Babies Born October 1st ~ 15th 2008

[belfie]

well this morning DH was finishing a feed of EBM with Xander (while i took the dog out for the neighbourhood play session - first time I've done it since X was born ). Anyway, just as DH was lifting X up for a burp, he did a HUGE spew... right down the INSIDE of DH's top!! Then he looked up at DH and gave him a huge cheeky grin. I love it.

Apparently when DH went to shower it was quite a look... hairy manly chest covered in masses of milky vomit.... I'm still laughing!!!

kuraiza - awesome work on the sleep, gotta love that.

Georgi - Byron sounds so cute and your routine sounds great, I'm impressed.

PP - thanks for the info re snorting, good to know I don't have the only little snortabug! I hope you get more good sleeps.

Itsme - oooh ouch on the cat scratches. Teatree antiseptic ointment is great for cat scratches i find (I have 2 cats). It is so instinctive when something like that is happening, it's only after that you think ooops shouldn't have done that. Hope the hands heal up quick. MIL sounds like a good help and I hope you got more sleep last night.

Gotta go, happy Saturday to all

EDIT: just had to add a new pic... finally got one of those smiles on camera! link here

[blizz]

well, that was a fun night...I developed mastitis in my right breast complete with the flu like symptoms and the hots and colds so got SIL to babysit and got DH to take me to the gp, luckily I've had it before so I new pretty much how to fix the problem so I gave Angus a super sized feed of the breast and expressed it till empty(well as empty as I could get it) and although I still have a couple of very tender spots in the breast I can tell it is heaps better the doctor gave me a course of antibiotics as well so hopefully that will get rid of my sinus as well as help prevent an infection in my breast.
feeling heaps better...it is scary just how quickly mastitis can come on, and how sick it makes you feel.
back to normal this morning Angus fed a couple more time over night which was a good thing but I still got heaps of sleep as DH just brought him in to me when he needed feeding and then he did the burping/settling.
well hope every one else is doing well

[Moi]

blizz - I hope you are feeling better soon!

belfie - Thanks for the tea tree oil tip. I'll give it a go. Hands are feeling much better today.

kuraiza - The bleeding was bright red and it happened to me twice now, but in the earlier weeks, and it didn't last long so I wasn't worried about it. More like a huge gush. And yes it has since calmed down, though I do still get spurts of small bright red bleeds every so often. Most of the time I am not having any bleeding though. So I still have to wear pads 'just in case' which is annoying. Ohh.. that's so cute that Jude smiled. I keep thinking Maya has smiled, but then I wonder if it's wind pain instead.

Georgi - Your routine sounds great. What do you do during play time? I'm looking for more ideas on what to do with Maya.

PP - Yeah having Maya on my belly for a feed sounds a bit harder. I'll have to give it a try though. But I definitely found having her sitting next to me on a pillow worked well!

[Georgi]

ITSME I lay byron on the edge of the pillow & shake toys in front of him (tummy time) so he lifts his head up, then I turn him over so he's facing me & do what I call aerobics. Hands together then apart x4, feet together then apart x4 opposite hand to feet x4 then bicycles, all while singing stupid songs. I do that twice. Then I support his neck with one hand while I bring him up for a few sit ups, holding his legs with the other hand. Then do some roll overs, from back to tummy. Then finish off with more tummy time on the pillow. I learnt this from a nurse who taught me the benefits to doing it. It gives us some time together plus it tires him out so he sleeps much better when we have done this. I don't do it at night though. So he knows it's long sleep time. HTH

BLIZZ I hope that mastitis eases up. It's just so awful isn't it. Make sure you rest up

BELFIE OMG Xander is just so cute. That pic is adorable. Thanks, the routine certainly works for us

KURAIZA Maybe you can try some excercise for Jude, like I mentioned to Itsme. It might tire him out so he sleeps more. I put Byron in his nursery for every sleep. He sleeps for 2.5 - 3hours each time. Though sometimes I do need to re settle him. Sometimes every half an hour. I definately agree that if he's putting on weight, then you're doing it right

Byron kept waking up last night. He's got trapped wind. I could hear him trying to push out farties & they just wouldn't come out. I ended up co sleeping with him from 4am so he could lay on his side. It didn't get the farties out, but it did give me a bit more sleep. I went to bed at 9pm but took ages to get to sleep cause I had a nap from 3pm - 4.45pm earlier that day. Byron woke at 1am for a feed. But I had to re settle him at 11am. Didn't take long though.

