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Wite - You can move on to the next thing whenever you want. Generally they say to try something for 3 days before moving on to the next thing, or adding something new, that way you'll be able to work out what the culprit is if something doesn't agree with her. I still give George cereal for breakfast, particularly when he doesn't drink all his milk, I add it to the cereal. I usually add a bit of fruit to the cereal aswell, because on its own it's pretty bland. They suggest you start on fruit after the cereal, because they can become constipated on the cereal, since it's so full of iron.
BTW, I have given up on most of the people I know IRL who have kids, it's not a friggen competition!!
Dory - You are so brave in my eyes, and I think it's so lovely that as a family you can remember your angel babies, they will forever be with you.
I hope you're feeling ok, and that cold hasn't taken hold. Good Luck with the gardening! I can't wait to get into our new house to get started on some of that stuff. Hopefully, we will be in there by Easter - we're currently painting, and tiling next week!
Christening plans are going well... it's this Sunday, and I finally found a dress for myself today. It's been tough - all I've been seeing out there are mini-dresses, which I'm really not comfortable in. Cake has been ordered, balloons for the centre of the tables ordered, numbers confirmed - 75 people. We wanted to keep it small, and for a Greek/Italian family - that's pretty small. Lol
fuzzy - I would take Chloe to the MCHN to be weighed if I were you. Not putting any weight on for a month seems a bit strange to me - not sure. Maybe I'm just used to my beast of a son putting on heaps all the time.
George can sometimes be clingy, but very randomly. He can be fine to play on his own 1 day, but then if he hasnt had enough sleep during the day, he sooks if I move a metre away!
As for what he's eating...
7am - 200ml bottle
8am - 1/2 cup of Cereal with fruit (if he hasnt finished his milk it's more cereal with a dash of fruit, if he has, its mainly fruit)
11am - 150ml bottle
12pm - 1/2 cup of vegies
3pm - 200ml bottle
5pm - 1/2 cup of vegies with meat (chicken, beef or lamb) and 1/2 cup of fruit
6:30pm - 150ml bottle
I use the Avent food storage cups, so I don't think they are the same as a normal metric cup size.
Bec - George has eyebrows too. How funny are they? They add so much character to their faces - silly boys! I'm so glad Isaac getting better at sleep now - fantastic!
No sure about the smelly wee, George's is smelly sometimes too, but I dont know, I guess it comes and goes.
belfie - Yay for the baby bonus! I think I only have 1 payment left :(
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Dory - good on you for the gardening - especially when feeling sick! I cant even go outside at the moment. It is so damn hot here its rediculous. 39 today and it only goes down to 25 over night so the house is a constant oven. Over it.
Connie - thanks for the food advice. George has really progressed!! 1/2 a cup at each meal is fantastic or a whole cup - WOW. I am stoked if Chloe has one ice cube sized bit. She is actually doing really well now with food. Must have just started her that bit too young. She loooves apple and banana. Tried her on carrot today - not so keen on that one haha. She looks healthy so I am not sure about the weight thing. She has definately slimmed down a bit, i.e. gotten longer and less chubbier.
Wite - hello!! I stalk you all on FB so it doesnt really feel like you have been missing too much :) Nice words to Dory xx
Chloe still waking twice a night. arrrrrrh. Alright gotta go. I have gotten addicted to a TV series called The Shield. Awesome. DH is telling me off for talking to you all when I should be talking to him! haha
oh one last thing. Chloe is sitting! Well she sits for a few minutes but will eventually fall sideways or backwards so I hover around her for when that happens.
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Connie-thanks for the food advice...I can't believe I have been through it all before with Jett and second time around it is all so new too me again!! I'm going to try her on some pumpkin tomorrow and see how she goes she seems to love the farax- I put leftover formula in her cereal too so it isn't going to waste!
Fuzzy- Hi!!!!! I stalk you on FB too..the photos of Chloe are all super cute, there is one of her asleep with a stuffed dog that is sooooooo precious!!!! That is so exciting Chloe is sitting! Harlow isn't yet but she is dying too-I think when she finally learns she will be happier because she will be able to sit & play with Jett more!
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OMG another disapeared poster coming back in... Gees times flies and i didnt even know you guys started a new thread!!
