Babies Born February 2007 #6

[smylie]

i just discovered the handles come off the straw cup!!! now we cooking with gas..... hehehehe it funny what a evil sister in law at mothers group can do to you................

my clever little cookie i think got 3 new teeth THIS WEEK .... I THINK - there is heaps going on up there, could explain the screaming before every sleep we have been having lately

baby caravan would be cool -- maybe i ccould get the dogs to drag her around, i have a bike but not the coordination to ride with the baby i dont think so will have to stick with jogging around the block with the dogs and the jogger pram - and going to the gym, it is almost an excuse to use the kidzclub and have an hour away from jemima.... not cool i know but at least i am getting some excercise while dumping my child....

tashie- the not eating thing could TOTALLY be teeth heaps of the bubs in my mothers group went off their food when they got teeth, with jemima it has been hard to tell as the first time she was too young to be eating and then second time she was really really sick so not interested in eating anyway, have you tried egg custard, avocado, or this awesome stuff made by "only" brand that is pasta bolognaise??? Jemima laps all those up and baby yogurt too.....

we have been getting more and more little spews lately, which is weird coz jemima never been a spewy baby maybe it is the rocking around she is doing rolly pollying around the floor.... or the yogurt but that is not new she has been having yogurt for months....

jemima went down a line on the baby chart thingy too jayne, i am hoping it was from the week she didnt eat when she was sick so will get her weighed at 8 months to see if she is back on the line or not she was not even 8kg and i think about 72cmish that was at about 7months 1 week i think
also remember those charts are made for bottlefed bubs not breastfed bubs and apparently at about 6 months the bottle fed bubs can overtake the breastfed bubs apprently
you can check out jemima's funky walking on her youtube site so so wobbly and funny she is heaps better now, but still i would not suggest encouraging it.... one it means she is not being encouraged to crawl and two it is annoying to walk around letting bub hold fingers so they can walk around and sometimes it is the only thing that makes her happy
recently though she is realising how much more fun it is to find stuff on the ground that i have left lying around and eat it, really likes to make a point of showing how bad of a house wife i really am....

lisa - SO sad to read your posts about little wing, my thoughts are with you, hang in there. You didnt tell us Harrison was talking!! i read it on his site, benji and my mum both think that jemima says Mum but i dont know, i think she says "hey" and i know when she wants a drink of water, i just realised she only has about 4 months to get the words happening, i read somewhere by 12months they should have 5 words!

christie - sleeping through is totally overrated!!!!! heheheheheh i WAS one of the lucky ones, jemima slept through about 5.5 weeks and then all of a sudden about i'm going to say about 5 or so months she randomly starting waking once a week and then more and more and now it seems to be about 6 our of 7 nights she wakes at least once......
the other night though all she wanted was a cuddle AND I SLEPT THROUGH, i may have already told that but it was so so nice! i have the flu and broke my car so needed the sleep
patting to sleep is weird but seems to work i have not tried offereing water yet but i will if when these teeth come through all the way she is still waking, time to get tough and my sleep back!

happy friday for tomorrow everyone

[Kirsten]

LISA: I can't say much more than that... but I can give you another one

Tashie: Quinn (the mighty eater) went right off all food when he was teething, he wouldn't eat anything at all, I could barely get one spoonful past his lips, but as soon as the teeth came through he was fine again, straight back on the food. I got really worried about it too, but turned out it was all worry for nothing. I agree on the figuring it all out ourselves these days - and we don't live in communities like we used to where everyone helped each other out with everything, these days we have to work it all out ourselves whilst doing everything else we are expected to do,

I am starting to get the "when are you going back to work?" question. Short answer: I'm not! This is what I'm doing now, raising my child. I have no problems with anyone going back to work it is just something I don't want to do.

Jayne: it will be tough doing it all on your own, but I bet you'll o a great job and when your DH gets home he will throw all of your routines out

Lil: You're lucky with the no teeth, Quinn likes to see how far down he can bite on my nipple until i put it away. he does it really softly chomping down harder and harder, I barely notice it at first then the pressure slowly increases until it's time to say no more! he is very cheeky! So glad to hear all is well again with Griffen.

