Babies Born July 1st - 15th 2008

[TaznBondy]

Hey everyone

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!

Hope all is going well. Take care.

xoxo

[tan32]

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.

[Case]

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!

Case xo

[sweetpea678]

hi all,

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.

I hope everyone has a good week.

[~*Kris*~]

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

[shereejoy]

Ohhh another little Riley, congrats and welcome.

[Stars69]

Hi everyone,

Tan we had our bubs on the same day! I was at the hospital at 7.15 am as my waters broke at 6am exactly but it took them until about 4 15 to get the Caesar organised.

Gracie had a bad case of colic on Sat night, was so upset for her as she screamed for hours then I got her on some wind drops which seem to be helping!

Sheree sorry to hear about all of the problems with bubs. I am sure you did nothing wrong in your pregnancy it's just the hand we get dealt so don't be hard on yourself.

Hope everyone is going well I am so tired when bubs is active all day, she is so alert I don't get much done and not much time to rest!

Take care everyone!

Rachelle

[tan32]

Hi all.

Stars69: yeah we have baby birthday buddies.

I took Lachlan to get weighed today with the baby nurse at the local chemist, i was shocked, Lachlan weighed 5.260kg. Mind you he did have a wet nappy on. and he measured 56.5 cms no wonder he is growing out of his clothes. He is growing so fast.

It seems its our turn now for constipation, poor Lochie hasnt pood for a few days now, and although i know its common for breast fed bubs to go along time between poos, he is very uncomfortable and groaning an awful lot, he goes red in the face and all that comes out is some rather smelly air.
WE have been trying the sugar and water and also coloxyl drops, still no action. I think we will be in for a big mess when he finally goes again poor mite. He is really unsettled in the afternoons now, but still sleeping well at night so i can handle the i just want you to hold me for hours sessions.

[tan32]

Hi all.

Stars69: yeah we have baby birthday buddies.

I took Lachlan to get weighed today with the baby nurse at the local chemist, i was shocked, Lachlan weighed 5.260kg. Mind you he did have a wet nappy on. and he measured 56.5 cms no wonder he is growing out of his clothes. He is growing so fast.

It seems its our turn now for constipation, poor Lochie hasnt pood for a few days now, and although i know its common for breast fed bubs to go along time between poos, he is very uncomfortable and groaning an awful lot, he goes red in the face and all that comes out is some rather smelly air.
WE have been trying the sugar and water and also coloxyl drops, still no action. I think we will be in for a big mess when he finally goes again poor mite. He is really unsettled in the afternoons now, but still sleeping well at night so i can handle the i just want you to hold me for hours sessions.

[shereejoy]

Gracie had a bad case of colic on Sat night, was so upset for her as she screamed for hours then I got her on some wind drops which seem to be helping!

It is horrible when they are that upset hey. What wind drops are you using?