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Morning everyone
Just up feeding & wanted to let you all know I got an sms from Renstar around midnight - she & Ava were admitted to hossie last night with suspected silent reflux. Little Ava only got 8hrs sleep yesterday & only then it was from exhaustion from crying. They are seeing a Paediatrician today & hope to get some help & answers.
Lets all send them a big hug & lots & lots of positive vibes girls.:grouphug:
Poor Ren and Ava,my friend Andrea had the same problem with her son but let it go on almost 5 weeks,he wouldnt feed or sleep proper,she ended up at the royal childrens and they now have her giving him medicine before and after she breastfeeds or expresses.
Well my friend came last night whos Nixons godmother and helped me out,she got nixon and fed him,put him on his tummy,got him to self settle and we gave him a bath and was lights out...she also raised his bassinette and he went down in it easy,and is in there now asleep,even though his feed is due im not waking him,hes been really good,last night he slept from 7-730pm woke at 10.30 for bath and bottle and then bed and slept til 8am.. apart from waking for his feedsThats our start to the day hour,we are trying a few different things and they seem to be working and hes more content and settled...Was really good that she was here and showed me some ways,she a mum of 3 and a grandma,yep she had her 1st at 16 years old.still married and her son she had at 16 has made her a nana...lol shes pretty damn hot and funky for a nana..
Am gonna try the same things tonight,i highly recommend the eco store baby sleepytime bath,smells devine and makes them relax n sleep
anyway its bottle time for the bird( earned the name by the long feet and toes that he could perch with and the little tuft of bird hair that sticks out at the back)
oohhhhhhh b4 i go,hes making noises and giggling full on,all morning we getting giggles and little shrieks,is this normal at nearly 6 weeks that they find their voices,it was the funniest thing and he smiling and cooing...awwwww im so in love with my little man
Oh i hope Ren and Ava are ok and getting some answers.
Wow Bon - you get to sleep all night????????? OMG i'm envious! Good luck with the photography stuff. Any chance of you doing some in Geelong?
Dis - OMG Jared is a boofa! Henry was only 5.3kg Monday - same age and he was 10pd 2 born!!!
Jo - I burnt myself with water badly once with Lucie. Hope you are ok.
All good here. Just back from storytime. Might have arvo at home before Kinder picnic tonight. Had my first night of just me and 3 kids last night as DH worked till late. We survived!
Oh poor Ren and Ava. I hope they find out what's causing her so much distress.
Son, Jared isn't giggling, but he's smiling real smiles now. DH is better at getting a smile out of him than I am, I guess he's bored of me after staring at me all day!
Soph, yep, Jared is a boofa alright. He's grown a lot in length too (nearly 5cms) and is breastfed so I'm not worried about him getting too fat. He's bigger now at just over a month than his big brother was at just over two months!
We're having better nights now. It took me longer to work out Jared's signs and sounds than it did with Ben, I guess I'm just more distracted now with Ben to look after as well. Also, Jared cries whereas Ben didn't :lol: We knew we got a happy baby for #1 but it wasn't until now that we realised just how happy he was, not that Jared's bad, just normal I think :) Anyway, Jared is consistantly going four or five hours sleep between feeds at night so I'm definitely feeling more human now :)
Hi lovlies
Had a fantastic night last night, Caleb slept from 7-7 with a feed at 3.30am and straight back down again. He did wake around 5.30ish cos he came out of his wrap and was freezing cold but once i reswaddled him he went straight back to sleep again! I have solved that problem however by buying the miracle blanket and it really truly is, he cant get out of it and as soon as i put him in it he just becomes calm and gives me the biggest smiles and coo's, its amazing, if you can buy one then i highly recommend them!
