Babies born ~ May 1st-15th 2011 #2

[emc2]

kelly i think i need to do more of what you advised dragonbub.

i bring him to the living room and then he is awake longer.

[Dragonbub]

Kelly - good advice hun. I have actually been weaning him off the night feeds as just a week ago I was doing them every two hours from about 2am! EEk. I am happy to have a midnight one and another one around 3, but as long as he goes back to sleep which he doesn't always, especially if he does a poo and I need to change the nappy. I think though that he doesn't really need the 3 am one, so that will be my next challenge. I tried the dream feed, and it was hard to get him to feed for any decent time, and he still woke up at 12 anyway, I think his body clock is set for that time. So I just go with it, Caden was the same so I guess River is following his footstepts. Last night though he slept through to 12, had a feed then slept til 4! I didn't know myself with such a long stretch of sleep

Bern - DH is sleeping in the spare room so obviously that can't last forever (when visitors come over he says that is our birth control, LOL). But I do like having the convenience of R in my room. I think when he is only having one feed a night, or at least is more settled, I will move him to his room. It is just too cold to be wandering around the house in winter time

EMC - sounds like you have a plan hun . I find it is so much trial and error. I have River on a mat that has rolls on each side to prevent him rolling over. He seems to prefer to sleep on his sides, and has better access to his hands which I am encouraging rather than the dummy. He is not quite a thumb sucker yet but he will get there if he wants to. I think it also helps his digestive system as he is quite a gassy bub too. I used a basinet with Caden but he grew out of it by 11 weeks so decided against that this time. River seems ok in the cot though, but as we are changing from me constantly holding him to learning to sleep by himself, it takes time.

AFM - well like I said we had a good night, slept to 12, then to 4am. Mind you, he did a poo and wet through as well so that made for an entire change in the wee hours of the morning (pardon the pun). I think we are getting better. Still sleep deprived though, I guess when you think an average of 5 hours a night for 3 months is something like a sleep debt of over 200 hours! No wonder I am tired and grumpy.

Did someone mention sleeping bags or wrapping? I wrap R during the day as part of our going to bed routine, and at night sometimes I swaddle and put a sleeping bag on him (I have some summer TOGS from Caden) or I put a heavier TOG on him and don't swaddle him. I am not sure which he prefers, but seems a bit better with the swaddling. Although I now leave both arms out so he has access to his hands which he likes to suck.

TTFN

[Porsche]

Hi Ladies

I seemed to have missed some stuff lol. I thought I replied the other day but I can't find where I did it .

Dragonbub - We have L in her cot now. She's been there for about a month and has taken to it with no problems. Apart from the fact she still looks so tiny in it lol. She's in her own room and has been from the day we bought her home. Her nursery is right next to ours so I don't have far to wander. I hope R sleeps a little longer for you. L sleeps from 6pm to about 6am give or take 30 mins or so and hass been for quite a while. I swaddle her for bed at night but not during the day. She has 1 really good sleep in the day. We have a halo sleep bag/swaddle. I can take the swaddle off and use it just as a sleep bag. Best investment I made buying those. So much easier than muslin wraps. I could never fold them properly lol.

EMC - L smiles and giggles as well. It's the best thing to watch. DH & I try and encourage her with funny faces and silly voices and more often than not we get the reward. She often wakes up and just has a conversation with herself before we go in and get her. It's truly heart melting.

Hi Everyone else. Hope all is well.

[Jellybean29]

Just now Jacob was sitting in his rocker cooing, and I blew him a kiss and said "Mummy loves you!" and I got the biggest smile i've seen yet! awwwwwwh

[Porsche]

Just now Jacob was sitting in his rocker cooing, and I blew him a kiss and said "Mummy loves you!" and I got the biggest smile i've seen yet! awwwwwwh

Awwwww how cute. Made me all warm and fuzzy.

[TaRhLi.]

BBB: They are the best smiles...

[Kaydee]

Sleeping arrangements: We have DD in our room in a basinette. I would love for her to be able to sleep in her own room but at the moment we are living in a small apartment with only 2 bedrooms until our house is built. Midwives here recommend sharing a room for the first 12 months, but as soon as the house is done (5 months) she will be in her own room. Amelie has a bed and changing table in DS's room but she only sleeps in there when DS is at Kinder.

[MrsC_Aussie]

awww cute boy BBB!

Sleeping arrangements: Lizzie in cradle in our room at the moment, but she's pretty close to having outgrown it so shortly will move into cot and share a room with Susie, given she sleeps through most nights doing around 10 hours, sharing a room should hopefully work well! would like her with us longer but dont think the cot would fit.

[Jellybean29]

They build them pretty cute, huh? babies i mean. must be a survival mechanism i reckon!

i dont usually have to change Jacob overnight, but last night i heard some rumblings so got up to change him after 3am feed. there wasnt much poo in the nappy though, oh well false alarm. I put a new nappy on anyway, button all his layers back up, zip him back into his sleeping bag..... and BAM! he lets it rip! arrrrrgh had to start all over again! he smiled and laughed of course!

[Porsche]

HaHa BBB Lilly does that as well. Not uncommon for us to go through 3 or 4 nappies in less than 5 mins.

