Babies Born September 2007 #20

**Ozstar** · February 15th, 2008, 10:15 AM

I want to joint he tired mums group. Logan keeps rolling onto his beely at night and I have to go in and roll him back over, its getting very frustrating. He rolled onto his tummy durring this mornings sleep and stayed there so hopefully he will do that through the night, although I am paranoid about him sleeping on his tummy.

Noni have fun today, its nice catching up with old friends.

MD sounds like you got spoilt...lucky you.

Agnes the fake cough thing is so cute.

Leanne that is so cute that the boys won't leave her alone, before you know it will be the big boys that won't leave her alone

Well my friends list on facebook is growing...woo hoo. Girls the pics you have on there are all gorgeous. I will have to update mine.

**fianne** · February 15th, 2008, 11:18 AM

anybody else's bub found their toes? max is sucking her big toes like crazy!!! it's sooo cute!

**Leemar** · February 15th, 2008, 11:44 AM

Katie- I can not let Olivia sleep on her tummy as one time I walk in and her face was facing the mattress. (hope that makes sense)
Fianne- Funny you should say that yesterday morning when DH was changing O he was laughing and told me that she swung her leg up grabed it and started sucking her toe. lol...

**Cally** · February 15th, 2008, 12:13 PM

K loves her toes! Everytime I go into her in the mornings they are in her mouth and it makes nappy change time very difficult!!

I love the Sprout stuff - most of what K has for winter is Sprout. I especially love that its not all bright pink, they have some gorgeous green stuff.

MD - I've been thinking I need to start getting some spoons, little containers etc for solids.

Worked out this morning why I am so zonked - in the last week K has had her first feed of the night less than 4 hours after going down on 5 out of 7 nights! One night of 4 hours and one of 5 to round out the week. She seems really grizzly today, but that might be me being so tired! I've made her a doctors appointment for next week though, has some nappy rash that will not go and she keeps holding her ear. Can't see any discharge or anything so it might just be that she has discovered she has ears!!

Mmm, DH got me jaffa torte for dessert last night.

Agnes - lol at the fake coughing!

Renee - I still haven't put our wedding photos in an album and it was 3 years ago (doing better than my sister though, it's her 10th anniversary this year and she hasn't done it!)

Better go and entertain K.

**fianne** · February 15th, 2008, 12:51 PM

leanne, i know what you mean about "face facing the mattress"....am not sure why, but when i put max to sleep, she gets to a stage just before totally falling asleep when she rubs her face on me full face on....and stays that way for a few seconds/minutes...i sometimes worry if she can breathe but she turns her face sideways again before i really get concerned.
it's so cute that the boys play with olivia...i am resolute on not having another one (am 37 this year and body's feeling like 77) but when i look at max and think how sad that she doesn't have anyone to play with....may yet change my mind.
agnes, tell me about the fake coughing!!! i worry that she's choking and i look at her and she's just got this impish smile on her face. grrrrr....

katie, same here...still part of the tired mums group. was looking forward to an afternoon nap when dp's home this weekend but it's not going to happen. dp's bday today and we've got friends coming over for dinner tomorrow night. am cheating by buying marinated lamb and chicken from coles to roast. have peeled and sliced some vegies already to go with the roasts. was going to make the sticky date pudding today but decided to put it off to tomorrow so it's "fresher"....it's pretty quick and easy anyway.
and then on sunday, we've got bbq with mums, dads, and bubs from our ante-natal group. the dads were upset that the mums keep making plans and not including them so we've intentionally organized one for a sunday so dads can join. i guess there's next weekend for my nap.
noni, hope you had a good catch up with your old friend. congrats on your weight loss. and am very impressed with your determination to keep fit (and not just lose weight). wish i could be more like you. am soooo unfit. can't even talk myself into going for a walk.
md hope you enjoyed your choccies. isn't it soo good when they're trying to make up to you? he he he. dp got me flowers for valentines' day. pretty sweet. walked past darrel lea and thought to get him some chocolates (he's more of a chocoholic than i am) but thought that he'd actually appreciate a big bar of old jamaica better so i didn't get any and then the sky looked like it was going to open up so i rushed back home before i got max and i wet. so, all he got was a card. didn't get to buy him anything for his bday today either. feel guilty. but, we did say that his bday gift was going to be a bbq.
hmmmm....am thinking i should really get onto facebook. have got quite a few friends who've sent me requests, or whatever it is, on email but figured that if i don't have time to post on bb, where will i find the time for facebook? and might really not get anything done at all around the house!
sherie, poor dh. hope he feels better. but not better enough to go to work.

i just love extra "days" of dp home.
md, max can actually roll back (used to roll tummy to back before she started to continuously roll) but the frustration of having an arm caught under her when she's on her tummy. oh, and leaving her in her cot isn't safe either these days. left her in the cot yesterday morning while i brushed my teeth and heard this different cry (not really pain but definitely not just frustration) and when i rushed into the room, she'd rolled onto her tummy and her arm had slipped in between the mattress and the side of the cot and she was stuck. i know that they discourage those cot bumpers because of sids but i think i want to get one before she does more injury to herself. anybody know where i can get them?
btw, i told the chn that we've turned max around and she said that legislation actually says that they have to be rear facing until 6 mos. well, the way i figure it, i drive better when she's not crying (am not distracted) so safer to face her forward.
princess waking.....

