Been a long time since i have been in again sorry.
Wow its great that everyone is cutting teeth, my boys both had two teeth by 6 months but abbie has none. She has had her hands in her mouth for the last 2 months but still nothing, i am not worried just thought that she would be like the boys. Congratulations to everyone who has teeth its great
Abbbie is rolling everywhere as well, not sitting up yet either.
She is loving her food at the moment can't wait for it whinges for it if she can see me with it. She also love the pool i have taken her in a few times and she kicks and splashes around she loves the water! I can't believe how quickly 6 months has gone.
I have been mia for a few days (long story) will fill you guys in when i have more time, just a quick one and sorry no time for personals.
Everything is ok here, no teeth yet but i swear he will get about 6 at once, lol hamish' gums are very lumpy and you get see them all there. Hamish can now sit its on his own, it is great, he enjoys sitting an playing with toys alot more than rolling around the floor. Still on 2 solid feeds a day with farex & fruit for breakfast and either vegetables or fruit for dinner. So far he has eaten pumpkin, sweet potato, potato, carrots, mango, banana, apples, pears and avocado. Still has 5 feeds a day but sometimes only the 4 depending on his sleeps.
NaNa- I love those 1st morning kisses... she grabbs my face and sucks on my cheek or chin and laughs... Its adorable... Goos idea with the Taggie... You must be good on the sewing machine... I need o get one... Have an overlocker but no sewing machine... Love making bits and pieces... Its just finding the time...
LMK- Nice to see you in here... Glad things are going well... My DS was late with teeth... Surprised DD has one already TBH. DD isnt sitting up yet either... She tries to but seems to always want to lean to far forward and i just wont let her... Not even for a sec... Would hate for her to hurt her back doing it too early... She sits un assisted in teh highchair but leans a bit so i lay her back... Plenty of time for sitting... DD loves tha bath now and also kicks and splashes... Havent gone swimming yet... Miss the pool at the rented house...
Sass- same as LMK- no need to worry bout teeth...
Abb- hope things are ok... Havent seen you on FB either. Have been meaning to try DD on an Avo but for now she's quite content on the pured veg at night and the fruit custard oatmeal and yesterday she had baby jelly... yay on Hamish sitting alone... thats great...Go Hamish...
WOW at some bubbas hitting the 6 month mark... where has the time gone...
With the brushing business.. DD's isnt up much just like the corner mostly, but i do give her her tooth brush to munch on after bath time. (DS does his after his bath) Have been reading lots of books to DD and DS (the TAG is great.... Both the kids love a good book and DD has started squeeling and getting very excited when she sees a book...
She now shakes uncontrollable when she gets excited... Like sees me or DP or DS, Show her her toys, sees me drink or eat or see's the bowl of food and spoon... Its so cute... Sleeping is still an issue and feeding is too but were battling on... We've had few days of lots of pooping... God where has my once a week poop gone... This pooping several times a day is aweful... lol.... She has also started sucking on her thumb again... When she loses the dummy and curls her hand up and sucks on her thumb So cute....
Also - a bit of a personal q.... how many of you have AF back??? mines been MIA for ages now... was thinking maybe its from the night feeds again???
Jess - IKWYM about the shaking with excitement. It is so cute. Cameron gets this big giggle to, especially with DH or my mum. Also Cameron has also begun sucking his thumb again too, hasn't done it for a month or so. On the AF question, I have seen AF since Sept 07, so can't help you there. Would have thought I would have by now though, as I haven't done night feeds since week 9, express a fair bit and occassionally miss feeds (done ff or ebm instead). So I don't understand any of it now.
Abb - Welcome back. Hope all is well. Yay on sitting up - would make playing time a little more interesting (I'd imagine it gets boring laying down all the time). Glad Hamish is enjoying his food, and what a selection. I love all those foods you've mentioned myself, so will be slowly starting to introduce them now we have started the solids.
LMK - Glad you are well. Have you taken Abbie to swimming lessons or just in the pool with you? Cameron loves the water, but has now only started splashing around with his arms/hands in the bath over the last 2 weeks, makes a mess with the water everywhere, but doesn't matter. It's cute and he loves it. It's good they like the water, will make it easier to cool them down in the hot humid days.
Sassy - Wow, 6 months, where has the time gone. Happy 6month Birthday Jayda! Unfortunately that means needle time again though, but at least that's it for another 6 months this time round.
