trish
what a cute pic of kieran
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trish
what a cute pic of kieran
Julia - I have a angelcare baby monitor and I would be lost without it cause we have such a big house and cause Rhys sleeps on his tummy, he won't sleep any other way. I also bought it cause with my dad's first marriage, he and his wife at the time had 3 children all at different times and they all died of cot death. But my dad use to tell me before he died that he rekons she sufficated the 2nd child. She was put into a loopy house 2 yrs after they divorced. Back to the story....Cause they don't know what causes SIDS/Cot death I didn't want to chance that it was genetic so I bought one for my peace of mind. Have not had one alarm yet!! Touch wood cause I am slowly putty him into his cot cause he is getting to big for the cradle!!
My Brother and SIL have one and he set theirs up without reading the manual and played around with the senitivity setting and had it going off all the time, then he read the book and it says in bold not to change the sensitivity at all!! Dumb arse!! :-P
Hope that helps you!!
Thanks Amelia that does help.
Trish Max is definately going through growth spurt. He gets all clingy when he's going through them, and today early on he slept well, but now he is being a grumpy bum. Thank goodness his dad is home!!! I don't think the weather is helping much either. He was like this last time it was this hot..... PLEASE get over it soon!!
Kim last night I told Max that if he didn't calm down I was going to put him under the sprinklers and leave him there! Parenting is HARD! But then all I have to do is smell him or look at him smile....*sigh*!
welcome Dianne!
we still wrap Tahlia overnight, but I tend not too during the day in case she gets too hot, but maybe if I did she'd sleep for longer than 20 minutes!
I had my first mothers group today - we had a great group of girls so I was really pleased. There is 9 mums in total, so its a good size. Got Tahlia weighed... she has hit the 6kg mark! 6.040 to be exact!
Also got some tips on getting her to take a bottle so we'll see how that goes!
Is today over yet???
Thanks Misskate! I took the photo today. You'd never guess he was having a bad day would you?!
Julia - I'm PRAYING it's just a growth spurt!!
Kellie - Glad your first mum's group was good. I miss my old mum's group! Wow, what a great size Tahlia is! I get Kieran weighed next week, I'm looking forward to finding out what the big boof weighs.
Anyway, gotta go be a yo-yo mum and resettle Kieran for the millionth time today...
Hi all
Big news - L rolled from back to front today. Didn't see it happen, just know that I placed him on his back and when I came back a few minutes later he was on his tummy. Doesn't that always happen. Will have the video camera taped to my hand for the next few days to see if I can capture it happening.
Went to shopping centre today and saw one of those childrens photographer stands. They waived the sitting fee and you get a free picture puzzle. Couldn't resist and got heaps of photos taken of L. Have to go back in a couple of weeks to look at the photos and buy any that interest us. Can't wait! I know it could get expensive but........
Haven't had much of a chance today to work on increasing my supply. Will give it to Monday before I head off to the Dr for the meds. I heard about Fenugreek also but not sure if it really works.
Still wrap L for his sleeps tho when he sleeps in the pram we don't wrap him. Considering trialling it for his sleeps at home.
We have an Angelcare monitor but still haven't got it out of the box yet. I heard they were good.
Welcome Dianne and Isabelle.
Things going pretty well here. Nothing else going on.
Maddi's doing alot better, she laughing, smiling & chatting again. It's nice to have my baby girl back.
Trish is Kieran any better today?
Max isn't rolling yet, but he's taken to turning 90 degrees in his cot then crying coz he's hit the bars!!
Trish How's Keiran?
Had a night from hell...i should have known after the day i had the night was to be no better. By 8pm id had enuf of Chelsea so i put blankets over her windows so she would think it was later (cos it was dark...) and she went to bed. At 1030 Jasmine woke (after a 1 hr catnap...was however the longest nap all day) for a shower and feed....and thats when things went wrong again. She went back to bed and talked and cried and made her cradle squeek...ALL NIGHT til 2am when she napped til 230...then it started over again. I drifted off to sleep about 4....and then at 430 wide awake again...Jas was crying at 6..got the better of me by 630 and fed her....7am back to bed. OFF went both girls monitors til 830.
So all up im running on about 90 mins sleep today and i can tell its another day from hell.
Sorry for the selfish post but im over it today....and its only 940am
Aww Kim. I wish I could give you a big hug or two :hug: Hang in there. It will get better. Is there anyone who can mind one or both girls for a few hours so you can get some sleep?
