Babies Born May 2006 #37

This thread is for parents who's baby was born in May 2006.

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There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Breastfeeding General Chatter
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information
Is Feeding Your Baby Taking Too Much Time?
Bottlefeeding General Chatter
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids/Homemade Baby Food
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?
Starting Solids General Chatter

Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids.

Sleeping Support:

Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum
Comforting Tools to Aid Restful Sleep
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Con of Controlled Crying
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Wearing
Recommended Reading List

Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids
Gentle Parenting Forum


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Wow first again!!
I had a lovely breakfast out and the 2 younger kids had fun with my dad, this morning. We are just pottering around at home at the moment, I made a cake for Jess to take to a soccer BBQ tonight and I have to pick her up from work at 4pm but thats it so its quite relaxing. DH has gone away for a bike rally which he was really excited about, he will be back late tomorrow.
Riley has discovered the beaters from the mixer when I make a cake so now he and Erin have one each! Its so cute.
Leanne- I have been thinking about you a lot, its so hard when you HAVE to work. I remember when I was full time when Jess was a baby it felt like everyone else with a baby didn't work and every mother/baby activity was designed for SAHM so not only did you have to miss out on spending time with your baby you couldn't even do things with them when you were home. I also used to get pooey about women who looked down on you cause you worked ft and didn't stay home when they had no idea about what it was like to have to work just to live. There is often the impression that working mothers just choose to for something to do or to buy luxuries whereas for many of us its not that we are prioritising differently its just if we want our families to eat we must work. Sorry off my soap box but its one of my pet peeves. I don't know what you can do since you need to work, maybe a job closer to home? I have no really good advice just big hugs and to let you know I understand how you feel.

Thanks Christine, and good to hear you had a nice brekky this morning.

DH and I had a big talk about it all this morning, and I feel a lot better today. Last night was a shocker. I had thoughts going through my head that really scared me.

Weighed myself too. Week one lost nothing, nil, nada. Have counted the points so religiously I was expecting SOMETHING, but..... will soldier on.

At least you haven't put on any weight either Leanne. I am going to weigh myself on Monday morning, not too confident after the guylians yesterday LOL.

Evening all Ryan is already in bed woohoo and i'm not going to be to far behind him had a big day today

Just saying hello, too tired to post, will be back tomorrow to post personals.

Hi girls!!

Been MIA a bit in here lately. I have been so busy this week that i have'nt had time to jump on the computer. I have been in and out of town all week shopping and stuff.

Things are going pretty well with us. Briley, Colby and I are all still trying to get over our colds. Briley has been stuggling with hers on and off for about a month now. I have had mine for about 3 weeks. We just can't seem to get rid of it. And poor Colby has a snotty nose and a really bad cough which i can't do nothing about. I feel helpless. Looks as though Colby might have the same tear ducked problem as Briley too. And in the same eye coinsedently(sp??).

Briley is going through a few changes at the moment. Not sure wether its too do with teeth, the cold or her age, but she is going through a separation anxiety phase. Esp with Brent. She bawls if she see's him leave the house or go behind a closed door. Is anyone else going through this???

She is also starting to sleep very well at night. Sleeps completely through some nights. The nights that she does wake up Brent gets up to her anyways which is good for me. I usually have just gone back to sleep from feeding Colby when Briley wakes up.

Colby is going well too. We went for our 5-10 day check-up last monday and she had put on 200 grams. So the breast feeding must be going well. She is a wonderful content baby and she barely cries. She loves bath times and just lays there floating in the water relaxing. I am doing up an email of some pics of all of us as i write this to send around.

She is also sleeping wonderfully. The last few days she has woken up twice a night for a feed but i think this is cause she is coming into her 2 week growth spurt. Most other nights she sleeps from 9-10pm through till about 6am. A god send for me!!

