Babies Born August 1st - 15th 2008 #3

[MamaK]

Shock horror, I’m awake. Seven WAS soundly asleep, until the very second I put her in her basinnet. She’s been crying ever since. She’s currently on my lap whingeing. Doesn’t want a feed, just wants to me to stand up and hold her. My back is about to break. Holding a 5.5kg baby for hours on end is not good for a bad back!

DF has been asleep since 7.45. He’s ‘tired’. Im over him being ‘tired’. So am I! He doesn’t wake up every 2hrs to feed a hungry baby. He doesn’t get up early to spend all day with a needy baby. He gets to go to work and come home and go to friggin bed!
If I bring this up, I know what he will say. “I work all day”. So frigging what?
Somethings gotta give.

I need this baby to go to sleep before midnight. I have tried everything. Im SO dam tired! This is NOT what it was supposed to be like.

I am sorry about the ‘me’ post again – but I am going to lose my mind if I don’t vent. I know you are all going through the same things, but I don’t know what else to do.

[thepixie]

Morning yummy mummies!
Hope all had a good night and to those who didn't!
Well I was supposed to go and do the bay walk this morning with the girls from my mother's group but the weather is dreadful so not today.... But it's on every wednesday so next week. I don't mind because I have to be at an appointment at 12 so I was going to be cutting it fine. today is the day my stepmother is minding Beth so I can go and get a spa treatment! it's a late birthday present so it should be a great day.
Kel - I feel for you babe... hope you get a solution soon. Leash, where is that frying pan you used to hit Shel with - it sounds like it worked on her so pass it on to Kel!
Vic - great great news about your dad and your sister!! And saw your playgroup photos on FB - sooo cute!
MT - bummer about losing your post, hate that! and great that Jett liked the sling. We have (two) Baby Bjorns but DD HATES them. Wondering if she would like a different type of sling or if she just doesn't like the whole concept.
MM - happy three months to Veygas
kel84 - you were asking about nappy brands - we used to use huggies until everyone started saying they had gone downhill, since then have used aldi and babylove... both good. Waiting for the poo frequency to drop a bit then will probably get the nappywash service, since dad has offered to pay for it.... so then it would be cloth flats.
I posted my birth story here so if anyone has half an hour to kill go for it.... make sure you have a cuppa handy though it's pretty long!
Big waves to mel, SB and everyone else - hope you all have a great day!

[Indadhanu]

Kell... I'll express post the frypan... or maybe I'll come down and smack your DH with it myself. I also used some words with Shel, although it was a bit risky, could have gone the COMPLETE other way so I don't actually recommend doing that unless you get to the end of your patience and don't care about the outcome! Sending some huge cyberhugs I hope Seven sleeps tonight

[~StarBright~]

Hi everyone!

Beema? I?m so glad for your SIL that at least one month is covered for her medication? how stressfull and horrible that something no necessary is so expensive!!! Also good to hear about your dad coming home! Its been a rough week for your family hasn?t it!!

CM4E?. I?m sorry your having such a rough trot with sleeping and settling- especially with no help!!! GGGRRRRRRR at your DH!!! He wouldn?t know the true meaning of the word tired!!!!!! Good luck tonight with the routine thing.. we have a rough routine, the only thing that I find I HAVE to do is make sure Shane is wrapped or else he wont go to sleep no matter HOW tired he is- he will fuss and fuss and that?s when I know its wrapping time and when he is all wrapped he will feed a little more and drop off- but then I have the challenge of putting him in his bed!!!! If he wakes up sometimes he will re settle easily- other times he just WILL not unless he is asleep on me.. when he gets like that I find that I can do the lay down position for bfeeding and he will go to sleep and I just let him sleep where he is- usually my bed until I know he is in a deep sleep and then I move him to the bassinette. HTH

MM? Wow snow!!! I guess winter isn?t quite gone yet!! We have been getting massive storms here too- two in two days? we got hail today!!

Pixie? What a birth!!! You are a trooper!! I think you and The Bear make a good team too!! Do you mind me asking what actually happened to little Beth for her to need to be in special care?

Kel84?. I am a babylove nappy girl!! They are a good price and they arnt too bad except for when DS does some major explosions.. lol but I think he would explode out of any nappy I put on him those times!!!

Mummytummy? The expo sounds like it was heaps of fun!! My mum bought us a little star that projects a picture on the wall and plays a tune.. they are great!!!! The music comes in very handy!! I just have to hum the tune now and he will settle- well worth getting!!! Oh and shane always seems to know when I am in the shower too!!!

Kiwigirl... Gorgeous pics!!!! What a cutie!!!

Well we had a HUGE night of sleeping here last night? 6pm-4am!!!! I couldn?t believe it!!!! That is his longest one so far!!!
And then today we had a big day out- I went to my first mothers group meet up with a friend of mine- all the kids were different ages- most of them a lot older and running around, but we still had fun.. Shane loooved all the toys and I swear if he could he would have just jumped right in the middle of them all!! LoL I sat down on the floor with him and we looked and touched and he was having a ball!!! When I tried to take him and sit with the mums he just squirmed and wriggled till I took him back to all the toys!!! And it must have worn him out coz he fell asleep on the walk back to my friends house and slept for about three hours!!!!! Being a grumble guts now though.. lol keeps falling asleep till I try to put him down then he suddenly wakes up and is not a happy chappy!!! Oh well lucky I can type one handed!!

