Hi Megan, I can't believe how big Noah is now. We are lamenting the loss of our favourite little 5 zeros outfits that were too big at first and now laughably small. Jasmine is a big 3.57 kilos now and was 2.2 on leaving hospital. I can't believe babies are born still bigger. my hat goes off to you girls with regular sized babies.
I don't think i have posted the link to earlier photos, so for those that like sticky (like me), here is my brag book of our tiny tiger
So Jasmine is just bigger than Noah was when he was born! He was 3.4kg and is now around 8.8kg!
It is sad to say goodbye to those little clothes. We have just packed up 2 more boxes of everything from 0000-00 as he only wears 0 now and we have even had to buy a couple of size 1 suits because he's tall.
Jasmine is just beautiful. So little, I can't even imagine.
Hey Megan, I know what you mean about leaving this place. I can't believe that when I left Townsville to come up here, I was upset and counting the days til we moved back. But by the first year of living in the far north, we knew it would be impossible to ever imagine moving back to dry old "Brownsville". Ahh but especially now with Jazzy's deafness, we have to base ourselves somewhere closer to a regional centre for her treatment. Anyway, if we stay put too long, maybe we will miss another piece of Paradise somewhere else. We knew when I left my well-paying job, sold our house and cars and most of our possessions in order to make our tree/sea change that we would eventually have to go back to life in the real world with real jobs.
Thanks for your comments on Jasmine. She was so tiny and I suppose still is but to us she is getting huge, even though she is still mostly in 5 zeros. 3.4 kilos is just a normal weight, it's not like Neptune's little boomba they all catch up though and I wonder when Jazz will be 8.8 kilos.
Just wanted to dob in KellyD and pressure her to share her facebook photos with us here. They are beautiful kelly. I've wanted to see Princess Tara for so long and pictured her through all your descriptions. She is just absolutely gorgeous and bursting with smiles for everyone. My Dh is almost as in love with Tara as with Jazz. I think he may have a soft spot for girls hey?
As always I'm following behind you Kelly but I have been a bit worried that Jazz isn't smiling yet. It is used by everyone as the first milestone and it's like those comments when you are pregnant "oh you're so small", now it's "is she smiling yet?" and it just makes me feel stressed because I suppose with the hearing loss, it makes me wonder if there are other connections that are not working. It's probably silly, she does smile and it's a beautiful thing, but she doesn't smile at us yet and there's only so long I can blame her developmental age.
By the way, as I said earlier, she didn't go back to bed after her morning feed and then her first proper sleep all day apart from a few power naps was at 8p.m! what a day. I just seemed to feed her and try to settle her to sleep all day. I'm sure she knows I am really trying to study for my stupid psychology exam. It's already been deferred by two months and I only have to do this one exam until I put uni on hold for a while, but I have to somehow do it next month and she is not helping me.
Well all is well and Jamine is sleeping now, so I'd better try too.
P.S Kelly, I didn't buy the activity centre, I won't ever have to buy another thing for the rest of her life and she will still be too spoilt! We literally have enough clothes to wear an outfit everyday of the year and never have to wash. My sister gave me all her hand me downs which were great, and despite telling everyone we don't need clothes after that, every single gift since her birth has contained clothes (no joke). We bought her a single solitary book for christmas...tight wads hey? Well Santa will pull out the big guns when she is old enough to at least smile in appreciation
At Murph's insistence here are my recent photo's of Tara from this month..Login | Facebook
Murph, Jazz will soon start smiling all the time for you, Tara was a bit slow off the mark and it was so hard to catch the brief smile she would give us and then all of a sudden she started smiling at everything, she is now sort of laughing... she has the mouth action going but is still not quite there with the associated sound.
As for Jazz being unsettled, Tara was the same after her immunisations. It zonked her out the first night and then for about a week afterwards she didn't seem her usual self and was unsettled sleeping and at times just being a cranky pants. It doesn't help that the immunisation time coincides with the 8 weeks "Wonder Week" stage either. So much our little ones have to go through.
I can't believe how much Jazz has grown although compared to my big chubster she is such a tiny angel. Tara is now in 00 clothes, the only 000 left are dresses but even they won't last much longer. We weighed her 2 days before Xmas and she is a huge 5.5kg, with her next MCHN visit sheduled for another week away it wouldn't surprise me if she is double her birth weight or close to it (3.2kg's).
Oh, now for the good and bad... Good news is that Tara is now a fantastic night sleeper, she is sleeping somewhere between 12-13 hours which is probably longer than recommended but I let her wake herself up so she is not miserable plus she generally only seems to have 1 big nap during the day every other sleep is a power nap only.
Bad news is that I am trying to find ways to help with her reflux, any ideas would be great. After every feed we always have vomit, sometimes just a little and other times so much that both Tara & I end up with a change of clothes. It can vary from just a bit of overflow (ie: undigested formula) to large chunks of partially digested formula, we have even had instances of chunks of formula in a clear fluid (like saliva). We have her propped up to sleep and hold her upright for a good 1/2 hours after feeds, but we still get something come up even 1-2 hours after feeding. She doesn't seem to suffer from any pain from the reflux (as she sometimes smiles afterwards when she still have vomit in her mouth), just the constant vomit associated when she eats. She is already on Lactose Free formula, so I don't know if I should be adding thickener to her formula what would you all recommend the best plan of attacked as I'm paranoid everytime we go to someones house that she will puke all over there furniture etc..
Hi Kelly,
woah, I couldn't do the 12-13 hour sleep even if Jazz wanted to. She still needs to feed through the night and if she doesn't she gets dehydrated. Last night she slept for 9 hours and I woke up at her feed times but she didn't so I let her sleep through. She woke at 5, had a short feed, then all three of us had lovely big sleep-in together in our bed. Unfortunately there was a tell-tale sign in her nappy in the morning (urates). have you had them at all? It's like crystalised uric acid I think and it's an orangy, blood-like colour. It may just be a problem with small babies. I learnt all about it in hospital when I got a tut-tut from a nurse when I explained it. I haven't had it since but at least I recognise it and will wake her for feeds if she sleeps through tonight.
Today has been great and all seems back on track....and....drum roll please....we got smiles!!!!!!! Oh happy day, lots of gorgeous big cheeky grins at everything, including the dog. It's hard to catch one on camera but got a bit of phone footage. What a heart melting moment. So relieving to see her making those connections and we both saw at the same time so we couldn't deny they were real. can't wait til play time tomorrow
Sorry about your problems with the reflux, you might find some other threads talking about those issues if no one gets back to you soon. I am fully breast feeding so I don't have the same problems but i hope you get help for your lovely girl.
It looks like you had a lovely quiet, relaxing day.
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they all catch up though and I wonder when Jazz will be 8.8 kilos.
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