Babies born April 2008 #4

[Nettie]

BW - that explains the fever! Hope it's going ok and he's getting better and that neither of you are too stressed by it.

I'm looking into buying a video camera (I suppose they're called DVD Cameras these days!) so we can start taking video of Liam. He gets so camera shy and doesn't like to smile or play when the camera's on him so hopefully we can set up the VC to take footage while he's not looking!

Nothing much else going on here... hope DD is getting some relief from her Chicken Pox, Janine.

[alittlegrubi]

Don't know what I did, but my post has disappeared again. Couldn't even find it using the back button this time
Forgotten half of my post now... as I typed it an hour ago and haven't got the desire to go back over everything again to work it out.
Do remember this much:
BW Damn doctors - has this been the problem to begin with? Like everyone else hoping you come home with a happy healthy baby.
Sharon I have a whingy dog nextdoor that I want to kill. Would think Oliver would be used to dogs if they were like that when he was in utero. How are you going these days? How is the oldest DS situation?
Belle I'm not as heart wrenched by the twins story as I am by stories in which the mother had no control over the fate of her child. In this case I am callous and think why have and keep the twins if you couldn't provide for them?
MGM we have had colds, vomiting and poos here. Greer is so stuffy in the early hours of the morning all I can hear is her having difficulty breathing, so I have decide to delay the cot transfer until she is better - damn immunisations putting a spanner in the works.

As for me - I make a conscious effort to look after myself on Wednesday - it felt good - then it all went out the window yesterday. I weighed myself last night and am 2 kgs closer to my prepregnancy weight - and I haven't even done much to try to loose those extra kgs.

Gotta go and attend to little miss whingy.

[Fire]

BW, did you see the suggestion to donate your milk? If it's not too late?

i just noticed how i wrote that post about grunting!

DS is SO bloody jumpy, it's ridiculous. i thought he'd grow out of the startle reflex, but it's getting worse. If he is laying on his back, the whole time he is gasping and throwing his arms and legs out. He has taken to thrashing his legs wildly, it seems to soothe his desire to startle.

I got a new ergo today. But he is too small for it yet. His legs need another cm or so length to wrap around my waist for it. I can't frog leg him in it either, cos he gets all cramped up. The problem with bigger babies is they fit bigger slings but can't hold their heads up quite enough for them yet. It's an awkward between-slings time at the moment, where the HaB is outdated for him now.

He just fell asleep so I'm off to attempt another go at the cot. My back is absolute RUBBISH now. I can't hold him anymore through naps, at all. I'm a wreck and DH is not far behind. Woe is us.

[kirsty_lee]

Hi everyone! BW sorry to hear about your little boy, hope he gets better soon. Took ava-jayde to get her needles today. When she got the oral one she was fine smiling and laughing at the doctor. THen with the needles she screamed LOL then i cried poor little bugger. but after she had them mummy gave her a big cuddle and all was well again. The doctor told us that she is the most well behaved baby she's ever seen and couldn't believe how well she was doing! So im quite proud of myself for that. Hope we are all doing well and our bubs are giving mums a nice break every once in a while.

[shellbell]

Hi all, didn't manage to get back in yesterday. Have had a lovely day today shopping and lunching. It was great to get out and do something. Luke was great apart from lunch when he decided that he wanted to be awake and cuddled. hard to eat and cuddle. We too had our needles this week. He took it all pretty well, was drowsy and cranky afterward but seems back to normal now.

BW hope that BJ is getting better and that you and your DH are coping OK.
Sharon hope you had a nice lunch with your hubby. Hang in there with Ollie. I have noticed that Luke is much less interested in sleeping during the day now... I find it really frustrating because he ends up so exhausted at the end of the day that he goes down hard between 4 - 6pm and then wakes up at 2am for the day to start again... grrr...
grubi hope she settles down soon so that the cot transfer can occur. I am dreading moving from the cradle to the cot as it is so easy to settle him with the rocking. Starting to do some naps in the cot to get him used to it!
Nettie jealous of your night swapping with DH - I have gotten my Dh up once to help me give luek some panadol and I got "Oh, but I am so tired"...

