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We are a quiet bunch! What's happening everyone?
Baxter has been waking up to 6 times between 3.30am and 5.30am for the past fortnight, he's not wet, nor hungry, nor distressed. Just calling out.
I feel like a muppet because last night I wrapped him, then put him in a sleeping bag, then a blanket which gave us all 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep, woo hoo!
:wall: I can't believe it took us that long to work out the poor mite was cold, live and learn hey?!
Well, I think I can finally reveal my name. I don't post anything on here that I wouldn't say IRL so if anyone that knows me finds my posts they won't find anything too juicy.
I'm Brady.
xo
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hello brady - you're the first brady i've ever met. ten hours of sleep WOW! bet you'll be keeping baxter nice and toasty from now on!
fire that sounds terrible. why haven't you slept? thanks for the milk info. i've diligently weeded out all products containing milk but didn't think to check my multivitamins.
i'm managing ok without dh so far, but evenings and nighttimes are hard. both nights ds has woken up and joined me and dd in bed, which means extra wakings for me. only one more night to go...
dd has just done huge poo so it's goodbye for now...
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Howdy everyone,
Remember me?? :P
Ahh just popping in girls while i have a mo, Isabell is asleep :dance: but wondering how long this routine will last (My guess is not long) And its not really one i wanna keep her in, but it works for me NOW and it keeps me sane NOW.
She is a giggly bub now, and rolling EVERYWHERE. Of course thats when she has had sleep and is happy. Her giggle is so amazing, it just makes everything okay and worth while. She loves her mummy too!! I give her cuddles and she rests her head on my shoulder then picks it up as if the hug is finished.
Im sorry, not doing personals, havent got THAT long to catch up on the millions of pages ive missed out on. But i do hope every one is going good!!
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Hi MEG
hope things are getting better with Izzy
Guess what i got today... a ergo!! so excited should ne here tomorrow.. was on speical to $127 inc express post. only the green one but still who cares for colour
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OMG we have two teeth!!!!
two front bottom ones... bit concerned as they seem to be a bit behind the gum rather then the middle...
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worst night ever. ds refused to go to bed - i eventually got him there at 10pm. dd only went down at 9, but woke every 10-15 minutes and had to be resettled. between the two of them i was already a wreck by the time i got to bed at 12.30. then they conspired to torment me with frequent wakings, and dd decided that 6am would be a good time to wake up for an hour or so. i managed to get her (and myself) back to sleep at about 7.15, but ds was fully awake by then and wasn't keen to let me sleep.
when dh arrives back today it'll probably be the happiest i've ever been to see him! i just wish he didn't have to go to work tomorrow so he could take dd and let me sleep in.
if there were a smilie of a tired, haggard-looking woman with crazy hair and bloodshot eyes i would be inserting it HERE.
hope you all had a better (and longer) sleep than me!
PS beatrix teeth, wow! are both the front ones coming up at once? i'm sure they'll look normal once they're out, but you can always ask a mch nurse if you're concerned.
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Wow Ness - teeth! Scary! :cryinglaugh:
Mgm :hug: sorry you had such a bad night, but at least DH is home today. Liam slept badly last night too (not as bad as you had though!). We had trouble settling him at first and then realised that he smelled poo-ey. We got him up and changed him and got him re-settled. Then he poo-ed again this morning which is way more than normal.
I've had a coldy/flu-ey thing so we're thinking maybe he's got it and is feeling off and has the runs (hard to tell with baby poo, isn't it?). Poor sausage is asleep now...
Been MIA myself this week but hope I'll have more time by the weekend to catch up with personals... sorry!
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mgm - :hug: hun, I hope DH hurries home soon for you!
Off to Perth tomorrow (2.5 hour drive), Baxter has an opthalmologist appt so we'll go to that then a spot of shopping for my boy and I.
SG
xo
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SG - what's an opthalmologist? Just curious! I reckon your ticker photo might be a little out of date too - I'm sure Baxter's grown up a lot since then!
Meg - we get the occasional chuckles out of Liam but they're hard won at the moment. Can't wait for him to start doing it all the time! He's not far off rolling either - stay tuned for that one!
Will catch up again soon!
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Nettie - you're right, I did need a new signature! Here is Baxter in the tub with Pirate Duck, he loves Pirate Duck and tries to eat his beak in the bath. An opthalmologist is a eye doctor, I was born with a cataract and my optho thought that Baxter may have been born with one as it is classed as family history. But all okay, go back in 3 months time for another check up.