Ive read everything but will just do a quick post. Glad everyones sharing there feeding details, Im starting Bella TONIGHT!! waiting for Daddy to come home from work and let him do it as it will be his first time and i wanted it to be exciting for him haha... I waiting till DS was 6 months but he never really gave much interest in it, Bella on the other hand omg is glued to everything i eat and tries to grab everything! last night i had her on my lap eating my dinner and she would not stop grabbing my bowl and watched EVERY mouth full i took... so i think shes ready! Tho i feel like a first timer again in the sense that i have to have a chart on my fridge cos i forget the foods they can have first and how long you do each one for LOL
Did everyone do just ceral for breakfast?? how many times a day did u do it before doing proper foods?
We have offically extented moving to June now.. only cos of money but that is the absolute deadline cos lease is up begining of July... so its out or on the street.. (figure of speech lol) So it actually feels good so now we have to seriously get out butt into action knowing we cant be slack anymore! Tho mum is still driving me BATTY!!!
Hope everyones doing great - Bec, Love the soft cubes! cant wait to see what else you get up too :D
Belfie- OMG baby bonus now!! wow that is a long time! gotta LOVE Centrelink! I think i only have 2or3 left too. :(
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Wite - yeh that is my favourite photo of her too. They are such gorgeous angels when they are asleep
Hi Buzzie! I did Chloe on baby rice mixed with EBM for 3 days only once a day. Then I moved onto a fruit - once a day for three days then another fruit. Now I am trying her twice a day on two different things. Fruit + vege or rice + fruit. What a cute signature pic of Bella!!
Just a quick one from me as I have mastitis AGAIN. Off to the doctor. I feel like absolute crap. Got the sweats, feel too sick to eat, really really painful right breast.
Hope everyone has a better day than me! lol
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Wite - thankyou! I agree Hannah must have some angels at her side....
Phew that is scary about Jett... you're right though, there's only so much you can do... the only other option was to take Harlow to the hossy, cause you couldn't leave her. Taking her to the hossy for that long would have been just too much for all of you. So YOU DID THE RIGHT THING! I know it's so easy to feel guilty..... but don't. Hope that his asthma is mild and the reliever and the preventatives do the trick.
About solids? We've had two attempts here, and Hannah has taken to them really well, I have been the one to pull back. LOL... how selfish is that? About when to introduce new foods after rice cereal? In all the reading I've done that's actually not clear to me...
A handout I got from the clinic at the hossy which says its been endorsed by an aussie paediatric dietitian, says - offer 1-2 teaspoons of rice cereal after a milk feed, and gradually increase until your baby takes 1-2 tablespoons of rice cereal, then try new foods, but only introduce one new food every 3-4 days.
The SA child safety web site has a good summary on solids and it says give after or in between milk feeds, start with one teaspoon and build up to 2 tablespoons or more ( if your baby wants it) ... once your baby has learnt to take and swallow rice cereal from a spoon, you can try other foods, offer one new food at a time, a few days apart.
So - it seems either way is ok and just do what suits you. One of the seminars I went to said it can take up to 30 attempts of a new food for a baby to accept it. Woweeeeee.
Hannah has been sleeping terribly lately too, and she's got a cold. I am used to getting up 1-2 times a night, but it's so much harder when I have a cold too. I hope Harlow gets back into her sleeping grove and you get some sleep soon.
It's so easy to fall into the trap of comparing babies and milestones... but in reality, they will each reach different milestones in their own time.
Bec - I feel so tired but so proud.... I have 99% finished weeding the front 2 gardens - only have to actually pick up all the weeds and put them in the green bag. What a mamoth task it has been. I am really tired... .perhaps today wasn't the best idea to finish it? LOL. Thought I could get a nap in but Hannah woke up, cheeky. She's not gone back to sleep so I am off.
Baby cuddles.
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Isaac is asleep so I have time for a quick post..
Re competitive mums. I'm over that too. Seriously, each baby is different. I can just imagine that it only gets worse as the babies get older too. The ones that really get on my nerves are the materialistic mums who like to show off all the 'stuff' they have. I don't care. I am happy with what I have, and I don't need a flashy phone/tv/car to make me feel good. Those 'things' don't matter. Isaacs favourite toy is a fabric book I bought at an op shop for 20 cents, and a plastic water bottle I filled with cellophane and unpopped pop corn. He gets more enjoyment from those two things than any fancy stuff, and I hope he never feels pressured to have the latest things just to fit in with his friends.
