Babies Born December 2007 #4

hi everyone.....

for the last 2 hrs i have a bub permanently attached to my boob!! we've had 100ml from a bottle AND boob!!! every time i go to put her in bed she whines and makes sucking noises... which she does when she wants food! i put her on the boob and she sucks like she hasn't eaten in hrs!!! dont know where she is putting it!?

Ali - Chrissie has been doing the same thing... lots of stretches and fits and grunting.... could this be reflux??

nic - sounds like the nights are sorting themselves out for you!!

lauren - glad you had a good time... i'm trying to decide whether or not to go to mine in Feb..

louise - glad your dad is ok!

trish - that's great about the swimming.!! can't wait to get Chrissie started!! we have a fisher price swing too... the rainforest one..

suse - welcome!!!!

Haroula Im not sure, I am not even completley sure it is what is wrong with Liam as he doesnt seem to scream too much which is usuallly involved with reflux. I asked the MCHN and she said it is more likely to be wind issues and to persist with burping etc and if it gets really bad to take him to the GP.

I am thinking of hiring a baby hammock to see if this helps to keep Liam asleep during the day as he keeps stirring and I am spending half my day rocking him or wiggling the bassinette to get him back to sleep.

Does anyone else with a baby and a toddler have to keep the baby out of reach? Tori is so active and boisterous that the only place i can put him down without gaurding him is in his bassinette. I am thinking of getting a playpen to put him down in o can get 5 mins to go to the toilet etc when he is awake.

Sorry Im being a slacker with keeping up in this thread - Ive been out and about the last 2 days so no comp time. But Ds is at daycare and I ran errands this morning so I have 5min to myself.

Im curious to see what your MCHN says about the reflux Ali because Rips does the same thing, and often gags as well but I was putting it down to a strong let down/flow of milk. I never thought reflux because I think projectile vomitting etc when I hear 'reflux'. Please let us know what she says!

Bindy, Haroula - if its supply issues your worried about re BF then I can 100% recommend drinking 2 glasses of Aktivite a day - my milk has been flowing like the Nile since I started drinking it 3 days ago. Ive also bought some Blessed Thistle tablets as it helps promote milk flow. Just a suggestion :)

Trish, yay on the swing bargain! I love my FP ocean wonders swing - so handy when they want some movement but we dont have time to be human rocking chairs.

Hello to everyone else!

Saw the MCHN for our 2wk check up - Rips is doing great! He's 50cm long now, hc is 36cm and he's 3380g, so gained 260g in a week - Go Mama's milk :dance: What a champ! She also said the 'jaundice' has disappeared which is a relief (not that I think he ever had it.) She commented on how well I look (and how skinny :rolleyes: ) and I told her looks are deceiving lol Im tired and could do with more than 2hrs of sleep at a time but Im coping, I have too. Jett's settled down a bit as well, not so many tantrums/naughty moments and he's not crying so bad at bedtime anymore. Yesterday he was all about baby - kept giving him kisses and cuddles which was cute.
Today has been nice without Jett to chase after though, running errands was a breeze. I got some groceries and bought some clothes for Jett (Target is having a sale on summer clothes so might be a good idea to layby size 1's for next summer! And a 20% off sale on baby and nursery.) Ive put him in care tomorrow too for a few hours as I think part of his naughtiness is boredom, he's used to seeing friends kids once or twice a week and going to daycare for 5hrs on thursdays. My g/f and I are going out to lunch.

Anywho enough of my boring prattle, its almost time to pick J up and Rips is sucking away on the boob. BBL.

ETA - Trish - yay on the swimming too! Its a relief when they take to swimming like fish, Jett is the same - absolutely loves it and does really well for his age.
Ali - Yeah the bassinette is the only place I can keep J away from bub and even then he stills tries to climb it. Im thinking of picking up a playpen too but my DH is worried about him climbing it.

Hi guys, I can't remember what it was like with my first, but this feeding 1.5 - 2 hourly (esp at night) is seriously doing my head in! Does anyone know how long it lasts before they can last longer between feeds?
Oh, and XTML? My little one is supposed to have come 2 weeks early but he's all peely too.
Hope all's well with everyone

today is a good day! no mastitus, no car crashes, no trips to children's emergency, just the usual night of nearly no sleep, loads of nappies and sore nipples. I was so grumpy when olly (2 yo) came in to wake me up for the third time at 5 am, that i did a full body worm off the bed (flyingup inthe air, DH tells me laughing) and went to sleep in his little bed for the last 30 mins before i had to get up. it was just enough sleep to make me ok to drive the car (i'm scared of another accident). now mylo is asleep, olly's at daycare, i'm going to try to sleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

oh yeah, happy to get the photo message about lisa's baby this morning. yay for lisa: the december belly buddies group is officially bellyless.

