Babies Born April 2007 #9

[MrsFabuloso]

Hello Ladies,
Well it has been a while since I've popped in here and you have all been busy little bees!!
I have been caught up in doing my uni assignments (oh JOY!!!). I still am and should be tping one up as I type this....oh well I need some me time too. The days jsut aren't long enough.
Well after a great sleep that night a few days ago, Lil has slipped bak into her normal routine of waking at about 1.30-2.30 for a bottle. She did wake later again for a few nights, but then also woke earlier in the morning. She' has been a good little munchkin though.
We have been going outside every morning to water the new seedlings I have planted and she love it. She loves to see the sky and trees.She squeels when the wind blows it's so cute!!
I have tried with solids intermittently, and she will take the strangest foods and reject things I thing she will eat. She loves strong tastes. I gave her a taste of our spaghetti sauce the other day and she loved that but I pureed up some apple and she took one mouthful and shut up shop! She will suck on a whole apple though when I eat one...I can't figure this little person out!
Ok I really should go and finish typing up my assignment... I can't wait til this is over...

[JenSam]

Good Morning!
Well we are ok around here - DH did the midnight feed last night as payback for going away this weekend so I feel pretty fresh this morning. Beau has been haing farex twice a day but I dont think he likes the taste either Danni! We make ridiculous jaw chomping yum yum sounds to make him swallow its quite funny...
I had some choccie on the weekend and the poor monkey has had such a farty bum since - massive guilt not just from the calories now...

Danni - god you are going thru the loop hey? Hope you get some rest - I have taken to having a little nana nap with Beau in our bed in the afternoon - that way I can settle him so much faster if he is in a poopy mood!
Kris- Way to go on your tupperware! Score! Arent we sad and domestic these days?
Kell - Lily sounds so super cute - I bought beau a sunhat and we have put a swing up for him and he likes checking out our backyard too - dismal as it is!

have a good day everybody - think I might head out for the shopping early today - the bean is a wakin!
xxx

[Danni]

hey jen, mason wont settle in bed with me! he thinks its play time!

farex is so boring for the little mites! try adding some flavour...pear, apple, banana etc. I just bought a flavoured one (dont remember which one!) so will try that this morning

[Krisvee]

Hi!

Kel - There's definitely not enough hours in the day thats for sure!! And of course it's our "me" time that usually gets missed out on unfortunately. LOl at the solids - everyones surprised that Louis loves Olives and tastes like that and isn't really into lollies so much...I'm glad you're going well though..it will be so nice when the bubbas start sleeping through the night! Dylans all over the place at the moment as well...I had to feed him at 11.45pm last night and then at 3.45am so he's basically going 4 hourly over night - I"m soooooo tired!!!(especially when a couple of weeks ago he was going 9 hours between feeds overnight)

Jen - Yeah on getting a rest last night...I'm so tired that I'm almost tempted to give him a formula bottle after his last bf but I suppose I'll give it some more time and see how we go...
Dylans the same with solids - sometimes he eats heaps and others he won't have a bar of it. I always mix fruit in with the rice cereal - I've never given it too him plain...always mushed banana or pureed apple, I also mix it with breast milk as well as a bit of water...
I'm naughty - I ate heaps of choccy sat night as well - doesn't seem to have affected Dylan (not yet anyway!) I must say I haven't really been watching what I eat anymore...we even had indian the other week!!

Dylans well - He's so cheeky - he's reaching for everything and just wants to get around. He's also trying to eat everything as well. I was eating a scone and he was trying to eat it as well!!
Also...a bit of a whoops - we're naughty and sit him in his bouncer without strapping him in - and had it sitting up high and he fell out! He waso fine but I just felt guilty!! I realise now he can sit up on his own in it but isn't that great at keeping balance yet obviously! Anyway, better that we don't sit it up high anymore - LOL!

Chat later!

[Danni]

kris: mason seems to be keeping in sync with dylan re night feeds! i cant bewlieve they can go so long between them and then back to 3 or 4 hourly

[MrsFabuloso]

Well we had a horrible night last night too. Lil went to bad at 8pm, woke at 10.45, 1.30, 4.30 then 5.30 for the day....lets just say I was not a happy camper!! Then she decided to have an 1 1/4hr sleep this morning! I'd rather she sleeps at night and has cat naps in the day. Little monkey!!