All this talk of solids is scaring me! It seems so complicated. Looks like I've got some reading to do before we start.
I love you girls! Thank you for being so supportive of my sewing stuff on fb.. I probably can't post about it here anymore, I'm a bit scared to after I got my photography fb link removed. Anyway, thanks so much you are all so lovely :)
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Hmm - I somehow missed so many posts when I posted.
Connie - love the new pic of George in his Richmond gear.... go the TIGERS. 75 is huge but small for your families... Glad you got a nice dress.
Fuzzy - oh dear sweetie... I was just wondering the other day if you can still get mastitis.... feel better soon. I know Chloe isn't such a great sleeper but I hope she has some good nights so you can rest and get better.
And yay for Chloe for sitting. Hannah had her first decent sit unsupported today and played with some blocks. OMG she was just so proud of herself. Of course she gets tired and either pitches sideways or backwards or the one I love? She just folds forward ever so slowly.. I too am helicopter mum when she's sitting.
Bec - I agree about hoping our wee ones aren't materialistic. It's hard though in a society that pushes material things. I suppose really what my ideal as a parent is, is to give Hannah the skills to love herself and others, respect herself and others, have compassion, have strength and not be afraid have a bit of fun too, life's too short to be serious all the time. The next question is exactly how to achieve all that. A lady I know has 3 teenagers and the youngest at 15 will kiss her goodbye and hello when she drops him ff to school. She told him when he started to get embarrassed about it , something like " it doesn't matter where you are, you don't disrespect your mum... you love your mum everywhere, anytime". I am hoping to pass that one on.
Thanks for the tips too - I have been meaning to make Hannah a home made rattle and now I will have to.
Buzzy - good to see you're back and that Bella is starting solids. I too am going to have a chart on the fridge when we start... it's on my list of things to do. Bella's new pic is nice.
Oh well... I am off. All exhausted from being crazy in the garden.
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Just quickly, Isaac got weighed today, he has hit 8kg! While I was there I asked about solids, the MCHN said he is ready now going by his feeding more regularly etc. I really want to wait until 6 months but I am very tempted, and everything I read says to wait until 6 months and that bm is all they need until then. Anyway I bought some rice cereal, it's in my cupboard just waiting. I think I might give it a go on Sunday when he turns 5 months. I just feel really weird about it, I don't know if he is really ready, will his digestive system be ok, and I also am very sad that he needs more than me now.
Oh and the MCHN also said just rice cereal with water or BM once a day until 6 months, and then start introducing vegies and fruit after he turns 6 months. She also said to start giving him water in a sippy cup after 6 months. Opinions about the timings are different everywhere though.
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I really think that people can be very very cautious about soilds... I havent had a single issue with them, and we started quite early. If you decide to try, and he doesn't react well to it, you just stop... no harm will be done as long as you dont persist if it's making him ill etc - which you wont.
As for him needing more than you :hug: sadly that is going to be happening all his life as he gets older... this is just step 1.
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Connie - so true... their lives, right form the very beginning are about becoming more and more independent of us....
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Bec- Jetts favourite toy as a baby was an empty small coke bottle filled with uncooked rie, he would shake it all day long!
Yes, comparisons between babies is oe of my biggest pet peeves..Unfortunatly, It doesn't stop, jett & his cousin who was born 2 weeks before him are STILL constantly compared, I hate it! (At the end ofthe day, aslog as I am happy with what and when my kids do things, that is all that matters to me!)
With Solids, I took some of Connies adice and have decided to try Harlow on a new food every 3 days, She had rice cereal for 4 days and she tried Pumpkin yesterday and today (she loved it, much to DPs disgust because he hates it) and I also started giving her cereal in the afternoon aswell (So pumpkin at lunch, cereal in the arvo), she gets about a tablespoon of 9dry) cereal mixed with either boiled water or leftover formula if she didn't finish her previous bottle. i also offer her a bottle first and solids second (I tend to wait 45 minutes after a bottle before offering her cereal). At first it was all confusing but now I seem to remember how i did it with Jett, I even bought some fantastic silicone freezer pods so I can puree and freeze vegies/fruit too!
