Babies Born October 2007 #12

I'm Claire Vankuyk on FB is anyone wants to add me!

PJ day went well today - both children had a nice long sleep (though Harry's was this morning and Emily's this afternoon).

Harry is still a really spewy baby - anyone else have this problem? I'm wondering if it's something I'm eating? Chrissy chocolates maybe?

NYE - We've been invited a courtyard party at a Japanese restaurant in Pyrmont - sounds lovely but the logisitics are a nightmare. So we'll stay local instead, they do a family evening with fireworks at 9pm at the local park. We'll take a picnic and rug along to watch the entertainment - should be good fun!

misskate there is a lot of kate gibsons on FB about 3 pages in Aussieland :-)

Celtic-Kate is the one in the bikini :)

I think i've got everyone added now as well.

Thanks Mo :-) I just did it the lazy way and went through everyones friend lists LOL

ETA- Can you change your name on FB? I want to change Ryans Mummy to include part of my real name but FB = confuzzled Loza lol

ETA2- Don't worry found it! haha

Woohoo - another megasleep from Caitlyn last night! 745 until 2!!! WOOHOO Was fantastic! Maybe this is the routine she will settle into ?! I wish! Her norm is every 3 hours and I think she is quite content with that. Dont know what happened yesterday to make her sleep so long....she napped during the day. I put her down at 430 for a nap though and thought it about time I grabbed some lunch - dropped the knife on the floor and woke her up! She didnt go back to sleep! Maybe thats all she needed. But she wasnt over tired when we put her down!
Anyway - jsut a thought......is everyone a member of the BellyBelly group on facebook??? Would be easy to add everyone that way....- just a thought....

hi everyone
yep, I am a member of the belly belly group on facebook, but for anyone who wants to add me my name is kellie delaney

Tahlia had another good sleep last night - from 9.30 to 5.15, then from 5.45 to 8.45. I just put her down in her bassinette awake (still trying the self settling), and i just peeked at her and she is asleep - let's hope she stays that way for at least 1 hour!

Question: I was planning on going to the gym this morning, so I expressed some milk for her feed so DH could do it while I was gone, but she has now decided that she doesn't like EBM from a bottle... does anyone have suggestions on how to get them interested in the bottle?

hey guys,

anyone had a looksie at my fb album to see what i dressd lachie in for xmas day?? lol, im mean

just checked them out kate... very cute! not mean at all!

Kellie: Em never took to a bottle but would instead wait until I got home! Have you tried a selection of teats?

Claire - the only one I have tried is the tommee tippee closer to nature teat in size 1. I am reluctant to buy more, cause I've spent heaps already on all different dummies, of which she wasn't interested in any!

I also have some avent bottles with a number 2 teat - maybe I'll give these a try. The funny thing is, a couple of weeks ago we gave her a bottle of EBM and she guzzled it down, but today she isn't interested at all! Could it be the size of the teats?

Hi All,

Sorry I can't do personals I just can't keep up with you guys! :)

Christmas went well, the girls were spoilt rotten.

Amara is going along fine, feeding well and sleeping pretty good too, she has been down since about 2pm :)

I am going to get her weighed at a chenist soon as I reckon she has stacked it on. I had to break out the 00 teeshirt suits the other day. She still fits most 000 in tee shirts and pants/skirt or dresses though. She is just really long so the suits are too short.

Cheers,

Kellie- maybe Tyron and Tahlia can have words.he an tell her how to suck on a bottle and she can tell him how goo boobis relly are!!

seen the pics Kate very cute hehe

Hi everyone! Thanks for all your names for FB! It's fun checking everyone out.

We had a fun day today, we took Joel and Kieran to the beach. Joel had a ball splashing around and Kieran was a good boy and slept in his pram. It's so hot today in Melbourne!

Kellie - How did Tahlia go with her day sleeps? Sounds like you are having some success!

