Thor has had a few weeks of really irritable grumpiness, then a few days ago both front bottom teeth cut through at once! No more chewing on Mummy's knuckles!
We're doing well with solids - Thor eats pumpkin, potato, peas, zucchini, carrot, plus a range of fruit. We do brekky and dinner with solids, an d have a vegie combination first pureed, then a piece of friut in his 'net'. He demolishes large chunks of rockmelon and pawpaw, which are his favourites atm. I give him a toast crust to chew on sometimes, but feel like I should make some kind of rusk... anyone got recipes that they recommend?
Pholi, yay for teeth. it's getting really exciting with all of these new things our bubbas are doing.
Mum to 2, how is C?
Amelia has been miserable again today, has spent last 2 nights in bed with me while dh was on night shift. We have been having lots of cuddles. She has been okay when I have gone out and about with her though, just to mothers group and rhyme time
Pholi, yay for teeth. it's getting really exciting with all of these new things our bubbas are doing.
Mum to 2, how is C?
Amelia has been miserable again today, has spent last 2 nights in bed with me while dh was on night shift. We have been having lots of cuddles. She has been okay when I have gone out and about with her though, just to mothers group and rhyme time
Tal looks like we both have babies that love their food. G goes crazy as soon as she is in her chair then grunts if your not giving it to her fast enough. Good luck with going back to work I'm feeling sick at the thought of it
DDB your such a good mum checking and getting opinions before giving A medication. Hope she's feeling better soon.
Pholi like others have said don't stress all babies go threw stages where they cry. Glad he is back to normal.
AFU G cut her first teeth and is now half crawling half rolling everywhere and sitting on her bottom. The playpen isn't far away and the baby proofing of the house had started. We begin our day care familiarisation tomorrow I'm not ready but I know she will be ok and settled by the time I go back to work. I've also started giving her some formula now too in prepetation
DDB - Glad to hear little A is feeling better. I hope she continues to improve for you.
Terry - Sucks that you have to go back to work too. That's good that you're bringing her into the centre though. Much easier when it's a bit familiar. A has been going with me twice three days a week to drop off and pick up her brother. When I drop him off I'll usually stay 10-20 minutes and let her have a play and crawl around. So with any luck it will only be traumatic for me, not her as well. It was really horrible with DS as he didn't know the centre reall well and would crawl after me grabbing at my pant leg. Was completely heart breaking.
Lady N - A loves dogs too. All animals really. Our pig had piglets just over a week ago and she squeals in delight every time she sees them. Cracks up at the horses and just generally terrorizes our dogs. LOL
Not going back to work full time yet. Thankfully. I don't think I could handle that. Just 3 days a week for 6 months. Then back to full time when she's a year old. STill too early, but better then at 6 months.
Pholi - It is so stressful when the cry like that. You didn't the right thing about leaving him and having a shower so you could calm down though. The more upset/angry you get the more upset and crying they get/do. I've had to do it once or twice. It's not nice or fun, and I always feel guilty about it, but it's better then loosing it with them.
Glad to hear that T is settling a lot easier now.
Definitely not ready to go back to work yet. I wasn't ready with DS either. Spent the first 3 days back (so my first week) sitting at my desk bawling.
AFU - A is a bit sick today from her shots yesterday. Bit of a fever, sleeping TONS and very unsettled when she's awake poor little poppet.
She's a bit of a bean pole though. 71cm long a 7.83kg.
Tal at least you can ease back into work, though 3 full days would still be really hard! You poor thing, crying st your desk! How did she go with day care?
AFU J has been having a rough week, screaming till 4/5am but still happy and normal during the day, not sure what's going on.. had immunisations yesterday and doc did a thorough check and aside from some mild eczema he is great. He has started playing with solids, has had some banana but the dogs ate it because it ended up on the floor lol. Baby led weaning aint that messy when you have greedy dogs haha
J is 6 months today, 77cm and 8.5kg. He's just about mastered sitting up
My old manager called me the other day (not the place where Iwas before having J, but the place before that) begging me to come back part time to be the accounts manager, I can bring J with me and put a little play pen in my office, do whatever hours I want and damn good pay too. But because its payroll I declined, I just don't want them to rely on me that much and I'd feel bad to let them down. But I said I can temp for them or come in casually to do data entry or help out whenever they need, which is pretty cool really.
All's mostly well here, too. Thor is 6 1/2 months, rolling and commando crawling madly, and sitting up for a minute or two on his own. Hasn't quite mastered putting a hand down to break his fall when he topples sideways, though! His 2 bottom front teeth are slowly getting taller, and I suspect that some more teeth are getting ready to come through now, too. Anyone know which ones are usually next? We're not doing any dental hygiene, as yet - what toothbrushing do others do/have they done with previous bubs once they first get teeth? I've heard of little 'finger brushes', are they any good?
