Babies Born ~ January 2014 #1

[little_O]

Jleigh: glad your ds2 is improving a bit.

Yules: dd2 had the gunky eyes. The Midwife said it is just that they can have slightly blocked tear ducts. Has it cleared up yet? I did the breast milk in hers and it's better now.

Great weight gains sahbear!

Jen: is your dd in her wonderweek?

We'll dd2 is growing like nothing else. She's in the 90-98th percentile for her measurements (weight, height and head). She's feeding well.

I thought I was getting mastitis last week again but I seemed to avoid it. Now today it feels like it's starting in the opposite breast. So annoying. My nipples are fine now but by the looks I am just prone to mastitis.

How is everyone's babies sleeping?

How are you going Dansta?

[little_O]

Jleigh: glad your ds2 is improving a bit.

Yules: dd2 had the gunky eyes. The Midwife said it is just that they can have slightly blocked tear ducts. Has it cleared up yet? I did the breast milk in hers and it's better now.

Great weight gains sahbear!

Jen: is your dd in her wonderweek?

We'll dd2 is growing like nothing else. She's in the 90-98th percentile for her measurements (weight, height and head). She's feeding well.

I thought I was getting mastitis last week again but I seemed to avoid it. Now today it feels like it's starting in the opposite breast. So annoying. My nipples are fine now but by the looks I am just prone to mastitis.

How is everyone's babies sleeping?

How are you going Dansta?

[sahbear]

Jennifer, catching up would be great! I'm going to try and do the postnatal class too in a few weeks - so will try and do the same one wow for miss C being in 000, she must be a longy! Hope she has a big sleep tonight!

LittleO sounds like DD is going fabulously well. Yay for avoiding mastitis.

Yules and Jleigh, how are you going with bigger kids in kinder?

We are going well, I think Ds is going through a growth spurt, he is sleeping most of the day, and last night did 8hours straight from 10-6. He is feeding 4hourly during the day. (Not expecting the overnight sleep to last, but it was good last night!)

DH went back to work today, and we all survived! And we all even had a nap at the same time!

Hi everyone else

[little_O]

So jealous of you sahbear!! 8 hours straight!!!! Oh what bliss that must have been!!

[sahbear]

So jealous of you sahbear!! 8 hours straight!!!! Oh what bliss that must have been!!

Unfortunately DS1, who never wakes up and has slept through the night from a couple of months old, woke up!!
Thankfully he went straight back to sleep!

[JLeigh29]

Yeah, yeah, rub it in Sahbear! Lol. Bub sleeps 5-6 hours straight at night, then grizzles, farts and burps the rest of the night away, sleeping in maybe one hour blocks if I'm lucky. Day sleeps are about 40 mins on me, or about 15 mins if I put him down...can't seem to get him to transition to the next sleep cycle (unless I fluke it, like the 1 hr 40 we got today. Yaaay!!)

Little O - Bub is an Olympic sucker and feeds every 2.5 hrs (with a cluster feed session in the arvo), so my nipples are still sore here. Thrush seems better though, but vasospasm every couple of days. Fx you don't get mastitis - it's no fun at all, is it? Great going bubba, too!

Jen - I prob need to wash my 000's shortly. Hope the growth spurt grizzles are short lived!

AFM - Mum is coming over from Qld on Thurs to help out. Just need a bit of help...so many little things together are making things tough here. Sleep troubles, my sleep deprivation (DS1 isn't keen on letting mummy nap during the day, even if Bub would cooperate!), Bub's reflux (improving, but not quite there yet), Bub not coping with kindy drop offs and pick ups in the heat, sore nipples from my booby monster, Bub hating the car, aching back blah, blah, complain, complain... !

Hope everyone else is going great

[YoYo]

Sar - sounds like you're doing awesomely. Megga sleep would have been pure bliss. Says she typing on a forum at 12am while feeding! I'm doing alright with it though. Co-sleeping a bit so I can get a few more hours in for myself.


Kindy is going well little O, thanks. DD loves it and is going without fuss. Glad the half day transition is over as that was a nightmare for DS2. I was slack though as when it was warm I drove. It probably takes longer to get in the car than it does to drive there.... But anyhoo!

DS2 is becoming a giant. Seems to be taking after my 29kg 6 year old instead of my 13kg 3 (almost 4) year old waif! Going to the health clinic tomoz for MG so will weigh and measure him. Getting plenty of goodness it seems and he poops Australian world record! Going through so many nappies!

