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talking: those of you on fb would have seen my video of Zen saying dad...well, I am certain it was dad :) I havent got video of him saying mum but that will come. I was told that if the first word is bub they are your last child, if mum you will have a girl next if dad you will have a boy next !
crawling/walking: nope, Zen doesnt seem to have enough interest in trying to crawl, I think he is still happy enough being able to roll to things. Although, saying that, he does get frustrated every now and then and I probably need to put him down on his belly with stuff he wants out of reach a bit more often.
Teeth: Zen has 1.5 lol, one definately through and the other visible, swollen gum, just waiting on it to break the skin. he has been terrible with it. The amber necklasce doesnt seem to have done anything :( I even put him into bed with me early hours this morn so I could get some sleep as he is awake and wimpering half the night. Thats even after panadol and teething gel.
Photos: we havent gotten any nice fammily photos done, i want to though before Zen is to much older. We got the harvey normanxmas photo done - i think they were great!
xmas: i cant wait for Zens first xmas. am hoping he figures out how to pull off all the wrapping and will be doing plenty of pics/video of it.
AFM: darn, poor Zen. He has ended up constipated so I have teken him off all foodsd apart from fruit for the moment and will reintroduce slowly. Will attempt to give him at least 20ml water after each feed also and hope it fixes up soon :( gave him prune juice yesterday which got things moving but this morn they were back to all solid...poor little fella. cant be much fun
He just chats away so much now. lots of squeals, giggles, mums, dads, bubs and general noise. plenty of smiles which I am loving and so far so good with the sleep routine at night except when we are out...it becomes a battle of wills lol. I think he is winning so far!
& nope - not nearly 8 mths, just a little over 7!
Hope everyone is ready for xmas and that you have an awesome time!
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Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful day with your lovely bubby's and the rest of your families. I hope your little one's enjoyed the wrapping paper as much as B did too!
We had a lovely day with family and B was on his absolute best behaviour which made him pretty popular, lol! He didn't sleep well at my parents house (blame the portacot maybe - no-one sleeps very well in a foreign bed, do they?) though. In the end, he slept with DH in bed and I 'slept' (well, laid there with my eyes closed for 2 hours) on the floor!
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Hi to everyone!!!
Hope that you all had a fantastic christmas and you and your babies were as spoilt as me and mine! :) We had a lovely day with my mum and sisters and partners and both girls were happy all day.
JLeigh - Cheeky Bos! I would have made DH hop out though lol
Tina - Poor little Zen, how is he now? We had constipation probs with Phoebe for a little while but once we stopped baby rice she was ok. I think it just takes a little while for their bodies to get used to a variety of food.
We are battling a cold here. Poor little miss woke with one on Sunday and has kept getting worse. It wouldn't be so bad but her nose isn't runny - just blocked so she is not a happy vegemite. Not sleeping much either so mummy isn't either!
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Hi Everyone
Hope you all had a wonderful christmas with your family & little ones, we had a lovely time visiting DH's family in Vic.
Tina - How is Zen going with food now, A gets constipated on and off but I find giving her some fruit, pears are good for "dessert" after lunch & dinner helps the process :)
Jleigh - I'm with Marni should have kicked DH out lol but great to hear you had a lovely time and B was so well behaved.
Marni - Oh poor P, blocked noses suck!! Do you have a vapouriser? That was my lifesaver when A was all blocked up.
We have a tooth! We thought other one wasn't too far away but after nearly a week and a half, it seems to have gone back down.
Seems A has self weaned herself off feeding to sleep on her day sleeps while we were over in Vic, she only started it once we moved into mums. She still has a feed but comes off has a giggle & starts mucking around so I just put her in her cot & she's out in about 5-10 mins, sometimes just chats herself to sleep & others puts up a bit of a protest. After all this time wishing I could go back to just putting her back in her cot I kinda miss the snuggles but she sleeps so much better during the day now but I get to do get snuggles before her night sleep as she feeds to sleep for that one still :)
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Phoenix - It must be an age thing. Phoebe has been feeding to sleep for the past few weeks. I am hoping she stops it on her own cause it wouldn't be much fun to try and stop. Sleepy snuggles are the best though! Yay for the tooth!!
