Rachel, apparently water can help if she's a bit constipated. I suppose just boil it and let it cool down first if you worried about it? Have you changed something in your diet that might be affecting her pooing? Oooh I also bought some aktavite yesterday and I started drinking it today (and eating it out of the tin, hehe - its so tasty isnt it!). Thats cool if one of the other mums at your group is on BB (unless of course you have *****ed about here lol then its a bit embarrassing!!) Re Claires weight and my crap estimation - I have no concept of size or weight at all and Iwas totally thinking she would be around 6kg, but no, only 5.2kg! Claire was still cranky when I got home from my attempt to go to mothers group. Not sure what was going on, but she settled eventually, then woke up and wouldnt sleep again till I boobied her for almost an hour! She looooves booby.
Cass, how cute about Oskars new sound! Claire has recently started squealing and she thinks its very funny. They make such cute sounds sometimes dont they!
waiting for DH to come home - we're going to make a pizza for dinner! Very exciting (well it is to me, lol).
Karina - the only thing that I have changed in my diet is that I have cut out all of the crap! Glad Claire eventually settled. BTW - did you manage some time with you DH to discuss your concerns?
Rachel - Assistant in Nursing. Oh and a tip for a constipated baby (if is constipated) put a teaspoon of sugar into a bottle of milk. (My mother is a midwife and told me that)
I noticed you all saying about the bubs chucking a lot more. I thought Kailee was doing it because the gripe water wasn't helping her anymore, but perhaps not!
Well we are finally here in Brissie - it is freezing!!!!! Meeting up with Cass tomorrow so excited. Ari was good on the plane but only slept for 1 hr total all today, so she is really restless tonight.
Karina - I have had days like that where I go somewhere and the kids are so feral I just pack up and go home. I always get so grumpy :-( Hope Claire settled down for you and woohoo on the weight, she has nearly doubled her birth weight.
Rachel, hope she poos soon. I second what Richelle said but I was told only brown sugar.
Cass - yeah Ari does those chunky vomits too. Hey see you tomorrow!
Rachel, yeah we did get to have a bit of a chat. I can see where he is coming from but i still feel like crap when i spend all day and all night on my own ten he comes home too tired to help. you know, i thinks its just that I am getting a few times a night for Claire, so i am just always tired and a bit more sensitive than usual.
Sarah, yay on being in Bris - woohoo that you can wear some of your winter clothes lol!! yah Those feral days are interesting arent they! Hope Ari sleeps tonight for you.
Richelle, i was thinking of doing that too (AIN) at TAFE.
Maybe the 3-4 month period is chucky time!
Oh - is that simialar to an enrolled nurse or division 2 nurse (I hate it how each state has a different name for the same thing)! Richelle - I had heard the brown sugar thing - I don't believe she is constipated - just more not pooing as BF babies do. I was also told that BF babies don't get constipated?
Karina I had a think about what you said about changing my diet - I have cut out pretty much all the sweet stuff I was eating - which was a lot of crap - so maybe she isn't pooing unusual, maybe my previous sweet diet was making her poo alot, iykwim. I might try the water tomorrow if we see no poo overnight, i'm reluctant to go the sugar, she doesn't know anything but booby milk, i would imagine that would be really sweet. Maybe I should just eat lots of chocolate again!! lol!! Won't really help with the weight loss for me though will it.
Karina also glad you did get to talk to your DH. I so know what you are saying. The days that DH is in between night shifts so he isn't around for over 36hours, I am exhausted by the night. It is hard work if you have to do it all by yourself. You need that other person to have 10 minutes of your own time. I do not know how single mums do it, my hat goes off to them, I don't think I have the mental stamina.
Sarah glad Ariya was good on the plane. Had to laugh at you thinking Brissie is freezing, it didn't get about 11 degrees here today! It is freezing down here. Just goes to show it is all about what you get used to.
Anyway, must get ready for bed. Have been looking up private health insurance as my rate has gone up as I can no longer get corporate rate whilst i'm on unpaid leave, so annoying - it has gone up by $30 per month!! for just me. But it really does my head in, it's all so confusing and so expensive. Then I have to decide to I just get another single cover without obstetric services (didn't use it anyway) or do I go a family where at least Grace will be covered too. Having said that, at her age there is not a lot that a private hospital will do for her now, different in a couple of years - grrrrr- it does my head in.
Had some good news today - I thought that I still owed some money on my HECS from when I did my nursing degree and I got my statement for tax time and it said I owed nothing - so maybe for the first time in years I might get a tax return!!
This may be coincidental but I drank a glass of activite today (as I said earlier), Grace last fed at 5pm which is not unusual for her (even though I thought she might wake as she has only had 4 feeds today and she usually has 5 but she is still asleep), but my bbs feel fuller than they normally do after that feed - is it possible for it to work so fast? Maybe I am playing mind games with myself?! I suppose if I wake up bursting through the night then I know that it was the drink. Goodnight....
Rachel - I have been looking to changing our private health insurance as well as our has just gone up. If you go on the Australia website, you can compare all the policies avaiable in the same format so that you can compare them easily.