Well my sister is now 8 days overdue and not talking to anyone, shes highly peeved and isnt the best company so i guess i just keep waiting for the news, im not bothering her, i know how that feels i just cant wait for her to have her baby girl!
hope everyone else is doing good!
jo- u make me sick...(just kidding)my kid wont adhere to going to bed at 7pm,but he been sleeping at 6pm til 11pm,then a feed,wont settle for a while then sleeps all night apart from waking for 3 hour feed,then he goes back to sleep until around 8am,has long daytime sleeps when he does fall asleep,we put him down to fall asleep on own accoedany earlier and he cranky,having a few dramas today with catnapping...i think a lot is my fault as my business has consumed us and the poor bugger been in the car and shipped around a lot.lucky as of today the business has been merged so i can start staying home and doing my kids stuff and implementing some better set times but i cant complain too much hes pretty good,not as good as caleb,,i think i gotta work this self settling issue out,thats the issue,if he wont ill be ringing sleep school to work out the self settling,or something!!! hes a good sleeper generally and a content kid
Son - they recommend (who is "they" hahaha) you spend at least a week at home if you want to get your baby into a routine or are trying to sort out the self settling issue. If he is going down to sleep in the same place every time then he gets used to it being his "sleep place" and he knows he has to go to sleep, once he knows that and starts getting used to going to sleep at certain times of the day then you can take him out and he will sleep anywhere cos he knows its sleep time.
I took Caleb to Mothers group the other day and i thought it was going to be a disaster and throw our routine off but bang on 2.30 he started falling asleep (like he would at home) and so i just put him in his pram and he slept for two hours, everyone elses babies were screaming and it didnt even wake him up!
I just take each day as it comes, sometimes we have bad days (like the other morning i didnt give him his usual face and bum wash with a warm flannel, which he loves, and he didnt sleep from 6am - 10am! but he caught up later in the day) and we have good days, but i know that any day can be the day he decides to throw the routine out the window!
jo-he will sleep anywhere,he goes into the same room at night every night,its just as soon as you put him down hes kicking up a fuss..he sleeps anywhere in the house,in his bassinette or on his mat,hates going down in the bassinette,we elevated it,though hes starting to get used to it,unfortunately i havent had the luxury to stay home inside a full week and i think id go cuckoo...he sleeps in the car,the pram,the house,u name it,but its just the self settling...i can put him on his tummy on my lap and lights out then bassinette,little terd wants to be held,he stays awake 3 hours after he wakes b4 goign back to sleep even if we put him down,have given up on regimental routine as it doesnt work,have tried to adhere to strict times and nope, i will try the self settling for another week or two and if no luck ill be ringing you or someone..hehe
feel free to ring me hun, i would love to try and help. I think maybe you are right that I want to go into the profession. When i saw the mothers at my mothers group and someof them were really struggling and they spoke about the techniques they were using (some of th6em letting their little ones cry it out) I just wanted to cry and help them. Obviously i dont know it all and im no expert but all i can do is try and if it works then how awesome, if it doesnt then nothing gained, nothing lost!!
We had a good night again last night :) Jared really seems to have worked out night from day. During the night he is awake for the first half of his feed and then drifts off to sleep during the end of his sleep and I pop him back into bed. Much better! During the day he likes to have a bit of a play - don't you just love their smiles? Ben slept right through last night too and that's what makes all the difference in this house!
Is anybody watching Bringing Up Baby? I watched in horror last night. That 1950s woman is insane!!! I feel so bad for the babies following her method :( And the poor mother's especially the mum of the twins, she clearly doesn't want to follow it anymore - poor thing :( I just can't believe that she won't let them cuddle their babies!!!
We had a good night again last night :) Jared really seems to have worked out night from day. During the night he is awake for the first half of his feed and then drifts off to sleep during the end of his sleep and I pop him back into bed. Much better! During the day he likes to have a bit of a play - don't you just love their smiles? Ben slept right through last night too and that's what makes all the difference in this house!
Is anybody watching Bringing Up Baby? I watched in horror last night. That 1950s woman is insane!!! I feel so bad for the babies following her method :( And the poor mother's especially the mum of the twins, she clearly doesn't want to follow it anymore - poor thing :( I just can't believe that she won't let them cuddle their babies!!!
My son has made a liar out of me............
