Is anyone else suddenly getting bombarded by medical bills (pathology, paediatrician etc) 2 weeks after their baby was born? When do they think I have the time to look at these things and why didn't my private health insurance automatically take care of it?
Bleh, I think I've already lost half the bills in the chaos that is my living room. I didn't expect this $600 bill from the paediatrician who has charged me for every time he popped in for 5 minutes to say hello in hospital.
Itsme: My mum gave me some excellent settling techniques. We had a hell of a night the other night when Jude was awake from his 7.30pm feed until midnight! But last night was bliss!
For squirming unsettled baby: Hold your baby to your body really firmly and let them fight you (Jude declares out-right war on me). Let them squirm and whinge and complain, but keep holding them tightly until they calm down then hold on some more until they've been calm for at least a few minutes.
For wide-eyed but quiet baby: Swaddle baby and rock in arms, keep rocking even if they finally shut their eyes.
I've done both, but the first one was particularly effective. I hadn't tried persevering through a severe case of the grumps, but Jude got tired of fighting wars with me quickly and fell asleep easily after that.
kuraiza - My DH actually isn't against giving her a dummy, but wants to wait and see if it really is necessary. At the moment we find most unsettled periods are during the day, which is easier to cope with than at night. But we are both willing and ready to use dummies if we need them! And thanks for the advice on unsettled babies. Somehow my DH discovered the first method the other night and it worked so well for us. I need to try the wide-eyed quiet baby one though, cos a lot of the time she'll be wide awake during the day.. show no signs of tired.. but suddenly become a screaming baby! I think she wants to be awake and then just suddenly is too over-tired!
Hi girls.. I'm thinking I should join this group. My baby buddies group is hard to compare with. All their babies are smiling and doing all the typical things a 8week old babies does, though Byron is really only 1 week, he is 7 weeks behind. All his milestones will be compared to with his corrected date, which would be the same as your babies. Do you's think that it's a better idea for me to hang here?
Georgi! jump on in! it is nice to have someone from our due group in with me
Well last night was a semi better night. DS fed 3hrly overnight which is a vast improvement!
I encouraged him to cluster feed every hour from 5pm-8pm... so he had a full belly... Before hand he was cluster feeding at 2-5am!! my supply must have been low!
Ethan is looking around more now - wide eyes! i think they are brown... hard to tell but they are def not blue like DD's were!
kurazia - we were public (although i had a home birth lol) so no bills.. but i feel for you. Has your baby bonus come in?
Itsme - We did the same with DD - had to hold realy tight for about 10 mintues until she would settle. - are you swaddling bub?
I noticed a few of you were thinking that there would be only 1 October group, but they will stay as they are in BellyBuddies, with a 1st-15th group and a 16th-31st group
Our thread is soooooo quiet so thought I would pop into all my ole due BB lovelies.
Hope you are all enjoying your babymoon - slowly my brain is coming back and I can get a shopping list organised again But hubby away rest of week so I am sure I will be back in zombie land by the end of the week.
Get some rest when you can (of course I ignore my own advice though )
I WILL get a proper ticker with a pic, sometime before the end of the year ....
But hubby away rest of week so I am sure I will be back in zombie land by the end of the week.
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