Babies Born August 1st-15th 2008 #5

Thanks guys!

It was work's truck. I think he said that something punctured the tyre (there are lots of road works along the coast between Sydney and Brisbane), the wheel caused sparks to fly up which ignited the fuel tank.

I'm glad he got out OK too. I'm a little bit in shock - it'll probably really hit me once he gets home. His work are gonna give him a ute or something to drive home (thankfully we have spare car keys! The joys of a new car!) He didn't want me to pick him up, although he hasn't slept in over 24 hours now, and I think he was too tired to understand that I could bring his spare keys, and he was too tired for me to argue with him (he gets VERY stubborn when he is tired!)

Apparently his work is gonna compensate him for all the lost stuff too. Obviously, they are not making him work tonight :rolleyes:

MM: sounds scary...hope hes ok!!

Just had Grace messured etc

Weight: 6kg exactly (birth:3705g)
Length: 63.5cm (birth:51cm)
Head: 44cm (birth:34.5cm)

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mm ya would think they would give him time off paid that is grrrr glad he is alright.

Hello ladies! Would like to join you. My Daughter Ekaterina was born on 6th August (she was due on 5th - so we did pretty well). She is BF, but already a week we eating carrots and couple days introduced zukini. She LOVES it, even greezles when I stop givig a spoon and very happy I give it to her again.:p We got our second immunisation yesterday - was not too bad, but still a lot of crying (together with me). Almost forgot to introduce myself: my name is Alesia, we are from Perth.
wish you all good evening! :)

Alesia - :welcome: I'm Mel - Miss M was born on the 2nd August - 2 weeks late. She had her immunisations yesterday and has had a $hit of a day today.. :rolleyes:
Ahh well, it'll all be better tomorrow I'm sure..

Beck - good stats

MM - I'm so glad he is ok - I'm sure the shock will hit you guys later :hug: for all of you :grouphug:

As I said above - DD had a crap day today - she has slept for about 2.5 hours the entire day - and that was from 11ish to just past 2ish... just managed to get her to go to sleep now (had to give her an extra bit of a bottle to persuade her!!!)

It'll be better tomorrow - when I'm at work!!! lol

MM- How scarey! What a bummer you can't give him a massive hug right away.

Alesia- Welcome :D Thats great she loves solids big hugs for the immunisation tears

Squidipa- Just want to say you have done so well to BF Josh as long as you did and WOW WOW WOW what a busy little growing boy he has been.

Mel- LOL I'm looking forward to going back to work it's a good day off from the kids. :hug: for having a crappy day

beckoes- I find that Allegra is the same now really doesn't like laying down she tries so hard to raise her head and sit up. LOL at looking at herself in the mirror must be a girl thing.

Sasha- I keep teling you you've got a sports star in the making ;)

the pixie- Beth looks so happy in the Bumbo I might have to get one. Where do you get them?

Vic- ggggrrr about the phone call how did you go with 3? Well done miss N on your weight gain

MT- I totally agree with the short attention thing. I sing to ALlegra as well and she just laughs at me as if to say what ever mum!

I'm so happy now I have become really strict on a routine Allegra is now sleeping from 10:30 to 8am most mornings YAY! And she is now 100% bottle fed I have tried to BF but she gags and refuses the boob.
I'm so excited we're going to be renovating the house soon (just waiting on the stupid builder to contact us :rolleyes: ) Our house is going to double in size I'll get a large loungre room with 2 extra bedrooms so it will be a 5 bedroom house and possibly have a new massive kitchen to :dance: I nearly burnt the kitchen down twice this week due to my stupid baby brain. Oh and we were talking about if I accidently fell pregnant and DF said yeah after the reno we would have the room for another baby I replied with an excited really but he said it's not going to happen :doh:

i am up sooo late, naughty me will pay for it tomorrow but wanted to say a quick hi!!

MM - so glad your DP is OK, how scary!!!
squidipa - congrats on joshie's AMAZING growth spurt, must be a huge weight off your mind *hug*

hi alesia - glad to have you here :)

been out for the night at my sister and her dh, my dh is away for work in wellington. she's so cute with e, she's a natural with kids (none of her own.. yet..). e is up to 9 days of no poop... eek, i'm scared of how much it's gonna be when he finally does!!! e is pushing up higher and higher now on his tummy but no rolling or sitting up yet. he is laughing a lot more now, so cute!

squidipa, i recorded those clips on a small digital video camera we have... nothing fancy but does the trick i think!

*mwah* to everyone!

