Babies Born August 16th - 31st 2008

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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

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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.

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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:lol:

Tasha:D

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Tasha - Welcome to the thread

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

Hi girls.... I finally found some time to pop in and introduce myself and little Arabella. She was born on 28-08-08 by c.s and weighed 6lb10oz.

Hopefully I can make it in each day and keep up with what's happening with all your little bundles of joy.

I am extremely lucky that Arabella is very placid and I get a decent sleep each night - might I add that I am sleeping so much better with a new baby than what I was when I was pg and suffering with pelvic separation LOL.

Talk again soon. xx

Hi girls,

Well, we had an alright weekend, But Lily was really clingy and sooky, and still coughing really abdly. I took her to the dr again and her ears are playing up again too. She's on another course of antibiotics, her third in about 5wks. I'm hoping they do something this time. We have an appointment with an ear specialist but not until november so we have to try to manage it until then.
Liam is going well. He's still hit and miss with sleeping, but is happier to go down into his rocker during the day to sit there, and not be velcro'd to me. He's feeding really well and is smiling and trying to laugh and talk, he makes little squeeks and noises when I chat to him, it's sooo cute! We are still cosleeping and I'm reluctant to stop cause I get more sleep with him in my bed, but the sucky thing is DH won't sleep with us and is on the lounge.
I have my 5-6wk check up soon for Liam, and I should really go to the dr for my check up. I don't remember getting one when I had Lily...
Anyway, gotta go the boy is stirring. I hope everyone is well.

Nic Welcome hun, great to see you here! Congrats on little Arabella :)

Kellie I hope Lily isn't in too much pain with her ear poor little thing!

Sorry I haven't been posting. I have been reading your posts so am pretty much up to date with you all I just haven't been up to doing a big personal post.

Been very stressed here. DH & I are at each others throats everyday for about the past 2 weeks. I wont go into it but its driving me mental.

Tobias has been good, gaining lots of weight. Into sz 000 & quickly out-growing the newborn sized huggies nappies. I bought some MCN's but he's too small for them & I dont have any money to buy more atm so using the disposables we have which I managed to pick up for cheap off ebay from a lady who lives near me & had opened boxes from when her little one grew out of them. He sleeps for about 7 hours straight for his first night time sleep which is currently from about 8pm, then 4 hours after that one. I'm trying to get his long sleep starting a little later though so I get more sleep in bed haha. He's also awake alot during the day now.

I still havent had a chance to get my anti-biotics for my right nipple infection. I went to the medical centre twice today but the wait was far too long with Tobias with me so I hope to get in there sometime when there's not much wait as I need to get rid of this infection. Sorry if TMI but its got an awful smell to it now which is gross & I know not a good sign. I also need a pap test as I'm now almost a year over-due, cant let that go!

I hope everyone is well & I hope to catch up on personals when I'm in a better state of mind.

Danielle, :comfort: I hope things aren't too serious with DH. If you would like to get out one day and meet up, we could, I'm not really that far away, I'm sure there's somewhere in between we could find. Maybe it will get your mind off things, you sound quite stressed out and thatis not good :( .
Liam is getting really big too, DH weighed him with him (kwim??) and according to our scales he's now 5.3kg!!! He's out of his 000 bonds suits and even some of his other clothes are small. He definately doesn't fit into huggies nappies and hasn't for a week or two. But we use Aldi and they are bigger.
You need to go to the dr right NOW!!!! Your nipple sounds really damaged and infected, not to mention sore. I need a pap test too, I don't even remember when I got one done. Before Lily was born, even conceived, so at least 2yrs ago...probably more, since I was pg for 3mths before she was born too, then a few months before she was conceived......
I love your ticker pic, it's very cute, I'm trying hard to get a nice one of Lily and Liam, but it's just not happening!! I have a thousand dodgy pics of them together, LOL!
Ok going to bath my little monkey. I hope things are calm for you tonight and :hug: again hun.

oh kel... poor lily. glad things are sounding somewhat better for you!

danielle: you do sound stressed, hope things calm down with dh soon.

