Life is hard here at the moment. Significant work issues along with physical and mental health problems for me. Gastro boy is in the house, too. Both DH and Sam are effected - damned good thing I'm off work for the rest of the week!
But, I wanted to pop in and congratulate Marcellus - you sneaky girl, keeping that so quiet! But so very excited for you!
And secondly - we stopped giving Sam a dream feed when he started having a solid meal at dinner time. Have no idea on whether that's what you're "supposed" to do, it was just what seemed to be a good idea for us, and it worked. I'm a big believer in following your instincts in parenting.
Boc sorry you're having no joy with DS in the cot but a warm room can help and it goes so fast Linc will be 4 months next week.
Grub you made me smile so much thank you. That's so sad for you Sister, life can be awful sometimes. I hope she gives her nephew loads of cuddles.
Oh BW hope things get better soon. Sick house is awful. Hope you stay well
ATM little update, my AL got approved with a humble phone call so I'll only have to work MWF for four weeks so I can ease Linc into Childcare which is just great. DH and Linc have a cold MAN COLD ALERT! I had it too but didn't really get me down NO Time!
Life is back to busy busy with work and Linc, who is getting so active, fighting sleep a little but I guess that's due to enjoying awake more at the moment. If I miss his sleep window it's hard work.
Has anyone tried elevating babies legs when sleeping? Linc still has wind that wakes him, I just caught him pulling his legs up, so I supported them and he farted and settled, so I put a wedge under his legs and he's still sleeping? he's still swaddled so legs are together. Not sure if it's ok to do or not?
Green we have raised the head end for both the boys, dont know about bottom end. You would have to be careful he doesnt slide to the top of the bed. Glad you got your AL and can ease linc into daycare. It must be really hard for you having to leave him. I couldnt imagine having to go back to work yet, one having to leave him but two I would be to tired from getting up to him at night. But then I am extremely luck and get paid mat leave until oct and then will start work again next school year so only 4 months without pay.
Xavier is starting to sleep through til 6am but is not going back to bed after this so I am bit tired because i am losing an hours sleep. He is still a shocking sleeper during the day, but I have come to accept that he is just a cat napper. He is otherwise happy so what can I do about it, nothing, so I have given up trying to force him into a daytime sleep routine. We have finally manage to toilet train Campbell for the third time. He ended up on mass doses of antibiotics to kill the bacteria in his bowels so instead of going 6 times a day with no feeling he is now going once or twice. Thank goodness that one is done. He is also much happier and we only have the occasional accident like the flood I just attended to.
As for the cot he still wont have a bar of it. Put him in the cot and he grizzles, grumps and cries pick him up and put him in the bassenet and he is asleep before I walk out he room. Just going to leave it fopr a few more weeks as we are going away again so will try again after that. We are going to brave camping. Campbell was 12 months old the first time he went camping so we will just wait and see how we go.
Gotta go trying to convince Campbell he needs to have a rest on his bed. Good luck to me.lol
You will know when to cut the dream feed. Like BW we stopped it when Lyla was having milk, then dinner and it seemed ridiculous to be giving her milk again. We now do dinner and the milk and then sleep.
Grub I feel for your sister. I do hope they are successful. It is hard with ivf already let along doing genetic tests on top of that... Ah about passionfruit, well I asked a senior dietician about it and she said that it is o.k. She said passionfruit is good if bub is willing to eat it as it is high in vit c.. a variety of fruits and vegetables is always good.
Hi everyone else.
o.k. bed time now or else I won't be able to wake to go to work tomorrow. I work very early, 7 am just so I could spend time with Lyla in the afternoon... so I envy you girls who are complaining of having to lose early morning sleep
Have been reading whats going on but have been busy here and next week is even worse...
So much has happened with Tara development wise it is scary. So we can now sit up, has 1 tooth (although it is still to show itself) and she can now roll back to tummy to back.... YAY... So her sleeping on her tummy is now a non issue as she can roll herself back, but this now means that she has started to squirm across the floor. Luckily we went and bought a fire guard last weekend it was just in time.
Now she is more than happy to play on the floor by herself on her tummy and she will roll and wriggle to move to get toys she wants to play with. She has even started to pull her legs under her bum and get some leverage to push forward.... so maybe we won't be too far from crawling.
Oh, I'm also booked in to the FS next Friday to start the ball rolling for our FET... As we live in Vic, we now have to do all the police checks etc (even though we have already undergone IVF) and also so I can get my meds underway for hopefully and FET in July. It is all happening again so fast, but I am really excited at possibly being pg again... maybe I will be able to enjoy the next pg more without so much stress. Or maybe not..
Thanks saph Lincs bed is up at the top end so it's more like bringing his feet up so he doesn't slide down. Glad DS is sleeping through Linc was but since having a cold has stopped and wakes ummm way too often 10 11 12 4 5 then 7! If he still fits in bassinet I'd go with the flow I only moved Linc cos he was too big! I'm ready for work just not for child care glad camble is better too, not good when they're sick. Linc is a shocking day sleepwer too and since he's slept better during the day he's worse at night, he still sleeps 1 morning 1 lunch 1 arvo and then an evening sleep (which I can't get him not to have, We've tried) but he wants to sleep from 5-6 then wont sleep again unless I feed him.
Kahlan I'll be doing the same so I'll be up at 5 or 6 starting in 10 days! But I'd rather be home in the arvo.
OK WHY DOES LINC STILL HAVE WIND! I'm over this I tell you, Just when I think he's ok it's back and waking him up, not that it's hurting him just waking him! OMG i can't do 4 wake ups and two feeds at night! although I do feel ok so who knows but when I'm back at work I can't sleep till 7.30am! Maybe if I get dressed for work at 4am feed and crawl back to bed!
yep im back woohoo.
