Babies Born March 1st - 15th 2008 #2

**Trillian** · June 1st, 2008, 09:14 AM

This thread is for parents whose baby was born in March 1st to 15th 2008.

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There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Breastfeeding General Chatter
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Baby Formula - What Manufacturers Don't Want You To Know
Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information
Is Feeding Your Baby Taking Too Much Time?
Bottlefeeding General Chatter
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids/Homemade Baby Food
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?
Starting Solids General Chatter

Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids or formula.

Sleeping Support:

Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum
Comforting Tools to Aid Restful Sleep
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Con of Controlled Crying
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Wearing
Recommended Reading List

Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids
Gentle Parenting Forum

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**~clover~** · June 1st, 2008, 10:03 AM

Hi all, glad u remember me. I had some financial probs & they came & took my pc back

Got a new one now. Paid in full, so I'll be hanging around for a while.

Prama, No not working at the pub anymore. Stopped in January coz we moved away. Even more out in the sticks now - well further from Dubbo - but in a bigger town. It feels wierd to have neighbours.
Kinda missing it. At home with the 3 kids 24/7 now. Haven't had them away for more than a few hours since I gave birth. Not that I'm ready to part with Jesse yet. I've had offers!

For those of you breast feeding, how often are your bubs feeding? I only got to 6 & 4 weeks with the girls coz of the pain first time around & colic with Bri, thought formula would help. It didn't.
Jesse is still going strong - every 2 hours. I didn't mind to start coz he was sleeping til 4am if he fed aroud 8 or 9. but the last 2 weeks he's been feeding every 2 hours through the night too. Last night was better, he went about 4 or 5 hours between feeds, but is everyone else feeding this often??

**~clover~** · June 1st, 2008, 10:06 AM

Oh & does anyone else use glycerine on dummies?? The chemist suggested it when he had thrush & he doesn't like the dummy without it anymore. I'm slowly weaning him off. I've had mixed reactions to it even though i know alot of people who've used it. Just wondering what your thoughts are.

**Lisaqg** · June 1st, 2008, 10:37 AM

Seeing as they put in a new thread as soon as I posted I've reposted my last post so everyone can see it

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well I suppose its time for an update from me

Jake is going well, he was at his 8wk check 5.1kg and 62cm long hes grown since then so I am going to weigh and measure him on monday. He is a long and skinny baby!!!still in Newborn disposables (infants don't fit, they are huge!!!) he now wears 00 jump suits and has almost grown out of them leangth wise but they are so baggy round the middle!!!!! he can still fit most 0000 clothes though he has been bought lots of 000 so he is wearing them most of the time.

he is now 100% breast fed, no sheilds etc....he does get a bottle if I am busy but not often. It tskes abou 30-40min for a feed in the day, morning feeds are longer as he drains both boobs which takes a while!!! He sleeps from about 8pm till 4am most nights has a quick feed and then sleeps till 7am when he has a really big feed.

Our routine tends to got like this:

4am - Feed, back to sleep
6:30-7am - Feed, then drop dad at work
7:30am -Ride my young horse for 1/2 hour or so depending on how long jake is contented in his swing for
9am - time for another feed
9:30-11am - Playtime,
11:15am - Feed
11:30 Sleep
2:30pm - wake from sleep and feed
3pm - 4pm - playtime
4:15pm - Feed then drop off at babysitters so I can ride my other horse for an hour
6:30pm - pick up from babysitter & feed
7 - Feed
8 - Bath, feed and bed

I have been very busy the last few weeks preparing for shows with the horses and we had a massive clinic with 2showjumping and dressage instructors last weekend so have not had much free time!!!

**marknjo** · June 1st, 2008, 10:47 AM

Shell - Glad Doni is home safely!

Danni - Don't worry about Jazz sucking her fists, it is a developmental stage and they say not to put mittens on their hands so that they can suck them. She will also start sucking on everything in her hands once she is co-ordinated enough so get used to having sloppy things around!

Prama - Sorry about your bad day also, definitely sounds like we all had a bit of a shocker!
Love your love story! Mark and I met in 96 through friends at the "Edgy" a local pub where people who went to the schools in our area grew up hanging out at. Over the years we have worked out that we have many mutual friends but just never actually met each other even though we were at the same parties or night clubs at the same time! I think that it was fate to meet when we did as any other time was obviously not the right time! We got married in 2002 (he took so long to propose!) and then finally decided to try to start for a family in 2006.
And as for Garth's vowels, he said he takes her to be his awfully leaded wife! Very funny - we are going to have a good laugh about it at mothers group on Wednesday!

Lisa - Great to hear from you Jake sounds like he is doing fantastically well! It's fantastic that you have got right back into your horses, you must have missed not being able to ride while you were pg (especially with all of the problems that you were having keeping him in!).

BJ - Haven't needed to do the glycerine thing on the dummy, Caitlin is fine with it without. Now that she is drooling heaps more I spend a lot of time wiping her face and the dummy as for one it looks gross when her face is covered in drool and also I don't want her skin to get all red and raw! I hope she is not going to be a huge drooler!
I don't know how you cope with having to feed every 2 hours, especially with 2 other kids, it would drive me mental. I hope that it spreads out a little sooner rather than later.

Wedding went well, Caitlin was so well behaved apart from the drive home! The wedding was in Warrandyte which is about an hours drive from home and she started crying almost as soon as we put her in the car. I ended up having to get in the back seat and stroke her face to keep her calm until we got home. I think she might have had some wind but being confined in the car seat made it worse because as soon as we got home and took her out of the seat, she did a couple of big burps and fluffs and was a lot happier. We put her to bed in her cot in her room last night for the first time in weeks and she slept the whole night (7hrs) and then had a feed and went back in the for another 3 hrs sleep - Yay! I am going to try and not have her sleep in our room from now on.

Anyway, gotta play hockey today so need to get everything ready. Have a good one all.

Jo.

**Lisaqg** · June 1st, 2008, 10:47 AM

A little more from me because I can

Jake had been sleeping though the night but the last week he began waking at 1am and fussing, I have put it down to bad wind as he's had infacol for the last day and he's slept through till 4 again last night (thank goodness!!!)

I demand feed him and he generally feeds every 2 hours during the day except when he's sleeping and then he will sleep all night. Works for me and I wil lkeep doing whatever works LOL...he's a very good baby and until the last week he rarely fusses so fingers crossed we find out what's wrong with him (hopefully just wind!!!)

How often do your babies poo? Jake has gone to once every 5/6 days and they say that's normal but he acts like he is in pain for the last two days before he poops. He pulls his legs up and will just start screaming for no reason...it's hard to comfort him then too as he's obviously in pain...I have started giving him a little diluted apple juice to try and help him be a little more regular but it's hard as there are so many conflicting reports. We have a doc's appt on tuesday so fingers crossed we can answer a few questions.

I can't get over how long jake is....he's like a string bean and certainly not chubby...he is healthy and growing so I need to stop worrying I guess. I have posted some photos in my gallery for everyone to look at

**marknjo** · June 1st, 2008, 10:52 AM

Oh yeah, also, if anyone is interested, I have done a Website for Caitlin! This is the link - Welcome

Lisa - I have heard that it is normal for them not to go for up to 3 weeks! Caitlin does 1 - 2 poos every day still though.

**~clover~** · June 1st, 2008, 10:56 AM

Jesse poo's about 6 or 8 times a day. then not at all through the night. I like it coz I don't change him through the night, so he doesn't wake up properly. The glycerine is supposed to act as a laxative though, so I can't really help.