Babies Born ~ July 1st-15th 2009 #2

[sloane]

we've been using a sleeping bag for 3-4 weeks now i think. we never really wrapped corey - for one, i'm a terrible wrapper and he also seemed to get really hot & sweaty in a wrap. so we ended up just getting a grobag because they had such a good rep. he's had his best sleeps since we started using it. no idea whether that was the bag or a coincidence & him getting older, but i love it & he seems to as well. i also love that we can keep using them for ages rather than having to go through a de-swaddle process!

[BekZ]

Hi,

I have just bought a summer sleeping bag for Eva. She wriggles out of her swaddle now. I have been thinking of setting up the porta cot for her this week because she wakes herself up by hitting the side of the basinette. I do love having her right beside me at night for feeds. Does anyone get up to feed at night?

Eva has slept from 9.30pm till 5.30am 2 nights in a row now. Her fussiness with feeding has stopped too thank goodness.

I met a mum and bub at a party on Saturday night. Her son was born on July 8 and he is 9.5kgs what a whooper...but very cute

[Fleur]

Hi all. Just a quick post while I pump before bed

Sleeping - Arlea is still in her bassinette next to me, but is really way too big. I am going to see if I can fit her cot in our room, like you Bek I love having her next to me.

She is starting to wriggle out of her swaddle but I still feel that it helps her to settle into a deeper sleep. She does hate to be wrapped if she's not sleepy. A few times in the middle of the night I have had to unwrap her to let her play for a bit - I doze in bed, then when she starts to get vocal I re-wrap her, & off she goes.

She has me up anywhere from one to three times a night, depending on how tired she is. She did have a bit of a pattern happening but it has disappeared!

Sorry for the lack of personals, hope you are all well...... I'm finished expressing & off to bed! Sleep well babies

[lovelycate]

Sarah - we're still feeding pretty consistently every 3 hours including overnight - glad to hear I'm not the only one. Zac has done the odd 4-5 hour stretch of sleep, but no signs of that becoming a habit just yet. It would be nice to have a bit more sleep overnight wouldn't it?

Tinsel - great to hear from you! I'm with you on having bubs next to you - it seems like neither you or bubs have to get fully awake and therefore both easier to settle back down. My DH sleeps in our bedroom and I sleep in the nursery but DH has the baby monitor with him so if I need help I can easily call out to him. It's working pretty well for us, but I am looking forward to some bigger sleeps from Zac so I can get back to sleeping in my own bed ;-)

We had mothers' group yesterday and one of the mums commented how Zac always is so smiley and chatty. Of course you know what happened then! - he absolutely cracked it and screamed the house down

I'm finding the feed/play/sleep thing isn't quite a one-size-fits-all - a bit like Sarah I think. Since Zac generally only sleeps up to 45mins at a time, it goes more like feed/play/little feed/sleep/play/feed/play/sleep... I wish I could get him to sleep a bit longer during the day, but at the moment I will be happy if I can get him settled a bit earlier/faster than I'm managing at the moment. Either I'm missing his cues or he's changed them I think!

Anyhow, the grizzling has started, so time for a feed I think.

[sloane]

cate - it sounds like zac & corey have been chatting to each other with how similar they are!

[MamaPan]

