Babies Born ~ July 2013 #1

Hi Girls

Jack is finally crawling. We are away at my mums place and he just started crawling properly yesterday. It was lovely my parents got to see it first hand too as they live away from us. Its still early days with the crawling but we will have to totally baby proof when we get home. We are pretty organised but need to put up a few more gates. Also, Easter Bunny bought Jack his first tooth. Such a cute and adorable age. He is sleeping through the night. I am back at work 4 days a week now and its a lot but we are coping. His daycare center is great and they listen to our needs. He has been pullling up and standing for such a long time we all thought he would just start walking.

Cinders - I cant believe bubs has taken a few steps. Gosh thats exciting.

Andie - sorry to hear your bubs has the sniffles and it not sleeping too well. I hope it improves quickly.

Tasha - its so lovely to hear your enjoying motherhood. Your dd sounds gorgeous.

Hi Peeks and everyone else.

tasha - I hear you on not wanting to 'encourage' the walking... it sounds terrible to say doesn't it, but they will be unstoppable when they start walking! Having said that, we will be buying a walker thing too soon (something with a handle & wheels anyway). to answer your question, he goes to sleep straight away after night wakings (although not at 4am this morning... didn't go back to sleep till 5.30am... arghhhh!), after a boob. no crying. just grizzling if I try & resettle without a boob. I need to try something now, its one thing for me to be delirious but I think he's starting to get over tired from all the night wakings too. got little bags under his eyes today, poor little guy.

vic - crawling & a tooth - how sweet! he timed that very well & im sure your parents loved it. I was just saying to my mum the other day, I wonder if my little one will just walk instead of hands/knees crawling bc he just loves being on his feet. always standing whenever he can. he has done a couple of 'proper' crawls, like one or two movements, but then flops back down to his speedy commando crawl. :)

afm - little one is a bit better today, although now his cheeks are bright red so im assuming teeth again. seems in good spirits though. little trooper. going to try & setlle without a feed for one of his wakings tonight... which one - 9.30/10pm, 12.30/1am, 3.30/4am?! ;)

Andie, dd fed at 10pm (dreamfeed) and then 3-4am. The 3-4am was first dropped around 4 months old. 10pm feed I dropped around 7 months. But in your case i'd start with the 12:30-1 feed and once thats dropped you can work on the 3-4am. I noticed a huge difference in dd once she was sleeping all night. She just became so happy and content during the day. ( maybe she gets that from me lol)

Thanks, Tasha. I agree, I'm going to work on the 1am feed first. I tried last night, but he wasn't having any of it so I just fed him & we all went back to bed. I'm going to have to get a bit more sleep before I try again I think. I don't have the energy reserves to keep at it atm. :-/

Andie are you co sleeping ?

no, I wish. I've tried, he doesn't like it/get it really. happier in his own bed, which is still in our room, next to our bed. ; )

Wow, walking already! I bet both your girls will love playing together, Cinder :)

We still do the dream feed here, around 10:30pm, and Emily is still in our room too. I don't want my baby to grow up! :( DS2 still ends up on the floor beside my bed every night, and DS1 too on the odd occasion. Makes me wonder why we built a 4 bedroom house, when the 5 of us are all in the same room haha ;)

Emily has just started grinding her teeth! Woke up to the horrible sound of it this morning. She only has 4.5 teeth, so it's a wonder she even manages to grind them, but at 6:30 in the morning, it's not fun :wall: Apart from that she is just a delight to have around, I feel so blessed to have her in our lives. She's such a happy baby - 99% of the time ;) We are close to walking here too, like most of you we aren't encouraging it, but not discouraging it either, just letting her go at her own pace. My boys have always been rough play, get into everything, kick the footy in the house, touch everything... kinda kids!! So we don't really have nick-naks or anything breakable around! lol. We still have magnetic locks on the kitchen cupboard with the cleaning stuff from when they were younger, and they are on a couple of drawers in the kitchen too. We've got a safety gate across the entrance to the hallway to keep her out of the boys' bedrooms.

