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It's okay grub, I'm not after sympathy, I can see the funny side which is why I posted it, thought others might be in need of a laugh too :)
But yes, I definitely need some more sleep. I just realized I haven't had my monthly B12 injection since January so that helps explain why I'm a bit tired and slow. At least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it :ROFL:
Oh Lise, I am laughing with you not at you. Similar thing happened to me with Campbell. Coiuldnt find him anywhere was getting really worried that he had let himself out the front door or something (This was when he was crawling) Complete panic, which is not usual for me. Only to find him sitting in the bath tub eating his toothpaste. He had shut the door climbed in and was having a lovely time. We all do these things from time to time.lol
Happy birthday grub :birthday2:
On my way to the airport to pick up DH, yippeeeeeeeeee :)
lise, i know you probably don't think this.. but gee that went fast ie dh away time!!!
thanks heaps love. having lovely day :) getting spoilt ox
Oh girls, stop me now!
DH has been a bit down about our finances, with me not working for the rest of this year, so we've been looking at our budget. For the first time today I had a serious look at eBay...and now have 9 bids going! I'm justifying it by saying that I'm saving money by not buying new but of course with 9 bids going I'm actually still spending a bit. And the problem is I'm very competitive and don't like losing, even if I have to exceed my maximum bid at the last second :redface:
Anyway, hope everyone had a lovely weekend. Was so lovely having DH home, Finn was so so excited, though initially at the airport he seemed not to really care! Was only when we got home it seemed to click and he was terribly excited. I couldn't feed him or do anything without him trying to look for DH :)
Bit of a mistake there in that BA :lol:, Barney's daughter had a little boy named Bailey Kenneth. Big'un too, 8 pound 11 and if you've ever seen pics of Jess she's a tiny little thing, no idea where she was keeping him LOL. And she had him with only gas!:
Oh big :hug: Hun he is right in the middle of a nasty wonder week, and around 8 months they get major separation anxiety happening too, both day & night. In my birth group at this age there were about a dozen of us at our wits end just like you are now. So rest assured it's quite normal but unfortunately you just have to ride it out for a few weeks. But at least you know what is happening. At this time I would put DS down of a night and he'd be waking 3 or 4 times and by 2am I'd just bundle him in our bed, he'd roll over, grab the front of my pjs and then *snoooooore* he'd be out! Hope he grows out of this stage real soon for ya!:
A big :hello: to everyone else! And :bellyrubs: to our dear preggies!
As for us, DS turned the big 1 on Friday!!! OMG I cannot believe it :o a little depressed that my baby is not such a baby anymore though. Had a lovely gathering at home yesterday (the picnic by the lake got rained out but nevermind).
Anyway better run, DH is home early for once!
boc! he's one!!! gee whiz they are all growing up too fast. But hope he (and you guys) had a lovely day despite the weather!!! :)
i've got a flu atm, ugh and DS just wants to burn off all that energy he has double ugh. so we aren't a good match atm and i'm not looking forward to tomorrow if i'm not feeling better and don't sleep, again! ggrrr grumble grumble grumble.
Oh Grub, I feel for you. I too am feeling yucky. Ended up with only one kid in my class this afternoon so I just watched him play on the computer. How slack.lol
Grub, hope you're feeling okay, I hated getting sick when I was pregnant, especially not being able to take anything!!
Saph, hope you're feeling better too! Glad that you were able to have a lazy day at work!!
BOC, can't believe Jagger is one already! I remember looking at your weekly belly pics and thinking how HUGE you were ;) Glad you had a lovely day xx Hey, have you been raked? Is that what 'love a friend' means?!
Hello from sunny New South Wales!
Well we have made the move and despite dagging around in caravan parks with our dogs and baby in tow, we are through the other side, have rented ourselves a cute little house and it's been total chaos trying to unpack when there are virtually NO cupboards or wardrobes. We absolutely love being in the 'big smoke', but as my cousin said when I told her that, it's not often Orange would be referred as the big smoke. Well after Kangaroo Island and the Daintree, whooee!! Anyway its beautiful and we have good heating and cooling and have tried out the heaters already...we are gonna freeze our bums off but it will be a nice change. Kelly, I can still see you laughing at us, I'm sure it won't really sink in until we see it for ourselves but SNOW? Really? It's all a bit exciting, I nearly wet my pants when we were visiting one of the conservation areas and it said a highlight in Winter is seeing the wombat paw prints in the snow. wombats are only my favourite animal in the world!
