Babies Born April 2008 #5

[Zennie]

Morning everyone

as your all aware Russell is not well, tookhim to the DR yesterday who sent us to the mater childrens hospital to have him checked by the Pead. turns out he has a viral infection of some sort bronchilitis is what they mentioned. Poor boy cant hold down a feed and cant sleep anywhere except cuddling one of us. i am so rat **** and my boys miserable. They stuck tubes down his nose to clear his airways . not to mention DP is sick aswell and my house is trashed. well better get stuck in so that when the boys get up i have eased the burden of house work and loads of washing

[Nettie]

Poor Russell (and Zennie!)... hope there's improvement soon.

to you Nessa. I hope your parents are supportive of YOU and they don't make you feel vunerable for being just you and the kids... Hope you enjoy the circus!

[BabyWrangler]

Hugs to Zennie, Russell and Nessa!

On our front, I think El Piggyoli was the result of a growth spurt!
After going to bed at 5pm last evening, BJ has been as follows:
10:30pm Bottle
11pm sound asleep!
2:30am Bottle
3am Sound asleep
7am Awake and playing
8am Bottle
8:05 sound asleep!
10:30am Bottle then playing, and trip out in the car
12pm Asleep in car
12:30 bottle (in about 3 shifts!)
1pm sound asleep
and now, here I am at 4:30 waiting for him to wake up for a feed and a play and a bath, then probably bed!
He's sleeping through toys with bells and buttons jinggling and crashing their way around the dryer at the moment!
He's taken to sleeping on his "taggie" a nice soft blanket which is minky soft (same as my dressing gown) on one side, and flannelette on the other, and i have sewn little 1inch long tags of coloured ribbon in all different sizes and textures around it (he holds the taggies).
He has a little one from his very special Auntie hanging in his pram (she's also making a couple more "good" ones), and I have made him 2...he;s a chucker, in about 3 days they'll all be in the wash at once...god help me that day!!

Off to do some ironing while I wait! (Have already done a load of washing, made his second taggie, washed the dishes, cleaned the kitchen, and cleaned up all the sewing mess!)

[Sharon19270]

Nettie it was only about 3 weeks ago when Oliver was only having between 90-110ml at each feed and some feeds where only 70 or 80 ml so you may find that Liam will increase in a few weeks, as long as he is gaining weight it doesn't matter.
Fire how are Ci's pox going, hope you don't get them too.
BabyWrangler if Oliver wakes really early in the morning I don't make eye contact or talk to him because he will give me that huge grin and start flapping his arms about and kicking his legs because he is so excited, if I just put the dummy in, stroke his head once, go shhhh, and walk out he will normally go back to sleep. I can't wait for the giggles, they are just so adorable. The 'taggie' sounds really cute, nothing like a home made toy/blankie, I can't sew to save my life
alittlegrubi I still have good days, bad days and then REALLY bad days, but the REALLY bad days aren't happening as often.
laurab welcome to the thread, there are a few 1st time mums here, I am now up to #3 and there will definitely be no more.
MummyMeg I find that when Oliver is really over tired he makes a fuss about going to bed too, they just find it too hard to turn off.
Beatrix I am sure your parents wouldn't think you failed them, at least I hope not, as that is the last thing you need right now, hope they give you lots of support
Zennie hope your little man gets better soon.

Oliver was a good boy this morning, after altering his wrap slightly last night he wasn't able to escape so easily and slept until 6am, he then went back to bed at 7am and slept till 9.30am so mummy got to have another couple of hours sleep this morning which was fantastic.

[shellbell]

Hi all,

First day back at work today. Luke was such a good boy for his nan and it all went very smoothly. I managed to get away to feed him at lunchtime and that made it easier for me too. Anyway DH is waiting for the computer so will write later

[Butterfly_Princess]

Oh and i just realised she likes to be wrapped in one particular blanket. Had a bit of a horror day today coz we had to wash it and she just wouldnt sleep, when we had the wrap all dry and nice, wrapped her in it, into cot, dummy, sleep. So im thinking its that, or the fact that i played with her heaps and heaps and heaps before feed, then sleep.
What time do you girls start the day routine (feed, play, sleep) and what time do you start the night routine (feed, sleep)??

[Sharon19270]

shellbell glad to hear that Luke was a good boy for his nan, and that was great that you got to go and feed him at lunch time, still it must have been hard leaving him though to go back to work
MummyMeg don't really have a feed, play sleep routine with Oliver yet as he is a catnapper and also first thing in the morning he doesn't want to feed straight away, he likes to play for about 15-20mins, he then has his bottle, goes back to bed for an hour, gets up and plays for an hour, back to bed, up for bottle etc, he then usually has his bath at around 5.00-5.30, he is dressed in his jammies and then has his bottle and is usually asleep by the time I am finished wrapping him at around 6ish.

Nothing much to report with me, just the "same stuff, different day"

[alittlegrubi]

I haven't got much time tonight - fighting off colds in our household ATM. But I just wanted to comment on shellbell's first day at work

Hi all,

First day back at work today. Luke was such a good boy for his nan and it all went very smoothly. I managed to get away to feed him at lunchtime and that made it easier for me too.

I just wanted to give you a and a for a wonderful job well done and on getting to feed at lunchtime. Once you get into the swing of your new routine you'll be more comfortable with the choices we are forced to make as working mums.

I need to work on expressing off just enough to cover 24 hours as my Mum is taking the 2 kids overnight on Saturday for DH's b'day. Partially looking forward to it, partially not. Knowing that engorged feeling is going to wake me is making me wonder if it is worth it.

[Nettie]

Meg - we keep Liam wrapped at night and try to get him to go back to sleep during the feed. He's a good boy and doesn't give us much trouble (except when we have to change his nappy - then he wakes up and we have a cuddle!)

Shell - comiserations on having to go back to work At least it seems to have been minimally traumatic!

Well, we put the cot together last night (see new pic in gallery) and he seems to really like it. Have put him down for sleeps all day in the cot but will keep him in basinette in our room for the night sleeps (when we're in bed). Hopefully he won't find that too confusing! Only trouble is the lamp we have in his room throws the light right over the cot so we'll have to move it (and the cot sits between the two power points in the room so we'll need an extension cord!).

When he wakes up in the cot - he just starts 'talking' to the mobile hanging above him! It's sooo cute! He's such a happy boy! I'm so lucky.