Babies Born August 16th - 31st 2008

[Niamh75]

I spoke to soon Eireann was terrible last night I went to bed early thinking ild get more sleep nope she fed non stop till 12 and was crying in between i eventually got her to sleep after walking her round the house and gribe water dont know what time i got her to sleep but im wrecked shane woke at 7 very cross so looks like all our toddlers are acting up

*charmalea* im ringing to make an appointment today for next week ive to get a smear not looking forward to that at all lol just a thought do you have to have DTD before your six week check up. thats awful about the accident hope that lady avoids getting her arm removed.

lilias your having such a hard time I hope some one can help you give you a break I hope Lily gets better quick for you and your feeling better thinking of you

[Tegam]

Hi Kel: hope things get better for you soon, i agree with the girls, get some help if you can, but if you are like me sometimes having someone "help" makes me feel worse.... Do what feels right but dont ever thing anyone is judging you, those that do arent worth it!

Everyone else that is suffering with a babe with feeding, digesting problems....sorry other than eve being intolerant to grapes i have never delt with anything like that.... sorry no help here.

Sorry Lea, have you not gathered that i am no good at pm's....will write back as soon as i finish this...


Well for us, life is about to become insane...in a good way. The kids and i are off to sydney tomorrow for the bridal shower sunday.. three kids, 1 suitcase, 1 bridesmaids dress, two flower girls dresses, two car rides, 1 plane ride and just me LOL, then back sunday night so grace can go to dancing and kindy then back to sydney the following saturday. That saturday is ballet, birthday party, then plane ride, then drive to blue mountains LOL.... have a week there then the wedding then home....how i wish i had a real husband or should i say a husband with a normal job so i could have some help... Am looking forward the girls and i being in the bridal party together, hope thomas is having a little feeding day LOL. Eve slept through last two nights, finally cut her two year old molers, then thomas only woke once. Visitors left today so have found my way through 4 loads of washing, am very anal about having a clean house. Makes me feel like i am doing ok if i can go to bed and wake in the morning to a clean house.

Thomas is 6 weeks today...what a beautiful boy...and danielle am thinking that the smile the other day was a false alarm as it hasnt happened again LOL.

Huge smiles to all and big hugs for those who need one

Will let you know how the trip goes when i get back monday

[MrsFabuloso]

Hi girls,

Lea, thanks for the concern hun. I think I'm ok, nothing serious. Other than sleep deprivation and a sick cling on toddler....there's not much I can do about it at the moment. But like you I think I have too high expectations of myself. Dh works 4 days on 4 off, 2 days 2 nights, so I do get a break, but when both babies are screaming at night, we're both up to them anyway, so we're both sleep deprived. I got a pretty good sleep last night, about 6hrs, though I was in bed by 9pm. Lily didn't wake up at all (yayyyy!!!) and Liam only woke for feeds, except at about midnight we were up for an hour with his grumbles, and Lily was awake at 5.10am (eeek) bring on daylight savings.
And I got some help yesterday evening, my mum came over just in the nick of time as I was bathing Liam after a monster poo and Lily was screaming and going nuts at me cause I couldn't pick her up. She was starting to heave and was about to throw up, which is what she does when she gets really upset. Then mum walked in and I almost cried!! She helped bath the kids, washed up and swept the floor for me.
Yay that you got a cleaner, that must be a weight lifted for you!!

Ok gotta go, Liams stirring (gotta get him before he wakes Lil...), hi to everyone else, sorry for the cut short post!

[*charmalea*]

i just pressed some random button on my laptop and now the writing is so huge i can hardly read what everyones said ..

Milly: your forgiven .. but i will hassle you after monday and best of luck on the trip .. what does you DH do again ?? pmsl @ a grape intolerence ... none of us are sensitve to anything , so im surprised gab has all this going on with her ..

