Babies Born ~ March 16th-31st 2010 #2

Jellymaker, your not 'sad' at all, I know what you mean about wanting to 'dress-up' and get out. I haven't been out for dinner in almost 3-months, which is a record for us - lol! Thinking of going out somewhere local soon & leaving DS with my parents. I finally fed DS with the bottle on the weekend, or DH did, which went really well so I am excited that he will take the bottle and I can get out more every now and again, we need it for our sanity!

B, a big congrat's on your DH's promotion and the big move, it sounds like you are very happy, so well done. When do you move?

Teresa, glad to hear that Hamish is getting better, hopefully he'll be sleeping better during the nights soon.

Misssawah, enjoy the glamour shoot. I would love to do something like that soon as well, it would be great to have a big family photo in the lounge - and me looking half decent. I think most of the photo's of me with Liam are no make-up, hair all over the place :D

Rae Rae, glad to hear that Blakey is doing well. Sounds like your in a good place, good for you.

Beata / miamunchkin, I haven't had and serious hair loss yet, which absolutley surprises me, as my hair is very fine and usually falls out something terrible. I hardly lost any while pg and that hasn't changed yet. Thinking maybe that's because I'm still B/F and the hormones haven't changed wildly yet?

Jellymaker, on the teething thing, I'm really not sure, but Liam has starting doing the same things as your baby, although I have only had one greenish nappy which I was a little concerned about, but maybe that's normal. Interested in hearing what the expereinced mamma's have to say on that one.

AFM, just had Liam weighed and he was 6.3kg. He is putting on great weight each week, so happy with that. He is getting heavier to rock to sleep though, my poor back. But I must say it is usually much quicker to do so these days as his much more use to it. Hi to everyone else.

Hi ladies-

Jelly & berry- Grace has had heaps of smelly green poops! It is ok, it's normal for breastfeed babies. On the teething issues- yes it def sounds like teething. They can start from as early as 2 months or as late as 10 months! You will find the teeth won't actually come through until around 5 months, but some babies get the dribbles and aches a bit earlier. My older dd started teething at 2 months and had her first tooth at 5 months. My ds started teething at 4 months and had his first tooth at 7 months. Grace has just started dribbling and such this week- so it looks like she will be an early teether as well. It is different for each baby. You could try some bonjela or something similiar when bub is wingy and chomping on whatever is around.

~b~- congrats on the move!!!!!! yay!!! We have family over there, such a nice place- but i agree with jelly, it's soooooooo cold in winter! I hope you find the perfect place!

ree-ree- you should post and not feel bad! You are suppose to be proud and boast on here...without judgement. I don't think anyone here would have issues with it! We love hearing how Blake is going.

Afm- Grace has found out she has lungs. Between 6/7.30 she has a tantrum where she excersises her vocal chords for about 30 mins off and on. It's the kind of noise that really gets on your nerves! I just tell the kids its normal, and to be thankful she does it then and not at 1am in the morning!

awww thanx B, jelly, berry and con :)

~b~ blake is on 150ml every 4 hours, but rarely finishes the lot - usually leaves 20-40ml behind. oh and yay ur avvy got updated!
con uh oh on the lung discovery!!!
berry yay for liam taking a bottle :) i know what u mean with our bubbas getting heavier to rock, lol
jelly yup, i reckon that sounds like teething too! hope he's coping ok :)

well, i'm heading out to myer stocktake sale for bigger clothes for blake - he's getting so long, he's almost ready for 00 size clothes!

Hi girls - B - love Toowoomba - great place, however, don't like the one way streets everywhere. We used to go there all the time when we lived in northern NSW as we have heaps of friends there!! You will love it!! How very exciting.

Ree Ree - I got my AF today too. I knew it was coming because i had really bad lower back pain and cramping around two weeks ago and I used to get that when I was ovulating! Plus been really moody in the last few days and even had a cry (over nothing). It was very exciting (in a weird way) and was, WARNING TMI.........very worried how I would go with tampons! (I thought for some reason it may get lost!!) but it worked fine!

