Babies Born July 2007 #18

[Megan76]

Hi all,
Just quickly popping in! Lucas has a cold so has been quite a sooky la la the past few days and just loves his mummy and daddy a bit too much!!! Poor little pickle!

Will come back tomorrow to catch up!

I hope you all get a good nights sleep, it seems the zzzzzzzz's are lacking!!

Night night

[kungfubecca]

Hi all,

long time no post, so I'm sorry if I have missed any improtant times

AMM, all the best with the re-lactating

Jan, happy aniversary tomorrow, sorry to hear about the gastro. Xavier had an upset tummy, but not gastro and he has gone off food. he will eat apples though and I think we are making some head way but it's like we are starting from scratch with a couple of spoons and working our way up again.


Nicki, we have been going through something very similar for the last month or so and it is starting to improve, there are heaps of reason that I have considered that it might be MCHN suggested that Xav was missing me 'cause he didn't see me all day anymore and wanted to spend more time with me, I think he's been a little under the weather, plus has been farting like a trojan so I think he has had trouble with some foods, so we are cutting back, and he is kinda teething, trying to crawl, occasionally rolling over and really wants to sit up, so it's like he's building up to do everything at once and it's making him restless. Your mum was telling me Lach is rocking on all 4's a lot so maybe he really needs to crawl and it's making him unsettled??

Ok, well update on us.
Xavier hit 7 months yesterday, had our 6 month needles last week (had to wait for a night session) has been very unsettled lately, not too different to what some of you others have mentioned but as I said above it just feels like it's a combo of everything. My mum keeps saying we need to call this specialist lady they have locally to get us some help to settle him, which I find very insulting. I plan to just perserveer for a while, and I feel like I have made progress.

I have a few questions for you all, what's your bub drink breast or formula and how often are the drinking now?? Because he is a creche during the day he has stretched out the daytime feeds and kinda holds on until I pick him up. So the closest thing to normal we have is

about 3-4 am wake and feed then back to bed
7am ish wake and feed
hopefully followed by breakfast at about 7.30-745 ish
he generally wants to be fed again between 10-11am and will drink anywhere from 100-180ml of ebm
about halfway between this bottle and the next he has some lunch vegies usually
then around 2-3pm has another 100-180ml of ebm
we get home by about 5.45 when he goes strait on the boob, drains them and is still hungry so has some solids. Plays for a while then either wakes around 10pm for a feed or gets a dream feed in the vain attempt of mum getting more than 4 hours sleep in one hit.
Latley we have had a few extra night feeds thrown in, but that's about the gist of it all. Because I kow what I can get out when I express (now up to min of 200ml per session) I can guestemate that he is getting at least 700ml per day which i believe is normal.

and has anyone got any ideas how I can get my little boy back eating vegies. he was doning very well but he's a clever little cookie and he just won't eat them. yet offer him apple and the hatch opend up. at the moment I so want his tummy to be full at night so I can sleep that that's what he is having for tea. I tried cutting out the fruit on the weekend and seeing if he would give up and eat vegies and I'm talking like pumpkin, and carrots which are both on the sweeter side, and nope just refused and then mucked his night sleeping up again.
I have tried whole pieces, I have tried home made, and jars, I have tried mixing a litle apple in to sweeten it. I have tried returning to plain farex with ebm so thick milk basically and he wouldn't have a barr of it. Yet has not rejected me in anyway. now that he is 7 months I bought a more exciting flavoured jar to try 'cause I can't spen the energy on food that won't be eaten, but am now wary about trying it 'cause i'm worried this fussiness might have been cause by an upset tummy because a food didn't agree with him.

any who gotta go, gotta get up and work tomorrow. Gees I miss those mornings where xavier went back to sleep and I could too!!!

Take care all

[kungfubecca]

Hi all,

Thanks for the nice things you all said about our eating and sleeping. Eating is 100% better. We ended up going to the doc and got prescribed some antibiotics, which have obviously helped, 'cause he's eating much better. Still has a cough but hopefully that clears up soon.

Raels, we have lots of backward movement too, yet no forward motion. Xavier is getting good at sitting up though.

em don't feel guilty about child care. they keep publishing all this stuff about how it's so much better to stay home, but all those studies are from other countries and Australian studies actually indicate that our child care is of a very high standard. Just think of the socialisation as well.

