Babies Born ~ March 2012 #3

[lct76]

Great news Buffy, hope that the napping continues and W aces sleep school. I did a bit of reading about it and it sounds like a great option, not only for the confidence you gain from what they teach you, but also just for a chance to get some time together without the distraction of day-to-day household stuff. Really interested to hear how it goes.

Rosey - I think I know how you are feeling, and in telling you that you should cut yourself some slack, I should probably do the same thing... Is it the night sleep that is particularly bad? Have you tried the love-to-swaddle at all? I only ask as this is the one thing that sorted Yves' sleep situation out, and we have never looked back. Sorry I was way off with recommending you a GP here, for some reason I thought you were in Vic Re. furbabies, I still have a 10 y.o yellow lab, Tobi, but we lost his litter-brother Cruz to bone cancer in Feb. It was gutting. Pretty rough on Tobi now with no play-pal and a screaming banshee distracting his mum, but he still gets lots of attention and sleeps on our bed every night - all 38 kilos of him! Feel free to show us a pic of your pups - I adore all dogs, probably like them more than babies sometimes

Fuzzy – Haven’t heard of it before, but certainly hope DD’s issue resolves itself with no complications. What did you dress Milana in for the wedding? I bet both girls looked gorgeous.. the poor bride having to compete with such a beautiful squishy baby!

Skye - can't get over Cha's comment about two brothers - how amazing?! Kids can say some stuff that just leaves you wondering...

Elocin – Crap, a political tour of duty this weekend? It sounds like SIL is not dealing very well with what is obviously an emotional issue for her. You might remember my BFF miscarried her IVF bub just before I got pregnant, and it was very hard to deal with for both of us. As she is in Qld she hasn’t seen Yves yet, and I am not pushing the issue, but it hurts that this sensitive subject is keeping us apart a little. I hope your SIL is gracious enough to at least be polite to you, if she can’t be truly happy, and that you can find a way to break through the barrier she has obviously put up.

Well we might have the knack of sleeping around here, but feeding is a huge fail. I feel like Yves actually doesn't like me sometimes - which I know is silly, but I just can't seem to get it right for him. One feed goes great, the next is an epic ****-up. Last night DF came home, saw me trying to feed Yves (who was screaming the house down), and noticed his tummy was all hard and bloated. He picked him up and carried him over a big strong shoulder for a minute or so, Yves lets out two monstrous burps, and settles right down. So then I feel like a stupid witch for trying to shove a nipple in his mouth when he was clearly too windy to take any more milk. I felt like moron-mum. Anyway, MCHN 8 weeks appointment was fine – Yves is 5390 grams and 59cm, so has grown 3cm and 900gms in last 4 weeks, which I guess is pretty good. Because DF was 58 cms when he was born Yves still seems pretty small.

Ok, pity rant over. Its just been a rough morning here, Yves very unhappy and we had no power for about an hour in our neighbourhood so the house was freezing. I clearly live in the wrong town, cos nothing makes me crankier than being cold... why did I ever leave Qld?!

[~ Mylitta ~]

Skybie! I love your comment "If you think my hands are full, you should see my heart" in your sig!!! Did you make it up or is it a quote? ♥ I think I'll have to remember to steal it from time to time

[skybie]

Mylitta, the quote came from the super doober awesome me more than welcome to steal it!

Lct does he thrash about and arch his back, go on for two split seconds then pull of, repeating over and over again?? ive recently learnt that this means addison has windie poos and doesnt actually want to feed. i usually pop her dummy in and try burp her then she goes to sleepies.

Funny about cha this morning, when i was first pregnant with addison (before we knew she was a girl) i asked her if she was going to have a brother or a sister, she said sister 'then there'll be three of us' and then she said and next time i'll have a brother!!!! *insert xfiles music here*

[Miss E]

Hi everyone

lct, don't be so hard on yourself hun . I have the same troubles here with Coops and wind/feeding. Sometimes he'll be screaming but desperately wanting to take the nipple so I keep trying and then end up realising that he needs to be burped. It's so hard. They can't tell us the problem and sometimes we can't always figure it out. That would've been funny if we were both on the same mat ward at the same time, but I was at Cabrini. Where abouts do you live?

