Sheree it does sound like a lot to comprehend with Riley, vent all you like here!! I have added you to my Messenger list and sent you an invite so if you want to chat about TH that is probably the easiest, we cna see what we are doing different!!
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Beema, would love to talk to you about that routine. Ours is not working too well, just when I think it is working, he puts a spanner in the works. Do you have any suggestions?
As for Riley's health issues. He is ok. I was just having a moment. Think it was more that so many things had been thrown at us in a short amount of time really. But I am sure he will be ok. Thanks gals.
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Sheree it does sound like a lot to comprehend with Riley
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Hi everyone,
No real news about Josie today, but I have news about one of my furbabies.. I gave away one of my cats less than half an hour ago.. the couple that took her were really nice but I'm still really beside myself. I had her since she was six weeks old... so I'm kinda cut up about it, lol... I know she'll be looked after. She just wasn't getting the attention that she needed with us here so it wasn't really fair on her.
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Oh hugs darl.
I am desperate and needing to know how you all get your babies to sleep. My child is sooo hard to get to sleep! Just when we think he is asleep, we put him down and he wakes. He is the biggest trickster ever!!!
Had two crying babies tonight, my 2 year old and my baby, I am soooo doing my head in with all the crying.
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hi all....
just a quick pop in.
the boys are doing great. a little unsettled tonight but after a bath, a massage and a bit more boobie they have gone off to sleep and i hope they will stay there till at least 2 am.
Feeding in theory should be going well. they get lots of milk but never seem satisfied. even if i give EBM in a bottle they are still hungry, so i think its the milk not that they din't get enough. if they have formula they are quite happy, is it possible that breast milk isn't filling them? i will have to ask the clinic nurse next monday. it just makes it a bit tough.
and i feel bad tonight, they both have their knobs chopped tomorrow. its not all that painful tho, ike only cried with the anaceptic. he didn't even need panadol that night. but i still feel bad for them.
shereejoy i think our babies are still too young for technique's to control bed time rutines. if mine is restless then i go for a bath and massage and also i feed them a full belly makes everyone sleepy. i started to control cry isaac when he was about 6 months but to be honest i think 3-4 months is better. now he just about puts himself to bed. also i would just let bubs lie in bed awake they all drift off eventually, and making sure they are wrapped tight helps too.
and don't worry too much about little riley. our medical system is one of the best in the world and he will be looked after. and dont go thinking it was you. these things happen to everyone the good the bad and the ugly. don't worry he will be fine.
sebastian had an ultrasound to check for hip dysplacia. it seems it is a litle loose but we will do another US in a few weeks and hopefully it would have fixed itself. Caleb has a sucking problem too, he cant control his tongue, we should get that checked out too.
i should get an early night
Take care
love kristy
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Sheree - poor little Riley - he's got more than his fair share of issues hasn't he? I hope that's an end to his problems. We aren't doing anything special with Brock for sleeping - he's just a very settled baby. He is being formula fed so I know exactly how much he's getting so maybe that helps. On the odd occasion he has given us grief we check if he needs changing again (even if he just got changed sometimes he needs it again), and if that doesn't settle him we feed him a little more formula and then generally he's off to sleep. During the day he sleeps in his rocker. At night he sleeps in his cradle - in a sleeping bag. If he makes noise I get him out and rock him a little and as he closes his eyes I put him back in. I think there's less disturbance when using a sleeping bag. Sometimes he needs his dummy - I put it in and hold it there til he starts sucking it. I don't know if any of that will help you though.
Beema - it's great that Nakita is doing so well. It's awful when they have to prod bubs around like that for blood isn't it? Fortunately we haven't had to experience it since he came home though.
Kristy J - Was there any particular reason you decided to circumcise your boys? I'm glad I didn't have to even think about it was never an option for us as DF was against it. It would have been a very different situation had I managed to have a son with my ex though.
Anyway, better go, it's feed time.
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Gosh you are a champ with 2 babies. How do you do it! I musn't be very patient huh! you are doing a fab job.
As for the feeding. Are they getting the hind milk? I believe that is more satisfying. But like you there is atleast one time in the day I feel Riley is not content enuf even after he has sucked me dry for over 1/2 and hour to and hour. So I am going to trial some formula for the last feed of the night after he has has his booby juice. Worth a shot I guess. Are you bf both of them. Gosh your day must be so exhausting.
