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

[gemini_girl]

Bree is not having much luck lately. She fell off the bed yesterday. DD forgot she is getting mobile now, luckily she landed on her bottom, plenty of padding there. Still scared her though.

Kelly.. Thanks so much for the info about the food feeder. While Bree hates the idea of holding it herself, she really is getting into all these new and wonderful tastes she is exploring now.

Bree is still not crawling. She gets onto her hands and knees and rocks and can sit back onto her bum...

[Jellybean29]

Bree is not having much luck lately. She fell off the bed yesterday. DD forgot she is getting mobile now, luckily she landed on her bottom, plenty of padding there. Still scared her though.

Kelly.. Thanks so much for the info about the food feeder. While Bree hates the idea of holding it herself, she really is getting into all these new and wonderful tastes she is exploring now.

Bree is still not crawling. She gets onto her hands and knees and rocks and can sit back onto her bum...

Oh GG don't worry! In ashamed to admit how much Jacob has done that! Now we've taught him to edge of the bed feet first before that DH and I joked he was a Lemming!!!

Jacob was doing the knee wobble last week and now he just pushes up on his toes and tries to walk in a downward dog position! Lol


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[Jubear]

Hi All,

gemini_girl - Glad to hear Bree is alright after her fall. I'm sure that she will be crawling in no time, one minute she will be considering it still and the next zooming across the room.

BabyBellyBurton - My Boy likes to do the downward dog as well, not sure what he is trying to achieve but it keeps him happy.

AFM - My boy was 9mths yesterday, I cannot believe how fast that has come about. We are still having trouble sleeping. I can get him to go to sleep by rocking and put him in his cot but he usually semi-wakes around 40mins and then has trouble resettling, I then need to rock him for about 20mins. Any earlier and he wakes when putting him in the cot... the second sleeps lasts about an hour but then semi-wakes, I rerock and he sleeps again. This goes on till, I am about to drop with exhustion, then I bring him into bed with us to co-sleep, which he then sleeps, no problems. Is this normal? He loves his food but I don't think I am giving him enough to eat, as well as trying new things. not sure when he is suppose to try eggs or tomates and lettuce, does anyone know of a list somewhere here, I can use as a guide. He is now crawling like a champion and loves to pull himself into standing positions in front of the TV and the glass coffee table, both items are banned for him but he thinks it a game and dashings over so fast, that he loses traction a bit. Very funny to watch. He also loves to laugh at my PIL's dog. He finds it hilarous, not sure why. He now has 2 bottom teeth and I think his two top middle ones are coming through as well. Does anyone else's bubba, get a rash under their chin, around this time.

Anyhoo, should get some sleep, now the boy is down. Hope everyone else is doing alright and wishing you all the best.

Cheers Jubear.

[Jellybean29]

Hey Jubear!
Has to reply straight away, YES! To the rash under the chin!! What is with that? Jacob still has no teeth though...
I am same with sleep and the cot, we just cosleep too. If we want to TTC at the end of the year I'll need to wean him off this though. Not sure how either? Might have to do sleep school but while Jacobs still having boobie overnight cosleeping is easier.




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[gemini_girl]

I have a list which Child and Youth Health gave me, it lists things to expect at different ages and also talks about when to introduce certain foods. I think I put in the wardrobe in the girls room, will have a look tomorrow if I remember

Bree gets the rash under the chin too. I have found that a tiny amount of paw paw ointment helps. It beats using the stronger cream (betnovate?) which the doc gave me on prescription, although the stronger one got it under control to begin with, the paw paw ointment just managed it since. I put it on every time it looks like the rash is coming back. I lather her bum in paw paw ointment too and it has kept those dam nappy rashes away too. We had so much trouble with really bad nappy rash for about 6 months and since getting it cleared up with Hydrozole and swapping to paw paw ointment to maintain it - No more problems.

Bree got another tooth. She has 5 teeth now. She would have 7 but two of them dissapeared. Slowly getting the idea of crawling but still not getting far. Sits herself up well now though. Little rascal often sits herself up now when I put her to bed.

Brianna got the nickname Briannasaurasrex coz she has found a new growling sound she sometimes toys with lol

Anyone elses bub love having their ears cleaned? Brianna nearly fell asleep yesterday when I was cleaning her ears with a cotton tip LOL

10.6kg now!

