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

[Ryatha]

oops, I missed the new thread!

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. I've been keeping busy sewing nappies and doing stuff around the house. DH's hand is still in a cast so he still can't do anything with Fred and struggles with a lot of the house work. DH nicknamed her Fred cause she stares a lot when she is tired so... 'fred astaire' is what she is called a lot of the time!

Fred is sleeping well at night, from about 6.30 - 11.30 - 4.30 then up at about 7. Feeds during the day are every 2-3 hours and she only sleeps for about 45-60 mins. I've been trying to extend that but not having much luck. I've finally started trying to do some exercise... getting a bit sick of this baby body and feeling the muscle ache today. Lumpy has been at her nana's all week so it has been great to get a good nights sleep without interruptions from her.

I've caught up on all of your posts but don't really have time to do many personals.

jetta - great to hear you are getting some good sleeps at night

Bek - I have a very comfy chair in Freds room so I get up to feed her in that. She stays in her own room all night and after a feed I just pop her back in bed. She gurgles a bit but goes to sleep pretty easily

Mamapan - I have used a sleeping bag for ages, Fred doesn't seem to need to be wrapped but her sister needed to be wrapped until she was about 10 months old. Fred does get hold of her blankets (I put them on as well, she doesn't sleep if she is cold) but I have them tucked in very tight at the end so she can't get them over her head

Ok, run out of time, fred is looking sleepy - need to catch it while I can!

[MamaPan]

hi everyone
Ryatha - was wondering where you were!!! sounds like all is going well... love the nicknames for your girls - esp Fred, that is gorgeous and so funny! Jacob also stares off a bitw hen he is tired... i notice he does a lot more of the classic sleep signs than N did (or maybe i didnt notice them with N?). her sleep sounds good esp at night.
Bekz - I sometimes get up and feed J in my glider and sometimes i feed him in bed. but i agree with you, my back is suffering from the sitting in bed feeding... and soon i will have to fully get up as i need to move himout of his moses basket (andtherefore out of our room - sob sob)
Had a pretty bad night last night, think J had tummy ache - he woke really often, had about 5 feeds!!!! was crying out in his sleep too - poor bubba! he is sleeping now so hopefully catching up.
DH is away oversaeas again from toda y to sat eve... luckily my mum has decided to work down here for this week so she will come and stay and help me out.

[sloane]

bek - i get up to feed corey, but i pretty much always have. i've never been able to master lying down to feed in bed & found it uncomfy sitting up in bed so it's the couch for me!

[jetta2022]

I knew it was too good to be true! Sam has been so unsettled all day!! Only sleeping for max 1 hour and has been staying awake for up to 2 hours and still not showing signs of tiredness!! Last week he would only stay awake max 1 hour!! Is this the growth spurt at 12 weeks!! He has been very whingy all day too and feeding every 2 1/2 hours or so, well I think he is hungry as he is happy after a feed but he has just been very cranky!! He has been really hard to settle! Has been awake since 1pm after only sleeping 50 minutes and still won't settle! It is driving me bonkers today! I hope this doesn't last. I normally don't use the dummy but I don't know what else to do!!! It sounds like it is the growth spurt but I wondered if it was also that now he has started sleeping through the night he is changing his whole pattern on me!!! It gets tiring trying to settle all day, I don't know how you ladies with several kids do it! I must be just a whimp!!

[MamaPan]

Interesting Jetta - J was v unsettled all night and alot of thismorning too...

[jetta2022]

Interesting Jetta - J was v unsettled all night and alot of thismorning too...

Perhaps it is to do with daylight saving as well?? Getting up an hour earlier than usual, I mean it does affect us so it must affect them!

[Tinsel]

Bek - I feed Miss A in bed and I lay her on a pillow while I'm propped up on pillows. I doze off too and am glad it only takes about 10 minutes to feed. I put her in bed next to me in her sleeping bag.

Jetta - I haven't been to weigh Miss A since her 2 month needles. DH and I do a quick weigh by standing on the scales first - take note of the weight - and then hold bub and then minus the first weight to get her weight. Did that make sense LOL. I need to go to bed.

[jesscook08]

hi everyone. im doing ok. ex has been staying here the last few nights to help out. Went out for about 1 hour last night left all 4 kids with their dad with a bottle of formula made up for Anton. Have now got Anton on a bottle of formula once a night which helps him to settle better and longer most of the time so dad has enjoyed giving him a bottle and starting to bond. im home with only the 2 girls and anton tonight so ill have a bit of me time in the morning after droping the girls of at kinda and daycare ill still have anton but he is usally happy with what ever i want to do as long as he can see me and every now and then stop what im doing and talk with him.

[ss_storm]

Hayley has been very unsettled today...don't know why! Finally she is in bed asleep...I put her down at 7 because she was getting tired and grumpy then woke up at 8 so I gave her a bottle and of course she didn't want to go back to bed! Let her have some nappy free time on the floor to tire her out a bit, but she still grizzled for a while when i put her back to bed at 9.
She did sleep in until after 8 this morning and had an hours sleep late this afternoon, so maybe she just wasn't sleepy yet! Lol. i don't think she is a morning baby, she usually sleeps until at least 7.30, has only been a few mornings when she has been up before 7. good for me because I don't like getting up early, especially now it is darker outside in the mornings. probably won't be so good when I go back to work and will have to get up and have her ready as well!

Hopefully I won't have to go back to work...DF's hosting/IT business is going really well and he's picking up a fair bit of contract work (mostly car/truck towing). There is also a possibility we may be moving to Tumut/Gundagai around Christmas, provided things go ahead as planned and DF is offered a towing job in that area.

I have to get out of bed to feed...have to get out anyway to get her bottle ready! When we first brought her home I fed her in bed, but I found I would almost fall back to sleep again...so I go out to the lounge room and watch telly (we got Austar a couple of weeks ago so now at least there is something decent to watch at 2 or 3 in the morning!).

hayley hasn't been weighed since her 6 week check up with the MCHN. The next "official" check up isn't until 4 months or 6 months, sometime around then. I am thinking of making an appointment to see them in the next couple of weeks, I'm worried she might be getting a flat spot, although she usually sleeps with her head on the side and spends a fair bit of time rolling on her side on the floor or sitting in her rocker. Maybe it's just me being paranoid... But just for curiosities sake I'd like to see how much she has grown and gained in weight. Not really interested in anything else they have to say, after my first experience with them! Pretty much ignored all her advice anyway and just did my own thing.