Babies Born July 2006 #5

[Bubseykel]

Kel - have you been back to your doc for your results about being tired? It's not nice being so tired. I feel like my eyes are hanging out of my head. I think it's because of daylight savings coming in and we had a busy weekend being late to bed 3 nights in a row. Danielle's solids were going really well but she was having hard poos (sorry!!). I had to back it right off and start fresh again. I found that the sweet potato and the rice cereal were clogging her up. Now she has been having pears for breakfast and for either lunch or dinner spinach and carrot or spinach and potato. She absolutely loves her food. I've had to back off how much she's having too but I can see she wants to eat more. Now she's on her new 'menu' she's heaps better in the poo department.

Hiya Mads - good to hear from you!!

Not much to report here. Staying home again today as I'm so so so tired. I'll keep cleaning the house a bit and maybe go for a sleep when Danielle goes. She's being a little bit of a handful with her teeth (especially last Friday - I was ready to scream - luckily Panadol and teething gel helped). Nothing we do seems to be right. Hopefully today she's a bit better. Have a great day.

[kmh]

bubs- i am just tired, i think after 2 children to deal with all day and Charlotte still waking up twice over night, it just got to me, i had a sleep this morning, as Tim is home today.IT was so nice i could of been in bed all day.

[Fee]

Well Cooper seems to be sleeping until 5.00 am every morning now... Fingers crossed he has got the hang of it. He's been sleeping through on and off since he was 9 weeks old! The other morning he slept until 6.00 am.

He's been weird with his feeds though. Suddenly he's fussing around with the second feed of the day. If he wakes at 5.00 am, I feed him and put him straight back to bed. Then he only sleeps an hour or hour and a half. So it's way too early for another feed. So I play with him etc and when 3 hours between feeds is up I will try to feed him but he will carry on. I try again every 20 minutes or so with no luck. He gets grizzly and sometimes tired but won't nap. Then finally he might feed again 4.5 hours later and of course promptly falls asleep during the feed. Aaagghhhh! It's driving me crazy.

Today I'm trying to be better and go with the flow more. Not worry about sleep/feed/play etc. He's not going down for his naps real easy though - grizzling on and off but not enough for me to go in... hmmm maybe he's not tired?! Oh dear, some days I just feel like I have NO CLUE!!! I feel stupid that I can't read his hunger signs etc. Oh well...

I'm wondering if maybe he's wanting to stretch out from 3 hourly feeds to 4 hourly feeds. Who knows.

kmh – Did you find some nice scrap booking items for Charlotte's album? I've been thinking about giving scrap booking a go.

How did Tim's work drinks go last night?

Bubseykel – I don't think you're a cow!!!

Yay for the teeth … that's so exciting! Danielle sounds wonderful! Such a clever girl and a good girl too! Lucky you.

Can I ask what this discharge is like? What did your OB say? I've had a weird discharge since the birth. Some days it's there and other days it's not. I sort of figured it might be normal though? It's not smelly or anything!

Cassie – So glad you found a home for your cat. That's great news.

So what are these exercises to help with rolling? Can you explain them? Cooper still hasn't rolled again … only twice from tummy to back and twice from back to tummy (while in his cot). In fact I can see him in there now lying on his side. It's just his arm and head which gets in the way! He can get his legs all the way over.

Fraser – Cooper seems to LOVE his new car seat. He falls asleep in it very easily!

Mads – Hey there! Did you go away somewhere exciting?

[kmh]

Fee- where did you get the santa hat for cooper, i have been looking around to see if i can find one for Charlotte, but no luck. Tim's drinks were very boring, i didn't know anyone and Charlotte started to cry after a little while so we had to leave. With the scrapbooking i am going to start with a page for the scan pics so i just brought some plain paper, but havn't started yet.

[Fee]

Fee- where did you get the santa hat for cooper, i have been looking around to see if i can find one for Charlotte, but no luck.

I bought it from Kmart. It came with a Xmas tshirt. I didn't really need a shirt but I could not find baby sized Santa hats ANYWHERE! This way you can still pick your size (ie 00 or 0 etc).

