Babies Born ~ March 2013 #1

Jane - BabyLove have a poo explosion catcher lol. Maybe give those a try, they've helped with Nyah-Rose sometimes lol.

Lisa - Welcome. My partner sleeps in the lounge room, on a mattress. His choice lol. But he needs sleep. So it's better for us. However Nyah-Rose seems to sleep thru from 11 until 6 or 7am. So I'm pretty thrilled about that.

We are in Gladstone ATM, did our first road trip yesterday. And Nyah-Rose was really good. We stopped every 3 hours for a feed, play in the park and leg stretches lol. We go home Sunday, so lets see if its as good on the way home. :)

I'm so jealous of your good sleepers girls! I'm still lucky to get 3hr from Dylan, and usually it's downhill after that to 1-2 hrs. I'm waiting for him to suddenly realize sleep is great but so far no luck!
He has however put on a kilo in the last 4.5 weeks and grown 9cm since birth (he's 6.5 weeks now) so all this feeding is obviously helping!

Jane the poop explosions sound like a pain to deal with at 3am. You could try the next size up in nappies just at night time? I used baby love newborn for Liana (as well as huggies) but did find the next size up in baby love wasn't as good so stuck with huggies. I think I will stick with huggies for Dylan too.

Kass, well done on your road trip and your awesome sleeper.

Mrs p, sorry to hear dylan still only sleeps in small intervals for you. Any ideas why he is waking so often?

Weve started to double wrap isla at night, means she doesnt wake herself up with involuntary arm movements. As you also know the brauers colic relief has also been my saviour. Give ut about 4 times a day and it has tripled her sleeping at night and lessened her tummy pain, although she is still a gassy girl.

Thanks for the nappy advice. Tried the next size up nappy. Worked a treat. She slept from 9-4. Ive just put her in a babylove one now so ill test that one too.

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Hi girls,

Good to hear things are getting easier or everyone.

Lisaandshaun- welcome. I have a DD who is 4 and I am struggling with her. I feel her behavior is getting worse :( there is only so much time I can give her at the moment. I co sleep at night with DS as he sleeps so much better with me and I get some decent sleep as well.

Be back later today with more

Jane I'm really not sure why he won't sleep longer. Last night was 2.5 hr (while DH held him), 2 hr and 1.5 hr. I read your post and tried the double wrap prior to the 1.5 hr sleep but I think a giant poo woke him up. So will try double wrapping again today. He also only has 40 min naps during the day, occasionally doing 2 hr in his swing. So no chance for me to nap during the day (especially with a 2.5 yr old!) so it's really starting to wear me down.

He's BF on demand pretty much 3 hourly to the minute during the day and can take a good hour to 1.5 hrs to feed, though he's starting to feed faster. He's definitely getting enough milk (put on a kilo in 4.5 weeks!) and his silent reflux seems under control with medication. He did do a 5 hr sleep at night about a week ago, so I know he is capable of it.

He's currently in a bassinet but I'm thinking maybe he needs to try the cot. But we're not putting the cot in our room so that means he'd go to the nursery at the opposite end of the house and potentially wake his sister during the night as her room is nearby. But then again she may sleep through it.

He doesn't self settle - we do sleep cues of wrapping, dummy and we pat him to sleep. Usually only takes a short while and he generally spits the dummy out once asleep, so I don't think the lack of dummy in bed wakes him ITMS? Looking at starting self settling this weekend, he's had a cold for nearly two
weeks and I didn't want to start until he was better.

Mrs P-Sounds tough, you must be exhausted.
:(
Sounds like you are trying a lot of different things. With the double wrap, we use a blanket like the ones they wrap the bubs up in hospital (for the second wrap and a love to dream swaddle for the first wrapping layer). The hospital blanket doesn't stretch, so allows a firm wrap. Now that it colder, I also then put another blanket over her (i.e. 3rd layer) in the bassinet and tuck it in tightly.

