Hi all sorry Ihave been MIA we were away on holidays and then I got sick. Darn gastro if only the kgs stayed off permenantly. Otherwise we are doing well. Xavier is settling into something of a routine and is growing so fast. We are still struggling with Campbells toileting and have now discussed it with his paed. He is on some strong antibiotics to kill all the bacteria in his intestines as he thinks this might be the issue.
Two exciting and interesting thinks are happening. My bestie is having her baby tomorrow. I so cant wait i am hoping she has a girl I want to by pink. We have had four boy born in our family this year.
Number 2 is I have inquired about donating milk to the human milk bank for premmie babies. I have such a huge supply that I have more than enough for Xavier. Will have to wait an see because i may not beable to because I had the blood transfussion.
Janie hope you and your mum are having a great time loads of cuppa's and chats
Smithy glad you love your new house great it's quiet too
Saph glad to hear Xavier is in a ruitine does that mean he's sleeping more for you at night? toilet training ahhhhhh not looking forward to that. How was your holiday? relaxing?
ATM little holiday on KI on the weekend Linc in the porta cot and he was good, although he was really windy and a bit chucky too but it passed who knows. Off to mums group for the first time today, really nervous but I think It'll be good for me 2pm so there is less stress about getting up and organised.
Getting mums house cleaned for mothers day tomorrow I hope she notices.
I'M BBAAACCKKKK MMMWWAAAAHHHH long post here i come!
Hi girls, been reading the posts but not a lot of spare time lately. Hey where's Murphy, you gone AWOL on us lady?
Neptune - thanks for the kudos love. good on you for logging those runs. I havven't been out for ages (i'll explain below) but the last run i did was about 3.5km, which i was happy with. I really want to get back to daily 10kers again soon, plus have a friend's wedding in a couple of months and all the kids from school will be there, so want to look fab! lol. Did you hear back from the prof about the counselling?
Janie is your mum there yet? so exciting. mine is coming from the other end of the country in a few week's time, i'm also excited... can't wait to show of bubba.
KellyD - yay for inlaws leaving! we just had a week staying with them and it has been a trial for Ashton. don't get me wrong, he loved the attention and got used to all the new faces pretty quickly, but we've paid for it since we got home! What brand is your portacot? did you find it sunk a bit in the middle? Ash would not sleep in the portacot, thankfully a friend lent us a bassinette, which he only just fitted into. and what a smart little girl you have there! sitting up!
green - did your boss agree to one day a week? and what a great idea for mum's day!
Hi smithy!!!
BG- the BLS advice is really appreciated. its so good to hear what others are doing.
hey sammie - sounds like you guys are rocking alogn very well. i love the name Colt too
hi BW - just remember, you can make such a difference to kids' lives. even if they don't appreciate it now, they will later. how fondly do we all remember those genuinely good teachers who obviously loved to teach and liked kids! it makes a real difference to people's lives.. and you probabl don't get paid enough either!
hey boc how are you going love? what is happening with you guys atm
Poppy - is it warming up over there yet? lol. any news? exciting happenings? ooh it's election time isn't it, do you think there'll be much of a shake up?
hi marcellus and lenny hope you girls are great.
AFU - well we are back home from tassie and as a result had one very unhappy overtired baby. In fact up until last night, we had about 3 weeks of unsettledness... started with a wonder week at 17 weeks, then immunisations and flying to tassie at 18 weeks then the week in tas and then home at 19 weeks. I haven't had more than 2 hrs sleep in a row in all that time!
He did NOT like the portacot, would only sleep in snatches in the bassinette, ended up sleeping in my arms most of the time just so he would actually get some sleep. Got home and he was wakign all the time, feeding all the time, not resettling, not going down happy and being pretty grumpy aarrgggh. exactly like having a newborn again! brh
to cap it off he's gone back to 25th percentile for his weight but up to 90th for his length!! gee, tall, thin... hmm sounds like hubby
Also we started solids. I know, it's very early and I was intending to wait til 6 months and do what BG has done.. BLS.. but the doc advised us to try him on solids with all the waking, unsettledness, extra feeding and not as much weight gain.
and oh, my, goodness. He does this crazy little dance when he sees his food bowl and eats it all! (mind you i'm not giving him too much). WE are taking it very slow, he's had about a week of farex with booby milk; then introduced pureed pumpkin and this morn added potato.
I can't believe him, he eats the whole lot, hardly spitting any out. grabs the spoon and puts it in his mouth as well. Anyhoo, I've noticed he's chubbed up a fair bit and seems a lot brighter than before. Fortunately we have steamed veg nearly every night, so making his food is so easy for us lol. the most time consumign part is pumping milk to mix with it but i think i'm going to slowly go over to using boiled water... any thoughts there girls?
