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Saph, Sam's a tummy sleeper now - and if we don't put him down on his tummy, then he puts himself that way very quickly. It wasn't such an issue when he was younger - he would happily sleep on his back then. Have you tried Xavier on his side? Apart from that, would you feel more comfortable about tummy sleeping if you had a breathing monitor?
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BW - we have the breathing monitor, and he sleeps right next to me. The nurse today told me to try sleeping him on his side. Tried that but he screamed until I put him on his tummy. She also said I should try him on infant gaviscon, which he haver in the cupboard for Campbell, but it should only be used under medical supervision under 12 months, so will discuss with doc tomorrow. We had another day of not being able to put him down today his is finally asleep lets hope I get a bit more sleep tonight.
Hope everyone is doing well.
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Oh I also forgot, It looks like Xaviers hips have matured, Yay no hip harness.
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Congrats on Xavier's hips Saph. that must be a load off. It's great ticking off all the seemingly endless tests for problems or potential problems. I know we were totally shocked that along with our hearing tests for Jazz, we needed ECGs, eye tests, hip x-rays and other genetic testing just to rule out other problems and when they come back clear, it's sweet relief hey? Now if only you could get him to sleep. Surely common sense would have to prevail with sleeping him where he is comfortable and there must be ways to do it safely. Sounds like a real tough one. I generally put Jazz on her side if she has just fallen asleep through a feed and is that way already, she goes down really easily, but always goes back to her back. I've never tried the tummy, so I'm no help, but I'm thinking of you and hope you all get relief soon.
Smithy, you little rooty toot!!! Woohoo..Great news girl. You must be so happy. Sounds like the big place we have just moved into which after being in 1 and 2 bedroom houses on the edge of the rainforest the past few years, is pure luxury and we are loving it, even though it's huge on us. lol. You will just love it...no neighbours, you couldn't ask for more. I'm so thrilled for you because I know you were unhappy.
As for me, I'm off to our first therapy session today in Adelaide and my Mum is coming over from Melbourne and we are all having a big family get together at my Auntie's so I am very excited. Mum hasn't seen Jasmine since she was less than 2 weeks old and it's been so hard on us to be apart. she is now moving back to Townsville and we broke the deal moving to the other end of the earth so we have to get in all the visits we can while she is close. She is flying over to be with us for a few days after Adelaide too so I can't wait to see her tonight. Yay!
Off I trot. Catch you all in a few day's when I return. xox
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Err, that's a terrible place to put an apostrophe "a few day's when I return". I live with the apostrophe Police. Moderators, please don't let me publish such grammatical errors in future. Typos I can live with but, oh the horror of mis-placed apostrophes
Last edited by Murph01; March 31st, 2010 at 05:44 AM. : Hahahaha, I spelt apostrophes wrong!
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murph, misplaced doesn't need to be hyphenatedhhahhaa. I'm hearing you about the aposts. I'm not such a nazi anymore cos we had heaps of trouble with this keyboard awhile back and it wouldn't type what i was!
sounds like you will have a degree in dealing with bureacracy! what a jib to have to go through that! my mum had to have heart surgery in Brissie a few years ago as they did not do that type of surgery in NQ and it was pulling teeth to access the govt remote travel allowance scheme! i hope you get the hang of it soon as i don't think the system will improve - only your ability to see the loopholes. And don't forget to google! you might find a forum where the members have some good tips for you. Have fun with your mumma!!! and your fam! how exciting
Smithy - YYIIIPPPEEE! good luck. no neighbours! sounds devine. I think ours have moved bedroom as last night for the first time in 5 years i heard them coughing, sneezing, snoring at night!!! it's like they were in my bedroom. it freaked me out in my sleepy haze so loving no neighbour plan! lol. When could you move if you took it?
saph - i think the guidelines are to let them be, but don't wrap them if they are rolling onto their belly as they can get tangled or the wrap can bunch under their face. with the cooler weather maybe the time to invest in a sleeping bag thingy. I tend to think let him be, what else can you do that would have him sleeping happily? not alot me thinks. I think that really is the best advice for any mum - whatever they want, just go with it, even if it's against the "rules". and yay yay yay for hips!!!
Hi Campbell, are you being a nice big boy for your mummy?
oh kelly, i'm feeling for you. what you feel is pretty understandable love. But look at what you have! I know it doesn't make it any easier, but we all are on this path for a reason and I believe, for us anyway, its made us stronger and closer in our marriage and more able to treasure DS (not that those lucky for normal conceiving don't treasure but ykwim). And maybe if we didn't have this battle our relationship wouldn't be as great as it is! I really do think it's a case of "door closes, window opens".