It seems I was wrong. Phoebe doesn't have a cold - but an ear infection!!! That explains the screaming when she was lying down and only wanting to sleep in her pram propped up a bit. Poor little munchkin, hopefully she will feel better soon once antibiotics kick in.
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Morning everyone
It's very very quiet in here again :D
Marni - how is P going, is she over her ear infection?
Going by FB seems a couple of bubba's haven't been too well lately.
A had a temp sunday through to tuesday with no symptoms of anything else, I took her to the docs who feels it's a virus but wants me to get urine samples........we are at 3-0 with A winning and mummy not getting a sample, she poo'd all over one and the other two I must have put on wrong coz she wets her nappy but nothing ends up inside the little pouchy thing. I picked up 4 more yesterday and will try again today, but since her temp is now gone they said not to stress too much if I can't get one but to bring her in for a quick checkover.
My little monkey is getting close to crawling, she spins in circles on her belly and does manage to move a little bit if she wants to and can go from sitting to tummy without the face planting and the associated screaming (well on most attempts) :) And as of the past couple of days will now roll back to belly when it suits her
It's a hot one here today so gotta shoot out and get some stuff done before it gets too unbearable.
Hope everyone is well & your bubba's are growing nicely
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oh, poor little Phoebe, it must be so horrible with her being sick :(
poopies - yeah, Zen is all good, I do the fruit thing. he gets a couple spoons of fruit in his weetbix, fruit at lunch and sometimes a spoon or two at dinner lol
teeth - zens 2nd tooth finallly came through...after much fighting lol
Question: does anyones bubs kind of stiffen and groan at odd times? I am wondering if its due to his teeth as it is usually around feed time. maybe from the spoon hitting his teeth/gums?
Zen has just been a nightmare the last two days or so. Two days ago I was so sick I called DH home. poor DH was ready to throw him away after he basically screamed for 3hrs non-stop! I wanted so badly to get up to him and help but I just couldnt! he eventually got him to sleep. he just seems to cry/whinge non-stop virtually. Its doing my head in! he has started skipping his midday sleep and I wonder if I need to kind of enforce it? Absolutely any ideas would be appreciated
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Thanks for the well wishes for Phoebe. She seems ok now but DH said she was pulling at her ears this morning and she had a mystery fever yesterday so I will keep an eye on her - but she is still happy and alert so I am not worried.
Phoenix - How goes your house? It must be getting close now. Hope A is all better and no more virus. It is awful when they aren't well.
Tina - Can't say I have had the stiffening thing. Just the tantrum thing when she doesn't get what she wants! Typical stubborn girl :) Are you feeling better? With the midday sleep I put Phoebe down just after she has lunch. Sometimes it is a struggles but I fight her cause she does need it. However I don't have actual set nap times - just a general guideline.
However - dont take sleep help from me! We aren't doing so well here. I realised this morning that P doesn't even do a 5 hour sleep anymore! Don't really know how to change it either.
Hope everyone has a good weekend! I think we will be flooded in by this afternoon...
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Marni - I was just thinking same thing.......A barely gets 4 hours sleep in one block the past couple of weeks and I'm at my wits end on how to change it. Mind you a few weeks ago she was back to 10-11hours over night. So not sure if teeth & being sick has upset the whole thing again.
Mind you I've finally sorted out day sleeps and she has two a day one at around 10 and the other around 2.30-3.00 and she now self settles and is down a minimum an hour, but overnight it's 4hours like clockwork she's worse than when she was a newborn!!
Tina - Hope your feeling better, nothing worse than being sick & trying to look after a little one let alone a grumpy one! Not sure on the stiffening either, only time we have it here is when she's having a hissy fit - god help me when she gets older and hormones kick in lol.
Got a question on feeding......A HATES my cooking and is starting to refuse anything except yoghurt, weetbix and fruit. She still BF's about 5 times a day so gather she's getting what she needs nutritionally.