But enough about me, how is that gorgeous girl with the computers in her head? She is just wonderful. she has handled the travel and the move like a dream and is having a huge growth spurt and eating everything in sight. She is now almost eating everything we eat which is great because she is a bit of a mouse but she gets what she needs. I am still breast feeding can you believe that? I must be some kind of veteran in this group, it wasn't planned and I thought about stopping a while back but then it works so damn well for us, particularly while teething and settling and if it wasn't the boob she was attached to, it would be something else so it's still a really nice thing to be able to offer that comfort and also nutrition of course. DH is totally supportive so I think it's just a bit of a surprise that I am still going with no end in sight after 17 months and a huge bonus that ended last week is that I didn't have a single visit from Auntie Flo since falling pregnant 26 months ago!!
Jazzy's last adjustment to her cochlears was 8 weeks ago and she is really in need of what's called a MAP (oops, can't remember what it stands for but it's 3am and I'm up with a crook belly after my first Chinese take away in about 5 years!), so we are trying to get her in to the Shepherd Centre in Sydney and I will travel by train to her appointments. Yay, no more ferries and driving:) We've made all the contacts and have to hear back about the details of therapy and audiology. All that aside, Jasmine is just an amazing little joyful thing and is delighting in the sounds she can make. We ditched the funny little hats and bonnets that we used at first to keep the head gear on and now with a life time supply of double-sided tape, we manage to keep the cochlears on for almost the whole day with no need for breaks and no tantrums or turns about putting them on. there is the odd struggle but generally she is getting the whole point and tries to put them back on when they fall off, or before they go on, like yesterday, I was getting the tape ready and she was holding them up to her ear as if they would help her watch telly. It's absolutely amazing to us, she is just so switched on and her listening skills are fantastic. I don't know technically how much she is hearing but at our last trip to Melbourne, she was doing so well that they opened her up to the full range of sound and said she should hear all normal conversation and noises now. She is really trying to mimick and her lips are moving to create sounds although her one word is still "mum mum umumumumum" which is used in all kinds of situations and not necessarily for her wonderful mother;) Therapy with her is all coming together, all those months, day in, day out when she had no hearing at all are paying off and she demonstrates so much ability that we have no worries or fears for her future at all. At 17 months Jazzy is still not walking on her own and I suspect it may be a balance thing, but DH thinks maybe it's because she is working on so many other skills and that also makes sense. She walks with us holding hands and pushes walkers and prams so we just provide those wherever we go so that she can get the hang of it.
Teething teething teething hey! Who knew what it could be like and for how like and for how long? Every time I see someone struggling with unsettled, clingy babies with their routines out of whack, I just think teething. Man it's so constant isn't it? I've discovered a new soother for older babies is a whole lebanese cucumber. It soothes and cools, they get a drink and a feed and sink those sore teeth and gums into the crisp cucumber. Of course I discovered this quite by accident yesterday when she swiped it instead of eating the slices I'd cut her. I am feeling quite a radiant glow of happiness this week when thinking of my feelings for Jazzy so clearly the teething is not too bad because there have been a few times of late where I have called my darling (butter wouldn't melt) toddler, a little turd! Little buggers they can be, biting eyebrows and knee caps and attaching themselves permanently to your leg. what a tough gig, I give babies full respect for that teething lark, that's gotta suck!
I have to comment on something I remember reading a while back. It was a comment by Grub about feeding Ash a ****tail of medicines and it had been censored because it had that word in it! Well it got my attention.
Anyway, I'm meant to be using this good wide awake time to be writing some articles and letters to Ministers I've had hanging around my neck like a big weight because other people want me to do it. It's not really something I've got motivation for now that the fight for Jasmine's surgery and treatment is over. I know that the fight still needs to go on back in Adelaide but somehow that part of my life is a distant memory and I just want to move forward and not fight law cases and seek compensation. I fought when it was important to fight and i did what I could. I would do it differently and not give away so much of my precious time with Jazzy trying to advocate for a better deal. Sometimes s*it just happens and you dust yourself off and move on and for us, we got the best possible outcome from a lousy situation. Blah blah, wake up girls, I'm saying goodbye.xoxo
yayay our Mummy murph is back (like mother smurf hahahaha).
i could feel your happiness and excitement oozing from your post me-deary. Hey I didn't know that c-o-c-k-t-ail was sensored! it's a word, true! lol.
Jazzy sounds devine. as for the walking my besties 1st DS didn't walk til 17 months! and he didn't have to learn to listen either!
