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.
This morning I woke up and realised something was wrong. So I opened my eyes and I realised it was light outside. So I looked at my clock and it was 7.30am!!!!!!!! Maya always wakes at night so I freaked out and my DH and I raced to her room and there's the cheeky little girl smiling at us. I am so happy to have gotten 7 ish hours of sleep in a row!! I'm trying not to get my hopes up that this will be a regular thing cos I know at her age they aren't meant to sleep through the night yet. But gosh it would be nice if she did that regularly.
As for nappy rash - I do use sudocream but this time the rash just kept getting worse and worse. I bought some other cream, can't remember what off the top of my head, and that seems to be helping. csab - Thanks for the tip about Vaseline I might try that. The rash is still there but looking a lot better than it was. I wonder if part of the problem is that I used some Bepathanon when it was starting to get bad (I'd never tried it before and had a little sample tube) and I think she had an allergic reaction to it because suddenly the rash was HEAPS worse. I won't be using that cream again!
kuraiza - The woman I had over from Tweddle said until they are 6 months old you can't have a scheduled timetable of when they go to bed each night. She said you need to look at a day as 24 hours not night time and day time exactly (though of course there's a point at which you want them to sleep longer at night and less in the day). I know a lot of others here and at my mother's group have set bed times and I was trying to have one too, but I've given up on it for now and will readdress it in a months time when she's 6 months. Another thing she said is not to let Maya go more than 4 hours during the day without a feed. But she's not sleeping as long as Jude so I haven't come across a problem where I've had to wake her. Don't know if that is of any help to you...
As for mother's group why can't you just tell them your situation and ask if they are happy to move it to another day? We moved ours to a day when everyone was happy.
Hi all been extremely busy in the past few days and had a very sad weekend this weekend. We took our cat to the Vet on Friday as he had lost a lot of weight and we got a call yesterday morning at 8am and they said that he had really bad kidney disease and maybe bone marrow cancer so we had to make the hard decision to put him to sleep and then explain to the older boys that he wouldn't be coming home. It was such a sad day.
Julian has decided that he will roll over when he is sleeping and then wakes up screaming that he is on his belly and the last two nights he has been waking at strange hours in the early morning and then wanting a feed which is unusual and he won't resettle he wants a feed and he wants it now .
Tanya - try the curash baby powder for nappy rash and see if that helps.Try and let her have a fair bit of nappy free time, just lay some sheets or towels down under her.
Sorry havent been on, have had a busy week. V had her immunisation yesterday and hasnt been well with it. Was up most of the night with her, poor little bubba girl. Also ended up with yet another migraine today, so not the best of company right now.
V doesnt like the taste of Nurofen or Panadol. What a challenge getting her to have either of them without her spitting it all back out again.
Happy Birthday Georgi from down here in Sydney. HUgs. Hope you had the best day. My DH is next week.
I hope everyone else is doing ok and so are all the bubs. Anyway must head off, V still very whingey. hugs
Ohh and finally got results from my BT's a while ago, and definately have an ANA positve blood clotting disorder, they want me to start taking aspirin everyday now.hmmmm. Not good at taking anything.
question for you girls...
Jack is still in our room DH does NOT want him in his own room he is too paranoid..me i want him in his own room..it is only across the hall 2/3 steps from our room..how do i go about 'getting' him in his room while making DH feel ok about it?
Katones: I don't know but I think you should find out specifically what your husband is worried about and talk it through, maybe take him to see the MCHN for some expert advice. You can easily hear Jack with his room so close to yours, but that might not really be what's troubling your husband ... it could be more complicated. Maybe your husband likes being close to Jack at night because he misses him when he's at work during the day.
Georgi: Happy birthday, where you be?
Csab: Can you take the 100mg baby aspirin? I was taking that for a while when I was ... oh long story. Anyway, it's a big enough dose of aspirin to stop platelets forming.
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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.
Maya always wakes at night so I freaked out and my DH and I raced to her room and there's the cheeky little girl smiling at us.
I am so happy to have gotten 7 ish hours of sleep in a row!! I'm trying not to get my hopes up that this will be a regular thing cos I know at her age they aren't meant to sleep through the night yet. But gosh it would be nice if she did that regularly.
DH does NOT want him in his own room he is too paranoid..me i want him in his own room..it is only across the hall 2/3 steps from our room..how do i go about 'getting' him in his room while making DH feel ok about it?
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