Elocin, sounds like you're in for a 'fun' weekend. I really hope it goes smoothly and the SIL can be supportive and welcoming of C. Playing happy families sucks when it is really just 'playing'. I'm another who wouldn't worry too much about the shorter feeds, Coops usually only feeds from one side for somewhere between 5 and 10 mins. Our poos have also reduced from one at pretty much every nappy change to just one or two a day.

Rosey, I really hope the sleep improves soon for you babe.

Buffy, Yay for self settling! Here's hoping she keeps it up and SS goes well for you guys. And, yay for 7 hours sleep! Bet you feel like a new woman!

Fuzzy, sounds like the weekend was a big success! Did you get lots of photo's of the girls in their dresses? I bet they looked super cute!

Skybie, I'm so glad your DD2 has taken so well to CC, what a relief for you. How's Miss A going? Any improvement on the night times? And how are you going with the eye contact? It must have been such a relief to hear that the doc didn't think it was anything to worry about.

Peanutter, how are you doing hun? Are you over that nasty bug yet? I'll echo everyone else in saying that I wouldn't stress about the percentiles. By the sounds of things he's thriving and you have super mummy milk.

Mylitta, wow, I didn't know you were breastfeeding all three! That's fantastic! Good on you? How was the library?

Sararose, has Miss H given you any more sleep throughs? After having a taste of them it must really suck to go back to night wake ups.

Nickers, how are you going hun? Has that tonsilitis finally cleared up for you?

Sloane, how's the lovely Miss K going? And how's Mr C?

AFM, the last few days (or week) have been full of ups and downs. I think Coops is going through the 8 week wonder week at the moment because we've had some horror days with pretty much no sleeps. But then we'll have a day where he pretty much sleeps all day - go figure? He's still struggling with wind a bit (despite all the $$ I've spent on the osteo) and I think that is really contributing to his super short naps, because he seems to wake up with a fright and in discomfort. But then he sleeps really soundly during the night, so who knows. I've actually just tried putting him down without wrapping him to see if he sleeps better that way... Will have to see how we go... It's all trial and error this mumma stuff.

We had our 8 week checkup yesterday which was all good. The little chubba has put on 800grams and is now 5.7kgs. It seems like his gains are slowing down a little, which TBH is a bit of a relief because I was starting to get a little worried about how quickly we were growing out of everything!

In other news, I think we're going to have to buy a new washing machine this weekend I got a big fright yesterday when I went to put on a load and nothing happened when I pushed the start button. After much cursing and smacking the machine I finally got it to start, but it did the same thing again today. I really can't afford to be without a washing machine at the moment (I seem to be doing 2 loads a day right now) so think I'm going to have convince DH that we should just fork out for a new one now rather than wait for this one to give up completely. Mind you, I can think of many, many other things I'd rather spend the $$ on right now...

[~ Mylitta ~]

Mylitta, wow, I didn't know you were breastfeeding all three! That's fantastic! Good on you? How was the library?

Yep, I'm a cow, lol. Kyson only has one feed a day though, but you sure know about it if he doesn't get it first thing in the morning. Just a little yelling of "Want MummaMilk in BED!". Shayla has become obsessed again though and wants it constantly during the day. Anytime she is in my arms,after her nap, first thing in the morning etc. I get greeted by her with "mumma mk" which is her most consistent word

The library was quite good. It only goes for 20 minutes which suits us perfectly because then I get back to Montessori to pick up Kyson with 5-10 minutes to spare.

