Tan.. Jess is taking Penta-vite (orange and white box, pineapple flavour). Yep in the liquid form as he wont eat lollies (crazy child!). But you can get it in the chewable form also. Yeh looks like a good sale.. i might try and get some summer clothes for missy too.. Jesse needs some new tshirts also. Thats great he stayed in his bed all night!! Break through hey!!
Belle - Great to hear you're better.
Hayden likes to be around people alot of the time. If he can see us around him, then he's fine. Awh, how cute that Julia is doing that. Now days Elijah is starting to believe me when I tell him that Hayden thinks he's great. He didn't believe me before, but now since Hayden constantly smiles at him, he understands.
Tan - I'm glad your FIL didn't have stroke. Fingers crossed the ABs get rid of it. Hope Ashlea's needles go ok today.
Mel - I'm sorry things have been a nightmare. I hope today is a better day.
Good luck with your appointment.
Kell - I didn't even know there were sales on at Target. Thanks for that. Lol.
Pixie - Elijah was a bit like Beth. He'd like cuddles and being around people, but then he'd get sick of it. Hayden is the opposite. He'd get cuddled all day, every day if he could.
Geez, I'm so over this 'baby brain' cr@p. I'm so distracted lately. It's like I start doing something and get distracted and and start doing something else and forget to finish both things until ages later.
Yesterday, I changed Haydie's bum and was going to feed him, but since he was quite happy to just lay there and look around I forgot all about feeding him and started doing something else. I only remembered to feed him when we got to the supermarket and he was whingy.
I was like "OMG DP! I'm such a bad mother! I forgot to give him his bottle before we left." He kept tryna say I wasn't but still.
It was only like 4 - 41/2hrs since his last feed though, but that's not the point.
HOW COULD I FORGET?!?!
Kell Ive commented you on facebook but will let you know im going up to mums tomorrow. Awwww bummer. I so want to come and spend some time with you girls. Next week for sure. Promise. Good Idea about the chart too. Will do that for sure.
Well callum did ok at the doc's. He still has the thickening in his atery and up until 6 months ago they operated but he said they more just watch and see how things go. I have to go back in 2 years. As he said if anything had to be done they would try and not do it before he is 5. So at least I dont have to think of that yet.
Going to mums tomorrow with the kids. BBl on Saturday.
Zeee dont forget im just around the corner you know!!! Come see me if you would like!!
Hi to the rest of you ladies. Im very busy so sorry no more personals.
Take care all...
Name: Liam
Age: 10 weeks and 1 day
Weight: 5.1kg at 9 weeks
Height: not sure
Head Circumference: 39cm at 9 weeks
Feeding: Karicare HA AR
How Often: 3 - 4 HRs
How Much: 150mls 5 - 6 bottles in a 24HR day
Other Medication: Nil
Day Sleeps: 1 - 3 HRs In his cot now
Night Sleep: 4 - 7 HRs at a time In his cot now
Settles: Dont really need to but will settle with a cuddle from anyone
Awake Periods: 1 - 2HRs
Size Clothes: 000 and some 00
Size Nappies: Infant
Favourite Toy: On the play mate and loves being on his bounce anet with his legs reaching the lounge so he bounces himself off the lounge
Other stuff: Smiles lots, coooo's still only alittle and so quiet doing it, follows me around all the time with his eyes, Loves watching TV and watching callum.
Tenny - we all feel like bad mums when we forget something or can't figure out why bubs is unhappy. you're doing a great job.
Missy good to hear Callum's OK
Tan - good to hear about your FIL
sorry got to run..... little miss is due for a feed!
well its been a pritty productive day today. the nappies r washed and drying in the dryer (its raining) my folding is almost done the floors are moped i cleaned the kids bedrooms (it had been a while and it was so grose, isaac hides food) and we had a guy come and clean our rug and lounge suit. i might do the dusting and inside of my windows later.
my scar is sore today my stupid dog jumped on me yesterday and hit his paw right on it. it hurt so much. if it is still saw i might mention it to my Dr when i go back to get the pill.
Tannis- Ike is on penta-vite aswell, i notice if he eats food with presertives in it he is much naughter than usual. sugar doesn't affect him its all the other crap that goes with it. Ike has some pritty bad tanties too. DH and i have actually been talking about how to handle them over the past few days as its a daily problem sometimes several times a day. so far the naughty chair has been working at home but when we are out i have no idea. they say with older children you should tell them that when they get home they will have to sit on the naughty chair and even if its hours later you should follow thru and still make them, but i know isaac wouldn't understand that yet he is too young. at home its awsome 8/10 times it stops a tantie in its tracks, and thats just the threat of it. then we distract him and he forgets.
i sure would like to know what to do when a 2 year old has a tantie in the shops. there was one time that we were shopping isaac was walking with DH and we used a bench seat as a naughty chair and it worked but i would be damed if i was alone and he was having a wobbly in the pram, to get him out would be a huge mistake. lucky for me most of my shopping is done will kell or DH so ike has them to keep him company and occupied.
oh an ree the leash i was so against them but now i love it, if i am shopping with DH, mum or something we can leash ike up and he can look around and walk without fear of loosing him or someone taking him. you should try it.