[Rainbow_Mumma]

Where have our babies gone?!
The twins were 9 months yesterday. Lleyton has one tooth, Jackson none yet.
Both are commando crawling but not yet sitting.
Lleyton weighs 8.28kg and Jackson is 7.97kg

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[Jellybean29]

Where have our babies gone?!
The twins were 9 months yesterday. Lleyton has one tooth, Jackson none yet.
Both are commando crawling but not yet sitting.
Lleyton weighs 8.28kg and Jackson is 7.97kg

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I know ! Jacob is 9 months and 6 days according to my ticker and he just loves showing how clever he is with sitting up, does it all the time, which i suppose is a bit better then when he first learnt to get up on his knees and would rock and fall over and cry all the time!

He has come out with "mama" and "dada" a few times, but I think he's just playing with his voice and not meaning anything by it

[gemini_girl]

I know ! Jacob is 9 months and 6 days according to my ticker and he just loves showing how clever he is with sitting up, does it all the time, which i suppose is a bit better then when he first learnt to get up on his knees and would rock and fall over and cry all the time!

He has come out with "mama" and "dada" a few times, but I think he's just playing with his voice and not meaning anything by it

Bree said mum a couple of times but no where near as much as dadda and daddy... Im so jealous lol
We ask Bree questions and she shakes her head no all the time and thinks this is hilarious... she often does it when she has had enough food too...

...dealing with other news today, our boy has been assessed this week and diagnosed as having aspergers

[Rainbow_Mumma]

Your babies are all so advanced compared to my 2 ... Having said that lleyton just pulled himself up onto his knees on the coffee table

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[gemini_girl]

Your babies are all so advanced compared to my 2 ... Having said that lleyton just pulled himself up onto his knees on the coffee table

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Mrs S all babies/children are different in developmental stages... I have seen massive differences with my eldest 3 for example, my eldest was taking her first steps at 8 months old, yet my second two were not until 14 months of age... not sure when it will happen for little bree but quite honestly I am thankful of each day that she is not as mobile without her walker... she is just now starting to attack the entertainment unit and I don't have doors to protect the playstation or anything so I'm not sure what I can do about that other than pushing the coffee table right up against it...
My middle two didn't get there first teeth until they wre about 12 months old, yet bree has 5 by the time she is 9 months...
so they are all different, don't worry yourself too much..

[Rainbow_Mumma]

I have to take into consideration they are prem too and then there was the month in hospital hooked up to a million machine sedated and given drugs to paralyse them so realistically they are doing really well

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[TaRhLi.]

GG: Oh no about your DS, does this now mean you have to start making a lot of changes in your life now??

I get words from the boys as well - Liam is a mum mum boy and Rhys is all about dad dad. I think Liam knows who mum is though as if daddy deals with him when he is calling out mum he will scream louder until I deal with him - or maybe he just prefers mummy over daddy.

Both boys are crawling everywhere and Liam is not just pulling himself up, furniture walking and now trying to get his balance an let go. This has resulted in a few egg's on his head as he crashes head first into the floor - he did it the other day on the kitchen tiles *ouch*. Rhys has been getting up on his knees but has in the past couple of days started getting onto his feet, so I think in a month or so Liam will be walking with Rhys not too far behind him.

Liam has 2 teeth but still none for Rhys although I think they are both teething at the moment, Liam has a really bad eczema rash on his face from teething that I had to go to the chemist to get some steriod cream to settle it down - the redness has gone today fx it is doing the trick. Oh and you girls who co-sleep, my hats off to you. Rhys was really unsettled last night (from teeth) and would not settle in his own bed so I chucked him in with us, he slept soundly until I put him back in his bed at 6.30am but I am wrecked today as everyone else hogs the bed and I end up sleeping on the edge of the bed which means not much sleep. As much as I would move him back to the middle of the bed he would always creep up close to me. Lets hope tonight he goes down better although saying that he has been fine sleeping in his own bed today.

Oh, Bern how is Chloe now??? Is she all o.k with her cast off??

[Bern]

we dont have the cast off yet
Not enough healing.
it now comes off definitely on the 20th.
Thanks for asking

[Dragonbub]

Hello All!
Long time no chat yet again. Gemini - I am sorry to hear about the diagnosis of aspergers. Was it something you were expecting?

Jubear - I hear you hun. I don't think it is entirely "normal" but my lil guy sounds the same. Lots of cuddling and rocking to get him to sleep sometimes at night. Although he will sleep for a few hours, three at the most but wake up at least 3 times a night for a feed still. I know he is not too hungry cos he doesn't feed for long, but just wants the reassurance. I have started to just rock him instead of feeding and last night it took 2 hours from 9-11 before I gave up and fed him . It is hard work and I totally understand the exhaustion!

