Babies born ~ May 1st-15th 2011 #1

[Rainbow_Mumma]

Will update the list again tomorrow (hopefully!) welcome to all the newbies!
It ended up with Jackson gaining 230g for the week so the nurse is happy and no more hospital admission talk!
Lleyton gained 360g for the week.
Both boys are starting to get a sleep pattern going and Jackson and Lleyton both settle well now after a horror of a week last week.
Hope everyone is well


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[Bern]

has anyone else who is breastfeeding got the hormone rash on bubs yet? i bought some qv intensive cream ( it just looks like lanisoh ) yesterday, but was wondering what others were using.... With DD1 i remember using the normal qv cream.

[Jellybean29]

Hey all!
Jacob is nearly 2 months now, hard to believe, it's gone so fast!
My parents came and visited from sydney last weekend. Not only did I gave a conflict with mum on sunday for being rude and disrespectful in my house, BUT she came down with conjunctivitis on saturday and this morning poor little Jacob had it, and by the evening so do DH and I!
I am supposed to be going up to sydney to visit next week but I'm pretty annoyed now and don't feel like it.

Also, today I was boiling the dummy's to disinfect them and walked away and forgot about them! The result, as DH found out, was 4 melted dummys on the base of the pot!


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[gemini_girl]

BBB
What on Earth was your Mother thinking by coming over with conjunctivitis.
I'm sorry, that just makes me mad.

My bad did she come down with it while she was here? Thats a little harder to predict huh..

[emc2]

yuck I hate conjuntivitis.

I have just been catching up, on this thread so I read the first four pages.

What happened was even more so due to Jim's birth, I had to rely on my parents a lot more, but we worked well together, I had new ideas from what I've basically learned from the internet, and they had all the old good ideas.

I wasn't traumatised so much from the birth but more the days afterwards (bowel probs) and early discharge (at 7.30am!). So also I had him on the breast in the early days but the supply came much later. I was feeding him for hours on end. One night Mum got some sort of can of Carnation milk and diluted for him as we ran out of S-26 prepackaged formula. He also had a red umbi and it was a Sunday so the midwife (they do weekend visits) said to go to the Children's hospital and get checked over.

Anyway I now have two breastpumps a manual pidgeon one I got second hand and a Medela Swing. (luckily pidgeon bottles are compatible with medela) I haven't got around to having a good routine with expressing though. I mainly try and feed him for 20 minutes at least, and then top up with NAN-HA. But I vary that a lot, if he is fussing I might give him formula then breast, then formula. I have been on antibiotics also just post op and from a bladder infection.

He has been quite windy so we tried home made gripe water - cooled boiled water with a bit of sugar also good for hiccups, Infacol, and now Infant's Friend.

However many nights he has slept for quite long periods, four hours and now six hours SOME nights.

The child health nurse yesterday said if they chuck up an equivalent of an A4 sized paper, that is only 20ml.

We have been using dummies but he spits them out quite often lol. It was just to calm him down while getting feed ready or ripping my shirt off lol.

[Jellybean29]

Yes I think a May thread would be wonderful!

Jacob is 2 months old today
He's having his vaccines at cyh on wednesday.

GG, please demand that swab, not too long ago a lady was posting her 6week old had whooping cough and she had to demand her swab.

Jacob is blowing bubbles too, he's going to be a drooler as well. Funny because I specifically chose my dog breed, schnauzers, because they don't drool, and now I have a dribbly baby!

KellyD the twins weights are great, Jake is only about 4.5kg and he's strong and healthy and long!

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[FarmGirl]

Hi everyone

Porsche: I laughed too when I saw the *****. Glad to hear you made it to the expo, are you feeling any less house bound or isolated?

Shanti: you should definetly join us in here, a few days apart in birth shouldn't stop you from being able to get the support you need from other mum's. Welcome

BBB: Too funny with the dribbiling, maybe in retrospect you should have gone for the drooling dog, at least you can put it outside.

AFM - I've been putting off my six week check up until I take Amelia for her needles next week. I've been having a good run with her and her sleeping lately. I can't wait until she can roll so I feel more confident to allow her to sleep all night on her tummy. She is a dream to put to bed, I just give her a feed, change her nappy, cuddles, and then into the cot on her tummy and she puts herself to sleep with no fuss at all. So different to my son who was a nightmare. I did this yesterday at lunch time and she slept through for 6 hours!

I too ladies have been keeping a close eye out for whooping cough. It seems to be everywhere. From letters in the mail to advise kids at Family Daycare have had it, to my SIL who is awaiting test results for herself. We have all had the vaccination, but I'm so mindful Amelia is the only one without the protection. I'm hoping my breastfeeding is giving her some protection, but you just can't be too careful. My son has had a 38 degree temperature for the last two days, and I'm hoping it's not what his aunty has (we were in contact with her before she was tested).

