Babies Born August 1st - 15th 2008 #4

**Astrolady** · October 28th, 2008, 03:14 PM

This thread is for parents who's baby was born August 1st - 15th 2008

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There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Breastfeeding General Chatter
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information
Is Feeding Your Baby Taking Too Much Time?
Bottlefeeding General Chatter
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids/Homemade Baby Food
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?
Starting Solids General Chatter

Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids.

Sleeping Support:

Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum
Comforting Tools to Aid Restful Sleep
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Con of Controlled Crying
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Wearing
Recommended Reading List

Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids
Gentle Parenting Forum

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**mountain mummy** · October 28th, 2008, 03:57 PM

Squidipa (from previous thread) - yeah, our birth years ... saves changing our ages every time we have a birthday! And yes, I am 3 years (and 11 days) older!!

**MamaK** · October 28th, 2008, 04:13 PM

Bah who gives a rats about age? My Mum is about 4 years older than my step dad, and I myself have dated some younger guys in the past! (BIG mistakes they were!!!) LOL

Congrats Squid on getting first post....how long were you hanging around waiting for that? LOL

Seven has had a pretty good day today, she had her friend Michaela come over and play. I will post a pic up. Michaela LOVES giving Seven kisses!!!!

Ooh cripes, I had better scoot and make dinner, DF is off to the Slipknot concert tonight and will need to eat asap!

**kiwigirl** · October 28th, 2008, 06:36 PM

Hi!!!

Just got back last night from a holiday in Napier (~6 hours away) - had a great time and Eli continued to be a fantastic traveller

I'm so loving being a mum, I never thought I'd feel this happy being a mum and can't imagine life without him.

He's now over 8kg (omg!) and much better at lifting his head off the mat, he's playing with toys now which is so fun to watch and loving sucking on his hand. He squeals with delight so loudly and giggles for me

Hope you are all well *mwah!*

**mountain mummy** · October 28th, 2008, 06:48 PM

Holy crap Rachel!!

And i thought Veygas was big! LOL .... you are obviously doing a very good job with him! I'm so glad for you that Eli is such a good traveller! And wow for lifting his head!! I put Veygas on his tummy and he just spews ... literally!! hehehe But on his back, he tries to lift his head (like he's trying to do sit-ups ... that I should be doing hahahaha!)

CM4E - yeah, I mostly dated younger guys ... why?

My first time (in high school) was with a younger guy!! LOL! DS1's dad was 2 years younger than me, DD's dad was 6.5 years younger (

VERY big mistake LOL!) and yeah, DP is 3 years younger ... but I can get away with it cause I look young!!

I wish this ridiculous weather would make up it's mind! We had a lovely warm sunny day and about half an hour ago, the mist started rolling in from the bush!! LOL! And it's now quite chilly outside

I am so over cold weather! And I am even more over this hot ... cold ... hot ... cold ... (who's ... doing ... that ... - sorry, my life is one huge Simpson's episode!! LOL)

What's the point of having daylight savings if the "extra" daylight hours are crappy???

**thepixie** · October 28th, 2008, 09:44 PM

Hey folks - just a quickie cause it's been a full-on day!

I'm so loving being a mum, I never thought I'd feel this happy being a mum

Rach - I know exactly what you mean! I was a bit apprehensive about being a mum but I'm loving it! Love my little girl she's so awesome.
MM - for a second I thought the same thing about the 73/76 - cause most people put their age there for a second I thought crikey aren't they a bit old to be having kids! But of course I realised pretty quickly especially since I was born the same year as you!
Kel - my dad is 18 years older than his wife, who is only 12 years older than me, and they have been married for 18 years.. their youngest kid is 22 years younger than me and only 12 years older than Beth, and my dad's oldest is 37, I'm # 2 of 5 - you can get really confused hanging out with my family!
big wave to Squidipa, Vic, Mel, MT, sash, kel and everyone else!

**MummyTummy** · October 28th, 2008, 11:17 PM

Hey Everyone,

Every time I went to post today I got distracted (or fell asleep!!

