Babies Born February 2007 #6

[smylie]

okey dokey -yep jemima doing that big time, she picks up one strand of hair! wants to pick up buttons but they are still attached, picks up post it notes not with big scrunch it in a ball fits but carefully then looks at both sides of it and then of course eats it!!!
definately does it with spoons sometimes over concentrates on picking up the spoon carefully so i have time to 'shove' more food in her mouth while she is 'stuffing around'
she has always been really delicate though, i always thought she got all her fine motor skill thingys first which is why she is not really 'advanced' when it comes to the extreme rolling around and stuff she has always just picked up stuff she can reach gently and checked it out... she ate the price tag off some cool little cargo type pants at Pumpkin Patch yesterday so of course we had to buy them!

her cough is so bad but i want to go to the gym, i wonder if kidsclub will let her stay??

[Kirsten]

Good morning lovelies!
Quinn slept through the whole night - looks like he is over the jetlag!! yippeeeeeee

He also went to bed without even a slight protest this morning. Ahh I love a good no cry sleep!

This is Quinns routine
7am wake up and BF
8am breaky
9-9.30 bedtime
11am (hopefully) wake up and BF
12 lunch
1.30 bedtime
3pm wake up and BF
5pm dinner
6pm bath
7pm bed!

yay!

Kel: I am so annoyed for you having the SIL in your mothers group! she must be so insecure to be like that. I know you probably try but just ignore it...especially if the others find her a bit much too...you can all band together and just get along with each other.

Ahhh Quinn has fooled me with all of the sleeps...he just woke up. That is one hour exactly! Not enough sleep for my liking.

[Impatient]

Hi again everyone. This is just a quickie so can't really do personals (except for Lisa!) - I have Bella on the bed next to me because she's refusing to sleep in the cot! ARGH!!!

Lisa, I just wanted to say a huge woo hoo! Thinks are looking really positive! Now you make sure you post on here AS SOON as you get home from your ultrasound ok? We want fantastic news!!!

Us - Bella is much better than she was. Her fever came and went over a couple of days and we had one morning of green snot (makes a nice change from poo talk hey??). Speaking of poo, they've had a greenish tinge too - probably because she's been swalling the green snot?? Anyway, fever is now officially gone, runny nose has almost stopped and the cough (which sounds much worse than it is I reckon) is only occasional and I think only when she has "gunk" to get rid of.

I slept on her bedroom floor on a mattress last night (she's been in our bed the last two nights, but I didn't want her getting into THAT habit because our bed is lovely!), and she went all night and only coughed a couple of times and that's it. Yay!

She's now trying to grab the computer so better go.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Thanks for posting Quinn's routine, Kirsten. I feel better now! Lieb's routine is as follows:
7-7.30 wake up, bf, get up
8.30 breakfast
9.30ish out for the morning
12ish home again, bf and sleep until about 1.30
1.30 lunch
4 bf
6.15 dinner
7 naked time, bath, bedtime, asleep usually just before 8.

So our routines are really similar, so it just shows it's Lieby not sleeping, not me being a bad mummy! I'm still on a camp-bed on Lieb's floor, but he's only waking up a couple of times a night now. Sadly he wanted to be up around 6am today so I just kept patting him back to sleep for an hour. Not fun, I wanted sleep too!

Lisa, I am thinking of you and hope you are getting some proper answers.

[Lisa]

Hi girls... Just a quick one for me as I am very tired.
I have been used as a human pin cushion for the past week, and I am still no closer to knowing what is going on.
I have had 2 ultrasounds and 4 hCG done in a week... I am so tired of having no answers. I am tired in every way. I really wish I could know what is going on with my body. There is still no gestational sac being seen on the ultrasounds, yet my hCG levels are still rising... today they were 620. My GP doesn't seem to think it is a molar pregnancy either because there is nothing to be seen on the ultrasound... if I had miscarried, my hCG levels should be getting lower not higher. My GP seems to think I am very early into a pregnancy, and I am to have another ultrasound and more hCG testing done in a fortnight... I am going to be an absolute mess until then!!!

[Impatient]

Oh Lisa you poor thing! There's nothing worse than being left hanging in the balance like that. I just hope for your sake that your outcome is a wonderful one and all this stress and worry has been worth it!

