I'm enjoying all the rambling! I don't have much to say at the moment as things are just cruising along for us. We've started settling Liam in a dim room at the end of the day for his night sleep. Hopefully this will make him sleep better.
Now all we need is for him to go longer between feeds in the day. Sometimes it's as little as 1.5 hrs - but usually more like 2-2.5 and sometimes a huge 3 hrs!! At least he's a bit longer at night (usually a 6 hr stint - then a 4 hour one).
Liam's an early riser too - usually ready to play around 6 am... I am NOT a morning person, so this doesn't really suit me!
I'm longing for some warmer weather... it's hard to get the clothes/nappies dry at the moment and I'm really scared to see my next power bill :eek:
Nettie Totally understand the power bill comment. I never use the dryer for the kids clothing as the heat sets the stains and I am fanatical about stains on clothing, to the point DS now takes his clothes off the minute he spills anything on them . We are trying not to use too much power due to the state's energy crisis, so no using the dryer here. By the end of the week when everything is still wet I get to a stage of what can I wear especially if Greer has done a chuck on me and I've gone through all my BF tops and have to resort to normal ones - cold back while feeding - brrrrr!
I can handle it as long as Greer wakes after 5.30am, I don't handle the 4am wake to plays, they kill me. She has been fussy feeding for the last two days, thought it was breathing last night, but today, not sure what it is... think I might have to bite the bullet and visit the doctor next week if she doesn't improve over the weekend. Hate going to the doctor paying $58 for them to say it's viral and will pass in a week... blah blah or make you spend a further $20plus on antibiotics that do nothing but upset the baby's tummy.
DanielleDuring the day Greer is much like Liam in terms of feeds between every 1.5 to 3 hours during the day and usually 5 hours for the first night time feed then 3-4 hourly after that.
Sarah Very envious of Wyatt's daytime naps and your routine during that time.
Was talking with the dental nurse yesterday and you know I think she is right we are over educated these days - our mothers never had the problems we're having, most likely because they weren't given all this education in what SHOULD happen or how we SHOULD deal with difficult babies and children.
Okay enough of my rambling for today. Going to bed with DS tonight as we had a very broken sleep last night with all the waking and sleep grizzling.
HI All.
I don't blame you guys for hating the early morning rising...Im lucky our pretty much set in stone (for now at least) routine is:
7-7:45 am wake
8am offer bottle (often refused)
8:05am play on floor
8:30 cereal
8:45-9:15 (somewhere in there!) rest of bottle
9-9:30 sleep
10am Dummy return
11:30am wake
11:30 til 12-12:30pm play
12:30ish bottle (usually 100ml)
12:45-1:30 play
1:30-2pm rest of bottle in nursery
2-2:30pm sleep
5-5:30pm(somewhere in there) wake
Bottle offered on waking
Play until grumpy, then cereal
Bath straight after cereal
Play with daddy til grumpy (usually between 6:45 and 7:15)
Into nursery for rest of bottle, then off to sleep
He's usually asleep by 7:30...7:45 at the latest. Usually will sleep through til between 1:15 and 2am, bottle, then straight back to bed. (often will wake at 6am but thats a dummy return)
Most of his feeds happen in 2 stints (probably not a good thing but seems to work for us and means he actually eats a decent amount....he usually has about 100ml when first offered, and then will have another 70-100ml before I put him into bed.
He always goes to bed awake..if quiet, he doesn't have his dummy, if he gets grizzly we give him 30seconds to a couple of minutes (depending on the urgency of the noise) to see if he self settles, if not we then give him his dummy
Usually if we need to go out (if its a long drive) we leave at 9am so he gets his normal sleep in the car, if its just shopping etc, we go between the 2 sleeps)
During his morning sleep, I have my shower, then clean, sterilise and make the bottles for the day, put a load of washing on, then do the bathrooms or vacuuming etc.
During his arvo sleep, I prepare dinner as much as I can, hang the washing, (and fold the washing from the day before) read the forums, play on ebay, and hit the ironing.
So thats our day in a nutshell...seems to be working out pretty well for us!!
Will pop back later for personals, I'm off to do the bottles and make some broccoli soup!
Hi everyone, well i'm a 1st timer....Nettie gave me the forum site to come to as I have a little man that was born on the 19 April & have only just joined BB today so am still finding my way around the site.
Hope you are all going ok & your little ones!!