) so the day has kinda got away from me. So hopefully I will be back tomorrow to do a better post, but I do have a full day tomorrow so maybe not.

Jett has been an absolute angel all day today, it seems like I suddenly have a different kid. Mind you he has never been that bad in the first place!

Oh well, gonna get to bed before I have to get up to take the car for it's first service tomorrow morning.

Goodnight!

**mountain mummy** · October 29th, 2008, 08:24 AM

hehehe Pixie, if people REALLY want to know how old I am, they can figure it out LOL!

MT - I can so understand about getting distracted!! That happens to me every time I go to do housework LOL!

I realised in the shower this morning that I forgot to add NZ to our half way meet up!!

Sorry Rachel!!

Anyway, gotta change these two munchkins - they BOTH decided to fill their BRAND NEW NAPPIES within half an hour of having them on!

Oh well, I guess that's what nappies are there for!

**squidipa** · October 29th, 2008, 08:47 AM

well i have bout 30 mins before weigh in and i am nervis especially after that gain he popped big time as he only pooeys ever 4-5 days it seems. Very nervis indeed being scales are same i will weigh in at home

**Indadhanu** · October 29th, 2008, 08:47 AM

I forgot to add NZ to our half way meet up!!

mm... so what i'm hearing is, we're going on a cruise

halfway between aust and NZ

As for ages, Shel is May 1981 and I am September 1986, so 5 years 4 months between us. Theres 6 years between my mum and dad (dad is older).

Lol, I had some Jehovahs Witness people come to the door yesterday, an old Italian couple. Gee they were lovely, Jazz smiled at them the whole time and the lady smothered Jazzy's head with kisses (she asked first of course). I took their information thing, even though I am Buddhist so not really interested. Well, they were very nice so I respect that, they weren't pushy at all. I'd like to adopt them actually LOL they were so lovely!

Well we've had some shocker nights, back to 1am and 5am feeds + playtime, and a velcro baby who'll only sleep on me during the day. Fun fun fun, but she was 12 weeks yesterday, and around this time is a 'wonder week' so I'll just remind myself she's going through some changes and it'll settle soon. For some reason though night wake ups aren't as horrendous as they were, I mean its still hard getting out of my nice comfy bed lol but I'm not as trashed in the morning. Guess thats a pretty good thing.

Oooooooooo, yesterday I took a photo of Shel lol it is titled "Domesticated". LOL! I was washing up, and Jazz started crying so Shel picked her up and took her for a walk round the backyard. I looked up from doing the dishes to see Shel holding Jazz AND taking the nappies off the line! I had to get a photo so people would believe me

I'll put it up eventually

Hi to everyone I have missed, am trying to do 3 million thigs at once right now (including getting $85 back from a dodgy eBay seller.. yeah its not a fortune but its a weeks worth of groceries, and especially since I didn't get my item

eBay can't help either because they went and deregistered the seller... why the f--- do that? If they're dodgy then deal with it and help us get our money back don't just kick them off and say "tough sh-t" to us buyers

)

**MamaK** · October 29th, 2008, 09:30 AM

Leasha ~ I just had an almost exact same situation. Ebay deregistered a seller that I had bought some of my wedding jewellery from before I had even got the item! I payed via paypal, so if you go to paypal you can lodge a dispute. Paypal covers you for up to $20000 so you should be fine if you paid via that way.
I did get my item though, the day AFTER I lodged the claim! - and i withdraw the dispute.
Hope that helps!
Yay for Shel being 'Domesticated'! Congrats! Can;t wait to see the pic!

Squidipa ~ Good luck today hunny with weigh in. Even if it isn't as big as Josiah's last weight gain, anything in the upwards direction is a plus! I'll be thinking of you!

MM ~ Funny, I seem to get distracted at 'particular' times during the day. Like washing up time, or vacuuming time, or folding clothes time...... LMAO

Pixie ~ Was doing the math in my head about all those age gaps but guess what? Got distracted! ROFLMAO tee hee

**mountain mummy** · October 29th, 2008, 09:33 AM

Squidipa - GL

with weigh in hun

Leash - bummer about that ebay seller ... I agree, ebay should do something to help compensate the buyers!