:welcome: Alesia! My name is Amanda and my baby boy Jett was born on the 6th August also. He was due on the 6th too so we both did very well ;)

MM - OMG! :grouphug: how scary! I hope DP is ok, he must have been quite shaken. What was he hauling?

Mel - Poor Miss M. Poor you with having a crappy day with while you are not at work! :hug:

Bec - sounds like Grace is growing just nicely. Jett is the same with the bouncer. Our pram is ok, I have it sitting up enough that he can look around, but he also loves the sling too. Photo

Vic - Did you say hello twice? If you only say hello once and no one answers, just hang up. If it is someone you know they will call back again. Those things are just awful. :angry: Fantastic growth N!! You are a star!

Pixie - you have one very intelligent little girl there!! Helping you change her nappies, Jett now won't straighten his legs at all so sometimes changing a nappy can take a good 20mins!! Loves hanging on to his toes instead, but he can still do it with his nappy on so I don't get it!!

Sasha - What a fit little bub Kye is going to be with aerobics, yoga and swimming! Must take after his Mum!! How was yoga?

No news here - Jett had his first poo in a week last night. Peanut butter poo everywhere, but not as explosive as the last one. At least we weren't going out this time, just trying to go to bed. I was expecting more poos today, but they haven't come so who knows when the next one will be!! He's been clinging to me all afternoon, won't let me put him down, but I have no idea why. Just going with it!!! :)

ETA - Kel - Keep wearing him down.... maybe he'd like a son ;) Yay on the renos!! Come on builder - ring!!

Rach - :lol: I know what you mean about the poo... I was nervously waiting all week too!!

welcome alisia, how good that your little one is on solids, my DD Grace always looks in such amazment when im eating, sure she would like a taste! but im going to wait a little longer before trying anything. We are ment to be having our injections this week...but i keep putting it off!
Look forward to getting to know you.
mel:sorry to hear you had a bad day...hope she has a good sleep tonight!
kiwigirl:9 days!!! oh dear!
hi to everyone else

Goodness me - I go to make a post, and while I am typing one handed :rolleyes: 3 other people post!! What are we all doing up so late?? (especially Rach!!)

can anyone tell me how i add a photo to my signiture? i cant work it out!

thnx girls!
Oh well, I was hoping for a better day after injecion, but not my story. I guess it can be worse, but my pumpkin is sleepy all day plus greezling, nothing makes her smile - poor thing :( plus, I think we got high tempreture, she is not so hot to measure it (to be honest hate mesuring temreture - it starts to worry more then it could worth).But shot of Panadol was sent. I am not looking forward to this night, though Katyusha been sleeping through nights since she is 2 m.o. I guess I better go to bed to be prepared for bad night.
Wow, I see a lot of mums already came back to work - it must be really exhausting!
Girls, who introduced solids already?
Do you wrap your babies? I wrap her exclusivly at nights, tried to go through unwrapping, but failed very badly. She kept waking up every couple hours, so I decided she is not ready - wraped her and we keep sleeping through nights as we have before. Well, I hope she will give me signs when she will be ready. :wall:

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welcome alisia, how good that your little one is on solids, my DD Grace always looks in such amazment when im eating, sure she would like a taste! but im going to wait a little longer before trying anything. We are ment to be having our injections this week...but i keep putting it off!
Look forward to getting to know you.

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We ment to have injection on 10th, but husband called them and made appointment at different day (probably he did it that i would not have time to start worring, considering that first injection was a horror for me lol, I had to wait outside of the room). This time it was not as bad, but still - nothing pleasant. Just get it over and done with - would be better if someone would go with you. And yes, better introduce solids after at least 10 days.
Here you can create a ticker: Lilypie : Free Baby stuff
or google it and it will give you plenty sites where you can do it;):thumbsup:

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:welcome: Alesia! My name is Amanda and my baby boy Jett was born on the 6th August also. He was due on the 6th too so we both did very well ;)

No news here - Jett had his first poo in a week last night. Peanut butter poo everywhere, but not as explosive as the last one. At least we weren't going out this time, just trying to go to bed. I was expecting more poos today, but they haven't come so who knows when the next one will be!! He's been clinging to me all afternoon, won't let me put him down, but I have no idea why. Just going with it!!! :)

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WE had issues with poopy too. Once a week. But then when we started to eat solids, we poo every 2-3 days. And it's a hell of sincky poop :lol: Well, your own baby's poop is not so bad :p Everything will be fine, as long as it doesnt worry your bub!

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can anyone tell me how i add a photo to my signiture? i cant work it out!

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try Lilypie : Free Baby stuff
or google tickers - it wil give you plenty sites

Ooo late night girls!

