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Hi!
Busy in here this morning! Dylan had a great night last night! Went to bed around 7pm and then didn't have a feed until 4.20am!! I had to get up a couple of times to put the dummy in but that was it. Then he woke at about 6.45am but I just brought him in with me and we snoozed until Louis woke up! (not that much later - hehe)
Danni - I would just do what you feel is right...Dylans on 2 solids a day but not really very much in either feed. sometimes he won't eat at all other time he's happy to gobble it down...it is easy to keep putting down but I wouldn't let them eat tooo much.
tiffanny - I agree - we know our bubbas better than anyone!! My dh baths the kids - that's his job each night! With us it was the opposite - I hadn't bathed Louis until he was around 2-3 weeks old - dh had done all of them!! hehe.
Melissa - Wow - I'm so jealous of Olivias sleep!! hehe. Good for you!! I'm sure you'll be fine with your dh away but I know how it can be a bit nervewracking all on your own!! That would be great if you can go and stay with your mum - even just for day to give you a break. LOL at your sore legs!!
Cherie - So good to hear from you! Wow - thats fantastic he sleeps so well at night! As far as I can tell you either have it one way or the other! hehe (or not at all sometimes! hehe) Glad to hear you having some nice baths and pampering yourself! What a gorgeous ticker!!
Greenfern - Urgh - I'm with you - those solids poo's are gross! I've got two of them in nappies as well !hehe. I can't wait to train Louis but I don't think he's ready just yet unfortunately!
Gotta go - you guys have been chatting heaps this morning!!
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Afternoon all, we had a horrible night last night. Charlie seems to be waking several times just for attention - he's laughs soon as you walk in the room & isn't hungry. So last night we let him cry it out, which I'm usually against doing - it was horrible. I caved after a while, but will try again tonight - the habit needs to be broken. This is going to sound really yucky, but we have a mouse in the house & it was in our bedroom this morning, YUCK!!! it was looking up at me from the door when I woke up & then ran out of the room. Guess where it ended up - Charlie's room as it came out to say hello when I went to get him up & chg his nappy. LOL I actually jumped up & was practically sitting on the change table with Charlie.
Danni that's fair enough he stays up to see DH, I think it's great DH spends some time with him before bed. Poor DH here misses Charlie heaps when he's on Day shift as he is always in bed or just about to go when DH walks in the door. I can't keep him up that time of night he just cry's & cry's til he's in bed. The only time he stays awake happy is if we are out & there's lots to look at. Hopefully as he gets older he'll be able to stay up a bit longer. With the solids just do what you feel is best, I started Charlie a few weeks ago but he didn't seem too interested & was waking up around 3am with dirty nappy & so on. So we've put it on hold for a little longer.
Tiffany - my DH loves to bath Charlie, I actually didn't do it for the first week as I was too scared!!! Charlie now most of the time has a shower with DH. I hear you on the stinky solid poo's, when we tried Charlie out on some food he was doing them at night & he's often not one to cry out for a nappy change. I could smell him from the hallway nice & early in the morn.
Greenfern - I'm with you on the weight issue with bubs, as they get bigger & more active they will lose weight & their frame will be what it's going to be. Bubs has to be started on solids sooner or later & the aim is to get to 3meals a day as we would have. They all vary in sizes, my MIL couldn't believe it when I said to get Charlie size 0 clothes. He's got such long legs.
Well I had better go, he's just woken from a nap & I'm half way through making a bannana & sultana cake for Mum's group tomorrow. I am so addicted to this computer, if it's not BB it's Facebook. I swear I don't get anything else done all day.
Have a good day everyone.
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cherie - sounds like jambin and xavier have the same sleeping routine! excellent at night and unpredictable during the day!!!
erin - i'm with you on the evil's of the computer!! between this, essential baby and...EBAY (naughty naughty) i waster way too much time. hopefully the novelty will wear off soon as i've only had the net reconnected for the last 3 weeks or so. xavier is in 0's as well. long and FAT. was never any smaller than a 000 and even some of those were a bit short.
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Danni - lol at just realising that luke is a day old - i think i fell off my chair when i got home from the hospital to read that your waters had broke n mason had arrived.
i also know what you mean about the feeding - luke has been sleeping for 5hrs n than feeding for every 1-2hr from the first wake up - i think he likes to play catch up with the feeds that he has missed
Hi Tiffany and welcome
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thanks for everyones replies!
Iona: wow at luke doing the same thing!! lil buggas ;)
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Hi!
Dylan had broccoli and pumpkin for dinner and ate it all up!!! He's getting a bit better at his eating but if he's even the slightest bit tired I've got no hope!! We had a pretty chilled arvo which was nice!!
Erin - bugger Charlie's playing up. Dylan did that the other night and was just chatting away to himself - I fed him just to get him back to sleep and luckily he hasn't done it since. I try and go in quickly before he wakes himself up too much iykwim?