Can't wait to see that photo of Shel, LOL!

Yeah, we are back to night feeds as well ... I got used to sleeping through the night and now I wake up feeling like crap in the mornings LOL. Oh well, he's a growing boy ...

hehehe the cruise sounds like a beautiful idea!

I've just uploaded some photos of my boys in MCN!!

And some of Kaliah in her school uniform ... sad but exciting at the same time!

eta:
CM4E - My aunty is only 7 years older than me, so her kids aren't all that much older than mine! LOL I think all of the "grandkids" in our family (my mums and her sisters kids) span across some 20 odd years!

**squidipa** · October 29th, 2008, 09:38 AM

hey leasha yeah i always try to pay with paypal tooo, today i am trying to sort out a faulty item the company is gong to send me a new one

well im going to nz ext year ill just take the rest of u in my sutcase

well yeah weigh in wasn't much of a gain in 2 days but over the week its a gain 80 grams Wednesday to Wednesday yay

80 gram gain and thats with the last few days 6 feeds and 125 ebm

**Arimeh** · October 29th, 2008, 09:47 AM

Morning lovurlees..

MY GOD.. what a rough night *yawn*

Anyhoo -

Squidipa - congrats on posting first

Good luck on the weigh in. Fingers crossed for a good gain!!

MM - OMG you old fart

And in the vein on the simpsons... bed goes up.. bed goes down.. you don't make friends with salad... AND YES - as soon as I get a new nappy on them - they fill it with delightfulness for me to clean... dunno what it is..

Kell - hope your DF had a good time at Slipknot.. its been soooo long since I went to a concert. think the last one was when when DS was about 4 months old and Niners were in town .. woohoo!!!

Rach - 8kg huh.. hmm.. I'll have to check DS's book to see how big he was cos he gained weight really quickly and then evened out and stayed at 11kg for months and months and months. He's only 12.5kg now, which is normal. And yay on the good traveller... Miss M is pretty good in the car, would rather take her than DS anyday..lol

Pixie chick- yup you've confused me with your family!!! LOL Sounds a lot like my BF's family actually (well she used to be my BF.. now.. I dunno... its in limbo somewhere.. )

MT - Yay for Jett being an angel.. gotta love those days!!!!! Miss M is a pretty good baby, but I am comparing her to her brother who was, and still is... challenging...

Leash - thats disgusting of ebay.. they should be doing more to help. And yay for Shel being domesticated.. I could never get DH doing two things at once.. my god.. that would be farrrrr too difficult for him.

Well yes.. me tired... DH is tired... DS is sleeping (I think) he is still not well.. 3rd day of high temps so going to take him to the doc today me thinks!!! Ohhh just heard a bump, I'd say the boy is NOT sleeping...

Talk about clingy babies - its not the 12 week old - its the 21 month old - and MY GOD.. 12.5kg is soooo heavy after a few hours of lugging him around.. what the hell is he doing in that bedroom!!?? Lordy lordy.. better go investigate!!!!!

ETA - took me so long to post that first bit - Squidipa - yay for 80gm that is excellent!!!!!! MM - am off to investigate these pics!!

**thepixie** · October 29th, 2008, 09:49 AM

Hey folks
Yucky weather today so we won't be going anywhere. I don't mind, I think I could use a nap at some point - two wake ups last night

I know what you mean about distraction - what was I going to say?
Squidipa

congratulations on the weight gain! I hope it keeps up!
Leash what a bummer about Ebay.... it seems to have gone downhill over the last year or so.
Mel & MM - I took some photos of Beth in her itti bittis this morning - so cute... will post it when I figure out how to use the SD card reader on my monitor

MM = my dad has five children with 25 years between the eldest and youngest!
hope you all have a good day.... maybe i'll get some more housework done.... if I don't get distracted...