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Jack woke 3 times last night aswell!!!! it killed me!!!! as soon as i got in there and gave him his dummy he went straight back off to sleep.... and the night before he just woke up screaming and wouldn't re-settle...so hubby slept on the spare bed and Jack with me...he has the sniffles and the reddest bum...teething is the pits!!!!
*sigh*
I get on, I read your posts - hit reply - and tehn realise I am too buggered to post anything remotely useful.
G & Z had needles today and Giselle didnt even cry - wow she is a drama queen so I am sooooooooooo proud of her.
DH been travelling alot, I am exhausted pretty much, gotta go Z awake again - like all of you, sleeping is not good fo rhim during the day at the moment and it is pssing us all off lol
too tried here too...
Note to self DO NOT run out of baby nurofen when teething. Cause when you do baby will wake at 3am. Thank goodness I had some panadol on hand and we weren't pain reliefless (Ok I made that word up).
Brain to fuzzy to write more.
belfie - You are doing such a great job expressing for so long. :hug: I've been expressing for top ups and it's harder than BF! What an achievement to make it to 6 months. :clap: As for X taking solids not all babies are ready at 6 months. At the moment I offer Maya food on days when I have time but so far she's not having a bar of it. I'm treating solids as another thing for her to explore at the moment.
Georgi - I saw BJ with his cucumber. Is that mushy enough for him to eat? I want to offer more foods for Maya to suck on because she seems to enjoy sucking on food just not chewing it. :lol: As for sleep - after her vaccinations yesterday Maya slept for ages and she was still very sleepy all day today! So I'm hoping for another night tonight without any waking. :)
Amanda - I found the solution to the wakings.. vaccinations! :lol: I don't think it's a remedy I can use on a daily basis though. :) Hopefully Julian will give you a good night tonight. Love the avvy.
katones - I hope Jack's teeth surface soon! :hug:
Sami - Sounds like you are doing a great job. :hug:
Hello to everyone else. That's all I can manage for now.
I'm getting sad about moving at the moment.. even thought I know it's the best thing for us. I spent today changing some addresses and doing some packing. I feel like there's still so much to pack and I'm not sure how it'll all get done at the moment.
TANYA I just realised Maya shares birthdays with my Dad & my Niece. Different years of course :lol: The cucumber isn't soft enough for BJ to swollow. He just sucks on it till it's all soggy. If Maya likes to suck on things then it would be perfect for her
AMY I bought nurofen the other day. Just getting ready for the teeth. I heard it was much better than panadol for teething
SAMI I bet you're exhausted with DH away, handling 3 little ones :clap: You do a wonderful job
KATONES How are you finding the teething necklace? What colour is it? I just bought one on line the other day, the honey milk colour cause the light ones are meant to be better. I don't think BJ is actually teething, but I wanna be ready for it. I bought one for myself too. I'm hoping it will relieve my back pain
AMANDA IKWYM about not being use to waking throughout the night. It's so hard when it happens. I get depressed if it happens too many nights in a row. So hard to get use to
BELFIE You sure can borrow it. However, I feel better today, the sun is shining so we could take our morning walk. I've been slack with my diet so last Monday I vowed to get stuck into it. So far, so good. I love that pic of X. Sooooooo adorable. I'm planing to change my sig pic when I get a chance
BJ woke at 4.30am this morning. I left him till 5am then decided if I feed him we can all go back to sleep. So that's what I did, but....... I couldn't get back to sleep GRRRRR! I wish I was a good sleeper. It's so frustrating. I think I need to exercise more. I sleep better when I exercise. I've been looking at the local gyms cause I plan to get back into teaching aerobics but need to get back into shape first. But the only problem is that the morning classes are on during BJ's sleep & feed times. So I'm gonna have to leave it a bit longer, till his older & not so routined.
Hun teething necklaces are worth their weight in gold!!!! Jacks doesn't come off ever...if i have taken it of (which i did once and forgot to put it back on) he was like a little demon!!!! put it back on and sooo calm :)
as for colour not heard that before...i bought mine from america for Jack.. recieved it in 5 days and soo much cheaper than here and it has a magnetic clasp on it so very safe.
