Oh crap Amy!!!!! What is RSV - guessing respiratory something virus?? How absolutely scary for you - good on you for trusting your gut mummy instinct and getting her seen to - well done It's hard to know when to make that call sometimes ...
Heaps to say, been very busy - but no time Zander had a 5 months check up yesterday and was 7.7kg and 68cms long - so about 70th percentile all round .... starting on some rice cereal tomorrow, he yelled at us again tonight and as soon as he was on our lap and I gave him his own spoon - straight in his mouth and trying to grab my food - so cute. Digital recorder all loaded and ready for the mess
Amy - that sounds just awful you poor thing! Glad Bethany is on the mend! Oh and I googled RSV cos I didn't know what it is either- Respiratory syncytial virus (link).
SamiH - tehehe so cute from Z re the food. I think X isn't ready, but yesterday I had MG at my place and one girl bought chocolate snowballs (you know, the marshmallow things) and X kept STARING at them. Was hilarious... mebbe he wants solids now after all!
Katones - woo hoo for overalls & a successful night! Good luck with the less hours too - how many do you want?
Tanya - when we did a early parenting class (all about settling stuff) I came home mad keen to implement it, and nothing worked at ALL for the first day or so. So hang in there hun, good luck with it. Great that you get some follow-up and chance for more question.
I've got the IL's coming over this mornign (all the neighbourhood dogs have a regular sat morning play) then it's garage time! Hard rubbish collection on monday and my garage SOOOOOO needs a clean out. DH's back is bad atm, so him & MIL are on baby duty while I get into the cobwebs! And finally after DH has been snoring SO loudly all week I actually was so stuffed last night I fell asleep before him and got a good night's sleep. At last phew!
Oh and a teething question. We keep thinking X is teething... then he's not... then he is! His teeth on the top are very visible in the front of the gum IYKWIM (a friend yesterday who has an older child) thought they weren't far away at all. But the fact they're very visible, does that mean anything? I can't tell so much with the bottom gum, cos his little slobbery tongue always comes out to cover it! Plus last night he was waaaaaay grumpy, big red rosy cheeks, drooly and not a happy camper, jan! And he's munching on his hands, but he's always been a fist muncher anyways so I ignore that.
hope everone has a great long weekend! We only realised it was a long weekend on Thursday lol.
belfie - i can see Zanders top teeth sitting there under the gums too - but no i don't that necessarily means they are close - close could be 6 weeks or 3 months!
With the bottom teeth, try the glass on his gums trick i posted earlier - i can see zanders now one teensy bit is cutting - but yes they do have symptoms that waiver - so he certainly could be all drooly and cranky and redcheeked and ear pulling etc for a day or two, then nothing for a couple and then sore again .... Riley was such a cool dude though I didn't know he was teething until after they had cut
Z just had some rice cereal - he thought it was so funny cos everyone was sitting around him, the kids wanted to have a go puttin gthe spoon in his mouth - so he didnt swallow much of course and pushed it around his mouth and out - but like anything it takes practice. He did a big poo about 30 mins after so will just need to keep an eye on that - but seems happy enough ... all recorded for prosperity
Off to watch the ACT bmx championships and for some sunshine!
I am also organising Giselle's 4th birthday party - the busy-ness just never ends.
OMG..i have the demon child!!!!!
put teething/constipation and waking at 4am together and screaming and you have JACK!!!!! this went on til nearly 5am when DH said i am getting his bottle NOW!!!! he drank it happily went to sleep then was awake at 8.15am!!!!
still no poo and it is near 3pm!!!!!
he HAS to sleep tonight!!!!! or my eyes are going to bungy!!!!!
he also has to poo soon!!!! or it will be suppository heaven....
We're having fun here listening to lots of crying and screaming. Maya's not liking the new routine. Though she also cried a lot with the old one. So now I'm just confused and have no idea what to do. I keep wondering if the new settling techniques will actually work or not?!
Poor Maya also has the most awful nappy rash. She's had slight nappy rash at times but it's really bad now.
amy - What a scare! Glad Bethany is OK now.
belfie - The new settling seemed to work great for the first day and now it doesn't seem to work at all. How long did it take to work for X? Now I wish I'd started much earlier. I wish they taught this stuff at hospital.
katones - Hope Jack is better.
Gotta go.. she's up and needs a feed. Hi to everyone I missed!
Just a quick one, V is getting a bit unsettled so must go and feed her.
Tanya - Just an idea for you to try on Maya's nappy rash. Try sudocream and put some curerash powder on after you put the cream (ontop of it), has always worked for me. I do it every nappy change for V, but used to do the same with my last 2 DD"s as well. I first tried it when one of my DD's had a bad nappy rash and it cleared up practically over night. You can only do it like that though if the rash isnt blistery. Another thing to try which my GP had me try with my oldest DD was put vaseline on it and that keeps the urine away from the rash so that it can heal. Hope her bottom gets better soon. hugs
Amy: That sounds horrible! I'm worried that I wouldn't catch something like that because I am whatever the other extreme is from a hypochondriac. I'm trying to be more sensitive to Jude's health, since he can't tell me if he's sick. He was really upset the other day and was folding his ear in half and sticking his finger in his ear so we took him to the GP but there was nothing wrong ... now I'll never know if I should take him to a doctor or not.
Tanya: I use sudocream for nappy rash, it's very good.
Sami: We started Jude on rice cereal for breakfast and at first I made it runny like the MCHN told us to, but it was stupid and messy, so I made it thick and Jude gobbled it down. He eats as much as I give him ... so I'm not sure how much to make every morning I just keep making more each day.
Jude is setting me a challenge I don't know how to solve. He always wants to call it a day at random times in the afternoon which makes having a bedtime ritual really challenging. I like to feed him, bath him, put him to bed and read him a bed time story before he goes to sleep for 7 or 8 hours, but sometimes he wants to start that long sleep at 2pm and sometimes 5.30pm (or any time in between).
I never know when he's going to crash out for the rest of the day. I want to feed him "dinner" at 6pm and have him asleep by 7pm, but he doesn't want to play by my rules and I can't force him to stay awake once he's decided he wants to sleep, or there's hell to pay. So I don't know what to do about that.
Yesterday he went to sleep at midday and woke up briefly for a feed around 4pm!!! and then wanted to go straight back to sleep for the rest of the night, so we woke him up around 7pm for a bath and another feed. It's crazy!! It seems to me that these days he just wants to sleep all day. He's been asleep now for more than 2 hours. If I wake him up he gets cranky. What should I be doing??
Oh good, I hear happy sounds coming from his room. Time for lunch!
*sigh* I've been waiting so long to join a mother's group but they want to keep meeting on Mondays and that's my weekend with my husband and I'm scared they won't want to meet on a different day. I don't know many people here and I was really looking forward to mother's group, and now it's just going pear-shaped. I really need my weekends with my husband. Oh well, maybe my fear is unfounded. Surely they'll understand ... but I do feel like I'm just going to be the problem lady that no one likes.
It's hard to know when to make that call sometimes ...
Zander had a 5 months check up yesterday and was 7.7kg and 68cms long - so about 70th percentile all round .... starting on some rice cereal tomorrow, he yelled at us again tonight and as soon as he was on our lap and I gave him his own spoon - straight in his mouth and trying to grab my food - so cute. Digital recorder all loaded and ready for the mess
Maya's not liking the new routine. Though she also cried a lot with the old one. So now I'm just confused and have no idea what to do. I keep wondering if the new settling techniques will actually work or not?!
So I don't know what to do about that. 
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