Babies Born August 16th - 31st 2008

[~breeze~]

Hi girls, sorry no chance of me catching up on personals at the moment. Very warn out here, Tobias has hardly slept today, last night was ok although I was up with him between 2:30 & 4am as he wouldn't settle after his bottle for some reason grrrrrrr. Today he is grizzly & fights going to sleep with his big eyes instead of sleepy eyes. He's asleep now so I'm trying to rest on the lounge a bit before velcro boy wakes again, I should be doing the dishes though.

I booked his circumcision for Monday the 29th Sept. I knew it would cost money but $500?!? Apparently you get $90 back from medicare.... woopdi-doo! So now all of a sudden we need to come up with $500 in 2 weeks as he has to have it done by 6 weeks of age & he'll be 6 weeks on the day he gets it done. Oh well, at least it will be over & done with, although I'm sooooooooooo not looking forward to him crying from it I almost dont want to be there but I also want to be able to comfort him afterwards....

We went to the opening of the school our kids will be attending last Sunday. It's just had 4.9 million dollars worth of renovating. They just built a whole new school really LOL. It looks great & DD is so excited to be going to that "big school" come 2010, so it will only be a year old when she starts there.

My doctor called me the other day saying that the swab they took from my right nipple shows an infection & germs growing there so I need to go in & get some anti-biotics for it. It's awful & hurts so much! I must find the time to get in there & get the meds.

Once again sorry for no personals. I hope you're all well.

Milly dont feel bad about feeling so good, you have every right to feel good & we're all happy for those of you having a smooth & happy time with your new bubs. As our bubs are getting older now, hopefully there'll be more of us settling into life with a new baby & feeling great aswell soon.

PS look at my new AV! My glasses are gone though as they dont have a baby wearing av with glasses LOL

[MrsFabuloso]

Hiya girls,

Well we have had an ok few days, except Lily is still sick. My poor little monkey is so lethargic and just wants mumma. All I have done with her today is sit on the lounge and watch tv, we've seen In the night garden 3 times already and now I'm watching Humphery. She vomitted in her bed again last night and it was everywhere, in her hair and blankets, ugh!! I was so trying hard not to vomit all over her. I managed not to thank goodness, but it was close a few times. I had to sponge the vomit out of her hair cause she went psyco if we went near the bath, ohh it was so disgusting!! We're going to the dr's again if she still has no energy tomorrow. We've been twice already with the same thing....
Liam has been ok. Still not going to sleep very well but in saying that he had a 4hr sleep from 10.30 this morning...I wish he'd sleep like that at night! My boobs were busting though, they're used to being emptied every 2, 2 1/2hrs at the most! He has a few really unsettled times in the day. It is all still really varied, he has no flow to the day at all. His body clock must be really stuffed up!

Ok gotta go he's calling me....

[Melsta]

Danielle - geez $500 that is absurd and only $90 back - I agree woppdi - do ... hope the antibiotics clear things up for you huin - sounds very painful and not nice at all ... the things we go through hey ! We need to arrange a catch up too ... maybe we could arrange a group catch up with all the SYD based mums and bubs if anyone else is interested !

Kell - would love to meet up hun will sms you and we can arrange a time when Lily is feeling better and you are more up to visitors ... Glad to hear LIam had a better night but not good at all about Lily ...

Milly - yay on Thomas being a good bub ... I think Ali is pretty good as well but I agree it is heart wrenching hearing how tough everyone is having it at the moment I really feel for you all ... but glad someone is doing well !

Erin - good to hear from you and glad that things are going well. Enjoy the time with your mum and you and your DH are lucky you have experience alone time ... I crave that at the moment but know all good things come to those who wait !!!

Niamh - sounds like things are going well for you too and good to hear that Eireann's belly button is better ... I dont think it would matter what # bub it was you still go through the same angst with each one in terms of hurting them ... just shows how much we love them !

Kristi, Lea, Belinda - hope you are all doing ok !