We had Riley circumcised at 4 weeks old, but we gave some panadol. He really was fine though. Maybe a little unsettled in the afternoon, but he went 6 hours between feeds that night.
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We tried a sleeping bag at first as Riley was one of these babies fighting to get out of his wrap that it woke him up. I feel he didn't sleep too badly in it, but I am trying the wrap method again to ensure he knows it is bed time when I wrap him. Guess he will get the idea soon enuf. Once asleep he is ok, but it is that first 20min sleep cylce he is a trickster. We put him to bed at 7pm last night and didn't get him asleep until 11pm and he had been up since 4.45pm. So it was a long awake for him. That is why I am trying a bit of formula tonight to see if that satifys him enuf, after his booby juice.
On a good note though, after fighting till 11pm, he then slept till 4.40am. He was exhausted. Then after a 15min feed I wrapped him and put him to bed. Again I put him down and he tricked me - eyes wide open. I still walked out of the room, but he settled himself. Whahooo.... probably a one off, but then I thought that the night before too, when he did it twice in a row through the night. So crossing fingers it works again 2nite. So after 4.40am wake and feed he went back to sleep until 8.45am.
So he can be good, but like the rest of us, we all have unsettled period throughout the day. I just struggle with the toddler as well at times, always have something else to do then to be nursing a baby to sleep all the time. So really he is doing well, only 6 weeks old. First first born was the 20min catnapping kid, so I can't really complain. Riley went back to bed at 9.45am this morning and slept till 11.30am. So his sleep cycles are def way better then Lachlan's ever were.....
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Just popping in to say Brock slept right through the night on Monday night. Yay!!!!!!!!! He woke at 6am. It was so good to get a full night's sleep. It was a one off though as he woke me at 4am today and then took about an hour to settle. It's amazing how different each day can be.
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Yay Brock.
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well when we had our older son it was a hard decition. so we made a list of pro's and cons to help. the list for the pro's was much longer than the cons. infact the only cons we had was pain and possible complications but IMO i don't think (in life) they are not good enough reasons not to do something after all i wouldn't have had babies if it was. plus i know woman who have had cervical cancer and the un-circumsised penis carries the papaloma virus that can trigger cervical cancer in their wifes later in life. so with the twins it was just a follow on from isaac.
they did fine the same as isaac did. cried when the anathetic needle went in, and a little after but i gave them both boobie and they were fine from then on. i feel a little bad they had to waite longer this time ( cause they were premmy isaac was 10 days old) so they would have more memory of it but they will get over it. today they will have their first bath after it so it may sting them a little as the skin is still raw.
shereejoy- yep i know exactly how tough getting them to sleep can be. caleb is an awsome sleeper I wrap him say good night put him in bed while awake and he drops off himself. but sebastian is just like his big brother Isaac and wants to be rocked to sleep. but NO WAY will i fall into that trap again it took months of control crying to fix isaac's sleeping problems. so now with sebastiab (even tho he is still a little to young) i wrap him say good night put him into bed and if he cries i pat him but don't pick him up unless i think their may be something else bothering him like a wet nappy or wind.
i rocked isaac to sleep every night and as he got older it caused so many problems in the end it was taking almost an hour to get him to sleep as when i would put him down he would cry. it was even making life harder with my DH as we didn't have any couple time all out time was devoted to the baby and housework so this time we are teaching them to self settle using a bath massage and patting method but making sure we leave them awake so they can go to sleep on their own. these days we say good night to isaac put him into his cot cover him and leave he puts himself to sleep, its much better. so by 7.30pm (ish) we are child free for 4 hours anyway till the twins need another feed.
also i have no idea if they are getting the hind milk i lightly massage my breasts to help bring it down but who knows. its funny tho in the last few days its only sebastian who isn't satisfied caleb is quite happy. so maybe its just seb is a hungry baby. but i give them both formula for the midnight feed so it gives me a longer sleep. so far i haven't noticed any drop in suply my body will adapt to it. i gave up feeding isaac too soon as i was uneducated on how feeding works but this time i understand that you can increase your suply as you need it. so i hope to do it longer. plus the weight loss is awsome.
