Babies Born July 2007 #19

Hi Everyone,

I haven't posted that much lately so I thought I had better say something!

Jess, I'm sorry to hear what you have been going through we can all understand your situation and it is certainly nothing to be ashamed of! I will be praying that you feel better soon hun and when you are ready to come back on we'll all be here for you. PM me if you ever want to chat!

Raels, poor bubs and poor mum! Hope that tooth pops out and you get some sleep tonight!!

Welcome to the new mums and bubs! Looking forward to sharing this precious time with you

Jas - thanks for that sleep book...starting to plough my way through!

Raels - what a shocker of a night! Hope you get some sleep tonight!

Em - forgot to ask how you went at work???

xx:p

Hey Everyone!!

I havent been around this week but I have been briefly scanning posts until Avaleigh doesnt let me anymore. She is watching 'The Fairies' on the TV at the moment - so cute!!

Jess - I hope that your break from BB is what you need and I hope that you overcome your PND. Must be hard, but the first step is admitting that you are not coping. Take care and look forward to hearing from you in a couple of weeks!

Raels - what a horrible night with Oliver!! Teething sucks doesnt it, especially when you have experienced it with other kids cause you know what is happening! Hoping things get better real quick.

Sacha - 9 months of BFing is great! Maybe you could keep a few BF's still going?? Or top up with the formula after your offer your breasts? Dunno, just a thought!

Nicky - WOW 6 teeth cut!! Lets hope that is all of them for a good 6 months :)

Aint it funny how all our bub's teeth are coming out now??!!

Avaleigh is going good with her teeth. She has 2 out now so is not in too much pain anymore. We are still not getting a full nights sleep, she has been waking only once which I guess is OK. I am trying to get her in to bed earlier, just not much success. We'll keep going and see what happens. Got to get her booked in for her 8 month check up, AHH I keep forgetting so I better do that. She is still eating pureed food, but is starting to get the hang of finger foods, but any big chunks, she will spit out. Got her baptising dress yesterday - its quite ugly!! PMSL Oh well, she only needs to wear it for 30 mins.. Gotta find something for myself to wear..

Alrighty, I want to ask a few questions just to see where everyone is at now that all/most bubs have turned 8 months.

1. Milk - How many babies are still being breastfed and how much longer are you going to go? (I remember back at the beginning some mums wanted to go til 2 yrs so wondering if that is still the case?) And who is FF, or a combination of both?

2. Solids - Is your baby still on pureed food or mashed or ?

3. Sleep - does your baby sleep through the night? If yes, what do you do??!! (I am sure us mums that get up in the night would love to know!!)

Megan, No worries I just hope it helps

V, Noah is formula fed, He eats some pureed, some mashed and some chopped foods and some finger foods. And He is still sleeping through the night. Very occasionally he has woken up. I think the most important thing is getting them to be early because if Noah goes to bed late he usually wakes earlier and also wakes during the night sometimes, also I give him a bottle immediately before sleep other than that I suppose we are just blessed!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... I just found my dream home.... too bad that it is $1.35M!!

hehe does Jason really need sleep? he could work a bit more couldn't he?

haha nahhhh he doesnt need sleep!! I will buy him some flood lights so he can work at night! PMSL

Hmm... going to go out for a walk.. I sooo dont want to!

Hi Everyone

Raels- hope that tooth comes through quickly so u guys can get some sleep

Veronica- Tayah is on formula. She has some pereed, some mashed, and has just started some finger foods over the last 2 weeks. Tayah has always slept through the night, except for times when she has been unwell. We do the same as Jas which is a bottle just before she is going to sleep. Not sure if there is a trick to it, my only suggestion which was givin to me when Tayah was 2 weeks old was that if she does wake through the night then just settle her back to sleep without giving a feed, that way she wouldnt get into a habit of waking for a feed. Its worked for us and she's slept through since she was 3 weeks old. Or maybe its just luck :)

Emma, I've mean meaning to tell you I love your daughters name very pretty! Hey also your photo gallery on you website won't come up it says its because u haven't logged on for more than 60days

I have my niece here today and she is in one of those "ask lots of questions' moods - and I have no idea of any of the answers. Questions like "Do Pocket Puppies come in a box?" I don't even know what a pocket puppy is.. I have managed to convince her to watch tv so i can escape and have some BB time!