So sounds so adorable Murph. They are just such a delight at this age i reckon. Turning into real little people. We think Ash is a bit of a crack pot and he keeps us entertained endlessly with his antics.
Big congrats on the BF!!! i wish Ash and I had the plot together but sadly i must admit i only felt guilt and then relief to stop BF at 7 months to start metformin for this FET. I am sooooo hopeful that it's different this time around and we get BF a lot easier than Ash and I did!!!
just one thing - i had to laugh when you said you were glad to take the train to sydney lol. wait til you do that trip a couple of times and you'll be driving! they send the bodgiest old ex-city trains out to the country areas and they taek forever!!! oh and take a jacket or two cos for some freaking reason those trains are freezing!!!
AFM - still not 100% but getting there slowly. DH came down very sick Friday/saturday and Ash has my yukky cough but apparently no other symptoms (thankfully). So it's been very quiet here atm. Poor Ash needs to get out and play but we aren't well enough to do that atm. I'm about to enter my third trimester so that doesn't help either.
well the child has slept in again but i've just heard him so up we get :) (that's an 8am sleep in 2 days in a row!).
hi to all our mummies. it's been quiet on here so you'll all have to post again now to let us know how you are going :)
Hi Grub, how goes the baby bump, can't believe you're doing this again so soon. Lucky you :)
KellyD wow look at youre bump how's your back going?
Hi Saph how did little Xavier's Birthday go...
BOC I hear you about the babies getting bigger, I look at little Linc all the time and think OMG you're such a little man now.
As for me, what a bad BB member I am. :( been busy and haven't been around much. Moved jobs again, cant seem to find the right fit for me. Balance is hard to find when you're a mum. Going to dip my toes into night shift and see what happens. Oh DF has gone from "no babies" to if we win $1Million.... so I figure there is now room to negotiate.. ;)
Well another one here that has been very slack!
Green oh my how cute is your Linc! Great photo of him. I can't believe how he has grown!
Murph, Jazzy sounds just awesome and you sound really happy also. Don't worry about the walking thing. I didn't walk until I was close to 20 months old and I ended up being a professional dancer, so it didn't hold me back later on. She will get there when she is ready.
Grub glad to hear that you are slowly getting better. Being pregnant and sick sucks as you can't take any of the good stuff!
I hope everyone else is okay, I will try and be better and catch up on where everyone is at.
Afm well my little Jazzy is about to turn 2 on Saturday next week (2 April). I really don't know where the time has gone. She is saying 4-5 word sentences, can jump (sometimes will do this from the moment she gets up until she goes to bed), sings songs, dances like nobody is watching and generally lights up my life every single day. Even the not so great things bring a smile to my face as it shows she is growing up and developing her independence. Such as all the "go away mummy"'s that I get each day. And the "you're naughty mummy"'s are a crack up!
Hope to hear how you are all going.
Janie xxx
Hi Girls
Janie: WOW time has sure flown by. How can 2 years have passed since Jasmine entered your world and changed it for the better. Gotta love the independence of little girls though.
Murph: Good to to hear your move went well and I am waiting for winter so you can post a pic of Jazzy in the snow. I'm so excited to hear how her speech has come along, you have one very clever little girl there and the walking will happen when it happens. All I wanted was for Tara to walk but walking turns into running and geez they can be quick...lol
Green: Good to hear from you and Linc certainly has grown, he looks very cheeky in his photo and good luck on persuading DF to try for another.
Hi to all our other mummies, I am around all the time but finding time and/or energy to post is getting very hard..
Thanks for asking about my growing belly, luckily for us the boys are still tucked up tight and I just need to get passed next week to be able to deliver and stay in Ballarat and based on my size, the size of the babies and my level of discomfort we are thinking they will be here by 36 weeks at the latest.
We are having major teething with Tara at the moment, in the past 2 weeks we have had 2 lower eye teeth come through and now we are waiting for the final lower molar to make a break for it and then all that is left are the top 2 eye teeth. With any luck these will come through before the boys arrive so that hopefully we don't have any teething issues from her until the 2 yr molars stike and that will probably occur just when the boys will start teething. Apart from that I'm very tired, uncomfortable and just over carrying this extra weight around but I just have to talk myself through each day and before we know it our family will have gone from 3 to 5.......
janie!!! Green!! murph!!! all in one day!!! we are spoilt :)
and of course our lovely mummy Kelly - mum of 3 under 2 - so perhaps super mummy would be more apt!!!
