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:
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.
Xavier Robert was born on the 3rd of August. The clever little tacker thought he would roll onto his side while still in the hosi. I think we are in for a handfull!!
HI Sara, It looks like our little ones decided the 3rd was a good day.
I am feeling really blessed at the moment we are having a really cruisie time at the moment, compared to others.
We only had 2 days in hosi, and the little terror is already over his birth weight. Loves to eat, loves to sleep and loves to wear everyting in his wardrobe!!
Hi Rebecca and Sara
Well it looks like it is the 3 August thread so far!
Little Zac was born on 3 August and we made it home on 8 August.
So far his interests are eating and sleeping
My interests include getting a good nights' sleep
I look forward to enjoying the journey with you both!
Take care
Belinda.
How crazy that we all had bubs on the 3rd. I have to admit, that while I will be posting in here, I will also be positing in the july thread. I've come to far to defect completley, LOL
OUr lives are sounding very similar to yours at the moment.
To both of you happy 1 week old today!! scary isn't it.
Things are going wonderfully here. Colby is breastfeeding beautifully and has slept through the night the past 2 nights. I think she may have worked out her days and nights.
I am still a little concerned about her jaundice as she is still a bit yellow. We are going to the Dr's tomorrow for her 5-10 day check-up and i will get them to check her billireuben levels. I hope that things are fine. I fret much more with her than i did with Briley.
Hopefully we should be getting some other August mums in here soon! Its terribly quiet at the moment!
Oooeerrr... how exciting...
Congrats girls
Although I would love to be pregnant for a while longer, I would love an August Baby even more... So I hope to join you in a couple of weeks
All going well here. I wish Xavier knew what night time is. He sleeps beautifully as long as the heater is on, and well we can't do that at night. But even when it is on we have a max of about 4 hours.
I think he also needs to learn that mum is not a milkbar, and just because she's the one holding him does not mean he is actually hungry. I think he just smels the milk.
We have Mat and child health nurse coming tomorrow morning. and then seeing the doc for the first time on wednesday. We have to double check his heart is a ok, because we were discharged in less than 72 hours.
Hi there !!
Well i have finally made it on here ....
Kai William was born on 6th August ! Finally 10 days overdue.
All going quite well but he is a bit unsettled at night still... feeding is going really well though and for that i a greatful as didnt have much luck with Luke.
Hope you are well
My little girl Ela was born on 01/08/07. Ela surely is a good little girl, she's bf, sleeping well and settles herself. I would definitely like it if she could sleep through the night too! She currently wakes 1-2 times during the night for a feed and change, which is o.k. The strange thing is that she wakes up at the same times during the night as i woke during my final weeks of pregnancy.
Sara- hope Colby's jaundice has settled down. If you can, shift her cot/bassinet closer towards the window during her day sleeps.
Rebecca - i surely agree with the milkbar thing! Ela thinks that my nipples are a dummy and keeps latched on even once shes finished sucking and falls asleep!
We are starting to get some more people in here. Congrats on the births of your babies.
Jane I hope Kai starts to get settled at night.
Sehra, I hope your good fortune continues with such a good baby. Xavier quite often falls asleep with is mouth wide open around my nipple.
Well today we are a little unsettled. he seems to get mucked up when we have to go out. He's fine in the car and the pram, but then when we have to stop places he gets restless, and thinks it's time to eat etc, so I offer and the effort is a little half ar$3d so he's not really hungry.
Well hopefully he still settles for night. We have been getting up about 2 times each night also.
Just put Ela to sleep and thought i'd check in with you guys.
Bec - i too, hate it when routine slips and bubs gets very unsettled. We haven't taken Ela out yet (only to mums once!) but when friends come around, her routine certainly slips and it takes us awhile to get her back to sleep.
It's tradition in our culture not to take baby out for 40 days following birth, but i am definitely going shopping on the weekend and taking her with me, so i'll see if she reacts negatively to the outing.
Do any of you girls stress during bathing time? I get so tense and paranoid that i'll let Ela slip or her mouth/nose will get submerged. I love bathing her, but also hate it at the same time. They are so little.
he fed around 5.30 and just drifted off to sleep. at about 6ish, I put him in his cot and at 10.30 he still wasn't awake. so it had been 5 hours. So I decided to get hi up as I would have much rathered he be awake at 10.30 than 2 in the morning.
Well, Got him up, changed him, and fed him, he only stirred for about 5 mins and then back to sleep. so back to bed he went. at about 2 am he thought he would wake up, was hungry, and did not want to go back to sleep, and who can blame him, he had about 8 hours with only a 5 min interuption. tried several times and the last straw was at 4 am, when I took him to bed with us. Mainly so I could get some sleep.
Bit tired today I am.
Sehra, Our problem is that when we do go out, he likes the car and pram so much he sleeps, and then feeds later etc, etc.
Bathing time. At the moment I have made an executive decision that bathing is dad's little job. At the moment we do it together. Couple of reasons, I can't lift a baby bath full of water, and it's nice for him to have something, like a bonding thing. So I really haven't done it myself.
WOW! This thread is starting to get a few more mummies and bubbies now!! Good to see. Won't be long before there is a rush of some more!
Been MIA a bit in here lately. I have been so busy this week that i have'nt had time to jump on the computer. I have been in and out of town all week shopping and stuff.
Things are going pretty well with us. Briley, Colby and I are all still trying to get over our colds. Briley has been stuggling with hers on and off for about a month now. I have had mine for about 3 weeks. We just can't seem to get rid of it. And poor Colby has a snotty nose and a really bad cough which i can't do nothing about. I feel helpless. Looks as though Colby might have the same tear ducked problem as Briley too. And in the same eye coinsedently(sp??).
Colby is going well. We went for our 5-10 day check-up last monday and she had put on 200 grams. So the breast feeding must be going well. She is a wonderful content baby and she barely cries. She loves bath times and just lays there floating in the water relaxing. Bath times are'nt stressful at all here. I bath her on the kitchen sink so i just pull the plug and the water drains out of her baby bath and into the sink. They were quite a drama with Briley though as we were living in a different house then.
She is also sleeping wonderfully. The last few days she has woken up twice a night for a feed but i think this is cause she is coming into her 2 week growth spurt. Most other nights she sleeps from 9-10pm through till about 6am. A god send for me!!
I have'nt really tried putting Colby in a routine yet. I suppose morning times is the only routine we have. I bath her and then she has a feed and goes into the rocker. I am just going with the flow really. She will let me know when she is ready for routine. Briley was 3 months to the day when she let us know it was time for routine. It worked out well.
When Colby first started sleeping through i was worried that she was going up to 10 hours in between feeds. I did'nt know wether i should wake her or not. I asked the Dr at our checkup and she said "Never wake up a sleeping baby or they will get used to it and start waking up themselves!". So i just leave her now. She will wake up when she wants something.
Speaking of which, she has just woken up for a feed. Better go!
Bec - I count myself VERY lucky hun. I copped it with Briley though so i can totally understand where you are coming from. I hope the colds go away soon too!
Touching lots of wood here, but sniffles and snot seem to have reduced a little with the great weather we have had this week. It's so nice I've even got the heater off and the front door open. not even too cold for a newbie.
fingers crossed, the august thread seems to be emptying and there will be some more ladies in here soon. Might have to go see if there are many in the second august thread.
How do I find the time to get on here so often. I think I'm sacrificing housework.
Babies Born August 2007
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