Babies born~September 2007 #61

[Olive]

This thread is for parents who's baby was born in September 2007.

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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?
Baby Formula - What Manufacturers Don't Want You To Know
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 or formula.

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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[Ginger]

hi girls

oz- agree that your pics are divine

jm- soooo ready to see you. can't wait

re xmas- i have got them both a remote control roary car packed away (one each). i think we might just get L some duplo and J the big city garage from ELC. i'm not too sure what my family is getting them.

eta- can someone please remind me never to have mersey valley cheese in my house ever again. i cannot stop eating it. v bad move ever buying it.

[Ozstar]

Awwww thanks for all the nice comments RE my work ladies. I am doing lots of study and practise trying to improve.

I am feeling super organised about Christmas now lol. I found it way to easy to think of things for L this year. Z is getting mostly clothes and books.

[Ozstar]

G is your L back in undies yet? I still cant get my L to poo on the toilet and its doing my head in.

[Ginger]

hi oz- i've got him in those huggies pull-ups with the cars on them. we've told him that if he does a poo on the toilet that we'll take him to the shop to buy him a duplo firetruck. he talks about it all the time and says how excited he is to get it, but still no poo on the toilet

[Ozstar]

The other day L bought me a nappy and asked me to put it on so I knew he needed to poo, I sat him on the toilet for 15 min with promises of everything lol. He wouldn't go. I put the nappy on and within minutes he had almost destroyed it lol.

[AnyDream]

Well I've decided - no more nice mummyguy. It's undies all the way here and if it feels yuck to **** in it and it gets on your leg when the undies are coming off then GOOD, that might be an incentive to get the TTing sorted out!

I'll let you know how that strategy goes

[Ozstar]

Lol I just turned my little snap shot camera on to find L has learnt how to take a self portrait and do it in the NUDE. Will be saving those for his 21st.

Good luck with the TT MD.

[Ginger]

oz- yeah L will happily wear undies or go nudie all day but then when he needs to poo he will come and ask for a nappy to do it in.

md- but what do you do when you're going out? maybe i'm just too lazy with the whole thing and that's why it's not working? i just can't deal with him pooing in undies when i'm out and trying to get stuff done iykwim?

[Trillian]

MD, that's what I reckon. The few times A has pooed his pants and I've taken them off, he gags like you wouldn't believe but it really does work to do it like that.

G, you just have to take them to the loo all the time when you're out when you first start doing it. Don't wait till they tell you because by then it will be too late, so just take them whenever you are within coo-ee of a toilet and put them on. We've only had 2 poos in the pants while we've been out and both times were truly accidents, otherwise he's really good with it.

[Ginger]

i'm so confused by the whole TT thing, that i think i've just given up on it. i really didn't think it would be this hard.
i read that you weren't supposed to keep asking them if they needed to go or put them on the toilet?
and when he poos in his undies he just gets really upset and sensitive about it, it feels to me like it's damaging him so i just don't let it happen anymore.

[AnyDream]

Ginger, I think the putting them on the toilet comes down to the fine art of judging frequency. Every half hour, bad idea. Half and hour after a drink and a snack, good idea. Maybe have a few more conversations about poo at a time when it's not happening. My DH cracks it sometimes and I try to tell him the carry-on is what is delaying the whole process here. But as I revealed a couple of days ago we are OLD so it is probably a cranky OLD man thing .

Re the what to do when they are out and about - if we're going somewhere where it would be a massive inconvenience, I will still put her in pull ups - but basically I'm just packing multiple sets of clothes and *lots* of wipes. Come what may. I think just resorting to pull ups everytime it's convenient has been holding us back, eg, when she's in pull ups I'm not so focussed on keeping my eye on her and getting her to toilet every time.