Everyone else - hi! Your baby's sound so grown up already.

AFM - River is crawling, sitting, and pulling himself up onto things. He has had a couple of bruises already - the first of many I fear . He only has the bottom two teeth but I think the top two are moving and on their way. DH is away at the moment so the household is a bit unsettled. DS1 started kindy too which has thrown us all into a bit of a spin. Hoping things settle down when DH is back and DS settled into school.

I am pretty sleep deprived (6 hours average each night with several feeds in between ) and I reversed into a parked car yesterday . I was quite shaken up, although I didn't do any damage to the other car or mine. It was just an awful experience and I was so embarrassed. Unfortunately the lady whose car it was is a kindy mum too so I can't avoid her. I am worried I will now always be "that lady who reversed into me". She wasn't in the car or anything, but I just wish it hadn't happened. Oh well... I guess the sleep deprivation is having an impact.

Ok, gotta go, River is crying (as usual) and I better go do the mummy-thing.

TTFN

[gemini_girl]

Bern sorry to hear Chloe still has her cast, atleast you have a date now for sure though, that will be an exciting day

Dragonbub - Oh No, sorry to hear about your car incident. I know about the sleep deprivation, although I am not having to get up to Bree through the night, I am getting very little sleep with trying to sort everything out with our son lately. I usually like to be in bed by 10pm-ish but haven't been to bed before midnight in about 3 weeks now. Hang in there, things will settle down again soon, it just takes a little time to adjust.

TaRyLi - I cringed when I read about Liam pulling himself up and then falling onto the tiles, as we have tiles in our house also and that is something I have been concerned about for Bree. She has just started crawling now and she is crawling out onto the tiles. She sometimes has the urge, when she is on hands and knees, to make her head fall forward.

This morning when DH checked on her in the cot, he found she had pulled herself up and was standing holding the rail.
She copped a knock on the head from the car door the other day. I was holding her and turned to tell my son not to push past and scrape down the wall of the garage which resulted in her getting knocked. She screamed and I felt terrible. I expected a huge bruise, but luckily there was barely a mark. Gee there tough aren't they. I think it hurts us more because we want so much to protect them from any pain.

AFM well as I said, its official - Bree is crawling now! but my focus is taken off little Breemeister as we get our head around the recent diagnosis of our son. Its a lot to take in and at this stage I'm not sure what is in store for the future. I have suspected for years that there was something going on but had no idea what it was. I hadn't heard of aspergers until a couple of years ago, and even then, I didn't really understand what it was all about. I have been looking into it more in the last few months and after all the reading, I had no doubt in my mind that my son has aspergers, but to hear it from someone else is still a shock. All these years we have been told "see how you go". We have noticed things got a lot worse at home since we moved. And the screaming tantrums lasting up to 2 hours or more most days. We are trialling medication, which at this stage seems to be working really well. We have only just started him on it but I am already thinking about therapy to help sort all this out so we can get him back off the medication. We have another looooong assessment on Tuesday.

Little Bree is staying with her Nan tonight, we took the older three bowling today to take our minds off everything that has been going on. It worked, we all had a good time (and I got 3 strikes ) and we all had a laugh, something we all needed. But its strange not having little Bree with us. Everytime I got out of the car I felt as though I was leaving her behind.

[Rainbow_Mumma]

GG my best friends 14 year old son has aspergers. Hes a wonderful kid once he gets familiar with you.

Lleyton did about 5 real crawling steps today, i was so proud.
Jackson has nearly cut his first tooth and im praying they learn to sleep through soon 9 months of sleep deprivation is sending me nutty

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[gemini_girl]

GG my best friends 14 year old son has aspergers. Hes a wonderful kid once he gets familiar with you.

Lleyton did about 5 real crawling steps today, i was so proud.
Jackson has nearly cut his first tooth and im praying they learn to sleep through soon 9 months of sleep deprivation is sending me nutty

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Yeah they're not always troublesome, DS is going through a difficult time, but he can be quite charming, getting down on one knee and serenading (?spelling) playing the guitar and singing, hoping to see more of this in the coming weeks and months..

Yay for Lleyton crawling

Sending you lots of sleep vibes

[Jellybean29]

In bed this morning with three of us and Jacob says "mama! Mama!" so cool !!


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