Tennykins you are a great mum. oh crap i remember there have been days even before the twins when i have wonded why ike was so cranky and then i relised i had forgoten to give him dinner oops. if you wanted to you could demand feed anyway so it wouldn't matter if he went 5 hours he would cry when he is hungry.
Belle- sebastian is a clingy baby too. most nights we let him winge a bit because if he had his own way he wouldn't be able to put him down. the boys are only in infant size as they fit and i didn't want to buy more NB nappies as i am changing to cloth slowly and wouldn't use them. Tara seems like a perfect weight to me. the twins weigh the same as her and are almost 3 months old now.
but the twins won't sleep thru i wish they would but no such luck, don't worry tara is perfect.
well better run do something while the boys r asleep.
oh and i thought i would ask for some ideas. we need a holiday, resort preforably. but we only want to spend about $1500. any ideas. we went to fiji last time and it was $1200 including flights, maybe thailand, would you take babies there?
gunna try to get my sister or mum to come so that she can help with the kids.
anyway hi to all, will do more personals later if i get a chance.
Ok, i'm here - typing with one hand and need to change smelly butt.
Name: Mehkelti Addisyn Jayne
Age: 7 weeks, 3 days
Weight: 4.980kg at 7 weeks, 3 days
Height: 59cm (7 weeks, 3 days)
Head Circumference: 38cm (7 weeks, 3 days)
Feeding: S26 & expressed BM
How Often: 3 - 4 hourly
How Much: 80 - 135ml (avg. 100ml) - 6 bottles in a 24HR day
Other Medication: Infacol
Day Sleeps: Either cat naps or sleeps a huge chunk in the morning then cat naps till last feed. Sleeps in rocker, swing or bassinette on tummy.
Night Sleep: From last feed (9 or 10pm) till 2.30/3.00am then awake at 5/6am
Settles: With difficulty
Awake Periods: 1 - 2 hours
Size Clothes: 000
Size Nappies: Cloth bum so smalls at the moment
Favourite Toy: Doesn't have one
Other stuff: Smiles if not cranky, coo's at us if we pay her lots of attention, grumpy bum like her big brother if overtired.
Tan - I'm glad it wasn't a stroke Buderim Tavern is quite nice - not sure bout the kids room - went there before I had any..pmsl... send me a text to let me know what time you wanna meet up!!
Missy - good to hear about callum
Sum up of my bad day yesterday - DS woke at 11.40pm - and would not go back to sleep until 3.30am, then she was up at 6.00am - mind you we went to bed at 11pm after her last feed. Then he was cranky and whingy all day, she wouldn't settle at all the entire day, I started a new diet and was bloody hungry, got AF when not expecting it and ruined a pair of undies, banged my funny bone in the car and it friggin hurt like hell. All on 3 hours sleep. Was a gross day.
I hate typing with one hand so going to sign off now before any more personals.
Name: Alyssa Pei Ping Yeoh
Age: 8 weeks today!
Weight: 4.64kg
Height: 57cm
Head Circumference: 37.5 @ 6 weeks
Feeding: breastfeeding
How Often: on demand
How Much: variable
Other Medication: Nil
Day Sleeps: random cat naps!
Night Sleep: 4 - 6 hrs
Settles: Mostly self settles unless convinced that she's starving to death!
Awake Periods: Most of the day! just for feeding/nappy changes at night. Variable
Size Clothes: 000 (the occassional 0000 still fits - mostly tshirts)
Size Nappies: Newborn
Favourite Toy: Black and white tiger. Yellow and black high contrast pattern book with mirror. Linden (the bengal cat).
Other stuff: Cradle cap being treated with olive oil massage (LOVES having this done!) and dermaveen shampoo. Very smiley and talkative =)
Both kiddies are asleep woohoo so having my lunch while i type.
Kristy.. hmmm i prob wouldnt go to somewhere like Thailand with babies.. especially if theyre bottle fed. You have to be very careful with the water in places like that as it is iykwim. I guess it depends on what type of holiday you want. If you want to go overseas, somewhere that is gorgeous is New Zealand. But theres always the Gold Coast. Isaac would love dreamworld and seaworld.
Mel.. sorry to hear youre having a hard time hun. I hope things start to pick up for you soon.
