Good evening Finally I can catch up! Just put Niall down for his shortest nap of the day/night. When he wakes up he'll have a play, a shower, another play a big feed supplemented with frozen EBM via bottle which I have to use up because they are approaching the 3 month-in-the-freezer mark. I've been doing this for the past few nights... i wonder if it's helped him sleep a bit better because he's been on a dream run of late! I know it won't last... teething will become an issue soon and that always really mucks things up. It's so true about not believing the myth that solids help then sleep longer at night... I've never noticed it with my previous 2. I just give Niall an extra 60ml of EBM btw. I've still got another huge batch of frozen EBM but that bag is only 2 months old. I've also bought a container of formula but that's only an insurance policy just incase something unexpected occurs and I don't have time to express and I need to be away. I also have this irrational fear that we'll experience a blackout and I'll "lose" all my precious frozen EBM. It took so long to build up. My own supply is still very good... infact it doesn't take long before I get engorged so if anything it's an oversupply situation... it's a real juggling act trying to use up what's frozen but making sure i don't interfere with what Niall is regulating. I guess they would recommend I just throw out the expired BM from the freezer... but I just can't bring myself to do that!
Karen: All my children have always slept on their tummies... but with Niall I "confessed" to my MCHN that I did this and she was surprisingly ok with it when I said we had no other risk factors (non smoking household, firm mattress, no cot bumpers etc etc etc)... she said that from her experience about 1 out of every 10 babies refuses to settle on their backs to sleep and it usually runs in families... well I'm sure our family is one of these... she also said that Niall had unusually strong neck muscles and that it would be ok. However I'm not saying that every baby should tummy sleep... there are good reasons why back sleeping is more commonly recommended... maybe raise it with your MCHN and she what she says.
Verity's graduation went very well, thanks for asking Niall came along and spent nearly the whole 2 hours attached to me (I'm sure THAT helped my over supply issue!) but at least he didn't cry. Wade on the other hand was a bit teary with the babysitter... he told her he wanted his bottle (we STILL haven't weaned him off that... I know, it's crazy) and that he wanted to go to bed early. He rarely has a sitter but he's had this lady before... he's shy with most people at the best of times. Verity thoroughly enjoyed herself. She loves singing on stage as part of a large performance. We went to a cafe on the way home and had hot chocolates and cake. For our new June mummys we've struggled and sacrificed since Verity was in 4yo kinder to send her to private schools. $60,000 later and we figured we've made a good investment... but we are only half way there! I was saying to IK the other day that it really doesn't matter now if we have a financial crisis and she has to go public because her character is nicely formed and she has a great attitude to learning (she LOVES school). She also has values such as personal presentation firmly ingrained and when she sees girls wearing dog collars and purple hair to school she leans toward me and says: "that's not really appropriate is it Mum?" LOL I don't want to start a debate over public vs private... this is just how we choose to spend our money (we know people who have chosen to spend the same ammount on a wedding/honeymoon, and we bite our tongues... wish they would do the same for us... not many of our friends seem to think private education is necessary so we don't get much support )... anyhow I don't judge others who make different choices I actually had an ok public education but it was in the country 20 years ago and so it's a very different situation for our children... oh and DH and I haven't had a wedding ceremony/honeymoon yet.... we'll do that after we educate our kids... if we can afford it! LOL
uh oh... Niall awake... better go... back later
ETA: checked out the piccys on your PB IK: thanks for taking them ... The lightened one is good... others a tad dark.
Finally I can catch up! Just put Niall down for his shortest nap of the day/night. When he wakes up he'll have a play, a shower, another play a big feed supplemented with frozen EBM via bottle which I have to use up because they are approaching the 3 month-in-the-freezer mark. I've been doing this for the past few nights... i wonder if it's helped him sleep a bit better because he's been on a dream run of late! I know it won't last... teething will become an issue soon and that always really mucks things up. It's so true about not believing the myth that solids help then sleep longer at night... I've never noticed it with my previous 2. I just give Niall an extra 60ml of EBM btw. I've still got another huge batch of frozen EBM but that bag is only 2 months old. I've also bought a container of formula but that's only an insurance policy just incase something unexpected occurs and I don't have time to express and I need to be away. I also have this irrational fear that we'll experience a blackout and I'll "lose" all my precious frozen EBM. It took so long to build up. My own supply is still very good... infact it doesn't take long before I get engorged so if anything it's an oversupply situation... it's a real juggling act trying to use up what's frozen but making sure i don't interfere with what Niall is regulating. I guess they would recommend I just throw out the expired BM from the freezer... but I just can't bring myself to do that!
)... anyhow I don't judge others who make different choices
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