thomas is out of 0000 now and almost 000 but more from his length, i am going to go a weigh him today. Hay all the elastic in my MCNs has failed... thats 24 nappies! they are bumgenious.... what is everyone else using? i have had them for 18months but thats not long when they are $28 each.....

off to get breakfast :)

hi all ,

danielle i hope your nipple gets better soon .. it sounds sooo painful ..
I have to see a specialist in toowong sometime this week or soon , both for me and Gabriella ..
I saw a clinc nurse monday and G was 4 kgs .. so 500grams since birth .. its not heaps but not too little kwim .. so i got sent to a LC as i said i am thinking of weaning from my left boob , i just cant stand the pain it brings , and we went over the symptoms ive been having and have ruled out mastits, thrush , vasospam and poor attachment ...

she believes i have poor protractility of the nipple , meaning it doesnt stretch as much as it should , each feed G makes clicking sounds and is fussy the milk dibbles out her mouth and she swallows heaps of air ... but on the right side i could feed upsidedown in water while doing backstroke if i felt like it and not have any problems ...
and seeing as i had the same problem feeding nix i better get it checked .. and she still feed every 30mins when she is awake , her longest sleep being the night time one and early morning

Gabriella is still really spewy and often projectile vomits .. and it always happens after feeding from the left side and it seems to always be around 3am and when there are clean sheets on the bed ..so i am geting her checked for reflux ..

nixon is ****inf me off sooooooo bad right now , he isnext to me chucking the biggest tanty because i wouldnt let him spray powder all over the room, so now he is hitting me and pulling the cord on my hoody from my jumper , which he has pulled all the way out .. grr his tantys are soo often these days .. i try to play with him , but hes always played by himself and quite happy to do so .. he never really wants my attention when i want to give it to him , but when i cant really give my attention to him is when he wants it .. he wont take a day nap in a big bed , only when we are out in the car he will sleep in the day .. so by the time i have to pick dh up he is feral .. its only a short drive to the station and usually he is asleep by the time we get there , so is asleep in the car at about 5.30-6ish then have to wake him and is cranky all through dinner , then after his bath doenst want to go to bed and chucks tanties ...

its sooo draining and im over it , i just dont know what to do ..

Milly : i use Baby BeeHinds ...and they are great , i dont like using pockets or nappies with microfleece in them as nix gets rashy and can smell a bit after heaps of use ... I have gone through my nappy stash and thrown out all the magic alls that are old and not as good as they used to be .. imo the nappies with the man made materials dont last as long as fitteds.... the fitteds are too big for gabriella right now , probably when she gains another kilo or so she eill fit them but right now she is in bambino mio and fitteds from pookey pockets and ones that my friend has made ...
she is still in 0000 but her feet are long so dont really fit the all in one suits , but ive been buying heaps in 000 as she will be that size before i know it and the summer is long out in ipswich so she should be able to wear it all by the way shes growing , i dont think she will be a heffer just yet ...

Im still using huggies newborn here and there , mostly at night and she still fits them perfectly but when i finish the pack i will get the aldi ones as back up .. we use a sposie on nix if its been raining or ive run out of nappies .. or when hes has a shuge drinkl of milk before bed .. other wise its a bbh with a booster and a fleece cover ... i do have wool ones but they are pretty bulky on an already bulky kid ...

poor gab , she is asleep next to me and has wind , she is pulling faces like shes about to cry then it looks like she is smiling and her eyes flicker open ..

we whent and brought heaps of play things for nix , like thouse plastic slides and cubby houses , and a picnic table .. but ever since we brought them its rained so i cant take him out side to play because everythign is wet ...

its overcast today and i have plonked nix infront of the telly ... i feel bad (well i feel judged ) if i admit to how often i put the tv on for him ...

seeing as hes up early each morning , i put the cartoons on on my room so he can be in bed with me while i snooze usually a few hours a day he watches tv while playing ... is that bad .. i am forever wondering if it is as damaging as the experts say it is ...

why do"child health experts" like to make mums feel guilty ...