But we were still having sleep issues. so rang tresillian last night... i suspect he was over tired and being kept up too long. So last night, in bed by 7pm, rocked to sleep and put down. fed at 9.30pm when he woke, rocked to sleep and put into cot... slept til 1.30am (that is a huge acheivement, it has been only til 11.30pm after a 9.30pm feed) had a feed, fell asleep with eating, Went into his cot happily again, and didn't hear boo til 6.30am!!!!! then only wanted a nappy change, small drink and back to bed til 8.30am.
When he woke i offered booby 3 times, with 5 min break inbetween (placed in his cot for quiet, unstimulated time) and he didn't want it. so made his puree breakky and he ate it all then finished iwth a small booby feed??? So was a bit confused by this as he seemed to know it was solids time and he didn't want booby? any thoughts ther girls? just go with it do you think?
anyhoo the even more exciting part comes next, about 9.45am i stopped playtime, changed him, read a book in his room and had a little cuddle and rock. put him to bed awake with dummy... said ''nigh, nigh'' and walked out of the room.... AND HE WENT TO SLEEP BY HIMSELF... hhhoooorrrraaayyyy. So that was an hour ago! and not a peep!
please keep your fingers crossed he sleeps til at least 12.30pm then will have a good booby feed
i'm sure i've jinxed myself by hoorraying his sleep last night, but i really hope we've turned a corner now! don't mind doing a 9/10pm feed and an early hours 1/3am feed but feeding every 2-3 hours over night was killing me!
Also, post wonder week - he's really changed again. is much more coodinated and apparently nearly everything mummy does is funny. Even when he's screaming, once i settle him, he'll turn to me and laugh!!! WTF! we tell him that it's not nice to laugh at someone you were just screaming at 30 seconds ago! lol.
So anyhoo, we aren't putting him up for adoption just yet hahhhaahhaaha
waffle waffle waffle... now... i have spare time, and not baby is sleeping on me. what to do? what to do? oxoxo
Hi Grub, I haven't met with boss yet next Tuesday I put it off cos Linc was unsettled last week and I was too mad to chat with her cos I think she'll say no but I have 6 days Annual leave and 2RDO's so I can have 8 Thursdays off anyways (evil laugh) I will get what I want then I'm hoping Nana will take Linc for another 1/2 day OMG three weeks! I'm so lucky Linc will sleep (not that well) but anywere for now. so great to hear the solids are going down well now for some more sleep form mummy.
Today I had a mini melt down (linc did anyways) I'm trying to not let him snack feed in the hope he sleeps better during the day, so I'm not feeding him earlier than 3 hours. It's hard work and he woke up so hystericle (spelling??) and when I fed him he ate so fast he gaged threw up and cried for an hour. OMG but he is sleeping really well so maybe it's worth it. Mother group was ok but a bit odd will give it a go though.
But I did want to pop in today and give a big It's just sinking in for me It's going to be my first Mothers day so so so excited and wanted to share my joy.
Green - so funny you say that about Mother's Day.....I am going down to Melbourne to see my mum in Melbourne, as i always do, and i keep forgetting that I am now a mum!!!!! Very odd. Sorry about your melt-down, hope Linc settles for you soon.
Grub - hi love, welcome back from tassie, again hope that little cute Ash settles after his big trip. it does seem to upset them doesn't it? No wonder you haven't been running, what kind of spare time have you had????? None I'm guessing.
Hi to everyone else, sorry for lack of persies, I'm just knackered and need to get on with an essay blurrrgggghhhh.
AFM: Adam is a little unsettled at night at the moment, can't quite work out why, so just trying go with the flow. He is waking and crying out from a bout 3am, but when I go in there, he is sound asleep. Then he is waking full-on at about 545am. This is a huge change from sleeping until 7am without a peep......I realise that i have been very lucky and the honeymoon is over, but I would love to work out why all of a sudden. Teething? Maybe, who knows. Anyway, because I am a bit of an anxious bunny, the first cry at 3am wakes me, I check on him, then I am lucky to go back to sleep at all until he gets me up for his brekkie. So i am pretty sleep deprived at the moment. Plus, my dog is waking me to go out for a wee at 11pm, 1am, 4am....don't know whether she really needs to go, but think I am being manipulated hahaha, but don't want dog pi$$ in the house! Anyway, I am sure it will settle soon.
I now have the name of a psychologist who specialises in hoarding......but have I done anything about it??? Not yet, but i have showed DH the name, and I keep showing him units/flats for rent that I could move into, or pet friendly places for all of us to go.....so he is getting the message loud and clear that I mean business. For the first time in YEARS he sat down with me and told me what he is going to achieve in the next 2 months...it wasn't much in the moving stuff OUT of the house, but it was enough to clear the lounge, the hallway and make the other rooms safe enough. In the past his plans have been huge and in my opinion too big for what he's capable in a small time frame. This was far more realistic; i felt disappointed at what he told me he would do, but now that I"ve thought about it, I think he is being realistic for the first time ever and maybe he will do it. I told him that I will still move out for Adam's sake if he does not do this.