Things plodding along here. L had his last feed at 9.30pm (both BM and formula) and was down at 10.30ish. He woke at 2am, but I just re-wrapped him and put the dummy in and he went back to sleep. Even though he is demand feeding, I am still trying to get him to sleep through. Woke up at 5am and his nappy almost weighed as much as he does. Been down since 6.45.
Supply is still low. I would have expected to be really full after no feed since 9.30pm, but no! I will head off to the Dr's on Monday to get the meds. I think it is inevitable that he will be weaned and go onto the formula full time, but will give it another week or two. On the positive side at least I am supplementing his feeds with formula so he won't be hungry and lose weight.
Have a good day all.
Kim - you poor thing! We are having a carppy day here but al least I had some sleep. Hope they both sleep today!
We also still wrap here - if I don't she just wakes herself all the time. If her hands aref ree they are in her mouth. When she is feeding she plays with her head and ears, the hands never stop!
Saffi - Fenugreek works! I have the seed and you boil it up and then drink the tea, tastes like mega carp but it definitely works for me.
Angelcare here too - they are great monitors.
Having a carp day 'cos A did not get her morning sleep due to having to frop my car at the mechanic early. She was asleep in the capsule but woke as I carried her upstairs DOH!! Now she won't feed and won't sleep and is screaming - JOY!
Awww Kim wish there was something i could do to help.
More :hug:
Hey all,
Kim - :hug: sorry you had such a shocking night too. I hope today goes better for you. Put your feet up when you can, don't do anything other than looking after your little gals (and maybe surfing BB ;))
Saffi - Wow, clever Lachlan rolling over!! Sounds like he is really getting there with his o'night sleeps. GL with the feeding!
Julia - Kieran does exactly the same thing in his cot! I have no idea how he ends up facing that way!
Leah - I hope Amara calms down for you soon! I sympathise, I had a very similar day yesterday. :hug:
Mo - Glad to hear Maddi is back to her happy self :)
Kieran is MUCH better today. He had a big uninterupted sleep last night between 9:50pm and 6:20am, he then had a MASSIVE feed (35 minutes as opposed to 10 minutes) and went back to sleep until 8:30am. At least I got a good night's sleep. I'm the one who isn't good today :(. I am achy all over, exhausted and dizzy. I think I have some kind of virus. Joel appears to have it too so we are a bit miserable today. I just hung out two loads of washing and have decided that's enough for me today!
I hope everyone else is well!
love Kieran's new pic! glad he had a good sleep last night.
Kim- i hope you can try and have a nap or two during the day today if both girls go to sleep at the same time, you'll burn out with no sleep thats for sure. Do you think its Jasmines skin that is irritating her and interupting her sleep maybe?
Ive got no idea what is wrong....Chelsea is being a horror today too.
Kim - So sorry your little ones are giving you a hard time. Am thinking of you. I guess I am lucky in a way that if Caitlyn has a bad day - daycare ladies deal with it. But I guess that is what I am paying $45 a day for! I can't imagine having two of them at home with no sleep!
Well work is still as boring as I remember it from before I went on leave. The boss has gone away for a month on leave and courses and I have nothing to do! There is actually three of us playing cheat in my office between customers who are few and far between. I am actually looking forward to an insurance inquiry - mind you I dont remember much about the policies anymore and was brushing up on them before I came to work this morning!
Anyway - customer gone - time to get on with our game
lol rebecca, that sounds fun:)
warning, this will be a pretty selfish post.
kim, you poor bugger, i wish i lived closer.
saffi, good luck with the breast feeding. although if it doesnt work out, try not to beat yourself up. you have done a brilliant job so far.
trish, get well soon.
and now from me(may be a lil bit braggy)
i made the BIGGEST mistake last night!! Lachlan normally feeds 3 hrly through the day starting anywhere from 6-9.
well yesterday he woke at 9 fed at 12, 3 and was ready for another feed at 5(he normally goes down at 6 till midnight) so i figure, ill just feed you 100ml formula now, then ill feed and bath at 8ish so he will be down all night and i wont wake him for the midnight feed. WELL. what a disaster that turned in to. he didnt wake at 8, 100ml was apparently enough and i had to wake him at midnight and cos my boobs hadnt been used since 3, i was in HEAPS of pain. so they are still sore now!!
here comes the brag
i always feed at midnight, he normally wakes at about 6/7, well, both yesterday and today he is waking at 9 then feeds at 12pm,3pm,6pm,12am. and is still sleeping alot during the day!!! so im pretty impressed!! he is only having the 5 feeeds a day but i figure that if he needed more, he would let me know!
