Babies Born April 2008 #5

[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:

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SG
xo

[Beatrix]

You know maybe a spilt might be good for us...

Then people who dont post regularly wont be completly ignored when they post

[Fire]

i don't think an oversight has anything to do with regularity. i do my best. sorry if i'm one who has upset you, Beatrice. things aren't easy for you right now so i'd hate for you to feel that way.

[Sequoia]

i don't think an oversight has anything to do with regularity. i do my best. sorry if i'm one who has upset you, Beatrice. things aren't easy for you right now so i'd hate for you to feel that way.

Me too.

I was just quickly replying to a conversation earlier in the thread and didn't even look at what had been posted today.

[Sharon19270]

alittlegrubi to be perfectly honest i'm really not that tired, 5 nights out of 7 I usually get a really good nights sleep. The day sleeps though was short lived.
BabyWrangler that is a huge weight gain, will found out tomorrow how well Oliver is going.
Nettie Oliver seems to have a bit of a red throat and Dr said that could be why he is fussing with his bottles, so hopefully he will be back to himself in a few days.
shellbell you are doing a fantastic job with working and looking after Luke, good on you.
Beatrix would be great if you could stock up on some BM so that exDH could take all the girls and give you a much needed break.
Fire hope you find out which food is causing the eczema
Shoegal Those bottles are so expensive though, who could afford them!

not much going on here, listed all my maternity stuff, Olivers bassinette, bath and Angel Care monitor on ebay last night.

[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

[Sequoia]

Oops! Didn't mean to start a whole BPA-free debate! I was just posting for Grubi & Fire as they were interested before a few pages back. I already have a stash of Tommee Tippee ones.

Selfish post - Baxter has fed terribly over the last 2 days. Have set myself a mini goal of BF'ing to 6 months. I really can't take any more, he screams at the breast, before, during and after the feed. It's awful. My LC is like my new BFF and even she put it down to him being a fussy feeder.




SG
xo

[Fire]

Shell, his eczema is definitely better. Have you ever done an elimination diet for two weeks to a month? That's the only way to pinpoint the offending food. Medical allergy tests are flawed beyond imagining. I also use this great cream that stops him itching and I believe is helping it clear. I can't remember what it is called so I'll post it next time when I look at the name. I know it has medihoney in it (manuka honey), aloe (which is GREAT on his, we have plants), calendula and vitamin E. Although last night DH made a monumental blunder by buying minced chicken instead of minced turkey. Chicken is a big no no on this diet. So I unknowingly ate it last night and he flared up and kept refluxing and throwing up and we couldn't figure out why. Until we double checked the meat packaging. So now we might have back stepped a bit. DH feels like a right heel about it, so I didn't carry on about it but I'm so upset. This diet is really hard! To go backwards is just not cool.

[Fire]

Selfish post

I don't ever want to see THAT again! *spank*
a) you're not talking about you, you're talking about your child.
b) you matter. That isn't selfish.

[BabyWrangler]

Hi all
just popping in for a quick Hello.
BJ has been mucking around a little with his sleeps lately, and today he has a hearing test (which is done whilst he is sleeping), and what has he done? Gone back to bed at 8am and instead of waking by 9am, he's sleeping like a champ.
I'm going to wake him in a little while and also hold out on he feed if I can to try and make sure he settles for the test!!

Shoegal, BJ was a fussy BFer too (well more so after the whole Zantac and stomach cramp debarcle) .

For those with eczema issues...there was recently a segment on ACA about a product called "Billy Goat Soap" which is made from fresh goats milk, and suggested it was good for skin complaints...my mother is now 65 and has had shocking skin problems form birth...she bought some BGS and her skin is now as clear as day.
You can get it online they have a website (I don't think I'm allowed to post it, but do a google for Billy Goat Soap and you should find it), theres also a few different varieties of the same product on ebay.

Beatrix don't worry about MJ being the nanna of the group and a nice little petite dot....we have such a HUGE range of ages and sizes in our mothers group, BJ is 4 weeks older than one of the babies in mothers group and that baby is over a kilo heavier than BJ!!
And I think you're right, often girls are smaller than boys!

Sharon don't feel like "Bad mummy" cause you're using what you are for Oliver...Im using avent bottles and to be honest I don't even know if they are of concern or not, I just know they work for BJ and me and thats all that counts!
People are still asking me why BJ has such tiny dummies (0-3 month size), and I just tell them "Cause thats what we wanna use for our son" (I get crabby sometimes when people seem to judge...its like all the people who think we're crazy for BJ being on Farex already...if he wasn't eating it, I wouldnt be persuing it...but he is!).