It was so good to hear from you green! by your statement about your DF seeming more flexible regarding kids, does that mean you are going to try again soon? if so do you have fet? etc. of course you don't have to answer, i was just curious that's all. I hope you find some work that suits your life atm! It's so hard eh! I'd be in the job market now if i wasn't up the duff again already lol. We moved interstate and the only reason we used our frozen embryo was cos of that... we wanted to make a clean break and with only have 2 frosties just kinda thought "it probably won't work''... HA! First one took!!! I mean after years of IVF and tyring for DS, our first one took!! so i'll have 2 under 2... and probably love every crazy moment!
janie - i also couldn't believe Jazzy would be 2 soon! that's so amazing!!! Now what do you do to make that poor little toddler tell you that you are such a naughty mummy lol. Must be awfully bad me thinks! :)
Now, Lenny! RedRiding! MadB! Boc! Saph! Lise! Come out, come out wherever you are!!!
And all our mummies who haven't posted for awhile... I'd love to hear are you are trundling :) :D
Hey there lovelies, got no time to really get into it yet but please answer my desperate question before I think about going to a doctor. Was your first period back after pregnancy a usual event or more like you were never gonna stop bleeding? I have gone through all the girly gear I got and lastnight I had to resort to Jazzy's nappies and even then went through two and still going. Signed, "help, I'm bleeding" aaaaghgghhh!
Murph I think someone else started a thread on this recently as well, if I remember correctly (as it seems so long ago) but the first one can be really heavy and in your case there has been a lot of time for it to "build up" shall we say. Hopefully it will slow down for you, but keep an eye on if it keeps on going I'd get it checked out to make sure you don't get anemic (sp??) especially seeing you are still BFing.
hey murph, I only had a couple of weeks from post-partum bleeding to period (ggrrrr, got so totally ripped off! and yep i was bf ash full time!)... but from memory the first couple of AFs were horrid. hth.
Thanks Kel, I thought I remembered reading about that way back in the beginning too but this is like after the c-section and I take your point about anaemia as I'm already low in iron.
I've been watching that growing belly of yours Kelly and wow, what an effort to even walk, let alone apologise for not getting on the computer. Where do you position yourself when typing? I really hope the wait is as easy as possible and you can enjoy those last days knowing it was all worth it and you have two amazing little boys that you brought into the world. I'm as clucky as hell and I STARE at new babies, remembering my tiny miracle. Even with a little one, they reach a time when they are not babies and that crazy maternal beast takes over your every thought, wishing you could nurture another one. You've heard my ramblings on that issue, but we are never saying never. I would never believe I would become one of those people who are just drawn to babies and melt at the sight with all the memories flooding back.
Well, gotta go supervise Play School watching (just never know when that Jay and Justine are gonna drop the "F" bomb on my girl's tiny computerised ears:)
Love ya, back later.
OMG Lise! Yes! Apparently I HAVE been RAK-ed! Ooooh so excited! I wonder who it was??? Better go put up a thank you post, but if it's anyone in here, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Mwah!
Oh and Lise, how is the little man going now? Any better?
Wow Janie! 2 already! WOW!!!
Crossing fingers, toes & everything for you Kelly that your boys will hang in there a few weeks more! You must be getting very excited! Seems like only yesterday you were having your ET!
Murph! Hiya! Welcome to NSW! And I second Murph's train tips. I used to work in Sydney and lived at the foot of the Blue Mountains and boy weren't those train trips fun in the old red rattlers, although it was non-airconditioned mid summer. Even more fun after Friday night work drinks LOL. As for the snow, I have never actually seen snow but I bet it will be lovely for you!
Welcome back Green! Wow Linc is getting so big! Good luck on winning the $1mil! LOL
Hiya Grubster! How's it going?
AFU, not a lot going on. DS has had a respiratory infection and been on ABs & the nebuliser 3 times a day. The neb was a struggle the first day-ish but now he just sits there holding the mask himself and singing lol what a little cutie!
Oh and we have now transitioned into a cloth-bummed household!!! I'm slowly transitioning, have 8 of various brands and 4 more on the way but am totally loving my new addiction! Kicking myself I didn't go cloth from the start!
And we are taking a break from the TTC journey. We've just changed health funds & the new one supposedly covers everything so we have a 12mth wait on our hands. TBH, I'm kinda glad. I was getting so stressed about finding the money and then going through another full downreg cycle and still dealing with the last one. I'm also enjoying DS so much at the moment, I just don't think the time is right.