[KymH]

Hi guys,

Can't chat for long as have to ring insurance company to sort fixing my car which I ran into a tree few wks ago!!! (Long story, very funny really...) We now want to sell it, so need to remove large dent from bonnet/bumper to do so!!!

Monkey doesn't have pincer yet, but then isn't Liebling highly advanced in all other movement areas....? He probably IS doing it!! Cool.....

However, Monkey did manage to get her hands into a small pot of cream that came with my choc slice in a cafe today.......not quite as tricky or gross to remove from between fingers as poo (ala Quinn!) but funny nonetheless!

Lisa, glad to hear the news is remaining good

Kel, Soooo not a bad mum; I don't ever want to hear that again young lady!!! I know HEAPS of mums who miss ear infections, they can be tricky.

A phone tree and hold music await.......

[smylie]

hey hey

ryn - one big difference i noticed in puberts routine to quins was how much awake time he had in the afternoon?? so maybe a nap in the middle of the afternoon wouldnt hurt?

i'm starting a morning routine!!!! omigosh!!!!!! me anti routine person is mainly just needing to leave the house at 8am 3 mornings a week so HAVE to fit in jem to have some solids and a feed and if lucky a nap before that so we now have breastfeed on wakeup and solids about 7.15 or so as it takes forever and if she is feeling like it a nap while i get ready and then we go and then the kidzclub at the gym can deal with her!!! for an hour then i get her and she has a nap until the next place we go or in the car..... and in the arvo we go for a walk if i am home at 3.30 or 4pm for at least 40mins with the dogs and then get home, solids, bath and then play if not tired and bed around the time benji gets home usually before 7pm amd a breastfeed sometime after walk too usually

that is as of the last week "officially" i guess, it is what she has been doing for ages but i have 'decided' to try and be more strict about at least sticking to that stuff.... i am yet to introduce hardcore story time before bed or anything like that

jemima is sick sick sick today we had our first public display of grossness, biggest projectile spew i have ever seen at a cafe.... it went everywhere - luckily it outside cafe and it didnt hit my friend and my friend had finished her lunch..... it was gross..... thinkin it is the antibiotics she is on mixed with all the spew and stuff she has been trying to cough up...... gross gross gross and we had the most SCREAMS i have ever heard going to sleep tonight..... she just moaned in her sleep then so i dont know what is going on there.......... poor love

ryn what times is pubert waking now??

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Lisa, I'll keep you in my prayers. I am just so grateful that I was 8w gone when I found out now. btw, that second sonographer sounded so evil, I would ignore her assessments.

Kym, Liebs is walking, talking and waving. He's just started clapping. He self-feeds and cleans his own teeth. He is a boy genius!

Kel, I can't get Liebs to sleep inthe afternoon. When I do, he won't sleep at night for me, so he's up until 9-10; DH and I don't appreciate that. He was u p until 8.30 when I let him sleep until 2pm the other day. Poor Jem being sick.

Lieby has lost weight; 200g in 3w. So I've bought tonnes of organic baby biscuits for him and will be feeding him up. I'm sure it's cos he's walking so much more, he's upset if he's not on his feet, but it's still a shock. At least we caught it early. Plus he's now only waking for feeds at 11-12 and 4-6ish. So I get about 5-6 hours every night in a row, rock on! He still wakes up before I go to bed, but I've been singing and patting him back down within 5 mins - helps that I now let him tummy sleep.

[~Jayne~]

Hello Ladies,
Remember me?
I've quickly caught up on everything ( I think ). I'm sorry I just went AWOL. I've had a rough time ( so have lots of us by the sounds ). Claudia has had 5 ear infections in the space of 4 months. Sadly, last night we had a GOOD night, which was that she woke every 2 hours instead of every 1 hour. I'm lucky if she sleeps 35 minutes twice a day. It's just been hell, there is no other way to gloss it over. Jessica ( my oldest ) has had her tonsils removed & I loved staying overnight in hospital with her because I got some sleep while Alan stayed at home with Claudia & fed her EBM. Claudia is not a cuddly baby, if I could cuddle her & take her to bed with me, it would solve all my problems. She does like sleeping by herself but can't transfer from 1 sleep cycle to another on her own. She DOES put herself to sleep most days & nights & usually there is a tiny grizzle, but mostly not a sound from her, but she just can't go through the sleep cycles without waking. I think it's a habit she formed with her ear infections & I'm finding it very difficult to break.
On the upside, she is crawling, finally eating solids & saying some words. At least there has been some rewards in there!

