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Hi everyone...thank you for your replies in regards to #2s...Alessia did a massive poop this morning at 3:30AM...lovely wake up call! *lol* The MCHN said it's perfectly fine for her to be pooping as infrequently as she is...I just don't want a whole lot of gas pain to build up in her IYKWIM? Right now the little munchkin is just staring at me...she has huge eyes like me! The rest of her though, she's ALL David! :)
Last night was a little better with sleep, but we're still struggling to work out what all her cries mean...they tear my heart apart b/c I don't know what to do a lot of the time :( David's really great with her, but unfortunately he doesn't have a set of bb's to give me a break from the constant feeding!
I've popped a ticker pic for you all to see...once I've got more than 10 mins to myself, I'll try to upload the rest of our pics on my website.
Baby hugs to all!
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Fran she is just adorable. From memory Charlize only did poos every few days, but when she did they were an explosion!!!!! And try not to be so hard on yourself, by the sounds of it your doing a fantastic job. You'll get more confident everyday she gets older, but to me it sounds as though you have already.
Relle, nice to hear from you hun. I have had to let Jack cry himself to sleep a couple of times too, when I have been busy with Dinners and baths. I guess it's good that they are getting used to self settle but it does break your heart sometimes hey:cry: The count down is on 5 weeks to go for the big move:dance: Ours is still a long way off!!
Hi to everyone else.
Well Jack is offically a pippy:p He has broken the 5kg mark. He is now 5.4kg. And yes that is up 600+gm in 2 weeks. He'll be bigger than his sister by christmas at this rate. I compared their weights at 6 weeks and he is as big as she was at 10wks.:redface: All good though, he is on the track to be top footy player.;)
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Hi all,
Jemima, Nicki is in Benidigo too. Is your friend a midwife, maybe one of us came across her.
Fran, hang in there, your on the down hill run to the end of the first 6 weeks. They are meant to be the heardest. Alleissia may just be adjusting to a new environment. Maybe you just did too much of a good job on the nursery and she is mesmorised by her boori furniture :lol: Xavier seems to do a couple of poos a day, he's a machine!! I never bothered counting, 'cause i feel like we constantly change nappies and clothes. Maybe the not pooing is why she's not sleeping
What a gorgeous little girl too. I wish Nathan had bb's too. It would make it soo much easier.
Sara, that is what I was thinking about the calorie intake and nutrition etc. I have been trying to have fruit with my icecream ;) But seriously I have been a lot better behaved with my diet than before Prego, For the first time in years I've been having breakfast regularly. I'm hoping that me being so hungry is going to keep my higher pregnany metabolism e maintained.
Nicki, I'm sure Adam will surprise you. I think they change when they become Daddy's. I've been told that at Annie, Jennie is the best to see.
I have to say I was really surprised to firstly run into someone who live in bgo on Belly Belly, and now you have shocked me again. My mum is your mum's boss, :lol: gees it's a small world.
Zofia, who would have thought as little as a few months ago, that now we would be talking about poo. The things mums do huh? And just think you will be checking that she's pooing ok on and off for the rest of your life, :lol:
Well we had a fairly busy day today. We had to go out and I think that mucks xavier up a little as he then doesn't feend and sleep as well during the day. Hoepfully he still settles at night, 'cause we had a pretty good night last night. awake at 2.30 feed, burp, change, feed burp back in bed by 2.45 then awake again at 6.45 feed burp change and asleep again until 9ish. I actually felt like I had rest. Well the main thing is he finally settled this evening and is in Bed right now. Nothing planned for tomorrow, so we might just spend half the day in bed.
wishing all a good nights rest. I'm not far out of bed tonight!!
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He he, mum and I had been talking about that actually... we thought we might know who ur mum was!! hehe
Yeah mum talks to Jennie all the time about me and bubs. hehe. Shes trying to get some nice hints for me. lol.
I agree it is weird to run into someone from bendigo, let alone someone due about the same time as you. hehe
Fran ur little one is adorable!! I too know how hard it is to find 10 mins to urself. I still havent got a pic on my ticker.... I have only put a couple on my site too:( one of these days.
Hope you are loving being a mum! Your little girl is nearly a week old! Time goes so fast!!