NaNa - On the toothbrushing thing, did you buy the set where there is 3 different types of heads? Have you been using toothpaste (i know it's not necessary, but wonder how they will react to the taste)? IKWYM about the love bites, Cameron comes at me like he is going to bite me, either on the cheek or around me neck, but with a big smile. I think he is trying to kiss me or trying to play like I do to him, so cute but ouch sometimes. Hope the sleeping issues are improving for you.
Mis - How are you going? Was the mediation thing today? I hope it's working out in your favour.
Well we have continued to do the pumpkin every afternoon for the the last 3 days (before bf), Cameron is enjoying it and still easily bfeeding about 30mins after. Thinking we may try the avocado tomorrow. This is exciting deciding what to try next, especially with all the yummy fruit coming into season (got me some mangoes, I love them, tempted to try Cameron, but will hold off another couple of weeks I think - would really like to try some not so sweet things first, but we will see).
Cameron has been a little grumpy though over the last 2 days, he seems like he just wants to sleep. Don't blame him though, as it has turned awful here with the weather, almost like winter again, has barely stopped raining over the last 2 days and it's rather cool - even got my tracksuit on. Unfortunately he only seems to sleep for just over an hour, gets grumpy, but doesn't want to feed or play or anything. Today he cried for about 45mins, where I nothing I did would settle him (he hasn't done this for a couple of months). Eventually I just had to put him in his cot and let him cry it out. He eased his crying after about 5mins and was totally over what ever the issue was after 10mins. I went in and he was all happy and smiley. It is so frustrating when they can't tell you what's wrong.
sorry I have been MIA i have been reading but havent had the time to sit and post. Here goes: well Liam is rolling EVERYWHERE and is starting to get up onto his knees, heaven help me I think he may be crawling by xmas. He is LOVING his solids and is finally sleeping 11-7am. YEAH. DH took the boys for their Santa photo today, its SO DAMN cute. OH and DH turned Liams seat around so he is now forward facing in the car, has anyone else turned their babies yet?
Bec7 sorry to hear you had a rough day with Cameron. It is hard when they cry and you cant work out whats bothering them. Its great Cameron loves the bath, splashing its heaps fun, especially when they are older, need to wear a rain coat in the bathroom
Jess How cute shaking with excitement, thats adorable. AF hmmm whats that??? I thought mine was coming back, had a bit of spotting and then nothing. I have only just given up night feeds but am also on mini pill which i think stops AF? not sure
Abb sounds as though Hamish is doing really well with his food. We are also on 5 BF a day, I think thats normal still for this age.
LMK its lovely when they love their food. How cute Abbie loves the water too, make it easier aswell if you go holidays or want to take them swimming lessons. Nothing worse than having them afraid of the water
Sassy happy 6 months for tomorrow Jayda
NaNa I hope you can get a more solid block of sleep soon overnight. I did the same thing when Jordan bit me while feeding, worked a charm he never did it again
well, welcome back everyone! I go jump into another thread somewhere and you all sneak back at the same time! lol
Nikki, good to see you here again! Abbie is doing so well! How's your health?
Abb - wow, you're gonna have a chomper on your hands real soon, by the sounds of it! Great variety of foods you're giving Hamish. I'm giving DS a few different things and combinations, but he's still content to be fed whatever and isn't showing that much excitement about the whole thing. I expect at least a critical review! It's so cool that Hamish is sitting on his own. Aadi's just top-heavy and lazy, I reckon. Big head!
Jess - Aadi's such a boofhead, he grabbed my face so hard this morning and just started yelling this big happy "rrraaaahhhh!!!" and then proceeded to try and eat my face! Drooled everywhere, but it was hilarious. Wanna swap the overlocker for the sewing machine for a bit? I dont have one. Oh, but there's just no time! I'd been meaning to make the taggies for months now...
Had AF once, a month ago, and was expecting it again this week but nope, nothing. I don't really care if I never get it again except I wont get to try out the mama pads I got. I thought the bamboo velour in DS's nappies was too nice and needed to get me some of that for my tush!