Thor is demolishing bowlfuls of vegies at most meals - he goes absolutely mad for pumpkin, but also eats sweet potato, normal potato, carrot, beans, peas, zucchini, cauliflower, chicken, chickpeas... I'm planning on trying him with fish next.
BUT... we're in this Egg Allergy Study, and the plan is that he gets randomized a double blinded powder (ie, neither we nor the researchers know what it is) that contains either egg, carrot and pineapple, or rice, carrot and pineapple, that we add to his food every day until he's 10 months old. The carrot and pineapple disguise the colour of the egg, so they are in both. In the WA branch of the study the first taste of the powder is done under medical supervision, as a hospital inpatient, so off we went to PMH 2 weeks ago to have his first taste of whatever it is. And he reacted to it!
He wolfed down all the powder in a bowl of pumpkin and potato, in 2 minutes, and one minute later, started getting hives around his mouth, and then some on his back and tummy. He didn't seem bothered by it at all, but of course the researchers were, and once they'd seen that it was spreading to his body, they gave him an antihistamine and it started improving pretty quickly. Of course, we don't know for sure if it was the egg he reacted to, because he'd only had rice once, and he's never had pineapple, so it could be any of those 3.
Needless to say, we don't keep giving him the powder at home, and we have to go and see a paediatric immunologist (today) who does skin ***** testing for egg, rice and pineapple, and advises us as to what we should do in terms of foods at home, and also sets guidelines as to what happens with us in the study. Most likely we do stay in the study, and probably have a medically-supervised first taste of muffin (containing cooked egg) at ten months and raw egg at 12 months.
In the meantime, they gave us the name of a over-the-counter liquid antihistamine that is ok for 6 months+, so we bought some to keep on hand, just in case. At least I know what a mild allergic reaction to food looks like, now! Not that I would have missed it, bright red welts all around his face and throat.
Pholi-that must have been so scary, in regards to dental hygiene we brush Amelias teeth with a baby toothbrush every day. She loves it and it gets them used to you being in there. I then give it to her to have a chew on. I have also heard of using a wash cloth to wipe them. The idea is to just break up the plaque so we do not use any toothpaste.
lady_neon – A went fantastic. Me on the other hand. Not so fantastic, and DS not so fantastic either. Tuesday was my first day back, and she was happy to be left. Goo’ing and ga’ing and smiling away at the carers. Which was a fair site different to when I first left DS. As soon as he realised I was leaving he just burst into tears and was crawling after me, pulling at my pants and just screaming his little heart out. I think the difference with her was that I’ve been taking her with me to pick up and drop off DS 3 days a week for the past 6 months. I usually was staying with him for a while too. So the place and all the carers were familiar to her. When I left DS for the first time he’d only been there a handful of times before and everyone was still basically a stranger to him.
But DS got really upset at me. And I mean REALLY upset. For leaving A. He started to cry and way trying to pick her up to bring her to me. He was so upset he started to hyperventilate. And why? Because he was worried about how she would get her milk. Kept going on that “my bella need my mummy for mik (milk). My Bella cry. My Bella Sad. My bella go home in mummy blue car with my mummy so she eat mik. My Bella need be my mummy (I think he was trying to say that she needed to be with me). And on and on. And he wouldn’t leave her and go into his class until after he saw her being fed and given milk from her sippy cup. And they had to explain him that the milk was from mummy before he would leave. Then he kept asking to go and see her to make sure that she wasn’t sad all day. Which was really sweet. But it nearly killed me leaving with him going on. I really did feel like I was abandoning her and that he knew it.
But I am able to go and feed her at lunch time, which is good. And she doesn’t get upset when I leave, which is even better. I fed DS during lunch too, and had my heart ripped out twice a day when I left him because he wanted me to stay or to come with me. It was really hard. Knowing that she’s happy and ok with me leaving her there makes it a lot easier. Although it’s still really hard.
As for J and his crying, I wonder if it’s growing pains. My brother, who is really tall, use to get them really bad. And I think Annabella gets them too as she will do something similar to what you say J is doing, and she’s really tall for her age like J. She was 71cm at 6months, which is off the charts for girls. Have you tried to give him panadol or neurophen to see if that helps any?
That would have been fantastic being able to bring J in with you to work. But I can understand not wanting to let them down, especially with pays because it would affect so many people.
Pholi – Sounds like T is going great guns as well. If he’s commando crawling it won’t be long now till he’s fully on the crawl!
Teeth, usually the four front ones come first. Then the four on either side of those. Then it skips the eye (canine) teeth and moves to the first molars (then maybe the second ones, can’t quite remember) then the eye teeth.