Anyway, must run, DS has decided the dog's ears need stretching (as if they're not long enough!) and she's looking at me with a "HELP!" expression! BBL!
Wow, so much action in here at the moment :)
Woo hoo BOC, yay for being RAKed! Can't wait ti see your avy. Glad you've made a decision about TTC #2 you're happy with. Now you can relax and enjoy spending time with your gorgeous little boy.
Murph, I had AF return about five months in but for the first few months I only bled for one day, it's only the last two I've had normal bleeding. Hope you feel better soon! And yay for moving, hope you enjoy Orange.
Kelly, how are you going? You're doing such a good job of cooking those boys, hope you're getting some rest and relief.
Janie, cannot believe Jazzy is almost two!!! She sounds like a gorgeous little girl.
Green good to hear from you! Wow, Linc is huge, and so cute! Hope night shift works for you, I haven't made it back to work yet so I do admire those who have.
Grub, oi, I've been on here HEAPS (well for me!) lately ;) Glad you're getting some sleep ins, hope you're feeling heaps better.
Okay, I think that's it?
We're going well. Finn seems to have settled down again sleep wise, though I'm still having to feed him to sleep most nights. Okay every night. BUT, he does now frequently go to sleep by himself during the day, I didn't think that day would ever happen!!
And our other news is that we have made an appointment with our FS in Melbourne to talk about #2. We only have one frozen embie left so we'll go back to Melbourne for this treatment, if it works then fantastic, if not, then we'll start treatment here. We haven't done a FET before so not sure what to expect. The only thing I know is that I'll have to stop breastfeeding for three months prior to treatment? Anyway, I guess this is why we have our appointment.
Well someone is waking up so better run. Hope all is well xx
Lise I went back to work when Linc was 4 months and cried almost daily untill I left that job in December, I'm in a better place but still two jobs on the go. Wish I could find one 3 day job that paid well......... #2's must be in the air hay... so exciting.
BOC sorry to hear about DS infection :( not fun. Good to take a break from TTC if you're stressed not a good combo.
Murph, hope you enjoyed playschool,
Grub happy to answer, we have 3 frosties and that is my ONLY hope, DF wouldn't go through ICSI again, he's a woose. I think that if there's a will I can negotiate the money stuff that's easy. Enjoy not working If #2 happens I'm taking at least 6 months off this time.
Kelly teething is nasty I hate, hate hate it. I read about "Baltic Amber" have been thinking about it, any thoughts?
Wow Janie a 2nd Birthday, Jazzy will really be into it... how much fun.
ATM enjoying my only day off this week, just put Linc down for a nap he's only had one nap a day for a week, and was going down at 9.30-10 too early waking at noon and KRANKY by 4, so I stretched him (with the wiggles) till 11.30, fingers crossed happier baby. DF is getting his bandages off tomorrow (elbow and wrist surgurey for carpel tunnel) hope he's in a better mood... Men aren't great at pain are they :rolleyes:
fingers crossed for you green! it only took us one! Mind you i am so loving having DS atm that I kind of feel like BOC - i do wish we could have waited a bit longer and probably would have if we didn't have to move etc So BOC, enjoy him while you can!!
green - i remember you went back early, i don't know how you do it! i'm in awe! Oh and DS was the same. He'd sort of need a morning nap but needed a day sleep more. So i do the same and just stretch him out to 11.30/12 (fortunately we do a couple of play grops which keep him well occupied) and i find he goes down no problem when I put him to bed... and atm does a between 90 mins and three hours. he's also much happier to sit and play in his cot quietly in the morns and arvos, so i get a rest at taht time too!!!
yeah i know lise - i just didn't not want to mention you lol iykwim. grub logic dat is! :)
murph, gotta love playschool! its the only program ash watches (if yo don't count the rSpca and pedigree dog ads lol he loves animals!)... the other day they did a kissing song and Ashton started blowing kisses back to Justine. then when DH got home Ash just ekpt puckering up for daddy and giving him full on mouth kisses lol. mummy didn't get a look in and I'd been trying to teach him to blow kisses for ages!
seems he also likes johnny cash :) lol. and does this strange little dance thing! oh and we've taught him tiger hands - he walks around doing them too cute!