*sneaking in*
*whispers* Hi guys! So glad you all had a great christmas!
We had a great day! Lots of food and lots of pressies! By the way we loved our SS thankyou!!

Im Amber Callaghan If you anyone wants to add me on FB!

Better go before I get in trouble! Big hugs to you all and kisses to all the bubbas! x
*sneaks out*

Kellie - I know what you mean about the selection: when I considered a dummy with Emily (who wouldn't take one!) I bought tons!! BUT if she took a bottle a few weeks ago, it means she can again, and there's no harm trying a different size teat.

Me - Harry went from 10am to bedtime today with only a couple of power naps, then screamed for wabout an hour tonight. Really unlike him!! That was normal for my first but I'm thinking he might be sick????!!

OK so we had yet another carppy night! Is it possible for a baby to go "off" a formula??? She was on S26, then NAN then NAN HA and now she takes about 60 ml of a bottle and pulls of screaming! SHe gets burped and plays for 10 mins and as soon as I out the bottle in her mouth she screams again! This has been happening all night! 60 ml at each feed is not enough! I am scared she will start losing weight - she seems happy otherwise though so maybe it is enough for her? She slept from 9 uintil 2 and then until 5 this morning when I bought her into bed with us and kept her there till 7. I am going out of my mind!!

Maddi went off Karicare gold plus.
Maybe she needs a faster flowing teat?

nah tried that - screams really really bad for hours. least now she is only crying on the bottle. once we stop shes fine - until she gets hungry

Rebecca, has she scratched her mouth with her nails or maybe check for thrush? Also a sore throat may do it, is she sniffly?

Amara refuses bottles point blank so its me or nothing at the moment LOL! I am hoping she will take a bottle of EBM at some point.

She now finaly takes a dummy for day sleeps only, but will onl y have a Nuk one - expensive tastes already :)

Hi all,
Hope you are all having a great day. Ethan has had a great 2 days, sleeping and eating well. Not sure how he will be today.

Kellied - sounds like the self-settling is going well for you and your bub is picking it up quickly. For Ethan we found it was worth the hard work. We have been using this technique since he was born. It took a few weeks for him to get the idea but now he is so much easier to put to bed. He is a dreadful day sleeper most days and wakes up a few times at night but at least we don't have to rock him to sleep when he does go down. He just goes off on his own. I have to admit we do use a dummy though. We find he settles well with it and it helps him wind down quicker. Hang in there if she goes through a period where she wont sleep on her own. Ethan had a couple of periods like this but as soon as he worked out that we weren't going to pick him up and rock him he went back to settling by himself again.

Hi Everyone!

I'm so happy Max is back to being himself. He was so strange for a few days before Xmas, really unsettled, grumpy, and fussy on boobie.

My health care nurse said that they start turning into 'devil children' at around 13 weeks (which he is 2 weeks away from!) because as they start to see more, and become more aware. It's SOO much to take in, that I guess they can't concentrate on one thing at a time. Max is starting to look around while he is feeding, and thrashes about...with me attached to the other end....looking at me, his dad, the dog, the TV...you name it...he's interested in it! Rebecca Maybe you have this problem???

He slept a lot better yesterday, and slept well last night. He HATED the really hot days, so that was another reason for him being unsettled. Poor thing!

Has anyone else started to notice their bubs moving in their cots? Max will be sleeping on his back, down one end of the cot, and he kind of creeps up during the night and ends up closer to the other end....? When he kicks his legs (which he loves) he must anchor himself and move backwards! Oh no...mobile children!

Also.... I put Max in our spa yesterday with his dad....and really want to take him to swimming lessons....does anyone know what age you can start them swimming???

Morning all

Problem with using a dummy for self settling is that each time it falls out, L will cry until one of us puts it back in. This could, and has, happened for hours. He definitely has us trained.

L has moved up the bassinet for ages now. He actually works his way from underneath the covers and sometimes even out of his wrap. I thought babies were supposed to move down and thats why you place them at the bottom of the bed so they couldn't go further down and suffocate.

