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WOW!!!! :cheer:
DD slept 8pm til 4am last night!!! She's never done that!! Wohoo had the best sleep i have had in aggeees.... so needed that :D
Now its 5am and I'm wide awake LOL but DD is back in bed so I should really get back to bed myself.
DH just left for Melbourne for work this weekend so I'm on my own until when Mum arrives today she's staying for the weekend to keep me company and help with Ava. I'm so glad!!!
Has anyone experienced heaps of hair loss lately?? I have!!! Falling out in chunks LOL I looked it up on the net just now and it says its quite common 3mths post partum to lose a bit of hair.... as its extra hair that grew while being PG. My hair was so thick!!
Ok off to bed.... BBL
Ava is 3mths old TODAY!!!!!!!!!
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Oh Ren thats so good!!
Harley went 8pm till 5am...its a good feeling isn't it having that sleep... I slept from 9 till about 4.30 when I woke up for a toilet break. So needed it as well!
Big hellos to everyone else, I just can't be on long, hope all your bubs are well and will hopefully catch up soon.
Take care
Deb :)
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Ren - tha is fantastic news about Ava sleeping that long - Amara has made it to about 3.30am a couple of times, but no longer yet.......
Ren - how long is Ava? Amara is 62cms long and just over 6kgs!!
Sydney Moose - YES, I am proud of you - well done on all the exercise, I bet you feel great because of it! I am also proud of myself - I ran 18kms this morning!!! So I know for sure I can do the half marathon - it is still 10 weeks away. Now it is just a matter of how long it will take me - I am very goal orientated, he, he, can you tell?? !!:lol:
I think Amara is moving into her own room this weekend.....daddy is out with Logan this morning to get blockout material for her bedroom windows. It will feel VERY strange not to have her with us in our room - am I ready for this??
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Well, last night was a shocker for us, Owen went down about 6.30pm only to wake again at 11pm. Fed him and put him back to bed, woke again at 3 am. Usually give him both breast and bottle as I'm comp. feeding but this time just gave him the breast, put him down at 4am and asleep for an hour and a half and awake again at 5.30. I am just sooooooo tired, part of my problem is that I have trouble getting back to sleep once he has woken during the night. I'm pretty sure he isn't hungry when he wakes at 11pm, as he usually sleeps longer but feeding him is the best way to get him back to sleep for a while. Not really sure, thinking I will call the sleep school next week, didn't call them last week as I thought we were doing ok. Now I'm not so sure.........
Soph - hope you have some answers by now
Runner - don't know how you do it, I've been trying to get out for a walk most days but find it makes me more tired and I find it hard to do the housework etc., it's amazing you're able to find the time to do the amount of running you do.
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shellsie - I hope you have a MUCH better night tonight - 2-3 wake ups would make anyone very, very tired. As you say, little darling was probably not hungry, but I would of done the same thing as you - it is so hard to know, especially when all you want to do is sleep.
Running - well, I have a secret - a very supportive husband AND being VERY organised, as my son has to be off to school by 8.30am also. Amara has also fallen into a pattern of waking up at about 5.30am/6am so I feed her then, change her, pop her back into bed again and I hit the road running by about 6.30am or 7am....hubby helps my son with breakfast, cleaning teeth, getting dressed, etccc. lunches already made the night beforehand. I get home by 8am AT THE LATEST during the week, quick shower, breakfast and off to school with my son and Amara - hubby riding to work on his bike.
So we are VERY organised, otherwise it would not happen. But if Amara is unsettled or one of us is sick, usually I head out for a VERY quick 20mins or just walk with the pram.
on the weekend (usually sat) I do my long runs. These are essential for running marathons. Usually this means a mininum of 90 mins and up to 3 hours eventually (ATM I am running 100 mins).
Housework? yeah, well, gets a bit messy around here, but not too bad!! Hubby always cooks on Saturdays when I do my long run
My hubby deserves the medal, not me !!!!!!!!:clap::dance::lol:
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Another fast one from me,Day 2 on the gaviscon and we actually spent a good part of 5 hours out of the house,my boy is doing well in the car again and sleeping great during day,he even fell asleep his pram which has not happened in oh so long,i feel so much happier...
I think we have to put the dreamfeeds back to midnight as i have been giving them to him at 11pm and he wakes around 330-4am then wakes every hour til 7-8am,ive had him in my room and its a bit cold so im putting him back in his room to see if it helps and ill experiment with the midnight dreamfeed as he normally sleeps from 7-730pm thru to 5-530am if he has a midnight dreamfeed...ill experiment also doing an 11pm one to see if its just the rooms too cold..sometimes if i give him the midnight dreamfeed then he wakes 5-530am i feed again but when he wakes at 7-8am not hungry,,,anyway trial and error but all going well,i dunno when ill ever see him sleep all the way thru without feeding from dreamfeed however they do say try putting dummy in and see if he goes back to sleep,,might try that on a 5am one and see if he sleeps thru,hes still little for his age,hes long n thin n hes gaining weight,just a shocker of an eater,though his last bottle today at 4pm he almost finished the lot,he has about 140 ml on a good day and 80ml if his milk too thick,ive had to decrease the thickener as i found its filling him too fast n he wont have much bottle,the less i put it in the better but then i have to contend with the little vomits.
