Babies Born October 2007 #29

Ange - would be great to finally meet you when you're up here. Does Lu like younger guys??? Myles may have a rival for Lu's attention!
Claire - L has a very limited diet consisting of pumpkin, potato, pear, apple, banana porridge, crusts, sweet corn and sweet potato. Mostly eats porridge for breakfast, doesn't eat much for lunch and sometimes eats dinner. Been very slow in introducing new foods, but thinking I'll just go for it now and introduce more foods more quickly. Don't have a history of allergies so we should be fairly right.

L did a massive vomit tonight all over DH. We were just about to go out and L deposited a chunky milk/pumpkin mix all down DH's front. Noice.

Happy 8/9 months to Kieran, Tahlia, Logan and Myles.

julia - the blue taggy thing is evidently to seal it up tightly when you chuck it out. i'm still not exactly sure how it goes, coz it never seems right. i just do whatever... as usual.

about food - james has porridge early, morning tea of toast with vegemite, lunch of vegies, rice cracker etc, sometimes chicken, and dinner is vegies. sometimes i grate some fruit for him to pick at. just depends.

he's had scrambled eggs. he basically will have a bash at anything i'm having. porridge is his favourite though. no spoon for him, just fistfuls of it straight down the gullet (and everywhere)

Amber-I think you are right....mind you I am sooo clucky again its not funny! But not going back for a second one...dont think our bank account would survive that again so soon!
Now I have a question for all those using bottles.....are you still sterilising them?? An still boiling the water before putting in bottles??
Saffi-Do you do the sweetcorn yourself?? Is it the stuff in a tin and you puree it?? Caitlyn is pretty much stuck on the same sorts of vegetables here and we want to try different things (with the limited availability here). In saying that - she has some bok(or pak) choy in her vege pots this week.
There is only so much fruit that we can give her out here too so we are pretty much limited to pears and apples and honey,rock and watermelon and of course bananas. I saw some custard apples in the shop the other day but have never eaten it myself so wouldnt know how to prepare it. Is it too early for citrus (oranges mandarins etc)....god I am full of questions! Oh we didnt do the pea and ham soup yesterday - butcher can't get ham bones???
Viv-You give James a rice cracker? Cool - just the plain ones? Or is it a rice cake type of thing? Not the Sakata ones?
Ooooo this feeding baby thing is difficult!!

Morning all!

Ange - I have a friend who's a naturopath so I'm going to ask her what she can suggest. I was also going to go to our local health food store and ask what they could suggest. K's chiro is also a bit of an expert in natural remedies so next time we go I'll ask him about it too.

Saffi - Gotta love the pumpkin spew! It really stains!! Good on L for hitting dad with it LOL!

Viv - Wow, James is going so well with food after your rocky start! I'd love to try some more food with K, but I'm worried about allergies now he has a rash.

Amber - I'm so glad Myles is still going well with sleeping in the cot. You will feel like a new woman soon!

Mo - I'm glad your mum got into that place. I'm sure she'll be happy there once she settles in. Don't ever apologise for talking about it with us, that's what we're here for and we are happy to listen!

Rebecca - I did a birth story too and am so glad I did because I would have forgotten a lot of it by now. I had such a great experience with K, I loved my labour! (Joel was a very, very different story...)

K is now clapping on command! Well, he hits a fist into his open palm, but it's close enough! I say to him "clap hands" and he does, so cute! Anyone else got any other tricks I can teach him?!

Hi everyone

I also found that the No Cry Sleep Solution was great for reassuring me that what i was doing wasn't the wrong thing, seeing everyone I speak to seems to think it is!

Tahlia is still having 2 meals a day, she kind of went backwards a bit with the solids when she was sick, so I am trying to build up on the quantities at the moment. For those BF bubs out there who are eating any type of baby cereal/porridge, what do you mix it with? Boiled water, breast milk or full cream milk?

Rebecca - for freezing baby food, I just use ice cube trays and then when the food is frozen, I put it into labelled snaplock bags

Trish - hope K's rash clears up for you soon. Have you changed the stuff you use in the bath for him, or what you wash his clothes with? Way to go on the clapping... I'm trying to teach Tahlia 'all gone' at the moment when you put your hands out to the side when her food is gone, but she hasnt got it yet

Mo - glad to hear you mum has settled in well. Dont ever feel bad about expressing yourself to us, thats what we are hear for!

