Babies Born April 2008 #3

[Fire]

Looks good BW, I will show DH. We hve a motion junkie, that's for sure.

Grubi, it sucks, eh. At the moment, being kind to me means Ci comes off second best, so we're at an impasse. So far he's in the lead, but I don't know how much longer my body will hold out.

[BabyWrangler]

Fire how does he go in a rocker chair? at least that way you can relax a little and just rock the chair (even with your foot!)
I've been very lucky with BJ (sorry guys!), I was determined to make sure he could settle on his own etc, which has gone quite well (except during his hysterical times due to whatever is wrong with him!)

[alittlegrubi]

I wish I could have had your determination BW, I'm either lazy or unable to deal with the requirements of getting Greer to settle on her own. Fire I know what you mean about your body and with the c-section I'm finding the constant carrying too much to deal with. I really have no advise for you, especially since i'm doing it all wrong anyway!! LOL!

[bellelass]

Havent been keeping up, so much going on on this thread... Lila's been off and on. She had a little bit of a cold and I took her in for 2 mo. immunizations and she's been sick ever since. Kind of going nuts over the sleeping thing. Still doesn't sleep during the day, and when I spoke to a midwife the other day she told me to put her in her cot and let her scream, that she needs to sleep during the morning and the afternoon. Sorry, not doing that. She dozes in the sling, and that lets me get some housework done so ok. Pretty steamed at the GP in general because they sort of ridiculed everything I'm doing, from the cloth nappies to the EBM. Pfft. I hope everyone is getting more sleep than me, just had to poke my head in and say hello and that I'm thinking of you all- we're going through the same things and that thought really keeps me going at 3am.

[mgm]

grubi and fire, how come us c-sec women are the ones who seem to be carrying the babies 24-7?! (well not quite 24-7, but i did a log of our day recently and found i'd carried dd for over 8 hours). it seems so unfair, given the fact that we've recently been sliced through the middle and our backs aren't really up to the job.

fire i sympathise with your feelings of exhaustion, i have them periodically myself. i've also tried to get dd to nap on the bed, but last time it was so spectacularly unsuccessful that i decided to put it on hold for a bit. still, i feel really jealous of those who can use their babies' nap time to do things that i struggle to do with the sling on (clean, play with ds, sit in a chair and put my feet up!!). most days i eat all three meals with the sling on and sometimes i get SO SICK OF IT!

bw glad to hear things are improving.

all right gotta go jiggle this grumpy baby around. stupid cold has made her really unhappy and she's struggling to get to sleep.

[Taurusa]

Baby wrangler (this is going to sound very strange but) Congrats on the Poo!! Funny how these things make us feel better

[Sharon19270]

BabyWrangler Ollie can have anywhere from 80ml to 140ml, he averages around 620ml in a 24 hour period, for his weight though he should probably be on more but I think that the thickened formula fills him up more, therefore he doesn't need as much to feel full IYKWIM. I'm glad that the formula and reduced Zantac seems to have worked for you but sad for you because of all that EBM that you have in your freezer, but as long as BJ is happy that is all that matters in the long run. Oh, and woohoo on his poo! I was also going to ask if you had him on thickened formula and after reading on learned that you did Good idea to still see the Paed though.
sarah_dobbo2 I suppose if I was decorating a room for a toddler and a baby boy I would probably go for a car or plane theme.
Fire sorry to hear that you are having such a difficult time getting Ci to sleep, other than getting a swing/rocker for the daytime sleeps or what BW suggested sounded good.
alittlegrubi sorry to hear you are having problems getting Greer to sleep too, it would be extremely exhausting and depressing for you.
bellelass your are not doing everything wrong, you are looking after your bubs the best way you can, there is no right or wrong way it's a matter of finding something that 'works' for you and your baby, and pffft to any Dr who tells you otherwise. for you too

Had a FANTASTIC time at the movies with GF today, the movie was just fabulous, would have nice if our other friends who saw it yesterday had told us to take a box of tissues because we needed them, I had to make 1 tissue last me the entire movie, well 2 hours of it and it looked very tattered and torn by the end of the movie. My friend hardly ever goes to the movies because she can't stand 'crinklers' (think chip packets) well we need not have worried about that, i'm just not surprised that someone didn't yell out 'will those 2 ladies sniffling and sobbing please shut up!'.