We are doing well. Yesterday Ali had her first sleeps in her big cot in her own room. I managed to catch the tired signs and put her in her cot just before she really went to sleep and she put herself to sleep properly and had two big cot sleeps so I am stoked.

Today we went to Mothers Group and went through the introductions etc .. there are 9 mums in my group and I went to lunch with two of them and one only lives a 10 min walk form me which will be nice to have someone else nice and close ...

Other than that we have Ali's 6 week check up tomorrow and my 6 week check. Although I drove today and got myself and Ali out and about with no one - felt weird but then I felt all empowered and in control and it was just Ali and me and I managed to do it so I felt pretty good with myself first trip out by ourselves and all !!!

Hope everyone having better days ...

Thinking of you all and big hugs to everyone

Mel
xo

[snowchickie79]

Well, thankfully I can say the past few days have been better with the kids, though I got Lily's bug night before last and was vomiting and had high fevers all night, not pleasant! Lil's still pretty sick too with fevers and conjunctivitis, poor little bear. Liam has slept better the past few nights which is good I would have gone insane with sleep deprivation other wise!
Ok gotta go and do some house work while it's quiet....

Kellieem - Oh sorry to hear you are having such a rough time. Fingers crossed that things are getting better...

Oh Erin im so glad you said something so positive...i too am having a wonderful time with Thomas but didnt want to say anything while others seemed to be having such a tough time. Thomas is a very "good" baby. I know he feeds through the night but never have a clue how many times or how long inbetween as i stay asleep I have tried everything to say awake LOL but we just end up asleep together, its lovely. Eve comes in at some stage, normally around 1am and grace at about 6 but we all stay asleep til 8! Thomas has one unsettled time a day but hay.... i just let him feed, and feed and feed... then bath then feed then his gone.

Milly - That is wonderful to hear and must say I feel the same. I haven't had the massive sleep deprivation that I've read about but I didn't want to say anything either. Glad to hear Thomas is doing well.

Hi girls, sorry no chance of me catching up on personals at the moment. Very warn out here, Tobias has hardly slept today, last night was ok although I was up with him between 2:30 & 4am as he wouldn't settle after his bottle for some reason grrrrrrr. Today he is grizzly & fights going to sleep with his big eyes instead of sleepy eyes. He's asleep now so I'm trying to rest on the lounge a bit before velcro boy wakes again, I should be doing the dishes though.

My doctor called me the other day saying that the swab they took from my right nipple shows an infection & germs growing there so I need to go in & get some anti-biotics for it. It's awful & hurts so much! I must find the time to get in there & get the meds.

Daneille_M - Hope the antibiotics fix things up really quickly. Can be nothing worse than having sore "bits" and those "bits" are being used so frequently. I had a few blood blisters and grazes and that was painful enough let alone what I can only imagine you are experiencing.

Kristi, Lea, Belinda - hope you are all doing ok !

We are doing well. Yesterday Ali had her first sleeps in her big cot in her own room. I managed to catch the tired signs and put her in her cot just before she really went to sleep and she put herself to sleep properly and had two big cot sleeps so I am stoked.

Today we went to Mothers Group and went through the introductions etc .. there are 9 mums in my group and I went to lunch with two of them and one only lives a 10 min walk form me which will be nice to have someone else nice and close ...

Other than that we have Ali's 6 week check up tomorrow and my 6 week check. Although I drove today and got myself and Ali out and about with no one - felt weird but then I felt all empowered and in control and it was just Ali and me and I managed to do it so I felt pretty good with myself first trip out by ourselves and all !!!

Hope everyone having better days ...

Thinking of you all and big hugs to everyone

Mel
xo

Mel We are doing good thanks. Had a better day today. Our weekend was really good but Monday/Tuesday were not so great. Glad to hear Ali had her sleeps in her cot, big step and sounds like you approached it really well.
Glad mothers group went off without any trouble.

