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.
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. 
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 
). 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.
figured out why Jensen was waking somewhere between 1130 and 1am. He slept thru on Sun night and almost last night.... he was COLD! Last night, he woke had a little feed, and (he was asleep) put him back to bed. He started crying at the top of his lungs, I put the soother birds on for him (he can watch them go round and round), left the room and waited 3mins and got back into bed and went to sleep and didnt hear another peep from him! Woo hoo! Maybe all the other times the bed had been cold and last night it warmed quickly?
Maybe when the teeth are not causing too much grief we will give her back the snipped dummy. I guess I am totally confusing the poor child. I am torn between wanting to get rid of the dummy, and wanting to be a gentle and caring mummy....
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