Babies Born August 16th - 31st 2008

[*charmalea*]

We are trying to sort out Chardonnay and figure out if she is lactose intolerant or has reflux.

Kristi, same here , gab is extremly windy and is in pain when ever she lays on her back and always screams after a feed and spews heaps too ... and she has gained weight but last weigh she was still under 4 kgs ( which was a week ago) next week when i take her to the chn i will see about it then .. i always seem to get her settled and then she off again , and my boobs are so sore from her sucking .. also too i wanted to come off my A/D but i started to get panic attacks the other night so i have kept taking them ...its good that you feel a bit more normal now .. i think i have gotten used to the numbness you end up feeling on antidepressants that i think if i went off them and started to feel normal and didnt have the control of my emotions , i would go crazy all over again

last night i gave her a top up of ebm ( which she has right after a b/f as she was still so hungry) and she took 50mls and was calm ... but she didnt go too sleep and dh was holding her (i was in bed ) so he dumped her in with me because he really wanted to play xbox i didnt mind though he needs down time too ... so i fed her (again) and off to sleep we went ... she didnt wake till 4.30 when her farting woke me up and did a huge poop which woke her up ... then i couldnt get back to sleep ... then nixon was screaming so i went into him but he was still asleep so it must have been a nightmare.... so i layed awake planning all the things i have to do today and now that i am up i dont feel like doing any of them

well its not good news about DH's back ... he has bulging dics all along his lower back and sadly has a degenerative disease im so sad as he his my rock and i always have known him to be super healthy ...

but with treatment he can maintain his lifestyle....

well i have planned a huge party for the 19th oct .. it will be for welcoming Gabriella and nixons 2nd bday and on the same day will be both their naming ceremonies ...
i am so excited about it .. orderd the invites and now just have to think about the catering .. woolies do huge platters of mini wraps and finger foods and are only about $34.95 each so it seems like a good price ... i want no fuss food .. we usually do bbq's but this time i want simplicity and no mess to wash up ... everything will be recyclable .. well most of it anyway ... i have chosen a theme of green and white as green is a unisex coulor and white on an octobers day sould look really nice .. the green will be a nice lime green ...

only one month to go ... im pretty excited about this !!

[MrsFabuloso]

Hi ladies,

Ohh, thanks for the well wishes girls.

Well things are looking a bit better here. Lily seems to be on the mend, no vomit or fever for a day and a half....fingers crossed its all good. Sucky thing is though I have woken with a sore throat and Liam's nose is really stuffed up...fingers crossed it all stops there!!
We are going to Canberra to visit some friends today so I'm hoping everything stays good. We're staying for the weekend, our first trip away dince Lily was born!! Should be interesting. I'm hoping the drive is good too, only 3hrs, so not too long, but we'll see. 3hrs is forever when you have 2 screaming babies in the car! We might go to Floriade and the war memorial while we're there. I've never been. I'm looking forward to getting out of this sick house!

Lea and Kristi, I think Liam is sensitive to dairy too. I have just stopped having it. I got some soy milk. It might have helped. I had chocolate the other night and OMG!! We had a terrible night with him. I'm not game enough to try to reintroduce dairy in case there's a repeat of that night. We had a great night last night, just his 3hrly wakes for a feed and straight back to sleep, YAYYYYY!! First time since hospital that we haven't been awake half the night.

Ok gotta go and finish packing to be ready for rest time, hopefully they'll both sleep the whole way ther....I think that might be wishful thinking though!

I hope everyone is well.

[Tegam]

Hi no time but...
Kel glad things are settling down for you,

Lea: the party sounds nice, i love lime or apple green! I did the woolies platters for evies baptism and there were GREAT! am doing them again for a bridal shower on the 3rd october for a friend!

Kristi: Sorry that this is a hard time for you! Rubee cait...such a lovely name, thinking of you.

Welcome those that are new..

Hi Erin and danielle

US: DH has finished his three month training...which took 5 months LOL..... Thomas and i flew to sydney to spend the night with him last night...very nice but i am tired now DH due home sunday for 3 days ! yippy...

