Babies Born June 1st - 15th 2008

[skye+cammi]

hello everyone,
sorry i have been slack at posting cammi has just been cranky after her needles and now she has a rash all over her hoping its just a sweat rash.

leesha-congrats on expressing for so long your very brave..have you tried to give taj solids yet?

littlepig-yay for frayja..i clap and sing when she starts to get cranky it distracts her for a little bit..cammi also stands holding our fingers she gets cranky if we dont do it..

everytime i put cammi on her back she always rolls over and throws up everytime when on her belly has anyone else had this prob?

miranda-is zeke sleeping any better for you?i am dreading when its full on hot day after day..

hotkim-cammi loves solids she gets upset when i take it away..she hasthe hang of it now its not as messy as before...how is nate?

[Mirandabelle]

littlepig - way to go Frejya! I'm glad she's giving you more sleep and spending more time on her tummy. Once she realises how strong she can get there'll be no stopping here!

Skye - Zeke sometimes throws up if I put him on his tummy too soon after a feed, maybe increasing the time between a feed and tummy-time will help Cammi? Probably harder to do if she can roll herself though!

Sleeping is still hit and miss... I think he's making up for being such a wonderful newborn who'd sleep 6 hours stretches every other night!

[leesha]

Hi all!!!
No I havn't started the solids yet but I am seriously thinking about it over the next few weeks!!
Hopefully tomorrows appointment with his surgeon might shed some light onto when we will get a surgery date and work towards fattening him up!!!
5 months tomorrow since I have been expressing which is a milesone I am very proud to have reached!! See if I can get to 6 months which was my ultimate goal!!!

Tummy time was a struggle for me aswell but I have noticed and did read somewhere that the more tummy time you can give them the better they will sleep and it is so true with my DS! Just give them about a 20min to half hour break from feed to tummy as they will usually throw up!!!!

Has anyone got a tooth yet? I think we are not far off getting our first tooth as he is showing all the classic signs!!!!!

[skye+cammi]

hi ladies,

when she is on her belly sometimes there will be 2hrs after her feed but will still throw up it doesnt bother her its just sometimes i will look down and she has her face in spew and she always rolls over everytime i put her down..
no teeth yet but it looks like cammi's gums are starting to swell up now so hopefully we get some soon..

[Mirandabelle]

Skye - if it doesn't bother her, and she's not losing weight or fluid, I wouldn't be too worried. She'll probably outgrow it as the muscles at the top of her stomach get stronger I guess.

Leesha - congrats on making 5 months! I'm sure you can get that last month under your belt easily.

No teeth yet, the odd screaming session and lots of drool though. I don't think Zeke's gums have changed any, but he's always had really clear bumps where his teeth will be since he was born.

[MummyPig]

Hi Miranda - Freyja also used to sleep really, really well for the first 3 months. Most nights she slept at least 6 hours before waking and then would give me another few hours after she'd had a feed and her dummy popped back in. Now though, it's 4 hours max

Hi Skye I think Miranda and Leesha are right about the waiting period between feeding and tummy time. I do know some mums who stick their bubs straight on their tums after a feed, but in my exerience it's the worst time to try it with Freyja. Oh, and Miranda's right about their tummies - they're so tiny at this stage that when they're full and you lay them down (or jiggle them too much!), the food has to go somewhere. Usually up!

5 months!? Way to go Leesha!! You are doing such a fantastic job expressing for so long when so many mums would have given up as soon as the baby had feeding probs. You are obviously a very strong-willed lady!

And good luck with the solids - might even get more sleep!

Freyja was bad for a while with feeds at 8pm before bed, 11.30ish, 1.30ish, 4.30ish and then up at 6am for more and just not settling to sleep during the day unless I was with her (velcro baby)!

I think I've cracked the problem now though - growing and needing more nutrients. She'd been obsessed with us eating since she was 3-months, but we'd only given her a little bit once a day from about 4 1/2mths. My milk has never returned to full capacity, so she has smaller bb feeds than before, hence the reason there's so many and also why I think she was waking through the night, so she's on solids properly now with 3 meals a day and still has 5-6 b/f a day.

When you do give Cammi solids Skye, make sure you fill her up with her milk first and then offer her the food afterwards. Milk is still the most important food until they're 12 months old (will you manage to express for that long?!) and you might find that she's more willing to try solids when she's not hungry.

