Vacinations are always horrid afairs! but I think worth it.
I have an electic pump I use when I get the chance and just express whats there. It adds up over a day and stores for acouple of days in the fridge. We use tommee tippee closer to nature bottles and all my babies have liked them over other brands. But I also give formula in bottle. took awhile to find 1 we liked and she liked- gotta stop DS2 from going in and eating the powder
Think we'll go next week for a check. Keen to see what she weighs and sure shes bigger.
Loving the smiles, giggles and burbles suspect once she starts talking she wont stop!
well first week on my own WHOA, DH had the first 2 weeks off and my Mum had 5 weeks off to help me, which was awesome just having the company more then anything!
but my first week has been fantastic, older 2 havent been too well behaved but im coping 1000times better then i ever thought
hudson started off good but as the week wore on he has been clingy but still sleeping 10-11hrs anight he had a few nights of 8hrs which ment he got over tired
went out and bought a new pram today! i had a P&T Dash, but quite a few things i didnt like about it so i bought a Baby Jogger City Select got my first pram with a bassinette so totally over the moon
DH has no idea what i spent he said a figure so i just agreed lol
Hudsons still only small lol 0000 clothes still (000 bonds) his next MCHN appt is tuesday so hopefully his gainned lots of weight
but his become so chucky its a chuck, we had several days of horrible projectile vomiting which i wore several times yuck but usually he just throws up non stop
he threw up so bad the day in the car (silently) i had to buy him a new outfit before i could hold him
Hudson can have his needles next wednesday (ill book in for the friday) he had to wait til he was over 2 months old as he was 3 weeks early
KT saw your photos on FB belley is gorgeous xoxo (my daughter had the same outfit lol)
How are all the bubs going that have been vacinated?
I am just loving the interaction we are starting to get, the smiles, eyebrow wiggles, the almost giggles
She feels very different to the boys. Her daddy and brothers so in love with her its gorgeous to watch them interacting.
Finding it almost impossible to put her down so we have ordered a baby sling in the hopes that I will be able to have hands free sometimes and be able to get off the couch. I want to spend more time with my boys sefore they go back to kindy on the 1st Sept and also have that pesky 10kg to lose that just aint budging!
Anybody got any diet tips? Im breastfeeding alittle stil so cant use any wonder pills or teas and too busy and tired to get more then 10 mins on our tread mill every few days. Air polution here is bad so cant take baby out really. (sigh)
Little lady is gonna be on the move soon. She has the hip push action going, if shes like her brothers she'll be a rolly polly baby by next weekend. Thats an end of an area for us (sigh) they do grow so fast
kaytee - i have the philips avent manual pump and use the bottles that they have too. and then freeze the ebm in special ebm bags.
sorry to hear that the immunisations were upsetting, but atleast they are done for now so you dont have to worry about them.
william has started sleeping longer at night 6-7hours between feeds, but with it has been unsettled again. i was really enjoying the less crying. but back to being inconsolable, and difficult to feed. comes off after 5mins then screams if i try to give him any more. and then cries in my arms no matter what i do. have started trying to put him to bed earlier at night incase he is becoming overtired, but it may take a few days before he is accustomed. so trying shower at 6-6.30, followed by feed and then bed. it is really upsetting hearing him screaming, sounds like he has hurt himself, but its just that he wont let himself go to sleep when hes tired. he starts to drift off then flails his arms and legs around and wakes himself up, which makes him scream again. cant wait til this phase is over.
I feel for you Bskilner It's horrible when they scream and cry and you have no idea what's wrong. I suppose the silver lining is that you're getting a good block of sleep to recover, but it does make for difficult evenings.
DT, I can't believe how fast they're growing! Yesterday Annabelle was in her play gym, and really focusing on one of the hanging toys and deliberately hitting it. It looked like she was trying to grab it, but can't quite coordinate that yet. She's just getting so big and learning so many new things, even that tiny little thing made me cry lol. Is Sophie rolling from front to back, or back to front? I worry I don't have Annabelle on her tummy enough for her to really try, but she's really strong so might have to give her more tummy time.
And yes, those almost giggles are so adorable. It's like she's trying so hard to get it into a laugh, but it just comes out as funny breathing with a huge grin lol. I'll probably cry again when she starts laughing!
MoT, to me you are Super Mum! I really don't think I could do this with two older children too. People who come over tell me how fantastic I'm doing because the house is always clean and we're all so happy, but I think it's easy to do stuff when Belley's asleep during the day. Give two older children and I reckon I'd fall to pieces! Glad your first week on your own went well, and at least you're getting plenty of rest at nights.
