Dt: I'm just wondering, is the 100 day celebration just a family tradition, or is it a cultural tradition from somewhere?
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Jude 07/10/2008 | Lilac 16/06/2011
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Dt: I'm just wondering, is the 100 day celebration just a family tradition, or is it a cultural tradition from somewhere?
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Jude 07/10/2008 | Lilac 16/06/2011
DH is chinese,so I guess its a cultural thing. You celebrate baby, either at 3 days, or 100 days. Have a noddle lunch and a banquet dinner for relatives friends and important people in your life. Its also customary to get special photos done. (use to just be special to get a photo donr now its a blardy expensive pacjage deal at a photo place with our kid wearing "cute" costums) Special prayers will be said, child can be blessed and offerings made to what ever god/s godess/s China being confucious based, believes - for the most part- it doesnt matter what religion you belong to really.
Ah OK, that's interesting. I'd never heard of it before. I have to say I don't have the energy for celebrating 100 days, so good on you.
Also, kt: I wanted to say, I'm glad mothers group is getting better. It's really hard when people parent in such vastly different ways, it's one thing in life where you can't just say "each to their own, it doesn't hurt anyone else"because there's a baby involved and I'm very anti tizzy hall and I think her methods are damaging, I feel sick at the thought of people forcing routines and restricting feeding for a tired, hungry baby whose basic needs are so simple, can't we just meet them?
Anyway, that's my rant over.
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Jude 07/10/2008 | Lilac 16/06/2011
Morning everyone :) Been quiet in here for a while!
DT, what was that uncle thinking!! I guess if babys are kind of 'rare' there then he may not really know how to treat a small baby? I dunno, but I reckon I'd have freaked out a little if I'd seen that. Sounds like the day went pretty well though - and at least you get cute photos out of it :)
Yeah I don't get the schedule/Tizzie Hall thing either. A routine, yes - Annabelle knows that when I start undressing her at night, she's having nappy free time, and she knows when Daddy comes to get her that he's going to give her a bath, then it's time to get dressed, have a feed and go to sleep. When she shows tired signs during the day I'll hold her close, and feed her quietly to sleep. But none of it is set to a time.
Like this morning, she woke at 7, but was hungry at 8. So I fed her and she fell asleep. Not for long, but still. Seeing as the schedule says to put her in bed at 9, no earlier, what should I have done? Would feel cruel to wake her. And then if she does miraculously go to sleep right on 9, but wake at 10, you're supposed to try to get them back to sleep. So if it works at say 10:30, they have to be up again at 11, so you have to wake her up! Seems like the poor kid is just getting messed around, I'd much rather fit in with what she's doing. Plus, it means as long as Belley is fed/clean etc, we can go anywhere at any time. These guys won't leave the house between 9&11 and 1&3 because it's the scheduled nap time.
K, I'm kind of like you. I started to think "Well who says my way is better? They're just doing what works for them." But then I see these little babies, and it really sucks to think they're being so scheduled, that their needs and wants are being completely overridden to fit in with their parents' timetable. I dunno. While I think their methods aren't great, last night there was another new story about "the dangers of co-sleeping" so I'm sure they all think I'm a danger to Annabelle. Oh well, I'll just keep doing things my way and leave them to it.
I can't believe we're all coming up to four months!! Annabelle has her needles on Monday :( :( Looking forward to seeing how much she's grown - she had a massive growth spurt last week, I reckon you could watch her grow lol. And she's back to feeding every two hours over night, so she must be doing some real growing I reckon!
Hi ladies. Been reading and not posting. Glad to hear that bubba's are mostly going well.
Hamish had his 4mth checkup yesterday. His weight has dropped to the 25th percentile but he's been really fussy at the breast. He weighs 6.025kgs. Which is still an average gain of 100grs a week but oh well. Nurse asked me was I thinking about solids. I said no as he wasn't giving any signs he was interested. I'm happy to just keep b/f until 6mths unless he shows a desperate interest. He has his needles tomorrow. Fun times.
Ooh a new name! I was about to welcome you then recognised the avvy & bub's name lol. Good luck for Hamish's needles tomorrow :hug:
Annabelle is seriously interested in food right now. She watches us eat so intently and tried to steal my apple the other day lol. I'm gonna pop on over to the Baby Led Weaning thread because we want to try that, and I reckon there are other signs that she'll be ready other than just the interest in our food.
I reckon we're going to cop a bit around here for doing it that way - there's a local GP telling the girls at Mother's Group that new studies say babies should start solids at 4 months to avoid allergies. Pfft. So they're all listening to that and Tizzie Hall and starting early. Plus MIL thinks Belley is a "fatty" (she spent all weekend calling her fatty) and is extra hungry and needs rice cereal. Yeah, cos that's so much better than breast milk!! Gah.
Anyway sorry, having a little rant again lol
hey girls,
whoa its been a little while...............so much going on we sold our house and had to find a rental FAST that took a while......got a rental :D but DH broke his finger and needed a quick surgery to make sure he didnt do any REAL damage and its moving WEEK and he cant really help! so we have to rely on people to help us which is good but means i have to stay on top of DH making sure he doesnt use his hand!