Not much going on here today. Nic is turning into a serial cat napper, only sleeping for 20 mins at a time during the day, but is still sleeping well at night, only waking once from 7pm to 7am. He is still beautiful and finds me hilarious! He absolutely loves the girls. Every time they go near him, his little face just lights up, it is so cute. They are so good with him too, keeping him happy and putting the dummy in when he spits it across the room.
Rachel,
I am slowly trying to cut out the large amounts of sugar I eat, and I am finding Claire is pooing less than she was before.. so it could well be the sugar?? I dont know though. Its so hard to tell when she cant tell you herself isnt it!
I sure do take my hat off to those single mums too. My mum did it with me and my sister, mum worked full time and paid a mortgage while sending us to school and kindy. I cant imagine how tough it would have been for her, and here I am finding my situation hard.
I thik AIN is more like aged care nursing - u can go to tafe and do a certificate III, and EN you do a traineeship for a year in a hospital and go to tafe also and get a certificate IV - I want to do that, but my chances of getting into that are slim i think(because you actually have to apply for it like a job thruough the dept of health and its apparently gets alot of applicants). I rang the nursing education unit at the local hospital and picked the ladys brain for about an hour with all my questions!
I also have private health insurance - its through the teachers health fund (DH is a teacher) and it comes straight out of his pay. we have "family cover". We only had the option of single or family, so we got family so we were both covered, and it also covers Claire and its no extra for us to include her. I only just put her on our policy the other week. Ikwym though, theres not alot of services in a private hospital that a baby would use at this age - I can only think of emergency but I'd go to the local public hospital for that, even though the private hospital near us has emergency too. It would be good though if bub needs to have some sort of operation (god forbid of course) and there is a waiting list through the public system. Thats all I can think of. We have it for tax purposes and also so we can get our glasses and stuff like that. There are a few things we use it for, but we can also get "public hospital cover" where we can have our own doc in a public hospital but be a private patient and its about $40 per month cheaper than the private hospital one.
Woohoo on not having a HECS debt anymore! Its nice to not have to pay that extra tax!
Hope the Aktavite works for you - I had it today as well but it hasnt done anything for me yet. We''ll just wait and see I guess.
Jo, Nic sounds just so beautiful. How cute that he finds you funny! Thats fantastic that he loves the girls too. The picture in your ticker is so cute - he looks like he is a really happy little boy. ooh wow thanks for the tip on the Australia website, I'm going to check that out. Its so hard to compare them from all the seperate websites with all the differnt formats and terminilogy they use.
Well I was lucky enough to get a bit of sleep a bit earlier - i fell asleep in bed while I was feeding Claire but then DH woke me up because I was in his way trying to get into bed heheh and then he fell asleep and snores loud and now I cant get back to sleep. Claire is asleep and looking very peaceful. I worry that she is too cold though - I have been doing the "one extra layer of clothing" rule but she always has freezing cold fingers and feet, even with socks on her hands and feet.
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Karina, Oskar's feet were still feeling cold as well... so when he goes to bed he's in a polar fleece jumpsuit, some booties over the top, he's then wrapped in a cotton wrap (from under the arms, god forbid I wrap his arms!) then he's in his hammock and I put a cotton waffle type blanket which is folded in half over the top of him and his feet seem to be much warmer since I've done that. His hands well, can't do too much about them unless I put mittens on and I think that when he sucks/chews his hands in the morning when he wakes he'd get cranky at not being able to properly.
Rachel, they're the chucks Oskar's been doing!! They are sooo gross!! I forgot how much they smell..... totally disgusting!! What a great sleep she had for you!! That is why I pushed Oskar back to having his last feed between 8 and 9 cos then he slept through longer... he's now *touch wood* stretching through to generally pretty much 7am almost every morning... mind you he can take an hour or more to feed and settle properly, but it means that I get a pretty good sleep till around 5am cos he will wake up and be a bit unsettled but is generally self settling for that time.
Ok... gonna have to come back later and finish off cos Oskar is being a bit grumpy ... getting too tired now.
Karina, he hates his arms being wrapped, he's ok if I put his blanket over them and tuck them down so long as he can get them out otherwise not happy chappy!!! I forgot to mention before that I also have one of those oil column heaters in our room just to take that cold chill off the air and that's on overnight as well. I think that this helps him sleep comfortably as well.
Caro, Oskar didn't have the feeding difficulties that you've had with Michael, so don't feel bad hon!! He's powering along now though and I'm sure he'll not be far behind soon. Oskar's just a boofer...lol.
Sarah, it was great catching up today, I really enjoyed it and Ari is such a little cutie!
I can't think of what else I was going to say earlier, probably just crap knowing me...hehe. Hmmmm nup has alluded me, so better go bath the boy and give him a feed and tuck him into bed... he's upstairs being riled up by dad atm.. all I can hear is him talking and getting right into whatever they're up to! Very cute, but time to start winding down.
WE GOT POO! Very exciting moment here in our household this afternoon. Plus, i have my happy little girl back. My goodness though, it went everywhere. I think it must have exploded out of her. Pain in the bot though as we were in the car. The problem with having a black car seat is that it doesn't show up much, so gave it a wipe out but couldn't see anything. Hopefully i got to it before it got to the seat. Now we are just hoping to get back into our good night sleep/routine that we had up until 8 days ago when she didn't poo.
