We are going ok here. Mia is slowly getting back to her usual night routine, she goes to bed at 7pm, dream feed at 11, wakes at 3 for a feed then up at 6.30. Would love to drop the 3am feed, but it is ok for now. Not looking forward to day light savings because that means she will start the day at 5/5.30am! I might slowly put her to bed later this week to get her used to it, not sure.
Melissa- how is Olivia sleeping now? I hope you dont have to sleep on the floor! lol. Poor thing (you I mean). Sorry to hear Rebecca cried for her needles, hopefully she wont have any other effects from them. wow @ the rolling. Mia isnt rolling yet.
Love your cake, what a fantastic job you did! Lol at the yellow m&ms, how rude of them!
Leigh- HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Hope you have a wonderful day.
ouchie to your brusied arm. Glad you have gone back on the pill and it is sorted. We cannot find the time to BD, so I dont have to even get contraception! hehehe.
Kylie- Glad Zane likes his rice cereal, he must be ready for it. I bet you will have fun giving him fruit/ veges soon!
Wow, all these babies rolling! Must do more tummy time with Mia! I always forget!
Good to hear to that you and your bubs are all goin well!!
Sienna is such a joy! She's just over 5 months old (scary how time flies) and she's a happy little bub. Altho 'little' is not really the word, she already weighs 8kg so she's your stereotypical 'fatty formula bub' lol. We absolutely love her to bits and she's so much fun. She's rolling all over the place - it's always interesting to see what position she'll be in in the cot in the morning.
I've just this week started her on Farex and a little bit of pear. She's showing a lot of interest, she just has to work out how to keep it in her mouth, lol. She STILL hasn't slept through the night *sigh*, but for awhile she was sleeping in 6 hourly blocks which was wonderful. Now she's back to four hours at a time, but I think she's teething which doesn't help.
I've started back at work, only two days a week, Tues and Sat. Either my Mum or MIL will have bub on Tuesdays, and hubby will have her on the Saturdays so we're very lucky not to have to put her in professional care. It's been hard to go back to work, but the time away from Sienna has made me appreciate her so much more!!
I've just recently been diagnosed with Postnatal Anxiety - apparently it's a very mild form of PND but I had no idea, coz I wasn't crying or feeling sad, just feeling majorly STRESSED!! which I thought was normal for new mums, but my mum suggested I go speak to a councellor (sp?) which I did, and lo and behold, I actually had a prob. So Smoz, I'm also on ADs, but I haven't breastfed since Sienna was 6 weeks old, so I had no concerns there. I have been feeling heaps better, just a little less on edge all the time which is nice. I'm sure I'm probably much nicer for hubby to live with too, just less snappy etc.
Ummm, what else...we're still waiting to build our house (hence me going back to work - always about the money!), but hopefully we'll get started in the next couple of months. Plans are in council, just gotta sort out the mortgage.
So yeah, that's me in a nutshell. Now I'm back at work, I might be able to get on this site a bit more and stay a bit more in the loop, I finally have the net at home, but now I never have the time to use it!! lol
Anyways, take care girlies, thanks for reading my looooonnnnng post!! xoxo
Good to hear from you Melly....sounds like Siennas doing well. i have a ff baby, not quite that big...she was 6.2kgs at 4 months and shes doing well.
We are all sick though. I have had the flu and now a head cold and the girls are snotty. I think rebecca is sick now shes sleeping alot and really clingy. No temp though. Shes doing fantastic with bottles and sleep still although unsettled lately. Still only rolling one way.
We are going great guns here... Bella is 4 months old and is weighting in at 8 kgs... fatty! She is also very long - off the charts in the blue book! She is sleeping through from 9pm till 7am and then we both go back for a couple of hrs in the mornings so she gets about 10-12 hrs of sleep a night, she doesnt sleep much in the day tho! She will sleep 45 mins max in the day! Just means that I dont get much house work done!
Bella is also rolling side to side and sits her self up when I have her laying on my tummy! She HATES tummy time so so doesnt do that very pftern but we are getting a bit longer and longer everytime.
Well I have to go as she is calling out from her cot when she is supposed to be sleeping!!
Oh yeah she has been diagnosed with Plagiocephaly (sp?) which means mishapen head - but her head is getting better and the paed didnt seem to think it was a big deal - but we had a skull x-ray done and we are also going to the royal childrens to get her head looked at just incase she needs a helmet to reshape it - fingers crossed that is will work its self out. Have another paed appoint this month so will see how that goes.
Hop eveyone is well and I look fwd to hearing from you all!
Kate
Last edited by Jakabella; April 7th, 2009 at 04:40 PM.
Melly - Great to hear from you. So glad you and Sienna are well. Lara is FF as well and weighed 7.1kg at 4 months. Hope you are enjoying work, that is so good you don't need to put Sienna in professional care. Also gives you a bit of time to yourself.
Melissa - Lara is still only rolling the one way too, belly to back. Hope you all get better soon. Lara is a bit snotty at the moment too. She is asleep at the moment and I just checked on her and could hear her snoring.
Kate - You sound like you are really enjoying being a mum. Fingers crossed Bella's head sorts it self out.
