belfie - maybe I should charge a finders fee for the Infacol! 3am post hey .... well my boy didn't wake for his feed until 4.10 this morning so I shoulda got on and posted at 4.40 I haven't used it for 2 days now in hope that he is able to get wind out by himself and he is doing ok. But, wouldn't hesitate to use it, especially for the overnight/bed time feeds!!
Yes, I have a waterfall when I have a let-down too - bu Zander is just starting to cope with it so that is good too - about time my boobs started to settle down though hmmmm ....
Went shopping and bought 2 new tops today - ones I can breastfeed in - I have been living in jeans and t-shirts pretty much and wanted something a bit nicer for Christmas. My pre-baby tops don't fit me cos of my boobs/back at the moment but come the new year all of that should settle down.
georgi - I am hoping Zander is on his way to sleeping through - keeping him up and letting him have a snooze in my arms from around 7 - 7.30 - then a little play and a top-up feed and the last two nights he hasn't woken until 4am for a feed - fingers crossed he shouldn't be too far away now ... by Christmas would be nice.
big Hi to everyone else
Hollye - I did take picture of him in his big boy clothes - but haven't set up a gallery or anything on here - one of those things I keep saying I must do, but time wise just don't get around to - much like cleaning the shelves in the walk-in pantry But keeping sane is more important.
I am very lucky Zander doesn't have the witching/arsenic hours at night time - I think the kids keep him so well entertained - even when he is overtired he doesn't cry much, just one or two big squawks which either mean - sit me up I need to burp, or I wanna try and go to sleep please help me.
belfie - second mention - imagine a Maxwell Smart voice - "the old feed, play, sleep routine hey".. hehe re your settling class. Riley was fabulous at this routine - Giselle was ok, but zander's is out the window and sometimes he goes to bed twice before another feed, and then catnaps at school drop-offs and all that stuff - but he copes really well cos he has to! But yes, for babies it is great if they can learn to predict/know what comes next so Zander is still wrapped for this reason - plus I think he would poke an eye out too .... like today we wanted to go shopping, he had been down about 30 minutes so I just had to pick him up and put him in the car, whereas with #1 I just would have waited till he woke - aaaah such is life. But once we got there, I sorta wrapped him in the pram so he knew it was still sleep time ...
Tomorrow I am having morning tea with some other girls from work who are on mat leave - 5 of us with babies all born within 2 months of each - amazing. When I say from my work - I "work" with 200 people in the building so maybe not that amazing - but kinda is cos we all know each other pretty well. Does that make sense? Oh well must be time for a coffee for me then .....
Survived lunch...just. DH did a great job defending me and telling her (MIL) to back off when she got too much. Had to laugh, Bethany did lots of grins for FIL but none for MIL!! LOL
Huge problems when we went to settle her to sleep, I put her in another room and tried to keep the routine we had established at home. She cried and I gave her a few minutes before I went in, Well you would have thought I was murdering Bethany or something. "Why are you letting her cry" "Can't you hear her?" and my favourite "you must be really cold hearted to not respond straight away" We explained over and over that we were teaching her to self settle, she was dry and feed and safe, we weren't going to leave her there for hours!! We were leaving her no more than 5 mins!! After awhile I went in to hold her for a bit, I went alone so that Bethany wouldn't get over stimulated (she was already hot and over tired...hello people, cairns wet season heat humidity...turn on the air con!!!) well MIL followed and chatted and chatted and chatted. Grrrrr. Oh well. All over and no crimes committed.
Well Julian scared the absolute crap out of me last night, he had his last feed at 6:30 and didn't wake up until 4:45am this morning, had a feed and was back in bed by 5:45am then slept till 9:30, when I went in to check that he was alright and found him awake and playing in bed, cheeky little boy. Was another scorcher here today, we were inside with the aircon on most of the time. I'm sorry that all you ladies have such horrible MIL's, I just hope that my future DIL's don't think that of me, I would like to be liked by them. Will be going back to mother's group tomorrow, first time after having Julian so will be good to see all the girls again.
I ended up having a fairly quiet weekend instead of being out and about. At lunch time on Saturday my DH suddenly came down with gastro. So I've spent the weekend at home looking after him and DD! Normally I have heaps more help on the weekends from DH but this weekend I had to take care of two people. Ah well.. Now he seems to be doing better.
