Congrats on the tooth Mini and it sucks about the croup.We had to Jack to the hospital the other night and there was a bub there with croup. The cough broke my heart
I dont remember who asked but we've turned our seat around. Jack was screaming in the car otherwise. I think it was because he couldnt see us. I dont know if anyone else has noticed this but Jack is getting REALLY clingy atm. Are any of your kids doing the same?
Anyway he can now crawl but has trouble sitting by himself. Hates sleeping and eats like a hog! How's everyone going?
Hi ladies. Sorry I havent been here in ages. I forgot how crappy pg is at the beginning. We dont know how far along yet but I think about 2months.
Mini: I know how you feel about the short/no sleeps. Ds is starting the no sleep routine. Congrats on the teeth!!! And keeping the secret from dh. Its really hard isnt it And you swam with the sharks?! Geez you are one brave lady. BTW I dont know how to get pg with a boy but good luck for when you start ttc.
Raven: Babies learn really fast dont they. I tried to send an email with ds sitting on my lap and he's such a keyboard hog Atleast he wasnt trying to rip my nipple off at the same time. Good luck with it all.
Skye: It sounds like Mia is doing really well. Your making me jealous.
As for me, ds is being a terror. Sometimes he wants all the solids he can get his hands on and the next he's not interested. There is no pattern in his sleep "routine". And he doesnt sleep through the night anymore. But I think most of that is because we have family staying with us and he's been moved back into our room. Hopefully they will leave today and things will settle down a little. Also HE STARTED CRAWLING!!! Clever little boy!!!
Reborn congratulations
I hope that when the visitors go he will be better! I notice mine are unsettled when we've had people stay. Even visitors for a few hours can mess them up
Melissa I've done a lot of research on the Shettles method. I have faith that it does work (even though my real attempt didn't ie tried for girl and got boy), but the main factor is timing. Without that being right the rest isn't going to be much help Get the book, it explains a lot.
Got an almost crawling girl. She's up on her knees rocking! In celebration I have banned lego and have been confiscating it as I find it about the house. I was OK with the boys and their let it roam free attitude while R was confined to one room. Not any more!
Been having some back and pelvis issues too this week Very sore. I feel like an old bag hobbling about. Not sure how I've done it exactly. I suspect it was lifting a very full washing basket. That'll teach me do do housework
Sorry about being AWOL, had computer problems for a couple of weeks and have just a new lappy yay - was lurking but was on DH's laptop and had to be quick.
Reborn - congrats on your pregnancy - that is fantastic news.
Raven - ouch, you poor thing, hope it doesn't last too long, back pain is horrid. - no more housework for you!
Minimatron - sounds like you had an awesome night for your DH's birthday!
It sounds like we have a mixed bag of bubbas -with some sleeping through the night and some not - we are in the 'some not' category and I am beginning to think it will never happen - we have two to three feeds per night - yay....anyway, what can I say, it won't last forever.
Okay, better go, should try and get an early one in tonight!
Sending lots of sleepy vibes to all the bubbas.
Laurin xxxx
Reborn - Congratulations on your pregnancy, hope you have a happy & healthy 9 months. Very exciting!!! Have your visitors left yet? Hopefully DS settles down for you once they go. Its hard having people stay & your routine gets a bit thrown out of whack!
Laurin - So good to hear from you. Hopefully Finn will cut out some night feeds for you very soon.
Sam - Sounds like Ruby will be crawling very shortly. Lara has been crawling for 2 wks now & trying to put everything in her mouth along the way. I've really been having to keep an eye on what DD1 spills on the floor or what small toys she leaves around, coz I know it will all go into Lara's mouth. You poor bugger with your back and pelvis, hopefully you're feeling better soon. In the mean time try and offload some of that house work, I wish I could off load mine, its never ending.
Melissa - How exciting that you're TTC soon. Good luck on conceiving a boy. Wish I had some advice but like you I have 2 girls.
I have a really sore throat, I am hoping it doesnt turn into a cold/flu. Lara has flu like symptoms but she is teething as well so might be from that. Will be keeping my eye on her though.
HEy Sam....do you have copy of the book I could either borrow or buy off you?
Hey Laurin and Leigh, hope you are doing well. Hope youre feeling better Leigh and that your getting enough sleep Laurin.
Went to the health nurse today. bec is 8.6kgs and 69cm, going really well. She must be having another growth spurt coz shes been waking at 3 am for the past few nights to polish off about 200mls of milk!
Reborn- yay! Congrats! How exciting! Yay DS is crawling! How cute!
Melissa- sounds like you planned an awesome 30th for DH! WOW! Im glad it was great. How are the day sleeps going? Re TTC the one sex...we did it by "accident" meaning we BD on the day of O, and I ate all the foods that are meant to help you get a boy, also did the positions that promote it etc...well I got a girl! lol. I wasnt fussed though, but next time Im going to try for a boy!
Raven- you poor thing I hope you feel much better soon! How is your back now?
Laurin- yay someone else who is still night feeding. I feel so alone with it all and it really does feel like it will last forever. Im praying she just weans herself off it. The frustrating this is she just cant be starving 3 hours after her last bottle! Grr.
Leigh- I hope you dont get a cold, it's already hard looking after a bub without being sick too!
All ok here. We have just had another rough week with Mia being sick AGAIN and not sleeping at night at all. She was in bed with us again, and only has gone back into her cot the last 2 nights. She has an awful cough, so it was waking her up constantly. Now I have the vapouriser in her room which really helps. Her day sleeps are all over the place too! This morning she had 20 mins, then at 2pm woke after 40 mins, but I resettled her and now she is still asleep and it is 4.30pm! So now I think should I wake her?