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phoenix - Zens stiffening ended up being caused by....weetbix! apparently the fibre contect is very high for them to process and so Zen has a sore tummy/bowel as he has weetbix every day pretty much :(
WOOHOO....mummy of the year award here!
so we are going with change of diet and seeing if it fixes it.
but for A's meals, do you do some finger foods like carrot sticks, broccoli florets etc (steamed soft) which is a bit of fun for them to eat? Zen seems to like when he can eat at the same time as us and I give him the broccoli off my plate which I think makes him feel included. Just an idea. also, google baby food recipes, there are a couple of downloadable books
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Wow who would have thought weetbix.......A has weetbix for brekkie every morning too :o but so far hasn't seemed to be showing any effects though she has no issues with constipation when she has them, I give her the kiddies ones
She eats Rafferty's food.....chicken, bangers & mash etc but when I make it she has about two mouthfuls and the tanty's start. I do give her bits on her own but she seems to play more than she eats and with her waking 4 hourly for feeds at night want to fill her up before bed lol
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oh, I was giving Zen the weetbix we eat :O
hmmm...not sure why she is doing that with the food, frustrating! Why dont our bubs want to sleep through for us? :'(
will think on it and tell you any ideas I come up with.
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Don't really think there is much difference apart from the size of them, DH bought them for her coz it's his favourite breakfast I personally can't stand them - she had big people vitabrits while we were in Vic and little piggy would eat a whole one of those :D Think she takes after mum & dad and has iron guts lol
Hope Z's belly is better soon the poor little guy having a sore tummy is bad enough when your a big person :(
Let me know if you come up with anything - I'm guessing sleep is going to be intersting tonight as she had two sleeps today totalling 4.5hours, I got in an hour when she had her arvo one lol
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I have heard and read that good day sleeps promote good night sleeps so that may mean a good night for you :) I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
we stayed up last night till midnight watching a movie, am so tired now!
I know this may sound crazy but, does she see you get the food out of the jars? if so, put your food into the jars so at feed time she sees it is jar food?
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Good morning everyone...I'm sorry I haven't been around - I don't seem to be getting alerts anymore :( I thought it was strange there was no emails......
I have skimmed thru the above posts, and I wont go back any further, but E has 1 whole weetbix every morning, but I usually put warm water on it and a dash of milk, so its not gluggy, but nice and wet. He certainly doesn't have issues with pooping.... :)
E is practically crawling - altho not on his hands and knees yet - he does a caterpillar crawl, its quite funny, but boy is he fast! And he gets so dirty - and there isn't much I can do about it either. We now have tiles and carpet, and its muggy and he sweats and gets hair and dirt under his neck and the inside of his arms poor boy - but I think he's happy he can get around now....
I went and bought some bolts for his cot the other day, to finally put it together, as he still sleeps in his portacot in our room, and the whole thing fell apart, the wood inside the base was soft and wouldn't hold the bolts. So I had to go eBaying....lucky I found a cot for $67 just up the road, so we pick that up today. It'll be nice to actually have his room set up for him - FINALLY!
We had a pretty quiet christmas and new years, I have been doing a bit of drinking....lol, and I am enjoying having my body back. I have the occasional thought of maybe having another one - as you on fb would probably already know, but that thought seems to come and go...lol
Elijah can say dadad, and it sounds like he says "hello" and "hey" sometimes....so cute, but as much as I would love it to be on purpose, I'm sure its an accident...lol
He is about to get his top teeth very soon, they are sitting right there, at tthe gum, waiting to go thru. He has been sleeping rather well for the last 2 nights - with Nurofen last night tho - waking only once for a bottle, around 4amish, then sleeping til someone wakes him or yesterday was 8.55am..but he doesn't go down til around 8pm.
Ok well, I hope you all had a great Christmas Holidays and ate and drank and went totally crazy with it all. I am just counting down til school starts now - and thats not too far away......lol
Oh and Happy 8 Months Elijah - today :D
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Happy 8 months Elijah!!! (Even if a little late) Great that you enjoyed Christmas and New Year Sleepy!
Phoenix - How is A sleeping now? Is she still only eating jar food. I have the opposite problem - Phoebe doesn't like to eat off a spoon, I can coax her into eating a little but she prefers to feed herself.
Tina - How is Mr Zen? Is his tummy all better still?