Nurofen is friend in this house!!! can't use panadole due to using cloth nappies (it has sorbitol in it which causes grey stains on the nappy from their pee!! which takes FOREVER to sun out!!!!!)
sick little boy here!!! nice rosey cheeks & lips...tad warm and vomiting like a fountain :( has been abit sniffly past few days and yuck poos!!! off to the Drs soon
OMG he's asleep! He woke at 11.30am - so I decided to do a quick bolt to the shops with him... he got a bit antsy halfway through but then piped down again, coming home to feed... get home and he's asleep! Having no feed since 8.30am!!! :o
Don't get me wrong, I ain't complaining. Just gobsmacked!
i went & bought some Fenugreek today - I think cos I am so exhausted that is what is playing with my supply. Will try it out & see. Looking forward to camping so nothing to do except vege out mostly .... hopefully ....
Kids are fine from their jabs :)
z will only sleep 4 x 30 min sleeps during day currently - hence me being so tired cos i cant get anything done until after bedtime :( bit frantic at the moment ....
Sami~~ Bethany is going through the same thing with her sleeps not to metion her feeding issues...don't thing I have shared the saga here yet.
I went to the GP yesterday for some things for me and ended up losing it and having her look at Bethany. In a nutshell last week the MCHN told me that Bethany's weight was dropping too low. There seem to be a bunch of factors all of which I am too tried to go in to! We have a referal in to see a speech pathologist and we will be having weekly weigh ins Biggest Loser style for awhile. I am trying not to be concerned and just roll with it. It may all just be a phase.
But since she is quiet I am going to lay down and close my eyes for a minute...(oh please let it be longer!!!)
Amy - why???? it doesnt make sense to me?? or could be my dopey haze .....:
Ahh didn't make sense to me either till I discovered that:
*eating is a very important part of speech development
and
*speech pathologists don't just deal with "speech" they deal with everything to deal with the mouth so swollowing, eating etc. After a stroke for example you will have to see one to have the muscle function in your mouth checked. They can check out her high palette, her "technique" etc and make suggestions. Although judging from the noise from the mat her "speech" as it is, is just fine thank you!
Hope your dopey haze lifts soon although I am joining you there....never did get my lie down....
Georgi - I might try giving Maya some cucumber and see if she likes it. :) She loves sucking on raw apple so she might like sucking on some other raw foods. As for the sleeping you are not alone there. Maya woke this morning at 5.30am and I couldn't get back to sleep afterwards. :(
katones - How's Jack doing? Hope he's better soon.
Sami - I was using Fenugreek. I feel like my supply has improved but I don't know if it was the Fenugreek or the expressing?! :dunno:
amy - How much does Bethany weigh now? I have had the opposite problem where no one has thought Maya's very low weight gains were a problem. Then she lost weight so I saw a GP and next I'm off to see a paediatrician.
I forgot to mention yesterday that I had Maya weighed again and she's put on a bit of weight thankfully. At the moment she's staying on the 3rd percentile but that's what we want. We don't want her to drop down any further!! I really think it's because she wasn't drinking enough for a while. And for some reason she just never complained. :rolleyes: But I do feel terrible sometimes that I didn't notice how bad it was. She didn't feel like she was getting any heavier but I thought that was because it was a gradual thing. Now I realise she didn't feel any heavier because she wasn't getting any heavier. I can feel the difference now that she has put on a bit of weight! I guess at least now I know that I should feel a difference!
Oh and my bloody bb is blocked again!!!! :wall: It's so annoying. That's 3 times within a month!! I dunno why it's happening a lot at the moment?!
hi all, we're back home finally!! was planning to read up on whats been happening but gave up after the 1pg :rofl: so...which bub has finally cut their first teeth? ours are still playing peep-a-boo but it shouldnt be too long now :)
here's a rundown on our happenings for the past weeks:
* his face has eczema mainly due to the humid weather
* i passed my exams and will be graduating 21st this month YAY!!
* had to put dragon on dummy upon insistence from my aunties :( sometimes its good as there's nothing which we do can settle him. also, at least this way he'll sleep on his back or side which would let his face breathe
* he puts EVERYTHING in his mouth
* as opposed to when he was little, he now has a higher tendency to feed on both sides. he sure is growing!
it was a PITA to bf in HK as there are some oldies which r more conservative so had to make sure we brought some ebm with us. felt like a cow at times as i didnt bring a pump so had to hand express. towards the end of the trip just couldnt care less & fed him whenever it was semi-consealed. i really got sick of having to feed him in stinky toilets.
i'm looking to introduce formula into dragon's diet so that we can ttc. hopefully i wont have to drop bf altogether but will hv to see how it goes.
better attend to the little monster & continue with unpacking!
