Babies Born December 2010 #2

[onthefly]

Hi

Great news cathie - you're so close now! It seems to have flown by for all of you.

Great work mr pixie!

Miri's 4th molar popped through last week. thought we might get a break... but no... then today realised, that yup, there's her first eye tooth bulging. sigh. At one-month per tooth (if I'm lucky) then same again for the 2 year old molars, maybe we'll be done by the time she's 2....? (probably overly optimistic)

[Charlotte91]

Go Mr Pixie! He should be proud of himself.

Welll, it's 3.03am. DH is playing the playstation, Hannah is watching and I'm doing... stuff. Poor munchkin slept 12 hours, then basically all day, and she's been up from just after 1am. She's been burning hot all day, barely ate but had a few bottles.
She's still hot and layed in our bed from 1.30 to 2.20 and cried and sweated in my arms. Sounds weird, but she smelt like wet cat.... She ended up getting so upset (DH and I couldn't calm her down) that she vomitted.
But it's OK... It was only on me

Gave her a small bottle to settle her and she wouldn't go back to sleep so we decided to get up. I was hungry anyway (surprise, surprise) and we were wide awake.
I made Hannah a weetbix (as I was making myself some) she happily ate most of it before vomitting it all back up again.

Then, in a huge cuteness moment, she vomitted just a bit more and said "Done".
How can I be mad at that??

So, it's party time in the Charlotte91 household.
Off to make myself a hot drink. Gonna be a LONG night.

[purplepixie1978]

Oh Char... I feel for you but couldn't help but laugh about the final spew Millie chucked a bit the other day and I (stupidly) caught it fairly neatly in my hand. For someone who has always been a sympathetic vomiter, I dealt with it remarkably calmly! DH was flapping around a bit looking for towels so I directed traffic while Millie sat there watching the show.

Seriously, I hope Hannah recovers soon and you guys get some sleep tonight.

So MadB, how many teeth does Miri have now? I'm not sure where Millie is "supposed" to be up to - she has the four top front, top two molars, and just the bottom front two with the bottom molars bulging like crazy. It seems like she has been teething on and off all year with only the two molars to show for it. She's really good about brushing, though, which is awesome.

One of my mothers' group friends is booked in for a c-section tomorrow - can't wait to hear her news Hooray for babies!

Thinking of you all xox

[luna moth]

Sickling here too. Not sure what yet, but she's clingy and fragile and sleepy and sucky.

Only 6 teeth here, four top, two bottom. Haven't had a new one for ages. Looking forward to that! Not.

We took her to a palm nursery yesterday, saw a green tree frog on a palm, and some butterflies, which she's mad about. But the highlight of the day was the mini golf. She had her little plastic clubs, and would hit the ball once, then pick it up and put it in the hole. So funny!

[cathie5]

Well ladies,

My Little man was up 7 times last night and he cried off and on from 5.00am to 6.30am, I just sit near the door let him cry for a few seconds go in and lay him back down I don't talk to him nothing.......... check list 1. He is rugged up so not cold maybe too hot don't know 2. teething could be can't see any teeth but as we all know they can sit there for ages. 3. Just wants his mummy, great can you just want mum during the day not a night.... I'm getting a little worried as we will have a new born in our house in 6 weeks and I've got Charlie up 7 times during the night....... Do you ladies have any ideas on what I can do?

Thanks in advance

[Charlotte91]

That's what Hannah did 2 nights before she got sick..

No ideas, sorry.

[purplepixie1978]

Hello all,

Audax, oh Lordy that sounds so cute A mini golfer! Better get some video in case she turns out to be the next Carrie Webb

Oh Cathie I have no wisdom for you, sorry. Last time we had a night like that was when Millie had gastro, but it was obvious why she was up - the STENCH told us loud and clear D'you reckon he can sense that the new arrival is near? I'm really curious about that because Millie has been much more attached to Daddy in the past couple of months but is starting to ask for me more again. I hope someone has ideas for you xox

I have had to change things up a bit for Millie of an evening - we were eating dinner at 6pm when DH came home from work, and on work nights I was picking Millie up from daycare on the way to pick DH up from the station - time wise it worked quite well but now that it's dark and cold and Millie is generally worn out and hungry... so our supposedly lovely family meal time was very stressful - I was battling to get food on the table, DH was battling to get Millie to eat (who was starving but too tired to cope)... shambles. Especially as she's becoming more independent and wanting to use her spoon or fork, but getting unco as she was so tired... Last night was a real mess, she barely ate anything, and of course was starving at 4am. So today I picked her up early, gave her dinner early, she had some apple while DH and I ate our dinner, and we had a relaxed bath/book time then she went to bed happily. I'm really pleased to have made the change, it has made a difference tonight - we'll see how it continues.

Oh, cool news from daycare today - Millie's carer told me when I picked her up, "Oh, if she does this (made the baby sign for drink), it means drink." "I know, we're teaching her baby sign." "Really, we thought Erin had taught her that!" (little girl in the same room - they are around the same age and sort of hang out together.) "Does Erin do baby sign too?" "Erin is profoundly deaf!" Erin had signed to Millie that she wanted a drink, and Millie went to her carer, who was with another kid, and said, "Jess, Erin drink!" How awesome is that?! I'm chuffed that she's using it to communicate outside home, and that she was able to help her friend!

Hope all's well and that sick babies get better soon... and wakeful babies get some sleep tonight xox