**AnyDream** · February 15th, 2008, 12:51 PM

Katie, I saw in another thread someone recommended the Safe T Sleep - it's an antirolling device. If you get too worn out might be worth considering? We have the SafeNSound antirolling thingy, but E mostly wriggles up out of it these days. When she wakes up tho, she goes to sleep and stays asleep where i put her down (thank goodness).

Speaking of wriggling, she managed to wriggle an entire half metre across the floor today (on her tum), not sure she knows how she's doing it, it just sort of happens LOL.

Cally lucky you with the jaffa torte!

Fianne, getting stuck in the cot sounds like it's a problem. I'd still hesitate to get a bumper. Is there a way to fit the mattress into the cot a bit snugger? or was it too snug? Wow you sound like you're pretty organised for dinner tmrw, Happy Birthday to your DP.

The op shop gods were smiling on me this morning, found all these excellent little pants and tops in Os (which I'm desperate for, she'll be into them in a month or two) and 1s. Also a DK tell the time book and a teething toy.

ETA Noni meant to say somethign about your comment about advanced babies, sounds like Asha's doing plenty herself. And they are funny little creatures, there will be a few weeks where they just do the same stuff, then all of a sudden over a week or ten days you see heaps of new things!

**Isadora** · February 15th, 2008, 01:29 PM

Katie - Are you still putting Logan into a grobag at night? I found you on FB, after I added the totally wrong person!!!! How funny, once she gets my friend request she will be thinking who is this?! I did think the bub on her lap looked nothing like your Logan. Whoops!

Marydean - Oh I bought the heinz spoons and farex yesterday as well. I'm nervous about starting solids! Well done on your op shop finds. Sometimes you go and there is absolutely nothing worth buying, while other times theres so much.

Noni - I also sometimes think omg Maddie is so far behind, but I guess like everyone says they do things in their own time. You are doing so well with your exercising and weight loss, I on the other hand have demolished an entire packet of caramel tim tams today!!! Guilty as.

Agnes - The fake coughing sounds adorable! Maddie had a little babble today, it was like a mamamama so I was saying back to her mum mum mum. Oooh cant wait till she says mum!

Fianne - Facebook is addictive so be prepared lol.

Cally - So cute when they put their toes into their mouth isnt it!

Leanne - Sounds like Olivia is doing really well. Swimming lessons will be fun. I wonder if Maddie will like weetbix for breakfast too, as it was one of my pregnancy cravings. Some days I wanted to eat it for breakfast lunch and tea, DP would make me eat lots of veges for dinner, but I still had room for weetbix after tea lol.

Renee - She is slowly getting there with the tummy time. Are you still working and if so how is Rory going with Nanna?

Sherie - Hahaha your poor DH. Then again its nothing compared to what us women have to go through with childbirth!!

One of the girls at work just announced she is pregnant. I am SO excited. She is still only 5/6 wks so we are keeping it within the office for a bit. Cant wait for another pregnant belly to be floating around the office.

**Ozstar** · February 15th, 2008, 01:57 PM

Fianne Logan gets his arms and legs stuck through the bars of the cot (they hang outside) so I bought an air wrap and am going to see how that goes. I have just put it on.

MD I was thinking about getting a Safe T sleep, will have a look on the weekend.
Well done with the Op Shopping.

Hayley most nights Logan is still in his grobag. PMSL at you adding the wrong person.

better run Mr magoo is yelling from his cot.

***noni*e*** · February 15th, 2008, 02:18 PM

hello everyone!!
back from a lovely morning out.. hope we can do it again sometime when they arent working

caught up with two ppl i used to work with and had some lunch it was really nice to get out and feel like i have some sort of a social life haha..
thanks for the congrats on the weight loss and excersise

i am off to the netball courts this avo grading is on monday and although i am not aiming to get into a team other than the lowest one haha just hoping for chilled out ppl that arent focused on being really good iykwim? i wanna be able to last the grading all the same lol..
md - wow very spoilt, you deserve it though!!! i know asha will do more soon i just worry cant help it!
speaking of bubs being in weird positions/getting stuck Asha was the wrong way round in her cot this morning lol idk how she got there.. wait did i say that in my other post yes i think i did oops lol..
katie - those air wraps look good was thinking of getting one for Asha

haley - if there was a packet of tim tams in my fridge id be demolishing them too lol dont feel guilty everyone needs it sometimes!!! yum!!
fianne - just start slow, 10 min walk is better than nothing you find eventually the more you do the more you feel like doing it coz it ends up making you feel good

cally - hope katie gets better soon and you figure out whats bothering her

leanne - oh no facing the matress thats a bit scary!!! i mean i know they make matresses so they arent too soft but i wouldnt let Asha sleep like that either in that case.. hows x going after the op?
sherie - hows dh going not too sore i hope!!
hope i havnt missed anyone buh byes for now

**Leemar** · February 15th, 2008, 02:31 PM

noni- Congrats on the weight loss. I have not been for about 2 wks but must go on sat. wish me luck.. I am so happy you have a wonderful lunch. You need to do it more often.
X is going great now thanks

Oh I forgot to tell you all DH rang me this morning and told me he had a note left on his car last night at our house. it says Is that you??? did I find you??? call me Leanne... Wtf they did not leave a name or number so how can I ring them. Twits...

