Babies Born April 2008 #5

[mgm]

Maybe we should all just agree on using the first or last half now .

LOL grubi! Tell me which half and i'll be there. Or we could just keep editing our old posts to add new info, thus avoiding ever reaching the dreaded 140!

not much time to write right now - but as for hand/thumb sucking, DD often does this while i'm actually holding her; maybe she likes getting a double comfort dose! I just wish she would soothe herself to sleep this way (or any way - i'm not fussy).

gotta run to shops now while DD is asleep in sling. Naps are only 30 minutes these days and it's driving me CRAZY. if she woke up happy it would be fine, but she's always tired and cranky.

[BabyWrangler]

Just thought I'd pop in and let you know that Benjamin put 725g on in a fortnight!!!
That explains the 300ml bottles weekend before last!
Mind you he now still only weighs 6.35kg!

[Nettie]

SG - well done to Baxter! I know that's got to be a weight off your mind. Liam weighed in at 5.22kgs on Tuesday, so not much going on there! At least he's over the 5 kg mark too.

Grubi - I know I'm not on here as much because Liam's so much fun to play with now. I spent an hour this afternoon playing with him (rubbing my face on his belly and giving him big smooches on his cheeks) - he thinks it's a crack-up!

Sharon - Liam either scoffs his 110 mls (our best guess at how much to put on for him) or plays with half of it. It's kinda frustrating!

Liam's sucking his fingers a lot lately, but when they're in his mouth he screws up his face like they taste awful! Funny little fellow!

[shellbell]

Hi all, reading these posts has confirmed that Luke is a giant heffalump - last wekeend I weighed him at 8kgs neat... it's ridiculous - the MCHN just laugh at him! Still just on the booby juice.

week 2 of work is going well. Seem to have gotten a bit of a pattern - mostly me running around like a maddie from 6am until 11pm each day - when I am not feeding I seem to be expressing, but it is going well. Just need to talk Luke into sleeping in on weekends so I can have a rest!

Luke is also very alert and playful - it is jut gorgeous.

Anyway, bed is calling me. Hope everyone is doing well.

[Beatrix]

Wow reading all these pots i think MJ needs to put on some weight!! she is curently 5.5kg and the nanna of the group. But i guess all my girls are small, Annika is only 10kg now

She is finally supporting her head much better as well, she seems to actually bit a bit slower then what my older two were at this age but i guess all babies are different

Shell- i am in awe of you hun!!! you are doing such a great job!!!

Nettie- we have a hand sucker here too!! not much of a dummy fan, which is good cause then i dont really have to take it away from her.


Sorry havent been aorund much, been flat out here. Am thanking god teleah starts kindy next week. I really need a break....
Wth everything that haas happene lately i have been so stressed my milk is drying up so have been put on Motilum for a week and it is already making a huge differnce,
Mj went from waking to feed every 3 hrs maybe even more to feeding once a night again!!!! And even after her feed last night i managed to express 50ml!!!

I am trying to get up some stock so i can give her to exDH for a couple of hrs cause they really need to bond or she wont have a relationship with her dad

well sorry for those i missed, i have to get breaky ready for the kiddies

[Fire]

Nettie/Fire So I guess when it comes to plastics since we are forced to use plastic so much now as adults since they stopped making glass softdrink and glass milk bottles etc I've probably already created a lot of the problems for my kids before they even start having a bottle.

True. I wish I planned the pregnancy cos I had plans to detox first. The plastics mess with the baby's hormones (and ours!).

but as for hand/thumb sucking, DD often does this while i'm actually holding her; maybe she likes getting a double comfort dose!

Ci tried shoving his silky in his mouth with my nipple the other day! Best of both worlds I guess

Nights are worse, days are better. We moved back in with DH and DD got her own room. *sniff* All this wishing she'd grow up and now I wish she'd slow down. Typical. Anyway, so this room change has messed him up and he feeds every hour after 3am. But his naps have gone great. I persisted in putting him in awake. If he protested, we ditched it. But we don't use anything like a dummy or breastfeeding to sleep. I give him his silky and he rubs his face against a terry nappy (more about that coming up) and goes to sleep. But he has to be really really tired to do it. I had to wake him this morning and yesterday after a three hour nap!

He has severe eczema on his scalp and face. It is really sad, and what I have been focusing on lately. So now I am on this diet, Gods help me:

lamb
turkey
yellow and green squash
rice
pears
potato
sweet potato
salt
maple syrup

:eek:

Two days now and he has improved a little. I'm on it for two weeks or until he improves, then I introduce a food one at a time to see which was the offender. I think it is soy, wheat and/or dairy. I've taken photos to show progress.

I thought I'd post on both threads, copy and paste, and somehow try to keep up with both sides. I'll no doubt have to pick a side for my sanity though, so if we all abandon ship to the left, I'll follow.

[Sequoia]

Am I allowed to post this link? Sorry mods if I'm not, BPA free bottles from The Hip Infant newsletter that was sent to me:

Display Products | the Hip Infant

SG
xo

[shellbell]

Beatrix I am trying!! I am completely in awe of you though. I think my throat has been cut when DH has a night out and I am home alone with Luke. I know what you mean about the group. I do wonder where a lot of my belly buddies went and I know that I was a bit overwhelmed whn I finally got internet access and could come back on. Hope you are doing OK.

Fire I get severe eczema - my skin has never been as bad as it is since i have been BF'ing. I find that absolutely nothing makes a difference really - not diet not anything. Mine gets worse if I am too warm and the only thing that gives relief is sorbolene cream. My midwife recommended it for luke given my skin and so he has baby oil in his bath and sorbolene after. I also don't bath him everyday so as not to dry his skin out too much.

Sharon Hope you get lots of bids!!

Shoegal I have no idea about stuff like that - already have all of his bottles, so can't see myself spending a fortune to get more!

Things all going well here. Hope everyone is is trundling along OK

[Sharon19270]

shellbell I am pretty lucky when it comes to going out, DH isn't much of a socializer, in saying that though he has found a new hobbie and him and his mate go off on their Motorbikes every couple of weekends for few hours cruzin' around LOL. I don't know much about the BPA stuff either, I have a friend who has asked me a couple of times as to why I bought the NUK bottles, my only reason was because I liked the design, she also asks why I use the Latex teats and not the silicone teats, well, the answer to that is that the latex have the 'cross' style hole so that he doesn't have to suck so hard to get the thickened formula, I feel like she is accusing me of being a 'bad mummy' because i'm not using the BPA free bottles. As for my ebay stuff, whatever doesn't sell will be going straight to charity, all my maternity clothes I started at 99c LOL