Babies Born April 1st - 15th 2008 #1

[BabyWrangler]

Just to clarify, we use the "seatbelt" as we call it, to prevent him sliding down the mattress (he is halfway up the cot, because he has a reflux wedge), he never tries to roll over completely as he likes his tummy, but he can move enough to turn his head and body side to side to adjust if you get what I mean....hard to 'splain!

Benjamin his going well with his foods, he's on weetbix for brekky, toast and vegies for lunch, and vegies for tea.
We were gonna start with yogurt this week, but he has an ear infection and is on amoxyl and we aren't going to introduce anything new til we make sure theres no reaction to he medicine.

he still (the little slacker) hasn't got the commando crawling thing sorted...he gets on his tummy, puts his arms by his side, and kicks and flaps like crazy!! He actually inches forward a little, but it must me soooo exhausting...he gets frustrated then rolls over...he's rolling around well though, I have actually come into the loungeroom a couple of times and had to look for him cause he's moved so far from where I left him!
I'm sure he'll get there.
He's got 2 teeth now...and I have a feeling (given that he had an ear infection a week before his first tooth, and he now has ANOTHER ear infection) that there may be another one or two in the way soon.

Hello to everyone!

And Janine, I'm glad its you with the mattress predicament, and not me...I have no idea what to suggest!!!

[MagicSeahorse]

Hey girls, we're back.
Well, It's not the rusks, we started them before the rash came up, and still using them, rash is gone. We have no history of wheat, dairy or any other intollerances in either family, so I'm hopefull there. Anyway, he LOVES the rusks. We buy "Bellamy's Toothypegs". All organic, etc.
We are noth sure if it was actually eczema. I think it may have been a heat rash. It got worse on the first day in WA, but it was also 30 deg and raining, Hunter had never experienced anything over 20. But as the weather cooled his rash disapeared. We even got to the beach, and the little man got to go skinny dipping. (fully suncreamed!!)
We tried him on sweet potatoe tonight. Never seen him spit out anything so fast. Not even his reflux med goes that quick, and he HATES that! So we will try it again in a week or two. Maybe pumkin.

Hunter is also a very happy back sleeper. But MUST have his sleeping bag to sleep properly.
Still no rolling. But his legs are getting so strong. I really think he will walk before he crawls.

BW - Hunter doesn't drink ANY water. Should he?? He is BF. I thought that was enough.

As for the flying... As the flight over was after bed time, he slept the whole way. but on the way back he was grizzly, and screamed most of the way from Melb to Hobart. We also both have ended up with colds due to the changes in the weather, as well as hayfever from allergies, and lookes like Hunter has the same allergies as me. Poor little tike. Sneezed and snuffled the whole time we were there.

Hope all is well with everyone, and Bubs are behaving.

[MagicSeahorse]

Yes. I like smileys!!!

[mgm]

Hi everyone! I thought this thread had died - haven't had any notifications for AGES. must have missed one i guess...

sounds like you're all doing well. i'm still in the land of severe sleep deprivation but otherwise all's fine. no teeth, but dd has discovered how to crawl backwards (not all that helpful, she's very frustrated by it!).

well this is just to say hi and i'm still around - will do a proper post over the next couple of days.

[Fire]

Lisy, you're right, breastfed babies don't need any extra water, esp if they are fed on demand. Offer more during the hot season. Our water is so full of ***** anyway, better to give them the perfect structured water found only in water from frozen mountains, food and breastmilk.

I wonder about the fluoride about to go in our water up here, and the formula fed babies!! Just craziness, I'm SOOOO mad about the fluoride thing, but that's another matter, but concerning the babies on ABM, holy cow, that's just not cool, not cool at all. Mass medication, woo woo, yay, like great, thanks gov, like I can't figure out how to get fluoride supps if my family needed it like any other bloody mineral. Calcium is much more important than fluoride, maybe we should petition the gov to put that into the water. Oh, and some asprin, we could all use that, esp old people who get strokes and stuff, yeah?

Idiots.

Rant over.

MGM, I am still occasionally in the land of sleep dep. Ci likes to wake for an hour or two some nights. Feeding him would get him back to sleep (sometimes!), but I won't do it anymore because that was the cause of all our troubles. I have to feed him on a schedule at night, unfortunately.

In other news, I put the foam pad on the floor, his good one stayed in the cot. He slept on the pad after midnight, put up many fusses, probably about being so far away from me (poor sod, a whole arm's length away ). But I need to sleep, I can't contort myself all night like some cosleepers, I guess I'm just no martyr. Turns out I don't get sleep anyway cos of the fussing and trying to comfort him in ways other than he'd like.

He's 7 months on sunday. Freaky weird wild crazy berko madness. Never thought I'd make it past the half year mark. He is an absolutely beautiful looking baby though. And he has a lovely nature, he's known as having a "warm smile". Still big, but his growth has slowed considerably. His thighs are catching up to the rest of him, good ol' thunder thigh man. I adore him. He drives me crazy, literally, as he is a high needs baby, and he sleeps for crap, but oh dear God I love him so much my chest aches sometimes.

[BabyWrangler]

Fire isn't it so terrifying how much you can love someone?!!
I am the same with BJ, drives me crazy occasionally, but good lord I love him to death.
He (well and DH of course but in a different way) is my entire world...he's just a joy....
I have had to make arrangements for him to go to my old work on monday (child care) while I go to the dentist for my wisdom teeth...even the thought of that is tearing me up sooo much at the moment!

Good solution for the co sleeping...have you seen those co-sleeping beds that you can get? they kind of have 3 sides on them....hard to explain really (which doesn't make it easy for you to know if you've seen them!)

Anyways I'd better go...

[Sequoia]

Good solution for the co sleeping...have you seen those co-sleeping beds that you can get? they kind of have 3 sides on them....hard to explain really (which doesn't make it easy for you to know if you've seen them!)

They are called My Little Bed, we are borrowing Lee:-)'s ATM, just trialling it until we buy our own.

Not much happening here, Baxter loves his sweet potato and broccoli. Sleeping most nights from 8.00pm til 7.30am. DH has a week off next week so we are high-tailing it to Perth. I have DH's aunt wanting to babysit so we are going out for Melbourne Cup.

Lovely days all.

SG
xo