Well, we had a fab day together yesterday. We waited over an hour for the Dr, and he was so good. Then we went into the city and I fed and changed him at the parents room at Myer (those places are mingin' IMO) then I had a shop at country Road and he sat happily and watched me try on clothes, then we went to Target since they are having a good sale (20% off babies clothes). My little man is almost in 0 size, it's very loose around the chest but he is just so long.
He's just figred out how to blow raspberries too, so cute!
Janine - how are you feeling hun?
Nessa - teeth! OMG!
mgm - when is DH home?? :hug:
Leyla - are you around hun? How are you? Please update soon....
Hello to everyone else, hope you are all going well.
I am a golf widow tomorrow so going to watch my old netball team play.
SG
xo
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Just quickly, BJ is rolling front to back! Yay!!!
He's always been so content to just look around that he hasn't bothered to move, now...look out!
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Darn... do you know if you press Esc it deletes your post???? Grrrr - start again:
Had a rough night with Liam last night with him having a cold and not being able to settle laying down, so we both sat up with him (for moral support and also because we were worried for him so both felt more comfortable being with Liam) until 4am. I did manage to doze a few times in the chair, but nothing substantial. Then he settled down enough to put him in his cot so we went to bed. He woke up at 6 am and I got up to him until 11am when DH took over & I went back to bed until 3pm.
BW - :clap: for BJ! It must be the day for it as Liam rolled from back to tummy twice this morning (so I had to go & wake DH to tell him!) and then again this afternoon (when DH had to come and wake me to tell me!). Always on his right side, but he's tried the left too, so I know he'll do it that way if there's something that side that he wants!
SG - LOVE the pirate duck! Glad to see a new pic of Baxter - he's really grown! Thanks for explaining the opthalmologist - always good to know.
Must go... got to do a similar post on the other thread & catch up on my cloth nappies thread before bed tonight. Might like to get in early in case it's another rough one. Although he's been down since 6.30 pm tonight without much murmuring... He's such a good boy. I know he's woken up once or twice (by the sounds of his breathing) but he just gets himself back to sleep. I am a very blessed mother!
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SG, we just got raspberries too. Sooooo freakin' funny. I do one then he does one and then we both crack up in hysterics. His laugh is so cool. He laughs now without physical touch like a neck raspberry or a little tickle. Just laughing cos it's funny. Growing up!! Mingin', btw! I haven't heard that from anyone other than my DH who lived in Scotland for a while and picked up mingin' from "mingin' o' pish" . :lol:
MGM, I hope things are better now the fam is all together. Sounded rough.
BW, WOOT! Ci hasn't rolled over yet. Maybe he's too darn BIG, the fatty sod. :lol: He does roll to his side so it's not far off now.
Well, here things are great and crap all at once.
Great cos his skin is clear as a daisy! I roooool. :lol: Did the yeast kill and NAET and it is simply brilliant. I watched it literally disappear day after day until there was nothing. I could have cried in bliss.
Crap because his scalp is still itchy and I think that's why his night time sleep is so poorly. There's nothing there, yet it still itches, so weird. As you know, he always fed frequently, but for several days now his wakes are from one to three hours long! Not much sleep being had here. I could swaddle him again, but he hated that so much but it did get me more sleep, him all burrito-ed up beside me. So although he isn't scratching himself bloody at all (no blood or scratches in the morning even though he scratches all night), it's enough to keep him awake. I got cranky one night and barked at him to shutup so I did some EFT on it and now I am back to kinda maintaining a little Zen through it. Can't wait until it's over though.
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It's soooooooo quiet in here! Not that I can talk, I've been pretty quiet myself.
Fire - So glad that Ci's skin is all clear now. I can't believe how much it stressed me out when Jack's skin was upset. The itchy thing might just be habit? Might be worth baby burritoing him for a night or two to see if it breaks the habit? Just thinking out loud!
Nettie - that night sounds nasty! I've had a few of those myself. Hope that Liam is doing better now.
BW - CONGRATS on the rolling - what a cleaver baby!
Shoegal (love your IRL name by the way!) - So glad that Baxter's appointment went well. Got to love the raspberries and belly laughs, makes all the bad times worth it. Thanks for checking in on me by the way - I've just been so exhausted that I've only just barely had the energy to read the thread let alone participate. I remember when you were pregnant with Baxter and dropped off the radar for a month or two. I was so worried that something bad had happened! I guess we all worry about each other every now and then!
mgm - Hope your nights are getting better!
