Babies Born February 2007 #4

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Kirsten, hope you're feeling better with the next week.

I'm not at all bored or brain fried, but then I'm still in denial about having a baby sometimes! I get a bit in need of an adult conversation, but I have more now I am at home because I can call girlfriends and see their babies too! We went to the park today and saw some friends, DS went on the swings (and came out after 15 minutes because he started to try to lick the swing). I can just "switch off" when DS goes to bed and curl up with a book or a film. I also love the fact that when he wakes up in the morning he will just play next to me - I get woken up with a tiny finger up my nose rather than by a screaming baby!

I have lazy days where DS has a lot of alone-time (not so that he cries, just without me hovering), lots of time going out for coffee, computer time while he naps... I really enjoy having "me"-time.

Kel, if you want to stop breastfeeding no-one will think badly of you. You can still get your body (and your clothes and your fertility) back by dropping down to just a morning and nighttime feed. You don't even have to do that. Getting to six months, as I said to Lisa, is a big achievement. Many people stop at 4 months or before in the UK. Very, very few do more than a year. DH always said teeth would mean an end to BFing, lucky me he has stopped saying this, but DS has the odd formula bottle and this is good for me as it means I can go out without DS even if it is just for an hour or so.

[smylie]

gosh i hadnt even thought how lucky i am that jemima doesnt cry or scream, if i had that i would really be over it and going to work.... some days she doesnt cry once.... never cries when she wakes in the morning, benji delivers her to me with clean nappy and we have a chat and then we both snooze til it is time to get up.... depending on what we are doing...

i am certainly not bored either, i think now Thursday is the only day i dont have anything 'locked in' to do which is good, but always end up doing something... except today was just a quick trip to the grocery store (where this guy that worked there seemed to think i was interested in the behind the scenes of fruit and veges.... and told me about how they order stuff and the crates they use and all this other stuff i really didnt care about... i just wanted to know if they still sold the nuts seperately or if i had to buy a whole pack.... i only needed a handful of cashews..... but somehow i must have looked interested)

I am so lucky that all my friends (ok at least 4 of them) had babies within 3 months of eachother so i have heaps of people to go and visit that understand exactly what it is like with baby but more and more sometimes i dont want to talk baby.... i just want to be old kelly again..... so have 2 friends i keep away from the baby friends to keep them babyfree and 'untainted'

i think i meant brainfried in the way that i use my brain for different things now... it is funny when i am talking technical computer stuff with service people or whatever and i am now confirming what they mean instead of definately knowing i know what they mean.... but talk babies and i'm in my zone.... very weird but i am getting headaches which one nurse once said could be tension headaches?? what does this mean???

i was laughing the other day when i was feeding jemima... i was in an old tracksuit, hair a mess and due to kitchen reno sitting on a cube of coke cans getting the vanilla flavoured baby cereal stuff to go all in her mouth with her bashing the table about with everything she could reach.... wondering where the corporate stocking wearing girl had gone.....

the breastfeeding i am not worried about what anyone else will think if i stop, i am more worried about jemima.... i dont want to give her formula or a bottle as i feel we have done so well to have gone so long without either, even gone to the trouble of finding a sippercup that does not require her to suck to get it out just comes out when she tips... all the other ones have a straw or sucky nipple like outlet which is so not the point.... i dont know all i know is that if i do stop feeding i will miss it and that there is no going back... however if she continues to nip me at the end or beginning of every feed the decision may be very easy
kirsten how are you going with breastfeeding quinn?

[Lisa]

i was laughing the other day when i was feeding jemima... i was in an old tracksuit, hair a mess and due to kitchen reno sitting on a cube of coke cans getting the vanilla flavoured baby cereal stuff to go all in her mouth with her bashing the table about with everything she could reach.... wondering where the corporate stocking wearing girl had gone.....