Hugs jess, You showed remarkable restraint.

V, I'm right there with you on those sort of sleep patterns. A really bad night for us consists of only sleeping for 2 hours at a time. I will be no help to you, but am looking forward to seeing what others say. Congrats on the huge weight loss!! re the food, you could add some stuff to what you already have like meat/cheese/rice and pasta. Xave is bored with plain vegies too and after our recent food rejection really doesn't want any home made mummy food, and prefers jars instead. He is quite fond of the tomato based ones.

Sara, hugs, I hope you start having a better time soon. Well when it rains it does seem to poor

Nicki, a very proud grandma showed me a new pic of lach yesterday. He is looking very cute. What is he up to now, crawling. I noticed he was sitting up in the pic.

Sacha, I give xavier cruskits, he really likes them. I just give him a plain one, but a whole one 'cause it's nice and easy to hold, plus i'm too lazy to cut it They are messy enough by themseves though, they are like glue once they disolve. I have also been giving xavier wedges of rockmelon or apple, they are a little messy and slippery but he gives them a red hot go and they are not as soft as banana so they stay in one piece longer.

Jess, I havent had a pap smear yet, don't have to till august so i'm not until then. but the last one I had was painfull and I spoted so your not leaving me with much hope for this one.

TTC #2 no changes in plans here, first house, must be in before Xave is 2. My only pre-requisite is that we have #2 before I'm 30. so will probably wait until around the 2 year mark. maybe a little earlier.

What is Xavier upt to??
Well he is almost sitting up by himself. this is a fairly new trick.
He is trying his damdest to crawl but is stuck in reverse still.
He has had an infection and we are almost finished the antibiotics.
I am hopeing that once this cold/infection is gone and the weather sorts it's self out he might start to sleep again, as a good night consists of 5 hours at a time a bad night is 2 hours at a time.
We are eating lots of different foods now, and love to hold foods in his hands.

Well better go, DH is stuck at the front door with someone trying to sell him something and xavier is sooking, scratch that, he got rid of the guy at the door.

well best be off anyway, see if we can get this kid to sleep, controlled comforting is not very good for this mum, and I swear Xavier would cry all night if we left him too. I don't think i'm soft, it's just way too emotionally and physically draining when you are cryed at for hours!!

Bye

[blueflower]

Bec- Glad to hear poor little Xav is on the mend. Hopefully his sleeping gets sorted out soon. Esp glad he is eating as well again.
My hat goes of to you BF/expressing and working fulltime! Thats why I put off going back to work, I wanted to feed Kaetlyn till she was 12months and didnt think I could do it with working as well.

Sacha- LOL at the neighbour. We just had freinds move in next door, and the girl is really sweet, she messages me to see if it is okay to pop over. Lol today she brought a plate of cheese and biscuits with her (she is preg though!).
Maybe oneday you might be grateful you have an neighbour that notices all the bargins in the street!
Hehe oh and my nose is still red, have no idea when it is going to go back to normal, at least it doesnt hurt as much now!!

[tears_of_joy]

Hi ladies,

Just popped in for a quick catch up. No personals from me tonight though, im a so tired and stressed out to the max

Thanks for your replies re my papsmear. I ended up going to the dr as the bleeding got really heavy and i was a little worried as i was in the 2 wk wait, and was getting some bad cramps but i was so embarrassed to find it was just my period! LOL it came early i wasn't due until the 24th march

Ok i will pop in tomorrow and do some personals then. Goodnight.

[Flossie]

Hi all,

I hope you and all your bubbas are fine and dandy! Sorry I am MIA all the time lately, just don't seem to get time to get on here much and read and write. When Livvie sleeps I tend to read or clean the house!!

Run down on Olivia:
crawling madly all over the place and making my life and the poor cats a nightmare
1 tooth, another coming through
claps hands
waves hello and good-bye
Says dad-a
still has stranger danger if its not me, DH my Mum, my dad or MIL
Still sleeping through the night
eats everything she is can

Pap-smear was awful for me as my Dr did it when I was still have issues after Olivia's birth and I dread the next one!!

So not trying for No.2 for a number of years, I want to be able to give Olivia my 100% attention before the next comes along and I want her to be older to understand babies etc I have a friend whose son is 5 1/2 months and she is pregnant again! I envy them, but I couldn't do it so close.

