Babies Born August 1st - 15th 2008

[nagromeyk]

Hello everyone!

Well as promised I am back again to post and to say:

Kye is two weeks old today

Omg I cant believe that two weeks has passed already. Seems like just yesterday I was thinking of ways to bring on my labour.... lmao

MM - I am hearing ya on shocker nights. I've had a couple lately. The whole day yesterday too was a bit of a write off aswell. Kye just would not settle and in the end we figured out it was cause he had wind. Poor fella, here we are thinking he's hungry but no had a real bad bout of colic. I went to the chemist and got a bottle of 'Infants Friend' and boy did it make a difference. He only woke twice during the night to feed and even had a 4 hour block which is so not like him. He settled awesomely well afterwards too, yay!! I am slowly starting to get a routine happening one which is allowing me to get some more sleep which is always a good thing!

KG - sorry to hear Eli has a temperature

Squidipa - 70grams doesnt seem like alot for just over a week. I would be checking with your MW and seeing what they say.

I am changing Kye onto 'infant' nappies. He has already outgrown the newborn size!! Havent even been through one of the three boxes I got so have put them on ebay hopefully someone will buy em (put them on for $25 a box which I thought was reasonable) Have also put on a few of his 0000 Bonds suits which he has already grown out of but yeah they havent sold

Anyways time for me to eat while the man is sleeping, I am starving!!

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

[*Beema*]

Good afternoon Mums and Bubs

I got a screaming headache So am going to try and keep this short....

Hmm up at 7, feed and change bubs, friend arrived at 8am, we went to the markets at 8:30am took Nakita for her first trip to the markets, got a heaps of fresh fruit and vegies and free ranges eggs, came home, cooked bacon, eggs and hashbrowns - well started my friend had to help as I needed to feed again.

Finished feeding now I am on BB for a few minutes!!! Half an hour until next feed so need to dry some clothes, stack the dishwasher, clean pump equipment, shields, and hopefully have a shower, hoping Nakita sleeps after the next feed then I can work!! A friend is having birthday drinks but I can't be bothered today, we had a big catchup with them last week so just gonna hang at home...

Squidipa, don't stress too much about the weight gain, it can be very up and down, as long as you have a lot of wet and pooey nappies, Josiah is settled, then just keep going hun, ring the nurse if you are worried, they may jsut get you to bring him in for another weigh in a bit closer together this time. Nakita only put on 80 grams this last week, and I am not worried, will weigh her again in another week and a half and if it hasn't gone up by a good figure then we will go from there. :hugs:

Happy 2 weeks Kye!!!

:woot: Nakita is 2 months old - OMG!!!!! LOL Rachel, she in just over half the size of Eli!!!! I reckon his mumma's milk is pretty good stuff!!

Hooray for the new bra's mums - nice to treat yourself.

Nakita has been more settled, although not at this minute, the hiccups get her really upset for little tike, she really hates them!!!

Huge :hugs: MM, I hope he doesn't require surgery, don't feel bad there is nothing you could have done to prevent it :hugs:

The Pixie, do you only use the dummy after a feed to settle her? I am terrified of giving Nakita a dummy as I don't want her to get addicted but I hear you with the hanging off the boob!!! There is a limit to how long we can stay attached!!

Hooray for sleep Leasha!!! My boobs are lopsided, plus I always get more from the left than the right, one had always been slightly bigger than the other - pretty normal I think

Sorry for the rest of ya, must run or I will miss out on my shower!!!

[squidipa]

Squidipa, don't stress too much about the weight gain, it can be very up and down, as long as you have a lot of wet and pooey nappies, Josiah is settled, then just keep going hun, ring the nurse if you are worried,

there is 4 nappies a day abouts and very rairly are they fully wet. I rang the child health clinic to try to talk to nurse but obviously being Sunday nothing left a message. I then rang 13 health talked to nurse whoms aid i honestly dont know about baby birth weights so he gave me a number to call. The number was uselss as it wasnt for my area couldnt get through.


Kiwi girl... the dr was blinking useless. he said go see the nurse in next room to be weighed. The nurse tried to weigh baby fully dressed and i said no i want it done properly as he has a tongue tie and want to be sure he is feed correctly. They did the weight and she walked off i asked her to write it in back of book with other weights and she did but said nothing. In a rush with the 3 year old playing up we left as nurse was busy with another patient and walked off. Got home and looked in back off book. then this morning relaised hang on there was a check up in the book where they wrote his weight on the 22nd that was this morning when i realised and calculated crap thats not much of a gain. So no midwife didnt even add anything up she just walked off.

Im glad Eli is a bit better

SASHA.. i would return the box's of unused nappies to shop where ya got them from they will give you store credit for what ever the amount is they are at at time of return if u dont have a receipt. Once i bought 2 full boxes at a garage sale and returned then to big w and got 60 for them when i only paid 5 each good hey. The lady said im intitaled do do that they cant refuse me.

