Babies Born August 2007 #6

[kungfubecca]

Hi Ya,

how are we all, long time no post, but who has time.

I have only rustled up some time today because xavier is sick and I had to take time off work.

Campari have you been bitten? we are up to our 3rd tooth, and xavier bites if i offer a feed and he's not actually hungry, like he wants to suck but the milk is coming out so he bites down to stop it. It hurts. Needless to say I am cautious about feeding him if he's not ready now. It does sound like you are going through exactly what we are, I feel for you, no sugestions here, i've tried everything I can think of, just empathy from me.
Don't feel bad about the dummy, at the end of the day, you can't function with no sleep. Maybe try fazing it out for day time sleeps, at a time when your better equiped to deal with screaming/patting shhhing etc etc.

Well my monster just woke up, I'll try and come back a bit sooner next time.

Bye

[mistyeiz]

whoa! i've been gone a LONG time n since we got back from the hols, i've been unconnected for about a month!!! didnt have the time to get out network set up n then there are all those deals. gosh, TOUGH to decide. anyway, this is a REAL quickie....

arianna's been good but she has a moments. still no upper teeth just yet but has been grizzling a lot n being a major attention seeker lately. anyway, wanted to ask if anyone's been to the baby expo in homebush? i'll be going tomorrow n if anyone is going, maybe n hopefully we can bump into each other.

[Campari]

Hi everyone!

Kim - That is cool that your DH did footprints of Hayden for you... My DH told me a few days before mothers day that he was going to do footprints for me (since that is what I did for him for fathers day!), but that he couldn't do it alone, so he had to tell me so I would help him! He bought some paint, but then basically I did all the work, he just held Milla up and I got to do the messy stuff! And now there are pages of messy footprints lying around the house cause he didn't bother to frame them or do anything to them!!! I got brekky in bed though too, and we had champagne for afternoon tea, so that was nice.

Ali - good luck with Ems challenge! How do you have to do it, just give her little bits of dairy and see how she goes??

Becca- yep, I have been bitten... Milla has just got her second top tooth, and she is testing everything with it. The first time she bit me was in the bath - sometimes I let her have a feed in the bath with me cause she is so relaxed and I grab every opportunity to feed her during the day, but she had just been chewing on a rubber duck, then she latched on, and fully chomped down. Man it hurt. The next day she was feeding in the afternoon and was playing around a bit after the let down had finished I guess, and she bit me really hard again. It hurt so much. I yelled 'no' and put her on the floor, and her bottom lip trembled and she started to cry. My nipple was all red and a bit swollen, and I kept checking it for blood, it was such a hard bite.... She hasn't done it for the last 3 days now, but I am also very scared of feeding her and really have to pay close attention to how she is sucking..

Also with her new teeth she has just started grinding them. Has anyone elses bub been doing that? Its such a horrible noise and I can just imagine her gorgeous little teeth being worn away by the time she is 2! I give her stuff to chew on all the time, but she just grinds away pretty often.

Sleep has slightly improved since the 2nd tooth came through, we are getting 4 - 5 hour stints now, but I am still feeding her twice in the night, usually at 1-ish and then at 4-ish.

Hope you all have nice weekends...

[alioops]

Em's challenge has had to be postponed. she has diahorrea and mucous on her lungs. The dr wont give her ABs until the diahorrea is finished and giving her dairy will give her diahorrea so we will hold off until she has finished her ABs. we have 5 tins of formula atm so she wont be affected by waiting a couple of weeks.

really hope this mucous doesn't turn into pnuemonia. we have already had 1 hospy stay, dont need another. I dont think I could handle another.

My comp is playing up so I had better end it here. and the rain has started again.

[sconeonamission]

Hey !!!

Wow, We've all been quiet for a while!

Kim - How are Hayden's teeth? Jensen is teething again as well -4 teeth at once as well. Top 2 front teeth, eye tooth and the one beside it (canine?). The eye tooth is so close to being thru, some of it is, but some of it is still in the gum if that makes sense, and the front tooth next to it isn't far off.
Work is not sorted yet I called my boss the other day and he still hasn't looked into maternity leave entitlements. grrr . So I will call him again tomorrow. I also have asked for how much I have earned this financial year and still haven't heard about that. Once Centrelink gets the right details, maybe I'll be able to actually buy groceries.
What a nice mothers day pressent! my Dh didn't getme anything from Jensen, but I got a pressent "from" Jensen from mum. DH's excuse was he didn't know what to get.....