[JenSam]

Hi Guys,
Yeah Danni the farex is pretty fowl on its own - he had some pureed apple last night that he seemed to not mind....I am going to start getting more adventurous now he can swallow without gagging...
I have had more disasters around here - I made pies from scratch for tea last night and dropped my plate as I was feeding Beau at the same time....no dinner for me! Then this morning, same as you Kris, I had him on the couch changing a pooey nappy and I went to put it in the bin and wash my hands and I heard a giant thump - DH came running out of bed and Beau was screaming on the floor! Poor bubba! He can roll well now! He was on his belly so i dont think he hit his head - but we always learn the hard way hey?
Kel - sorry you had a up and down night - so did we. We are off to the gift fair at Darling Harbour this morning and now he decides to sleep! I am a bit nervous as we PT it - I will take him in his Bjorn and worse case rock him off on the bus in my arms I guess....
Ok better go wake the babe.
Have good days everyone...

[Danni]

oh no jen Poor bubba

Mason LOVED the pear & banana farex. I find I need to water it down a LOT, so that he doesnt gag. It needs to be really runny. Same with his vegies.

breakthrough alert!! Mason slept 6.5 hours straight, feed, then another 5 hours! OMG!

Now heres the trick! My mum gave me some "Plasmon" biscuits which are Italian biscuits designed for babies that were around when I was a baby. Mum used to dissolve them in our bottles and it would fill our tummies and let us sleep ALL night!

Well it clogs Masons bottles up so instead i dissolve it in some milk and feed it to him on a spoon mixed with a bit of farex just before his last feed. I am so excited!!

[Krisvee]

Hi!

Not much from me...a bit of a sick house at the moment...Had a quiet day at home and will be doing the same tomorrow which is nice!

Danni - They're terrors aren't they - although we had a good night last night - woke once for a dummy, up at 4am for a feed and then back down until 7am. If it was like that every night I would be laughing! Although I should say he's very unsettled until around 9.30pm... Glad you had a good night as well!
Thats great you found something that works for you - Unfortunately I don't think out issue is a hunger one but just a sleep one iykwim?? He just wakes constantly for his dummy...he's having 2 feeds a day already...
I felt like I was losing my milk for a bit there and so when I was feeding in the night I just fall asleep and let him suck for as long as he likes and I think my milk's built up again. Through the day he mostly only feeds for 5min if that but at night can stay on for like 30min just using me as a dummy! Hopefully it's done the trick.
Are you coming to Nikki's Body shop party Friday night? If so, will you bring Mason? I'm bringing Dylan because it's so far away and he'll need a feed and won't take a bottle! LOL.


Kel - bugger on having a bad night as well...I've been working on Dylan at the moment and making him have 1 1/2 for 2 day sleeps and then a 40min nap in the arvo...seems to be working ok - usually takes me about 5-10min to get him back to sleep in the middle...

Jen - Poor Beau! They're pretty tough little things though!! Hope you had a good day!

Sweet dreams!

[Danni]

Hey Kris, Unfortunately I wont be able to make Nikkis party. Our pop passed away on the weekend and his funeral is on friday and we need to g to yarrawonga for it.

Pretty good night twice in a row now...up at 2 for a feed and back down until 6 or 7.

I am finally booked into sleep school but maybe we wont need it?

[Krisvee]

Hi!

We had an ok night with Dylan although Louis was up all the time with his cold...

Danni - bugger - would have been great to catch up. I'm sorry to hear about your pop.

[minimatron]

Hey All, Just a quick one from me before Olivia ends up screaming the house down. We are near our 26 week storm....gggrrrr and I just started her on the farex today...lots of screwed up faces. Hope everyone is well...got to run

[MrsFabuloso]

We had an improved night last night. We are however back to screaming the house down when it's time for bed and she will NOT feed to sleep like she was doing for a while. It only takes 20 or so mins to get her to sleep but what a horrible few minutes they are!! Then she wakes 45mins later screaming again and I have to resettle her, this time it only takes about 5-10mins though thankgoodness! Last night she woke at 12.30 for a feed then at 4.30, had a feed and went back down until 7.10, yaaaayyyy! No 5.00 wake up! I was soo happy not to be up before the birdies!
She has eaten like a pig today, so I was thinking she might be going through a growth spurt. I had her weighed and measured the other day and she is now 7.8kg and 67cm long!! She's now in the 97th percentile...I have an amazoninan baby! She's definately taking after daddy in height. She's now in size 0 clothes and I can't buy things for chrissy cause I don't know what size she'll be and I'm worried that she will be too big for them!
I gave her some pear and cerial this morning and I think she liked it, she ate more than she has before so I think I'll stick with the fruit and not plain cerial.

Danni, I'm so sorry to hear about your grandfather passing away. ((HUGS)) I hope everything is ok.

Melissa, I tried Lil on the plain rice cerial too and she didn't like it at all. Maybe if you mix it with some pureed apple bananapor pear Olivia might like it a bit more? Sorry to hear things aren't so good with her, we are having a bit of an unsettled period too, though I don't think its a stormy patch, maybe it's lils teeth and they might finally decide to come out of the gums sometime soon...

