Babies Born October 1st ~ 15th 2008 #3

PP - that's a good tip re the singlet... X is currently in a singlet and nappy! It's hot here today! Cheers to the "nothing" day.

Tanya - I hope the osteo helps and sorry I don't have any tips re the bottle. X always took the bottle better than he took boob :rolleyes: he's got his priorities ALL wrong lol. Good luck with it.

Teruteru - hope Dragon is managing to keep cool enuff in this heat!

Georgi - gosh that's awesome that Byron will be able to learn signing, and I imagine a huge relief not to worry re the eye contact either.

Kat - I'm glad Jack is taking some more for you, hope it continues.

SamiH - lol on the shower spray! And definitely a glass & toast to the Z/Xanders! :dance:

I've finished "designing" my Xmas card... and took some photos of my little Xander Claus! Sitting up grumpy Chrismas elf and lying down smiley Xmas elf!
He's had a very unsettled day today, so it was a miracle to get a smile too - he hates the camera and usually frowns at it! Plus I meant to take these yesterday but he did his "every 6 days" poop and overflowed onto the santa suit.... so we had to wait for it to dry again!

Oops he's wailing again, off for some settling... fingers crossed.

ack - double post

You know it has occurred to me that I basically treat X like a rather pudgy Ken doll... fodder for dressing up in silly clothes :rofl:

LADIES WE FELL off the first page - gosh I hope everyone is ok today, or just busy in preparation for Christmas.

Having said that, I have nothing to say anyway - first day of school holidays I thoroughly wore the kids out with a play at a play centre, lunch at a park, and then swimming for a couple of hours in the backyard blow-up.

Tomorrow, grocery shopping for perishables for christmas

belfie - dress him up while you can!

Busy with Christmas madness here, why is it everytime I think I have finished wrapping gifts there is another one waiting in the corner?? More to the point why can't DH wrap gifts?

Also starting to do signing to Bethany, she is interactive and watching us as we talk so good time to introduce it. We are just starting with 3 signs. I know that it will be a while till she signs back but hey gotta start at some point!!

Belfie... lol its our right as mothers to dress them up in cute clothes
Amy - what signs are you doing?
Sammi -we have 15 here thursday for lunch!! and i have no vacuum cleaner as DH's bro borrowed it an hasnt returned it arhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Well i have uploaded some pics for you all :

mwah
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...hp?photo=11788

We are starting with mummy, daddy and dummy. We'll add bottle in a few weeks and then just use those 4 till she is a bit older and we will gradually add others. I found an easy chart with 13 main signs so we will just use that and then add AUSLAN signs as needed. I can't wait for her first sign back! I vote for mummy, DH for daddy and in reality it will probably be dummy!!!

took awhile, but here's the photos of photos :P (from our photo shoot)

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PP- i like those longies, they're funky!!

amy- good on u for teaching her sign language, hopefully she can communicate with her grandparents in the future

re dummies: dragon is addicted to sucking n tends to suck his hand esp when tryin to fall asleep so should i use a dummy or not?! i dont really want to but DP doesnt see y not...

teru...dummies..it is up to you..there is no right or wrong...really it is personal choice. Your photos look great!!!

Jack....well we are still drinking small amounts but atleast he is drinking!!! he is sick..he has bronchiolitis and possibly a urinary infection (waiting on test results) so at times he is NOT a happy camper!! he is sleeping soo much more, only because he is sick though... I will weigh him tomorrow to see if he has lost any weight with not drinking properly.

Teru - up to you.
i was against it with DD - but gave in and glad i did lol! she only has it in bed now.. we stopped day time use at 8 months :)
DS we try but he really doesnt like the dummy. prefers his hand lol

Hi girls... Here's a link to the Auslan website. You can enter the word you want to know how to sign and it will demonstrate it.

Auslan - Signbank

I sign alot to Byron. Songs and just general chit chat. Amy is right, start straight away. My niece was signing way before she could talk. It was so easy cause we knew what she wanted. We would ask her if she wanted milk (with sign) & if she signed milk back we knew she wanted some, if she didn't sign back then we knew she didn't want any. I took her to a baby shower once & she was the life of the party. She was about 15 months old & was signing so so many words. Everyone was shocked at how smart she was te he he.. The best way to teach them is to sign whilst saying the word, then get their hand/s & make them do it. I think they'll start showing the signs around 9 months.