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Thats a great idea Wite - i might get some of those.. :)
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Wite - That all sounds perfect. I try new things in the morning or afternoon as well, that way if he has a reaction during the day I will see it.
Dory - I actually don't mind them becoming a little independent... it actually makes me so proud of him! But I do miss him sleeping on my chest (I can't believe I am saying that - I was so tired of it at the time) :)
I get the judgement and comparing A LOT... because George is so big and 'older', people expect him to be doing all sorts of stuff - 'Is he crawling yet?' Then I have to sit there and explain that although he is almost 7 months old, developmentally he is 7 weeks behind that, so he should be compared to a 5 month old blah blah. And then they just say to me 'Naa, he's a big boy!' Righty-O!
George just had his 6 month immunisations today... he was great. Cried for 2 seconds as the needle went it, and that's it. We also weighed him for the first time in ages - 9.6kgs!
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Connie - I don't mind it either, the independence, but I was more saying it starts right from the beginning. Go George - 9.6! He's a champ.
Wite - I just realised Jett's birthday is coming up - 4!!!! No way! Do you have any plans?
Well, today I went to visit a friend of mine who has twins.... they have always been so tiny and asleep or feeding when I am there that I've never really gotten to see them. They are so cute and starting to tunefully vocalise and smile. They of course are used to babies but Hannah was just so curious. Miss Hannah didn't sleep while we were there 11-3 and has only just had a small nap now... argghhh if she doesn't go back to sleep it will be a tough evening for us. I am trying to ignore her talking. I did that the other day by taking longer to get to her than I thought and she went back to sleep. Fingers crossed, though it's not sounding promising for more sleep. Off to check.
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well once again things have changed. My dad went into hossie overnight (he's had a history of heart problems). Has been sent home today - so am glad to say he's ok - but will have some further tests... and of course... bye bye nanna! So we packed my mum off on a flight this afternoon (they're down in Tassie) and of course she needs to be home to look after Dad. Am feeling just a smidge petrified now she's gone (and didn't have much time to prepare myself!) but trying to tell myself that things might be different/better with Annika sleeping better. Plus we're trying something new for DH's vertigo pretty much every week at present (osteo, new meds, acupuncture, dietary changes, different dr)...so hoping by hook or by crook to fix him asap. And in the interim, I'm using my spare time to write thank-you cards (yeah running so late!) & clean out our hideous garage (hard rubbish next week). Sorry once again I don't have time for persies :( and feel like you guys must think I'm always whinging about something!!!
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Belfie - I hope your dad is ok. I'm glad Annika's sleeping better :)
Dory - home made toys are so easy. I have another water bottle filled with water and chopped up christmas tinsel, it looks all sparkly when its catching the sun. Another one they showed us at playgroup is ziplock lunch bags with some rice or baby powder or cold jelly inside so that they can grab them and feel the different textures. Obviously those ones you only let them play with when you're sitting with them though.
I like what you said about your friend with the 15 year old, I will remember that.
I know what you mean about babies becoming more independent, and I don't like it! I don't know why I am feeling so sad about starting solids. I should be happy he is so healthy and thriving. Maybe it's because I know he's the only baby I will have, and I'm really aware that I'll never get to do this again. Or maybe I'm just too emotional sometimes. It's just going all too fast for me and I want it to slow down.
Hi to everyone, I was going to reply to more things but I just want to go to bed. Oh I don't know if I mentioned that lately when I put Isaac to bed at night time he wakes every half hour to an hour or so until I go to bed too then he has normal sleeps, but anyway I tried something different tonight after he woke for the third time.. such a simple thing. I turned the light off and just put a night light on (usually I leave the light on, it's not very bright).. and he's still asleep 2 hours later. Duh. Why did I not even think of that before now??
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Dory- You have a good memory! Jetts birthday is next Tuesday, we are having a small family Birthday party for him the following weekend, I cannot believe he is turning 4-they do grow up so fast, DP & I were only talking about how he was as a baby the other day!!! I posted a photo on FB of Jett & Harlow at the same age in the same Tigger playsuit, so cute and they look so different, yet so alike!
Buzzie- The freezer pods I bought are called weanmeister if you put a dot com dot au on the end of that it should take you to the site- they sound fantastic because after you stop using them you can start using them as muffin trays and everything!!!!!