Lea, re: tv, don't feel guilty hun, I know easier said than done. I have been doing the same sometimes. When DH is out, I get overwhelmed sometimes. Lily is so full on and will just whinge and whinge if she doesn't get what she wants, so I put on hi 5 or In the night garden and she'll be good for half an hour. Sometimes that's all she needs to become a different little girl. I think the pro's outweigh the cons (for us at the moment anyway). Cons being a very stressed mummy who screams and ends up in tears from guilt for screaming at DD. I wouldn't worry surely it's not going to damage them in the long term, or in any time for that matter. When we're sorted with our new bubs we will get into a new routine and there will be less tv. And besides it's not as if they're watching horror movies or anything. It's hi 5 for goodness sake. Yes I would love to be a fully functioning enthusiastic full of energy mum, but at the moment I'm not, so tv it is.

hi everyone
Im so glad to hear of other babies growing out of 0000's i was beginning to think Lucy was a sumo...everyone keeps saying how big shes getting but she still looks tiny to me, except when i squeezed her into her wondersuit last nite:D
I used to worry about my now 8 year old watching too much tv but it hasnt affected him at all socialy or mentaly.
bye for now:)
Tasha

Dont feel judged Lea....just lie when people ask how much TV your kids watch :) its none of the "experts" business what you do :)

Sadly tv has never worked for Grace and eve shows no sign of being interested in it... It sometimes buys me 10mins in the morning to have a shower but im normally still in there when i get grace saying "i turned the tv off mum. What you doing?" And normally she will just end up more upset if there is an ad or something on that has any emotion she doesnt understand on, or the news preview !nightmare

I say be happy that buys you some time and be proud that thats all you need to be happier and calmer mum :)

Trust me with three on my own most of the time id love a little tv time, oh i did forget "the fairies" buys me a little longer but only if not over used :)

Eve has found me.... better go

well i went and saw the LC, to try and find out whats worng with my left side , but i got advice that just didnt feel right .. she watched me feed g lying down and she said that the clicking sounds that she makes were her way of coping with my flow ...
and she also said that the pain and trouble i have with my nipple is just "something i have " and told me to take nurofen !!!!

AND that i should not co sleep , and that if g is fed and clean i should let her cry for 20mins minimum , so she can learn to fall asleep on her own , and that i should feed every 2 hrs ...she did see the taurma on my nipple but never really did anything about it , i mentioned the pain factor soo many times , in the end she made me feel like i was making a big deal out of nothing and definatley made it clear i was wasting her time ...

i felt like crap when i left .. i thought i was doing fine as a mum , i thought co sleeping was natural and so was attending to your baby when she cries ..

i admit that she needs to feed less often to give me a break , but why did the advice feel wrong to me .. i think that i will find another LC who has the same beliefs as me ...

but as for g's colic (which is pretty bad) im going to try cutting out things of my diet .. dairy should be the 1st to go , but its a big part of my diet ... (but i reckon its a big part of her colic too )

im just babbling on here , im a bit confused about the breastfeeding advice ...

anyway its dinnertime , and nixon has a fever .. its going to be an interesting night ..

Lea, hun if the advice the LC gave you feels wrong, don't listen to it. Simple as that. You are a great mum and you are doing the right thing for you and Gabriella. If co sleeping is what you need to do, do it, if you feel there is something wrong with how she is feeding then there is. And a newborn left screaming for 20mins???? WTF!!!!! That is the most rediculous thing I have heard. You need to find someone out there to support you not put you down.
I have cut out alot in my diet- chocolate, dairy, onions, garlic, spicy foods, anything that might make him windy (like vegie soup, baked beans...). And Liam seems to be alot more settled. I have tried reintroducing chocolate and dairy (they are killing me not to eat!!) and boy did I know it the night I did it! He screamed bloody murder the nights I tried it. So soy milk and no yummy foods for me :( .
BIG :hug:

I havent been able to log on here for four days!! Not cos of my net connection, cos i cant get my bum into gear.

I had my endoscopy on monday, they took 4 biopsies and let me tell you i swear i can feel where they took them from. My stomach is so sore. It feels like i have open wounds in there, which i guess i do. I dont really know what the results are yet until i see my GP but the report says i have thickened mucous and an inflamed oesophegus/gullet which is consistent with reflux. I dont know what they will do about that. It should have corrected itself when i gave birth but it hasnt. I still get heartburn and reflux almost every day. So that whacked me out and i slept all day monday.

