Liviam your William shares a birthday with Ash. It's quite funny, he's also discovered his doodle recently. Loves to play with it, mind you he doesn't get any nappy free time so it's really only in the bath or at nappy change time (which can be messy when there's a poo!).
Naomi I hope today has been a little better for you
Heva sorry to hear you had a bit of a rough day, hope today has been better. I'm also finding if I miss Ash's initial tired signs he's quickly getting over tired these days and becoming a nightmare to settle. If I get him at the right time though he goes down really easily.
Storm, good luck for the move. I think you're right, doing it now while you can pop her down and stay in the one place will be much easier than if you had of left it a couple of months. I really want to take Ash for Santa photos, we went to the shopping centre on Saturday but the line was a mile long. I keep meaning to pop in during the week when hopefully it will be shorter.
Jasp, how exciting, sounds like she's not far off crawling now. Ash is also starting to get up on all fours, but can't put his head up at the same time iykwim. We were over at a friends place the other day and she has one of those shag rugs. It was great, he was able to get some really good traction on it and was making real moves. At home he doesn't get nearly as far.
lovelycate glad to hear you got a good nights sleep, hopefully its the start of a new pattern. Ash was the same with his rolling, he did the tummy to back a couple of times and then pretty much forgot how to. About a month later he started doing back to tummy, but it took him a week or two to work out how to get back to his back again.
AFM all is going really well. We have had a few naps of late where it has been horribly hard getting him to settle (hence my debrief yesterday). It's all about the timing though I think, if I get him down at the right time he self settles really easily. But if I miss that little window then it becomes a battle that lasts 45 minutes or so. I think it probably has a lot to do with him no longer being wrapped. Mind you his night sleeps have been going great, he's slept through every night for the last couple of weeks which has been fantastic. Like a lot of the others he's discovered his feet in the last week or so and has just managed to get them in his mouth. He's started sitting up really well too. I put my breastfeeding pillow around him incase he falls, but he can now sit up unassisted for a good five minutes or so.
hi everyone
so sorry i have been pretty MIA - my computer has been broken so i have been lurking on my I touch but find it too hard and time consuming to write too much - laptop is fixed now so you can expect me back in full force!
I wont do all the personals now - too much to catch up on... but I will try to stay on top of things.
A lot has been happening with us... mainly that we have decided to move back to melbourne early next year - sooo exciting! so those of you in melb we will have to meet up some time. in the meantime i have a lot to do to get things arranged! we will be back in feb/mar ready for me to go bak to work in mar/april.
Jacob is doing well - though he is quite far behind lots of your bubbas in the physical things. he still isnt rolling... he goes onto his side but that's it! we have noticed his arms are quite stiff so we are referred to a physio who may help with that. the nurse said not to worry unless he isnt rlling at 6 months and he is super alert/babbles heaps etc so i am not too worried! we started solids this morning - a little bellamys and some pear - he had about 1 tsp...
the nurse thinks i should up his calorie intake during the day so i am ofering more feeds and she also wants me to move to 2 solids a day soonish - this is bc he is waking veery 90 mins to 2 hrs and feeding thru the night - this is KILLING me! i hope this helps - he is apretty good self settler so i dont get why he is so bad at night.
so that's us in a nutshell!
SS - yay for the house - how long is one trip down there? i think 1 a day is sufficient! would it work to just send DF - he woudl get more room for stuff and Hayley wouldnt get so tired. they are getting heavy now arent they - my little man is about 7.3kg! are things ok with DF now?
Miss E - the shag rug shuffle sounds gorgeous! J is also moving aroudn alot when he is on the floor... and in his cot!
Liviam - nice to see you in here.
Mamapan - good to see you back! I am amazed at how far some babies are along as well! Sam is only just rolling from back to side and onto tummy, a few weeks ago was doing tummy to back but doesn't do that now. Hope the solids mean that you start getting more sleep during the night.
Miss E - sounds like things are improving which is great. Sam is a bit the same with naps and can be really hard to settle if I miss the window but sounds like Ash is really coming along - that is amazing that he is looking at getting up on all fours. I know what you mean with the traction. I have a sheeps skin on the floor under his play gym and if he has no pants on it gives him fairly good grip but we are just starting rolling now!! I am giving Sam some practice at sitting up too but he does fall. HOpe Ash is enjoying the jumperoo! Sam is learning that there are things around him so is trying to turn around. We call it his master tower, as it looks like he could press buttons to end the world!!
