Babies Born April 16th - 30th 2008 #1

[sarah_dobbo2]

Morning all,

Sorry for be MIA the last few days. More drama with sick horse.

Wyatt has been little S**t of late last night he woke up 4 times, I could have killed him when he woke at 5:45am this morning and wouldn't go back to bed. So am very crabby at the moment. I was going to start him on some sweet potatoe last night but DH didn't come home until 8pm and Wyatt was bath, in PJ and ready for bed when he walked in.

DH is a whole other story at the moment. I know it is a catch 22, he wants to get his family ahead in life yet he is missing out on everything at the moment. I even told he the other week, one day you are going to come home and we will be gone, he if was going to keep this stupid work hours up. He slowed down all on 2 days then back to then late nights home.

Sharon: That is a very cute photo. You did a good job. I know what you mean about babies change so fast in such little time. That great that Oliver slept most of the time in the car. When we were hearding back to sydeny when i was up there the pair of my boys sleep from Norwa, to Sutherland/Gyme. I thought that was great. Now we back in Tassie, we don't drive for over 3 hour and we are at out destations.
How are you parents settleing in down here now? Do they like Westbury??

Grubi: Can you post a photo of her in it on here. Am trying to picture it, but I doubt I am having alot of luck.
* SNAP that you had a night on your own with no children with you. How did you go the following nights?

BW: That is no good BJ having an ear infection. This may sound like a dum question, but how do you know what signs to look out for when they have one. I am just thinking Wyatt might have one or something else wrong with him. Yesterday was a busy day people here all day so not a normal day.

Well I better go, so for not more personal, I have sister kids 4 and I have a GF coming over with her 2 and my 3 I will have 9 children here today. Busy day, we are going to hunting for worms to build worm farm.

Have a lovley day ladies...

[BabyWrangler]

Hiya Sarah,
Typical signs are:
Pulling on ear
Crying when head moves suddenly
Crying when laying down, but ok if upright (thats a fluid thing)
Temp
Discharge from ear (other than earwax....when you see it, you'll know!!)

With Benjamin, we only say the discharge...mainly because his bed is still elevated cause of the refluxy chucking, so he wasn't laying flat
After the Dr, he had a temp, and now floor time isn't the happiest of occasions.

The most noticable is the crying when laying down, thats the one we always noticed at childcare, then you check the temp and its slightly up, and the rest followed!!

[mum2caleb&madi]

hi everyone!

i'm new to the forum and thought i might introduce myself. im danielle and my daughter madison was born april 28th 2008. i also have a 3 and a half year old son Caleb. look forward to getting to know you all

[Butterfly_Princess]

Hey girls,
Im jumping into this thread too missing some of you girls!!
Welcome Danielle to the thread and forum, you will find it gets addcitive!!!

[BabyWrangler]

Hiya B_P good to see you!! (new name and all!)

Welcome Danielle! Nice to have you with us!!!

My poor boyo is getting more and more miserable by the hour, but hopefully another couple of doses of the anti's and all will be well!

[Sharon19270]

sarah hope your horse is ok. sometimes it is a difficult decision for our DH's to make in regards to career/money or spending more time with family you just have to get him to set a few days a week where he comes home at a reasonable hour to spend time with you and the kids.
mum2caleb&madi looking forward to getting to know you, welcome to our little group.
Butterfly_Princess welcome back honey, love the pics of Isabelle, hope you are feeling better.
BabyWrangler I hope BJ gets better soon.

Not much happening here, had Oliver checked at community nurse today, he weighs 7.1kg, is 65cm long, and a HC of 42.5, she was very happy with how he is going.

BBL Ollie just woken up.

[Nettie]

Jodie - I forgot to mention that Liam's discovered his boy-bits too! Every time we get the nappy off he's grabbing at them! He's even had scratch marks!

General update: We're all doing better. DH is mostly over his 'flu and Liam's got a cough and has had a few days where he's been a bit warm, but nothing major. I've gotten through my first week of work unscathed and I even managed to sleep through the night last night! DH fed Liam at 11pm and he didn't wake up until about 6.45 am. By then I was hanging out a load of nappies!

