Babies Born December 1st-15th 2010 #3

[onthefly]

Hi everyone. Hope you're all enjoying your long weekends and having a great easter.
We've just got back from spending a few days at my parents. Very nice. Got through 4 of the 6 finalists for red wine of the year in my parents' wine club (so far the Cab shiraz in my pick), myabe next weekend we'll get to taste the last two. Very serious business

Sleep still sucks, though DD did a 90-odd minute sleep this morning. That was nice. Totally unexpected and after an absolutely dreadful night. The rest of the day we just got micro naps though, so she totally reverted to form
Tonight DH is going to sleep with her whiel I sleep out the back and see if that helps.

Happy Birthday Crumpet!

Well done Will - what a champ

[purplepixie1978]

Hi all! Late happy Easter to all!

Crumpet, hope you’re feeling better in yourself. It can be very difficult to cope when your family is unwell, so get all the help you need. Having someone outside your situation to speak to can really help. Happy birthday for yesterday

MadB I just ate a chocolate rabbit in about 3 bites. (I gave up chocolate for Lent!) So don’t feel bad about cupcake eatage Mmmmm red wine. I really miss it! I can’t drink most wines anymore as I have a sulphur sensitivity. I’ve found a preservative free red, but it’s pretty ordinary. I love blends and it’s a plain Shiraz.

EJ and MadB thanks for the feedback on thumbsucking. I had no intention of trying to stop her, I just needed something to tell my Mum when she starts in about it! Turns out my DH and his brother were long term thumb suckers, and both have perfectly straight teeth without ever having had braces. I agree EJ, she is really soothed by it and frankly I’d prefer it to a dummy… at least with her thumb it’s attached and I won’t have to go fishing around the cot for it in the middle of the night I have bought her an amber necklace and am going to start putting it on her full time. I had it on her a couple of times but it sort of got caught up on her chins (yup, she has two ). Now that she’s growing a bit more there’s more neck available!

Georgi, Cathie, Jules and Kaz, Also Winterraven and Charlotte.

Well I’m starting to freak out a little about our trip. About a month and a half out and we’re not even close to organized (previous trips we have been insanely well organized). DH even needs to renew his Aussie passport! I have booked appointments for Millie leading up to going away though, which is something – she has her 6 month check at the clinic on 17 May, then her shots at the GP, then the follow up with her cardiologist in early June. You have to book about a month in advance at the MCHN now – they combined two local council areas to “make things more efficient” and it has become an absolute shambles

Anyway, Easter was lovely, despite my having NO voice (thanks to a week of sinus and hayfever, grr), with a drive up the mountains to my SIL’s place for lunch. You’d think, with her being grandchild/niece/cousin #19 that no one would be particularly interested, but Millie was passed around and cooed over all day, and was beautifully behaved. Hope you all had a beautiful day with your little ones

xox

[Georgi]

Wow, quiet in here for once hey....

MADB - How'd she go sleeping with Daddy? Bugger on the micro sleeps

PP - Funny how one little munchkin can change your life. There's so much more to being organised now hey

Well we had a lovely easter. Ate & drank way too much of course. I had a full nights sleep last night... The first in ages. I've been making sure that Byron doesn't drink too much from 5pm to ensure he doesn't wake up for a toilet run at midnight! And the last two nights I have given Eden a bottle of expressed milk for his last feed to see if it helps him get through the night. He woke at 5.50am this morning. Yay! Though it is a pain having to give him a bottle, then expressing but I figure if I can get him back into the routine of sleeping through, then I'll stop the bottle & hope he has formed a new routine

Such a crappy day here.. Raining. Got some running around to do before heading to sydney on sunday

[crumpet]

everyone!

sorry im MIA, its been crazy around here with easter, and all that stuff.....

thank you for my bday wishes, i had a fab day! went for a picnic and the weather was awsome so we really enjoyed the day!!

not a lot of interesting stuff going on, just loads of running round.

in other news....

DH rang the councellor today to make my appt, and she rang me and we had a chat, and ive got my first appt on saturday morning while im "happy" the wheels are in motion, im cr@pping my dacks at the same time.

summah has yet another runny nose so our comes the vaporiser AGAIN and ive got her some of the brauers runny nose relief so fingers crossed it goes away quickly!

hopefully next week things will be a bit quieter and ill be able to do a more excting post and some personals!

hope you all had a fabulous easter and long weekend with you gorgeous bundles and families!

