Babies Born August 2007 #6

[Mollygirl]

Kim - we were row 14 on the floor at the concert, it was sooo good.

I agree with the grobags, expensive but worth it, and I am using Myles' ones for Ella now, because they do such a wide age span (6mths to 18mths and 18mth to 3yrs) you will probably get to use them with No 2 no matter what season they are born in. I have two for each winter season, and one for summer (in case of leaks).

[sconeonamission]

Well, just popped in with some updates. Weighed Jensen myself yesterday and 2wks ago he was 7.4kg and yesterday was 7.2kg. Maybe coz he's so active? Because of his cold he's not eating as much? He's had his cold since sunday last week (not sunday just gone). Today, while we were at mothers group, he threw up and covered his whole shirt in mush banana and milk. Then again on my shirt, although not as much. Temp is 36.0. Hopefully the doctor will tell me whats going on tomorrow at his appt.

RE: moving in with the in-laws. The house we rent is actually owned by DH's father. We rent off them, while they were living in DH's parents live with FIL's mother - it's her place. (not too confused yet? ) Now that she has passed away, the will says that everything must be evenly divided between her boys (there's only 2). So either her house has to be sold to give the uncle his share of the inheritance, or this place has to be sold so they can stay in Nan's house - which boots us out. OR the 3rd option is to do some sort of loan thing and get real tennants in to pay off the loan which would pay out the uncle..... Either plan B or C will be put into action. However, we just do not have the money to stay here as the real tennants (coz the rent would go up) and we don't have the money to buy and pay back a loan. So we're moving in with the PIL.

I was wondering, of those who are BF, is anyone elses baby sometimes refusing the breast regardless of how starving thirsty they are ? Jensen will have a few sucks at one side, so me thinking that thats got nothing left swap him over then he does the same thing. Try that for about 10 mins, trying to hold up tight coz he just pushes his whole body weight away. Make a bottle, whether warm cold or hot and he just takes it. But first thing in the morning and last at night (and thru the night) BF is not a problem... WDID? I'll post a thread in the BF section, but do you think he's trying to wean?

Hope everyone's well.

[Mollygirl]

Scone, are you sure it is not just the let down? I noticed with Ella she will suck for a bit, then come off, then suck for a bit (she seems like she wants to get down) but then I can feel the let down and she goes on and stays on. The let down takes longer now, and particularly towards the end of the night I have less milk (she is waking every 3 hours during the night). My nurse says they just want to keep moving around so want the feed to go quickly.

Also, how many feeds is he having during the day? As they get to 9 months, they may only need 3-4 in 24 hours, I just wish Ella was one of those lol.

If Jensen prefers the bottle there is a chance he prefers that to the bb during the day. Have you rung ABA? They have some ideas for breast refusal, but I don't know what they are, sorry.

Goodluck.

[Campari]

Hi everyone!
I had written a huge post, and then I went to put a new smilie in it, and I lost the whole thing!!!!

So, just quickly now, as I am running out of time!!!!

YAY to Xavier for crawling! He'll be up on the furniture before you know it...! How is his sleep going? Do you find he wants to feed during the night still, since he's at daycare?

Molly - Thanks for keeping up with Milla and the great dummy removal story! We are getting there, but its kinda two steps forward, one step backwards. She is just too addicted to it to go fully cold turkey, and I can't leave her crying. She doesn't have it all night, maybe just for a minute or two to calm her down if she wakes less than 2 hours since I last fed her. So last night I had to feed her at 10, then DH gave her the dummy for a few minutes when she woke at 11, then I fed her at 2, and then she came in to our bed and fed AGAIN at 4.!!!! Grrrrr. I am hardly getting any sleep these days. Day sleeps are OK, mostly without the dummy, but today she was extra cranky and wouldn't settle at all (despite being tired, I know the signs so well now), so I caved in and gave her the dummy for a few minutes. She doesn't seem to care too much when we pull it out. Trick now is to be able to pull it out BEFORE she is asleep, and so far we haven't been able to do that without serious screaming... I am sure she is teething, she has never been such a bad sleeper as this, and I can see the top teeth just below the gum. Brauers teething relief and bonjela don't make any difference, and I am not going to give her panadol every night just so she sleeps...

