Nic- Sounds like the fights at my house. And I too know it can't be pain every night.... I'm at my wit's end. At this point, I am just hoping Ty starts to sleep through regularly either before he is 15 or before I really lose it one night and throw him against the wall
At least I can still escape... some days I just hand him over to dh and leave. Can't stay in the house because I can't listen to the screaming anymore, and dh has no idea how to settle him (my own fault- I've settled him with nothing but boob all this time). But i don't think you'd have that option with three others to take care of as well.
I wish I could just walk out and leave Simon with her or even just the boys.. Like yesterday I was ging shoppping.. Olivia fell asleep and he had to go drop something at a friends house.. I said Iw ill take the boys (originally I was taking Olivia only) but then he thought it would be to hard with the boys and I said to him well olivia is asleep i will just leave her in the car with you.. but NO.. so i had to wake her up and he was gone well over an hour.. really pinged me off.. vent over there..
but with settling with the boob all the time.. I do that but she doesn't want it.. She just screams louder or worse bites me.. she just wants me to stand up and rock her.. day sleeps she is getting harder to get to sleep to.. I either have boob and boob and rock and cuddle and oh so carefully put her down or she just screams.. i am kinda thinking she hates the cot so we are thinking once she is walking she is going into the toddler bed..
Hey guys, I hear you on the hard to settle. Kayla's still not too bad during the day. I can usually still wrap her and she goes off ok. But come night time... we wrap, unwrap, rock, feed, rock, lie down with her, feed, wrap... LOL... eventually she stops screaming and collapses into sleep. She's very tiring and I start to dread the evenings. She's fine after that tho, she sleeps with us, wakes for feeds but goes straight back to sleep. But that initial getting to sleep in the evening... OMG.
Lori - just wanted to say if you're wanting to start to wean, you'll need to go to formula, not just cows milk, as he's only 10 months. Hopefully you can stick it out just a couple more months and then he can be fully weaned onto cows milk Cheaper! hehe. I'd say because he hasn't been very well that he's wanting so much breastmilk. They're pretty clever knowing what's good for them
Nic - yeah, Kayla isn't fond of the cot. Well, at night anyway, she's not too bad in the day. DS got his big bed at 13 months when we knew he could climb off safely. He had fully co-slept since about 7 months, even during the day I was putting him to sleep on our bed, so he was fine with a big bed. The great thing I thought with going to a bed was that he could get up and bring himself into me, and I didn't have to get up! hehe.
Well, gotta go have my shower, and then we're going tent shopping! yay! We went to Anaconda on thurs night, and for all the raving we've heard about it.. they didn't have the tents I wanted to look at, they didn't even have the coleman cooler box I wanted to see, nor the foldup table/chair thingo! pffft.
Have fun tent shopping Simon is always dragging me into the camping stores lol.. We need one of those tables either with the chairs attached or not but it has to have a hole in the middle for a pole.. Reasoning is to hold the tarp up in the middle no where sells the bloomin things.. Well not here they don't./.
I wonder why our little darlings are being so difficult?
Liz- I'm trying to swap one feed at a time to cow's milk. I'm planning it to be a slow process. We do about 8 feeds a day so I really don't think one of cows milk will hurt him. I ok'ed it with my CHN, who said as long as his diet is ok, he's fine to go onto cow's at the moment for one feed, especially if he is still having 6+ bf. Hopefully, by the time he is 11 months we'll be on 5 or 6 bf's and 2 cows with meals, and then I'll increase it from there.
Have awesome fun shopping, lucky thing- I so love to shop.
Aah no worries. Just thought I'd mention it, as it sounded like you wanted to just wean him. Sounds like a plan I wouldn't want to be going near formula personally, so I'd probably do it the same way
yeah I love this kind of shopping. Clothes & shoes tho... nope - hate it LMAO. But shopping for 'stuff' is fun
oh big hugs to all these mummys having hard time! must be so tough. I was just thinking today when i will start putting ash in his own 'big' bed - when hes like 5 LOL, When do they stop falling out of there own beds???
Took Ash to the beach today again.. so cute he just loves it... i wish he would stop eating sand tho!!
Do you have to wean babies onto cows milk? can you just stop milk/bottles all together and they just drink water or what ever dunring the day?
I would like to try to wean Ash after hes one, only if hes ready, as he LOVES his water so much. i didnt think there was an age they 'should' keep drinking milk???
Speaking of weaning, has anyone got the cervical cancer vaccination? my gp is nagging the crap out of me to get it, and theres no proven study that its ok to do it whilst breastfeeding so i said ill wait, so i have till decemeber before it goes from free to $800! ive heard so many mixed opinions about it!!