Hi All
Yep Jacob feeds 2 or 3 times overnight too.... i have had a few longer stints but they are not a pattern yet and when he goes along stretch he then makes up for it with waking more ofetn for the rest of the night... he also wakes and grizzles and needs settling froma bout 5am onwards... but i can get hin back to sleep with settling other than feeding bc i know he isnt hungry and he wont feed if i try!!!
I tried the bag last night - umm not a success. he lay there playing with his hands and arms and so i eventually wrapped him after about 45 mins and he went straight to sleep. so i thonk i cant go cold turkey on the wrapping like i did with Noah and i will have to transition him. might start athread on how i do that as he is def too strong to be swaddled anym ore and i am really scared he will get the covers over his head again.
I have him in his moses basket next to our bed at the moment but he is WAY too big... thinking i need to move him to his cot but i like having him in our room. DH and i were discussing this morning, we thought about moving the cot to our room but not sure how Noah will take that. so not sure what to do. i may have to sleep in his nursery for a bit, as it is the other end of the house and also bc he does those unsettled times when i settle him back to sleep - but id ont want to be getting up abd down all night long for a quick settle (i dont mind for a feed). Really we should move house to a bigger one and his room woudl be closer but we are likely to relocate nexty year so we cant do that til we know what we are doing...
Cate - the feed play sleep thing was never consistent here with DS1 and it isnt with Jacob either... sometimes we seem to follow it and others not and his routine seems a little like Zac's. I think all of these things are great in an ideal world...
Heva - Jacob is in 00 wondersuits (though they are getting a little short) and 00 in most other brands - well 00 isa little roomy and 000 is pretty tight so in between i guess. i bought him some americal apparel suits size 3-6 months and they are TINY! bonds wondersuits seem to be odd sizing and i think they shrink? not sure... i am finding ti hard atm as the weather is so changeable - i bought hims ummer stuff the other wk because it got hot and now we are having 12 dgerees MAX... i am also a bit of a bind bc of his skin so i cant overheat him.. so we are doing the layered thing a lot. i also find the one piece suits with no feet are no good anymore- they keep rising up and look like shorts! so he wears mainly pants/top combo and occasionally 1 piece with feet. one piece with feet for bed too. geez you didnt ask for all this detail did you LOL!
I have decided to join weight watchers and am heading to a meeting today. i want to shift 5kg that hung around after Noah and about another 5-10 kg... i hope i can do it!

[BekZ]

HI Ladies,

With regards to getting up at night to feed question, I should have worded the question differently So here goes: Do you get up out of bed to feed bub or feed in bed? I am still feeding in bed and dozing but my neck is getting so sore and Eva is getting too heavy to lay across me.

[belinda_76]

Hi,

I have just bought a summer sleeping bag for Eva. She wriggles out of her swaddle now. I have been thinking of setting up the porta cot for her this week because she wakes herself up by hitting the side of the basinette. I do love having her right beside me at night for feeds. Does anyone get up to feed at night?

Eva has slept from 9.30pm till 5.30am 2 nights in a row now. Her fussiness with feeding has stopped too thank goodness.

I met a mum and bub at a party on Saturday night. Her son was born on July 8 and he is 9.5kgs what a whooper...but very cute

hi bekz how are you? yer my baby girl was born on the 15th of july and after comin home from hospital a week later has sleeped 9 hrs a night...... so im getting to much sleep lol i like the bassinette next to me as well but she is starting to grow out of it now and i still want her near me.............so u live in logan just down the road from me im in coomera......how is everything else goin for you settling into motherhood???

[jetta2022]

Hey guys!

haven't been on for ages and felt bad but it looks like it has been fairly quiet with Christmas approaching anyway! I have been reading and hope everyone is well!
Sam turned 5 months last week! I can't believe it. We bought a high chair and he has had some rice cereal for 4 days and today had some rice cereal mixed with a bit pf pumpkin. I thought it was ready as he has been so interested in us eating and picking things up. He took to it like he had been doing it for years! Just straight in and was grabbing the spoon and wanting more! he loved it and we got it on film too! He is rolling a bit more now and pushing his legs a little as though he wants to move. He has started putting his feet in his mouth and loves playing with his toes now.
Anyway will try to write before Christmas but hope everyone has a good break!

[ss_storm]

Just a quick one while Hayley is asleep!

Gave myself an early christmas present and I am now a Platinum BB member! Yay!! Lol

Had a terrible night with Hayley last night...she didn't go to sleep until a bit after 10 and was screaming for an hour or so before...she just eventually crashed out from being so exhausted. I don't know what was wrong with her, maybe just really overtired? My mum and little brother have been here for the last few days, they went back home yesterday morning. was great to see them and I think they both enjoyed spending time with Hayley now that she is a bit more interactive.

everyone excited about Christmas? Our tree has never had so many presents under it, think most of them are for Hayley though!