Scone - yeah, Milla was exactly the same with BB feeds a while ago, and I was desperately trying everything to keep her day feeds going. She happily feeds all night... I found I really had to persevere, and in the end what worked was going in to her room turning off the lights, bouncing on a swiss ball and singing to her!!! This combined effort distracted her enough to encourage her to feed for more than 30 seconds! She did pass through that phase and now feeds pretty well during the day, so long as no-one talks, makes a noise, turns on the TV... or generally does anything more interesing than a boobie! Milla has never had a bottle (and in fact refused to drink formula from one when I tried to top her up last week). Keep offering, and avoid all distraction, and maybe Jensen will also pass through the refusal phase. I got the ABA booklet, but most of the info is free on their website anyway. I was worried about Millas weight gain over this period too, which was only about 100g in a month. That's why I happily fed her as often as she wanted at night. Now that is killing me, cause she wants to feed all night still, despite feeding at least 4 times properly during the day, AND being a total guts with solids. I am going to weigh her tomorrow..... surely she will have put some more on this month!!! I am hoping for 8kg by her 8 months...

Gotta go, hope I don't lose this post now that it turned back in to a mega one!

[sconeonamission]

I have a dr appt for Jensen today and a health nurse appt in May (seems so far away, was the first available on the 8th!), so I'll discuss with the dr first about the feeding.

Those bubs teething... I have SM-33 Teething Gel, seems to work well. It's behind the counter, so you'll have the ask for it.

Kim - my dh loves Jensen making a mess. He doesn't clean either. Instead of messy fruit, he gives an arrowroot biscuit, which isn't too bad - it keeps him quiet, but if you don't get to cleaning any mess of it up right away, it hardens... Not a good look on wood floors.

Better keep going as I'm trying to clean the house so it looks like someone actually lives here!

[Campari]

hey all,
Scone - how did you go at the Drs? What did they say about Jensen's weight?? I just weighed Milla, and she is 7.72kg, just short of her 8 months, which means she has only put on 100g in the last month again I know at least its a gain, but she is dropping down the percentiles more rapidly now... I might try to make an appt with the MCHN too.

Kim - yeah, Milla is the same - she loves her dummy so much. She is asleep now without it, but the night time routine is so much harder to crack. She used to like bonjela, but now she hates me putting it in her mouth. Maybe I'll try that SM-33 stuff Scone uses. Its so hard, when you're not even 100% sure that its the teeth causing the problem. I really want to get rid of the dummy.... DH wants to keep it , but he's not the one getting up at 2, 3, 4, and 5am to stick it back in her mouth!!! We're probably confusing Milla entirely by giving it to her just sometimes, but hopefully we can just gradually get it out of her life!

Her latest trick is to wave at us! Its not only when we say bye-bye or hello yet, but she really waves after we wave to her. And she is doing "high-5" sometimes too, and she loves it when our hands clap together. Also a lot of mammamamamams and bubububububbbas. Especially the mumumumumss when she is cranky for something (like when I leave her in her highchair with an empty spoon while I wash the dishes!) Too cute.

Hope you're all good!

[sconeonamission]

Rhi - Cute pic! The dr says he has got a cold, but basically let it run its course. That what I was going to do anyway Good thing I was bulk-billed! About his weight. She weighed him in nothing but a huggies nappy and he was 7.75kg. I didn't think that was too bad until she said that for his age he should be 8.25kg. Pff. She did tell me (like the health nurse said so there must be some truth in it) that because he is so active (she was amazed at how busy he was) that his weight was fine but we have to watch it. There was also some raised lymph nodes in his groin (as there was in Feb) so we have been reffered to a Paed. They take forever to get into, but we had seen one 5mths ago about his muscle tone, so she wrote a letter to give to him. With dropping percentiles... DR measured him as well, said "he's gotten longer" (duh) and the measured his head and then told me it got smaller! So she measured it twice more! Same result. But not to worry coz he's "clearly bright and clever". I'm not worried coz I know it's gotten better. Must be from all the compliments he gets hehe

On Tuesday, Jensen climbed the footstool thing by himself. It's not very big. We were all pretty impressed. He really is too clever for his age (even if I do say so myself ). But last night I put dinner on and dh was in the study (upstairs) so I left Jensen in the lounge room and went up stairs and quickly got changed before the rice burnt. I was maybe two mins... if that. I come out of our room and my heart stopped. Here's Jensen at the top of the stairs (there are only 2 normal step height), just lowering his bum on the landing to look at where he'd come from. He was close enough to the edge, so I had to call for DH without calling out too loud to frighten him. Jensen heard me, looked around as DH came out and grinned. I started to freak-out as it finally sunk in what he'd just done when he started crawling towards me. We have a baby gate at the bottom of the stairs, just never shut it coz he only ever played with the gate and never got to the stairs. I am upset that he did it, but proud of him all the same... It really makes it hit home that he's no longer a baby.

Gotta go, he's awake!