Hi ladies! Good to hear from you all, some of you have been MIA, but it's easy to understand why.
So glad to hear some of the other boys are starting to get chubbier! I was going to take J to the clinic yesterday to ask some questions (well about Ben actually), but decided not to in case he weighed in over 6.5kgs, which is very likely. Nah, that's not the real reason we didn't go, but it was in the back of my mind!
Soph, so glad I'm not the only one with a tummy sleeper! J still sleeps on his back at night, but during the day it's all tummy. B, DH and I all sleep on our tummies so it's no surprise really.
Runner, sorry you've had such a rough time. Hopefully the Gaviscon will really work with Amara. Poor little thing. Good luck in the run this weekend. You'll be able to get there on time, just set as much up as you can the night before. I've found that's the only way I can be up and out of the house before 9am!
Bon, yay, on the sleeping!
Ren, well done on breastfeeding. You've done really well there. Are you using cloth nappies on Ava yet? I'm using them about half the time on J. I have some more Baby Beehinds on order, but apparantly there is a nation-wide shortage as one of their trucks caught fire and they lost heaps of merchandise! So, I don't have enough to have both boys in cloth full time. Ben wins because of his sensitive skins so J is still just part time. Have found the flushable liners pretty awesome.
Mel, we haven't supported J's head since the first week. He's a strong little bugger. B was the same and was sitting unsupported at five months' old. Wouldn't be surprised if J is the same... besides, he has the added fat rolls on his legs to help keep him stable
Had an amazingly busy day yesterday. Went shopping then to my SIL's for a couple of hours. Also managed two loads of washing, the washing up, cooking dinner and the ironing - all while DH was at his second job so I'm pretty proud of that. Of course I'm totally wiped out today though! Lucky the boys had a good night last night
Even though I haven't been posting much I still read up on how you are all doing. Big pat on the back for Ren - you are an inspiration. To persevere for 6 weeks like you have is just amazing. Good on you!!!
Sounds like we are all starting to get some decent sleep. Sam had his best night yet last night with a sleep from 11.30pm - 6.30am. It was great! 3 months old today - I can't believe how quickly the time has gone. He is still a bit wobbly with his head so we still support him as much as we need to. He's really starting to chat alot now and smiles and makes the cutest noises. He's starting to react to noise alot more now too, he will turn to where the noise is coming from - particularly if it is DH or I. Being a Mum is so great, I love it!
Good luck with the house Bon, we have just sold & bought a new place. It was a bit stressful - building inspections are just a joke these days so brace yourself. All they do is cover their own backsides and fill their reports with everything & anything. Sounds promising if you have 3 parties interested. Yay.
Good luck for the fun run runnermum, you are right. Just getting there on time will be an achievement in itself.
Enjoy your time with your Dad Jo.
Will be back soon - big hugs to everyone. We are all so busy these days tho.
AJC - happy 3mths old to Samuel!!! WOW!! Runner - good luck at the marathon!! how exciting! Good luck getting the family out the door on time you can do it. And thank you for saying you're proud of me. I feel very proud i've stuck with it..... it's been hard and not a good introduction to BF'ing at all! BUt i know i can push past the hiccups and get there.... and we are almost where we want to be. Disgirl - yeah we've started using cloth.... only a few MCNs fit her still waiting for her to grow chubbier before she fits her other MCNs! Just ordered some Cushie Tushie's! Can't wait to get them... all different patterns!! CUTE!! we are using newborn magicalls (BBH) and i have peapods but they are too big. also BBH fitteds with covers gonna start using them soon....
We are also using the old school terry flats with snappi's.... very cute. And yeah using up our newborn sposies....we go thru so many i feel so bad for the environment but in the next 2 weeks we will switch to full time cloth with the odd disposable now and then.
And well done on getting all those jobs done! What a champ you are!! You must have slept well last night hehe
We have Ava's photo shoot on Saturday!! Can't wait to see how all the photos turn out..... hopefully she'll be in a sleepy state and relaxed so we get some good shots otherwise we'll just do it another day. My friend is doing it the same friend who did the photo shoot when I was 33wks PG!!
Just came home from the GP's and had our 6week check up! All is good and my 3rd degree tear (ouchies) has healed nicely. She said my pelvic floor muscles are nice and tight and I told her i havent even been doing my exercises so i must be lucky there haha!! DH will be happy..... all systems go... he's been asking when can he 'jump back in the saddle' hehehehehe
its late about 1230am,,,,now its my turn to not be able to go sleep
Still getting good run with Nixon sleeping n settling now..
Guess what? i sold my house in 24 hours,,,gone!!!!!!!!! got what i wanted and i aimed high,i have a very modern appealing unique home so i knew it would go,i have built before so i know what im in for,hell hath no fury like a post pregnant mum scorned!!!
