We had a horrible night too....Lily went to bed at 9.30, then was awake at 1.30, 3.30, 4.30, 5.30, then at 6.30 and won't go back to sleep. I'm sooo tired, I was falling asleep feeding her. DH is home until 12 and then has to go to work. I will try to sleep now before he goes or I won't make it!
Danni - I still cradle him - so his head is on the top part of my arm but rather than curl it down around him I bend it up so it's under the pillow...
Erin - sounds like you've got a good sleeper there as well...
Kel - sorry to hear you had a rough night..makes the next day so much harder...
Well, my little monkey doesn't want to sleep today either!! Oh well...I just got some digital photos printed so I'm going through and trying to get them into albums...should really be doing housework and getting dressed but I feel sick so who cares! hehehe.
Danni when i put Olivia in bed with us, we pull our pillows apart so there is a big gap and put her up there, that way the doona is over us without it being over her head. Shes such a wriggle puss, I couldnt bear sleeping too close!!! I kind of spoon the area around her so she doesnt get squashed...iykwim.
Caro, good luck with the house.
kristie, hope you are better soon...good day to be in your pj's though! havent got out of mine yet!
Erin, thats great Charlie sleeps well over night.
Might go get dressed and eat.
take care
melissa
Welcome to the April group Erin. You'll find everyone really friendly and helpful!
Kris- love the new ticker pic, cuties. Hope you're feeling better.
Danni- what an awesome sleep, I can only dream.
Melissa- thanks so much for the chart! Glad you enjoyed your party, it's nice to join the human race again isn't it!
Kellie- boo to such a disrupted night. Especially after such a great day the day before. Hope the little Muffin lets you get some rest tonight.
Caro- Good news about the house, hope it all goes smoothly.
Well we had a great start to the day, good sleep up early and off to the gym. Hazel was in the creche for the first time and was good as gold, just sat in the rocker and checked out all the other kids! Then it went plummeting straight down hill, when I managed to lock both my keys, phone and most horrifyingly, Hazel in the car!! My god did my heart go. Thankfully the good folk in the doctors let me use their phone to call a locksmith who was there in ten minutes and Hazel slept through it all. My god though, imagine if it had been summer time, ten minutes could have been fatal. I feel stupid and crap and really shaken up. Not to mention the $88 I've basically thrown down the toilet. I know alls well that ends well but it was a hard lesson to learn.
Hi Everybody,
Sorry for being so slack with posting but you know the old story....
Beau has been pretty unsettled and refuses to breast feed anymore so I spend half my life expressing and the other half trying to get dressed, clean the house and do washing...and in my spare time work from home too...
Glad you are all doing well and bubs are having such long sleeps for some of you! Oh bless...I have spent most of the day on the phone chasing up day care waiting lists that left me in tears...I am supposed to go back to work in August and am after 65 people on one list!
Sorry typing with one hand patting with other...
Christy sorry about your keys disaster - I flooded the laundry on DH's first day back at work at spent two hours in gumboots on my knees bailing water in tears - can we still blame baby brain?
Hi everyone,
After me wanting to know if my lm (little man) was normal not sleeping during the day, my hubby has the day off & he's an angel. Makes me a little mad!!!
He's been asleep for 3hrs!!!! Think I'll have to wake him or he won't be going to bed til late tonight. Best thing is I got to go out & get my hair cut, first time since just before lm was born...yes it's been a while & it feels fantasic. Hubby got house clean whilst I was out too
Thanks everyone for welcoming me to your group. It's great to chat with people that have babies around the same age, easier than asking my Mum some things - she says she can't remember much.
Christy sorry to hear about the key incident, that heart racing feeling is awful.
Melissa, sorry haven't read too far back - just wondering what the chart is all about?
Hey Erin, dont u hate it when bubs does exact opposite to what u been saying!!! The chart is from the wonder weeks book, which basically indicates growth spurts- emotional and physical. its a good book, i borrowed it from the library, hard to get hold of in the shops. olivia has just been through her 12 week one, she was doing fine, then all of the sudden, it was like i had a different baby, she slept poorly, she was grumpy ang clingy. After a few days she had settled again but i have noticed her changes, being she can follow me around the room more fluidly with her gaze, she is much more chatty and using vowels, shes more active shes able to entertain herself more in her cot/on the floor. the chart shows periods to expect upheaval and change. its a rough guide.
christy-i would have been beside myself!
jen-you are doing so well to keep up the expressing, well done
i have been slack and havent taken olivias harness off since friday, partly coz i feel bad about putting it back on. Adam wants to have another bath with her tomorrow so we will take it off then for 30 minutes. hes so good with her, its not funny...actually it is!!!
kristie i read your birth story for dylan, that was great. are u really thinking about number 3??? We are looking to start number 2 probably by the end of the year/early next year. I want 3 and would like them close together, about 18 months -2 years. Is it hard with that age gap???
Anyway, am feeding and typing, so best go
take care
love melissa
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Dylan was unsettled this morning but has had a big 2 hour sleep this arvo and after a bath was back to sleep! Hopefully we have a better sleep than last night!
Caro - Good luck with the house! What a big job moving house now!! I wish I was doing it though...we so need some more space!!!
Melissa - Certainly was - ended up getting in a shower though...I always feel heaps better after a shower. Yeah getting better...I've got on of those tickles in my throat though like a dry cough...grrr. I'm sure in the next couple of days I'll be 100%. That sounds like a good idea with the pillows. I cuddle Dylan cos it's usually when he's unsettled that I have him in there and he wants to be close...otherwise he'd be in his own bed - LOL!
Christy - Thanks! They look a little sleepy in the picture! I took it this morning and they were both still in their flanny pj's! hehe. Louis keep saying "hold it" when he wants to hold Dylan...LOL.
