As Curl previously said there is only curl, belfie, myself and one other lady has popped in once in our baby thread ..... so I am jumping in here and figure we can not worry about the 5 days difference from when Zander was born to 01/10 hehehehe.
Kuraiza - I understand re the visitors - i loved having my sister here a week after he was born, but with her two kids as well, not so great. Her nearly 3 year old is very active (read : nightmare) - or maybe it just felt like it when he got his energy boost at 7pm and I just wanted them all to shut-up! THen a couple of days after she left my MIL came - didn't do anything either around here apart from hang out a couple of loads of washing - and even one day around 4pm I was feeding and my DH said to ME - what are we doing for dinner tonight - I was a bit abrupt and said surely between the two of you you could sort out something for us all to eat without me doing it??!!??!!
Itsme - I am feeling the not napping thing today I tell you - but DD is home and running me ragged as well argh .... much as I love em ..
jump on in samih! I few girls have jumped it. We asked if the groups could be combined but i dont think so... do people want me to post a thread to the mods asking directly?
Anyhow i have the flu feel like poo, dd is getting over HFMD and i worked out DS is crying approx 7-9 hrs a day! omg... atm he is asleep on his belly on my bed. i needed him to sleep and i know it is against the rules but omg! He also has a snotty nose which makes it hard for him to breathe overnight.
So is a litle sucky here atm. thank god it is the weekend tomoz
HAPPY HALLOWEEN to everyone... i have my lollie bags ready for the kidlets inthe street when they start a knockin!!
Aw hi Sami- Im crashing too!!! Bummer about the IL's - I'd be annoyed about dinner, and have to say I've done nothing but rest and feed James since being home. We have been lucky with friends popping over with dinner etc too.
Amanda - Yeah I have a nice tube thing but it gives me a bit of a tummy ache at times so I have been a tad norty and not wearing it every day. I got mum to get me some of those knickers too but I really need them to come up to my ribs - if they sit just above my belly button it hurts and my separation is right above that - ah well - am just being super good with sitting up etc.
Georgi - awww Byron has nearly hit James birth weight of 4560g!!!! I can't wait to get away too but I think it will be a little while away yet! Those shots are nasty - not looking forward to them although I have to say Izzy wasn't tooooo bad with them. I hope Byron settles down soon for you.
PP- Hope you get better soon lovely and Ethan too, nothing worse than being sick really and having to look after sick little ones as well. Our little man wants to sleep on his tummy too - can't wait til he is rolling and he can!
Kuraiza - hun - hang in there, it is such a huge adjustment in the first few weeks but if you are feeling terribly blue let your MCHN know hun. I have good and bad days and on the bad days I know it is literally just lack of sleep that I don't cope with very well - everything seems like the end of the world really and Im still sore from the c/s. Hope you are feeling brighter soon love. As far as the chocolate goes - I know there are a few triggers like chocolate, caffeine, onion etc... and I ate a putt load of it the other day - which coincided with a really bad night so I just put 2 and 2 together. He was drawing his legs up, straining and groaning and generally having a bad time of it all.
Itsme - I know the feeling all too well after my first c/s and now this one. I hate that I will never birth my babies and won't go for a number 3 purely because I can't do another c/s.... I haven't debriefed or really thought about not getting my vbac this time around, but in time I will write a huge boo hoo I think. I did it with Iz and it did make me feel better to get all my feelings about it out. Yes our aim was to get our gorgeous healthy babies that we now have and love, but it is ok to grieve the birth we didn't get.... there is nothing wrong with that at all hun. Don't forget you can go for a vbac with your second too, so may still get the birth you wanted.
That's all the personals I can manage sorry! Our little man LOVES sleeping on us and we manage to alternate him sleeping in his cradle and on daddys chest each day - mine smell too milky so all he wants is more feeds so its up to him for now! Mum made me a HAB too and DH has been loving wearing it while playing with Izzy while I rest! Super easy and only $20 compared to $140 for a real one!
James tends to sleep ok but we have to make sure he has huge burps after a feed and then lots of upright time or else he does little chucks and then gets the hiccups and wakes up. Ok gotta fly ladies - grizzly little guy! to you all!
SAMI I crashed this thread too. I thought it was better for me to be in here as Byron was due Oct 14th and all his milestones should go from his corrected age so if I stayed in the August group I wouldn't be comparing apples with apples IYKWIM
TAN How funny is that.. Byrons not even the weight James was when he was born.. and he's 7 weeks older...
PP I was so glad to read your post saying that Ethan cries 7-9hrs a day. Byron has now started being a normal baby and seems to cry almost all of his awake time. I was hoping it was normal. He seems so much more unsettled to what he use to be. Once he hit that due date he became known.
Miraculously feeling so much better since the useless inlaws left.
Georgi: I love lennox head. That's so cool you had a holiday with Byron. Out of interest, was he named after the Bay? He's gained so much weight! I wish Jude would gain some weight, although my arm muscles need time to adjust. I've been experiencing weird muscle twitches and aches in my arms from supporting him while breastfeeding.
SamiH: I have my sister coming in about a week. Fortunately the 1 good thing about living in a small apartment is that no one can actually stay here, but she's staying in the holiday apartments next door so we should see a lot of them. I can't wait to see my nephew and niece. My 3-year-old nephew told my sister "I love Jude so much, I'm going to gobble him up".
Tanstar: I followed your lead and I've been holding Jude upright after feeds and it's greatly improved his vomitting which is such a relief because I was sooooo worried he wasn't getting enough milk in his belly to grow up big and strong.
Well, Jude is just a sucker for his dummy (pun fully intended). He's an addict, I swear! Although, it's not too bad. When he's tired (which is rare) he spits it out and goes to sleep. He just loves sucking on anything he can fit in his mouth, and the dummy seems like the safest object for him to suck. I'm soooo glad we realised that was one of his primary desires or we'd be going mad trying to figure out how to soothe him. I suspect he'll be saying "dummy" long before he says "mummy". He already says "Burr" after he sneezes. What a clever boy!
Thought I should jump in here, Bethany was born on the 9th Oct...well nearly the 10th since it was 11:44pm. Finally after 2 days! talk about delaying your arrival. It was a c/s in the end. Not the greatest experiance. It was supposed to be a normal easy induction....Anyways I digress. We are bottle feeding since I never had any milk come in. Combination of reasons. She is pretty good at going 4 hours between feeds but at night she still wants play time after a feed! We have started a "night" routine with dimmed lights and the like to help her tell the difference, seems to be working although its only been a few days...
Well I can hear little feed me squeeks...
welcome amy!
your night routine sounds great . i hope your little one learns soon to sleep at night lol
Ethan doesnt want to play at night but doesnt settle as well as during the day go figure!!
Let me in :)
I can't wait to get away too but I think it will be a little while away yet! Those shots are nasty - not looking forward to them although I have to say Izzy wasn't tooooo bad with them. 
I hope Byron settles down soon for you.
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