I'm hoping that Arlia is in a wonder week and is about to finish it. She's been rather cranky in the evenings when hubby gets home. Yesterday she even stayed awake for about 4-5 hours with only dozing on my shoulder. That's the longest she's ever been awake. She only happy in my arms as well so just getting dinner or going to the toilet is difficult because the second she goes down or into hubby's arms she starts to scream

[Novella]

Morning all

Skye great news about A interacting more, her smiles were very cute on fb

Buffy sounds like you are getting some good advice hope it pays off

Miss e and mylitta hope the wonder week is almost over

Rosey what a crappy nights sleep for you, hope you get some more tonight

Elocin hope you get a cat nap today, good luck with your family trip on the weekend sounds like a PITA

H slept for 8 hours again last night which is great I need to start going to bed about the same time though! She is starting to chat and has had a coup,e of tiny giggles, melts my heart. She is at the stage where she is enjoying being on her mat and not being held where as before it was something she only tolerated. Had a massive number three yesterday so had to change all the cot sheets which I'd only done the day before

My sister popped over and H had been lying happily on her play mat for about 20 minutes and I said to my sister she was welcome to have a cuddle as she was probably getting over the mat. Well my poor sister picked her up said hello for H to scream blue murder at her! I had to settle H? Hopefully she will be better behaved on Saturday night as my sis and her DH are babysitting all three kids while we are going to a 30th. Luckily the party is really close and I can come back and bf if I need to. Exciting news my sister is going through IVF and getting a transfer Friday so Im gonna have everything crossed for her

[nickers]

you guys have been chatty! ive just tried to catch up on the goss.
Sarah- good luck to your sis with IVF i hope it happens for them first go.
Skye- glad to hear A is interacting more and looking at people. always the way though, we worry and then they go an start doing it as if they were waiting for us to worry first!
Nic- i hope you get through the weekend ok with SIL, are they staying with you? i imagine it must be hard for her to see you with a bub when they are trying, but considering you guys went through ivf aswell she should understand you have been exactly where she is in wanting a bub.

AFM- 2 nights ago R fed at 8pm then not till 4am! so stoked i was at him going 8hrs last night i fed him an hour later so 9pm hoping he might go till 5am, but not so lucky, fed him an hour later but he woke an hour earlier at 3am! so he has been pretty consistant with 6hrs but now i know he can do 8hrs i hope he can do it again soon!
big day today, after getting everyone out the house by 845am 5 of us school mums had coffee after drop off, it was nice but i had to leave them to go to mums group. i decided to walk instead of driving as it was only 1km from where i was. then on the walk back i decided i would keep walking home rather than to the car and then home so i walked 2.5km home. i was home with enough time to feed again, express and put the slow cooker on and then off we went again back up to school another 1km to go to ds1 school assembly. they have it every week but i havent gone before, was so happy i did cause he got an award then i left school to go pick ds2 up, then back to school, fed R while waiting for the bell, home for an hour now we have to go to soccer training....
so far on my pedometre i have walked over 12,000 steps!

[peanutter]

elocin ... probable nothing!

hopefully it's just a growth spurt or something, and will pass soon xx

[peanutter]

Good luck today, Fuzzy!! Thinking of you

Well, this weekend I didn't achieve hald of what I wanted, but I have logged some serious contact hours with DS1, so everything is worth it. The weekend was good - just not at all what I had planned, and (like normal) there was no where near enough sleep ...

DH has his exam on Friday, and I'm worried for him ... DS2 isn't a routine baby at all, I am sort of toying with the idea of sleep school to get him into a routine, but we'll see if he grows into one first ... but DH doesn't have much time to get ready!!

My birthday is next Monday, and we haven't really done anything about it. I had my family birthday lunch yesterday, as some of them will be away for the long weekend next week, but that's all. I've decided that my present from the family will be a meal at a really nice restaurant, but I don't think DH has got around to making a booking, and I strongly suspect it will be too late now, either for the booking, or probably for a babysitter! But we'll see ...

In any event, happy Monday! See y'all on the flipside.

Oh - and DS had a good night, feeding at 10pm and then sleeping until 4.30am second sort of sleep-through ... now for mummy and daddy to go to bed when he does!!