I'm up late cos I slept on the couch for 2 hours, was sooo buggered after going to the gym tonight.

:welcome: Alesia! My name is Victoria and my baby girl is Nakita, was due 14th Aug, arrived 30th June ;) Hope your little girl is back to her usual self tomorow!

Just a note for, you can only have one ticker in your sig don't want you to get into trouble!

Beckoes, you also need to click User Profile (top left hand corner of the page) then on the lhs sidebar clik Edit Signature :) Happy ticker hunting!

Rachel - you are up late! Hope you had a great night out! I hear you on the "Fear if the Impending Poop!!!"

:rofl: MT peanut butter, I just love how news of the day can be poo, ohh our lives have changed!

Kel, yay for the sleeping through, and I hope you get the building happening... ooo go for a boy, go girl!

Wll I am lost for the rest sorry girls too late I;m out of it!

Work in the morning then premmie playgroup in the afternoon, so should be a good day :)

MWAH!!

Well, that only took me an hour but i made a ticker, like i havent got a whole list of other things i should have been doing while she is asleep...oh well!!

Her lack of sleep in the day ment that last night she slept from 6pm to 5am with a quick feed at 3am !! WOW!!how lucky am I !!! :leap:

Alisia: i wrap Grace at night, she wriggles out as she is putting her self to sleep but i go in after a few hours and tuck her back in while she is asleep and she sleeps well, if i leave her un-wrapped she wakes up! i wrap her for her early morning sleep but the rest of the day i leave her unwrapped as its too hot, but then she cant settle herself in her cot...tried again yesterday and she got in such a state! ....so she sleeps in her rocker for how ever many day sleeps she has, which is fine while she still fits in the rocker! we will cross that bridge when we have to:)

Mel:unfortunatley i dont have my licence :doh:so would make it hard to meet up unless you were in Noosa at some point , but i am getting over my fear of driving (so stupid, i know) so hope to be on the road some time in the new year.

Looks like another HOT day here and she id due to wake up soon so better on with the day.:hello: to all

Good Morning :)

Well little miss N had a great sleep overnight, she woke at 8:10am, and yesterday we were right on routine with a big sleep int he morning, another big sleep at lunch time and a nap in the late afternoon :) Wish we could repeat it all today, but as we have prem playgroup at 1pm, halway through her normal second big sleep, I don't think it is going to happen :( I really want to know if it is the trick!!

Well must run, got a friend dropping by for a cuppa in 1/2 and hour must make the house respectable!!

Just quickly, posted photos of DP's burnt truck here, try to BBL to read and reply!

mwah! xxx

MM - those photos of the truck look pretty bad, glad to know DH is ok though!

I have read everyone's posts but yeah too hard to reply to them all :lol:

Thought I'd quickly jump online and say :hello: while the man is asleep!

Me is bored, I gotta find more things to do to occupy myself.

Yoga was ok yesterday, K decided to crack it most of the time so I only got to do about 15 minutes of Yoga LOL

Am looking into starting him at a swimming school in the New Year, hmmm thats what I could be doing actually - ringing around to get some quotes.

Ok gotta run, chow!

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Mel:unfortunatley i dont have my licence :doh:so would make it hard to meet up unless you were in Noosa at some point , but i am getting over my fear of driving (so stupid, i know) so hope to be on the road some time in the new year.

Looks like another HOT day here and she id due to wake up soon so better on with the day.:hello: to all

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Story of my life - I do not drive eigher, so pretty much depend on hubby :doh: We have to do it! btw we used to live in Mooloolaba before moved Perth, really missing QLD :(

Have you tried any baby music during day to settle her? I turn on "peacebaby" or any other CD, make a nest from my blanket and 2 pillows on big bed and she settles even without wrap. Girls, who need bub music, I can send it, I 've got fisher price, "disney" lulubas which I could share. Unfortunatelly I can't figure out how to send peacebaby tracks, the CD is probably protected too much lol Drop me te line on alesia@westnet.com.au
Cindy, that was one very lucky escape! :o

wow....what a lucky escape from the truck!! scary!

I just managed to find an hour to start paining a shelf unit a friend made for graces room, set up in the garden in the sun, not a cloud in the sky and did the first coat of paint....an hour later the whole thing is covered in wet paint and huge storm clouds have rolled in...Typical!!!

Had another $hit of a day, couldnt use the pool as there were men with saws trimming trees so spent all afternoon in and out of the shower trying to cool off, she is finally having her first sleep since waking up at 8.30am, been asleep since 2pm! Anyway, shouldnt winge, atleast she is asleep and happy now.
I do try music to settle her but she just wont have it, even try laying down and feeding her on our bed...that used to work when she was tiny and would get upset.

