Babies Born July 2007 #7

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Hi Ladies,

Is anyone else feeling totally exhausted?! Today i feel like my eyes are wrapped in sand paper and my left arm feels like its dragging on the ground (thanks to my little darling not letting me put him down all day). Ethan is asleep now and i really should be in bed but have had no "me" time for the last 2 days so here i am with a hot chocolate and strawberry Tim Tams and omg its so quiet!! Lol

Gee things around here have been moving pretty quickly, lots to read

Mel- Sorry to hear that little charlize has been so unwell, poor darling and you sound as though you could do with a great big hug, its terrible when they get sick, hopefully its all sorted very soon and charlize will be on the road to recovery. Take care.

Dee- Welcome back, its wonderful to hear that things are going well with Jordan still. Hows the rest of the family going?

Megan-

I am so over this pram thing...just went for a walk on a lovely Melbourne day and Lucas screamed, i feel like such a bad mum walking the footpath with a screaming baby! I wish i knew what the problem was cos as soon as i pick him up he's fine...aaarrrhhhhh!

I Know what you mean, unless ethan is in a good mood an settled he will just cry until i take him out again (he loved the pram until he was about 6wks) I get stressed a bit when i need to go somewhere if ethan is unsettled b/c then i need to wait to go out, i had planned to head to the shops this morning but ethan was very clingy so i never got there until 4.30pm at least it had cooled down a bit though.

Veronica- Wow you have been busy lately, hope you have sorted out what your going to do re feeding avaleigh at your wedding. How are the plans coming along? oohhh not long to go now. It has been hot here today too and i just feed ethan formula when he is hungry and offer boiled water between feeds, he loves his water, i wish i did!

Sacha- firstly i love your DD's name, so pretty

I would love to give Autumn water as I know she loves it (ie. licks at the bath water all the time) but I was told their kidneys can't handle it yet - anyone know if that's actually true?

I haven't heard that before so i really dont know. I first gave Ethan boiled water at 4 days old as it was reccommended by my midwife as he had terrible wind and wouldnt part with it, it helped and he loves it ever since, I now give it to him between feeds as its got warmer and he seems to get quite thirsty, he will usually drink anything from 60 - 120mls. Hope your baptism is smooth sailing, im sure Autumn will be an angel.

Bensmum-

It is awful here when your baby cries in public too, everyone just stares at you like you shouldn't have brought him out of the house!

YEP! here to, it really doesn't help your confidence does it Rude! Hmm i too wish ethan would sleep through! He is a slow eater though and will sometimes take 1hr and 1/2 to go back to sleep.

Every night I think tonight is the night and then when he wakes up I get so disappointed!

This is what i do...I tell myself that ethan will wake up in a few hours so when he does im expecting it but if he happens to sleep longer then its unexpected and i get excited. I have promised myself not to get to excited though as i did that before after he started sleeping 6-10hrs then out of the blue he has changed to waking every 2-3hrs, it was like the first few weeks all over again

Michaelsmum- My Dh works on the mines too, he is away for 2 weeks home for one, occasionally its three but hasn't happened since ethan was born yet. I cant ring him when its a hard night though as he turns his phone off It gets pretty tough hey. There are a few of us in here now with partners working away.

Oops!! I can hear a little boy telling me he is hungry lol Hmm he has only been asleep for 1.5hrs, grr! Back in 10 to finish this....

Okay im back this time with ethan drinking his bottle but he is smiling at the same time and has milk all around his mouth and chin!! We had ethan's 12wk MCHN appt last wednesday and he is growing nicely he is now 5.7kg. On monday we went on a 2.5hr drive to have some professional photo's taken, i cant wait to see them but gee what a crazy photographer lol jumping all around the place like a kangaroo on caffeine!! Lovely guy though. We can go and have a look at them in 2weeks and then can go and pick them up a week to 2 after that, im impatient, i wanted them straight away! I also went to my first mothers group, i was so scared (very shy) but it was only me and my mum and 2 other ladies that came and they were both lovely,(aparrently more people next week) one of the ladies has a little 7wk old boy and she is not really shy but just doesnt get out much and has only lived here for 6mths and she asked if i would like to attend the 3 week mobile baby massage course with her and i was like hmm i would like to but im not sure (to scared!!) and she said well im ringing to book you in we can go together lol we swapped numbers and she rang me today to see if i would like to meet her at her house tomorrow and we will walk there together, she only lives 3 streets away from me and the place where its held is just around the corner from her, so thats my morning planned out. Its a great opportunity though as its very rare that we have things like this available.

Any way ladies its time for me to try get ethan back to bed and get some zzz's myself.

Hope you all have a lovely day today.

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Hi girls! Well we had a pretty good night last night. I put Tom to bed after his 7pm feed and then at 11pm, i went in and 'dreamfed' him. I wasnt sure if it would work but it was the funniest thing. He just drank with his eyes closed, then i burped him, re-wrapped him and put him back in bed and that was that! He didnt wake up at all. It was kind of freaky actually - i would keel over if i was asleep and someone stuck a bottle in my mouth! DH decided last night would be the night we would stop wrapping Tom (i swear sometimes he thinks he is Supernanny!). I mentioned that we hadnt brought Tom a sleeping bag yet or anything, but apparently 'we wouldnt need one'. After i made him go in Toms room to put the blankets back on him after he had kicked them off 8 times, all of a sudden DH decided prehaps tonight wasnt the night to stop wrapping.. Bit too cold apparently. Funny that!

The pram walk went well at mums group. I never thought i would join a mums group as i am pretty shy, but i have a good group of girls and its funny how you can talk for ages about your baby and not get nervous! Tears of Joy - we did a baby massage class and it was really good. When we got home, Tom passed out and slept for 5 hours. I try to give him a bit of a massage most nights although sometimes he just cracks it.

Jo - you are so right about this being a great place to chat about things we are going thru. I can see there is a few other girls have problems with the heat - we had our first proper hot day on Sunday and Tom just lost it. He didnt know what was going on. We have never bothered to get an airconditioner, but will definately be purchasing one now, especially for the days that its just too hot to go outside and we will be stuck at home all day. It was ok when it was just me and DH. We were never really home much - always at work or out doing stuff. On really hot nights, we would sometimes put a matress out in the garden, take out a bottle of wine and and lay out there until the house cooled down. Ahh, those were the days!

Mummy Mel - sending you big hugs for Charlize (that is such a beautiful name). You are so brave - i know the feeling that you get when they look at you like 'help mum' and it is heartbreaking.

Well better be off to do some house work. Tom has a chiropractors app this afternoon but i will pop back later maybe to see how everyone is xx