Anyway, sorry my post isn't very exciting. On here quickly doing this and facebook.

ReeRee, have fun shopping! Baby shopping is just the best!
Jelly, hope your little fella is ok on the teething (if he is I wouldn't know sorry) Harri dribbles a lot but doesn't seem to have sore gums or anything
Con, lol at Grace finding her lungs, sounds like lots of loud noises from a little lady
Berry, wow past 6kg wooohooo! strong and healthy!

RE Formula: Harri is on 200ml, we don't have set feeding times yet he will tell me if he's hungry but it's usually between 3-4 hours in between. Rarely will he finish the whole thing and usually leaves about 20-30ml in the bottom. He's on karicare gold and he sleeps through fairly regularly. Over the course of a day he has 5 bottles and every now and then (say once a week) he'll have 6. HTH :)

Hi ladies!

My gosh it's been so long since I last looked on BB, who knew looking after a baby would be so time consuming :lol:

I haven't read back through the thread, so I hope everyone's doing well and you're all enjoying happy healthy babies!

Better go do a nappy change, we've had a poopsplosion :lol:

No worries at all ~b~, you are very welcome! :)

Hi ladies,

So glad everyone is doing well!! Not much to report here, apart from the fact that little bum bum slept from about midnight two days ago (yes I know it was late...but he had a pretty unsettled evening) to 7 am :o Last night he got a feed at 10.30 and didn't wake up until 4 am. Sooooo happy about that, he is definitely going longer between feeds during the night! Even during the day, he is feeding every 3.5 to 4 hours. He still takes about 100-140 ml per feed. If he only takes 80 ml which sometimes happens, he will only last for 3 hours.....

I have an almost full tin of S26 Gold, I will happily send it to anyone who is using this, don't really want to throw it out....

Little chubba is now so heavy, I need to start seeing my osteo for my back pain, 6.3 kg!!!!!

Hi to all and hope everyone is having a great week :p

B xx

Hi everyone. It's been a while since I posted because I left my iPhone on top of the car while putting Angus in and it got run over and then I was using the laptop in bed and Angus projectile vomited all over the keyboard! Will have to catch up on personals later.
Angus is becoming more interactive with lots of smiles and has just started 'talking'. Oh and I went out with my best friend last night for dinner and then we went to see sex in the city - it was a great night :-) DH and Angus got to have some male bonding at home too! Anyway we are off to meet with the padre who will be doing Angus' Christening next weekend. Hope everyone is having a good weekend :-)

Week I meant - a bit ahead of myself!

Hey everyone!

Hope everyone is having fun with their babies :)

Tiah discovered her hands this week, and that she can put them in her mouth. Drool is now all over my clothes, mixed with the usual vomit haha

I also had my first huge block of time away from her (4 hours and 15 minutes) I spent the entire movie (SATC2 - it was awesome) texting DP and missing her like crazy. Tiah??? Slept the entire time while her dad watched boxing :)

yay Tiah for finding her hands...I thought Harri was just trying to suck his thumb when he started trying to put his entire fist in his mouth a couple weeks ago, until they told me he was just discovering himself.

Nat, what are you doing for Angus's christening?? are you doing anything afterwards?? Harrison's naming day is on the 20th and the ceremony is set but I'd like to do something afterwards I'm just not sure what. Hope it all goes well for you though, poo about your phone :(

Go Cameron! 6.3kg what a champ!

Afternoon ladies

Not much happening on here this weekend, hopefully because we are all out having fun somewhere.

Meercat- Adrian found his fists about 2 weeks ago and now all i can hear is suck, slobber and drool! He keeps trying to suck on his spit up cloth when i burb him too and have to take it away from his mouth before he bites it LOL

AFM Very happy that Adrian has slept through the last 2 nights from about 9-5am, trying to push back his last feed to see if he can make it to 7ish. Hope this is a pattern and it sticks, they say most babies sleep through from about 12 weeks so he is right on schedule.

