Welcome back AnnaChas. Glad to hear the trip went well and Daniel coped well.
Mel. We had been practicing the sitting....but Beauty also sat at the same time - 21 weeks. Maybe I encouraged him to do it a bit more as I knew it would help with the reflux. He still throws himself backwards occasionally particularly if Beauty is playing nearby and moves suddenly - he tries to track her movements and throws himself off balance! Glad o hear Byron is feeling better.
Weighed Budda yesterday and he's 7.3kg, growing nicely. Nearly tripled his birth weight in 5 months!
Well things are lovely here. I'm coping so much better with 2 kids now and really can't remember life with only one any more....how quickly it changes. I'm loving hanging out with my children now and have relaxed a whole heap in the last couple of months. It has made everyones lives so much nicer. Ah
Heading off on holidays for a couple of weeks on the weekend - really looking forward to the break and a change of scenery.
Well just an update from the West. We finally had the appointment with our Physiotherapist who diagnosed Jacob with torticollis whiche has lead to him having a very flat head but we are doing what we can to improve his range of movement to the right. We then saw the Paedatrician yesterday he seems to think jacob either has a milk proetein intolerance or a structual abnormality of his digestive tract. so we are trying special formulas and if they dont help then a barium swallow (which could be interesting). He was very proud of how perisitant i had been in tring to help him and was amazed he had gained weight at all! He is now 7kg exactly. He also mentioned his skull was quite bad and he would consider surgically unfusing the scall and reshaping it but said the cranio-facio unit would not think it was severe enough. So have no idea what to do with that.
So back to see both in 2 weeks and until then just taking it one day at a time, though i have to admit its been tough working 30 hours a fortnight on broken sleep whilst having a husband that doesnt help as he works 6 days a week!
Sorry for the me post, i dont know how you mums of two do it. Im not planning on another one until this ones at school!! Cant believe little budda is Sitting already that is fantastic news, we have only just started rolling!
Well will try to do perssies next time oh and the doctor wasnt worried he had no tears said he may just be missing them genetically or they are large ducts and free draining.
Gee Bee, you are having a tough time! Hugs. Well done on getting Jacob to gain weight despite his digestion problems. I have another friend who's little boy has a milk intolerance, and he has gotten much better and put on lots more weight since he has been on solids. I hope that is all it is with Jacob!
I don't know how we mums of 2 do it either. Please don't assume that we all do it well. I don't know how working mums do it... Byron was nearly 1 when I went back 3 days and that was tough. My hat goes off to you, especially with all the extra stress you have at the moment.
Nell, Byron sat the bweek after his 6 month check. I remember feeling bad cause he couldn't do it, then he did a few days later. Edward is close, will probably be about the same time. I think he is going to crawl earlier though, he is already starting to move himself backwards and is spinning in circles on the floor. I wish he would just stay still!
Enjoy your holidays!
Annachas, we are still waiting for some teeth to finally make their appearance here too. If they don't come soon Edward is going to gnaw his hand off. Glad you trip went well.
Well, Byron's behaviour has improved over the past couple of days, thank goodness! I ended up in tears on Tuesday afternoon cause he was just yelling at me constantly. I think it was a combination of lack of sleep, junk food that the grandparents kept giving him, and the crappy weather. Fingers crossed that the monster doesn't return for a while!!
I stood on a rusty peice of metal on Thursday and had to go and get a tetanus shot. I couldn't remember the last time I had one so I figured it was better safe than sorry. Now I know why the babies whinge after their shots! My arm hurts.
Bee - good luck with Jacob. Let us know how you go - well done on the persistence and weight gain too!
I have no idea how mums of more than one do it either. One is more than certainly enough - and this one sleeps well! Hats off to you ladies. Also - no idea how single mums do it.
No teeth yet here, but gums are swollen beyond belief and so we have a cranky baby most times. Oh well. Solids are going well. Daniel's a fan of the apple custard. Rolling is a bit hit and miss though. He still gets stuck on his arm and wriggles like a worm. It's amusing though. He is moving around a lot in his cot though, which is a pain as he gets himself un-blanketed and gets cold. Plus, I just went to check on him and he's rolled himself sort of onto his side, but his face was planted into the cot mattress. Had a mini heart attack as I thought that he wasn't breathing. We've even got those support cushion things against his sides so he doesn't roll over too much, but he somehow gets past those and ends up in a mess.
Back to work for me on Wednesday. It should be interesting. Daniel is in child care for 2 days, and DH and I work from home 1.5 days each. Work has actually been really good about it all, so that's made things easier!
