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Hey guys, if anyone's interested I wrote an article based on the technique I used to lose weight a couple of years ago which worked so well for me I never regained weight and I even lost 3 kgs since getting pregnant. It's a really simple technique to get control of yourself again and STAY in control forever. Anyway, if you're interested PM me and I'll dig it up.
I think Jude's teething. Not sure, better take him to the doctor today to make sure because he was unsettled last night and he was folding his ear in half last night while I was feeding him so it could be an earache, but this morning he was chomping on my thumb really hard and I thought I could feel a sharp bit on his top gum.
Amy: You're doing great and I think you're right about what's upsetting Bethany, and you're right to keep the MIL away until things settle down, too. Thumbs up!
Georgi: Are you ever coming back to yoga? I have to take Jude this week, so no more completing an entire routine, Oh well it was fun while it lasted.
Hollye: How did she pull herself over the bookcase? I'm intrigued!
Belfie: You're the first person I've heard of with a sleeping bag addiction :rofl:. Thanks for the info, it was helpful! I also found Smart Dream bags online, which look nice and the 0.5 tog are much cheaper. I wish we had some spare money, I just hate hate hate being broke with a baby :(.
Tanya: Things are looking up for you and Maya! I'm really glad you're getting on top of things, I hope it's empowering for you. It makes a big difference to sort out the sleeping thing, a big big difference.
Jude's constipated. The MCHN suggested brown sugar in his milk, I'm not sure I like the idea of introducing him to sugar. A girl at MG suggested baby tea or chamomile tea. Any other suggestions??
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constipation -
Coloxyl (sp)
water
Prune juice (with water)
Infants friend
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I've had a busy few days, I've read all the posts but really don't have a lot of time to reply.
DH finally gave me an eternity ring on Friday, it was so unexpected and wonderful, we've been together for nearly 10yrs, married for 5yrs this June and have 5 kids. Julian is starting to roll more just from back to front and back again, just on the right side. My boob got better by Friday so that's a blessing.
Ok BBL.
hugs xoxo
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Well.. I keep feeling like there is progress but then everything falls apart again. So it's a few steps forward and many steps back. sigh. On the weekend she did so well with her day sleeps - did some 2 - 2 1/2 hour sleeps and she wasn't as hard to settle at night. Then yesterday she slept well during the day but night time was hell! I tried to put her down at 8pm and finally after 2 1/2 hours of trying everything I could think of she finally fell asleep on my bb at 10.30pm and I put her to bed. :wall: I was so exhausted and miserable last night. And the latest thing is.. my DH can no longer put her to bed. I also struggle A LOT obviously but she'll scream and not stop screaming if DH tries to rock her to sleep. With me she'll just cry or moan. So it just feels like yet another thing I have to do that no one can help me with. Tomorrow someone from Tweddle @ home is coming.. so I am really hoping that can make a difference somehow!!
kuraiza - Yeah I know how great the sleeping thing is. A month ago Maya was so good with her sleeping. I could put her down easily. And I felt like I was able to do things again. Now I feel like I've gone right back to the start when Maya was a newborn and I couldn't get things done and I couldn't get her to sleep and I had no idea what I was doing. The hardest thing for me is that it was HEAPS better for me and I thought it would stay like that or if it got bad again it would be just a phase. But it's now been 4 weeks of very hard. :( As for constipation someone at MG yesterday said their DD was constipated and she was giving her DD water.
amy - You are describing my life over the last 4 weeks! Hopefully Bethany settles down much sooner for you! :hug:
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aww Tan i hope u get some good advice today! hugs!
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hiya girls :D
not much happening here...besides my little steam roller boy (rolling round the lounge room is his fave past time now!!!) thinks he is very clever, he is scoffing his food BIG time...still not the best sleeper during the day, meh! who cares he is a good sleeper at night.
I had a meet up with 3 other BB mums today..was sooo nice getting out and talking to other adults!!!! there was an 11 week old little girl, a 3 month old a 4 month olf and Jack :) he is sooo fascinated with other bubs..he gets all excited and squeals...