Happy belated 8 months to Kieran, Tahlia, Logan, and Happy 9 months to Myles.

Hope everyone is well. I am improving (slowly), if only I could get rid of this rotten headache and stuffed up nose. Panadol is doing nothing!

trish - it's very curious about k's skin. you never know. i'll say this - james had the squishy poos again the day i gave him a rafferty's packet, and he also had avocado that day. when he had cheese, he just looooooved it, but was a fartbag who was impossible to settle. no more dairy till 12 months methinks.

he's like a science project, i just put stuff in front of him and watch what happens. he even guzzled a couple of strawberries because i am a bit naughty. i know they're highly reactive but... it seemed ok... *cower*

i hope you work out what's making K patchy!

Thanks Viv! I stopped giving him the Rafferty's porridge since the weekend and his rash hasn't flared up since, interesting... I wonder what could be in it that would cause a reaction like that? I haven't tried dairy yet, now your making me scared!

Kellie - I don't put anything but water in K's bath. Even Joel still only gets washed with water, I have sensitive skin so assume my boys will too. I've been using the same washing powder since K was born, it's the Aldi Trimat Sensitive one, so I don't think he's reacting to it? Who knows?! Re: porridge, I was putting just cool boiled water in K's before I stopped giving it to him. He really liked it. K is on three meals a day, I was a bit slack recently with not giving him lunch some days, but he didn't put on as much weight this time at his last check so I thought I'd beef him up! (Not that he needs it)

Trish and Viv - was it the Raffertys Multigrain baby breakfast that you were using? I've been giving that to Tahlia mixed with pureed apple and pear

Viv - what do you mix the porridge with?

Kellie - I use the Multigrain with apricot & banana one.

Hooray for my 2000th post!!! (Kinda sad really :P)

We just use regular oats now to make big kids porridge! Didn't have much luck with any of those 'first' cereals. I make the porridge with water and a little full cream milk Kellie. According to my 'resources' Boiled full cream milk is ok from 8 months. So i cook with the milk, don't add it cold.

I have been hanging to give her strawbs, they look so juicy and yummo, and an easy snack.

:rofl: As i type, the guni was having some nappy off time, she just stood holding the furniture and layed a log on the floor!!!!!!!! Better go tend to that. Lucky it's not carpet.

Ange - :rofl: what a lovely mess to clean up... not!

i've got the baby porridge with apple (i think its the bellamys one), so might make it up with some heated full cream milk and some boiled water then.

Trish - congrats on the 2000th post!

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and layed a log on the floor!!!!!!!! Better go tend to that.

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You have made my day Ange with that line!!!!!! I am sure when she is 21 you can recite it or even to her first boyfriend lol:)!
Trish you could teach K to blow kisses! He is a very clever boy!

Anyway brave enough to go to the toy sales? We arent going Myles has enough toys he doesnt play with let alone buying more? Was thinking of getting a Wii for us though! lol! Like we need it but they look like fun!

anyway will bbl xx

Hey kids, sorry I haven't been around much. Making an effort to spend less time on BB these days. Haven't caught up fully so forgive my pathetic personals!

Trish - glad the rash has gone! L had one today on his cheeks, thinking it could have been the spag bol he had for dinner :dunno:

Claire - am thinking of going to the sydney meet, wish is wasn't so bloody far away though!

Food - been pondering brekkie a lot lately. Gave him weet bix one day then freaked out thinking it was too early for wheat??!! He doesn't rate the baby cereals AT ALL....so normal grown up porridge is OK? Lunch is usually vegies or pasta or something similar. Sometimes a bit of fruit. He's having cereal with fruit and a bit of raisin toast for brekkie, vegies, meat and pasta for dinner most nights. Solids going much better these days. Still a boob maniac though!

Sleep - after a horrendous few weeks when he was sick and waking himself up constantly by coughing (Kellie - we were going through it the same time as Tahlia, the spewing and all, fun no??) things are settling back down. Still not sleeping through the night and you know what? I'm finally over it! I don't care! The boy doesn't sleep through, so sue him :p Going to keep truckin on knowing that I'm doing the best for my boy. He doesn't cope at all being left to cry so I just won't do it. He's doing 4-5.5 hr blocks overnight and that's good enough for me. Sleeping well during the day. Getting a copy of No Cry Sleep Solution asap, just don't have the cash at the mo (which reminds me, Ange, sending your book back to you this week babe, thanks again!)