Mel Congrats on 'little' (hehe) Jacks weight gains!! No longer a newborn!! Its scary to think how much weight they put on! My 'little' chunky one will be at the 5kg mark next week!!! little fattie he is! lol
Bridee 4.5 hours between feeds... lucky you!!! I usually get 2-2.5 hours between. Last night I had 3. I was ecstatic. Hopefully I get more and more time in between over the next few weeks, the night feeds are killing me!
Relle I feel for you mving in 5 weeks! We are moving at the end of october... adn i dread packing:(
I think we will probably just get rid of heaps of stuff. We are moving an hour away to the middle of nowhere.... it will be interesting. Good luck with it!
Star sounds like you and diana are going great guns!!! Congrats on the weight gain!! And good luck with the vaccinations... I am not looking forward to those:(
Anyway, I have just finished a feed bath change and feed.... daddy is lying down with Lach at the min.. having some father son time. Soooo cute. hehe
Hope you are all enjoying urselves and not being woken up too often... no doubt I will come back on at around 4am as someone wont wanna leave my arms again.
Take care
Hugs
Nicky
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I am having a difficult time with Zyon & colic, he screams every 45mins around the clock, I can only get sleep if we are propped up & he's asleep on his tummy on my chest, he will be in a deep sleep, I lay him down next to me & within 10 mins he's screaming again..
exhaustion is killing me as Indah has aflu too & is clingy all day, thankfully sleeping alnight though!
Sorry for selfish post!
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Oh Tracey you poor thing:cry: Poor little Zyon and Inah too. I'm finding Infacol works well for Jack. I used to have him on Infants Friend but Infacol is easier to use an he likes the taste better, but they do have to be 1month old to take it. I hope Indah gets better soon. Has she just recently gotten sick, or is she on the downhill? Either way I hope she gets better soon. And I hope you can get some rest up too, do you have someone that can help?
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Yeah I was told Infacol is better but he isnt yet 1 month!
He is finally asleep propped on a pillow in the bassinette on his tummy, I know it's against SIDS but it's the ONLY way he can seem to sleep in no pain! He is beside me too, so I can see he's OK..
Indah has had a runny nose for a few days but yesterday she had a fever & snot everywhere & now a cough & just wants to be held!!!
I keep repeating Ït's not forever, but when i fed at (approx) 8pm, 10pm, 12am, 2am, sitting up with his screaming & in pain from 2 til 6am, I only fed when he was really looking for milk, other than that i was awake inbetween all those times popping a dummy in as he was just screaming not hungry.. I might call MCHN, as he has green poo too, which I cant recall girls ever having & it's been green since birth!
Waaah, I think I was blessed with baby #1, she slept 8 hours from 1 wk old, then Indah slept basically 4hourly, but poor Zyon is just doing my head in ATM!!!!
DH is at work, Mum & Dad whom live in the unit behind us are on a 3wk driving holiday & are in Glasshouse mountains ATM, so nope it's just me!!!
I'll be OK!
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Hi Everyone!!
Fran - welcome back!! The 2 hrly feeds are exhausting arent they - Avaleigh is currently doing that during the night!!
Tracey - sorry to hear that Zyon is suffering as well :( Avaleigh has been OK, she has been giving me some real good burps but she still sleeps really really unsettled by herself, so I've been on the couch with her!! And she doesnt sleep much during the day. I have tried sleeping her on her tummy during the day cause she always falls asleep on Jason's chest when she is on her tummy, but she doesnt really like it, just tries to lift her head up all the time! I hope Indah gets better soon as well.
Mel - I think the next bub will be in about 2 yrs time, so not really in the near future but it is in the future!! Jason hasnt actually said anyything about the next one, but I have been thinking bout it. I'd like to have about 2.5 yrs inbetween them and I think we will only have 2 kids. But then again, Jason could have different ideas! LOL
Avaleigh's eye is much better now. It pretty much cleared up the next day so I dont know what it would have been. I did do the breast milk in eye once, so maybe that worked?! No idea tho....
