I forgot I was supposed to be on this thread!!! Just spent twenty minutes trying to catch up with all the posts~!
YAY squidipa on your XH letting you go to NZ! You must be soooo excited. I am dying to go to NZ but will have to wait till we have some cash.... and get DD a passport etc.
Hey Kiwigirl, I'm Rachel too - but happy to be the pixie to avoid confusion. hope you're feeling better hun.
Beema - you are always soooo happy! it's great! Great news on Nakita's booties... bet she still kicks them off though, Beth always does. About the wipes, DD always grizzles with huggies (even sensitive) and curash wipes. I got a tip on a baby wipes thread about buying home brand make-up remover wipes and soaking them in water. They're great! She doesn't mind them at all, and they only cost $1.55 a packet which is like a fifth of the dedicated baby wipes. I don't know why you need all those chemicals in something you're only going to wipe your baby's bum with IYKWIM. I don't wipe my bum with chemicals so why do I want to do it to her?
Mel - bugger about the infection - was it related to the CS or something else completely? Hope you feel better.
SB hope you get things sorted out.... minipill could easily be the problem, surely its enough of a hormonal rollercoaster already without adding that to the mix?
Going to start expressing so the Bear can do a late night feed. He is such a foodie he hates missing out on feeding her LOL. We bought a steriliser at a garage sale and it needs a good clean out so I have to wait till i can find some citric acid, whatever that is LOL. But then can't wait to use my electric pump LOL. MM, kel, and.... everyone else.... promise I'll try to keep up from now on! LOL
ETA - and about the bath thing, we have got a little rubber duckie with a thermometer on the bottom.
Ugh! Had another bad one last night, but at least this time, it only lasted an hour!! I think it's moreso cause I'm not feeling 100%, Veygas picks up on it, but I just wish he'd understand that I am better to him rested than tired and sick!!
Pixie - I think you can get citric acid in the same place in the supermarket as the spices, herbs and bi-carb soda ... I've used it in cooking a couple of times (and it is also a great ingredient in home made bath bombs cause it fizzes!!)
Yay Vic, for Nakita fitting in her booties!!
Katti - I started on the mini pill about 9 or 10 months after #3 was born, and I had the same thing - terrible mood swings, crying at the drop of a hat ... my DP said to me after only 3 days to stop taking it!!
Apparently too, the combined pill dries up your milk - I had a friend whose doc put her on it and in less than a week, she wasn't producing milk any more (she forgot to tell her doc she was BFing, and her doc never asked - I think it goes to show so many people assume all babies are on formula ... sorry, that was in another thread I was reading the other day!)
Mel and Rachel - hope you both get better real soon!! I know what it's like to be sick with a newborn (thankfully that abscess has cleaed up since having it drained!)
Rachel, have you noticed any change in Eli's feeding behaviour since being on antibiotics?
Vic, we have the regular baby bath but we also have a little seat thing that suctions on to the bottom of the normal bath. Veygas is still too small for it, but if I'm in a hurry and want the kids to all have baths quickly, I'll use that instead - I'll try to get DP to take a photo of him in it over the weekend ...
Squidipa - YAY for being able to go to NZ as a whole family!!! That is awesome!!
I'm sure there was more I wanted to write, but this has taken me about half an hour so far and my mind has gone blank!!
pixie.. did ya know that virgin fly's kids under two years FREE yep they do
MM.. I do hope you feel better soon and vegas settles more at night. I am a terrible person when i have lack of sleep bad patience Hope you get a good night sleep tonight.
Midwife came and went took 2 hours. We watched a movie on knowing the tiered signs of baby and settling ways. She was very informative. She said that to be sure that baby doesn't sleep only on one side as he will get flat head. I was like ahh o.k didn't know that. Knew about there hair falling out and being rubbed of but not about flat head interesting it was.
Confirmed its cool to feed bubs water if i want. She is concerned with his attaching on to my boob well it's a mixer eithor the tongue tie could be causing problem or the attaching on to boob . Me well i dont see any issue bubs is feeding fine gaining weigh so what the issue? hrmm. She measured and weighed him and checked him from head to toe.
Anyones baby got birth marks?? ours does a large on on his shoulder its pale like in color up to his neck and down to his nipple on left side. Altho mid wife wants it checked just encase it a circulation problem so next time at drs ill do this. Josiah also has a strawberry small mark on his left arm. My 3 year old has circulation issues.
She also said and asked does he pee off to the side i said you would guess so with it being a bit leaning over that way. why am i sharing this well its true and i dunno is any of your boys lika that none of my other two were. So i guess on the 2nd we will find out about that when we see the dr surgeon.