[kristi14]

Hi,

Lea and kell, sounds like our little ones are having the same issues with milk and feeding. Chardonnay fusses and fidgits, wakes easily, will scream in pain when shes sound asleep, seems to want to be upright or on me or in her swing, vomits ages after a feed, gags and vomits, gets a snuffly nose. She brings up her wind easily though so that directs me away from looking at colic and more at LI or reflux. She has a large amount of reflux symptoms, but she can have times where she is settled, so im just not sure. She seems to have improved a little on the LF formula, but still doing the same things. My CHN said to monitor her and we will try and figure out whats going on with her.

Lea- IKWYM about getting used to the numb feeling on AD's, in a way its sort of good to be a bit like that. Well i think so with how anxious and wound up i get. Its a hard situation for me, i seem to react to all AD's with bad side effects but they help me with my anxiety, unfortunately the side effects get so much that i cant stay on them. Like they cause me to get the shakes badly, or affect my mental alertness or sleep. They had me on zoloft just now, tmi but i have had diarrhoea for a month non stop, now ive stopped taking them, the diarrhoea has stopped. They were also causing me to not sleep hardly at all and affecting my mental alertness. I would see/hear things but they wouldnt register for a long time making my reaction time slow. When driving, this is extremely dangerous and i cant put my kids in danger like that. Now i am off them, all these things have settled. I dont know what to do, to do CBT for my OCD i need to be on AD's to be calm enough to challenge my compulsions. Sorry to hear about your DH's back, that sounds painful for him. YAY on the party you are planning, it sounds like lots of fun, gorgeous colours you have picked, i love that green

kell- I am SO pleased to hear you had a good night last night with Liam and that the sickness in your house looks to be shifting, its about time you got a break. Have a good time in Canberra, i hope the kids are good on the trip.

Milly- Thanks for your thoughts, i really appreciate it. YAY on DH finishing his training, thats excellent!!

Look!! I managed to get personals done !! The first time in over a month i think.

Have a good weekend girls

Kristi

[Party-of-five]

hello everyone thanks for making me feel welcome
My baby had bad reflux so I was told by my GP to put her on S26 AR , that stopped the spewing but made her badly constipated and was awful to mix up...too thick and she also had trouble burping but after struggling on that for a week a friend told me about novalac AR which we are finding fantastic she burps, poops and can finish a bottle in about 10 minutes instead of the hour it was taking with the other stuff.
sounds like everyone is very busy at the moment
its great to read your posts Ive picked up some great hints
bye for now
tasha

[Tegam]

Can only make this quick as a storm is getting closer by the minute.

Finished a quilt for Thomas today, floor size its so cute (so a but bigger than cot size). Different after getting so "pink" for the last 4 years....Weird not to have a fairy on it LOL. Will take a photo and put it on FB.

Hope you are all well,

[snowchickie79]

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 ...

Mel

Mel - If this is a growth spurt then it's lasting ages. Been about 3 or 4 days now and still going on.. She woke at 3.30am and i fed her this morning and then back to sleep just after 4am but in bed with me. Then woke 7am for a feed. Unlike her to wake at night so I'm assuming it must be a growth spurt so hopefully it'll be finished soon. I'm going to the clinic tomorrow to get her weighed and also because she has been really windy these 3 or 4 days and waking after an hour of sleep and screaming her lungs out so I'm not sure if the is colicy or has reflux. I can't seem to put her down without her screaming in pain. *speak of the devil she is crying*...

... ok so 5 hours later I'm back to finish my post.. hehehe She hasn't settled all day again and just managed to go and pick up her hospital photos and get some groceries. I think I may have found the culprit to her unsettledness!!! I've been eating these rice cakes that I love but they have italian herbs and tomato flavouring. i'm wondering if it's been upsetting her belly as she has been pooing like a trooper all day and last few days and when i think about it I probably started eating them around when she became unsettled.

hello everyone
I had a beautiful little girl on the 23rd of august 2008 and i already have an 8 year old son but because of the big gap i feel like a first time mum again.
im a bit out of the loop with this online parenting stuff but i think its great, its been so helpful.
hope youz dont mind me jumpin in but it would be great to chat with other parents with the same age babies cause im pretty sure everyone else is sick of my baby talk allready

Tasha

Tasha - Welcome to the thread

Anyway i'm off to try and get some more stuff done while she is finally asleep.