Talk soon
Beck
Hi Nettie....have found this site you suggested....looks pretty good. So as i said earlier my little man was born on the 19 April & is now on some sort of routine....adjusting to it nicely although the nights are still up in the air, he has his dream feed around 10pm then wakes again around 3thirty- 4am then is stirring from 6thirty onwards. So hopefully soon enough he will surely sleep through.....!
Glad you found us! We're a nice little group - I'm sure everyone will be very happy to see you here.
If you get a chance - read through the posts above so you can see the sorts of issues we're facing at the moment (some are probably quite similar to what you're facing!) and so you can 'get to know' the other members. Feel free to post frequently - we love reading everyone's 'rants'!
Danielle welcome back, sorry to hear you have been unwell, but hope you get better soon. People don't believe me when I tell them Oliver is only 3.5 months, how long is Ryley? Oliver is 63cm as of Friday. Oliver is a really fussy feeder, some days he is a real piggy, but other days he hardly has much at all, he will have a bottle at 6.30am, 10am, 2pm, 5.30pm and then around 9.30-10.00pm for his sneaky feed and only has around 600ml - 700ml per day. alittlegrubi yes your link worked, I had a go at some of Sarah's tips too yesterday, got some nice ones of Oliver on his tummy. sarah it's good that you got the DVD on how to deal with tantrums for you DH to watch, discipline works much better when both parents follow the same 'rules'. Nettie i'm NOT a morning person either, especially in the winter, I would much prefer to be snuggled up in my nice warm bed. BabyWrangler that is great that you have a really decent routine happening, and if you are happy for him to have his bottles in 2 shifts that's great, at least you know he is getting plenty of 'food'. I try and do housework while Oliver is awake too, so that way he gets used to mummy going from room to room and not always be sitting on the floor playing with him, if he gets grizzly I try moving him to the room that I am cleaning so that he can see me. Zennie I am pretty sure that the only time you aren't supposed to use tampons is in that first 6 weeks following birth, so you should be good to go mum to Jack welcome to our little group, we are a friendly bunch, just jump on in and post away, some of us just ramble (i'm one of them ) especially when we don't have much else to say.
Had a good day today, my uncle and aunt came down from the coast to visit, and they have just recently got back from vising relatives in England, they bought Oliver this gorgeous football (soccer to you aussies) outfit, a matching cap, and my aunt from england sent over some little football shoes, don't think he will fit into the shoes for long as they are for 3-6 months, and his outfit is for summer and is 6-12 months. I will try and get a pic of him in all his gear anyway over the next few days when the air con is on nice and toastie warm.
TTFN
Oh, forgot to have my brag, last Tuesday Jordan had to read a poem (one from a book, not one that he wrote) to his class, he was really nervous, and didn't really want to do it, anyway, they all got a merit certificate, and 3 of them got picked to read their poem to the principal and a couple of other 'guests' and Jordan was one of them, the only thing he has to do now is memorise the poem instead of reading it from a piece of paper, I know he will get really nervous and probably forget the words, but that doesn't matter, it will be BIG confidence booster for him and I am so proud
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Hi everyone....again. I'm trying to get my ticker to work but i'm not too sure what is happening so i'm just testing it out to see if it works this time......fingers crossed. My little one is asleep so I have a spare 5min's to check this out. Hope it works so i can stop annoying everyone!
Beck
hi all, I am still around, have just been too busy with work and Luke to drop in. I have him on my lap at the moment so eally not able to do too much bar read and type a quick message. He is doing really well, still sleeping from 7-8pm until 6-7am - it really is awesome. He doesn't sleep much during the day anymore though - only catnaps, hence my inabilityto get online!
work and BF'ing is going well, only drama is that my SIL over feeds him, but he doesn't seem to mind! my big boy is now 8.66kg and growing.
Ok, Luke is losing it, so will have to do this later!
Hi shell, MOJ, Sharon, Sarah, Nettie, BW, Zennie - no time for personals.
I think I am slowly but surely losing the plot. Tired nearly all of the time I just don't get the chance to sleep and get really p!ssed at DH when he continues to sleep in the mornings or has a nap whe DS does. I know he isn't get 8 hours but at least he gets 5-6 hours in a row. All the little things are getting to me - I know it is just the sleep deprivation.
The coming week is just going to get worse too.
Monday - try to get in cleaning up house for 3rd birthday party on the weekend
Tuesday - Looking after 4 kids - what was I thinking when I agreed to that?
Wednesday - shopping and mothers group - always a rush.
