Have had a few hectic days with Lachlan, he has been a very hungry boy, i ended up giving him a bottle of formula yesterday afternoon as he was on the breast every 2 hours and he was still taking an hour to feed. In the end he drank 160mls the little piggy. Since then though he has settled back down and today we have had 3 hourly and 4 hourly feeds. It seems he just has days when he is hungry.
Life is haze of feeding and dropping kids of at school and kindy but we are doing better then i expected with us only being late to school once and that was only as Hamish had a bout of vomiting. Arghhhh he is good now but has a touch of the i am 4 and i have a new baby brother so every one pay atention to me now.
Emma has been fantastic, even changing a few dirty nappies.
Dh is good and loves to have his cuddles, he has recently started doing overtime again at work so im on my own from 6:30 am to 7pm and then half a day on Saturday.
Shereejoy: I hope Riley's heart mumour is nothing to be to concerned over. I have a heart mumour that only shows up when i am sick or pregnant, other then that it doesnt bother me, so hoping Riley's is similar.
Rachelle: It sounds like Grace is doing well.
Karen: Hi and welcome congratulations on the birth of Riley
Naomi08: I know what you mean about them growing, Stewart and i put a 000 outfit on Lachlan today and it fitted him, when he came home from hospital he was in 00000's. Time has flown.
Me. Well after a week of Reaghan sleeping in her bassinet that came to an end last sunday so back to co sleeping only, gonna try the bassinet again this weekend. Had some good nights were she has slept for 5 hours but others were she feeds evey 2 hours and takes 30 min to feed so averaging 1 and half sleep inbetween. Durring the day she is starting to settle better.
Missy to answer your question of 7 how does that work.
I have 4 step kids, DSS 20, DSD 18, DSS 16, DSD 13, then my two DD's 8 and 5 and then an ours which is Reaghan 5 weeks. They don't all live with us my two and bub pretty much full time. My two see there dad every second weekend and we get the 2 younger step kids every third weekend and half the school holidays. The two older ones come for visits as they are at uni.
My first week home was hectic as had 5 kids here including bub so full on. Settled down now school is back and all.
Tan32, I wish Reaghan had started out that small to be in 00000's but she started in 0000's for 2 weeks but mainly in 000's and still is she fits them and some are still big, I have not had her weighed since she was 11 days old though I stood on the scales with her the other day and I would say she is 5 kilo or so now and has grown 2cm we measured her at home. Not looking forward to her growing up she started out so much bigger than my other 2. Hoping that she wont grow to quick lol.
Cheers
Last edited by sweetpea678; August 9th, 2008 at 09:56 AM.
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I'm migrating to this page from our other July one - it's only taken me a month! I guess I was never good at jumping into changes!
My partner (known to all as Bondy) and I had our darling girl - Jessica Lily - on 8th July at 7.19am. Can't believe she's over a month old now!
Our weekend is going pretty well - got MIL up for a week and it's already driving me insane! don't get me wrong - she's a lovely lady, but we had been "warned" by one of Bondy's sisters that she's getting dementia and although we have experienced it on the phone, we haven't seen it in person til now!
OMG - there are only so many times you can repeat answers to the same question before you do your head in!! Poor Bondy is copping it pretty bad at the moment, and because it's his mum he's struggling a bit! but, he was at work on Friday and then has a course to go to tomorrow and Tuesday so it's just me and MIL!
Jess is going super well. her smiles are as gorgeous as ever and I love getting them! She's a month old now - where did that time go??? She's doing better now with the constipation too - for those of you who may experience it in future, I have tried Coloxyl drops (get them over the counter at the chemist) and when that didn't work, the doctor suggested prune juice mixed in with her bottle. That didn't work either so I gave her prune juice diluted in water - still nothing. THEN I got told about a magical thing - 60ml water and 1/2 tsp raw sugar. Put sugar in bottle, add boiling water to dissolve the sugar and leave it til it's cool, then give it to the baby!
It's the **** (literally!!!) Within an hour Jess was all unblocked and happy as again! I'm going to finish this tin of S26 for babies with reflux, and then I'm putting her on the normal S26 and see how we go there!
Not much else to report this end. I'm going to be visiting this page as well as the other July page so you'll see me round!
Hi all,
thought id take the opportunity to hop on while the kids are playing out the back and Lachlan is asleep.
Sweetpea678: Lachlan is the smallest of my babies, his big brother was a bruiser and started out in 000's then piled on 500grams a week for the first few weeks , he really didnt seem to be a baby long at all.
So we are really enjoying having a little baby, although looking at Lachlan today his checks have filled out.
Locchie is having some times were he gets really grumpy on the breast and groans and carries on, i find i have to take him off , hold him up and then try again. I think he will have a bit of a temper if things dont go right, a bit like Hamish really.
I am hanging out for him to start smiling, i can see his eyes change(light up) but no smile there yet.
Stewy(DH) thinks he is wonderful and grabs cuddles as often as possibkle, its great to see as he didnt seem as involved with Hamish.
Well back to watching the olympics for me, take care all.
hi guys
havent been in for a while, sounds like everyone is doing great though.
Jackson will be 6 weeks on wednesday - time has flown by.
He has stacked on the weight and two weeks ago weighed 4.52kg. He was 3.93 when born but had milk supply issues and dropped to 3.3kg in hospital - so we are stoked with his progress in that department. Hes mainly on the bottle now (S26 gold) and has a couple of breastfeeds a day as well... slowly just onto bottles though.
He sleeps well at night and has a good feed - play - sleep routine happening during the day which is great!!
DP is also loving it - though hes sleeping at the moment - not sure exactly what hes tired from as I am getting up in the night and then again around 5.30 - 6 - ggrrrrr (sorry had to vent!).
Hope all continues to go well. Six week check tomorrow for us.will do personals next time, must go make some bottles up or I will be sorry!
I hope everyone is going well, and had a good weekend.
Had a few nights of better sleep not longer but more settled, only managed to get Reaghan in her bassinet for one night sleep better than none. She is going fairly well though still has not realy settled into anytype of routine that you can pick. She feeds from any where from 2 hours to 5hours, it will be nice when I can predict it a bit more.
I made myself a maitai baby carrier and tried it out last week it worked great a bit tricky to get on but am learning.
Looking forward till tommorrow and the next 4 days as hubby will be home, he works 4 on 4 off as he works for the Ambulance service here as a Ambulance support officer. Which means shift work, and when he on nights makes it hard.
Hi all!
My little man Riley was born on the 1st July after 16 hours of labour, one day before his EDD and the day before his daddys birthday!
We have been very lucky as he is a total angel, very calm and got himself into a routine pretty much from day dot! put down to sleep at around 9-10 in his bassinet besides our bed, wakes for a feed between 2 -3 then goes straight back down for a sleep till around 6 when he wakes for cuddles in the bed with us till around 7.
I cant believe he is nearly 6 weeks old! It still feels like he was only born yesterday!
Anyway must go, hope everyones bubs are doing well and look forward to keeping in touch in the future!!
Kris
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