Sorry Kell... I had to laugh at this!!!
Just 2 weeks ago, I had to go into my old workplace (Centrelink) to help my mum claim for a disablitity pension... and sitting there, chatting with my old workmates, with what I am sure was the perfume of old, 2nd hand milk on me, I started to smile thinking that I am so happy being at home with my bubba!!!
Harry was stolen from me by the girls I worked with... and had lots of smiles and giggles for them.

Kell, have you considered comp feeding bub? I was planning to do Cohens, which I can't be breastfeeding for, so I started to comp feed Harrison... and he and I both loved the breast times he had... now, as I have mentioned before, rejects me big time... I am really sad that it has ended like this, but in a way, it is my blessing in disguise because now I get to do something for me.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Little man has... half a tooth! It appeared late last night as he was biting me! So proud! It has finally started to appear.

I also got 5-6 hours out of him last night and he wasn't starving when he woke up, so I reckon he'll be ready to sleep through soon (phew!). DH put him to bed last night too, DS refused to feed to sleep and Thursday is my prayer group night so when my friends turned up (DS has usually been asleep half an hour at least by this point) DH turned offhis computer game and took over! How cool is that!

But have to say, sorry girls, I still do skirts and make-up. Not all the time, but enough of the time. Jeans when it's cold. But then, if I'd dress up for some poxy job, why wouldn't I dress up to show my men how much I care for them? (I come from a "if you are in messy clothes you can't eat dinner" family btw.) I change my top if it's covered in spit-up before DH gets home, but that's because he won't cuddle me if I smell of sick.

[smylie]

F I N A L L Y!!!! yippee for pubert!!!!! finally that pesky toothypeg rears it ugly head!

ryn you are lucky you didnt put on any weight when you were pregnant... remember i put on 30kgs! also i worked in a high profile office where i had to go all out suits, stockings, heels! am so enjoying a break from that! makeup though only for outside the house and now only if it is certain nighttime events... loving a break from that too! i have a box in the ceiling amongst all the boxes of clothes that are either too big or too small and it is "Corporate AND Maternity wear" i am wondering which ones I will need first... I am hoping and pretty sure it will be the maternity wear!

and YIPPEE for your DH reminding you why you married him... what a nice thing to do and incredible! i am lucky my guy isnt into computer games I hear too many WOW widow stories!

[mummycate]

very tired, busting for the loo, so quick post. hi i'm catherine, my daughter is elouise and she's so strong. beats me up and attacks me sort of. i should go. i'll be on another night.

[Impatient]

Welcome Catherine! And helloooo everyone else!

Kel, I only just realised you were looking for my email address. I assume you worked it out, based on the number of emails we have exchanged the last day or two???

Ryn - Congrats on bub's first tooth! FINALLY! How's his sleeping going?

Kirsten - How are things? Are you feeling better? Do you know why you were feeling down?

Lisa - Good on you for getting to 6 months. Remember, I didn't even make it to 3 weeks, so you've done a fantastic job. If neither of you are enjoying it, then neither of you will benefit from it. Harrison's doing extremely well, crawling like that. What a clever boy!!!

Hello to everyone else I've missed (I feel like I've been away for ages!).

Isabella has finally decided to roll for the first time, thank goodness! I was worried I'd have to circle the "No" box under "Has your baby rolled" in the baby book at her 6 month checkup and needles!

She's been "wanting" to for ages, just going half way over, then back again. Today she finally followed through onto her tummy which she wasn't happy about. She's done it about 5 or 6 times today.

As of yesterday I officially became unemployed. I had my "surprise" morning tea (my sister told me all about it!) and was given a beautiful pressie (a gold chain with a ruby pendant). Isabella was kidnapped and passed all around. She put on a great show and behaved herself! Next Thursday night I'm having my first night out on the town in well over a year (my official farewell from work - we're all going out to get drunk together!). BIL is picking us up afterwards to drive us home, which is really lovely of him!