L is 9 weeks today! Off to his vax on Thursday and then on Saturday we are going up to Townsville. So a week of firsts ahead.

Nothing much else happening. Just the usual.....

Saffi - Oh I envy you! Going to Townsville - if only I could. That is my home town! I live in Cloncurry now though and I miss Townsville soooooo much! Where are you going in townsville? The shopping compared to Brisbane will be well boring but I guess different shops so different things to look at.
We too have the dummy problem with Caitlyn - it falls out (or the cheeky bugger pushes it out!) and she wakes and cries so we have to go put it back in. But we have found that if we cuddle her until she spits it out and then hold her for a little longer, we can put her in her cot and she doesnt stir. Its great. Self settling though it is not.
well I just tried a bottle of just plain Nan and she seems to have taken to that a bit better. She took 120 ml this time!
Alz - I feed her in her nursery with the lights off so that there are no distractions. Or in the lounge room when it is just me at home. with the TV off of course. However once she is finished the TV goes on and she goes down on her mat for a little play.
But I was told not that they turn into "devil children" but just everything that you had running as normal will turn to, well, you know what, at 12-13 weeks. Routines will go out the window.
Anyway - lil miss is having a whinge so I will go play with her!

Trish - i thought the self-settling was going well, yesterday I put her down awake, and she stayed asleep for about 2 hours, which is a great day sleep for her, but then last night she wouldn't settle again, ended up falling asleep on the breast, so I'd put her down and she'd wake up again. I eventually put her over my shoulder and walked around a abit to settle her, and she flaked over my shoulder. Once she finally fell asleep around 11, she didn't wake up until 7.30! What a sleep in! We've had problems trying to settle her again this morning, maybe its the heat... its a stinker in Melbourne today

After her mega 2 hour sleep yesterday afternoon, we thought we'd try her on the EBM bottle again, and she scoffed it down using exactly the same bottle that we used in the unsuccessfull attempt - dont know what was different, maybe it was the temp of the milk?

Alz - what techniques do you use when Ethan won't settle?

Minimax - I dont think swim schools take bubs until they are 6 months old, but I'm not 100% sure on that one

Hey all!

Just took Kieran for his immunisations, I feel so mean! He coped really well though, only cried for a few seconds. He fell asleep on the short ride home and I have put him in bed with some Panadol, hopefully he copes OK today. It's definitely the last time I take him to a GP to get them done. They had run out of the pneumacoccol (sp?) vaccine so I have to go back AGAIN next week :( . Also, the GP didn't really know what she was doing and had to read instructions for each one and took her time between each injection. I'll go to the council one next time, they do them all in one shot and it's over really quickly. I HATE immunisations :(

Kellie - Well done on Tahlia's two hour nap yesterday! It is hard work getting them to self-settle so you have to be patient and consistent (which I'm sure you are!). A lot of bubs are unsettled in the evenings with the "arsenic hour" so maybe that's what was going on with Tahlia last night? Luckily K doesn't have an arsenic hour, but Joel did. Joel was a SHOCKER from dinner time until his last feed at 9pm. We would have to take turns carrying him around, rocking him, etc... They do grow out of it thankfully!

Saffi - Joel used to be the same with spitting his dummy out. DH & I would have to go in and out 100 times putting it back in! K isn't as dependant on a dummy as Joel was, but I find it a great way to settle him. GL with the immunisations next week!

Julia - Glad to hear Max is back to his normal happy self for you. Kieran doesn't move up in his cot yet (he will I'm sure though), but he does manage to completely unwrap himself every night. This morning he wriggled his wrap up over his face, yikes!

alz - Glad Ethan is sleeping and feeding well for you. Hopefully you are feeling a bit better within yourself :)

Rebecca - Hopefully you have more luck today with the different formula. Don't you just wish babies could tell us what the problem is?!

