Parenting After LT TTC ~ January - April 2008

[onthefly]

Hi - guess everyone's super busy at the moment. No great surprise, hey?
Aric is 10 weeks old today - already!
His sleeping routine has been a bit mucked up lately and we're trying very hard to get him to sleep at all during the day and his night sleeps are getting shorter and shorter. poor thing is just soooo overtired. Just got the no-cry sleep solution from the library, so hoping we can get some help in there. Don't really appreciate my mum telling me that he'll 'have' to cry it out at some point.... i don't really see why.
I'm back at work now - poor me. not much else to report, though our dear son did a big runny poo on the spare bed last night - DH was up with him and had to clean up . Anyone else feel like they've become poo obsessed? W'e're always checking to see what colour it is....

[onthefly]

Hey - congratulations Kimnastics! Just noticed your signature

The book's been really useful - we havn't instituted our 'plan' yet, but after he's settled and rested better we will. I'm a bit loath to put him out in his cot - the master bedroom is right out the front of the house, and the other rooms are out the back. We're considering sleeping out the back as well to be closer. IF nothing else it's a practical consideration - I don't want to have to get up and walk that far to feed him each night. Co-sleeping doesn't really work too well for us - we all disturb each other and then DS just wants to eat, then suck for a while, snooze, then eat, then...
Actually, he's been eating heaps lately - maybe it's a growth spurt? We'll be weighing him again on Tuesday (mother's group) as we continue to fret about his slow weight gain. sigh.
Work has been horrid and stressful. The worst thing is when I have to make poor Aric wait for his feeds cause i'm just so flat out... that's not good (though it doesn't help that he wants to eat every 1.5-2 hours!).

Hope all you mums and bubs are doing well. Have a good weekend.

[onthefly]

Just wanted to pop in and say that Aric put on 205g in the past week - yay!

[monnie]

Hey guys

Just wanted to say hi to everyone...I've been lurking after my self-imposed ban!

That's great news about Aric, Marcellus!

Kimnastics...congratulations! Wonderful news! How are you doing? What's it like being pregnant and having a 10 month old? Felix is the same age as Hayden (well...2 weeks younger!) and we are starting to think about trying again...though part of me is scared about how I'd cope...but I'm sure you just do!!!

Mako...how's Sage doing? How's his sleeping going? Felix still wakes at 10pm, 3am and 6am for feeds! And like you say...you just get used to it, hey?

We're off on holidays this weekend...can't wait! A little nervous as we are staying in a converted 'shed' (it looks great...belongs to my sister) but it's one big room...hope the sleeping issues don't deteriorate...

Anyway...hope everyone is doing well!!! Willow, you doing okay?

[mako]

Kimnastics Congrats on your pregnancy hun.

Marcellus WOOHOO on the great weight gain.

Monnie I hope you enjoy your weekend away. I hope Felix is a good boy re the sleeping.

Well we are doing ok.Sage was 8 months on Monday.Where has that time gone. I kept thinking that that was how long I was preg with him and it seemed to drag a little sometimes but since he's here it has just flown.
He now says bub,boo,mum,mumma and mummy. He's also eating solids now. He decided that he didn't want to eat vegies after one day i caved and gave him banana custard lol. Well he's back to eating vegies so long as its in my pumpkin soup lol. He loves to eat fruit except avacado but it took me a long time to aquire a taste for it too and now i can't get enough of them
I have to say that I'm sick of the little comments when I'm asked if he's doing this and that when he's not. I just remind them(my mum) to take 4 weeks off his age and I'll tell them when he IS doing something new.

As far as sleep goes. Hmmmmm not so great. He won't sleep in his cot so he is in our bed. I am going to really try and get him sleeping in his cot during the school hols while I'm off so it won't really matter if my eyes are hanging out of my head.He is waking around 12:30am, 2-3ish and again around 6.He will feed when he wakes these time aswell although the past couple of night he's woken up screaming and not wanted a feed so I'll give him some bonjella or teething tablets and he goes back to sleep within seconds literally.He is teething even though I've been saying this for months and months We get up at 6:30 the days that I work as we need to be out the door at 7:30.Otherwise I try and stay atleast til 7:30 8am.

to everyone else.

[Lenny]

Just lurking, but struggling with time.
Wanted to say how cool to see Monnie back, and I can't believe you are thinking about number 2!! Yay, how cool!!

Hope to be a full time participant here one day, but with DH's work, I am basically doing it on my own these days.

Hi to all,
Jo

[lismith25]

Hi everyone

Just wanted to say hello and that it is fantastic that I can graduate to this forum now. I know some of you and hope to get to know everyone else. 5 weeks under my belt already with bubby Emma and im exhausted, I thought I was doing ok but im slowly being eroded away. I feel completely unprepared for what has happened to my life, all that planning and waiting and I dont think I really considered the end result. But every day is a little better and I think we are reaching an understanding, I forget she is only 5 weeks old sometimes.

Lenny - I hear ya time no longer exists
Kimnastics - congrats on your impending arrival, your a brave lady
Monnie - you crazy girl thinking about no.2 already. DH has told me the moment i say vasectomy he will book himself in but not ready to close that door just yet Dont know how easy it will be to fall again, but im keeping all the options open... Glad your still around
Mako -wow Sage is coming along in leaps and bounds, seems soo far off yet till Emma will be at that stage.

Big hello to everyone else, i made it hehehe