Im a little p***y at one of my friends atm. She was meant to be having her engagement party at the races this weekend, and after bying a hot new pair of heels (Purple no less), accessories, hat and shawl, AND altering the dress i was going to wear for the day she has now suddenly changed it to a dinner in the city! Now we have to reorganise baby sitting and i cant wear the outfit i went to so much trouble for! She does s*** like this all the time and she is such a flake! I doubt she'll actually go through with the wedding too. Grrr so annoyed!

Anyway, thats my vent.

hope alls good in mummy land :)

Hi Ladies!

meercat- lol! Good on Tiah for sleeping while you had some time out! I would have been just as bad as you...mother's instinct!

misssawah- What do you have in mind for Harrison's naming ceremony?

Jellymaker- I have a sister-in-law like that! It's so frustrating when you make arrangements and they change them at the last minute! My sil has no kids, so i don't think she realises how inconvenient it is!

Nat- isn't it so amazing when they start 'talking' to you! I hope your plans for your christening are going well!

Hello to everyone else!

Afm- i have new mummy class this morning. I hope Grace behaves and doesn't get cranky! She has her needles after lunch....not looking forward to that, i hate the look they give you as if to say 'mummy, it hurts'! It makes me cry everytime!

Have a great day ladies!

Con, I hope Graces needles went ok. I know what you mean about them looking at you like that. Liam drops his bottom lip and I feel terrible!

Jellymaker, great news about Adrian sleeping through, that's great. Can I ask how many feeds he is getting a day and do you bottle or BF? Liam sleeps from 9pm to anywhere from 3am to 5am, but mostly wakes at 4am. He usually feeds 6 times a day, and the last one is short (only feeds one side), was only just wondering if maybe I need to increase his feeds to encourage a longer sleep? Also very annoying about your friend. I can't understand why people change plans like that so drastically. I hope you enjoy the dinner.

Liam has found his hands as well - lol! I read that it isn't unusual for them to suck on them so hard that they gag!

Meercat, well done for geting out on your own. I am organising to go and see Sex in the City 2 with my girlfriends shortly.

Hi Nat & Rooey, hope you and your bubs are well.

Hi Beata, I hear you on the back pain, oh my gosh!! Liam is also 6.3kg, he got weighed correctly last Tuesday. The week before that the doctor told me he was 6.5kg :o but she weighed him with clothes & nappy on and didn't use digital scales. I have started to rock him to sleep sitting in the rocking chair, which is really helping as I use to stand. Trying to get DH to give me a massage, but haven't managed to get one yet.

AFM, Liam is smiling and making such beautiful cooing sounds now and seems to be much more responsive. I was feeding him a couple of days ago and he was making these grunting noises and was pulling himself on and off the boob, he looked like a little animal - lol. I just looked at him and laughed, then he stopped looked up at me and smiled! Lovely to start seeing that awareness and response.

Hope everyone is well!

Hi ladies,

Well I'm really annoyed because this morning I wrote a long post and then it got lost somehow. So I need to make sure I copy it to my clipboard before I click post!

Meercat - that's great news about Tiah and her hands. Angus has started to do the same and at first I thought he was doing it because he was hungry! I went and saw Sex in the City 2 as well! I went with my best friend and we had dinner and a ****tail beforehand, so I didn't get home until after midnight (6 hours later).

Misssawah - Good luck for Harrison's Naming Day. We are having an afternoon tea afterwards at our house. I was going to do it in a hall near the Chapel but I was worried about transporting all the food. We're just having a few quiches, sandwiches and other finger food. Hopefully it will be ok as there are a few kids coming and our yard isn't that big.

Jellymaker - Lucky you getting him to sleep the whole night. We were thinking about starting to establish more of a night time routine - and even putting Angus into a cot when we move in two weeks. Although we are going to Canberra in the middle of winter, so I'm not sure if I want him in his own room just yet!