Beema: thats great about her sleeping well!! i always wonder what to do in those situations, do you wake her up when you need to go out or try to change her sleeping times?

(im sure this is a stupid question)we have a few things planned over the xmas period, especially in the evening, her bed time is 6ish, do you do the normal bed time routine and then put her in the car/pram and go out?? or go out and do bath etc when you get home or just straight to bed?? you can tell i dont go out in the evenings very often (ever)!! :)

:hello: folks
Hope you have all had a good day.... pretty good here, just caught up with my stepmother and went out for coffee and cake with my SIL... she is in Oz from the UK until January and we are making a habit of it. She will be staying in my area for a few weeks too so even better. Thought I would post some photos of Beth sitting which you can find here and also put some up on FB but mostly the same ones.
Alesia! Hello thanks for joining us.... I'm Rachel, and my little girl was born on 9 August.... although she was due on 29 July! Good to have you on board. As for baby music I have been using Ministry of Sound.... DD seems to like it but it was playing during her birth so maybe she is used to it ;)
Beck - bummer about your day! hope it improves
MM - how are you feeling? how is DH, he must be in shock! did you find out how it happened?
MT - we still have poo every day here... and while it's a pain, I think I'd rather that than a baby who is a ticking time bomb IYKWIM!
Kel - we got the Bumbo from ebay, I think it was $55?
Vic, yay for the big sleep and hope premmie playgroup was fun!
Sash bummer about Kye playing up during yoga! hopefully next week he'll give you more of a chance....
big :hug: to mel, squidipa, rach, and anyone else I missed!

Ok, firstly, I should say HI and :welcome: to Alesia! we are a real chatty bunch in here LOL! My little boy Veygas was born 21 July although he was due 4 August! I stayed with this group as we had all been in the same belly buddies group and we all get along really well!

Pixie - we are good now ... trying to figure out (still!) what was lost so we can put in an insurance claim (we have portables cover with our contents insurance). Todays shopping expedition to replace alot of stuff helped, but there were little things that were lost that are gonna be hard to replace, insurance or not :( But with DP having to go back to work tonight, there was stuff he needed ASAP (I am so gonna go off if insurance insists on replacing .... :rolleyes:)

Bec - I would do the normal feed before you go, and not worry about a bath or routine that night ... but that's just me, and I am on baby #4!! LOL! But I try not to do stuff in the evenings or night time anyway :redface:

Vic - isn't it funny when you feel like you have to have a neat house for visitors? LOL!! I know I'm the same, but alot of the time, it doesn't go according to plan, and I end up with people seeing how messy our house is most of the time! :rofl:

Mel - hope Miss M had a better day :hug:

Alesia - I wrap Master V for every sleep still, but it's good (as I found out yesterday) cause if we are out and I wrap him, he is asleep within 5 minutes!!

We had preschool xmas party yesterday, and as soon as I saw V getting whingy, I wrapped him and put the hood of the pram up, he sooked for about a minute, then sucked his thumb and went to sleep for an hour!!! Today however, I forgot a blankie, so I couldn't wrap him and he just cried and cried until I picked him up! So he knows that wrapping is the cue to sleep! My little darling!

Sash - have more kids, that'll keep you occupied! LOL! :rofl:

MT - he had two trailers of freight for a courier company (I guess the photos give away which one! LOL)

Oh yeah, and how it happened - the drive tyre on the drivers side punctured and blew, the rubber got stuck and the wheel sparked on the road, catching the brake lines and igniting the fuel tank. The truck was on fire while he was still trying to find a safe spot to pull over :o

Anyways, I have 3 little munchkins who are not co-operating with the bed time routine!! (And neither of them are the baby! LOL!)

Better scoot! Big hi's and hugs to everyone I've missed!

Hi all!!

So much to say so little time!!!

MM... Wow- your dh is sooo lucky he is ok!! He must have a gaurdian angel up there looking out for him!!

Squidipa... I say do what works for you- and FF seems to be the best thing for Joshie and thats all that matters! I am guessing a whopping 400grams for the next weigh in!

Mel.. Hope DS is feeling better

:welcome:To the new comers!! Im Kat and my little man Shane was due August 19th but arrived August 3rd- we are bfeeding and he is acomplete boobie addict!! He loves to talk and his latest thing is to do this cute little shrug and blow a raspberry- so adorable!! He gets wrapped at night- but not so much during the day- he WAS sleeping though the night but has lately started waking again at about 2 or 3am which is when i bring him into bed with me and we snooze and feed till about 8am!