Other stuff - cutting two top teeth. Both are nearly through and giving him holy hell. He's been sleeping OK but constantly rubbing his face and mouth and biting everything - including his 6 month old cousin :redface:

And lordy, but the boy is pulling himself up on furniture etc and standing...****, he'll be walking way before I'm ready!!

Having his 6 month needles tomorrow...whoops, better late than never!

Ohhhh the spewing from coughing...I'm with you! Sigh...over it!

Back tomoz when the 'sun' is shining!

just quickly coz i'm hearing the cot monster....

1) jj has normal big people porridge (because i'm hooked), i put ardmona pie apple in it!!! he eats it by the fistful.

baby cereals just sucked for him.

bbl

Snap NT, sometimes we have prunes instead of ardmona apple.

Hey all

Came home early from work to find my boys have gone out somewhere. So I have a few moments of peace before the night time routine begins.

Really tired today as L was making a lot of noise overnight. I fed him at 10pm, and then DH had to feed him again at 4.30am. I know we shouldn't be giving him so much milk but then again he doesn't really eat a lot of solids. What to do???

Rebecca - Still sterilising bottles, teats etc here. Also still using cooled boiled water to make up his bottles and also his sippy cup. I believe boiled water is supposed to be used until 12 months. Suppose I could give up the sterilising. Don't sterilise the dummies anymore.
Sweet corn is tinned baby puree. I looked at the adult tinned corn and it has added salt and sugar. I did buy some corn cobs to do my own but haven't got there yet and its a bit old now :doh: I haven't given L citrus yet but I would think a manadrine might be good for her to suck on (pips removed).

We give L the Rafferty's Garden Banana porridge. Did try the Multigrain one which he didn't like. Not sure if he was just off his brekky that week or not. Might try it again as getting low on the banana stuff.

Anyway, here my boys coming in so better go.

Rebecca we do the same as Saffi re the sterilizing.

My Nephew was finally born today, 11 days overdue lol & 4.5kg.
My Sister & the gang are suppose to be coming down in Sept, can't wait to see him.

Thanks Viv & Mo! I am still sterilising the bottles/teats but have become really really lax about dummies (damn the things!). We are definitely still doing the cooled boiled water thing - store bought water of course - the town water here is 50% bore water at the moment and destined to get worse!
We had a really good night last night. Put little one down at 630 and she slept until 630! Woohoo. I dont mind getting up in the middle of the night anymore - its normally only once. But I REALLY don't mind not getting up at all.
I am DESPERATELY waiting for my friend Taz who is due tomorrow to call me with the good news! She is being very stubborn!!! Bubs that is not Taz - she has tried everything!!! Hot food, sex, walking, boiuncing! EVERYTHING!!!
Anyway - had better head off and do some work! Have a great day all - am sure I will be checking in at some stage - dont have much to do here today - as per usual!

Morning everyone!

I have such a boring day planned today, lots of housework to catch up on *inserts non-existant thumbs down icon*. I've been so tired and run down with my cold that I've let it slip (please don't tell the FLYlady ;)). I spent most of yesterday cooking up lots of vegies for K, I also cooked a roast chicken in my slow cooker, mmmm... K loved the chicken!

Rebecca - How exciting, I hope your friend's bub shows up soon! Do you know the name she has picked out?

Mo - Congrats to your sister! That's funny that he ended up coming late LOL! I'm glad he held on to be born nice and healthy. How many nieces and nephews do you have now?

Saffi - I hope you had a better night last night. It must be horrible to have to go to work when you haven't had a good night's sleep.

Viv - I've wondered about those pie apples, I wasn't sure if they had too many additives or if the quality was OK. I might give 'em a go now!

Julia - How's Max feeling today? Hopefully he is on the mend.

Willow - I've missed you around here! I'm glad you're more relaxed about L's sleeping now, I'm sure he will get there in his own time. Re: wheat bix - pasta and bread have wheat in it too so I'm sure wheat bix would be fine. I hope those top teeth come through quickly!

Amber - I don't bother with the toys sales, my house is toy central LOL! Thanks to my biz we have the biggest toy collection going around. I have NO idea what we'll get K for his first birthday!!

