Babies Born May 16th ~ 31st 2008 #4

[Madham]

Hi everyone well so much for the clean up, my sis turned up today from melbourne with her hubby and 2 kids so i have done absolutely zilch. Oh well i thought it will still be there tomorrow but Dp tells me we have plans. Anyway if the weather is still windy and raining i wont be going anywhere. Hamish has been such a pain to get to sleep lately, i have a feeling it is the age, where they start to know if they cry enough you will pick them up, i am trying so hard not to give in but i hate it so much when he cries. I can remember Maddi going through the same thing and i think it only took around a week or so of tough love to get her into a routine again Fingers crossed it is the same again. I dont let him cry to much as i cant stand it and if he gets too upset i just pick him up give him a quick cuddle and put him back down again, most of the time it only takes around 10 mins to get him to sleep. But i use to be able to just put him in give the dummy walk out and he would cry a bit, Dp would go in repeat what i just did and he would be asleep. Oh well i will see how he goes.
NaNa i dont google any symptoms and i have kept all my nursing books well hidden in the garage as i know i could quite easily miss diagnose everything. It was bad enough when i was studying, i think i had every disease imaginable or thought i did. lol
Jess i hope you get a good night sleep tonight, well maybe one wake up only...

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.
Mis T we posted at same time, Hamish is extra clingy too, i walkes out of lounge today and he sooked so i came back to see what was wrong and he started laughin and flapping his arms about, cheeky little monkey is just getting to know how the world works... Just the beginning of all our challenges........

[NaNa]

morning everyone! Our weekend was cold and windy and raining and hailing and sunny and repeat... every 5 minutes. Melbourne weather sucks!
ATM DS is in his cot whimpering and fussing to himself because he's fighting sleep again. He fell asleep in my arms, but the second his head touches the bed he's awake and squirming. He's been doing it all weekend for every single nap except when we were out. I just can't keep picking him up and cuddling him back to sleep every 5 minutes, my back will break! He'll fall asleep on his own eventually, and as long as he's not actually crying, I just need to leave him be. Saturday night he woke up at 3 and screamed for 2 hours on and off, until I relented and fed him. He didn't need it, but he just wouldn't go back to sleep otherwise. DP was good enough to try and get him back to sleep for an hour or so, but the same thing kept happening. He'd drop off to sleep but as soon as his head touched the sheets he'd scream. Naughty baby! He SO doesn't need night-time feeds. He's such a greedy-guts!

Mis - lol at watching the Incredibles together! I think our tickers must be stuck in an American time zone, mine's out a day too. Good luck today with the visit.

Abb - oh well, shame about the clean-up, but hey, it's not going anywhere right? Hope you did something more enjoyable!

BBL, DS is crying for real now... blah.

[Madham]

Morning
NaNa Hamish is the same with sleeping lately, i really do think it is the age, they know if they cry we are going to pick them up. I have persisted all weekend and this morning when i put ds in bed i only had to go in once so hopefully he is realising that i mean business..lol
Mis Tree - i had a horrible weekend in the end and without going into details dp and i are not really talking atm, i could go on and on about it but lets just say men can be such ignoramases (unsure of spelling) i know how to spell what i really want to call him but i wont do that on here. lol Anyway i spent yesterday with family and didnt come home until dinner time last night so my big clean up and our apparent plans for the day never happened.

Hamish has been back sleeping well again, no wake ups for a couple of nights, well since the dreaded immunisation night. He is a real chatterbox now, makes alot of different sounds and always sounds like he is saying yeah. Still no sign of the teeth yet but is definetley teething. Loves his solids, still on 2 solid feeds a day, not sure when you go to 3? He has been drinking water after each feed out of a sippy cup thing, although he loves to chew on it more than drink. Ok i best be off to do some house work i suppose....

[Madham]

Aww Abb that sucks about your weekend. I hope the week is better for you.
thanks i hope so too.

Does it matter that I havent made the appointment for his immunisations to happen until the 18 of next month?? Stupid mummy had nappy brain and didnt relise he was 6 months this month!

No thats fine, just cant have them earlier than 8 weeks after last one. Best not to get the done when he isnt well anyway.

[sassy123]

morning ladies (by the time i finish this it prob wont be mornign anymore)
i thoughgt i woudl write a few key points seens somethings r happenign with everyone so i dont repeat myself

sleeping: jayda fights her sleeps sometimes but others she is fine. overall she is still great with her sleeps. she used to fall asleep at 730 after her last bottle but now she stays awake and we have to fight to get her to sleep but once she is asleep she doesnt wake till about 6am.

teething: still no sign for jayda. she found a dummy under the lounge the other day and was chewing on it like crazy. it looked so funny she was tryint o suck and chew at the same time and sounded so funny. she has never wanted a dummy b4, she would gag if we tried to give her one.

some one mentioned water a while ago it was prob the old thread i think but anyways. it was said thta ff babies should be given water. is this right cause i have never given jayda anythign other then formula. i started her on the weekend.

i tried giving jayda some baby apple juice yesterday arvo just for somethign dif with her solids and she got a rash all over her tummy but it doesnt happen when she has the apple ceral in the jars. woudl this mean it could be a perservitive in the juice not the acutal apple. i also let her suck on my apple when i have one and she hasnt got a rash from that b4.

mis: u havnt had any trouble with the weetbix have u. eveyrthign i have read has said not to start them on it till after 12months but i knwo so many people that have started it earlyw ith no trouble.

it is funny how b4 banana used to be a food that u shouldnt give to late now it doesnt matter. i wonder how they determine the age for certain foods? prob the amount of babies that have a reaction to it maybe.

how is everyone going with chrissy plans? i have some of my decorations up but i am not aloud to put the tree up till this sunday.