Hey did I tell you girls that I took Cooper to sit on Santa's knee last weekend?! The photo is very cute.

[kmh]

Thanks fee- i will have to go to kmart, i also took Charlotte to get photos with Santa.
I took the girls to see the Wiggles today, Madison loved them, it was alot of fun.

[Fee]

What a night! Seems like Cooper now has the hang of rolling from back to tummy. I think he flipped over about 5 times! The first time Mark had gotten up to get a drink and happened to see Cooper on his tummy (asleep). I went in and turned him over. He didn't wake up. The next few times he woke us by banging against the side of the cot. I went in to check and he was on his tummy again with his legs through the side of the cot. One time our breathing sensor alarm even went off and I went racing in there! Obviously Cooper was no longer over the sensor pad. Every time I turned him back he stayed asleep thankfully.

And today he is constantly rolling in his cot. But he can't seem to go back ...

Here are some pics of him just before - he is meant to be having a nap!

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Every time I would flip him back to his back, he would flip back to his tummy again!!! I have now put him in his vibrating rocker for a nap because he was getting cranky and I was sick of going in. Hopefully he'll go to sleep now.

Otherwise he has been SO good today. I say that because the last couple of days have been shocking. For some reason he went downhill with his day sleeping. But today he is good again. Had 2 short naps this morning without a fuss. Although he's fussed about with this nap - it's nothing compared to yesterday!!!

Mark went out and bought a Cosi Bag sleeping bag today. Two reasons. One is that I think Cooper wakes early around 4-5am because he is cold. And he will not keep his blanket on!!! Two is that I hope the sleeping bag will stop him rolling so much. Or even if he does roll over, he won't get his legs stuck through the bars. We are going to try it out tonight.

[kmh]

Cassie- i hear on the issue of sleep, Charlotte was like Dylan until i put her into her cot, and now most days she will go to sleep by herself, she is doing the same thing at night with what Dylan is doing, she will go to sleep fine, and then wake up 40 mins later wanting to play but she is still tired, i even resorted to going for a drive (naughty me i know) on friday night.

Fee- That would be great if you came to melb, Charlotte has cut back on her feeding during the day gone from 2 hours to 3-4 hourly only if she could do it during the night.

It was so hot here in melb today up to about 40degrees, th cool change is coming arcoss though, Charlotte has been good with it, just having trouble getting her to sleep, the swing is a life saver today.

[kmh]

hi all
well i have decided to start Charlotte on some farax tonight as she has been so restless at night waking every 2 1/2-3 hours for a feed and not settling very well, i spoke to my health nurse this morning and she said it would be a good idea, if it does not a difference i will take her off them until she is 6 months ( i really wanted to hold out until she reached the 6 month mark)
I will let you know how she goes

[Fee]

I went to shops this morning from 8-10 am. I was glad to get out of there! Poor Cooper got his thumb stuck in a gap on his pram harness. I think he was getting cranky to begin with though. His thumb seemed okay. I took him to a parents room to try and feed him as he was crying and crying so much. It was hard work getting him to feed. There was a baby in there who was also crying and whenever that baby screamed, Cooper would pull of my boob and scream and cry. His face was bright red and there were sooooo many tears!

Aaggh I'm exhausted. Oh yeah and the amount of people who touched Cooper today. Unbelievable!

kmh – I once tried a rollover feed with Cooper and it never worked! And good luck with the Farex!

Baiza – Sounds like you've been very busy. I hope your new business works out!

[kmh]

Well i am very tired today Charlotte was up every 1-2 hours last night, not settled and this morning at 5:30 and at 7am she was screaming, poor bubby, we are off to the docs soon so hopefully they can get to the bottom of it, and her temp is down for the moment, also she has had not many wet nappies, they think she might have a UTI

[Dustmite]

[B]Fee[B] - Sounds like you tore really bad or had a bad cut? After our first child, DW had some issues. She tore a little but was sniped to keep from tearing real bad. Not sure the entire situation rather partially mental or physical, but for a very long time after wards she hated DTD. She would fight the urge to "git it out". Eventually things did clear up, but she did talk to her doctor about it and was checked out. If it still hurts and is a big problem you should defiantly go look (by the time I post this I will assume you have..lol). My DW thinks that it was a combination of mental and physical aspects. In part she could not enjoy DTD because she was always too dry which did not help the rest of the situation.

by the way, cute little guy you have there Fee.

