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Odd....I posted a reply before then when I logged back in, it was gone!
Oh well, all I said was Tarnee how does she respond to you just wrapping her arms (as in fold the wrap up so its a strip about 20cm wide, and wrap only her arms and torso).
Also you can buy extra large muslin wraps off ebay quite cheaply, and you can buy muslin by the metre at spotlight, maybe you can make some BIG wraps for her that way which will be cooler than a sheet.
Benjamin is currently down for his first sleep with an arm out...so far so good!
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Tarnee: I can't really help, as all my children have been wrapped up TIGHT until they were nearly 12 months old.
*In summer time I used a muslin wrap. However I went to spotlight and brought the material and made it nice and big, then just put him in a singlet and a grow suit that buttons up at the crock. And a thermal blanket. I remember waking up one night and Landon had wiggled out, and was near stone cold. Ever since then I did wondersuits, with no singlet.
Zennie: Good to hear your transistion went really wel. have only just started Wyatt last night. He as sleeping in his cots for day naps, for last 1 and 1/2. So is quite used to it.
Grubi: You must be feeling unloved/single parent at the moment. I know I am feeling that way. My DH is just working a lot more so then when he was at the farm full time. But I guess I can go and see him when he at farm.
DH used to go and see mate with DS1 and it didn't faze me, until that started talking about stuff that happened when I was around. Or when DH didn't come home when he told me. So I would set alarm for 20 after time, then sit up and wait for him, if he wasn't home.
BW: Ge, you keep a good eye on BJ's sleep patten. It good to see. I don't have the time, and my life/children/DH are just to busy. I wish I could take more notice and sum days I do but I am only really concerned with at the early mornings, and bed time at night time. If he naps during those times, good.
So quick update
Went to motro cross kids were riding, yay. Was four season in one day yesterday. Wyatt was in his ergo all day, and ge I felt pregnant by the end of the day.
Put Wyatt in his COT last night for the FIRST time. And slept until 5am, however I got up 3 times just to make sure he was ok. He didn't like going in there away for bed time. He normally get a cuddle/boobie until he passed out then into bed. But day naps are in cot awake and he falls alseep. Anyway I was happy with it.
Well not much else to report. Got to fold so much washing up have been putting it off and off all week, and not it has come back to bit me. It's been raining all week, and it seem that when it does rain I have so much washin to do... Anyone else feel like that???
Well I better get too it, oter wise DH will ask what have I been doing all day....
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Hi again all,
I finall got to add some/2 more photo of me and my children. The one with Wyatt in it is the first photo of me and all my children together.
Oh the one of Alise and Landon on the horse (lightning) is not the sick horse. He was my horse when I was my daughters age.
What do you think??
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Hi again all,
I finall got to add some/2 more photo of me and my children. The one with Wyatt in it is the first photo of me and all my children together.
Oh the one of Alise and Landon on the horse (lightning) is not the sick horse. He was my horse when I was my daughters age.
What do you think??
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For those of you with grizzly babies at the moment - I have a sneaking suspicion that DS is going through a bit of a wonder week. He's been 'off' all week and is now doing new things - like moving around in his cot. Seriously, we used to put him down and he would stay there. Now he rolls over, turns around, gets feet/arms caught in the bars - whatever! I went in there at 3am and he was on his tummy playing! He's also not doing the day nap thing very well at the moment - only has brief naps most of the time.
I start back at work tomorrow - full time. :( And poor DH has gotten a coldy/coughy thing that's making him feel like crap. I did all the night wakings last night (we normally share them) so he could get a good sleep to aid in his recovery and so now I'm feeling buggered today! Ah well, will be heading to bed early tonight anyway!
I had a cleaning frenzy this week too - sorted out the piles of stuff that needed going through and changed the sheets on both our bed & the cot.
Can't think of anything else to say, so :hello: to everyone...
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Hi Sarah,
I only pay close attention out of habit....
