So over having a cold. And my supply has gone down so much, its freaking me out. I'm back on flaxseed oil so here's hoping that my milk comes back in a day or two. Took a pg test today because of absence of AF (Very very paranoid, seems dh and I are super fertile) and got a BFN, thank God. Also 1st wedding anniversary, pretty much a bummer. DH had uni all day, home for half an hour and then to work. I made him a bit of a special dinner to take and wrote him a poem but big whoop. I guess I just thought we should do something special.... Or even some flowers. I'm not usually big on presents and so forth but its our wedding anniversary..
Nettie- can you mix the panadol with formula? might help.
Janine- Soo glad to hear Ci's clearing up and you're having such a good time together. Lila and I play a silly game when she's on her tummy. She puts her face down looking at me and I do the same next to her.... Then I turn away and turn back really quickly saying "Helllooooo Lila" and we both have a good chuckle. Sometimes we get in a giggling loop where neither of us can stop laughing at the other one. Good times.
Nettie - You are a very lucky girl with Liam's self settling. I hope that he is starting to feel a little better now. I had the same problem with Jack and panadol. Have not found a solution yet, so let me know if you find something that works.
mgm - I think you are right - I will be in for some difficult times. The past few nights have been soooooo hard. I just feel so tired and then my emotions get all screwy and I feel so resentful that I seem to be the only person I know with a baby that wakes this much! I know that can't be true and they say that everyone exaggerates how long their baby sleeps. But it I just feel so alone sometimes IYKWIM?
Steph - Sounds like you are having a bit of a hard time at the moment and need a big old hug. Sorry that your anniversary was not as special as you hoped it would be. Your game with Lila sounds so cute. Jack was doing a similar thing with me yesterday. He suddenly saw me while he was lying on his tummy on his daddys lap and started playing peek-a-boo by putting his head down and then bringing it back up to make eye contact with me again. I thought he was so cleaver! He cracks me up! You so should not worry about her not rolling yet either - most babies dont roll until 4-5 months. Still HEAPS of time.
Thanks Leyla, feeling heaps better today. I started taking a honey/garlic/cayenne pepper mixture yesterday out of desperation and what do you know, it has kicked that nasty cold right out of me. And Dh came home from work early, right after Lila went to bed so we got time to ourselves. And my Mei Tai was delivered this morning, I'm so in love...
Liam's rolling all the time now - I put him on his back and without fail he's rolling over... even on the change table or cot!! But then when he gets on his belly, he gets frustrated very quickly so I don't know if he's just getting tired more easily or what... Steph: I wouldn't worry. Liam's the first in my mother's group to roll over and there's babies there nearly 6 months old!
He's also slept the entire night twice now (sorry Leyla & mgm!). Once on Sunday night (but we had him out late on Sat night which was bad....woke up heaps that night) and again last night. Put him in bed at 8pm, and he woke up at 7am... was very good timing as I went in to work this morning for a meeting so we were trialling the morning routine for when I return to work on 15th Sept. Went ok!
Leyla - unfortunately the self settling hasn't continued We tried it again last night and he refused.. Ah well... another time perhaps! Having said that, he's still really easy to settle.
Steph & Leyla - those games sound adorable! DH is better at playing than I am...
Steph - do you think you can mix the panadol with formula?? That would work if I could!
Anyway - only got about 15 mins on here and must catch up on my other threads so will do more personals tomorrow or Fri...
but shoegal - i haven't had af yet and don't expect to for some time, since it took over a year to return after having ds. i think hair falling out may go with breastfeeding? i'm sure i've heard of this happening before.
nettie i have serious sleep envy!!
and on that note... leyla if it helps, you're definitely not the only one with a frequently-waking baby. i'm so sick of my own sleep problems i won't go into them again but i know how it feels...
My hairdresser warned me about the falling out hair thing. I'm malting a lot - but have a really thick head of hair so I won't miss a million strands here or there! Apparently it's a hormonal thing and some of my mothers group have got their hair thinning out a lot too. My hairdresser tells me that the worst of it is when it starts growing back in and you get lots of shorter pieces in the mix which means your hair will be all over the shop!
Mine's not thin, but it's certainly uncontrollable!
Mgm - the sleeps aren't consistent. Last night he went down at 8pm, woke at 12.30 am - then at 4.15 am and again at 8 am. I did my first night feed in AGES... I did the 4.15 am one... felt buggered all day too! I know - poor me! At least I can empathise now! He's barely had any sleep all day today - probably no more than an hour ALL DAY so I'm not sure what tonight will bring
Hi guys,
Just quickly, I'm malting majorly too, which is annoying cause I have a weird irrational aversion to wet strands of stray hair on me....and I'm now getting them all the time....
yup, I know...I'm weird! but hey, we all have to be good at something!
Sleep wise for us...had a few minor wind issues with BJ the past few nights...give him his bottle, burp the **** out of him, he goes to sleep, then 15 minutes later he's awake needing to burp again....the worst it got was he went to bed at 7:30 one night, and at 11pm was still going!
Most night's its about an hour though, and I have a feeling thats its actually overtiredness kicking on not wind...he's the kind of bub that would burp if you burped him whether he was arking up about it or not...so I think whats happening is we are missing his window by about 10 minutes then we have to wait for the wake cycle to end (about 40 minutes) then he crashes again.
Once asleep he either goes through til 2am and has a dummy return then through til 6ish for another dummy return then up at 7:30, or through til 5am (finding his own dummy til then) then has a feed then back to sleep til 7:30.
Then its bit more bottle, then cereal at 8:15ish, then back in bed about 9am til 11am (then bottle), up til about 1:30 has a snooze if we are out, bottle about 2-2:30 then back down til about 5pm, then up, bottle, play, cereal, bath, bottle, bed (7:30).
