Babies Born December 2007 #5

[Freya]

Username - AnnaT
Real Name - Anna
Baby Name - Ripley Jon Conor
Birth stats -Weight: 2940g / 6p 8 ounce Length: 49cm HC: 33cm
DOB - 2nd January 2008
Siblings - Jett (1 1/2)
Partners Name - Ryan
Location - Bonegilla (Wodonga) Vic

Just wanted to give my stats. Will be on tomorrow for a more elaborate post. Almost bedtime!

[~Belinda~]

Aussienic, she totally lies flat at night in her bassinette, actually sometimes with me, she loves to be close with me I must say.

[aussienic]

Does anyone know if you can get some sort of safety bumper for a cradle?? I don't want to have to put Olivia in her big cot just yet but she moves so muc in her sleep and is always banging her head against the bars? sigh I thought I would get more then 9 weeks use out of the cradle.. and she is to small to go into a great big cot

[aussienic]

Just wanted to share this..

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Ethan reading to Olivia check out him holding her hand..

[Roryrory]

Oh why do children have to lie in bed and wail in the middle of the night?

Flynn is in bed doing just that now. Wail. Silence for a minute. Wail. Silence. Talk to himself. Wail again.

Aggggh!

[aussienic]

:hugs: I do not know.. Jacob does the same thing.. He doesn't do it often in the middle of the nigt but at all times.. He just sits and screams/wails if he wants something instead of asking...

Hope Flynn settled down and went to sleep for you

Can someone tell Olivia to please go back to her 9-3 till 7 routine PLEASE!!!! We now have 8-1and then toss and turn till 5 or 6 sigh.. This mummy is tired

[Harri]

morning ladies,

is going to be a busy day, so thought i would skip my morning nap!

alicia - i'm in for a meeting!

nic -ohhhhhh how cute!! holding her hand is so sweet!.. wasn't playing it up for the camera was he??!

rory - darn! sorry for the bad night.... kids!

hope everyone else is well!

xxx

[Trish]

Lauren, thanks for doing up that list hun. How is Mr Ash going ?

Teena, I'd love to tell you they get better. And I will hun, just as soon as mine do

Ahh yes the easysuits. I have seen them, and while they look cute you just know by the looks of them that they'd be a PITA to change a nappy and to dress bub in. Maybe you girls taht have them already could contact Bonds and give them some feedback. Who knows what you will get too

Nic, Abbey was 8 weeks on Monday. It goes so damn fast hey. How cute on the chuckle. I can't wait for that part. We are getting huge smiles too. Sounds like you might be onto something with the IF. I got Infacol by mistake but still haven't used it. I really shoud, because all Abbey does is grunt and squirm, if I pick her up and pat her back she does huge burps.

Bek, huge hugs huni Mother guilt is a shocker hun. Give yourself time to adjust to having more than one baby or child in the house. It's a whole new world for the lot of you and takes a while to adjust.

Haroula, great gain there by Chrissie. She is growing fantastically.

Bindy, sorry that your not feeling loved in here. I guess with such a big group it's hard to do personals to every member. Perhaps try stepping out of your circle too and other's might also. Just a thought.

Alicia, good to hear that Mothers group went well. I have never ever been to one. BB is my mothers group. And I don't even have to get dressed to go

Rory, my big boys help out rarely. If they are ever home I make them hold or listen out for Abbey while I shower etc. Noah just wants to yellout to me everytime he hears her through the monitor "Mum, Abbey's crying" as if I can't hear her anyway. And Tehya, well, I'm sure she means well. LOL.

Had a shocker of a day yesterday. Kids were feral and Abbey just would not settle. Took them out for around a hour or so in the arvo to burn off some energy then Abbey screamed herself silly until we had to pull over on the way home. Managed to calm her down enough til we got home and she insisted on screaming a lot more. This was our night til she finally settled around 9.30pm. I fell asleep with her on the boob in the loungeroom and woke at 12am and went to bed.

I woke this morning to find Tehya in bed with us too. Abbey was farting around, grunting and whinging so I got up with her. Better to have her awake than Tehya. Of course she went back to sleep and was on the lounge. I can hear her stirring now. I wasn't game to go shower and leave her there. My luck Tehya would have gotten up.

Swimming again today with my fish.

Hope everyone has a good one and all bubbies are kind to their mummys

[aussienic]

Haroula: He was holding her hand when I walked back into the room Was so cute!!

Trish: time is just flying isn't it? Enjoy your little fish

[Trish]

Sorry didn't see these other post's when I posted. LOL

Rory, I really don't know why they do that hun. Tehya does the same thing as does Noah. They will lay there and at the top of there lungs either cry out or yell out DADDY !! Better than Mummy I guess, cos when I go into Noah I go cranky on him, tell him to be quiet and go back to sleep. DP on the other hand, get's into bed with them. Hoep you got some sleep hun.

Nic, that is sooo cute. Ethan is a great reader too. When Noah was in the cradle I just used the cot bumper. It wrapped around the whole cradle. Abbey is getting long in her bassinette too, but I don't want to put her in the cot in her own room. She'd be too far away from me then Was thinking about the brand new porta cot that is sitting still in the box in her room. I might unpack that and set it up in my room instead. It vibrates, plays music and has a nightlight on it. What more can a kid ask for.

Haroula, what's a morning nap hun ?? LOL. Hope you get a rest sometime today

[aussienic]

I might have to put her doona back in her bed.. she never moved this much when it was in there.. It is just a cot doona folded in half. but it comes up a little on te sides and covers the bars.. I so have no room for her cot in my room at the moment and dfinetly not ready to move her out yet..