Big hugs - don't feel bad - it happens to lots of people! I can't imagine how scary it must have been though! I'm glad everything was fine...
Jen - Good to hear from you! Glad your well. Sorry to hear Beau isn't feeding well and your having trouble with day care. Wow at having 65 people on a list - thats crazy!
Erin - LOl - it's always the way! When you've got the help they behave and when you don't have it they're terrors. Yeah for your hubby cleaning the house!
Dylans well and truly found his mouth now. Most of the time he's got his fingers in there munching away. We had him in front of the tv tonight while we ate dinner and he was laughing away! So cute. He's going crazy with the rattle now! What else...oh I had him on his tummy on the couch today and he was holding his head up soo high...looked so cute!
Melissa - I definitely want no.3!! We're only in a 2br unit which really limits us at the moment but we're hoping to have moved by the end of next year so hopefully I'll start ttc about midway through next year so hoping for not much more than a 2y gap between the next two.
I've found an 18m gap to be great. I don't have any issues but of course I haven't done it any other way. I figure you're still in baby mode so you may as well just go for it!
I found I started getting clucky when Louis was around 4 months and by 6 months it was full on. At 9 months I went off the mini-pill and fell p/g that month! Was still bf and af hadn't even returned!
Personally, I think it's hard having a newborn so really it doesn't matter how many kids you've already got it's the newborn thats hard work iykwim?? Louis is cruisy to look after compared to Dylan. All I've got to do is change his bum and get him his food but he's not half as demanding!
OK...I'm ranting...
Well, after a few great days with sleeping, we're back to the cat naps. I am soo tired and it will be an early night tonight I think I got about 4hrs sleep last night. DH has said that he'll take Lily when she wakes if he's home (he'll be home at midnight from work) then told me to just bring her out....kind of defeats the purpose of not getting up to her when I have to get up to give her to him, she usually only takes half an hour to feed at night!
DH has already gotten used to ignoring her snuffles and grumbles and doesn't hear her at all at night even when we get up to feed. Oh well I guess it's better than nothing I shouldn't complain!! She's in bed now so here's hoping for a good night. I did get in a short nap before Dh went to work though I felt worse when I got up... To all of you who's bubs sleep more than 4hrs at a time, thank your lucky stars!! You're all lucky duckies
Caro, how exciting that you're getting a house! I wish we could, we're in a 2br unit too and space is quickly runnign out. We have very little storage. Good luck with moving.
Christy, lucky you , getting off to the gym. I wish I could too, but $$$ is pretty tight around here at the mo and a membership is too expensive How scary to lock Hazel in the car, lucky she was sleeping and not screaming that would have been soo much worse!
Jen, I hear you on the bf problems. My problem is with supply. I just can't seem to build it up to enough to feed Lily exclusively. At least she's getting some I guess, but with all of this publicity about how bad formula is at the mo I feel so bad giving it ot her, iykwim?!
What area do you live in if you don't mind me asking...I'm an early childhood teacher and in our area, there are heaps of positions for childcare, even the council centres. I will need to go back to work earlier than I'd hoped (as a childcare worker- put my bubba in childcare to look after other peoples children, all for a minimal profit for us, go figure...) and have been looking for childcare and I won't have any trouble getting a position. But I know alot of areas have a huge shortage though. Have you thought of family day care or a nanny...I'm available!! Hehehe, joking!!!
Melissa, thanks for the graph, it explains alot. I think Lil is a week behind though because she's 10wks tomorrow, but is going through a stormy phase now I think.
I have been thinking about having more kids lately too...isn't it funny our bubbas are barely born and we're already thinking of doing it all again!! Maybe I should go back adn read our pg thread and remember how I felt being pg!! Or even just go back a few weeks and remember how tough that was, LOL. I would like a 2yr gap between bubs too, that means ttc mid next yr. 2 is a great age since they are getting big enough to do things for themselves, but not too old to get too used to being the only child. Our problem would be finances though, money sucks!!!
Kristie, Lily loves to suck her fingers too. It's so cute to see her try to coordinate herself to get her fist into her mouth. She's started to rub her eyes too, she scratched herself the other day, so now I have to make sure I keep her nails trimmed!
How cute that Louis says 'hold it' to cuddle Dylan, that's sweet.
sorry about her sleeping kellie Although hoping you got a great nights sleep and that your DH was able to help out.
I dunno how you guys do it living in units! We have a big 4 bedroom, 2 living areas house, and its full! Every bedroom is full of storage etc, and I couldnt downsize at all.
The downside is we got a real bargain here and if we want to move, we wouldnt be able to afford it now with me not returning back to work.
Today I have my mothers group, so looking forward to that. Mason and I lay down on these giant sized colourful pillows. They are great!
And I better not tell you how long he slept for last night..
We had another rotten night...Dylans only going about 6 hours between feeds but that's usually with the dummy thrown back in a few times...He's just up pretty much every hour. aahhh. Anyway...on the bright side he's gone down super easy this morning. Just put him in his cot awake gave him a little kiss and walked away and within 30 sec his little eyes were closed!
LOL at you guys getting clucky already!
Kel - Sorry you had a rough night as well...Thats great dh will give you a break although not so good that you have to get up anyway!!
I agree - the 2nd year is fantastic! The first year is a lot of hard work for us mums! Once they're up and running though and starting to speak it makes life a lot easier. Louis is really good at talking so I don't have to guess things so much...
Danni - Have fun today! LOL at filling your 4br house - we've only ever been in units so I suppose we haven't ever filled it up like living in a house. The only bad thing is we have house furniture not unit furniture. So a big 8 seat square table and a 3 and 4 seater couch so it takes up a lot of room as well...
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