We're starting to get into a routine in the mornings too. I shower at night so all I have to do to get ready for work is have some breakfast, pack a lunchbox & my water, brush my teeth & get dressed. Usually I let DH sleep in until 8 am and hand Liam over then. That gives me time to do those things (sometimes I've already packed my lunchbox & had breakfast by that time) and get to work by 8.30 am. Glad I'm not a hair & make-up person!! We've also started a routine for leaving - when either DH or I leave the house to go somewhere (like work), we do a special wave (fingers to palm, then open again) and blow kisses saying 'bye-bye'. Hopefully this will get him prepared for our absence.

Liam's been having rice cereal in his formula all week now. The packet says to add 4 tablespoons to 120 - 160 mls of fluid (formula/water/ebm) but it was too thick to put through the bottle (which is how we wanted to start him because of the cleft palate) so we're only putting 1 tablespoon in a 150ml bottle of formula - up to 4 times a day. However, we've discovered that he's not eating as much now (one day he only had 4 bottles all day and didn't finish any of those!) but he's sleeping better at night. Over the weekend I intend to make the rice cereal up properly and feed it to him on a spoon to see how he goes.

I'm about to put some new pics in the gallery so feel free to have a squiz... some are awful cute!

Sharon - I've been meaning to get Liam to the CYH Nurse, but now I'm back at work I can't see when I'll get the time! Sounds like Ollie's doing great though!

BW - awwww... poor BJ Hope he's all better soon.

Welcome Danielle & Madison! We're a good bunch so feel free to dive on in if you've got something to say!

Grubi - hope that poo wasn't too huge! You haven't been in since!

BP - are we still allowed to call you Meg?

Sarah - Sounds like you're not having the best time at the moment Hope DH sees sense soon & things look up. We're a single income family (mine) and realise we'll have to go without some things to make ends meet - but we think it's worth it to have DH home looking after Liam and knowing that we'll both get quality time with him (I'm only 5 minutes from work & it's a great place to work).

to anyone else I've forgotten!

[Butterfly_Princess]

Sharon: Yes feeling much better indeed thankyou We seem to have things under control now, YAY.

Nettie: Either or

Isabell has started on Farex, and we have added pumpkin to it recently, and she just loves loves looooves it!! Cant get it down quick enough lol...
Speaking of the lil devil, she is crying and not sleeping like she should be, back soon girls.

[BabyWrangler]

hi guys,
Just popping in to say g'day!
Nettie its great that Liam is doing so well with the farex, and great that you have routines going on...they sure do help!

B_P Bj is the same with vegies! We were going to start with some zucchini this week, but with him being sick, we have put that on hold (don't wanna screw round with him when he's not well!).

As for BJ, he is being a trooper as usual, his temp didnt drop below 38 all night, but he had a dose of panadol at 9:15, and then actually slept through til 7:15!
When he got up he was still 38.2, but didnt cry as much when I took his temp (we take it in both ears because one ear is always hotter than the other).
I was a bit concerned about him not drinking much as up until 3pm, he'd had just 200ml, but then he had 150ml at 3:30pm, then another full bottle at bedtime (200ml), and another 80 at 9pm so I was feeling much more relaxed.

He started the day with some panadol for his temp, and 90ml of milk!
He's been playing on the floor for 45 minutes, is talking happily, and is even turning over onto his sore ear!

Im glad he seems to be improving, we are going out this afternoon for our wedding anniversary, it was on wednesday but DH has something planned!
My boss is coming to look after Benjamin.

Anyway, better go do something!!

[alittlegrubi]

at Nettie's comment about the huge poos and my MIA. It was big, but not so big as to be the reason for my disappearance. I've been nesting - better late than never I have cleaned out all the wardrobes of the unworn clothes, spring cleaned all the wet areas and have commenced the big task of moving the DVD library to the toy area and the toys to the games/computer room so the mess is contained in one space.

Oh and I have been listing my maternity wear on ebay.

On top of that I've been doing things for the baptism - like making my own bottle label to put on wine for the god parents - that commemorates them as Godparents with Greer's picture on it - they are getting a little tag that says it this bottle is filled with my wishes for you - use it wisely as it might just come true.

We have been suffering with a cold and earache here so it has been a juggle of time to look after a sick bubs and do my clean - ergo little time online for posting, have been nosy and read a couple of times since the poo.