Bubba doesnt sleep very well overnight so im so exhausted but i think ive solved the issue, he likes complete darkness!
my back is very very painful :'( so by night im in tears crying from the pain but off to chiro tomorrow FX it helps
Bubba had a paed appiontment last week,
bubba weighs around 5kg slowly gaining his weight
we moved house on sunday :D now just gotta pay to get old house cleaned painted and lawnsd mowed!
chrio didnt help :'( but back into physio this is all from 3 pregnancys so close together so in a far amount of pain currently but painkillers help
had a S**T night last night he just screamed blue murder all night for his dummy!
DHs finger is slowly healing might be better if he didnt break the cast in 2 days!
(sorry if this post is all over the place started typing the other day and got distracted)
Hi all lovely mummies! I'm new in this thread. I kinda followed some of you in the the belly buddies thread but I didn't get around to posting much. And things have been exceptionally hectic for me since the birth of DS2 - I'm sure you all understand - so I haven't been in yet.
DS2 has had a rough start - we thought he had reflux but it didn't respond to medication and he was dropping down the percentiles in weight, spewing everywhere, crying for 1 hour after every feed. Turns out he has a cows milk protein allergy and it took 2 prescription formulas until we've found one that agrees with him. Still not great at feeding, but putting on weight now which is good.
I"ve been reading your posts and it has reminded me that he'll need to have his needles soon.
We are umming and ahhhing about starting solids. He spits up a lot of milk, so maybe solids would stay down better. And he does seem interested in our food. Plus he has great hand control and good head control...
Anyway enough of a ramble from me!
kaytee - yeh i dont get tizzy hall stuff, how can you set babies by the clock when they dont understand time??
i had william cosleeping with us the other night after his immunisations, coz then he slept relatively well and he was upset. good luck with your immunisations, william was off for that night but back to normal the next day.
i think william is about to have another growth spurt, he has been feeding 2.5hourly of a day and 4hourly of a night and has put on some chubb. His measurements at 4 months were height: 68cm weight: 7.51kg.
melbournemumma - sounds like your on the right track with waiting for solids to me. as long as he is growing and putting weight on, and is a happy bubba i wouldnt worry about what percentile he is in. good luck with your needles.
MoT - congrats on selling your place and gl with the move. sorry to hear about dh finger but glad that its fixed.
william likes complete darkness too, no night light.
sorry to hear about your back, nothing worse than a bad back and having to carry your baby everywhere.
bloom - welcome to the thread
afm - the midwife at my centre said the new recommended age will probably be 5 months, but to go by what your baby wants. ie william is watching us eat with interest and opening his mouth to a spoon but he hasnt got the hang of pushing his tongue to back of mouth. so she said to wait until hes reaching out for food and crying if you dont give it to him. coz she said babies tend to tell you when they are ready, and it usually coincides with when their gut is ready too.
I have no intention of rushing to solids. Blending up baby food is a massive pita. I'm just loving breast feeding my baby girl. I think I might breast feed her until she's 20.
A friend of mine was copping a lot of flak because she hadn't started her 7-month old on solids, but her baby is so healthy and big and happy, she obviously isn't missing anything.
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Jude 07/10/2008 | Lilac 16/06/2011
wouldnt it be easier K! i hate the transistions to soilds so much work
Bloom i feel your pain, my eldest is still cows milk intolerent! and tried so many different formulas including the horribly expensive ones but he HATED them all so he stayed on EMB untill 11months then went onto soy, he loves soy milk
my DD was also cows milk intolerent but can now have dairy :D
and DS2 has cows milk allergy, reflux and heartburn but his BF and we just deal with the spewwing, my boys both had small slooow weight gains
DS1 dropped down the weight charts even lost weight as a newwie
DS2 didnt lose weight but only weighs 5kg but my MCHN & paed are both happy his gaining some weight
wishing you luck xoxo
Sophie is gettting ready for eating. She watches so closely and looks so disapointed everytime a spoon/ fork passes her by. The latest I have heard is that the tummy needs to be 17 weeks old to be able to handle food. So we will start offering then and just take it slowly.
How's everyone going?
Mum of Terrors, thanks for sharing about your kids milk intolerances. My DS2 is now doing really well on neocate (we couldn't exclusively bf due to hyperplasia)
Doubletrouble - yes! DS2 is pretty keen on looking at our food and even reaching out in the direction. What are you planning on starting Sophie on? My paed said no rice cereal and just heaps and heaps of veges for the first few months.
Bloom- No rice ceral, thats interesting. I have seen some pretty bad stuff about the chemicals found in some rice cereals lately so was humming and haaring about that. I'll jump on your wagon for that :lol: seeing as its Haloween soon and we'll have alot of pumpkin insides to eat once we have carved them, I'll start her on pumpkin I think. Also apple and some custard. Just see what she likes. Im a cheater to start I buy baby food jars, then when I know what she likes I make most of it and buy the stuff shes not keen on so I can keep trying but not wasting alot of food. DS1 was a vegemite toast and rusk fan so when shes older that'll be the go there. They can keep themselves amused for ages with toast- Just need to keep a watch on how much they get in their mouths, choaking is a scarey thing.