I would set up her porta cot but yet again I have a fussy child who doesn't like it Only Ethan has slept in a porta cot here lol..

Well without jinxing myself .. Olivia fed and went in her rocker. She lasted half an hour there and started to cry so I picked her up and lay her on the couch next to me and she stopped crying so I went and got breakfast and another coffee and she is still laying there kicking away happily..

[Harri]

Trish - LOL sounds like you got your hands full again! .... hehehe re morning nap....the day Chrissie decides to sleep soundly for x hrs this morning... I can't sleep cause there is so much to do! typical!!! How many loads of washing do you do a day?? with that many of you... gee! i find i'm washing every second day already!! At the moment it is definitely "don't do tomorrow what you can do RIGHT THIS MINUTE"

nic - if you look at my gallery, there's a pic of Chrissie's craddle... i bought it specifically cause the sides are a cotton mesh and it's all suspended... so when she wakes and moves it rocks itself.. also is quite large, so should last until about 4-6 months..then it'll be time to go into the cot. I can't fit anything other than the cradle in our room either!

ok so far so good.. she's still asleep... have put washing in... had breakfast and a shower!! WOW.... and all before 8.30am!!!

[aussienic]

I worked Olivia out I was reading on another thread the other day about the signs of tiredness and how it starts around 1.5 hours after waking.. So i notice Olivia doing it this morning and realised she had been awake exacly 1.5 hours so I got out her little bed and lau her down and rubbed her back and she went to sleep No screaming this morning

just heard on the news Heath Ledger has been found dead

[Freya]

So its 9:30am and Im showered, we're all eating breakfast and I might actually get the groceries done by lunchtime, woohoo. Ugh someone's grumbling, I think he wants a 2nd helping of his booby breakfast too.

I hope everyone's nights went ok, ours was alright - think he went 3hrs between feeds cause the nights are going faster, I seem to get 2 feeds in before daylight so not to bad going. I think Im going to try expressing sometime today, just to see how it goes. I have a elec pump a friend gave me because mine was manual and I hated it last time. Would be nice to know I have the option of an occasional bottle if need be. Wont be for a few more weeks though.

Crud the kid is screaming, be back later.

[Roryrory]

Anna isn't it great when things just work like that ? and Nic that is great you got Olivia to settle like that.

Haroula I am doing at least a load of nappies a day plus a load of clothes - c'mon Trish, what is the average for your tribe LOL!

Trish sounds like Noah has taken Uhura's job - dunno if you watched "Star Trek" but her job on the show was to repeat whatever the computer says. They took the p1ss out of it oon "Galaxy Quest".

Flynnie was up for about 2 hours last night but I settled everything eventually by giving him his bear to cuddle - its the first time something like that has worked. Oh and I worked out why Ollie was upset - I had a large slurpee on Monday - d'oh!! Now I have a really BIG reason not to OD on sugar!!

ETA: I will be away the w'end of the next Flemington Market but who is up for a visit to Highpoint? It is pretty close to Haroula, me and Alicia. We could do it one day next week? Say next Tuesday? (29 Jan)

[~Belinda~]

Bindy, sorry that your not feeling loved in here. I guess with such a big group it's hard to do personals to every member. Perhaps try stepping out of your circle too and other's might also. Just a thought.

May have been taken the wrong way here. Miss my Belly Buddies but that doesn't mean I don't want to get to know everyone else!!

Hope everyone is having a good day. Had a great night last night, Madeleine woke every 4.5 hours! Don't feel tired today.

Aussienic, I use a SAFE AND SOUND support in Bub's bassinette, she can't really roll around when she sleeps in the middle of it. HTH.

[~Belinda~]

So its 9:30am and Im showered, we're all eating breakfast and I might actually get the groceries done by lunchtime, woohoo. Ugh someone's grumbling, I think he wants a 2nd helping of his booby breakfast too.

I hope everyone's nights went ok, ours was alright - think he went 3hrs between feeds cause the nights are going faster, I seem to get 2 feeds in before daylight so not to bad going. I think Im going to try expressing sometime today, just to see how it goes. I have a elec pump a friend gave me because mine was manual and I hated it last time. Would be nice to know I have the option of an occasional bottle if need be. Wont be for a few more weeks though.

Crud the kid is screaming, be back later.

Anna, great to hear from you!! Thanks for your email too with Bub's pics!

[xtml]

trish - good advice on contacting bonds -i'm gonna do it! i often log on to the company site and complain if i buy something that's not ok, like stale crisps or lumpy soymilk- the big brands usually respond with a thankyou letter and a refund check. i wonder what bonds will do?

haroula, clayton is indeed my stomping ground when in smellbourne - there's MIX indonesian grocery store where i can buy good quality tempeh (try doing that in brisvegas) and an Indo cafe where DH and i go for meals and often meet people we know (or we know them by the time we leave lol). I'd love to meet up: chaddy or anywhere is easy when i'm down. I might be on my own as DH is scheduled to be there just the weekend whereas i'm there a week! a bit of time to show off my new baby hehehe...

olly has yellow crusty stuff comng out of his ear, and is being needy. poor boy, he is going for negative attention lately, but not too naughty. i'm watching supernanny trying to remember her rules for kind and effective disciplining - not that i want to "discipline" him everytime he throws sox out the window or something, it's enough to acknowledge that he needs some one on one mummy time and a change of scenery, but providing those things is SO CHALLLENGING.