Kellie: your mums a star .. ikwym about the screaming and the almost vomiting . nixon is fantastic at it , and latley he wants "up" alot and its always when im cooking or on the loo or bathing gab .. i always try and get me and the 2 kids bathed before i have to pick up dh .. so all 3 of us strip and get in the shower , then i get out and wrap up gab , get my self dressed and then tend back to her while nix is in the bath , put her in her capsule , get nix out ,dress him and walk out the door ... sooo not as easy as it sounds but its one less thing i have to worry about when we all get back home ..

does anyone else get bored of being at home ... im am soo over it , but by the time i get to wherever i want to go , im tired and buggerd and look forward to going home again ..

i had a nightmare about my cleaner last night .. my mum was yelling at me about how lazy i was and that no one had help in her day and i should do it myself ... i always have nightmares aboout my mums opinion .. gee i have issues

eww i just got a whiff of nix's nappy ... ovbisoulsy yesterdays poo has come late and back with a vengance ...

[BethsMum]

Hi Everyone,

Sorry I've been lurking and not posting.

Lea - if it makes you feel any better I had a cleaner for about a year here in Oslo and I didn't have any kids then! I say that life is short and if you can afford it then your time and energy is better spent focussing on the things that matter rather than sweating the little stuff. PMSL at "gee i have issues"! I think most of us have approval issues with our mothers and to think that our kids (esp daughters) will go through the same things with us!! Circle of life (or Karma)!


Kell, thank goodness your mum arrived in the nick of time. I have no idea how I will cope when we have two little tykes, but I guess we just cope the best we can and try to grow extra arms!

Milly, good luck with the wedding. It sounds like a crazy week but one that is going to be jam packed with great events that will contain lovely memories for all of you. Sadly I am a bit jealous as I never got to be either a flowergirl or a bridesmaid! And I guess my flowergirl days are looooong behind me.

Niamh, I hope that Eireann settled back down for you over night. And thankyou for reminding me that I also need to organise for a pap test. I had one at 7 weeks when I had my dating scan and they said the results were inconclusive and to have another at six months. Well I wasn't about to have anyone poking around down there at 8 months pregnant so I have waited until after Beth arrived.

Danielle, I hope that you are all over your flu! I can't imagine being sick and looking after little ones too! But I know that at some point in my future I will but I am hoping it's far distant!

Mel, it sounds like Ali is going great guns! Beth has also put on heaps of weight too. I can't believe that you are working already (even if it is from home) I don't know where each day goes. Usually I look at the clock and it's midday and then I look again and it 6pm!

As for me, the count down is on! We land back in Melbourne in 10 weeks! I am so excited! A lot of my 'free' time now is focussed on wrapping up things here and organising for our return down under. DH's company is paying for a serviced apartment in South Yarra for us which is great and then Beth and I will stay with mum and dad when James heads over to Perth to start in the office after new year.

Beth is growing huge! She is in the 90th percentile for weight and I am looking forward to having her length check at her appt next wednesday as I think she has grown heaps. She looks so much bigger in her pram and moses basket.

I have a question for the group about growth spurts. We had a rather odd day yesterday where Beth wanted to sleep all day. She was so sleepy that at one point I could barely wake her and I got all panicky and took her temp (normal) and starting googling symptoms. In the end I thought fine if you want to sleep then I will put you to bed (6pm), but when i was undressing her to change into a sleep suit she perked right up and became the baby I know and love, really alert and wanting to play. So then I thought perhaps she was too hot so I let her kick around on her play mat for 10 mins wearing just a body suit and socks. Anyway, the googling yielded sleepiness as a side effect of a growth spurt. Has anyone else experienced this?

And does anyone here follow a 'routine'. I have been letting Beth set the routine and it has been working for all of us, but I'm starting to think that I should get her now used to going to bed at 7pm instead of 9ish. I tried to start a routine today but because she was acting so oddly sleepy it didn't really work! Oh well I will try again tomorrow!

Sorry for the long post. I suddenly found I had lots to say! And I also am suffering from insommnia when I feed during the night! (sorry can't remember who also was wide awake but I feel for you!)

Must try to go back to sleep now!