Other things we've tried which seemed to help are putting a wedge under the matress to raise the head end (helps with the reflux), rolling up a towel and putting it under the legs (keeps knees up in a more foetal position and helps with her tummy pains). We actually put the towel in u shape so it wraps from her waist on one side, down under her bum to keep her legs up and then back up the other side to her waist. IYKWIM. It helps her stay in the centre of the bassinet and stops her from squirming over to one side and hitting her head on the side of the bassinet.

Other than that we do sleep cues and actively help her to settle like you do. Sometimes we play music or white noise whilst settling her to sleep too. Not sure if that helps or not.

Hoping Dylan gets over his cold and starts sleeping for his mummy and daddy!!!

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Jane you're a genius lol - the double wrapping seems to have helped as he's done a 4 hr stretch the last two nights. Now just to slowly build upon that, fingers crossed.
I also bought the same colic treatment to try so that could also be helping.

Thats awesome news mrs p!!! Yay for dylan.

With colic drops i give them 4-5 times every 24 hours. At the moment it works out to be around 4, 8, 12, 4 and 8. Will occassionally give an extra dose if waking or crying with pain. But found it worked best for us to give routinely rather than waiting for signs of pain. Seems to keep the gas moving up or down rather than building up.

How is everyone going?

Happy Mothers Day for Sunday!

After waiting so long, i cant believe im finally a mum and get to celebrate this special day. I took a trip up to the fertility clinic today to introduce isla to our dr and nurses, and say thank you for our little miracle.

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We are doing well, can't believe our babies are getting so big so fast!! Nyah-Rose has her first immunization a on Thursday!! Also for Mother's Day we are having a BBQ at my MILs house. Nyah-Rose is sleeping like a champ. 10.30-11.00 thru until 6-7am. Can't complain. It makes life so much easier when you have other kids to look after lol.

My youngest son turns 3 on Thursday also, he was born on Mother's Day 3 years ago. That was an awesome gift, not to ever be topped lol. We were in the newspaper and news, he was first one born at Mater Mothers hospital at 1.09am. :D

How is everyone coping with their new bubs? Anyone thinking about going again? Lol

Doing ok here. Dylan is slowly doing longer sleeps at night. Sometimes a 4-5 hr stint, but always followed by 2hr at the most. But better than a few weeks ago. I long for the time when he sleeps like Nyah-Rose does ;) hopefully it won't be too far off, but it seems maybe DD was my "good" sleeper lol.
No more bubbas for us - DH is set on two and we have one of each which is lovely. Means no more IVF too which is nice! Though we do have four embryos on ice.
At his 8 week vaccs on thursday Dylan was 5kg and 58 cm!

Hi ladies,

Addison was 2 months old on Saturday. She had her vax's last week and is now 4.3kg and 53cm long. Her growth isn't quite what they want it to be but she's still putting on weight, just not as much as she should. We are still having some feeding issues and the LC says she has a tongue tie and high palate, being rural though its hard to try and find someone who will snip it which is incredibly frustrating. She has been diagnosed with reflux but for now we are managing ok without medication. She has one big sleep for 6-7hrs at night and wakes around 3am and won't settle again after that feed which makes for a very early morning. I'm exhausted with 4 little ones to look after. She was doing one big sleep of 2-3hrs during the day but the past 2 days she hasn't slept longer than 20 minutes in a row so I think we must be in the middle of a growth spurt.

Hi Everyone!

Happy Mothers Day for Sunday! Im with you Jane...excited to finally be able to be a mother on Mother's Day:)

Grace is 6 weeks now, so today she had her vaccinations (it was a little sad...at least i had DH with me) I still look at her and can't believe we finally have her after the long journey!

I have a dumb question...How do you get the sleep times extended overnight? Is it something that will just happen on it's own or is there something I can do to encourage it?

Hi Sasha. Nyah-Rose just sleeps on her own. I haven't done anything to encourage her sleeping. I think babies just sleep thru when they're ready. :)

Thanks Kass! Thought that might be the case:)