Lara is 5 and a half months old. I still haven't started her on solids, waiting until she is 6 months, I'm not really looking forward to it, coz it means she is growing up ha ha. I'll have to ring the dr this week to book her 6 month needles, jeez they come around quick.
Better go, hi to everyone else. Have a Happy Easter and enjoy the long weekend! Dh is working so I wont be doing anything special.
Hello all, Happy easter. We just got back from camping at the Grampians. Had a great time and the girls got all dirty it was a bit hard with the bottles and trying to keep the water warm over night, but all ended up good. Rebecca is doing well..still. Nothing much has changed, although she is having heaps of bottles..such a hungry little mite! Shes nearly 5 months old, I will look at starting her on solids closer to 6 months. Although she did have a suck on my nectarine and loved it! I could probably start her on solids now, but I just have this "thing" about doing it early!
Well I hope you are all well and bubs are growing nicely.
Take care
Melissa
Melissa - Glad you had a nice trip away camping and had a good easter. My easter was quiet, DH worked. He is going away on Friday and wont be back until Tuesday so it is going to be a looong weekend by myself with the 2 kids.
Lara is 5 1/2 months and I still havent started her on solids. I am like you and dont want to start her too early. I started DD1 at 6 months so I will do the same with Lara. Not looking forward to all the messy stained clothes again though lol.
I dont have much to report either, Lara is having a sleep at the moment, would be nice if she sleeps a couple of hrs. It is raining and I feel like a sleep myself but coz DD1 doesnt sleep I dont get one either.
Mellissa & Leigh Glad your bubs are going great guns!
Bella is going very well as well, and Melissa I know what you mean about being hungry bubs! Bella drinks nearly a whole 240mls every 3 hrs still!! And I weighted her last night and she is 8.1 kgs! at 4.5 mnths!! Is that too big? She is certainly not fat not even chubby - just LONG!
We go to the Paed again next week to see how her head x-rays are and then we go to the Royal Childrens Helmet unit for an assessment next month to see what they say, I think that her head is getting better and filling out but will wait and see what the paed says.
Hope eveyone else is well!!
Maybe one day when we are not all busy busy we could organise a meet up??
Kate- I dont think shes too big, the way I look at is that they are babies and all the do is lay on the floor, maybe roll here and there. When they start moving about they will sort themselves out! Yeah Becca is having a good 240mls five times a day.... Good luck at the Paed. Olivia has a flat head...hers was from bein in her hip harness and being on her back for 6 months. I just propped her up more and once she was able to move...crawl/walk, her head seemed to get a load better. Its still a bit flat but because she is a girl and has long hair, its not too noticable.
Leigh- good luck with being home alone. DH left this morning and I am already lonely!!! Hope you got a rest. Olivia doesnt sleep anymore so I dont get a nap either.
Hi girls,
Yep long time no post. Things going well here, Willow growing up very quickly. Still on the boob and refuses to take a bottle at all (EBM), but is definitely putting on the gms...haven't weighed for a little while now but she is fitting into Charlize's clothes about 2 mths earlier than Charlie did.
Still not sleeping through again doesn't seem to make a difference if I give her a dreamfeed at around 10pm or not, she still wakes at 3am and then again at around 5.30am (and then stays awake). Was easier first time around as DD1 would take a bottle and by about this time(5mths) I gave her just water for the 2am feed and after a couple of nights she decided it wasn't worth waking for..
But she is an absolute darling with lots of smiles and very little crying. Trying to convince DH that another bub would be lovely but he won't be budged .. just seems that Willow is growing far too quickly and it is a little sad when I pack up the clothes that she has grown out of.
She has been rolling tummy to back for a while now, but just rolled the other way for the first time yesterday...and I wasn't in the room!!
Will also be waiting til she is 6months to start solids. Seemed to work for us the first time around.
We are off on a bit of a holiday for the next few weeks. DH staying home and I am driving down with the two girls to his parents farm near Orange (about a 14hr trip). Should be ok on the way down as they will be with me (they have been staying here for a couple of weeks) on the way back I am doing the trip by myself (with the girls) so that should be interesting. Am able to break it up with a stop at an Aunt's at Coonabarabran so that will help. Have been trying to have a feeding routine for Willow so at least will have some idea of stops etc. Any tips for long car trips with a 3 1/2 yo and a 5mth old welcome. Went and got the portable DVD player (with headphones so I don't have to listen to Wiggles or Dora for hours) and lots of coloring pencils and a big coloring book.
Charlie seems to have settled down a lot, we have been able to wean her off one of the medications for her epilepsy and that seems to have solved the problem of the problem child. And the other medication is doing the job of suppressing the seizures so all promising there. Back to see the Paed in mid May. She has been doing physio and had an OT assessment and things seem to be improving with the exercises from both of those.
I think that covers just about everything...time seems to be flying past these days, love keeping up with how everyone is going with their little bubs, hard to believe that in just a few more weeks some of these bubs might be nearly crawling or sitting up!
