we are all sportin some beautiful bubba's in here!
Mia's been asleep since 2pm so expecting her to wake soon.. mayb? She was rather tired. Dishes done, some washing done, bottles done.. even cleaned a stain on the floor with this new fabulous cleaner i got from coles.
hrmm...
Sam - i cant wait till Mia can get in her first pair of jeans but they are 000's and shes no where near 000's just yet. One day she will grow lol.. did u take a pic for us to see him in his big boy clothes?
amy - u can shrink ur photos..
itsme - she is gorgeous!
katones - loving the dot also.. u gonna put the others up.. Oh i wish i could catch one of Mia's smiles but as soon as she sees the camera she looks at it so seriously like to say "oh that bloody thing again!"
Hollye!! You got heaps done! I like that feeling of achiving something...I should achive hanging out the washing but I know how hot it will be out there...YUK
I have got all the dinner stuff ready all I need to do is turn the stove on.
Bethany is still sleeping too, She went down about 2.30 after a morning of cat naps, I think I will hear from her again around 5.30 6pm...better plan dinner round that.
I have an online radio on in the background and it is playing christmas music!! Love it!! I am almost feeling festive. Just need to get organised for gift shopping. I will make a list, and not lose the list like the lists I have been making recently!!
i need to hang washing out also but im thinking if i do it will start raining AGAIN.. the weather never seems to be on my side lol. Mia's still sleeping.. 3 hours 51 mins and counting..
waiting to put that dress that PP made her on her so i can take a pic.. its there.. waiting.. she will be starving by the time she wakes up so she will probley be crying in the pic lol!
oooooo christmas.. my xmas tree is STILL on layby.. just dont have the $160 to pick it up atm.. hopefully i will before christmas.
well it was so mean of me to post re the course and not give the juicy details... but of course I was so excited re using these new skills today... and ... ahem... well they didn't all work did they!!! Plus it's probably all stuff that you guys know anyway!
The main things that struck a cord with us was making sure we didn't "feed him to sleep", .e. making sure we always have our "play" before sleep. I felt that maybe I had been tending to keep offering him the bottle (and yes, the over-feeding comment relates more to bottle fed bubs than BF'ed bubs), because I think I'd thought if I made sure I shoved enough into him, he'd stay down for longer! Also, feeds for him (at 9 weeks) shouldn't be longer than 45 mins... I think ours often have been and there's a bit of comfort sucking going on towards the end... so don't let them just comfort suck using bottle/BB as a dummy. She also talked through a kinda hierarchy of settling & re-settling... so going in and talking to him, then hand on him, trying to "body-rock" him (hand on chest/torso) gently rocking back & forth (rather than using a bassinet which won't be an option in a month or so anyway), quick pick up & cuddle then re-settle... as you can see the intervention is getting greater with each option.
She was also talking about feeding every 3-4 hours - and stalling him if he wakes up earlier. I though feeding on demand meant exactly that... they demand it, I give it. But she said that it takes 2.5 hours for their tummies to digest the milk, so you don't want to be feeding again in less than that as it can just make them windy. And we think X has been getting windy & unsettled. So I thought, oh I've been feeding him too often, which makes him windy, so he cries, so I feed him again... vicious cycle. So today I was really good. He went down like a lamb after his 8.30am feed. 11.30am was next, that was ok, but then he got unsettled in the afternoon. I managed to stretch him to 3pm cos we went for a 45 min walk with the dog... but then tonight he's been really unsettled - had a bath & a feed and went down fine. 1 hr later... cried & cried... and seemed hungry... so I succumbed and gave him 40ml EBM more and now he's sleeping happily! So now I'm not sure if those tips were so good or not? My gut instinct was that he really wanted more food - but I guess that was "feeding him to sleep" (he did have a brief awake time before we put him down). So... there you go hey!
Oh and the other tip I liked, move the bassinet into the cot BEFORE he grows out of it (again, not something I'd thought about yet, but makes a lot of sense!).
So I've spent all week meaning to get to the shops for xmas shopping but didn't make it in the end!
Amy_o I agree re the grief of no more children, I think you are so entitled to feel that way & to be able to express it. It must be so hard when people ask you about having more! I think I'd feel really upset it if was me, so I can only imagine how you are feeling. Big big hugs.
Hollye - sounds like you're doing awesome today!
AmandaJ - oh my, you're so excited about Christmas that's awesome
SamiH - aaw poor little man after the needles and I'm so impressed about the big boy outfits. I've got some overalls I can't wait to use! Oh and big yay on 2 months. We have to go get our shots, haven't done it yet. The MHCN warned me to have children's panadol on hand...
All the pics are so gorgeous too, and i know what you mean re photographing smiles... it's soooo hard. I think X just frowns whenever the camera comes out now! My sis took the funniest pics of X posed doing some "grown-up" things - I've stuck a couple in my gallery.
I just booked a trip home for us all to my folks (in Tassie) in the New Year - I'm so excited about that, and they can't wait for their cuddles with my little man.
Hi to everyone else, I gotta stop waffling on now!
Belfie, I am glad you got lots of info out of the visit. I like what you wrote about settling and that, our baby care nurse took us through it earlier in the week and although it is tough I can see the pay off but this has given me a few more ideas to try to make it work for us. thanks for sharing the wisdom!!
I am sure you ladies will here more about the no more children thing...we have to tell DH's family on the weekend... My MIL hasn't come to visit once since we came home from hospital and we live less than 5 mins away. She complains all the time that when we go to see her that Bethany is always asleep and so on, She is just really unsupportive and can be hurtful when she thinks she is funny. Oh well.
oooh MIL's... don't get me started! Mine constantly says "we didn't have that that in MY day" ... so far I've had this comment about a nappy bag, sterilizer and... the plastic lid of a bottle! LIke seriously WTF?!?!? And when we were out the other day, he was hungry in the car, so she's saying (as if she's joking) "oh she's a bad mummy bringing you out when you're hungry". We had an appointment to get to! Geeeesh! and THEN she told me she's getting him a dummy for Xmas! Previously her complaint had been that she never heard him cry (amazingly he always slept when she was around). But my boy got the revenge for me - he smiled at the hairdresser heaps, but not at MIL. Tehehe. (but then the guilt strikes cos she WAS helping me by having us go to the hairdressers together... so I shouldn't be mean.. aah guilt guilt).
So yeah, totally with you on the "think they're being funny, but really it just hurts" bit.
Um.. yeah vent over now
Last edited by belfie; November 28th, 2008 at 09:12 PM.
amy - I will send my kids around for some MIL ankle-kicking Bethany is asleep because - wait for it - she is a baby
Stupid MIL's .... I have stories too re the passing comments of oh what is that thing, we just did ABC - but will wait until a respectable hour.
Ok Z fed at 3.40 and is down again groaning moaning as normal (he doesn't cry much, but is still sooooo noisy grunting LOL) - back to bed for me 4.20am LOL
u gonna put the others up.. Oh i wish i could catch one of Mia's smiles but as soon as she sees the camera she looks at it so seriously like to say "oh that bloody thing again!"
Hollye!! You got heaps done! I like that feeling of achiving something...I should achive hanging out the washing but I know how hot it will be out there...YUK
boy i missed all the action today!
I agree re the grief of no more children, I think you are so entitled to feel that way & to be able to express it. It must be so hard when people ask you about having more! I think I'd feel really upset it if was me, so I can only imagine how you are feeling. Big big hugs.
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