Ok the proncess is screaming must go, ta taa!!

[JenSam]

Hi Guys,
Yesterday turned out to be quite an ordeal - I had Beau in the Bjorn for the gift fair (bus there so pram a nightmare) and he got extremely tired and I begged a cabbie to drive us home (no carseat) and we hid in the back! The cabbie told me when we got home that he could loose his cab liscence if he was caught and I felt terrible but you know what its like when they are screaming tired? i felt soooo baaadd...ps fair was not even good!!
My mum came over today with three huge garbage bags of my nephews old stuff for Beau and I dug out what I wanted which was nice - one toy was a tremendous hit, so much so that when he dropped it he got hysterical - which he never does really - so I wrapped and struggled to feed him now he is in bed! Is everyone elses bubbas starting to recognise their toys and crying when the fun stops?
Danni - where do you get these bikkies? Sorry about your Pop.
Kris - so you wake Dylan after 1 1/2 hrs? Is that what you did with Louis too?
Kel - Is it that Lily is too tired do you think or she doesnt want the fun to stop either? beau screams when I wrap him cause he knows what time it is - but I basically wedge his dummy in with my arm and cradle and pat him to sleep every night -which is a drain on the arms for big bubba like ours!
Ok he is stirring already - I made marinated ribs last night with chilli - I think it might be bothering him today - oh no...
xxx

[Danni]

jen: they are called "plasmon" biccies and you can get them from delis. Do you have any italian style delis around?

[minimatron]

Hey back again for a quick one.... yesterday Olivia did a massive poo all over the shop....just wondering if it might me the farex, but lets see today if she does the same thing. I just gave her some plain farex and she didnt like it, so I mashed up a bit of banana and she gobbled it down and then wanted to suck on the rest of it Ok, I am a bit behind in this feeding stuff, so just looking for ideas. I have given her a teaspoon for breakfast after her bottle 2 days in a row... now what? She doesnt seem to have any issues with swollowing. I dont see the health nurse for another week...
Oh and we're at count down time again...6 more sleeps til the specialist. I always get excited around this time, am hoping to be harness free but I wont put any money on it (sorry about the pessimism ?sp).
Any advice on the feeding would be great.
Am organising my wedding for next year....so busy busy!
Hope you are all well
Love Melissa

[Krisvee]

Hi!

My little Louis is soo sick...threw up his brekky this morning...off to the dr's today! Dylans going well other than being super unsettled at bedtime...

Melissa - The fruit in the rice cereal works wonders! hehe. Dylan has at least 1/2 c of brekky now and probably a couple of tbsp for dinner. You can just keep increasing the amount every so often...she'll soon let you know if she doesn't want any more. I basically keep giving him food until he's had enough - he just won't open his mouth anymore. They get used to food very quickly so it's important to keep increasing it and to then introduce a 2nd solid feed. Dylan is very excited for his brekky now and if I'm late with it he lets me know about it! hehehe.
How exciting organising your wedding!! Oooh I hope the specialist visit goes well!

Kel - Dylans a bit like that at night... he doesn't scream but he's very unsettled and we have to go in about 5-6 times at least - before he actually goes to sleep properly. That ususally lasts between 7pm-9pm ish...Wow - what a big girl! I don't know what Dylan is...prob about 6.5kg I think....

Jen - Sorry to hear you had an ordinary time at the fair...Ummm Dylan loves his toys - I don't think he cares if he loses a particular one but just likes to have one with him at all times iykwim? Just gets cranky when he drops them all...
Nup - I don't wake Dylan - thats just when he wakes again...Like this morning I put him down at 9am - then at 9.40am he woke up crying so I just went in and popped the dummy in and gave him a little pat and a kiss and he's dozed back off so now he'll prob wake around 10.30am and then I'll get him up. Thats an improvement - to begin with he just wouldn't go back to sleep after 40min, then I could get him back if I rocked him and walked around the house - and now most times I can just go in and put the dummy in...sometimes he needs a burp though... The good thing is sometimes he will just sleep the 1 1/2 straight!!! I love that - I can't believe how much you can get done when they actually have a good sleep. Yep - I did the same thing with Louis although he was really hard to get to sleep anytime...we always had to rock him to sleep so it took a lot of training to get him to put himself to sleep...he would got to sleep on his own for daytime naps at around 6-7 months old whereas Dylan can do it now! Woohoo!

Chat later!

[Kazbah]

Only quick for me, I'm tidying up b4 mothers' group comes tomorrow.

Kris - tired bi-carb last night, your way worked so much better than the way they suggested in "kid wrangling". So he looks a heap better. Thanks!