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KURAIZA Not at this stage. I have started BJ on a routine which means he sleeps from 11am to 1.15pm. I have implemented a daily walk into my routine & have been doing yoga myself at home on Wednesday's.
As I mentioned, I have started BJ on a routine which seems to really suit us.. The only problem is that he's waking around 3am for a feed. He normally has 5 feeds a day, but this feed it his 6th. I'm guessing it's just a growth spurt & nothing to do with the routine as he's feeding heaps longer at each feed to what he normally does. The problem is that I can't get back to sleep. Then DH wakes me up, being so darn noisey, when he gets up for work at 5am. Pllleeeeasssse just be a growing spurt!
BELFIE I lost 900g in the last week.... By accident. Just by walking for 30mins every morning plus my 1 yoga session. I was still eating ice cream & naughty stuff, hadn't changed my diet at all. I guess it won't last long.
TANYA I'm so so sure you will get some good help today. I just know it *hugs*
HOLLYE How's Mia been on the medication? Has it helped?
Hello to everyone else, sorry no time for personals xx
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my little man is sending me crazy!!!!! he woke at 1.27am then 4ish am...really snotty and sniffly BUT did go back to sleep after my persistance...i wish these darn teeth would hurry up.....
i am sooo over the rolling now too!!! because he gets frustrated when he can't to anything BUT roll....and all he does is roll...
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Hi all,
Sorry but cant do personals today, have a migraine.. Hit me after I went to the pead, which I had found out yesterday was actually today not Friday. :doh:
Anyway here's V's measurements.
Weight Birth - 2.38kg Now - 4.3kg
HC Birth - 34cm Now 39.5cm
Birth Length - 47cm Now 56.5cm
As you all may remember she has a little lump on the back of her head too the left, well at first the Dr wasnt quite sure what it was but has now told me that it is definately a Dermatoid Cyst and needs to be removed. He doesnt want to do it just yet, want her to grow a bit more but wants to see her again in 3mths time and will then book the surgery to have it removed. Thankfully he told me it is only day surgery so she wont be staying in hospital just for the day. I am really not looking forward to that day, let me tell you. Maybe thats why I ended up with a Migraine as soon as I stepped into the car when I left.
Sami - You have to sign up and purchase online or unlimimited to be able to view the recipes. You can also get recipes from the WW magazines.
Hi to everyone else, sorry but just not well enough atm hugs.
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oh i've been a bit missing! But I'm back!
Had a hot stone massage today (belated birthday pressie) and it was BLISS! DH looked after X, and then I went to medicare and got like a million gazillion dollars back (I wish!) on the million gazillion receipts I hadn't submitted yet! I'm still trying to get all my bookkeeping stuff sorted, so had MIL over again on Tues... and X promptly slept for 4 hours through the arvo, so I'm sure she thought I have nothing to do all day lol but she was nice about it.
new pic here of my happy little boy in his new overalls (finally cooler weather!) - he was just super-smiley (usually it's instant frowns when the camera comes out) I could just eat him up he's so cute : https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...0&ppuser=11474
CSAB - sooo sorry to hear that V has to have an op ,how stressful for you :hug: hope the migraine departs asap too.
KAT - lol on the rolling!
GEORGI - eep those night wakes aren't fun. Fingers crossed he gets back to normal routine soon! And that's awesome on the weight. I've weighed in after my first week and I'm 1.6kg down so I'm pretty thrilled with that.
TANYA - I was thinking of you yesterday and hoping it was useful! I'm looking forward to hearing the update. Oh and I'm going to look for that book you mentioned too!
AJ - aaww that's so sweet he gave you that! I might have to drop some hints to DH. We've got our 10th wedding anniversary in May... hmm.
