Alyssa has been doing alright... feeding every 2 hrs during the day and then every 3-5hrs during the night.. feeling so tired. Alyssa hates sleeping in her cot, by herself.. her big sister being noisy in the hall or her bedroom doesnt help much either..
Alyssa still fits in her 0000, and the 000 are still small enough that she can kick her legs out of the legs bit. I weighed her at home and she is bout 4800g now, 1.1kgs in 5 weeks!!
Decided to drop the MCHN and go with our GP.. I didnt like that the MCHN blabbed on about her medical opinon when it came to alyssa's tongue tie.. so thankful we got it snipped as it has been a godsend for my nipples! Not to mention in the home visit she totally ignored tia, who then tried even harder to get her attention..
Havent used my breast pump in ages, i lost the darn white valve and just got a new pack of them so now i have spares.. i just dont know how i could find time or milk to pump seeing as im feeding every 2hrs from the start of each feed to the next..
Tia starts kidnder/preschool this week on thursday for a 5hr session. her first 5hr session away from home in aawhile. Im looking forward to it, just dont know how on earth we will be out the door and arive there on time at 9.15am (walking!!)
also i dont know what it is but alyssa is addicted to looking at our blinds (when shut).. not even i can get her attention for that long, yet she will quite happily lay on the change table for 10mins just looking at the blinds! thinking of moving her cot closer to them.. lol.
Hi All
well I have been MIA since page one of the new tread - sorry about that - i have been reading but as soon as I get ready to write a reply Jackson seems to wake up and want to play or have a bottle!
He is doing so well, sleeping like an angel - he doesnt wake up until about 4.30 (we put im to bed at 10 - 10.30) and we have even had some 6.30 - 7.00 wake ups so cant complain on that front!!
He is now on the bottle full time. I had issues with no milk and then medication to bring it on more and then as soon as I went off the meds it went away... not to worry - now that I am over the fact that I cant feed him myself I feel a lot better about things, I think it was more worry about what other people would think/say than anything else though. there are still a lot of people out there who think bottle feeding is not good for bubs but hes doing fine so to hell with that!!
Glad to hear that everyone is enjoying their babies, Jacksons going up so fast - hes in 00 growsuits and not far out of 00 clothes. Hes 60cm long and weighs 5.36kg - very long and lean.
Well I will try and write more often, and do some personals next time.
O and about the step 2 formula - maybe you can give to a friend or neighbour?
Hi Ladies - Not sure if this will be coherent as i have had a grand total of 6.5 hrs sleep in the last 72hrs and even that was not in a solid block.
Unfortunately I have been covering some night shifts as a staff member is away on leave and I stupidly agreed to covering for her way back before Bella was even born.
For some reason Bella has decided that at 7wks of age she is too grown up to sleep during the day - therefore I can not sleep either. So finishing work at 2:30am and getting home by 3:30am to fall into bed only to get out of it again at 6am when both girls seem to wake up.
Bella seems to have grown one heck of a lot in this past week. We had 3 nights in a row last week where at 5pm (almost on the dot) the poor little thing started screaming for no apparent reason - and continued to scream for 3-4 hours straight each time. No gas, no explosive poop just inconsolable. And suddenly she seems bigger?! So could it have been growing pains?
Me - well not much to report. Darren is in the dog house and I am not yet sure how I am going to deal with him sans violence. LOL Really am not happy with the father of my 7week old offspring - but what can you do?
Well, I have FINALLY managed to get onto the computer to drop in and say hi.
Things here are going pretty well. I'm working a few hours a week - just enough to pay for groceries etc - but I'm getting over it very quickly. I know that as a PA, it's meant to cover all sorts of jobs, but one that I have been putting off for a while now is weeding. I don't weed our garden at home (Bondy won't let me!) and don't see why they can't just get someone else (as in the lawn mowing man) to do their gardens.
Oh well, not long to go now til we move and then I won't have to worry about that sort of stuff.
Jess went to the dr today and had her first lot of needles. I got Bondy to come with me since I'm petrified of them and didn't want Jess to scream when it was just me there. She was pretty good. She cried a bit, but Bondy held her and gave her a bottle straight after so she was fine. She slept pretty much all afternoon from when we got back and she's still full of smiles now!
The midwife weighed and measured her - she's now 5.1kg (round down to 5kg as she was still dressed!!) and has grown over 8 cm - not bad considering she's only 8 weeks old! I really don't think there is any hope of her NOT taking after me and being tall ... shame really!!!
Jess is great. She's full of smiles, and we don't think it will be long til she starts laughing - she's got the noises happening!!
Naomi - like Bella, Jess has gone through a stage of just screaming for no apparent reason. We'd try and feed her and she would cry through the bottle too. Very weird. Hope things sort themselves out at home.
Hope everyone else is doing fine with your little ones.
After much debate about spending more money on bub, I brought a second hand Amby baby hammock, it arrived this morning so I put it together and waited till Reaghan woke after being in bed with her Dad this morning before he headed to work. Well after she woke and feed, played and feed again, I put her in there awake and 15 minutes later she was asleep, she only winged a little bit no full on crying first time ever unless she was in a swing or the car. She has now been asleep for 30 min and stirred ones and put herself back to sleep.
All I can hope is that she keeps this up tonight too.
I hope everyone else is going well and that all the bubs are healthy and feeding well, and growing well.
Lachlan had his needles on Monday , he was so cute, he had a little cry but after that anytime the gp looked at him, he dropped his bottom lip.
He now weighs 5.9kg naked and is 61.5cm.
that s a gain of 300grams and half a centremetre in a week. Since his needles he has been very unsettled during the day. He also has very loose poos, Im trying to type one handed as he wont sleep if i put him down, thank god for the sling so i can get some stuff done. He is still managing to give big smiles and has a good old giggle.
Another update, Reaghan is doing excellent in her hammock today she went to slepp in less then 5 min when i put her in ther twice today. Last night she slept for 5 hours in it. I really should of done it earlier.
Hope everyones elses bubs are settling into a routine etc.
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