Babies Born September 16th - 30th 2008

[curl]

You are both so funny . If I was having a boy I would have been pressuring DH heavily for Xander as a name and that would have made 3 in the same group...priceless! All these Buffy fans, I was even joking to a gf of mine that I could name him Xander Harris but my DH wasn't going along with that part.

I finally got around to looking for the baby buddies thread. Thanks to Loralei being such a great baby and my carpal tunnel finally letting up a bit.

Loralei Grace was born 23/09/08 at 9.35pm weighing 3670gm (8lb 4oz), 35cm head and 50cm long.

Come on girls... where's the rest of you?

[belfie]

haha Curl, great to see you in here too. X/Zander is such an awesome name you clearly have good taste too!

Glad your carpal tunnel finally let you in and hope it's improving for you!

SamiH, sounds like things have been tough, hope you're feeling better.

I've been having some bf'ing hell, but have an LC coming tomorrow and think we're making progress (to summarise: inverted nipples/nipple shield/expressing... arrgh! ). Otherwise, he's just a little darling and sleeps & feeds like an angel. Very lucky and hoping that will last for a bit! We had a bath together today - was just gorgeous.

[belfie]

i'm just posting to keep our thread within cooee! We were on the second page

[curl]

Belfie, we are a sad bunch aren't we with not posting very often. Hopefully that will all change when our babies are cooperating a little better for us to sneak off to post something. I hope your LC visit went well and that your little man Xander is now feeding like a trooper on your newly healed bb's . Sounds painful and hard work from what you've said so good on you for continuing to try to bf. I haven't ventured down the bathing with Loralei yet, due to how I have to get out of the bath (long story cut short - bad knee).

SamiH - I hope you're doing great with Zander.

Hi to all you overtired ladies that haven't yet posted here

[belfie]

ok i'm gonna do what Hollye normally does... post the births: (the early oct births thread is going great... I'm so jealous )

Tazzy/Taz (sp?) - 18/09/08 - Shayla Amy - 8.50am
Gobblygook - 21/09/08 - #4 bubba - 12:45am at home in water
curl - 23/09/08 - Loralei Grace - 8lb 4oz
Chris - 23/09/08 - a beautiful baby girl - 2720g - 9.57am
Belfie - 25/09/08 - Xander Jordan - 7lb 7oz - 1:35am
Didispunk - 25/09/08 - Jorda May - 6lb 14oz - 12:46pm
SamiH - 25/09/08 - Zander ******* - 8lb 1oz - 8:58pm
cocopop - 29/09/08 - Josef Justice Bernard - 7lb - 9:57pm
CathieW - 30/09/08 - 9.00pm ^^^- Sam - 7lb 3oz -Hana - 5lb 10oz^^^- born 12 minutes apart
Angie- 30/09/08 - Madeleine Rose - 8.01am

Curl, thanks for the encouragement. The BFing sure is hard work! We're doing mostly ok. I still have some feeds where he just doesn't settle on the BB and gets antsy (two of those eralier today )so we go bottle, but on the whole, it's going pretty well.

Re the bath, s'one told me to make sure you have a handy DH or DP around. So DH hands you bubba and then you hand bubba out to DH once you're done. Then wriggle around & pull the plug, and stand up in a nice empty bath. If need be, you could wait until DH had dried & put down bubba then DH could assist you out. Don't know if that's doable with a dodgy knee, but i'll wish you luck anyways! I hope all your feedings and sleepings are going ok!

SamiH - good luck with the expressing & sleeping!

Cheers,
Belfie.

[gobblygook]

Zander was in our list for #3. Beautiful name.

I had #4 on 21st Sept at 12:45am at home in water. Very quick!
Now 5 weeks.

[curl]

Belfie - Great idea of making the list like Hollye. I went to post on our bellybuddy thread and its gone! So sad. As for the bathing with baby thing,I'll now have to wait until DH is back from Perth early December. He left yesterday for a work course and hopefully after that he will be posting off his ship and we'll have him home at nights (yippee!). So, I'm back in the single parent boat for the time being but at least the time should fly with the girls keeping me busy. If I'm not tending to Loralei or the other two I'm busy doing housework that hasn't been done properly over the last couple of months of my pregnancy. I washed the walls of the kitchen today (kids dirty hand prints), dusted high up spots in back room and Mr Muscled the bathrooms properly (couldn't abide the stink of it while pg).

Gobblygook - Welcome aboard the virtually vacant baby thread which is ours. Congratulations on your newest bundle. A water birth... way to go Gobblygook! Well done. Gobblygook, what kind of car do you drive with 4 kids? I ask this of all people with more than 3 kids as we have been tossing up whether to get a new car that fits more than 3 carseats and a pram.

See Belfie and SamiH Z/Xander is a fantastic name to be considered by so many! All these people with great taste.

[curl]

I had #4 on 21st Sept at 12:45am at home in water. Very quick!
Now 5 weeks.

Did you have a boy or girl? What did you name him/her?