Babies Born February 2008 #3

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Thanks Ambah, hopefully everything works out for the both of us... !

Re Eva's noises - it might just be that because Aidyn is around you talk a lot more? I find the more i talk to Alex the more noise he makes. Especially if I 'monkey see monkey do' things like cooing back when he coos etc. So maybe just the extra noise is helping.

[Esme]

Hi all,

Jasper started cooing/making noises around the six week mark, mainly when we talk to him or are playing with him.

We haven't DTD yet, still a bit apprehensive, but flow has stopped and stitches healed so I suppose there's not much of an excuse anymore... DP is really patient, so that makes it a lot easier.

Ash and Ambah - hopefully it is a light form of (pre) AF.

Bun - Jasper luckily only has a period late afternoon when he doesn't want to sleep unless being held; I try not to pick him up too often to sooth him and I find that if I put him in his bed when I think he is tired/need to sleep, he cries for a while and then either drops off to sleep or lies quietly in his bassinet awake looking around. It is tough to listen to the crying, but the more consistent you are, the shorter the crying gets, and the happier everyone is.

Hi to everyone else - sorry, no time to do personals to everyone, little boy is crying...

[Sueby]

Good Morning everyone,

We have had a lovely night. DD went to bed at 8.30pm slept till 3am fed and back in bed by 3.30am woke at 7am and back in bed abd asleep now!!! It makes it so much easier to have breakfast and get the boys organised and spend some quality time with them.
We dtd at 3 weeks and then we both had food poisonuing so we haven't since!! Not for lack of trying on DH's part. I just don't feel like it at the end of the day with 3 kids. He thinks I have put him out to pasture PMSL. I will have to put him out of his misery soon but have my AF atm.

Prama -- re sleeping too much there is a link on belly belly for how much sleep is ideal. My DD only lasts a maximum of an hour and a half between sleeps atm. She generally will have bigger sleeps in the morning and then be awake with a couple of short naps in the afternoon evening. It also depens on the poo factor that will wake her up and throw her out of wack.

Hi to everyone else -- how quick has 6 weeks gone???
Haven't heard from a few people in a while Jacqui where are you??? Hope everyone is OK

have a good day

Sue

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Alexander went from Midnight to 7:30am between feeds last night.
I'm so rapt, like, over the moon, can't flippin' believe it rapt, lol.
He woke at six but i put his dummy in, he popped off a few times - obviously why he had woken up - then went back to sleep.

As DF is on a late work schedule he doesn't get home until 10pm ATM, so we generally get to bed around 12 or 1am. So Alexander fed originally at 10:30 or 11pm, then he had some playtime with Daddy, sat up with us while we ate, topped him up at midnight - and went to bed. Woohooo

Re: The holding - have you thought about a sling? I think i might have to get one, would make things so much easier when he is grizzly. And then i don't have to always take the pram to the supermarket either.

Sue - i hear ya on the 'six weeks gone fast' thing. ?Just thinking it was not so long ago that i was looking at him going "I can't believe you're mine". Ahhh... time really does fly.

[prama]

ash - i have a hug a bub, i use it when we go for walks, i think it's got a switch, as soon as i put him in, he falls asleep LOL

[Esme]

Congratulations Ash! It is amazing how much better you feel after a good night sleep! Hopefully it is his new routine. And, by the way, I love your new photo of Alexander!

Prama - I think prams and carseats come with that particular switch as well!! Amazing how they never fail to put bubs to sleep... Love your photo of Lakshman too; amazing how quick they grow and change (and how cute they are when they are fast asleep...).

[*MinKy*]

Prama, are those hug-a-bubs hard to use? I was thinking of getting one, but they look so complicated!!

Ash, oh wow!!! a 7 hour sleep!!!! How devine!!! I hope that Alex sleeps like that again tonight for you!! Did AF ever arrive properly for you??

Sue, yep I cant believe that its been 6 weeks already!! When people ask me how old bubs is I always nearly go to say 4 weeks but have to stop and think, no hang on he is older then that..lol..

Ambah, good on you for getting to the gym and doing all of that walking! I wish I could be that motivated!! I am hearing ya on the painful letdowns, it makes me cringe somedays!! I cant get over how powerful it feels! Yep, another bub here cooing and carrying on..lol..I love hearing it! He chats away to his sister, and does big smiles when she giggles at him!

Roquen, so lucky that you are back to your pre-baby body!!! I am only 2 kg off my prebaby weight, its just the tummy I am really worried about..lol..will have to start the crunches soon methinks!!!

Jenjams, its great isnt it the feed play sleep routine? we have started it with Noah too and the difference in his sleeping is wonderful! He sleeps for longer which is so nice!!! But of course if we are out for the day its back to square one..lol..

Bun, we havent dtd yet either...bit of a fraidy cat at the moment and I havent started taking the minipill yet either, hopefully soon we will do it as I think DH is getting a bit toey..lol..

Esme, How did you go with the passport photos? Did they accept the ones that you took? Wow, the Netherlands, how many hours in the plane is that? I bet you cant wait!!!


All is well here, feeding at night roughly 9pm, 2am,5-6am still, which is good, I am getting used to it! if we dont go out in the mornings he will sleep for most of it, which I love!! Have to make an appt for our 6 week checkup this week, last week he was 5.1kg and 59.5cms, so doing well there! No AF here for me yet!! Tummy time is getting there slowly, he likes to chuck a little paddy first and then eventually lifts his head up..lol... hmmm what else...still breastfeeding but not exclusively, he has a formula bottle about every second day which DH normally gives to him, my boobs dont feel 'full' anymore, so I am presuming that they are making enough to suit his needs? My letdown is very strong, so thats reassuring as he only feeds for maybe 10 mins a side, and sometimes only takes the one side! I dont know how some mums feed for years and years!! I am exhausted just one and a half months.lol...

Hope you are all well!!!

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Minky - the sleep was wonderful, but i still woke at 4ish expecting him to be up, when he didn't wake til six, and then still slept til half seven i was amazed, lol!

Totally understand where you're coming from about the BFing, it already feels like a chore, i don't enjoy it at all, and even though the attachment is fine it still hurts. And my nipples tingle and sting when it's COLD!!! lol

"AF" has stopped, so i ordered some tests off the internet just to be on the safe side. Didn't want to go buy them from Safeway because i don't want people talking (small town, grandparents around the corner...) lol.

Is it normal for them to drop a feed this early?? He seems to be down to five already (probably why AF has arrived if it was), guess we'll see what happens over the next two weeks...