Peeks, so glad your little one is doing well :) Argh the grinding! It's awful isn't it?

Andie, do you use a dummy? If it had not been for dd having a dummy when she sleeps it would have been a lot harder to settle her overnight. Luckily for me she only has one for sleeps and doesn't want it any other time.

peeks, I might try doing the dream feed again too. although he is waking at 10/10.30pm atm anyway, so no need I guess! I am with you, I do not want my little baby to grow up... but then I love seeing him learn/do new things. he is like a little toddler already, looks so grown up in his little boy clothes. still gorgeous & perfect in every way of course. ;)

tasha - we don't use a dummy, but we did use it in the beginning at around 7-8 weeks to help settle. he had it randomly for a couple of weeks then decided he didn't want it. he sucks his fingers instead now, which is good bc it means he can comfort/settle himself sometimes. not sure whether its something I need to worry about later or not, but it works for now.

happy mothers day for tomorrow everyone. xx

Happy Mother's Day ladies :)

Thinking of presents and cakes and birthday ideas already :/
Can't believe it's not long until our bubs turn 1 !!!

Anyone have any thoughts on birthdays yet ?

Oh so am I!, Can't believe I'm planning a 1st birthday already :) I'm doing a Hello Kitty cake!

Thinking about it too... but not sure what to do. Probably just a family get together, some sort of cake. And trying not to be sad that my precious, sweet boy is approaching 1 year old. :-/

I have had our local gymnastics club booked out for months :) Being winter its a great space where the kids be feral and wear themselves out without trashing my house. Bubble guppies theme here. Its gone by so fast. I get clucky when I see newborns. I can see how people want more than 1baby:)

Oh Vic, I shudder when I see a newborn! It just reminds me of stressed out, no sleep, losing my mind depression :(

definitely clucky too, vic. although I need some sleep before I seriously start planning for another. I loved the newborn phase, such a special, fascinating, overwhelming time. : )

tasha - I reckon if you ever decided to have another, you might surprise yourself. you've managed to come out the other side of a really rough start to motherhood & now you have your happy, gorgeous little girl to remind you of how awesome it can be. on the other hand, you might struggle again but at least you know you survived it once, you can do it again! if ever you wanted to of course... ; )

Thanks Andie :) At first I was 100% no. Then I am at the stage of probably not, but it's not completely ruled out. By the time I decide if I am ready to do it all again I will be too old! :lol: I just worry about PND and how will dd cope if I lose my mind again? So much to consider before going there again. But I would like a sibling for dd.

I can't remember how old you are, on my phone so can't see... but I think you have a few more years to figure things out..?! I've had a few people close to me with pnd, so can understand (to some extent) your concerns there. It can be quite scary. I don't want to trivialise things, but I'm sure you will figure it all out when/if the time comes. :-)

The second is always easier than the first Tasha :)
Well it was for me haha .. So much easier , you already have had your first so know what's going on :)

Oh definitely! Gets easier with each one ;)

We'll be doing something low-key for Emily's birthday. I have a large family, so even just inviting her Aunts & Uncles and cousins it is a big crowd! I've already bought a few little things and put them away, and got one of those plastic cubby houses too (just one of the cheapies from B!g W). My Mum is getting her a Cabbage Patch doll - so I've been on the hunt for the perfect one! ;) I want one with blonde hair and blue eyes, with a pretty face... but they are not so easy to come by here! Seen plenty online, but with the postage it ends up costing far too much.

Anyone little ones saying any words yet ? DD2 is saying 5 !! where did my baby go :(

Had anyone's bubs eyes changed colour ?

No words yet, plenty of 'mah', 'bah', squealing & sing-song, quiet babble/talking. Eyes still the same colour, blue. I've heard they can change up till 2 years. No idea if this is true.