SS Storm- so know what you are going through, as only did a month ago myself! It will be great once its over, just make sure you don't overdo it and look after yourself!
lovelycate - glad sleep went well, lets hope it keeps up!!
Jasp - hope you feel better, I cant' believe how far ahead Arlea is!! That is amazing! Baby proofing is going to be a lot of work!
Heva5 - hope you are okay. I agree that what happens in the parents room stays in the parent room. Glad you got it all out too. Hope things start getting better soon.
Naomi54 - hope everything works out with the job, I can't imagine how stressful that is. I often feel like I don't know what Sam wants and it always makes me feel like I am a bad mother. Who at 4 months doesn't know what their child wants. But sometimes it is hard. I have spoken to many mothers who say you never work out what they want all the time. Some of their cries do sound similar. You aren't alone!
Welcome Liviam! I look forward to hearing about you and your bub!
Okay, long post as so many people had written!! I cant' believe how far along some bubs are! Sam is just rolling more now from back to side and then onto front and weeks ago was rolling from stomach to back but hasn't done that for ages. He is laughing and loves pressing buttons and pushing things which is great watching him. My husband worked from home today so we had a great day watching him playing and listening to all his noises! Anyway, am wondering if Sam can cut back to 5 feeds. He has a 4pm and then 6pm feed which are close together as the 4pm feed is more of a top up from around 1pm. I guess I have to try and if he wakes up in the night then I guess he hasn't had enough. Amazing that around this time last year I found out I was pregnant! Can't believe that it has been a year!!
SS - I'm totally grateful that he did a big clean up. He does most of the cleaning and leaves pretty much all the baby stuff to me. If someone else in the house did something to help with the h/w that'd be great but if Jesse or I don't do it nothing gets done. For example the carpets hadn't been vacuumed for a few months because neither of us had time to do it. It's just wrong. Theres 5 adults living in this house and were the only ones who do any housework Granted the others go to work but still we are busy and get tired too
it just annoyed me that he refused to wait until Isaac was awake. It's not like we were going anywhere or had anything we needed to do.
I agree it would be alot harder if she was crawling. We're going to have to move early in the year, not looking forward to that. Moving house is stressful enough without having a baby rolling around the place.
Can't wait to see the pics, the house sounds lovely.
Jasp - As long as she's happy and looks healthy then no need to worry IMO. OMG! I can't believe she's getting up on all fours already.
Cate - I definately find the arvo sleeps harder. Actually everything about the afternon is harder. I dunno if that's cause I'm more tired or if Isaac's harder to settle.
MammaPan - Isaac seems way behind the others too. He's only just managing to roll on to his side and gets stuck because his arm is in the way. He still doesn't tollerate tummy time for too long either. I'm starting to wonder if he'll ever get there. lol.
Jetta - Has it been that long?! I can't believe it either. I was just saying to someone the other day, it feels like only yesterday that I had Isaac, but it feels like he's been here forever.
AFM - I'm getting a little worried that Isaac seems to be falling further and further behind your little ones. He has stopped saying speech sounds like he was a couple of months ago, now he just makes noises, IYKWIM? It seems like a backwards step.
He still doesn't tolerate tummy time very well and gets really tired and cranky after just a few mins.
It's probably fine but it just doesn't seem like he's getting anywhere. :S I'll have a talk to the doctor about it at his 6 month check up. He'll probably just say it's normal like every other concern I raise with him but still.
I'm getting really sick of the IL's not respecting my rights as a parent. I told FIL I did't want Isaac put in the bean bag and he did it anyway when I wasn't there. It's no so much that specific thing that is angering me. More the fact that both MIL and FIL are quite happy to totally ignore anything I say and do what they want anyway. FFS I'm his mother, if I say don't do something then DONT DO IT! It's not that hard to comprehend. It's not like he needed to be in the bean bag.
They had thier turn to be parents, now P off and let me do my job. If I can't trust them to respect my wishes when I'm in the house, then how can I ever trust them alone with him? I bet when it comes to them wanting to babysit him I'll be the unreasonable one not trusting them to look after him.