[NaNa]

oh, Abb, that sucks! poohpooh to DPs for being complete idiots sometimes... hope he makes it up to you!

Sassy - you're lucky Jayda's not teething yet! It's not much fun. SOme kids don't get teeth till 9 months or so. And you're also lucky you only sometimes have to struggle to get her to sleep, and then she sleeps thru. oh, how I long for that to happen... these kids are all so different, but all lovable bundles of trouble! Aadi goes to sleep without a fuss normally, but most of the time it's in my arms still, unless he's in the pram or the car. We still feed-to-sleep sometimes, but I dont mind, since it's quiet, happy time we spend together and I know he can go to sleep without a feed too.
I reckon food for babies is a victim of trends and fashion as much as medical research. Everyone will tell you something different. Doesn't make it easy to know what to do!

Mis - I'd definitely wait till Seth's completely ok before he has vaccinations. There's no real good time to do it, but if he's just a little bit run-down or unwell it will only make things worse. Yeah, what Abb said...

Forgot to mention before, DS is practically crawling! He's gone from only rolling over onto his tummy one day, to rolling right over onto his back and over again, then commando-scooting backwards and spinning 360 degrees on the spot to full-on following me around the room trying to eat my socks!! All in a weekend practically! Still isn't sitting up for long unassisted tho... cant keep still long enough!

[Frangipani]

Get yourselves comfy and a nice cool drink - here comes Bec's novel post I just can't help myself, once I start typing I find it hard to stop.

We had a nice weekend - all starting on Friday when DH came home much earlier from work. He was laid off , but thankfully he went to the company up the road from him and got another job within 15mins (phew! I went into a panic when I saw his car pull up, as I had a feeling that's why he was home early, especially now that my maternity leave pay has finished as of last week). I'd planned to visit my parents at a caravan park bout 30mins south from here, so we all went down and surprise visited them. I even took Cameron into the pool there, it was nice and warm with sails over the shallow end. It was the first swim I'd done with Cameron, and he was so exhausted he had a good sleep after his swim.

Saturday he went to swimming lessons, hadn't been for 2 weeks. Didn't know how he'd go though as he had woken up much earlier that morning, so thought he be grumpy but he was still happy to be swimming with his daddy I think. He then slept for 2hrs when we got home. But wouldn't have an afternoon nap, and as we were going out for dinner with inlaws that night I got a little scared. When we got to dinner, I ended up having to go for a little walk, as he was overtired, but just wouldn't give. Eventually he fell asleep after a 15min walk, but slept the rest of the night out .

Sunday I changed the routine a little, as I decided I need to lose weight because as I am a bridesmaid in my best friends wedding in March next year and she is starting to arrange our dresses. So after his 1st feed of the day DH, the dog, Cam and I went for a 30min walk. Cam was awake the whole time, which is fine as he'd usually have play time after that 1st feed for about 30mins. I thought he would go to sleep when we got home for the usual 2 hrs, but he only slept 40mins. Grrr...he was not a happy boy, would not sleep any longer. So as we'd needed to go to the shops we gave up on trying to get Cam to sleep and went. Cam fought sleep at the shops for about 1 hour, eventually gave in and then slept for almost 2 hrs. Unfortunately that meant we had to keep shopping and spending, whoops, but at least he slept well (which ended up being the only good sleep of the day til night time).

On the sleeping thing, you can count me in on the challenging sleeping issues everyone is having. Cameron use to be easy to slip into bed during the day once I saw his tired signs, but lately he just seems to cry when put into his cot. Even at night with that last feed, he use to seem excited to go to bed and we could just pop him in and walk out and we wouldn't hear a peep from him til morning, but now it takes a bit of crying, some cuddles and a few turning ons of his musical seahorse to work (I seem to have to allow 30mins to get him to sleep and tiptoeing all around). He also has been waking up with a screaming cry during the night, usually around 2 or 3am (last night was 11pm), but thankfully we just pick up, cuddle and place back down with his seahorse and that usually works, sometimes after a few times. I agree it must be an age thing, probably testing me. Hope it doesn't last too much longer.

Well after a 30min fight to get Cameron to sleep earlier, he has done alright, it's been 2hrs now (see I told him he needed the sleep- there was no need to fight me - i was obviously right). Oh I think I can hear him stirring. Might try to get back later for personals.

Bye for now