[Charlotte91]

Sounds like everythings going well with you guys! Apart from Summah's runny nose, of course. Poor bubba.

I've been off BB for a little while but I'm back!
My Easter included dumping Hannah off at my parents (lol) and DP and I heading down to Melbourne to see a Disturbed concert. Awesome!
Hannah's doing well, she's starting to get hungry which is frustrating. She's not interested in a bottle, but she's hungry.

Doing heaps of her exercises to strengthen her neck and back. Which basically includes HEAPS of tummy-time (she's not a fan, lol) and having a rolled up nappy under her armpits to minimise gravity.
At the moment she's playing on the floor with her pants off, which is sometimes likes sometimes doesn't.
Sounds like she's getting tired.

What are your routines like?? Hannah is usually up for 60-90mins with a 2 1/2 hour sleep. I think she'd sleep for longer, but I'm worried that she won't sleep at night.
She's been waking earlier because she's hungry. She was sleeping 9pm to 8am. But now its 10.30 to 7ish and she's starving when she gets up.
Oh well, the sleep ins and early nights I got were nice while they lasted, lol.

Are you strict on routines or do you let bub decide what the go is??

[crumpet]

Sounds like everythings going well with you guys! Apart from Summah's runny nose, of course. Poor bubba.

Doing heaps of her exercises to strengthen her neck and back. Which basically includes HEAPS of tummy-time (she's not a fan, lol)

What are your routines like?? Hannah is usually up for 60-90mins with a 2 1/2 hour sleep. I think she'd sleep for longer, but I'm worried that she won't sleep at night.
She's been waking earlier because she's hungry. She was sleeping 9pm to 8am. But now its 10.30 to 7ish and she's starving when she gets up.
Oh well, the sleep ins and early nights I got were nice while they lasted, lol.

Are you strict on routines or do you let bub decide what the go is??

yeah poor kid gets blocked up about once a month atm.....

summah is the same, HATES tummy time but im doing it more and more for shorter bursts and she is improving a lot, herMCHN will be impressed!

with summahs routine, she put herself into the routine we follow, and i have made sure we stuck to it. i need some structure so a flexible routine works for us.
i dont stress if she sleeps a bit longer or even less than she should, or if she feeds a bit early or late....

our typical day looks like this:

730am: awake and bottle
8am: play time
930: sleep
1130am: awake and bottle
12pm: play time
130pm: sleep
4pm: awake and bottle
430pm: play time
6pm: nana nap for 20-30 mins
645pm:bath
7pm:bottle and bed

those times are give or take half an hour but thats what i base our day around.

she sleeps from 730pm-730am..... i work on a 12hour day, so if she is up at 730, bed is at 730, if she wakes at 830 then its bed at 830.... we find it works really well for us.

is she drinking all of her feeds? and is she bottle or breast fed?

[Charlotte91]

She's formula fed, when she got home from hospital my milk dried up. It reduced alot going to Royal Children's to Bendigo SCN. But then when we got home after 2 weeks in SCN my milk was gone. I continued expressing every 3 hours but was only get 10ml and Hannah was hungry, so on to formula she went.

She's just gone from 120ml to 150ml but she doesn't really seem interested in a bottle today. She's leaving about 30ml in the bottom. She's getting pretty grumpy, too.
She's back in bed now.
Its just getting frustrating that she's getting grumpy but won't drink her bottle properly. Maybe she's just being a grump, lol.

[crumpet]

hmmm im not sure then.....

she isnt windy or anything like that?

summah has a 150ml bottle when she wakes in the morning then her lunch ans afternoon ones are 200ml and her night one is 250ml....

most of the time she drinks them but generally once a day i have a bottle with 20ml and a bottle with 10ml left in it....

[Charlotte91]

Yeah, I know most bubs her "born age" are on 200ml+ . Not sure about her corrected age.
I get alot of comments from my mother saying that Hannah needs to be on more formula, but she's only 4.75kg and she's on plenty of milk for her weight.

She's generally not windy, it may even be reflux. I may have to get her surgeon to OK putting her Zantac (Ranitadine) dose up. She's only on a very small amount anyway. I don't think it is reflux, tho.

[crumpet]

i rekon if u look at her corrected age then she is probably right on average, at a guess given im no expert!

it may well be some relux....

is she showing any signs of reflux?