He self settled and went straight to sleep,i just took out his dummy,put him down,rocked his cot up n down on the carpet for 2 mins and lights out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This also continued throughout his other wake up times,self settled and went straight back to sleep,only sooked once when he came out of his wrap,was re-wrapped and nini again...he woke up at 815am and is now back asleep in bed with his dad..hes slept a good 5 and a half hours last night between 10.30 and 330am b4 waking for a feed and a wet bum.Hes a good sleeper and if i can continue with getting him to settle this easy,we have a sort of routine working so im going to modify it,try n get him to sleep better and more frequent during the day instead of his long 4-5 hour sleeps where he near in a coma(lol)he wakes for 2-3 hours then has a long sleep,want him to sleep after an hourish then sleep for 2 hours ish like they say,once hes asleep hes a bugger to wake,hates being woken up,gets cranky,oh hes his fathers son thats for sure!
Dunno if i told you that i had Nixons feet hand and cast,oh i cant wait,ladies you have to go do it...Now the hard part is i have to choose a frame..please help me,my house is chocolatte and beige,so is my furniture,even though we will be moving and re-building i plan to keep a lot of those colors,i originally chose a chocolate frame with blue inside and blue matte and a black and white photo of him,with silver feet,hands and plaque,now im thinking maybe i shouldve gone all blue or chocolate and and black,the all blue looks good for a boy.a lot of nixons room is chocolate beige with blue and id like to continue this when he bigger,please help me lol indecisive mum!!!!!!!!! or do i leave what ive chosen already.it was a rush decision as DH was hurrying me up and didnt like what i liked and we could only agree on this.
Also my kids photography is up and going,we gonna do the shopping centre ones in the next month or so,some of them are fantastic,some of them are very flower pot,washing basket basic...i
Jo- yep i think you should look into doing baby whispering(lol well u know what i mean) as a career,and u love doing it,thats why im heading back into my kids photography,not just cos its money cos im passionate and since ive become a mum i know those warm feelings you get when you get beautiful photos,i cried with the ones my friend took.
Has anyone heard how REN is doing with little Ava? hope they are doing ok
Dis - Loving "Bringing up Baby' and totally agree - that woman is a total cow! I am so definatley in the very 'relaxed' Continuum method (the full name escapes me - baby brain :redface:) it's not funny! Henry is a total sling, co-sleeping, booby fed boy. Makes me feel a bit less stressed about him not being in a routine and sleeping in the sling. This child has to be carried around. Lucie and Ned (and me!!) would go crazy being at home for all his sleeps. Hopefully he'll be my chilled out little man :D
Just a quick one...yeah to all the bubs 'working out their thing' iykwim!
Missed 'Bringing Up Baby' last night. Soph I think you are onto a good thing (don't feel bad about no routine)....yes routines can work....but you can get the same result with no structured routine as well (as you already know having other kiddies). I'm sure DS will be a chilled out dude especially if you are relaxed yourself!!
AJC: Have you heard from Ren....hope all is well. Reflux is awful....especially if it is silent reflux....am lucky that Dash is a 'happy' chucker.
Well little man slept 7pm-7am last night with a quick 10min bottle at 3am (has been doing this for a while now).....but the biggest news is NO VOMIT FOR 3 DAYS now!!!!! What a treasure!! Now to get him to have a dream feed at 9.30pmish - unlike DD, DS won't drink asleep - and he will sleep right through!! But can't make him do something he doesn't want to do - in his own good time. Count my lucky stars and be happy with what he does now I say, as some mums would just love even an hour of continuous sleep!! Don't know how they do it!!
Anyway, gotta go and tend to Dash. Will post my pro-shots this arvo of Dash. Too many to choose from but they are adorable.
Linda xx
Oh i watched some of that show last night, but i had it on mute as i was on the phone to my mum, i couldnt even watch it with the sound off, i saw the bit where the baby was crying and crying and the family was eating dinner and i just wanted to cry, i had to turn the tv off, it distressed me so much, imagine the distress it caused that little baby to be left alone to cry like that.... Oh it breaks my heart.
I used to be a believer that you should let your baby cry as thats what i was raised with, but its just not right, im sorry if anyone here does that but i just cant agree with it, i think its a form of torture.
anyway, had another good night last night, slept right through, he wouldve gone right till 7.30 but i got nervous about him not having anything to eat all night and gave him a feed around 4.30am!!!! I dont know if i was being silly or not but thats what i did.
