Babies Born September 2007 #26

[AnyDream]

Hayley, oh yes, the teeth can pop thru in a few days (DD 1 - never any fuss) or they can take weeks (DD2 - weeks of sleepless nights)! Glad you had a good night.

To all the other sleepless mummies - this too will pass! E had a really good night last night - I swapped to wrapping her in a flannelette cot sheet and added a woollen blanket. I just wasn't satisfied that the cotton blankets were doing their job. DH is apparently clueless and hasn't noticed that her bed doesn't feel warm when he's been getting her up at night . Sure enough she settled twice without a feed and fed twice and settled quickly afterwards. So, maybe, once the teething passed she just hasn't been warm enough. I feel guilty/embarrassed/cross at DH that it's taken so long for the penny to drop and also mad at myself for believing the 'experts' about using cotton blankets .

Sherie, so glad you found the stinky mousies. Reminds me of the time there was this awful smell at work, seriously like a dead animal, but it was near one lady's workstation who had been using these strange foreign linaments on her sore neck, everyone was too embarrassed to say anything in case it was the stuff she was using! LOL Lucky i was working at the other end of the office.

Re E crawling - well I think it might have been a once-off. She was actually quite close to the thing she wanted, and so first stretched one telescopic arm then the other then the other and managed to move forwards. I put her in front of something today, it was just hilarious. First, she rocked on all fours, then she stretched for it. Then she crabwalked sideways. Then she rolled over and rolled back. Then rocked some more and by the time all this was finished she was much further away and she gave up LOL!

[Trillian]

Marydean, I've increased the layers on Alisters bed too - we have flannie sheets, a cotton waffle weave blanket doubled over and a blanket my Nan made for him with polar fleece and lined with flannlette, plus he wears a polar fleece sleeping bag. He slept quite good last night too and yeah, I think half of the wake ups are from him being cold.

And I found another dead mouse this morning too. I got up and I could just catch a slight wiff of it so I had to go hunting again and found it just behind the pantry cupboard - not pretty.

Hayley, I would rather 1-2 days of sheer hell from getting teeth than weeks on end of mild/moderate unsettled-ness that's for sure. I don't remember the other kids being this grizzly for so long with them, but then they didn't get any teeth till they were a fair bit older.

Noni, LOL at you getting up early for nothing. Was it cancelled due to rain?

Cally your'e doing really well with the settling. I sometimes pop Alisters dummy back in if he wakes after a short time (like now - I just heard a bit of a sooky noise ) and I get longer out of him. Does him good to have a longer sleep too.

Cassius, I hope Leila starts to feel better soon, poor little mite. It is hard on them when they get colds at this age. The backpack is by Tiger Tribe - the girls ones they had were sooo cute. I was very tempted to buy one for my niece LOL.

[fianne]

hi everyone! sorry been slack on posting. nothing much happening this way anyway. in case anyone's interested, here's the link to the wedding video. not sure if it'll work. Las Vegas : Flamingo - Weddings. remember, we were thinking "fun" rather than romance.

still have to get my act together to schedule max's needles. is there any repercussions to getting it late?

hayley, am glad that i didn't read about your false alarm until today when i got the result 10 mins or so later (as i read through the posts). am glad you got the test result you wanted.

hugs to sick bubs. hurrah for crawling and rolling and sitting etc. max has perfected the act of sitting from crawling position. this has stopped her from crawling. even as she attempts to reach for something, she somehow ends up sitting instead of crawling. and this poses another headache for me as i worry about her toppling over (from sitting) and hitting her head (which she's done a few times already). i've got a quilt on top of the carpet but i don't think it's enough still. have just placed another rug under the quilt. hope this softens the blow much more.

ok. gotta have dinner now.

hope to be back later but probably not. grey's anatomy is the priority.

[AnyDream]

Fianne, love the video, I think it was a gorgeous wedding, the look on your faces says it all. We were cracking right up when the celebrant was trying to get the rings! Just lovely and it made my night watching it, thanks for sharing. I KWYM about the toppling over, E is nearly able to sit from a crawling position too. We I sit her up I put two pillows in a v-shape behind her, won't have that once she's sitting herself! I think they get pretty good at it pretty quickly tho, I bet in a few weeks they won't be falling over all the time!

Sherie, glad I'm not alone with the blankets. There's just no warmth in the cotton ones. I had to sneak into DD1s room in the dark and scratch around for her old baby blanket because I don't have a woollen one for E. We had a nice onkaparinga one which has mysteriously gone missing, so I'm in the market for another, so DD1 can have her baby blanket back (it's a silk & angora one my friend crocheted for her and she's very fond of it, it feels so soft and silky).

[Ozstar]

Fianne I watched your video, thats so cool. Your DH looked awesome.

Will jump on tomorrow for more personals. Have had a big weekend and am pooped.

[*noni*e*]

hey there for bubs toppling i deffinately reccoment the foam mats u can get that put together like a huge jugsaw puzzle.. our floor is lino and asha fell sideways hitting her head first before anything else on the mat and she was fine didnt even winge
md - did H cope with her blanky being taken away? it sounds so nice lol i want one!!! i use like a fleecie kinda thin blanket with flanellette fitted and cover sheet and a light donna on ashas bed lol id never heard anything about cotton blankets??
fianne - great video looks like u had heaps of fun thanks for sharing!!

[AnyDream]

No, H isn't attached to her blanket like that, it's just the right size for snuggling under on the couch and therefore gets dragged around the house, wrapped around the dog, hung off the side of the bed, etc. In fact her aunty gave her a nasty orange fleecy blanket when we were over there (thanks sis) so the other one's fallen out of favor LOL. She went into E's room this morning and ripped it out of her cot when she saw it there - nothing like sisterly love! The cotton blanket thing, - we have this thermometer thing the MACH nurses gave us and it has temperature ranges with how many blankets you need because apparently in CBR ppl overheat their babies - especially in houses with central heating turned up. Plus all the recent books I read say use cotton blankets (I think cos they're not so heavy and they 'breathe') and that just happened to be what i found at the markets when I was buying them.

[*noni*e*]

eek justforced down some oats with crushed up iron tablets.. its not that bad its just the colour and a bit of an after taste that puts me off.. been really dizzy the last few days and its getting worse.. am also late for AF so am hoping like crazy its iron.. the roof of my mouth os covered in ulcers so i cant swallow the tablets hence they are crushed into my cereal..
having a horrible morning.. asha is currently infront of the tv watching nick jr i just cant deal with her atm i am sooo exhausted! i'm such a bad mum i cant keep my temper when she is crying coz she wants to get out of bed or is kicking me usually she will go back to sleep but not recently and shes been waking more so that makes it hard too.. its a really rainy gloomy day too which makes it worse i cant go back to bed!!!
md - lol i like some of the fleecy blankets!! lol sisterly love.. i worry about overheating asha but we dont have heating or anything i am probably just being paranoid..
anyway i am off to have a piece of toast to kill the iron tablet after taste and a v to perk me up so i can look into ringing some real estates, not that i want to go anywhere today though its pi$$ing down!!