Tooth brushing I started getting both DS and A use to the tooth brush from about 6 months. Just let them chew on it and the like. Then when their teeth came in I just brushed them with water. Didn’t start using toothpaste at all until DS was about 2. I’ve always just used a normal sized tooth brush that is identical to mine or DH’s because inevitably, they want the one we have and won’t have a bar of ‘their very own special’ brush. It’s a bit more difficult to manouver around in their mouths, but saves me a lot of fights.
That’s pretty scary about T’s reaction to the powder from the study. I really hope that he doesn’t end up having a serious allergy to something. On the bonus side, at least it happened in a clinical setting with a doctor right on hand instead of at home. That would have been really scary!
AFU – apart from what I wrote above. A is growing great guns. She’s growing out of her o’s and is wearing mostly 1’s now.
She’s a mad crawler, but thankfully hasn’t made any attempt at all to try to pull herself up yet. I really want her to be little for a bit longer! She has started this odd hop crawl thing though. Not sure what that is about. She was crawling ‘normally’ for weeks, but in the last few days she’s started to ‘walk’ with her hands and then hop her legs at the same time instead of moving each one independently. It’s kinda funny.
Still toothless.
She LOVES her food. She’ll eat anything and everything put in front of her…..except avocado. Doesn’t want a bar of that one. AND she’s taking milk out of a sippy cup at daycare. Which is really good. I was a bit worried about that as at home she only wanted it direct from the breast and would refuse expressed milk of any kind, which is the same thing DS did and although they persevered for weeks we were never able to get him to drink milk (of any variety, still to this day he won’t drink it) unless it was straight from the breast. So it was a relief when she drank it from a sippy cup from them.
Pholi-that must have been so scary, in regards to dental hygiene we brush Amelias teeth with a baby toothbrush every day. She loves it and it gets them used to you being in there. I then give it to her to have a chew on. I have also heard of using a wash cloth to wipe them. The idea is to just break up the plaque so we do not use any toothpaste.
Dr Tal so sorry to hear that you went through all of that. I can't believe the way you were treated and I probably would have lost it at their incompetence too. Great that your own dr etc have sorted it all out. Must say we are lucky in melb with our children's hospital they would rather see a well child rather than a sick one. A sounds like a handful just like little miss G.
AFU well daycare is getting better G is now eating and sleeping more so that makes me happy. She too is crawling all over the place and she thinks she can stand so there I'd a little bit of tumbling going on. Although I've noticed she is getting stronger and is now on her knees. Her first two teeth have finally shot through her gums and last night we had uninterrupted sleep. I'm enjoying all my time with her as I go back to work in six weeks
Dr Tal - oh my goodness what a shocking hospital!! Terrible communication. Honestly don't know why people work as health professionals when they are like that But am glad your own doctor is organised and hope things are improving for your poor little man.
Yay for teeth Terry!
So, J's sleep is marginally better. Cosleeping definitely helps. But improvement is still needed. The osteopath felt that he had a lot of tension in his neck and head, probably from getting a little stuck in the birth canal during labour, so I'm going back again on Friday for a follow up. She also suggested, for those interested, lavender oil perhaps in the bath water, a drop on their sheets (but not directly where they lay) just to relax and calm, or baby massage using lavender oil. She also mentioned that she has received new research showing that white noise playing in the background is not as helpful as once thought, but womb sounds or general nature sounds such as waves, forest noises etc is much more effective. Anyway, he went down at 7 - not without a fight - and has been asleep for an hour. I'll be STOKED if he makes it to 10pm!
He now has 8, yes EIGHT teeth. Ouch. Top 4 and bottom 4.
Hi ladies finally found some time for a quick reply. Seems like everyone is going along nicely now with their routines.
Lady neon sorry to hear about the altered sleep patterns I'm afraid apart from the food suggestions I really have nothing. Not sure but can babies still alter their sleep and confuse day and night
I'm typing from the phone so hard to see who wrote what
AFU G's teeth are so close to coming out but still not their she's had a few restless nights now so I think she's close. She's crawling all over the house so baby proofing had to be done quickly. Eating solids we have tried everything but the peanut butter all good so far. Started daycare last week as I go back to work soon think it was harder on me than her.
lady_neon – Sorry to hear that J is having issues with his sleeping. Something I heard once is that some babies get separation anxiety when they sleep?? Although that doesn’t necessarily explain why he’s fine for day sleeps but not for night sleeps.
On a completely different note, I notice both of mine won’t go to sleep very easily if at all, if they are hungry. Is J wanting feeds more often? Could he be hungry? I know you said he had bad gas when you started him on solids. What did you try? Perhaps try something different. (just trying to throw things out there)
Sleep deprivation sucks, so I hope you get his sleeping sorted out soon.
Pholi – what is Ngala?
