Babies Born October 1st-15th 2008 #6

[Moi]

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!

[csab]

Hi all,

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

[SunnyRain]

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.

Sorry, long post. What got into me?

[Moi]

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.

[AmandaJ]

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 .

hugs xoxo

[[M]umma[M]ia]

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.

[SamiH]

TANYA - there is a wonder cream - really expensive - buy it at the pharmacy about 15grams for $15 - but I am so sorry - I have been sitting here TRYING SO HARD to remember what it is called - ask the pharmacist - the tube is white with pale green writing - when Giselle had really really bad rash this was fantastic - one application before bed and nearly cleared up overnight - oh gosh I am so sorry I cant remember teh name of it .... but of course small amounts only - the cream is pale pink from memory - ARGH ....

Zander has not had any nappy rash at all so far (fingers crossed!)

Yay for some sleep - I dont have a set time as such for Zander - just when he goes into that deep sleep ... he has been down for 20 mins but is very overtired cos we have spent the arvo at a playcentre with friends so only 2 x 20 min naps I expect him to wake in an hour for a feed and play and THEN go to bed for the night.

[Moi]

Sami - Yes I agree it's hard to have a set bed time cos it depends on her naps during the day as to when she'll be going to bed for the night.

Amanda - Sorry to hear about your cat.

[amy_o]

I am soooo frustrated!!!

It has been a long weekend trying to make sure Bethany drinks enough. I think she is sort of on the midline, not enough but not not enough if that makes sense. She still shows signs of dehydration but they are about the same no improvement. She is cranky and demanding and I just want some rest dammit. DH has been doing as much as he can but lets face it they are convientely deaf when the crys start and by the time he goes "Oh what can I do??" I have already done it. Or he says he will do it in a minute...that would be a man minute not the normal 60 secs. Meanwhile she is screaming.
I am currently waiting for the health center to open so I can call and make an appointment with our MCHN, I need reasaurance or something...
I am tried, stressed and plain miserable.

Thanks for the vent

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amy_o hugs hun!!!
men just have NO idea!!!!

[CathieW]

Hi girls,
I have been sooooooooooooooooo busy, all is fine with the twins they are 5 months know and it's getting really hard to keep them busy during the day. So we brought a couple of jolly jumpers on the weekend and they really like it. Lily my 3 year old just sits there and watches them jump and jump and jump so it's keeping the 3 of them busy. Alex my eldest started high school this year he is really enjoying it. I hope everyone is fine and big hugs to you all.
Cathie

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glad all is going well with your twins CathieW!!!
Jack loves his jolly jumper aswell!!! and now when you hold him up on his feet..what does he do?? he jumps.... is soo cute!!! but very tiring

[CathieW]

How are you going Katones? Jack is soooooooooo cute, is he a devil my Jack is always up to no good.

Cathie

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he is a devil!!!
he is now doing a 'shy' thing...you say something to him..he will give you a coy little smile then turn his head and shy away...soooo cute
i am doing OK...going back to work next month..but what hours i have NO idea..as work is stuffing me round...
and more talking yesturday with hubby on 'another bubba' exciting!!!

[CathieW]

Is jack going to go into Day care? Boys are soooooo cute, Sam grabs you and places his head into your neck. Well Hana is still a drama queen and she is teething so she is more of a drama queen. They grow up so quickly.
Cathie

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nope no daycare here Jack will be going to MIL (nanny goat from hell!!) to be minded for the 5 or so hrs i am at work.
Jack is teething aswell and it has been driving me mental!! i previously had his amber teething necklace on him then took it of for ages and he was unconsolable!!! so the past 2 days i have put it back on...and it was like magic!!! he is soo much more settled!!!

[SamiH]

TANYA - there is a wonder cream - really expensive - buy it at the pharmacy about 15grams for $15 - .

Tanya - came to me this morning - Calmaseptine (sp? - but close) brilliant stuff for when it is really bad and need to clear it up

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hydrazole is also great for bad NR!!!