[Charlotte91]

Hahaha, no she's not. Doing a few little spew-y dribbles after a feed, but thats it.

[crumpet]

the only other thing i can think of is a growth spurt??

sounds silly but summah drinks less when she is growing!

[Charlotte91]

Doesn't sound silly to me. Could be a growth spurt.... will keep an eye on her and weigh her in a few days and see if she's put on more weight.

[crumpet]

how did she go last night hun??

well we are fighting a full blown cold, poor summah is a snot maching in over drive.
its gross, the poor snot sucker can barely keep up!

and she has a cough..... its going to be a fun few days here!

[cathie5]

Hey everyone,

MadB - Charlie only sleeps for 30 - 40 mins during the day which is a pain as I don't get much done.
PP -Hey a big hello to you
Hi Charlotte and crumpet.

Well kids back to school I really like school holidays. As for Charlie boy he dosen't stop moving his trying to take off very funny to see. We put him in the Jolly jumper on the weekend and he love it so did all the kids. I had to go all on them to leave him alone . Better go bottle time.

Cathie

[Charlotte91]

Awww, poor little Summah! Hannah hasn't gotten sick yet, so fingers crossed we make it through winter without her getting a cold. With her being a bit early, I don't want to risk it.

Sounds like Charlie is pretty full on! Hannah thinks she'd like to start moving, especially when she's on her belly. She's supposed to be holding her head up but instead she just wriggles around! I really want to get her into a jolly jumper, but my sister is still using it atm (its my mothers). I think she'd love it.... Will try to get it today. I think my niece has been banned from using it anyway because she learnt how to swing in it....

She's doing a bit better today, although she's only been up once. She slept from 7.30pm to 8.15am. She woke up screaming and by the time I had changed her bum and made the bottle she was convinced she was going to die of hunger. It was actually quite funny. I can't help laughing when she cries, its so cute!!

Hannah has discovered her feet.... She found them this morning while sitting on my knee. She was staring at them alot and when they move she smiles and giggles. I took her socks off so she could see her toes and she was moving them and giggling again.
She hasn't found her hands yet.... trust Hannah to do everything backwards!!

Anyway, must go wake her up now otherwise she'll sleep all day!

[onthefly]

Lol at doing things backwards charlotte! Has her mood improved? You know, DD has been really grumpy of alte, especially in the afternoons. Which is no surprise given how tired she always is.
It's so hard to do anything when they only catnap, isn't it Cathie!
And sleeping with Daddy did no good.

Poor Summah! Hope she's well soon.

Are you recovered Pixie? Too bad about the wine, hey? I realise I got it wrong though, my favourite so far was actually a Merlot?! Can you believe it?

Yay for sleep again Georgi!

How's work treating you Kaz?

EVeryone else. Hope you and your little ones are all well.

[crumpet]

Hi Charlotte and crumpet.

We put him in the Jolly jumper on the weekend and he love it

hun!

does he have the strength in his legs to "jump" as such?

summah wont even stand on my legs let alone jump in her jumperoo!

Awww, poor little Summah! Hannah hasn't gotten sick yet, so fingers crossed we make it through winter without her getting a cold. With her being a bit early, I don't want to risk it.

She's doing a bit better today, although she's only been up once. She slept from 7.30pm to 8.15am. She woke up screaming and by the time I had changed her bum and made the bottle she was convinced she was going to die of hunger. It was actually quite funny. I can't help laughing when she cries, its so cute!!

Hannah has discovered her feet.... She found them this morning while sitting on my knee. She was staring at them alot and when they move she smiles and giggles. I took her socks off so she could see her toes and she was moving them and giggling again.
She hasn't found her hands yet.... trust Hannah to do everything backwards!!

Anyway, must go wake her up now otherwise she'll sleep all day!

yeah im not a fan of her getting sick after her infection in hospital, makes me wonder if her immune system is a bit low, but she seems happy enough....

thats a great sleep! summah lets fly whrn she is starving and it cracks me up, she drops the lip and everything!

summah caught sight of her feet the other day but she has no idea what they are!

Poor Summah! Hope she's well soon.

thanks hun, hows ur troops?

well we have just gotten home from doing the groceries and summah nearly had me down the aisles today....
she was chatting to me the whole way around, which isnt unusual, but everytime someone smiled and talked to her she would either squeal or growl at them! some of the little old ladies were a bit stunned when they copped a growl!