Well today was fun. Had some really good laughs with kristy and kell after Bear, pixie and Zee left. Bear and Pixie it was great meeting you and your daughter is beautiful. Cant wait for the next meet up.
Oh yukky on the photo of me Bear. Geeee thanks......lol
Tenny and Ayapi thanks for he photos they are great. Just with the melb photos who is who as im so use to nick names and not real ones...hehehe
Ok will bbl. getting some dins.
Oh and as for Liam sleeping,eating and awake time we are all over the place at the moment but he is sleeping for about 1-3hrs at a time and up for say 45mins-1 1/2hrs and feeds for about 1/2hr -45mins. He is having 5 - 6 bottles in a 24hr day. I think they are to young to really have a routine.
Awwwwwww those pics of the Syd crew are great too... (this is SO not fair... come on everyone.. move to Queensland.. lol)
Tan - we'll have to make sure we get pics when you come down..
sal - woohoo what a great weight gain...
Peace in my house at the moment - DD is asleep (very rare at this time - usually we are struggling to get her to go to sleep) and DH is putting DS down for the night.
Watching Top Model at the moment - haha.. I'm so tragic...
Didnt have much for dinner as I had some pizza at about 2.30 today. Just had chunky soup with bread. Wasnt bad.
YAY skittlebub great weight gain. What a piggy...heheh
You relax Mel all you can. Awwww move to syd hun. You know we all should travel once a year some where and have one big meet up. Stay some where nice. I think that would be fun. DH can come too. What do you all think??
Well off again. Going to have some timtams or 8..heheh...lmao
Missy - I have added a comment on who is who at the Melb Meeting.
Bear - Love the photos looks like you all had a wonderful time.
Mel - I'm watching Top Models too lol. Yeah our little one is asleep too she had a big day today meeting her new friends.
Skittlebub - Well done on the weight gain, that's wonderful.
We really don't have a routine with Izzy yet, I think that will happen when she understands a little better. I don't tend to wake her after her 4:30 or 5:30pm feed and wait till she wakes, but I do wake her during the day.
Mel - agree, I should come up there and we can have a meetup!! AND it MUST involve chocolate! Once little miss is old enough to fly I might just use up some of my FF points!
Missy - I like the idea of mass meetup, but the logistics kinda scares me!! =) There's a LOT of us on here when you count partners and other kids!
Looks like I'll be in Melb at the start of November and possibly also for a day or two in the first week of December if any of you ladies feel like catching up. December schedule *may* be insanely busy, but I *think* I'll have a few hours to kill on Monday 3rd November (and a rental car with baby seat, so we can get anywhere!).
Hey folks
Routine - we had a routine going for a while, but now it all seems to fall apart between about 5 and 11pm. Not sure why, DD has just decided that she won't sleep at all during that period and has a tendency to be fussy and awkward. Makes it difficult to have dinner! The rest of the time she is fine, she is pretty regular during the day and overnight, it's just the evenings that are a mess. Sometimes we wrap her up and stick a dummy in her mouth and put her in bed. Tonight we have given up and put her in the rocker in front of the TV where she seems perfectly happy! go figure.
Hope you're all having a good night. The bear let me have a sleep for a couple of hours so feeling a bit better. Was conking out before!
Awww the photos from Syd and Melb are fantastic....I will definitely bring my camera Mel, Who else is in QLD?
Mel: WOOHOO....See each day you are getting heaps more, you'll have her on EBM all the time soon! We are driving down 27/09 early morning for my nephew's 1st bday which is at 10am, then Chris is going somewhere to watch the AFL grand final so Saturday is probably better for me, I'll find out where he is watching it, it might be somewhere we can go with the kids too.
Tenny: I asked the LC about bathing she agreed that it doesn't have to be everyday or it can be, it really makes no difference...I'll just ignore my SIL, she always critisizes everything and her life is very far from perfect.
Pam: I feed Ashlea around 8 or 9pm she usually goes to sleep by 9.30pm then I wake her (or attempt a dream feed) around midnight then she sleeps through until 6 or 7am. I try to let her create her own routine but she hardly ever wakes up for a feed herself! Its basically a feed/wake/sleep routine but sometimes I feed her to go to sleep.
