Babies Born November 2006 #20

[Trillian]

This thread is for parents who's baby was born in November 2006.

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There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Breastfeeding General Chatter
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information
Is Feeding Your Baby Taking Too Much Time?
Bottlefeeding General Chatter
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids/Homemade Baby Food
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?
Starting Solids General Chatter

Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids.

Sleeping Support:

Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum
Comforting Tools to Aid Restful Sleep
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Con of Controlled Crying
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Wearing
Recommended Reading List

Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids
Gentle Parenting Forum

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[taralee]

Woo-hoo! first! it means nothing lol
Kim - really feeling for you, pawpaw ointment is excellent for bottoms, as a barrier and its an antiseptic too so that might stop you from getting any berks.
I thought i was really clever giving evie a whole heap of finger food in one of those suction bowls...until she ripped it off and started waving it around lol

[visitor1]

Its gastro big time. Never had that vaccine. I lathered her bum in Amolin.....hopefully will help. Have only given her 100ml bottles and got some gastrolyte drink stuff while i was out. Hiopefulyl will be on the mend asap....my poor body and nose isnt liking it!!

Tara i was the same thinking i was clever with the suction bowls... took missy like 5 seconds to work out she could rip it off the table....!

[tiggerandpooh]

did the doctor indicate to you are all Kim how long to leave her before you should be concerned? and did they tell you what the dehydration signs were for bubs? They dehydrate heaps quicker then us adults. I hope she is ok. not nice for the little poppet - and not nice for the mummy either.

I'm sorry guys if I seem "off" at the moment. Are feeling that way, so if my posts are strange or abrupt or completely absent thats what's going on... a few things have finally caught up with me emotionally, and I'm feeling sad and angry, and fed up. I'll come good - I always do, but just at the moment, are keeping my head down....

kisses for all those beautiful bubs... good thing Aston is such a delight - he makes me laugh, and feel momentarily ok...

[christy]

*hugs* Vicky I understand. I've been off now for a week while I've been digesting all this stuff with Matilda. I haven't really posted in here aout it but there is alot going on.... my mind is a bit full and its hard to process things. I do read but I haven't done personals in ages... sorry girls!!

[taralee]

I read too, but find that being at the IL's theres no real spot I can leave evie to play on her own so i usually duck on her while she's asleep and in between cleaning up stuff..you know how it is!
Well she's had 3 pooey nappies today, had a little bit of a chuck and is a bit grizzly so i dont know if its the beginnings of gastro, teeth, the weet-bix i gave her this morning or what. fingers crossed it's just weet-bix
also, do you ever find bub not interested in solids but only wanting breast/bottle? evie seems that way today and i dont know if it's just cos of her tummy

[Olive]

vicky big hugs from me love, hope your doing ok, thinking of you.
kim hows chelsea this arvo?
tara i think baby instictivly have more BF if thier unwell as it has the antibodies, smart buggers arnt they!!
christy hows matilda allergies going?

us, well i just spent 2 hours trying to get sophie to sleep, she wanst whingy, just thought she was clever walking around her cot, shes now asleep with her face buried in the blankets snoring!!

[visitor1]

Dr gave no indication Vicky. But did say last night she was becoming 'dry' and if it got any worse then we had to take her to the hospital. This arvo she had a 2 hour nap and is guzzling the gastrolyte drink. It seems to have helped with the runny poo too...granted she still had done one.. it wasnt as severe as all the others have been..and we didnt have to change clothes!!


Hope your ok Vicky...emotions are the worst things some days....lil buggers *HUGS*

[*EmJa*]

Big hugs to u Vicky & Christy

AJP, we have days like that here too, but its so cute at the end when they end up falling asleep in the weirdest postion cos they are so buggered!

Get well soon Chelsea, and Kim i hope u get a chance to rest.

Tara, Hope Evie doesnt get Gastro

[taralee]

AJP - just curious, when you say you've been trying to get her to sleep, what do you do? does she fall asleep on her own? I've tried, too, putting evie in her cot but she will go and go and go and there's no way in hell she'll go to sleep on her own. so i'm just wondering what you do

Hope everyone's feeling better...we seem to have quite a few blue bunnies among us. we all need a bit of chicken soup for the soul i think

[Gigi]

i can relate Vicky, i've just hit the bit four zero, and that's hit me for six. Something about birthdays ending in a zero that makes you take a virtual inventory of your life, plus my mother's bday is on the same day, and i have no contact with her, so i always feel churned up this time of year anyway.

With the gastro thing, i had that a few months ago, and when bilbs got dehydrated (my milk dried up for a while), it was VERY noticeable that her fonanelle was depressed, like someone had stood on her head or something, it was obviously lower in the skull. pretty scarey to see that actually.

i can't get bilbs to go to sleep on her own either. She can fall asleep at the breast, on my lap, but as soon as i stand up to go put her in the cot, she gets alert. My dh lays her (wrapped up) in the middle of our bed, surrounded by heavy pillows, lies down next to her, and plays this waiting game until she eventually drops off to sleep.

I THINK bubs around this age are meant to be getting 14 hours a day. Our girl is getting a sleep around 6pm for one - two hours, and then maybe another one or two around 10.30pm and then sleeps from about 2am - 6am. Doesn't seem like much sleep for her. But to look at her, she looks healthy as anything.

i forked out the bucks a few months back (ouch to the budget! - like buying gold) for the rotavirus immunisation. Very expensive but she hasn't had gastro once, even though the immunisation is for the rotavirus, as apparently that's the type of gastro that means the most hospitalisations for the under fives. I have not had good experiences with hospitals in the past, will do anything to avoid them. Yes, the typical, over anxious older mum, that's me.

