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Woohoo!
I am the first! How exciting!
Im just settling Beauie in his cot with the hiccups! God they take ages to go...
I was wondering as you guys are a few weeks ahead of us - have your number of feeds diminished yet?
We are still at 5-6 feeds a day, anywhere from 100-220ml (boob or formula depending but mostly boob) each feed.
We haven't diminished, but she has just all of a sudden gone from 100ml or so to 150ml. That's including a bf before hand. It's hard for me to compare because she sometimes only has 60ml, sometimes only booby and then sometimes it's booby and 150mls....She used to not take any more than 120ml from a bottle, but the past few days she's been taking more sometimes. I just go with what she wants, and the fact that she's a chubba bubba, she's got to be getting enough!
Matt is still feeding the same number of times as he has since he was about 4 weeks old. But I don't know the amount as I breastfeed every feed still, except for the bit of food he's also getting now. He is also chubby. :-)
Hey Jen, Olivia has about 5-6 bottles a day and its about 240ml of formula per bottle. The liquid has gone up for us and the feed has gone down... not by much. Shes a hungry little munchkin and shes got tubby legs to prove it!
Moo's been sleeping really well from about 9pm til 730am, excet last night she decided to wake up for a feed at 130am and didnt want to go back down. So I popped her in bed with us and she was asleep pretty quickly. Shes only started to blow good dribbly rasperies in the past few days. Its so funny, but her clothes get soaked in the mean time. I tried a spoon full of farex, but that didnt go down well, so we will wait for another month, then shell be almost 6 months (omg) and maybe she will be ready for it then. Am in no rush.
Not alot else happening, except I have a sore throat. Still havent lost any weigh and as a matter of fact my tummy looks like I am about 5 months pregnant:0 I ended up buying one of those leg master things from ebay, which will get sent at the end of the month. Hopefully it works, coz it will end up in the shed like the rest of the exercise stuff!!!!
Hope you are all well.
Take care
Love Melissa
Well we've had a shocking few days that's why I have not had time to pop in & say Hi!!!
Charlie's up several times during the night & still back to feeding twice. Silly thing is, he'll wake for bottle around 5am & then I can't get him to drink a thing in the morning. Meaning he's not getting the amt he needs during the day, so he goes looking for it at night, AHHHHHH!! His feeds have dropped dramatically, we were feeding every 2.5 to 3hrs, now he doesn't even cry for a feed anymore & only has 4 feeds during the day (but 2 at night). Though the night feeds are often very small, it's more just a snack to settle back to sleep. He's getting out of his wrap often too & then wakes to be wrapped again, really want to kick the habbit but it's not working.
Kellie, how cute are the raspberries - Charlie started a while back but hasn't done it for ages now, but cracks me up when it's done with a mouthfull of milk.
Melissa, YAY to the sleeping, oh how I wish I was you. Do you still wrap Olivia?
Jen, working and houseguests, nice one. We've got guests coming in Sept & I'm dreading it as our house is really small & Charlie will be able to hear everything. His afternoon sleeps are all over the place already, I don't want it to get worse. Oh well.
We've had Charlie on solids for nearly a week, doesn't seem to have made much difference but we are going very slowly with just the recommended food for his age. So far he seems to love it.
Anywho, had better go & help DH clean up. He thinks I spend enough time on here already LOL
We had immunisations today. All went well DH came with me and held Lily while the nurse jabbed her . She didn't cry much and was so good with it all. She did give the nurse a big death stare though, as if to say 'What the F!!! do you think you're doing to me!!!' it was very funny. She had a huge sleep this arvo- 3 1/2hrs, just like last time she had immunisations. I wish she'd sleep like that every day!
She woke twice last night, so we are not back on track! She also thought it would be fun to party at 2.30 this morning. And then we had a 5.30 wake up...I dozed on the lounge while she chatted to the tv, then luckily I managed to get her back to sleep with me at 7am til 8.
She's still doing the raspberries. It's so cute, she screws her face up and purses her lips to get ready and has to think of how to do it before one comes out. And like Olivia, Melissa, Lily ends up with a puddle under her chin after a raspberry blowing episode!
I felt around her mouth today and I think one of her teeth will pop through very soon. It's not quite through but I can feel the point of it right at the gums rather than just big lumps of angry red gums. Poor little chicken I wish they'd just come out already!