Hi to everyone else!! Hope you all get some sleep tonight!!
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Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo, Erin, I LOVE facebook too!!! Can we be friends?!!!! My last name is Nervo if you want to search for me.
I've been AWOL lately and I haven't read everyones posts so I'm sorry I've missed so much.
Logan's been eating for 2 weeks now and has tried carrot, potato, peas, banana, apple, pear, prune and rice cereal. Tomorrow we're going to add 'frutti' which is a pure fruit purée of peach, apricot, pear and apple (with no sugar or anything other than fruit) by Nestlé.
He's been an absolute star and is getting the hang of it very nicely but I didn't realise how sensitive his little guts would be in regards to constipation so I'm leaving the carrot out of his diet for the next week! He's not actually constipated but he's really not enjoying having to push out poops that have 'form', so I'm going to concentrate on prunes for a few days!
I'm going to take him to an open-preschool at a local church tomorrow. I'm not religeous at all but it'll be nice to meet some more mums in the area.
After that I'm going to take him to....now don't jump to conclusions here...a modeling agency! I can't tell you how many people go out of their way to make sweet comments about him every day. I know every mum will tell you her kid is the cutest...but I reckon mine really is! -I appologise if that sounds totally conceited but I figure why not....someones baby has to appear on the side of the nappy pack, in the clothing catalogue, in the baby carrier advert...why not this little charmer?!! There's a model search on right now for 2 to 14 year olds and I figured I'd go to the open casting tomorrow and see if they accept 4½ month olds on the books. It's not for the money at all (which would go in an account for him to have when he's older) -might be fun. Thomas is a bit iffey about it as my sisters modeled quite successfully through their teenage years to the extent that they actually made more money than my mum one year who is a dentist, at age 16 and they're totally up themselves! -he thinks Logan would turn out the same...I disagree.
Thomas did really well in his interview in Paris the other week and has been invited on to the final round in Hong Kong at the beginning of october...very excited! If all goes well, we'd be moving to HK around May 2008. It would be a bittersweet move as I'd miss everyone here so much but I'll make new friends of course.
That's about all for this essay.
Hope you're all well,
A + L
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Hey Adele, have added you in.....hope I got the right one??? Between Facebook, BB & I forgot to mention Ebay my back is starting to hurt from sitting at the Computer too long.
A quick hello to everyone else, we are off to the Library for story time. I noticed last week he's just starting to get something out of this. Last night I had to re-wrap & pop dummy in about 5x but no bottle....YAY!!!
Have a good day everyone.
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HI girls,
Just popping in to say hi. You guys have been busy lately! I'm not feeling too well today,I have a cold and fever, so it will be a quiet day for us. Lily is good and DH is home thankgoodness! I can rest my stuffed up aching head! Any way that's it, just wanted to say hi and I haven't forgeotten you all!!
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Hi Guys,
Wow you dont come in here for a day or two and there are heaps of posts! Yay! I was feeling like a looser last week being the only one in here all the time!!!
Beau and I are pretty good - he was really spewy yesterday and has gotten into the habit of falling asleep for his long one at 5-5:30pm (as he only catnaps 45mins-1hr in the day) then wakes at 11pm or 12am then again at 4am or 5am.....what do you guys do routine wise at night? If he is clearly down for his long one should I wake him at 7pm? is that how to get him more like "sleeping thru?"
It seems everybody has wrapping issues...I bought some thick lycra from Lincraft and cut it up (2m wide by 1m high) so I had some massive stretchy wraps for bubs, he is too big for his shop bought ones now - he never gets out of those suckers! Then if its cold I wrap him in a cotton blanket over the top or if its warmer a flannellette wrap or muslin one over the top of the lycra one to keep his arms from stretching up to his face....he does scream now when he gets wrapped up but - he knows what it means I think!
Ok he's awake gotta go....great to hear from everybody!
ps Welcome Tiffany!!!
xxx
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waiting for af to come...... should have been here sunday/monday. Am on the pill, so its pretty spot on. And my friend who had twins and her next baby fell pregnant on the pill both times. Cross fingers for me. I want to enjoy Olivia for a bit longer on her own.........
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Hey Jen, everyone will be different with what they do at night and whatever works for you best. For me Charlie is very grizzly around 5am but I just distract him as much as I can, play outside or nice long bath to get him through til at least 6pm or a bit past....otherwise he too would be up a couple times at night & really early in the morning. If he's only had short naps during the day & is very tired I'll pop him down around 5pm but wake him after a half hour or so, then he'll go back around 7pm & usually do a long stretch & a couple re-wraps (we are working on night feeds). IMO I don't think it would be good to wake him up after a couple hours if he's in a big deep sleep, it could unsettle him more & take longer to get him back to be that night. Also, often the later they go to be the early they are up in the morn & they don't get enough sleep. But whatever works for you guys.