'omg ive missed this place.i have a lot of catching up to do but will get there
all is wonderful here for us all loveing our new house and its so peacefull and beautiful.
we got our delves some chooks and we love them too there named henny and penny and charlie just love looking at them .
my girl is growing so very fast and i cant keep up with clothes for her so off we went shopping today.
question girls has all of bb changed or is it just my computer ?? it looks so weird and different??
anyways ill jump on over the next few days and catch up properly but in the mean time a huge hello to you all and its so good to be back where i feel most comfy ,my good old pal bb
oh by the way a HUGE CONGRATS TO YOU MARCELLUS HUN ,WELL DONE AND I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL PG HUN.
off to update my ticker.
oh wow well congrats to bb on the new changes,im already getting round the place,the only thing i cant work out is how on earth do i except my incoming visitor messages lol?
so happy to be back girls I JUST CANT LIVE WITH OUT BELLY BELLY
I have been MIA too, completely bogged down in assignments and two nasty exams coming up in the next few weeks.
I'm too behind to catch up too much with persies, but:
Huge congrats to Marcellus, that is awesome news!
BW - I'm so sorry you are having a tough time at the moment and hope things pick up for you very soon
Hello to Grub, Murph, Smithy, BG, Kahlan, Janie and everyone else.
We are doing well, Adam is nearly 7 months, sitting up, although a but wobbly lol! He has been moving around the floor on his own since the day he started rolling which was more than a month ago, so we are on high alert! Sometimes finding him in very strange positions in the cot and have to laugh. He chatters away and squeals....well I don't have to tell you girls how delightful that is.
OMG, Tara now has 2 teeth.... We have gone from none to 2 in the space of 5 days. She is not happy today and has been cranky and crying and has only slept for 20 mins. I'm alternating on the panadol and nurofen to help her with the discomfort and hoping she will sleep.
Oh, also my FS appt has been bought forward from next Friday to Monday.... I'm scared and excited all rolled into 1.
hello to you all today girls,not much happening here today,but just had to log on to good old bb lol thank god for having internet back again.
i hope you all have a wonderful weekend ,im off to cook tacos for dinner.
saph we are in that box too poor bubbas. DS still has his runny nose and was going off boob. i basically had to dreamfeed him during the day today to get milk inot him. also cut back o n his solids. but he's teething as well as being a stickbeak so the odds r against me lol.
is anyone elses's reply box really really slow to respond?
hope you all had a great wkend
Welcome back smithy glad the move went well and you're house is peaceful.
Neptune 7 months went so quick i remember you birth anouncement
Grub and Saph my sympothies Linc's been sick for a week now, I've got the heater and humidifier cranking but not sure if it helps much, he's still pretty happy during the day but chesty at night
ATM DH and I had a huge fight last night, I think we're both so over tired it's getting to us and this morning he didn't even say goodbye I didn't even hear him leave and woke to Linc screaming at 5.30am in a dark house. Linc has slept a little better from his horror 1 hourly wake ups on Friday night but still very unsettled but I don't blame him with a blocked nose. Last night I got up at 10pm resettled him three times and then started to cry as DH came in took Linc and proceded to yell at me because he was wet! I checked like 5 mins prior then he got on his high horse about him needing a feed. he used to sleep 6pm - 4am before a feed so 7pm-10pm doesn't mean he NEEDS A FEED! anyway DH threw a fit woke link up heaps and it took me 2 hours to resettle him, then he woke up at 3am and instead of resettling him (my preference) DH got him up I don't know what to do about his angry sugar honey ice tea, I don't do agro (life is too short) and it's getting to me that he can't hold his cool esp over DS. what to do what to do.
I go back to work next week I'm so scared how do you ladies back at work do it? sick bubs, no sleep and work?
oh oh green, you are not alone lovely. Big hugs for you.
DH and I have been a bit snappy at each other lately as well. Just out of tiredness I think but it is still not nice.
I found when DS was really unsettled, one of us had to take the lead and set a pattern/routine for him so he knew what was going to happen (ie doing the same things over and over in terms of settling, getting to sleep, feeding etc) and once that was established the other person was brought up to date on what the system was.
But boo hoo to DH about yelling at you cos bub was wet! does he think you would knowingly let your baby cry or be wet? or that you hadn't thought of that? men!
I hope you can sort it out. You never know maybe he might come home today with an apology or at least willing to talk to you about it. Yes, you are both tired but him yelling at you is not going to give him more sleep!
hope you have a better day than night love. And by the way, i found DS became really unsettled about 4 months old, i think it's a growth thing. ox
To be honest Green, I really don't know how I managed sometimes. I guess you just do because you have to, just like all the rest of parenting. All the best for next week.
Ah, baby colds suck! Hope they're well again soon.
well done
you made me smile so much thank you. That's so sad for you Sister, life can be awful sometimes. I hope she gives her nephew loads of cuddles.
MAN COLD ALERT! I had it too but didn't really get me down NO Time!
glad camble is better too, not good when they're sick. Linc is a shocking day sleepwer too and since he's slept better during the day he's worse at night, he still sleeps 1 morning 1 lunch 1 arvo and then an evening sleep (which I can't get him not to have, We've tried) but he wants to sleep from 5-6 then wont sleep again unless I feed him.
yep im back woohoo.
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DH and I had a huge fight last night, I think we're both so over tired it's getting to us and this morning he didn't even say goodbye 
I didn't even hear him leave and woke to Linc screaming at 5.30am in a dark house. Linc has slept a little better from his horror 1 hourly wake ups on Friday night but still very unsettled but I don't blame him with a blocked nose. Last night I got up at 10pm resettled him three times and then started to cry as DH came in took Linc and proceded to yell at me because he was wet! I checked like 5 mins prior then he got on his high horse about him needing a feed. 
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