A couple of times this week I've not gotten home for arvo sleep til about 3ish and he's slept through til 6pm when I've woken him.
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well..that kinda all went to crud...
I mentioned that BJ has been a bit fussy at bedtime and we were assuming it was wind (cause if we got him up and burped him, he'd burp....) but I've come to the conclusion that he would burp if we patted him on the back whether wind was bothering him or not, and that I thought it was overtiredness so I was gonna aim for an earlier bedtime (it's usually 7:30). Well, he was just finishing what he wanted of his bottle at 6:40 and had lovely dopey/drowsey eyes, and blinks that lasted a couple of seconds....and DH got home from work (earlier than I expected), and came in to let us know he was home...well of course BJ went spacko at seeing daddy, smiles and laughing and squealing etc, and instead of being asleep by about 6:45, he finally fell asleep (after displaying the exact same behaviours as previous nights at 7:30.
Now dont get me wrong, I love that BJ and DH have such a wonderful connection, but I wanted to test the overtiredness theory tonight and it was all looking promising....grrr....nevermind, I've put my foot down and told DH that BJ will be in bed at 6:30 tomorrow night and thats final!
He did take a little less time to settle tonight than in previous nights, suggesting that I MAY be onto something as he was going to bed earlier tonight and then took less time to settle...will see tomorrow night I guess.
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well....that was a very interesting night.
After falling asleep at 7:30...Benjamin stayed asleep til 1:30am...I got up and was on my way into him when he settled himself to sleep again...then woke at 3:45 and I had to give him his dummy cause he couldnt reach it (his neck didnt extend that far!), re-settled himself at 6:00am and stayed asleep til 8am...then had 120ml of bottle....
I'm impressed!!!
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well...since I'm the only one posting at the moment, I'll give you another update.
We put the bedtime routine into action alot eariler today...he had a bottle at 4 (120ml), played til 5:15, had his cereal, in the bath at 5:40, out of the bath after a play at 6pm, into the bedroom, 180ml of bottle, into bed at 6:15, asleep at 6:30.....Im in shock!
We'll see how the rest of the night goes, and tomorrow....
3 nights in a pattern, so I'm not counting my chickens til monday night, but, if this keeps up, DH will have to just see him before work in the mornings, and on the weekends which is a pity, but, if its best for Bj so be it!
My hair is falling out some but I just put it down to the fact I'm wearing it up more so it all comes out once a day rather than during the course of the day. No real AF for me either, I've taken two pg tests in the past month because I'm so uber-paranoid. A little bleed yesterday but nothing...
Lila's sleep has been a little irregular lately but we're getting 7-12 hours. Pretty big range. And she's having short naps in the afternoon now for DH, about an hour.
Started new job, its really good. Pleasant. Hard work but fun. Most of the customers are regulars and I do things like help people pick out quilt fabrics. Fun. And busy. I'll be working 2/3 days a week so that will be ok. And DH is so good with lila.
Ack she's upset gtg. Hope all are well, would like to hear from you all...
Had SIL & a niece (there are 4 kids, but the rest were away elsewhere) over for tea tonight for Roast Beef and we all had a lovely time!
But Liam's really unsettled now & we've had to get him up to give him a bottle and try to re-settle him after going in about 7 times since 8pm to re-settle with the dummy after we put him in bed. I hope he settles down now because I've been sick with a migraine all day and am ready for him to sleep through the night tonight so I can get some rest!
Steph - that job sounds sweet! It's so good when you can find a job you like...
Hope everyone else is doing ok and I'll check back in tomorrow.
Shoegal I still haven't gotten AF, but thought you should know you don't need to have an AF to be able to conceive so I have been told. Are you still intending to be breastfeeding Baxter around 1? I'd just start temping and TTC when you are planning to and hope for the best.
I got AF with DS after 4 months and no sign of it yet this time around, I'm kinda hoping it stays away for at least another 4 months until I return to work at least.
well my chief babysitter (MIL) is sick so i've a few long days ahead of me. have a sore neck and back and am generally feeling whingy!
dd hasn't repeated her rolling success but has discovered her feet and loves playing with them. unfortunately she's scratched her head to bits - cradle cap's all but gone but her scalp must still be very itchy. may go see mchn about it because it's really hard to stop her (she'll be wearing mittens tonight but they 'll come off pretty quick).
nettie is liam doing any better? babies go through all sorts of unsettled periods and changes in routine, often for no apparent reason. hope you get some rest soon.
steph glad your job's going well.
babywrangler sounds like you're doing really well on the sleep front. can you come wrangle dd for me?
fire we haven't heard from you for a while. hope all's well.
and hi to beatrix, shoegal, leyla and grubi.
wishing you all a good night (especially you, leyla, how are things going?)
Last edited by mgm; September 1st, 2008 at 05:17 PM.
Sounds like you are having a bit of a hard time at the moment and need a big old hug. Sorry that your anniversary was not as special as you hoped it would be. Your game with Lila sounds so cute. Jack was doing a similar thing with me yesterday. He suddenly saw me while he was lying on his tummy on his daddys lap and started playing peek-a-boo by putting his head down and then bringing it back up to make eye contact with me again. I thought he was so cleaver! He cracks me up! You so should not worry about her not rolling yet either - most babies dont roll until 4-5 months. Still HEAPS of time.
We tried it again last night and he refused.. Ah well... another time perhaps! Having said that, he's still really easy to settle.
He's barely had any sleep all day today - probably no more than an hour ALL DAY so I'm not sure what tonight will bring 
and I'll check back in tomorrow.
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