Big hello to everyone and again Squidipa, I hope your doing ok. Xox

[thepixie]

SB - she just wasn't breathing and she didn't start breathing for about 1/2 an hour. None of the doctors could explain it, but it does sometimes happen. I believe she was knocked unconscious during the delivery. She was moving only minutes beforehand but I think the actual birth knocked her out, so her reflexes didn't kick in and tell her to breathe. Her heartbeat was strong the whole time. She had some meconium aspiration (also not uncommon cause I was 11 days post-dates) and the Bear thinks that some was blown back into her lungs when they were using the bag to give her oxygen, which made it worse. The CMO came up to explain everything to us after she was released to the ward with us and he said that she won't have any ongoing problems as a result, it's just one of those things that sometimes happens, and they don't really know why.

[~StarBright~]

Wow! She is a precious little girl!! Hugs to you and The Bear!!

[kiwigirl]

Vic - I've just caught up with all the stuff about your dad and sister - you have been through so much!! *hug*

[mountain mummy]

Rach - Eli is soo gorgeous, and you are one heck of a photographer!! LOL!

Well, i am excited, I just ordered a starter pack of ... <drum roll> CLOTH NAPPIES!!!! <cymbal crash> LOL! Can't WAIT til they get here, and I will take photos of both my clothy bummed little men and post them here!!

Well, I'm off to have a nice relaxing warm bath, then put on a load of wahing (and hope the weather forecast for tomorrow doesn't change cause I'm sick of putting washing in the dryer - it's meant to be spring FFS!!)

mwah to all! xxx

[mountain mummy]

CM4E - honey, vent all you need to!! Guess what? We (mums) work all day too, and all night! We are constantly on call, we don't get perks like sick leave, annual leave or overtime! Heck, we would have to be in one the most underpaid professions in history!

I hope Seven starts being a good girl for you. Have you tried to talk to Trav about this calmly? (before all the pent up emotion) I know it's hard with a needy, clingy baby.

I really don't know what to suggest hun. How do you bath her? Ever since I got Veygas into one of those bath seat thingys (where they are a little more independent cause you don't have to hold them) he kicks and splashes around in the bath (and wears himself out methinks!) and then I feed him in a dark quiet room (while my other three get up to all kinds of mischief!!), half wrapped. I finish wrapping him after his feed, kiss him on the forehead, tuck him in and leave the room, all without talking to him, and as quietly as possible.

This routine seems to work for us ... but then again, my household has to be routine-d otherwise I wouldn't get anything done! LOL!

Big hun!

MT - yay for the itti bitti's - how do you find them (fit wise, absorbency etc, as opposed to where LOL! ) And woohoo for the sling!! How heavy is Jett now?

Vic - what good news about your dad and sister! And $25 is a heap better than $30,000!!! Hopefully if these meds do her good, they might be able to make more arrangements for them to continue being subsidised!

Well, we had that storm hit early this morning, scared the crap out of DD so much so that she wet the bed (first accident!!) AND THEN IT SNOWED!!!! It's like winter again - currently 3 bloody degrees!!!

Anyway, gotta get DD's bedding dry before tonight and then have a nice hot cuppa!!

mwah to all!! xxx

[MamaK]

MM ~ With 4 kids I have no doubt you need a specific routine! I admire you I really do. Well, we dont really have a routine for bed time with Seven, as I was just letting her dictate when she needed to sleep, but obviously that isn't working for me. I was planning to start a routine tonight, not too early, to start off with and slowly get her used to the routine to go to bed.
It will utilise involment from DF so Leash ~ hurry up with that fry pan please!!!!!!!!!!!

Pixie ~ That has got to be one of the best birth stories I have read! You had me in tears! It was beautiful and well done to you!
Makes me wish I had typed mine out in more detail - but what I have done will have to do. Unfortunately (or fortunately) mine would never be as long as yours, seeing as my labour was 1hr43mins! ARGH!!!!

[mountain mummy]

CM4E ... I had no choice but to get a routine happening! Especially after we came home from hossie after Veygas's hernia operation. I still follow hi lead during the day, but my routine is flexible - if he is showing grumpy signs at 4pm, I'll start his bedtime routine then, if it's not til 6pm (if he has had big day sleeps) then so be it. Daylight savings really threw things out of whack too and I'm STILL struggling to get the older 3 to stick to routine! At the moment, the 2.5yo isn't going to bed until somewhere between 7.30pm and 8.30pm which really exhausts me (considering he used to be in bed asleep by 6-6.30pm!)

hehehe I really admire the mums on here with 5, 6, 7 kids who are still sane!! Having said that, I still want more LOL!

Oh and I've had a few choice words for DP in the past (both with this bub ad the last one, and heaps during both pregnancies) but I think he now realises I mean business and my routine is NOT to be messed with!! NOW who wears the pants? LOL!

[thepixie]

seeing as my labour was 1hr43mins!

OMG thats a quick labour Kel! Took me way longer than that to even write my birth story! LOL
MM - the Bear was saying last night that his grandmother (who DD is named after) was one of ELEVEN children

[squidipa]

Dont feel upto personals

josh lost 90 grams!
i can even explain how i feel.

[MamaK]

Oh Squidpea ~ I can't imagine how upset you must be at that. I don't know what to say to make it all better. Please don't lose faith. Keep on keeping on!

.....I feel at a loss at what I can say to make you feel better hun....

[thepixie]

Squidipa so so sorry, big hugs honey. I think you might need to take him to the paed to find out what's going on.