Bella's had that yukky flu that's going around too. A little boy died from it last week and we were sooo releived it happened AFTER she got over the worst of it, otherwise I'd have been a mess. The poor family. It must have been awful. As it is, I spent the second night mopping her down with a wet face washer trying to get her temp down. It was pretty horrible but she's pretty much back to her old self now, albeit a bit croaky.

Oh well, I'd best be off. Have a great rest of the weekend everyone!

[smylie]

hey hey

hi catherine, elouise is gorgeous, i dont believe she beats you up...... i love the name elouise i had a friend named that at primary school, my DH didnt like it for our baby, i will try again next baby.... welcome what date was elouise born?

michelle yep i found your email address and all the others on my old computer, i was just being lazy as old computer takes half an hour to turn on...... i hate technology..... YIPPEEEE FOR ROLLY POLLY BELLA!!! how exciting, awesome that she has done it so many times, definately not a fluke or an accident... jemima is so so so close cant wait but can wait..... i am slowly making my house ready for her to move about, even got new tv unit (which was at my exhubbys house so that was weird and is weird having it in my house now...) to put everything in.... hopefully that gives me an extra month or so when she starts moving as she is ready to pull herself up on things as soon as she is close enough to them she is very strong she has the best abs, i am so jealous, i do think going out a lot and having her in the pouch has made her stronger, pity that means she hates the pram....

i am so annoyed i had a big post written and then checked something on the emails about a car thing benji is selling and lost the whole post so i am trying to remember what i said!

lisa - its funny, i bet when you went into your old work you KINDA felt like a dero in what you were wearing but you knew that secretely they were probly wishing they could be wearing whatever and enjoying messy time with baby! i should use the fact i need more noncorporate clothes as a reason to lose the last 15kgs..... i forgot to tell everyone, since my birthday i have lost 4.5kg all by myself, calorie counting and exercise, the good bit is i am finding maintaining really easy which is usually the bit i have heaps of trouble with EXCEPT for last week when i put on 500grams, i dont know what my problem waslast week but i just wasnt interested in anything much and heaps of vanilla slice yummo.... actually i just didnt exercise enough..... so i am going slow and steady so by Jemima's first birthday i will have lost the 30kg, I have to lose 15kg in 5 months.... ho hum

i have decided that i am going to keep breastfeeding for another six months if i can and re evaluate the situation again then.... the fact that it makes me learn how to eat properly is a good thing for me i would love to do optifast or tony ferguson (i lost 15kg in less than 3 months last year on optifast) but it is n ot a proper long term solution the only downside for me for breastfeeding is the contraceptive thing, but what ever happensthere i will wait and see and feel whatever happens is meant to be, having to wait longer for another baby is perhaps a blessing in disguise.... i would maybe love to leave jemima with people to baby sit her but for some reason i dont want her having a bottle and as we have gone this long without needing one i'd like to keep going, i have gone out twice straight after her feed so will keep that as an option but she is such a good baby i can take her everywhere i have wanted to go...

oh oh michelle you forgot to direct everyone's attention to your new ticker picture.... if you are going to put your baby through that kind of humilitation you HAVE to make sure to show the WORLD heheheehe that is the cutest baby photo i have ever seen, i am so going to dress jemima up in something like that and take a photo... maybe a big frilly bonnet and a give her a sheep or something so she can be little bo peep.... hmmm you have got me thinking, i didnt realise how adorable they looked dressed up so cute! Go Isabella! (i used to buy my mum the same birthday card every year coz i thought it was so funny it was of a cat in a flower pot and it said on the outside "for your birthday" and on the inside "i grew you a cat" heheheheheehe

happy sunday everyone!