Having done about 10 years in child care where I had to note down the time for everything for every child!
Nettie I feel for you going back to work!
I miss Benjamin when I've gone to the shops for half an hour and left him with DH....I am sooo soo sooo lucky, and so grateful everyday that I am not returning to work!
It must be the day for it Sarah, cause I have finally gotten some photos together too!
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Hi ladies. Things have been a bit hectic here. Luke has had a chest infection and now appears to be teething (so you can imagine how much fun we are having) I am still sick - nothing like BF'ing and working FT to really run you down and to top it off Luke is refusing the breast. I have come to the decision to wean him and it is going slowly (i think mostly because I have so much milk) but hopefully will be all sorted within 3 - 4 weeks.
I do drop in from time to time, but my available time is so short it is difficult to respond each time. Glad to here that everyone is well.
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Tarnee - best thing to do with the gym/eating healthy side is to make it a must do - just like having a shower or brushing your teeth, don't give yourself the option of missing it. Yeah - easier said than done I know - but you need the discipline to make it work.
Thanks all for your suggestions on settling with Greer, I know that I have to be more disciplined with settling her. I'm trying to just go with taking that bit longer initially, for she will sleep in her cot if she is asleep when put in there, so I just have to put her back and try pats, sucks whatever it takes to get her back to sleep in the cot.
I've come to the realisation that the reason I am p!ssed at DH going out is because he has an outlet to vent his stresses and I really don't. Now to try to fix it, that means getting over my barriers and doing things like asking MIL to have the kids so I can have a break. DH would have them, but it's not like I want to go out without him. Guess he goes without me as he isn't as restricted - I mean I can look after the kids and do.
Shell - might be worth freezing some of that excess milk as you work on the weaning. I went to only feeding at night with DS after 2 months back at work. Could he be refusing because he is sick or teething, I know Greer has been funny like that lately with illness and teething. I feel for you with the working fulltime and parenting fulltime so soon, having done it at 4 months last time I know what you mean about it taking it out of you. Make sure you keep up your vitamins, zinc, magnesium, Vitamin B6 and fishoil to help you.
Nettie - best of luck with the return to work tomorrow. This is going to sound crazy, but if it weren't for my dental appointment and Greer's Baptism in October, I think I'm ready to return to work tomorrow. Not fulltime, but return all the same.
Might just look into doing that when I go in to visit tomorrow, I might look at going back to work one or two days a week in November.
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Well...my little freak o nature has a new trick, he still hasn't gone back to rolling off of his tummy (had 5 rolls tummy to back in total) and is yet to roll from back to tummy, but everytime we lay him down on the floor on his back he manages to rotate himself 360 degrees!
He even did it (under very close supervision of course) in the bath last night.
He brings his legs up (stomach crunch style), then rolls onto his side, puts his feet back down and pushes a little, and he's rotated a bit....and he just keeps doing it over and over!
Quite amusing really!
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Hi All!
I have been reading all your posts but no time to post myself!!!!
Is it just me or do you all feel like our babies arn't little babies anymore?! Ryder seems to be "all of a sudden" growing up really quickly..... he's soooooo cheeky!!!
His latest tricks are:
* Putting his legs up straight in the air & holding his feet with his hands
* Splashing sooo much water all over the floor when having a bath - have to get the mop out to clean all the water up
* He somehow manages to fit his whole hand in his mouth, but then gags cause he puts in it too far!
* He has a whole conversation with his mobile friends that sit above his car seat... it's hillarious!
* I've taught him to give Mummy kisses..... I give him kisses on his cheeks & on his lips (which he now puckers up for!) and he sucks my face to give me kisses back....eewww... lots of spit!
* Oh.... Ryder has discovered his willy!!!! Yes, the other day on his change table he grabbed his privates - he really is a boy isn't he!