Joshie is restless i guess it could be the antibiotics. For some reason me and hubbie are more sick today than yesterday strange. I have folded about 5 loads of washing today and all the 3 years stuff in cupboard. i have pulled out his size 2's and 1 items and bagged them up for josh. Along with all the new ebay stuff we got. sorted in sizes and bagged them up with a lable. I did one lo bought it back in MAY and still have not done it. i LOVE my new bra its fabulous i have defenetly needed it if i am getting this exited about it hey.

I am very very very unimpressed with a 70 gram weight increasement none of the other kids were like that so it brings up questions???? are i not feeding him enough? he still has a funny nose poor man. And has been skipping the early morning feed. this is not uncomon as by 8 week all the kids skipped that early morning feed. He does wake but just wants a quick suckle of the dummie. He eats most often on average 2 -3 times in 3 hours.

Well gotta scoot my back sore from bending over doing the dishes the sinks to blinkin low grrr

[TheBear]

do you only use the dummy after a feed to settle her?

Since we've cut back on the length of the feeds, we've started using the dummy to settle her as her appetite is clearly much bigger than her stomach can handle!

We're also using it if we need to delay a feed, so if we're out somewhere and it isn't convenient to BF and she's woken up and starting letting us know that she is hungry then we'll let her have the dummy to let her start sucking on something and stay calm.

We're trying to limit the time that she has it, as it's not something that we're keen on either...

Squidipa - Don't panic over the weight gain, some weeks they will grow heaps, and some they will go backwards. Remember that a feed will weigh >80g so the weights are only accurate +/- 100g or so.

[*Beema*]

Thanks the Bear We will keep going the way we are at the moment, but I would be interested to hear how you go, I have spoken to DH about your methods too and we are going to keep it in mind, I have a couple of premmie dummies which would do the job should we need them!

Squidipa, I change Nakita 6-7 times a day, usually halfway through a feed, (as she gets a bit worked up if I do it before, chucks up if I do it after, and she usually poos not long after waking or partway through a feed, so saves me getting sprayed with poo or wizz ) I would say of those nappies 6 out of 7 are pooee, about the same wet, some not very wet, maybe just 1-2 are very wet. she has 7 feeds on average a day... Our MW if very happy with this number and variety!!

You mentioned wetness but not poo? If there isn't much poo, perhaps he is constipated? What are his legs doing, does he bring them up to his chest, perhaps windy? Sorry for the million questions just trying to see what could be happening.

Also when was Josiah weighed the last two times, before or after feeds, also how wet/pooey was his nappy before each weigh-in, just wondering if he had just emptied his bowels before the second weighin and not the first (can make a pretty huge difference. I wouldn't be too concerned though about the figure itself, just more about whether his bowels etc are working well or at least the same as they were previously with the larger weight gains. Sometimes bubs will poo and wee more than others so doing comparisons can be misleading as well.

Well off to make a cuppa and cut up some bun as I hear little miss starting to stir right on for her 4pm feed - gee she's a good alarm clock!!!

[squidipa]

hey vic thanks for your post dadda is doing bom change so gotta type quick .... he does do poo's every bom change pretty much so. Normally weigh in has been 1 hour or more after feed.

born on 31 weighed 3410
discharge weight 4 th aug 3230
13 august weight 3340
15th aug weight 3430
22 aug weight 3640
30th aug weight 3710

gotta scoot vic to feed josiah.

[2girlz]

Hello everyone

I have a spare moment finally

Squidipa- which doctor did you go to? I can't believe how hopeless they were. Big I wouldn't worry too much about the weight gain. I also found 1300 health to be hopeless How are you feeling today?

Vic- LMAO about being sprayed wth pooee and wee I haven't experienced that one yet *knocks on wood* I saw the new pictures of Nakita she is soooo adorable

The bear and Pixie- Allegra has been doing the same thing over eating and spewing it back up. Is there a trick to get bubs to take a dummy? Allegra will suck but then spit it out I have tried two different shapes of dummy and both get the same result spat out or she dry reaches.

Sasha- HAPPY 2 WEEKS how funny is it that we have the same milestones again HAHA. I can't believe he is in infant nappies already!!!

Kiwigirl- I hope you get longer breaks between feeds

MM- chicky don't feel bad how are you going?

Leash- YAY for Jazz waking up twice a night bet you're feeling a lot more human oh and I have to put my hands up for the lop sided boobies too hee hee

Mel- I hope the house selling isn't too stressful for you, Isn't the childcare situation silly I had trouble getting Cadence into a new center when I wasn't happy with the one she was in.

Sorry if I have missed anyone.

Allegra is the best baby she is now sleeping through the night we go to bed around 11 then she wakes up and 5am Cadence was a wake up every hour baby!
Does anyone elses baby do the noisiest pooee's? OMG Allegra cracks me up I never knew such a big noise could come from such a little person