[mummycate]

hey smylie, elouise was born 2nd february. well she doesn't really attack me. she jumps a lot on my lap while standing, which can hurt. she goes for my face. reaches out for my cheeks in a loving smiling gesture, but she grabs and with tiny hands and sharp nails, she has a strong grip. painful. pulls my hair, so i keep it up and away. she also has reflux. its not that bad, but it was enough for me to take her to several doctors to get answers. she's on thickened karicare formula, which she takes well, yet still throws up. not all the time, but at least 50ml vomit a day. which is more than possetting, which she does every feed. i took her to a paediatrician who put her on mylanta, which helped her from the pain of the stomach acid, yet she still throws up. all over me. when we're out. so i took her to a homeopath yesterday and she has two medicines to take, and she takes them well. too early to see any improvement yet. no teeth yet, although about four weeks ago while we were in brisbane, she was teething badly. i went through heaps of the brauer teething relief and bonjela. but i now realise most of that pain was probably reflux. as she had done several large most of a feed vomits. all over dad's armchair and the nice rug. and several on me. anyway, she's not rolled over yet. only from tummy to back which was not on purpose, she pushed up on one arm and tipped over. she's not crawling, but on her tummy she turns direction and pushes herself backwards, but no forward movement yet. hopefully soon. we're finally able to turn the car seat upright, but i still like it rear facing. don't know how to keep it rearward yet upright. she's too heavy to lift over the securing straps to the parcel shelf. does anyone know how to do it? its a safe-n-sound ordinary basic style. anyway its good to meet new people which bubs the same age. i'm in a mothers group in my local area. which has been great. i live in sydney if there is anyone else who wants to meet up. must go, this post is so long already.

[smylie]

heehehe thats not a long post... ryn, michelle and i WE do long posts!!!
wow you are awesome to have gone through all that with elouise! reflux must be awful, vomit everywhere would be one thing but upset bub would be awful! hopefully all the doctors appointments will help...

i just remembered what else was in my other post that i forgot!
Kirsten you said ages ago Quinn had marakas.... does he bash himself in the head with them??? i want to get some for jemima but i have to watch her real close with anything hard plastic as she shakes it so violently she cries when she hits herself... or treats it like teething toy but sometimes comes to her mouth so fast that she bashes herself...... and at swimming lessons how is quinn going?? jemima going to 2nd official lesson on wednesday so i am going to make sure that i really start showing her she is learning something not just playing in the water.... ?? does quinn still love it? do you do it or does your dh?

i guess the baby buddies is like a really weird 24/7 mothers group..... weird.......

[Impatient]

Oops! Kel, I forgot about telling everyone to check out the ticker! Hee hee!

Love the card you got your mum. Hilarious! Oh, and congrats on losing more kg's! Yay! At least you can do it the "natural" way. And remember - your boobs probably have a bit there with all that milk so that doesn't count as weight to "lose" as such!

Glad you've decided to keep BFing. If you're both happy and able to do it, then why not hey?

I must go and wake Bri for a feed before I go to bed - she woke again last night, at midnight! ARGH!

[smylie]

catherine - do you mean you want to have the carseat upright but still facing out backwindow? I think upright you have to face it forwards? usually behind the passenger seat I think so that if anything happens bub doesnt fall through the front window? have you had carseat in the middle?

My friend's baby stopped waking at midnight...................... and is now waking at 3am!!!!! I was meant to go over to friends place for dinner but we had jemima out last night so thought should give her a normal day/night, kinda glad i did she spent from 3pm til 7pm wanting to go to sleep.... kinda so we gave her "afternoon" tea and went for a walk and then she had a nap and then from 5pm onwards did NOT want to get put down...... i want to blame teeth and figure i can get away with it coz they are there but am wondering if it is the food? she started to scream late in the afternoon a different cry than usual.....?

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Oh, that is just so cute Michelle!

Kel, well done on losing all that weight all by yourself. That's fantastic.

Hi Cate, good to see you here! Liebling beats me up too, I have bruises and scratches all over. I can't keep my hair in a nice style and he has now learned that "OUCHIE!" is soon followed by "let go of Mummy please, that hurts." He now lets go when he hears that, he has usually grabbed my neck, but because DH doesn't say please, just "gerroff", he doesn't let go of Daddy! He is very easy to train, just the pain of training. Still, at least he doesn't bite the nipple any more, so glad I trained him out of that before he got teeth! DS was teething for three and a half months, it was agony. He likes bouncing on our laps too, he also loves his baby bouncer so when he starts bouncing I try to put him in that now. You poor love with the reflux, luckily DS is over his again, it seems to only flare up when he's poorly now.