Ok gotta go, he's faffing now xx

[JLeigh29]

Yules - I hear you on the pooping...and the effort that he puts into it, you'd think he was passing bricks!

[Dansta]

Its good to see all the bubs are growing so well... Miss bugs is fitting into 000 nicely. And feeding really well

I have been reading! Have been flat knacker with ajusting to haveing a new-ish born, a toddler & a preppie DH goes back to work next week... Scary and exciteing... Kind of looking forward to settleing in to a rythem with the three kidletts. And getting used to wrangleing. I've ordered another carrier for miss bugs that will hopefully mean i can cook dinner ect with ease - as my sling is good while seated but not so good when trying to cook/clean and my ergo is too bulky.

The other thing is would be me getting back into exersize which will just be a walk around the golf course and block with the dog, with the aim to.get back to running it in the morning and walking it (pushing the pram& carrying gem) in the arvo... But we'll see how it pans out. Plus i'm also going to aim to study for an.hour or two each morning while dh is home - hopefully while a load of washing is done haha

[YoYo]

Lol on the passing bricks! I hear ya !

Well went to mg and I was the only one with more than 1 child....apart from first time mum of twins . It was like they looked at me wondering when I'd had the time to squeeze them all in!

I weighed DS and he is 4970g! So 1.4kg since birth! Just like his big brother. He also just pulled his first all nighter. Put him to bed at 9pm and woke at 4:30am. Back to sleep at 5:30, now both the other kids are awake! Ds1 will be so tired after school today.

We have a house designer coming over this arvo to see if we can draw up a plan for what we want to do to our house in the future. So exciting. I'm bursting to get a new modern kitchen

[sahbear]

Hearing you on the passing bricks too! Haha.

Yules yay for an all nighter and the awesome weight gain!
How exciting about the house designer, I loved it when we got our new awesome kitchen, with everything I wanted (that would fit, as it's smallish) in it!

Interesting about mothers group, I am going to attend one as well, but it doesn't start for a few weeks. I have the most amazing mothers group I met with DS1, so hope I can have another positive experience. I'm expecting to be the only second time mum.

We are off to playgroup for the first time today, to trial it.
DS1 needs it, so I'm hoping it works out! Feeling a little nervous about it, not sure why!

[JLeigh29]

Yules - not sure if the all nighter or the house designer is more exciting! Doing up our kitchen was my fave part of renovating our house (bathrooms were second!). Awesome weight gain too!

Dansta - I have high hopes of eventually walking to kindy with the boys, but I get puffed from the car to the classroom atm! And it's too hot!

Sahbear - I'm thinking of going back to the playgroup we started at last year, but will see if I can find a mother's group first...the one I have for DS1 is great, but Qld is a bit far, lol! We're all on FB though.

AFM - Bub has surprised me by having two 1.5hr naps in his bassinet the past two days...then slept three hours straight while DS was at kindy. I had to ask a friend to collect him for me, but eventually had to wake DS2! Part of that three hours was in his bassinet too, so I got to rest, prep dinner, do some washing etc Bliss! it's still party time from about 4am here though, but meh....

[Jennifer13]

Sounds like you've turned a corner, JLeigh. Fx it continues!

[JLeigh29]

Lol, I spoke too soon....15 mins-½ hour naps today. Can't get him to transition to save myself....if he wants to resettle, he does it on his own, but if I want him to, no way! On the plus side, he's pretty easy to get to sleep in the first place (for day naps, nights are 1-1.5hrs settling).

Is anyone doing a dream feed? Does it work for you? Thinking of doing one here but not sure feeding a reflux Bub in his sleep is the wisest idea...

[JLeigh29]

Double post.....

[YoYo]

No dream feeds here just going with the flow. DS slept like a log today even after his megga sleep last night so I'm half expecting tonight to be a nightmare. He's asleep in the swing at the moment in the lounge with us so I'm going to head to bed and let DH have him for a bit. He didn't feed a great deal today because of all the sleeping. He surely can't be having a growth spurt! He's too massive already!

He also started smiling today maybe he's exhausted from that

[JLeigh29]

Yay! Smiles and yay for sleep too!

[little_O]

I've finally gotten around to writing out dd2's birth story

The link is here if you would like the read it Birth Story Here