Not sure if I am going back to wor yet, the amount of money I spend I probably should hehehe but I don't want to and I am too nervous about leaving Olivia with strangers at Child Care, I am not against CC and will do it in the future but I am nervous right now - who knows, I may not change from that and never return to work hehehe

Hope all is well with everyone. Big hugs to all.
Floss xxx

[mrscricket]

We are going away for a few days so I just wanted to say

Happy Easter Girls!!

Hope everyone has a great time and gets lots of yummy chocolate! Catch up when we get back xx

[blueflower]

HI everyone,
Have been MIA lately- have been really busy, have been popping in but not posting sorry!
Bit of a sselfish post tonight as I am really exhausted.
Kaetlyn hasnt been sleeping propperly- not settling at night- the latest she has settled has been 4.30AM!!!!!!!. We think she is teething but really arnt sure, she is showing all the signs, but we cant find any in her mouth.
We tried her on potato tongiht- mixed in with sweet potato and zuchinni, but she hated it, every mouthful was this horrid little face. I said to DH that it is funny that potato is the blandest vege and its the one she doesnt like. Ah well, I guess she likes broc and zucc which are the ones that people most hate!!
Okay am off to get some sleep- hopefully it will be an early night tongiht!

[mrscricket]

Becc - just a quick one - have you tried mixing your vegies with a little bit of apple. I wrecked Tom's veggie experience by giving him peas and then he refused to eat any veggies at all. We are slowly getting back on track by mixing say 3 cubes of sweet potato with one cube of apple. He tends to eat better that way.

[Enchanted]

everyone!

Bec- I was feeling terrible because I have not taken Oscar for his needles yet. So at least I wasn't the only one who is a little behind. We are off today for them, I feel so bad for the little munchkin. Oscar is on formula and he has a bottle usually every 3 hours still. However, he wakes up at 8am (usually) so he has around 4-5 bottles a day depending on if we are out or if he goes to bed later. I don't have any ideas of the veges though hun, I hope he starts to eat them soon.

Blue- to you. I hope that your princess' tooth comes through soon so you can all get back to getting some decent sleep.

Raels- Oliver sounds like what Oscar is doing with his crawling!! Oscar is now dragging him self around the floor though and doing a bit of a commando crawl which looks hilarious!

AMM- I wish you all the best with re-lactating. I have thought about it many times but I seem to still have an infection in my bbs so when Oscar has his Dr appt today I'm going to ask him about it.

Jem- I hope the concert was great! Hope you guys are well!

Jan- Sorry to hear your gorgeous family hasn't been feeling well. I'm glad you're all feeling better now.

Nicky- I hope youre precious Lachlan is back to sleeping soon. It's so hard on you when they keep waking up

Things here aren't too bad. I have been feeling pretty crappy the past week though. I feel really nauseous and tired all the time, it's very unlikely that I am pg again as I had AF for a week only a couple of weeks ago. I went to the Dr on Monday and he seems to think I could have a problem with my thyroid. I have been eating healthy and doing a bit of excerise and I seem to be putting weight on instead of taking it off! So I had a nightmare of a blood test yesterday and will get the results back by the end of the week. I am very excited though because in a month or so we are re-carpeting the house as well as repainting Oscar is fantastic, he is commando crawling which looks hilarious and is babbling lots and saying Dadadad.

Sorry if I have missed anyone but I need to get going and get ready for our Dr appointment! Eek.. wish us luck! Have a great day all!!

Megan- I hope Lucas gets over his cold quickly, the poor little poppet.

[~*Niadalla*~]

Hi there all.
We had a better night last night, but still not great. Lach woke every 3 hours between 730pm and 9am... so at least i got a few stretches of sleep.
He only had his 6mth vax's yesty too, as we have been away and live so far away it is hard to get into town to get them done. But he went really well. We just made the cut for the rotavirus vaccine, so was very happy about that.... I'm such a bad mummy.

His Eczema started playing up again with the rise in tempreture. I know now that it is only heat related, so am trying to keep the house cool.

I think we have top teeth coming through. Joy The bottom 2 have cut the gum, and are sharp, but they haven't come all the way through. Why must it take so long. lol.