Have a great day everyone :D

Sam has 5 now & my other witch of a sister has 1. 3 girls & 3 boys with one of my nieces being born on my b'day :)

We had a shocker of a night, M wouldn't go to sleep till 3am & then she woke up at 8am!
So i have a tried/clingy baby today, Who still refuses to goto sleep.

Trish thanks again your a really really good friend :) (Trish did a RAoK for me).

Trish that chicken would of tasted so nice, what did u have with it?

this was my feeding strike post but i'm deleting it because it wasn't... :p

Mo - I hope Maddi is feeling a bit better now, fingers crossed she sleeps better for you tonight! We had roast vegies with our roast chicken, mmmm.... K had potato, pumpkin and broccoli with his chicken, he had it again tonight and devoured it!

Viv - LOL, what was going on with you and James?

Poor K is a bit grumpy today, he has a runny nose so he's probably feeling a bit sick. Hopefully he sleeps well tonight!

viv is everything ok?
Trish hope K isnt coming down with something!
mo congrats on being an aunty again!

not much happening here! Myles is sleeping better at night but only had maybe an hour today! i just dont understand how he can keep going!

anyway hello everyone else! Have a great night xoxoxox

I had a nice little meet-up with the Cranbourne-Warragul ladies.
M made some new friends which was nice..

Trish that sounds yummy, think i may have to give it a go, did u cook it for 8hrs on slow?
Did you add chicken stock or just plain water with herbs?

Amber glad to hear Myles is sleeping better, hope it continues :D
M is the exact same, where do they get their energy from ?

Mo - That's great you met some more BBers! Re: the roast - I buy a whole chicken that's already marinated (from Aldi!) and just plonk it straight into the slow cooker, you don't need to add anything else. It cooks in it's own juices and is soooo tender. DH & I both agree it is the yummiest way to cook a chicken! You can cook it on low for 8 hours, but I cook it on high for around 5 hours (it's a big chook though).

Amber - WTG Myles on sleeping so well at night! You guys are doing a great job :)

he didn't want boob at his midmorning time yesterday and it freaked me coz... yanoo... he loves his mummy teat. anyway, he caught up all his feeds by 1pm. he was just messing with me.

clamped his mouth shut and looked away. monkey!

Happy Birthday old gal! ;)

Happy Birthday Viv!!!!!!!!!!:p

:happybirthday: Happy birthday Viv, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Happy Birthday Viv! Hope you have a great day and get spoilt!

Willow - good to hear from you again. It is pretty scary that he'll be walking before you know it! Tahlia is desperately trying to crawl at the moment, and that is scaring me enough, let alone the thought of walking! Where have our babies gone?

Mo - congrats on your new nephew!

Rebecca - how is your friend going? any news yet?

Amber - glad to hear you are having better nights

Not much new with us, my parents are moving house today, so heading over there soon to help out. Went to the Kmart toy sale and got a few things, mostly christmas gifts for other kids though, and a cool ball pit for T! Most of the things I saw in the catalogue were already sold out!

Happy b'day Viv.

Thanks Trish, gonna try it tomorrow for dinner, sounds so yummy!

Viv - Happy Birthday! Re bf: Harry's are a little more over the place these days, depending on how much he eats in solids, also how he's feeling generally (teething at the mo).

Trish - Ribo rash is caused by the mixture of flavour enhancers that are used to increase the effects of MSG (by 15%) - if you had eaten something with them in (you knoe the ad with flavours you can see?) etc it could pass over in your breastmilk if a child is susceptible. It's a pretty nasty rash but all accounts. Has it gone now? Going back to basics is a good way to go.

Harry is killing me here - he's sleep is atrocious at night, even when he's dosed up on Nurofen or Panadol (he's defo teething now though). What am I going to do? I gave him water the other night and he drank it down so that means he's generally hungry or thirsty right? I can't seem to get him to breastfeed anymore during the day, he's too easily distracted. And I can't make him eat anymore - I really need him to give me a respite here!

Clare- i sympathise, that was me not so long ago. I BF her in the night when things were tough. Now things have settled back down and she is sleeping well again. It is only a phase, a tough one that sucks, but one that will pass! Is it his top teeth? They were killers here.

Kellie we got Maddi the ball pit as-well she loves it.
Going to wait for the Target sale then lay-by M a toddler swing set for Christmas, The smarty loves climbing upstairs now, thank goodness we don't have any here expect on her cubby house.

