Welcome Babybella! And hi to everyone else too, I don't get on here that often any more (I wonder why.......!!)
Great to hear what everyone is up to and what all our babies are doing - it's reassuring to hear people experiencing the same things. Angus hated tummy time until last weekend, when he was ok with it for about 5 whole minutes (much better than crying right from the start). He's a reflux baby too, so I guess that might be right re the tummy pressure.
Angus has had his first nap in the cot, he was a bit bemused and took a while to nod off, but that was a good start. I reckon we'll try a few more over the next couple of weeks as he's growing out of the bassinet rapidly. He's a long lean baby, into 00 in length in some brands, but not filling out the clothes fully. Guess he's taking after the genes on both sides.......
We had our first trip to Melbourne yesterday and today - normally a 4 hr drive from home, so I was a bit worried. But he went really well, one break for a feed in the middle, and just got a bit whingy when we were arriving in Melb. So he went to the accountant, a cafe, to a cricket gear shop with his dad, for a walk around town with dad, and to a restaurant - all without crying! He's such an interactive baby - loves to be held and see what is going on around him. He tends to stay awake when such interesting things are happening, then crash from overtiredness around 6 or 7pm - which works quite well.
He's taken to having great conversations now too, stopping in the middle of a feed to have a chat and a smile. And he had been sleeping through from aobut 11 to 6 most nights, but sat/sun/mon woke at 4 again. I think it might have been because of saturday's overstimulation - watching the AFL grand final with friends up at one of the resorts at the snow. Lots of people wanting to pick him up and jiggle him around etc etc - one held him over her arm on his tummy when he was crying trying to wind him, and before I could say "don't do that please he has reflux" he vomited out his mouth and nose, poor little boy. Much crying with red face ensued, and he was quite unsettled sun and mon. Poor little love. His nose is still a bit irritated (babysnot galore) but he seems more relaxed and happy now.
My English cousin is in Aus with her 9 mth old baby, and I heard she's got a great portable bed/tent for him made by Nomad. I've googled it, and there's an aussie one similar called a Kinderkot. Has anyone actually seen or used these in real life? Looks fantastic to me esp for the space saving bit when travelling, better than a huge portacot.
Great to hear from you all too, and lovely to see your pics.
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