Grub: Thankyou for the entertainment value RE camping! Feral stalker possum & all! I have to ask though, how far away did you go camping? I ask because around my area the locals go camping every year at Christmas, pack everything up and go to Swansea Caravan Park... 5 minutes away!!! I am totally serious girls! They do this camping in the next suburb, and they go home each day to shower & change! Cracks me up! Is this just a Novocastrian thing or does it happen elsewhere too? I don't think I could do it, the call of my own bed would be too tempting. I'm not really that outdoorsy anyway, never camped in my life but did manage one caravan holiday a few years ago and believe me that was enough!
BW: THat is one of my biggest fears, that DS will kick up a stink in church! Would your priest/pastor allow him to play with some toys on the floor at your feet? I went to a christening last year and the minister called all the kids up the front at thye beginning of the service and placed a great big basket of toys ont he floor in front of him and told th parents not to worry if they got a little rowdy. I thougth it was pretty good.
Neptune & Smithy: You evil women!!! Talking of delicious juicy junk food when I can't even drive to be able to go get me my fix :'(
Murph: Yay for the Moolah!!! Ka-ching!
Green: Thank you! You just made me feel better that my 3 week old is already out of 0000 and even the 000 are getting a bit snug around his beer gut & thunder thighs !
A big to Mumma Mia!
AFU all travelling well here. Little man is snoozing so Mummy is madly checking emails & Facebooking.
Quick question...
Not sure if it is just a growth spurt or what, but last couple of days DS has been waking up screaming for a feed every 2 hours and not really sleeping afterwards. Any advice? Is this a growth spurt or perhaps the S26 formula is not enough for him?
Also we saw the paed surgeon yesterday. Good news is no action to be taken on the tongue tie, he seems to think it will stretch as he grows, and as for the half-descended right testicle he wants to wait 6 months and review. So no nasty procedures after all pheeew (although not impressed, in there less than 5 mins and now empty of $110!)
Also, not sure if anyone else has had this, but DS has suddenly decided he no longer wants to sleep in his bassinette in our room, and as such the last few days has slept in the bassinette attachment in his pram instead. He definitely seems to settle a little better but sleeping in his pram isn't bad for him is it? Going to try him one sleep a day in his cot too to get him ready for the change as he's almost outgrown the pram bassinette. Oh no! My baby in a cot! Not fair he is growing up way too fast!!!
Sorry about the mammoth post... geez who do I think I am??? Grub or something
oh my miss grub, where do you find the time? Your poor husband...
Murph. Glad to see your hard work is paying off
How can she be 6 months already Kelly...? You're lying!
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BOC, you're heading into the 2nd month. Babies are usually more unsettled between 4-8 weeks, or thereabouts. They also have growth spurts at fairly regular intervals.
Biting - I found that taking DS off imediately, putting him down and walking away did the trick. He figured out pretty quickly that if he bit he didn't get milk.
Nothing happening here. Back at work, only waiting on IT fellas to restore my access to the system...dum de dum...
BOC, it seems that those novacastrians that don't go to Swansea go to Stockton instead. I haven't heard of the phenomenon anywhere else but up there. Woodberry born and bred, moved into town when I got married and then moved down here to Windsor about ten years ago. Still go back regularly to visit the family. I've even heard of one group of people taking a portable air conditioner along on one of those "camping" trips. I don't get it!
As for the church thing - Sam simply won't sit and play with toys any more. He wants to run around and climb up the stairs to the stage and yell and shout at people... He used to be really good, but is so disruptive now it's not funny! I'm working on things with DH, and if DH doesn't play ball, I'm going over his head and talking to the pastors - if anyone will get DH to step away from the sound desk and give me a break from Sam so I can be in church and participate, it will be the pastors! I hope, anyway!
Grub - the story just gets better and better when you add in the possum! Thank you for being so entertaining to us all! But seriously, Sam's ok at other people's houses - as long as we can take him to a quiet room to settle him. He's ok in the portacot at my parents' place, was ok on the women's retreat I took him to when he was 6 months old (apart from being so overtired that he had to be settled by someone else the first night - but we'd had a shocker of a drive getting there!). He's even slept on my SIL's bed and that was ok - just so long as you can maintain as many of his regular routines as possible. The lack of headspace in the tent would be a serious issue for anyone, I think!
Green - we went through all sorts of fussy periods where Sam would only catnap, or need to be held to sleep (and stay asleep - that period was fun - NOT!). I don't recall any of them at Linc's age though. But then, Sam was prem and it has thrown a few other things out of the regular schedule so we're not a great example. He's always tended to be a sleepy baby, too - sorry I can't be much help!
Kelly - the swimming lessons sound like fun! We still haven't got Sam started, which is a shame. I was too ill last year, and DH just hasn't got off his butt to organise them yet this year. I'm pretty sure there's a place with a heated pool so it won't be too much of an issue for us getting started in the cooler months.
We seem to be having a few issues lately. DH took the opportunity to work yesterday while I'm on school holidays. Sam slept for three and a half hours in the morning! Had a small catnap in the car on the way home in the afternoon and then spiked a scary fever while I was still home alone and DH was two hours late from work! Scary times. He seems mostly ok this morning, wanted his morning nap fairly early again, woke up but didn't want to be awake so is currently sleeping on my lap... and slowly sending one arm to sleep so I will have to stop typing before I lose feeling completely! I'm just hoping and praying this is related to teething (he's working on four molars on and off lately) and not him getting sick. His immune-suppressed mummy can't afford to get sick at the end of school holidays!
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Murph. Glad to see your hard work is paying off
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