Babies Born April 1st - 15th 2008 #1

[mgm]

If you use oil plain, like olive oil, you feed the yeast. But with the lavender, it is an antifungal.

Fire that makes sense. I still use that oil blend on DS's skin at night. I suspect part of the reason DD's cradle cap was so much worse is that she sweats a lot when she cries, which can't be helpful. But I seem to be on top of it now (the fungus, that is - not the crying!).

steph sounds like things are going well for you and lila. job sounds great too!

shoegal what is the infant scalp cream made of?

grubi i saw your birthday cake pic on the other thread. i think you did a fantastic job! i'm quite into making birthday cakes and am so pleased to have a girl so i can (one day) make one of those cakes with a doll stuck inside it.

hi also to meg, babywrangler, jen, nettie, shoegal and anyone else i've missed (my memory's not the best these days).

[Sequoia]

shoegal what is the infant scalp cream made of?

Hmm, not sure mgm. Google moogoo and it's listed on the LHS with the rest of their items.

HTH.

SG
xo

[Fire]

Steph, what does lila do until 10 pm? Is that her last feed or bedtime? The job sounds perfect, too! Congrats.

[bellelass]

Janine- How did the NAET go today (also what is it I don't have a clue)? I really really hope things get better for you, you're such a cool person. And you are such a good mum.

Lila is just Lila until ten I guess... We usually have a two hour cluster feed in the morning, two or three half hour feeds over the afternoon. Around 7 I watch Friends and then clean the kitchen and she'll have another feed. Then she hangs out with me. We chatter and she plays next to me while I knit or write to friends or do Bellybelly til 9 when I change her for the last time, rub her down with lavender lotion and put her in the grobag. I always take my time changing her because we both really enjoy it. Then she feeds for half an hour, falls asleep and I hold her for another half hour to make sure she's good and sleepy. Then I put her down and that's that. I remember it used to take about 2.5 hours to put her down, the time has just gradually gone down to half an hour. Only just made the connection about that. huh.

[Nettie]

SG - I was very excited to see Kobie McGurk on TV yesterday! Go Hockeyroos!!!

Well, we had our 4 month follow-up with Neo-Natal today.

Liam is now 5.7 kgs and 60.5cms long with a hc of 41cm. I think he's small for his age, but they tested his development too (with a physio and also a paed) and he seems to be well advanced developmentally.

They were impressed with his hand movements, eye coordination, interraction and also his efforts with tummy time & sitting up.

When the physio had him on his tummy, he almost rolled over - front to back! He hasn't done that before! He seemed to really enjoy it so I think I'll try to do more tummy time with him. She used some rattles to capture his interest and he really liked them. So we went to Toys 'r' us and bought some for him!

We were so proud of him as he was quite tired at the beginning of this appointment and thought he'd start getting grumpy, but he was a real trooper smiling and having a great time with everyone who saw him for the full hour & a half that he was 'seen to'.

We fed him straight after and he went straight to sleep (though not for long!). Then we went into the city to do some shopping and he was great through that too! Only had little naps through the day - 20 mins, up to 40 mins - but he was never very grumpy. He's now down in bed and self-settled like normal. He seemed very relieved to be back in his cot though! Couldn't get the smile off his face when we got home!

to everyone - sorry I don't have time for personals. Need to make up the bottles for Liam before Spicks & Specs starts!

[Beatrix]

Hey!!

thought i would pop in!!

been having hard time with bf but we seem to have passes it now!! Unfort when she was sick she lost a bit of weight. so in 5 weeks instead of putting on she lost 80g and they are meant to put on a average of 100g a week.
as getting her weighed again today to see if the more frequent feeds have helped.

Nettie- Mj is only 5.5 kg (well last thursday was) so she is a mini one too. sounds like you have a real little charmer there!!

Steph- thats great about lilas setlling!! you must be doing extremly well and good at picking up her signs

Shoe- am going to check out that site. thanks. congrats on the job!!

any way mj restless

[Sequoia]

SG - I was very excited to see Kobie McGurk on TV yesterday! Go Hockeyroos!!!

Well, we had our 4 month follow-up with Neo-Natal today.

Liam is now 5.7 kgs and 60.5cms long with a hc of 41cm. I think he's small for his age, but they tested his development too (with a physio and also a paed) and he seems to be well advanced developmentally.

Yes Nettie, it's very exciting seeing Kobie on the news. ch 7 interviewed her and casey dellacqua at the opening ceremony. My parents are staying at the same hotel in Beijing with a lot of the other Olympians families. Did you see the Kookaburra's win 10 - 1?!?

Regarding Liam's weight, Baxter was 5.7kgs on Tuesday so he is small too! But don't be worried, I used to be but not now. At least his clothes will fit him for longer! Baxter is still BF'd with 1 comp feed at night time.

Got the Moogoo Infant Scalp cream yesterday, it contains no mineral oil, will let you all know how is goes in about a week or so.

DH is by himself for the next couple of weeks at the shop so I am off to help out for a couple of hours.

SG
xo

[Beatrix]

Well had Mj weighed yesterday and we had a gain of 160g finally!!!

We also can roll from tummy to back and back to tummy. The tummy to back one is so funny to watch cause she arches her back so bad and the turn happens to quick she look quite shocked after it.

and we have also started to reach for things too!!