Babies Born December 2007 #12

[Lolli]

Hi everyone,
Is it ok to stick my nose into this thread? I've had a bit of a read and I'd love to join in... DS was born 10 Dec and we're doing AOK at the moment except for some serious teething (and boob gumming!)

[Trish]

Hi LoriRae, good to see you've come and joined us

Bek, you're very welcome. I hope that Loren settled better for you last night.

Morgan, yes it sure is eye opening. The stuff they don't tell you hey. Hope little Vicky is going well. How cute her giggling in her sleep. Must have been a good dream

Nic, hun. I am so sorry they haven't been able to give you an answer. It must be like living on edge wating for it to happen again. I hope you managed to get some sleep last night.

Abbey had an ok night, woke around 1.30 for a feed and another at 6 am. So not too bad I guess.

We are up to our 13th consecutive day of rain and tbh I have had enough. My house looks like a laundromat. I have the drier going and a clothe hoist in the lounge with stuff I don't want shrunk. The nappies are in the machine and I will hang them undercover out the back. Poor Abbey has been in sposies most of the week with all this rain.

Hope every one has a great long weekend, please don't forget the real reason for this break.

Lest we forget.......

[M D]

My little one was born December 21. I really wanted some advice on when your little one's go to sleep at night? She sleeps like a dream during the day. I just put her down when she shows some tired signs and she drops off in a couplel of minutes. But at night we go through a whole range of crying, wingeing or even a tantrum or two.

I had been putting her down around 8pm and most nights will need to be rocked to sleep.

So I just need to be more consistant like I had been during the day as these are now going wonderfully. She sleep through till 7 then we have a feed and she is lucky to stay awake for an hour which makes me think she should go down at 7pm.

Anyway, I have rambled...any advice is much appreicated.

[aussienic]

Morning all.. tad chilly up here in QLd today.. 20 degrees at almost 10am.. Thats chilly Its going to be super cold tonight as there is not a cloud in sight..

Welcome LoriRae and Kts64s

Had a pretty crap night here. Olivia slept well but jacob just kept waking up and crying.. At 4 I lost my patience and raised my voice at him but it worked and he slept till 7 then.. Olivia woke at 2 had a feed and went right back to bed till 7. She has been showing signs of a sore mouth which we thought was teething but this morning Jacob has been complaining of a sore mouth so maybe they both have some sort of bug.. who knows. At the moment Olivia is asleep and sleeping soundly. I check her every 5 minutes. I hate this worrying. If she makes a sound I worry she is going to go funny again. I hate to complain in here I guess but it was so scary. I can't help thinking about how close we came to losing her and all the what ifs.. We weren't going to go grocery shopping we were thinking about just doing housework but changed our minds at the last minute, what if we hadn't have gone to the shop. she would have been in the loungeroom most likely not being watched as we were busy.. I know I shouldn't think like this but it is so hard not to. Every time she cries I worry something is wrong. I don't dare allow her to get even a little upset. I am doing everything I tried not to do over the last 5 months. I jump when she cries and settle her as fast as I can. The only thing I am keeping normal is her sleeping in her bed. when she is awake sshe is either being nursed or I am laying on the floor next to her playing. i just can't stand letting her out of my site..

yesterday we had to go back to the shops to finish getting some things for the weekend.. anyways I went one way with Jacob and then when i went back to Simon I couldn't find him. Me and jacob walked up and down each aisle and we still couldn't find them. My heart started to pound as I started thinking something had happened and simon had just gone round to the Drs with Olivia, nothing did of course but since then I haven't let her out of my sight. (except when in bed) is it going to be like this forever? when will I relax.. When Isaac was a baby we watched him like a hawk due to his issues so to have to go through it all again just plain sucks.

sorry for the ramble..

Have a nice day everyone..

~lest we forget~

[Buzzie]

Nice for u to join us LoriRae and Kts64s

Just a quick hello here, working hard at home, house goes on the market next week YAY!

Have a great day everyone

[Lolli]

Hi all,
Grrr... trust me, Ty actually had a sleepy day today- we got one two and a half hour sleep and two one and a half hour sleeps.. and of course we were out all day! Why does that always seem to happen- when we are out and about he sleeps like a trooper, but at home when it's just me and him we're lucky to get 45 minutes at a time, and some days only once!! Have to say I'm pretty lucky but- although he might wake up frequently at night, he goes straight back down after a feed..
Bek- I'm with you, what is it with MIL's and their solids obsession??
Trish- Blah to the rain, it seems to have such a bad effect on my mood- I always feel miserable. And thank God for the dryer!! At least it was a lovely sunny day today
Lauren- how cute is your little man? We have a jolly jumper too and ty adores it- we get big dribbly smile out of him whenever he gets in it and it leaves me a few minutes free to hang out washing or run the vacumn over the lounge room. I seem to suffer from serious 'equipment guilt' though- whenever I put him anywhere but the floor I have a mental clock running in my head because I remember the community nurse drumming it into us that they shouldn't spend longer than two hours a day in equipment, including car seats and prams, and preferably much less than that. *sigh* never realised this mothering thing came with so much guilt attached!!
Dinner here tonight is nachos, which the man is making... and he took us shopping today... whattaguy!

[Trish]

Nic, huge hugs honey. Please don't feel bad for getting your thoughts out in here. That's what we are here for. I wish that there was something I could do to help you out. If only I lived closer.....

You can't help but think of the what if's, that's totally normal. Fate handed you something that day, fate made you go shopping and fate had you close to your Dr. You have an angel watching over little Olivia and Isaac. I pray that nothing like this happens again to your family huni.

Welcome Kts64s, sounds like your little girl is a great sleeper. I sure wouldn't be complaining if Abbey slept that good. We keep a sleep cycle sleep out of her during the day. And very few of them at that.

Oh and Nic, that's just teasing us with your good weather. It's about 15 here, overcast and going to p!ss down again at any minute.....

[Lolli]

Hi Jus and Ella!! It's Lori and Ty here... Told you you had started me on a serious Belly Belly addiciton...
Trish, just to fill you in one my solids debate from another thread... I have the Heinz Organic rice cereal eyeballing me from the cupboard but have decided to hold off until at least five months and then reassess and hopefully hold off until 5 and a half months, then reassess again and hopefully hold off until 6 months (taking it two weeks at a time!). Sounds ridiculous but the post about the extra work involved sealed the deal for me... and the fact that I don't want to give the MIL the satisfaction of an 'I told you so' when I was so adamant with her that he didn't need solids until SIX MONTHS when she tried it at six weeks...
We're having rolling over dramas her at the mo'... pop DS down on the floor and he rolls himself onto his tummy, which is great because it's kind of auto tummy time, but bad because we can't leave the room for longer than 2 minutes as he starts cracking it because he can't roll himself back (he's done it a couple of times but I don't think e can do it on purpose yet- only accidentily).
Happy Anzac day evryone. So very bored- DH is at the pub and I'm really not up for housework today. He invited us down but I have some kind of moral objection to bubs in pubs unless it's for dinner or something...

[M D]

Lorirae - I to can't bring myself to do housework. In actual fact I made a bigger mess by starting to clean out a cupboard. Now stuff is everywhere and I'm not cleaning it up today!

Like you I too think there is a time and a place for Bubs and it is not in the Pub let alone on ANZAC day.....some of my childless friends can't seem to fathom that though.

Just relax! My little one is due to wake any minute so I've been enjoiying the peace.