Babies Born June 16th - 30th 2008

**livyloosmum** · August 28th, 2008, 10:16 AM

HEY EVERYONE!!! Just wondering how you are all fairing with your new little darlings??? I cannot believe Charli is already 10 weeks old!!!! It's amazing how fast it's all gone and she is so big already. When Liv was born and all that I couldn't wait for the next stage and her to get bigger and so on - this time Charli is my little baby and I just want her to stay that way

Charli has been going so well. She has struggled with wind and would only pooh like every 5 days and even went as long as a week without poohing - but plenty of farting and smells going on in between . Poor thing. But she is on the other side of the 8 weeks and is starting to improve. Not to mention her immunisations helping with the pooh situation - she's been poohing away since Monday because of it.

I can't believe how amazingly well I have recovered from Charli's birth. I took months to recover from Liv's but this time has been completely different. My stitches were healed by 2 weeks and wasn't even sore there anymore at that point either!

Liv has been good in general - LOVES Charli to death and has been very helpful. Started to regress and have toilet accidents all the time, but has finally started to be good again, and has just stopped crying when we leave her at kinder or creche again. She never used to do it until bub was here. Few attention seeking behaviors at the end of the day that are driving me insane but really can't complain that much!

How are you all?? May be too busy to get on the puter hey?

Rach.xo

**jma** · August 28th, 2008, 01:47 PM

Hi!

Sheree, do you have any tricks when putting him to sleep? Do you feed him more often before bed? Well done you for him sleeping thru. Must be so nice to have everything going so well with his feeding. Is he a big bubba?? How is Lachlan going?

Flynn still has problems with wind. Maybe that is why he doesn't sleep thru. He grunts and farts alot but it seems to be hard for him to get out. I swear I should have shares in Infants Friend..lol!

Satya, maybe you could sleep Brock on his side with rolled up cloth nappies either side to stop him from rolling and turning his head to the favoured side?

Emma, Josie is absolutely gorgeous!!

Rach, glad to hear you've healed so well. I had to have an emergency c-section and it has taken me a long long time to recover. Very hard to handle when I'm used to natural births.

Better get back to work, take care ladies!

Jean

**Tan2705** · August 28th, 2008, 02:11 PM

Had my first interupted night in quite a while.. someone came into our house and swapped my baby for one who doesn't sleep LOL! I am so used to having my 10 hours it was particularly difficult getting up every hour or so! Cooper is super snuffly so I am thinking its the beginning of this dreaded cold that has been going around! I have had the vapouriser going to see if I can shift some of the mucus (good god muscus is a horrible word!) off his chest and he has had two really good sleeps thus far this morning and is well into his third for the day - fingers crossed.

Glad you found us Rach!! I adore the name Charli, would have been Cooper's name had he not been born with a 'spout' hehehe! Coop had similar dramas with wind and foul smelling bottom burps as a result of only pooing on tuesdays which we renamed poosday! His system sorted its self out after four weeks and he is now a pooing machine! Good to hear Liv has come around to the idea of having a lil sister! It can't be an easy adjustment!

Satya, Cooper tends to lay on his left side and subsequently has a flat spot also and as with Brock no matter how many times I move his lil noggin he just rolls on over again! Is it something to do with how they were positioned in the womb?? Anywho, intially tried rolling a nappy and placing it under the fitted sheet but he would roll over still and I was paranoid it would hinder his breathing! We have since placed a mirror on the right side of his cot hoping it provides a distraction and if he is anything like his mother his vanity will get the better of him and will stay on that side! We may be onto a winner LOL! Only time will tell!

Jean, Cooper was a BF bubby for 7 weeks and was sleeping through than! Flynn will drop that feed before you know it!

**jma** · August 28th, 2008, 02:30 PM

I hope so Tan!! If I was wasn't working it wouldnt worry me at all, but since I have to get up, get two other children ready for school & daycare & then myself ready (all on time), I'm absolutely stuffed and I am crashing come night time. I don't even think my head has hit the pillow and I'm asleep!!

I was so spoilt with Rory, she slept thru from 2-3 weeks (she was BF) but Flynn is behaving more like his brother (who was also BF). Will started like this but got worse as he got older. He was waking 6-8 times a night. We ended up doing controlled crying which worked a treat (he slept thru the first night!), I think we may have to do this with Flynn also. I guess I'll have to wait and see.

Will & Rory are sleeping at my parents house tonight, they are so excited!! We are heading to Townsville early morning so its easier for them to sleepover. Not sure if my dad is as excited! He loves having the kids but he also loves his sleep as he is sick and my two always end up in bed with Grandma & Grandpapa!

Flynn is yelling at me to feed him so best be off.

Have a good weekend everyone!!

Jean

**satya** · August 29th, 2008, 03:02 PM

Brock was well enough for his injections today so they went ahead. He was so brave. Just a little whimper and about 20 seconds of crying for each needle. Nowhere near as traumatic as I expected it to be. The doctor made me wait for 15 mins in reception afterwards in case he had a bad reaction. Did anyone else have to do that?

Rach - love the name Charli - it's one we were considering if we'd had a girl. We've also had the toilet accidents with my DstepD who is 5. Fun isn't it? She's also been quite difficult about eating of late too - I'll cook nice meals (or my mum will) and she just sits there saying she doesn't like eating a roast or lasagne or whatever it is when she normally loves it. She also announced she only eats junk food now and that she wants to eat in the lounge like Brock does. She was pretty good the last time we had her (apart from having 2 toilet accideents) so lets see how she goes this weekend.

Jean - I might try the side sleeping but I'm paranoid he'll not be able to breathe. I'm waiting for a Sassy side sleeping thing that apparently has something on it that positions their head but it hasn't turned up at the baby shop yet. I might have to go looking elsewhere this weekend.

Tan - Good thinking with the mirror - it could just work. My health nurse scared the crap out of me by saying if we don't move his head every time he has it that way that he will end up deformed. She reckons it can make the ear sit higher or lower than the other and that his eye could be effected as well. Maybe that's just her way of making sure that I do move him. My MIL said my DF did the same thing and she didn't do anything much about it and he turned out alright. She reckons once they get sitting it rights itself. I don't know what to believe.

It's been a rough couple of weeks with everyone sick with the cold, then my dad ended up in hospital with heart problems which are now OK but they wouldn't let him out cos his diabetes spiralled out of control. He's finally out now but we couldn't visit him as we were sick. It was such a worry as he's getting on and we didn't know how serious it was. It's nice to have everything back to normal now... hope it lasts.

**shereejoy** · August 29th, 2008, 03:32 PM

I got my papsmear results back. I finally have a clear papsmear. Since Lachlan was born I have had a low grade abnormality ever since and had a colposcopy to ensure no cancer after it being low grade for so long and found out I had HPV. When falling pregnant with Riley I had a papsmear that said possible high grade, so had another colposcopy whilst pregnant with him and it came back as low grade. So my 6 week papsmear results have come back all clear. Whahooo... what a relief. So hopefully my HPV has dissappeared too?????