Babies Born ~ July 2013 #2

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peeks - that's exactly where ds has bitten dh too... so snuggly & content, just makes you want to chomp.. ; )

Subbing. Hows everyone going?

We are great here :) Sickness has left the building finally! But DD spewed overnight the other night. I went in to check before I went to bed and she was laying in a pool of vomit :( asleep! Cleaned her up changed everything and then she spewed again. So changed everything once again and no more spews after that thank goodness.

poor dd, tasha. how odd that she didn't wake herself up spewing. glad she seems well now. Xx

Andie I think she did cos I heard her cry for a few seconds and went in to check (about 9pm), but she was asleep so thought it was a night terror or something. I never turn the lights on so I didn't see the spew. It wasn't until I went to bed when I noticed her room smelt funny :(

How is your ds? Is he still waking a lot?

tasha - ds is doing well atm, sleeping overnight until around 5-6am, quick bf & sometimes goes back down until 7am. sometimes he just lays with me, playing with my eyelashes, eyes, hair, nose etc. until I've nearly given up on any more sleep, then he drifts off again. ; )

That's good Andie, hope he keeps it up :)

had ds's immunisations this week, all good & he stopped crying before we came out of the nurses room. I was shocked bc usually he's a bit on the sensitive side with pain... like his mummy. ; ) the only reaction he seems to have had from them is a 2.5 hour morning nap the day after - win!

anyone's little one deciding that they don't like to eat anything?? usually ds eats everything, curries, soups, casseroles - anything we eat. he keeps spitting it out & flapping it around. even chicken soup, which is his favourite. he's gone off yoghurt. odd. I think he's teething a bit, but has been for quite a while. he's sick atm too (cold) which isn't helping. he really doesn't have the fat reserves to suddenly become a picky eater. :-/

Andie, glad the immunisations went well :) I was told by my mchn that they generally slow right down on the food around now because growth has slowed now. My dd ate heaps up until a few weeks ago and has slowed down a bit. If he's not eating anything it is probably teething, just give him more milk. Are you using a sippy cup? And do you give any cows milk? I'm unsure what the go is when still breastfeeding, do you still give cows milk too???? Because it will help fill his belly up :)

Good points. He's been squeezing in another bf atm, getting up at 4am to have one, then another at around 7am. I can sometimes just go straight in to breakfast with the 7am one though. Haven't been giving cows milk regularly yet. He's had a couple of sippy cups here and there. I think you don't need to give cows milk if you're bf'ing up to 3-4 times still & they're eating well... plenty of good nutrients etc. I should really read up in that again now... now that he's not eating that well, not even yoghurt. :-/

Andie, hows the eating going?

We have a few words here. Mum and dad were first ages ago, but the first proper word was shoes. Now it's dog, cat, keys and cheese. She said them pretty much all in one day. And now she just says them often, wierd, like she was saving it up. Took her first 2 steps a couple of days ago too. Hopefully she'll be walking by summer so I can have her in dresses without crawling everywhere.

How is everyone else? Walking? talking?

All good here. Jack has been walking since middle of August. Its sooo much better. Everyone says its more work as they are faster but I love him being outside and walking and not crawling in the dirt. Not many words here. Mum, dad, hi, hi ya, bub. He often walks up to me though and starts babbling the same thing over and over again. I just cant work out what he is saying lol. I find he is happiest when busy. When he is bored he starts getting naughty so we keep him busy. Daycare is great for him. He loves brushing his teeth. He knows his nose, hair, ears, teeth. Such a cutie.

tasha - eating is going much better after a 2 week hiatus. must have been his cold & teething bc one day he just started eating again, even yoghurt. odd! although last night he refused dinner, but he was a bit warm & I think his teeth were hurting again. he's finally got a new one, bottom left. he has 7 now.

vic - ds is exactly the same, gets up to mischief when he's bored. it's quite funny, in an 'arghhhh - stop touching the power points!!!!' for the 100th time kind of way... ; )

sleep is still our only complaint here, arvo naps are not happening that often but he just doesn't cope with just 1 nap yet. I've found he doesn't mind having a nap in the pram if I'm out, so that's been great bc we can go to the park, have lunch & walk around. he'll either have a rest or fall asleep, which means I walk around for 40 mins, but it's exercise & makes the evenings a whole lot more enjoyable. and the weather has been so nice, it's good to be out in the sunshine.

Hi ladies, hope you are all well :)

Andie, seems we are having eating issues here too, except I'm pretty sure it's just attitude and not teething. She refuses to eat anything but sweet things. Vanilla yoghurt and sultanas. The only sandwiches she will eat are jam, nothing else. This has been happening for a couple of weeks now. All the food i prepare she just throws on the floor. Takes one look at it and then cracks it and throws it on the floor. I've tried everything, she just won't eat it. it's really getting on my nerves as I don't generally give her sugary things so she doesn't eat much now.

I didn't think food refusal from vegies and healthy stuff came until later on :(

tasha, it's frustrating, isn't it? I think they are going to refuse food on & off for years to come. she will start eating again, I know it doesn't feel like it right now. I don't know how you feel about te potential mess, but you could let he play with some food with some pots & pans? if I need 10 minutes to do dinner, I'll chuck some sultanas, rice bubbles, apple etc in to a bowl/saucepan & give ds a wooden spoon & he plays for a while. you could try some healthy food in there? see if she takes the bait?!

Thanks Andie, she's eating a bit more now. I am finding if I give her stuff to walk/crawl around with she there is more of a chance she will eat it lol.

It's another one of those things I swore I would never do - let ds walk around with food! But around 10 months he went through a no eating phase & I found if I left his sandwich on the floor in little pieces - he would eat it bc he thought he was being cheeky...! Thankfully I don't have to do that now. ;-)