Well i can hear Colby waking up for a feed so i better get going. So sorry for the lack of personals. I did kinda skim through the last thread but i had missed so much that there was sh*t loads to read. Sorry again. I will try and pop in a bit more now. Brent has to take my car to work all this week as his is going in to be repaired so i won't be going anywhere. Which means i might be in a bit more this week!

I hope you are all well! You will all get that email shortly! Hope you enjoy the piccies!!

Take Care!

leanne - huge hugs to you. i am really sorry you are finding life tough atm. I can't imagine how hard it must be to try and juggle baby, work, husband and social life, i think working mothers are incredibly strong women. We could really do with the extra income now but i just can't bring myself to put Arch into childcare, plus i can't imagine being able to cope with work and motherhood, it scares me! Im glad you talked to DH about it adn got it off your chest, it always feel much better once we share our worries. I think if you really feel like your family needs another bub to feel complete then you should have one, you will cope financially, it'll be bloody tough but you'll find a way to get through for a couple of years. I don't have any 'friends' left, thanks goodness for belly belly. Oh, bummer about the weight sticking around too, good on you for keeping on going though.

sheree- hope lachlan ended up sleeping through for you after all that! Sorry to hear about your friends pregnancy, yeah it sure does make you thankful for what you have got.

We ended up having a great weekend, it was one of those weekends thats not planned and ends up being really good fun. We stayed up til 3:30 in the morning having deepa nd meaningfuls with a couple that we have been friends with for about 7 years, they have realy been through some hard years with their teenage son, i think it was great for them to talk about it and has certainly cemented our friendship. The wife of the couple has been going to Bali every year for the last 2 years and her husband is going to go with her for the first time in April/May, we have decided to go with them, i am sooo excited it will be my first overseas holiday, and i reckon it will be the first of many, i have raly had the travel bug lately.

Archie only had a very mild case of hand foot and mouth, had a few little blisters and was a bit more sooky, sleepy and sensitive than normal, he is just about over it now though.

Oh Sara don't worry about personals, I am more then sure you have your hands full atm. Oh and lachlan is like that with his father too. Once he is gone and out of mind its all good but if he sees him leave the room and god help the house, he carries on. He even is not real good with me when daddy is around. Just wants dad. He cries and screams at me at times if daddy is in the room. But then as soon as daddy is not around it is all good, he is my friend again.

I know I said I would do personals, but I have been so tired lately, slept 2 hours this arve, slept from 10pm to 9.30am this morning, had a 2 hour sleep yesterday arve too!!!! Gawd I must need it.

Oh Sara they're beautiful!!! Gee you look well too.

Sheree, wow you forget how tired that tiny extra person makes you, don't you?

What a lovley weekend Christine!

evening all
busy weekend here but mainly doing reno stuff i have nearly pulled all the old tiles out ready for retiling but gees it is a bigger job then first expected specially when a little person wants to help

Aww Sara I think you forgot me with the photos.
Please can someone forward them on.

Ta

i have forwarded them to you leanne

have a great week every body

I didn't get any either.

I sent them to you SHeree

Yep I received them thanx Kim. They are beautiful Sara.

Well I promised I would post personals, so here they are:

Elissa - how exciting going overseas, when will that be?

Leanne - Gee what Christine said is so so right isn't it. Hope you are feeling better about it all now. I guess we all have our up and down days. Mwah.

Sara - good to see you and your family are settling down into things. I reackon if Lachlan had a baby brother or sister right now, he would kick and punch it. Has no idea and is so independant. I reackon girlies are different thou, so good for you guys.

sheree - i remember that tirdness in the first tri, halfway through the first tri already, gosh! They are planning on going in April/may next year, will hopefully go in April before Archie turns 2 so we only haveto pay 10% of the flight, after 2 years old we have to pay 75%!

shazz - i'd imagine it would be an interesting job with a little helper!