Bethany weighs around the 6kg mark I can't remember what yesterdays was exactly. Not exactly a drama but the MCHN thought it was because she was sliding down that damn graph and blah blah blah. :)
She is also very tall which makes her leaner if that makes sense.
Gotta go finish getting dinner happening
BBL (maybe??)
teruteru - welcome back! wow sounds like a tough time over there. GL with the resolving the eczema, We found dermeze or dermaveen quite good on X's face. Congrats on the graduation too!
SamiH - have I said this before? (early senility here) but I found RLT (in tea or tablet form) seemed to do more for my supply than fenugreek but I've used both off & on. Just a thought. Oh and more rest... easier said than done huh. You can borrow the clone cupboard after Amy & I finish with it... ;) You're doing an awesome job.
Amy_o - oh wow I never knew that re speech paths.
Tanya - aaww thanks :redface: I recently found out that apparently EBM is edefinitely richer than FF and that you don't need to give as much. Explains why X is so chubby... woulda been handy to know earlier huh. Made me feel like a bit of a twit, cos I've always just used FF volumes as our guideline. Oops. Oh well.
My mum arrives on Fri, I am very lucky. And we've currently got my IL's golden retriever staying. He smells. Oh and X has spewed on me 3 times today. So I smell too :lol: I realised I'd gone to the shops yesterday with avocado all over my trackies, now that's a look. Lucky I didn't run into Trinny and Susannah har har!
ok gotta go hang out washing.
hey hey! been reading all your posts but havent had time to reply coz u girls talk so much.
Im not really going to reply now.. just going to blab for a min.
Mia's app at the RCH went well. The valve at the top of her tummy isnt closing. they can fix it manually by surgery (big NO from me) or they can give her a medication to help the lower valve to empty her tummy quicker (side effect : oh her eyes might roll in the back of her head.... uh NO from me) or just wait it out.. hopefully it will close soon and he seems to think it will by the age of 2. So yes, we are waiting it out and have to see them again in 5 months to see how its going and discuss surgery and things then (which is a waste of time lol).
another front... shes now 7.6 kilos! she was born 3.52 :) so over doubled her birth weight :cheer: and she is 64 cm long.
any of u girls turned your car seat around yet? I know alot of ppl do it at 6 months or 8 kilos but im not ready for Mia's to be turned around yet, shes still too little. I told DP i will assess the situation again in a couple of months.
and im sick.. just a sore throat, like real sore, cant swallow kinda sore. fun fun..
IL's coming to visit today...... enough said...
it actually depends on your car seat..different car seats = different weights to turn around majority are 9kgs (from all that i looked at anyways)
Jack weighs in at 8.8kgs now :) my big lump
Me personally...i would have opted to have any of my babies problems fixed sooner rather than later...I don't gamble with their well-being, both my older 2 had ops at very young ages and pulled through better than most adults..my eldest has had numerous ops and my second eldest has had one op. JMO...
Hollye is there a reason you didn't want to go with the surgery?? i would clear things up a hell of a lot quicker and not have to deal with the spews all day long.
Katones - at the end of the day, its just spew. Shes still very healthy and thriving and what am i meant to say to her when shes older? oh we had ur chest cut open so u wouldnt chuck on us anymore??? nah i dont think so. The pead didnt think it was too necessary to have the op anyway as he says 98% chance it will just fix its self. See ALL babies have the same thing. The valve is closed when they are born and slowly opens. Some close sooner than others. Its hard to explain without me drawing u a picture...
My baby turns 6 months today!!! ohh it has gone so fast yet I can't remember life without her.
I have to get her "birthday email" out to family and friends with photos and stuff, I try to send one once a month.
Last night I wrote out her letter. I have a letter I wrote just before I went in to be induced and I though I would write one for her 6months as well. So I found a few quiet minutes (where?!!?!) and got that down for her. My aim is that she will have them all on her 18th or 21st.
Belfie~~ I never knew it either!! But was pretty impressed when I learnt.
Hollye~~ if you are comfortable with your dissicion thats all that really matters. My concern would be that it would be a lot less traumatic and easier for her to go through an op now when she is young than when she is older if it doesnt correct. But it sounds like it will so time will tell!! In the end none of us have crystal balls!!!! :D
WB teruteru!!!