Yesterday she kicked up mega tantys if anybody ate around her so I sat her on my knee and gave her a spoon to play with, she didnt like that much so I gave her a couple of spoonfuls of formula and she loved it, she drank 2 then just started laughing and laughing so it got a bit messy. Thought it was a good way to satisfy her but not introduce food yet. We'll hold out a few more weeks.
Gosh, cant believe we are almost eating!
How is everybody else? What about you lurkers out there? :hiding: I can see you :rofl:
I will be starting william on rice cereal when hes showing a few more signs or when he is 5-6months old otherwise. And when he tolerates swallowing i will start him on vegies. midwife said not to start fruit and custard for a while. said babies prefer sweet so if you give them sweet early they wont want to eat vegies, also be careful with custard due to it being dairy plus some custards have egg in them.
I was on some American website - possibly Dr Sears... and there was a whole campaign against white rice cereal. Basically they were arguing that you should start babies on whole grain type rice cereal not processed. Google it if you are interested. (Nothing personal bskilner - each to their own etc).
I'm thinking of trying sweet potato and pumpkin as our firsts.
DS2 has been really sleepy today, he's fallen asleep after only about 30 minutes of awake time twice today, hence we are already on nap number 4 and it's only 3pm here. No pattern yet to his sleeps, can't wait till he hits the predictable 2 naps per day stage.
There are some good recipes in the baby food recipe thread (fancy that :lol:) I make custard with formula, I wouldnt give straight cows milk to a baby under 12mths (we have history of intolerence with cows milk) and I think, egg yolk, is another controv food, here they pump you- feed your baby egg yolk from 4 mths but not informing you it could increase chances of egg allergy- but if you google egg yolk, it can be very good for your childs brain.
If I make vege or fruit for baby (its often vege we'll be eating but adding no salt or sugar) but I am gonna make pear baked custard for us tonight- it sounds yummy and if the kids dont like it then I'll just have to eat it all myself hehe
IMO wholegrains are really important for kids so if we can get imported organic wholegrain cereal then I might just try- short of that I could always smash up the kids cherrios ;) white short grain rice is a fav in this country (surprise!) and is always the kids 1st food, slow cooked with heaps of water til its mush, baby starts on rice water then slowly moves to the mush rice and egg. MIL was horrified at what I did with DS2 and the fact that he wanted to feed himself and get messy :rofl: she stil feeds him baby ceral now, perhaps cant get over what a bad mummy I am.
Speaking of food, better get my A into G and prep dinner while Sophie is having a nap.
Once a day she is happy to go into her cot in our room and sleep, she almost enjoys it, lets out a cute sigh when she goes in, rolls her head, sucks her thumb and straight to sleep (we have lullaby playing too) its great, hope she continues to feel comfortable in there. Perhaps because there is no preasure to sleep in it, she knows if she doesnt want to sleep there we'll try something else (often stil holding her) small steps with velcro babys :)
bubba wont be starting soilds until at least 6months, DD2 gave us some very scary moment choking on her foods so she was almost 7months old when she started yet she was the most keen out of the older 2! Bubba has a very weak gag reflux so im in no hurry!
weve got our 4m MCHN appt tomorrow im guessing he weighs about 5.1kg hopefully more :D
he still wears 000 bonds to bed! and 000 oneies! younger babies are actually passing clothes/nappies onto us LMAO but his got the cutest little bum
DS1 had/has no bum the poor little thing and while bubba is smaller then he was his atleast got a bum
it is funny though DS1 was EBM and is small
DD was BF and is a real chubba (i love it so much)
and Bubba is BF, if DD wasnt BF id think my milk wasnt fatty enough but it must just be the boys!
Bubba is still obessed with his hands :D and yells at his swing or change table mobile when they stop working its funny watching/listening to him
He still doesnt have tummy time as he HATES it, so we dont push it, and his the 1st one out of all 3 that actually likes both me and DH
DS1 only liked his daddy (which made mon tues REAL FUN (NOT) when daddy went to work lol
DD only liked me she used to cry at daddy LMAO
but bubba loves us both :D
if your buying Baby food i found ONLY ORGANICS the best brand for allergies, my DS1 lived on that brand (hated home made food cept for weetbix) most have no dairy egg or gluten
DD wasnt a fan of jar food (ive still got the jars from her!) she liked feeding herself! so we will try farrex (maybe but my older 2 HATED it) then we will move on apple as i LOVE apple DS1 and i used to play one for you one for me lol
DT- my mum and nana learnt a lot with DS1 as i showed her how normal it is for babies to make a mess Mum learnt the hard way with DD lol
while i hate the mess i enjoy watching them learn and experiance it all
Bloom Teddybear biscuits are great as they have NO DAIRY! DS1 lived on them instead of rusks (rusks always made my babies sick)