I hate feeling like a prisoner in my own house. I can't wait until we have a space of our own. MIL is talking about the next house having a granny flat or seperate area for us. I really want our own kitchen (The communal one is just disgusting all the time, food gets left out no-one cleans up after themself, flies and roaches everywhere, etc. How am I supposed to prepare food for Isaac in that environment?), bathroom (even though we have our own everyone uses it anyway because it's the only downstairs bathroom), living room (because I can't just put Isaac on the floor and expect him to stay there more than a minute someone always has to come pick him up or play with him. I want him to learn to play on his own a bit too otherwise he'll always need entertaining and nothing will ever get done) and two bedrooms. At the moment I feel like If I want things to go my way I have to pretty much lock myself and Isaac in the bedroom. Although even that wouldn't stop MIL. She's quite happy just walk into our bedroom and talk to or play with Isaac when I'm trying to get him to go to sleep. Helpful.
Doubt we will get our own space, she said the same thing last time we were house hunting, but I can dream, right?
I know I should be grateful, we pay the least rent and all the amenities are provided for us, but I can help but feel trapped and DF doesn't know any different so he doesn't really care.
sigh another whingy post. sorry. until next time xoIt's not unreasonable to aske for some respect as a parent ad a person is it...?
Heather, just quickly- I read somewhere the other day that some baby's do go a bit quiet around the 5-7 month mark, maybe he is just having a quiet time and not actually regressing? He'll probably start chatting away like mad again soon! I notice Hayley has some quiet moments too, some days she won't "talk" much at all and others she'll hardly shut up (especially when she gets on her raspberry blowing or gurgling streaks!). I'm so sorry your PIL are such a pain in the bum! Maybe that's why he isn't rollling yet (not that it means there is anything wrong with him, he might be a more 'emotional' person rather than 'physical' iykwim), as he never really gets a chance to wriggle on the floor as your MIL is always picking him up? I hope you find somewhere to move to, as hard as the move might be with a baby it will definitely be worth it!
Mama Pan it's good to hear from you and exciting that you will be moving to Melbourne. I'd love to catch up with all you Melbourne ladies IRL.
Jetta it's so funny to look back and think that a year ago we were in early pregnancy, at the time things seemed to take for ages, but now when I look back it all seems to have gone really quickly. I can't believe that Ash will be 5 months on Sunday!
for you Heva. It sounds like things are really difficult for you at the moment. I hope I'm not overstepping the mark, but by the sounds of things it really isn't a very good environment for Isaac or you to be in. Is there anyway you can talk to your DF and see about getting a place of your own? I wouldn't worry too much about Isaac's development, by the sounds of things he is very healthy happy little boy. Ash also has days where he isn't vocal at all and rarely makes those agoo type noises, now when he does talk it is just making noise. I think it is all about them experimenting and learning how to use their voice.
AFM I woke up at 3am this morning with a horrible tummy upset. I spent about 45 minutes in the bathroom, then went back to bed. About 15 minutes after I finally got back to sleep Ash woke up. I'm feeling a lot better today, but still a little queasy. Just hoping it's something I ate (probably the smoked salmon bagel I had yesterday) rather than a bug, I would hate for Ash to get sick.
Storm, hope the move is going well for you. I agree, probably better to move now htan in a few months! she will be into everything soon, lol.
Cate, glad you had a good nights sleep! Hopefully you will get a few more yep afternoons are definitely harder here, harder to get her to sleep & shorter naps too.
MissE that's awesome Ash is sitting up! Arlea doesn't have the balance for it yet, she topples over, reminds me of theose babushka dolls, lol. Yay for sleeping through the night
MamaPan how exciting planning a move back to Melbourne! Hope those night feeds start to settle down for you soon, hopefully solids will help.
Jetta sounds like you had a nice day with your DH & Sam, they are so much fun now aren't they! I always thought 4-6 months was just the cutest stage. WRT cutting a feed I guess it depends on how much he is having at each feed, if he is having big feeds you might be able to drop one? I guess he will let you know if it's not enough.
Heva big hugs to you that sounds very difficult I think most people would be having a hard time with that. I hope you can sort something out soon & get some of your own space one way or another
AFM I seem to be over my sore throat, I was worried Arlea was coming down with it as we have had a very unsettled week, but I have decided she is healthy, she's not acting sick at all, just very unsettled with her sleep - which makes her overtired & cranky
Did someone mention a 4mth sleep regression? Because that seems exctly like what this is... and I am sooo tired... so hoping for a better night tonight
because neither of us had time to do it. It's just wrong. Theres 5 adults living in this house and were the only ones who do any housework Granted the others go to work but still we are busy and get tired too 
yep afternoons are definitely harder here, harder to get her to sleep & shorter naps too.
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