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
I'm on my phone so i wont do a proper post, just wondering where everyone is? It's been almost 2 days without a post. I'm having withdrawl symptoms.
hope everyone is well and just busy.
Lol Heather. Here is some (somewhat boring) news for you...
We are almost moved in, just have a few odds and ends back in Wagga. The house is a mess..there are boxes and crap everywhere! Hope to get it sorted out a little today, I dont think we're going back to Wagga until tomorrow. Hayley is starting to get grumpy and unsettled, I don't blame her really when everything is changing around her. If we can stay at home today hopefully she will be better tomorrow, as she was getting to the stage where she just wanted to be held all the time. By this time next week we should have the house all cleaned up and no more trips back and forth. It's about 100ks away, so an hour or so drive, I'm glad it isn;t further!
i've been reading but haven't had time to reply for a few days!
ss_storm - glad to hear the move is nearly finished! 100kms is a long way to me!
liviam - hi & welcome! i think we were in the same ttc thread at one stage - seems a very long time ago now
jasp - hope arlea didn't end up catching your sore throat & glad to hear you're feeling better
miss e - hope you're feeling better
mamapan - great news about the move. i'd love to meet up with all the melb mums & bubs as well
heva - that sounds like a tough situation. i hope things improve for you soon
afm - corey has been really unsettled during the nights - similar situation to mamapan with corey waking for feeds anything from each hour to prob 2.5hrs at the most. he's also decided that bedtime is more like 9 than 7. he does his first sleep or two in his cot & then i co-sleep with him in the spare bed. i really don't want to but it's the only way i get enough sleep to function the next day! i think he might be teething - there is drool everywhere & his hands are in his mouth nearly all day!
Last edited by sloane; December 6th, 2009 at 08:34 AM.
Just wanted to pop in quickly and say hello. Ash's naps have gotten a lot better in the last few days. One day we had two 2 hour naps, yesterday we had three 1.5hour naps. This is great, but it seems to have created a another problem. Because he is sleeping so much longer he has gone from feeding roughly every 3 hours to every 4 hours during the day. This means that he is now having 5 feeds a day instead of 6. The issue is that I don't think this is enough because he is now waking up at about 4.30am desperately wanting a feed. He used to do this all the time and I would just feed him and be able to put him straight back to bed. But now I don't think he is used to having a night feed so isn't going back to sleep. This morning we ended up bringing him into our bed at 5.00am after no luck of getting him back to sleep. He still wasn't happy so we ended up getting up until he got tired at 6.15am. Put him back to bed and then we also went back to bed and got to sleep till 8am. So now I think I have to find some way to squeeze in an extra feed during the day, because I don't want to make a habit of starting the day at 4.30am every day. I guess I might try feeding him before I put him down and see if that helps, but when I have done it before he falls asleep while feeding but the minute we finish he is energised... Oh what to do, just when everything starts working really well a new problem pops up!
Miss E - it really does seem that as soon as you feel like you've got the hang of it, they throw you a curve ball! We've had a similar problem lately - unfortunately not because Zac's sleeping longer/more during the day, but because I've been trying to get him to take his feeds during the day rather than feeding 3 hourly around the clock - now that I'm trying to get more mls into him, he's stretching longer between feeds, so it's really hard to get five feeds in during the day! Do you do a dream feed at all? Maybe Ash would then sleep the rest of the night? (fingers crossed!)
Sarah - groan! I hear ya on the co-sleeping - it may not be quality sleep, but at least it's sleep! Also the drool - sometimes Zac reminds me of those dogs that always seem to have big strings of saliva hanging from their mouths
ss_storm - you will be so relieved once you are all finished with the old place. 100kms each way isn't a trip you want to be doing that often!
jasp - no good to hear about the sleep regression, although 'been there, done that', so hopefully she will come through it fairly quickly for you! Lack of sleep is such a killer...
heva - I don't envy you at all, and I'm really impressed that you manage so well. I was thinking that one positive of your inlaws always picking Isaac up is that he should feel very happy and loved and secure. As for his development, I think we all know that each baby is going to do things at their own pace, but I know it does give you a bit of a worry when you feel like your baby isn't doing what others are doing. I used to worry about Zac and his tummy time because he just hated it, and I was seeing friends' 7 week old babies holding their heads up, but suddenly it just clicked for him and it wasn't a problem anymore. My friend's baby just refused to be on her tummy until around 6 months, and one day she suddenly loved it!
Jetta - good to hear from you!
mamapan - I am amazed that you're still capable of coherent thought! fwiw I've recently started Zac on solids (he's 5 months now) and have also been increasing his formula intake during the day as he had gone back to feeding 3-hourly around the clock. He loves the baby rice, but I can't say whether it's made any difference at all to his sleeping. I do find I have to be careful with the timing of it so that it doesn't impact his appetite for milk. As for increasing his mls during the day, that's been a bit of a challenge, but seems to be paying off. He's now only waking once most nights for a feed. I think their little bellies are used to having so much at a time, so when we try to put more into them it takes a while for them to adapt to having more food less often iykwim. Good luck - I hope you start getting some more sleep soon!
AFM - Zac has been rolling (back to front) like a maniac. He's generally quite happy once he's on his front, but he is straining to reach things, and his little legs are thrashing away. He tends to get quite frustrated and starts screaming after a while, but as soon as I flip him on to his back he rolls over again
I realised that I had been getting a bit complacent lately so found something else to beat myself up about - I still rock him to sleep for all his naps, and now I feed him to sleep for his night sleep. Am I creating a problem for myself further down the track? Am I making it impossible for anybody but me to put him to sleep at night? What is it that makes us look at what we're doing 'wrong' instead of congratulating ourselves on what we're doing right???
anyhow, a giggle for those of you with boys - I give Zac nappy off time before he has his bath, and I usually put him on some towels on the floor while I do some computer work. Today he suddenly went all silent and I turned around to see that he had peed all over himself - including his face! He was looking a bit confused as to why he was suddenly so wet
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.
yep afternoons are definitely harder here, harder to get her to sleep & shorter naps too.
Do you do a dream feed at all? Maybe Ash would then sleep the rest of the night? (fingers crossed!)
so found something else to beat myself up about - I still rock him to sleep for all his naps, and now I feed him to sleep for his night sleep. Am I creating a problem for myself further down the track? Am I making it impossible for anybody but me to put him to sleep at night? What is it that makes us look at what we're doing 'wrong' instead of congratulating ourselves on what we're doing right???
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