Melissa, I havent lost any baby weight either, in fact I found out I have put on 4kg's! Though it was at the gym that I found this out so at least I am on the right track! I am very proud that I have been every second day since I joined....six days ago LOL! Hope your throat feels better.
Erin you poor chook! I hope Charlie figures out his sleeping and eating soon. I found my stormy periods chart the other day and this is a grey adn stormy time for bubs with a big definate stormy time at about 17wks maybe that's our problem??
Ok gonna go it's bed time for mummy here tonight! DH is on night shift and Lily usually mucks up when he's on night shift, like she knows I am on my own! Little monkey!
Good Morning...
Hey Kel I would love to see this stormy chart....know a link?
Beau went down last night at 5:45 an was up at 11:30 again - I was trying to dtring him out in that feed cause his second sleep at night only lasts for 3 hours usually and he only cat naps then after but he slept till 5:30 bless him ! then we had a snooze from 6:30 till 8am in bed together with a few dummy pop ins...
Does anyone watch 9am with Davis and Kim? Did you see this morning about type 1 diabetes and the health professional saying to exclusively breastfeed till 6months before introducing any cows milk products or cereal? Sometimes things like this tick me off! What about all the women who cant for one reason or another breastfeed - how does that make them feel? Sorry rant!
Mel - wow Olivia can eat - good on her! Sometimes its a fight with Beau but last night he drank 260ml EBM...and was sucking air for a few secs after that!
Kel - Brave Lily with her shots poor chicken
Erin - I have the same thing with Beau as you do trying to get Charlie to drink when they scream for it and then its like "im over it now mum"
I have a question - does anyone have the last issue of shop til you drop for kids? There is a jolly jumper in there that is plywood and fabric that i really want for Beau but lost the issue and cant find the supplier...xxx
Howdy Ladies.....long time no type! Been absent with not really any excuse except for a demanding bubs and sheer laziness.
Well, atm Hazel is asleep in her cot and has been down for over an hour! Yay! I have found she really doesn't need a sleep til lunchtime and then another short one at about 4, works for us.
I have got the Wonder Weeks book out of the library and we are all in a disrupted phase (15-19 weeks) with a stormy patch at 16/17 weeks which follows the next 'Great Leap Forward' at 19 weeks. Signs of this can be- clingy babies that need more entertaining and want you with them ALL the time, dislike of strangers (and dads!), more frequent night wakings and less interest in feeding (too busy checking everything out!) SOUND FAMILIAR? Hazel is behaving in a text book like fashion at the mo and sounds like all your bubbas are too! At least the end is in sight and our bubbas are really changing and learning lots of new things-isn't it exciting!
I started my new job on monday and it went really well, lovely child, great family, and short but sweet hours. I got my first pay yesterday and once Haze wakes up we are off to the shops to buy STUFF! Fun fun. I am well and truly recovered from my tummy bug and feel great in the way that you only do when you're 'better' iykwim! By the way, it was my sister's 30th that we celebrated on the GC, which I forgot to say in my last post so it may not have made much sense!
I had my first New Mum's meeting yesterday which I thoroughly enjoyed. They seemed like a really nice bunch. There was a little 5 month old girl there who was making the strangest snorting type noise. Turns out her mum and dad have had bad colds for a few weeks and it is the little girl's version of them blowing their noses which she seems to think is something to say. Hilarious and too, too cute!
Jen- I've got that chart- which Melissa kindly emailed a while back- which I can send you if you let me know your email. Don't worry about the thing on the TV show- they are not known for providing a well rounded story and like to use 'scare' tactics. Yay on your long sleep!
Kel- Glad the vaccinations went well, we've got ours next week. I made sure it's not a day when I have to work so I can just come home and cuddle for the rest of the day if need be. Yay on raspberries- still waiting for Hazel do figure that out. She was touching the pictures on a handout at the Mum's group yesterday though!
Melissa- I am with you on the baby weight, allthough having gastro helped a little bit LOL! I am hoping my stomach has shrunk a bit and I have been trying to reduce my portion sizes a bit instead of eating as much as my 6 foot 5 DH who has a physical job! Hope your throat clears up soon.
Erin- Boo to bad nights. Ours haven't been too bad, 2 feeds through the night, but she is just all over the place and there is no 'routine' to her waking any more. I've given up trying to wean Hazel from wrapping now- she just wakes up MORE!
Debs and Adele- I am reading with great interest about you introducing solids. I was sure that I wouldn't do it til 6 months but Hazel is SOOO interested in my food and has been launching herself at it when I'm eating so I might have to try some rice cereal sooner than that!