Yeah Lach has been on all fours, but I don't think he is majorly fussed about crawling, as he gets everywhere he wants to go rolling and commando crawling. I hope he is not like his father, who crawled at 8 months and then walked at 9 months. I have a bad feeling though.......

Lach has an obsession with the coffee table and continually rolling underneath it. He loves being under there. Weirdo.

Rebecca - I am not sure how u can get Xavier to eat vegies again.. Fingers crossed I don't have this problem. Lach just loves anything at the moment, and I hope it continues that way for a little while. Maybe try mixing yoghurt or custard with the vegies? Not a very appealing choice to us, but it might be the sweetness he is craving?


Does anyone else have a chucky baby? Lach has always been a little chucky, not all the time, but mainly after a BF. He doesn't bring up any solids, but now that he just doesnt stay on a blanket on the floor, my poor carpet is starting to get bleached

Has evryone turned their car seats around yet?
I ony just took Lach out of his capsule on the weekend, and we have the car seat in the reverse position still. He has no probs riding reverse, so I was thinking of leaving him in longer. Apart from age and weight, when do you know that they are ready to be turned around? He is quite the compitent sitter now, and I am going to use the normal trolley instead of the ones with the baby seat next time I go shopping, to see how we go.

Well, I better go. I have lots of cooking today to do for the little one. I am really loving cookng foods for him.... how domesticated of me. LOL

Have a great day all

[Megan76]

Raels - very cute boys! Well done starting up that mothers group too, its ace to have others around to share stuff with, i love my mothers group!!

Jem - hope you enjoyed your night out at the concert!! Cant remember the last time i went to one...oh yes i do, it was Robbie Williams, love him!!

Jan - glad the family is on the mend and have a great anniversary dinner

Nicky - sorry you are having such a dodgy time with wake ups....thats one thing we havent had yet so i dont have any good advice. When Lach goes to bed does he go down awake and put himself to sleep? I have actually heard that at this age they know that you still exist when youre not there so during the night they know you are out there somewhere and want a bit of lovin' and reassurance! Also we turned the car seat around a week ago cos lucas was always trying to sit up and turn around, he is happy in it!

Sacha - very clever of Autie to stand in her cot....good times for you a am sure!!

Rebecca - you must be exhausted! Lucas is down to just 3 "meals" a day, breakfast around 7.30am...bottle (200-240ml) and cereal, lunch around 12pm....bottle (150-200ml) & vegies or fruit, dinner around 5.30pm vegies and meat and bottle before bed (200 - 240 ml) bw 7 & 7.30pm. He was fussy with his bottles so is down to 3 and this seems to be working, all the resources i have found have said this is fine after 6 months. Hope things pick up for you on the food and sleep front.

Oshani - i hope everything with your thyoid is ok and you start feeling better!

Well Lucas' cold just wont seem to disappear and he has been a bit of a grump! Still sleeping well at night though so i cant complain too much but he is constantly putting his arms up for me to give him a cuddle...cute but tiring! He had a massive tanty this morning when i tried to get the snot out of his nose i had to laugh at him he carried on so much! Meanwhile i am trying to get our house ready to go on the market, not easy with a sick 8 month old!! Thank god for parents! Dad has been washing windows and mum did the oven...god bless!

Well thats it from me for now,,,oh and thanks for all the info on the crawling! I know they're all different but i think lucas would be so much happier if he was mobile but he is not even close!!

ta ta!

[tears_of_joy]

Hi Ladies.

Sorry for the lack of post's and personals lately. I cant wait for things to be back to normal around here! I dont know what my body is up to but i would love to exchange it for a new one lol. for the last 2 weeks i have had constant headaches and they have been really bad, i have had two migranes and nothing makes them go away, Im having sleep issues too, like right now im so tired but if i go to bed i lay awake for hours and just doze off before Ethan wakes, then i struggle to sleep again I have a doctors appointment on friday though so hopefully we can sort things out.

Ethan is doing well, apart from bumping his head 10+ times a day, he is standing against furniture then letting go and trys to climb stuff At least i get lots of cuddles lol. Loving his solids, very active and sleeps well during the day most days. We are back to 3-4 wake ups a night again, but im rarely asleep so its not a huge issue at the moment.