I started Ryder on Farex about 3 weeks ago, just once a day. He's now having it twice a day, at about 10am and again at 3pm. He LOVES it. If I don't have the next spoonful ready to shovel into his mouth by the time he's swallowed his last mouthful.... look out Mummy! I've also dropped breast feeding through the day and only breast feed him at 6pm, 3am and 7am. He has formula at 10/11am, 2/3pm, 10pm feeds. I made up my 1st batch of vegies & froze them yesterday - just pumpkin, potato & sweet potato at this stage & not mixed... will try one vegie at a time before mixing them. I'm thinking in the next week or so I'll give him a taste!
Things that Ryder is still NOT doing:
* STILL NOT sleeping through the night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is STILL waking several times a night (for whatever reason). He is sleeping in his cot now & has been for about 3wks. He sleeps on his side inbetween support bars, unwrapped (I only wrapped him for the 1st few weeks as he never liked it) and he has a dummy (but only to fall asleep). I only feed him when he wakes at 3am, but I've just about had it with that too as I don't feel he needs it..... I swear it's out of habit that he wakes for that feed. A friend of mine keeps saying he should be sleeping through & to let him cry or offer him boiled water only and that it might take 3 nights to break his habits, but it will be worth it. I agree that it would be wonderful to have a FULL nights sleep, but I just don't have the balls to do it or deal with it when I'm so tired at night. Do any of you still feed your babies through the night & how many times would they wake between 7pm & 7am?
* STILL NOT rolling over.... he will kind of turn to one side while laying of the floor, but that's it. Do you think Ryder should definately be rolling yet?
My girlfriend who keeps telling me Ryder should be sleeping through the night by now, has an 11 month old baby boy as well. They were over this afternoon & OMG.... I am DREADING when Ryder can crawl & stand & touch everything in his reach! There is no stopping her little boy now and if we think our babies are time consuming now, boy we are in for a shock in a few months time! I was cringing the whole time they were over.... just waiting for my tv cabinet to be dented by the hard plastic ball he was bashing on it, tv cords to be snapped, timber blinds to be broken, carpet to be stained by his food (strawberries of all things!). Don't know how I will cope!!!! :cryinglaugh:
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sarah glad to hear your horse is doing better, as for solids, we have been on and off with them with Oliver, but lately he has been taking them a bit better, still tries to suck instead of open his mouth wide but we are getting there, he hates the farex, but he loves sweet potato.
alittlegrubi that is the whole reason why I NEVER co-slept with any of my kids, not even for a night because I knew I would hate having to try to get them to sleep in their own bed and on their own.
Zennie sounds like russell likes his cot, I can't believe you have only just moved him, we moved Oliver into his cot at 9 weeks (?)
Tarnee Jordan was a summer baby and he was wrapped for every sleep, wouldn't sleep otherwise and he just had one of those muslin wraps (larger size) and then would just tuck him in tightly with a sheet during the summer and we never had any problems with him overheating.
Nettie how was your first day back at work? Hope DH recovered from his illness nice and quick.
shellbell try not to spread yourself too thin, you do need to have some 'you' time, even if it's for an hour on the computer. Hope you get well soon and that Luke gets over his chest infection.
BabyWrangler what a clever boy BJ is, Oliver has been doing the 360 thing for about a 6 weeks now, it's quite funny, and both yesterday and the day before he rolled from back to tummy, twice, I missed seeing him do it, but it was funny, he was on his mat on his back one second, I turned away, looked back, and he was on his tummy, took a good 5 seconds for me to realise that that wasn't the position I put him in LOL
Had a good trip up the coast on Sunday, and believe it or not, Oliver was a perfect angel in the car, he played with his 'new' linky doos (they have animal shapes on them) and would just play with them till he fell asleep, he woke briefly (about 2 mins) then went straight back to sleep on the way up, on the way home, he fell asleep pretty much straight away and woke after an hour, then played and talked for the rest of the way home.
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Sharon thats a gorgeous photo!!!!
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Wow... 17 pages. Wonder when they'll start us on a new thread!