Hope you are all well amd Happy It is raining and grey here which is actually a refreshing change from endless sunny and warm days (awwwwww..........I don't expect any sympathy!)
Hazel has been asleep for an hour and a half now...............
Hey there everyone, well we had a great night last night...YAY. Wake up @ 12.30 but was able to settle back until 2.30, fed & then woke up at 7am. Back on track (for now) LOL. I'm sure the little monkey will switch again. I tried him on some pumpkin yesterday & he loved it, so far so good. We are heading to the doc soon to have him weighed so I can't wait to finally find out it's been 7wks since he was last weighed & everyone comments on how he's such a big boy!! though lots of that is his long legs. This morning we went to our first session of "Music & Movement". It was great, it's 20mins with bubs under 12months & we sing to them, dance, play with a big colourful parachute & a bubble machine. I have never seen such a look of amazement on Charlie's face until he saw the bubbles.....Oh so cute. Yep we now officially have something on everyday of the week!! but always home for avro nap.
Christy - that stormy patch you just described must be what Charlie's recent prob has been. Waking often at night & cry's each time I leave him on the floor to play. Hope you really enjoy your New Mum's group, it's so much fun & bubs gets to make some great friends too. Enjoy your shopping trip, I'm soooo jelous, I want to go shopping, again, he,he.
Jen - I have that issue of "shop til you drop", need it up here as it always gives the websites so I can do some online shoping....though wasn't too impressed with this issue, such a shame as I went to the na everyday for a week looking for it LOL!!! I'll take a look & get back to you with the details, think I know which one you mean as I earmarked one for Charlie.
Kellie - great to hear the immunisations went well, what a champ for not crying too much. Last time Charlie let out one hell of a grunt & then cried his little eyes out. He's due on Fri, not looking forward to that.
Well I had better run, got to wake Charlie up to head to the doctors....didn't think that through when I booked in - oh well. Oh yeah, we gave up on trying not to wrap Charlie too - just kept waking up. I think once he grasps the full concept of his hands will be a better time to try.
I can’t believe I haven’t been on in sooo long! Everythings good here. Just the kids getting over the sniffles. We went up to the PIL for the weekend which was nice. Louis had heaps of fun and Dylan was on his best behaviour. He’s getting so big and is giving me some big giggles which is nice! His night sleep is still a nightmare but seems to have improved a little bit! Oh well…can’t last forever! Hehe.
I gave him some rice cereal today and he did really well…also wasn’t fussed to have another feed until the 4 hour mark which he never does!! So maybe it’s time to get started…He has his mchn check up tomorrow so I’ll see how his growth is going…I was starting Louis at this time so will probably just get stuck into it now…slowly of course!
Weighted myself yesterday and I’m the lowest I’ve been since p/g now! 60kg!! (But still the heaviest I’ve been when not p/g) So I’ve still got another 3-4kg to go!
Sorry if some of this stuffs outdated…I’ve been trying to reply for ages! Hehe.
Kel – Isn’t it annoying when your dh tries to help and get up in the night but our bubbas won’t respond!!! They just love their mummies way too much! LOL! Wow Lily is a big girl!!
I hate holding Dylan and pushing the pram! Although it’s basically impossible with Louis in the toddler seat – it makes the pram soo heavy I can’t steer properly with only 1 hand…
Yeah on joining the gym!!! That’s great you’ve already managed to go…I haven’t been for a couple of weeks with the kids being sick again…
I hope Lily’s settled down for you a little…gosh these bubbas can be so draining! Wow 1 wake up is excellent – Dylans still waking up every 1 ½ overnight – grrr!!!!
Awww Lily blowing raspberries sounds gorgeous – that’s great you got it on your phone!
Washing??? That’s my full time job!!! Especially over winter when you can’t get it dry quickly…bring on some sunny days!!!
You reminded me of immunisations…geez better book them in for next week! Glad she was ok with them!
Poor little munchkin with her toothy pegs…I hope they pop through for her as well!
Erin – Glad the bigger teats seem to be working for you! Yes! Dylan lets out some really good screams sometimes – Seems to be they’re just testing out their little voices! Yeah on the rice cereal – sounds like he’s more than ready for it!! Wow on dh cooking your brekky – lucky thing!
I know what the 40min sleeps are like! Although Dylan just woke for his dummy and when I gave it to him he went straight back to sleep! Shock horrow!!