Oh Grub... just had to share! I was in Charlie Square today, and near the glass elevator was standing a preggy girl in a lovely purple dress, and my she looked like you! And she had a boy about Ashton's age in a pram. I was sure it was you! I was walking towards her, going to ask if it WAS you, got right up close... then I remembered that you moved away bahahahahaha! She sure did give me a funny look though!
lol was i pretty??? No i was at home dribbling on my pillow for my arvo nap.... You'll know when you see me, I'm the one with my dress tucked into my undies and spagetti down the front of my top (yes, that's no exaggeration, i just killed my last white tee!)
oh and the child chucking a squealing tantrum... and I probably just tripped over my own feet... lol.
:ROFL: imagine if you went up and said "hi grub!" that lady would have had a complex. But I hope we do get to meet one day!!! :)
Green Finn often has just one nap during the day but he usually doesn't wake till between 7-8 so if we're doing stuff in the morning ( which is about 3 days per week) he'll stay up till about 12/1 then have a big sleep. Seems to work for us though I did think 7 months was a little young to have just one nap!!
Hehe BOC, thats funny! I have to confess that I did/do always look for you and Grub when I'm in Newcastle, and this started before I knew what you looked like. Don't know how I thought I was going to recognise you... ;)
Well I just weighed my little heffalump - one week off 9 months and just over 10 kgs. And here I was worried he wasn't eating enough solids :ROFL:
Hope everyone is having a lovely Tuesday :)
Lise you'll have to let me know next time you're coming up this way, we can arrange to meet for coffee or something!
Hehe it was funny! And I must confess, it wasn't the first time! Late last week I almost approached a old school friend's husband, he is a SAHD and I was going to ask how their 6 mth old bub was and have a chat, until I realised he wouldn't have the foggiest idea who I was as I'd never met him before, I'd only seen him in her FB photos! Oops!
One of the downsides of having a really good memory for faces & names LOL
Alright I'd better get off here, little monkey has only slept half an hour since 5am and if I don't get him another half hour to an hour now he'll be asleep in his dinner!!! Little blighter seems to have developed an aversion to his room at the moment too. Screams even when I'm walking towards it! So for now he will only nap in his pram or in the car! Grrrr frustrating! :wall:
BOC, I did that to a friend's husband in Woolies! I'd only seen him in her FB photos and I went and introduced myself. I'm sure he thought I was a complete freak, when I told my friend (his wife) she said he's really really shy!! Oh well, I'm a sociable person, even though he didn't know me I would have felt rude not saying anything ;)
And will definitely let you know when we're up that way next. We don't go up that often, a shame because I do like Newcastle but can't stand DH's parents. Bad daughter in law!!
lol lise - likeing newcastle not the company there! if you are up in darwin (or anyone of you lovely ladies) I'll meet you for coffee... i may even agree to lunch if you are really nice to me lol.
Lise, that is exactly what ash is doing atm. wakes between 7 and 8am (although yesterday it was 8.30am!!!!) then we go out and have a busy morning at swimming or playgroup or whatever and he's in bed between midday and 1pm and usually sleeps til about 2.30/3pm (so do i lol). But he's well and truly ready to go back to bed by 7pm.
it's funny how you worry so much about stuff isn't it! 10kg is doing great guns! I have found that Ash's weight gain has really plateaued now he's past 1. He was eating more at 8 months than he is now! He's 10.8kg but has always been a long, thin boy.
omg BOC what are you going to do about this "i don't like my room" thing? i hope it's just a short phase! hope he went back to sleep for you.
I just had a 90 min preg massage - aaahhhh devine :)
Hi Ladies, I popped in once or twice after having Rossi and then just seemed to get too busy to regularly pop back in. I've got Rossi on a schedule now (Contented Little Baby, Gina Ford), and at least now I know when I'll be feeding, sleeping, wiping my bum ;)
Juniper, good to see that you popped your head in, I hope you're doing well.
Sorry ladies, but can you explain the earlier post about Barney? Left us?
My little bundle is just over 3mths and 7kg so I think he's getting enough milk but I'd like your opinions...... Rossi tends to feed only for a maximum of 10minutes on each side so I worry he's not getting the hind milk. In the last fortnight he's also decided that he doesn't like the right side maybe 75% of the time and cries and back arches the whole time. I end up expressing from that side so I'm not walking around lopsided! He's a cloth bummed baby so I'm constantly folding more nappies so I KNOW he's peeing up a storm every day. The other new thing is that he's only doing #2's every maybe 4 days, when he used to dirty 2-3 nappies a day. Each night when I massage him I make sure to concentrate on his belly and I'm cycling his legs. He last went on about Thurs or Fri last week, and prior to then he went on the Monday.