Bec - yeah, the three toothbrush set. There's a few around, saw some groovy Pigeon ones at the pharmacy but can't justify buying another one coz it looks cooler than the one I got! No toothpaste, not till DS is old enough to know to spit it out! The sleep is ok during the week, and better now that the teething has calmed down a bit. I think DP just disrupts our routine without meaning to when he's home on weekends, but what can you do? He needs a life outside work. During the day I can almost set my clock by DS's naps. 45 minutes exactly, unless he's doing a random longer stretch, awake for an hour and a half to 2 hours between each nap, and then asleep at 8pm on the dot. Usually he'll sleep until 2:30, have a rollover feed and sleep again till 5ish, another quick feed (more of a snuggle) and sleep again till 7:05. Don't know why 7:05 but that's how it is!
WIth Cameron being sooky, extra sleepy and difficult, that sounds like us the last few weeks. Some days were worse than others, and it might be wrong to blame it all on teething, but I did anyway, and as soon as the teeth popped up it settled down dramatically.
Deancey - how are ya?? How are you keeping track of that roly-poly boy? I was thinking of turning the car seat around next week, as I've only just started turning the pram seat around (I still have issues with strangers touching Aadi). He's definitely big enough, but we just don't go out in the car that often!
Woo, I'm going to bed now. Sorry to anyone I missed, I've babbled enough, right?
Last night was ok. 2 wake ups 1 only a roll over, dummy and music, and other was a feed. Woke up at 7.15 for a feed and were up for good now... Really need to start going to bed earlier... I hate that All saints in on later at night now... i didnt get to bed till 11...
Bec- Glad were not the only one with a thumb sucker. I have a cousin who still does it in her sleep and she's in her 20's... She just cant control it so i'm hoping it wont be for ever... lol.....With the toothpaste... We were told from the dentist not to use tooth past on bubs. Just gentle brushing until 12 months then baby tooth paste and only a little smear. Glad the solids are going well. Also we finally have the rain here also.. Last night was FREEZING... When i did the feed her hands were like ICE.
Deancy- Glad to see your back... DD is also getting up on her knees... has been for a few weeks, still not strong enough to move but when she slides up on her knees she goes backwards... hehe... Have read they crawl backwards 1st... (dont know my ds never crawled) With the car seat we've been turned round since 4 1/2 months. DD was getting sick every time we went in the car so i changed it and has been fine in the car since. No more chuck ups. Also she loves being able to see me driving... Its also easier when there crying to occasionally turn to give s little eye contact. Everytime i stop at the lights i look at her and say good girl if she's being quiet. I'm also in the mini pill too.. still no sign here. Have done few HPT JIC but nothing. I'm not complaining just feels weird and with my PCOS was worried things were back to there old self and AF wouldnt return at all...
NaNa- I picked up my overlocker from a market. Its a factory second i paid the huge amount of....:drumroll:...... $60.... HAHAHA Its an Aldi brand one and all i have had to do was take in it to get the needles aligned ($25) and it works a treat. Its great but some jobs you need the sewing machine. DP is buying me one for christmas so i have no excuse to do the curtains and bits and pieces of things i want to start. If you wanna borrow it let me know... ur in Sydney arent you???? Also have a squiz on ebay if you every wanna buy one... When i brought mine i was tempted to buy the last 3 he had to flog them off on ebay (they were selling for few hundred) about the bamboo velour Mama Pads... NaNa has some luxury for her tush... HAHAHA... also IKWYM about DP upsetting routines... WIth DP working night shift our routine is always disrupted.
Also with few of you and bubs sleeping more.....wish that was the case here... DD has 1 30 min nap in the morning and then a 1-2 hour sleep late arvo. its exhausting. its like i just hang out washing, start tidying up, make DS lunch, clean up kitchen, and then DD is awake and going all over again.
Also NaNa- with the pram i have it facing me also... i hate people touching her too... I dont mind them looking and commenting but i need a sign that says "please dont touch the baby" haha... and babble away.... i need someone filling up this thread with me...
jess: i have had AF since i stopped bleeding after having jayda FUN FUN lol. but i couldnt BF so thats prob y.
LMK: good to see everything is going well. How is work?
Abb: hope everythign is ok. and hopefully u dont get smashed with all those teeth at once. woo hoo on the sitting thats great.
Deancey: we have had our seat around for a few weeks now. jayda is so long and she was hitting her feet on the plastic part that goes up the back of the car seat and would scream. she has done really well i was a bit worried at first.
