Hi everyone - vewy busy at the moment with a baby who thinks day sleeps are for the weak ... he is now catnapping 15 - 20 mins so things get tense in the late afternoons hehehehehe.
I have decided this weekend we are going to try and give Zander a bottle in the afternoons - I am just not happy b/f and not being able to get out (cos I suck at expressing ) and 8 months is pretty damn good in my book - ok so I am still trying to justify it a little bit LOL ......
Booked tickets to Burn the Floor this morning and am really excited about that.
Just soccer and ANOTHER 4 yo birthday party on Sunday - so I am dumping my DD and then getting my eyebrows waxed hehehehe - family friend so she will be fine.
Just had soup at Giselles preschool for Biggest morning Tea - they get so excited when you come to the events .... even Zander ate some of the pumpkn soup!
Zander has been pulling his ear, runnyish nose and having poo that resembles a cattleyard, so dont know if a cold or teeth. Cant see anything happening so maybe a cold. So mebbe I should hold off on the bottle hmmm
Now, formulas - S26 is beef based and Karicare is vegetable based so I am going to go for Karicare - but does anyone know if you can buy the stick packets in Karicare cos I dont wanna buy a whole tin when I only need a couple of scoops a day ....
Be back later - should eat lunch whilst I have this short break of 20 mins lol. Well, it has already been 15 so 5 left - you lucky things got my time tehehehe.
Sami...Karicare don't have the small sachets..but if you ring them..or email them they can foward some samples to your local chemist.
Jack is on karicare goats milk...we haven't looked back since being on it.
First up Bethany sends thank yous for the sympathy. She has perked up so I think she is over the worse of the infection poor little mite. She'll still need to be checked out to make sure there isn't anything inside thats wrong and her vaginal opening will need to be enlargened. Hopefully just through cream and not surgery.
The great meeting of the minds came up with.....well swat really!! The final word is a combination of behaviour that she has learnt from being uncomfortable with reflux maybe. Basically the theory goes that because she lies and plays on her tummy (She never did master front to back rolling) that makes her feel crappy after a feed at about the 20min mark. Instead of crying or something sensilbe to attract mine or her daddy's attention and say "hey this isn't working for me" she lets loose with the amazing sound barrier braking screams. And keeps going and going and going and going....You get the picture. I am addressing the refulx with slower feeding and keeping her upright after bottles (not ready to try meds yet, I would rather have that as a last resort.) we also have started heating her formula and using soy which made the world of difference. But alas the screams are still with us this is where the learned behaviour comes in. Next week sometime hopefully a baby behaviour expert person and a psychologist is coming to watch and assess what is going down and then give us stratagies to deal with it. Ohhhh bring on the dealing with it stratagies!!
Atleast we have gotten the sleep back under control that is a good start.
On a different note have any other bubbas had nightmares? Bethany had one last night. I had put her down and was in the lounge, she had been down for a good hour or more when suddenly she started screaming and it was a real terror hurry mummy scream. When I got in there she was asleep but still screaming. I carefully picked her up and just whispered to her and a few seconds later she woke with a jolt and started crying. Poor thing. It tooks lots of cuddles and a song or too to re settle after that (which I can more than understand!) She did settle though really well and was fine.
Well I have the real estate coming in an hour for an inspection and nothing is done cause Bethany has decided that it is carry me all day mummy day. So since the place is neat and tidy and realaivly clean I figure stuff it. Too tired to deal with it. I had in fact forgotten till this morning when I looked at the calander!
I think I can hear a cup oh Chai tea calling my name whislt Bethany naps....
Befie and Tanya~ Thats alwful bout the head droping, Hope X and Maya are doing ok now.
TANYA How'd the high chair shopping go? DId you get another one? BJ is VERY well established on solids. He's such a good eater with the BLS, but I still worry that he doesn't have enough milk so I always give him a dream feed before I go to bed. Sometimes he doesn't have much at all so I guess he probably doesn't need it. I've decided I will drop that feed once he is 9 months corrected age. So, in about 6 weeks time
AMANDA Boohoo on the tonsilitis. How awful. Specially when you have to move. I hope it all goes smoothly for you
AMY I remember reading some threads on night terrors. Frightening stuff. From what I read (here on BB somewhere), they tend to start around B's age. I hope it was just a once off for her
SAMI I'm so with you on the BF thing. How's Z been with the bottle this weekend? 8 months is excellent to have BF for. My original goal was 3months
A big HELLO to everyone.
We're doin dandy. I have decided to no longer stress about BJ's sleeping & (BF) feeding. I'm just going with the flow now. The routine is out the window.
BJ is doing his best to try to crawl. He still moves backwards though.
And the squeeling is become less now that he's finally started babbling instead.
One of my mothers group have organised a get together today, with partners.... I'm gonna look like a single mum cause DH is working. I'm taking some expressed milk so I can have a couple of wines..
not much going on here ...besides the fact i have a little boy who is waking up 2/3 times a night now!!!!! driving me batty. First wake is usually 45/60mins after being put down...picked up and resettled...back to bed...second wake time is usually around 10pmish....i leave him then and he grizzles/has a cry on/off for around 20/30mins...then back off to sleep...it really is doing my head in. It has only really started since his topt teeth have come down and 1 has come through.
He is a little grizzle bum of late.....fussing with his bottle crying non-stop....VERY clingy...i just hope it ends soon
still no proper crawling although he does try when he is up on his hands and knees..and also does alot of rocking back/forth on his hands/knees.
Georgi - Z's day sleeps are all over the place but at least I can rely on his night sleep - it is so good and consistent - of course an occasional wakeful one but honestly over all (and after having other kids and knowign how good and bad it can be) he is brilliant. I dont mind feeding him at 4amish cos he goes straight back to sleep and refuses his dummy too for some reason lol
Bottle a failure, i think the bottle combined with a try of formula was just too much. And I think mebbe he is too told to try and learn to suck again if that makes sense - it does to me - so we have decided instead to try and pursue a cup thingy. I have Avent bottles so have just bought a couple of new attachments to make it a sippy cup - see how he goes with that. I have 2 months to get him to take it - so even if he just has formula at child care on the 2 days and I still b/f for now, it is something. If I know he will take it then I still have freedom to go out if I want to and not worry - and it shouldnt muck around with my supply too much cos lots of people do it. Anyway, baby steps - literally. I never meant to just boobie feed him without a bottle for this long - it has just kind of happened and with DH travelling why express and bottle when it was just so much work when I was by myself with the other kids (sorry belfie hun, you know what I mean).
ANyway, we will try that later when he wakes up - hopefully not as many tears.
Been to a party this morning so having a quiet afternoon in just hanging out with everyone - rare these days.
right on que last night just after 10pm he woke...i thought NO i am not getting up to resettle you...so he cried/grizzled/screamed on/off for near 45mins...then stopped and started playing in the dark....i think i must of drifted off to sleep whilst he was playing... i did not care in the least i knew he was ok...just wanted to be picked up.... well he slept til after 7 this morning..probably would have slept longer but daddy wanted to kiss him before he went to work.
) and 8 months is pretty damn good in my book - ok so I am still trying to justify it a little bit LOL ......
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