Sorry to hear things have been a bit rough – Hope he’s starting to settle down for you now…Ooh sounds like he has!! The music/movement class sounds good – similar to some parts of gymbaroo! It’s exciting getting them weighted and measured!!! (If only it was as exciting for us! LOL)
Kaz – Yep, good idea to start on the yellow/orange veggies…but be warned when I started feeding Louis and giving him heaps of that stuff I nearly turned him orange – LOL!!!!!
Danni – Sounds like Masons doing really well. I don’t think 62cm is short – he’s bigger than Louis was!!
Hope you had a great time in Perth!
JenSam – Wow on a 3h sleep!! That must have felt great! In regards to the cereal I get Heinz organic and give him just a couple of teeny tiny tsp that I’ve mixed with breast milk – also have it very runny to start with…
Hope you’re feeling better…has beau settled down for you?
Glad you had a nice shopping trip – I’m sooo addicted to shopping at the moment…our house is so full of toys! I’m in so much trouble with my dh….
Oh hiccups can be sooo annoying! I always give Dylan an extra bit of a feed and they go away really quickly!
Dylans still feeding 6 times a day!!!
No, I don’t watch david and kim…personally I think a lot of it’s scare tactics…as long as you don’t feed your kids junk food I think they’ll be healthy!! It must be very frustrating for some people I would imagine….
Sorry I can’t help with the mag…..I don’t need any more incentive to go shopping – hehehe.
Adele – Wow on the sweetened foods! That’s crazy! We have a lot of banana/choccy custards for when they’re a bit older – I never bought any of it. You are so much better off making your own foods where you can. Louis would never eat jars of baby food after having home made stuff and I don’t blame him. It’s gross. There’s no flavour whatsoever…I hope you’re getting some sleep!!
You’re very organised with preparing food already! I bought some more little tubs today for freezing it…A really good idea too is once you’ve tried them on a few individual things to see if it’s ok then mix them together….so once I knew he like pumpkin didn’t have a reaction I then gave him pumpkin and broccoli…I wouldn’t imagine many babies would like broccoli in they’re own but mixed with pumpkin Louis always ate it!
Deb – Hi! Hope you and the boys are well! Wow at the health nurse saying not to worry about the cereals – interesting! I only ever give it for brekky and always give veggies/fruit for lunch and dinner anyway… I’m pretty sure the rice cereals don’t have sugar added anyway..That’s great he had some potato and carrot!
Cooking up in the ice cubes is a great idea…I always did bulk lots and then just popped them out and put them in freezer bags so I could do the next lot!
I’m with you on there not being enough hours in the day for everything!!! Especially dtd with dh it seems!!! Hehehe.
Melissa – Yeah that Olivias having fun without her harness – that’s great! Hope you had a good time in Bendigo. I know – I’m already running around after the kids now with lots of stuff – it will be crazy once they’re at school and sport!! My dh is heading up to the snow this weekend but I’m staying at home with the kids…maybe I’ll go next year although I’m hoping to be p/g again by then!! (yes, I’m crazy! Hehe)
Don’t stress too much about losing weight – it will happen! It took us 9 months to get that big in the first place!!
Christy – God I hope this stage ends soon!!!! The bad thing is sometimes they learn bad habits during this stage which makes it hard to break!
So glad work is going well – sounds perfect!!! Glad your mothers group went well! It’s definitely great to get out and about and chat to other people!
Glad you’re enjoying the cooler weather! I’m dying for some warm weather and sunshine!
K – Hope you’re all proud of my effort to catch up – LOL! Only took me the whole afternoon! Better go and organise some dinner!
hey guys...just a quick post from me as Mason is really sick with an ear infection and a urine infection. He was crying all weekend in perth and SCREAMED after we landed back in melb. we spent yesterday at 2 diff hospitals.
Seems a bit better today thank goodness but has stopped sleeping through again. We are up to 1 or 2 wakes again
Hey, am going to try and do personals, while moo is asleep on the floor... lets hope she stays asleep, oh and Adam is cooking dinner
Danni- I hope Mason gets better soon. It must be terrible worrying about him.
Kristie- hope you had a good time at the PIL. Wow at dylan eating. Am sorry he still isnt sleeping too well. Glad you have got down on your weight. DF is off to the snow on Friday. I decided I wont be going this year but was thinking next year too, but same as you, i hope to be up the duff again
Erin- yay on the solids. Sounds like good fun with the movement class. Hope Charlie is settling down for you.