[Trillian]

Well, often if you don't ask, they get engaged in whatever it is they are doing and 9 times out of 10 they will wet themselves. Especially in the early days when they are still getting used to learning the signs that they need to go. Even now, there are times when I know A needs to go because he will hold his pecker and do a little dance LOL, so I ask him 'do you need to go to the toilet' he will nearly always reply with 'no', especially if he is playing etc, but I know he really does need to go so I ask him 'are you sure you don't need to go?" and that makes him stop and think about it and he will always end up saying 'yes'. Asking them isn't going to damage them emotionally in any way at all, sometimes you need to ask. and it teaches them to be aware of the signs they need to go quicker than if you didn't ask and just left them to it because asking them makes them stop and really think about what their body is telling them. When we go out, I've always said to them when they were learning 'we will just go to the toilet before we go into the shops' and I go and then put them on the loo too and never had a problem, except with L who for some reason had a total phobia of using toilets anywhere except in our house and at the IL's, so it took a lot of work to get him to use a public loo. Sometimes they can do a wee, other times they can't.

[Cassius2]

Re the what to do when they are out and about - if we're going somewhere where it would be a massive inconvenience, I will still put her in pull ups - but basically I'm just packing multiple sets of clothes and *lots* of wipes. Come what may. I think just resorting to pull ups everytime it's convenient has been holding us back, eg, when she's in pull ups I'm not so focussed on keeping my eye on her and getting her to toilet every time.

:yeahthat: this is where we're at too. Leila is basically fully dry during the day now. we still have some accidents (wee) if she is excited about something and not concentrating and surprisingly this is only when we are home!
in the road to getting there we have put her in undies first thing in the morning and when we get her dressed for the day ask her to go to the toilet (i didnt ask her if she needed to go as she basically had no idea lol). in her bag for when we went out i packed TWO spare changes of clothes (including socks and shoes...eewww) and if she had an accident i would change her. we also packed a couple of nappies for when/if she got really tired or stressed out about the knickers (usually end of day or coming up to nap-time)...oh and a plastic bag for containment.

there are many a times as well when we have had to find a 'pee tree' (not to be confused with a tee pee ) and have her wee out in the open alfresco style lol. and we just do it, i figure it's like BF in public, ya just gotta do it lol.

[Artechim]

Poo accidents?! Man I got of lightly. I thought they just held on until they got home? W has had about 2 in the early days - both happened on the way to the toilet so genuine accident. Except that time he crapped in the wardrobe, but that was total defiance.

W has become a fan of the outside pee. Last week the lady that runs playgroup forgot the key so we all sat outside and he was allowed to pee out the back. Apparently that has given him free rein to go where ever lol

Summer seems to have renewed the bug interest, except the worm farm has been converted to a slug house. They even laid eggs in there last night which is quite cool.
Me: "W, keep the lid on your slug house"
W: "aw mum, I was just offering for you to have a feel of their soft bodies"
lol, no way am I touching those things!

Are the other kids really focused on their age now? It seems that now he is three that being 3 is how he defines himself iykwim? I am always getting "when I were two.." stories about how he wore nappies when he was two, different things we did or toys he had. Quite cute really.

[Ginger]

ok, well it looks like i need to get more serious about this whole TT thing....just going to take off his nappy now...

[Junglemum]

Poo in undies in Country Road wasn't that bad was it G? That was Lu's only poo in undies accident do far and I was mortified, lucky G saved the day with some Diego jocks!

So, warning, I'm going to have a little boast about my girl.......When we went to Noosa a few months back friends had a book that Lu loved. She read it lots in the week up there. I bought it for her yesterday and she sat down and read it aloud to Sassy. Purely from memory, she can't actually read! She got a few words wrong but I was pretty impressed.




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[Cassius2]

JM: that is one proud boast-worth moment!! too cute too! next time ya gotta get it on film!!

Arte: Leila is also really obsessed with her age and what it means in relation to others. like she goes on and on how she has to wait until she is bigger to go to school and how some things in the house are not for her because she is a big girl now (that she has turned 3 lol).

it's so funny atm because we harped on about how proud we were of her to do poos on the toilet, she now comes out of the bathroom after doing one and asking me if i am proud of her lol! (of which i am immensley and tell her so lol!). or she'll say, you are so proud of me because i am a big girl and do wees and poos on toilet...i guess we drove that one home