Babies Born April 16th - 30th 2008 #1

Sarah - Seriously doubt I'll be making another cake either. DH has laid down the law and said next party is somewhere else like fun station, toddler town, kidzland where they cater and the kids just play - think you still have to supply cake though - might be a preplan and buy one next time.
Your ILs sounds like mine - what is rubbish and what isn't in their shed is hard to tell.

Sharon I had a similar thing happen with my hair after DS was born 3 years ago, went to the hair dresser -love gay guy who insisted on bringing out my natural curl - to which I said I don't have any - believe my by the time he finished my hair was a mass of adorable curls and all by scrunching - I loved it too. I agree with Sarah too - bet it made you feel good all day - I hope so anyway. DH would have laughed because he's not use to you with curls, I'm sure if you say it makes you feel good about yourself he'd have a different reaction. What did Jordan think?

alittlegrubi it's not like it was a boiling hot day, so I say why not, she was in the garage, nice and safe, and she got a good sleep and you got some stuff done around the house, win/win situation really. So is your hair still curly? My DH loved it though, he has seen me with permed hair quite a few times, he called me 'sexy' which was really nice to hear :D
sarah it would have been so annoying when you are trying to save money and do things as cheap as you can with the kitchen, and then DH goes and just spends money without a thought, but like you said, you have the cheque book :p

Oh, well, gotta go, keep packing for my day retreat, i'm really excited. Then I have to have my shower and 'scrunch' my curly hair :lol:

have a great day everyone.

Hi All,

Remember me?? I had dropped off the scene for a while 'cause the 'April Babies' forum was just too big for me to keep up with. Glad to see it has been split. I did drop in to a different forum and Nettie invited me back here. Not sure if I will be a regular visitor but thought I would pop in and say 'Hi!' (I also updated my ticker Nettie so you can get a better idea of how Charlotte is doing - no hair, but full of smiles).

Hope you are all going well and loving your time with your babies.

Charlotte is a dream - we have hardly any issues at all. She has slept through the night since week 5 and sleeps fine during the day. My only issue is that after lots of research on my part, I have finally had it confirmed that she has a mild tongue-tie - it just explains sooo much! I am pretty frustrated that our paediatrician, gp or Child Health Nurses haven't ever mentioned it to me and that it is only being identified at 4 months old. We are having it snipped in the next 2 weeks so hopefully that will also help her be less of a 'spewy' baby.

Anyway, I have really enjoyed looking through the tickers to see how your babies have grown - they are soooo cute.

Best wishes to you all.

Hi ladies,

Been reading and keeping up, but sadly simply haven't had the time to write. DH decided to go away for the weekend - apparently I am supposed to be fine about it - I'm not, but he went anyway - and I haven't had any time to myself between cleaning the house and looking after Luke. Quite cranky with DH but he has taken the view that he hasn't seen his mates since NY's (when he went away and left me at home) so he is entitled to go. I am still so cranky with him. He doesn't seem to get that I am working full time, expressing milk, feeding Luke, running around after Luke, doing all the cleaning and that I would like a bit of 'me' time. Just so long as he gets what he wants.

Anyway, that is my vent - and sadly I am so tired at the moment that I am going to bed now. PLeased to hear that everyone is doing well. Will try to log on tomorrow and do some personals.

Welcome back Tarnee! Charlotte's gorgeous! You must be pleased with how she's going. Good luck with the tongue-tie 'snip'.

Shell - :hug: sorry you're DH is being a prat... Maybe you should book in for a massage/facial or something nice for yourself and just say to him 'here - you look after things for a while' 'the washing needs doing, the dishes need doing and I'd like _ _ _ for tea...' See how he likes them apples! ;)

We're doing really well here. Liam self-settled again last night and tonight, but has been waking up through the night again (only once last night and once already tonight) but we're ok with that. DH was a sweetie & let me have a lie-in this morning. I've been quite tired lately and I asked if he could give me an extra hour or so this morning and he let me sleep an extra 3-4 hours! Feel heaps better now!

Oh - and Liam's now in 00 size clothing! I've started only buying the jumpsuits without the feet too because he runs out of room there first!
Hope you're all well and Grubi - hope the party went great! I was thinking of you today!

