Babies Born July 2007 #20

**Trillian** · April 22nd, 2008, 04:52 PM

This thread is for parents who's baby was born in July 2007.

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There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Breastfeeding General Chatter
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information
Bottlefeeding General Chatter
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids/Homemade Baby Food
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?
Starting Solids General Chatter

Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids.

Sleeping Support:

Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum
Comforting Tools to Aid Restful Sleep
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Wearing
Recommended Reading List

Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids
Gentle Parenting Forum

Catch up with your old thread here https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...2007-19-a.html

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**Ngala** · April 22nd, 2008, 08:26 PM

Avaleigh is walking!!!!!

My little genius was holding on to the couch and she was eyeing off her toy on the other side of the room, she was edging herself away and I was wondering if she was going to let go and SHE DID!!!! She took some very slow, steady steps and got to her toy. YAY FOR AVALEIGH!!

The past few nights Jason and I have been 'practising' with her and had her walking between us, so the practise must have worked!! Hmmm but I dont know whether to be overjoyed or a bit worried that I am now going to have a terror on my hands

But, oh well!!

Enchanted · April 22nd, 2008, 09:48 PM

How exciting V!!!

I'll be back soon... I know I've been MIA but heaps has been going on here.

Hope you are all well

**BhoysGirl** · April 22nd, 2008, 10:04 PM

Tracey & August - your boys are both gorgeous little spunks, I love the photos that you've got in your signatures. Look out ladies I say!!

V - congratulations to Miss Avaleigh. No surprises though, she was always going to be an early mover & groover from what you've described. Hope you've done all your baby-proofing.

Jess - welcome back, it's great to hear from you, and good to hear that everything is going ok. How cute is it when they wave

Clever Ethan for looking for people to wave to, that's funny. Have any of his teeth popped through yet?

Sarah - woo hoo for the sleeping, that is so good for all your family. Is there any one change that you've made that you could share with those of us who aren't getting sleeps??

Megan - hope DH's hangover was better by Sunday & you got some proper DH input for at least some of the weekend.

Em - your cooking spree sounded delicious. Makes me feel like I really should pull my finger out a bit more for Liam, except that he's so hot & cold with the whole eating thing that it's not yet really worthwhile doing too much for him, so much of it just gets thrown out. I can't wait until he's into food a bit more.

Bec - woo hoo for Xavier's crawling, that's exciting. And clever little boy, getting mum to let him sleep in a big bed.

Jas - how's the study going?

Danni - good to hear from you.

As usual, nothing much to report from our side. Liam has started to wave, but at completely random moments and with no real connection to why he would be waving, but he's got the movement mastered, so I figure if I keep practising it with him he'll eventually piece it together. Still pretty cute though. I'm quite enjoying having a little monkey to train! I met the tiniest baby today when I caught up with my cousin. She had a bub 6 weeks ago, he was 2.5kg when he was born, and he's still tiny, like a doll, just beautiful. And with all the newborn characteristics that I'd kind of forgotten about, like the auto-grip when you put your finger in his fist, and the baby-blink thing that they do when they're tired, and the nuzzling. Almost makes me ready to have another one. Almost, but not quite.

And I finally made the call to try to get into sleep school, but how's this, I'm on a waiting list to get a phone call back to simply assess what would be the best solution for us (i guess to determine whether we're a 1 day fixit or a 5 day fixit case). 3 WEEKS!! For a phone call. This is what you get for having a kid when so many other babies are being born I guess. But I'm going a bit mental with it all, he's not giving me any more than 4 hours at a time, and won't settle until I feed him. And I just haven't got the mental strength to listen to him scream in the middle of the night, it just breaks my heart too much. And feeding him just means I get back to sleep earlier, even though I know that it's probably contributing to the problem. I wish there was a magic wand.

**CrystalBoo** · April 23rd, 2008, 09:08 AM

Jan, have you heard of the book 'No cry sleep solution'? I got a copy from the library and it's well worth a read if you're not keen on the controlled crying.

Congratulations on your little walking doll V

Now she can get things for you! LOL

Haven't had much time lately. Hope all are well and healthy.

Megan76 · April 23rd, 2008, 09:39 AM

Well i have a little devil on my hands this morning! His two top teeth are cutting through so i assume that is part of the problem but he has screamed over everything...bottle, breakfast, changing, banging his head due to climbing on everything, being given panadol.....arrrhh! I think he is just teething and overtired cos i heard him whimpering every half hour from 3am this morning the poor little munchkin. Its going to be a long day!

Will try and pop back later for personals!

Oh and JAN - not sure what sleep school your trying to get into but i know someone who said MASADA private hospital sleep school (in East St Kilda) changed their life!! Maybe look it up if its not the one you're waiting on!

**XRMummy** · April 23rd, 2008, 10:08 AM

YAY for Avaleigh V How exciting but abit sad all our bubs are growing up soooooo fast... It feels like bayleigh hasnt even been a baby really

Jan- We had a lady from the council come visit us first My MCHN arranged it and she was great gave me heaps of info to read and so on she told me everything i was doin was right (not talking to him, No lights, Just resettle ) only thing i could do was let him cry .... i to like you cant let him scream but i did the first night he cried for an hour i just went in every 15 mins to resettle him and he ended up goin back to sleep then he woke 2 more times that night but only for 10 mins n put himself back to sleep second night he woke twice i think but only for 10 mins n he put himself back to sleep 3rd night he woke once maybe lol i cant remember to tell you the truth once again he only cried for a short amount of time ithink maybe 5 mins by the 4th night he slept 10 hours striaght n n the next night he slept 11 hours he had a crappy ngiht sunday night as he was wayyy over tired as he didnt get his afternoon snooze sunday but monday ngiht he slept 12 hours n last night he slept 12 also penny asked wat itme i was putting him to bed (730pm) and she said to bring it forward half an hour and see how that goes and it works better then the 730 bed time just means he wakes at 7am but that doesnt worry me as DD alarm goes off about then anyway ..... so maybe ring your MCHN and see if they can organise someone to come out and see you.....

Well yesterday i was a busy lil bee i cooked up a storm i made beef casserole for bayleigh in the slow cooker and it smelt awesome alllllll day tasted even better lol i also did a pasta vegie bake thingy in homemade cheese sauce for him and i cooked a stew for us to have last night for tea and i also made mixed vegies for bayleigh so now i have a freezer draw full of food for him ithink i have 5 different foods for him to have through the week now He better not get bored with it lol
Also yesterday i rang our local TAFE about doing a photography course.... seen we have just brought a DSLR i thougth i may aswell learn how to use it to the fulliest also when bayleigh gets abit bigger i might get a job out of it so yeah

Well im gunna head off Hope everyone has a good day

Sarah

**July Mum** · April 23rd, 2008, 11:17 AM

Hi Everyone
Jess- welcome back, great to hear from you again
WOOHOO Avaleigh

such a clever girl
Jan- your cousins bub sounds very cute, bummer about the waiting list for sleep school.
Megan- Hope your little mans teeth cut through quickly.
Sarah- Thats great that Bayleigh is sleeping through the night now, you must feel like a new woman. The photography course sounds great. I would love to do one someday too.

Well not much to report here, Tayah is still taking a few steps here and there but so far hasnt taken any more then 3. I have been really busy with uni at the moment, lots of assignments due, so its been hard to find time to get on here. I also have 4 weeks of prac work for uni at a local school starting on the 5th of May, so im getting a little nervous about that. Not looking forward to leaving Tayah everyday for 4 weeks, I know she will be fine, i bet she will cope better than I will.

Hi to anyone i missed