Oh and these ladies ARE HUGE chatters!!! I can never keep up!!

We have made it to our new house safe and sound! Lil Shane was a trooper and slept really well- we stopped about every 3 hours or so for feeds and a little play and then he would go back to sleep after a bit of a cry in the car- was a bit toturous to listen to- but i think he coped ok- probably better than i did!!

Well DH is bugging me for the computer so i will try and come back later for some more personals- take care everyone

and big :loveshower:to everyone i have missed!!!

Goodnight!

MM big :hug: wow, that is very scary! Poor hubby! Hope he's getting a bit of time off to recover!
SB cute - raspberries!
Well we had a good night last night, went out for dinner with some friends. Beth was really good, but everything is a bit out of kilter now.... she woke up at 5am today :wtf: but we both went back to bed till about 7.30 so we are a bit behind now!
Better get on with things, BBL, so have a great day folks!

Morning All!!

CHEAP Huggies!!! Our local Foodland had them out for $28.76 a box, so I bought the crawler size as they don't do infant boxes adn she will fit them shortly, and we only have enough cloth for part time... I really should try some itti bitti's out, waiting for better colours to come into stock. Apparently KMART has them for about the same price if you are looking :)

N has started arching her back, like she actually wants to roll onto her tummy :) So I am moving her further away from her toys she she might decide to roll towards them to reach them :) Still goes from tummy to back, just not the other way.

MM OMG OMG OMG :o You DH was sooo lucky, I can't believe he got just the one night off :(, Yeah it's a bit like that, it actually look respectable, when she got here, I managed to jump through the shower, pack the dishwasher, make some bacon, egg, cheese and mushroom pastries (almost had them in the oven before the arrived), and cleaned up the living room, all in about 40min, was pretty happy with myself.

Hope Beth gets back into kilter quickly for you, but glad you had a good night Rachel :) Premmie Playgroup was really useful, it was about what toys to buy, our OT came in (Occupational Therapist). This was the list for those whom are interested:

• Blocks, wooden are better, can be just cheap ones, but check for sharp corners/edges, may need to be softened with use/washing or a light sand.
• Cups, in various sizes, you can get a cheap bunch of stackable cups in bright colours, cheap fromt he supermarket.
• A ring stacker - usually a flat base with a post and about 4 plastic rings on varying sizes
• Books and lots of them
• A baby doll, can be anything really with two eyes and a mouth, arms and legs

All toys are best to be just plain and simple, no flashing lights etc, they are designed to encourage imagination and these toys will grow with the baby, as they develop more they will learn to use them in different ways. She also recommended that if stuff does have a lot of flshing lights/noises that it does so for a short amount of time, to keep them bein interative with the toy. One's that go for 30 seconds make them lazy ;)

SB glad the move went well, the littles often tend to cope a bit better than we do! Hope all goes well settling in.

Beckoes, hope today is better for you *HUGS* I move her and she end's up waking up, at PP I she started to get grotty (should have wrapped her at the start as I let her get overtired and had to cuddle her to sleep, she usually self settles, even in her pram, she slept for about an hour, then I fed her at just before 3pm, as after PP we went to get nappies and I knew it would be trickier and more uncomfotable to feed her anywhere else. I then try to get her back into her routine, but in the end we just accept if we chose to go out and change it up and she doesn't go to bed at the right time then she will probably wake earlier etc.

Aww about the yoga Sasha, I hope Kye is more cooperative next time :)

Well must be off or Nakita's morning sleep will be over!!

Pixie - must be something in the NSW air - Master V woke at 5am too!!! :rofl: Hasn't done that in a while :( And yeah, DP got the one night off, and only because he didn't get back to the depot till 3pm (as opposed to 6am!) and wouldn't have had the required "at least" 10 hour break! :rolleyes:

SB - so glad the move went well for you!

Vic - itti's are good! I only have 2 of them, cause I wanted to try both kinds (AIO and snap in ones) and I like how they fit in the nappy bag when I need to go out (yes, I have finally taken the plunge and do cloth nappy changes out and about! LOL!) V was just getting too much of a rash from sposies (even though occasionally I still have to use them) but I think last week, I only used sposies on both boys twice!! Very happy :)

Just OTT for a bit - I was flicking through the New Idea at shopping today and reading how Bec Hewitt is scared she'll be left at home with both "babies" (well Mia is 3 now!) while Lleyton kick starts his career again. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD is all I can say! LOL. Sheesh, it must be soooooo hard to have all that money :rolleyes: Seriously, surely she would have known that he wasn't just gonna sit around at home just cause they're having another baby?? Whinging celebrities! LOL!