Ali - yeah Chrissie doesn't cry either... so i'm not sure that it's reflux...probably just wind, and she DOES have difficulty burping some times!...

yay for the last of the December mums to be bellyless.. congrats Lisa..

Great day here.. nothing like retail therapy to make you feel good :lol:

BBL for personals

hey ladies... for some reason when i posted i didn't see those other messages!

Anna - is Activite like Milo...? do they both work the same way...?? my DH think i'm crazy...says i have heaps of milk as bubs is pretty satisfied when comes off the boob her eyes roll back in her head! LOL

Sounds like Ripley is going great guns!!

xtml - glad you had a good day lara!!

Hi everyone!!

I am going to be lurking in here as well is in the Jan babies as I can't possibly not keep up with what my darling belly buddies & their babies are up to!!

My stoopid phone doesn't get photos but I assumed it was a message about a baby when I saw it was from Lisa, I'm so happy for her!!

I was just trying to read everybodie's threads, then Lara I read yours re 'loads of nappies' & realised that I still have a load of nappies in the machine from this morning!!! Oops!! Better get them on the line before Miss wakes up, I hear on the monitor a bit of grumbling so I better hop to it.

So hello to all the late Dec baby buddies, I love you all lol. Hi also to the other ladies whose thread I am crashing lol... promise I won't be too annoying, looks like a pretty active thread I won't every be able to keep up!!

Bindy, all is going well here with the BF, nips a tiny bit sore but that is my own fault for letting her keep going when she wasn't attached properly because I was too tired to do otherwise, but apart from that I am loving feeding her & even said to DP that I just would not be able to cope if I were formula feeding, or even expressing for that matter as BF is just soooo freaking easy, I don't even have to get out of bed lol. I would die if I had to get up at 2am to measure & prepare formula etc, although having your partner able to help with feeding would be a plus. Definately do what is right for you... crying (for you!!) at every feed does not sound like fun.

Haroula, congratulations on your outing! Our first trip out & about is tomorrow, to the doctor for Scally's doc check... so that's about a 35min walk in her pram, luckily it's not supposed to be hot... but I hope it doesn't rain!! Atleast she's used to her pram bassinet as it is her regular bassinet too... I can't believe how nervous I am about taking her out of the house!!

Anywho, if I don't hang out these nappies soon they will be there till tomorrow so I'll go... I'll probably be back tomorrow to try to sift through the thousands of posts!!

....hmm, okay, so before I could post Scally was awake & now it looks like rain so.... bugger, bugger, bugger!!

Haroula - I can't BELIEVE Chrissie is already 3 weeks old!!!

QM - glad to hear all is going well with you!! !:D I was nervous first very outing on our own, but it went real well and the nerves soon go!

Yeah i can't believe she is 3 weeks old!! time is so flying!!! next week she will be a month old already!! i can't believe it!... and she has grown so much it's getting harder to hold her when BF, i need a pillow now...!

You better keep dropping in to see us! We'll miss u otherwise!

Hi lovelies!

Haroula, Ali and Anna - I get the same thing with Euan from time to time. He hasn't chucked for ages now, so I've been putting it down to wind (he is a verrrrrrry gassy baby). He doesn't necessarily cry when he does all of these things though. I've actually been wondering whether his really bad days have actually been overtiredness rather than the wind pains that I've been thinking it is, because he never sleeps much on his really stroppy days. But then, I also have trouble burping him at times, and these are the days that he tends to be the grumpiest, so I think it could be wind. Hard to know sometimes... I'll be interested to hear what you find out Ali.

Louise - sorry to hear about your dad - I'm glad he is OK now. Hope the ambulance officers treated him well (my dad is an ambo!!). You have me worried though - Euan hasn't poo'd since Tuesday. It's been nice just having wet nappies for a change, but I am afraid, so very, very afraid of what will eventually come out. I keep expecting to hear this loud exploding sound and find baby poo all over my walls. Eeep.