Dh has just gone back to work and im loving it! Lol im usually sad about it but gee he really frustrated me this time, we had so many fights! I do miss him really, i think! LOL!

Well i will try to pop in again tomorrow. Goodnight ladies.


ETA- I have updated ethans site btw. I havent uploaded our professional ones yet though so will let you know when i do.

[Meluchja]

Hey everyone,

We had a great day yesterday. I felt a million bucks. I even had some wins at the races and even on the pokies, so that's a plus. I haven't done either for so long. All up the day, including lunch, dinner, taxis and drinks only cost me $50. I was on fire at the pub. I was top lining gambling on everyone pokie machines, it was really funny. DH had a lovely sleep in, and we have got so much done today without the kids. We are just waiting for them now. I have expressed so much milk. Last night alone, I had to empty the pump 3 times. And today I have expressed enough to re stock the freezer with 3 bottles.

I'm going to try and download some photos tonight, of the kids. They have both grown so much. Oh I miss them, it's been over 24 hours since I saw them last, and I'm a mess. I don't know how DH did it for 2 weeks and a month at a time. It would have broken my heart.

AMM - Lucas sounds adorable and reminds me so much of Jack. He does the same to get attension and is always smiling. I so love him to death. I can't wait until he gets home so I can have one of his super cuddles. My sisters wedding is on the 10th of May. I can't wait. We are going to go up the coast for the 2 nights before the wedding and the night of the wedding we will stay at the resort the wedding is at. I got Charlize some really cute shoes the other day, so I can't wait to see them both all done up. And for us to get our first family shot, we haven't got any yet of the 4 of us, thats sounds crazy hey, but nop it's true, they are all of DH and the kids, as I'm always the one taking them I can't wait to get all dress up too, I love getting done up.

Sara, hope your taking care of yourself. You sound very busy.

Nicky, yey on Lachlans teeth. Jack still is a gummy baby. So cute.

Jem, hey, I just bought another coupld of bottles of red, ummmmm!!!

Anyway, enough from me. Hope your all having a great weekend. Ummm ribs tonight, yummy.

[kungfubecca]

Hi all,

Em, yeah I have tried mixing apple in, we just wasted more food. We got to a point one day where he wouldn't even eat the sweet things. But I'll elaborate further on our efforts below

Danielle, I'm glad Oscar is doing so well, I hope you get better soon. yay on new carpet and paint. Just do them in the right order, could get messy otherwise

Nicki, can't mix custard in with vegies, as I stoped custard and yoghurt 'cause around the time he went off food he was doing super stinky farts, so I think the dairy component might have disagreed with him. we will wait a few months before putting those back in the diet.
Xavier isn't super chucky, but does have the occasional spew. I have finally gotten arround to buying one of those road map rugs for the floor, he can spew and wee on that as much as he wants and then he can play with cars on it when he's bigger. it doesn't mean the carpet is safe, just that we have about 2 metres grace.
We turned our seat around a few weeks ago, yes he was only just 8kg, but he is so much happier facing out.

Megan I am a little exhausted. Xavier probably has a similar amount of milk, my supply has just gone through a re-adjustment and he will have 2 x 200ml bottles during the day, problem is i'm not the one feeding him so I don't know why he doesn't always drink it all.
Xavier hates it when I try to de-snot his nose too. He just doesn't get that plugging your nose with snot just isn't good for you. Xavier has developed a very moist chesty cough that won't go away so has not got antibiotics to help matters.

nay, I think it's a food thing partially here, but I can't get anymore food into the boy because he won't eat thick food!!

Mel, yay i'm glad your fresh start is going so well. you even sound renewed.
Thanks for the info you listed, i know I need to increase what xavier eats but it's proving quite difficult. Maybe more snacks will help us. We did introduce cruskits the other day and he loves them, they turn into glue, but they keep him happy, and we have vegiemite on toast and fruit for breakfast.

Jess, I hope when the dr said you were run down you said well dah. lol I hear you i'm buggered and naughty with the food. I almost live on easter eggs at the moment. but lunch is costing me a fortune 'cause I have no energy to make mine before I go to work. if I didn't make nathan cook tea each night I probably wouldn't eat vegies.

amm, all good suggestions and all raspberried, sooked and smacked away by Xave.