Byron slept from 8.30pm to 7am, and even then I woke him up. He hadn't fed since 7pm so I figured he would be hungry for sure but he just fussed over the bb.

My mum arrived from Sydney on Sunday to meet her 1st grandson (my sister has 3 girls). She adores him, of course! She leaves boxing day then Dh's family arrive, then my sister & her girls are coming up. What a way to spend the festive season. It's great.

Georgi - i will check the site out

Ashley gives us signs she made up herself lol...

Waves hand at her nose- means she did a poo/wee
Circles her finger in the palm of her other hand - means she wants to watch the night garden
Taps her head - means she wants bert and ernie

lol

i guess it makes it easier for them to communicate. At the moment she chatters away and only has about 10 words so i seem frustrating for her :(

So might start with Ethan! :)

My parents arrive today too. my mum is in love with Ethan lol - same thing. first grandson.. (has 2 granddaughters - ashley is the eldest)... she just dotes over him non stop lol

Heading into southbank i think for the xmas parade and fireworks tongight
- finally some christmas spirit.. it seems to come and go so quickly now we ar all grown up :(

that is such a great idea re using signs, I'd never thought of that. Thanks for the link Georgi!

Katones - aaw poor little Jack, hope he's feeling better (and drinking more!) soon.

PP - that's so cute re your mum. My MIL is currently besotted with X (first grandchild) whereas my mum loves him but he's 5th grandchild & 3rd grandson, so not QUITE so special (but she's my mum so it's all good still!).

Teruteru - gorgeous pics!

We're must be having our 12 week growth spurt. He feed SIX times yesterday (usual is 4) and even took 300ml at one feed, what the.....!?!?! He was just SOOOOOOO hungry! I had two back-up EBM bags in the freezer (150ml ea) and i've had to break into one... fingers crossed I can keep up with him!!!! We're going to DH's work Xmas do today... as Xander Claus of course... should be fun. I'm about to put on clothes that aren't tracky pants hahah what a concept hey! Plus we finally finished the Xmas/thank-you cards last night... YAY!!!

We're having Xmas at MIL's... we've hosted for the last few years (cos IL's were in Canberra) so it'll be great to not have to host. I'm gonna sit around like Lady Muck :dance:

PP - Thanks for the suggestion of using a spouted cup! I might buy one today and see if that will work.

belfie - Have fun at the Xmas do. Xander is so cute in his outfit. :)

teruteru - Maya won't take a dummy, but she loves her hand! So you might find even if you decide to give Dragon a dummy that he won't take it. Oh and cute pics! I wanted to get a photo shoot done of Maya but didn't want to pay lots of $$ for it. So got a cheap one done and the photos are crap! Your pics look great!

katones - I hope Jack is feeling better soon! :hug:

Georgi - Thanks for the Auslan link. I love the idea of teaching Maya signing!

I spent the last couple of days trying to get Maya to drink from a bottle! I've tried different teats but she just will not suck on them! If she's relaxed she will accept the teat in her mouth but that's it. And after a short time she gets upset with the teat sitting in her mouth. :wall: I am SO frustrated by the whole thing at the moment. And feeling down about it because I was SO hoping I could have time out for myself sometimes! Our plan was to leave Maya with my MIL on Xmas Eve while we went out for dinner, but now we'll have to bring her with us. :cry:

Apart from going crazy trying to get Maya to drink from a bottle I was also madly trying to finish off my Xmas cards and then posted them yesterday! :D

Oh and Maya has suddenly been feeding more the last two days. She woke at 3am last night for the first time in a while! I don't know if it's growth spurt or maybe cos it was so hot!

Well I won't have the brain space to reply to everyone, but I have read all posts.