Molly - On Mothers Day, my mother was holding Jensen and she reached to get herself a sandwich and he stole it from out of her hands! I have a pic somewhere. Happily ate it. Yesterday, we were at a baby shower and there were muffin sized quiches on the coffee table. He reached over (he was standing at the table), grabbed one and ate it. He's just too quick.

Becca - How is Xavier now? Was it a cold?

Misty - Sorry, we're not in homebush! Have fun tho! There will be other BB members there. I met some from Bris last year.

Rhi - I notice that Jensen chomps when he's not getting his milk fast enough or if he's distracted - or when he notices I'm not paying attention to him. I've never been able to do anything while bf (since birth!), like watch tv or hold a conversation. No grinding here tho.

Ali - Oh poor Em! Fingers crossed she gets better quick!

Well. Guess what!? No more tantys in the middle of the night now! I figured it out! I put a heater in his room (probably not a SIDS safe thing to do) and closed his door almost all the way - its held open by my shoe - and he sleeps all night! Last night and the night before was a comfort feed due to the teething. But *bliss* sleeping thru the night! Wish I'd thought of it earlier.

Tomorrow I have my appt to see the specialist about my carpal tunnel. It seemed to disappear for a while there, but its back now. Also, the Paed last week said we have to feed Jensen MORE (he eats heaps). He said he's very active and is burning off the energy and not gaining much weight. He was 7.8kg on Wednesday and has only just fully gone into an 0. The dr said to "feed him what drs tell ppl not to eat too much of" ie: butter etc. Well Mother and MIL are keen to feed him everything. MIL is trying to feed him chocolate. Looks like its time to make a stand.

Better go, this has been long and I have a thread to start. Might catch u there!

[sconeonamission]

I have a ytd figure, but I have 2 types of payslip. There was a payslip for my salary and a payslip for when I was working casually just recently. I mentioned that to my boss, he sent an email off while we were on the phone, and he was going to email me back the email he received. So far nothing. I'm so annoyed.

The way things are looking atm, it seems as I'm going to have to go back to work pretty soon, just to survive.

BTW - I meant to ask have you had your FET yet?

[sconeonamission]

Oh.. sorry to hear that. Fingers crossed for you.

OMG TEETH! Top Front Left tooth yesterday and Top Left Eye tooth today!

[Campari]

Wow Jensen, that's a lot of teeth! All the better to bite you with hey Scone!!? I have a health centre checkup on Wednesday Scone, so I am going to ask about the whole EBM childcare thing, and find out some more info. I'll let you know what they say, cause I saw your message on that thread. I bet they will just say "do what you think is right"...! Grrr. I know its right for her to drink BM, but I just HATE expressing and it's just never worked for me.

Ali - Sorry to hear about Em. I hope she is OK now... You certainly don't need a hospital trip again!

Becca - Hope Xavier is better now too. And hope you're getting some solid sleep too. I don't know how you do it, working full time. I can't function at all after a bad night with Milla, I am just a zombie. The other day I walked out of the house to the car carrying the TV remote in one hand and the car keys in the other !!!! I really thought to myself "I shouldn't be driving"...!

Milla has been a crazy little poo machine today - I even rang to make a doctors appointment cause I thought she might have diarrhoea, but I spoke to someone at 13HEALTH and they reassured me that its probably a teething thing, or because she ate too much fruit. She did 5 poos yesterday, and 4 today, all quite small and runny. She has been eating pawpaw as finger food - she loves it, but maybe its not really agreeing with her little tummy. She's on potato, rice and banana tomorrow!

See ya!

[sconeonamission]

Well, I have a little teething machine! He now has a grand total of 5 teeth, the latest one came thru yesterday! Two top, two bottom and a top left eye tooth!

Rhi - OMG where did the biting come from? At mothers group this week, he actually bit one little girl twice! Might nightmares of him being the group bully are coming true! He's now biting me, and I don't know how to stop him!

Does anyone know how to keep a hat on these kids? Or keep them still on the change table. My sister has one of those strap things to hold them down. It holds him down, but he can still twist so he's lying face down... grr.
Jensen tried to follow the cats down our (2) steps the other day. Didn't end well. Hey, that might be where he got his bruise from... Should have thought of that earlier!

I went horse riding on Wednesday. Boy was my backside sore! And my hips haven't hurt like that since labour! lol Went walking yesterday and today. So tired !

Is anyone in the Coles Baby Club? They had sample bags and we got one. Only the sample nappies were for girls and I have a boy! I rang them and I can pick up another sample bag today/tomorrow for a "lucky dip" to see if I can get boys ones.

Better go, we've just re-installed windows onto the computer and have files and stuff on a removable hard drive and there's doubles of stuff and it's my job to sort it out (coz DH doesn't think I do anything thru the day!!)
Have a great weekend!