Sleep is still a bit of an issue here, but has a couple of good nights recently so hoping for a bit of an improvement. Eating is going well & I'll be surprised if he's not on the weight chart at our next mchn appt. ; )

Mumumumum and dadadadadad here. And recently what I think is 'car' :)

We have "mum ,dad ,bye ,hi , nan"

Blue eyes still , both DH and I have brown eyes and DD1 eyes went brown but no changes in DD2 eyes yet

No changes in eye colour here either.

Still at the babbling stage mostly - says mum & dad, but not with any real purpose. More often than not, says "mum" while dad is holding her ;)

I thought dd might have blue eyes as everyone on DH side has blue and we have brown. The GP said both parents have to be blue to produce blue eyes. Brown is dominant, but if you have a green/hazel on either side you could produce green/hazel.
Dd eyes were blue/slate kinda colour, but now they look to be turning green. It's different all the time! Still not much hair at all, but from what I can see it looks dark like mine.

When can you know for sure?

my little ones eyes were slate coloured at the beginning too, I loved that dark, deep colour. so beautiful to look in to his eyes... I'm getting a bit clucky atm. visited a pregnant friend recently, which prompted me to start looking at my sons baby photos... he was so small! and snugly... and gorgeous. he is still snugly & gorgeous, but a lot bigger. ; )

tasha, might have to disagree with your gp. my brother (brown eyes) & SIL (blue) have 2 children, both with blue eyes. dh has blue & I'm brown, so far out little guy has blue. but that can change I guess.

DH has blue eyes, I have hazel... Em has blue!

Oh my !! We are walking non stop now , just then it was 10 steps in one go

Oh my god Cinders. Walking???? Far out. I am not ready emotionally ready for Jack to walk.

We are saying Mum, Dad, Nan, Car and Ja (jack)

I love the crawling stage. He is independent and can amuse himself. He just follows me around the house now. It makes getting ready in the mornings so much easier. Still trying to work on self feeding as he vomits the lumps up. He is getting better though. No vomit over the weekend. My Dh has a really narrow throat and had to have surgery to enlarge it so not too sure if Jacks throat is narrow too. I find he is better feeding himself and seems to be getting enough in to fill him up. Its so cute packing his lunchbox for daycare although I am sure the novalty will wear off soon enough.

We got Jacks birthday present freighted over. Toys r us had a trike that I had been stalking was on sale so i grabbed one. Its one with the handle for me to push. We live 3 minutes from the beach so I can imagine walking him along the foreshore in spring.

Exciting times ahead :)

walking, that's just too far... they cant be that old yet, can they?! my little guy is starting to hold on to the couch then attempt to drift to the next surface (activity table/chair etc). he is pretty impressed with himself. i don't think im ready for him to walk yet either... but i guess i don't really have a say! he will look pretty funny if he does walk soon bc he is so tiny.

struggle town here atm, little guy was up from 3-5am last night (guess its this morning really...), im super tired. im patiently waiting for this phase to end, but it seems to be sticking around. anyone's little ones copping some bumps to the head with their new found freedom of crawling/standing/walking? its going to be an accident prone stage i think... ;)

Jack constantly has bruises on his head and shins lol. He prefers to cruise along things than crawl had been cruising for ages. He crawls uo to the passage hall then stands up and cruises down it till he gets to the room he wants then plops on the floor and crawls into it. So funny. He is heaps quick at crawling now. Super fast when trying to get away from me.

Andie - sorry to hear your little one is keeping you up. Is he getting cold that time of night/morning? Jack has gone vack to waking up after 6am. He was waking around 5am and done with sleeping but I think he was getting cold so put extra layers on under his bag and seems to have done the trick.

Cinder, oh my gosh walking!
Vic, that would look so funny :lol: It's amazing how fast they can get, especially when a baby gate is left open!

Bruises here too, we have floorboards and rugs so it doesn't help. I want to get one of those walker things from vtech and see how she goes. She's just got over conjunctivitis and a chest infection so that wasn't fun. But other than that she's doing great. Still sleeps well, dribble has finally stopped and she's just changed routines. we dropped a feed and she's eating more solids now too.

vic - how cute, my little guy plops on his bottom when he wants to go down too. funny little things. no, he's not getting cold at night. his feet, legs etc are toasty when I change in the middle of the night. thankyou for the suggestion though. xx

tasha - glad to hear your little one is feeling better, so hard when they are sick. i think my little one is changing daytime routines too... seems to not want to breastfeed as much during day & naps are at a later time too.

I love reading all your posts :) it's great to hear about all the changes in everyone's little ones , I love how all babies develop at different times :)

Still can't believe my little one is walking :/ I mean it's a happy and sad time , I remember with DD1 all her firsts were very welcomed but now with DD2 it's like "please stop growing so fast " :(

She is so proud of herself though and she does look super cute , I can't stop her growing and doing new things so I just have to go with it I guess haha

Some very cute things she does is picks up a hair brush and tries to brush her hair , gets my hand cream picks it up and starts rubbing her hands together haha , ohh and picking up anything putting it to her ear and saying "bye bye "
I'm not allowed on the phone without having it on speaker to she can hear too haha .

Anyone know their little ones weight and length ?

Peeks how is your other kids going with your DD?

Vic how do you go with your little man being in care ? With the feeding , are you doing BLS or spoon feeding still , just regarding your post about gagging ?

Tasha , are you working or still at home ?

Andie , how's the bf going ? Still demand feeding ?

We have 3 teeth now !!

Cinder, yes I am working one day, possibly going to two days next week. My limit would be four days max. But my pay is pretty good for the industry so I'm happy with 2 days at the moment :) I get bored very easily so was excited to be rejoining the workforce, even though I miss my little chicken when there!

Melbournes weather is the pits at the moment. Forecast rain for the next week :( I really hate the rain and cold. I am contemplating a seachange, but would miss my family and friends too much. DD is doing well, she's liking the new routine. Only problem is now I can't get out of the house till at least 12:30 after she's had lunch. I can always head out early, but I prefer her to be in her cot for her morning sleep. That way she's nice and refreshed for the rest of the day and I don't have to deal with tantrums lol


Who is letting their little ones use a spoon themselves? I do try, but she just gets it EVERYWHERE and then she sucks on the handle end. I prefer to just feed her myself that way I know she is full and she will be content for hours.

Yeah we have done BLS so never spoon fed , I have always given a spoon or fork and let her play with it and try and use it if she wants to..
Yeah re def messy but fun and a great way for them to learn what they like , the tastes textures and how to eat different foods . I find they won't always want to eat the same amount of good and will eat what they need and want :)

It works for us :)
Of my DD will suck the other end of the spoon too hehe , it's very cute lol

What's foods is your DD having Tasha ?

Hi :) DD had her first plane ride with an impromptu trip to Melbourne to meet her Great-Nan who is quite ill at the moment. A whirlwind 5 days of hospital visits! Glad to be home again and slowly getting back to our usual routine. She was a star on the plane! Grinning at anyone who looked in her direction, extremely well behaved too! She can walk across the room, takes about 20 steps, still prefers to crawl though! Much quicker at crawling, and can really get her speed up if she has something she knows you will take off her!! haha.

Cinder, she has pretty much everything now. Chicken or beef casserole, bolognese, vegies & cheese, rice pudding, chunky fruit mash, yoghurt. I usually give her a bowl of food by spoon and then after i let her finish with a few pieces of fruit or a rice cake or sandwich that she eats on her own. I guess i just like to make sure she's getting enough first.

Cinders - we are mostly bls now. I do spoon feed him dinner though to make sure he gets enough but he feeds himself desert.

We have popped another tooth. His top one has come up so he has cross cut. He is also starting to try taking steps. Letting go of things and lungy at me while sort of taking steps. Its so cute.

Foot and mouth is going around over here and doing the rounds of the child care centres. God willing we dont get it :(