Hi to everyone

**Ginger** · February 15th, 2008, 02:57 PM

omg Leanne! that's kinda creepy. who do you think it is?

**AnyDream** · February 15th, 2008, 03:02 PM

Leanne, is that just your DH playing a Valentine's Day joke....??? Otherwise it doesn't make sense...?! Like DD who put a Valentine in the letter box for her Dad, the note said (so mysteriously LOL) "from your secret admirer"! Or like my hairdresser who rang up her DH to thank him profusely for the huge bunch of flowers he didn't send ROFL!

ETA what's an air wrap???

***noni*e*** · February 15th, 2008, 03:30 PM

leanne - thats soooo weird!!!
an air wrap is like a cot bumper but its safe coz its made from this kinda mosquito netting but elasticy, hard to explain!!
piking out of the netball thing this avo will go for a walk after dinner, if we ever have dinner lol dp said he wanted chicken and then he went and put this whole tray of chicken in the microwave that i dnt like lol and i said thats fine you can have that and i'll have something else then he got the ****s and took it out of the microwave so god knows whats happening now lol

**spring_ag** · February 15th, 2008, 04:24 PM

Hayley, how is your SIL? Does she have a sling? She can put her baby in the sling during the day while she gets around doing stuffs and usually babies fall asleep in there cause sometimes newborns just want to snuggle close to their mums

I read that baby wearing is also good for colicky babies.

Hi to everyone else

**Cally** · February 15th, 2008, 05:57 PM

MD - forgot to say before that the mothers room in the Canberra Centre that I have been to is behind the kids clothing in Myer - there is a toilet there. I have seen signs to other ones (eg next to Borders) but haven't been in them.

**Ginger** · February 15th, 2008, 08:05 PM

omg!!! it just took me 5 hours to get lewis to sleep!! i kid you not. i was trying every trick in the book from 4.30pm onwards and finally he went to sleep at 9.30. he was so tired but just kept fighting it....what methods do you guys use to put your bubs to sleep?? what's the first thing you do when you see tired signs? do you think they should have a bath at the same time every night? thanks girls. i'm exhausted....

**Isadora** · February 15th, 2008, 08:44 PM

Gracie - I figured you were having some probs there, I saw your facebook status lol. I give Maddie a bath at 6pm every night, dress her, give her a bottle if she needs it and then bed. Even if we are going out I bath her to keep the routine in place as much as possible. Maybe he was just having a bad night because he is usually pretty good isnt he?

Agnes - Thanks for asking about SIL. I passed on everyone's suggestions, she went out and bought infants friend. However she said to me he always has a decent sleep in snuggly places like the lounge or their bed, and I said maybe its that he feels wide open and vulnerable in his cot. They are not using a bassinet. He is only a tiny thing, 4 wks old and still in premmie clothing. So she used a cot insert the other night and he slept much better. To tell you the truth, I dont think she thought it would be this much work, and now she's getting a real reality check iykwim. As nice as she is, even I thought when she was pregnant that she was going to be in for a shock because she had no idea about babies lol. Welcome to motherhood!! Also I'll mention the sling because I know she does have a carrier of some sort but whether she is using it to settle him I dont know.

Leanne - What the, how strange!

Noni - Yep I know you have to treat yourself, but on top of the tim tams today, I just polished off a bowl of choc mint icecream. Cant help myself today!!!

Katie - Oh no does he still roll in the grobag??

**fianne** · February 15th, 2008, 08:46 PM

big big hugs gracie! i've had bad settling but never 5 hours! that's horrible. glad that he's finally down though. fingers crossed he'll sleep through till 9:30 tomorrow morning so you get a good night's sleep. does lewis still get wrapped?
with max, it's still the bouncing fit ball and music (specifically dreadlock holiday). also feed her to sleep when i'm too tired. don't think that bath at the same time every night matters as much as what goes before and what follows next. the routine of it. but that's just what i think.
after we went to health centre for her 4 mo. check, the chn told me to make an appt anytime i need to see someone and just to tell the operator that i want to discuss sleeping. so, i assume that you can go to your health centre and consult with a chn on this.
ok, forgot what else i was going to say. too tired for personals. dp's not home yet. gone to watch rugby with people from work. aren't we just sooo romantic?...not. it's his birthday and he's out watching rugby with mates and i'm home with the bub.

i don't mind. we've just stopped making a big deal about bdays and such ocassions. he did ask for my permission to go....told him to go ahead...it's his bday anyway and he can spend it how he wants to.