Ok well gotta keep moving!! Pop back in again later no doubt!! :)
amy - the spewing doesnt bother her at all so i spose u could says shes a happy chucker. The only time it worries her is when its a huge one that comes out her nose and stuff which isnt very often. 3 times thats happened since she was born. It will correct over time. Its not something that will be like that forever, so ide rather wait it out. I have seen a differene in her already this past week. From spewing 40ish times a day.. that has nearly halved.
happy 6 months Bethany! oh my.. it really does go quick doesnt it. We were already talking about Mia's 1st bday the other day *sigh*
oh and there are more pics of Mia in my gallery... feeding her face lol
Hollye...as Amy said..if YOU are comfortable with your decision then thats what matters....MY concern if it were my child would be the overall distress/worry it causes the parent...NOT knowing and having to deal with the 40+ spews as you say per day...i would be worried about nourishment etc...BUT as you now have an answer you don't have to 'worry' like you have been.
i bought Jack one of the new Bonds polar fleece sleep suits yestyrday...washed it ready for bedtime last night...DH & i went out so Jack stayed with his grandparents...who bathed and dressed him...i bought size 0 (which looked HUGE!!!!!!) got home and saw him in it...OM F G!!!!! it is TINY!!!! DH said he looked like he had a wetsuit on...which cracked me up!!! so am off today to buy another...but size 1!!!!
Quick hi before school run - last day of term phew!!
DH home today - so of course Zander has pulled out a 1.5hr morning sleep, and just got up from another 1.5hrs - all neatly after school run this morning, then awake so we went out for a nice lunch together, and then another sleep before we had to go out again grrrrrrr ............ :ROFL:
Be back in a few days - hopefully we all get some rest and the kids exhaust themselves in all the fresh air with no tv or Wii ... or is that me ... oh no, no internet ... sheesh feel a headache coming on ...
Have a good Easter - and happy half year to bethany :hugs:
Have a great break Sami. Try and get a rest in!!
teru - Welcome back! Congrats on passing your exams. :)
amy - Happy 6 months to Bethany! It's Maya's 6 months tomorrow. :) I can't believe she's 6 months already! As for weight Bethany weighs more than Maya. I think in terms of weight gains Maya's have been the smallest. At her weigh this week she was 5.680. She'd just done a HUGE poo that morning and I keep thinking if she'd hung onto it till after the weigh she would have been at least 5.7! :rofl:
Hollye - It sounds like you've made the right decision for Mia. She sounds happy and healthy and that's the main thing. :) Weight wise she's doing better than Maya! As for turning a car seat around I've heard that it's best to leave them as long as possible in the rear facing position because it is much safer.
katones - Bonds clothes are smaller than other brands for some reason - well that's what I've found. So their 0s are really 00s.
Sami - Have a great time. Enjoy your rest!
My Easter will be spent packing and moving stuff!
And now I want to bring up a favourite subject of all of ours.. poo! :lol: Maya has always done many poos a day and then suddenly a few days ago she didn't poo for two days! I know that it is normal for b/f babies to go a few days without pooing but I would have thought that would happen earlier not start now?! Does anyone know if babies digestive systems change around 6 months? I've also noticed she passes a lot of wind now too! And again she didn't poo at all today. It's so weird for me not to have a few pooey nappies to change every day! Has anyone else's babies changed their pooing habits lately?
OK back to packing..
Tanya....funny thing though we have another bonds suit and it is an 0 and it fits beautifully...still plenty of room...this 0 is skin tight....i am now calling it his wetsuit....
happy good friday everyone!
Excitement at our place this morning, X has his first tooth! He was grumpy as yesterday, so now I know why! And it's not just one point, it's the whole ridge thingo IYKWIM. I'm way too excited, first child, first tooth - woo hoo!
Katones - i know what you mean re the bonds suits - reckon I'll avoid the fleecey ones then. X fits in most of the 0's quite well (he's about 9.4kg I think) but they're all the super stretchy ones.
Tanya - re the poo is she having more solids? Coudl that be it? Good luck with the packing too!
Amy_O - late happy half year to Bethany :cheer:
SamiH - hope you have a great break!
Hi to everyone i've missed, gotta run, BBL - mum arrives today woo hoo!
Happy 6 months Maya!!
My poor Maya has her first cold! :( Last night my DH said something about Maya sounding a bit heavy breathing and I told him he was being silly. But then when I fed her later on I realised she was breathing funny and was all stuffed up in the nose. Poor girl. She woke a few times last night so we're both tired today. She seems to be relatively happy when awake, but wanting lots of cuddles. It's so awful listening to her wheeze, cough and choke on her snot.
belfie - That's so exciting on the tooth! I keep checking Maya's mouth but nothing there yet. No she's not really having solids. I offer it every few days and if she swallows any of it, it's only a minute amount. That's great that you have you mum over to help. I can't wait to be all moved in and have my mum near by! :)
katones - Maybe there are differences in the Bonds sizes. I ended up getting rid of all the Wondersuits I was given cos I really hated them. They were all the wrong size and I found them hard to put on her. I like other Bonds clothes though.