I've had a busy few days again, Friday arvo Cody ended up with the gastro bug for 24hrs, not good. On Saturday night we had DH work christmas party and it was great, except there was another party on at the same time and they were drinking a fair bit and were getting louder and louder, poor Julian was finding it hard to sleep, DH ended up taking him outside and putting him to sleep, but I had some drunk lady leaning on the pram once he was back in it and I pulled the pram out from under her and she nearly fell over, lol, was very funny, she then apoligised and walked away.

Yesterday we had a friends daughters 8th birthday party at a park and it was great got the kids out of the house and let them run wild for a few hours, was great.

I made some rum balls (adults) and marshmallow truffles (kids) on Sunday and I'm making some short bread toady and will be making some other things tomorrow getting ready for christmas day, oh the joy of hosting christmas.

hugs xoxo

i just took a piccie of Jack to send to his dadda at work.. thought you might like a looksee....
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...2&ppuser=12839

well we had a lovely (busy) day going to DH's work Xmas lunch. We were the only partner/child extras (i.e. non-workers) - a special case as they all wanted to meet X. It was so nice, his boss was saying how he's never seen a workplace (small company) follow a PG and birth so closely... and they all had cuddles with X who behaved himself beautifully. I, of course, paid the price afterwards when he was over-tired, over-stimulated and windy... but it was worth it at the time!

And all my Xmas/thank-you cards are sent... (about time) all I need to do now is cooking, decorate the tree and wrap the presents. But I've got a whole day for that yaaaaaay!

AmandaJ - can I have a rumball pls? I have delusions of making some... it so won't happen!

Tanya - hope you got your chrissie cards done too!

Katones - cute pic, how is he doing now?

hi to everyone else, hope your Xmas preparations are going well :)

uh-oh - about to fall off the first page :o *bumpity bump!*

what first page???? im lost.. im always lost.. lol

Belfie I'll express post you one :), sounds like it was a nice xmas party except for the overtired boy at the end, I know how that goes as that was Julian on Saturday night.

OMG I had to battle the shops yesterday arvo and it was not bad but not good either, I had to get DH gift, I had Julian with me and he was so good, slept for the first half the other half he was just looking around.

I also have a lot of food prep to do today so don't know how much I will be on, then after the kids go to bed tonight we will have a marathon present wrapping.

OMG Julian just did his first laugh just now, so cute.

hugs xoxo

im abit lost... Mia let me sleep in till 7:30 this morning..back down at 8:30 and is still alseep..
house work is done.. hrrmmm what to do what to do. She was abit "devilish" yesterday and lastnight. Dribbling heaps and rubbing her head something chronic, so i think the teething syptoms have started. Its abit early for that but im sure every bub is different. Apart from that her stuffy nose seems to be getting a little better! woot woot!

She gets weighed today and stuff so that will be good.

anyhoo i might go.. um.. for a jog? lol yeh right! me.... a jog! bahahahahahaa!

Merry Christmas everyone! Enjoy your first Christmas with your little ones! :) Hope you all have a great day. :)

I'm off to Geelong soon to spend Xmas with the in-laws. We'll be back tomorrow night sometime.

Ohh.. Maya giggled for the first time yesterday!! It was soooo cute!! And totally melted my heart. :loveshower: She still won't drink from a bottle though! :rolleyes:

xxoo

hey girls!!!

well im back from mia's appointment. When i told her that Mia was only having 4 bottles (most days) and was only downing on average 120-140 mls, she wasnt impressed. What am i meant to do, force her to feed? i dont think so!!! ANyhooo. she got weighed and she has put on 480 grams in 2 weeks.. so the 4 bottles musnt be too bad!!! so she is now 5.2 kilos, 55cm long and hc 39cm. Mia also favours putting her head to the right side so we have to try and encourage her to put it to the left, and prob have to go see a phisio for it.

Anyhooo all else is good.. off to put her to bed... mwah!

Hollye did you say Mia only has 4 bottles of 120-140mls a day??? well Jack is about the same....
5 bottles a day anywhere from 80mls-130mls at a time and that is it....
Do you co-sleep??

yep we co sleep during the night..

Oh even on Mia's 4th bottle of the day she willonly drink like 30-40 mls!!! its frustrating but im sure they will tell us when they are hungry!.. 3pm in the arvo and Mia has only had 2 bottles today. hrmmmm.. oh well..

hollye...THAT makes me feel 100 times better knowing it just isn't Jack!!!!