I had such a bad day yesterday, wish AF would come, i am so hormonal, snapping at Archie and DH and feling like i don't want another baby cause its too hard, oh i was very woe is me! Feeling better today thank goodness! Slept in til 9 thismornig, i think the good sleep helped. Archie can sing Happy Birthday! "Ha birday oooo oooo, pipi aay," very cute.

Elissa - wow your boy is definitely so so clever. Get onto that vitex I tell ya, fixes up your cycles. Hope you are feeling better real soon honey. Mwah.

Hi Vic - I am sure Leanne won't take offence, gosh if only we could learn from others. Where there is a will there is a way I always say. Great example by the way, but sorry you had to go through that. See I worry too with Lachlan that I don't spend enuf time with him, always busy busy busy! Always something to do!

Hi girls,

Just poppin in to let you know that i have finally posted Colby's birth story. I'd love for you to all have a quick read of it. Only i don't think it will be quick as it is quite the novel!!!

Hope you all like it if you get the time to have a read.

Hope you are all well...glad you liked the photos. Sorry to those who did'nt recieve them i will have to check that i have an updated email address for you. I have 2 email address's for you Sheree. I sent it to the hotmail one. Do you still use it???? If not let me know the new one. You too Leanne!

Well i am a feeding machine at the moment so i better go and feed again! I think we might be in out 2 week growth spurt phase.

Take Care!

Sara, nah I never go into my hotmail account. Not sure if I can post my email address on here can I? Oh well I am sure I will be told if I can't.

email = tuby1975@bigpond.net.au

No worries Sheree, i will fix it up now!

Vic - I never sit down and play, always doing paperwork, running off to the newsagency to work, cooking dinner, doing housework etc..... etc...... He is not a kid that is interested in me anyway he would rather do his own thing but he always needs me in the room with him.

That is so cool Vic, yes we definitely just have to chill in life and realise what is more important.

OMG my child!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!alias the DEVIL. We went grocery shopping this afternoon and he screamed the whole way. I opened a packet of bickies, gave him 1 he was ok but demolished it so fast, gave him another to shut him up again and he wondered why he was choking on it, he was shoving it all in his mouth at once. It was like he was a bilemiac, just kept doing it and crying and making funny noises and sounds. We played on the swings for a while - so that Daddy could pack our car with the groceries, we then came home for dinner and everything i tried to put in front of him he screamed and carried on at me! I got so frustrated (and I was feeling very unwell - ms hit me this arvo), that i rang daddy and said if you want your child too eat tonight you better come home and feed him (as I had, had enuf). He came home had no success, we tried him with 3 different types of baby food, then spaghetti, then yoghurt, didn't even want the yoghurt but eventually did (this is his all time favourite) But then he saw the bikkies on the bench, ohhh yeah he will have them. But nope, no way I was not giving into him. Then we gave him a sausage and he was ok with that for a bit and then threw most of it on the ground. Little monkey and I wassss so not feeling like I could deal with him, so he could have starved tonight for all I cared! Lovely mother hey! KIDS!!!!!!

vic - thankyou for sharing your story, you were very brave to make such a drastic life change, but i agree that being with your kids and feeling happy is certainly better than money. We too had a big change when DS was 7 months old, DH left his career with a top employer and we moved to the country to be near our family and friends and DH doesn factory work. We don't regret it for a second we are all much happier and more relaxed with our family and friends close by. Having said all that we may be about to move away again for DH's career...........

sheree - thanks for cheering me up, you are always good for a pick me up post. Oh you poor thing im sorry the m/s has hit you, hope it doesn't last long! you are better than me, if i wsn't feeling great i would have let him eat whatever he wanted, the whole packet of bikkies if it shut him up, so your not as bad a mother as I! Hope he is in a more co-operative mood tomorrow.

sara - i will ask Tania to send me the pics i think she's the only one who has my email address. Will definately give your birth story a read, sounds like you are doing a wonderful job with feeding. Colby looks so grown up already in your ticker!