RYN _ Hooley Dooley on Liebs walking, that is damn well amazing! GOOD ON YOU!!!

SMYLIE _ Sorry to hear that Jem is a sick little rabbit. The poor Chooken. Claudia had a hacking cough like that for quite a while & she would end up vomiting everywhere after a bit coughing episode. It's not nice so I sympathise with you! WTG on implementing the routine!

I have to leave it there as Claudia has a revolting smell following her backside as she's crawling around. eeewww!

Love Jayne xox

[mummycate]

Welcome back Jayne! Poor bubbies, its terrible they've both been so unwell.

I've been following on, but noy always in a good mood to comment, so keeping quiet.

Got the rotten implanon out before we went to Melbourne (still in Melb atm). And now that the AD's are kicking in better and the fake hormones are gone I feel fantastic! And my libido's back which is good and bad. I'm afraid of my DP as I really don't want to get pg. Not for 3 years anyway.

El had just got over her cold and got a new one down here. God it was bad. She had high temps and either projectile vomiting her milk or refusing it. Doc said that she was dehydrating. It was so hard getting fluid in. We used a dropper for water and I had to force her to drink her milk. She's improving now. Back eating solids and drinking 150ml bottles from 100ml before. At six months she was 7.9kg and at 8 months she's 7.4kg. Scary. All that vomiting and she was not gaining and even losing weight.

[Impatient]

Hi everyone!

Catherine - yay for feeling better! I was the same when I had mine taken out and they say it doesn't cause depression?? Yeah. RIGHT. As for contraception, I'm not using anything but the good old fashioned billings method! Google it if you like. I bought the book over ten years ago and used it to conceive and now I use it for contraception. Only bad thing is that there's at least a week when DH isn't allowed within ten feet of me IYKWIM! lol


Jayne - You poor thing. I really don't know how you're coping - I know I would be locked up by now. Clever Claudia to be crawling too! We're still a LONG way off and I'm very happy with that for now!

Ryn - Bella likes to tummy sleep now, although lately she's been more on her side than her tummy. Gawd about no afternoon sleep! It reminds me of Bella's early days when day sleeps were taboo! I don't know what I'd do if she didn't sleep now! She always has an afternoon sleep (around 2 or 3pm) then back to bed by 8pm at the latest (lately it's been more like 7pm). Oh and Bella has the pincer thing happening - especially with leaves and rocks and bits of my hair that she finds around the house...

Kel - I'm glad I'm not the only one to have suffered a public display of grossness, although I'm not sure what's worse - gross vomit or yellow poo?? Hope that rattly cough goes soon - we've still got ours!

Kym - I'm assuming the accident wasn't serious!? Scary!

Kirsten - Quinn's a champ! Good to see he's gradually getting back into the usual routine.

Us - Bella's much better today thank goodness! No fever to speak of and only an occasional runny nose and an occasional disgusting cough.

Her routine's normally like this:
6am - Wake up and breakfast (bottle and farex mixed with fruit).
9am - Sleep
11am - wake up
12.30 - 1.00pm - Lunch (bottle and custard with fruit for dessert)
3.00pm - sleep
4.30pm - wake up
5pm - Bath
5.30pm - dinner
7-8pm - Bed

Gotta go - she's fighting sleep right now - got to sort her out!

[~Jayne~]

IMPATIENT _ Claudia has been up on all 4's for a very long time & pushing herself backwards like a catepillar in reverse but it took her spying a packet of twisties that jessica was eating to coordinate it all into forwards movement! I couldn't believe it. I don't like putting her somewhere & her not being there when I return! Bella is absolutely adorable, congratulations on such a beautiful girl, she has a very mature face & those big eyes are just gorgeous! I found Claudia on her tummy asleep the other day, I put her back onto her side but when she woke she was on her tummy again, weird! She has never gone on her tummy before!

MUMMYCATE - Welcome to my world! LOL, I'm in a really crappy mood right now with DH. He is in BIG trouble, but I'll leave that for another time when I'm cooled off a bit! I hope the Implanon settles down for you soon honey, it can't be a good feeling & OMG at the weight loss, that is SCARY! I hope she picks up soon.