So I don't feel like counseling for me at this point, but may need it down the track. I feel better, finger's crossed.
Hi everyone
I've been reading but too slack to post, sorry . Those taking the time for all those persies put me to shame.
A has a cold and is not sleeping much. He's been in bed with me the past few nights. It's cute, really. I go in in the middle of the night. He sits up, clasping his teddy and water bottle and says: Mum take me to mum and dad bed.
DS does that neptune - yelling, crying then fast asleep. does my head in, cause it jolts you awake and it takes ages to get back to sleep. Don't want to turn the monitor off though because he still wakes at night sometimes and our room is at the other end of the house. Glad to hear your DH has a realistic plan.
All the best for sorting out work Green.
Murph - hope the sleeping is improving for you. On the booby feed question, the only thing I would say is be wary of replacing milk at this age. In the early days solids should be a complement to, not replacement of milk. That's why they usually reocmmend boob first. But then if he does it the other way but still has plenty of milk then it guess that's fine. How old is he now? He can put the spoon in his mouth - that's pretty good! Sounds like he's been growing upwards more than outwards recently - little bean pole.
Hey Saph, did you find out about donating milk? I think that'd be an awesome thing to do.
What a relief Kelly!
Hi Sammie and welcome! Never mind the housework. I still don't do any. Hope the scar is healing up ok though
Hope you had a nice time with your mum Janie.
Well, must dash. I'm actually supposed to be working :P
Marcellus - yes I found the milk donation place. Unfortunately they require donors with there own electric pump at the moment as they have none avaliable. I dont have one only a manual one which is fine for us as Xavier refuses to take a bottle so i only need to express for comfort. The other down side is you have to deliver it to pmh for storage. I live uo near Joondalup so the trek to pmh with 2 kids is beyond me at the moment. So for the moment Xavier is going to continue getting extremely fat with my abundance of milk. We have all decided that his vomiting is due to the fact that he is a little pig and gets to much milk the vomiting is just excess.
Hope everyone is doing well, Xavier is waking so off to do the grocccery shopping.
Smithy: Glad you love the new place, we missed you!
Grub: I too get the screaming then the big grin! Does my head in! But I can never stay mad at that cute little face!
We are all good here. DS is a little tank, weighs 5.5kg @ 6weeks, put on 840g in 2 weeks, then 450g the following week , yep that's 2kg since birth! So much for him "not thriving" if I chose to bottle feed! He's out of 0000 and some of the 000 are getting a little snug around the beer gut.
To all those with unsettled bubs, thank you, you have made me feel a little more normal! I'm used to hearing of my cousins with their bubs, 13 weeks (slept 11.5hrs a night from 7 weeks) and 15weeks (slept 6-8hrs a night from 5weeks) and it drives me mental! We were still going every 3 hrs. But last Thurs DS went for needles (can you believe 6 weeks already???) and I got Doc to check him and he has reflux AND is lactose intolerant so is now on specially made Losec solution & is on De-Lact formula and we mostly seem to get 4hrly feeds at night.
Spent the weekend at my parents and he slept like a dream in the porta-cot. Wonder why he won't sleep in his OWN cot??? He'll lay there and kick for 30-40mins then it's WAAAAHHHHH!!!
Ahhh Mothers Day, will be so much nicer this year. Last year I had just had my first ICSI and a week before Mother's Day did a HPT and got a BFP. Then the next Friday had my BT & they said I was BFP but that something was wrong and chances were it would end in a miscarriage. So Mother's Day was not a very nice day. My family tried to be positive and make it a good day for me but I spent most of it in tears. Then the Tuesday after the inevitable happened. Can't believe it's been a year already. But at least the only tears this year will be of happiness.
Interesting though, dion't know how to approach the 1yr anniversary, I want to acknowledge it but DH has never accepted what happened. He believed "nothing was there" becasue it was so early (5weeks) and wasn't a foetus yet and when I Mc-ed he got really angry and told me I had no right to be upset cause nothing really happened and that I should have been prepared for it to go wrong. Since then he has acknowledged it for my sake but still admits he has no feeling towards it himself. I don't know what to do about that. Any thoughts?
Anyway had better go, trying to get him to settle in his cot, he's gone from the attention-seeking whinges to full blown "get me out of here" screaming *sigh*
I hope she notices.
but I have 6 days Annual leave and 2RDO's so I can have 8 Thursdays off anyways (evil laugh) I will get what I want then I'm hoping Nana will take Linc for another 1/2 day 
OMG three weeks! I'm so lucky Linc will sleep (not that well) but anywere for now. so great to hear the solids are going down well 
It's just sinking in for me It's going to be my first Mothers day 
so so so excited and wanted to share my joy.
. Those taking the time for all those persies put me to shame.
everyone!
, yep that's 2kg since birth! So much for him "not thriving" if I chose to bottle feed! He's out of 0000 and some of the 000 are getting a little snug around the beer gut.
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