US - As for us we had an unsettled Monday and Tuesday. My milk supply dropped off again and I didn't respond as quickly to the motillium as I did the first time. Chloe was not sleeping or when she would sleep it had to be on me. As soon as I put her in the cradle she would scream her heart out so I resorted to co-sleeping with her Monday night after she went till 2.30am screaming. Last night I had nothing to feed her and she was pulling and tugging like it was an empty bag. Luckily I had some expressed so I fed her with that and sure enough she crashed out at around 10am. She woke at 7am this morning and to my surprise I woke up looking like dolly parton so she has been super happy today. I think she may have had a little growth spurt to just make the situation more fun but has been all good today. I've been expressing when i could and have a good 100ml in waiting should i need it.

We've also managed two very successful bath sessions. Chloe had previously screamed during her baths, all except 1 in hospital. But our last 2 baths have been really good with no screaming and her appearing to enjoy laying in the water.

Anyway I better be going, Chloe due for feed soon and then it's off to bed for what I hope is another 8-9 hour sleep.

[*charmalea*]

ok .. i dont like hearing how sick kellie and family have been ... i really hope you all recover soon ... just rest up kel, and try and get some rest and new dvd's !!

well , i havent been "sleep deprived" as such but with gabriella being really fussy and nixon chucking a million tanties a day i have been really stressed .. a few days back gab fed every 30 mins in the evening and woke screaming through the night .. i jsut had to feed her , but then she has bad wind so she was inconslable (sp) and i was getting stressed , to top it off the next day DH hurt his back and was unable to move so i had to pick up the slack and do everything ... that night gabby had a crying fit and wanted to feed allll the time , so i tried to express and about 15mls each side came out .... and each feed she would suck so hard then cry so i thought i must be low on milk .... before i went to bed i took maxalon went to bed and tried to realx but ended up with panic attacks , a sure sign i am taking on waay to much ... i hope this doesnt turn in to ocd and pnd again ... but im not sure if it was the maxalon that gave me the panic attacks , but im not taking it again to find out!!

in the end i gave into dh's pressure to get formula so i sent my mum to get some of the RTD formula , i didnt want to get a whole tin so i got the popper ones .. and gave her some at the last feed before bed .. she didnt take the whole feed only about 60mls .. but that was enough to fill her up and clam down .. the next day and ever since she has been settled .. it was soo good to see her awake and not crying .. it may have just been a growth spurt.. she also has conjuctivitis...

so for now i am feeding from the right and expressing the left as her hungry days left it soo sore .. by i have some milk in the fridge a freezer and will get a to up of ebm before bed jic ...

i can not get gab to sleep in the cradle so for now the velcro girl is in the bed still , (danielle , gabriella is made of velcro too !!!!)

[Melsta]

Lea - glad to hear the formula settled Gab down .. we do the same with Ali of a night and her last feed for the evening is always a formula feed and she is so much more settled and contented ... How id DH back doing now? Things sound so hectic for you and I hope that you can ease the stress you are under atm hun ....

Belinda - glad to hear that the supply is back and what sounds like in good form too! Growth spurts indeed when Ali had hers she was always feeding and screaming but now she has settled a bit ... by the way we ran into Antoinette's husband today at the hospital and they had a little baby boy ... He is taking 8 weeks off work to help her out and they had him Monday afternoon just after midday I think ... we think Sharon went home yesterday as they had seen her in hospital still so there is only Tanya and Gianni left now !


Well today we had Ali's 6 week check and Im pleased to say she has been given a perfect bill of health with no problems. Now I just need the same clearance at my check tomorrow ... she has been the best little bubba today just looking around when awake and not really screaming or whinging much at all .. maybe the 6 week turnover is around!

Had to laugh though as when he pulled her off the scales she peed on the floor as he was carrying her back to the bed and she did a huge poop right before we took her in .. I was just praying she didnt pee or poop all over him .... but she is now 4.3kg so she had put on 1 kilo in the 6 weeks since she was born so looks very healthy and very long!

Hope everyone having a good day today and had a good night ... Kell I am sending and your way that all sicknesses in your household are getting much better hun ... xox

Mel