Take care,
Jo
wel ladies i've been off line until today! yay! heehee
Well we are mobile.....Tallon has developed a "crawl" i call it the Hoover...head down just using his legs not arms so no doubt we will get carpet burn on the forehead soon enough.
Jo that sucks that Willow wont take the EBM or any bottle.....Tallon doesn't care how it comes he'll guzzle it from the boob or EBM from the bttl heehee
well we go to bed here at 7pm and i used to give him a dream feed at 10pm but like you Jo it doesn't matter if i do that or not he still wakes around 4am....so now i just leave him and get up and he goes back to sleep for longer so its working better
Sienna is also going well - she's been a bit feral the last few nights tho, just screaming when I put her down to sleep, but I think she's well and truly teething so I guess that's to be expected with some babies. It's pretty stressful tho - I used to just pop her in her cot wide awake and she'd be off to sleep within 10 minutes, but now; my gosh, it's on!!! She screams and screams as soon as she's put down, so I'll be cracking out the Baby Panadol for sure. These, my friends, are trying times!!! ;-)
But apart from that, Sienna is a joy and a blessing and it's so great to watch her discovering new things everyday. She has gotten the hang of solids and enjoys every mouthful which is so cute.
HEy All,
Good to see some of you around. We are doing well, Rebecca has her hip review next week so hoping all is well. She too is moving about, something similar to Tallons hover! Shes on her tummy and pushes her knees to her chest and drags forward. Once she can carry her weight she will be crawling. We still havent started solids yet but I think i might start next week (5 and a half months, same as her sister). She seems interested in our food, so I'll do it. Shes also had some crappy nights where shes just cried and cried, which has rolled into days. Its seemed to have settled now....until next time!
hey Mel yer you sound the same as me....bought some farex in yesterdays grocerie shop so will prob try it next week some time as he's becoming more and more interested in what we are eating and drinking.....suprised my mum the other day by swiping her cake out of her hand whilst she was holding him....he was so pleased with himself! heehee
hmm must go stock up on ice cube trays and get cooking for baby food.....i love the pureed solid stage i love cooking all the things and freezing them i feell ike im being a really good mum heehee
Yeah Smoz, Bec did that swiped food out of my hand...although it was a KFC wrap and she started sucking on it....not what I wanted to give her!!! I have 3 ice cube trays with lids from Big W that I got last time. I love doing all the cooking too. I also bought some rice cereal during the week, I got the raffertys one coz I didnt like the farex...but I suppose its not me who is eating it! I am looking forward to introducing solids, love looking at their faces as they try new things. It also means they are growing up.... must start thinking about the next one....
I wonder how long it will before Becca starts to crawl if shes scooting around now?
Hi girls! Been a while since I was in here...but thought I should drop in and say g'day.
My little princess is 5 months old today...it's flown by (quite the opposite to when DS was a baby)!! I'm really interested to read how all the other bubs are going...all this rolling and stuff...wow! Kaitlyn DID roll a long while ago a couple of times but I think it was a fluke because she hasn't done it again (although she does side to side just not back to front or front to back). She's not really babbling much either...just making all sorts of cooing sounds, squeals etc. She's really good with sitting up though...she sits up alone for ages but we put pillows around her so she doesn't hurt herself if she does fall. She's a great little giggler too and giggles on 'demand' most of the time...especially at her crazy brother. Very cute! She also loves to stand up and is very proud when we go 'up-ups'...hehe...
We tried a tiny bit of Farex today but she wasn't so keen (she's been mouthing & watching us eat for a couple of weeks)...oh well, will try again in another week or so. We started DS at 5 months but mostly because he had bad reflux.
We're off to Sydney next week for Kaitlyn's appointment for her birthmark...fingers crossed it won't be all horrible news... We'll also go to the zoo and a few other things while we're there...if the weather is kind to us.
Kaitlyn is almost 8kgs and about 70 cms long (home measurements) now...growing quickly! She's also sleeping through most nights and I've been doing 'settling techniques' (patting/rocking) her to sleep day & night over the last 2 weeks and am happy to say she now (90% of the time) puts herself to sleep during the day (only sleeping 45 minutes though) and is getting better at night. Yay! Next step is to 'train' her into longer day sleeps...hehe...we'll see...
Anyway, I just wanted to say g'day while the house is quiet (even DH is in bed)... Hope you're all going well!!!
it was a bit hard with the bottles and trying to keep the water warm over night, but all ended up good. Rebecca is doing well..still. Nothing much has changed, although she is having heaps of bottles..such a hungry little mite! Shes nearly 5 months old, I will look at starting her on solids closer to 6 months. Although she did have a suck on my nectarine and loved it! I could probably start her on solids now, but I just have this "thing" about doing it early! 
doesn't seem to make a difference if I give her a dreamfeed at around 10pm or not, she still wakes at 3am and then again at around 5.30am (and then stays awake). Was easier first time around as DD1 would take a bottle and by about this time(5mths) I gave her just water for the 2am feed and after a couple of nights she decided it wasn't worth waking for..
She's a great little giggler too and giggles on 'demand' most of the time...especially at her crazy brother. Very cute! She also loves to stand up and is very proud when we go 'up-ups'...hehe...
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