There goes my little man - chat later.

[Katstribe]

Hi everyone another message from Babywrangler

As long ashe can keep his fluctuating temp down over night Benjamin can go home tomorrow with antibiotics for a week. A good outcome overall.

So fingers crossed he will be home tomorrow. I have told her you have all wished them well also. Have a good night everyone

[sarah_dobbo2]

Hi all,

Sound like we all have a cold in out house hold somewhere. Wyatt has just gotten it. It went through DD, then DS then Me now Wyatt, so DH is next.

I had another melt down yesterday. I just can't seem to settle Wyatt in his bassinette during the day for any longer than an hour. It doesn't help when DS runs around house yelling. Someone tell me they have had the same as me and it GETS BETTER SOON...

So who else has moved babies over to cot? I am waiting on out builder to come back and do kids built-in before I change. Which hopefully will be in the next 2 weeks. I fear if Wyatt keeps eating the way he is he wont last much longer. I know its another string I have to cut, and let him grow up but he is SO big already I want the NEW baby. (3 days old)

Anyway I better go, DD is watching TV with Wyatt. He'll want some boobie, a wrap and back to bed soon.

Cheers all
Sarah

[Fire]

oh my goddess what a night. kill me now.

dd cried all night bar the hour b/w 2am and 3am. so itchy with pox. she has them where the sun don't shine too... not fair. ds didn't poo in the wee hours (heh, wee hours, should be called poop hours). at least i was blessed with that.

BUT!

we have an invention! dh bought a chair hammock that looks like this , attached to the ceiling on a spring - it bounces!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can bounce him, and lay back in comfort! True geeeenyis. I may go into business with the AP version of a bouncing hammock.

I've also had some success with transitioning to the cot, for those in the same predicament. The wonderful suggestion of the lullabub may have helped, although we haven't actually put him in the cot without it so it could be coincidence. But it is really mild, you couldn't call it a cot rocker, it makes the mattress sound like a heartbeat, that's the setting Ci likes best. But I did a whole naptime package, and phased it in slowly and gently, like Pinky Mckay suggests.

I started by playing a rainforest track at naptime on repeat for a couple of days, but napped him as usual in the sling and bounced him to sleep. Then I played the track, put him in the cot with the lullabub, and pulled him out when he got upset for a few days, bouncing him and slinging him again. Some naps were actually taken in that time, but short ones of about 20 minutes. Then I did the whole thing but this time when he woke I resettled by rocking the whole cot (that's the best feature of the lullabub, you can rock the cot like a cradle cos it's on special cushion feet!) and patting and giving him my finger to suck, removing it before he fell asleep completely, no bouncing. He slept 3 hours - the longest nap since he was a newborn.

I read giving heaps of sleep cues is helpful, then you can use just one of them in an emergency and it have the same effect.

Anyway, I'll keep you all updated on how it goes. I'm happy so far, and it's been gentle, no cry, which is important to me.

LOVIN' MY BOUNCY CHAIR!!

[Beatrix]

hmm I havent yet made the transition to cot, she sleep in her bassinet in the cot though. She still has plenty of room though.
Have tried putting her in the cot and she doesnt like it grrr.


I am having a slight prob that is driving me bonkers though. She is such a on off type with regards to the breast. Plays around so much gets a good let down pulls off and i have a huge squirt going. even if she is staring she pulls on and off all the time. But she still only feeds every 4 hrs and goes about one 5-6hrs streach over night

[Fire]

Ci hates my letdown, Beatrix. he also does the on off thing too. ABA said it could be slow flow, even though the let down is fast, my general flow could be slower than he likes. Not sure, but it is annoying, esp when he reefs right back before he pulls off, I swear my nipple will go one way and I'll go the other one day! Sounds like she is doing nicely though, she might be getting more than it seems with her method.

[Katstribe]

Hi everyone just a quick update.