Lauren - YAY on mum's group. It's great that you kept in contact with your antenatal class too - I had a bunch of boring people in my classes, not one person was interested in keeping in contact. I think they thought my DP and I were a bit weird though. Pffft. Apparently there is a 'parent's seminar' thing at the CHC on Mondays which I assume is in lieu of an proper mum's group - I'm a bit peeved because I was told by the hospital that the CHC would organise a mum's group for the babies born in a certain month - but no, this doesn't happen. I'm only annoyed because the parent's seminar thing started two weeks ago and the MCHN didn't bother to tell me, even though I've been going weekly to get him weighed. So hopefully I might meet a few people there but I was really looking forward to a mum's group.

Nic - great poo story! I shouldn't laugh, but I am!! I'm glad you had a good night's sleep.

Trish - WTG Tehya!!! You do have a little Olympian in the making - what a star! Good one too on the swing special!

Anyone I missed - HI!!

Well, we've had a good day today. Euan went down at 11:30 last night, and slept till 7:00. Noice. I was starting to despair that after getting us used to these nice long night sleeps he was going to continue behaving like a normal baby and only sleeping for a few hours at a time. He then went back to sleep when I got to the shopping centre after dropping his dad off at work at 8:30, and slept through two different stops being put in and out of the car seat and the sling, finally waking 15 minutes after I had got home at 11:00 and made lunch for myself. Had a little feed, a bit of a play and a nappy change, then a bit more of a feed, then back to sleep at 1:00. WTF!!! It's now quarter to 3:00 and he's still asleep. I even got an hour's sleep. Wooo Hoo!!!

Just woke and is now happily chomping away at a boob, so it's back to one handed typing for me. Now would be a really good time to evolve an extra set of arms...

I think the little bugger is making up for all of that sleep that he hasn't got over the last couple of days. A definite pattern is emerging here - insomnia baby for a couple of days, then one day of nice but active baby, then sleepy baby. It's a shame, because it's my DP's days off tomorrow and Saturday, and Euan will probably cycle back to insomnia baby somewhere in those two days.

I finally got a mobile for his cot - it's the TinyLove Symphony in Motion one, and some other cot toys. I'm sure he gets so bored in there, I get this mental picture of a prisoner rattling his cup against the bars of his jail cell whilst a harmonica plays mournfully in the background...

Anyway, monster has fed and gone back to sleep again - methinks this is good opportunity to get cute photos of him sleeping on his fluffy rug whilst he is in such a cooperative mood.

TTFN...

Haroula - Good going on the day out! I was supposed to have a day out solo the other day but at the last minute my sister popped over and she same with me which I was so happy about.

Ali/Haroula - I thought Fraser had a touch of relux too but now I think it is just wind as it comes and goes too quickly for it to be reflux. Infants Friend has almost stopped it anyway so try it (only $8 from the chemist) and see how it goes.

Aussienic - I know what you're saying about having a happy baby! It is great! Fraser has been so happy for the past two days (thanks to IF) that it is ALMOST like not even having a baby in the house.

Trish - Go the Olympian! Careful what you wish for though. I was a swimmer for 14 years and my parents hated the 4am starts. It was them that tried to talk me out of going training every morning using excuses like wind, rain, cold etc. The happiest day of their life was when I got my licence.

Kitten2b - What a day you had yesterday! I hope your Dad is OK. How very scary for you.

Buzzie - I love IF too !!!!

Littlelara/Xtml - Fraser was 4 days late and peeled too but it only lasted a week and he is back to normal now.

Yay Lisa !!!! I hope to see you in here shortly rather than the January thread .... we missed you. It is so sad that our active fun happy thread is now obsolete. I wonder if any of us will be in the same Belly Buddies thread next time around (for those of us who plan for a next time).

Jeepers so many posts!! No way I can keep up :D

xtml or Suse (I forget who - blush) I think our boys share the same birthday? And xtml I love the family photo of your Olly "patting" Mylo.

QM BF is so much easier than expressing - I am trying to fit it in ATM to prepare for return to work and it sucks :(

Kitten that is awful about your dad and I think I am in for a poo like Sofia's - Ollie hasn't done one for 2 days!! Flynn was a regular 3 a day boy from the start so this is all new for me :(

I have been buggered all day cause Ollie has been feeding two-hourly since about 2am this morning - hope it helps the poo out.