OK will answer questions here first before my brain fries!

Megan - first of all, your poor MIL! The weather was absolutely shocking yesterday (and not much better today). Tom is still so so with his bottles. He, for some strange reason, will only drink them laying down in his cot. The first few he would hold the bottle, so I thought that was ok but now i have to hold it and in one hand he holds a tube of Bonjela and the other hand he holds an empty Panadol bottle (I was getting desperate to find things to distract him like Lucas!) and he bangs them together. Towards the end he drops them and puts his taggie blanket over his head while he drinks. Super strange - must be DH's genes, not mine! He is only drinking about 120ml at the absolute max, at a time and normally 5 bottles a day. I am a little more relaxed about it, especially after hearing your MCHN said the same as mine. On bad days, I am just adding it into his food as well. He has had gastro for a week now so that is making everything a little more difficult in the food and drinks department. The Heinz baby soup has been a lifesaver. It's the only thing he has been eating.
Work went really well. I just had a training day the other day and got to know the other girls etc, so start my first proper day on Saturday. Working every Wednesday and every second Sat - in a bookshop, not sure if i mentioned that. I can just see my whole pay is going to go on books ;). It was great the other day to leave the house and use my brain for a bit! DH's family looked after Tom on Wed, then DH will have him on Sat and it will be his first day at daycare next Wed. There is actually only one other baby in his room on that day so at least i know he will get lots of attention from the staff!

Ok V - Tom is on 5 bottles a day (formula) at about 120ml for first 3 and usually can get about 150ml for last too. During the day he has them 4 hours apart.

Food - he is still not good with lumps in his food - has a very strong gag reflex! But we are slowly introducing them. Also have started him on finger foods - like toast, cheese wedges, those watercracker biscuits etc. He is good with them - I was actually terrified of him choking but he just seems to suck on it and mush it all up.

Sleep - T normally wakes at about10.30pm for his last bottle. My MCHN counts this as 'sleeping through' as his last bottle is just a roll-over feed, so I will go along with that! He will normally wake and have his bottle, and go back to sleep half way through, so he is only really awake for about 10mins or so. I have found that the best way to get him to have a really good night is to make sure he is in bed just before 7pm. If he is, he normally will sleep until 7am. If i put him to bed any later, I find those are the nights we get a few wakings and he will start to stir from about 6am on wards. The past week or so i have been trying to drag his bed time out until 8pm so that it works out for the daylight savings change over, and I have found he has been a bit unsettled while he has been adjusting to that.

$1.35 million - why don't you buy 2? :cryinglaugh::cryinglaugh::cryinglaugh:. Make sure you have enough change left over to buy a gorgeous outfit for Avaleigh's christening so everyone will look at you and not notice her ugly dress.

Raels - first birthday parties.. Makes me want to cry just thinking about it. Our little muffins are growing up. I want a really low key day, maybe just a bbq with family dropping in. Won't happen that way, i can tell. It wil lbe full on, I just know it. Tom is only a shorty as well - 69cm and about 8.5kg. I think about 3.8kg of that is his hair :D

Ok , better go. Lots of questions to be answered - do I know if she is doing anything on Saturday? How would I know! You have to love a 7 year olds mind! And I have to start tea - it is DH's and mine 4 year wedding anniversary :heartbeat: today. You can tell we are parents now - we just gave each other a card and having a quiet dinner at home.. with my niece who I invited for a sleep over forgetting that it was our anniversary!

Thanks for your answers Jas, Emma and Em!

Emma - I think that you might have a point wit not offering a feed if they wake up during the night because that is what they will expect! Avaleigh started sleeping through the night from 7 weeks and then started waking about 5 months cause she was rolling around, back then I could just put her dummy in and she would settle and go back to sleep. Around 6 months she started pulling herself up in the cot, I would put her down and she would get hysterical, so easiest way was to feed her and she'd be back in bed within 5 or 10 mins. Maybe I should just pull her out for a cuddle instead of a feed...