Missy.. no worries hun! Have a nice time with your mum!
Tenny.. hehe oh dear. Oh hun.. with so much going on i think its only just normal and human error. Honestly ive had times where i think i forgot.. i cant even remember if i fed her when i was suppose to! lol..
Am going to go see about booking Jesse into day care starting next year. Hopefully he will be going to the same one as Kristy's son Isaac. Its funny the feelings you get when doing this.. i feel so bad as if im sending him away, but i know he will have a ball and it is for his own benefit. Oh im gonna hate the day he starts school!!!
Kel - thanks first drop off is the hardest - I cried the night before when DS had to go into care for the first time - its different putting him with other people, other than your IL's or own mother - veryyyy emotional.... (but it gets better!!)
kristy - yeah go for what Kel said - go the goldie - then i can drive down and meet all you guys - woohoo!!!!!!
Tenny - I'd say if he wasn't biatchin for the feed - he was doing pretty good. So don't worry bout it. At least you didn't leave him in the pram and fold it up. now.. if you did that.. hmmm....
Thanks again Kell, I'll look out for them when I go shopping Thurs. Jesse will have a ball at DC, it wasn't so bad for me as its my SIL that runs FDC.
Tenny: Your not a bad mother at all! I've done it a few times, I don't get hungry often so I don't think of it and Jayden rarely tells me he's hungry.
Kristy: Least I'm not the only one I guess. I'll look into one of those leashes see how he goes with it. Go to Hervey Bay, thats only 1.5hrs from here and about 2hrs from Mel I think.
Mel: I'll let you know about Saturday, I'll talk to Chris...It will be probably around 1.30/2pm is that ok? I know its not the best time for toddlers but the party is at 10am so we'll have to stay there for a bit then the footy starts at 2pm I think. Huge for your day yesterday! Sorry you had the 2 of them playing up for you. Ashlea is a bit out of sorts today but she had her needles, Jayden is not too bad (compared to yesterday).
Ashlea's needles went pretty good, she only whimpered for the 1st one and really cried for the 2nd one but as soon as the dummy went in she was fine. She has been pretty clingy since we've been home though, I have only just been able to put her down. Jayden fell asleep in the car on the way one (we were at a 3rd bday party at FDC) but then woke when I put him in bed and wouldn't go back to sleep, so nothing is getting done today. Diego is on now so I should go vacuum while he is occupied...don't think I'll be getting on the bike today Too hot anyway.
Well we have had a great day today! Isabel was such a good girl at Mothers Group cooing and smiling at all her new little friends. I had a pretty good night on my own to (DH is in Gold Coast for expo) he comes home on Thursday so I have another 2 nights on my own.
Mel - Oh you poor thing you did have a bad day yesterday, I hope that today has been a little easier on you all.
Kell - I was thinking of enrolling Isabel at kindy soon and I can't believe we are even thinking of that but it's so hard to get into them these days. I don't know if I will enroll her daycare as my mum will be looking after her should I decide to go back to work.
Kristy - If you want to go on a holiday NZ is just beautiful and almost always cheaper than going on holiday anywhere in Australia (unless of course you get a cheap deal).
Tenny - You're not a bad mum, we all forget to do things I normally try to stretch out her feed times for an extra hour just so I can get her to sleep longer at night. You're doing a great job sweet
Missy - Have a great time at your mums sweet we'll see you when you're back.
A BIG to everyone else. Hope you all have a good night!
hi there everyome, i had mothers group today which was good until she checked Jacobs weight again.
he has put on 110 grams and she is like thats ok but we want more of gain WTF i am sooooooooooooo upset she made me feel like i am starving him as he has gone from 75% to 10%.
He is a baby that feeds to sleep and tends to catnap during day and sometimes have decent sleep but in evening will always settle for 4 - 6 hrs and then feed over nighta nd sleep again for 3 - 4 hrs. The other night he slept 11 hrs (pity it was 4pm till 3am). I said to her about this and she said well he will sleep even if hungrey!! like WTF
so she wants me to express at least 3 times a day and give him that bottle at night. He doesnt sleep often in day so when will i express and when he does express i do house stuff eat and shower!!
anyway enought of a rant for me
Name: Jacob Byron
Age: 11 weeks today!
Weight: 4910grams today
Height: 57cm at 8 weeks
Head Circumference: 39.5cm at 8 weeks
Feeding: breastfeeding
How Often: on demand
How Much: variable
Other Medication: Losec 2 times a day
Day Sleeps: random cat naps and occasional proper sleep
Night Sleep: 4 - 6 hrs
Settles: feeds to sleep!
Awake Periods: Most of the day! just for feeding/nappy changes at night. Variable
Size Clothes: 00 or 000
Size Nappies: Infant
Favourite Toy: Play mat with hangy animals music and flower hanging on bouncer
Other stuff: Smiles are very cute, loves to be held and cuddled!!