Anyway, got heaps of dishes to do and a stack of clean clothes to fold (you know it's bad when the kids don't have any socks left in their drawers! :rofl:)

:hello: to everyone, hope you're all having a wonderful day!

mwah!!!! xxx

Quick pop in - working... :rolleyes:

Beck - if you wanted to meet up - I work in Coolum, so if you wanted to take a bus or something you could always meet up with me on my lunch break? Lemme know cos i work on Mon, Thurs & fridays...

Or I could come visit you on tues or weds - I'm always up for an outing - I go to Leasha's when she'll have me ;)

*mwah*

love to all...

Better go back to doing this statement of loss and damage. Ho hum.

Hello girls. Was not too bad day, except pumpkin started to greezle and soo sadly give me long sentences of complains, putting her both hands in her mouth. I am thinking about teething? Who has got older bubs, how they started to teeth, what was the signs? Not really looking forward to teething period:wall:.
Today introduced brocoli with carrot - she was asking for more and more till her little plate was fully empty:o. I do not even count spoons anymore - just stop when she is not interested.
Beema, we had huggies in wa for 29.99 in iga, I think I bought about 4 boxes lol. Good saving in the end!
Wish everyone lovely weekend! :*

Alicia- I think we are starting to get teeth here too- his hands are in his mouth 24/7 and drooling everywhere!! also he has started really chomping on my boobie during feeds! I have had a little oke around in his mouth and cant see anything yet- but i think deep in there something is going on for him!!

We started with some food yesterday!! DH has been absolutely ITCHING to start real food- as we dont hve our blender here yet- we have resorted to heinz, but that will change when we have all our kitchen things- he tried the prsni carrot and sweet potatoe and LOVED it!! Ate a whole half a jar!! But i have a few questions for experienced (or not so experienced) food feeders....

1... he hasnt poo'd for a few days, we tried some other food about 2 days ago- but wasnt too successful as we didnt heat it up and i wouldnt say he actually consumed much of it- but no poo for a few days.. is this normal when starting solids???? The ,longest we have gone with no poo before is a bout 2 days- he still has very wet nappies, and he is farting like a champion, but no poo!!

2. We fed him the baby food at about 4pm and he was full of beans for the whole afternoon/evening!! Very happy mind you- but full of beans way past bed time!! Should i make a concious effort to feed him the food in the morning or a bit earlier than 4pm? He usually is up till about 8:30 or so with a nap at about 5:30 6pm, but he skipped his nap and was up till about 10:30!!! lol

oH ANd nappies.. bloody DH bought the wrong size!!!! :doh:DS is between 6-7kg and yes the packet says 4-8kg so DH thinks yeah perfect, but i find the sizing is a bit extream and he always grows out of the them before the packet says he will and i had been using the 5-11kg, which fit great- DH goes and buys the 4-8 kg and they are soo small!! Lucky he didnt bulk buy- only a pack of 48 and since they are so small and filling up very quick i am using them quickly and wont feel too bad when i buy the RIGHT size before the packet is finished!!! lol

Oh a bit oh wahoo... DS is sitting along for longer periods at a time, but another question.. he seems to lean forward alot for his balance- he puts his hands down infron tof him to stay up- should i be worried about posture yet- like should i try and get him to sit up straight or will that come in time?
Beema - thanks for the list!! I actually have most of that stuff bought for ds for xmas!! The blocks are plastic though, but they stack too- as well as the ring stacker!! He has a new teddy nanna gave him as a going away present whick he loves to snuggle with- and shove in his mouth lol but he is doing that with EVERYTHING lately!!! His hands, my hands, ANYTHING!!!! LOL

Well its playtime now- someone asked before about entertaining.. i have a playschool jungle playmat that ds loves to lie in- i have a number of different hanging toys i rotatefor him- and it plays music- but i dont always turn that bit on. i lay with him and play but he is also quite happy to lay there on his own and play- great for when i have to run and pee or eat or something quick like that. Lately i have been sitting him in there he loves it coz he gets to see and touch different things than when he is laying in it. I find the most fun time we have though is just talking to eachother!! DH and i can both talk underwater with our lips sewn up- and it seems DS has inherited our chatty ways!! We just have "conversations" or i sing to him and we dance- it can fill hours in a day!!!

bye for now!!
xox Katti

Hi Everyone!

