Babies Born September 2006 #73

[Astrolady]

This thread is for parents who's baby was born in September 2006.

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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?
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.

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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[lilima]

Yay Chrissy!!

[Boo Boo]

Hey all, so much happening...

Big Happy Birthday to the lovely Miss Ashleigh - have a wonderful day!!!

Huge Congrats to Chrissy - great news!!

Ness - sorry about your night last night, hope you get to catch up on your sleep debt tonight!

Caddie - also not good about poor Millana - hope whatever was troubling her has gone now and she has a good nights sleep tonight.

Nelle - enjoy your scan today!

AnnaT - You are having a tough time at the moment, hugs to you, is there anyway you can talk to Ry again and mention Sydney so he knows that you are serious and he needs to do more to help you out if you are going to stay where you are.

Anna - fingers crossed for you!!

Can't remember what else, Rylee went to bed at 9.30 pm so getting better, tonight I will try for 9 pm. What time do your bubs go to bed??? Also, when they wake in the morning do you give them bottle or their breakfast first?

BBL
Laurin

[ShootingStar]

Howdy chickies..

Vixstar.. nope, birth certificate is goneskies. That guy i know didnt give it back to me, ba$tard.. least i can get another.. still annoying though. Hope you had a nice restful day. Wish the ticker, a fwe sites allow you to incorporate more than one countdown date.. one of them is "bump-and-beyond". Just add the appropriate world wide web and .com

Nessa.. oh that sux, surely youd think he'd get an on call pay. Prob not if hes on a salary.

Caddie.. oh poor Millana. I hope tonights a better night for her.

Chrissy.. yay congrats!

Anna**.. yeh you never know, luck may jsut be on your side

Well Jess had his needles today.. screamed the house down little monkey, but hes very happy this arvo. Doctor said his rash looks like a bit of a heat rash when the nappy and his pants rub.

[Freya]

Anna, I think maybe just keeping dummy for sleeps is a great way to start the weaning. I dont really have issues because Jett has stopped asking for it, I just clip it to him and he either puts it in or not (mostly not). He's only really started using it now that he's cutting his teeth again but if I just took it away it wouldnt phase him, Im very lucky. I was considering taking it away but I figure with bub coming and the move to a big bed I will keep something up my sleeve as a comfort just in case. (Cant believe you lasted an hour of X screaming I would have caved after 5 min, way to go!) I hope you ovulate soon!

Kell - hope Jesse is feeling ok after his needles. Ugh youve just reminded me I need to book ours for 2 weeks.

Anywho better go, Jett is bathing with Daddy tonight (poor Daddy had to do a 5k run, boohoo Im so sympathetic ) and he wants out now, plus dinner is cooking and if I dont check it I'll burn it.

BBL.

[Nelle]

Laurin, that's great Rylee went down earlier! Riv goes to bed around 6:30/7pm, then gets up...around...11am? Sometimes later? Sometimes he'll wake around 7/8am and doesn't resettle himself, so I give him breakfast and then put him back down. I'm a bit too greedy with my sleep these days. He's just so happy to play quietly in his cot, there's enough hanging from his cot and the walls to keep him amused.
I've started giving him water in the mornings, cos he's thirsty enough to drink it then, where other times he doesn't like it, pushes the cup away and asks for milk or juice. So, this morning, I offered him water, he pushed it away, so I gave him his yogurt, and then he drank his water.

Nope Sharle, I still haven't sorted dinner for us yet! I'm thinking a tin of chicken noodle soup.

Oh yeah...that's made me hungry now. What's everyone else having for din dins?

[Rach75]

hi all just stopping by to sub :yawn: big day out shopping but I did get a pair of swimmers and in a size smaller than I had thought now to find a pair of shorts and i will be set

what else is new well I am finally having a mums group gathering at my place we are having a morning tea thing on mon for Jacks bday OMG I can't beleive he will be 1 this time next week

[caddie]

Wow nelle thats a hellava lot of sleep time for riv! He must be so laid back.
Maz,not crying honey but sometimes tearing my hair out.
I too hope millana sleeps tonight.
I have a catscan tommorow to check my lymphnodes but dont find results out till friday.Just a checkup! Im fine.
Hope jess doesnt become unsettled from his needles.
Go chrissy,go chrissy!! Twinnies.lol
Anna hope all is not lost.Late O is very possible and clomid will get ya back on track right?
Ok organic chicken sausages,homemade parmesan rissoto and veges.
I would cook for any of you! Annat i would be their for you if i could.Pity you didnt live in perth still and i could bring yuou meals.
Ok gonna eat. bbl

[Anna**]

Caddie - Where'd ya get the organic chicken sausages from? The closest I can find are the Mt Barker ones (which are devine). I quite often strip the skin and turn them into yummo sausage rolls.

I love to cook too! Tonight I made an Asian Chicken Vegetable Soup, it was soo spicy, but yummo. Xander loved it as well - it appears he has my taste in food (hot!).

Who here meal plans? I've only been doing it for a few months now, but have found it so much easier to organise shopping, budgeting and cooking when I know what I am making in advance.

[lilima]

We had home made pizza. Chicken, mushroom flavour. James had steamed veggies, and peaches for dessert.
Nelle - Wow River sleeps heaps! James goes 7:30 pm to anywhere between 6am and 7am. Then he has been having another sleep around 11am til 1pm, and thats it for the day.

Laurin - I give James a booby feed first thing in the morning, (partly because I feed in bed, and am too lazy to get out.) then he has his breakfast around 8am.

James has been a bit unsettled today because of his needles. He has already woken up once already tonight, so I have a feeling I have a long night ahead of me. Kell I am glad Jesse was a brave boy.

