Babies Born April 16th-30th 2009 #1

[mustangsachy]

WELCOME Marrii! unfortunately I can't help you out with a local mothers group - I got in contact with our local mothers group through the Child and Youth Health; CYH Home - Home ... you could give them a buzz and they might be able to help you? otherwise welcome - i love BB even if never get to actually 'meet' the nice ladies here.

Well today we had lachlans first injections. BOTH mil and my mum came along for support (of me - not lachlan). anyway the Dr looked way impressed that we had an entourage (NOT) and as I was a bit queasy he kicked me out of the room! i heard him scream twice and cry from them. omg I almost threw up with hearing him cry. i'm such a bloomin sook!

Both of the 'grandies' wanted to come and when i told them the other one was coming they were like 'well, i guess you don't need me then huh' the reason i invited BOTH is cos they offered and wanna be there for him/ me and i don't want them to get their noses out of joint (MIL wasn't ALLOWED to be involved with my partners older kids as his ex is MEAN .... *starts with a B*) so i want them to both be. eaugh it's a fine line sometimes!

apart from that we've been going GREAT guns. lachlan slept the last two nights from 12am - 7.30am then last night from 12am til 6.30am. hoping that the needles don't get a bad reactoin and stop that cos mumma loves her sleep LOL.

[Ozziehoffy]

Welcome Marrii.

Sacha to you. I hate doing the needles too. They only cry cos the actual jab part hurts same as it does when the needle breaks our skin. Great sleeping too!!

[MarsnKurti]

Hi ladies,

Thanks for your advice. I was lucky enough to have met a lovely lady from bb of whom i met up with only recently. She lives in my local area and we plan to meet again soon.

Kurtis is doing fantastically. He has had both of his injections and cried for a while. It did irregulate his sleeping patterns though, but just recently has started to return to the normal.. normal being 8pm till 3:30am.. if thats normal.. lol. That was about two weeks ago.. so i wish you all the best.

Look forward to seeing your posts

[mustangsachy]

morning all. hope we're all having great weekends.

nothing much to report here; Lachlan is sleeping like a CHAMP. consistently has his last feed at 11.30pm-12am then down til 7.730am. it's paradise

any tips for eczema? he has it quite bad all over. not weepy or anything just more dry and scaly. have been putting sorbolene cream on it several times a day - with glycerine in it. but not doing a heck of a lot to clear it.

uh oh. mr mr is up from his nap... better run.
x

[berrme]

Welcome Marrii.

Sacha, that is great that Lachlan is sleeping so well, I hope he keeps it up for you!
If his eczema is bad you may need to get some cortisone cream from the chemist just to get it under control. I had to use it on Byron for about a week when he was about 3 months old and haven't used it since. I also used egoderm cream that you just get off the shelf at the chemist, might be worth trying that first. It is a bit smelly but nicer for babies skin than cortisone. Now I just cover him in moisturiser at the first signs of scaly skin or dry weather and it keeps it under control, but I don't think his skin is as sensitive anymore either.
LOL at not putting out either set of grandparents. We are like that everytime we go up to Cairns... make sure we spend equal amounts of time at each parent's home, don't want anyone to feel left out. It is nice that you are including MIL though, especially if sher missed out on quality time with the other boys.
Good luck with convincing DP to become DH. Men just don't seem to understand how important it is to us sometimes.

Amanda, how did your day out go? I managed to fit in a coule while MIL was staying, it was great!
I am way to forgetful to even attempt the mini pill. I wish I wasn't, I really miss the pill! Gee it is a great invention.

Cass, the growing does slow down. Byron grew just as fast as Edward and Elijah are. Got to size 0 by about 4 months, size 1 at 6 months. Once he hit size 1 we were ok, managed to get about a year out of that stuff.