Just a quick one for now, cos I have to type one handed while Jett is grizzling!

I just wanted to say

:hooray:Happy 4 Months:hooray:
to
Jazz
Jett and
Katya
(and if I've missed any bubs let me know cos I have a mind like a seive atm!!)

Thanks you MT. It is very pleasnt for me and Katya! :* :) And our congratulations to Jazz and Jett! Grow healthy and be good to mums!

look ive fallen off the ban wagon to hard to catch up..

SB when u start solids u slowly introduce them to bubs with a table spoon max a day for a few days and slowly increasing, thats what they say but usually mums know there bubs best. it takes a while for bubs body to work out the processing of the new food and this is why u start slowly or sometimes babies can get constipated. this is what i have aways done. i been giving josh licks of things once daily abouts for a while now.

welcome Aleisa. im kitty and i have 4 children aged 10,7.3, and Josiah welcome to the group sorry i havnt welcomed u earlier but been run off my feet. Aliesa if ur totally unsure about teething wait for the big drools thats always a give away, the hand in mouth helps and is a comfort and developmental thing so thats great u are at that step. Josh is usually having several wet bib changes daily drools mad he does, i can see this teeth below the gum just waiting now.

sorry i know i missing everyone out,

hey vic ya know yesterday i didnt even boobie feed now thats saying something, the boobs are soft and slight tender but thinking might try to force a feed today, I think i was drying up before i started.

Guys girls ladies i have left over tablets from script how should i dispose of them just in bin? they are the breastfeeding milk helper ones cant memba name?

Got all burnt yesterday i wen to the fun day in burpengary for the kids ds3 loved it met up with the other two and ex there also.

my VENT!!

really feeling down about not enough sleep, hubbie snores real bad, doesnt get up to josh i dont mind getting up to him at 11, 2 and 5 but i wish he would take over at 6am but its alway to much of a ask or i have to try to sleep and listen to joshies cries:wall:, so i get up and take over. or i am interrupted all the time or listening to thumping going on round house.
i never get the opportunity to catch up on sleep and i am lucky to get 1 hour solid sleep at night! In between hearing the gecko's yeah they wake me the snoring of hubbie or him talking or growning in sleep. The humidity and waking to every movement, noise josh does and doesn't make, and getting up feeding setting him and the 2.30 and a rooster that starts from 2am PLUS i am sleeping as a sardine on my half of the bed with josh close up or else he wont sleep, i cant stretch or move or deep breath or fix a sliding pillow nope just laying there still all morning trying to sleep. Not to mention my back playing up and a swollen sore ankle that aches and throbs. Usually i have a headache to boot to. thats my vent!!!

o.k maybe not did anyone read my thread on all i want for christmas well here it is.....

SLEEP uninterrupted i might add
showering and going toilet when i want or need to un interrupted and with out toddler or children lining up to say mom the second ya open the door or a baby wanting cuddles straight after. 2 mins after o.k
hot coffee and uninterrupted time to drink it hot in fuss free environment kids not annoying each other etc etc.
not having to ask to sleep eat drink when i want or need to, so some one else an take over.
able to eat a meal uninterrupted with out spectators eying it off and in peace and quiet fuss free.

thats my Christmas wish this year very selfish i know but thats my its MY WISH list, it so aint gonna happen but i can dream well maybe if i get the sleep :rofl:

Hi to everyone:hello: And horray....4months for a few...including us....things seems to be changing everyday now. We are sure she is teething now, pretty grumpy, wont feed properly, chews ANYTHING she can get her hands on, i though DH had spilt something on her the other day as she was all wet but was drool!!! the gum is really hard and feels different to a week or so ago, i havent been able to look inside but DH says he can see a tooth right under the surface!!
DH has just had two 1/2 days off :loveshower:so been doing lots of things, went to see santa!! she loved it!!! Beach, nice walks, went to a friends house for a BBQ (but he has AC so that was my main reason for wanting to go :shhh:)

Pixie: Cant belive Beth is sitting up at 3 months, DD is nowhere near having that much balance!! she looks so cute and v proud of herself!!

MM:Thanks for the advice, il try that and hope for the best! IKWYM about Bec Hewitt.. LOL...Whats the problem with these celebs!

SB: Hi. Grace has just started doing raspberries too...thats my new wake up call at 5am over the monitor!! Makes me smile! I cant imagine doing a big car trip with D, she sreams after 10 mins in the car!! uncontrolably!:crying:! We are getting a new car seat next week see if that helps, she is still in the capsual..Hopeing she is big enough for one of those sitting up ones. Is that what you have?