Well ttc has been put on hold for at least a month. DH is about to apply for a promotion which could mean we would have to move up Whyalla way which is about 10 hours from home, and there is no way im going through pg birth and newborn again without family and friends close by, was awful last time and would be worse the second time around, so we are holding off ttc til DH gets an answer about this job. If he does get the job we will be living away for a least 2-5 years so there will be a big gap between kids, DH thinks he will be too old for a new baby by then so maybe no more babies...will cross that bridge when we come to it. This job is DH's ultimate dream job (and it pays incredibly well) so we are willing to sacrifice a lot for it.

Archie spent most of today sleeping so was an easy day for me, am thinking i should study something through TAFE externally instead of wasting my days in front of the tele or computer (not that i don't have fun talking to you guys!). Pretty sure Arch tried to say B@st@rd and ***** today, so we definately need to watch our language.

Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts and experiences. It's always good to hear how others do things
I am at work now so will be back on tonight maybe.
Sara ; sent you an email but did get your photos. Silly me did not look in all the right places on Outlook. We have emails going to specific folders now (love the rules wizard), and forgot to look in places other than the inbox.

Well have a nice day everyone.

hi leanne hope you are having a good day at work today!

Just got back form kindergym, Arch had lots of fun and is now in bed.

Well Elissa, what CD are you on now? Are you OK with that?
GLad Archies HFM wasn't too bad though..

Hehehe Sheree Darcy and Lachlan would be great mates I think...two head strong little personalities.

Well we've had 2 firsts this week. Darcy can feed herself (but I'm so anal i load the spoon so it's not too messy), and she did a poo on the toilet this morning! She didn't want to, but had no choice after she started with no nappy on and I whipped her onto the loo. Poor thing was terrified and screamed, but she enjoyed the praise afterwards lol.

kim - i am on CD 46 now!! Still no sign of AF, who knows where she has disappeared to???...yes i am happy with putting ttc on hold, and am aware that this may mean no more babies for me. i felt a bit emotional about it last night, but it is totally my choice, DH didn't pressure me either way at all just told me there was a job up for offer and let me come to a decision on whats best for our family. I don't find it all that sasd that i don't get to do pg birth and newborn again, just feel quite gulity at times that DS may not get to grow up with a sibling as i have always had an extremely close relationship with my sister. there are huge positives for having no more babies though, mainly financially. Anyway i guess it will be a win/win whether he gets the job or not. Woohoo on Darcy feeding herself, it makes tea time much easier doesn't it. Poor Darc being scared on the toilet, i have had to do the same thing with arch a couple of times when hehas started poo without a nappy, he screamed too. Oh i should tell you too, that every time i look at the pic of Darcy in your ticker it makes me smile, she has got a lovely grin!

Work today was not too bad. I found some pink shoe polish for Katy's good shoes and that just made my day. We spent hours on the weekend looking for some and it took 5 minutes to find it in town.

WAY TO GO DARCY...... YOU CLEVER GIRL....

Katy will feed herself now too, butonly if it is on a little fork and only if we load it. I would not let her 'at it herself' yet.... too messy..... LOL.

Does anyone else put their bubs in the shower on their own? I tried standing Kaitlyn in the shower last night and she went as stiff as a board and cried her little heart out. It was so funny... I know I am bad for laughing, but it WAS a sight let me tell you.

Off to make tea (eggs on toast I think tonight,,,,)
BBL

I am quickly typing this before Jess wants her computer back. Our hard drive crashed on sat night and we have lost everything- all Riley's photos except the ones I have uploaded onto snapfish, all my school stuff and heaven knows what else. My dad just keeps saying well, you should have backed up (DER!!) We are getting a new hard drive but the computer guys (who looked about 17!) said that it would cost hundreds to recover our files. Hate being without a computer and am pretty upset about all the stuff we have lost too.
Hopefully will be back online tomorrow night.

oh no christine that is my biggest fear losing all of ryans photos i have backed up my back ups ( anal i know ) hope they can recover most of it for you

Bugger Christine that would be so disappointing.