Mez: Ashlea is already enrolled in Kinder, I enrolled her when I enrolled Jayden which was when I was about 6mths PG....what was scarier was there were 6 other kids already enrolled for that year...pays to get in early, Jayden may not get in unless a few ppl drop out.
Oh Ashlea got weighed today, she was 5.3kgs with clothes on so I will get a more accurate weight on Fri at the Health Clinic, I worked out that she has gained about 500g in less than 2wks! She is also 59cm (more than what I measured yesterday so I'll check that Fri too).
Still waiting for Chris to come home with Pizza! I just gave Jayden vegemite toast and yoghurt to tie him over or that will be enough if he falls asleep waiting.
ETA: Feeb, your doing a great job hun! I know how they make you feel, I remember with Jayden there was 1 midwife that used to scare the cr@p out of me, basically saying I was starving him....its the worst feeling esp for 1st timers. The only thing I can suggest is make him feed 3 hourly (or more he he wants) during the day and no more than 5-6hrs overnight. There is little time to express during the day esp with a cat napper! Can you express overnight? I know its a PITA but just to build your supply a bit. Is supply the only prob? Is it still hurting or is there any damage? ANyway a gain is a gain, your doing a fantastic job!
YAY PIZZA IS HERE!!
Last edited by Tannis; September 23rd, 2008 at 07:43 PM.
Oh for f*ck sake. Feeb Hun dont worry about that she is saying. She is a control freak and is just upsetting you. There is nothing wrong with his weight gain hun. He is just on the lower part of the scale. These nurses make things worse some times. Its makes me so mad when I hear ladies like yourself feeling as if you have done some thing wrong. Keep going the way you are he is putting on weight. He is doing fine. I had a nurse try and tell me to keep expressing as breast is best but HELLOOOOO if its not working for me and im not getting enough milk ( which means Liam wouldnt have been getting enough) then no its not. I WANT TO RUN AND SCREAM !!!!! Your doing great guns hun and dont ever ever think your not. He is fine!!!
Hi ladies how r we all? Hope u all had a great day. I had MHN app today. And all is good. The nurse said Jonathan is putting on weight, he's healthy (DAA!!).
Feeb- I so agree with Missy, don't ****ing listen to the them you know ur baby, don't worry about his weight gain ur not making him starve the baby can only drink so much when he wants man, when he wants more he will let u know, when he has had enough he'll let u know, don't listen to the lady, it's not her son, tell her to go worry about her kids if she has any. All I know is that ur doing a FANTASTIC JOB, well done sweety.
Tannis- hope u enjoyes ur pizza sweety.
Mary- How r u sweety? I'm so glad Izzy is a good girl for u at mother's group & any other day as well She is a good girl & soooooooooo cute.
Mel- I had Jonathan with my parents only for a few hours when I go grocery shopping. But I don't want to leave them with my IL's because they work & just say the if he is crying they won't attend to him because they might have customer's & my hubby will be doing deliveries. Oh they have a buisness family factory. That's the only reason why I don't want to leave them with them when Jonathan starts prep. (Before that he will go to child care, if I go back to work, or fall pregnant). I feel very uncomftorble with my IL's at the factory, if they were home then OK. Even now when I leave Jonathan with my parents for 2 hours I do the shopping quick cause I want to go & be with my son, I'm scared that he might cry, or my parents can't handle it, I don't know. But you know wat I mean you been through with it with A. Sorry ur having a hard time, hope it will get better soon sweety
Kristy- Oh u poor thing, I hope the scar will get better & yeah mention to dr, my god.
Name- Jonathan
Age- 10 weeks & 4 days old
Weight- 5.5kgs
Height- 60.5cm
Head Circumference- 38.6cm
Feeding- Karicare formula gold birth
How often- Every four hours (except for night, only when he cries but rarely)
How much- 125mls
Other medication- Nil
Day sleeps- Random cat naps
Night sleep- 5-7hrs
Settles- Rocking bouncer & at night feeding to sleep
Awake periods- Most of the day for feeding & changing nappy
Size clothes- 000
Size nappies- Infant
Favorite toys- Baby Einstein & Bouncer dog & ball toys.
Other stuff- Still being treated with Cradle cap, MHN recommended Egozite, haven't bought it yet, will buy it in 2 days & see how that goes. Very smiley, laughing alot, talkative & loves cuddles
) and we had a guy come and clean our rug and lounge suit. i might do the dusting and inside of my windows later.
. if you wanted to you could demand feed anyway so it wouldn't matter if he went 5 hours he would cry when he is hungry. 
to everyone else. Hope you all have a good night!
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