Has anyones bub's been real screamers lately?? OMG Avaleigh was a real screamer yesterday!! She was screaming after a feed and I thought she wanted more, so I tried to give her more but she jsut kept playing with my nipples and then started screaming and screaming so I popped a dummy in and that shut her up!! I dont really like putting a dummy in her when she screams, but sometimes its the only thing to do... I wonder if her screaming and regular feeding has got to do with a growth spurt?? The midwives told me to expect alot of feeding when they are going through a growth spurt. I must say, she looks a lot bigger now!!
Well planning for my wedding is in full swing now. My mum decided to help me afterall. She said at the beginning th at she wasnt going to help but she realised that I dont have much time on my hands. I am so happy she is helping, mum has some good ideas. The things we have sorted are photographer, wedding car and venue. I've got the type of cake and flowers that I want, just gotta go to a few places to see how much it'll cost to get them done. Still need the invites done! And then a few other bits and peices. I am not looking for my wedding dress until November cause I want to try and lose the rest of my baby weight.
Talking aboutr baby weight, I am going to start exercising today - if Avaleigh lets me!! Jason made a comment the other night after I was talking about all my stretch marks that I need to go back to the gym, I was not happy about that!! But it is true, I am 10kg heavier now and its not coming off anymore like it had been - I did lose 12kg already which I am so happy about!
Anyways, better make myself comfy on the couch and watch something on Foxtel that I watch every day! LOL
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Hi all,
Nicki, :lol: that's pretty funny. Seriously my mum is an aquired taste, half of the city knows her, some like her, some don't. Because she knew one of the midwives on at the hospital when Xavier was born they let her in the Delivery room!! Luckily I had just got to the shower. I was still not impressed!
Tracey, you poor thing. Hang in there. Even though it's against the SIDS principles, I think it's probably better for both of you if you find a way for both of you to get rest, while your able to watch him, rather than accidentally falling asleep at the worst possible time. I hope Indah starts feeling better soon too. Not too much longer and your first 6 weeks will be over, your mum and dad will be back and everything will just fall into place.
Xavier has had some green poo also. yet not all the time. I was wondering if it was something I ate??
I just remembered as well, this is nowhere near what your going through, but he had the sniffles, and when he spews it is really mucusy so we raised one end of the cot matress. He sleeps on a permanent angle, to help him breath.
What's with the 2 hourly feeds at night. I hope we're not heading back in that direction. We seem to do 2-3 hourly during the day and about 4hourly at night. Granted the only way I get 4 hours + at night is to spend a full hour on a combination of the feeding burping, changing and a little cuddle. I've suddenly realised he's not closing his eyes right after a feed, so I have to do some gentle rocking and then pop him into bed while he still looks awake, and stroke him.
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Hi All,
Georgie seems to have a bit of wind today, every time I lie her down in her basinette she starts to cry. I've placed her in her rocker and she seems content, think it could be the angle that is helping. For those with babies suffering wind perhaps this could help.
I sleep Georgie on her back, she will only sleep with her head tilted to the one side. As a result her ear is being folded over. We've tried turning her head but she won't have any part of it, she turns it straight back. Does anyone elses baby do this?
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Bridee, my little girl used to do this. I found that if we turned her bassinet around to face the other direction she would turn her head. She just liked to look in the same direction. Maybe your girl is the same.
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Hi everyone!
I am back at last and my house still isn't clean! :lol: I don't think it will ever be the same again!!
Well I took Oscar to the MCHN today and he has put on 440g in 8 days! She said they would expect to see that weight gain in 2 weeks! So as she put it "he is growing like a mushroom!". She said I am doing a great job with him (which always makes you feel better to be told that!). So I came away from there today feeling really positive and was great to see how much my little man is growing!
Bridee- Oscar was doing the same with his head and as Mel said.. move the cot/bassinette the other way around. I just persisted with turning Oscar's head when he was asleep and now he sleeps facing both ways.. good luck with it! I'm sure it will sort itself out!
V- I know what you mean about Avaleigh and her just playing with your nipples. Oscar did that from 1am-3am this morning... I tried everything with him to get him to suck but nope!! I tried putting him to bed a few times but he was still starving and sucking his hand like crazy. In the end I gave him his dummy and he slept for about an hour then I had to feed him again. He fed a little better but not much! He seems to be better today though. Hope Avaleigh has improved too!