Welcome back AnnaChas! We haven't started solids yet, I haven't really even thought about it lol. No teeth either and I'd say not any time soon. I think from memory Oskar was about 8 months with his first. Good luck with back to work
Bee, you are doing a WONDERFUL job with Jacob! With his head can he get one of those helmets to help reshape it?? I don't know the background on his head sorry
Mel, I ended up in tears the other day too. It just all got too much to deal with and Andy was away and J is being well... ummmm hmmmmm an ass! Then O was being the devils child E was waking every 1-2 hours again and I was sleep deprived too. This morning though Andy took the boys and I got to sleep until 10! It was wonderful.
Elijah is getting better with sitting but can't sit on his own and he rolls onto his tummy but his arm is still under him. Is that classed as rolling yet? Oskar never rolled lol. I also think that Elijah will crawl where Oskar was a bum shuffler. He does 360's on his back and loves playing with toys now. He's funny if you walk up to him his arms go straight up for you to get him.
When you say you don't how we do it with 2... I DON'T KNOW! lol. Last night though made it worth the pain. Oskar had Elijah in absolute fits of laughter. It was gorgeous and I was laughing so much. It was so nice
Oh and this is what I've now done to try to combat this behaviour we're all of a sudden having... Oskar now has 2 charts on the fridge.. one is "Good Behaviour" and the other is "Toilet". When he does something good (like good listening or being nice etc) he gets a sticker and for this time when he gets 5 he's allowed to get a surprise - like a matchbox car or something. The toilet one is trying to encourage him to do poos on the toilet lol. We started this today and have 1 sticker on good behaviour so far. It's a good thing to be able to say we need to stop now or we won't be getting a sticker! I don't like smacking but I got left with not much choice during the week just gone and it was not fun for either of us and it aggravated things at times too. I'm hoping that this will help things. I think he's entered terrible twos a bit late lol.
I am sorry I am so slack at posting, everyday there is a new post I'm in here reading but I never talk so I have decided to turn a new leaf and chat more.
All is going well here. Spence has been rolling since about 3.5months? Have to work out what date it was so I can write it in his baby book and he can sit for 30sec-1min has been able to since 4.5months
he also got his 2 bottom teeth the day before he turned 5months (can you believe I'm typing that??? our babies are that old already!!!!!) and he is just gorgeous!!! He sleeps about 9-10hrs at hight so is in bed at 6.30,7 and then feeds at about 4,4:30 he goes 3-4hrs during the day anad has now moved from his constant 1hr sleeps to up to 2.5hrs day sleeps monday he even had a 3hr nap!! but so might do 1 longer 1 1hr and then and 1.5hr nap, it is soooooooo lovely he also puts himself to sleep
He was usually always putting himself to sleep and then he had his 4month needles and then was teething and all of a sudden i realsied i was rocking him to sleep every sleep. I had triesd from when he was a baby to sleep him on his belly (Noah sleep like this and he slept sooooooo well like that) and he didnt want a bar of it but I tried it again and immediately he put himself to sleep he just looks around and puts his head down and he's asleep, within 5mims and if he cries at all i just put his dummy in and he's out to it!!! I looooooooooooooovvvve it and just is so helpful with Noah knowing that I don't have to leave him to his own devises and Spence is getting the sleep he needs
No solids here yet and no water just bm for Spence!
Jas, sounds like Spencer is the perfect child. I am glad everything is going so well.
Cass, I don't think Byron cares enough about stickers for a chart to work. I will have to find something that he really wants... other than chocolate. I hope the chart works for Oskar.
We are getting all his wees in the toilet when we are at home now, but still no poos. He seems to hold on until he has a nappy on. I am getting closer to only 1 child in nappies again though.
Edward is sitting now too. He is a little wobbly but he can stay sitting up for a few minutes at a time... then he gets bored and tries to crawl. He is pushing right up on his knees now and is doing the backwards shuffle. He also spins in circles and wriggles to where he wants to go. He is waaay more mobile than I would like at this point! I was hoping he would stay in one place for longer so my job was easier.
We are having 1 big nap and 2 smaller naps during the day now, with about 3 hours between each one. Edward doesn't seem to want to get back to his 10 hour sleeps yet and is still waking me for a feed at about 3 or 4 am. I could probably just pat him back to sleep since he only feeds for about 5 minutes and he is asleep again. I might try it once we get past 6 months, hopefully he will start sleeping right through again.
Please don't assume that we all do it well. I don't know how working mums do it... Byron was nearly 1 when I went back 3 days and that was tough. My hat goes off to you, especially with all the extra stress you have at the moment. 
Edward is close, will probably be about the same time. I think he is going to crawl earlier though, he is already starting to move himself backwards and is spinning in circles on the floor. I wish he would just stay still!
I ended up in tears the other day too. It just all got too much to deal with and Andy was away and J is being well... ummmm hmmmmm an ass! Then O was being the devils child 
I am glad everything is going so well.
I will have to find something that he really wants... other than chocolate. 
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