Babies Born June 16th - 30th 2008

[MummyDuck]

Satya- I agree with Liv I would try weening the dummy, hard I know and it will take a while of listening to crying. Taylor didnt take a dummy until she was around 8 weeks and we only gave that to her because she literally cried all day after her immunisations, there was only so many hours I could have her attached to my breast.

While I was in hospital we had a girl whose little boy had bad refux and she put him on Karicare AR while in there and she said it made a great difference. Not long until solids either which she swears inproves it even more.

Glad to hear Brock finally got his needles and was a tough little man for you.


Livy: I love those human days. I think I am due for one soon, Im feeling a bit out of sorts lately.

In saying that I feel out of sorts I am actually a little worried I may be pregnant again. The bad dreams/episodes the feeling tired during the day and well my pill which has played havoc on me for the last 3 months with spotting every few days has all of a sudden stopped. And I took a pill a few hours late about a week and a half ago then again a few days later, Im getting really forgetful with it and Ive never been like that before. It would be my luck 2 years ago i had an operation for PCO and now..... well who knows maybe Im just overreacting. I ook a pg test the other day and no sign of being pg but Im still worried, Ill take another one maybe tomorrow and see if there is any change honestly I dunno what we would do if I was pg again. I dont think we could have it and yet I know just how hard it would be for me to go the other option. Better not jump ahead of myself ill just get upset.

[satya]

I wouldn't be game to try to get rid of the dummy yet. It has to get put in after every meal or he cries. I know he's not hungry it's that he gets bad wind & once the dummy is in we can then burp him. We do intend to get him off it by 12 months so are hoping that the wind & chucking will be completely resolved once solids start.

We've cleared a large space in the middle of our loungeroom. Brock is rolling all over the place so we thought it was time we gave him the room he needed so he doesn't keep rolling into couches. He looks like he's enjoying it immensely. He looks like a turtle when he's on his tummy craning his neck & head up. It's hilarious.

livyloosmum - nipple thrush - that sounds pretty awful. Glad I'm not BFing anymore!!! It's great you are feeling human again - it's so nice to have a little break. It looks like we will be on our mini break next week. A few days away somewhere midweek. It will be nice to have DF about all the time without any distractions of family and friends.

smudgiesmum - if you've been on the minipill for a few months now the spotting might have disappeared because your body is now used to it. Have you had some late nights or have you had to get up more during the night lately? That could explain the tiredness. I so understand your concerns re pregnancy. I am quite paranoid that it's going to happen to me again. It's ridiculous because it took me so long to have a baby and at my age my chances are getting so much lower all the time but still I imagine it's going to happen. I'm completely hopeless with pill taking & each month I have a very nervous wait towards the end of my cycle. I have done HPT's on a couple of cycles as I thought I might be, but I wasn't. I'm now charting in an effort to stop testing like that, and to try and stop stressing about it. At least I would see a temp rise if I was pregnant. I think in my case it might be caused by me wanting another baby but I'm not willing to give it another try for a number of reasons. Fingers crossed that your HPT's keep coming up negative.

[Serendypyty]

Hi everyone

Satya - I have a similar problem with Josie, although she doesn't sook for it every night, just sometimes? I guess it has something to do with her teething, I think she likes to bite her dummies a bit now for a bit of relief. So I have been making a habit of putting some bonjela on her gums before popping her dummy in and it seems to be helping.
For example last night she spat her dummy out a couple of times and I still had to go and put it in her mouth, but yet when I woke up at 7am this morning it was out of her mouth altogether and she was dead to the world.. lol

[satya]

Thanks Emma. I may give that a try. I think he's getting ready for teething as the already very dribbly bubby is even more dibbly (didn't think that was possible) and he's shoving the whole dummy in his mouth practically. We gave him a frozen teething toy today & he loved it. He slept well last night but it was a long road to getting him to sleep... a very frustrating evening for us.


We are off to Lakes Entrance for a few nights. Looking forward to a nice relaxing time & lots of eating out.

[Serendypyty]

How is everyone going?

Josie has been eating a little bit of food today, I have been giving it to her when she wakes up and doesn't want a bottle. Most of it ends up on her face anyway so I'm not concerned that I'm getting her into any bad habits or anything...

Hope your little munchkins are doing well!

[satya]

Gee it's quiet in here.

Emma - that sounds like fun. We think we will give Brock some baby rice soon. He woke us twice on our holiday in the middle of the night for food so I reckon it could be time for solids. He's also been feeding more often but that could just have been the hot weather.

Brock can now put his dummy back in his mouth so we aren't having as much disruption when he takes it out. Sometimes at night he can't get it back in but during the day he pretty much always can. He's also very good at holding his bottle suddenly. He's growing up so quickly.

We had a great little holiday. The weather was beautiful. We had a waterfront unit & got to feed swans right outside our door. One evening we had 17 black swans to ourselves. It was so peaceful & restful. Just what we needed.

[Serendypyty]

Haha, I love watching Josie trying to put her dummy in her mouth. Sometimes she likes to show off and take it out and put it back in again numerous times. Pretty amusing. I also like it when she gets it to her mouth but has it the wrong way... and then she had that look like "Yeah, I totally meant to do that".. hehehe!!

Glad to hear you had a nice break. I'm thinking about seeing if Luke's parents want to have bubba for a couple of days over Christmas and then go away for a little break. We would have been together for five years as of Boxing Day this year!