I know it wont affect her bed time at night, she will still go to sleep at 7, but will she wake more in the night? Hmm!
Anyway thought I'd pop in and see how you all are!
Is it just me or has some people changed their names? kristie....were you always reborn? AAAhhh my brain! But Kate....you have a new name too! Nice
Glad everyone seems to be getting better. Rebecca is rolling like no tomorrow, she does it like shes on a mission. and now shes on hands and knees rocking all the time....not long now. Ok better go crying baby.
Hi Girls, big hugs to sick bubbas and lots of sleepy dreams to those who need them.
Miss B is dragging/crawling with one leg, around the floor like no tomorrow! She gets up on her hands and knees rocking and then slide back on to her belly and drags to what she wants. Is still having 3 sleeps a day and 12 hours overnight, was considering knocking out that last 'nap' at 4/430pm but I have my coffee break then so am keeping it for now Have started having 3 meals a day now and have introduced mince 1 so far and she devoured it!! DH says even Miss B loves his cooking! How often should I be giving her meat, do you think? Also, at what texure are your bubbies having their meals? Miss B's are pureed but not to the point of liquid, it will stick to the spoon but not sure when to move on to mashed etc...
I havent turned Miss B's car seat around even though she can sit and is over 9 kg because it is safer for them to face that way, so the ambo man told me. When she starts cracking up about it I will turn her around.
Am seriously thinking about bub number 2 DH said 'yes', so next year we will be TTC #2, I want to return to work for 12 months before we start again so around August/September 2010 we will start getting serious. Am not sure I would be able to cope with the gap much less than that between the kids and this will be my last pregnancy. Am already thinking of names (I work in a baby area, so comes with the territory) and DH and I cant agree! He likes Amelia (I dont because I dont like nicknames - especially MILLIE!! sounds like a pet name to me) and I like Ava. We both dont mind Olivia, and I can live with Liv or Livvy s nicknames, oh well planty of time to fight about it
Hope you are all good, time to do some washing and vacumming the floor, again!!
Mini: No I wasnt always Reborn. Used to waiting... and now I'm not I cant believe it wont take long for all our bubs to be crawling confidently and then walking! I dont want ds to grow up so fast!!!!
Zoo: I gave ds mashed up sausage with mashed potato and carrot last night. I see what you mean about the meat!! He loved it. Never even crossed my mind to use mince. As for the pureeing, I've never done it. I didnt even know we had a pureer til dh showed it to me. So all the food ds has had as been mashed. Were thinking of ttc #2 and were looking at names too. So far we've got Charlie and Sophie. BTW my little neice is named Olivia and her nickname is Ollie. Hope that doesnt put you off the name.
AFM ds is having some pro pics done of him today. Hopefully I can figure out how to post them up here. He keeps waking for feeds at night which is slowly killing me. Plus he has 3 naps a day and I'm not game to try and drop any of them. Still clingy but so cute in a baby monkey kind of way
Kristie- we just went and got some family shots done at the park. My sister is good with the camera and we got quite a few good shots....will put some up on facebook....oh if anyone is on fb, my name is melissa howell.
Thats funny you two are thinking of names already! I just worked out when my lmp will be when we will start ttc and its spetember 21st...so a june/july baby if we start straight away!
Sienna is facing forwards in her carseat. We had initially bought the Fisher Price baby capsule (that clicks in and out of the carseat base, and into the pram) and she grew out of that pretty quickly, so once we bought the standard carseat we put it forward straight away. I have heard that it is safer to have bub facing rearwards tho.
Sienna has recovered from her cold, although she still has a lingering cough. Other than that, she has been well. Still crawling backwards, but we have floorboards so there's not a lot of traction. We've just bought one of those big rubber matts to put down so hopefully that will help her get moving.
We actually had five blissful nights where Sienna slept through the whole night from 6ish to 6ish!! Woo hoo!! Unfortunately it was short-lived and we're back to the up-and-down nights. I've been desperately trying to think if I did anything different during those days....ahh who knows!! We're off to the cottage on Friday for some sleep tips so hopefully that will help. During her day sleeps, Sienna only sleeps for 40mins so she's just not re-settling after that first sleep cycle, so fingers crossed that help is on the way!!
Sienna is having three solid meals a day and three bottles. We've cut out the dream feed and the middle of the night feed and she seems to be coping fine. She's certainly not a skinny bubby!! Her food is still fairly pureed, but we're starting to introduce chunkier bits and pieces. She loves munging out on half a banana and chunks of bread.
I think that hubby and I will probably wait awhile before TTC #2. The lack of sleep with Sienna is killing me, and I need some restoration time before the next one!! We're thinking of trying when Sienna is 18m - 2 years old. There have been so many births at my work lately, so many gorgeous babies, so I am feeling very slightly clucky :-)
And shes on prednisolone for croup....what a few weeks we are having!
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And you swam with the sharks?! Geez you are one brave lady. BTW I dont know how to get pg with a boy but good luck for when you start ttc.
Very sore. I feel like an old bag hobbling about. Not sure how I've done it exactly. I suspect it was lifting a very full washing basket. That'll teach me do do housework
Yay DS is crawling! How cute!
Have started having 3 meals a day now and have introduced mince 1 so far and she devoured it!! DH says even Miss B loves his cooking! How often should I be giving her meat, do you think? Also, at what texure are your bubbies having their meals? Miss B's are pureed but not to the point of liquid, it will stick to the spoon but not sure when to move on to mashed etc...
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