Babies Born October 2007 #16

[visitor1]

Yep trish i started off in the early Oct group cos of my EDD..but then after dating scan my date was moved so joined the late group!! According to tests and stuff Jasmine was conceived on Australia Day! Sorry you had another bad night....its gotta get better asap for you!!

Saffi i dont think there will be a 08 bub for me....so no announcements this way

Willow good luck for your DD today.

Alz...yeah working on loosing the weight but it still not coming off yet. i have 8kg to get back to pre baby weight from first time round (from Chelsea)...so i cant see it dropping off any time soon.

Off to the Dr soon...hopefully on the weekend. I think i have insomnia. Was talking to dad last night and i was telling him how im nto sleeping. He had justbeen to the dr and thats what he was told.

His Dr gave him a book to help with sleep with tips etc. The tips dad said was: no tea/coffee 4 hours before bed, go to bed when tired....if u cant sleep...get up and read....keep doing that til you fall asleep. but the one that got me...(and my dad is a funny bloke) 'Have sex..whilst its great for the male as it tires them, for the woman is makes them more alert so isnt adviseable at bed time'.

Thats what im doing wrong..LOL LOL

[Star]

Rebecca - hope you are feeling better soon. Yucky flu! :-(

Kellie - what a fantastic night's sleep! Yey for you!

[Saffi]

Morning all

Happy three months Kieran, Tahlia and Lachlan.

Trish - sorry to hear you had a carp night. Really feel for you mums with older kids. Seems like they never stop, even when they're suppossed to be asleep.
Kellie - new hair, new attitude, its great! Just remember to take photos of Tahlia with you 'cause they will ask you. Felt like such a bad mum that I didn't have any to show them. **note to self take some with phone camera**
Rebecca - rest up and take those drugs. Hope you feel better soon.

Hi to everyone else!

DH home sick today. Had a few big days at work and has now fallen in a heap! Gee if we fell apart each time we had a rough day we'd never get out of bed.

Nothing much else going on. Going to get L weighed today. He is getting so heavy.

[YoYo]

Hi everyone....

Sorry haven't been around for a while. Max has been a bit of a grizzly mummy's boy the last couple of days. I think it's the aftermath of Australia Day....we were so busy!

A hair cut...geez that would be nice. I'm lucky now the friend that I made at the hospital is a hairdresser and cuts hair from home....YAY!! Think I'm going to get to know her a little bit longer before I ask though, so my hair will stay boofy in the meantime.

Sorry, can't remember who asked, but the grobag in summer is fine. It gets v hot here, and I have a 0.5tog grobag and just dress Max in a short sleeve short leg grosuit thingy. He seems FINE with that. Oh we also have the fan on in the room if it's a really warm night. I bought a 1 tog one for 6 - 18months so that should fit in nicely with the weather change. If it's not warm enough for him I can just put another blanket over the top.

Peta Thanks for the invite! I can't make it this Friday but we should catch up and swap tips! BTW I got one of those BumGenius nappies to try...will see how that goes.

Max has started to wake again during the night for a feed....is that normal!!? It's around 3 or 4am (which I know isn't too bad). It's funny....you get over one cr@p phase only to have another one appear just around the corner!!

Anyone else in desperate need of a neck massage.....my muscles have never felt so tight...or tense!! DH gave me a bit of a rub last night, but he's no where near as good as a pro (but we wont tell him that!)

To anyone who had a birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - To all the babes who turned 3 months - HAPPY 3 MONTHS - To anyone having a ***** time of it....SORRY to hear that!!! To anyone that is feeling sick - GET WELL SOON!! So sorry I have the WORST Mummy memory in history!!

Have a good day all

[Rebecca77]

I remember someone commented on the colour of my kittens - how all three are different colours....wellI have just posted a new pic with mum included. you can kinda see why they are all different colours - she is too!!! She is not the most attractive cat in the world - so we called her Ugs (for Ugly) but DH calls her Fugs - wont go into that!
Anyway - am off to try to get some sleep - I took the night time drowsy drug! Can't exactly take it at night now can i??? Why did I buy the day/night ones??!???!
you know......I have been looking at all the little pics in everyones ticker - my little girl really is a chubba isnt she??? Doc didnt say anything about her being overweight - guess I will just have to watch her!

[ninja_turtle]

the night-feeder returns... he had a 10.40pm AND a 3.00am and a 5.30am.

i dunno - he chops and changes at will.

he's yelling at me from the mat so i'd better go.

[Willow]

Trish - we had another shocker too. Wasn't too bad to start with (he did 4.5 hours, then 3, then 3) but then DH's bl**dy stupid alarm went off and he leaves it on the other side of the room so he has to get up for it and doesn't sleep through it - only problem with that theory is that I'M always the one jumping up to get it and I wasn't quick enough so it woke L up - 5.30am!! So I figured if I fed him he would settle till at least 6.30am. Nope - dozed on and off so got him up at 6.15am.