Jo- im moving to my friends house to live in rent free in Sunshine for 5 months til mine is built,so since its closer to you we best best be catching up..she offered me to live in her renovated investment property for free...how nice and now i dont have to worry about me,joe and nixon all living in the one room at his brothers,,big relief,ws making me ill stressing!!
Runner-good luck on ur marathon!!!!!!!!!!!! wouls love some pics,hey girls i have an idea,lets do a january 09 facebook page so we can all put pics n posts n what not on there,we all have the same log in and password and can add photos of our kids and us and what we are doing,especially good to see runner and her marathon,wow woman your a trooper!!!!!!
Ren- Well done with Ava and to all of u sorry ur kiddies have reflux,best friend having hell of time with it,would love to see your professiional photos
To all- i have my photos on my facebook page that i had done of Nixon,we getting family portrait once the cradle cap gone and i dye hubbys hair lol..my facebook name is Sonya Chindamo,anyone can look at my stuff and also my photography as well as what i had taken by my mate of Nixon
Mel A-Good luck at the docs with your little one...
Orange-Well done on bubs sleeping settling etc
if i missed anyone else its cos im wired,tired,excited and have a migraine!!!!!!
you would too if u had 30 days to move
HAPPY 8 WEEKS OLD TO MY BOY NIXON............ SOB SOB MY BOYS GROWING UP TOO QUICK
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AJC - I cannot believe your little one is 3 months old!!! wow, and sleeping so well, that must be wonderful for you and your hubby.
Hey, girls, I am NOT running a marathon - this distance is 42.2kms, and at only 6 weeks post baby, I am not ready for that kind of distance yet! It is only an 8km run, although the most I have done a 12km run last weekend. I am in training for the Gold Coast Half marathon (21.1kms) in July.
Ren - you are most welcome - everyone needs praise and you deserve it. How is Ava's reflux?
Girls, need adice re Amara's reflux. as you know, went to the docs on Tuesday afternoon and started her on Gaviston - which is a bit like Mylanta, but also a bit of a thickener. Anyway, helps with acid and discomfort, indigestion etc..
Have I noticed a difference? well, not significantly. I just then took 25 mins to settle her after her 9.30am feed - crying, struggling in cot etc. I did not wait too long to get her to bed either! Last night she slept from 8pm to 1.30am but after this feed, had swallowing problems and discomfort. Not overly crying, but it was 3am until she was OK again. then slept until 6am.
I am suppose to ring Doc today and tell him how it is going. I am torn between getting strong medication and waiting a bit longer to see if this Gaviston works..........ahh, I just don't know what to do.
Runner: I think I have mentioned before that the Gaviscon works like the valve to the stomach and floats on top of the stomach contents to form a plug so it doesn't come up. Dash's reflux is quite bad so it doesn't completely stop it all the time, meaning sometimes the hot acid comes up to the back of his throat and goes back down iykwim - but it has stopped the projectile vomit. That is why he has the Zantac (liquid) - it decreases the aciditiy so it doesn't burn and cause him discomfort, he therefore feeds now with no probs. If he doesn't have the Zantac three times a day he is very uncomfortable after a feed. We started on just Gaviscon like you and then had to add Zantac for the same reasons as you described. Hope that helps.
BTW: Since you are breastfeeding you would have to syringe the Zantac and it tastes horrible....it really turned Dash off feeding until I mixed it in his formula. Other girls have mentioned Losec (powder) which does the same thing without the awful taste.
Thanks to Jo we are having much more success with settling Emily. She still screams when we first put her down but using the pat/shh method Jo suggested she settles pretty quickly
She is having some trouble with feeding she either seems to be too sleepy and falls asleep after one side or gets really distressed and kicks and screams. I am still trying to figure out what is wrong and worry that she is not getting enough. I might weigh her at clinic next week to check.
Runner: We also have the swaddle wrap which a friend gave to me with high recommendations. Emily has managed to get arms and once a leg?? out of it but it is generally really good and much better than a normal wrap for Emily.
I also managed to go for a run today. It was very short maybe 15 mins and pretty slow but felt great and I was surprised at how good I felt after not running for 18 months due to miscarriage related fears and pregnancy. Thanks for your advice...I can't wait to go again. Great news about entering the race...I hope it all works out for you.
Jo: Thanks again for your help...things are so much better.
bon: What is the wedge that you use. I am putting Emily on her side with a towel as a wedge but not sure about it. I am worried about SIDS risk but am using movement monitor. I am also putting into practice some of the baby whisperer techniques thanks to Jo. I will have to buy the book too.
Ren: Great news about breastfeeding. Well done for continuing it is worth it. We are planning to use MCN's soon. Going to use Rudd Stimulus money to buy them...somehow we are getting three lots of that money plus baby bonus...amazing!
