Babies Born September 2006 #69

Is it bad that I just breastfed James to sleep? We had a screaming match with him in his cot, something that never happens in the evening. He got himself so worked up, that I picked him up. That didn't work so I put him on the boob. Asleep in 5 mins. Don't know if he will stay down though.

I really don't want to keep resorting to the booby, coz what happens when I want to fully wean? What do I do then? I know the *experts* say not to get him up, not to pat to sleep fully, not to breastfeed - let him cry and go in every few mins, but when he is that distressed I just can't leave him.

Then my anxieties start because I am not doing the right thing, and I keep thinking what if tonight is the start of a new habit, and that he will never want to go down in the evenings.

Anyway sorry this is such a *me* post. Wishing everyone a great evening.

Meg, until I weaned Rylee at 10 months I would ALWAYS breastfed her to sleep - now she is on the bottle, sometimes she will fall asleep at night on the bottle, sometimes it takes me walking around with her on my shoulder to get her to sleep - she wakes less during the night than she did (only usually once) becuase she knows she won't be getting booby anymore. Yeah, it is hard work listening to your bub cry and don't listen to the experts they aren't in your house with a screaming bub and a mum who is dead tired - do what works for you and James - I don't let Rylee get into that hysterical crying anymore because my sanity isn't worth it - your doing the right thing by listening to what your bubs wants, don't doubt your parenting style - you are doing a fantastic job`. All this stuff about bad habits - if the time comes and you wean him and he needs booby you just need to go down another path - you havn't done the wrong thing :) gotta go, got a whinger on my hands
Laurin

Hi chickies.. another drive by.. will catch up more come Sunday i promise.

Took me all day, yes ALL DAY from 7.30am this morning until 9pm tonight, to make Jesse's birthday cake!!! Its an ELMO cake!! Well i stopped for about an hour while jess got his hair cut, yepp.. Jesse had his first hair cut today!! He looks like a proper little man now hehe.. Will upload pics on Sunday to show you. But anyways.. Hope all bubs have great parties over the weekend!! Talk to ya soon chickadees!

Wow Kel - That must be some Elmo cake!!! I wanna see pics of this labour of love. Oh woo hoo on the first hair cut, it's gonna be ages before Xander will need one.

Laurin - How's your cake coming along? What's causing you stress?

Meg - I used to breastfeed Xander to sleep at night. In honesty, we had no trouble at all once we weaned him (and he was a real boob monster)... once the bottle was introduced, he had his last milk feed at dinner time, thus not forming a sleep association with the bottle. If he needed to suck himself to sleep, I gave him a bottle of water. He didn't really want it, but he didn't cry either; so it worked for us as if he got desperate he could suck on the water bottle.

Big hellos to everyone.

Had a fantastic day today. My AF finally arrived, albeit two weeks late. Xander was in day care today and he had a fabulous time. I'm all refreshed and relaxed, the house is clean, and I feel like I will be a much better mummy to my son now I've had some time out.

:happybirthday:HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY AINSLEIGH:happybirthday:

riki.. have a wonderful day today
kell..wow first haircut and i bet the cake looks great
shell..another tooth?
anna..YAH for AF, never thought i would ever say that

sorry cant reamamber what everone said, caity had one of those nights, evertime i walked out of her room she just screamed the house down, so i slept with her in my arms on the recliner chair..have a great weekend girls:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AINSLEIGH!!!

Well I've called in sick to work cause Ash was ratbag last night then after all that decided she wanted to get up at 6:30. So been bit cranky.

Chrissy- Ash and Caity must've decided to play up together, how is she this morning?

Anna**- so its back from vanatu, when do you start the clomid?

Kell- I can't wait to see this cake. After all the work you've put in you won't want to eat it!

Meg- I agree with what the others have said, once you do wean he'll realise that its not there to sleep on anymore and will just have his bottle or whatever. I feed Ash last thing at night and sometimes she falls asleep other times she is still awake when she goes down it all varies. If she does get really unsettled then I offer the breast but lately I've noticed when she's in one of those moods it doesn't work anymore she still cries after I put her down. So if it works its a good thing!

Laurin- Hows the cake working out for you?

I am devastated today, Ness you'll be happy, Adelaide won last night which means saints can't make it to the finals! :cry: It makes me want to not watch any more footy now!

:happybirthday: Happy 1st Birthday Ainsleigh :happybirthday:

looks like I'm in a for a me post as well, OMG I am so sick of sneezing and coughing, all 3 of us, poor Jack woke screaming last nigth at 12.10am he wasn't awake just screaming so m uch he was gasping for air :cry: so I calmed him down gave him some nurofen and a dream feed of 120mls he settled pretty quick woke at 7.30am so ahppy but the poor pet was covered in poop :doh:what a way to wake up *ewwwwwwwwwww* so anyway cleaned him upo Jase got bath ready he had his medicine and a bottle and is asleep again :( I dont know why he is goign back to sleep a hr after getting up he did it yesterday

anyway not a lot else going on, Anna looks like we in same boat AF found her way home this morning as well so here's to next month for us both

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GORGEOUS MISS AINSLEIGH!!!!