Christy-wow, am glad you borrowed that book. Its great isnt it?! Olivia is doint the same thing, poor sleep, giving dad a hard time, fussing during feeds coz shes too busy trying to see whats going on. Hopefully it will be over soon. I have noticed that she is actually reaching out for stuff as opposed to just swinging her hands. Shes heaps more vocal too.
Jen- yes olivia is a little gobbler. She loves her bottle. Good on Beau for drinking that much. Hope your getting enough sleep Are you putting him in a jolly jumper? I am a bit nervous putting olivia in one coz of her hips, but she also hasnt got used to her legs yet AND they still stay in the "cooked chicken" postion when shes out of the harness!!!!!
Anyway, got to run, dinners almost ready and princess is awake
Hi to everyone else i didnt do personals to-sorry
Take care Love Melissa
Charlie is 7.5kg, far out no wonder my back is still sore!!! he's also 67cm which is 90% above boys his age. Can't believe it, looks like he's going to be a tall boy, not sure where he gets it from, not DH or me. Anywho he's a big boy but the doc said the weight is average for such a long baby so he's not over weight, lucky that's what I was worried about as he's FF. Anywho, just an update. Better take a look at dinner, tried a Tuna Lasagna today...should be interesting. p.s we don't have scales here, I'm happy not to weigh myself. What I don't know won't hurt, LOL
Oh & Danni sorry to hear about Mason, what a bummer you were really looking forward to that trip. Hope the catch up with everyone was great. It must be something about Perth, Charlie got Conjunctavitis when we went there a couple weeks ago.
WOW,its nice to see everyone dropping in here, it's been a bit quiet for a few days!
Well we have had an horrendous day! Lily has cried all day and I am going bananas. She woke 4 times last night and was awake for at least 40mins each time, then awake for the day at 6am. I sooo need to sleep. She's not sleeping well in the day again too, so I can't even have a nanna nap Though she has had one good 2hr sleep both yesterday and today, but I think that's from her immunisations. She did the same thing last time too. She has two big red angry looking lumps on her tubby little legs from her jabs, poor monkey. And I think her teeth are still sore, one is so close to popping through, I can't wait!
She has been soo miserable today and has been on me all day. I have been bf all day (good for the milk supply I s'pose!). Poor DH only got to sleep for a few hours because she just wouldn't stop crying. He is now at work for 12+hrs, poor thing! I couldn't take her out since it was raining and I didn't want to anyway with her being so miserable...Oh well tomorrow we will go to my mums and he can sleep the day away! I wish I could...
Jen, as Christy, said, Melissa gave it to us and I no longer have it on the 'puter, though if you still need it I can scan it and email it to you? Let me know... It's form the 'Wonder Weeks' book and it shows when our bubbas might be 'stormy' or unsettled due to growth spurts and other developmental milestones. I am going to try to borrow it from the library too, I'd love to know more about it.
Christy,Glad to hear your job went well for your first day, and lucky you going shopping. I am saving my money to go when I lose some weight, incentive!
Our bubs are learning so much at the moment arent they? They are getting so big, I can't believe how quickly it's all going.
Good idea being home for immunisations. I try to have a few days of nothing because last time she was worse off on the second day, with a bit of a fever and G-R-U-M-P-Y!!! and even the third day she was a bit grumpy.
Erin, lucky you having a good sleep, I hope we have one tonight...as you say, they just keep changing!
I often get the 'Oh my goodness she's a big girl isn't she!!' When I say she's 4months old. And she is I guess, she's in at least the 80th percentile for all her measurements. She's 7.3kg's, so just a bit less than Charlie! She's such a chubba bub!
Your music and movement sounds like FUN! I dance and sing silly songs to Lily all day, but it would be fun to do it with ather bubs!
Kristie, hello!!! Glad to hear you are all better from your colds.
Too bad about Dylans sleeps...can I make a suggestion?? Tell me to mind my business if you want!! But maybe he wakes so often because of the dummy? I have tried giving Lily a dummy in the night to help her sleep longer, but it just seems to make her wake more often when she looses it. Can he sleep without it? I give Lily hers to get to sleep first thing then I take it out about half an hour or so later, and she soesn't get it back at all in the night time...