We had a few crappy nights the last week, Belley was only sleeping for about 3 hours at a time, and wasn't sleeping properly when she was asleep. On Saturday night she woke at 1am, then again at 2 so I brought her to bed with us. She had awful lower wind pain, and this way I could sleep and feed and move her legs all kind of at the same time, was great. DH said he woke up at 4 because I was snoring, he looked over and I was asleep with Belley attached having a feed. He said he almost had to leave the room so he wouldn't wake us up laughing lol.
Then yesterday! She only had 2 and a half hours sleep all day, in one block in the morning. Then she would not sleep, we'd just get her to sleep and she'd wake up crying. Finally got her to sleep at 10:30 by feeding her to sleep in bed. And hooray, all that wakefulness tired her out, she only woke once last night! I'm guessing all this is still part of her growth spurt/8 week wonder week, so really hoping she grows out of it soon.
Had 2 mth check, 5.65kg ang 59-60cm long. Had oral vacination today, she screwed her face up and spat the med out how do you convince a 2 mther to swollow gross stuff? We did it in the end but shes a stubborn we thing.
Got my Sling today, its in the wash now and can hardly wait to try it out tomorrow!
our weekend was pretty good, i got to try out my new pram
today Hudson slept 3hrs in his own bed without spewing too
Havent done his 8 week injections (but i was told to wait til after aug 17th as he was 3 weeks early)
got his MCHN appt tomorrow, only issue will be is Tahtah is sick and ill have jhett too so could have my hands full lol (unless i can convince my old boss to have Jhett while i talk to the nurse)
Thanks KT xoxo sometimes i feel like supermum othertimes i just feel like a hyper mummy just dont stop (but all 3 have a rest/nap late afternoon which helps a great deal and the older 2 sleep 12hrs overnight, i didnt cope with hudson waking overnight for a feed so i think any mummy still doing nightfeeds is amazing)
Daddy is finally seeing why im so besotted in Hudson his finally smiling and giggling and staring non stop at his daddy loves his big brother and is getting used to his sister lol
DT what sling did you get??? we bought a baby bjorn for me which i found life saving! (dont need it as much currently but next week could be a different story lol)
I was wondering when Sophie was going to stop over night feeds She feeds at 10.30-11pm, 3.30am and 6.30-7am both the boys did this til about 6 mths.
We got a minizone. sling Gosh its miles of material! Its stil wet this morning so im a tad disapointed Iwont get to try it today and Sophie is grumpy too.
Sophie is gonna be a squealer! alreadyy she can scream louder than her brothers- suspect this is a survival instinct gotta be heard over the siblings
Last edited by Butterfly Dawn; August 16th, 2011 at 11:35 AM.
Kaytee - william loves his play gym, he is constantly hitting the hanging mirror and making it move. it has a pull cord which makes it play music, and he has activated it once but he keeps trying. plus he has started reaching out for the rings on the bassinette lol.
william hasnt rolled over yet, only onto his side.
dt - william also has a voice that carries, has a really high pitched squeal that is ear wretching.
william didnt sleep for a long stint last night, feed at 8.30pm, then at 1.20am, then again at 5.30 and 8.30am. but on plus side not so much screaming, which i think i prefer.
DT, Sophie is pretty close to Annabelle at her 8 week check - only 300g off, and same length. It's funny the differences in babies of the same age though, at MG there's a baby a few days younger than Annabelle (they're the youngest two there) and she's tiny! She looks like a little newborn, she's smaller now than Annabelle was at birth lol.
Gotta laugh at the squealing, I bet she's competing with her brothers!
That oral vaccine stuff, Belley swallowed it well, it came out a few times but apparently there's plenty in the little thingie in case they spit some out. Did Sophie have a reaction to it? It went straight through Belley, we had a huge green poop that night (some of it in the bath, ew!).
Hope your sling works well. I have a Peanut Shell and she absolutely hates it. Now that I have it, it doesn't seem well made. To me, the outside part that goes around baby should be longer than the inside part that goes against me. It's not though, so she's really squished in there. We've got a Combi Carrier too, so just waiting til she's big enough to go upright in it.
MoT, isn't it strange when they sleep in their beds the first time? I still can't get used to Belley having day naps in her cot, so she still has some out in the lounge in her pram so I can see her lol.
BSK, I'm with you - I'd prefer more wake ups over screaming/crying anyday! Hope soon William can sleep longer and not cry.