Sarah Picture should be loaded now (will do after posting) of Greer's bean bag - I wish I had had it when she first came home - I'm getting my Mum to make a pattern and looking at making them as gifts for future births of friends and family. I can put her down out of my arms and she sleeps so easily now and is happy to lay there and play a lot of the time whilst I've been cleaning. I love it.

Will be heading off to my parents this arvo so the mess and personals will have to wait.

[Butterfly_Princess]

Howdy girls,
I have updated my gallery with more pics, link in my siggie.

Tonight Isabell woke up suddenly crying, and i was unable to settle her no matter what. In the end after some panadol i sat her on my lap, and put my finger in her mouth and rubbed her gums. She stopped crying instantly and after a while even cheered up. Im guessing maybe she is teething and it may have upset her a bit tonight. I got her to sleep after a short play on her play mat.

Im feeling good about myself atm Im feeling happy (will be happier when Ben is home from work for the week) and im feeling confident about myself too. Next week im going clothes shopping, ready for summer, and i feel good about my body, i feel that my body is even ready for summer. Im lucky, im back to pre preg weight, i pretty much was about a week after birth. Im getting my hair done too, and i cant wait. All in all i feel wonderful!!!

alittlegrubi - The bean bag looks gorgeous, and so does your little angel too!!!
BabyWrangler - I hope your afternoon was wonderful!!!

[BabyWrangler]

Hi Guys.
Had a great arvo...we went to see Wall-E gold class, it was great!
We were going out for dinner too, but we ate too much popcorn and ended up going home.
Unfortunately, Benjamin is a little bit too cute, and has my boss wrapped round his little finger, so instead of being in bed and asleep by 6:15, when we got home at 7:15 he was still up and playing, hadn't had much milk, and hadnt really eaten his dinner, it took til 8pm to settle him off to sleep, then he woke at 4am and just could not re-settle, was whingey and so on, panadol at 5am settled him for 45 minutes, but we were in the lounge playing at 6am.
He had a bit of bottle and some brekky, then settled again from 8:15 til 9am, but woke very upset then too, he woke laying on his sore ear though so that didnt help.
Have managed to settle him again, and hopefully he'll go through til maybe 11 which will get him back on track with his routine, and tonight he'll be down by 6pm.

I know his ear is still sore cause if you touch it, he cries

Grubi, gorgeous beanbag and baby!
B_P Gorgeous baby!

[sarah_dobbo2]

Grubi: Love the photo. Great idea for the bean bag/carrier. However it looks like you will be in trouble soon. Greer is almost as long as the bag.

Well got to run, just doing the quick catch up reading, got to change horse's bandage, then go and rest Grannies Camera she is off again to Queensland. Then a GF Creative Memories party.

Will try and stop back in later if it isn't too late.

DD goes back to school 2 morro and life and resume as normal. No more school holidays for a while.

[BabyWrangler]

Sarah I love that pic of Wyatt!!!
What a killer smile!

[sarah_dobbo2]

Sarah I love that pic of Wyatt!!!
What a killer smile!

Thanks BW. I'm trying to get more of him. A GF came over yesterday and he was in a funny mood didn't matter what she did he wouls just laugh and smile at her. SO I got out the camera while she was doing that and snapped away. I took over 130 including the other kids as well.

[alittlegrubi]

Sarah - yes unfortunately the bean bag won't last that long - wish I'd been given it months ago. I'm going to keep using it until she is too big/heavy to carry and will continue to lay her on it until she outgrows it. It is less disrupting when putting her down that the move onto the cot mattress during the day.
BW - sounds like you had a wonderful night out.
Butterfly - I know what you mean about feeling good about yourself. I am now under my pre-preg weight and back into size 10 clothing . I have started wearing skirts again and need to sell my BF tops and get smaller ones. I'm getting my hair done in 2 weeks - so looking forward to that.

Someone asked how I went for the next few nights with kids in their own beds... started out in their own beds, but both being sick they have been waking during the night with earaches - was lucky to get 4 hours sleep last night as Greer slept through from 5.30pm to 11pm an hour play and then around 2am DS woke calling out Mummy, the Greer was awake for the day at 4.08am. It's a start though they can settle without me being in the bed which is great.

Off to bed now - need some sleep and Greer is ready for her topup feed.

[MistyFying]

Time for a new thread everyone