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

[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.

[LotusFlower]

I still feed Ollie in bed Bek. But I lay on my side with him on his side next to me, so he's not laying on me or anything...

[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.

[sloane]

nah, just gave them raw. apparently because they're acidic, that they can give some babies a rash but DS was fine. i don't think they do much more than suck on foods initially so if they do eat anything it's very mushy, if that makes sense? these strawberries were quite ripe so they must have mushed up easily in his mouth. he did end up with strawberry juice all over him & so did DP! check out the BLS chatter thread - there's heaps of good info if you are interested