Fran & Bec- Xavier & Alessia are just gorgeous! They really are cute babies!
Hi to everyone else... sorry I forget who has posted what as usual!
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Hey everyone,
I hope everyone had a great day, cause I did!! I started my exercising this morning but had to cut it 10mins short cause Avaleigh was crying for a feed, it felt good to be doing it again. and LOL I got no tummy muscles now!! haha I hope they come back quick smart!!
I took Avaleigh food shopping for the first time today (other times I left her with Jason) and she was really really good. I was afraid she would be screaming the whole time cause she was in the car but she was quite happy in the little chair thingy as long as she had her dummy!! By the end, she had fallen asleep.
And I have now just come back from an 1 hr walk - arent I so good??!! I hope this weight jsut starts falling off me.
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hi everyone
prob just a short msg today, am nursung kaetlyn. she has been so demanding the last couple of days. we seem to be using the dummy a bit more than i would like, but ah well, it settles her, and whenshe falls asleep i take it out and she dosent realise. she has been awake since 12- when i had to wake her.
unlike most of you, kaetlyn will go quite happily forages without feeds, i am having to generally wake her for feeds, and am struggling to get the min 6 feeds in 24 hours. i will ask the nurse tomorow.
Bec- she finally called today and is coming tomorrow, so will ask her about mothers groups.
Ihave been incontact with other bb members that live locally and we are organising a meetup not far from my house - about 25mins drive, so if i am free i will go. all the other members have older children- 2+ so should be interesting.
Well it takes ages to type one handed so will finish up and might be bacl later depending on kaetlyn.
i just wanted to ask, what do people do for play time at this age? it seems kaetlyn gets bored with my playing!!!
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Hi All,
Blueflower - play time at the moment for me involves putting Georgie underneath her play gym she does stares at the same thing but I show her the different toys. I also read to her which she seems to like. I'm also doing nappy free time at the same time as massaging her, sometimes she likes sometimes she doesn't.
Daneillec and mel - thanks for the suggestion of turning bassinet around, I did swap the ends she sleeps in but that didn't work, it really isn't that big of an issue and I'm sure she will eventually lay the other side.
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hmm... I feel like I am not satisfying Avaleigh with my milk... Dont most babies have a feed and then go to sleep??!! Well my lil princess is not doing that... and I dont think its the colic that is keeping her awake as she isnt showing any wind signs.... Pretty much she feeds maybe 20 mins on one side, I then give her the other side and she is there for only a few minutes before coming off and 'shutting up shop'. I cuddle her for a little while, put her down. Shes maybe down for 15 mins before she wakes up crying/screaming!! And then about an hour later she is acting like she is hungry again.... Its driving me insane!! Does she really want more or what?! I wouldnt have a clue!! I am thinking of maybe expressing some milk out and give that to her after she done with my breasts but Im not sure if i want too...
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V- i know how you feel, i sometimes try handexpressing a little just to make sure there is milk still coming through. thats the downfall with bfing. not sure if they are getting enough. try talking to your MHCN, see what suggestions she has.
Now for a little fun.... was searching the area i live in and there is a girl looking for playgroups in my area. anyways we exchanged msn addies and turns out, i know her fmily froma round the area- my bro went to scouts with her bro and our parents knew each other.... such a small world......
well off to wake Kaetlyn for her feed0 damn little one always sleeps though the 5 hour max time limit, will ask nurse about it tomorrow.
night night
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Hi girls...
Veronica... dont stress about ur milk not being satisfying. Avaleigh is probably just going through a growth spurt. My nurse said to expect one around 3 weeks.
Sometimes I find that Lach has a big feed on one side, dessert on the other, and then is wide awake for a good hour afterwards. I think he is just testing my patience.
I know that I have plenty of milk in both breasts as his poor face wears it nearly every feed, but as Sara said, if u are worried, maybe try expressing some.
Well my little Lach already has so many professional photos... and we are getting more done next week. I cant wait! He's s cute in the ones I gt today even though he is asleep. lol
well, fingers crossed for a good night here again.
Hope you are all well:)
Hugs