Girls... I have a delima (sp). I just had a look on seek.com to see what jobs are out there and there is a really really rare opportunity where a home building company is offering a position for a draftsperson that has no experience, so they are going to be doing on the job training. I really want to enquire about it but on the other hand I am not too sure.. I love being at home with Avaleigh but I dont know how much longer I can go on for and this job is a great opportunity!! I might just email them to see if the position is still open, hopefully its been filled and I wont have a delima anymore!

Hello to everyone. we are having our bathroom done, so I've been staying with my parents and haven't really got access to a computer easily, so it's been an enforced BB holiday. We're hoping that we'll be back in our house by the end of next week, so I'll be able to be in touch a little more regularly again. 3.5 weeks so far, although I think builders must live in alternative worlds to normal people, as their concept of time is not the same as my concept of time - the builder told us we?d be without a toilet for 24 hours, or 48 hours max, so far it's 2 weeks and counting ?

Anyway, it's good to have a quick catch up, but so much to catch up on!! It's amazing how many of the kids have been getting teeth. For some reason I thought that heaps of them already had a few, and that Liam was on the slow side, but it seems that the last week has been the week for them - including our first. Liam, bless him, has one so far, the bottom middle left, but the top middle left looks like it's about to break. Which is weird, cos there's no sign of his bottom middle right. I've given up on Baby Panadol, cos he hates the taste of it, and I can't say I blame him. If you haven't had a sip, try it (or not), Panadol is gross (IMO). So I've moved to Dymadon, with Nurofen as a backup. I've been using the Dymadon a bit more as Liam's also got a doozy of a cold, which the Nurofen won't really help with. The downside I'm finding with the teething (aside from a sad child who doesn't sleep for more than 3 hours), is that he's right off food again. Even getting a couple of teaspoons into him is a struggle, but I'm hoping he'll come good once he's feeling better, if only to give me a break from what feels like perpetual BFing.

The other big developments in our lives are that Liam can get himself to sitting without assistance, and is on the verge of crawling properly, as opposed to being super-commando-crawl kid. This is not such a big deal for those of you who have had kids that have been crawling for ages and who are now about to start walking, but given that I spent many months worrying that he was never going to move at all, it's pretty cool. And I'm just loving watching him discover things. Well, not everything, I'd rather he didn't try to pick up insects and put them in his mouth, but I guess that's kids. He had a highly amusing game with an ant the other day - his first "moving" toy. Lucky for the ant Liam's pincer grip isn't quite developed enough, and lucky for Liam it was only a little black house ant, as opposed to a bullant. And I've taught him how to do the "indian" sound, where you pat your mouth while saying aahhh. If he's lazy he just opens his mouth and says "aahhh" and waits for me to do the patting, or sometimes he grabs my hand and pulls it to his mouth and then says "aaahhh", but when he's not being lazy he uses his whole fist to get the noise going. Super cute, if I do say so myself.

We don't have too many words at the moment, he used to have quite a few, but since he's started moving heaps I think that his word development has been swapped for physical development. But we are getting some really clear Dad-dad-dad's. Which is good, cos it means that Dad-Dad-Dad can get up and solve the problem ;), while Mum-mum-mum can rest (or continue on with the housework she was more likely doing)

Anyway, I've been yabbering on for ages, and haven't even done one personal, but I think I might have to leave it for tonight as it's quite late now & I'm knackered. Hope to be hack here sooner rather than later, so I can catch up properly with you all.

Hi,

Jan, It's good to hear from you was thinking about you just before actually! Congrats on the teeth and crawling!

V, one big thing i've learnt so far is that when it comes to motherhood you have to do what works for you and your family and I don't think the idea everyone has of a supermum is right I think any mum is a supermum because this is certainly a hard job! So I think if you want to work and think it'll be best for you guys then go for it!

:doh: Avaleigh developed a cold today! GREAT! Just when I thought things we settling with her, now we have a snotty nose and lots of sneezes woohoo! I've given dimetapp but not going to bother with the baby panadol cause its foul! I tried getting her to sleep early today by bathing at 6.30, which was an hour earlier, but didnt work! Fell asleep while feeding but when I moved her she woke up again.. Oh, I just heard a cry from her room but its all quiet now, hopefully she is asleep!

Jan - good to hear from you! I was thinking about you today... I want to get our bathrooms renovated, we have two, so if and when I do that, hopefully we wont need to move out.