Hey Aurora - that would be me!! Ollie was born on the 28th November, right? But for some reason my ticker is a day behind.

I finally got the monster poo - OMG it was scary. Literally dripped off him when I took his nappy off. Luckily no leakage - I love my MCNs...

Gosh chatty bunch today :)
Lets see if I can catch up ;)

QM: Welcome and of course we don't mind, the more the merrier.. I was scared taking my kids out the first time too. I noticed especially with Olivia cus she was just so small... Good Luck and I hope you enjoy it :)

Suse: Laugh away we still do.. Its a very amusing poo story.. I even have another from my 2nd bub lol.. I decided to take an outing for the first time with just the 2 boys and myself. Isaac was just shy of 3 weeks.. We walked to the beach and I sat down with Ethan picked isaac up out of the pram and splurtttttttttttttttt out it came... All over him.. and what i had NOt done.. not checked the wipes packet, there was only ONE wipe left and forgotten to put a spare outfit in.. I cleaned him as best I could wrapped him in his blanket and walked home feeling like a right idiot.. LOL

And hi to everyone else.. sleepy vibes for all

Arrived here safely after a long long drive. The weather was cool so was good for the girls, they slept most of the way, don't know how they are going to go tonight though.

Dad is fine, but I have made sure he is drinking properly.

Good to hear yoiu are safe and sound :) Hope the girls sleep well for you

Glad your dad is ok Kitten.

My scary poo story - Flynn was about 4 months old and I was sitting at the computer with him on my lap working from home feeling like a real in-control modern career woman. I was typing away and I heard this "drip, drip, drip". He pooed out the side of his nappy and the drip was the sound of the poo running off my jeans leg onto the floor. By the time I noticed it we were both drenched in poo LOL!!

LOL Rory, who says you can't be a modern, in-control career woman AND covered in poo. Now that's multitasking...

Hey girls! LOL at your poo stories. I can't think of any for us. DS was a fairly polite pooer - in that he pooed in most of his nappies, so we didn't have many big blowouts (plus I found the cloth nappies contained it much better too). But DD is one who poos every few days.. so I'm sure she'll provide us with a story in time. I've had 2 or 3 poos go all the way up her back and staining her clothes :( She's about to be moved over to cloth nappies so hopefully it will stop that. I find sposies hopeless at containing anything up the back. DS used to wet all up his back in sposies.

Well, things are going along fairly well here. Kayla is still a bit windy, but we had a good couple of nights of sleep which perked me up no end (still waking for feeds of course, but good blocks of sleep) I even had the energy to finally clean up the office! DH was stunned when he got home LOL. (the office is our dumping ground and the room that has the door shut when visitors come).

She seems to be growing so much.. she's so long! I rang the chemist just now to see when the nurse would be in, but she's on holidays, so it won't be until at least next tuesday that I get her weighed and measured. I spose I could stand on the scales here to get an idea :)

And she's really woken up this week. We've had lovely play times inbetween feeds, and Tallon is still loving her.. goes and randomly gives her kisses and cuddles. He loved it when I got Kayla to do the actions to some songs too LOL. Still only getting very occassional smiles.. so we're working on that. She gets her tummy time on me.. lying back with her on my chest.. and omg.. she's so strong LOL. She pulls herself pretty much upright and looks around.. so cute. She almost smiles when she's doing that, its like she's having a great time swaying around on mummy. hehe.

Louise - hope your dad recuperates well. I'm sure he will with you up there keeping an eye on him! Glad the kids cooperated for the long drive up there. The longest we've done is 1 1/2 hrs. Which is fine if they sleep hehe.

Take care everyone.

After an unsettled day yesterday Liam slept really well, he slept really well, he was in bed just before 9 (and I was not long after) and he woke for his feed at 2, was fed burped and back in bed by 2:40 then slept till 6, so a great night for him. The bummer was Tori woke up about 3:30 and didnt go back to sleep, DH finally got up with her just before 5 and I dozed until Liam woke at 6, then we swapped and DH went back to bed and I fed Liam and watched Tori. So I have basically been awake since 2 am yawn.......

The good thing is my mum is having Tori today so I can catch up on some sleep and run a few errands that are just too difficult when you have to load and unload 2 small kids out of the car. I am also going to go and pick up the baby hammock that we hired and see if that help settle Liam for his day sleeps.