Tarnee We had a minor tongue tie - not so minor - had it cut at 6 weeks, hope you are breast feeding as the milk helps to heal the cut and being at 4 months it will be a bit harder for you as Charlotte will have more of a memory. They get more distressed by being held than the actual snip. Having the snip definitely helped us with bf issues. Good luck.

Nettie Thanks for your thoughts, but the party is tomorrow :D, spent today cleaning up and getting all those last minute bits arranged. Will post pic of DS in his hulk outfit - he insists on wearing it now and I know I'm in for a fight to get it off at bedtime. We are having a late night as we all had an afternoon sleep of 3 hours today - so he isn't tired. Greer has also gone into 00 and I agree the length is where she runs out of them first, but I have still got feetin suits for sleeping.


I have a headache from hell and like Shell I'm DHless, tonight only that is - he wouldn't dare do a weekend. He thinks it's okay to leave me at home with the kids quite regularly as long as one or both are asleep it's okay for him to go out. I never get to just go out for a drink with my friends. Next life I want to be the DH :lol:. If I were you Shell I wouldn't have cleaned up over the weekend, so DH could see it isn't easy - if you have done everything he might think that it wasn't a big deal for him to go away for the weekeend again IYKWIM.

Sharon Yes, I can still get the curl out of my hair if I take the time to scrunch, but I'm a wash and wear kinda girl so it doesn't happen too often. Glad to hear your DH said you were sexy - hope you felt sexy too and DTD. How was your retreat? I certainly wouldn't leave Greer in the car if it were hot, even with all the windows down.

Sarah I too have the cheque book and lately been spending way too much - not on me on the kids, especially went overboard on DS's birthday presents. Spoilt him rotten. Hope he like his presents. Got so much we are giving him presents at all his "parties" tomorrow - kids, Tuesday (actual birthday) dinner with ILs and following Sunday with my family as it is my Dad's birthday on the Monday so we do the two together - although the focus is on DS as Pop is over birthday's now. Which reminds me still have to get cards for Pop and we are buying the cake - no presents this year for the adults - saving the money for one worthwhile present at Christmas.

Okay I have to go stick Wolverine and Spidey to the wall now. Will let you know how the party went.
Link to DS as Hulk = BigBrother Hulk Make Me Angry and Hulk Roar

Grubi - I am still breastfeeding which is why I want to get it done now. Esp. before she starts on solids cause apparently, it can make it hard for them to push the food to the back of their mouth to swallow. I know that she is going to remember more with her being older, but I think that I am OK about dealing with that because of the long term benefits of having it done. She is definitely going to 'crack-it' when the hold her tongue 'cause she was bad enough just with the nurse trying to have a look without holding it.

Shellbell - I have come to the conclusion that most DH's just don't get it! And that as the mum's, we feel the need to compensate by telling everyone how wonderful they are with the baby but in reality we wish they were better. At times, I find having a baby and breastfeeding so suffocating. I can't go anywhere without thinking about taking Charlotte. I love her to bits but would love to detach for a day and not have to be constantly thinking about her needs.

Last week, I joined the gym and am loving it. They have child care there and for an hour a couple of times a week, I get to do something for me. I still think about her while I am working out, but am finding that I am 'worrying' about her less.

I would love to be able to just 'have a drink' too. SInce I found out I was pregnant (Aug 07) I have only touched alcohol on my 30th birthday party (end of June). I had about 4 glasses of champagne and expressed (and threw out) a day's worth of BM cause I felt so guilty. I can't even bring myself to drink a small glass of red with dinner!!

Charlotte has been in 00 clothes for a while now - but since she was born April 16, she is probably one of the oldest in this group. Some pants are still too big for her (but yet the 000 are too small) so I just fold them over once at the waist. She is nearly too big for 00 wondersuits which are a bit short for her but I can't seem to keep socks on her feet so won't buy the footless ones for bed.

Brrr it is cold here this morning - think I might treat myself to a cooked breakfast.

Take care,

Hi Tarnee! Welcome back

Geez peopleI can't believe your kids are getting into 00 sized clothing...BJ was born on the 7th of April and I'm excited that SOME of the 0-3 month Pumpkin Patch clothing is getting small, and that he has just hit 000 sized clothing....GROW BOYO GROW!!

