Mez.. Keira usually has bottles around 7-8am, 11am-12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9.30pm. But yeh i just work it out so she has 5 bottles between 3-4 hours apart. Shes not drinking enough at the moment for me to cut one out. At night, she's usually asleep from around 7pm and i just wake her, by changing her nappy and get her in her grobag and give her one last before i go to bed (the 9.30pm one). She usually will only have about 100mls max as she falls asleep on the bottle, but i just try and get as much as i can into her (by tickling and poking etc lol). I think she'd wake me earlier in the morning otherwise lol. If she doesnt drink much im not phased.. i know if shes hungry she'll let me know. I think you just need to make sure she's drinking enough for her body weight over 24 hours. They usually should have around 90mls per kg over 24 hours until theyre 3-4 months. But also every baby is different and unless theyre losing weight, theyll just drink what they need. Hope you get a nice pay out from your tax returns!
Tannis.. nah Keira stayed with DH and the twins were with Kristy's mum. So it was nice for us to have some 1 on 1 time with our boys. Have fun at the engagement party!
We just had home made pizzas for dinner mmmmmmmmmmmm they were so good.
Have to go shower with the boy now.
Have a nice evening all!
Well had a nice day with Liam and Melissa. I did the ironing and Mel and I watched DVD's all day, Made fish and chips and Liam was just watching us...Callum and DH got back from seeing Thomas about 5pm. Callum was so tired. He had the best time. Ive uploaded some photos.
Tannis I hope you didnt go take him the hat. As you said he is only 5 mins away why couldnt he come and get it...geeee's men some times. Hope the vit gets down this time with out coming back up. Have fun at the party hun.
have fun at the movies belle
Ayapi oh wowo about the tax..can you go that long without doing one. Awwww cant wait to see the dress Izzy wears tomorrow at the communion.
Kell yummmy on the pizza's. I love home made ones. Now that I think about it I think Liam is only having 4 bottles some days of 200ml. The last couple of days he has been having only 150 and more then 5 bottles I think. He must be having a growing spert. I will have to make sure he has 5 bottles from now I as I just looked on the tin and he should be having 5. Thank for telling us.
Hope everyone had a good day today. I just did laundry & grocery shopping. Now I'm just watching relaxing waiting for hubby to come home so we can have dinner.
Mary- I have just recently increased Jonathan's formula up to 150mls, instead of 125mls. He is doing great. I still feed him every four hours, his last feed is at 12am, then he will have one when he wakes up which is around 7 or 8 but i give it to him at 8, 12pm, 4pm, 8pm & 12am & so on. He doesn't wake up at all during the nite. So I'm really happy about that & the feed. I can't believe he is 3 months already. How is gorgeous Izzy going? Which church you going to for the communion?
Belle- they are such goregous photos of ur girls how cute
Missy.. oh glad Callum had a great time! Love the photos! If hes happy drinking the 200mls and only 4 bottles, and if thats right for his birth weight, then i wouldnt worry too much. Whats on the tins is only really a guildline. It says Keira should be drinking 200mls x 5 feeds.. and shes only having roughtly 150mls each.. if that. But she aint starving.. the little porker!
Oh forgot to tell those who use grobags.. i think was it Mez saying Izzy's hands were getting cold? Or was it Beth's hands Pixie? Ive been putting baby socks on Keira's hands to stop them getting cold as it does still get cool of a night here. I forgot to mension it befor ewhen you were talking about it, we did that for Jesse too.
Ok just bathed the miss, fed her and shes in bed.. so think i might go too.
Kell yes im not to worried as he is putting on the weight. If he wasnt putting on weight id be worried but he is. Oh YOur little one is a porker and I wouldnt worry if she is only having 150mls. Im sure the thinken formular fills them up quicker. Liam has started leaving some too so some times its 200 other times 150/170. Does your bottles go to 220 when you put the formular in the water..mine does???
Yeh im not too phased now.. she is drinking a little more than she was the other week now.. but i think it may, like you said, be to do with the thick formula.. plus shes not bringing it all up anymore, so her tummy is staying full iykwim. Yep it does.. so i guess theyre really getting more than you think hey.
yes they are getting more then what we think. So if Liam finishes his bottle he is really getting 220mls so that is great stuff. yes he hardly chucks anymore unless I dance around with him which I some times do then he chucks up on me...lol....
I've been a bit MIA lately and missed out on heaps. I did start to read the pages back but got a little lost cause my mind is a bit all over the place. I'm sorry.
Pixie - HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHICA! I hope you had a fantastic day & holiday too.
Kell - DP thinks Elijah gets growing pains too. It comes and goes sometimes. All we do if he is really complaining is give him some nurafen. I'm not really sure if there is anything you can do about it. It's just one of those things that happen, I guess.
Re: Good babies. I feel bad too that I have such a good baby. Elijah was a good baby, but Hayden is even better. I couldn't have asked for a better baby, seriously.
I've had a rough couple of days with Elijah. I'm so worn out and rundown by his attitude and naughtyness. I just don't know how to get through to him. Friday was the worse day. I did well to hold back my tears throughout the day while we were in public. While I was crying at home, Hayden was doing his giggles and smiles at me. He melts my heart so much. I'm so glad he's such a good boy. I don't think I could handle Hayden being really unsettled and stuff aswell as Elijah's attitude too. I'd be more insane that I already am.
Then I've got all those feelings ontop of everything else that I'm such a bad mother. I tell my grandmother that Elijah's been naughty. Hell, Elijah admits he's been a naughty boy to her aswell... so I start just briefly telling her about it, and she doesn't believe me. Way to go. It's bad enough she makes me feel like I'm 'as big as the side of a house' as my mother used to say... now I'm a person who lies about her children??
It doesn't help I'm low a$$ selfesteem either, I guess. Lol.
So tonight I'm just home with the boys. It's very quiet as they're both sleeping. Yipee!
I'm just relaxing and trying to enjoy time for me. I feel like I'm giving everything to everyone else and getting not much back, so it's good timeout for so me time... until I have to go pickup my sister from somewhere at like midnight..
Sorry about the ME,ME,ME post.
but finally on a somewhat good note... AF has started to show her face. YAYAYAY!!
As much as I hate her, I'm glad she's here. I was starting to worry myself about it, but now I know I'm not broken!!
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