As for the teething, Freyja has had bouts of it with all the symptoms, but as yet no teeth through. Last one was a 2-week nightmare that coincided with everything above, so she's had a bad time of it poor thing. Her gums were flat when born, now bumpy on top, hard, hot and can see the white - especially where her molars are (sorry, will be!). Hylands teething tabs have been a godsend!

PS - just noticed that my username was changed as requested and also it affects my previous posts. Hope that's not too confusing!

[Mirandabelle]

Wowie... Freyja is growing so fast! My milk supply increased when Zeke started solids, he loves them, but he started to nurse more too, he made it all too clear he wasn't going to settle for any less boob time!

He has a solid breakfast every day, and dinner if he seems hungry, originally it was only 2 or 3 nights a week, but now he will skip dinner maybe once per week.

I'm teething now though... my final wisdom tooth is making a slow and agonising appearance... I feel like I've been punched in the face!

[MummyPig]

Hi Miranda

What makes you say Freyja is growing really fast? She's little for her age (we're not tall - although she def has her mummies thighs!) and has always been on the 25th percentile. When we went to our first mother's group the other week, I was amazed at how big all the other babies were and the oldest one was only 3 weeks older. They were all huge in comparison!

I hadn't thought that babies might want to nurse more when they get solids, but am glad they do! Hopefully my milk might even get to a decent level again. Reason we actually gave Freyja solids properly was that she was feeding so often, we thought she must need more.

So, you give brekkie and then dinner IF Zeke's hungry? How much and what do you give at these meals?

Freyja is currently having brekkie, dinner and supper before bed, as well as booby at each of these times and at least 2 other times during the day. She now has the equivalent of a jar of food each time. We'd started her off with only 3 teaspoons (an ice-cube size) once a day. She always wanted more and was still waking every hour at night for food, so we upped it to twice a day and then had to keep upping the amounts as she wanted more and more. There's no need to persuade her to take the food as she has her mouth open and is leaning forward for the next mouthful before we've even loaded the spoon!

According to the MCHN, 3 tablespoons is the max she should be having. That's only the equivalent to one jar of food I think...?

I do feel sorry for you with the wisdom teeth coming through! Bad huh? I didn't feel them come through really, well, not that I remember, but I do remember getting 3 out at once because they were impacted and every single one getting infected. Now that was painful!

You should try using the baby teething products and see how effective they are!

[Mirandabelle]

The three meals a day thing... Zeke's only on two and is about a week older than Frejya... but every baby is different LOL! He's a lightweight too... usually around 25th percentile for weight, sometimes a bit bigger for height... he seems to have my metabolisim!

At the moment he has 1 tablespoon of fruit mixed w/1 of cereal or 2tbs of veggies. He won't eat veggies with cereal! I think a jar is about 3tbs... I don't have an exact tablespoon measure, so I'm kind of guessing from my normal sized spoons! He has dinner every night now. We started with breakfast only, and went by his cues in the evening as to whether he was really hungry, and fed him if he seemed unsatisfied with nursing alone. He normally has breakfast around 9am and dinner about 6.30-7ish.

I just made my own baby food for him so we'll see how he likes it tonight!

The tooth is being slow and painful still... it's not impacted or infected - that sounds horrible! But it sure is taking it's own sweet time!

[MummyPig]

Yeah, every baby is different and every day with them is different! Today Freyja napped properly (because mummy got it all right for a change) and so only had 2 meals as she wasn't awake long enough to fit the middle one in. Brekkie was at 12.15 and supper at 8.15.

She has bb when waking then again before her morning nap and again before brekkie. Then bb when she wakes if hungry, before her next nap, then if she's hungry when wakes, then before her next nap, then again when wakes and again before supper and maybe more if she wants it before bed. Only a couple of these times she has a full bb feed, the rest she tops up. Plus there's the night time one or occasionally 2.

I've no idea how many tbsp in a jar - not even seen a tbsp since cooking classes at school, despite having tried to buy one so I can get measures right when baking!

Freyja has either 2 cubes or half a jar of food (fruit for brekkie and veggies or whatever at other meals), mixed with 4 tsps on Farex made up with water. She has bb first. At the moment the only Farex we have is one with pear and banana or something, so for supper she had that mixed with sweet potato - nice... Clearly not fussy about mixing veggies with cereals!

Hope Zeke liked the food you made. What did you try and did you just make your own or follow a baby recipe?

Hope the tooth calms down before you try to sleep or you'll be needing to steal Zeke's bonjela!