Sonya - happy 2 mths Nixon!!! Far out.... goes fast!! Me-lisa - i just realised! Your little girl was born on the same date as Ava!! I didn't realise?!? Same ticker age hehe 02/02. Lucky you getting some of Rudd's handouts! We miss out on those I think,.... or just get a bit! Runner - my LC thinks that the Paediatrician mis-diagnosed Ava having reflux and now thinks she was just crying and unsettled in first 3 wks due to being hungry as she wasnt feeding well at the breast and i had no idea.... so we took her off the Losec tablets and she is fine! Mind you, at the same time we took her off them she was getting more food as i was topping her up with EBM and formula to help her gain weight as she desperately needed it. I've heard Gaviscon is good for babies reflux, good luck hope it works
And to me... 8km IS a marathon hehe well done.
Well today I felt like the WORST Mummy in the world Ava and I went to a friends baby shower and the drive should have taken only 1hr each way but with traffic, road blocks and my GPS system taking me the LONG way (no idea why!!?!?) it took 2hrs EACH WAY.
So Ava and I were in the car 4hrs today... my gosh what a shocker. Poor Ava cried alot on the way home she was so tired and so unsettled. Fed her a bottle and stopped by the road to feed her and she was ok for about 20mins after but then woke up and was crying again but i just had to keep driving it was hard..... felt like the worst mummy. Talk about mothers guilt!!!!! have you girls been in that situation?? it was awful.... It's okay if its like 15mins from the shops to home i can handle that but this was a long drive and with a crying baby it was so stressful and upsetting
Baby shower was fun though and when we did arrive i enjoyed it and Ava fed and slept in my arms contently. Was good to see my friend and share the day with her.
On a good note - Ava is smiling heaps lately!! It's soooooo cute.........
my goodness what a crazy few days ive had, Caleb hasnt been eating or sleeping, took him to the dr, he has a red sore throat from the tummy acid coming back up and has a reaction to the formula making his throat sore again, so got him some soy formula, infant gaviscon and infant panadol and I have my angel baby back! he downed all of his bottles, slept for hours and last night slept from 8pm to 6.30am!!!!!!! he didnt wake up once, didnt make a peep of noise at all! I cant believe my poor boy was just not feeling well.
He is loving spending time with Grandad, those two get up to no good i tell ya! The smiles and the cuddles that go on hehehe. I will walk in the room and he stops smiling and then my dad said as soon as i left the room he watched me walk out and looked at dad as if to say "yes shes gone, back to mens business!" and started talking and smiling again! what a cheeky little monkey hahahaha!
Its so great having him here, He goes home tomorrow so im a bit sad about that but we will see him again in May and we got heaps of photos, i think dad is in love with Caleb! He just adores him, he said that whenever someone would tell him that their little baby sleeps through the night and never cries he knew they were always lying but he says here he has seen just that and he cant believe it, he said even when Caleb was sick with his sore throat he never cried! He did say though that once Caleb gets up and running its gonna be fun around our house
Well i better go wake my boy, its feeding time at the zoo! hahaha
Jo, glad to hear you're having such a good time with your dad. Poor little Caleb. Hopefully he'll improve now you know he's sick.
Ren, J cried last night on the way home from my SIL's house. It was awful and DH was going to stop so I could feed him and settle him, but we soldiered on to home. It was only a 15 minute drive and he cried for the last 10 but it felt like a lifetime. I find it really hard because Ben NEVER cried and we generally don't let J cry either - unless of course we have no choice like last night Mummies guilt is constant I"m afraid. There's always something to feel guilty about.
Us, we had a MUCH better night last night! I finally decided to let the poor little guy sleep on his tummy. Yes I know it's against SIDS guidelines, but we all just needed a good nights' sleep and I have the motion monitor and J is also able to lift and move his head very easily. Anyway, it worked like a charm J slept from 10:30, I got him up for a dream feed at 3:30am and put him straight back to bed before he slept right through until 8:30!!! The only reason I got him up at 3:30 was because I was up with Ben anyway so thought I might as well try to prolong J's sleep. Of course Ben chose last night to have a bad night Nah, he had an upset tummy so it's not his fault. Tonight though, I'm hoping for another lovely long night of sleep - last night was glorious!!!
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Lucky the boys had a good night last night
we are using newborn magicalls (BBH) and i have peapods but they are too big. also BBH fitteds with covers gonna start using them soon....
but in the next 2 weeks we will switch to full time cloth with the odd disposable now and then.
Can't wait to see how all the photos turn out..... hopefully she'll be in a sleepy state and relaxed so we get some good shots otherwise we'll just do it another day. My friend is doing it the same friend who did the photo shoot when I was 33wks PG!!
as she wasnt feeding well at the breast and i had no idea.... so we took her off the Losec tablets and she is fine! Mind you, at the same time we took her off them she was getting more food as i was topping her up with EBM and formula to help her gain weight as she desperately needed it. I've heard Gaviscon is good for babies reflux, good luck hope it works
hehe well done.
have you girls been in that situation?? it was awful.... It's okay if its like 15mins from the shops to home i can handle that but this was a long drive and with a crying baby it was so stressful and upsetting
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