As for carseats, I take the seat out and then lift DS out of it. I'm dreading the day when we have to put him in a big boy carseat. I love my little man in his little portable seat! He goes to sleep so well in the car when I put the Dr Seuss CD on.

DS is now ready to sleep through, when he wakes he is not at all interested in feeding... shame that upstairs had to wake him up! What is so urgent they have to throw furniture around at 11pm? It even woke DH up. But now DS won't feed to sleep. I really hope he starts sleeping through this week, next week he will be in a cot in our room on holiday, then when we come back he can be in his own cot. Otherwise DH is going to get up and make him sleep again. That reminds me, must now buy a baby monitor - my mum's house is so big we'll need one there and when DS is in his room I'll need one for when he wakes up. At the moment he thinks 5.30am is the time to start the day. He is content when he wakes up now and is wide awake when he sticks his fingers in my nose to wake me up so I can't get him back to sleep.

OK, THAT was a long post so I'm off! Hugs and dribbles from mein kleiner Liebling.

[Lil_Aussie]

Hi Girls

How are you all going with your little bundle of joys?

Ryn - Congrats on Leib getting his tooth finally!!. i hope this gives him soem more relief as it emerges more and he sleeps a little more for you.

Michelle - Your new ticker pic is a real cutie lol,,, I wish there was a photo studio near me that could do shots like that.

Catherine - Hi, and welcome . My little man is a real fiend with the hair pulling and the little nails scratches. He gets a real kick from doing it so much,, he does it,, then stops still and watches my face expressions intently,, and if i react with an "ouch" or something,, he smiles!!!

Lisa - Boy, Quinn,,,,, he is just so clever with his crawling moves lol. They would be so cute to film

Kel - I completely understand about the not wanting to give bottles bit,, we are having a warfare about it here atm.

Well,, as for us,,, things are just not improving at all.
Griffen is on 2 hourly feedings,, I am taking activite, oats in the mornings,,,,, and am now on 60mg of motilium for a week,, reducing to 40mg, in a desperate bid to get somem more weight on him.
His weight gain the last 2 weeks was 50 grams a week,, and he has not slept through the night now for 3 weeks straight. His height is great,, it is almost through the roof of the graphs in his blue book,,, however, his weights have noe plumetted to right onto he bottom line of his charts.
He is one tall skinny boy, without a single little roll or hint of fat on him . DH wants him on a bottle,,, but he health nurses and my gp both agree as he loves feeding so much, that we are best off trying to increase my milk,, not introduce bottles.
So, for the moment,, we are on a strict plan for the motilium,, and he gets fortnightly weighins, solids twice a day,, and i have also ordered in some mothers milk herbal tea,, which is meant to help heaps too.
So, as you can imagine, I am frazzled,, and have been given more vitamin supplements etc for myself too.
Fingers crossed for the next weighin

[mummycate]

about the car seat guys,
i saw the thread about why we should keep our car seats facing the rear even for toddlers and i saw every car seat was upright yet slightly reclined, and none had the two straps to the parcel shelf. our car only has one anchor point and that's how we have to anchor it. i hate those straps, yet i understand how important they are. its just a pain to life 8kg bubba up and over those straps in and out of the car seat, while i hit my head on the roof above the door nearly every time. we have a little lancer, so there isn't a lot of room and elouise doesn't help me when i put her in. she arches and wriggles and i have bumped her head or got her foot hooked on the straps a couple of times (i never hurt her). its just a pain in the ass. if i were to take the car seat out and then elouise out, i would need a spanner to undo the anchor point. damn things.

