Babies Born January 16th ~ 31st 2009

Hi all, I just found this thread so hope you dont mind if I join in.
Leighton was born on the 19th Jan weighing 3.8kg (8pnd3 I think) 52 cm long. He wasnt actually due until the 4th Feb but as I had high blood pressure they induced me. Ended up having an emergency c/s as Leighton's heart rate dropped once they broke my waters.
I am really glad that this thread is here. I have been having a bit of a rough time adjusting to my new life.
Leighton is feeding really well and he sleeps pretty good at night only waking every three or so hours for a feed and then settling really quickly. I think he must already have an idea when night time is. During the day he is a bit grizzly. he is suffering a bit from colic at the moment which is really upsetting. His cry sounds like he is in so much pain and then wriggles and squirms like you wouldnt believe. We have taken him to a chiro which is really making a difference.
I dont know anyone who has had a baby (excepy my mum hehe) so may ask lots of questions and advise.

Hi Shan and welcome to our group!

I hope we can help out in any way that you need, feel free to ask as many questions as you like!
Colic is horrible, i hope your little man gets over it soon! Caleb had some colic last week and we used Gripe water (you can buy it from the pharmacy for under $10) he hated the taste but it got the wind up and he was better in a few days.

Thanks Josephine. We have been using infants friend but have just bought the gripe water and will give that a try as well.

Hi guys!

Welcome Shan :)

We had a much better night last night. Jared's still waking every 3-4hrs, but that's completely normal and I can cope with it as long as Ben sleeps or DH is home - which he was last night. Unfortunately DH works five nights a week, sometimes six so it makes it difficult. If I remember correctly though, Ben was much better after five or six weeks so I'm hoping that Jared will be the same. I know you shouldn't compare your kids, but they're so similar in looks and temperament that it's hard not to!!!

Jo, that's great that that routine is working for you. I've never tried to follow a routine, I just go with the flow, I don't think I'm disciplined enough to stick with it! :lol:

I can't remember who mentioned the hug-a-bub? Me-Lisa? Anyway, we have one and LOVE it. It was absolutely wonderful with Ben and I've already used it a couple of times with Jared. They both loved/love being close to me or DH and with the HAB you can even bend forward and their head is supported so you really are handsfree. I know it looks complicated to tie up, but really it only takes one or two goes at it and you are an expert. I used it up until I got pregnant again, so Ben was a year old and still loved being in it. I'm finding it really handy now when Ben needs me and Jared wants to be held.

Geez, I rambled on about that for a while :lol: And no, I'm not being paid by HAB :lol:

Gotta go, Jared's stirring and my boobs just did a massive (and painful!) letdown :)

Firstly welcome Shan and your son Lleyton shares the same birthday as my boy Nixon..Dont feel bad about adjusting to your new life and motherhood,hell i cry every 2nd day at the mo...lol and its not PND its tired n drained and i have a few issues with my iron levels and also im on thyroid medication and thats outta whack so i too am a walking space cadet...

Jo-Well done on the routine with Caleb,gee your doing well,he sounds like a good feeder and sleeper,my squirrel is a bugger to get to feed,im lucky i can get him to have 100ml on the bottle,hes a lazy feeder and falls asleep...he could sleep in a hurricane my kid,except the odd night,hates going down in the bassinette,day or night.good to hear caleb sleeping through,i can get about 4 hours outta nixon at night then he wakes,he hates having the slighest wet nappy etc,during the day i struggle keeping him wake,he loves the car and pram,today we went to that big park in essendon with the lake and walked around,he was asleep on and off but loved it,so did we..

Also just wanna ask has anyone been getting snappy at there partners,i have,gee i feel bad,that and i been having the odd cry..i dont feel depressed though,am happy just feeling unwell physically and tired and not getting much love n cuddles of DH as hes tired n trying to help me and run my business...im such a needy sook atm...lol
Well hope you all had a nice valentines day,im doing it the tighta$$ way n getting flowers today cos they be half the beleeding price,even though 4 weeks on im still getting sent flowers n congrats over Nixon being born

Well looks like im gonna have to start the routine all over again tomorrow, Craig let me sleep in today to look after Caleb and i got up when we are supposed to be putting Caleb to sleep and Craig had put him down an hour earlier and had fed him at a completely differnt time!!!! so now its all out of whack, i nearly cried, we had such a good thing going and he goes and does that!!! I was so mad but what can i do about it, its done now. Lets hope its not too confusing for the poor little man and we can re establish it tomorrow, im not gonna try today, that would mean either letting him sleep double or staying up double the time and i cant do that to him, thats kinda mean.

Son - i still have moments where i want to cry, and as for snapping at DH, i did it yesterday constantly, i dont even know what i was snappy for,t here was no real reason! apparantly the hormones do this to us for about 6 weeks after birth so not long to go now.

