Babies Born February 2007 #4

Ta Sherie, but I still can't get in... will head off to the troubleshooting thread now!

How fun - I just got into the chat room, It's cool!!

Lesty: I know what you mean with the whole health care professionals being hideous and trying to make you stick to a timeline, especially when it comes to solids!!!! It seems that babies are allowed to do things at different times "because all babies are different" unless it is starting on solids then it's NOT UNTIL 6 MONTHS!! regardless of what you think, I started Quinn on solids at 5 months and he loves his food and it seemed to be the thing to do he wanted food and is really happy to have it now. Anyway - I'm with you on the ridiculousness of health care professionals!

Hi everyone! Isabella turned 5 months old on Friday and now she's decided that sleeping all night is NOT cool.

Is anyone else finding this? She has slept through pretty much from 4 weeks, but now she wakes up at least twice through the night - once for a feed and again where I just pop the dummy back in.

She's sooo happy when I go into her too, so it's pretty hard to get frustrated (she is SUCH a cutie these days...!).

Anyway, this was just a quickie as I've got to get Bri off to school and then Bella and I are off to the gym!

I hope you're all doing well and I will definitely do personals later when I get a chance.

Hi Michelle:hello:
Quinn did that - We couldn't figure out if he was too cold or needed to start solids, so we put an extra blanket on him at night and started him on solids. He went straight back to sleeping all the way through.

We have been bouncing Quinn to sleep on a fit ball - basically since he was born and that is getting very tough on the back. A friend of mine has been reading Save our Sleep and said there are settling techniques in there to try so I bought it and it WORKS A TREAT! I'm very impressed - even though I didn't ever really want to follow a routine, it is really working and it's only been a day. I'm amazed. Instead of Quinn going to bed at 9:30 - 10:30 every night he goes to bed at 7pm and sleeps till 7am with no waking up! I'm loving it! ANd my back is getting a break from rocking him to sleep every time!

How is everyone else? Quinn has started eating avocado and apple and loves his food very much!

Thanks for that Kirsten. I might try another blanket, although she is in a sleeping bag and has a sheet and two light blankets already. Maybe she just needs one more? She does have really cold hands in the morning although her body feels warm.

We also give her cereal at around 6pm (that's her only solids each day), so maybe I'll start lunch time solids too - just to fill her up a bit!

She goes to sleep ok some nights, and others I've got to walk around with her for a bit. Last night she fell asleep while she was eating cereal at around 6.30 then she woke up at 11.30 and then at 4.30. ARGH! Before that she'd sleep from 6 or 7pm until 6am and I was quite happy with that!

Avocado, YUM! How many times a day does he have solids?

yeah i was wondering same thing!
Jemima thank goodness not everynight but every so often is giving us a 2.30am wakeup but she just feeds and goes back to sleep straight away
she is so sick at the moment some chesty bronchitiesy thing doc said its going around poor love takes medicine better than i thought she would
she has had 'breakfast' two days in a row now just a teaspoon of farex.... will just do brekky for a while then move on to more exciting foods - waiting for new kitchen before i get too excited....

Quinn is just now moving to 3 times a day solids - he has been on twice day for a week and now I'm starting 3 times from today, he has been having avocado every meal, but this morning he had millet cereal and apple - he ws surprised at the taste but wanted more :)

Kel, poor little Jemima, it's awful to see them sick when they're so little isn't it?? How long till your new kitchen is done??

Harrison wakes up if he is too cold... we have noticed that he will definitely wake if his hands are cold... so we try to make sure he is in the bonds suits with mittens on them already... he pulls his other mittens off... its a shame, cause he looks so cute in his flanny jammies!!! lol

Harrison is on soilds 2-3 times a day too... there has been considerable differences in his weight gain too... he loves his food and he hates farax!!! He loves Carrot... and also pears

Kell - I hope Jemima starts to get better soon.

You are all evil! DS is not sleeping at all again. We have routines, my back needs a break, he's on solids (2 meals, he's trying to get up to 3 now) and I'm tired and want DS to just do 2 wake-ups, not every hour or so! So absolutely no sympathy from me. So yes, DS thinks sleeping at night isn't cool but he doesn't sleep at all when he decides that.

DS loves apricot, banana, marrow, corgette and whole nectarine (he hated the mushed up nectarine). He also steals my pears and apples at lunchtime. Not a fan of carrot so far. Nor does he like baby rice.