Tuesday DH went back to work and ever since i just dont seem to have enough hours in the day to get everything that i want to get done, done. It doesnt help that my stomach hurts so much though, which is making me more slow.

On top of all that Chardonnay has been terrible. Sunday night she kept us up all night, we barely slept.

I still have insomnia where im doing these 20 min power naps and i just feel so teary all the time. I dont think i have PND though, i think its just the insomnia which means sleep deprivation, and an unsettled baby that upsets me cos i cant fix her.

On a brighter note though, Chardonnay started smiling at me this morning. She has been smiling for awhile, but not actually directly at anyone. This morning she looked at me and smiled. Best feeling in the world. Makes it all worth it.

I cant beleive all your babies are going into 000 already. We are still fitting 0000 nicely here. She weighed 3.3kg last week.

kell- Serenitee had chronic ear infections, including several eardrum perforations, from the age of 4 mths. We were lucky to have one full week off a course of antibiotics before she got another infection. She had at least 2 courses of ab a month and in the end became immune to main ab she was always on and they had to change it. In the end she wasnt allowed off ab, she had a continual prescription until she got grommets. She got her grommets at 11mths old and has been fantastic ever since. She has had a few infections since having her grommets but the fluid just drains out now and we can usually just leave it to drain. So if you need someone to talk to about it, i have been through it and am more than happy to help out if i can.

I hope you are all well :)

Kristi :D

kristi14 hope your tummy feels better soon you poor thing and you get some more sleep ahh smiling I have a picture of Eireann smiling but it was in her sleep LOL

*charmalea* I WOULDNT WORRY ABOUT THE TV:hug: I remember doing exactly the same when I had my second son just to get some more sleep and he is fine, my lads get up in the morning and watch some tv im not to worried over it as I know that will stop with school and im not getting very much sleep im up from about 12 to 3 am with Eireann she likes to fuss in the middle of the night :rolleyes: so when Shane wakes up at 6am i put on the tv for him i need some sleep to cope with the boys and house or ild be a zoombie as long as its cartoons your not a bad mum
with nixon have you tried time out I find it great put him in there and then when he sits there go to him and tell him why he is there they catch on very quick with shane we say do you want to go to time out he say no and does what he is told (he is 2) might be worth a try if you dont already do it if you can ignore the screaming and when he is calm reward him i know that sound so much easier than done esp with a new baby and lak of sleep sore boobs im think of you though
with the LC what planet is she on you do what feel right i see another one for the pain in your left nipple and if you did want to cut out feeding from that one and just use the right it has and can be done my mam had breast cancer and had her breast removed she then had my little sister and fed her with one breast no problems at all :)

Im missing my husband. Those of you that your husband walked through the door at 5.30......give him a extra big cuddle hello...i wish i could...his home sunday for a day so that is something to look forward too.

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Im missing my husband. Those of you that your husband walked through the door at 5.30......give him a extra big cuddle hello...i wish i could...his home sunday for a day so that is something to look forward too.

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you poor thing (((((((BIG HUGS )))))))) ild be lost with out my DH I have some idea how you feel when my DS3 was a baby mine was away for a month its was so hard with out him painful i missed him so much :hug::hug: but your so right we should be thankful
have a great day sunday

have a friend that was having a c/s this morning and i havent heard anything.... im itching to know. She has two girls 3.3month and 18months... i know she wanted a boy! ill let you know

i have just worked out my daughter doesnt like to leave the house:( when we stay home all day she sleeps great at night only waking once for a feed but when we venture out even on the shortest outing, she refuses to sleep...its not that she cries or anything just lays there and fusses about. my mum says i should take her out more because it will make her impossible to take anywhere but i need sleep?!:confused:
so do i just deal with miss fussy pants or become a hermit for awhile?
my son was easy to take any where cause he didnt sleep anyways:lol:
hope everyone is having a fantastic day
oh i think lucy smiled today:dance:
tasha