Babies Born December 2007 #12

[Jus]

sounds like all your houses (bekz, louise) are a bit like mine. DD not sleeping much at night - although last night we gave Nurofen after a fair bit of screaming (teething??) & decided not to wake her for dream feed. Entirely for my benefit. I went to bed (or tried to) around 7.30 pm and then she slept til 4 am. Boy did we all need that. Yesterday I was ready to trade her in - the not sleeping in the daytime thing, whingeing, not sleeping at night. Lucky she's cute, as she's been told often lately.

Michelle - congrats on the rolling! DD's not so clever, she's not moving anywhere yet.
Louise - congrats on the job. Sounds perfect. I'm going back 1 day a week soon too, trying to convince dd she really does like taking a bottle!
Morgan & Trish - hope the good night sleeping continues
Nic - I didn't know why you were apologising either - I thought at first, maybe you'd left bub with the 3 year old (which still seems fine with me), then I saw it was 8 - that's almost a grown up! Nothing to worry about

Can't tell you all how much I appreciate hearing what your bubs are doing - makes me feel more normal when I don't know what Ella's up to! Sounds like she's finding out what the other babies her age are doing & joining in. Cheeky monkey. I rang Tresilian the other day to ask advice, and they told me they get most of their calls from people with babies 4-5 months b/c so much huge development happening. That helped too!
Hope you're all hanging in there.

[Trish]

Michelle, WTG on Mirani's rolling. Clever girl she is All too soon these babies will be crawling.

Bek, sorry to hear that you had a crap night and day, Hopefully yesterday was better for you. I have that same damn problem too, no sooner do I actually get Abbey down for a sleep, and she is actually having a good one then I have to get her up to go get the kids from school. Poor babies. It must really suck for them too.

Morgan, don't beat yourself up over snapping. We all do it at sometime. And the other kiddies seem to know just how to push those buttons when we are stressed out.

Nic, sure does sound like you have the sleeper of the group. Abbey is still shocking with her daytime sleeps. I am lucky to get a cycle out of her. I suppose, she does sleep good most nights so there is an upside.

Louise, yay on the new job hun, anything that gives you some extra pennys is a good thing. Sorry to hear that Sofia is playing up on you. Hopefully she is sleeping better now.

Jus, Sometimes you just really need that good sleep hey. Hoping that you feel the better for it now and got another decent sleep lastnight. As parents we can't help but compare our children, sometimes it's a good thing and then others it only makes us worry more. Whatever your baby is doing is normal for your baby. KWIM.

We've had a kind of busy weekend. Had Noah's footy first thing yesterday, then while I came home and bummed around while waiting for the washing to be done DP took Noah and Tehya up to the shops and they watched a magic show. Poor Tehya was apparently scared of the magician. Chicken she is.

We took Noah and Tehya up to mum's house and she baby sat them for a few hours while we went to a housewarming party. Abbey was in a very "vocal" mood and if she wasn't yelling she was crying. Quite an agro head lately. I ended up giving her some Bonjela which calmed her for a little while until she started it all up again. I relented and gave her some panadol, thank god I packed it. This seemed to calm her down abit more. Stuffed her full of boob and we left just after 8.30.

Finally got Abbey down to bed around 9.30 and she slept until 8 am !! Not a bad effort. My top was saturated from leakage. It seemed to miss my nursing pads completely.

As for Brandon, yes I am happy that he is somewhere safe, warm and well fed, he looks healthier and happier. But I am still concerned as to why he just doesn't want to be here. School goes back in another week and the plan is to get him back there.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Best go feed the screaming child again.

[aussienic]

The Sleep Gods hate me!!! 3:30 Jacob woke crying for daddy who was on night shift. 4am I finally got him to settle down and come to bed with me. No sooner had I laid my head down Olivia woke. I finally got back to bed at 5:45.. I semi dozed between then and 8 but I had to get up as Simon went to bed after night shift.. aaggh frickity agh.. I hope tonight goes better... I should be thankful she sleeps during the day but it does me no good seeing as I have 3 others running about. today how ever I will lock the front and back door. put on a fairies DVD and go lay down with Olivia. I simply need to as one cannot function on such a small amount of sleep

oh and Happy 5 months Miss Olivia .. 5 months old... where has the time gone..

Have a great sunday everyone

[Trish]

Oh Nic, what a shocker hun. I am hearing you too on not getting the nap when bub is asleep. On the off chance of me actually getting her to sleep the other kids are always upa nd feral so no chance for a rest.

I hope The Fairies does the trick and you get some rest hun.

Happy 5 Months to Olivia

[morgan78]

Happy 5 months Olivia - how the time flies by!

Vicky decided to be good last night & slept 7.30pm to 6.30am and Alex got me up just before that. Needed tho as couldn't sleep last night finally crashed around 1am DP struggled as well & he actually ended crashing out in sitting room - really weird. We having a playdough day today so id better get my butt moving and make it
Have a lovely Sunday ladies

[Michelle_k]

happy 5months for Olivia!!


i've only just noticed that theres new smilies!


i so hope the sleep fairies come visit you all tonight. Mirani decided to wake at 5am and lay in her cot for about 45mins before going back to sleep after her feed and change. and she then slept until just after 9. but i still feel buggered. i have to take leesh to a birthday party this afternoon at one of those noisy indoor play centers.

hope vicky is recovering well, (it was Vicky that had the op wasnt it?)my tia had hernias at 8mths and they put internal stitches on the inside and a sticky tape type patch over the outer cuts and now you cant see her scars.


has anyone started on solids yet?
we've so far given mirani, yoghurt (loved that), frozen yoghurt (really loved that) and a dummy dipped in a little chocolate (wasnt too sure on that one). she also loves to suck on a peice of orange or mandarin (while either dp or i are holding it of course). but she is loving the idea of having different textures in her mouth.


take care everyone. *sleepy dust for bubs*

[Trish]

Morgan, always the way, the baby sleeps and you can't. I hope you get some sleep tonight.

Michelle, sounds like you got a pretty good nights sleep too. Nope, we haven't started on any solids here. Dp said today how she was looking at our food, thing is, she's just looking, she has no idea of what it is. Abbey won't any solids until she is atleast 6 months old. Just my personal decision.