I have just pulled the cot apart (in my room it is a dust collector!!) and taken the side off to try and get little man to sleep in there at night..it is right up beside my side of the bed...he is right now in there (was in the pram) and is propped up on a boomerang pillow and wrapped up tight...sound asleep.

Does Mia have any other form of fluid? are you BF?

no booby milk here! When we got back from her appointment i gave her some cold water in her bottle and she had about 10 mls of it. Its good to give fully FF bubs some water every now and then, keeps them hydrayted. Also u know how their head isnt closed yet.. if u feel that spot and its a little sunken in that means they are dehydrated. Also giving them water helps soften their poo's and makes it easier for them to poo.

ahhh what a good idea bout the cot.. but how do u get out of bed? climb over DP?

Hi
Sam and Hana are going really well.
I hope everyone has a wonderful XMAS and a safe new year.

Cathie

i will figure a way to get out of bed!!! i just need a better sleep at night....
he won't give water a go.... i am just offering more frequent FF...our paed said to put a lil bit of sugar of glucose syrup in the water to encourage drinking...

you can also see if they are dehydrated by doing a touch test on their toes..
they are pink right?? push the fatty bit on the toe til it goes white..then remove your finger.. if it takes ages to go back to pink they are dehydrated..if it goes back super fast they aren't dehydrated :)

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here is how the bed is against my side of the bed

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Merry Christmas everyone. Stay safe and have a lovely day with your littlies. It will be chaos here!!

We are getting ready for mass, so having early dinner. Got the reindeer food, check, glass for some milk or port, check, santa sacks out so santa knows where to put the kids pressies, check, kids know they can't open presents without us - big check LOL

I am excited too just quietly.

Merry Christmas!!
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I hope all the mammas, bubbas and their families have a wonderful day tomorrow. I am sure there will be chaos in more than one home! But I am going to try and take a few moments to just soak in Bethany's first Christmas and no matter what is under that tree she is the best gift of all!! (Although I'd better get some of the stuff on my list!!)


And thank you ladies for the gift of your friendship and support, it can't be wrapped or put under the tree but it means so much!!

Merry Christmas again from our family to yours!!

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And thank you ladies for the gift of your friendship and support, it can't be wrapped or put under the tree but it means so much!!

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Hear hear to what amy said, very nicely put and I couldn't agree more.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!
And I hope everyone has a lovely day with their little bubbas, and a special :hug: to those (like us) with their first christmas as parents! YAY!

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We wish you a merry christmas
We wish you a merry christmas
We wish you a merry christmas
And a happy new year

Sending your families the very best of wishes... From our family...

xx oo

MeRRy ChRiStMaS!!!!


Lots and lots of love Hollye, Matt and Mia xoxoxox

Just a quick one.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
I hope you all are having a lovely day.

hugs xoxo

Merry christmas to all the october bubbies!!!! (and us mummies of course)
Hope everyone had a lovely day and a wonderful holiday!

mwah

my boy has slept in his cot the past 2 nights ALL night!!!!! I soo wish i had of done this a LONG time ago.....
i hope everyone had a lovely christmas and santa was good to you all....
oh.....and today day wise Jack is 10 weeks..BUT sunday in week wise he is 11 weeks.. and AF has arrived back :(

uh-oh we fell off the first page again (Hollye - to answer your earlier question meaning the first page of baby buddy threads). Hope everyone had an awesome Christmas... we're going down to Tassie on New Years day to see my folks... can't wait :D

katones.. ive spoken to matt about how u have done the cot thing. I think hes willing to give it a try!! ill let u know how we go :)

DP and Mia are in bed atm. We are having a "nothing" day here today so i told him to stay in bed.. watch the cricket and keep her nice and relaxed and i will do the house. So he was happy with that. Mia has turned into a daddys girl something shockin.. its abit depressing for me but i love to watch the bond them 2 have.

anyhoo off to get some potato cakes to have them on bread for lunch.. yum yum.. such a sunday lunch lol

mwah xoxoxox