Jetta- we started solids last week too, just a little bit of rice cereal. I don't know if she is ready for it (although she ticks all the boxes on the 'signs' they are ready) as she has started crying every time I try and give it to her, then won't drink the rest of her bottle, or if she just doesn't like the taste of it? I might try mixing in some mashed pumpkin or something, what is the best vegetable to start them off with? I gave her a little strip of zucchini last night while we were eating dinner to keep her quiet and she happily played with it and ate about half of it (the other half was decorated all over her grobag!). Maybe she just doesn't like to be fed and wants to do it herself? Sometimes she will grab the spoon and put it in her mouth but as soon as she gets the taste of the cereal she screws her face up and pulls it back out. I can understand her not liking it though...I had a taste and it is gross!

[jetta2022]

Hey Storm - they do say that becuase breast milk is sweet they can prefer sweet things. did you mix some breast milk in with it? If not try that or otherwise you could try a fruit first that is something a bit sweeter.
Sam seems to love anything, I did 4 days of just rice cereal then 2 days of a cube of pumpkin mixed with the rice cereal. Today I just did rice cereal as he seemed to have huge amounts of wind last night, slept fine most of the day but last night was awake til after 7.30pm after going down at 6pm and was crying a lot. He had a lot of wind and I guess it is just getting use to the food, although it is running it is different to liquid. He was gassy today and did 2 HUGE number 3's!!! Seems a bit better tonight and settled okay but I guess the extra fibre from the pumpkin too probably is working through his system.
Hayley is obviously interested in food which is why we started. Today my mother in law didn't have any milk and he cried after a few mouthfuls so maybe just water was something he didn't like?? I am no expert at all but hope something like that might help!!

[ss_storm]

Thanks Jetta. I might try stewing some apples and mixing a little bit in. I didn't really want to start with fruit because I read somewhere that if they start with sweet things they are less likely to want to eat vegetables. Don't know how true that is? DF bought her some baby vanilla custard, but again I don't really want to start her on something sweet, and the custard says for 6 months +, whereas at least the cereal says from 4 months. She is on formula so I have been using that with the cereal but it doesn't seem to make a difference if I use that or water.

just when we had everything all worked out it changes again!

[sloane]

ss-storm - have you thought about doing finger foods instead? rice cereal seems pretty bland & so i can understand why babies don't want it we've just offered DS some different things - so far he's had bread (plain & once with a tiny bit of hommous), strawberries, cantaloupe, porridge & loved them all. we offered some vegies tonight (pumpkin, sweet potato & carrot) but he wasn't interested although he did like squishing the pumpkin between his fingers! but yeah, what i meant to say is that they don't actually have to eat just yet, so if you wanted to offer hayley food & all she did was play with it at first, then that's cool. i tried to feed DS the porridge on a spoon but he wanted to do it himself, so i let him - it's been a total spin out so far just how adept they can be at feeding themselves when they're ready. i got a tommee tippe spoon set that had an adults feeding spoon but also a spoon that was for babies to use themselves.

jetta - what a great thing to get on film!

jas - i'm a bit late, but any time! but i hope your poor DH has recovered from the stress a good cry is so therapeutic sometimes, i hope you're feeling better. xmas is great, but stressful too, i reckon.

[ss_storm]

sloane- with the strawberries did you cook them or anything first or just give them raw? I guess I'm just paranoid about her choking! Might try some apple in her cereal tomorrow and see if that makes a difference, she will grab the spoon and try and put it in her mouth but as soon as the food touches her mouth she backs away. Finger foods might be the go as she did like the zucchini even if she didn't have very much. Might have to make a trip to the fruit & veg store tomorrow. lol
Would help if we had a highchair...need to find one as MIL said she would buy one (give us the money) for her for christmas.

[lovelycate]

Lauren - no dramas from daylight savings (fingers crossed). If anything I think it will work in our favour as Zac was an early riser / early to bed.