[smylie]

you have got to be joking! there is no way in my car that would work!!! i drive a new beetle and they have no space what so ever, it is not just the weight it the length of jemima that is becoming a pain in the butt, i have been hanging out for when i can turn her around as getting her over the straps is so hard, and like you there is NO way i am taking out the car seat every time..... i dont think our car seats are made for being upright and facing the rear....... you should go to a baby shop and ask them, they were really helpful with me and my silly little car ONLY one carseat fits in it
the shape of my roof means the sun is ALWAYS on jemima so she has to be covered by a wrap everywhere we go in the daytime the sun comes straight down onto her so that is the other reason i want to turn her around.
where is the thread about the carseat facing rearward?
baby shop people i would hope would have SOME idea about if you can have it facing rearward without the straps being in the way............

[Impatient]

I have a biggish family car and I even struggle getting Bella over the straps! Bring on forward facing!! Mine has two straps that join in the middle to one anchor point. I have a sedan if that makes any difference?? I've also been guilty of bumping Bella's head on the roof. Whoops! She's not bothered by it, but I hate it when it happens.

I read the thread about the carseat facing rearward but can't remember where. It had a link to a video about it and pretty much said you should keep baby facing rearwood until at least 12 months because it's safer. I was like, "What the...?". I also remember seeing pictures of poor kids that looked like they were 5 years old, with their knees up under their chins, facing rearwood. Ok, they weren't 5, but it did look funny! And very uncomfortable!

The chances of you having a potentially fatal accident are very low, especially if you have bub in a carseat. Also, if you listened to all of the studies out there you wouldn't even walk out your front door. I think these things go a bit overboard at times.

My carseat says I can change to forward facing from 8kg, so I don't think we're far off - I've not had Bella weighed in a while, so I'm not sure.

[smylie]

i almost dont want to coz that would make jemima a big baby.... not my little baby...........
i'm soft i know

we will wait til her 6 month check next week and see what paedertricaian (remember i cant spell it) baby doc says...... our baby doc likes to see the babies at 6 months so even though it costs me i like the added service....i am going to go to clinic nurse too so that jemima can be weighed and poked and prodded by the same place as all the other babies at mothers group go to
its funny at 4 month check i think i wanted her to be longer and maybe heavier than the other bubs, now i dont really want her to have grown extra at all........ just NORMAL is fine by me.........

baby yoga today, the one i reallly like that didnt get kicked out of......... was it someone in this thread that asked how you get kicked out of baby yoga?? well........... your baby cries so you take it outside you try your hardest to get it to stop but it is 'one of those days' and she just needs to scream, nothing really wrong just worked up and screaming....... you do this for half the class at least 20mins for real or longer.... then you know that point when baby has cried all the cry she has and just needs to lie down cry for a minute then passout to sleep.......... i walked inside as i knew we were at that point and the instructor asked me to take her outside............ that in a place that said your baby is allowed to cry inside.... ho hum....... so i said i would take her home (which is what the lady had wanted me to say) so we exchanged the lessons we had left over for a nutrition class which i know i will hate, it will be interesting but it will be me hearing 'the otherside''s opinion all organic and anti farex and stuff like that, i can hardly wait

how many of you feed bub until bub will take no more?

my friend recommended this to another friend, she reckons babies cant eat too much as they will vomit it up afterwards if they are too full and have made themselves sick........ this sounds ludicrous to me
i just feed jemima a couple of tablespoons in the morning and will go to afternoon tea starting tomorrow i think then progress slowly, there is no rush as I know she is getting everything she NEEDS from my breastmilk, the only thing is iron and i know that farex has plenty of that..... maybe i should look into iron tablets, i have been extra tired lately, actually maybe i should get back on those pregnancy/breastfeeding vitamins incase i do get pregnant...

but really is the idea to keep spooning until they dont want anymore? i never leave jemima wanting more but i dont keep shouvling when she doesnt seem like she is asking for it ?...