Not much happening here, Benjamin had his needles thursday and whilst we didnt have any major dramas, he's been a little cranky and unsettled in the middle of the night (up from 12:30 til 3:30 last night), but then went through straight til 8am so can't complain!!

Will pop in later for personals

Oh and the outfit in his fishing photo (taken on wednesday) is a newborn sized one!!

Ok. Can anyone tell me how many feeds a 4 month old should be having each day?? No solids - still exclusively breast feeding. Charlotte only had 4 feeds yesterday and today. And am just wondering if this is normal / will it continue??

Hi Tarnee,
My little man is having around 5-6 feeds a day, although he is not drinking alot....around 130-150ml per feed in saying this he has been only just doing this in last 2weeks or so. He had his needles on Fri & has 2 very sore legs as the sister that injected him was a little rough. The 2month needles he had you wouldn't have even noticed he had them!! This time is a totally different story though the poor darlin!
BW- did you say that you were near laidley???

Best go & do some work
Take care all

Tarnee I don't think there is a set number of feeds, rather they are supposed to have around 120mls per kg in weight over 24 hours so if they are 6kgs and having four feeds they should be having 180mls a feed.

Party ended up a disaster in my eyes :( because the birthday boy wouldn't wear his costume despite wearing it the night before. He got up and left the pass-the-parcel after getting his prize. None of the other games were played. He didn't want to open presents. Blew out his candles before we sang happy birthday. Didn't want to eat his cake and half the guests didn't come. He kepy having fights because the guests were playing with his toys. Then on top of all of that I forgot to hand out the loot bags - which were actual comicbooks taped into bags. Cake was a hit though :)

DH weighed Greer on the scales with him and clothed she is 7.1kg so about 6.8kg, putting her in the 90th percentile - which considering she was at the 10th percentile when born shows she is a chubba bubba.

My it is quiet today - are we all suffering from our weekends? Today was highly unproductive today. Found out that you need to have a receipt to return an item at Target and that if it is not returned within 28 days you can only get a store credit - makes present buying a little more difficult as they can't return unless you provide them with the receipt.
Greer is crying heaps today and has had a couple of vomits. It's either the white bread that I ate for lunch - don't usually have white bread or she is swallowing phlem. Also has a bad nappy rash - think we neglected the nappy changes during the excitement yesterday :doh:. Am waiting until next week to do immunisations.
Booked in for my teeth 1st week in Seotember and 1st week in October - will have nice teeth for baptism photos now :lol:

Hiya Grubi,
That birthday party sounds pretty typical to me!
I went to a 5 year old's party the day I went into labour, and it sounds almost exactly the same but you know what? All the guests (including me) had a blast, and thought it was great!

As for us...Bj had a weird day (weird for him) didnt sleep too well, didnt eat too well etc etc...
I have a feeling that perhaps he's getting his milk too fast which is causing wind, and thus leading to all the usuals!
He uses avent bottles, and has been using the number 2 teats (which is the 1 month plus teat) even though he should technically be on number 3's (but he coughs and splutters and gulps on them). He only switched to number 2's about a month ago.
I gave him his last feed (7:15pm) with a number 1, and theres been no crying, squirming or waking so far (a big change from the past few nights).
I also think that possibly (I may be wrong, we'll know in a couple of days) that the number 2's may be a bit fast for him and thats why he keeps pulling away from bottles etc...

So for now, we are switching back to number 1's (the 0-1month teats!!!).

Mum to Jack Im in Melbourne

Tarnee nice to see you here, I think the group is much easier to 'handle' now that we have been split, I find that I usually have time to do personals, and if not, I know that when I next log on I can do them then and not have 2-3 pages of posts to try and catch up on.
shellbell you have every right to be cranky with DH, I am so lucky that my DH does so much for me around here, and then also has no problems with me going out, have already pre-warned him that I am going for the entire weekend for next years annual scrapbooking retreat.
Nettie Oliver has been in 00 clothing since he was about 10 weeks old, but he was a big boy when he was born though. Oh, and well done on Liam self settling himself again, I think he's definitely got the hang of it now.
alittlegrubi i'm normally a wash and wear girl too, but it's nice to know that I can scrunch if I want a change. DS looks cute in his hulk costume. As for the party being a disaster, as long as all the kids had fun, that's all that really matters, if I was EVER game enough to have a party at home (it won't be happening anytime soon) I would definetely just keep it simple. Oliver was 6.85kg the last time he was weighed a week and a half ago. I had heard that Target had changed it's refund/returns policy didn't know what they where though.
BabyWrangler I can't believe BJ is still in 000's, what is his length now? Also there is no reason at all why you have to change to a faster flowing teat, if the number 1's suit him better, then let him stay on them for as long as he is happy to.