I’m glad you were able to get T’s sleeping sorted.
terry – It’s hard leaving them isn’t it? I still struggle to leave A and this is week 4 back at work. When do you start back?
Sounds like G is going great guns. A is crawling everywhere too, and into EVERYTHING. DS never got into a thing, so we never really baby proofed with him. A is a different story entirely if she can grab it, mouth it, pull it, kick it, wedge herself under/between it, she does
Any teeth yet?
AFU – I’ve had a crap week. A’s cough is back has been since Wed. So that’s been keeping me up at night. She had a fever over the weekend, I can’t decide if it’s her teeth moving or a growth spurt. So she was even more restless with that.
Then Sunday was just getting into bed when DS let out an ear piercing scream. And he cried and cried. Finally got him calmed down enough for him to tell me his ear hurt. Had a look at it and there was blood coming out!!!!! So off to the ER at 10:30 at night. FOUR HOURS LATER (because apparently a screaming toddler with blood oozing out if his ear is a 4 on priority scale four being nearly the lowest priority...grrr) we finally saw a doctor.
Mind you this is only after being abused for having Annabella with me, The public hospital here sucks. I hate going there, and I wouldn't have taken DS except for the screaming and blood, that having been said, they did nothing for either. Useless.
And yes, they abused me for having Annabella, but I was half expecting it because they abused me for taking DS in with me when my appendix ruptured when he was 7 weeks. Apparently I should plan when someone is going to be ill enough for the ER and express. I shouldn't bring a baby into ER because they could get sick. Ummmm, she could get sick from someone anywhere u take her, and I'm sure there are as many germs in a shopping centre, or the grocery store as there are there.
I also got the it won't kill her to have formula speech (and I know it wouldn't, but there is also the little problem of her refusing bottles, day care can get her to drink 10-20 ml from a dippy cup, but that's about it.and that's with a lot of perseverance. Oh yeah, and the fact that it’s 10:30 at night! WHERE IN HELL AM I SUPPOSE TO BUY FORMULA AT THAT TIME OF NIGHT?!?!?! I Breastfeed. I don’t have formula at home to just make up whenever) but way to support breast feeding. And then I got the, if she gets hungry enough she'll eat what she's given lecture. I ended up giving a few lectures is my own. I was seeing red.
Then, no one could understand why I was so angry!
So doctor asks what the problem is. I say blood in my toddlers ear. He asks if he has a fever. I say no. Asks what else is wrong with him...nothing I've noticed so far. THEN......THEN!!!!! he asks why I brought him into emergency if there is nothing wrong with him. :WTF: . Well I lost it. BECAUSE HE HAS F@#*ING BLOOD COMING OUT OF HIS EAR YOU MORON!!!!!!!! And yes I used those exact words. Have I ever mentioned how much our public hospital here sucks!!!!! Then he looks at me like I have two heads and says. Blood in his ear? You never said he had blood in his ear. Lost it again. Called him several kinds of stupid. That was the first thing I said. That’s what I said to the triage nurse, that’s what I said the second triage nurse at hand over. That is what is on your paper work, and that is the VERY FIRST THING I said when I got in here with you! Finally at 5am (now remember I got to the ER a bit after 10:30pm) he saw an ENT got my poor boy some pain killers and found out he MAY have a ruptured ear drum (because apparently a qualified ENT is not qualified to tell me it definitely is without a second opinion WTF!?!?!?) Then got sent home. No pain relief....nothing. neither panadol or neurophen even dulled the pain for the poor kid. Oh, and the assurance that I'd receive a letter in the mail sometime this week confirming when I'd be able to be seen (within the next 3-5 weeks) for a second opinion. Thanks for N O T H I N G!!!!
So called my gp Monday morning morning. Saw him at 10. Got sent to paed. Saw him by 10:45 and had a referral for the paediatric ENT for Tues. It would have been Monday except he's was in Sydney and didn’t fly back till late Monday night. Got a script for pain relief and finally got my little lad calmed down.
Saw the ENT yesterday and yes, he did in fact have a perforated ear drum….not sure what caused it. The ENT wants to look into it more because he thinks it could be related to his ongoing eye duct problem.
But that was well and truly a rant away from A.
She’s doing great. After being worried because she was refusing to take any weight at all on her legs, I heard DS calling me last night. MUMMY MUMMY WOOK. WOOK (look) My Bella. And there she was standing up holding onto my footstool!
TY ladies, Amelia has started to improve a bit already. She has still been happy which makes it easier. She has been in bed with us a bit as I was so worried about her chest. She is now eating solids 3 times a day but wasn't really fussed until yesterday
Nothing like a cuddle from DD after a hard day's work!
But am glad your own doctor is organised and hope things are improving for your poor little man.
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