[Jellybean29]

HaHa BBB Lilly does that as well. Not uncommon for us to go through 3 or 4 nappies in less than 5 mins.

sometimes I think huggies have replaced my baby with an identical looking robot poo machine!

[emc2]

Jim did that a bit with poos lol - I remember sticking disposable after disposable under him lol

What he does the most though is weeing "in public" whenever he's been weighed. The funniest one was when we went back to the hospital for the breech hip check - it went literally everywhere and it was so funny.

[Porsche]

Ahh the joys of having boys EMC lol. I remember getting peed on quite a bit when my DS was little.

[emc2]

He's only done it twice while changing him though..he's done more poos mid change early on.

We had a good day today, my pendant arrived with Jim's footprint, this morning which was lovely. This afternoon we went for afternoon tea at the next door neighbour's house. She lives in a tiny worker's cottage, and she's painted the inside rooms different pastel colours, and with art work from friends and family. Very pretty.

Tomorrow Mum is minding Jim, and I have an appointment with Community Health, I am not sure whether I will go to it or not, it was just to do with getting advice about the situation with my ex and also just with what happened with Jim's birth. The only thing is the place is about 1km from any bus stop. To be honest I just feel like getting some rest.

Child Health called me when I didn't turn up to the mother's group, and said I'm most welcome to come to the last session, so I will do that next week on Tuesday.

I just want to get some new bras that aren't nursing bras. I've been doing a bit of online shopping and online window shopping. I have found microfleece works really well as a nappy liner, I was quite surprised.

Jim alternates between being windy one evening and sleeping the next evening. The past few days I've been having a sandwich at 11am while he's having his morning sleep, or playing and then I make something more substantial for me to eat in two meals later on that day and night. Prior to this I was alternating between eating well and drinking Sustagen lol.

He's looking more like a boy now in that he's older and a bit less like a "baby baby" as my brother has termed it. I bought some very expensive (to me!) chime toys and they are the greatest thing, Jim put his arm under them and made them chime. He also had another half roll over on the playmat this week.

[gemini_girl]

Hi Ladies,

I've just been catching up on everyones post, I'll try and remember all the replies I had lined up lol

BBB OMG I was in shock reading your post. Poor lil man, I hope he is doing better now. How worrying for you. The heart aches when we see our tiny ones in so much pain. I look forward to read soon that he is doing much better!

Dragonbub I have a 9 and 11 year old and they do my head in sometimes. Just this morning they had not one nice word to say to each other. I growled at them and told them not to say a word more to each other, and from that they started getting along as though they were best friends.. grrr

Kelly that visit to the park sounds like fun. Its nice to take advantage of the nice weather

Oh dear, I knew I would forget lol...

Oh Kaydee... lovely to see you hear dear! I have been wondering how you are getting on. Hope to hear more from you again soon

AFM Well we are here, in our new house Its still in a mess, with stuff everywhere. We're slowly getting through it all. Its strange to be talking to hubby about hurrying along the sorting as Bree will be mobile soon enough. I think we are doing well considering we have a lil baby, hubby is working full time, and I have had to go back and tidy up the old place etc. We're all finished with the old place as of tomorrow so no more worrying about that anymore!

Mum had Bree for two nights and I missed my lil girl so much. I knew she was fine where she was, but I really ached for a cuddle. I couldn't let go of her when I went to pick her up on sunday at lunch time. She is adjusting well to our new home. She is still sleeping through the night, about 10 hours which is awesome. She woke up early this morning, about 6:10am, usually she wakes after 7, but it worked out well because I realised hubby had forgotten to set the alarm, so she saved the day lol she went back to sleep after that until I woke her at 7:30am

I had her weighed when she was 3 months. She was 6.48kg, and I forget the rest of the details now lol, but she was in the 90th percentile I think it was She is on the heavier side, but she is on the shorter side lol, bit like her mum LOL.

Anyway, it is really late. I need to get to bed for a recharge as all this extra driving to school and back is taking its toll.

Hope everyone is well. BBB let us know how Jacob gets on. Will be thinking about you. xx

[gemini_girl]

Oh dam - as it turns out, I didn't finish reading everybodys posts lol... I'll be back another time to catch up again lol

[Jellybean29]

I think Jacobs had a 'wonder week' , its been pretty exhausting! He has been very grouchy between 5-9pm each evening, and from 4am-10am has wanted to 'cluster feed' so waking every 30min-1hr!
I don't mind cluster feeding in the evening, but this 4am business is driving me crazy!!!!!!

[emc2]

GG I don't know how you keep up with all the personals, sometimes everyone's posts become a blur tbh. I had to get halve a lot of things I had here, I still need to buy a big cupboard or something, rather than the open shelf I have, for my books and things. I also will have to sell my bed soon and get a single ensemble (we will both be on wheels lol). The change table and bath I have with wheels is great, I can just wheel it around to different angles in the little laundry/hallway.

I bought three Magicalls, I haven't used a pocket nappy before but as they had the buy two get one free deal, I thought I might try them. I think MCN's will be easier than flats when I go out.

BBB - Jim is growing too, it's a little easier with formula though, well apart from all the washing up!! I bought some new Pigeon bottles and they leaked, but luckily I had the ones I got from eBay, I mixed and matched. I have put Jim on a Medium teat a few times and sometimes it is good, other times the flow is too much for him.

He's got the hiccups again! lol