Minimax- i think u can start taking them swimming from 3months. i know my neice started then. we started taking Nixon at about 5months

Rebecca- i meant to tell u i got the velro wrap thing justb4 xmas! i was bummed though the delivery arrived friday b4 xmas while i was on the phone. all week i had been receiving parcels and the guy rings the door bell, drops the gods then leaves. so wheni heard the dorr bell and saw the driver i didnt go straight to the door. when i was off the ph i went ex[ecting to have the parcel but instead a card!! so then i had to make a special trip up to the post office on xmas eve and stand in a long line to get it.... always theway hey. but any Dh really likes it but Tyron sometimes still gets his arms out if he really wants to. dh much prefers this then the art of wrapping though thats for sure.

Claire- i hop Harry is not getting sick. we seem to be all better now so let me know when u r free and we can come overan drop your cool solutions to you.

glad Kieran went ok withhis needles but thats not fair you have to go back nxt week to finish them :(

Hi All!
Hope everyone has a great weekend. Not much more to add...... :)

Rebecca - we are actually going to Maggi Island. Our friends are eloping tho a few of us are going up to celebrate with them. I used to live in Townsville too, about 20 years ago. I have only been back briefly once but what I saw it has certainly changed. Look forward to showing DH my old school, house etc.

Got the baby panadol today just in case I need it after his vax. Trish - did you give it to Kieran as a precaution or did the Dr tell you to give it to him? I'd rather not give him more drugs if I can help it, but if he is in pain definitely will.

Anyone use Babylove infant nappies? We have got a pack as L is getting a bit too big for newborns now. We have been happy with Huggies but these were cheaper so thought give it a go.

Saffi - My MCHN recommended Baby Panadol. With Joel I was told to give it to him 20 minutes before his injection, but this time I was told to give it to him afterwards because then the pain relief will kick in when it's needed. I wanted to give it to Kieran because Joel used to be really unsettled after his injections and I wanted to try and avoid this with Kieran. The Panadol seems to wear off after 4 hours because Kieran is unhappy around then so I'm guessing it works. Definitely play it by ear if you aren't happy to give Lachlan extra drugs, but I recommend having some on hand just in case.

Kim has decided to come back to this thread on Jan 1st.
New year, New beginnings is the new motto ;)

:confetti: Hooray! :confetti:

Can't wait to have you back Kim!

Hi lovely mummies.
Hope you all had a fantastic xmas and you and your bubs were spoilt rotten!
Back from the GC - had a wonderful time.

Sweet dreams.
Terri. xo

thats a great idea kim, look forward to having you back!
i gave Ty panadol b4 his needles but just FYI if you havent yet given your bub panadol before it may not be good idea. Only because if bub has some sort of reaction you ont know if it is from panadol or the needles. i however was told this after giving Nixon panadol before his needles when he hadnt had it before and all was ok.
i uppose as this young age we do not know what bub could potentially be allergic to.

Yay welcome back Kim!!!

I gave Maddi some panadol before her shots as well, The receptionist recommend it to us.

Lil Mr didn't get any panadol, he got a comfort bottle instead afterwards and was happy as larry :)

Nickers - good point. Haven't given L any medicine as yet so perhaps I will leave it until I can tell whether he is having a reaction to the vax.

Thanks Trish for your advice, will look at giving him the panadol after the shots, if I do need to give him some.

Look forward to chatting with you again Kim.

Nic - You can visit whenever you're ready. Just give me a call so I clean before hand!

I'm glad Kim is coming back, but I also want CatherineL to come back too!

Well ladies, Rhys was excellent for his needles and only had a little scream but daddy fixed that problem!! He also is now weighing 8.4kg's!! :-O But as the Dr keeps telling me there is no such thing as a obese breast feed baby so I am not worrying at all.

Well off to clean the house now!! Have a good day ladies.

Sorry for the self centred post!!

That would be nice, maybe Cath will decide to come back in the new year as well.

Amelia glad Rhys went well the needles.