Kel: You are hilarious! I think you should mention that Jemima was looking up the best cup to use on the internet. That will be the all time winner!

Entertainment: We have just started little feet music and are starting gymbaroo tomorrow. I also spend a lot of time sitting with Quinn building a tower of blocks and he knocks them down, the aim of the game is to get any sort of tower before he snatches the block from the bottom. We also sing songs and practise clapping hands and zoom around the room like a plane, go for walks and then when I'm exhausted we go visit other mothers and babies and they can entertain each other, babies are always way happier with someone else's toys too

Anyway I better go, I have mother's group here in 20 minutes hee hee...better go put out some snacks!

[mummycate]

OMG so much to catch up on!!! Too much to remember all at once so welcome to Christie, Tash and Lil!

El is crawling properly now, since sunday. She's over her second cold and with this warm weather hopefully she avoids more. We're back in Sydney now, got back last night.

Almost back to our old routine too. Bugger all weight loss for me, but I've only had the implanon out for 3 weeks so here's hoping!

Crying to attend to ttyl!

[Impatient]

Hi everyone

Lisa - I just wanted to say how sorry I was to hear your news. I really hoped things were going to be ok for you. We're here for you ok?

Kel - I hear you re the bad housewife stuff. Bella's finding all sorts of things on the floor to put in her mouth! Our bubs must be on completely different timetables today - I keep missing you on MSN!! I bought a jar of that pasta bolognaise you mentioned and will try it tonight. Will let you know what Bella thinks!

Kirsten - I don't blame you not wanting to go back to work. I've decided never to go back to working for someone else ever again. Yuk.

Catherine - What a clever girl Elouise is! Another crawler! Bella's still not even thinking of trying to yet! It took a while for my body to get back to normal after having the implanon out, although I didn't really lose any weight afterwards! (Just as well, as I was grossly underweight when it was put in!)

Sorry if I've missed anyone from the previous page - I'm typing in a hurry!

Bella - today she had a little "accident" and planted the side of her head on the ground out under the pergola. She must have been leaning sideways to grab a leaf then lost her balance - I only looked away for a second! It's exposed aggregate so she ended up with lots of raised lumps where her head hit. I am such a bad mother! Poor little thing had a cry and then was fine. I'm sure she has a headache, but she's happy enough and just went down for her pm sleep. Poor munchkin...

Better go and see if my big child is doing her homework! See ya!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Lisa, I'm so sorry to hear about your little Wing. I just don't know what to say, but Harrison is blessed to have such loving parents and two siblings watching over him now.

Food, well, DS is teething (not the middle top teeth, but I think the tooth at the top left just next to the middle teeth before the middle ones come through, how odd! But then, with me as a Mummy...) and still eating fine. Still waking up all night too.

Um, Mummy brain has forgotten what I was going to say so I'll just give you an anecdote instead.

We were walking to Playgroup yesterday afternoon when DS learnt a new word. He looked straight at an elderly couple on the other side of the road and shouted "DIE" at them in his "evil" voice (as in not the cute baby voice) then started to giggle! What a rotter! I had to wait until we were in playgroup (2 minutes later) until I could fall about laughing as I don't want people to think I'm approving of DS shouting "Die, old people, die!" at all.

[Lisa]

Thanks so much for all your support everyone... this means so much to me.
It has been a really difficult time for us... there is now an investigation underway at the hospital which had me waiting for almost 3 hours and told me that others had more priority over me and that I would have to wait a few more hours... even after I begged them to see me and told them I could feel myself miscarrying... I went home and miscarried as soon as I got in the door. The director of the hospital and the general manager have called us and expressed their concerns for me... I have not even been looked at yet by a Dr!!! They finally booked me an appointment for tomorrow to find out if I need to have a D&C.
So... I am keeping a bit low for a little while until I feel a bit better... it is just a lot to deal with right now. Thanks once again for your kindness and support.
Lisa

[mummycate]

Lisa :hugs: Hospitals are really awful now, there have been so many women losing their babies while being forced to wait and wait. They have no respect that people are losing babies. No matter how early in a pregnancy its still a life. A wanted life. Its good you made sure the directer know what happened to you. Hopefully when more women speak up so something is done about it.

