just quickly cos i saw your post captain and i know how you feel but before i finished work i had twins in my care at child care and one was a perfect sleeper, ate well, never cried and the other was the complete opposite - woke every hour, ate sporadically and cried all the time so it's not the parent (or the womb haha)!!
liberty slept better at 6 weeks than what she does atm, in saying that 4 months and 8 months are the worst times supposedly for sleeping habits?? i'm getting woken up a fair bit atm but i've stopped looking at the clock because it makes it worse for me. and even though i've wanted her to not sleep next to me as often in the bed, i'm too tired/lazy to settle her all the time so she's been sleeping next to me heaps more.
and if you're feeling frumpy, liberty sits on my roll of fat on my belly when i'm holding her!!
Well i still look freaking pregnant!!!! maybe its all the cheese cakes i am eating, but i am still a heffa lol.
Nath has his moments with sleep - sometimes he wakes up once, sometimes he doesnt at all. But never more then once, which i thought was odd as he is fully BF.
How much is everyones babies weighing? i am paranoid lol
Oh Captain, im sending your way. I don't usually post in here but like to read it as most of you i spent time with in the sept pregnancy thread. I miss chatting to you girls. Our thread doesn't seem to move along very fast
Captain i don't really have any ideas for you just wanted to post and let you know i'm thinking of you.
Lol: A big HELLO. I'm glad that you had a lovely chrissy, Wasn't it nice to spend it with our little treasures.
Indie24: A big HELLO to you also
I also can remember this time last year. We weren't even TTC so babies were not on my mind. Can't believe one year on and i'm now a mum and now have an adorabel little cherub. I found out i was preg around the end of the first week of January. I remember announcing it to DP's Parents on his birthday and that was the 12th. I had known for a few days by then.
Maddy is doing well. She will be 3mths on the 30th. She sleeps through the night and has cat naps in the day. Sometimes she has a big 2-3hr sleep. At the moment she is having her big sleep. She is doing the sleep, eat, play, sleep routine, so we have got things going quiet well.
I am so excited as i have now fully BF Maddy for 3mths. After having so many issues at the beginning i'm now really glad i persisted. It certainly takes time to get into a rythmn.
Oh Missy i love the photo of you BF ashton. I reckon its one to frame.
Eej: I still wrap Maddy. I find she settles alot bet when wrapped. At first when i wrap her she has a little tanti but then she settles quickly and goes to sleep. If her arms are out she often wacks herself in the face, wakes herself up and pulls her dummy out. In saying that often when i wake up in the morning her arms are out (and very cold, i have been putting mittens on her) and most of the time in the day they are also, but to intially get her to sleep wrapping helps heaps.
Hugs Captain! I am glad it wasn't just Ashton last night that woke up 4 times!! He usually only wakes once for a feed at 4ish so I was sooo tired today! It will get better The boys were both sleeping through by now, but both were on bottles so maybe that's why.
EEj I love growbags! Too hot now for the ones I have but in winter it was all we used
Lol Ash sleeps with me all the time hehehehe
Mummatotwo you are SO lucky!! I would love for Ashton to sleep through reguarly. He HAS done it but I can count the times on my 2 hands Ashton weights 8.4kg, went down last week not up because he was a little sick.
Oopsadaisy well done on Maddie sleeping through the night!! That is wonderful And congrats on your milestone. It's great that you persisted!
Well Ashton is well, going through a feeding frenzy at the moment, feeding 1-2 hourly day and night. I was so tired today. His dad came to visit again. He asked if he could come back on the days he gets off work early, which is nice I like that he is interested in spending time with him.
Ashton is talking a lot, he finally found his voice. He just gets into full conversations which is SO cute!! I even got it on camera He is really trying to crawl I don't want him to move yet so have limited his tummy time lol Used to spend most of the day on his tummy when he was down, not anymore!
I can't believe he is almost 4 months old!! It has gone SO fast!!
He is really into sucking on everything at the moment, his toys, clothes, blankets, fingers, MY hand and shoulder lol.
GOSH it's noisy here at the moment! Ashton is talking as loud as he can, the boys are making a racket lol the telly is up really loud so I can try and hear it haha
Hope all the bubbas are well! I would LOVE to see them all, so if you have put up a recent pic link it cos I can't work out this gallery thing
i am still gob smacked at his weight lol! Its nice and all that nath sleeps through, but i do miss the midnight feeds and cuddles. Also i think thats why he isnt gaining that much. its a catch 22.
Yep nath is a sucker too... sucking everything a the moment. and i am getting so tired of people putting their dirty feral fingers in his mouth!
