Mmmmm, Alex is in the infant ones atm, but I might move him to crawler soon at the rate he's growing. For some reason infant are hard to get in bulk. Came to the realisation the other day that whilst cloth economically makes sense, my pathological dislike of folding washing means they probably aren't a great idea...
I moved Levi up to crawlers because we can't get infant in boxes. Infant go from 4-8kg and crawlers from 6-18kg. Also why do they make boxes of 99? Why not 100!!
Merry Christmas!!! Our bubs weren't here this time last year and we didn't know what the year ahead would bring! It's extra special today. Hope you have a great day!
Merry Christmas ladies, families and lil babies. Been busy baking today after the kids were all sorted with there pressies... They got so spoilt this year and Abby has been pretty much sleeping all day apart from maybe an hour.
I still got Abby in newborn nappies but I've also used my BBH and itti bitti's a couple of times. Not much involved in folding them really especially the itti bitti Tutto's I got and I find they fit her a bit better too.
CK I've been putting Abby in the pool since 2.5 weeks but we have our own pool so i'm not real worried about cleanliness and the pool is pretty warm too as we have been getting 45 degree days.
We went over to a friends for dinner tonight and for some reason Abby will not settle when we are at there place. We quite often go to another friends place and settles really quickly with her dummy and sleeps in her pram there though, so I'm not sure what the go is.
She got dressed up today in her Xmas tutu her Nanny and aunt sent her so I'll upload a pic of it for those who I don't have on Facebook.
I hope you all had amazing days with your little ones.
We had the best day as it was Christmas with my whole family. Aubree got very spoilt we are off on or BIG adventure to Mildura today to see the outlaws... Great (please note I have said this with a great deal of sarcasm)
Thank you all for making the first 6 weeks of Aubree's life amazing. You have all been a great support, I'll wish you all a Happy and Healthy New Year now xx
How was everyone's day yesterday? We had a pretty awesome day, Alex spent the day charming his Nanna and Aunties by being so cruisy and happy, then back to me for a feed and change before drifting off to sleep in the pram, despite all the noise. He got some lovely presents and has spent this morning laying in his little nest chattering away to them while I was clearing some bench space for my sparkly new KitchenAid
Hope everyone had a great christmas I am feeling so Full from all the Food!! We had a lovley time with Grants mother here she is just lovley.
OOo I have a kitchen aid mixer too a professional one.
Figured out what was going on with Lilly. Had my Husbands mother here over christmas. Discovered becasue of her experience breastfeeding that Lilly is a lazy sucker which is why we are having so much issues! She fed her on the bottle and was amazed at her falling asleep there too.. so it isn't slow flow issues.
We are going to pump now I get about 100ml a time and feed her that and make up the weight in formula. So nice to know what is happening and I can finally get my life on track now! Changing to Goats milk formula too for top ups, the Nan HA is making her constipated, and making her strain. She also has broken out in pimples all over poor thing.
So hot here last few days. Lilly does not like the heat at all and has been really unsettled and not sleeping. She also took a few days to get over the vaccinations having sore legs so needed some panadol poor pet But doing better today and she REALLY loves her Fisher Price Swing. She now will only take her day naps in it and bassinette is for night time LOL funny bubs
Last edited by Lolpigs; December 27th, 2011 at 06:04 AM.
Hmm Lilly seems to be cat napping during the day and sleeping a big stretch in the early evening, then again after that feed for about 3 hours, then back to cat napping this seem ok? I thought she had to do big sleeps during the day too? I have her down stairs with us during the day, perhaps I should try and get her to go down in her bassinette upstairs?
Levi feeds about 7-8am, then sleeps until about 9am. We play until his next feed then he feeds and naps on and off until 2-3pm. Wakes about 4:30-5pm for a feed, hubby gets home about 5:20pm so he gets to play with him. He feeds at 8:30pm, goes down about 10pm and sleeps until 4:30-5am. Normally take 30-40mins. Sleeps until 7-8am.
For Levi's big sleeps he goes into his cot but when he is cat napping I leave him in his bouncer so
I'm not always going back into his room.
Last edited by AMumma; December 27th, 2011 at 11:24 AM.
Alex usually goes to bed around 8-9pm and will sleep to 2am, wake up to feed and then back to sleep till around 6-7am. At that wake up he'll have a feed, get dressed for the day and then a play on his mat while I have breakfast, by about 8-9am he's ready for another top up feed and a snooze. Usually wakes up again at around 11-11.30am, the afternoon follows a pretty similar pattern of feed, play, feed again then sleep.
Some days he catnaps, particularly when it's a bit warm and he's waking to feed frequently because he's thirsty. Other days he has his 1.5-2hr daytime sleeps, so shorter than his night sleeps but long enough. He will either sleep in his rocker or in his cradle in our room, it doesn't really make that much difference to him for some reason, same as when we're out he'll sleep in the pram as well. He does prefer quiet or at least reduced visual stimulation to get to sleep but once asleep will sleep through just about anything.
I'd give it a go having Lilly upstairs if she's easily roused by what's going on around the house during the day, you can always change back if it's not working for you. It usually takes a fair bit of trial and error to find something that works, and then of course just when you think you've got them worked out they'll change their mind about something....
Poor Alex has had a bit of a rough morning today though - think all the mega-rich food of the last couple of days has finally caught up with him. Had a huge runny green poo this morning and has now finally dropped off to sleep after a lot of grizzling/feeding/burping/farting.
Thanks guys, She seems to be rapidly changing her patterns lately so its getting confusing. We were doing upstairs daytime sleeps of an hour to an hour and a half, but since having the vaccinations she wanted to sleep downstairs in her swing chair alot, even for night time sleeps, and now last night took awhile to settle becuase of the heat but slept from 9:30 - 3am fed then sleep from 4 - 7am, then feed, then sleep from 8-9 in swing chair, then feed, then awake time with mum then sleep from 11 - 12 in swing chair, awake time then cat nap on dad till 1:15 then feed then more cat naps with waking in between then feed at 3:15 and now here we are.
She dosent seem to have a routine, just she seems to rapidly change what she wants every day. We do a bath time at around 7-9 every night and over night she sleeps fine once she is settled.
She is on her play at with me ATM because she didn't want to sleep after her last feed. (as she cried out to me after I left her in the bassinette with her jingle bell when she was punching it becuase she realised I was gone.) She is feeding alot lately and I have noticed her trying to talk alot, laugh, trying to suck on her hand and work out how to suck on her thumb so perhaps all the learning and alertness is messing with her schedule?
Kinda at a loss how to improve her sleeps
Last edited by Lolpigs; December 27th, 2011 at 03:19 PM.
Heh, it's funny I did that with Alex the other day - he wasn't crying or yelling for me (he has this squeal that kind of says "Oi, come get me" that isn't really a cry as such) but was just laying in his cradle chattering away - until he drifted off to sleep on his own when he was ready. She'll let you know if she wants you, but she may just surprise you and nod off when she's ready
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we are off on or BIG adventure to Mildura today to see the outlaws... Great (please note I have said this with a great deal of sarcasm)
But doing better today and she REALLY loves her Fisher Price Swing. She now will only take her day naps in it and bassinette is for night time LOL funny bubs
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