Crawling is hard work! I have to keep an eye on her constantly and keep moving her away from things. Ah but she loves crawling and yesterday she sat up on her own. DP said she may have been just trying to turn around but ended up sitting. She sits up on her own now, but after a while she gets cranky and wants to crawl and play. We're going for 4 big bottles a day now. She managed it yesterday sort of.

I so need to cut her nails.

[Tashie]

Hi Girls,
Ryn, that is so funny about DS. Did the old people hear him? Kids can be so cute in their innocence and so insensitive at the same time. Arrhh...to be young again when we could say everything that came to mind without having the reprecussions.
Catherine, do you have gates or anything to put up to make the crawling space smaller? Tobi isn't far off crawling and we have all our gates ready to go up, but we still need to get something to put around the computer (it is in the lounge room).
Tobi has started to do the rocking back on his legs, so it shouldn't be too long until he is crawling. He managed to have some yogurt yesterday and started to eat some dinner too, but then threw it up every where. I still count that as progress though. He has discovered having a bath on his belly too and loves eating the bubbles and drinking the bath water!!! Strange baby, will eat bubbles but not his dinner??
Kirsten, I am glad you aren't planning on going back to work. I haven't met a mum since I moved that doesn't work as well. I can understand going back to have the adult communication, but otherwise I just couldn't be bothered. I just want to be a mum.....we are starting Gymbaroo next week. What was it like?
Thanks everyone for their tips for entertainment and advice on Tobi not eating. Hope you are all well and happy and your little ones are as special as ever.
Tash

[Kirsten]

Lisa: I am appalled at the treatment you recieved at that hospital! Can't say I'm shocked but it is disgusting that you were treated like that! I hope they get into SERIOUS TROUBLE!!!

Tashie: Gymbaroo was great!! Quinn really loved it and he is sound asleep now, it really wears them out. It's good to get some new songs in your head...If I sing "10 in a bed" one more time I will go mad! You're so organised with gates, I need to get onto that - we have stairs so that will be fun when Quinn discovers them!!!!!!!!

Ryn: Are you sure pubert isn't the son of your vampire neighbours???????? with those teeth it sounds like he could be a junior fangster

Cate: I am forever cutting nails! They seem to grow back to super long within the week.

Michelle: You are not a bad mother, a baby will only ever do anything to hurt itself in that split second you are not looking, there is nothing you can do about this either! And I am not keen to work for someone else ever again! I am loving being a mum.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Lisa, I'm so mad at that hospital! Are you going to go public with your complaint?

I don't know why I opened my big mouth. The tooth is starting to appear out and DS won't take solids. He'll have puree, but not his normal food. He even refused courgette, baked potato and banana last night! But at least it is coming, just a weird 3rd tooth to get. The 4th tooth looks like it may be the right canine too, right next to tooth 3. Strange child - hmmm, maybe they did vampire him while I wasn't looking, good thinking Kirsten!

[smylie]

Teeth are weird............. Jem got bottom 2 then top one now one canine slightly before other top middle.....................

is there a trick to getting baby to clap?

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Play "pat-a-cake" a lot. Or play other clapping games, we do loads of me holding DS's hands/arms and clapping for him.

I want DS clapping by Christmas because I don't want the in-laws telling me Niece was clapping last Christmas... I know, stupid reason, but he'll have to do everything 2 months before she did it in age-time because she's almost 14 months older but yet when he does it, no biggie because she did it last year. Sorry, little rant there!