Thanks girls for your advice. Sometimes I think that i just need reassurance to know that I am doing the right thing. Babies don't come with a manual!!!!

Rach - poor pet. Hope he feels better today.

Shell - Don't you think that it is great being able to call up work all cheerful and say that you need the day off coz the baby is sick? It would make faking a sickie so much easier.

Kell - good on ya for the Elmo cake. I have decided that I am going to attempt to make James a train cake from the womens weekly recipe book. I am going to decorate it like "James" from Thomas the Tank Engine. If it is a disaster, it will be a quick trip to the bakery.

:happyforyou:HAPPY BIRTHDAY AINSLEIGH:happyforyou:
WISHING YOU A WONDERFUL DAY
:happybirthday:

:DHAPPY BIRTHDAY AINSLEIGH:happybirthday:

What you scared bout there Annie?

Happy birthday Ainsleigh honey

:happyforyou::confetti::happyforyou:
We hope yo uhave funat your party
Hope everyone who's having a party today is having fun

Sorry no personal's, I just burnt the crap out of Vy's cake!

Happy Birthday Ainsleigh!! Hope you have a fabulous day!! And i look forward to hearing all about it!
Sorry Hawks for premiership!!! Shane crawford deserves to have a premiership medal. And my hubby would also be excited.On the grandy last yr i was getting ruby out of hospital as she had a choking episode which the hospy thought was a fit.Kinda put a dampner on the day.
Not much else shopping is just getting way to expensive.I just spent $230 and didnt get everything!
Maz hope you can salvage vy' cake!! oh no!

Annie must be UTD. What else is there to be scared about. lol

Caddie- Lol, thats funny, maybe its triplets or something.

That reminds me I saw in paper today this couple who just had there second set of triplets, both were conceived naturally, no fertility drugs or anything!

I'm gonna have to go for Geelong now I think. All my top 5 sides didn't make finals, wonder what that says bout me! Wouldn't mind Hawks either, just don't want one of those scungy interstate teams to win!

Happy Birthday to the very beautiful Ainsleigh - have a happy 1st Birthday
Rikki - hope the party goes well.
Rach - poor Jack.....hope he gets better quick
Chrissy & Shell - little monkeys keeping you awake
Maz - boo hoo about Vy's cake

Okay that's all I can manage today - gotta do the CAKE - will let you know how it goes!!

Have a great day everybodeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Laurin

:happybirthday:HAPPY BIRTHDAY AINSLEIGH!!!!! :happybirthday:
Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Hey Chickies!
Well what a day! I am buggered! Jess was good, well for the first half of the day.. then he just went all strange. Very clingy, sooky and cuddly and kept just falling asleep in my arms (youll see in the photos). He had 2 hours sleep during the morning so was kinda weird.. not sure what was up with him. This afternoon he would just sit and look around, not more or do anything. He had another good sleep and is kinda back to himself now after dinner and his bath. Maybe he was just warn out too?
But i have uploaded photos to Jesse's site of his first hair cut yesterday and his party today (Plus his ELMO cake i made!! im so proud hehe).

Anna**.. ahh well, least AF arriving means time to try again is nearly here.

Chrissy.. oh they must be at that stage, Jess screams too when i walk out of the room.. or we're in our bedroom and i pick him up to walk out.. they know what they want.

Shell.. oh dear.. well hope you had a relaxing day and Ash was better for you today. Yeh i know.. thats what mum said, you think about all the time it took me to make that cake and it was gone in a matter of 15 minutes! (well minus Elmo's head which we still have lol). Wow triplets!

Rach.. oh dear, how is Jack now poor thing.. and how are you and your cough? Theres nothing worse than a lingering cough.

Meg.. cant wait to see the cake! Just make sure you give yourself plenty of time hey lol

Maz.. oh nooo what type of cake were you making?

Okee well im off to put my feet up for a bit.. sooooo buggered :)

Hello chickies
Have 2 sick babies..Wilhelm and Vyolett. Both have temps and are miserable! We let VY open her KK pressy tonight before she went to bed and she loves it. She's in bed with 'sep' right now. Its a gorgeous white cabbage patch dog with pink ribbon and we decided to call her sep after everyone her and pus Vy says sseeee so it works. Vy put her straight into her little push cart and took her for a tour of the house. There are picks up on our homepage and of my disgusting attempts of a birthday cake. I so cant do that sort of thing..... thank god Vy will destroy it tomorrow otherwise I'd have to bury it
Ok going cause I can hear her crying for me
Later lovely ladies

Wow girls, all these birthday cakes are looking good! I still have to decide which one I'm gonna do but still got fwe weeks til party.