My house is a mess today as I have the new kitchen going in. Makes for an interesting day trying to keep a three year old out of the cupboard contents.

[Bern]

i did message Trish that made this thread, havent heard anything back. maybe if a few of us messaged to ask for 1 may group?

babies that got the hormone rash, do you find it comes and goes? chloe has it back on one check and a few other spots.....

[Bern]

i did message Trish that made this thread, havent heard anything back. maybe if a few of us messaged to ask for 1 may group?

babies that got the hormone rash, do you find it comes and goes? chloe has it back on one check and a few other spots.....

[emc2]

Is the hormone rash, is it from our breastmilk or from us before they came into the world? I can't remember.

We went down to the park today, his Poppa came for a visit and when he left I took Jim downstairs and my neighbour had a hold, while I went and brought my stroller down, so that worked well. Then she brought him back up when we came back and gave him a bottle.

I am still doing BF and FF, and now I'm trying some terry nappies. It's easy for me, because he's not too bad to look after but also as I live in a one bedroom unit, so my washing machine, clothes lines and kitchen are within a couple of metres of each other.

The Huggies are leaking as he is getting bigger.

I am having trouble expressing but he is feeding well, maybe it's just something I need to do more of.

[~Trish~]

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After receiving a couple of PM's regarding this, I'm just posting to let all members know that you are welcome to join baby buddies groups that are not within the time frame your baby was born. If your baby was born in May (or not long before or after), you are welcome to post in this group or the other May 2011 group. Please don't let the exact dates stop you from chatting in the group you feel most comfortable in. BB is a very welcoming community

[gemini_girl]

emc thats strange that your huggies are leaking, I swear by them. Brianna is in the next size up which I had to search all over town for. I don't have any problems with them.

Shanti welcome Its lovely to see you again! Hope you and Lillian are doing fine. Come back again soon, you know`where the thread is now lol and you are more than welcome to join us here!

Kelly I think I've said it before, but I will say it again.. I take my hat off to you! You are one awesome mummy. You must be supermum. I find myself so tired just from having one lil bub who sleeps quite well during the night. You and hubby are doing an amazing job. My hubby went back to work this week too and he is exhausted just from trying to get back into the swing of things at work, I can only imagine how tired your hubby is after the midnight feed. Heres to hoping that the boys start sleeping through soon so you and hubby can get some much needed rest.

BBB ROFL well I guess lil Jacob won't dribble all his life! I have to say Brianna has become quite a dribbler too lol and I think I would prefer baby dribbles over dog dribbles lol

Farmgirl Glad to hear everything is going well with you. Its lovely when we can put them down to bed and they fall off to sleep on their own. I hope your son returns to good health soon. How did your kitchen turn out? Did your son help rearrange the contents? lol

As for us.. Brianna is doing ok. I get a little concerned anytime I hear a cough. She woke up with the sniffles yesterday, but today she didn't. She just has tummy trouble today. She is asleep in my arms at the moment, but any movement and she starts crying, will have to give her some mylanta I think. She woke up a little before 5 this morning, its the earliest she has woken in over a week, and she has been going to bed about 9pm. She generally feeds 3 hourly during the day, so she has the recomended intake for the day. I offer her 150ml bottles, she started to drink the full bottle then went back to taking about 130ml.

I'm still squishing her into her bath lol she's fine until she starts stretching out, then she bumps her head. She thinks its hilarious, its quite funny to watch, and its nice to see her so happy. Never known anyone to be so pleased about having a bath lol.

I tried getting her in for a swab yesterday but the clinic was booked out. I'm quite annoyed they didn't just slide her in somewhere as I told them she is only 8 weeks old and that she had stopped breathing etc. It wouldn't be the first time they have squeezed someone in, besides how long does it take to do a swab anyway (I had DD2 to an ENT specialist earlier in the week, I'm not kidding when I say she was in seeing him for a total of about 3.5 minutes - and that was only because I asked him to do a letter for Australian Hearing - he got someone else to type the letter while we sat back out in the waiting room) So I dare say a doctor who has seen Brianna just a couple of days ago, who knows the situation, could do a swab in less than 5 minutes. Anyway, so now I will try to get her in tomorrow. I won't get her injections until the swab comes back clear, its just to much for one little body otherwise. I will ask the nurse to weigh her too as she will be 2 months tomorrow! I think she should be well over 5kg.

Hope everyone else is doing well.

[Jellybean29]

Porshe, I saw an awesome vid on the net about tummy time being not the best and better to put then on their back and let them learn to roll over... I'll try and dig it up and post.

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[TaRhLi.]