[Mollygirl]

Hi
it has been a while since I have been on here - sorry!

With the hat thing, the first few hats I bought my DS were ones that did up under the chin. Osh Kosh had a real cute one with velcro under the chin and bits sticking in the air for winter. He could never take it off and now we use it for Ella (it is red).

With the biting, Ella still only has two bottom teeth but still managed to bite me yesterday evening and it hurt. I took her off and put her on the floor after that. She is teething too, I think the top teeth are thinking about coming through.

Ella isn't walking, just cruising the furniture and then falling on her bum when she lets go.

I think this is just the best age, saying dadada to DH and saying nin nin when she wants a bf (that is what we call it in our house). And the faces she pulls.

I am still tired because we are still doing 2-3 night feeds, but I am only feeding morning, lunch and dinner during the day so it doesn't feel like I am feeding forever anymore.

Glad to hear everyone else is well.

Take care.

[kungfubecca]

Hi all,

It's been a while, I think i'm averaging about once a month.

Kim, ouch on being bitten. When xavier is hungry he will crawl up to any of us, pull him self up and go to town slobering all over the boob area, even on daddy.
How long do you have to wait after having rubella booster to conceive. I'm thinking I should get my levels checked again before we want to TTC the next bub.

Campari, ouch, I don't think xavier has bitten me that hard, but I hear you on the being scared. I refused to feed him one afternoon and made him wait while I expressed. He hasn't bitten me for a while now, but i do get some grinding.

Xavier has 4 teeth now, but he has some bad habits because he has been so sick and sleepless for so long, he likes to feed 10-11pm and then again anywhere between 3-5am. I don't mind any feeding prior to midnight, but am really trying to break extend the second feed later and later.

Ali, you really have a little battler there huh? We haven't had pnumonia here but I have found out that it's just not fair for little people to get sick.

Scone, I think Xavier has had a cold since about december last year. A couple of bad ones in there, we just finished our second batch of antibiotics. He was diagnosed with croup a few weeks ago, poor little might sounded like a seal at night. He had a dose of steroids, and has been much better since. Haven't needed to go back to the doctor about it. Hopefully the last lot of antibiotcs has worked it's magic and we might get a re-prieve.
OOO we have tanty's in the middle of the night, perhaps I should plug a heater in.


I saw you were talking about ebm and child care and what is best??? we are now 5 months having ebm at creche. Xavier is now on 2 feeds per day, of anywhere from 100-180ml per feed. (usually less) because of his age now and the amount of foods he eats I'm not too worried about how much I provide because he won't go hungry but I aim for about 150ml per feed. It is important to ensure that the creche heats your milk properly. The ladies in Xavier's room are very concious of not wasting any of the liquid gold, so that is really good. being ebm everything needs to be washed well but not sterilized so it's a little less prep work in that regard. But there is another side to it. It can feel akward expressing at work sometimes. My biggest struggle is finding time when i'm really busy. I aim to express around the times that xavier feeds so that weekend are not effected. At my work i need to find an empty office to use each day and it is getting harder. I struggle sometimes a find myself thinking i wish I didn't have to do it or that he would be ready to drop another feed. I have also found that when I got sick my supply plumeted and I'm having to work really hard to get it back. I even bought formula for a couple of comp feeds.
Not sure if that infor has helped with your decisions but I don't come on here very often so thought I'd give as much info asa possible.

Keeping a bub still on change table, toys toys toys, and if your toy has to be the wipes packet (supervised of course) then so be it. Xavier is very well behaved on change table. On the floor he is off like a light!!

Sehra, I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. Take care.

Where are we at. We have 4 teeth, there are more in there somewhere but no where near the surface. xave pulls himself on furniture but hasn't worked out the moving along it yet. We have on of those fisher price doorways and he stands up against it and shakes it, little roughian. He is such a little boy and has started sooking at creche now, not when mummy goes to work, no no probs with that. My boy sooks when the bigger kids get to go outside and he doesn't because it's too cold, picture little bub standing at a glass door smaking it with hand because he too wants to go out to play.

I'm not sure to do with weaning. I have some formula because my supply droped so much when I got sick, but am not that keen on using it. I thought you were supposed to wait until around 12 months to give cows milk to drink so was planning to wait until after his first birthday. Xave seems very fond of booby and I can't see him giving up in the near future, but at the very least I would like him to switch is day toime feeds to cows milk and keep his first and last feeds for a little while.

Well best be off, I've used up about as much me time as i'm allowed these days

everyone take care

Bec