Babies Born January 2008 #4

[jenjams]

Hello girls,
Amber is still sleeping 1030-5 and then back at about 6 for a couple of hours. We have tried putting her down again and she keeps waking herself up.... She will be due for a feed if she keeps this up! Someone please tell her she needs daytime sleep as well as night time sleep.

We have introduced tummy time with her now. The first time she just floundered around. Last night she was tired as she was a bit niggly. Yesterday between 3 and 6 she wanted to feed every hour.

Maz- I never got into Nutella. My toast is normally vegemite or peanut butter and jam. In America you can buy peanut butter and jam already together.. called goober! Good for you on the healthy eating. I gotta do something about my stretch marked tummy. Mat the booby monster.

Kate- We only have a set of 3 drawers in Ambers room. The top is 2 small drawers where one side is towels and wash cloths. The other side is socks, bibs etc. The second drawer is 000 stuff. They are not very well arranged. The bottom drawer has 00 and above stuff. Again not well arranged. We may need to get a better tall boy so I can arrange stuff better. Plus I have worked out I dont have a lot of cooler weather stuff.
At DFO yesterday we went to cotton on kids. OMG I love that shop. We got a body suit that said on the front daddy or chocolate. The back says daddy of course. And we got some pink terry towelling pants. They have a heap of cheap stuff. Kate we gotta do DFO together soon.

Jess- The couple of times we have formula topped up, Ben did the mixing. He would boil the kettle, let the water cool some, put in the bottles, add formula and swirl bottles to mix. He would then put at back of fridge. Have you told your mum yet?!

Jo- Hmmm mittens. I might need to get some of that. Amber loves to suck her hands making herself think she is hungry. Yay another excuse to go shopping. I hope my baby bonus comes through soon. How long did yours take?

Mary- Amber still has most of her newborn hair. How soft is it! She has quite a bit at the back. Her hair is a golden reddy colour. Just like her dads. It is actually a pretty colour as it isnt too bright red. Hopefully it stays that colour. She will always be fair though.

Uncle buck is on TV1 on foxtel at the moment....

[Mads]

Hey Nik
Great news on the weight gain!
Sounds like you have finally got a great regime going, and you seem so much happier too.
I agree its so hard to know whats normal. I am constantly asking my s-i-l whether her boy did this or tthat etc!

Addy has decided that daytime sleep in no good unless I have her in the baby sling, I find it hard to get her to sleep in the daytime. She has a really unsettled period everyday in the afternoon and evening till she FINALLY goes to sleep about 10pm - sleeps 4-5 hrs (last night woke at 3am) then another 3 hrs stint usually. After her morning feed, she plays, then might catnap or occasionally a long sleep, after she wakes at lunch- I may have her only catnapping all arvo. She is def having a growth spurt at the moment though with feeding and unsettled more often!

[_JeSs_]

jen - LOL yer told mum, i think shes ok with it cuz that means she might get to feed him hehe! my baby bonus took about a week, that was over a weekend too, applied 4 it on a thurs and got it the next thurs... i was getting payments b4 baby money though so maybe that makes it quicker

hmm was going to do more shopping 2day but i dont think i can be bothered jaylens bit unsettled 2day too...
OMG bought like $70 worth of clothes for him yesterday damn good for the price though, i got 3 cotton jumpsuits, a cute as hat, a fluffy jumpsuit thing with a hood with ears on it lol, a pants and jacket set, a top and pants set AND a packet of nappies lol... and i bought a medicine set thing with a snot sucker LOL a thermometer, nail clippers ect ect... and a bottle steralizer... lol i go mad when i have money... also seen this thing at target, heats bottles up to the exact temperature it needs to be, heats breastmilk and canned baby food too, might go and get one.. u can plug it into the ciggarette lighter in the car too, so that will be quite handy

[JCE0810]

Jess- no problem for the info, if i can help someone else out by my experience i'm happy to. Do what you feel comfortable with honestly its all trial and error.

Nik- on Amy's weight gain thats awesome. With regards to sleeping patterns Sophie will have a feed for example around 6-8pm and then another feed between 10pm-12am then we go to bed and we only get up once during the night between 2-4am and it varies how long she goes sometimes 3 or 4 or 5hrs and then we get up for the morning feed between 6-8am. Usually Sophie sleeps the whole time between feeds, or i give her tummy time if she seems to be awake and it usually tires her out and she'll go to sleep. I agree its hard to know whats normal and whats not, Sophie hasnt had blood in her poo but when i was still using s26 gold formula she was straining to poo so i changed formula to Nan 1from birth and she seems alot better.

Jen- Sophie doesnt keep the mittens on her hands i've got about 4 pairs ill probably never use because as soon as i put them on she manages to get them in her mouth one at a time and pull them off little bugger. The only mittens she keeps on is the ones built onto the bonds wondersuits haha only because she cant put them in her mouth to pull off haha. My baby bonus took just under a week and that included a weekend. How long ago did you put the form in? ring centrelinks family assistance and ask them to check the progress of your claim.

The only things ive bought lately is a 4 pack of the drum things for my Nappy Wrapper, 2more 260ml bottles and a few DVD's mary poppins, alice in wonderland & the wizard of oz, so now i have TWO copies of mary poppins and its not even worth listing on ebay after you pay the fees etc.