Sacha, glad to see your car priorities are in the right place

Sara pumpkin patch can be expensive when you are buying new season stuff to fit now, but go to their website and buy clearance stock in sizes to fit next year and they are really cheap!

Ok us and food.

We seem to have more problems than just food and it all comes down to sleep.
I have tried so much I just can't think of anything else. I also feel like i have no control because I know if I wasnt' at work I would have a much better chance of getting him eating and sleeping again. We had some cool days the other day and we even got one night were he slept through the night, it was bliss. Byt the end of the week it was awful up every 2 hours again. Have managed to get more food into him using 2 methods, Xavier has developed a wet chesty cough so with all the mucous it makes sence he doesn't want to eat anything too think, so I've been thining it out a little and we get a little success. With the help of gran the other night we realised we could distract him to eat buy singing twinkle twinkle little star, no other songs mind you, and he ate really well, but we had an awfull night and he did a big power spew on nathan's watch thankfully.

So this is what we are trying.
Went to the dr and we now have antibiotics to help his chesty cough. we are trying some finger foods and getting whatever other food we can get into him. We are also going to be trying the controlled comforting, well we'll see anyway as because of the colds he has had and needed to sit up to fall asleep because of his runny nose, which means in mums arms, and now this has turned to a bit of habit, and he will self settle for the staff at creche but not for mum or dad.
So fingers crossed if we can fix sleep and food we can go back to having a really good little baby boy

Take care all, probably see you by next week, at least it's a 4 day week, followed by another 4 day week, and another 4 day week and I have taken a day off for our next mchn app, which will give me another 4 day week. I love public holidays.

[Meluchja]

Just thought I'd let you all know I have finally updated some photos of the kids on the site. Still got to rename some of Charlize's but hey, at least they're up.

[Megan76]

Hi! Well first post today and its nearly 3pm you busy little beavers!!

Not much going on here really, Lucas has been a lot happier the last couple of days and seems to be nearly over his cold which has stuck around for way too long!
Something horrible happened yesterday though....i was on the couch actually checking out posts on here, and DH was on the other couch with Lucas, next thing i know Lucas has tumbled off the couch and practically bounced on his head. It was the worst thing i have ever seen. He screamed for a bit and poor DH was in tears all morning he felt so bad. God you just cant take your eyes off them for a second at this age, it was a big big lesson. I was paranoid all day he had some injuries we couldnt see but he was really happy so we assumed all was well. He went to bed at 7pm and didnt wake up till 8am which is great but i was so worried this morning. We felt like such bad parents!

Mel - Glad you had such a great time at the races, you deserve a good break! The photos of the kids are ace...love the santa one, how cute does Jack look!

Bec - Good luck with all the food and sleep issues, its all you need when you are back at work. I wish i had some good advice but i have nothing! Hope the controlled comforting isnt too hard on you, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind!!

Sacha - Naughty Auty and her waking up, how draining for you! I really hope she snaps out of it for you before DH goes away again....if not, chuck her in the new car and just keep driving!! I am trying to drag out the naps too and see how that goes, yesterday it worked a treat but everyday is different!

August - I think we got opposite Lucas's! My little buddy is very people shy and can scream at certain people he doesnt know! He is so happy at home and with people he is familar with but has a fair bit of stranger anxiety which can be a bit of a pain!

Well more cleaning to be done, why oh why did we decide we needed to build a new house and sell this one......IDIOTS!!

Hmm i could hear banging, they are actually putting up the FOR SALE sign as i type!!

Hope everyone is great!!

[razzle]

Hi girls,

I have been popping in and reading every day but not posting cause I've had a bit of a crappy week and didn't want to whinge!!

Oliver has a cold but is over the worst of it, Lexxen is 9 going on 19 and DF has gone into his cave over something that he won't talk about.

Megan - Oliver fell off the couch once too. He practically jumped out of my arms! It totally freaked me out but he was fine.

Mel - you're babies are so damn cute!

Bec - you are a trooper! Good luck with everything and I hope it all settles down very soon.

Sacha - hope you get some sleep soon. I feel for you. Great about the new car!

Well still no teeth here and no crawling yet either - well not forwards anyway - lots of going backwards though. Sleeping very well and solids are going great too.

Hello to everyone else that I've missed! Hope you are all well.

Raels. xo