Personally i never felt any aminosity to my friends or family who were able to get preg at the drop of the undies because i wouldn't wish anyone to have to go through AC BUT the preg smoking 17yr olds with a snotty, dirty baby in a trolley and a bottle of wine ready to go makes me mad beyond comprehension. and yes, they actually exist out the front of our shopping centre. But also remember your friend will have her hands full! 2 under 2! oh god, now that sounds like a nightmare (says the lady considering doing the same lol).
marcellus - i like your words that it waxes and wanes. I think we'll definitely wait til August to see how we are feeling. Never know, if ash weans himself early then we might just go for it. atm we've decided to enjoy our baby for at least 2 years and then come back for the embies. but doc says i have to go back on metformin a few months before we start to try YUK YUK YUK CACK CACK CACKY. hate that stuff!
neptune - how is ads going? are you running with him in the pram? i've been sssooo slack, after hyperextending both my knees repeatedly i had to stop runnign for awhile and now can't find the motivation to get back out there! boohoo. still have lots of weight to lose too.
lenny you stil about?
Janie how is Jasmine today?
BG - is E keeping you on your toes this week?
boc - my lovely friend? how you coping? is all going well?
green - our unused frosties would go to research. but we are going to use em as we figure we paid for them (read that as "dh is a tight bum and wouldn't ditch anything we'd paid for. yes we are the doggy bag people at the restaurant). But if we happened to have left overs we have opted to give them to research. Like someone else said, I coldn't handle the thought of a little child or ours was walking around with someone else, if they are going to live, then it has to be with me! WE had to choose what to do and fill out forms for our clinic before we started ivf. WE figured research would be helping others still.
did he continue the sleeping extension? i hope so!
All is well here. were thinking of camping for easter but need a portacot; want to go where there's fresh water and no people; and it's raining - so staying home and going another time.
one of my BFFS had a baby boy, named him Augustin - unusual but quite like it
Ash seems to have fallen into a pattern at night - goes to bed anywhere from 7.30pm to 9pm and needs me to cuddle him to sleep (i don't mind) then no matter what time he goes to bed wakes at 2/2.30am for a feed and change and then sleeps through to 6/6.30am and then back to bed again!
lovin the rain and can't wait for easter. wonder if the Lindt bunny will visit me
what you girllies doing for easter?
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YES!!! LOTS!!
i'm loving every minute of it, but it makes keeping up with people and persies so very difficult! we are in the midst of a wonder week (yup, she gets the teeth through that are giving her grief, has ONE good night, then the WW kicks in!) - will sleep on me, will sleep in her cot during the day. but at night, try to settle her, she goes into a deep sleep in the bed beside me, try moving her to the cot so that i can sleep comfortably - not a chance! she wakes up, kicks her legs, flaps her arms, is as chipper as anything - no matter how late it is! last night she didn't want to go to sleep so i took her to bed at 9.50 - 11.30 she finally crashed into a deep enough sleep we though we could move her (this was after being put in her bed twice and ending up coming back to feed again and again) - nope! ended up cracking the poos, putting her between us and just closing my eyes. no idea what time she eventually crashed, but she got put in her own bed about 3, slept til 5, had another feed. woke again at 6.50 (10 mins before i was getting up to try and get a shower before DH left for work), feeding for 20 mins, then fighting sleep while i had a quick dunk and DH was still around to resettle her. she has now been asleep since then, but it's not a deep sleep - she is stirring a lot. won't get her up til she wakes properly though as we're going shopping with mum today - the more rested she is the better! lol
this is kinda the pattern for most nights for us - which is getting very tiresome. DH and I have a theory that she wants to be an only child and is trying to put us off the idea of another (or is trying to prevent another happening in her own way!) - she is such a beautiful natured little girl most of the time though - her master plan isn't working! we had a bad morning the other morning when she was tired (17 tanties in just over half an hour) - but episodes like that are so few and far between.... she has moments where i wonder what is going through her brain cos she seems so much older and frustrated with her limitations - but mostly, she is a happy, smiley, chatty, engaging little girl. ahhhh mummy is in love!
so, with all this going on, and keeping up with a couple of friends that have had some issues, helping DH find his place in life now that he can't drive trucks, organising E's birthday and getting ready to go back to work, i tend to read, but just not have time to post persies - it's not that i don't care, i just run out of time!! this thread and my baby buddies stay open all day some days with the intention of getting back to it to post - and nothin!
argh - best away - might have time to post in baby buddies before e gets up! or maybe a hot cuppa... decisions decisions...