Oh i bough a bunch of boys clothes in ebay today 0000-2 sizes cost me 98 with post for 90 items so i think thats pretty cool. Disney peter rabbit pumpkin and kmart target, bonds, Gap and otehr brands so i good variety winter and summer things. I also received my hubbies fathers day gift from me to him today. I am soooo Dying to share with you all what it is as i think its awesome but dont want hubbie reading my post.
She also said she wanted me to see a dr as thinks i might have an infection
Josiah was 3640grams thats 210 grams in 1 week
Last edited by squidipa; August 22nd, 2008 at 04:29 PM.
: forgot his new weight
I think all boys pee off to one side - I mean all the guys I have known have and DS1 does - I'm pretty sure DS2 does as well, but as he's showing no signs at all of toilet training, I'm only going by the peeing with his nappy off as a baby!!
Yeah, I have absolutely no patience when I don't sleep as well - I don't think it helps the situation any and I have to force myself to calm down, even if it means walking away and getting a drink or something, just for a couple of minutes, and taking a couple of deep breaths ... except today when we were caught up in traffic on the way home from shopping and both the little ones started - there was nothing I could do, but I swear I was nearly crying!
Veygas has been a little more settled today ... we had about 5mins of tummy time before he got jacked of it! But by pulling his knees up under him he managed to move about an inch or two forward! Mind you, he was pushing his head along the floor, so I can't imagine that would have been too comfortable!!
he sleeps better tonight cause my throat is killing me and I just feel like crap in general ... it's funny cause the kids haven't been well (especially #3) but for the most part of them being sick, I was still on antibiotics - now that the course is finished, I feel like my immune system is compromised, like the antibiotics were stopping me from getting sick and now that my body has to fight for itself, it's just given up! I've been taking Immune Boost and the pregnancy/breastfeeding multivitamins, as well as iron and vit C, all with Berocca in the mornings just to try and fight off whatever it is! But I think a good nights sleep would work wonders! (yeah right, like that's gonna happen!! LOL!)
Oh well ... I'm too worried about taking cold and flu tablets, not because of what is in them (cause we get natural ones anyway) but because I'm worried that with the night time ones I'd sleep through Veygas crying! As it is, I am so worn out atm that it took me a while to hear him last night and the monitor is right next to my head!!
BTW, I remembered what else I was gonna say before ... WIPES, I used the huggies ones once with each of my first 3 kids and all of them got rashes from them (yes the sensitive ones at that) I have never had a problem with the Johnson's wipes, they seem to agree with my kids skin!
I have some awesome news..... well my kinda awesome!!!! i have had two good sleeps out of josiah this arvo is the best as its detached form me since 2.30 we went in car got home and he still sleeping and went on swing and still slept till about 5.30 then stirred briefly i picked him up he went straight to sleep no dummie nothing must have been a bad dream. Still sleeping now in basinette. Im like wow this is awesome!!!!!
normally at 8 weeks all my kids slept all night or a good 6-8 or more hours first born was 12am to 12pm with a quick wake up dummie fix. I wonder will josiah be like that????
dunno if anyone read my post before but i posted regarding birth marks i just looked at the first few seconds minutes of life and that pale mark is very clear to see in the pic too.
Squidipa no I didn't know that! That's great I will have to remember that one!
And MM I got the citric acid so I'm just cleaning out the steriliser now!
I forgot I was supposed to be on this thread!!! Just spent twenty minutes trying to catch up with all the posts~!
squidipa on your XH letting you go to NZ! You must be soooo excited. I am dying to go to NZ but will have to wait till we have some cash.... and get DD a passport etc.
MM, kel, and.... everyone else.... promise I'll try to keep up from now on! LOL
he sleeps better tonight cause my throat is killing me and I just feel like crap in general ... it's funny cause the kids haven't been well (especially #3) but for the most part of them being sick, I was still on antibiotics - now that the course is finished, I feel like my immune system is compromised, like the antibiotics were stopping me from getting sick and now that my body has to fight for itself, it's just given up! I've been taking Immune Boost and the pregnancy/breastfeeding multivitamins, as well as iron and vit C, all with Berocca in the mornings just to try and fight off whatever it is! But I think a good nights sleep would work wonders! (yeah right, like that's gonna happen!! LOL!)
!!!! i have had two good sleeps out of josiah this arvo is the best as its detached form me since 2.30 we went in car got home and he still sleeping and went on swing and still slept till about 5.30 then stirred briefly i picked him up he went straight to sleep no dummie nothing must have been a bad dream. Still sleeping now in basinette. Im like wow this is awesome
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