Grace doesn't like having her arms wrapped anymore either, but she is so obsessed with her hands and mouth that she continuously knocks her dummy out, but the she cracks it! The only way to stop it is to sleep her on her side. This used to be just a daytime thing (the side sleeping), but tonight she was fussing around until I put her on her side and within 5 seconds she was asleep. Should I be concerned about her rolling onto her front and suffocating? I can't blame her really, I don't like to sleep on my back either.
I can't remember what everyone wrote on the other page, sorry, I will check it next time i'm online and respond then. Have a good weekend everyone.
Rachel, i never thought i would be excited about POO, but thats great you got some poo! I bet she feels a whole lot better now too. Can Grace roll from her front to her back? I was told by someone (cant remember who) that if your baby can do that, then its not a huge concern if they sleep on their side because they will be able to move, kwim? But I can see the concern there.. she could squish her face right into the mattress or something. Some babies love to sleep on their tummies though. I think that by now her neck probably wouldnt be so floppy. I dont know. Maybe one of those websites like Sids and Kids can give some info on the safety of side sleeping. I hate sleeping on my back too; its just doesnt feel right.
Went out today and Pumpkin Patch were having a 40% off sale so I went a bit crazy and bought some stuff. Just some of those all in one suits and some warm stuff for these chilly nights we are having. I also went to the Baby Bonds shop and looked for Wondersuits but they had none. When I asked where they were I was told they dont stock them! What the?? I thought that was odd but I wanted their wondersuits because they usually sell the ones with the nice cuffs that are easier to put on and dont fray and fall apart.
Before I went in to the pumpkin patch shop, I was sitting outside the shop breastfeeding Claire and another mum with two littlies walked past and told me "Good on you" so I felt pretty special about that! Its nice to get nice supportive comments from random people in public.
Rachel, woohoo on the poo!! I wouldn't worry too much about how Grace likes to sleep now cos she can lift her head and move. Oskar sleeps on his belly in the day. If you're worried get one of those pillow things which stops them from rolling over. You can get them at Big W etc.
OMG Karina... I LOVE Pumpkin Patch clothes, they are sooo damn cute!! Oskar has a gorgeous outfit my friend bought for him from there. WTG on the BF comment. Yesterday when Sarah and I were having coffee a lady had a little 3 wk old and was BF and she said good on ya to Sarah when she fed Ariyah. She said it was good to see others feeding as well YAY to great comments which make us feel like super heroes..hehe. Hmm what's with no wondersuits!! How weird!
Rachel, there's one of those pillow things on ebay at the moment... email me achoffmann@bigpond.com and I'll let you know where.. it's only got about $2 on it atm.
Hi all, busy week here. Ari was having such a super day lots of big sleeps so I was looking forward to a good nights sleep but had MIL's 50th tonight and she is so unsettled from all the noise and people :-(
Cass - Ari and I had so much fun and Oskar is soooooo gorgeous.
Rachel -hooray on the poo!
Karina - oohh I love PP going tpo their outlet while we are down here.
Cass, yay that you and Sarah met up, thats awesome. I am probably going to go meet a bunch of the Sydney ladies in a few weeks. Looking forward to it! Pumpkin patch is gorgeous - I wouldnt normally buy from there (its a bit exxy) but theres a factory outlet store near us and they always have sales on so I just HAD to have a look.
Sarah, hope Ari sleeps well tonight. We went to MIL 60th when Claire was 8 weeks old and it was so noisy and Claire was so cranky, but in the end, she slept ok. I think she was just so exhausted!
Claire has been quite the crankypants today and has been a real challenge to settle. Not even the booby could knock her out. She is finally sleeping but I dont think its going to last long. We are meant to be going to nephews 5th bday party tomorrow, but to be honest, I dont really want to go (its about 2 hours drive north) . I only found out about it a couple of hours ago and its not like its 10mins up the road, its a big drive and you know what family are like with their wanting to pass the baby to 50 different people in as many minutes. Hoping it wont drive me too insane. Gosh I sound like a whinger dont I!
Its been so long since I have been able to post, have been able to have a look and have a read but getting time to post has been so hard...
Well everyone sounds like they are handling motherhood fantastically, and enjoying every moment, including the grumpy times.
YAY on the poo Rachel.. thats fanatastic news. Kaiden hates his arms being wrapped up, has been in his grobag ever since 7 weeks.
Kaiden is growing up fast, lots of cooing, daaing etc, lots of smiles and laughs. playing with his toys and sitting up like a champ.
I have started work and loving it, its great to get some time on my own for a couple of days and love coming home to K's big smile. Reflux has settled, still spilling but no more pain, he sleeps 10 hr nights and sleeps for 1-2hrs after each feed so quite happy. I am bf in the morning and one at night the rest is formula now and he loves it..
Hi to everyone !!! Hopefully will do individual posts soon.
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YAY to great comments which make us feel like super heroes..hehe. Hmm what's with no wondersuits!! How weird!
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