What do i do about the sun? Caleb hates the sun on his face, it looks like it actually hurts his eyes, you know like when you are really tired and you go outside and the sun hurts your eyes and you cant open them? thats what he acts like. Should i keep him out of the sun or try and get him used to it??

Anyway, i need some breaky then off to church

Ciao

Jospehine - bugger about the routine. My DH is going back to work tomorrow so am hoping to get in to some sort of routine. Although Leighton has a rough one that he has worked out already. I find it difficult not having a routine at the moment but am trying to go with the flow. Do babys eventually get into a routine themselves or do we have to try and get them in one??
Last night Leighton wasnt too bad. He had a spat from about 7.30pm - 9pm. He would not stop crying and kept doing the holding the breath cry....I really dont like that one!! DH took him for a walk around the block and when he got back he was fast asleep. He must of worn himself out with all the crying as he slept until just after 11pm.
He has been waking up for a feed every three hours but yesterday and last night he was waking up every 2 hours. I hope that doesnt last as it is really tiring. I just put him down and then before I know it he is up again for another feed.
How is everyone else doing??

Hey Shan, Welcome to the group.

I thought that Fin was unsettled when I had to get up at 2 and at 4 this morning. Usually he sleeps through. It would seem from reading your posts, he is an angel so no complaints here.

We are starting to have a bit of play time after feeding. Only about 15-30 min, then he gets tird and starts to nod off.

My Maternal Child Health Nurse (MCHN) Said that babies have growth spurts every 2-3 weeks. So we sould expext the feeding to decrease to every 2 hrs during this time. Fin is starting to do this at the moment. Other than that we are feeding ever 3-4. and 5-7 over night.

That said the little man is up again, so i'm off to play before he screams.

Snoochie Boochies.

Hi Ladies,

glad to read that im not the only one having problems with nighttime settling :( - Ella is a nightmare between 7.30 and midnight and again at 3.00am - Sonie, Nixon sounds exactly like Ella, sleeps really well during the day then come night time, HELL NO - its world war 3 trying to get her to settle :wall:

Oh well what can we do but perservere?- i just keep reminding myself that she's not even 4 weeks old yet and she spent 8.5mths in my warm tummy with muffled sounds and darkness so she has no idea of day/night yet!!

hope everyone else is enjoying their bundle of joys, even with the tears, screaming and sleep deprivation!

im hoping im not jinxing myself tonight by saying this but had a good night last night,Nixon dont like going to bed b4 830pm,we find that if we put him to bed around that time with a bottle and a bath he ok,he been staying awake a bit more during the day and having a play so thats helping,i shouldnt complain as he generally is a good night time sleeper,i think cos ive had a good run that when i do cop the odd bad night its a shock to the systkem..hes asleep now so am hoping he will have his --9pm feed and then go back down,he just gone sleep not long ago after a play...today he didnt have a lot of solid 3-4 hour sleeps..im using the save our sleep book as a guide and implementing some of it around what works for nixon,i cant do the get up 7am thing and feed for the day after doing the night feeds and since nixon still waking up around 11pm,2am and 5am ish for feeds it wreck all of us..
Well today i feel crapola.am off to the docs tomorrow,i feel really fatigued and just need to lay down all the time,my body is aching and i think my thyroid levels are out and thats why i feel so yuk,im hoping its not PND...As you get paranoid and think oh is it the start of it,that and i been not eating properly dont help,so tonigght big feed of vegies,salads,fruits and am going back on my low GI diet i was in when i had gestational diabetes as since i been off it i feel sick..
Whilst i remember it my boy is sensitive to a lot of chemicals in baby products,.we got given the johnsons lavendar bath n wash n masage stuff and he broke out in a rash,good ol sudocream works a treat,DH rubbed some on him and in the spot where he rubber the johnson lavender stuff the rash came up,that and the non-organic baby wipes make his bum a bit red,plus i was using them to dab n wipe his face and he got dry skin n rash from that so we have had to go back to using all organic products,not that i deviated i just tried the lavender and no good,think i will use it,Dh gave me a massage with it n was nice!!!!!!!!!
Did any of you manage to go Big W baby sale,the catalogue out now is the baby bible..love it,got a few things but theres only so much u can buy/need and gotta watch the cash-flow,took nixons grandma there to shop..lol
cheers bon

Good morning everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend with your bubbas!! It is great to read about your baby 'adventures' and how much you are all in love with your bubs!! Sounds like we are all having our little issues with bubs....including us (reflux). Routines....I tend not to have a day routine (this worked last time) and feed on demand during the day. Only because I am out and about a lot and it works better for bubs to be flexible (don't have to work out my day around scheduled sleep times etc.). But whatever works to make mum and bub happy together is what is best! Also, my bubs have a big growth spurt every couple of weeks which throws any routine out the window when adjusting feed amounts etc. DH and I are pretty relax and go with the flow.