Belle: I hope you and Julia are feeling better soon! oxox
Rach: My 2 were/are the same with their feed, don't care where its coming from as long as its coming!
Feeb: WHat a good boy Jacob is for sleeping all that time! I think Ashlea would have too (if we were there)
Kell: How long has Jesse been in a big bed? Wasn't he in a cot overnight still or was that someone else? BABY BRAIN!! haha Jayden wanted us in his bed every night but I try not too incase I need to feed Ashlea at that time or I'm doing something else...we have just had a little breakthru with bed time this week...
Jayden, Ashlea and I sit on Jayden's bed and read a couple of stories the lst one is always "Time for Bed" by Mem Fox its a great book. When thats finished Chris brings a bottle for Jayden (I know he needs to get rid of it!) I kiss him good night and say I love you, he says it back then I tell him Ashlea is going to bed (so I have to take her), he kisses her and says I love you and I turn out the light and walk out. The 1st night he cried for a while, 2nd night, cried for 5mins maybe, 3rd night straight to sleep and same for tonight WOOHOO!!! We are finally back into a routine! Just have to make it a bit earlier than 8.30pm though.
Sal: WOOHOO on the weight gain! Thats huge!! I was told at our check up today that BF baby should gain 150-250g per week (more is better of course). Well done!
Missy: I'd love to meet up with all once a year...not sure how Chris would feel about me going haha. We usually go to Melb every year anyway as thats where all my friends and family are but Syd...don't know anyone there anymore. We should do it anyway!
everyone else
We had our LAST LC appt today WOOHOO! Ashlea has gained 530g in 2 weeks!! BF'ing is going great now and she hasn't refused since briefly on Monday. We are thinking she has a sluggish bowel but still not sure why when she needs to do a poo that she refuses the breast but not the bottle...She did her 1st big poo since Sat today and she hadn't refused prior to that as she normally would so maybe her system was a bit immature and is getting better now?? Her sleeping all the time too is just her and not because she is lathargic (sp?) like I thought. The LC said she'll leave it up to me when I come back to her which I dont need to now...She gave me a huge hug before I left and said what a great job I've done getting through it, it made me feel soooo good!! I can finally relax with it all now and just enjoy my fat sleepy baby. Well I'm going to get on the bike now then have shower.
ETA: I missed your post Rach, That is normal....most babies have a period of the day where they are really unsettled, usually dinner time. With Jayden it seemed ages before I got to have a hot dinner! I have been extremely lucky this time and *touch wood* Ashlea doesn't have a "witching hour"
Last edited by Tannis; September 12th, 2008 at 10:25 PM.
Gee what a day its been today, Lucas has barely slept a wink and Laila has been in a bad mood. Lucas played up for most of last night so im about to fall asleep LOL.
DH got home from work at 5 and we went up to vote, Laila fell over and both her knees are bleeding so DH is attending to that.
The Bear/Pixie- Nice to meet you yesterday, great to put faces to names. Will have to come out your way for a meet-up on a day that DH has off.
Kristy, Missy & Kell- Sorry I left after The Bear/Pixie left..I was just so tired. Got down to MIL's and Laila slept while I fed Lucas then 10mins after he went down she got up so I didnt make it to bed till after midnight.
All the bubs were so cute, I didnt get to cuddle any or take pics of Keira (well one where you can see her better), one of the twins or a close up of Beth.
Will upload them later tonight after Laila is alseep.
Tasia- Hot is Melb? Damn hot here, had the air con on LOL.
Tannis- Im so glad i dont wake like that anymore, though uit hurts when I get let down so that wakes me if im sleeping.
SW- DH gives Lucas a bottles of EMB on his days off (well every 2nd feed) and once everynight so I can get some rest.
Belle- Sorry your sick hun, hope you all feel better ASAP.
everyone else
WOOHOO!
or take pics of Keira (well one where you can see her better), one of the twins or a close up of Beth.
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