Have had him on reflux formula but constipates him too much,,,oh the joys of Reflux but oh the joys of infant gaviscon,has made a huge huge huge difference,i have my boy back and hes in his old routine...yay
well done ren on ava sleeping so well,shellsie u sound like me with nixons sleep patterns,i still havent ruled out sleep school entirely i will keep it on the backburner if he cant self settle(needs a dummy to sleep)and if it gets to say 6 months and hes not sleeping through all the way from the dreamfeed or 8pm ish or whenever u cut out both..
Cheers 4 now
Bon
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Hey girls!!!
After Ava sleeping 8pm - 4am this last night she then went back to bed 430am til 7am!!! I got so much sleep i needed!!!!
Ava is sleeping alot better during the day now!!! I think this last week was just a new developmental phase for her and she was growing etc and now she's more settled!!! :D
Mum is here until tomorrow as DH is away this weekend for work and we have had a great day driving around.... looked at a house we want to buy its beautiful.... out in the country/rural. We don't like where we are living it's too residental, too noisy.
We went shopping and Ava was really good at the shops in her stroller (she loves her stroller as she can see everything!).
We're off for lunch tomorrow at the surf club near us!! :D Yum....
Runner - I think Ava was exhausted from her last few days of not sleeping!!! :lol: i hope she sleeps well tonight too! Ava is now 62cm long aswell! shes in the 90th percentile for her height!!! tall girl like Amara!! And weighs 5.5kg!!
I was sad when Ava was in her room the first night :( Only cos she wouldnt settle in her hammock in our room! So she's outgrown it!!! We thought it would last her 6mths. I miss her heaps when she sleeps in her room. But we are getting this thing for our bed so we can co-sleep with her some nights :)
:hello: to everyone else.... I better go as Mum is here and I'm cooking her dinner. I'll be back online probably tomorrow afternoon.
Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend with their beautiful babes :D
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Ren - yes to the hairloss. I'm so glad you mentioned it because I was starting to get worried.
Bon - the longer sleeps will come soon. I found with Sam all of a sudden it just 'happened'. Nixon is such a cutie, I love seeing his pics on fb.
shellsie - hope you get some good sleep soon too. I found Sam was really unsettled for a while there and I am sure it was just a big growth spurt.
runner - 18km :dance:. You inspire me to do more for my fitness.
Mummydeb - glad you are getting some good sleep. It's a great feeling!
Soph - missed your post but have been reading some msg's in everyone else's posts. Hope everything is ok, big hugs.
We are settling into our new house (so sorry have been MIA), so much more room now it's brilliant. I went to a BF class run by my local ABA group today.... as a demonstrator! Yep, they asked me to come along & feed Sam to show the Mums-to-be how a bub is BF. They were all a really nice bunch and Sam was his usual booby-monster best. It was weird because I still feel like such a virgin at motherhood but to them I was a wealth of knowledge. The ABA educators made me feel really comfortable & they were really good at what they do. I had planned to do a class myself before I had Sam but because he came early we never got there.
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Soph - how's your little guy????? Any news?? :hug:
AJC - oh the hairloss has been soooo shocking!!! I'm so glad I read that it can happen at 3mths post partum otherwise i'd be going to the GP!!! :lol:
Hope it stops soon otherwise I'm gonna be as bald as homer simpson!!!! :rofl:
We're trying Ava in her bumbo seat tomorrow!!! She has such great neck and head control she's definitely ready.... I think I've been holding off as I was worried i'd put her in it too soon!! overprotective mummy hehe :rolleyes:
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hi ladies
just another quick one,do any of u get witching hour?? mines between 5-6pm ish where nix plays up,ok tonight tried to put him back in the spare room(where he started out in)but wouldnt sleep,i think cos it smelled smokey from next doors bbq n DH left window open,also i think cos he was overtired n maybe a tad overstimulated from today not too mention i had to pry his eyes from watching essendon v brisbane 1st quarter(him and his dad)b4 bath b bed,he went to sleep at 820pm i usually leave the tv on n down low in my bedroom also for noise,hell he cant last that long anymore,will try the midnight dreamfeed,DH gonna let me sleep in spare bed so i can have one night where i can sleep right thru as im exhausted..
i was just gonna leave him in our room til we move(in about 3 weeks)then he goes into his new room(which he sleeps in at grandmas when he goes there so hes used to it and the house)i dont wanna chop n change rooms at this point and disrupt his sleep patterns
anyway video night with hubby
ciao
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Sonya - yep we get arsenic/witching hour too some nights... not always but usually DD is unsettled between 5pm -8pm. sometimes she's not though it varies! I just try to feed her more and hold her until it passes....