The other thing is that he's forgotten how to use a bottle :( I went a month without giving him one and now I can't get him to take one.
Everything all at once!! Why?! Any ideas ladies? Do u think I should try some diluted juice? I can get him to have only a couple Mls using a medicine spoon, wonder if that would be enough to get his bowels moving? That's if he even is constipated, as I've read that some babies can go a week at a time....(seems odd to me!)
Okay, I promise to spend more time in here and try to sort out who's who in the zoo!
Lise, can't believe Finn is 8mths already?!!!! It seems like just yesterday you were in the preg thread and we were all waiting with baited breath for your BA! good luck with your frostie!!
Chrissy.
The good news is that with this new routine he's pretty much sleeping from the dream feed thru to about 5am so we're a bit closer to sleeping through.
ck glad you came back :) I can't say anything about barney cos I don't know anything. I'm not sure why she left or whatever. it was all pretty sudden to me too so sorry i can't help more.
as for feeds - he sounds pretty right to me. Ash would only feed for about 5 mins each side from when he was born and like you, i spent a lot of time worrying he wasn't getting enough etc. in the end i figured my let down must be fast enough and him efficient enough at feeding that he gets what he needs. Remember he's had a lot of practice now he's 3 months old so probably is just good at getting what he needs.
So long as he's doing plenty of wet nappies and his poos aren't little rocks, he's fine and pretty normal to my ears lol. I wouldn't be giving him juice unless you are sure he's constipated... serioulsy a week is normal and yay that's less pooey nappies you have to hose off lol.
oh and the fact he's sleeping so well for you atm is a really good indicator that he's getting plenty of milk (and that weight is fantastic!). I know it's really hard, but do try not to worry. He'll certainly let you know when/if he's hungry. As for bottle refusal, cna't help you there... i think that's just a sign of what a great job you are doing. Why not freeze that milk? in a few months he'll be starting solids and you'll want to put breast milk into his first foods etc so doesn't hurt to have a stash :)
i can't help you with the refusing one side, maybe it doesn't come out as quick or soemthing and he would rather the other??? someone else will probably know more.
oh and make sure you rub his belly in clockwise movements and bicycle legs are great :)
hope that helps you a bit. I'm by no means no expert but you sound like me this time last year! I was paranoid that 5 mins every 3 or 4 hrs wasn't enough! but go by weight gain and wet nappies and don't stress about hte poo :) oxoxo
Thanks Grub :) His weight gain has slowed off a bit in the last 3 weeks and he's currently only averaging 159gm gain each week, when I average out the last month (yet he was supposed to have a growth spurt in there too?!) Gees, next I'll be worrying about teething, then solids...fantastic!
Good to know that his feeding is nothing to fret about, and that the lack of pooey nappies can be quite normal!
Well it looks like the rain has decided to set in today so it's as good a day as any I guess to do some housework, :-(
Hey Chrissy, sounds like you're doing a GREAT job with Rossi!! Finn was a pretty quick feeder also, like Grub said, once they're a bit bigger and have the hang of it a bit more it doesn't always take so long. And Finn also favoured one side (still does really) so that's normal too. As is pooing once a week, something else Finn did for a while. So basically everything Grub said!!! As long as he's happy and putting on weight and has plenty of wet nappies then all is good :) To start with Finn put on about 300 grams per week so when he started putting on less than 200 I was concerned, but the mach nurses said about 150 is good so you're doing fine!
Grub, glad you enjoyed your massage - was it a proper preggie table with a hole for your belly?!
Hi all still around. been reading but have been sick and now have 2 sick boys. Just took them both to the doc and they are both on antibiotics. Hopefully that will make them all better and I can get some much needed sleep.
Well I am very excited and a little scared. Our finacne was all approve for the investment prop and the extension to our house. So we are now the proud owners of an absolutely huge debt. lol It is all good really, at worst case it will only cost us about $150 per week and that is without taking into consideration the massive tax reduction that it gives us. We never would have realised we could afford an investment prop if we hadnt gone to a finacial service company. They were expensive but really great.
CK dont worry about the 150g weight gain that is fine. When DS1 was a baby he would only put on 20 - 50g a week and they werent overly concerned about that because he was putting on weight. Both my boys feed in under 10 mins they just get good at it. My advice is get them weighed at the check ups and dont stress about it. Your baby will let you know when they are hungry and just enjoy your time with them as they grow up to fast. We are past the baby stage and will never get that back now so enjoy every minute of it because it will be over soon.