Thursday - more preparation for Sunday and the usual household chores
Friday - Getting birthday presents etc sorted out - (6 birthdays in next 2 weeks)
Saturday - last minute stuff for parties, visit the Inlaws
Sunday - morning B'day party, afternoon BBQ with friends
Monday - recover and start preparations for Tuesday night.
Tuesday - cooking and cleaning - having family over for dinner for DS's actual birthday.
I'm tired just thinking about it.
Despite not catching up on sleep - like I should have, but thought the sleep would only be her usual 20-30 minutes so didn't bother trying, I have gained some sanity this afternoon. Greer has been asleep with one feed in the middle for 4 hours. DH took DS to Nana for a couple of hours and he still isn't back. I've cleaned the front half of the house - 6 rooms. Still have 5 to go, but at least the pressure is off for during the week. Not having DS around and not having Greer crying has meant that I haven't been grumpy and losing the plot. Happy to know it's just me stressing about the birthday party as opposed to the beginnings of PND after Monday's melt down and the way I'd been all week I was seriously thinking I might have to follow in Sharon's footsteps and go see someone about it.
Off to cook dinner now. Ramble some more later.
Hope everyone is doing well and just too busy to type.
PS Sharon Thanks for checking my link.
When I get the chance I'll have a squiz at your pics again - love to see Oliver growing.
mum to Jack your sig seems to be working perfectly shellbell I pretty much guessed that you where MIA because you are so busy with work and Luke, hopefully when our bubs start amusing themselves a little more it will make it easier for you to have some 'you' time and come and hang out with your buddies alittlegrubi If that was me, I would be freaking out BIG TIME! there is no way on this earth that I would be able to get that much done in a week. As for DH sleeping in, mine does too, and I do get very jealous and on the weekends I hope and pray for Oliver to have a BIG sleep after he has had his 1st bottle and play for the day, and maybe 1 morning out of 2 weekends I will be lucky and get a bit of a sleep in. No probs about the link, I love looking at other peoples photos.
Had a nice day out in the city today, went to city extra for lunch, went for a wander around the Opera house (just outside) then took Jordan to the Police museum, which he loved, but he is still insisting that he wants to be a fireman when he grows up. We then had some baskin robbins ice cream, went for a drive to sydney airport watch some aeroplanes taking off (Jordan insists every time we are in town) then a quick drive down the road for a coffee and doughnut at Krispy Kreme, Oliver didn't have much sleep so was really cranky by the time we got home.
Zennie that is great, Oliver tries to roll from back to tummy, I think when he eventually does it will scare the living daylights out of him. frog1522 have heard from her either since her last post in here on the 1st August, she hasn't logged in since then either. Hope she is OK alittlegrubi I don't have everyone's numbers any more, I deleted them once everyone was paired up.
I think Oliver may have an ear infection, he has been really grizzly all day, he kept waking up last night every hour from 1am, he was then up at 5.10am, he keeps rubbing and grabbing his ear will usually start crying when he does this, there was also a bit of blood on his pillow from where he had scratched inside his ear with his finger nail. If he starts again tonight, I will give him some panadol, and if he is still grizzly tomorrow, I will be taking him to the dr.
Oh, and Jordan didn't make it into the finals to read his poem, the teacher accidentally gave him the wrong note, I asked him today if he was upset he said he wasn't, he was angry because he really wanted to be in the finals, it has really annoyed me actually, I personally think they should have still let him compete.
. We are trying not to use too much power due to the state's energy crisis, so no using the dryer here. By the end of the week when everything is still wet I get to a stage of what can I wear especially if Greer has done a chuck on me and I've gone through all my BF tops and have to resort to normal ones - cold back while feeding - brrrrr!
Beck!
) especially when we don't have much else to say.
I know he isn't get 8 hours but at least he gets 5-6 hours in a row. All the little things are getting to me - I know it is just the sleep deprivation. 
Happy to know it's just me stressing about the birthday party as opposed to the beginnings of PND after Monday's melt down and the way I'd been all week I was seriously thinking I might have to follow in Sharon's footsteps and go see someone about it.
Thanks for checking my link. 
If that was me, I would be freaking out BIG TIME! there is no way on this earth that I would be able to get that much done in a week. As for DH sleeping in, mine does too, and I do get very jealous and on the weekends I hope and pray for Oliver to have a BIG sleep after he has had his 1st bottle and play for the day, and maybe 1 morning out of 2 weekends I will be lucky and get a bit of a sleep in. No probs about the link, I love looking at other peoples photos.
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