Belley had her two month birthday yesterday And she celebrated well! Rolled from tummy to back for the first time, did a kind of half giggle (I don't know if it counts as her first giggle lol, but it was close!) and slept from 9pm to 6am - perfect timing as that's when we wake for DH to go to work. We woke more than her to check on her lol. And I had a serious case of rock boobs when she did wake!
Hudson had his 8 week yesterday he weighs 4.24kg and his 57cm long
because he hasnt gained much weight he needs to go back in a month but my MCHN is very happy with us (because jhett was born big 3.940 or 8.11lbs but didnt gain much weight at this age im not worried)
hudson is still sleeping 10-11hrs a night but still in my bed so now that his napping 3-4hrs a day (at one time) in his bassinette still in the lounge room with me but he sleeps in it i need to start moving him into the bassinette over night!
need to go on friday for his injections! my family GP is away currently but luckly another makes me feel comfortable.
we are getting so many smiles and giggles , only issue is when daddy comes home i get " quick mummy look at this" but i get it every 2mins which makes cooking dinner impossible LOL
Jhett has started picking him up which gives me a heart failure i can just see envisions of hudson being dropped on his head, but i gotta be careful not to scare Jhett off
but Jhett will sit on the couch for hrs(almost) holding Hudson worst part is trying to get hudson away from him even when his screaming for feed, its sweet
KT- what an awesome 2 months for belley! xoxo
DT- my tahtah is a squealer too plus she was the bigger sook lol
B-hope william is settling again for you xoxo
had a good night last night, not too much crying but easily settled with hugs. then slept from 9pm until 4am, then again until 8.30, then slept until 11am. so good night overall.
Awww thats so cute, Jhett holding him. must be a responsible loving big brother.
Yes the vacine went straight through Sophie too wicked green poops! we missed another bath poop by just afew mins but earlierin the day I was changing nappy with Ollie helping and there was a poop explosion, got me, Ollie and everything around us. Ollie burst into tears when he realised what had happened and said "I hate Sophie, she pooped on me"
How much down time do your babies have? I think Sophie isnt getting as much as the boys did- possibly because Im worried they will run over her (literally) Thought she was gonna roll over but she doesnt seem interested now and she isnt reaching for things yet. When the boys are back at kindy I'll put her down more and have more 1 on 1 time I guess.
I just put her in her bassinette- there isnt much room left in there. Maybe have to look at getting a portable cot to pop her in, in the lounge or I guess I could start putting her into her cot in my bedroom. she'll seem so small in that cot
Its very quiet in here
Sophie is having a velcro baby day but the boys have gone with their dad to work so thats cool. Gonna try catch up on some sleep
Hope y'all are okay
just a little update, since theres not much new from everyone else.
william has taken to sleeping longer at night constantly, around 8-10hrs between feeds, which is leaving me a little hard with the missing feeds, but im sure my body will adjust shortly. He is still growing up a storm and think he will be out of 00 soon, he is just too long. he has been crying less at night too, so hoping that he is about to grow out of the colic.
we had needles today and i was so brave i didnt cry when Hudson did lol
Hudson is still being a sweet cept for being extra extra clingy so much so 3 days straight someone was holding him if he wasnt in his pram
loves his pram so much and i love my pram too lol
got a busy few weeks coming up sold our house and moving into a rental for a while so now ive gotta find a rental that suits our needs
but with the selling of our house it means i can have new car (went car shopping sunday and it was like chewing off my elbow only 1 7seater Territory but not in the model i want so we looked at other SUVs and none of them had any boot space once the back seats went up which made the 7seater pointless so gotta keep looking)
im also suffering from my bad back again (always had back issues but after my daughter they got worse) and i woke up with a nasty throat infection luckly we were already going drs so now im on antibiotics and strong painkillers
Hudson is still bed sharing i just cant bring myself to use the bassinette yet (which is so strange as i never bedshared with my older 2)
but i love the mornings when i can watch him wake up wakes up with the funniest face expressions almost like relief im still here and yay im awake lol
DT your boys are super lucky to be able to go to work with daddy (i remember loving going to my parents work growing up) hopefully sophie relaxes enough away from you to let you nap xoxo growing outta the bassinette already????
Jhett can be an awesome big brother (key word CAN lol) KT hows miss belley doing??? B hows william doing??? Tara hows Hamish coming along???
just air kisses for everyone today as i dont wanna pass on my bug
ive got FB so anyone that would like to add me my name is Mel Schmidt and theres a picture of Hudson
william is also getting close to the end of the bassinette, he is a tall boy. even worse when he kicks around, as he ends up with his head right at the top of it.
got my first pram with a bassinette so totally over the moon
gotta be heard over the siblings
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