Beatrix - Wooo Hooo on the teeth! How cute. Hope they did not cause too much pain for either of you!
Things have been ok here. Actually they have been great with the exception of sleeping. If at all possible the sleep situation has been getting worse. I hit rock bottom a few nights ago. He woke 9 times through the night. 4 times before midnight! I was a wreck and just broke down in tears to DH. He kindly took him off me at about 6:30 and let me sleep for a few hours. I was feeding him at one stage (about 3am) and just felt so angry and alone. He was not settling, and not feeding properly and I had not had more than 1 hours consecutive sleep. I was just sitting there feeding him with tears rolling down my cheeks and thinking "I hope that my crying does not change the flavor of my milk" - how strange is that? Anyhow, DH took him for the first few hours last night as well so things seem much less dire when you have some sleep behind you. It felt sooooo good to have 5 hours consecutive sleep. I've got a copy of the No cry sleep solution, but we are about to go on holiday for two weeks so did not want to start anything when we will just be disrupting him soon anyhow.
Nettie I know that you tried the NCSS - did you find that things got worse before they got better? It warns in the book that some of the techniques might mean that you might get less sleep for a while. That scares the life out of me as I am only getting about 5 hours a night as it is. I honestly don't know how I could function on any less.
Anyhow, hope that everyone else is doing well.
love
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I'll go back and read and do personals later. Just wanted to poke my nose in and say hello....
DH had a bit of a breakdown last weekend. He seemed fine, normal, happy and then it was like someone flipped a switch. Weepy and clingy and anxious. I did my best for a day but then we went down the coast for the week to his parents' farm. They looked after us and gave him some heavy work to do.
All is well now except I caught a flu so now Lila and I have it I was taking some cold med because the back of the box didn't say not to. I noticed lila was feeding longer and chalked it up to her stuffy nose, so I pumped to give her a bottle, make it easier. I just didn't have much milk. COLD MEDS DRY UP YOUR MILK. So now I feel sicker and guilty cause my milk supply is low. I'll go back on the flaxseed to get it up, and thank god for my milk reserves in the freezer just in case.
Start work this wednesday, hope it works out. thinking of you all...
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Leyla - The only thing I've really implemented from the NCSS is having a nightly routine. That helps him know it's time for sleep and if I needed any proof that it works, he was really upset last night until we starting doing the routine and he calmed right down and was smiling & everything. I figured he felt better once he knew what was coming next. I've even considered doing a routine in the mornings for the same reason. There isn't really much more in the book at the moment that will help us because he's such a good sleeper.
Saturday night we all went out to tea which was interesting because Liam's routine starts anywhere between 6-8pm (whenever he shows signs of being tired). Well we went out at 6.30 and came home at 9.45. We then implemented the routine, but he didn't do his long sleep (usually 5-7 hours) first like he normally does. Just woke up at 1, 4, 5, 7 and if anything was more irritable than normal. He was really bad all day yesterday (I was in weepy mode too as I'm feeling off with a cold) and he's a bit sick too with a runny nose etc. Well, last night we implemented the routine around 7pm and once he was in bed (at 8pm) I only had to go in once to resettle with the dummy. After that he slept the entire night! He cried at 4am and DH went & put a bottle on but he put himself back to sleep (bottle down the sink!) then he cried out at 6am, but again put himself back to sleep, then woke up at 7.15am without being too grumpy. That's darn near 12 hours sleep!!! He's still sick with his runny nose and we've got an appointment with a Dr tonight (not his Dr, but a baby Dr nonetheless) to get him checked out. He's hard to give panadol to as he doesn't like the taste and he panics if he doesn't swallow it down straight away which sets him crying.... vicious cycle!
I think he's waking up now so I'd better dash!
:hello: to everyone else!
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Just quickly,
Nettie have you tried (I'm sure you have!) putting the panadol in the side of his mouth?
I found when BJ was on Zantac (which he HATED) if we put the squirter in the corner of his mouth, over near the cheek, he swallowed out of reflex, but didnt taste anything
Not sure if you can do that with a "clefty" as I dont really know anything about that side of things
Might help...might not...just an option!
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Hi all
a quick one from me too. sleep still eludes me but otherwise things are ok.
leyla i think what she says in the ncss is that because part of changing your sleep habits/routines involves not taking the path of least resistance (whether that be feeding to sleep or something else) you'll be up for some difficult times in the short-term.
speaking of difficult, dd's crying and i have to try get her back to sleep. may bbl...