GIRLS,
I'm feeling bad now :( I read some things on a thread on BB about immunisations and now I'm feeling like perhaps I didn't do the best thing by DD getting her 2mth needles?? Read things like mercury and aluminium are in those injections... :(
Out of you girls, who got the 2mth needles for their child? Most of you?
I hope we did the right thing :( it's such a confusing topic. I think I'll read more before I get her 4mth needles. There is not enough info out there.
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Ren just a quick one.......Dash had his 2 month needles and I wouldn't dream of not giving them. After spending a night in the paediatric ward in isolation next to the whooping cough room and listening to a 3 month old with whooping cough....I have absolutely no regrets. The hospi even told me that hey had lost a 6 month old just recently. A freind of a friend lost her bub to a complication from the measles. How sad. I see it like this....I would rather immunise my kidlets and live with the smallest risk that they will be affected by the components of the needle, then have them die or become very ill from something I could have prevented - wouldn't be able to live with myself. This is just my opinion and how I feel but I would never judge anyone who chose not to immunise...we all need to make a decision that we feel comfortable with and can live with.
AJC: What a brave woman!! How did the Christening go?
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Hi girls - just a quick one from me...day 6 of bloody pooh but do you think anyone is too concerned????? Off to my own gp tomorrow so will be pushing for paed referral (another!) and testing....just not going to leave this, it'a ALOT of blood and poohs smell too, and they shouldn't cos he is BF. Not a virus - path tests came back negative. He's lost a lot of weight too....very stressful.....
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Soph: Just a quick word to wish you good luck in getting answers, keep demanding them and hope your bubba recovers REAL soon
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Good luck Soph, sorry to hear that you are both not getting the attention you deserve. No matter what it is mother knows best so they should listen to your concerns and react accordingly. How frustrating. Big Hugs.
orange - thanks for asking. The christening went well. I will post a pic in the gallery in the next few days.
Ren - I think there is something on immunisations on 7's Sunday tonight. It's a hard decision but my view was that he could suffer more if he doesn't have them. I work witha lady who's daughter had whooping cough at 5 years old and she said it was the scariest thing. Like orange I have no regrets about giving Sam his needles. But I do respect every Mum's decision so not wanting to debate the topic iykwim.
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Soph - I'm with everyone else, keep pushing until you get answers, I'm sure blood in his poo isn't normal surely someone will do something for you. I'm sure you'll be proven right in the end.
Ren- Owen had his 2 month needles and like the other girls I think the effects of not having them and catching any of the nasty diseases outweighs anything else that may be in them.
Last night was much better, he slept from 6.30pm until 3.15am, think he was so tired that he went out for the count. Now lets see what tonight brings..........
Does anyone re settle their bubs when they wake under an hour during the day? I read that it's very difficult in babies under 6 months, but I think that may be the problem with Owen waking at night so am going to start trying to resettle him when that happens. Wish me luck!!
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Shell - Re settling, I am just trying to get Max into the habit of sleeping longer during the day. I can't handle these 40 min naps. But, I've had to be out all morning and going out again later this arvo so DH has been babysitting and has not tried very hard to resttle. Also, when I'm out and about during the day it's not really possible. I am going to really try to give it a go this week though.
Ren - I agree with the other ladies about vacs. For me, the possible consequences of not vaccinating outweight the possible complications from doing it. Did anyone watch the Private Practice episode about the kid with measles a few weeks ago? Mum didn't vac her 2 youngest cos she thought her oldest got autism from the vacs. Well, one of the younger ones got measles and died. Obviously that's an extreme situation though (which is entirely fictional!).
Soph - Hope you get some answers real soon!
Has anyone else done a first aid course. I went with my sis and cousin today to a 4 hour thing run by St Johns. It is specific to kids, and i's not an actual course that qualifies you as a first aider, but it gives you a basic idea of what to do if something happenswith your kids. I found it very worthwhile.
Now in another half hour I'm off to do a preparation thing for Max's christening. Busy day!
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hi Ladies,
how you are all having a good weekend...
Hair loss - Ren, I am glad you mentioned it too as it is happenning to me also!! can anyone find out why? ARe we not getting good enough nutrition or it is hormonal??
Ren - where abouts did you see the house you liked? we are still looking around also but it is so hard - we want to be fairly close to Logan's school, but that also limits us.
Amara it seems, does not like the car for long periods. We went out today, but she cried most of the time. Oh well, not nice at all to listen to them cry like that.
I am sad about moving Amara to her own room, but also nice to think of having our bedroom back for us. I cannot believe my bubba is 12 weeks old already.
better go, she will no doubt be awake soon, and will take her out in the jogger, which she loves thank goddness~!~!