Anyway I am back off to bed to catch up on some MUCH needed sleep.

Hello again everyone

Geez Hope Im able to catch up with all the talk one day but at moment.. Wow I dont think its possible! Hope everyone is well just read quickly your posts so unsure of what to reply to so sorry for selfish post.

I feel heaps better today:) Yayee my little girl finally slept in her bed after her night feed! instead of keeping me up with feeds and nappies and unsettled-ness, So I am a happy girl:D Health nurse told me to wake her during the day every 3hrs for a feed then at night when she wakes which was 4hrly roughly and I put relaxtion cd on and the fisher price light and waves sound thing on cot and she slept ace! Nurse said she has put on 105grams in 3days GOODGIRL:) So no problems with milk there and my boobs are more regulated too so not as sore and full!

Ok well hope to catch up on all these posts tomorrow and have an actual active conversation! Haha
bbl Kristie

morning ladies..

suse - sounds very familiar!! can't wait until Chrissie sleeps from 11.30-7!!! WOW!

Dayl - yeah, i agree it's wind.. i mentioned it to the MCHN and she said that they don't recommend anything for bubs under 4 weeks! But if it continues i'll get her some next week!

kitten - glad your dad is OK!

rory/nic - love the poo stories! hehe

liz - things sound like they are going great guns at your place!!:clap:

Ali - that was a GREAT night!! :D Chrissie does... 11:30 feed... asleep by 12:30, 2:30 feed asleep by 3:30, 5:30 feed asleep by 6:30!! she's done this the last few nights and it's really exhausting!! Hope you get lots of rest and get to do all on your TO DO list!

kristie - glad things are going well for you!! :) hope it keeps up!! Sometimes i find it hard to keep up too, but am getting better at it! LOL

Ok.. Can i just say.... at night i feel like i am CONSTANTLY FEEDING!!! When i'm not ACTUALLY feeding her, i'm dreaming about feeding her... so when she actually wakes for a feed, i think i've already fed her and she can't possibly want more food!!! It's so strange!! but it's EVERY night and it's beginning to drive me insane!!

quick update.. Olivia had her first lot of needles :( poor baby.. They went fine tho..

She now weighs 5.30kg and is 57.5cm in lenght...

We had to wake her to go to the Drs.. silly DH forgot about the Drs and well woke me at 8:15 and her appointment was at 8:45.. I made it only 2 mins laste but no breaky or *gasp* morning coffee...

Well little miss is grumpy cus she is tired.. oh and oooo she went to bed at 8pm and slept till 3 and was bac in bed by 3:30.. slept till 5ish but I think Jacob woke her when he came into our room then obviously up at 8:30.. but yehaw... 7 hours straight.. not for me but her so its a start

Haroula - LOL about your dreams. Tony must be having similar dreams because last night he was digging frantically at my arms and shoulders and when I asked him what he was doing he said said he couldnt pick Fraser up! I told him that Fraser wasnt there and that he was in his cot and he must have woken up then because he then sounded all sheepish and said "Oh, I didnt know what I was doing".

Ali - I hope you have a good sleep and are sleeping soundly. Sometimes I look at Fraser sleeping and think how lovely it would be to be able to sleep so soundly without a care in the world.

Aussienic - I am dreading the immunisations! I was beside myself when Fraser had to have his heel blood test in hospital. He hated it and just screamed and screamed. I guess it is all for the best though (if only they knew that).

We are having another good day today. Looking forward to the weekend. Tony said today that he will do all the feeds tonight and Saturday night to give me a break so yet another reason to look forward to the weekend!!! Yay, two lots of uninterrupted 8 hour sleeps!!!!

Hi everyone,

Back in the last thread someone mentioned there bubs on IF and throwing up? not sure who that was, but is anyone else noticing anything different.

Ash is doing fantastic on it but i dont know if hes over feeding atm or its the IF but he vomits alot more now. Im gonna try not to feed him too much, even tho he LOVES his boobies but i need to know which is making him do it.

hope everyone has a lovely day, sounds like we have some good bubbas atm :)

Hi Everyone,

Just thought i'd pop in and introduce myself and our little man. My name is April and our DS 'Bodie' was born on Thursday 27th December at 10:45pm weighing 7pound15.
He was born 3 weeks early, he's practically still supposed to be in my belly! His due date was 20th January.
We had a pretty traumatic birth, he got stuck at the shoulder so I had the doctor on the bed pulling him out with her bare hands which left me with a large tear. Bodie was blue and wasn't breathing when he came out so was rushed to special care nursery where he stayed for a week. During that time he was Jaundice so he was under the special lights for 2 days. When we finally got him home it was such a relief. He is going great now, he's being bottle fed but has had constipation. Does anyone have a remedy on how to get rid of constipation? My midwife told me sugar & water, but anything else?