Maz- Oh god, one sick kid is hard enough! Hopefully a good nights sleep and they'll both be right as rain tomor.

Ness- You go to one of those professional photo places. I'd like to get more done but I end up spending too much cause we want all the pics!

Kell- Jesse must've had such a big day, was there quite few people there? I loved all the pics, can't believe he needed haircut already, maybe send some hair over this way.

Laurin- Waiting to see pics of your cake!

Well Ash seems better, she just suddenly perked up this arvo and settled down nicely to bed (touch wood) so just gotta wrap fathers day pressies now and I'm eating a nutricious dinner of cheese and onion chips!

Hey guys - baked the cake - it is just a rough and ready one, nothing fancy - just a choc one and then I am doing stuff on the top - it def won't win a cake decorators competition. Just about to look at your party Kell. I am nervous about tomorrow - Rylee has a runny nose and is very grizzly so who knows what she will be like tomorrow. :)

Shell.. nah well not really.. 9 adults, 4 kids inc Jesse.. he is teething though so maybe that mixed with all the things going on and the heat (was warm out my way) just combined, the poor pet just had a big day. Hopefully he has a good sleep tonight. mmmm chips!

Maz.. hehe how cute. I hope the munchkins are feeling better soon and you dont get whatever it is.. poor things, its not nice being sick.

Ness.. i wanna see new pics!!!!

Jodi- Where are you? I just remembered the other day you were saying AF was late. Has she reared her ugly head as yet or have you tested?

Kell- Thats a nice number to have, I think we've over invited but I made it just an arvo tea thing so hopefully people won't stay too late upset her.

Ness- Thats great value. Can't wait to see them.

Df is out so maybe I will have early night tonight. If I ever get off computer!

Shell - have dosed the 2 up with demazin so I hope they get a good nights sleep so I can wrap Vy's pressies and blow up the lounge room full of balloons. Hmm cheese and onion chips...yourve made me hungry now
Nessa - we've got the same fundraiser in October asnd we had it 2 years ago..we ended up paying $140 and got matching frames aswell...great pics and very patient photographer
Laurin - my cake was a disaster...but who cares its only gonna get mushed anyway's...pmsl...I hope Rylee is better tomorrow
Kell - yes the NAUGHTY person spent way to much!!! hint hint! You should have seen her face..she loves animals and chases them and kisses them so when she saw that it was a dog she went nuts screaming and kissing it. She's asleep with it right now..cuddling it.
should go eat hungry for dame chips now or KFC

oh Jodi is away for her and heaths wedding anni...hmmm dirty weekend ;)

Maz.. haha ;) I remember you mensioning she loved her cabbage patch, and since she loves animals how lucky is she to get both in the one! What a lucky girl hehe ;) Hope she has a great birthday tomorrow :)

Kell - Jesse's cake was awesome. Did you draw the Elmo pic on yourself? It looks so perfect. Mine will be nothing like that.
Maz -Here's hoping that they sleep through.
Shell - I was just about to ask why you were lonely but you answered my question in your last post.

I think the teething monster is here again too. Doing the same behaviors that he does about 2 weeks before every tooth. Waking about 9pm, quick cuddle and back to sleep, sometimes waking more, but generally not staying awake more than 10 mins. Here's hoping that these darn teeth hurry up. He has had 6 for so long now. Time for a new one!!!

Happy Birthday Ambah

Happy Birthday Ainsleigh

I hope that you both had a wonderful day.

Love

kell - just looked at your website - your cake was awesome, you did a fantastic job!!!! WTG
Jess looks very handsome with his new haircute - what a spunk!
Maz - how many people are you having for Vy's party - thank g*d they only have parties once a year hey!!! I have kind of got out of the habit of entertaining ever since I have had Rylee....

Maz - I just looked at your homepage. Sep is gorgeous. The cake is a bit creative, but hey, Vy is going to have a great time mooshing it (and yes, you are right, you are so damn talented in so many other things!)

Kel - Well done at your first cake decorating attempt! That's a really nice Elmo cake, I think Jesse is gonna love it.

Rikki - How'd Ainsleighs' big day go?

I had my friends' little boy here this afternoon - he's a month older than Xander so walkign really well now. I soooo want two kids now. I loved every minute of it (yes, even when they were fighting :lol: )

:happybirthday:HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY VY:happybirthday:

Maz dont over do it today!!

HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL THE DADDYS

hope everyone has a great sunday and spoils there dh today, mind you i just got a +opk, so i know what craig will be getting for fathers day..........:whip:

Happy first Birthday Miss Vy!!!