Con - I hope the immunisation went ok. Angus turned 2 months today, but we missed out on the times at the community health centre, but we will go to the local library on Thursday morning. Also, hope you had fun at your mummy classes!

Berry - Angus is doing the same with lots of cooing and smiling - I love it! Also, I had been trying to get him to look up and strengthen his neck muscles when he is having tummy time. He didn't really respond when DH and I were trying to talk to him, but as soon as I put his mirror (one of those lamaze ones) he kept lifting his head to look! This morning he even pushed himself up on his arms to get a good look and then gave himself a big smile - definately his father's son! ;)

AFM - I used to feel bad leaving Angus on his own during play time, but I've left him on the mat a couple of times while I do other things and he really entertains himself, which is great. The inlaws are coming to stay for a week on thursday :wall: Hopefully they help a bit more because last time MIL never once offered to cook and expected me to wait on her up until I was induced at 42wks (which of coarse I didn't - but still..) DH's other 4 children will be staying with us on the weekend as well and that will be exciting as they haven't met there little brother yet!

Evening ladies

Nat- i always copy my work before hitting post as i HATE losing my posts!!! Adrian has always slept in the cot in his room but now the nights are getting colder i bought a small convection heater that i will put in the hall outside his room to warm up that end of the house. Thankfully if Adrian keeps sleeping through i wont have to get out of my warm bed all night but that 5-6am feed is still pretty chilly! Adrian coos and gurgles heaps and his gummy smiles light up my day, he tries to smile while i feed him though and my boob pops out of his mouth! LOL Adrian goes both ways in that he loves to be cuddled and is a real snuggle bug, but at other times just wants to be left alone to kick on his mat. My mum didnt believe me when he was having a grump and i told her to just put him down but she did and voila! He settled immediatley. Glad Angus is growing so well. I sometimes think Adrian is a little too strong as when he fights against me it is really hard to hold on to him!

Berry- I am still BF Adrian and on demand so its hard to tell as we dont have set times to feed, usually when he cries, but I would say anywhere between 6-8 full feeds a day? I usually feed him up fully right before i put him down at about 9-10ish but am trying to keep him awake a little longer so he sleeps til later in the morning. I would say feel free to give him more to eat, and see what happens, it cant hurt, its not like babies are goldfish and will forget they just ate, they will stop if they dont want anymore :)

Hope all the other mummies are doing well, keep up the good work ladies!

Jellymaker, you are doing really well given you are demand feeding. I am as well to an extent, just don't let him go longer than 4-hrs without a feed and I give him the 9pm feed while his still asleep. I use to offer both sides that feed, but he only ever fed one side, so I gave up and just put him back to bed. May start offering again and see what he does.

Nat, like the mirror idea. May try it during tummy time as well. Liam is so strong he has been holding his head up pretty much since day one. He is now holding it up for quite a while and looking around. How cute that Angus smiled at himself. I leave Liam on his playmat on his own at least once a day, usually first thing in the morning while I'm running around putting washing on etc. I think its good for him to entertain himself. He is usually happy on his own for about 20-mins. I play with him a lot during the day, so I think its fine, he certainly lets me know when his not happy! Good-luck with the In-laws, I hope they are helpful this visit. Sounds like you have a lot on your plate, so don't go running around for them will you, remember your the one with the newborn. I hope the 'sibling introduction' goes well. Sounds like your going to have a full house!

Well I tried putting Liam in his grobag for the first time tonight, and it was a disaster! He fell asleep after his feed and I was about to put him down when his fist goes straight into his mouth and then he wakes up crying. He is usually wrapped, so he can't do that. Was so annoying. Ended up taking him out of it and wrapping him. Will try it another time. Must say the grobag seems quite small around the neck area, its a 0-6mth size, but I am doubting he'll fit into it up to 6-months. I'm starting to think that maybe I shouldn't have bought him one just yet.