KURAIZA - lol I'm glad you like my addiction, I think I'm addicted to the oddest things! I'll look up those sleeping bags too... they sound good. As for the article, thanks heaps for the offer. I'm going ok so far, but i'll definitely come a'knocking when I start to plateau I'm sure!
SAMIH - yeah I'm not sure how much of WW online you can see before you join. I find it pretty good & user friendly (but i'm a nerd, so mebbe that helps?!? :lol:).
Everyone I missed, MWAH!
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Morning Ladies
Csab ~ hun V will be fine with the op (easy to say i know!!) but she is a fighter!!! and everything will be fine. Woo hoo on her weight by the way...i hope your migraine has eased.
Belfie ~ overall fan here to hun!!!!
sorry everyone else.... no personals..just not in the mood :( am off to work today to negotiate less hours :(
well success last night!!!! i wrapped Jack in the kiddopptimus as i hadn't 2 night previously and the bugger woke up BOTH those nights twice!!! well last night he didn't wake!!!!! i woke at 4am expecting him to be awake...but nope :D then i lay there thinking/waiting for him to wake... he fed at 6am and went straight back to sleep :D and is still sleeping now...
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csab - :hug: Sorry to hear that V needs an op. But her growth is good. :)
belfie - Oh that massage sounds nice. :)
Georgi - What routine were you following? I've decided that I like to have a bit of a routine but I find it so hard to stick to any sort of routine as soon as I leave the house! Plus I find that a strict routine just doesn't work for me. Like now I am not supposed to feed her before 3 hours since the previous feed and I'm not supposed to feed her if she hasn't just woken from a sleep. But she keeps only managing to stay up about an hour or less even. Then she does an hour or hour and half nap. So sometimes that's 2 hours since the last feed but I can't resettle or feed her and I'm at a loss as to what to do. The nurse is going to call tomorrow so I'm writing a big long list of questions to ask her!
katones - Yay on Jack's good sleep. :)
So a woman from Tweddle came over yesterday. It was great having that extra support. I had tried some of the things she wants me to put in place, but I always gave up on them cos I never knew if I was doing the right thing or not. Now I have the confidence to keep going. I have no idea if it'll work or not for me. But something had to change and I think this is definitely worth a try. So far it seems to take less time to settle her down for a sleep which is good! But not everything is working at the moment or sometimes it takes a lot of resettling to get her to sleep or to go back to sleep. I just hope she'll be able to self settle at some point! :pray:
Anyway, I'm feeling more positive at the moment. And one of the good things is that my DH can again help to settle her. For a while now my DH couldn't put her to bed because she'd scream the house down and not stop screaming if he tried. So for me even that's a huge plus that he can help me with it again! :)
And I'm still down on all the sleep school waiting lists - so at least I know if this doesn't work out for me on my own I have those (when they are available!) as backup!
ETA - I forgot to mention that we also moved Maya to her own room and into her cot yesterday. She wasn't going to fit in her bassinet much longer and the woman from Tweddle thought it would be a good time to move her and start the new routine at the same time. I really missed Maya last night though. I love hearing her little noises and knowing everything is OK. Our room felt so empty last night. :( I keep thinking if I'm missing her this much and she's just in another room, imagine what I'll be like when she stays at someone else's house for the first time. :rofl:
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Hello all!!
Turns out my cranky baby turned in to a very sick baby. Short version she woke up Tuesday all phlemey and congested having trouble breathing, took to to emergancy, they wanted to observe her. While there she had what they call a "faint" where she was unconsious and unresponsive for about 5mins although still breathing (thank God!!) Mummy and daddy however were not!! So she was admitted overnight, then they found that she had RSV so longer stay. We got home a couple of hours ago, She is still clogged up poor darling and not well but I am happy to have her home, she can rest more and just chill here. Anyway I will be back tomorrow sometime...For now I want to shower and sleep after 4 days in a little hospital room!!!
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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 :clap: 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 :lol:
Happy long weekend - be back tomorrow :)
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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.
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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 :rolleyes:
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.
Have a great long weekend.
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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....