Claire hope Harry settles for you soon, M's top teeth were killers here as-well she wouldn't sleep unless you held her.

Hey all

:dance: Happy Birthday Viv. I hope DH and JJ spoil you. You deserve it.:dance:
Claire - hope H gets over the teething soon.
All the talk about the slow cooker is making me hungry. MIL has one so I think I'll ask if I can borrow it. DH loves his casseroles and stews. Might be nice to come home from work with a hot meal waiting.

Can I boast??? Last night L slept through!!!! I did a dreamfeed at 11pm and we didn't hear from him again until 6.30am. I know some bubs sleep 12 hours straight but for us this is big. He had daycare yesterday so think he was so exhausted. This morning he slept over 3 hours. Didn't have a sleep this afternoon so I am hoping he does big sleeps tonight too.

We hit the KMart toy sale in a big way. Bought the FP toddler swing, a cute puppy that sings and talks, some bath play toys and a cart that converts into a ride on thingy. The cart thingy is being put away for his birthday. Can't wait until the Target toy sale when can get other birthday pressies and maybe even Xmas!

Introduced L to vegemite and chicken today (not at the same time). This morning he crawled over to me and wanted some of my breaskfast. He was so obvious about what he wanted. So tried the old black stuff and he loved it. Managed to get a lot of it down his front.

Working 3 days this week (and for the next few weeks or so until L's daycare hours are increased). Looking forward to it. Poor DH goes back to work on Monday. Don't think he is looking forward to it.

Hope you are all having a good weekend.

Happy Birthday Viv...hope you had a fab day :)

Too tired to talk...had to brush out Charlie and wash him today....eeerrkkkk! Hard job!

Back tomoz!

Hi everyone,
What a week. Busy, busy, busy. I just wanted to pop in and say hi. I am going out soon so I will catch up on everything tonight when I get home.

Is anyone else having trouble with day sleeps? Ethan is a shocker. Had about 40 minutes this morning and about 45 this afternoon. Surely he is too young to drop down to one sleep. We tried 1 day sleep yesterday as we were out all morning. He had a great sleep in the afternoon. 2 and a half hours. Any advice. Has anyone else dropped a sleep yet? My only problem with him having 1 sleep is that I have to work hard to keep him happy for about an hour. I am trying really hard to figure him out because as of monday week he will be spending 2 days with Nana and I need to tell her what she should do with him. Argh. Just when you get them figured out they change.

Anyway better go.

Hey gals, few quick things:

Viv - happy bday!

Saffi - WTG on the sleeping through, that's unreal!! I enthusiastically share your excitement!

Claire - we are slowly coming out of a bad night sleeping phase. He was sick and teething (top two teeth nearly through) and I never thought it would end...hang in there...

Ange - we're cutting top teeth now, man, they are taking forever and giving him sooo much grief. He's constantly rubbing at his face and mouth, poor fella. Still haven't sent your book, it's on it's way though, promise.

Alz - "They" don't recommend dropping to one day sleep till at least 12 months, more like 14-15 months. Most babies can't cope with it till then. I'd say it's a rough patch, stick with two and I'm sure it will improve again.

Well another one to brag here - L slept for 8 hours the other night!!!! :woot: Again, not a huge deal for some, but it's massive here! First time he's ever done a stretch that long. Nights much improved the last week or so, hoping once these teeth pop through things will be even better.

Any b'feeders returning to work soon? I'm going back mid September (only 2 days a week) and starting to stress about how booby boy will cope...

Hey all

Day at home today. Bit nervous about how I'll go on my own with L. Been 2 months since I have been on my own with him...... So far we have had breakfast and he is on the floor playing with some toys. Hopefully he will go down for a sleep soon.

Willow - spoke too soon the other day. The last 2 nights I was up to him at least 2 - 3 times and both nights needed to do a 4am feed. :dunno: Pleased to hear that L is getting better overnight for you.
Alz - day sleeps are pretty good here. We average about 2 x 2hour sleeps during the day. When he is at daycare he usually only has 2 x 1 hour sleeps and is really stroppy by the time we get him to bed. Some afternoons he won't sleep but that is usually when we are out and about. KWYM about entertaining them being hard work. I really look forward to those couple of hours when he asleep.

BBL