Well, as most of you know we have had an eventful time in Brisbane, we got to live on an island yesterday! My town was totally cut off from everything. It was kind of surreal but it did get a bit scary when we kept getting texts and phone calls to evacuate, yet there was nowhere that we could go! The water is down around us (hopefully to stay that way) but I just hope everywhere else makes it through ok. My husband was off work today and definately tomorrow and prob Friday, but I just want him to be safe.
Take care Sleepy and Tina!!
Miss Phoebe is going well, I have realised that her apparent constant teething with no teeth seeming to come is because she is cross cutting. She doesn't have any yet but I can see the point of the top side ones just under the gum! My poor bubba. She is now very proficient at walking around everything and balances by leaning against chairs and calls 'mum' whenever she wants me. It is very cute but I kinda wish it was dad at 2am. While she is a gorgeous baby girl I just wish she would sleep a bit better. We are still up at least twice a night.
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Hi everyone.
How is everything now Marni? I hope you guys are ok, and you are in our thoughts - you too TinaR! We have no bread and milk left in our 2 local Coles, or Woolies, but hopefully that changes soon! Otherwise we will be stocking up on flour, yeast and salt to make bread! Not sure how we will get milk....boobies are dry these days...lol
Elijah isn't walking yet, he is still mastering craw;ing, so we are still dealing with that. He is doing really well in his new room, only woke at 5am for a bottle this morning, so that was nice. He is also cutting his top 2 teeth, at once, and is grumpy during the day. But so far (fingers crossed) he seems ok at night times. Nurofen does help tho if he isn't!
As most of you already know Brisbane is suffering from the worst floods since 1974, and so far we are ok, its just the food shortage that worries us, but some of our friends are not going so well. But we are praying and hoping everyone will get thru this in one piece...altho we have family in Toowoomba and Gatton and Laidley...so heres hoping!
How is everyone else these days? It's rather quiet in here these days............where is everyone? I'm guessing busy with littlw ones..lol
Ok, well Elijah needs to go to bed, so a big hello to everyone! :hello:
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Wow, there's been a bit of conversation in here since I last checked. I don't seem to be getting notifications very regularly. Oh well...
Firstly, I hope that Sleepy, marni and Tina are all right with all these floods. Please take care ladies. It's such a shock seeing so much of Qld underwater - it'll be another shock seeing the destruction it's left once it all goes down again.
Sleep - Boz has been a VERY good sleeper lately, and is doing 12+ hours overnight with a feed around 4am, so doesn't wake until I wake him just before 8am. Then, he'll sleep again around 10:30am for anything up to 2 hours. If he sleeps past 12pm, he won't have an afternoon nap at all. The past two days he's been sleeping til between 5-6am then wanting to stay up. Yesterday he was up from 6:15am and today he's just gone back to sleep after waking at 5am (which is why I'm up! :doh:). I don't have any advice though as I don't actually know why he's sleeping so well atm and am sure it'll stop again soon enough!
Teeth - I can see B's top two just under the surface. They seem to trouble him every now and then, but haven't been too bad really.
Talking - B says 'dadada' constantly, sometimes when DH is around but mostly just cos he can! 'en-na' is his I am upset word, he'll use it if he wants to climb on you but you're out of reach or if you leave the room and he hasn't caught up yet! He says 'mama' occasionally, and only when I'm around, so I wonder if he actually knows how to use that one!! Plus, lots of screeching and groaning still - anyone else get that?
Food - B is doing well here too. He pretty much eats what we do for dinners with modifications (less or no tomato/onion and sauces) and lunches are mixed veges with cheese, pasta and/or meat. He still hasn't refused anything I've given him. And all home made food! Breakfast is rice cereal or baby multigrain. I have been planning to try weetbix but heard about the fibre/bran thing plus also worry he won't be getting enough iron. Suggestions for weetbix - make it very wet, mix it with some rice cereal and maybe only every second day. Occasionally B will crack in the middle of a meal. I just wait a couple of minutes and try again and he's fine. If he doesn't want something, I don't offer anything else so it's that or nothing! He's bfing 4 times a day.
Does anyone have plans to go back to work? About 1/2 my mum's group have gone back part time this year. I have at least another year off (depends on how stir crazy I get and how we go financially) but will only go back part time if I do.