We do have a night routine. DD slept through 12 hours a night by 6-7 weeks. DS is capable of doing 7-8 hour stretches but we now wake him as he has terrible reflux and needs smaller feeds more often - his little body can't handle more than 100mL at any time and it is worse on an empty stomach(he is a happy chucker because it doesn't disturb his sleep and he doesn't scream the house down - he gives a sharp shriek when he voms but that is it). He would projectile (even out his nose) each and every bottle but was settled by thickened formula (if only a little), gaviscon (halved the amount of vom) and a dummy of all things!

I really didn't want to do the dummy thing but it works (for now) simply because he is lazy at swallowing and lets the milk pour down his throat or gulps, the dummy is teaching him what to do! So...when he wakes he has the dummy for 5 minutes (to settle his eagerness for the food), feed half of the bottle, dummy , burp, rest of bottle, dummy, burp, play. No dummy for sleep because he self settles really well without even a grizzle. This has slowed his feed down and we have had no vomit for 48 hours YEAH!! So, still early stages and may just be a coincidence. Hoping not because if not settled by the end of the week he is going on prescription formula and meds.

Funny thing is....he has gained 1 kg in just under 3 weeks.....imagine how much he would have chubbed up if he didn't spew most of his food up he he!!

Anyway, if you read all of that then you are a LEGEND!! Obviously I have nothing better to do on a Monday morning (other than cleaning but who wants to do that)!! Wishing you all the best with your bubs this week - if establishing routines, getting bubs to settle or whatever your challenge with bubs is for now he he!!

Have a wonderful day everyone. Talk soon.

JO: Hope Caleb gets back into his routine for you today....I know it is important to you. A friend of mine followed the routine in that book when she had BIG sleeping issues with her bubs and it worked. It took 2 weeks and her DD is now 20 months and is still a really great sleeper and very relaxed....so good luck. You might have a better chance with DH at work today?? Sweet that your DH is sooo hands on with bubs though....a lot aren't!!

From a first timer its really good to hear different routines. We are struggling at the moment with anything as GP put me on antibiotics because of bleeding and forgot to tell me that the antibiotics cause diahorea, colicy symtoms and general unsettledness in breastfed babies.

We had sort of started a routine with about 15-30mins of play after each feed then wrap and cuddle and self settling in the cot for day sleeps and we were getting about 4-5 hour streches at night co sleeping with the view to moving him back to the cot at night to once he's a bit better at settling but now its all out the window goes for stretches feeding every hour, screams during feeds and everytime you put him down without him absolutely asleep, last night was hell and i've still got at least 4 days of antibiotics left and thats if the GP says i don't need the repeat script.

Thanks for listenting to me whinge hope everyone is getting along ok

Hi everybody! We had a good night last night. Ben went to bed easily after I read him a book and then Jared followed suit - without the book :lol: We only got up for the one feed and then all woke up after 7am, so that was great, especially as Sunday night/Monday mornings are my toughest day with DH starting work late Sun night and finishing late this morning.

Shan, with my first son (Ben, you'll hear a lot about him in here!), I didn't ever try to get him into a routine and he sorted himself out. Apart from a bit of upheaval recently with the arrival of Jared, a holiday and moving to a new room and bed, he's generally a relaxed and very happy little man. I'm always getting comments about how placid and happy he is :) I think it has a lot to do with my relaxed attitude when he was a wee bubba, but he's also got a laid-back personality. I think that if you do what you feel is best for you and bub everything will fall into place. I disregarded all the parenting books about routines and settling and just followed Ben's lead. Feeding him when he was hungry and cuddling him to sleep until he was a much older baby. We never let him cry unattended, and we're doing the same for Jared. As I said, it works for us, but everybody is different :)

Okay, I'm off to play Thomas the train engine :lol: Jared is sleeping happily in the Hug A Bub, I'd forgotten how much I loved this thing!!!

