Babies Born ~ August 2013 #1

Lachlan's much better today than goodness.
Miloro...Hunter's first tooth sounds great. I vividly remember my last 2 girls being horrible teethers. I'm not looking forward to it too much in that respect. I do like the gummy smiles. My eldest daughter is losing her top teeth now and its so cute. I've looked up the biscuits...thanks. I'm not sure what to do do, he has a little suck and a lick and that's about it.

Ashie, we put some food on Lachlan's tongue and he had no idea. I think he will be a while away yet. Good to hear she's doing fine. Sorry about the bleeding. Hope someone works out what it is and I agree that you're too young to have a hysterectomy in so many respects. I'm glad your ds did well at his school. Isn't it amazing the transformation in that first year. I can believe how well my girl is reading and all the stuff she's learnt. I have dd2 starting next year, which will be great. She's so ready.

Peace ...what's the go with your dp and wanting you to go back to work quickly? I'm on fb...

Peace, look me up. I'll pm you my name IRL.
Well tooth number one may have been relatively easy but tooth number two...another story entirely. Poor bugger cried so much yesterday and then started again when he woke up. Fortunately he still manage to sleep quite well through the night. I also saw out CHN today who told me Hunter is too young to be teething. I said "look, you can already see one" and she said "maybe he is teething then"...ya think?

Miloro, sometimes I wonder about those nurses! Sorry to hear the next tooth isn't great.

Merry Christmas to you all. Hope you're all having a great day x

Mini I'm glad L improved quickly. DP and I have always had different views on SAHM vs working mummy. I wanted to be home and he wanted me working because that's what we had each grown up with. We agreed I would return part time at 6mo but I'm now not wanting to and DP is feeling quite bitter about it. We are having a rough time as a couple lately and decided to start counselling in the new year. I'll pm you my name for fb :)

Wow Miloro 2 teeth are impressive! Are they both front bottom? We have one coming through on the bottom too.

Merry Christmas all! A little one brings the sparkle back to Christmas xx

Hey Peace, yep bottom front two teeth. The second has just cut through the gum line today so he is much happier. Sorry to hear you and your partner are having some struggles. I hope counselling will help. I tried to PM you several times about FB but I kept getting knocked off the site. Are you friends with Stevie? You could find me that way. First name is Mieke. :)

We have tried our first food! A chunk of avocado on New Year's Day at 5 months 1 week and 1 day. He had lots of fun smooshing it through his fingers and toes and tasting it but I don't think he actually swallowed any haha
I had planned to start at 6 months but he was reaching for food with his mouth going so I just went with my instincts.

I've started solids too, a bit earlier than anticipated at 4.5 months but not regularly. I guess I thought it might help with reflux but haven't noticed any difference.
We went camping for a week and it was cold and yuck and both Lachlan and I have a cold.

Hope you are all well x

We are waiting till 6 months to start solids and will do baby lead solids which is what I did with DD. DF keeps saying that a little bit of food won't hurt and I know there are lots of bubbas who have solids before 6 months but 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding is something that is important to me so we are waiting.

I went out for the first time the other night to the movies - left DS with DF and DD (first time he had both kids by himself!!) and left EBM for DS - DF said he tried to give it to him but he really wasn't interested. I think it was because I fed him up to his eyeballs before I left so he would sleep LOL. DF tried the bottle and said he if really felt he needed the EBM but DS still wouldn't take the bottle he would have syringed it into his mouth - all that time in Special Care with both DD and DS must have paid off as he realises there is more than one way to feed a baby :)

Loving keeping up with the August bubs. thrilled to say my bundle of joy arrived safely on December 27th at 4:32am all natural. I have never loved anything or anyone more than I do my little boy

Congrats kbudgie, what did you name him? And boysrock....how is she?

Lachlan's so interested in food, I love it. I just won a high chair off eBay for $12.66! Its a stand alone one. I've always had one that sits on the chair but with our expanding family plus granddad here a lot, I thought I'd get me a cheap one!

we named him William George after dhs grandfather. boysrock had her bub on 22nd November

Great strong name kbudgie! Big congrats to you x

Mini that's a bargain! We scored a hand me down high chair from my mum. She uses to keep it at her house when she babysat my niece. The whole seat cover comes off easy and goes straight in the wash. Love a bargain! What solids are you offering? Are they puréed or are you doing BLW?

Tk hope you enjoyed the movie! Your man sounds like a very confident daddy! Good on him.

I had planned to do BLW but DP wanted to try puréed so we have tried both. H seems disgusted by the spoon lol perhaps he isn't quite ready to actually eat properly so I might just keep letting him play with and taste chunks and try puréed again later. I think I'll do a mix of both. No rush which is nice. He is learning to drink milk from a sippy cup too which is going well! And I'm starting to get a stock of milk in the freezer in preparation to return to paid employment.. I so badly want to stay home with him :( we could afford to have me stay home but DP doesn't feel ok about being the only one "working" because there's no "equality" if I don't "contribute". He can't appreciate a SAHM. Gah!
Back to happy things - little H sits up all alone now! He laughs himself off balance and falls down. It is too cute.