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melissa - :pray: for AF!! i'm not not the pill or anything...just relying on the breast feeding (which is dodgy i know!!) but took us 9 months for me to get pregnant.... my friend got pregnant when she was BFing and her little girl was only 3 months.. just hope i'm running faster than the :sperm:
kelli - hope your feeling better and got some decent rest today!! sux being sick
jen - can't help you with routines sorry. xavier just decided when he was 9 weeks old to start sleeping for at least 9 hours at night....that was until the needles last week. he hasn't slept through since!! :doh: he hasn't been wrapped since he was about 3 weeks old i think...maybe you should try, if he seems to be only lightly sleeping, waking him for a little while around 7 or so like you said....doesn't hurt to try. only way to learn i think trial and error. but when we used to wake xavier from deepish sleep he used to get cranky as and not get back to sleep like erin said
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Hi!
Not much from me...went shopping today - the boys were really good which helped although Louis decided to spit out a mouthful of banana smoothie for some unknown reason...all over his clothes - yuck!!
Adele - Glad Logans going so well - wow on all the eating!! You can also try giving him a drink of water now that he's eating solids - that can help with the constipation sometimes...
Yeah on the modelling - don't feel funny - Louis was signed up last year and got a photo shoot for the target catalogue...I haven't done anything with Dylan yet - will probalby wait until the new year (if he's still spunky! LOL!) and sign him up. Hopefully we can get something for him to. I'm giving it a rest now as I didn't want to be too involved (and spend too much money!) but really Louis only got the one job anyway.
Glad the job interviews are going well!
Erin - hope you had fun at the library! I haven't taken the kids in ages....
Kel - Sorry to hear you're sick - Hope you feel better soon!
Jen - I would just try and stretch each sleep a little later and hopefully you can push his big bedtime back then as well...I wouldn't try waking him up as it just doesn't seem to work sometimes...
I think I wrote before - I'd just use a cot flat sheet for a wrap if the bubbas are too big!
Melissa - Hope af arrives for you!! Just remember that if you are p/g though you've got 9 more months of Olivia on her own before a new bubby would arrive!!
K - Chat later!!
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ARGH- Ive been going insane for the last 2 days. Dp has been off work and has thrown Phoebe's sleeping pattern off. He thinks he is doing me a favour by taking her off my hands for an hour or 2 but the thing is he takes her to bed with him to have naps nad she hasnt been sleeping at night. URGH MEN!!!!
Melissa- Hope af arrives for you. Lol dp and I arent taking any chances Ive got the implant and he wears condoms. I want atleast a year off beeing pg after being pg 3 times during the last 18 months
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Hi ladies,
Well still feeling off but better than yesterday.
Lily has been such a good girl and DH was good yesterday too, he helped as much as he could, with my clingy monkey baby I have. She is VERY attached to me at the moment and even cries when DH takes her sometimes- not good when I feel so cr@ppy!
I gave her some fruit to suck on the other day- some pear and mandarin. She LOVED it and cried when I took it away! DH was eating a mandarin and she was watching him very closely so he gave a piece to her to suck on. I was expecting her to grimace and not like it but she sucked so hard she nearly sucked it out of his hand! Then I cut a piece of pear to give her and she loved that too! I think it might be time to try some solids...
She's been sleeping better, going down between 7.30and 8.30pm, only one feed at night and then she wakes anywhere between 6-7am. So I am pretty happy with that.
Lil and I had a bath together last night, soo nice and relaxing! She was a funny little monkey and got very excited when daddy brought her into the bathroom and saw me in the bath. I had her resting on my tummy on her tummy and she slowly pushed herself over to my bb to have a bit of a feed! Very cute! She ended up having a really long feed on both sides and was so content afterwards, hehe!
Ok girls, gonna go, hope you all have a loverly day :) Will do personals one day soon.....
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Oh Yay and fewwww..af arrived with avengance. Now I feel like crap, but glad shes come!!! Got to go and hang out washing
take care
Love melissa
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Hi!
Had a pretty good night with Dylan last night...fed early though - around 2am so was up early as well but shock horror he had like a 2 hour nap this afternoon - that never happens!!! I hope he sleeps ok tonight now!
Tiffanny - Hope you got some sleep last night!! LOl at not taking any chances...fair enough though!!
Kel - Glad you're starting to feel better...LOl at the fruit! It must be nice for them to taste something different after all the milk they've been drinking! Glad she's sleeping well. You're bath sounds so nice!!! I only do it at the PIL's as they have a really big bath and we all fit in with lots of room!
Melissa - Yeah! What a relief for you. After having some bleeds early on af isn't back at all. I'm assuming it was just from starting the mini pill. I hope I have a nice big break now like I did with Louis! Well, technically I haven't had a period since Jan 05! hehehe.
Chat later - hope you're all well!