Will be popping in here and the January babies thread as I was in the bellybuddies Jan 15th-31st thread, so look forward to hearing from you.

lol haroula on the constant feeding /dream / reality who knows? that used to happen to me when i worked too much, or studied too much, i'd wake up and continue what i'd been doing all night in my sleep - it was nightmarish.

i don't know how you all keep track of how often u feed. i'm so disoriented i wake up and have no idea when i last fed mylo, from what side, or where i am (sometimes). i know i've messed up if my nipples are bruised and acheing, or if one side is about to explode and the other is soft :this happens during the day too, my brain's turned to jelly. i realised i paid my internet bill 3 times, when its already set up to direct debit. the customer service guy suggested i tattoo on my arm "dont pay internet bill" as i'm sure to forget again by next month.

olly has a cold and a fever (you'd think they'd cancel each other out but NO) so i'm trying to be extra there for him. DH gave me the biggest cuddle in the world this morning and i realised how much i needed someone to care for me - it's hard work being a milk machine on double mum duties and keep everyone fed (to hell with the housework) - how do you do it, you girls with more than 2? my friend with 3 mth old twins and a 1.5 y.o is always a week or 2 delayed in responding to a call or sms, no matter how big or casual the event, i understand how that could happen, and figure she's doing well to remember at all. poor love, her DH is hard work too.

roryrory - thanks on the photo, i'm lucky olly is such a kind and gentle kid. he includes Mylo in everything from kisses goodnight to checking in during the day and he's never tried to hurt him, or acted badly to get attention, so i guess i'm really lucky! he even gets upset when he sees his skin peel, i think he thinks it hurts. yes Mylo is STILL peeling!

glad things are coming togewther for u kristie - the music to sleep seems like a good idea. gotta be better than my loud cries to PLEASE GO TO SLEEP that just wakes up olly and dh and probly the neighbours too. as 4 my airborn worm manouver - only to be used on special occassions.

aussienic- you're drinking coffee -ME TOO! i missed it so much during pgcy but couldn't stand even the smell. now in the middle of the shopping i abandon the trolley, find a cafe and give mylo a booby, the customers a eyefull, and have myself a soylatte. everyone's happy.

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aussienic- you're drinking coffee -ME TOO! i missed it so much during pgcy but couldn't stand even the smell. now in the middle of the shopping i abandon the trolley, find a cafe and give mylo a booby, the customers a eyefull, and have myself a soylatte. everyone's happy.

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Good on ya :) I so know how you feel.. I HAVE to have my instant in the morning then I have 1 or 2 proper coffees during the day I so could not do without my coffee machine... ah bliss.. going to send hubby to make one now me thinks

My brain is not working enough today to reply to everyone but you all sound good...

Lauren: how often are you giving the IF? I found Olivia went through a stage of throwing up but wasn't related to the If was just a possible change in my milk or just her who knows :lol:

oh and Olivia Projectile vomited earlier but seemed fine so I don't think it was related to her needles and is sleeping very happily now :) scrap that as I hit post she woke up crying.. dunno why tho... hmmm.. I such a worrywart

oh and Welcome Apes..... Congrats on the birth of your son....

and of course you are more then welcome here..

Hey Girls!

Sorry it's taken me a few days to come back in and say HI! I've just been so pre-occupied with staring at my little girl, I can't get enough of her! She is far too beautiful.

Everything going well here, am expressing which is working out great and making more milk now, not really enough to keep up with her gutso feeds though so she has one or two formula feeds in the 24 hour period. She is sleeping really well and is such a happy little Bubba!

It's great because my DP has been doing the early morning feed around 1am and I do the 4/5am one so I'm sleeping pretty well. I'm not even feeling too tired. Have no idea what baby blues is yet...the midwives in hossy were telling me "you'll probably get the blues/teary today!" but I didn't and frankly, it was annoying they put it into my head!