[nelly]

I lost you all! Vicky, Christy, Blanchie, Jols, Tara, Gigi & Kim - I hope you all start to feel better.

:hugs: hugs everyone - I've had 3 nights of solid sleep and I feel like crap... go figure. I too have been reading but not really feeling like posting and now it's pouring rain and I haven't seen the sun in 2 days and I always get down when it is like this....

Well I don't think the picnic is on not if this rain keeps going, and Vicky if you need the ark again and you start to feel hemmed in just call!

*sigh*

that kind of sums it up

[taralee]

Yup I hear ya nelly, this rain is really making me feel crappy too. i cant even be bothered to bring the washing in and put it in the dryer. and you know it always stops raining when you get into bed - the only time you want it to rain!

[luua]

Hiya mums!

Vicky - hugs...feeling a bit better these days? How's your happy little man?

AJP - even though Ella's not moving she is a lot more mobile rolling from one side of the cot to the other, playing with her bear/dummy/sheets. The other night i was patting for 1hr to get her to sleep. I've ended up just sitting with her for a few minutes then leaving. So for the last few nights she's been going to sleep by herself.

Kim - Poor bubba. I'm feeling for you hun. has she had a 'dry' poo?

Blanche - OMG the photo of Emelia with the helmet is so cute.

Well we are on our new 'diet' where we're eating 5 meals a day! to try and get her weight up. We've got an appointment with a nurse thurs so hopefully little miss has gained some weight. Otherwise she's going well. Very happy these days but dribbling like a fountain. more teeth?? hmmm She gets so excited when i come home from work and throws her arms up in the air for me to pick her up - very cute.

Ann

[*EmJa*]

Ann, u should see the new pic i just put on our blog, shes on ther motorbike!!

Ella will be moving around in no time!! How many teeth does Ella have now Emelia still only has her bottom 2!!!

[Gigi]

snap Blanchie, bilbs only has her bottom two teeth too.

welcome back Luua and Nelly ( I regularly LOSE this thread too, annoying isn't it?). I wish i could just subscribe ONCE and that was it.

What sort of percentile is Ella on, for the doctor to get you to worry about feeding her up Luua? That sounds so cute, how excited she is, when you come home, that must melt your heart (awwww).

bad luck you missed your meetup Nelly. Three days of rain, wow, we are in drought, so that sounds like heaven to me, but i appreciate, too much of anything can wear you down.

i've been MCN-ing for 9.5 months, not ONCE have i ever been able to say, "had to rescue them from the rain".

I don't know what issues you are having with Matilda right now Christy, but i hope she's ok. and you too Christy.

Babies have their Wonder Weeks, and what about us mummies? If we're all having rough patches right now, maybe we're having our own Wonder Weeks too.

[Olive]

TARA sophie always puts herself to sleep, she has done so since around 3 weeks!!, cant remember the last time she feel asleep on the boob!!! yesterday she finally put herslf to sleep after 2 hours of cruising the cot, i just keep going in and tucking her in only for her to gt back out, that was after swimming which she normally flakes after! most sleeps she either drops off straight away or i just have to tuck back in a few times, nights are great she goes straight to sleep

RAIN man we'll take it all!! i love the rain bring it on!!!!

ANN gee i hope Ella is stackin it on for you guys, as for teeth we have the grand totoal of ZERO!!!!

GIGI and VICKY i hope the fog clears soon, i know how you both feel and hugs to you both

NELLY AND CHRISTY hi!!!!!

i think sophie has thrush on her fanny have nappyrahs that just wont clear up no matter what i do or use, so using canesten now

[christy]

hey girls

I've been living on a short fuse too. Poor Matilda has copped it the most in the past 24 hours. I'm feeling pretty crook today so DH is staying home. I've got a sore throat and sinus pain.... I've had it on/off since Saturday so hopefully a day of more rest will help. I've got my MCN's on a line on the verandah... contemplating putting them in the dryer, they've been out there for 2 days. I have so little, my BBH order is coming in 2 weeks.

We had our first MCN (cloth nappy) poo yesterday. Thankfully Jovie's on solids it went well.

To not overbore those who have read or heard, I'm very sorry but I feel I should explain. Matilda has cows milk allergy. I've only just found out 2 weeks ago (in hindsight I should have known.... but we all know about hindsight & mothers guilt). She has a severe milk allergy and instead of reacting with anaphalaxis it results in damaging her stomach. She's over 3 and Jovie's poo is more formed than hers. I've taken her to the GP 3 times in the past 2 years for loosing weight and not formed poos. We ran a blood test that was normal and a lactose intolerance test which came back negative. She's not lactose intolerant, she's allergic to milk... its different. Well, she's been on milk since she was 18 months old and on dairy products since she was 9 months. She stayed on formula for longer because I was concerned about the runny poos and introducing cows mlk. Anyway to make a long story short, because she's been having something she is so allergic too, its done some damage to her body. She is now anaemic and has some thyroid issues. apparently if we can get her gut healed we can repair all of that. So in 5 weeks no we have more testing to check on how she's going.

In the meantime I can't get anything into her that will help her... the iron the probiotics... anything. So I get stressed, she gets stressed.... long long battles... ah well. What works one day won't work the next.

Then things like this morning, she does a poo and there is rice from dinner in it. Thats not supposed to happen.