Oliver was a really good boy today, he had two 2 hour sleeps, than at 3pm went down for just over an hour, I did have to do a fair amount of dummy returns, but at least he stayed in bed and slept.

Jordan has Chinese day at school tomorrow, and we bought him a chinese outfit to wear in the parade so will hopefully get on tomorrow night and download some pics.

Hiya Sharon,
Can't wait to see Jordan in his Chinese outfit!
As for the teats, no reason he has to change really, we'd really only changed cause we thought we should (pathetic I know).
Benjamin is now 61.5 cm long.
He's laying on the floor in front of me (cause the MCHN told me he needs more floor time...despite only being held during the day for feeds!) in a 0-3 month long sleeved top and 0-3 month pair of pants both with a little room to grow!!!
He weighs 6.65kg too.f

Ok, I think it was Nettie (if not sorry!) who was talking about making up bottles as you need them etc?

I had always made up BJ's for a 24 hour period and stored them in the fridge, but he's been quite fussy of late and we wondered if that was why, so, heres what we do, and it works a treat (in terms of mixing the formula in properly etc, which I know may still be an issue with the special bottles etc).

I measure out the bioled water into the bottles and put them in the fridge (cause we know that a 200ml cold bottle takes exactly 1min in our microwave to heat).
I then have 2 of those formula containers where you measure out the scoops for if you're gong out etc, and I measure out 6 x 4 scoops (4 in each section..obviously!).
Then at bottle time, we microwave the water, then pour in the pre-measured formula, lid back on, shake like crazy and feed.

Usually I'm lucky and I can do it all with BJ on the floor or something, but, if he's arking up in a big way, I do it the same, but stand the bottle in an empty coffee cup while I shake the formula in (to stop it tipping over).
Its been working a treat for us, and because the water is warm, with a good shake the formula mixes in really well.

Im not sure if it would work with the special bottles for Liam or not, and you're probably doing it exactly that way anyway, but if you aren't, thats how it works for us really well.
Having the formula pre-measured makes it soooo easy!

Hi everyone, hope you are all going ok.....

Well Jack & I are going to brave our very first day at Playgroup next thurs....hope the ladies in the group are nice. Little nervous about the whole thing actually, this is my first bub & we have just moved to a new area so don't really know anyone as yet.

BW- As for the making up of bottles...we do things about the same as you but I have 2ltr botlle of pre-boiled water & just use that & then zap it into the microwave & it takes around 20sec also for 200ml but that's a great idea about the formula dividers....would be so much easier than scooping it out everytime! Will definately try that one!

Anyhow best go....take care everyone
Beck

Grubi - :hug: to you for the party not going as planned... I hope you still enjoyed it.

BW - Yes, it was me about the formula. The idea of standing the bottle in a coffee cup for pouring is a great idea! We can't shake the bottle with his teat on it because it flows up into the top bit (and we can't get it back down without undoing the lot). We can use a lid to shake it but that takes just as much trouble! We're finding pre-making up the formula works best for us. His 'sicky' episodes are less now that we ensure a 1 hour deadline for use (after it's been heated).

Sharon - I think we should have migrated Liam to 00 clothing sooner, but we tried one outfit on a few weeks ago and it just swam on him. I think we picked the biggest article out of the lot though! Love the new pic of Oliver in your ticker! Soooo adorable!!

Mum to Jack - hopefully playgroup will be good and you'll meet some new friends. That's what's happened with me and my mothers' group - they're a great bunch of gals and I'm soo glad I know them!

Liam went to bed at 8pm last night and woke up around 5.30 this morning. Isn't he a good boy! And DH had the sense to come to bed with me at 11.30 pm so he pretty much had a full night's uninterrupted sleep! Yay! :clap: