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

[Astrolady]

This thread is for parents who's baby was born July 1st-15th 2009

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There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Breastfeeding General Chatter
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information
Is Feeding Your Baby Taking Too Much Time?
Bottlefeeding General Chatter
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids/Homemade Baby Food
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?
Starting Solids General Chatter

Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids.

Sleeping Support:

Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum
Comforting Tools to Aid Restful Sleep
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Con of Controlled Crying
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Wearing
Recommended Reading List

Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids
Gentle Parenting Forum

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[lovelycate]

weeeee first to post

[sloane]

oh wow thread number 2!! except now i've forgotten all the things i was going to reply to (and a bit lazy to go back & check)

thank you to everyone for the words of support funnily enough, i got an e-newsletter from pinky mckay & one of the articles is 'don't let anybody 'should' on you' - good timing!!

cate - we have some leaks here overnight with our nappies as well, which are also a good size & on tightly, etc. i put it down to them being aldi nappies which i'd heard don't always do overnight (i try not to change corey unless he's really awake after a feed to keep him calm)...but maybe the boys are just heavy wetters?!

i just got a lovely surprise - one of my friends works for a winery in the mclaren vale & a box of six bottles of wine was just delivered! it's been over a year since i had a glass of wine which is hard to believe

[MamaPan]

Sarah - I reckon it's time for that glass of wine.. I am considering one myself!
Hmm I should sign up for Pinky's newsletter I think, I need some info to read age by age for J, I have forgotten a lot...
I cant remember everyting from the last page - sorry!
I know with Noah he used to wet through a bit at night at diff times... def pointing the penis down helped and for some reason there was a stage when girl nappies worked better at night??? i know some people have used 2 nappies over each other at night. i just change jacob at every feed overnight (and he has about 3!) and that works so far here...
Had dinner out with DH last night (at 6pm lol) as I had a meeting to go to at 7... Jacob came with us and he was amazing - had a nap at the meeting but was then awake and up til about 10.30 when i finished... smiling and cooing at everyone!

[Miss E]

Hi all, I just wanted to pop in and report back on Ash's check up today. He's put on a whopping 1.05kg in the last 4 weeks! woo hoo, I was sure he was getting heavier to hold on to! He's no 61cm long, which is up 3cm on last time. So now he is in the 50th percentile for height and weight which is great.

Gotta have a glass of wine Sarah! I love being able to have occassional one now, I didn't realise how much I had missed it when I was pregnant.

Glad you were able to have a nice dinner out MamaPan!

[jesscook08]

hi all not coping at the moment having trouble sleeping and its not anton he is sleeping 4-6 hours at night. im not eating or im pigging out decided it was time to see dr but my appointment is like 3 weeks away

[Miss E]

Ahhh seems I was able to resettle him

Is anyone else's baby a big spewer? Ash has always been a happy chucker, but it just seems to get worse and worse as he gets older. 99% of the time it doesn't seem to bother him and he sleeps really well during the night, so I've always been pretty certain he doesn't have reflux, but sometimes I wonder... Sometimes he will still be throwing up when it's time for the next feed and the amount just seems to get more and more. He gets the hiccups a few times a day and they seem to be getting a lot stronger iykwim? Then there are occassions when he will wake from a nap with an awful cry (and he rarely cries), I'll go in to settle him and often he will have a big spew or when I pick him up have a burb. Could he be developing refulx at this stage? I thought if they were going to get it it starts pretty early... His weight gain and poos and wees are good, so I know he is keeping enough down. I've tried keeping him up right for 20 minutes after he's fed, burping him in between feeds, having him lie at an angle when he's feeding, but nothing seems to make any different and I can't help but worry...

[BekZ]

Just quickly.

MissE: Because Ash generally sleeps well and he has great weight gain I would tend to think that he is just a happy chucker. Both my older girls were like this until they were 6 months old. The doctors would be reluctant to medicate if he is happy and has good weight gain but if it get worse it is worth mentioning next time you visit the doc or MCHN.

[Miss E]

Hi all, the little man is due to wake up for a feed any minute now, so sorry for lack of personals.

Thanks for all the feedback about Ash's vomiting, I'm pretty confident it's not reflux and it has seem to have improved (marginally) the last couple of days... Mind you it was really bad over the weekend and for the few days leading up to it... Oh well, I'm sure he'll grow out of it sooner or later (just hope it is sooner lol).

I haven't even thought about christmas yet (it's frightening how close it is!). I have no idea what we will get Ash, so all your ideas are great. I think we might ask family to get more practical gifts like a high chair and car seat, because he is quickly outgrowing his capsule and I think by christmas we will need to move up to the reversible seat. We normally do a big family lunch at our place, but I am hoping to duck it this year if we can. DH and I were even toying with the idea of going away, but I don't think we'll get away with that. Then January we have all of DH's family over from the States which will be a handful. We've got them coming in two two week stints, his mum and aunt first and then his dad and stepmum. I get along well with his mum and aunt, but I have to admit I find his dad trying at the best of times, so it will be interesting to see how things go now that Ash is in the picture...

Anyway, have to run, but will be back for personals in the next day or so. Hope everyone is doing well xo

[belinda_76]

hi all just wanted to introduce myself, my name is belinda my baby girl was born on the 15th of july, so just new to this thread. and hope to share things with you all.......

[jesscook08]

welcome belinda

[Fleur]

Hi Belinda, good to hear from you welcome to the thread! I had wondered if you would pop in. Congrats on your baby girl wow 9 hours a night that is fantastic lucky you!

Sarah hope Corey settles & starts sleeping longer for you! Glad to hear ou are all feeling better.

Jetta glad to hear the move is going well. Good luck working on the self settling. I found it much easier than I expected this time! So you never know he might justdo it for you with no fuss...

Cate glad to hear the needles went well! Arlea had her hip scan this week, all was fine, I think they just like to be careful? Hope things improve for your DH at work.

Storm I have had a look for the Bumble balls on the net, I would like to get one too! I found them on youtube HERE but can't find any Australian stockists, they do seem to be mostly a pet store thing - I'm sure I got mine in the toy section in KMart! I don't think it matters though, if I can find one in a pet store, it looks like exactly the same thing.
Enjoy your weekend visiting your parents!

MamaPan hope J settles again soon for you. That's great that the osteo is working! The MooGoo is good stuff isn't it!

MissE good to hear that Ash's reflux seems to be getting better. Sounds like you have a very busy Christmas time coming up!

How is everyone else going?

AFM I had Arlea weighed yesterday for the first time since her 8 week vax (4 weeks ago). She has only gained 300g but she has grown 3.5cm! So she has dropped a percentile, still above average but not as high as she was. The nurse plotted it wrong to start with & went into worry mode, trying to arrange for us to see the Dr right then! until she realised her mistake & said it wasn't as bad as she thought
I'm not too worried..she was very chubby when she was born so she still has that baby chubbiness, just not as big. She still looks quite healthy to me & she is obviously thriving & doing everything right. The nurse at the front desk agreed with me..but I will take her back to be weighed in a fortnight, and then she will have her 12 week vax 2 weeks after that (gee they come around quick!) so we will keep an eye on it.

Hope everyone is well, have a great weekend!

[sloane]

oh oh...so many posts!

lauren - hope things have been better since your night from hell

miss e - sorry, no help here, corey isn't much of a chucker. sounds like he's a happy chucker but there is an infants reflux support website that i found really helpful when it seemed like corey might have silent reflux (i.e. no chucking but pain). if you haven't seen it, let me know & i can pm you the details.

we've all had a cold here so we've been a bit miserable it also put a stop to the cot sleeping because i didn't like corey being down the other end of the house when he wasn't feeling well. yep, i'm one big softie! we're all feeling better now though so we'll have to get back to it!

corey is another one who sleeps for around 40-60 mins for each nap, although while he's been sick he's been sleeping for longer - always in the middle of the day.

even though there's no sleeping right through the night here, we do have a sort of routine - around 5.30 i feed corey, then a bath at around 6 & into his grobag, then another feed at about 6.30 & then into bed. we've noticed that if we skip the bath, he wakes alot more often through the night. not sure if it's just a coincidence!

no rolling here yet but lots of grabbing at things & he's putting everything he can into his mouth

hope everyone else is doing well , sorry for the lack of personals!

[ss_storm]

Sloane- Hayley is the same, everything she grabs finds its way into her mouth! She has a little cow that rattles and she grabbed it by its ear the other day and she was sucking on one of it's horns! So cute. Had a nice sleep-in until 9 this morning! She woke at 7 but I didn't want to get up so popped her into bed with us and she went back to sleep. I didnt think she was ready to wake up as she woke up crying.

She managed to roll onto her tummy yesterday and can sort of roll off it. She only rolls onto her left side though, unless I make her go the other way. Hopefully she figures out how to do both sides, is it normal for them to favour one side? She's going really well with tummy time, although we don't do it very often, once a day if we're lucky! i just find it hard to fit in, can't do it too soon after feed time as she just chucks up (understandable!) too close to nap time and she gets the craps with it in about 10 seconds. yesterday she held her head right up though and her back was really arched. So I don't the lack of tummy time is doing her any harm, her neck is really strong although her head is still a bit wobbly.

Better go before she wakes up, she's sleeping in her pram at the moment. The floors really need to be vaccumed, haven't been done for nearly 2 weeks and they are gross! really need DF here so he can watch Hayley though, as the last time I vacc'ed she must have woken up when i was halfway through and when I stopped the vaccuum she was crying her little eyes out in her cot and I hadn't heard her!

[Fleur]

She's going really well with tummy time, although we don't do it very often, once a day if we're lucky! i just find it hard to fit in, can't do it too soon after feed time as she just chucks up (understandable!) too close to nap time and she gets the craps with it in about 10 seconds. yesterday she held her head right up though and her back was really arched. So I don't the lack of tummy time is doing her any harm, her neck is really strong although her head is still a bit wobbly.

Same here.. Arlea was having very little tummy time for the same reasons, plus she didn't really like it... but we have been doing it a bit more lately & she is doing much better with it all of a sudden, lasting longer too.

[jetta2022]

SS Storm- good to hear that Hayley is coming along! How exciting that she is rolling now! I am sure they may favour one side. I notice with Sam that things like when he first starting using his hands more it was always his left, also he use to look to the left more so I would always encourage the other side too and now it is better at both but still grabs things a little more with his left. Maybe if her muscles are more developed or something?

Sloane- interesting about the bath thing. Hope your colds are all better now!

Miss excited - Sam isn't spewing as much as he was but he definately still does sometimes and it can be like 2 hours after he has eaten. I use to worry about reflux cause when I put Sam in his cot he would whinge and kick his legs like he was in pain. After all the reading I did (probably too much) it seemed that babies with reflux are in a fair bit of pain so if he is still reasonably happy when chucking I probably thing it isn't reflux. There is a website totally devoted to reflux which has some pointers to look for if you think it is = RISA - Reflux Infants Support Association Inc.. This might help you get an idea. It is a bit vague but it helped me a bit. Perhaps as his stomach gets bigger he is sorting himself out? Sam gets the hiccups at least once a day still, today he is being looked after by my mother in law and she says he has had really bad wind all day and yesterday arvo did 3 vomits in a row which was unusual. I think it must have something to do with what I am eating. If it keeps persisting I would probably talk to the doctor about it just in case but as others have said if he seems happy I wouldnt worry. A girlfriend of mine with 3 kids says her first was a chucker, they couldn't even use the baby bjorn and she was like that til about 1. She still is a bit but is more settled and she is 8. Anyway, sorry for long response!

Jasp - way to go with daycare, I can totally understand as I am back at work one day a week with my mother in law looking after sam and I miss him so much. I know it is good for him to spend time with others but I want him all to myself! I don't want to miss anything. I too find it a bit strange they told you not to come back until you finished feeding, can they do that? If you need to be back at work they can't tell you you can't come back because you breast feed?!! Did they mean it like that or were they trying to make it easier on you? As long as they are doing the right thing by you

Anyway AFM, Sam is great, not rolling yet but grabbing at lots of things. Loves sticking his fist in his mouth a lot!! He too has tummy time where he tends to just lie there and doesn't want to lift his head much but when he does he is very good. I find that Sam mainly does his talking when on his back on the floor and is very talkative when on the change table!! Sitting up doesn't talk as much. I can't wait til I see him starting to roll. Didn't have too much of a wonder week, two days a bit unsettled and today is having problems with wind. He was having good morning sleeps last week for about 2 1/2 hours but today seems to be back to 25 minutes!!
For a whole week now has been sleeping from 10pm til 6am which is great but I am waiting for him to change back!!!
His new bedroom is very very light so I am worried that he isn't going to sleep as well from this week in his new home! We stupidly have had the room dark as he always sleeps better when it is dark but his new bedroom has heaps more windows so I think next week is going to be a bad week. I know he has to get use to it though. Moving on Wednesday and getting lots of help from both grandmas!!!

[Miss E]

Just wanted to pop in and say a quick hello to everyone, seems like for ever since I posted but I have been keeping up with everything.

Jetta, maybe try wrapping Sam again. I found that when I started trying to wean Ash from wrapping it made it near impossible for him to get to sleep. He would just grizzle/cry until he wore himself out completely and then would only sleep for 30 or 40 minutes. Now that I've started wrapping him again things are back to normal. I guess he just isn't ready. Mind you we still have the problem of him rolling onto his tummy and getting stuck, but if we rescue him quickly he doesn't wake up. Last night we thought we might try just putting him in his sleeping bag without wrapping him. I'd just fed him and he was sound asleep, but the minute I put him down and started doing up the bag his arms started flying around and he woke himself up

[BekZ]

Hi Guys,

Life is hectic for me atm.

Jetta - Hugs we are going through the same here. Ditto to the advice Lovelycate has given. Keep up the sleep associations and be consistant. If he gets too upset change his scenry as Jasp mentioned then try agin. Eventually they do get it.

AFUS - Evie got her needles yesterday and she is not happy at all. She won't sleep unless there is a boob in her mouth and she has a temp. Her weight is 6.2kgs and lenght 64cms. She is so close to rolling too.

MissE - I took your lead and have introduced some water too.