DH is still sick. He's on sudafed & cough syrup now but they just make him feel drugged and foggy. He's doing great looking after Liam though! I come home every day for lunch & today that gave him the chance to go to the post office to do some posting for his business. It looks like Liam's getting it now too. He's got the cough (which sounds heartbreaking through the night - but he goes straight back to sleep - mostly!) and this morning, DH put him down for a sleep around 9 and he was still asleep when I got home from lunch around 12.15!! We woke him up because he started dreaming and seemed upset. Once he woke up - he smiled & was very happy though!
Jodie - don't worry, Liam's not sleeping through the night either. He did a few times, and for a while was only waking up once, but now it's anywhere between twice & 5 times! Not for feeds, just re-settling. We feed him once during the night - sometimes twice.
We've started him on rice cereal. Because of the cleft, we're doing it very runny (barely noticable in the formula) and using the bottle. DH started him yesterday and I didn't find out until the evening, but he was adding it to every bottle! It was the first time Liam's only had 4 bottles all day though! And he only woke up twice last night - DH fed him around 3.30 am, but he only ate 40 mls... hardly worth it!
We've only given him 3 bottles with added rice cereal. We add one tablespoon to 150 mls of formula so hopefully this will start him off nice & slow.
Anyway - must go off to bed in case I have to do all the night wakings (DH is still feeling crappy).
:hello: to everyone and I hope to be able to do personals on the weekend sometime...
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Quick morning post two things.
1. got both kids to sleep in their own bed/cot last night Wahoo!!!
2. Got the best present yesterday - it's a baby bean bag with carry straps. Allows me to move Greer arouns without unsettling her.
GTG - huge poos here.
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Hi girls,
I added a few recent pic's of our cheeky little monkey. Enjoy!
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HI All!
Jodie, Ryder is looking very cute!!
Grubi Well done on getting the kids in their own beds! Thats fantastic!
Nettie, Your hubby sounds like a trooper, and its great the Liam is starting on the big boy food (albeit nice and slow!)
Sharon Its great that Oliver was good in the car...nothing worse than a screamer in an enclosed space!!
ShellBell Great to see you pop in!
Well...I'd better go get something else done, so far today I have stacked the dishwasher and turned it on, cleaned the bathroom, hung out the load of washing tidied the lounge a little, made the bed (dh NEVER does it when he gets up!), and put Benjamin to bed, then snuggled him an hour later, and put him back to bed....
Feeling very productive....I'm off out soon to change over a grobag we bought for a friend of ours, they were told they were having a girl, and she had a baby boy this morning....and whilst she's excited...she's totally gobsmacked and in a flap cause the cot etc are all made up in pretty pink stuff!
I have a spare key to their house cause I'm feeding the dog, so I'm going to swap the grobag over for some boy bedding and re-make the cot as a surprise!!
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Buggeration...Benjamin has an ear infection
He woke at 9:30 hysterical and I couldnt work out why, but snuggled til dopey then went back to sleep.
When he got up though, his right ear with all crusty...not earwax crusty, discharge crusty....straight in the car and off to the Dr and as I suspected, an ear infection!
Such a trooper though, other than this morning...wouldn't have known!
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BabyWrangler Thanks, that pic was taken a while ago (about 4 weeks) and he seems to have changed so much since then. My brother and SIL where told their second child was a boy, she was a girl, I don't think I could go out and buy all boy/girl stuff just from a ultrasound, that's will be a lovely surprise if you re-do the bedding for her as she is probably stressing about it. Hope BJ gets over his ear infection nice and quick, they are awfully painful. I love that pic of BJ in your ticker too, it is absolutely gorgeous.
Nettie sorry to hear that DH is still sick. I've been wondering about a new thread too, we have over 300 posts...
alittlegrubi that baby bean bag sounds cute, and such a good idea.
Jodie82 Ryder is such a cutie :)
Not much else to report here other than Anthony got his Learner's Bike licence yesterday, yay, just what I need, another thing to worry about.