Also to Hoody and Mummy of Many - i thought as you are now in our group i would mention, (Ash is asleep, so you can tell with the long post today lol) most of us in our buddies group are doing a secret santa, but birthday thing. So we are all posting pressies to a person on the 1st of decemeber, i have a list of the names and have drawn them out of a hat and emailed the people who they have, If you are interested u are more than welcome to join and i can redo the list - if you would like to, please email me (buzzandash@hotmail.com) your bubbas full name and postal address and ill add u in - Please do not feel abliged to do it!
On that note to all - i thought i would give plently of notice to talk about it now. is everyone up for being online at the same time as we spoke about ages ago for an online birthday party??? if ppl want to make is eaiser all give msn emails and those who dont have it set one up and we can all have online chat at the same time eg. 1st dec ??
I'm so glad (well not glad but you know what I mean) that we aren't the only ones with this waking up business. Monique isn't really interested in feeding either and just wants to be cuddled back to sleep and I have gotten into a bad habit of putting her in bed with me so I'm not up and down and now she wakes up at 11pm and is unsettled until I put her in bed with me
Last night we had spews at 2am IN MY BED - Gross. Got DH up, change sheets etc all back to bed them spews again but this time it was like a clear mucous spew and we had a towel underneath her thank goodness so not as bad as the first one. We blamed it on teeth naturally but she still doesn't have any. She didn't have a temperature or anything so not sure why it happened. She seems ok today although had a little erky perky at Grandpa's house on her jeans.
Buzzie - yep, I'm happy to go with the flow re 1 Dec. I'll have to work out my MSN thingy. Wish we could pop down to the beach but it's 2 hours away from where we live.
Liz - I want to get a big family tent although I'm not a huge fan of camping but if there are facilities nearby then that's good for me.
So tired and we have to babysit tonight so might go have a rest. Have a good one.
I msn and email daily too so for the 1'st anything will be ok by me.
Glad you are all reasonably well. Having a horrendous day here. I am so tired and to top it off my sister woke Molly up from her nap when she had only been down 1/2 an hour so i have a seriously grumpy and over tired baby on my hands. My sister "didnt mean" to wake her but wanted to "check" on her whilst she was asleep but everyone knows Molly is super sensitive and you only have to think about touching the door to her room and she wakes, so needless to say i was a lil frustrated. Mind you she is pg herself so i'm bound to get her back in some way one day lol We went and had some family portraits done this mo and i cant wait to get them back. They are the first nice family photos we have of all of us. I was a bit annoyed at the lady though who took the pics as she put Molly on a little wooden chair and she fell off and bumped her head resulting in lots of tears and a big bruise. DH wasnt impressed as when he 1st saw the chair he said it was an accident waiting to happen. He was right.
Well i hope you all have an awesome weekend. My girls are off to their Nanna's tonight so we can go out for my dads 60th. I get to sleep through the night and in tomo.
don't you hate when sleeping babies get woken. Olivia is a really light sleeper too.. drives me insane!
Miss Olivia finally had a 2 hour sleep this afternoon.. It was nice I had 2 of them.. Shame Ethan didn't make my life easy .. He has lost tv for the whole weekend and the cmputer for a week./. and due to turning his light on when we said no Simon took his light bulb out.. Tomorrow is going to be fun
So now I am just waiting for Olivia to go to sleep then its ME time
Hoody: hope you had an awesome night and that you got a decent sleep in
I have given up on the not letting Olivia cry business. she was just playing me.. We have gone back to giving infants friend after dinner and the lat 2 nights she settled better and slept better so maybe she is a gassy baby?? she has been doing some ripper farts
Hi all,
Liz- Yep, that's the plan We'll see how it goes- Ty is such a booby baby, he just wants to feed all the time, that why I thought I'd start with a little bit of cow's milk now and get him used to it. He drank it, but it was one part milk to four water, so it probably didn't taste like milk at all. This is the beginning of weaning for us. For a while there I thought we might end up feeding long term, but I don't think it's going to happen. I'll be happy to have made it to twelve months. I don't want to touch formula either- I am so proud to say he's never had it. I don't see the point of trying to feed him natural food without preservatives or additives, then giving him formula anyway iykwim. Btw, I am a 'stuff' shopper too. Books, furniture, homewares... not much patience for clothes (although I will admit to buying lots of pretty shoes that I never wear).
Lauren- I think they need about 500- 600 mls cows milk/ bm/ formula until they are three. But I could be wrong. Then they need their three serves a day of dairy, for calcium.
Nic- Hope you got your me time
Hoody- Enjoy your night out. We actually tried to go to a wedding with Ty last night. We didn't even last to the speeches but it was a last minute b-list invite, so I don't feel bad.