Squidipa: What can i say...BIG HUGS...:hug::hug::hug: sorry you are having a bad time!! i liked your christmas wish list, must be hectic with 4 kids..think we are going to try for one more (in a few years) and thats it...two is enough for me!

Well, looks like christmas is going to be busy this year, we have different people coming up from sydney to stay from the 18th dec to the end of jan!!!! not all staying at ours house, which is good....think id go abit crazy! but will be constant entertaining! but will be fun!

Hope everyone is will....:D

Hi all,

Just quickly popping in Mr K put on another 220 grams in a week..... and he still has this damn annoying runny nose oh and added another centimetre to his length so total weight is now 8850 grams and length 69cm.... cant say he aint thriving!! :rofl:

Beckoes - K has been drooling hard out for a few weeks now and has only really been taking around 150-180ml per feed too. The nurse noticed friday he was dribbling alot and said "looks like hes cracking teeth" she tried to have a look but he was crackin' it as it was time for his bottle hehe so she didnt get a good look in. She told me to have a look but yeah I dont know what I am really looking for LOL He puts everything in his mouth too but I figured that was just the age he is.

I've just managed to get him sleep and guess what he has been asleep IN HIS COT for half an hour :dance: :hooray:

Horrible weather here last night, huge storm. Got woken up this morning at 4:00am to the hugest crack of thunder. $hit my pants and was sure K was gonna wake too but nup he slept through it LOL More rain on its way, forecast for it to be like this till Monday or Tuesday. It's blowing a gale at the moment - rain is a comin' must go get my washing in!

Toodles :hello:

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my VENT!!
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really feeling down about not enough sleep, hubbie snores real bad, doesnt get up to josh i dont mind getting up to him at 11, 2 and 5 but i wish he would take over at 6am but its alway to much of a ask or i have to try to sleep and listen to joshies cries:wall:, so i get up and take over. or i am interrupted all the time or listening to thumping going on round house.
i never get the opportunity to catch up on sleep and i am lucky to get 1 hour solid sleep at night! In between hearing the gecko's yeah they wake me the snoring of hubbie or him talking or growning in sleep. The humidity and waking to every movement, noise josh does and doesn't make, and getting up feeding setting him and the 2.30 and a rooster that starts from 2am PLUS i am sleeping as a sardine on my half of the bed with josh close up or else he wont sleep, i cant stretch or move or deep breath or fix a sliding pillow nope just laying there still all morning trying to sleep. Not to mention my back playing up and a swollen sore ankle that aches and throbs. Usually i have a headache to boot to. thats my vent!!!

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Oh my god, cheer up! It should be easier soon! I simply kick hubby when he starts to snore :lol: he learn to find better position for his throat that would not bother me with his lovely sounds. :wall: Otherway, he will be kicked and woken up all the time till he let me fall asleep :lol: And yeah, he takes over on morning and pumpkin used to cry on him. Well, I decided to give him oppotunity to find out his way to settle her - otherway, she would be on my neck all the time! He figured out her quite well, and if she still cryes on him, he takes her for drive to let me sleep. Well, I guess this advice not much use when you have more than one kid.:rolleyes:
Anyway, don't be depressed, and remember, our kids it is the best what could happen to us! For one hug and "mummy I love you" everything smears!:p

Pixie wow - I am impressed that she is sitting so well! She is just cute little thing! Cool girl! :)

Hello super quick one.
Squidipa- sorry to hear you are having very little sleep about the rooster you should call the council as they are NOT allowed one in suburban areas only rural you can have chooks on a block over 800sqm but not roosters lots of hugs

Hi quickie for me too!!

Had a very busy weekend, drinks Friday Night (Nakita slept in the Buba Sling the whole time we were out)! Washing, and Work Saturday, Brunch, Lunch and Dinner today caught up with heaps of friends and family and I am buggered!

I have Nakita on just 120ml top up a day, all boob, I am not expressing at night atm as she is sleeping through with the late boob so must be getting enough, so I am going to monitor her gains, and if she keeps putting on weight (enough) then I will keep going as my supply has settled enough, but if she slows down/stops/looses then I will reassess and start topping her up more. But she is very happy, content, sleeping well so I think she is getting enough :)

Sorry for the me post, but too tired to do any personals, hopefully I will get a chance in the next day or so.

Hugs to all!!

thanks everyone for your support i Do very much appreciate it as ya knwo im sorta on my lone some here in qld bar form u ladies, so any instant support makes a huge difference,

Vic i sent you a PM let us know k??

its been so humid i have had sweat ripping off me its unbelievable