My sister & nieces arrive today (from Sydney). I can't wait to see my adorable little girls. They're 3, 2 & 1 (years old). They're meeting their cousin (Byron) for the first time.

Happy Sunday!

[SunnyRain]

Georgi: The eerie likeness continues. My sister is coming from Sydney on Wednesday with her children, 3 and 1, Jude's only cousins. Are you sure you haven't had children before? You're a natural at this mummy thing! I WILL try that exercise.

Itsme: When they smile for real you go "oh that's a smile!"

Ok now I'm off to try express another piddling 40mL or so. I'm starting to think it's not worth it.

[kylieb77]

Hi guys - I thought I would drop in to ask what you suggest to treat a red bum (nappy rash). Logan has lots of pretty liquid poos that i think are irritating him and would appreciate any suggestions. Maybe i need to persist on one boob for longer as suggested earlier. OMG - any suggestion for stopping him weeing all over himself every other nappy change LOL. The joys of having a little boy!

Blizz - thinking of you and hope you are feeling better. Glad you got onto it so quick. I don't have an over supply, didn't even get engorged when my milk came in. I think Logan was onto it straight away and didn't give me a chance. My boobs never feel really tight and I don't leak, but I suppose that could still happen as my milk only came in on Wednesday.

[PinkPalace]

Kylie - try to wash his bum with a flannel and warm water (not wipes) - and make sure it is dry before any thing else... A DRY BUM IS A HAPPY BUM!!!

And i loved curash zinc ointment for ashleys bum! you can get a zinc ointment from the chemist usually too which they make up and very cheap and it will also work wonders. I would coat it on and it would be gone in the morning.

Otherwise bepanthen is good - i use it too at times but find it takes longer to clear the rash up.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

OMG - any suggestion for stopping him weeing all over himself every other nappy change LOL. The joys of having a little boy!

Mia wee's on ME 90% of the time i take her nappy off.. it goes everywhere.. i dont know how they can hold so much liquid!! lol

[blizz]

OMG - any suggestion for stopping him weeing all over himself every other nappy change LOL. The joys of having a little boy!

I have found having a dry face washer or cloth near by helps I have just been placing it over his uncontrolled bits and this has stopped him squirting himself in the eye...he really wasn't impressed when he did this the other day!!!!
has got mumma and dadda quite a few times already as well.

As for me, feeling one hundred percent better...got on to the mastitis quickly and things went back to normal overnight...can still feel some tender spots and have been feeding as much as possible to keep the breast empty.


I am not intending to complain here as I understand that I should be counting my blessings but how much is too much sleep for a newborn????


Angus is having a total of two wakeful sessions one in the morning for about an hour and a half to two hours and then again in the afternoon where he has a session from 2-3 hours, the rest of the time he is pretty much sleeping often for a 5-6 hour block over night and about 2-4hour block during the day.

I have been putting it down to the fact that he has been feeding HUGE feeds and is just a contented little man, also that we are so much more relaxed this time around than we were with DD.
just wondered if anybody else had found this???
he seems pretty alert when he is awake and I swear his head nearly swung off his shoulders when my sil was holding him and I walked past talking to DH he was trying to see where I was as he was hungry.

Nothing else to report, hope everybody else is enjoying their new arrivals as much as we are enjoying ours....love to all Allie

PS will be in more soon DH is still on holidays and we are making the most of it so I haven't been spending much time on the computer, he has two more weeks before I have my first turn at being single mum to two children when he returns to shift work