune juce, I'll do that I reccon in the formula. He does drink water so I'm lucky. But OMG I just feel like it's one hurdle after another atm.
Welcome Honeybee
BW skipping naps how was he in the evening?
Marcellus I've thought about it long and hard but he was in pain with my milk but he's in pain now, OMG what to do.
Yes he poo'd Friday after a really long tummy massage with mummy and then again after a bath with DH. all ok and soft, happy baby loads of sleep then came yesterday He's been pushing all day and all night I'm so tired and had no help from DH. After me finally asking for the third time DH fed Linc and it all went well but then he left him on the floor for like 30mins and POWER CHUCK! Linc did one last night too but only a little DH thinks this was his whole feed
So after making a mad dash home to get my tooth brush (at my mums cos DH is off again) I then got handed the baby while DH went to a friends. then we're going shopping then he's off again. After a day of ****ing me and Linc around yesterday doing quick stops at the hardware (an hour) and generally groning every time I asked for help I'm ready to be a single mum!
Ok ok back to the poo, Linc pood last night after a lot of rubbing of his belly but it was pretty hard, so I got out the water again and nothing yet, he was straining all night and only settled (still wimpering) in my arms so no sleep for mummy. I slid him into the sling while he was sleeping so he's not stressed out. I don't know what to do. I feel like this is a never ending battle, runns from my milk blocked up from Formula, power chucks. Am I doing something wrong or is this just what babies do? and if so why don't your friends tell you.
Feeling a little sorry for myself this morning and also really worried Linc is no better off than on my milk. Which is probably gon now anyways boobs are back to soft and no more leeking.
Oh Green
Your hubby needs to help out stat! Glad at least you have help from your mum.
Yes, this is what babies do. You're probably at around the worst of it right now - colicy/refluxy/unsettledness/whatever you want to call it tends to peak at around 6 weeks.
A lot of parenting is trial and error - we just figure things out as we go along. Sometimes things work well adn we give ourselves a little pat on the back, and sometimes they don't seem to... and unfortunately at this point we berate ourselves for doing the wrong thing (but how do we know until we try?). You're still building your confidence. Confidence comes from competency and competency comes from doing things (ie, trial and error) so as difficult and overwhelming as this is right now, I think this is a really important process. You will get there
And just putting this out there - your supply may have dropped, but you will still have milk; it's only been a few days.
oh green you poor girl im feeling so sad for you rite now hun and yes your dh does need to get his but into gear,this raising new born babies is hard enough without extra stress from him im holding your hand here hun and i truely hope he gets his s**t together.
on the poo note like marcellus has just said your milk wont be totally gone hun i still leak sometimes so thats just a thought.
his pooing sounds just like what my charlies were like and if i were you i would for sure be doing the prune juice thing it really does work a treat hun.
im so sorry your not getting any sleep too as this just doesnt help things when your so bloody tired,so thank goodness for your mum being able to help sometimes.
me personally thinks you are doing everything rite for your baby they are just soooo very hard to read sometimes as you already know ive had 5 kids now and still have no clue as each kid is so different just do the best job that you can hun as this is really all we can do but i think YOUR DOING AN AWSOM JOB
as for the POWER CHUCKS one of the other bellybelly girls told me to raise them in there little beds after a feed ,so i did i put a blanket under charlies little matress in her basinett so her head is raised and again worked a treat and im also useing that stuff called INFACOL witch is also very good for windys.
big hugs for you and please take care of you hunny im thinking of you heaps.
Green if it helps, Xavier is 5 weeks one day today (really must change ticker but just dont know how) and we are going through the same thing. He is really colicy and has decided that 3 am until 10am is the best time to be unsettled. I feel like a walking zombie. I can only get him to sleep on his tummy because he tucks his legs up under him which helps the pain. I am so busy this week with everyones 6 week checks, I just dont know how to keep going. At least the house is extremely clean, it is the only way I can stay awake is to keep cleaning. I cant sleep during the day as I have to watch Campbell. we are also suffering from the power chucks. Just love we it sits in your bra. We have put bricks under the head end of the bed. Campbell slept like this until he went into a big bed.
Smithy - Campbells pead told us to put the extra 10mls in his bottle. This was when he was having big bottles. I weaned him at nine months after doing back to work when he was 7 months. I cant even remember how big the bottles were.
BDT - it took me a while to come over here to.
Well hope everyone is doing well, not that I want to wish my time with small Xavier away but I cant wait to get past these next few weeks and for things to settle down. /the 6 week mark can be hell.
Last edited by saph204; March 7th, 2010 at 05:45 PM.
how are you? I've missed it... what did you call your girls? ox
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??
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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 .
good morning my beauties ,i too hope you all have a nice sunday.
He's been pushing all day and all night 
I'm so tired and had no help from DH. After me finally asking for the third time DH fed Linc and it all went well but then he left him on the floor for like 30mins and POWER CHUCK! Linc did one last night too but only a little DH thinks this was his whole feed 
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