Hope everyone is doing great.
yeah chrissy i spent the first ten months in guilt trip hell. worry about feeding, about weight, about solids, about about about about everything! I think it just comes with the territory and you will learn to relax (a bit lol).
lise -re the massage, i just laid on my side, but it was by a qualified lady. OMG last night i got the WORST leg cramp ever. you remember those from when you were up the duff! it still hurts!! i woke DH screaming out in pain and he had to rub it for me... then i had to wait about 5 mins before i could walk to the loo! So all those girls 'thinking' of tyring again.... remember the glory of pregnancy! ugh.
saph - i hope you all get better soon! one sick kid is bad enough, i can't imagine two of 'em. at least the ABs tned to work pretty fast.
it's gorgeous and rainy and cool here today. am loving it! just spend $200 on groceries but seem to have no food int he fridge... every happen to you?? oven cleaner, glad bake, cleaning cloths, meat, veg for dinner... geez it adds up.
yawn. might see if bub would like a sleep... i know i would lol. He's busy taking the shoes out of their home and 'ta-ing' them to me on the lounge. surrounded by shoes! at least he's not trying to put them on my feet today lol.
Hi all,
Just back from a lovely holiday. There are WAAY too many pages for me to go back and read...so I won't even try. I read this page though ;)
Grub - wow, June is approaching fast, how exciting.
BOC - glad you like the cloth, it can be addictive. I waited til DS1 was 11 months, but in the long run it was still well worth it. Even though sometimes winter in Vic can make my study resemble a chinese laundry.
lise - i weaned DS1 in order to go back for another try. That was what my FS wanted. I do know that some women have not weaned and still conceived, but i felt that it was something that might just make the difference for us, so i took that decision.
CK77 - just when you think you know what they are up to - those little darlings change their minds. Keep offering both sides when you bf, one day he'll be hungry enough and latch on and you'll be complaining that he doesn't like the other side! And same goes with the poos. Some babies poos every feed, some poo once a week. I don't know what sounds worse...I'd hate to see the size of a once a week poo :). There is very little waste in breastmilk, so don't worry too much if they don't poo all the time. My Ds2 is 14 months and he has weighed the same (under 10kgs) for months now. You'll know when there is something wrong with his intake, you'll just sense if things aren't quite right. Keep asking for advice though - but remember to filter some of it too!!!
Poor Aidan caught chicken pox while we were on holiday:( and then when we got back Liam got gastro...and then gave it to me and DH too!! Yuck, there was a lot of sick people in our house. We 'postponed' Liam's 3rd birthday until we could all face looking at food again. He's only 3 so he didn't know the difference!
Oh, jealous of your lovely holiday Lenny! Hope it was not too hard returning to real life ;) I've also heard that some women continue to bf and are able to conceive but this is our only frozen embie so I'd rather not take any chances. We're not in any immediate rush so my plan is still to feed DS until he's one. I just haven't done a FET before so don't know what to do, hence our early appointment.
Saph, hope the scary feelings have been taken over by the excited feelings! What extensions are you having done? I'd love to extend too but with not working and a big mortgage it's not going to happen for many years!
Grub, ahhh, leg cramps. You can keep those! Hope you haven't had any more! I was REALLY lucky when pregnant with Finn, didn't have any ms, leg cramps, indigestion etc at all! I'm sure if I get pregnant again I'll get them all!!
Hello to everyone else, hope you're going well. I've got a bit of a sad boy at the moment, another two teeth through yesterday (one bottom, one top) so I'm assuming the others are close behind since they always are. I feel really bad, I could see the top one coming but had no idea about the bottom one u til it was through! Might help explain why sleep is still a bit all over the place...!
Anyway, hope everyone has a lovely weekend - we're off to get a treadmill so I can start running again and lose my butt. I did so well in losing all my baby weight and then I started on ad's and have put on 8kgs. Grrrrrrrrr.
Hi gals.
I never find enough time to actually post in here, sorry.
Just quickly - CK, your little one sounds absolutely perfect as is. :D Poos and weight gains both slow by now, though 150g is still a big gain for over 3 months.
saph I hope the kdis are doing better.
I am not looking forward to teething mark 2....
It's A's 3rd birthday party on Sunday.Yes, we're actually doing a party this year :lol:
poor little liam :(
not long grub! your avvy can gp back to being a svelt little grub
New Avvy! :D
BOC yummy mummy