Have booked into baby massage class, Sonie if you are interested its in Point Cook next Friday and it only costs $2 (the price for the oils) you have to book so if you are keen, let me know and i will give you the details.
any word on Ren??
Orange - go Dash for not vomiting and sleeping really well, you must be thrilled!! Ive noticed Caleb isnt having as many issues with wind and vomiting anymore either, perhaps their little tummies are maturing and getting used to handling it all aye?? whatever it is i know im happy :)
Well its supposed to be another hot day today... eeek, lets hope those fires stay away!
Jo: Unfortunately Jo, Dash isn't vomitting anymore because of the Zantac and Gaviscon (wish his stomach was maturing)....without it he can vomit across the room and out his nose and it disturbs his feeding. As for waking Caleb at 4.30 - he will wake if he is hungry, so don't worry, obviously he is quite content. DD was sleeping 12 hour blocks at 5 weeks but she would wake earlier if hungry....when she slept through like this though she would have two bottles closer together first thing in the morning or catch up somewhere else during the day. Dash is starting to do this now too. It is around about this time that they drop a bottle anyway (when bottle feeding exculsively) Hope that helps, you are doing a great job.
Hi everyone - I got a message from Ren late on Wed night.....
"Paed wanted us to stay tonight but we came home. I'm sick of hospitals. Got prescription for reflux hope it helps. See Paed again nect week for review".
Poor things, I really hope things are improving for them. Big Hugs Ren if you are lurking.
Sam had his first immunisations this week. Was awful. He didn't cry heaps but was just a bit grumpy for the rest of the day. I cried tho, I hate seeing him upset. He was such a brave boy - 2 needles and that gastro one given orally. For around 24hrs afterwards he fed quite frequently. Sometimes I think he just likes the bonding that goes with BF & feeds because he feels secure. Jo I know exactly what you mean about not letting babies cry - I just can't & won't. I watched that doco on ABC last week and that strupid hard a$$ woman annoyed me so much (the one saying to leave the baby in the garden for 3 hours a day).
Sam had a big boy bath last night. Was so much fun, I ran the bath and hopped in with him and he loved it. He's outgrowing his baby bath now and our bath is so deep I would break my back leaning over so I just got in with him. DH was leaning over pouring water over his tummy and he gave us a big smile. Was a really lovely 'family' moment.
We still don't really have a routine. That is great that it is working for some - especially Jo you're doing great! Sam has two longer sleeps each day so I just sleep when he does. Bon - Sam loves to be held too. I'll feed him, burp him have a play or a story (I don't like to put him down until at least 1/2 hr after a feed), then to wind him down I'll lean back into the lounge with him on his tummy on my tummy and he is so relaxed and content. I'll gently walk into his room and put him in the bassinet, lay him down then within 1 minute he'll wake with eyes wide open arms & legs going everywhere. Bit naughty but when DH is on night shift I sleep him in the bed with me (safely of course) and he settles well with me. I just put my arm across and rest it under his little legs and that contact is enough to keep him happy. Yes I could be creating a monster but at this stage I think it's most important for me just to get some sleep.
Just popped on to see if any news on Ren....thanks AJC!
Ren: If you're reading this hun, hope things are starting to settle. Ava is lucky to have a Mum like you. You kinow her best of all so keep persisting for answers/help if reflux isn't the problem. Try not to let it all take away from your first exeriences as a Mum....it is a very rewarding 'job' which I'm sure you already know. Look after yourself and your precious Ava....I am thinking of you. Hope those meds have kicked in and Ava is enjoying some settled sleep (and you and DH for that matter).
AJC: Dash has his needles in 1.5 weeks. Glad Sam was a brave boy...I'm not sure I could be that brave lol! Sweet reading about your family moment in the bath....hope it is a memory that stays with you forever. There are no rules to parenting...as long as your little one is happy (and Mummy and Daddy). They are only tiny for a short time so I say steel every moment you can and worry about 'fixing' bad habbits later when Sam can better understand. He he! You are doing a great job with Sam!
Later Ladies....
xx