Anyway, just got Maya down for the night so I'm off to bed now! Night night.
Well, I haven't posted for ages but I've been getting the news via email so I've kept up to speed with everyone. With three girls including baby Loralei and a DH that has been away for almost 6 weeks you can understand why I haven't had chance to post?
Loralei is 10 weeks tomorrow! It's amazing how quickly it goes. She was vaccinated last week and has since come down with a snuffly nose and a little cough. My older two have a slight runny nose and cough too but they're fine and can cope with it... IYKWIM. But, with little Loralei, my heart breaks when I hear her trying to breathe with a booger up the back of her airway and the cough is horrid as she goes all red and tears squeeze from her eyes. She has no fever and the cough and snuffle is fairly mild so nothing to worry about but still it's horrible to hear/watch.
On a very positive note, she sleeps wonderfully. She naps during the day with only true wakeful moments for feeding, bum changes and smiles and back to sleep again. I have her in the rocker mostly during the day so she gets used to her sisters being so noisy all the time. At night Loralei generally goes down around 10ish and will wake once for a feed and will be back to sleep within 20 minutes for several hours. Last night was exceptional!! She last fed at 9.30pm was settled and in her cot at 10pm, I woke up at 5am with that dread of is she okay, she was fine of course so I went back to bed. I awoke to her crying/calling me at 6.30am! What a good little baby! This is the longest she has slept/gone between feeds. I had torpedo boobs of course but that is a small price to pay for sleep.
I will add for those that think I'm bragging that like all babies Loralei constantly changes her sleep routine. She will sleep generally for 5-7 hours first sleep at night and then 3 hours next sleep but some nights she will take over an hour to settle and will wake several times during the night which exhausts me no end and I cannot catch up during the day or afternoon as I have two other children here at home full time.
No personals for me at the moment but I will try to get to some of them later. Big HELLO to all of you.
curl - Good to hear from you. And good to hear that Loralei is doing really well. I hope she gets over her cold soon!
Amanda - Sounds like Julian is giving you lots of sleep.
Amy - Glad you got through yesterday. Oh and love the pics of Bethany! She's so cute. As for poo.. Maya does MANY poos a day and always a MASSIVE poo at some stage that often leaks out of her nappy and onto her clothes and sometimes onto other things like me! I'm starting to wonder if I feed her too much, cos she seriously poos all day long nearly!
kuraiza - Maya's a cat napper during the day too! I think I also need to accept that that's how it is.
Georgi - That's excellent news about Byron doing so well.
To everyone else: Hello! Hope everyone's day is going ok!
As for MILs I can't complain. I really love my ILs - I see them as part of the package I got with my DH! They are so helpful and generous. Of course there are some things they do that I don't understand or might not agree with, but overall they are great! My family on the other hand are a different story. Always criticising things I do or say - except for my mother who's great! But she doesn't drive so she can't come up to see me or help me. I do remember an ex-boyfriends MIL who was a night mare though. One day she cornered me and started saying "why don't you ever call me?". And I was just thinking WTF - Why would I call her?!
Anyway, DH is doing better and has gone back to work.. so I only have one person to care for today. Ohh.. and I'm not doing controlled crying yet at all.. but I really had to use the loo this morning and put her in her bassinet and I could hear her screaming and then by the time I got back she'd fallen off to sleep!
3am post hey .... well my boy didn't wake for his feed until 4.10 this morning so I shoulda got on and posted at 4.40
I haven't used it for 2 days now in hope that he is able to get wind out by himself and he is doing ok. But, wouldn't hesitate to use it, especially for the overnight/bed time feeds!!
but come the new year all of that should settle down.
But keeping sane is more important.
She last fed at 9.30pm was settled and in her cot at 10pm, I woke up at 5am with that dread of is she okay, she was fine of course so I went back to bed. I awoke to her crying/calling me at 6.30am! What a good little baby! This is the longest she has slept/gone between feeds. I had torpedo boobs of course but that is a small price to pay for sleep. 
Ohh.. and I'm not doing controlled crying yet at all.. but I really had to use the loo this morning and put her in her bassinet and I could hear her screaming and then by the time I got back she'd fallen off to sleep! 
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