Bec: do u think maybe the unsettled time coudl be teeth or food. i know when i first tried jayda on food she was really unsettled of a night for about 2 hrs. it didnt matter wat tiem i gave it to her during the day it was always the same time she was unsettled of a ngiht.
Sarah: How is eerything going.
Nana: wow great that u have such a good routine going
Happy 6 Months jayda lol.
well i am tryin to get her into a good routine. so now she get put in the porta cot and stays there till she goes to sleep of a day so hopefully she will realise thats wat it is for lol. Also tryin to get her bottles up so i can cut her down to 4. she is having 2 full jars of food a day does this seem like heaps? at the mo she is having 5x180ml bottles and 2 jars of food a day.
Sass... 2 full jars seems alot to me only cos were only on 1/2 jar morning and 1/2 at night and still quite a few BF. But saying that DD could go a full jar at night And did last night. Is there a reason why you want to cut the feeds down???? Her tummy might not be big enough to takt that bigger feed which is why she has it over 5 instead of 4.... Also its like adults... more smaller meals are better then less latger feeds... helps the metabolisim doesnt it??? Were still on 7-8 BF's day plus 2 x 1/2 jars
Also i read on Sarahs FB that juliette is getting her 6 month injections today.... i speak to her on FB regularly and Juliette seems to be going well....
Jess: recomended by the nurse at baby clinic about a month ago. at the time i didnt want to do it but now she seems tobe going 4 hrs between bottles so i thought if i put her up a little she wont be missing anything. so now i am putting 180 water in so ill go up to 210.
we r doing 2/3 jar breaky 2/3rd lunch and then the 2 left overs for tea lol. She is still having her bottles so if she wants it them i am happy for her to have it.
Oh and we r not having much sleep during the day either. about 30mins at 1030 then 1hr at 3 then goes to bed anywhere between 730 and 830 and wakes between 530 and 7
i tried clicking on ur facebook link so i could add u but it went to mine. how do u i add/ find u lol. all this stuff is a bit technical for me.
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well, so much for the lovely routine I had going... DS decided to WWF-smackdown wrestle at 4:30 this morning and wouldn't go back to sleep for an hour or so. I thought he'd made up for it by sleeping an extra hour to 8:05, but noooo.... he decided to skip his morning sleep! Around 12 he finally went to sleep while feeding so I put him in his cot and 20 minutes later he's blowing raspberries and squealing with delight at the ceiling (or does he see something I don't??). He went a bit nuts after that and was writhing and squirming all over the place and would cry if I put him down even though I couldn't hold onto him! Plonked him in the pram and went for a loooong walk, and he was calm and quiet but would not sleep. Finally got him to sleep at 3, but only after I gave him a dose of homeopathics AND panadol coz his top gums are all swollen and he was screaming if I tried to touch them. I think the teeth are just going to hit us one after another... which is going to be a tonne of fun!
Mis_tree - so good you got things sorted! I hope it's worked out for you the way you wanted. How's Stanky??
Sass - that does seem like a lot of food, but you know your baby best, and if she's ok with it then that's fine. Do you cook anything for her yourself, or do you just use the bottled stuff? Good luck with the routine. Mine's screwed...
Jess - nah, I'm in Melbourne. And I'm not allowed on ebay on my own... I'm norty... I'll leave it to my mum, she's the ebay queen in my family. She can find me an overlocker, tho she'd probably get so sidetracked and end up with another red leather sofa like she did last time she went to get my sewing machine!! Oh, BTW you need to remove the hidden link in your ticker. There's a message about it in the Belly Belly messages thread, but you just need to delete the [url] bits... ticker shack are the main culprits for that.
Better go finish all the stuff I didn't get done this morning... but I'm too tired to make cakes!
yay on Hamish sitting alone... thats great...Go Hamish... 
I thought the bamboo velour in DS's nappies was too nice and needed to get me some of that for my tush! 
Happy 6 Months jayda lol. 
I'll leave it to my mum, she's the ebay queen in my family. She can find me an overlocker, tho she'd probably get so sidetracked and end up with another red leather sofa like she did last time she went to get my sewing machine!! Oh, BTW you need to remove the hidden link in your ticker. There's a message about it in the Belly Belly messages thread, but you just need to delete the [url] bits... ticker shack are the main culprits for that.
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