Sarah - Zac moved into his cot a week or so ago. I think I was expecting it to be a lot harder than it actually was, however I urgently need to get some sleeping bags as I worry that he is getting quite wriggly...

Heva - gosh your bubs must be growing well to be in 0s already! Zac is still in 000s although we're not far off the 00s I think. The hardest thing is growsuits or anything with feet in them - the foot parts seem to be way to short for his long tootsies!

some stirring sounds from the nursery - I'm off!

Cheers

[Miss E]

Mama Pan I've been wrapping and using a sleeping bag for four or five weeks now, maybe even a little longer. Ash started moving around a lot in his cot and I found him with the blanket up over his mouth one day so decided it was time to invest in some sleeping bags. I did try weaning him from the wrap (wrapping him with one arm out etc) but found that he wasn't sleeping nearly as well so decided to leave it. Now I wrap him and then put him in the sleeping bag. Most times he will get the wrap undone, but for some reason he still sleeps better with it. I got the Merino Kids gogobags which are great. They were a bit pricey, but they are made from merino wool so you can use them at between 18 and 30 degrees which means I won't need to worry about winter/summer weights.

Sarah, so glad to hear the cot sleep went well. It's such a good feeling when you finally try something you've been worried about being a disaster and it goes really well. I find it a great boost to my mothering confidence!

LF, so far daylight savings has worked wonders for us, Ash slept through the night Saturday and Sunday night! It was great, we went to a friends place for dinner on Saturday night and had a few drinks. Gave him a feed at 11pm before we came home and then he slept through until 7am. I fed him then and then he went back to sleep till 10am so we got a great sleep in.

Heva, sorry to hear your nurse has put you off the mchn. I also didn't like mine so have just started making appointments with another nurse at our centre.

Jess I hope you manage to get in to see your doctor sooner and that things have gotten a little bit better for you the last couple of days.

Hope the packing is going well Jetta!

[ss_storm]

I still wrap hayley at night, although it doesn't take long for her to get both arms out! Think she is having her wonder week at the moment. She hasn't slept much during the day the last couple of days - half hour max at each sleep! During the night she keeps crying during her sleep too...get up and pop her dummy back in before she wakes herself up and she goes back to sleep, but I've been getting up to her at least 3 times a night.
She has learnt how to blow raspberries though, so has been doing that almost non-stop! It's quite funny, she's also dribbling lots. She is getting very chatty and had another giggle today, we were outside and she started laughing at the dog again. she did it the other night when DF had her dancing on his lap. She managed to roll onto her tummy this afternoon too, although not completely as she still had one arm caught underneath her. I've noticed she only rolls to one side though, is that normal? I haven't seen her roll onto her right side yet, only her left...

I am hating daylight savings! We didn't have dinner until nearly 9 last night! Although she did sleep in almost until 8 this morning.
Anyway better go pop the little grub into a bath...she just peed on the carpet!

[Tinsel]

Bek - Hi! We are still getting up two to three times a night for a feed. Lucky you having a lovely sleep. I sometimes get to sleep until 4am and am hoping she sleeps through soon. Monique slept through at 6 weeks old from around 9pm to 9am which was lovely. I like having Amelia next to me for feeding as well. DH and I tried sleeping in the same room but I felt like I didn't get any sleep getting up and down with Amelia. So much easier and quicker to settle if she is next to me.

Mamapan - love the new name. I put Amelia in a sleeping bag from around 1 month old and it was the same with Monique.

ss_storm - way to go Hayley, clever girl. Amelia blows bubbles too and is so cute. We had a near giggle but not a proper one yet. I grew up in Wagga and used to love the show.

sloane - looks like the transition went well. Corey is going great.

heva5 - Amelia fits in size 0 bonds wondersuits and is snug in 000 other brands.

Amelia loves her big sister and smiles and coos at her all the time. Soooo cute.

am typing one handed so sorry i didn't respond to everyone.