Babies Born July 2007 #17

[jemima]

Hi all

I say it again - wow you can all talk!!

Hi Flossie - great to hear from you and it sounds like Olivia is thriving!

Mel - I stopped at two - but the third was very tempting!! Yay for Luke coming home - enjoy!!

Megan - poor you with a hangover - I cant remember the last time I had a full blown hangover - a very very scary thought!

Jan - thanks for the brocolli and apple idea - might have to give that a go.

Raels - great bargain on the dress and well done on your weight loss. I am down to my pre preg weight and am just working at toning the wobbly bits!! I have a reunion for an old job of mine coming up in April I want to make sure I look a million bucks (well as much as I can LOL) so my motivation to tone at the moment it high!!

Sacha - well done to Autie with her sleeping!

Hi to everyone else.

DH is away again (but thats not unusual) so its just me and and kids, although Oliver and jesse are in childcare today so I am enjoying the peace and quiet!! Charlotte has been a bit unsettled lately but I am pretty sure it is because she has been very very blocked up and snuffly from a cold. Poor babe - so hopefully she is on the mend. Still no signs of teeth here and at times she still isnt that into solids but we keep persisting!

I had best run and make the most of this child free time (Charlotte is asleep).

Take care
jem

[blueflower]

Hi everyone,
Will see how far I get before Kaetlyn wakes up.
I am about to go to SIL for a spa, it is very hot here today, and her parnet is away so I think she wants some company.

Wedding was great. It was lovely- she organised everything herself, and it was profressional (?sp), pyrotecnics and all. Kaetlyn was a stunner, apparently the photographer loved her, and took heaps of photos of her, so we are going to try and get in touch with her for some of them. She came up to DH and said she is so photogenic. She also took some of us was waltzing, the three of us which would be great to have.
Hehehe the shirt I brought was from K-mart, and I didnt even try it on or anything. It looked great, and my SIL came around and did my hair in the morning- curled. I got some great comments on my outfit and hair, which was a great boost to my low self esteem at the moment. Unlike you others, I am still about 7 kg above pg weight, but I am not trying to lose it, so really I can't complain can I? I think when I go back to work, and stop BF, I will loose a fair bit.

Things have been soooo busy here.
No teeth,
crawling well -and pickng up speed too i might add,
Sleep patterns are interesting at the moment. Day sleeps are great, but the night ones are weird, she wakes after about one sleep cycle, and crys. Not sure what the problem is. It takes about an our for her to settle back donw, and am a bit reluctant to feed her or get her out of the cot.
Opps she is awake,
Will be bakc for personals- but prob not tonight. Need to spend time with DH hehehe.

[Megan76]

Sorry have to be quick but does anyone know how much formula babies this age need per day....Lucas is being a big pain with his bottles and i have already cut him to 3! I think most of you are still breastfeeding but thought i'd ask anyway!

[mrscricket]

Megan - I had a quick look in my Annabel Karmel book and it says babies between 6 and 12 months on solids need between 500ml-800ml of formula a day. Tom would be having approx 600 -700 ml a day i think, although he is still on 4/5 bottles. Hope this helps a little

[Megan76]

Thanks Em, i appreciate it...(who is Annabel K by the way!),i think he would make it to 500ml but god it was a struggle today! We seem to have the opposite battle at the moment in terms of bottles and solids! How are you organising your day in terms of food and drink with Tom? I cannot seem to get a routine that works now so that he will have both.

[August]

Hey Lis! Good to hear from you and about how Olivia is doing! my internet connection is a PITA sometimes too!

Sara ~ Glad to hear you had a great time at the wedding, would be great if you could track down the photographer, i'd love to see some pics of your beautiful girl.

Jem ~ Hope all is well for you and the kids and that you are not missing your DH too much.

Jan ~ Yes go the apples! It gives everything that extra bit of sweetness and makes anything go down a treat, my boy loves love loves his broccilli now, and I let him have a chew on a chicken bone for the first time tonight.

Mel ~ I wanted to ask you about how you give toast to Jack. Lucas loves toast but he always chokes on it if I let him hold and eat it himself. Does your little man handle it ok himself or do you feed it to him a little bit at a time?

Megan ~ I'm getting to the same sort of stage with my DS. I try to get milk into him as often as possible but he rarely ever finishes a bottle lately and I'm wondering if cutting feeds down a bit may help so that at least when he does drink he will take a full 250ml feed?? hope that makes sense as I'm rushing!!

Emma ~ OMG yes 1st birthday is definately being planned already as I'm planning on a HUGE one for Lucas. His birthday is the same as my brother Lucas who died of cancer last year... you may know that, I'm sure I've mentioned it here and there...so in a way its not just for him but for my brother and my whole family too. I think after this one he wont have any big ones for awhile but I'm going to make the most of this first one...thinking clowns and pony rides and all....

raels ~ wow on the weight loss! I've lost 14kg with 7kg to go to get to pre pg weight. I was only pretty small to begin with so I guess I carry it well but I'd still like to get down to my pre pg weight of 50kg.

Jess ~ Hope all is well still for you and Ethan. xoxo

Well this is the quickest I have ever posted but wanted to get my two cents worth in for the day while DF has popped out.

i had my first day of work today and was a tad nervous this morning but all went well and I'm looking forward to tomorrow. I'm working as an in-class tutor for the Indigenous kids just to clarify what it is I am actually doing at the school!!

Year 12 english first thing in the morning and I didnt even finish year 12

love love,

August oxoxox

[BhoysGirl]

OMG what a day. I had feral child almost all day, wouldn't sleep, wouldn't eat, wouldn't be happy, just wouldn't. Thank goodness he's asleep now,otherwise I think I'd have to abandon him for a bit (to his father's care, not just completely abandon). So don't have the energy for personals (sorry).

But, I have solved a problem that's been bugging me for a while, so I thought I'd share it, just in case anyone else is having the same problem - which is what to get a 7/8 month old for Easter when you don't want them to have chocolate or more soft toys (which for a boy, at least my boy, are useless). Anyway, the answer that I've come up with is an Eggcup, probably from the bunnykins range. Which is still a little advanced given that he won't get eggs till at least 12 months, but it's something he can use for quite a long time, well until he's too "old" for bunnykins stuff. It's a bit of a nuisance though, cos I thought I'd go to the peters of Kensington website (for those people not from Sydney, it's a great site to google, bargains galore, especially at sale time), but they're out of stock, at least of the one that I'd get. But I'm so happy with my solution, I'll just have to scout around in real shops.

Anyway, that's it for me tonight, sorry for the selfish post. Will hopefully have a better day & time for a proper post tomorrow.

[kungfubecca]

HI all,

long time no post for me.

Sorry to hear liam had gastro. It is going around at the moment through all the schools and creches.

Happy 7 months Lach!!

Well I haven't managed to get in here for some time as we have had a baby that lost all interest in sleeping at night. OUr worst night so far consisted of about 4 hours sleep for Xavier. I think it's like a baby disturbing mega mix of different things like he is really trying to crawl and there are teeth somewhere in that little head, plus he keeps getting colds.
Food wise we are going ok, but getting a little fussy about what we eat and favoring the fruit! I have found that sometimes it helps to give him his own spoon and he puts it in his mouth and then lets me sneak some food in.

Sorry I can't do personals, just too bugered