Um....aren't you contributing raising his child?
Great that h is sitting up. I've started Lachlan on rice cereal and he's sucked on banana. I plan to do a mix. Dd3 did bls and puree and she did well. I think at this stage its more about learning how to eat and tasting and milk is still first.

My question is... What's the go with introducing allergens? Its changed in 3 years!

Not sure on introducing allergens mini.. I thought it was recommended to wait til 12 months? I'd be curious to know the correct answer though. I've bought organic banana porridge for Henry to start trying next week. He keeps trying to pinch my toast! He'll be 6months old on Friday far out it's gone so quickly!
Things are improving with DP thankfully. We spent last week separate for 4 days which is the longest we have been apart and it really helped. It's just refreshed us both and we can appreciate each other again. He has had time to think over his views alone and decided he does support my want to stay home with H for now. I'm going to go to work with my brother just on Saturdays for now so DP can care for H. Probably only 5-6 hr shifts and I'll get to visit and feed H in the middle. I start in Feb.
I upgraded and got a new stroller today I'm so excited! I got a steel craft strider compact so we can put a second seat on when the time comes.
Anyone starting to get clucky again? I'm so clucky this week and I wonder if it's a hormonal thing because AF might be about to return now that I'm introducing solids.. Hope not!

Peace it's wonderful to buy new prams!
I bought a plum coloured stroller for little miss whic she loves never a peep out of her when out lol! Glad things are going better with dh, men huh and they think we are the complicated ones! Hehe.
I'm always clucky (so can't have anymore though, plenty of kids and as many m/c's too which I couldn't go through again with) but oh I miss being pregnant some days also miss the kids being newborns too! They grow up way too quickly.


Little miss L is doing well at just over 5 months she weighs just over 7.2kg, is now in size 0 clothing (well doctors were wrong she isn't small!) and is on the verge of crawling already! (She is rocking away on her knees and etching forwards!)
She is fussy on foods (just like her brothers but worse!) will only eat puree's and won't try lumpier food or thicker she cries otherwise!
Her favourite noise is blowing raspberries hehe.

I on the other hand am not great, stressed like crazy (joys of re financing and fingers crossed a new home with more bedrooms!)
And my whole af thing is totally poo!
Only lucky to get a weeks break at the most cycle isn't on time (usually arriving up too a week early so only 21 days some months) and leaves me so exhausted. Asked about an ablation told high chance won't fix anything, meds they gave me don't work only option left its hysterectomy (cries!!!)
My sil's sister has same trouble except it worsened over time she has a diagnosis why, but has to go through same thing so she is letting me know how things go etc....
I really don't know if its a good or bad thing to do (waiting before committing to it so I have a good long think of course) its crazy that someone my age has to go through this and that no cause found yet (a few articles I've read have said alot of these things do go on to have no actual cause found so I don't feel hopeful of one being found)
Anyway it's just another very stressful time hopefully ones all decisions made and done things go a bit better.

Sorry to hear about your stress Ashie
Peace, glad to hear things are a little better with DP.
We are trying to sell our house so I can be closer to work. Spending four hours travelling each day is too tiring and even though I am with Hunter, I don't feel it is really quality time. And when we do get home everything is so rushed getting ready for the next day. He is loving day care though and they love him. I go in to feed him every lunch time and have a little reconnect.
Does anyone have an opinion on tummy sleeping at this age? Hunter has started rolling onto his belly while sleeping. Should I be rolling him back or letting him decide how he sleeps?

Miss L sleeps on her tummy sometimes. She doesn't have any blankets in the cot only dressed suitable for weather that evening. First off I kept rolling her back which either woke her up or she would roll back I was not sleeping well, dh said let her sleep however and yep she sleeps alot better without me prodding lol. She sleeps all sorts of way (side, back and tummy) I think at this age where they can roll and support their own head miss L can support herself on knees too) its a alot more safer than it was when they were first born.

Ashie sounds like your little girl is very keen to get moving! Sorry your still having troubles yourself. I'm not sure what an ablation is? I think it's a joke that it can't be diagnosed for you, though. You poor bugger.

Miloro I'm so glad your work and day care set up is working for you both. Can't help with the tummy sleeping thing. We are still bed sharing so Little H is only sleeping on his side or back. He nuzzles right in and sleeps up against me lol sometimes when I get to go to the loo in the night, he does roll (looking for me) onto his tummy he wakes up and does a very sad sleepy cry. It's very funny.

H still has no teeth! I must have misjudged when I thought he was teething over Xmas. Nothing has cut through. Not that I'm complaining! While he's still on the boobie, those teeth can take their sweet time!
I do my first shift next Saturday :( leaving little H with his daddy for the day. He has already planned to have my MIL over for the day with him. I'm so stressed about it. Our parenting choices are so different. Last night she told DP to let H suck on a zooper dooper!
I'm having a hard time trusting that H will be ok with other people. He's not a particularly high maintenance bub but he often just wants mummy. I hate the thought of him being distressed and me not being there for him :( this is normal though right? Everyone stresses over leaving the baby for the first time...