Babies Born May 2007 #3

Hi girls!
Sarah - I agree with Ash- fasting??!!! and thats great news on the plaster too -what a little champ! Could you feed him halfway if they want him to fast for 2 hours or something?? Hope your entertaining went well!! -1??Thats snow weather!!

Ash- just make sure you do the bear mininum= you know, chuck stuff in cupboards that people dont open, sweep under rugs, make coffee to make the house smell homely etc!!!

Ange - I dont have any idea regarding bottle measurements as I have no idea how much milk she is getting out of my bbs but the advice the other girls have given you sounds great! If she is content, putting on weight, and weeing lots she will be fine! Hope it all helps hun!

Kelly - Hope Luke slept well for you at your mums place. I read your post in the bf thread too - you really have had such a rough time and I have to say you are soo strong perservering like you have. Heres hoping all the tips and hints and abs help and it all clears up for you.:crossfingers: Have you been able to get out and about at all to take your mind off things? I agree too - if they sleep at night thats great - although now we are getting days sort of sorted Isabelle woke for an extra feed last night :cryinglaugh: I swear if its not one thing its another!

Danni - yay on the bargains - god I wouldnt have a clue where to start, she will be 7 months old then - sitting up ??I guess!!

Big :hello: to everyone else!!

Well like I said - Isabelle got up for an extra feed last night - so the whole 6-7 hour stretch went out the window and back to 4 hourly! Oh well lucky I was still up..and she has just gone down for a nap - fingers crossed it lasts longer than 40minutes...

I love my girl so much and wouldnt change being a mummy for the world but does anyone else have these feelings of "is this it?" That sounds reallllly bad but I just have these bad days wondering that this is my life - at home, doing housework and not much else. Maybe I need a hobby - I know that I should be thankful that I have so much paid maternity leave and make the most of not having to go back to work until next year but still.....I think Im majorly bored. Does that sound terrible? Im sick of Dr Phil.:cryinglaugh:

Also cracked it with Al this morning - I put her back to sleep at 630- he left at 720 and while getting ready for work - i said - please be a little bit quiet I really want to see if she will sleep....well after stomping around in his boots and "accidently"slamming the front door twice on his way out she was up again at 730. I sent a not very nice sms to him - I know it wasnt deliberate but I feel a little like I do absolutely EVERYTHING and he really doesnt get how hard its been to get her to sleep during the day....

Plus- my c/s has healed really well but the last 2 days Ive had really bad stretching pain again... Im sure I havent over done anthing I dont remember lifting something heavy - other than my little boofah....(she must be close to 5kg now!)... very annoying.

Grrrrr (Slap self on wrist) really sorry to be such a downer ladies - Im really ok - just having a few sh****y days.

Hope you all have a great one!
Talk later

great news sarah! Noah and Mason will be running around chasing each other in no time!

Tan: yep our bubs will be sitting up openeing presents this year ;) I got Mason a learning table from fisher price and a chicken dance Elmo. Not sure what Santa is gunna buy him :cryinglaugh: I forgot about being santa till my sister reminded me yesterday!

Well Mason cleaned up at the baby show again today! A trophy and 3 ribbons. He slept well in the car and again at the doctors. As well as a bad cold, I now have a middle ear infection as well! But on a good note, the doctor got a special clearance for me to get mottilium (for increasing my breast milk supply) so now i get double for the same price as before!

Sarah - that's good news about Noah's foot maybe only needing one more cast. Fasting him doesn't sound like fun at all, but the reaction he may have after having an anaesthetic with food in his tummy would be soooo much worse. Definitely see what the absolute shortest fasting time you can do is.

Danni - Mason is going to have to start charging appearance money soon! Sorry to hear about your ear infection - hope it clears up soon. Why the medication to increase your milk supply- I thought you were getting heaps and heaps? Sorry if I've missed something.

Tan - I know exactly how you feel. Its not horrible at all. We've all gone from being completely in control of our own lives to now having absolutely no control whatsoever - this tiny little being governs when we can do absolutely everything. A friend asked me recently what I had been doing and my response was "left boob, right boob, and that's about it". A long way from the life I used to have that's for sure!