I'm easy to do whatever- I'm on msn and here and email pretty much every day (it's a weekday, right?).
Well had a reasonably good night out Got in at 10pm and i was a lazy bones and didnt get up til 10am this mo I was supposed to go to the gym at 9 with a friend but cancelled at 6am as AF is in town and i was up in the night changing sheets- since having molly things are a bit heavy and hectic in that dept iykwim. I also had a rotten headache which i thought was rather unfair considering i didnt even have 1 drink last night I shoulda had a couple and at least i would have had an excuse for feeling so *****. Spoke to MIL about an hour ago and girls are been good. SHe said she cant believe how much Molly sleeps so i am glad they are been good. I will pick them up in the next hr though as DD1 has a birthday party to go to.
Lori- had to giggle at the lots of pretty shoes i have a shoe fettish too with close to 70 pairs in my wardrobe.
Aussienic- Hope you got your you time in the end. At least you gave the No Crying a chance and if its not working well at least you tried iykwim.
Hope everyone else is well. Off to fold the washing then to get my babies. Its lovely to have a break but i am missing them.
hoody: sounds like an ideal night to me (apart from the Af) but hey 10 till 10 is nice
Lori; I don't blame Ty.. I hate weddings too
I finally got some ME time today.. sort of lol.. Olivia was aslep and the boys were sent to the couches and I reclined and closed my eyes.. I got 40 mins rest
and so exciting Olivia said work! I swear to you thats what she said.. She says Car, dada, mumumum and we think brother but this afternoon I was talking and I asked her where the car was and she pointed to the window (so cute) and then I said Daddy has the car at work and she said work.. and she said the same thing 3 more times.. I had to ring Daddy of course who just said well of course she said it.. she is my princess so therefore smart
then she TOOK A STEP.. she was holding onto my pants and I stepped away and she let go and usually she lowers herself to the ground but she put one foot forward.. wooo go Livi.. I highly doubt it means she wuill walk soon I think it was justa fluke but oooo so cute!!
wow Nic a step, that is scary to me, Sofia is still not crawling as such but somehow still manages to get a couple of metres from where I put her.
Don't have the night screams here, but Sofia it is so hard to get a decent day sleep out of her.
Well we have had a busy weekend here, my Mum and Dad were here, on Friday we bought my Wii fit and have had fun on it (my Dad didn't like the assessment though) on Saturday we had a picnic at Milsons Point where we took some lovely photos on Dad's camera then the card malfunctioned and died thus we have lost all of them, then today we went shopping and then to the Beach mainly for Maria than Sofia, fun but tiring. Oh and tonight we had an early birthday cake for Fia as mum and Dad cannot be here for her party.
Hoody- dh tells me I have a serious shoe fetich. Sometime before I die I want to own a pair of lilac Prada sandals (yeah, right). Not even to wear- just to look at every now and then
Kitten- What a lovely weekend by the sounds of it.
Off to get our car seat changed to forward facing. Ty is going to love it. I'm not so keen but he is 8.8 kilos and it only goes rearward to 9 kilos, so it has to be done. Rotten weather- rainy and yuck. And heaps of housework to be done *sigh*.
Hugs to mummies whoes bubs like the night life...I know a few ladies on BB who have had great success with sleep schools. If the issues continue I would highly recommend going to one. At least you can get a second opinion and a plan happening. It is not good to see mums and dads suffer for so long.
Nic -WOOT on Livy taking a step.
Buzzie - I will get a msn account soon and give you the details.
Can't believe our bubs are nearly 1 yo.
Miss Loren just loves pushing furniture around the house. She gave me a sloopy kiss the other night. Unlike Miss Sara, Miss Loren is not fond of strangers. She just won't smile at anyone she doesn't know. She just gives them a really intense stare...
and I said to him well olivia is asleep i will just leave her in the car with you.. but NO.. so i had to wake her up and he was gone well over an hour.. really pinged me off.. vent over there..
no where sells the bloomin things.. Well not here they don't./.
- Please do not feel abliged to do it! 
We went and had some family portraits done this mo and i cant wait to get them back. They are the first nice family photos we have of all of us. I was a bit annoyed at the lady though who took the pics as she put Molly on a little wooden chair and she fell off and bumped her head resulting in lots of tears and a big bruise. DH wasnt impressed as when he 1st saw the chair he said it was an accident waiting to happen. 
He was right.
I get to sleep through the night and in tomo.
I was supposed to go to the gym at 9 with a friend but cancelled at 6am as AF is in town and i was up in the night changing sheets- since having molly things are a bit heavy and hectic in that dept iykwim. I also had a rotten headache which i thought was rather unfair considering i didnt even have 1 drink last night 
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