Babies Born July 2007 #5

[kungfubecca]

Hi all,

Sara, You have a little mover and shaer there, I love that she thinks it's funny. Xavier is a very serious baby, but he's a little younger than katelyn. I hope he starts laughing and smiling more.
Can't wait to see this dress!!

Fran, you could try having your activite with soy milk. the activite will overpower the soy taste iykwim. Don't worry if you express and then she needs some more milk, you can always give her what you have expressed. Have you noitced any patterns in her sleep. Or like jan said even a little bit in between each feed. I do just like sara does and wait until xavier goes to bed each night. He has really fallen into a pattern that once he goes to bed after tea that's his long sleep, even if it's as short as 5 hours.

night all, heres to weekend sleepins

[tears_of_joy]

Hi ladies

Im going to type as fast as i can tonight as ethan keeps demanding my attention!!

Veronica- WOW!! Your Wedding Dress is gorgeous, Im so excited for you Not long to go now! What a nice sleep avaleigh had lastnight hopefully she will get the timing right soon.

Fran- Hi hun, glad everything wnet well with the OBs and paed yesterday. Sorry to hear your still having some supply problems, unfortunately im no help there my supply was fantastic, ethan just didnt want it! Hopefully the maxalon helps, if you take it. I took maxalon all through my pregnancy to help my m/s!

Bec, Zofia & Sara- Lol, loving the TV here at the moment to!! Ethan loves music, so he is usually quiet when Australian Idol is on!!

Jan- Sorry to hear you have the flu. What a great sleep from Liam, what a good boy! Yes hopefully it is the start of something regular I constantly check on ethan if he sleeps longer than usual too, not that it happens very often! Im with you on being to tired to DTD lol these days its like bed is only for sleeping!! I still feel pretty bruised down there too (sorry TMI!!). I am currently Out Of Order for a while longer!!

Well as for me im feeling pretty good tonight, still exhausted though but it wont last forever, i hope lol! And AF has returned! Damn lol. could have waited a little longer!

Ethan is doing well, he had his immunisations on wednesday, it was so sad, my mum came with me and she held ethan while he had the injections, i couldn't do it i felt too mean, poor little man was asleep when they did the first one and his little face screwed up and he dropped his bottom lip and cried only for a few secs though, he fell asleep before they did the other one too so it was the same again. He had panadol 1/2hr before having them. Unfortunately the immunisations caused him to get a fever and his temp got up to 39.5 degrees so i had to to take him to the hospital at 4.30 thursday morning and they put him on a drip for 2hrs as he wouldnt feed & got a bit dehydrated then they let us go home at 7am when his temp reached 37 and by 10pm lastnight his temp was back to 36.4 YAY! And he has been a very smiley boy all afternoon, Even when he bumped his head on the floor!! I went to the toilet while he was laying on his play gym and when i came back he had wriggled his way across the floor and just as i reached down to pick him up his head fell foward and bumped on the floor.

Any way ladies I am being "called" rather loudly as its feed time, so will hopefully pop back tomorrow.

Goodnight
Hope you all get some sleep. I wish ethan would sleep longer than 3.5hrs!!

[August]

Tears ~ Poor Ethan, that must have been so scary for you. Lucas is due next week for his vacc’s. Good to hear that he is all better now.

Squishee ~ Glad to hear the co sleeping is working well, how is his feeding now? Sounds like your little one loves his cuddles. It’s amazing how at such a young age their personalities really show. Lucas has the odd day when all he wants is to be cuddled, but usually after being spoilt by his dad on the weekends so mondays are always tragic here.

When we were co-sleeping Lucas slept up on our bed, but in a baby carrier. He also slept in it during the day on the couch; I could just pick him up and move him. Maybe something like this could be handy for you as you can snuggle them in really well to sleep, but have them close enough so they know that your there. It would also be handy to put into the big cot. I was given mine but I've seen them at target.

Ngala ~ LOVE THE DRESS! And wow at the amount of milk Avaleigh is drinking! She must be growing into a big strong girl.

Rebecca ~ Very jealous of your abundant sleep. Please do share your tips!

Jemima ~ Hope you are feeling better hun, I bet you will be on your feet and well again in no time.

Mel ~ I’m not on any contraception but I do have a prescription for the mini pill. I was going to wait until AF to arrive to take it but I'm undecided as I'd also like to chart my cycle again for natural birth control, but I need AF to show up first for that too. So haven’t quite decided. I wouldn’t mind falling pregnant again though, not that I really should so soon, but if it were to happen I’d be happy.

Blueflower ~ lol dummy duty that’s great, hope you had a good rest. That’s such a cute pic of Kaetlyn in your ticker, what a beautiful smile!

Janno ~ I’m usually in bed my 7.30pm! Nice to meet you and your big boy Liam! Lucas is only 3.7kg (his corrected age is 4 weeks) but it already seems as if we could go up in nappy sizes!

Flossie ~ Lucas is mostly FF and breastfeeds once or twice a day still. The book Save Our Sleep by Tizzie Hall explains how you can adjust the times by 10 minutes to make up the time???…way too complicated for me but you might be interested as everything sounds like its going so well for you so you may find it easy. The longest stretch Lucas usually sleeps at anytime is between 7pm bedtime and 12am. Then he wakes at 2am and 4 am and always has ever since we brought him home! I don’t really mind too much but it would be good to get through with one less feed at least!!

On the home front...

Everything is well here, I've been getting into the gardening and enjoying the sun and things being more settled after a crazy few weeks. I've also been tackling the things around the house that I've been putting off for ages, and catching up with little things I have not finished like sending off the thank you cards which I need to do!!

Hope everyone is well and *big love*. I have not posted for a bit but I've been reading all the updates and it sounds like there is lots of things to look forward too, like the weddings! I also have msn if anyone would like to add me feel free.

I really should try and go back to bed!

night!

[tears_of_joy]

Hi Everyone

Here's hoping your all having a wonderful saturday. Its very quiet in my house at the moment but i will enjoy it and not complain too loudly!!

Well unfortunately my wish for Ethan to sleep longer than 3.5hrs lastnight did not happen....he woke up every 2 instead!! Lol but he wasnt sad or grumpy when he was awake he would just have his bottle, nappy changed a little cuddle and back to bed, so he was awake for 45mins - 1hr each time. Suprisingly though i feel great, only a little tired. Ethan is asleep now, has been for 1/2hr not sure how long he will sleep for but he was awake for 2.5hrs before he did go to sleep.
I had to go to the loo earlier and ethan was wide awake so i popped him in the nursery under his play gym and turned the music on and was expecting him to cry by the time i shut the door but he didnt and 1hr later he was still happily laying there playing and talking!!! He has never done that before But then he got tired and had enough so i changed his nappy, put him in his cot and off to sleep he went. He really has been an angel today. Just hoping he wont sleep for hours and not want to go to sleep tonight.

I just ate a very late lunch while i did this and now im going to go do some house work and hopefully i will get most of it done while ethan is sleeping. The house work has been pretty neglected lately Lol!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and i hope you all get some nice sleeps.