Ange - I was told between 120 to 150mls for bubbies at this age so that sounds fine.

Ash - yay for Blake doing better with his sleeping. With your house, can you maybe live in a small portion of it so you only have to clean a minimal amount? Keeping a house spick and span for inspections is so hard but I really think we put too much pressure on ourselves - just make sure your bathroom and kitchen look good (that's what us girlies look at after all!). So glad to hear things are looking up a bit for you otherwise though. Good luck with Blake's vaccinations tomorrow - Izzy's are next Tuesday and I'm really not looking forward to it.

Tara - good luck with your ILs. I hope its not too difficult for you. Can you maybe get them more involved with your bigger kiddies so you don't have the stress of them with Leo? Or maybe tell a little white lie about what you're trying to do to get him into a routine, and it means cuddles with other people are really limited? Hard with grandparents though.

Kelly - you're doing so well persevering. I really hope the mastitis clears up soon and goes away for ever (OMG Tara with that many recurrences!). How did Luke go at your mum's last night? Let me know if you want to catch up for a coffee and a chat - I'm happy to come to you if you're not able to drive yet.

Lis - how's Elena going? It is so frustrating isn't it when you know the little cherubs are exhausted and want to go to sleep, but have such pain when you lie them on their backs. I managed to get Izzy down for an afternoon nap yesterday but only because I propped her bassinet up so she was lying on a 50 degree angle.

After three straight days where Izzy was screaming all day every day in my arms and not going to bed until really late, the last two days have been brilliant. She's in bed asleep by 7pm at night, sleeps until 2am ish, feeds, goes straight back down, another feed at 6.30 am and then asleep again until 10.30 am. I'm crossing absolutely everything that she stays like this at least for a few days - I've really been struggling and desperately need some sleep to catch up and get myself back in control a little bit emotionally. DH is taking the week of golf so hopefully Izzy will stick to the plan and let her mummy and daddy have a nice relaxing lazy morning together.

Have a good weekend everybody. To Sarah especially - try to stay warm!!!

Thats the hardest part! My sister lives downastairs and we live upstairs....so i have to make sure the whole house is clean :(

Hope all the mummies and bubs are having a restful night!

hey lulu: I did have a big supply but had a down couple of days so I started taking Motillium....and now if I try to stop taking them, my supply drops dramatically. So it looks like i will need to take it for a while .

ash: hope you were up at that time just for one feed!

We had a great night. Mason fed at 8pm, in bed at 9pm, woke at 3:30am for his feed, back down straight away and then up at 7:30am for his feed. He is still awake but thats not unusual.

Thank you so much girls!!! Makes me feel so much better! And like Erin said to me yesterday, when for that period of time she was drinking 200ML it could have just been a growth spurt. So I have cut her bottles back down to 150ml for the time being and she is drinking them!! So that’s something!!

We had a really big day yesterday! Went to visit Jade’s godmother (Erin) got to her place about 11:30 then last night Justins boss took everyone out for dinner and they insisted we take Jade cause they all wanted to see her, we got home she had her last bottle and went to sleep about 11pm. But with everything going on she would have probably only slept 2 hours yesterday!!! And surprisingly she was really well behaved! I thought we would have a screaming over tired baby on our hands but she just grizzled now and again! Im so happy with how she went!!!

Ash - Hope your doing well today after Scott took over last night! We have the same thing here, Justin takes over the nights on the weekend so I can just have a break and a sleep in!! Did you get my text message this morning?

Danni - You sounds like me with the Christmas shopping!!! Target and Kmart are having there big toy sales coming up, I know Kmarts starts on the 5th July so Ill be heading out to that early and putting some Christmas pressies for all the kids in the family on layby!! I already have my mum and dads Christmas presents in my wardrobe!!
Glad to hear you and Mason had a good night last night!!!