Well I better go, I have the two little girls here from next door & I'm absolutely FUMING with DH, needless to say he is OUT & not home as well. Claudia had a shocking night as usual & Jessica wet the bed! GRRRR. I'm goign to try & put her down for a sleep soon.

Love Jayne

[ChristieN]

Hi Mummies,

My names Christie, I'm a 32yo mum of two. I'm not new to bellybelly I joined Nov 06 but I wasn't very active and haven't been on here for quite a while. Since I was last on I've had my baby boy. He's now 7mo., a February baby hence why I'm on here. My lil girl is 2.5. Feel free to ask me any other details. I feel a lil rude just inviting myself to join in here...

Hoping to make some friends,
Christie

[Impatient]

Welcome Christie! Don't feel rude - I think I speak for everyone here when I say the more the merrier where this thread is concerned! I notice you're another Queenslander too, so that makes you extra special! lol

Catherine - Bella LOVES chip packets too! At this point in time though, she will not do all she can to get to one! I think she'll be nothing like her older sister (who was crawling at 6mo) and wait a while. She doesn't even get up on all fours yet. Like you said though, it's not too bad because I know where she'll be when I get back! How is Claudia going? You said she had a horror night. Was she just waking up or was it the other stuff she's been dealing with? Thanks for saying such lovely things about my angel too, by the way! Oh and I hope your DH has made up for whatever he did the other day too!

Us - We start swimming lessons tomorrow! Woo hoo! Bella's almost back to her old self and I just wish that cough would GO AWAY! We were down the coast yesterday because DH was doing the Brissy to the Gold Coast bike ride, so we dropped him off at the starting point and then drove down and hung out by the water while we waited for him. Bella was an angel as usual and was very well behaved. We must have worn her out because yesterday afternoon she slept for three hours.

Better go - I've got "work" to do! Have a good week everyone.

[Tashie]

Hi, I am Tashie and am joining this forum. I am a 25 yr old mother of Tobi, my 7 month old munchkin. I have been reading through the posts and so far you have been helping me with the questions I was going to ask, but I am sure there will be more.
Looking forward to swapping stories.

[Kirsten]

Oooh new people, hello to Christie and Tashie! Welcome!!

I am currently doing the one handed typing because Quinn is on my lap, and this boy knows how to wriggle!!!! He also loves jumping.

Swimming lessons are so much fun...Quinn is now such a fish, he's into his 3rd term of lessons and I also take him to the pool at least once a week...he gets so excited when he sees his bathers!

Anyway better go this isn't as easy as I thought it would be today...so much wriggling

[KymH]

Cool, now I'm not the new one too!

Welcome Christie and DS and Tashie and Tobi - more boys!!!

And hi Jayne, nice to meet you. Sounds like a terrible time; Claudia is lucky to have you; others would have lost it by now!! I hope things are on the up. BTW, I love the name Claudia; it was on my shortlist for Monkey.

I hope El and Jemima are both getting better. and glad to hear you are feeling better too, Catherine.

Liebling really IS a boy genius!! As I've mentioned before, physical development of bubs is my career and I've never heard of anything like it!!!!! aren't they just amazing creatures......

OMG Michelle, I can't believe Bella's naps!! I would give my right arm (well maybe not....) for Monkey to sleep better day and night....

She has just started to drop her 3rd daytime nap, which we don't manage every day but getting there.... Our routine is kind of like this now (on a 2 nap day)....

7ish wake, BF, b'fast
930ish nap (30-60 min)
11ish BF, lunch
130ish nap (30-60min, maybe 75 min if I'm reeeally lucky)
3ish BF
4ish we begin evening routine... dinner, play, bath then BF to settle
630ish hopefully in bed

Things can change after the 3pm feed if she gets exhausted and needs a 3rd nap.

Monkey is still often waking several times o/n; sometimes to feed, sometimes in pain (mix of teething and tummy pains depending on the night)..... it's not too bad though and occasionally she'll go 7hrs between feeds..... it's usually 5-51/2 hrs.

Gotta run, she's proving me a liar even as I write this.... she went down at 605pm and has just woken after an hr.... I think she thinks this is her 3rd nap..... bugger!

If anyone has any ideas on how I can improve this, I'm all ears.....