Hi everyone

Impatient: Daniel was almost the same, he slept through from about 12 weeks but just in the last couple of weeks this happens. He goes to bed at 8pm wakes at about 10pm (go in and shove the dummy in - goes back to sleep) wakes up at 2am and puts himself back to sleep then wakes up at 5:30 ready to face the day. At 5:30 I go and get him, re-wrap him and put him between DH and I where he immediately falls asleep until 7am - when DH has to get up to go to work anyway. I actually don't feed him at all through the night. He doesn't drink all of his bottle first thing in the morning, but slurps them down for the rest of the day. He just doesn't seem that hungry on his first feed.

He's currently on 5 180ml bottles a day with apple or banana and rice cereal at about 10am and mashed peas at about 3pm - so he's eating a reasonable amount during the day. So he just isn't hungry at night.

If you go into his room when he wakes up he's so excited to see you, his little legs wiggle and he has huge smiles. So, I think he is just waking up to make sure he's still got people around.

Hope he gets out the 2am thing. He just seems to sit there talking to himself and then just falls back to sleep. I can hear him on the monitor.

Ryn, you have my sympathies. There is nothing worse than being tired. When you're tired it seems like everything else going wrong is magnified. When Daniel wasn't going to sleep at all in the first 12 weeks my back was killing me also. I just couldn't bear the thought of picking him up again - I didn't think my back could handle it. Now that he sleeps through my back seems to have sufficient rest and it doesn't hurt anywhere near as much anymore. I injured my back in a fall at work but it only flares up with prolonged sitting or carrying of babies. I hope your little boy gets out of the waking at night thing, before you go completely nutsoid.

Sorry for the outburst yesterday, I was just super knackered. We've started giving 4oz formula and both breasts at night now, he had that at 8pm and 11pm then slept through until 4am... which was up for the day. Never mind, I had a great sleep! Little dude is just hungry. He has been napping all morning, wish I could but he went to see the osteopath this morning which is a 45 min walk away. But no hints as to how to sleep through, sorry! Wish I did have some, that would mean DS was sleeping through LOL.

Ryn, that was no outburst. Did you read my rant about healthcare professionals from last Tuesday?? Boy, was I disgruntled!! Over it now.

You have a reason for outburst, being tired totally sux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HI EVERYONE!!!!
where have I been?
who am I, I hear some of you asking!
I haven't been far away I promise. No exotic tale of adventure to tell. Just caught up in the world of Chloe - It is wonderful!
I promise I still think of you all. I just don't dedicate time to the computer anymore. DH is overseas for work this week, so I have me time up my sleeve.
I have only read this last page on whats going on so forgive me for neglecting you all please. To catch you up on where we are at in a nutshell:
Today Chloe is 6months old! (thats right - we don't even belong in this thread!!!) She had her needles today and bearly cried. I was very proud. She also has that aweful cough and snotty nose, but is getting over the worst of it. Chloe too was a brilliant 11 hour sleeper til about a month ago. At the moment I am back on 1 or 2 night feeds. We haven't started solids yet, we are waiting for DH to get back from his trip for that fun to begin.
Anyway - thats us briefly
Lets hope that I can return before another 6 months flies by!:D
Love and hugs to you and all your beautiful bubs

Brooke and Chloe.xx

Hi Brooke!!!!

Long time no hear....great to hear everything is wonderful with you. solids are an adventure! say goodbye to easy poo! and hello to very stinky nastiness!!

oooooo......... yes........... stinky nastiness!!!

I had one the other day and my DH said, "I'll come and help you." He stood there holding the nappy sack while I opened the "present". My DH was standing there, "Oh my God, Oh jeez........." etc. I just turned to him and said, "Is there something else you could be doing?" I manage all day with them and they don't even turn a hair, but mr DH Drama Queen comes in and suddenly we're all radioactive. Funny stuff. I'll admit they stink more, but I'm his mummy and can handle it.

Got a call from my boss today begging me to come back in two weeks. I wasn't going back until January. I told her I'd think about it, but that if I did it would be maybe 3 days a week 9am to 3pm, just to help cover lunches and the like. She is happy with that thought. Daniel can go with his grandma and grandpa - they'll all collectively like that. My mat. leave finishes next fortnight and DH and I were worried about affording leave without pay - looks like it won't be a concern. It'll probly be good for Daniel - will ease him into me working full time again. To be honest, I never want to go back to work again, but it's a reality. I also want to instil in to my children that you have to work for a living - nothing is free and everything you have you have worked for, so don't take it for granted - so I have to go ahead and be the role model there. Sucks though.