Sarah - Yeah Id definitely see about trying to get around the fasting if you can!!! Poor little thing, cant imagine he would be a very happy camper if they want him to fast…. Let us know how you go!!

Tan - I hear you on cracking it with DH. And feeling as thought you have to do EVERYTHING!!! I sometimes feel like Justin doesn’t get how much hard work it is, to get them to sleep and not have them wake up again, or even things like trying to get ready to go out!!! Like last night, I said to him, please can you jump in the shower so I can put Jade in with you quickly so then I can get her dressed and ready and then myself. He kept putting it off and putting it off. Eventually I said to him, do you think this is a joke? You need to realise it takes longer for us to do things now its NOT just US anymore!!! Sometimes I just don’t think they are really thinking about what we are saying, lol!!

Lulu - Glad Izzy has gotten better the last couple of days!! And I hope she also sticks to the plan so you and DH can have some relaxing mummy daddy time!! I miss how easy it used to be just for Justin and I to have us time!! Now it’s a matter of trying to work it into the day where we can!!

Ok well that’s the best I have a the moment for personals!!! I need to REALLY try to sort this place out!! Having a bbq tonight with Erin and her DH. SO, need to get sorted! And Miss Jade will be up in about another hour for a feed!! So best I try get on top of it!!!

Hugs to all!! And hope all the mums and bubs are having a nice day :D :D

Hi everyone! I've raced around like a mad idiot trying to get organised this morning, hopefully I'll have time for proper post before my little man wakes up! What are the chances hey? :rolleyes: We're going out at about 5 tonight and we've got family coming for brekky tomorrow, so I need to have everything ready.

Mother's group was good, it was nice to see other babies around the same age, and all the girls seem nice :) There were seven of us, only two girls though! Nicholas was the first one to scream how embarassing LOL. But then he was fast asleep while all the others cried!

What do you know, he's awake....with any luck I'll BBL :)

Hi girls!!!

Sorry, this is gonna be a quickie cause I have to start getting everything ready for SIL's 21st tonight.Lucky I made the pavlova and other sweets last nite!!.It's a fancy dress too..I've got mine all ready but still have to get Nick and Jack's ready too..

Glad to hear everyone is going good and these bubbas all seem to be behaving themselves.. Toby is great and slept 10pm till 5.30am last nite.. Which was great cause I know 2nite will be a late one and I needed a good sleep... I even got up at 9am this morn, cause Jack had a sleep in.. YAYAYAY

And it is so chilly out there.. Lucky I've got my thermal singlet to wear under my costume, hey!! So I'd better fly and get the cat and dog's dinner done and pack the baby bag for my 2 boys..

Have a great nite mums and bubs and I shall make sure there are loads of photos on my website 2moro:lol:

Good afternoon ladies,
Just a quick one from me too cause we are also heading out for dinner tonight. I'm really nervous because it is our first dinner outing with Olivia and of course she is due for a feed while we are out. I have no idea where I'm going to feed her. It will sort of I'm sure.

Oh Lulu I laughed so hard I nearly wet myself with your response to what have you been doing lately. It really does seem that is all we do. Add in a bit of sleep and cleaning and you have my life.

I completely agree with what you said Tan. I really need to find something to do as well. I'm getting so bored now that Olivia is settling and sleeping a lot better. We definetely need something to keep our minds active. Have you come up with any ideas?

It is awesome to hear how wonderful our bubbies are being with their sleeping. YAY!!!! :pray: that they are all beginning to turn the corner for us. Olivia is sleeping anywhere from 4 - 6 hours overnight and is always back in bed asleep within an hour of waking. She is getting better at settling herself. We are off to sleep school on Thursday to make sure I'm doing it right.

Well I've had a great day. My mum drove over to spend the day with me and Olivia. It was just fantastic. We all went out for lunch, went shopping (spent lots of daddy's money) and then mum gave Olivia her bath. Mum loved it so much she cried. It was so gorgeous that my eyes welled up. I'm such a sap.