I'm not sure what to do with this work opportunity. I've emailed them to see if its still available and I am kinda hoping its been filled!! It would be nice to work to earn some money again, but I like being at home and we plan to have another baby in the future so maybe that wont fit in to the companies plans.

uh oh.. more cries.. better go!

Hi all.

Questions to answer - Lach is still breastfed. Formula VERY rarely. Mashed and finger foods. Sleeping, well that has never been a strong point, and is so much worse when he is teething:(

We had a bad night last night. He woke every 2 hours. I think a few of the teeth may be coming through more. He is so so hapy during the day, and he sleeps well when he sleeps, he just wakes alot, and when he wakes, he screams:( I hope this doesn't go on much longer. And here I am thinking about TTC#2 in July... yikes! Do I really wanna go through all of this again? LOL

Jan - Good to hear from you again!!! So glad things are going well, and YAY on liam's sitting skills! Lach still needs to be placed in a sitting position, but can get down on his own.

Speaking of Lach, the other night he pulled himself from a sit to a stand for the first time on his own. Crazy! I am hoping this is a one time event, and doesn't happen for a few more months. I couldn't handle him walking for a while yet. LOL

Hope you are all well:)

Be back over the weekend:)
xxoo

Morning girls,

Another shocker of a night here but not as bad as the one before. He woke after 5 hours at 1am with a temp, gave him some panadol and fed him but he was so agitated. He finally went back to sleep at 4 but was awake again by 6. I'm taking him to the doctors a bit later. I know it's just his teeth but if he gets another temp today it will be his third day of it and he hasn't had a checkup since his 6 month needles anyway. But on the up side, the tooth is through!!! :clap: Still can't believe he cut a top one first. Has anyone elses bub's done this? I know it does happen but I've only ever known babies to cut the bottom two first. Will be interesting to see which one pops out next.

Jan - I'm about to give up on the baby panadol too. I tasted it last night and oh my god, that stuff is nasty! It never used to be like that. I think I will try the nurofen too.

Em - Happy Anniversary! Hope you had a lovely dinner. lol at the 3.8 kg of hair, that must be so cute!

Veronica - I'm still breastfeeding and hoping to get to around 18 months. I did want to go to 2 years but I have been rethinking that lately. A 2 year old can be quite a handful and I'm just worried about the clingy/comfort aspect of him still being breastfed then. I hope that doesn't sound harsh, I can't quite put into words what I mean! I love bfeeding and it has become such a huge part of me, I get a bit sad when I think about the day that I will no longer do it. As far as sleeping goes, Oliver is in bed by 7.30 and wakes at 4.30, except weekends when he sleeps in until 5.30 or 6. He is a very light sleeper and gets woken when DF's alarm goes off at 4.30 during the week. He then comes into bed with me, has a feed then back to sleep until around 7. He has been doing this since he was a few months old. Sometimes he does wake up and as he is demand fed I will give him a feed. If he is hungry he will drink and usually it's just a quick top up anyway. Foodwise he is having mashed, with small bits as well, finger foods - toast, crackers, soft fruit and cooked vegies. Hope Avaleighs cold doesn't give her too much grief!

Hello to everyone else, hope you all have a wonderful day!

Raels and Oliver. xo

Back again! I should be cleaning while Oliver is asleep but instead I'm on the internet, again!!!

Well, I learnt something today and um, I feel a little silly! :rolleyes: After 9 years of being a mother I have finally learnt what 'cross cutting teeth' means, exactly what's happening to Oliver, getting teeth in another order instead of the way they normally come through. ie first bottom two then top two is the usual order.

Took him to the doctors and he actually has a virus. His temp was 38.9 and Dr said teething wouldn't make it go that high. He also has a red throat and a slight rash on his tummy. Oh, and the doctor noticed a second tooth just under the gum, a bottom one this time. Just have to keep giving panadol or similar but as panadol is so disgusting I'm going to get him some nurofen or might even try the new Dymadon one.

Anyways, I'm off again.

Wow so much to catch up on.

I just thought I'd quickly pop in to tell my good news, we will have our new car my the 17th (hopefully), I'm so excited. And my revised personalised plates should be arriving soon as well.

Olimoo, sorry to hear about Oliver's virus. Hopefully he will get better soon.

BBL after I make some phone calls.