My friend has a 7 week old and is going back to work. I couldn't BEAR it!! 5 months old is bad enough (actually, but the time I go back - 6 months).

Anyway, I think my coffee has gone cold - as per usual - and I have ranted enough. So, I'll see you all later.

Thanks guys. I am soooo glad I'm not alone! Bella only woke once last night (3am) and is definitely teething - she's been chewing on her hand all day.

Do any of your bubs have cradle cap? If they do, isn't it disgusting!?? Bri didn't get it, so this is a first for me and it just looks revolting! I've been trying for two days to get it all out. Yuk.

Can't talk long - I'm busy writing my RESIGNATION LETTER!!! It seems that our business is doing much better than we thought so I'll not have to work for someone else again! Yay! I am sooo excited! Now all I need to do is finish building my website and we've got even more money coming in. Ahhh! What a life!

Better go - Bella's calling me. Talk to you all later!

Hi girls (and HI BROOKE! good to see you back here.)

Stinky nastiness? Not at all! Although the poo looks odd and is more solid, at least I know he has pooed now. Smells like peaches! (Or apricots, or whatever else he has eaten the day before.) One bonus of him only liking nice-smelling food I guess, although we finally managed to get some carrot down him last night.

I have to go back to work next year too. Not looking forward to it. But, as you say Lesty, someone has to set an example (though I wish that could be DH!). And it will hopefully only be part-time until next September, when I start teacher training. Yay to you, Michelle, I'm so pleased you don't have to go back.

DS has cradle cap, his hair covers most of it. The only time it bothers me is when people tell me to stick oil on him to get rid of it. It has almost gone with just rubbing his head after I wash his hair, it's taking longer now I've stopped washing his hair every night.

I tried to drop DS's formula last night and he didn't do more than 2 hours at a time (started because he was screaming hungry all night and solids didn't really stop that), so going to give him a full bottle tonight and see how long that gets him sleeping. A dreamfeed bottle without getting him out his crib... and hope that if 4oz gets him doing 5 hours a full 7oz means we're ready to wake up at a reasonable hour. While this didn't work before I'm glad I can get him sleeping now, we can slowly wean him off this later when he's used to sleeping through. Then I don't have to sleep with DS kicking me all night and DH can come back to bed and cuddle me! Woo-hoo!

Best be off, DS is getting vocal again.

Hi girls

I see you are all run off your feet busy like me,,, never enough hours in the day I tell you. No sooner do I get kids to school, give bubba another feed, fit in a few chores, lunch and more feeds etc,, it is time to pick up the kids, get things ready for tea,, then before i can blink,, it is bedtime again........ I am sure it is a conspirasy to make all mother tired!!.

I really feel for you Ryn,,, nothing worse than that terrible tiredness that is so bad, you honestly dont think you cant stay awake another second longer,, but you have to, to take care of a family :( I certainly hope Leib settles for you hun and starts sleeping through SOON

Michelle - Yay for your resignation hun!!, sounds like things are going great guns :)

Hey Brooke - long time no see lol,, and isnt that jsut the sweetest picture of little Chloe!!, she is adorable.

Lesty - My DH has never changed nappies,, or bathed our babies,, or anything else for that matter,,,,, as far as he is conserned,, it is womens business,, and he is too afraid of hurting them lol,,,, and gaggs at the smell of a ripe nappy lol.
He does however like to play with them and just snuggle up on the lounge cuddled up to them, so I dont mind,, they love their daddy to bits :)

Well, on our front,,, I got Griffen weighed on Monday,, and my little champ put on weight!!!!!! a whole 280grams in 2 weeks!!!! I am so proud of him.
He has finally about 2 weeks ago started to finally flip from his front to back, so we are stoked he finally decided to do it.
He has also been waking at night again the last few nights for a midnight feeding,,, but I honestly dont mind as I am still awake then, and he has cold lips and hands,, so a nice cuddle and warm booby is what he needs,,,, but as it is so cold I have had to put him in bed with me the last 2 nights as he just cant get warm. Tonight I am geting out the hot water bottle and wrapping it up in a baby blanket, and putting it inthe cot to one side to help him,,, I did it a few weeks back when we had a REAL cold snap, and it worked brilliantly,, he kinda curled around it lol
Well,, the little man as fallen asleep in my arms,, so I will be off and get him into his cot

Lil