I cannot believe how organised some of you ladies are about Christmas. I haven't even thought about it at all. I really should though because we also have SIX family birthdays in December as well. It is a really expensive month so spreading it out would probably make a lot of sense.

Does anyone know about the immunisation payments we get? I got a phone call from centrelink and asked if I wanted to register for it. I said yes but have no idea what it is about.

Have a great night everyone and I'll pop on tomorrow and do a much better job of personals and not do such a selfish post.

Luv Dan.

cant wait to see pics alex!!

hey dan: the immunisation payment is just over $200 and the government/centrlink pay this to you just after Olivias 18 month needles. Its a one off payment to "thank" you for getting her immunised.

Its great considering all immunisations are free :D

Poor little mason was screaming last night at bed time. I have NO idea why :( He eventually went down at 10 and just woke for his feed now!! whooo hooo

We are having our professional photos done today as the lady cancelled last week. My boys are gunna be spunky and I hope my sister can do wonders with my hair and face!

What a weekend!! We had a friends birthday part on Friday at a pub and Justin's aunts birthday in Kaniva at a pub last night too. Noah was perfect on Friday but last night all he did was scream and want to be fed. I nearly had a breakdown in front of all of his rellies..

Danni, Have fun getting your pics done today!!

Dan, Noah hardley notices the cast, he still kicks about his legs like he doesn't have it on. It only seems to bother him when they are positioning his foot in the cast. It is excellent that Olivia is sleeping for you, I hope sleep school goes well, let us know how it goes!

Alex, I can't wait to see the photos, Let us know the link when you have them up! Hope you had a great time!

Sez, Glad to hear mothers group went well. Sounds like Nicholas is a leader, he screamed first and the others had to copy ;)

Ange, I only have to fast for 2 hours!!:dance: I was a bit worried but now I am not so much. Isn't Jade being a good girl...How did the bbq go?

Ash, Can you get your sister to help clean? Hope you are doing well!

Lulu, YAY for Izzy!!! Has she kept up the sleeping so you could have that lay in?

Tan, Lol at Dr Phil, time to start watching Cheaters instead, that show is hilarious. I guess you already covered the scrapbooking? I had an idea to start a mothers walking group that ends in coffee, not sure how many other mothers are crazy like me to want to walk in this cold weather..Maybe you could try to arrange something similar?

Well now that I was reminded about Noah's foot going through the posts, His tenotomy is booked for July 11th so the Wednesday at 7am and I have to fast him for 2 hours although I still don't know why if it is a local. I don't know what is going to happen for the next 2 weeks in regards to the plastering since Dr P wanted the tenotomy this week but I guess they are booked out so maybe plastering continues as normal.

Today will be the day i get this sty cleaned, or so I hope to anyway :lol: At least the washing is done. I will be putting Juz to work for sure. After that I will print up more photos for my family and my photo albums and I might get started on Noah's scrapbook. After that I will try to get some more photos on my webpage. I woke up to a very smiley man and took advantage of it by taking several photos.

Hope everyone has enjoyed their weekends and not been too cold!! Lucky me with the last of my preg hormones in my body I am still warmer than usual so I am not too bothered by the cold yet...

Does anyone know how soon after a c/s you can conceive again?? I am scared about rupture but I am keen to get no. 2 out of the way.

Thanks Sarah ;) I like that comment!

I just had to express how excited I am.........Nicholas fed at 11.30 last night, went down at 1.30 and didn't wake up until 9.00!!!!!!!!!!! I still can't believe it! Of course it had to be the morning that we were having people for brekky :rolleyes:. I hadn't set the alarm and woke up at 8.30 in a panic! All went well though, and they've just left. Better go and clean up though, while the man is still asleep (again!). I know this means he won't sleep at all this afternoon, so I'd better be organised.

Hope you're all having a nice Sunday! Love Sez xoxo

Hey gorgeous girls and bubs!!