Still in PJ's can you believe...must get out of them now whilst Maddie is sleeping soundly, before she wakes for another feed!

Well I hope you are all going well and happy with your Bubs. They are so cute aren't they! I can't believe Madeleine is growing like she is, she's getting chubbier and she's starting to look at me already!

Love Bindy xxoo

nic - i was giving 10drops in the morning and at night, yesterday i gave bit at lunch to get us thru the arvo with my group catch up. And he seems to let farts go alot eaiser with that amount. I didnt realise milk changes even now.. what happens to it?

nic - WOW Olivia is doing great!!! :D that's awesome!

dayl - lucky you on your sleep! enjoy!!!

Lauren - hope you work out what's bothering your little man!

April - Welcome!! :D So happy to hear you are both doing well now!! I've heard sugar & water too, but my mum also boils prunes and puts the juice in with the milk for my niece and it works a treat!!

Lara - yeah well that's what i feel like... like all i am doing is flopping out the boob! I must be honest, i don't think i'm getting the satisfaction from breast feeding that i thought i would.. and if it wasn't so convenient and good for her i don't think i'd be doing it much longer...! :( AS for remembering feeds etc.... if i think i'll forget, i actually write it down!

Bindy - glad you are doing well!! :D isn't it just precious when they look at you!! i love it! My little one has dimples...(like her mum) so it's so cute when she smiles!!!

why ohhhh why is chrissie not sleeping!! She has not slept since 1:30pm..!! if i hold her a bit or give her boob she falls asleep, but as soon as i put her down she's wide awake!!!! arg! what am i going to do with her!?!?!

I think your milk can change depending on your hormones ect.. maybe not so much change but have an altered taste,,,

when you get AF sometimes your baby will know and not seem to enjoy the milk as much.. I know for me when my pp bleeding started sort ofcoming back at 4 weeks olivia started doing little vomits..


A question... Olivia got her needles ok today but about 3 hours after she did 3 big projectile vomits then seemed happy had a feed and went to sleep.. at midday she woke screaming and screaming.. her body was rigid :( simon ended up going out to get infant panadol and we gave her some and she went back to sleep but not long wole again screaming but is asleep on me.. Could this be related to the needles or the rotavius vacciince which was a liquid.. She is in pain as you cn tell by her cry
oh and she keeps fartuing like you wouldn't believe

Haroula: Chrissy is just having a nice long awake time :)

Might be the vaccine. I think Kayla did a bit of a chuck afterwards.. and I remember wondering if she just puked it all up hehe. Hope she's ok! Might just be having a spewy day and it happens to be when she had her needles. It's easy to worry. Was she upset by the needles? I figured Kayla might have chucked because she got pretty distressed.. not for long tho.. but I figured it was something else different that might throw things out of whack.

Ohhh the needles - I've got to get those next week and I'm dreading it. I think I'll wait till Friday when DP is off work, might go a little easier!

Haroula - Euan has days like that too - I despair of ever getting to put him down for more than a minute and he just won't sleep.

Re: the odd things we do when half asleep - I wake up panicking that Euan has fallen out of our bed (he sleeps in his cot, not with us), look over, see DP and think that he is Euan and try to pick him up and put him back in the cot. DP is nearly 6 foot BTW... Oh dear.

Well, as you ladies all recommend it so much, I'm off for a bottle of Infant's Friend...

TTFN

does anyone know if it's ok to start doing exercises on tummy muscles already, or are we supposed to wait? i had some separation of the muscles down the middle of my belly (the big ridge sticking up whenever i engaged them) and i'm dying to try out some moves on my gym ball. but not if it makes it worse. all the physio said was swimmng and biking were ok, no running for a year. pilates and yoga are fine, but what about sit ups? dayl maybe you know....

I was given info on mild exercises to do at hospital, but I dunno about when you've had separation of the muscles (I don't even know if I had that LOL). Perhaps just do the pilates.. that's all based around the core muscles there anyway, and work up to doing situps and things later.

I've been so busy, I just haven't had time to get on here. Though saying that, I've had a very lazy day laying on the couch flicking between the cricket and tennis. :D

Kai has slept all day. He woke at 12.30 and 4.30 for feeds, had a quick feed, changed him and tried to get him to play, but he just wants to sleep. i think its the heat. I hope this doesn't mean he won't sleep tonight.

Sorry for the selfish post. I'm heading out for dinner now.