Babies Born September 1st ~ 15th 2008 #2

[ezymay]

Sue- Arabella isn't lazy just doing things in her own time! WW is going ok. first weigh in is on friday..yay for you, thats a geat loss. I have all the stuff too from many time starting but meetings work the best for me and I am going with a gf.

Mel- I saw your pics of Ahston on FB good on him. He is an advanced baby! I'm sure Emily has said mama too! Who knows tho.

CJ- wow that's a hell of a time. I hope things settle down soon.

Pam- I lost 10kg back in the day but DH was away for 6 months and it was much easier cause him being away gave me motivation! I wanted to be hot when he came home! I think as we get older the weight gets harder to shift. But I don't think I have ever weighed even the max in my weight range. I had a car accident when I was 17 and was in hosp for 2 weeks and was fed through a tube and even after all of that i weighed 73kg but looked so skinny!

Captain- Have you started lessons yet? I'm trying to work out whether we do gymbaroo or swimming.

Emily is 5 months old today I can't belive it! In exactly 4 weeks she will be 6 months, where has the time gone.
I have a cold..in summer how ridiculous! I feel pretty miserable.
Oh and we are going to try cloth nappies. Thanks Lauren for the help. We are starting with some baby beehinds.

Take care lovelies!

[Nicambhar]

eej - Arabella pulls herself up in her little deck chair/seat thingy and sits up straight with no support so I suppose she is doing something. I should be thankful that she is not mobile atm because we have to get some doors put on to our rumpus room because it has a big step down into it and I just get grey hairs thinking about what might happen.
I got a WII fit for chrissie and I weigh in every morning and it is so exciting to see what I have lost or haven't gained. It's almost like TTC and seeing what my temp was everyday LOL.

[cheekyfrog]

Sue, is that a new av? Some good looking avatars in our thread! Clever Arabella, sitting up straight! Matthew slumps over like a little drunken man still. And no sign of any toothypegs yet. Not that I mind - I'm a bit scared of him getting teeth!! Yes, looking forward to escaping the heat here. The seven-day forecast has changed. Originally we were supposed to get a cool change this Sunday, but now it'll be Monday or Tuesday. I think today was day 6 of it being over 40. Yesterday was 43.5 and we lost power due to storms in the area. Nice.

Eej, how horrible to have a cold in this weather! Hope it departs quickly! Yes, our babies are growing fast. And becoming lots of fun! I love making Matthew laugh. I've been thinking about trying Matthew with cloth nappies too, especially after a pooplosion this morning. I've had to wash the padded insert for the car babyseat... Urkh.

Jo, sorry but I had to laugh at the thought of your little "Tag team" - very cute! Wow at Xavier commando crawling and Mel, I saw your pictures of Ashton, omg!! So advanced these babies!

CJ, omg at the week you've had. It has to get better! How's Madeleine going with the Farex? And how's her eye?

Pam, hope you got that much needed sleep. I had a shocking night last night, with nightmare and feeling too hot, then too cold sleeping under the vent. Ended up moving from room to room trying to get comfortable with poor Matthew.

Lauren, yes, try Daktarin gel - I found it works best, just putting it on my nipple before feeding Matthew clears up any thrush really quickly.

Think I'll check on Matthew - very paranoid about him rolling on to his tummy and getting stuck there - and I'll try to get a few things done before I go to sleep myself. So tired of living in a mess.

[Visitor8]

Kerry we have been exclusively in cloth from birth and have had maybe 2 or 3 poo leaks, never as severe as needing to wash anything other than clothes though. One of those was my mum not doing the nappy up tight enough, another was the stupid nappy which I hate cos it always leaks so I have resigned it from nappy duties.

[cheekyfrog]

Missymoo, what cloth nappies to you use? What would you recommend for Matthew? I've been hesitant to use them because of the washing involved. We've had three dirty nappies and one very heavy wet nappy already this morning. We go through a lot of nappies each day.

I'm beginning to think I have a problem! I look at Matthew and see a baby that's not chubby enough yet he's in the 90th percentile for his weight and only the 70th percentile for his length. I just want to feed him all the time. (See nappy issue above - over feeding?) Is this just me? I also worry that he's not going to eat on the day we go to Hong Kong because it's out of routine, etc, and that he'll become dehydrated. It's going to be such a long day.

[Nicambhar]

We have bumgenius one size nappies and the baby beehinds. bbh have been next to bloody useless for us and the bumgenius are awesome. they keep bella so dry and the liner thing is soooo absorbent. I was really hesitant to buy any nappies cause they are so exy but I am going to buy more bg's. bella really gets sore legs from the huggies cause the elastic is too tight even though the nappies are 6 - 11kg's. Oh, the BG's dry super fast, they're pretty much ready to take off after half an hour.

oh man, I caught bella's little tummy rolls in the car seat clip today. she screamed for ages and it bled a little too - ?'m such a bad mummy, i feel awful.

Kerry - I wouldn't worry too much about mathew's weight, maybe he is just taller and it doesn't show as much as my little shorty girl. Yep, new av here, I needed to get rid of my pg tummy LOL, literally.. geez, any temp over 30 is way too much for me. we just got a quote for a new air conditioner, that the rudd stimulus package goes ahead cause it aint cheap.

[Visitor8]

Missymoo, what cloth nappies to you use? What would you recommend for Matthew? I've been hesitant to use them because of the washing involved. We've had three dirty nappies and one very heavy wet nappy already this morning. We go through a lot of nappies each day.

I'm beginning to think I have a problem! I look at Matthew and see a baby that's not chubby enough yet he's in the 90th percentile for his weight and only the 70th percentile for his length. I just want to feed him all the time. (See nappy issue above - over feeding?) Is this just me? I also worry that he's not going to eat on the day we go to Hong Kong because it's out of routine, etc, and that he'll become dehydrated. It's going to be such a long day.

I probably have about 5 dirty nappies a day and 4 wet ones. They just all go in an empty bucket, no soaking, and throw them all in the wash every 1-2 days. Pre rinse, normal wash and on the line. They are made from bamboo (the ones I use) so that kills all the germs and stuff and the sun takes away any stains. I have zero stains, zero nappy rash and no going down the baby isle when I go shopping
I have just about every one you can think of...

Wild Child bling
Wild Child Day Dreamer
Wild Child Fitteds
Mirabai day and nights
Cherubs Kiss
Razzily Rhino
Baby Beehinds Bamboo, hemp and magicalls
Peapods pockets
Itti classic
Itti Dlish
Cute Tooshies
Bits for Bots
Patooties
Lotus
Bizy Bee
Sandman night nappy and a daysie
Rolicking Rascals

I have 148 nappies... what can I say, it's my little addiction

If I was to reccomend just a couple I would say grab some Itti's D'lish and Wild Child. To start with I got one or 2 of a nappy, brought second hand and built up a small stash until I knew what I liked, then I brought more of that nappy. If you decide to do the swap just grab a few and slowly change over from sposies to cloth. Within no time you will have enough to give up the sposies all together. Ashton is my first in cloth and I can't tell you how impressed I am. I wish I had of discovered MCN sooner!

Why not pop by the cloth thread https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...s-161-a-7.html Have a read and ask anything you like