All - sorry if every thing is out of order in regards to posting to specific ones of you all and then posting a general. I am glancing through starting with thread 1 and so if I don't post as I think/read it then it probably wont get done at all. A

As to teeth, our little man has two razors poking out of his mouth. Has been drooling pretty bad and having a very hard time with it for a couple of weeks or so now. Oh ya, and when it's "Dinner Time" he likes to use his emerging teeth a little and when DW yelps he looks up at her with his big blue eyes and laughs. She's a sucker! lol

The little man is usually a pretty happy baby. He has stolen his mommy's heart and reawakened in her a desire for a population boom...not sure how many little ones this little guy will lead to..LOL. There is a possibility over the new years we will all pack up and run to my parents place which will be around a 3 - 4 hour drive; not sure how he will do for that let alone sleeping and staying in a strange home. My too little girls were always a bit cranky and restless as a baby when not at their home.

Well all, I think thats all for now. Hope you all can get a little more sleep. DW work's from home and was asked to do a specific job which required her to make herself available to work till 3 am. So many a night she works till 1am - 3 am then has to get up at 7am. I think she is going give up that specific role and hope not to loose too many hours/pay over it but she is dying with those kind of hours and feeding Corban every couple of hours.

Cassie -Loved that Christmas picture of Dylan.

KMH - Your poor little girl (tonsillitis)!

[Fee]

We tried to go out to dinner last night with Mark's friends to Montezumas. I knew it would not work! I remember going there a while back with Mark and it was quite crowded and noisy. We were due to meet everyone there at 7.00 pm so I did Cooper's bath and last feed at home around 6.00 pm as normal. He fell asleep on the drive to the restaurant but woke up as we were strapping him into the pram – damn!

We managed to wheel the pram through the tables etc to our spot. He was quite (but awake) for a while and then he started crying. Mark took him out to hold him – I guess it was the only way to try and calm him down but I knew he wouldn't go to sleep. He would just look around at everything and of course all our friends would talk to Cooper etc. But he still cried even with Mark holding him. I had to take him outside and cuddle him. He would not go back in the pram! Poor thing. I felt bad just having him out and that he couldn't fall asleep.

Mark and I had to tag team with our dinner. One person outside with Cooper, one person inside scoffing down their dinner. We tried strapping Cooper back into his car seat but he cried. So I rang Mark inside the restaurant and said I was going to drive around the block! That put Cooper to sleep very quickly. I didn't even get to finish my dinner. The staff cleared it up – but put it in a doggy bag. What a night.

Cooper didn't stir at all when we got home and I moved him from the car to the cot. So that was good. Then he slept until 5.30 am which was also good. And of course, after that feed, he would not go back to sleep. He is so eager to start his day! So played in our bed with him and then Mark put him in the rocker while he showered and got ready for work. I put Cooper back to bed just after 7.00 am and he's sleeping now.

kmh – Those photos are lovely! I especially love the B&W one. You should put that one in a frame!

I hope your girls are feeling a bit better.

Dustmite – Nice to "see" you and thanks for your story on your DW. I actually tore, then was cut and then tore again. But still I think it was only a 2nd degree tear. So it could have been a lot worse. I never had any issues with the stitches or pain etc. I thought everything was okay until I went to see my OB 6 weeks post-birth. He said the scar tissue had healed too tightly. So yeah that's the problem. And yes I believe it's partly in my head too! I'm scared DTD is going to hurt. I haven't been to see my OB again but I think I will. I guess in the new year I will see him. I will probably have to be re-cut and re-stitched. Got to motivate myself to go (and get up the courage). We have tried to DTD but without getting far at all!

Glad to hear Corban is going so well. Ouch with those teeth!!! I'm not looking forward to that. Cooper has clamped down a number of times and it hurt and he doesn't even have teeth yet!