Well I have been pretty busy. DH's parents are considering moving down to Brisbane so I drove MIL around caboolture and redcliffe to check out possible areas to live. I also spent some time by myself for once, I certainly made the most of the babysitter.
I have also started going to a group exercise class twice a week. It is at the home of a personal trainer who now has kids so started classes for other mums. Everyone there has at least 1 kid and all the kids just run around and play while we all do our workout. It is really good not being the only one trying to get rid of pregnancy weight gain!

Edward and I are both pretty hungry so better go, have a great weekend.

[Ozziehoffy]

Sacha, great sleeping from Lachlan!! I haven't tried this myself but apparently moogoo is great. Go to the kids medical conditions thread and check there. I know quite a few BB girls use it and swear by it.

[organicem]

any tips for eczema? he has it quite bad all over. not weepy or anything just more dry and scaly. have been putting sorbolene cream on it several times a day - with glycerine in it. but not doing a heck of a lot to clear it.


x

Try aloe vera straight from the plant (you use the fleshy bit, not the skin) or evening primrose oil.

[AnnaChas]

any tips for eczema? he has it quite bad all over. not weepy or anything just more dry and scaly. have been putting sorbolene cream on it several times a day - with glycerine in it. but not doing a heck of a lot to clear it.

x

I've been using MooGoo Eczema cream and it is working a treat. MooGoo Scalp Cream also works well.

[Jas]

Hi Everyone,

Well we have had a bit of a crazy week here!

Last friday Spence started on Losec for his Silent Reflux, we found out you have to get it from a compounding chemist (which r few and far between) so we had a 2hr round trip in the rain in peak hr traffic (Spence had just had his 8wk needles too!) On Monday Spence had his first day (since he was days old) where he managed to sleep between each feed before that he had many times where he would stay awake for the entire time between feeds!

On Thursday he went into his room and about a min later started crying, I went in an he was sitting on the ground picked him up and the next second his mouth starts pouring out blood. Blood slowed after a while and I had a look and it looked litle it was coming from the skin between your 2front teeth, he started dozing off so I let him go to sleep, it was 50mins off sleep time and he had a crap night before and I was confident he hadn't hit his head. 1hr later he was crying again,tiny bit more blood and then went back to sleep 30mins later crying again so I got hi up and tried to give him some nurofen and saw his tongue, at the front of his mouth on the side of his tongue he had ripped about 1cm into the centre of his tongue, the whole way through his tongue! called 13health and went to redlands emergency 2 drs saw him there and though even though very rare 2 do it might need stitching. Called the Ear, nose and throat pediatrician at the mater who wanted to see him. went there, he had already gone home but saw 2 other drs and a consultant and so just leaving it to heal. Apparently stiching it would actually be an operation and they couldnt even do it at the mater, he would have had to have a GA and his tonguepulled out and something put in to support his airway.

He is doing ok but the poor boy hardly ate any cereal for breakfast then had 3 arrowroot biscuits and a tiny bit of water at 10.30 and wasn;t allowed to eat and drink until 7.30!! In the waiting room he was at the vending machines just begging for some water or something to eat! and he has a cold and we have sore throats and he probably does too so that would have made it worse So now he is on pureed food for a few days, he had a sundae for dinner last night lol dr said icecream! we're just keeping an eye on it. Worse part of being a parent, I have a son who is healthy enough to have never had AB's but 3times has been profusely bleeding from the mouth!!

Also on Thurs my mum found out she has very early stage of cancer in her uterus (apparently the dr said its not a bad diagnosis but not good) apparently they r cells than turn into camcer so she has to have a operation in the next three months to have a look and possible a hysterectomy and possibly remove more.

Then last night Phil and Noah had a bad gastro bug!!!!!

Welcome Marrii! Sorry feeling abit pooped for personals

[mustangsachy]

omg Jasmine sounds like you've had a CRAP week hun! hope that DS is feeling better soon and you guys too. So sorry to hear about your mum, sounds like they may have got early so that is great - they're v good these days most women survive. thoughts are with you x