Babies Born July 2007 #8

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Hi all,

Raels, careful in New Zealand, it is a lovely place to go. I went on my honeymoon there and came back pregnant

Mrs Daisy and Sacha, do you guys use the terry toweling suits, like the wonder suits. They have mittens built into the cuffs, and make great PJ's. The only thing is to be able to get the mittens over their hands you need the next sized suit iykwim. but they can't get them stuck down their throat.

For our next bub I have other names picked out, but that's only if I can make it that far without anyone I know using my names. I've had them all picked out for years, I'm convinced I'll end up with 2 boys and a girl.

amm, it's great to hear that your hubby is the one bringing p the #2. I'm waiting for mine to be just so besotted with our little one that he can't wait to have another. he knows I want another, and possibly another after that, but we also want a house, so #2 has to wait a while.

Star I agree you did a fantastic job on the cake. Lovely family pic too.

RE the heat and bum rashes, Xavier only gets nappy rash if I use baby wipes. At home I try to just use water and cotton make up removal pads, the round ones. They are much better, we don't get any nappy rash, and they are better for getting sticky poo off, than wipes are. A lady I work with told me recently that she still buys baby wipes because they are great for getting stains out. They even get biro out of clothes. That made me wonder just how toxic they are if they do that.

Sorry Leah, we went through cranky baby not sleeping a few weeks ago, and then suddenly he just changed. I think I improved more to the point. It is very emotionally tiring when you have a cranky baby all day though. But the same as Jan said, Xavier is only good for about 1-1.5 hours and then it's back. Sometimes we have to have some solid play for that time too, and sometimes if I start to get tired, I lay down beside him on the floor, we both watch telly for a minute and the next time I look at him his almost asleep. But all babies are different.

Thanks for all answering my question about bed time, it seems that the babies are all making the rules, Xavier used to choose 7pm as bed time, and then as it got lighter decided 8 was a better time, but sometimes goes to bed earlier. We don't have a routine before bed at all. We just have our last feed for the night and he quite often just zonks out. Sometimes he is still restless after that feed and I have to give him a dummy but it doesn't take him long to drop off. It has been a while since I've had to get out of bed earlier than 5.30am too. Haven't had many more 12hour sleeps but i'm hoping for 6am wake up as that will work well when i go back to work.

Megan, have you tried leaving him with a relative for a short stint. My niece is very clingy to my sis, yet if she is left with my mum and my sis goes away she is fine. It might just be because he knows your there.

Vent coming up... Is it unreasonable for parents to want to be the first ones to buy their son his first bike. MIL has already bought a fisher price walker/bike thing for his first birthday and put it on lay by before he was even born and then SIL phones the other day to let us know that she put a bike, a real bike on lay by for him and to see if this was ok, and I started feeling guilty when I started to say that we were really looking forward to buying him his first bike, so I ended up putting her onto Nathan after all it's his sister, and he told her he wanted to buy his fist bike (thankfully). But I mean to say the first bike is a pretty big thing, especially between a father and son. Don't people think?? I asked my sister if i was allowed to buy my niece a cabbage patch even, and now I've been instructed it's my job to provide my next niece with her cabbage patch too. But I didn't want to overstep the mark and tred on her toes.
Ok that's my vent

In order to actually finish this post I had to prop Xavier up in his highchair to watch me. FYI Farts are really loud on a vinyl seat, I best go change his nappy
Bye