Congrats on losing weight! I have been really good so far with going to the gym, I'm actually enjoying the 'me' time I'm getting, and I like feeling like I'm actually doing something about losing weight. I wish I was 60kg! And I wish I had only a few kgs to lose. I have put on about 20kgs over the years being with DH (and getting old...hehe). I am going to really try to lose it, but one step at a time...
Danni, hi! Oh no I hope Mason is ok, poor little man How was your trip, other than Mason being sick, I hope you got some fun in!
Ok going to go and try to get an early night in I'm soo sleepy!
Night all!
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Oh Kellie, you poor thing. You sound like you need some good sleep. Wow, lilys teeth must be doing her in plus those jabs. Can you feel the tooth and whats the gum look like. I have no idea, but people have said that I will just know. Wow you and Erin have big babies but all in perportion though and long. I got a little shortie I think, hopefully shell take after her dad whose 6 foot. I am only 5'3...somewhere inbetween would be good!!!!
I am having some me time atm. Can I ask, who looks after your bubs when you go to the gym?
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Melissa - wow what is a leg master? Hope you get some use out of it. My tummy is still soft but I intend to get it stronger as I can feel my back isn't as good as it used to be. After sitting for a while I find it hard to straighten up when I get up! Old lady syndrome.
Erin - great that Charlie is enjoying his food. Matt is obviously liking it too, he opens his mouth wide and really works on getting it down. Today he must have had 5 or 6 teaspoons before he got tired of it. What a good sleep he did lat night (night before by the time you read this!)
Kellie - good on you for going to the gym. Great that you can find the time! Hope you got a better night last night. I guess people put their bubs in a creche when they are at the gym..
Christy - GREAT you feel better now after the gastro. We had been having huge tantrums around dinner time, when Matt literally refused to allow me to eat and demanded my attention. Now he's eating with us, it is so civilised. He just wants to be included in everything! So I am not doubting his readiness at all.
Jen - don't know the program you're talking about but it sounds like a very one sided opinion. a health professional should know better!
Kristie .- what an epic post. Great to hear you're all well there and the kids are behaving. 60kgs is an ideal weight, you must be feeling great. I am aiming for 64! I have no idea what I weigh as we don't have scales, but I think I am around 70 at the moment. I was 83kgs just before the birth, so I feel the difference!
Danni - hope that Mason is on the mend. xx
In summary it sounds like everyone is getting up during the night to feed their babies still. It is so normal for this age group, so nobody should be worrying about that just yet. My eldest was waking EVERY night until he was 18 months old! So things may take a while to improve for some of the babies. Just try and rest when you can and be good to yourselves! And get your DHs to do something. I am getting better and asking for help these days and it really takes the load off.
Well no we didn't have much of a better sleep, though she did only wake twice, but still...We had another 6.30 wake up, grrrr! She woke at 12.30 then at 4.30 for feeds. DH is home today, for a few days now so I will get to sleep in tomorrow .
Melissa, yeah I think the reason she's being so difficult lately is due to her teeth and now her needles too, she's just one big grump! Though she still comes up with a few big beaming smiles for me! Her gums are red just in the spot where her teeth will come through and there is a bump on it which looks like a little whitish blister. The one which I think will break through soon is hard, bigger and whiter than the others and I can feel that it's a bit kind of sharp. It's hard to explain! She's gnawing on her hands and anything that's near her mouth.
When I go to the gym, my DH looks after Lily, so far I haven't had to use the creche, and I'd rather not, I don't know how she'll be with strangers for a whole hour or so, but I will if I need to when DH is working. My DH works shift work so 4 (12+hr) days on and 6 off usually, though lately it's been a bit mucked up.
Deb, gosh I hope Lily works out how to sleep all night before 18mths! I am so bad at not getting much sleep. THough it is true you get used to it. I just long for a good sleep. I don't even think I could sleep a whole night through anymore, hehe! But it would be nice to have the option, iykwim?
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. She didn't cry much and was so good with it all. She did give the nurse a big death stare though, as if to say 'What the F!!! do you think you're doing to me!!!' it was very funny. She had a huge sleep this arvo- 3 1/2hrs, just like last time she had immunisations. I wish she'd sleep like that every day!
It is raining and grey here which is actually a refreshing change from endless sunny and warm days (awwwwww..........I don't expect any sympathy!)
Though she has had one good 2hr sleep both yesterday and today, but I think that's from her immunisations. She did the same thing last time too. She has two big red angry looking lumps on her tubby little legs from her jabs, poor monkey. And I think her teeth are still sore, one is so close to popping through, I can't wait!
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