Well done Kate and Lachie wtg!!!
We only have 4 feeds a day of 200ml..im liking that idea! Sleep thru all night...argh..other then last night!
Brag away Misskate! That is awesome!!! What a good little boy you have :)
Kim - hope things get better for you
Trish - hope your feeling better soon
Kate - way to go on the massive sleep for Lachlan!
Julia - I was in the babystore this morning, and there is this thing that you can put bubs into sleep to stop them rolling, but I can't remember what its called.... it looked like a good idea and it was around $30. I'll see if I can find them on the web.
I expressed about 60ml of milk this morning before Tahlia woke this morning, as they were really full, and then I tried it in the new bottle that the MCHN recommended, and she drank it! Yay for Tahlia!
thats great kate!
Tyron recently went to 5 feeds but now i am finding he is almost cutting to 4 feeds? 1 sometimes 2 of the feeds he doesnt get all the way through it. and it really annoys me when its the ebm feed cause it goes to waste........
Hey all, I will be back to do personals later. Just wanted to check with all the Brissy girls, should we make the meetup the first Tuesday of every month? (A few of us cant make Wednesday). Would that suit everyone? That would make our next meet up the 5th February. Yeah?
Tahlia just had her first bath in the big bath, and I captured a huge smile which is now in my ticker.... she smiles like this all the time, but I've never caught it on camera before!
Aww...what a cute photo Kellie! You've gotta love smiling photos. I put Kieran in the big bath in one of those seats a few weeks ago. The big boof kept bumping his head on the little bath!
Kate - that is so excellent. Wish my Lochie was that cooperative. Got any spare EBM you can send over???
Becky - the first Tuesday of the month is fine with me except Tuesday 5/2. I am going up to Chermside to look at those photos. So unless everyone wants to hike up there, I will have to give this one a miss.
Trish - how are you feeling?
Kim - has today been better for you?
Rebecca - what work do you do? Nothing worse than having nothing to do. But at least you are being paid to do nothing. I'd be sitting there thinking of all the things I could be doing at home.
Today all I have done is breastfeed, bottle feed, express and wash and sterilise bottles. By the time all that is finished it is almost time to start again. I have noticed L is sleeping better and longer and generally seems more content and able to settle himself to sleep. Off to get some fenugreek tomorrow to see if it does help the supply. I think there may be a slight improvement, but not really sure.
Oh, I definitely saw L roll today. I had to give him a little push to get him on his tum but he did about 90% of it himself.
way to go Lachlan! i still sometimes help Tyron over he gets sooo close and just his little arm gets in the way. I havent yet seen him do tum to back but know he has done it once a few days ago.
love the new ticker pick of Tahlia. i just put Tyron in an outfit of Nixon's today and took a similar pic to what i have of Nixon, i just uploaded 2 pics in my gallery and u can see how much they look alike!
Saffi - You are a trouper! Good on you for giving it a go. I hope the fenugreek works for you.
Nic - How cute to see the two boys wearing the same outfit! They are definitely brothers!
DH is out tonight with some old workmates so I've had to bath the boys and put them to bed by myself. I am now listening to Joel chant "I'm not feeling well" over and over in a sing-song voice. I just want some peace and quiet!! I got my first belly laugh out of Kieran at bathtime. He has been giggling for a while, but I got some great bigs laughs out of him tonight, so cute! We played peek-a-boo with the towel and he found it very funny, he also cracked up when I pinched his chubby cheeks. Too bad DH missed it.
I am feeling much better than I did this morning, hopefully I am on the mend.
Have a great night everyone! :)
Kellie i still see ur old ticker pic :(
Our day got any better ....ooooooooooooooooooover it.
Craig and i gunna go get drunk.. the joys of not BF!
Hi all,
Kim I hope your day got better and you managed to get some relaxation time?? My hat is off to you and everyone else with more than one child! And the stuff came in the mail too -thanks :)
Tahlia and Kierens new pics are very cute!
Glad to hear you are feeling better Trish
Well done Kate and Lachlan for your great effort!
And also well done to Ty and Lachlan for rolling over (or almost..) Hayley is showing no interest in doing that just yet
I too will do a little brag - last night Hayley fed at 7pm and was asleep by 8.30. After 3 solid days of feeding every 3 hours I was spent so put myself to bed at 9.30 and next thing I know its 2am and shes just waking for a feed! So, fed at 2 then she was asleep by 3, i was asleep 2 mins later and then suddenly its 8am and shes awake for a feed!!!! Thats the best night we've had ever! (My boobs were so full though!)