I kept him up then instead of feeding him and putting him down like I normally do. I figured that way he could get a sleep in before dropping DD off. Worked OK, he had an hour and a bit.

The rest of the day - nightmare!!

Dropped DD off and she was a star! "Bye Mummy, see you soon!" and she was off! I sucked it up till I got in the car and then cried! LOL. She was really good apparently. Back tomorrow so we'll see how she goes.

Pretty much decided I am going to cut back to just Fridays because we have Playgroup on Monday mornings, and 3 mornings dragging L out of bed is far too much at this stage. So will talk to them tomorrow about dropping Thursday for now and we'll pick up another day later in the year.

So from preschool to the GP (remembered this morning that L needed a referral to the paed at the hospital for his follow up appt today, luckily got an appt at the GP). From the GP to the psych (by this time L is very hungry so feed him in the car in the car park) go in "No, sorry, your appt is tomorrow”. Grrrr. So I have an hour to kill, not much point going home so we went to the shops (at least it was airconditioned!) had something to eat, L slept in his pram. Then to the hospital for his paed appt.

All tests from his hospital stay came back clear so the paed thinks the rash was viral. Did another urine test today and it was clear too. BUT apparently his head circumference is a bit of a worry. According to his blue book records, his head has grown 4cm in a month and apparently that is a lot. So Dr took my head circ, I have to do DH’s tonight and the Dr is going to call me tomorrow morning to get DH’s measurement and then graph them. He said it’s probably just that DH and I both have big heads so L does too. The other possibility is that whoever recorded his head circ last time stuffed it up. I need to take him to the clinic and get it checked again in 3-4 weeks, if it’s still increasing at the same rate, I need to call the paed that day and he will organize scans of L’s head

I swear I am just so sick of worrying about him all the time, if it’s not one thing, its another. That might sound awful but I’ve been stressing about my beautiful boy since he was just an embryo on the screen at my IVF transfer! That’s a whole lot of worrying, no wonder I’m such a basket case…

I’m sure it will all work out fine, but it’s going to play on my mind for the next few weeks.

[visitor1]

I hope everything will b ok Willow

[Khaleesi]

Awww Willow how scary for you, I'm sure everything will be fine.
Maddi's cousin has a bigger than average head & he is fine

[~Trish~]

Wow, there must be something in the air to make some of the babies in here bad night sleepers ATM! I'm hoping it is just the 3 month old growth spurt and he will be back to normal soon.

Willow - I'm so glad your DD was good for you at preschool! I know Joel won't be that easy, I am seriously dreading it. Sorry you are worried about your DS's head now . You don't need the stress you poor thing. I am so sure it will just be a measurement stuff-up or something. Both my boys have big heads!!

Viv - I'm hearing ya!

Rebecca - Hope you start feeling better soon you poor love .

Julia - Hopefully Max is just having a growth spurt and he'll start sleeping through again for you!

Saffi - I don't carry a photo of Kieran around with me, don't feel bad! I have him with me all the time, why do I need a photo lol!

Kim - Hope you find a way to stop the insomnia. It must be so frustrating not being able to sleep.

Both boys are asleep ATM, it's so nice! Kieran is day napping like a pro again, now we've just gotta work on the nights! It's so weird because he was sleeping up to 8 hours at night recently. I wish they could tell us what is going on!!

[becky]

Nerida - Thanks for that. I think Liams a bit better today, just a bit sorry for himself. LOL.Catch up Thurs though!! And Happy Birthday again for tomorrow!!

Trish - Yup its me who has lost 4kg (4 and a half now!!). **Proud of self** God its been hard though!! I would sooooooo recommend Weight Watchers to ANYONE!! It definately works! Nothing I did before could budge those last few kilo's. Im now lighter than I was pre-Chelsea! Next goal is to get down to pre-Liam!!

Willow - I really hope DS is ok, Im sure he will be! Doctors just like to be thorough!

I found out we were pregnant with Chels on DH's birthday Feb 16. So although I was preggers this time last year, I didnt know it!
Dunno if CHels is starting to teeth, but she has been really unsettled the last few days. It is totally not like her. She gets sooooo tired (she normally sleeps most of the day!), so I wrap her like always, and within 2 minutes she is unwrapped and crying, no matter how tight I do it. I thought maybe its time to start putting her down unwrapped but nope, she just cries and cries and cries and will not sleep. So then she is exhausted, I wrap her again and she sleeps. Just gave her a little bit of Panadol and put her down and she is out like a light now. Poor little thing. I feel so sorry for those of you who have unsettled babies often. YOU DESERVE A MEDAL!!