A very quick one here- about to walk out the door! Going out for Vietnamese for lunch!! Beautiful sunshine in Melbourne today - pity its so icy cold!!
Had a great day yesterday - went to watch Al play soccer - I was on canteen duty!! Hee hee - Izzy was great - slept most of the day in her pram and then I went shopping and she slept most of the time in her carrier! My shoulders were KILLING me by the end of it though- shes so heavy - not sure if its because of the crappy carrier we have (NOT a baby bjorn!!) or if this would be the case in a HAB too because we think shes pushing 5 kgs now??!! Danni??

Sez- yay for Nicholas!! Ive been impressed with Isabelle going for 6 -8 hours every night - I WISH it was from 12-8 though instead of 6-2!!

Sarah - I might have to go with Cheaters!! Im working on her album/scrapbook and want to get a book to store all keepsake stuff like cards we've recieved, newspapers from the day she was born etc.... other than that- Im at a loss... I really need to just enjoy the time I have I think - February will come around all too soon. Looking forward to checking out your new pics!

As far as concieving goes - have you had your 6 week check up?? Check with your GP first hun - your health is the most important thing!

Danni - hope the photo shoot goes well..!!

Oooh soory everyone else I have to go - our friends have just arrived so we can go to Ikea and out for lunch!

Have a great Sunday!!

Hi everyone!

Just a quick drop in - sorry I haven't been around lately. Still trying to get Mia to settle down a bit with her sleeping. I am SO JEALOUS that most of you seem to have 6-8 hour sleepers!!! Where is mine?! She's only done one 7 hour sleep (fluke!) but her average is only 4 hours so she'll go down at 11:30 and wake at 3:30am. I even tried giving her a bottle of EBM instead of BFing her at 11:00pm just in case she wasn't getting enough to keep her going, but she still woke at 3am!! Boo hooooooo!!!

Well, I started mothers group this week on Wednesday which was quite nice. There are 5 girls including me in our group so it's nice and small to get to know everyone. Plus, they're all within 5 mins of my house, so it's good to know they're all around the corner. Hopefully we can continue to meet up after the 6 weeks are over if all goes well.

Mia is settling better than she was before, although she seems to be getting in the habit now of waking after her first sleep cycle and crying when she wakes. She will more often than not eventually go back to sleep again but often I will still have to go in to settle her or she won't stop. She is still VERY hit and miss with her sleeping and settling. She's 6 weeks on Tuesday and I would have hoped by now she's beginning to find her own routine but I think she might be a little way off yet - HOPEFULLY soon!

Will try and get some personals in later - don't have much time to myself of late, so I apologise for missing out on them now! Bit of a mess!!

xx

Um, he's sleeping again, I hope he's okay?????? Very excited that I just amanged to express 40ml in 20 mins, my best effort yet :D!

Sarah, I think I've read that you need to wait a year before conceiving again, but I could be wrong about that. I'm sure there is a recommended waiting period. Hope you managed to get time to clean!

Tan, yay for a good day yesterday! Where does Al play soccer? I have to say, I'm so glad the cricket club have a FT canteen lady! I only have to fill in from time to time, like maybe once a season. I'll be interested to hear what Danni says about the carrier, I have a Baby Bjorn, which I like, but I've been thinking that a HAB would be good too. Nicky's only just hit 3kgs so he's still pretty little LOL.

Kristen, I know it's hard, but don't stress about the sleep thing. One girl in my MG was saying that her baby isn't nearly as 'good' as all of ours, and our MCHN told her not to worry, that her baby is normal, that is what you'd expect him to do at this age. Hope she sleeps for longer soon hun!

Gotta dash! Love Sez xoxo

Hello!!

Sorry, another quick selfish post from me.

Just wanted to let you all know that the mastitis has cleared again and hopefully that's the end of it!!! It's been such a tough couple of weeks for me but thankfully I'm finally feeling like myself again!! The feeding is going much better now and the nipple pain has finally gone too!! For the first time since Luke was born, I'm almost experiencing painless feeding and it's heaven!! Nipple are a little sensitive but not painful like they were!!! We're also feeding off both sides each feed now, as opposed to just one side at a time, so I'm not completely emptying the boobs but it seems to be working well and I guess my supply will adjust to that!!