Erin

[Party-of-five]

hi girls
how is it that babies can tell the very moment your about to eat, shower or sit on the toilet!?
thanks lea for the sugar tip it was so nice watching lucy having a poo without looking like her head was about to explode mind you her nappy nearly did i couldnt belive that much poo come out such a small person
lucy is trying to make her own routine but everytime i think i know what shes doing she has a bad day but then seems to settle back into the same feed and sleep times.
oh yeah about the mum thing im 27 and still worry everytime she comes round that shes going to 'tell me off' for something...but i still love her to bits
I also get very bored at home thats why im so glad that i found this lovely bunch of girls to share my everyday stuff and worries with
bye for now
tasha

[snowchickie79]

oh and this is a really dumb question but the 6 week check up how does that go i had GD so when i make an appointment should i book the gtt and how much do the dotors normally charge for the check up

Niamh75 Didn't realise you were a fellow GD sufferer. I had GD with CHloe also. I had my 6 week checkup on Wednesday. OB did a pap smear and just checked all healed. I asked about the GTT as he didn't mention it and said that yeah I should probably have another test done as it was unusual that I got it. He gave me the thing to go get it done and said to go around the 3 month timeframe. Some people have said they've had theirs at 6 weeks and I assumed that also but OB said 3 months. I guess he is giving me plenty of time for my body to adjust back. Have you done any BSL's since birth? I did a few in hospital and they were all under 7 and I did one 1hr and 2hr after a bowl of ice-cream with topping and again under 7.

I have a question for the group about growth spurts. We had a rather odd day yesterday where Beth wanted to sleep all day. She was so sleepy that at one point I could barely wake her and I got all panicky and took her temp (normal) and starting googling symptoms. In the end I thought fine if you want to sleep then I will put you to bed (6pm), but when i was undressing her to change into a sleep suit she perked right up and became the baby I know and love, really alert and wanting to play. So then I thought perhaps she was too hot so I let her kick around on her play mat for 10 mins wearing just a body suit and socks. Anyway, the googling yielded sleepiness as a side effect of a growth spurt. Has anyone else experienced this?

And does anyone here follow a 'routine'. I have been letting Beth set the routine and it has been working for all of us, but I'm starting to think that I should get her now used to going to bed at 7pm instead of 9ish. I tried to start a routine today but because she was acting so oddly sleepy it didn't really work! Oh well I will try again tomorrow!
Erin

Erin - Yep have seen that Chloe got sleepy around her growth spurts. At 3 weeks she slept 11 hours straight and scared the #### out of me. I was poking her to make sure she was still breathing. Chloe loves "no nappy time" where I just pop her on a disposable change mat with her nappy off and she kicks and kicks like there is no tomorrow. Normally a wee follows and then when she starts getting a little cranky I dress her again and she is happy.

I haven't tried to set a routine for Chloe but I'm finding she is just making one herself. I note down her feed times as I was shocking in the beginning at remembering when she had fed and when she might be "due". And I can see a pattern now. If she wakes at around 4am then she has a different pattern than if she wakes around 7am but it's usually one of those times is her first feed and it goes from there. Because I am demand feeding it was just easier to do things as she wanted them and now she is putting herself in a routine which is great.

US - Well BF"ing is still an issue. I think my supply is now suffering because Chloe is not feeding properly. I have an appt with LC on Wednesday (was today but they had to change it). We had a shocker day on Wednesday after I had a chicken stir fry for dinner Tues night. She was up most of Wednesday with belly pains and no poo followed. I ended up sleeping on the lounge with her Wed night as she wouldn't lay flat on her back for more than 30 seconds without screaming in pain, and a blood curdling scream I might add. So yesterday we were much better. She had the afternoon with her poppy (alone without nana i might add) and he fed her EBM and a FF comp and they had a nap together then she came home and was all good. Then last night my supply was low so I had a 90ml EBM in the fridge and gave it to her. About an hour later she started screaming again and that was when I realised that half the EBM I'd expressed on Wed Night and half the Thurs morning so she'd gotten half a feed from the stir fry incident. Not happy jan and I felt so bad for her. I ended up giving her a full FF at 9pm to try and flush her out and voila!!!!! Mind you it resulted in her 2nd bath for the day and with mummy in with her.

This morning at 4am she fussed with BF and I had another 90ml EBM (from last night) so i gave her that and then she slept with me till 8.45am. I gave her 35 min BF at 9am but then she was fussing afterwards still even though she went to sleep on me so i gave her a 60ml comp FF and she finished it in record time, gave her another FF and she took another 30ml so I'm really not sure how much she is getting from the BF'ing at this stage.

I'm wondering if I'd be better of just expressing and giving her EBM and then a FF afterwards depending on what I've been able to express. At least I'd know what she was getting and would be less fussing with making up FF's etc.. So not sure what to do!

Sorry for long rant, my typing ers just took on a mind of its own!