I got a message from Babywrangler this morning to say Woohoo got the all clear! just waiting for Dady to come!
So yay BJ is on his way home, so glad everything is ok

[Beatrix]

Great news!!!

[sarah_dobbo2]

Hey Kat,

That is some really great news. I hope all is some what smooth sailing from here for her and BJ now.
How is miss molly?

Beatrix: Wyatt is the same only on my left boob at times. But he feeds for 4-8minutes and he is done.

Well that's the little bugger now have to go.

Bye

[BabyWrangler]

HI Guys!
WE ARE HOME!!!! Im ooo glad to be home.
Bj is sleeping happily (I say happily cause its been an hour, and noone has woken him to check his obs!)
The hospitla looked after us really well, and BJ is expected to be fine. He has a course of Antibiotics for a week then he should be good.
We just have to make sure whenever he gets a fever from now on, we go straight to the Dr for a urine sample, as once you have one UTI you tend to be prone to them.

As for the breast milk, there is nowhere in Victoria for it to go, the ABA, Royal Children's Hospital, Royal Womens and a few other places have all said, that at this stage, in Victoria, unless you know someone personally that can use it, it will go to waste.
They are trying to organise a Milk Bank in Victoria but its currently caught up in red tape.

In the grand scheme of things though, I'd rather have my little man healthy, and the milk down the drain than anything!

I'll try and do personals over the next couple of days, just gotta wash a bucket load of bottles, do the washing, the housework and the groceries...oh yeah....and get BJ back into some assemblance of a routine!

[bellelass]

Glad you and your babe are alright now BW. Hope you can get back into a rhythm without too much trouble...

Kira- Meant to reply before, but I don't drive. I can't drive and besides we have one car... I'd be keen to meetup sometime, it would just take careful planning from my end... le sigh.

Tried Lila in the shower today and while she didn't hate it, she wasn't all that excited about it either. We're good, she drained a breast twice today which is good for us. I figure soon we'll be completely on the breast. There aren't any other problems, I'm hoping its smooth sailing from here on out. Getting about 8-9 hours of unbroken sleep at night, then she naps a bit during the day but only in the sling. She doesn't mind being left on the change mat in the cot half naked to air for a few minutes at a time, I come back to see her and she's chatting to the stuffed giraffe. She drools really heavily, esp the past week, no way she could be getting ready to teethe already?

[bellelass]

Hey BW, looks like your BJ and my Lila share a birthday.

[mgm]

babywrangler, welcome back. i'm so happy to hear that bj is ok - what an ordeal that must have been.

bellelass, well done on your breastfeeding success!

fire sounds like you're doing well with naps (unlike me - still slinging all day) and that hammock chair looks brilliant! much more comfy than a fitball, i imagine. your poor dd - and poor YOU! is she over the worst now, or are you preparing for another hellish night?

sarah sorry things are so frustrating. we only get short naps around here lately, too. and that's with dd in the sling. something seems to be waking her before she's ready. sorry, no solutions - just sympathy!

am very proud of myself because dh was out last night and i bathed both kids, put ds to sleep (while jiggling grumpy baby) and ate dinner (while slinging sleeping baby). then the weirdest thing happened - at about 9.45 i put swaddled, grizzling baby down on the carpet while i put the sling on, then noticed she was content so left her. her eyes opened and closed for half an hour or so, then she fell asleep, just lying there on the floor! very strange for a child who usually insists on being rocked to sleep. unfortunately the transfer to bed did not go well, but i was very impressed nonetheless. my theory is that dh's absence made for a calm, quiet, sleep-inducing atmosphere in the loungeroom!

time for ds's dinner so must go now. wishing you all a wonderful night!

[Beatrix]

Sarah- have you considered seeing a chiro about the fussiness on that side (unless you already have) may have a slight adjustment needed.

BW- great that you are home

Well after my postabout her being fussy she just did a great feed on the side she is most normally really bad on.


Can i just say how much i love the baby drunk look they get when they are full!!