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Murph enjoy some nanna time I hope you have a great therapy session too.
Grub my Dh is the same re use of things paid for and lots of things sort through scavenging (from friends etc). Thanks for sharing your frostie story tooYes DS sleeps 3x4 hours now at night 7-11 11-3 and 3-7
happy mummy (15-30min feed in there too). Then apauling during the day. Oh I had a lindt bunny for Nanna but last night it disapeared
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Marcellus my sore bit is at the front on the side were a stitch was. ouchy still but a bit itchy so fingers crossed it's healing 7 months is ages, I hope not.
KellyD pg at the drop of a hat has down sides, 3 under 3 4 under 5 (that's my friends) they are so tired and would do anything to have had a little more time in there, before DS I was so envious but now I'm happy it's my call. Well done on organising mums group too.
Saph Linc sleeps in a woombie (sleepsack cos he get's out of wraps) inbetween wedges on his side (I know I know not SIDS recomended but with a windy baby it works better) in a bassinet (for a bit longer) dark room radio on LOUD. Great about Xaviers hips too
Goodluck for today Smithy
OK yesterday was a horror. DSS was suposed to watch Linc who was stiring for 5 minutes while his dad got home and I went for a wax, well I gave him instructions about it's time for a feed etc. DH got home DSS went to his room said nothing. DH though Linc was due for a sleep and when I got home an hour and a half later Linc wasn't feed histerical! OMG. We fed Linc ASAP and DH ripped into DSS, I was so mad but just stayed quiet. He said "I was only going to tell DH if he asked!" because that's what I said. OMG. Did you not hear the screams and did you not think to open your mouth.
So no more baby sitting for DSS and notes will be left for DH. I really was ****ed off though. I also think DH needs to chat to DSS NOW re his feelings I do think he is jelous or something, this is so out of his normally helpful nature.
Linc then was up from 4.30-7.30pm didn't want to sleep, so I just went with it put him on his play mat, he ate double and spewed up but was still hungrey I guess over hungrey. But then got back into his pattern of 4x3 hoour waking. 7am is so much more civilised.
He also seams to go down like a dream at night pat pat out like a light but during the day OMG pat pat sleep, then ahhhhhhhh in his bed, dummy in then ahhhhhhhh with the dummy in, pick up pat pat etc for about 5 mins then out. Who knows what's going on in his head.
Oh how long does it take to change our avitars?
oh green your little boy seems to be settleing a lot now ,what a good bubba boy any sleep is better than none hey lol
hope dh has a chat to him hun and all calms down a bit with him
re avvys hun not long at all usually
MURPH, yay hunny enjoy some nanny time im sure your mum will be so thrilled to see jazzy
GRUB,hello hun thanks for all the luk ,im so excited i tell ya i just hope the inside of the house is as nice as the outside
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Green - hopefuly it won't take that long for you
Saph - me, I would just sleep him on his tummy.... Good news about the hips!
Murph, that's what the Edit Post button is for...
Hiya Grub, BG, Smithy and everyone else.
btw, Lenny's internet crapped out. Not sure when she'll be back
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Grub, E's invites got printed this week ready for me to put magnets on the back and send them out. we had loosely bantered the idea of rainbows for a theme. E has no specific obsessions yet (thankfully) so i thought rainbows would be nice and bright and easy to achieve. i won a half price photo manipulation on FB (gotta love pages that give stuff away!) and gave the girl free reign to do what she wanted - she put a scene together that incorporated E as an angel in a boat, floating in a boat, the earth in the background with a rainbow across it and unicorn as well. it was just perfect - so now we're taking the rainbow/unicorn theme together and using that for her birthday!
we're having a get together here - we have a reasonably sized house and large carport, will set up here, just having a light afternoon tea (homemade sausage rolls, savoury scones, quiches etc), unicorn balloons and stuff. her cake is a present from my ex-boss (who i have remained good friends with) - two layers with a unicorn and rainbow. bottom cake is going to be a swirled choc/white choc mud cake (i hope!), top cake a lighter vanilla type cake (though it will be swirled with chocolate and pink cake as well) that we can remove and freeze to use for a cake smash photo shoot (unless we can arrange photographer for the next day - or i get brave and take them myself).
E's birthday party will wind down and those who want to hang around will be able to hang here for a bit of a late celebration for my 30th. i can't justify putting on two parties in a month and seeing DH is insisting on doing something for my bday, that will do! i have my bday and first mothers day together - why do i need a party as well.
argh! there she goes - better go get her! late nap today cos we were out with mum!
Grub - i read your birth story hun - sounds like a very positive experience for you - well done hun!
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