Babies Born November 2006 #11

Have a good weekend Kim!

Wow Ann - Ella is going great guns on the food front...here is Aston on old pears...lol...hopefully soon he will move onto more exciting culinary delights.

Hugs Blanche - emelia will miss him too. DH and I consider that one Fly in Fly out, in the WA north mining town, but even with the fantastic money, I couldn't get DH to be away for that long, he said he would miss Aston too much... so we will continue to plod along.... You have lots of family near by though don't you? I have family in Mandurah actually...small world eh.

thanks Vicki, Yeah i have heaps of family and friends around im trying to keep myself occupied but all i can think about is when he is getting home!!! i really hope this will get easier...Emelia will miss him so much as he will her, i think i get more upset when she continues to say "dada" all day. it was just so hard to get by on the money he was getting at his last job and there was nothing much better down here so it was our very last option and i was really hoping it wouldnt come to this :(

wow very small world i wonder if i know them lol !!

Oh blanche! you've always got us to talk to :) but its difficult to give you a cuddle. It must be hard for you. Do you have lots of people you can hang out with?

I'm about to have a mummy meltdown. Ella has been slowly forgetting how to sleep! She now needs me to rock her for every sleep. Just now i've been rocking for 40mins!!! its like she's 6weeks old again.

Dont know what's wrong. How do i tell if they have a tummy ache? She doesnt have a fever and not teething. She just works herself into a frenzy and wont sleep unless i get her into a pitch black room, rock, sing and pat.

I'll have to do what i did when she was 3 months old and slowly get her back into her sleep pattern. Took me 3-4weeks last time and i have to go back to work in 3 weeks!

Our offer on apartment was accepted today and i'm not even excited. I'm just worried about Ella's sleep... :(

Tara - how's Evie's sleep now?

Ann

Oh Ann, it just seems to be the way doesnt it. it makes me think that they're not supposed to sleep without us - considering how much trouble we all seem to have!
Evie's still needing to be rocked to sleep. i must admit that i can put her in her cot and she wont always cry when i leave but it goes quiet so i go back in and she's crawling around - and this will go on for an hour or so until she's really tired and then cries so i go in put her dummy in and then usually end up having to rock her anyways. if i stand next to the cot she just plays with my hand and goodness knows how long that will go on for if i let it!
Ann what do you do to get her into a sleep pattern? have i asked you that before? is that when you just hold her hand for a bit and gradually spend less and less time with her?

Does anyone still have baby sleeping in their rooms? Evie is still in a cot in our room and i think that may be why she's waking up so much in the night - dh does not stop wriggling! anyways, her bedroom is at the other end of the house but it faces the street and we cant afford to get our fence finished at the moment so i just cant have her down in her room on her own. i'm just worrying that we're leaving it too late to move her...what do you guys think?

Jovie's still in our room, and will probably be for ages. She comes into our bed midway through the night so we can have some sleep. She cuddles up to me & falls asleep within 10 minutes of coming into our bed, sometimes I could kick myself for waiting the hour to bring her into our bed LOL... sometimes I want the space.

LOL Christy, I hear you! I try to resist bringing evie into bed with us cos i get such a sore back trying to sleep around her but then the power of sleep is much stronger than i!
i just put evie in her cot "sleepy but awake" and she had a grizzle for a bit, i went back in three times to put her dummy in and she finally went to sleep on her own, so thats a win for me today. I pinched a nerve in my wrist yesterday so i cant possibly rock her to sleep, i couldnt lift her out of her car seat yesterday!

hi guys still feeling crap, didnt realise how hard it would be looking after a baby when sick!!! called DH home from work yesterday but he didnt end up making it home much eariler than normal anyway :rolleyes: i'm just very glad that sophie is so easy going and can enetertain herself. havent really eaten much but desperatly trying to keep fluids up considering i;m still BF, she's enjoying her food better now!! yay!!

ANN congrats on the apartment!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks AJP - Jezz i almost forgot about that. I better get things moving with contracts and stuff...so preoccupied with Ella's sleep.

She went down at 6pm for her last sleep (after 40mins of rocking) and then woke up at 9! I gave her a feed and she would go back to sleep. DH and I were rocking and patting for hours. Then finally i thought maybe she needs her bedtime routine. So at midnight we gave her a quick bath, massage, boobs and cuddle and into bed. She cried some more and i patted her for an hour and she went to bed at 1am!! But she didnt get up till 7am she was so tired. Poor thing.

But today is different. I've been a bit slack in putting her down when she starts to look tired. But i've been more vigilant today and she's self settled this morning and this afternoon. This morning she said "ba ba" and started saying "mum mum" they are just sounds i know but i like to think she is calling me :)

Tara - Ella sleeps in her own room. Before she moved she woke up heaps (noisy DH) and when she moved she started sleeping more soundly. But i know lots of mums who still have bubs in their room and they can comfort bubs in their cots and dont even have to get out of bed!

To get Ella back into her sleep routine (a little feed, half wrap and dummy) i just start eliminating what she has gotten use to. Like now she has the works, patting, rocking, bouncing, shushing. So for a few days we'll wont shush. Then when she is ok with that we wont bounce. etc etc until all i do is pop her in her cot and pat. I only go into this settling routine if she needs it.

My thinking is that she proves to herself she can do it rather than calling out to us out of habit... But then Ella's not crawling so i'm sure its harder for Evie. Congrats on your win today!

Ann

Thanks Ann (congrats on your apartment too btw). I had to pat evie to sleep this afternoon but was quite happy for me not to pick her up, which was good (my back was very thankful). she seems to be going back into her old routine now, so i'll just have to resist the urge to pick her up even when she's happy just because it's quicker!
she must have some teeth on their way i think because she's quite grizzly all the time and has learnt to squeal. for joy or for any reason really! i hope she gets over that quick sticks!

Hello there! I've been crazy today because its Matilda's birthday on the weekend & she was supposed to go to family day care but didn't because the carer was sick... so all my stuff had to be done with her around which makes it 10 times more difficult... ah well.

Took Jovie to the GP today as she was pretty bad last night, up every 2 hours for 45 minutes and she vomitted twice but I think that was because I kept putting her on the boob to settle her but it wasn't what she needed anyway. She still sick with the snot and stuff so I thought I'd better take her back to the GP. Well she has a sinus infection :( poor sausage, no wonder she was up every few hours, she must have felt like crap! So tonight she's been given some panadol before bed & the vapouriser is going strong. Hopefully she will sleep better...

awww poor Jovie!! let's hope that panadol and a good night's sleep do her the world of good.
evie went to bed sound asleep at 530 and is still sleeping! unbelievable! i'm going to bed too in case it doesnt last!!

Can anyone tell me how a Grobag and sleeping bag are different? What does TOG mean?

Tara, a grobag is a brand name of sleeping bag for babies. The TOG is the measurement for the grobag of how warm they are. So a 1.0 tog is like having a blanket on, and a 2.5 is like having a doona on, I think...

We use a 2.5 with a bonds romper usually during winter up here... Most nights that is all Jovie needs in QLD.... I've heard of other people who put 2.5 Grobags over babies in bonds wondersuits & singlets with blankets over the top... but I haven't ever done that. I think it depends on where you live definately and how cold your house gets at night.

ARGH... poor poor Jovie. She's so sick! Now the antibiotics have upset her tum as well so she's all refluxy again and vomiting and diarrhoea and arching her back & screaming & not sleeping :(

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