Luke is amazing too - he's been sooo good while I've been sick. He's even going 6 hours between feeds at night, so I'm getting between 4 and 5 hours of sleep!!! It's great and he's done it for the last three nights in a row.

God bless my Mum too - she's been amazing!! I'm sooo lucky!!

Well better go try and get some sleep while both my men are sleeping!!!

Talk soon.

Kelly xxx

tan: you need to get the HAB! I carry Mason for hours and hours and nothing hurts. And I even have a bad back! I carried him for another hour today while we went to the rug clearance at the show grounds. Again he slept the whole time :D

Tan: Im coming to rowville on thurs, is that near you?

:hello: to everyone else. Our pics went ok today. Mason screamed a lot though so we couldnt get too many pics. Hope some are ok!

Well, I spoke too soon on Friday. After Izzy having two good days and going to bed before 7pm two nights in a row she decided to spoil me with two hourly feeds all night - just lovely!!! Saturday she was very unhappy all day - no sleeps at all but then slept for 7 hours, then 5 and then another 5. Sad to think she needs to be in pain all day for me to get such great night sleeps!

Sarah - like Sez said, I've heard from different people that you should wait 12 months before conceiving again. Having said that, my OB on Tuesday said that I should "get to it" on No. 2. He said there was no reason whatsoever why I shouldn't try for another baby straight away, although given I'm fuly bfeeding that's very unlikely at this point. Hopefully you can find some mums to go walking with - I try to get out every day with Izzy, I think its what keeps me sane.

Tan- I've got the Baby Bjorn with extra back support and its brilliant. I reckon my Izzy would have to weight at least 5kgs (she's a serious boofa) and I can carry her in it for hours without any issues.

Kristen - good to hear Mia is sleeping a bit better. Hopefully she'll turn the corner for you very soon and sleep through that first sleep cycle so her mummy can get a really nice rest.

Sez - yay for Nicholas sleeping so much. I'm sure he's absolutely fine - just learning to appreciate just how wonderful sleep is!!

Dan - sounds like you had a lovely time with your mum - especially the shopping bit. I went out in the sales on Friday and was so disappointed with not finding anything :( And huge yay for Olivia sleeping so well.

Kelly - you must be relieved the mastitis is gone. I've got everything crossed for you that's the end of it and you can start enjoying feeds with Luke, or at least not dread them. I'm still waiting for the day I enjoy breast feeding - I really hope it comes soon.

Hi to all the other mums I've missed. I hope everyone has had a good weekend and that their football team didn't play like a bunch of big girls' blouses like mine did!!! Stoopid Eagles.

Oh well. Off to get dinner and then start the nightly battle of getting Isabelle to sleep. Hopefully we'll have a win tonight and get her down within something less than 3 hours!!

Hey gals,

Just off to bed now but just thought I would let you know that I have a HAB too and it is just the best.. Toby loves it and sleeps whenever he is in it.. And it doesn't hurt my back at all. They are soooo comfy. And hands free too to chase a toddler around!!hehehehe

Party last nite was good, and my lil man slept from 12 -7 again!! then till 9.30 so I felt great except a slight headache from the champagne!!hehehe
And the photo's I'll put on tommorow cause Nick has an RDO and I will get time to!!

Nighty Night!!

ok guys...i didnt want to say anything yesterday but i have to now....

for the past 2 nights, Mason has slept for TEN HOURS at night!!!

After screaming a lotyesterday, he fell asleep at his 6:30pm bottle. I was so sure he wouldnt sleep through the night but I was wrong!

He slept from 6:30 to 4:30am! Then had a 10minute bottle of EBM and slept till 8am! I cant believe his tummy can cope with that lack of milk.

we finally got to eat dinner together without scoffing our food. We got to snuggle on the couch and watch big brother in peace too. YAY! :D

Hey lulu, hope izzy goes back to sleeping longer.

Hey alex, cant wait to see the pics!

New thread time girls

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