Mto2- Emily weighs 6.4kg. I was worried about it til I checked it in the blue book and she is bang on the middle line. Nath must be feeding really well to sleep through. We have Emily having her last feed at 10 then feed her again at 6. I think we are doing pretty well for full EBM feeding.
Hi Oopsadaisy- you must have been in the preg thread after mine. Thanks for popping in. I'm sure its nice to keep up with your belly buddies. Quite a few we started with are in the group before now too. Good to hear you still wrap too.
Thanks guys. I think when exhaustion hits, everything seems worse than it actually is. It wasn't helped by the fact that DH has been sick since Christmas and my mum has come down with it so she couldn't have Danielle for the night like planned. Oh well, Ashlyn seems to have settled after a half hour cry, I hate not knowing what is wrong and what I need to do to help her.
Eej, I love my growbags, luckily Danielle and Ashlyn were born in the same month so I can reuse all the ones I had. I started using it a couple of weeks ago because Ashlyn would spend more time trying to get out of her wrap than sleeping and after 2 occasions of finding the wrap right over her head I stopped using it. Now she sleeps with her arms spread wide or up over her head.
Lol, wow twins that are complete opposite. Sometimes I forget that it's a personality thing, not necasserily something I'm doing wrong. Danielle didn't sleep at the beginning either, but for totally different reasons, and now she is the best sleeper. I just need to be patient.
Mel, I love it when they talk with you, it's so cute! I'm glad Ashton's dad is making more of an effort. LOL at stopping the tummy time! I can understand you wanting to slow everything down. Danielle never crawled so I have no idea what it will be like to have Ashlyn on the move!
Angie, Hi!!! You can always come in here some more if you want. It's strange that one year can change your life so completely. But such a wonderful change.
Mummatotwo, it must be nice to get some sleep, but your right and I should try to look at it as an extra chance for cuddles. I guess we all have something we're paranoid about!
For the girls that are feeling a bit frumpy, did you see the Body Transformation challlenge that Lucy is running? I would post a link but I'm really hopeless with computers
Captain - I am sorry to hear about your broken sleep. Molly has been waking at night too. I feel for you.
eej - My DH sleeps through any Molly noise too. One day I caught him telling someone that Molly had been sleeping through and at the time she wasn't. Seems the louder she gets the deafer he becomes
Iserve- Molly sits on mine too. But mine was preexisting before she ever came along. 4months and 8 months are the worst for sleeping?? oh no
Mummatotwo- Molly was weighed about 2 weeks ago and she was 6.3 (was about 3 months old). I always worry about her weight too.
oopsadaisy - Hello to you too I stop by your thread to read too as some of you were in my pregnancy thread. Maddy sounds like she is doing so well. Congrats on the BF. It certainly takes some effort doesn't it. We are still BF here just taking it one day at a time. We have had lots of issues.
Missy - Ashton sounds like he is doing great. this is the link for the latest pic of Molly in the picture gallery. If you go to the gallery and click on Member galleries -> choose the letter of the persons username (i for indie24) that brings up the links for the galleries there. KWIM?
I still can't get Molly to do tummy time but we are trying. She looks so weird scooting around on her back lol
Well Christmas was good. I had heaps of fun pretending Molly knew what it was about. We went to SIL & BIL house. Poor Molly didn't cope well with all the noise and people. She spent most of the time in my nephews FP swing where she was happy. SIL had bought Molly nearly as many presents as we did (DH and I decided not to buy heaps because she was so little).
DH has the next week off so he is spending more time with us. Molly is getting more vocal and I love hearing her talk.
Molly slept in her room in the bassinette last night. I was a basket case worrying about her being in a different room but she did really well (she did better than I did) next step is to try and get her in her cot because we don't have much room left in the bassinette.
your way. I don't usually post in here but like to read it as most of you i spent time with in the sept pregnancy thread. I miss chatting to you girls. Our thread doesn't seem to move along very fast 
. I'm glad that you had a lovely chrissy, Wasn't it nice to spend it with our little treasures.
. After having so many issues at the beginning i'm now really glad i persisted. It certainly takes time to get into a rythmn. 
The boys were both sleeping through by now, but both were on bottles so maybe that's why.
Ashton weights 8.4kg, went down last week not up because he was a little sick.
I don't want him to move yet so have limited his tummy time lol Used to spend most of the day on his tummy when he was down, not anymore! 
It's strange that one year can change your life so completely. But such a wonderful change.
Molly has been waking at night too. I feel for you.
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