We have never had a dummy problem here as James has never taken the dummy!!!

[ShootingStar]

Meg.. oh poor James. I hope its just the one off waking. Jess has woken once screaming (he's learnt how to really screach!).

Anna**.. i try to plan meals.. most nights i do, weather its just something easy like steak, mash and vegies.. or lamb pies or what not. We have quite a few dishes we just circulate so when we're shopping just buy for what we want that week. I love vegetable soup.. not spicey though Glad Xander loved it!

Caddie.. best of luck tomorrow hun :hugs:

Nelle.. thats great Riv loves his water!

AnnaT.. oh yeh it wasnt fun.. they have 3 this time!!
I took Jesse to my favourite Doctor. She's about 45 mins away but we met my friend and her kids over there for the day too. But she was so good. Because there was 3 needled she got the nurse to put one in the same time as she did on in the other leg so they were done quicker. And then quickly did the last. She asked how Jesse was doing and growing etc. That other stupid doctor who gave him the wrong needles that time would give the needles then be like sign here, seeya.

Laurin.. do they do Day light saving over there? Just curious if it would make a difference in sleep times?

[Visitor7]

What do you mean by meal plans Anna? How do you do that? I'm so lazy with dinners, that it's normally not organised until it's time to start cooking! Then we find that we don't have enough ingredients and have to race down to the shop.
Are you going to limit the dummy use to bedtime only with Xander, and see how that goes? I reckon that'll be a good start, then it'll make getting rid of it easier in the long term. It was so easy to get rid of it for Nina, but I think she was ready to get rid of it herself. She had only ever had it at bedtime.

That's good news that Jesse & James went ok with their needles.
ETA: did Jesse have his in his legs? Nina had hers in the arms.
I didn't handle it well at all when Nina had her needles. Usually Heath holds her, but he couldn't be there at the time, so I had to. And I had a panic attack while they were preparing everything. So the medical receptionist had to hold her, while I paced the waiting room in tears! I'm such a sook. I think I cried more than she did. lol

That's great Rylee went down earlier last night Laurin. Hopefully it continues.

[Visitor7]

sharleen - Nina has a bump & bruise on her arm too. I didn't know if I should take her back to the dr or not.

[maz]

OMG I forgot to get Vy's needles!!!!!! $hit!
Chrissy - that it fantastic news honey....you have so made my night.
Caddie - ive got my fingers and flaps crossed for you tomorrow.
Anna - get banging with it woman!!!!
Nelle - i want some soup now..thanks
Im going to eat something...Im starving now....oh Sharleens - we need to meet half way or our noses do..mines stuffed up with this sinus infection and yours is running...I dont know whats worse

[Nelle]

Lol Maz, it won't matter if Vy's needles are late. Whenever you get to it, you'll get there.

Meal planning sounds like a good idea Anna. I'm not very organised, but I suppose I could still plan a couple of 'decide on the night' nights into the plan.

[Anna**]

Jodi - Meal Planning basically involves sitting down for a bit and deciding a whole weeks/fortnights' worth of dinners in one go. I try and think of things to use up items in the pantry or things on special from the catalogues, and then whatever is missing, I add to the grocery list. Once you get the hang of it (initially it is a bit time consuming) it saves heaps of money as if you are anything like me, whenever you duck to the shop for one item, you come back with a few 'extras' as well! With meal planning, you know what you have to buy in advance.

Sharleen - I am meal planning off a list this fortnight - didn't bother assigning days, i'm just picking what I feel like to cook from the list. In regards to the lump/bruise from the vaccine... my sheet with listed side effects says its perfectly normal and the lump may last up to a month!

Who asked about hours bubs sleep? Xander sleeps from 7pm till about 6.30am... but this morning for some reason he decided to wake at 3-friggin-am.

Better go jump my husband... after I wake him up and drag him off the couch. Am I the only one who's DH watches TV with their eyes shut????

[Nelle]

Oh no Anna! You couldn't get him back to sleep? Hope he sleeps better tonight.

I realised at the end of the last post that we had no milk, and I was starting to feel sick, with not much food in the house, so I did the shopping. Just finished a bowl of fruit loops and feel much better!

[Vixstar]

Good morning,

Anna** Rick loves to watch telly with his eyes shut. Sometimes on a Fri or Sat night he watches from about 8.30pm till he wakes up (not that he was EVER asleep) in the morning. The plus side is I get the bed to myself!!!!! So many times I have gone and woken him up, he tells me he is coming to bed and 8 hours later tells me he didn't know I even spoke to him coz he was talking to me in his sleep. Men....plain bloody weird!

I used to plan meals for a whole week and only based on whats in the house. We have a deep freezer so we always have meat. Basically I would pick a cut of meat and then look in the pantry for the rest of the meal. I had it written down for 7 nights and stuck to the fridge. Now it is whatever goes until the ms buggers off.

Jodi and Kell - Thanks for the info on the tickers. Jodi - I understand about the needles. I always have Rick with me as our GP stays open till 6pm. He holds the poor kid down and I am there to soothe him and wipe the tears away!!!! Mean Daddy! LOL

Nelle - mmmmmm Froot Loops.......drooling like Homer. Not had them in years.

Maz and Sharleen - Mine does both atm, at night blocked and during the day it runs. This morning - bleeding!

Lumps with the needles is normal. Baileys lasts weeks! I had a tetanus (sp?) a few years back and had a bump for ages. My nieces had a nedle last year for something and both came up with lumps.

Damn, I really want Froot Loops now. I will just have to stick with cornflakes or weet-bix. If I put a ton of sugar on them, maybe I could pretend!

Have an ace day all.
xxx