[Willow]

OK, feeling a bit better about L's massive melon - looked up the notes from his 6-8week check up and whoever put his HC in the graph at that time stuffed it up! Was 42cm, but they've graphed it at about 37, so that's why the huge increase! So pretty relieved now and will tell the paed that when he calls tomorrow.

L has slept most of the afternoon after being awake so long in the middle of the day! Just got him up, will let him have a bit of a play then it's bath, massage, bed!

Becky - I'm also having problems keeping DS wrapped. The paed today said that once they get to the point that they can get themselves out of it, there's not much you can do, especially when they are as big and strong as L is. He is also rolling all over his cot (and he is wrapped every sleep, day and night!) and I'm beginning to wonder if that is why he is waking more often at night. I seem to remember DD doing the same thing when she started rolling from her back to her side. One of the mums from playgroup gave me a sleep positioner thingo (you know with the roll on either side?), might give that a try tonight and see if it makes any difference - probably not but worth a try!

[LadyRaven]

Hey all just a quick one to say hello!

Willow-glad it was a muck up you must be so relieved! I used to live in the blue mountains but went west to buy (cheaper lol).

Mo- I'm sure Kim and Trish won't mind you spending some pennies! Hehehe :-)

Nickers- hope you get some good sleep soon you poor thing sounds like a terrible night I hate broken sleep *hugs*

Everyone else loves and hugs I'll try and get back on again soon to talk more but gotta dash! Lifes been soo hectic stealing all my net procrastination time!

[LizzysMum]

Hi All,

Maybe its a baby conspiracy - Amara has also just become a feaster at night again. 8.30 2am 4am 6am arghhhhhh!

Had the day from hell today. ELiza went to preschool, all went great but Amara did not sleep pretty much all day and she was a mental tonight. Hoping she sleeps long now!
Then Eliza decided she did not want to sleep either and has been out of bed about 30 times in 15 mins - far out! I can still hear her singing LOL! This is all due to a 4 minute sleep on the way home from preschool. Seriously that is all it takes to throw her bedtiem routine to the carphouse. Talk about Powernapping.

Add to the above that it is filthy hot here and about 100% humidity. I am over it completely today. When Eliza got out of bed for the 30th time I banged my head in frustration on the hall wall and it did not even hurt. Man I need a break!

Hope everyone is doing OK.

[becky]

Leah - What a sucky day! Hope tomorrow is better!

Willow - I wish I COULD stop wrapping Chels. But I have tried numerous times to put her down un-wrapped, and she just screams and screams! It really would be easier if she didnt need to be wrapped!

We are taking the kids to Southbank tomorrow! Hope the weather stays nice and he can have a little swim! Hope everyone has a great day!

[YoYo]

OMG What a day....Mr Whingey, Clingy, Grumpy Bum.....!! Poor kid hasn't done a poo since Tuesday....I think that might be his problem...I know it would be if it was me!!! Anyone got any tips to help get the poop out!!! He's been fluffing lots, just no follow through!!!

Sigh....totally buggered!!

[visitor1]

Saffi....i hope you have a fab day

Poor Max Julia...Jas hasnt done a poo since Wednesday....but she doesnt seem in any pain.

Usually a warm bath, then rub the tummy in a clock wise direction will help. Or move his legs (bend at the knees) like riding a bike for 5-10 mins will loosen the bowels. Or (i think your BF so prob wont wanna try it) but 30 ml warm boiled water over 24 hours will help OR gripe water from the supermarket.

Althought BF babies can go ages without doing a poo and still be ok...FF normally is a not a nice sign if no poo!

[Willow]

Leah - I feel your pain hun!! We had a very similar day which resulted in probably the worst night we've had since DS was a few weeks old. I can't tell you how many times i got up to him. Thankfully DD has been fantastic this week going to bed (she also started preschool yesterday!) so that's half the battle. And don't feel bad about banging your head against the wall - I've done it too!! LOL. Sometimes you just gotta get that frustration out somehow!!

Becky - I definitely wouldn't stop wrapping her, I think she's too young and is too used to settling wrapped. I just meant that unfortunately, there's not much you can do if she gets out of it but re-wrap her. We're going through the same thing here. I can't wait to stop wrapping either! Makes life just that bit easier.

Julia - I think Max is BF? I'd try some Infant's Friend, it always seemed to help DS to do a big poo if he was a bit windy and hadn't done one for a few days.

Seems like there's something in the air at the moment, all these babies routines gone pear-shaped. Maybe it's an age thing?? Who knows, it's a never ending guessing game. This too shall pass....


**ETA: Happy Bday Saffi!!!!