[smylie]

aaaahhhhh pat-a-cake we havent been doing that one.... jemima finds it marvelous to watch everyone else clap and claps things together but not her own hands she definately knows where they are because she has this cute look when she sits there with them together thinking but i dont think they make enough noise for her to bother 'clapping' them

ryn - jemima's cousin is ONE WEEK older, her mum, my SIL is the MOST competive person i know to the point that she lies..... so we have the same thing happening here it sucks no matter WHAT jemima does we have to pretend that cousin does better, unfortunately for cousin she has no hair and looks like a boy she is also a little unsettled a lot so does a lot of screaming while placid jemima just looks on - letting her take the limelight her mother craves so badly! I am sure pubert will be clapping like an expert by xmas, my friend thought her bub couldnt clap and one morning was confused as to why she hadnt been woken up by the baby.... she went into baby's room to find baby entertaining herself clapping...... so pubert probably a cloest clapper.

[Impatient]

Hi everyone!

Kel - Bella's been clapping for a while now, and we just go "Yay Isabella!" while clapping. She soon gets excited and starts clapping too - but NEVER when I want to show my friend how clever she is! lol Babies are great aren't they?? I can't believe how many teeth Jem has now! We still have NONE!

Ryn - Maybe you should get Pubert checked to see if he really is becoming a vampire?? Is there a test for that? lol

Tash - Bella went through a not eating phase too. She gradually started eating again and is now a little piggy so take heart, it will get better!

Catherine - Yep, I'm dreading when crawling starts, because I have a feeling Bella's going to be one of those kids that gets into EVERYTHING! How's she sleeping these days?

Lisa - It's really sad that they don't have enough compassion to see how devastating it is to lose a baby, let alone be left in a waiting room for hours on end. I'm sure if anyone working there had suffered a miscarriage in the past, it would be a completely different story as they would know how horrible it is. Bad, ignorant people....

Us - Bella is going through a growth spurt I think. She's all of a sudden drinking her entire bottle and is well and truly enjoying real food too. As for crawling, well she's starting to go from sitting to leaning right over forward, then onto her tummy. Not putting much weight on her arms yet, so I still think we have a while to go.

I read in my baby book thing the other day that we can start offering solids before FF/BM now, rather than afterwards from around 8 months. Problem is, Bella cracks because she wants her bottle NOW! We'll get there soon I'm sure!

Someone's just done a stinky poo in their nappy so better go. We also have a pergola to mend after the hail storm the other day!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone!

[mummycate]

El has taken to waking several times a night needing settling. Last night she woke almost every half hour. We let her cry it out but when we're very tired and DP has work at 6am. Incidentally we slept through the alarm and I woke at 6.15am. Fortunately DP being late for work was not a problem. Can anyone help?

Bottle 200ml 7am
Yoghurt 9am
Bottle 11am
Lunch 12-1pm
Bottle 3pm
Dinner 5pm
Bottle 6pm

She hasn't been finishing her last bottle and sometimes doesn't finish her day ones. Is she wanting more food? She takes a whole jar now, would she want more?

[Impatient]

I have been doing the following lately:

5am - Bottle and cereal (yeah 5am sucks, but at least she's sleeping through!)
8.30 - Bottle (then sleep)
12.00 - Bottle and lunch
3.30 - Bottle (then another sleep)
6.30 - Bottle and dinner

Maybe by separating food and bottle, you're giving her less of a break between feeds, so she's not getting used to a longer break and not having as much each feed?

I'm no expert, but when I spread the feeds out, Bella slept a LOT better!

Good luck Catherine and I hope you get it sorted soon!

[mummycate]

Thanks Mich, I'll try that. Give her as much of the bottle as she wants and then give her a meal. Would this work?: 7am bottle and food, 12pm bottle and food, 5pm bottle and food. But with 3 meals and larger gaps between there'll only be 3 bottles a day. She won't have more than 200ml in a bottle.

[Impatient]

Catherine, I'd still aim for 5 bottles a day but three times a day with solid food as well. That's what the nurse at the clinic told me to do anyway, and it worked.

Sometimes Bella doesn't drink it all, and it works out to be more like 4 bottles a day, but she's actually getting something 5 times a day.