Hope everyone is having a good Easter weekend.
Happy Belated half Birthday to Maya!!!
We had a fun filled day yesterday at a church BBQ, Andrew won the mens mini golf and is quite proud of himself, now considering a career on the international circuit!!! LOL
Just relaxing at home today. Busy tomorrow but looking forward to it.
Being a tropical baby Bethany doesn't wear many wondersuits!! But thier other suits are good, although I haven't used the "easy"suits one.
Ok well off to have lunch...
Bye bye for now :)
Happy Easter everyone, I hope you enjoy your babies first easter.
Julian cut his first tooth on Wednesday night, so that explains all the night wakings and the grumpyness. We went and visited my mum and dad on Frida and came home just before the easter bunny last night. The kids had a great morning so far and have limited their chocolate in take for now....going to have hot cross buns soon, yummmy.
hugs xoxo
Happy Easter bubs & mums!
Wow, I can't believe it's our first easter with a baby, seems a long time from last year, when I had my 12 week scan just before Easter, after 6 weeks of "taking it easy" due to spotting, bleeding & a SCH. Gosh it's much nicer having him here than going through that! I'd take a sleepless night from teething any day over all that stress, worry & crossing of fingers!
So X's little tooth is looking even more obvious today. I thought it might appear as a point first, but the entire long top ridge of the tooth is through, is that what usually happens? He had another foul night on Fri night, screaming & unsettled... but he's more back to normal today thank goodness. And having mum is great, specially on Fri night! DH still can't do much, but he's improving. And I have to start doing some bookkeeping again... *sigh*... but at least mum can help with X & housework.
AmandaJ - I think our two were in cahoots! Oh well, hopefully we'll get to enjoy our easter goodies now!
Amy_o - lol re Andrew, that's too funny! Re the easysuits, yeah i don't like 'em, but I like their other stuff, it's nice & stretchy.
Tanya - happy (late) half birthday Maya! :cheer:
hope everyone is having a good long weekend!
its funny u say that Belfie coz i was thinking about how we were all pregnant this time last year and thinking i should go back and read our threads from when we all became pregnant etc... its like taking a trip down memory lane....
just had a look.. they must have been deleted..
holly check in the archives at the bottom of the page!
I hope everyone is having a good Easter.
I'm sick with the same cold Maya has. So the two of us are being miserable together. Though it's great I have DH home to help!! But it's our packing weekend - we're moving on Tuesday! So it's a bit tough with me being sick and Maya being unwell and trying to pack. Blah!
That's so exciting with all the teeth coming through!
Yeah this time last year I was still suffering from the most awful morning sickness. So I guess a cold is nothing in comparison to that!!
Hey! Hope you all had a great easter!
It's finally happened....... AF has returned. After 7.5 months. Thankfully it's not too painful or uncomfortabnle, yet.
DH is on holis for 2weeks so looking forward to getting stuff done while he's here to look after BJ.
Not much to report here.
I hope everyone had a great Easter. Ours was spent packing.
Thankfully Maya and I are getting over our colds.
Anyway, I don't know when I'll be back online next. Tomorrow is moving day! It's possible our new internet connection is already up and running or it could still be a couple of weeks away. Either way I'll be checking back in from our new (roomier and closer to friends and family) place. :)
Happy Moving Tanya!! I'll be thinking of you and I hope all goes smoothly :)
hope all goes well with your moving Tanya!!!
amy i hope Bethany's needles go ok..and the poor lil mite doesn't have any reactions
Jack is still in his pj's watching Dora :) touch wood...his sleeping has been going great guns lately...he is just growing like a weed...yesturday..i bought him some jeans for winter..and guess what size i ended up getting??? size 1!!!!
wasnt planned at all but took Dragon to have his injections today. it was on our way today so dropped by for the dr to have a look at his eczema. he now has to take medicine & cream for the week to get rid of it. he didnt mind the oral medicine, in fact he wanted more! he didnt mind 1 of the injections but the other he cried a lil, but once he was back on his feet he was happy jumping once again.
my dad's coming on Thurs & staying for the month but i still havent gotten anything ready yet. better get packing!!