BBL when Master Whingy Pants is in bed.

:happybirthday:HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY VYOLETT!!!:happybirthday:

Hope you have a great day princess!

HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all those daddies out there!!!!!

Meg.. thanks hun. Well, with a little help from a really great friend (Nessa) i printed out the picture of Elmo and sketched him on with a sharp point then just piped over the light sketch. We had a little disaster with the red though.. my food colouring would only turn it pink! And so we got some conshineal (sp) and that then made the icing taste fowl! This was at 8pm Friday night. And i had no more icing sugar or butter, so my wonderful DH went out and bought some more with some more red food colouring. But what he read about red food colouring, is its the hardest colour to make and the icing actually goes more red over time, and it did indeed!

Laurin.. thanks chicky ;)

Anna**.. thanks hun.. yeh i was pretty nervous making it but it turned out pretty well. Yeh im still kinda scared about the whole 2 kids thing but i will be fine im sure :)

Nessa.. yay for miss annika sleeping through and for more toothies!!

Well we had an absolutely terrible night. Started from 10.30pm. I lost count how many times i was up but it felt like i was up as soon as my head hit the pillow again. It turned out to be quite a warm night so the first few times i went in Jesse was boiling hot/part temperature i think, so i changed his grobag, then changed his long sleeve to a short sleeve, then he just still seemed hot so i gave him some panadol. Which he slept for about an hour then woke crying again. Each time i had to cuddle him to sleep otherwise he'd just cry. Come 6.30am DH got up and got him, brought him into me and he fell asleep in our bed straight away for an hour. Poor little dumpling looks as buggered as i feel this morning but he seems ok.. the temperature is gone... he's playing with toys and smiling.. hope he gets better through the day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VY!!!

AND HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL THE DADDIES!

I guess for most it'll be first fathers day.

Kell- Poor Jesse and you having to get up. Hopefully as the day goes on he'll be back to his usual self.

Ness- yes df is snoring away. Yay on getting good nights sleep.

Maz- How are your sick ones this morning?

Well Ash slept well last night didn't wake for a feed til 4am, although at few times thru the night I did hear her chatting away to herself and had to wonder if she actually sleeps. Next door must've had some party, didn't hear music but heard drunk laughing and talking at top of there lungs at like 1am. Wasn't impressed. Luckily Ash didn't cry otherwise I would've been shouting over the back fence at them.

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY VYOLETT!!!:happybirthday:

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY MISS VY!

HAPPY FATHERS' DAY to all the Daddies - especially those that today is their first Fathers' Day (most of you!)

KELL - hope Jesse is better for you tonight.

Ok - Iam going to attempt red icing as well. Any hints from all you wonderful cake decorators. Kell I wont try cochineal, so did you just end up using heaps of red food colouring????

Tim worked last night and had to deal with a psych patient from 11pm till 5am. Ended up having to take him to Melbourne under police escort. Anyway he is buggered and is still in bed, so I might make him lunch in bed instead of breakfast in bed. Then this arvo I am going to my Grandpa's. Hoe everyone has a great fathers day.

Hmm, Annie you're still scared and haven't told us why!

Meg- I can imagine your Dh must at times get alot crap being an ambo officer, I know they and nurses are high up there in jobs where assults happen. Was the psych patient violent at all?

My parents and sister are on there way over so should have a nice day. Hope everyone else is enjoying theres. Nice weather out too, well it is in Melb anyways.

just poppsed on to say
HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY MISS VY!!!!

Trying to get the exhausted girl to sleep so will be back with a birthday update soon, she had a wonderful day and was spoilt rotten. All she ate for the last 24 hours is fairy bread and birthday cake (and this for a kid who never gets sugar!!!) so no wonder she's not sleeping! Thank you for all the lovely birthday wishes, I'll come back to update more and post pics!

Just got back from our lovely weekend away. Just a quick one to say,

Happy 1st Birthday Ainsleigh
:happybirthday: :happybirthday:
Happy 1st Birthday Vy

Happy Fathers Day to all the great Daddy's out there!!!

Gotta run, lots to do.

Meg.. thanks hun. Yeh the one Grahame got was called Queen brand Piller Box Red. Just be careful how much you add to make it red.. make sure you taste it each time. But in the mixing bowl it still looked a darkish pink before i put it on the cake. Once on the cake it looked alot more red (i think the black outline helped) and come morning it was really red. So that website Grahame found was right, red coloured icing goes more red over time.

Rikki.. sounds like she had a great day!!

We're just having a lazy one. Grahame got bacon and eggs for breaky. Jess is much better today. Even though he was a little before, hes turned into a real mummys boy hehe.. Everytime i look at him he just smiles. But yeh looks alot brighter than yesterday.

xx