As for tonight, not sure if there will be any repeat performance but so far so good. Fed her tonight at 7 and she was asleep by 8.30 so fingers crossed!!!!
Glad they arrived Kate :)
hi all. i'm new round here and thought id pop in!!!
ummm..... isabella is our first child and was "suprise suprise" born in october!!
this is where we are at now: she sleeps though the night and has done since around chrissy *yay* and still sleeps plenty in the day *yay*. she is TEETHING *not so yay* and i can see 3 little white tips ready to pop! she can roll over but hasnt worked out yet how to get that darn arm unstuck from under her:) she just atarted having a big bath this week and loves it!! and she is slowly discovering tohse fun things on the end of her arms, hands!
and to date they are her accomplishments beside bringing such joy to mine and her daddys lives!
Welcome Ruby :)
Wow teething already!!
welcome ruby
and guys, i forgot to tell you, lachlan has some new friends!!!
his feet lol, he was staring at them before like' what the hell are those things, they werent there yesterday. and why are they moving' haha crack up!
Welcome Ruby.
Maddi loves staring at her feet. The other day she had her feet on my arm & every-time she moved them she would laugh. It was so cute.
Maddi also has a habit of picking up the hard plastic toys then hitting herself or the person who's holding her in the face with them.
Kim hope you had a better night last night.
james has that boogedy foot stare too. it's like they're two creatures that have shown up to taunt him. hehe.
on another note - why has my boy regressed to 3-hourly feeding over 24 hours? he hasn't done that since 5 weeks. i thought his growth spurt was done but perhaps it's still going... or he just wants to flog me one last time.
i suppose i can't begrudge him milk. he is vocalising at top volume for almost all of his waking time. we have weird 'conversations' that are a mix of babble, squeaks, grunts and dribbling. he is rolling like a demon, so i guess that growth spurt was a big developmental time for him.
when is he going to start dropping feeds again? :pray:
Welcome Ruby! Great to see a new face in here :)
How cute all the babies who have found their feet! Kieran hasn't found his on his own yet, but when I show them to him he laughs at them. Aww babies are so cute!
Viv - If it makes you feel any better, Kieran was feeding every two hours two days ago. Ughhh... I think growth spurts can pop up whenever they want to. I'm sure his rolling (clever boy!) is contributing to his frequent feeds, he's probably burning more energy than before! Hope he goes back to normal for you soon.
Selfish post peoples....be prepared...
Nightmare night again....so much screaming that turns to sobbing with funny little breathes inbetween....tried to settle SOO many times, only to have Max realise he's going down into his cot just before his bod hits the mattress......what is the DEAL!!! He was SOOO good at this... "please be a phase!" Tried, back, tummy, covers, no covers, dummy, no dummy, patting, rocking, swaying, jiggling....NOTHING!!! Finally the kid decides tummy is the way to go and zonks out as soon as his head hits the mattress.....I then got paranoid and rolled him onto his back....which he slept through. MAN!!! What a punk! He was last fed at 8 and finally asleep by 10:30.....and not awake yet 7am..... I know that probably sounds nice to some of you, but to me, this is NOT normal! He usually goes down without a fight. He should really learn that the Mummy always wins!!
Welcome Ruby...ouch teeth....is she grumpy?! Your babe is one day older than mine! Look forward to hearing more about her.
Max has seen his feet, and does this funny kick and gets all excited to see them. He is still way more interested in shoving his entire fist into his gob though! He's also become Mr Touchy Feely!
Anyway, best go feed this kid before my boob starts squirting enough to fill a coffee cup! P.S I was told about Fenugreek too so bought some tablets....but in the end I didn't need them as I am an A1 Jersey Cow!
Have a good day all
nickers - the boys are so alike... so cute!
Saffi - they were talking about fenugreek at my mothers group, and the few that took it swear by it. One mum was comping with formula, and after taking it, she didn't have to anymore
Kate - way to go on Hayleys sleep, hope she did it for you again last night. Thats how Tahlia started sleeping through... she did that a few times, and the sleeps just kept getting longer....
Welcome Ruby - Isabella is so cute! Isn't it nice when they sleep through? My DD started sleeping through around Christmas too... a nice Chrissy pressie!
Tahlia has been asleep since about 8am, so might try he with the bottle again when she wakes, as she 'should' be in a good mood, but still hungry
Yay! She just took 100ml in the bottle from Daddy!