Porshe: My boys aren't that impressed with tummy time. Liam will move his head from side to side but put Rhys on his tummy he will just get himself into a comfy position and then fall asleep. To help with the neck muscles when we burp them we will always switch them around including one when they are over our leg and they both seem to lift their heads up when we do that, I also will let then lay on my chest and they will also lift their heads then as well. Liam already has fantastic head control so I'm not too worried, with Tara she hated tummy time as well - she was a spewy baby - and she learnt to lift her head. As for the rolling, Liam has done an involantery roll at the MCHN visit at 3 weeks but I remember her first real roll (she was trying to do it) was 1 day before my birthday and she was just over 4 mths old.

[Bern]

porsche - we dont do much tummy time here, usually after her bath i flip her long enough on her tummy to dry her back etc. sometimes when we burp her we lay her across our legs on her tummy and she holds her head up that way ( we support her under her neck with our hand.

[emc2]

To begin with a friend bought me a lot of nappies so I had him in the old Aldi ones in hospital, then Pampers, then more old Aldi ones, then the Huggies. Then I opened my box of Huggies which is unfortunately when they started leaking. I made sure I opened the leak protection and even tried pilchers over the top of them.

Luckily I had bought a few types of cloth. Two Bambooty nappies, A packet of terry flats and some bamboo flats which were seconds so cheap. Also I have pins and Snappis, and the liners and bucket.

What makes it easier is the housing commission put in a clothes line during the week and also I live in quite a small unit. Also I realised, most of the nappies are wees.

So once I did the first one it got easier. I find the terry ones are drying faster than the bamboo flats, my balcony gets a lot of sun, but the bamboo fitted and flats don't quite dry.

With feeding him, I think with the expressing, it's mainly that I'm not getting as much rest as I should and although I am coping well with what is going on it was still a lot of things that happened. I have got visits organised so that the baby's Dad is coming with his Dad twice a week so that is something that is sorted out, prior to us organising a Parenting Plan.

Yesterday it was my Dad's (Grandad's!) birthday, and so we had the two babies there, mine and my nephew and we were taking lots of photos!

I guess the main thing that Jim has apart from wind, is the hiccups, I just give him some homemade gripe water for that, boiled cooled water with a tiny bit of sugar! Probably really bad for him, but it stops the hiccups. I might just start giving him plain water. I tried breastfeeding for it but he would just hiccup for ages on my boob.

Just adding with tummy time, I got asked that at the hospital appointment to check his hips after a breech birth, then they gave me a leaflet. I said oh we haven't given him tummy time. But he has such a strong head and neck, and when I looked at the brochure we had already been doing lots of things they had in it, in winding him, that he has had "tummy time".

I am getting his shots at 8 weeks as I am trying to rest more and we aren't around a lot of other children or do too much shopping particularly. So I will get his shots then, and then the following week the child health people are kindly doing another home visit for us.

I still haven't bothered to ring up about the local mother's group but I have been to the ABA one.

[gemini_girl]

Just dropping by quickly to update. Took Bree to the doc, they didn't swab again. But they did give her injections. She screamed and screamed, cried her little heart out, she even had little tears, and bought a tear to my eye too. I had forgotten to take her dummy as I rushed out the door, so she done well to quieten down on her own afterwards. They weighed her at the doc, she weighed 5.8kg dressed, but I wanted to do it without her clothes on (they don't like doing that at the clinic) so I took her to child and youth health and weighed her there. She weighed 5.4kg. Length is 57cm. HC is 40. She is 2.2kg heavier than birth weight, and 8cm longer. I know she is getting bigger, but I was amazed she has grown 8cm in length. I'm so proud of my littlest girl.

[Porsche]

Hi Ladies

Geminigirl - Wow you certailnly have a full plate. I bet you are super organised. I can see why you don't like hospitals and Dr's. You've delt with them so much. And Mums always take a back seat anyway. make sure you have your check up though. I'm sure all is ok.

EMC - Make sure you rest when bubs sleeps. It will help heaps. Don't worry about house work etc... that can all wait. I find that the bamboo nappies take ages to dry as well. I hang them in the sun during the day and then leave them on the airer inside over night and they are usually ok by the morning. I heven't been to any mothers groups. I'll be going back to work in October so no point really for me.

Bern - Thanks for the tummy time tip. I'm going to try a few techniques and see if they help. I'm told she has great head controll but i worry she won't learn how to roll over if she won't have tummy time on the floor.

Well L has been sleeping from 7pm to 4:30am the last couple of nights. She's dropped the 12am feed. I might try and hold out a little longer in the evening and try and get her to sleep from 9pm -6am. Can only try anyway.

Have a great day ladies. I must get out of my jarmies!