Sorry no personals, ms is hitting terribly atm. Just feel awful.

Bgr Christine. That happened to us. Doesn't it just tick you off big time. It was just before Katy was born and we have been anally back up ing ever since.
Lost a whole heap of digi scrapbook stuff though, and have not really gotten my 'stuff' back.

I hope you find some way of retrieving some of the stuff, esp the fotos. :( :hugs:

Had a huge day so off to bed. Katy is still up (we're waiting for her to slow down grrrr), so might leave her with DH.

Nite.

Oh no Christine!

I should be going to bed cos I'm mousepoo atm, but I just need to tell someone how awful I'm feeling. Darcy has been biting something shocking latey during the day and tonight she actually preferred a bottle of milk over me :crying: I'll see how she goes overnight.
I always said I'd be happy to wean when she is ready....but I so don't feel happy. Especially since she wants a bottle...all this work for nothing....

Kim you have done so well with feeding. I don't think it is for nothing. Darcy's just growing up......
chin up kiddo

Gosh Kim you have done a fantastic job, would have loved to have been in your shoes. Pat yourself on the back you have done a fab job. Mwah *hugs and kisses*

leanne - woohoo on the shoe polish. lol at Katy in the shower, i would have had to have a giggle myself if Archie did that he he. Arch sometimes gets in the shower with me (fully clothed of course!) but he gets too scared to have an actual shower with either of us, he used to love it when he was a little baby.

christine - i SOOOO sorry about all you photos!!! That is something i often worry about as we haven't backed ours up.....guess what we'll be doing in the next couple of weeks...I hope you are able to get some of the photos back.

shazz - good on you for being anal, think i will take a leaf out of your book....

sheree - eeeeeeewww on the m/s, hope it eases up just as quickly as it appeared.


kim - oh you porr thing, i know how hard it was when Arch went from boob to bottle at 5 weeks, you must be going through a very tough time at 15 months. Huge hugs to you, all your hard work bfing was definately not for nothing, you have done an amazing job and Darcy has reaped HUGE benefits from all that bm.

You will probably all roll your eyes.....but after a few weeks of 9:00 sleep ins Arch was up at 6:30 this morning (i know hwat you're all thinking..sucked in..) so its been a long morning today. He has started to throw things at my head (which bloody hurts sometimes) to see what reaction he gets, i have ben telling him no throwing cause it hurts, if he does it again i take the toy away, if he throws something else i try and do something else with him to take his mind off being naughty, seems to be working so far....Also he has started doing this awful angry scream when he can't have what he wants....my little innocent angel is slowly disappearing already...

had an interesting discussion with DH last night about ttc. He always tries to tell me that it is MY decision whether to have one or two kids, he is happy either way. Well while it is nice to know that i have the final say, i bought the subject up about us ttc now but if he gets this job we are happy to only have one child. He said its up to you love. Great. thanks for that. I reminded him that if it WERE my decision i would wait and ttc when Archie starts kindy that is my decision, to which he responded, well you know I feel too old to wait that long between kids. the moral of the story was that i was reminding him that he has convinced himself that when/if to ttc is totally up to me, when in actual fact it is completely his decision. I think i have just realised that whenitcomes to the big decsions in our life i do WAY too much compromising. Sorry forthe ramble, just needed to get that out.

Bugger at the throwing Elissa. Whatever you are doing seems to be working. Lachlan couldn't care less if I took away a toy, he has a full room of em. grrr..... Lachlan has started this death stare thing! One of our staff saw it yesterday morning when she came over. OMG if looks could kill. What is happening to our children. And I hear you on the, its ur decision but they thow in curve balls. I am actually sick of making all the decisions, why not for once can we do it his way! I think you should think long and hard about the ttc thing and do things your way for a change. I think later in life you may regret it if you don't totally give it 200% thought! Sorry now i have thrown a curve ball in huh!