I have always been a bit fat but when i fell PG i was almost 89kg yesterday i weighed in at 80.8kg so i'm so happy about that and the booby feeding is helping i know. plus i bought a treadmil so that helps too. DH said if i can get to a healthy weight about 65-70kg and keep it their for at least 2 years i can have a tummy tuck, lypo and booby lift i have been wanting. but i have to loose the weight forever as its very expensive. so that has made me happy and given me some drive to do it.
well enough of me crapping on i am going to c if i can get a pedicure today my feet are rotton (well kinda)
take care
love kristy
xoxo
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kristyJ - glad it all went well with the boys. It must've been hard to watch. I'm sure they wont remember though. You are identical weight to me at the moment - I weighed myself yesterday and that's exactly where I came in at. I'm only 5 foot 1 though so it's a bit on the overweight side for me, I'm about 1kg heavier than I was a week after giving birth. I was 76.5 prior to pregnancy (had been as high as 80 kilos at times though) so am hoping to get back to there again but haven't been doing anything about it so it's my own fault really. I feel like all I do at home now is eat. I must get it under control before I stack it on. I'm back on the pill now and my weight is usually more under control when I am on it.
Brock slept 8 hours last night. Yay - the best ever overnight sleep. It was around 7am when he woke this morning. Wish he'd do that every night.
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your not allowed to watch but i could hear it. its not pritty i watched s few clips of it on the internet while deciding when ike was born.
hmm with ike at school and the twins asleep im kinda bored....................
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Just a quick post, super busy atm with paperwork from our business (our Newsagency)....
but just came into brag..... SORRY gals but.....
My boy slept thru till 5am this morning.
My routine last night was 5pm Bath, 6.30pm Feed, 7.30pm Asleep, 10pm Dreamfeed, and then he slept till 5am. Whahoo.....
We heard him start to cry at 2am, and I said to Wade, ohhh 2am seems to be his time to wake!! And then Wade said just let him go for a minute and we will see if we have to go and get him. Sure enuf it was only a few little cries and then we never heard him again until 5am.
Gosh I can't believe it. Sleeping thru at 7 weeks old. Well we will see, 2nite is different night!
Feels promising though, you never know!
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thats awsome, hope its the same tonight 4 u
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where are all the mummas with bubs bore in late june??
its lonley in here.......................
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I have been away way too long to do personals!! Just so cought up with Byron. He is going great - absolutely NO ROUTINE! haha, guess thats my fault, SAHM, so I dont have a routine myself! Friday night he slept through, 930pm till 545am. But hasnt happened again, he falls asleep around 530pm most nights, and I try to do the dreamfeed thing, but hasnt worked so far... is there a good way to go about it?
He is in cloth nappies during the day, but have him in eco disp at night, as I think he sleeps better when he cant feel the wet!
Other than that I feed him when he's hungry, and he sleeps when he is tired. I think a routine might start to apear in the next month!
Hope to catch up on everyone and there bubs!
Smudgies Mum -
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Hi everyone!
I have also been away way too long to do personals! Sorry!!
Flynn is going great guns! He is such a cruisey little boy. His only "bad" thing is when we hit 5.30-6.00pm he starts crying and does not stop unless he gets picked up. But as some other mummies in here would know, when you have more than one, you cannot hold a baby constantly! So the poor bugger has to cry a bit but he's getting better.
Night time is all about routine for us. He has a bath around 8.30, then a feed, then bed. He wakes around 2-3 am for a feed (usually a fairly quick one) and then wakes around 7-7.30 am! Which is great for us as we are getting fantastic sleep but bad as I have a school aged child and we can't get to school on time!! Luckily he is only Prep so its not a big deal to be late. But still, would be nice for poor Will to just once get to school on time!
Flynn is growing nicely. He is 9 weeks this week and weighs 5.9kg! He's a chubba bubba but he is long with it too. Don't know about you guys but I love chubby babies!!
Still totally adored by his big brother and sister. Rory is such a little mother. She doesn't like him crying and will constantly try to shove the dummy in his mouth! When that doesn't work its "Mummy, I think baby Flynn needs your booby!" Which we find funny at home but a little embarrassing when its shouted out in the middle of the shopping centre!
Anyway, must go and get some more work done before I have to pick the other two up.
Take care mummies and bubbies!
Jean
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