Hope you all have good days with your little ones :)

hi all
we have seemed to found our right time for night sleep bath n feeds for nixon,,he likes bath feed n sleep around 830pm,he generally is falling in this routine on his own,anything earlier than that and ive found i get the 7pm-midnight horror hours,we have had 3 good nights of nixons new found time(fingers crossed)i hope he sleeps tonight as he just had a big 3 hour sleep in and out of the car...
We still have middle of the night wake and feed anywhere between 130-330am,depends on last feed,tops up or nappy changes,last night he woke very hour an a half for a few minutes had a cry and i gave him a cuddle and he went back to sleep,from 2am til 6am he slept pretty good,one wake up with a poopxplosion at 3am(not good when ur half asleep and thier poop from head to toe)then he had 6am bottle,awake for an hour n back to sleep til 10am,awake til 12-12.30pm then back to sleep...
Hes still a bugger to feed,needs his early am feeds and duing the day dont like to drink a lot especially if its warm weather,he usually has between 70ml-120ml depending.
He has a bit of a heat rash or milia as the doc says,good ol sudocream works good,that and the disagreement with the johnsons products,..apart from that all good
im hoping it stays this way all week as we are going away on thurs to Lakes Entrance to the beack to stay with the inlawsa for a week..and its gonna rain!!!!!!!!might wait a week
Went to doctors today and good to know i dont have PND but the fatigue is from low blood pressure,low iron and my thyroid levels too high,that why im having probs sleeping but am tired,even though im on liquid iron ans vitamins will still take a month to kick in and dunno when ill get to see my endocrnologist for my thyroid.
rest rest rest for me,bit hard with a baby and a business but baby and me come 1st

Hi everyone - haven't been around much lately, been a busy girl. Sam is doing well, had his ECHC apt today & he is now 5kg, almost double his birth weight. Yay!!!

We don't have a routine. I just demand feed but a routine is slowly starting to emerge, we still have bad nights around twice per week but he is starting to sleep longer and at night time which is great!!! He is having his first immunisations next week - not looking forward to that because I know he is going to scream. Our main issue at the moment is nasal mucous - he hates boogies and doesn't sleep well if there is a stubborn one in there he can't sneeze out. The saline nose drops help but the boogs still give him grief.

We got our professional photographer shots back earlier in the week - sooo happy with them. He looks so cute, my walls are going to be covered in Sam pics & I am going to be broke.

DH and I have just sold our house and are preparing to move - I found my +hpt's in my bedside drawer. Is it weird I don't want to throw them away? Has anyone else kept theirs? I took a photo of them and put them in my pregnancy scrap book but I still can't get rid of them. I think because I did so many - ones and the + ones I'd got before these ones ended in m/c and throwing them away previously was always associated with immense sadness and or frustration.

Anyway - looks like he's settled. Cross fingers the cluster feeding is now over (every 2 hours since 4pm) and now he's ready for his longer sleep - at least 4 - 5 hours would be lovely!!! We'll see.

Take care - love reading what you are all up to.

Hi all - have been reading all your posts just haven't had time to reply...so quick one for me!

Henry is going well. Had a few nights early on when he screamed all night. Literally. Was tough! Slowly getting a bit more sleep at night. He sleeps first few hours in his cot then in with us. Don't mind - the other 2 did for a while too and seeing he's prob my last I'm going to enjoy!

He was a big boy at 10pd 2. Lost a bit of weight - couldn't have helped being in special care. Now hit 5kg. Won't be massive I don't think as my other 2 were skinny minnies.

He BFs all arvo and early evening. Last night I didn't get him down till 11. He fed from 6.30 till 11. Usually have him down about 8.30 though. He's still sussing out day and night...hopefully will get there soon!

Anyway trying to get Lucie ready for Kinder and then will take the boys into town. Life as a mum of 3 is full on!!!

Hope you are all well.....

Hi everyone. We had a crappy night last night. Leighton would not settle. Everytime I thought he would 5 mins after putting him down he was crying again. Was tough as DH had to get some sleep for work so I was trying to do it on my own. Still feel like I have no idea what I am doing. Even today I am wondering what I am meant to do with him all day. I dont want to put him down to sleep too much as I am concerned he wont sleep tonight but at the same time I dont want him to get overtired!!! :wall: I really hope I get a clue soon!

We went to the CHN yesterday for a 4 week weigh in. He is now 4.85kg. He put on almost a kilo in 2 weeks!!!!!

How is everyone going with BF? Leighton is drinking so much. I wonder how much he drinks each time as it seems like alot!

hi everyone,
just a quick note from me too. My little Amara is 2 weeks tommorrow - hardly believe it. She is starting to 'wake up' and during the day she has some cries - I put her in the sling and USUALLY it takes from 10 mins to 30 mins for her to get off to sleep. Night time we have a bath, feed and wrap tightly and usually a 5-6 hour stretch of sleep.

this means no TV or DVDs for a while - we just go right to sleep.

I am missing spending time with my 6 year old son - he goes to school and after school there seems little time before he goes to bed...I look forward to weekends.

BF is going well, but this is 2nd time around after a first successful time for 15 months with my first.

for all first time mums out there - yes, it is so confusing the first time around - you have to learn on the job so to speak........and I appreciate what you are all saying.

Take care of yourselves - and don't forget some time out for yourself!!

I went for a 40 min jog today!!! It was slow, but ahhhhhhh felt so good again. I felt human and normal - weird but true...