Hey guys sounds like you are all doing brilliantly. I'm going to be away from BB for a while now. My family is causing me a lot of trouble and hurt at the moment and i don't think i really have much possitive to say.
Feel like complete crap about myself and life in general...
Still love my beautiful girls to bits though... They're getting me through.
Might be back in a month or so or might not come back at all...
Just wanted to say all you ladies are brilliant. So kind and accepting. Wish you and yours all the best for the future
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Just a quick post to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season.
Jessey, I hope things get better for your soon hun. I'm not sure what's going on with your family but it doesn't sound fun. Keep up the good job of raising two beautiful little girls!
Dr Tal - go B! He's such a clever little fellow! Maybe he'll crawl properly for the first time on xmas day as a present for you and DH.
Delph - sounds like you guys are doing so well with gumnut. Your DH sounds amazing too, I wish I was organized enough to make my partner lunch in the mornings!
Salad - Good work E! Ever since T got the back to belly roll figured out, he doesn't want to stay on his back. He'll roll over to his tummy almost as soon as you put him on his back. And if you put him on his tummy, he stays there! I'm not sure whether he's forgotten how to roll the other way or what. You'll have to let me know if you find a similar thing with E.
OP - hi! Hope you and your family are well.
AFU - I only tried solids for a few days a while ago then decided I'd wait and try again later. I gave him some steamed carrot and potato sticks last night (I'm going to try the baby led solids approach). He had a tiny bit, wasn't really interested. I don't think it was a good time - he was acting tired even though it didn't seem like he'd been awake long since his last nap.
Question to everyone: are your bubs in forward facing car seats now? If so, when did you move them? We put T's new seat in yesterday and so far so good. He loves being able to see us in the front seat and watch stuff go by. He even went to sleep on a short trip home yesterday!
I swear T just said hello to me!
So I don't think T has cracked the 7kg yet!!! I feel like he hasn't grown for ages, even though he feels heavier. It could just be our dodgy way of measuring him. He looks healthy, but his sleep overnight is absolutely terrible. He is waking up every hour or two still. I wonder if it's my milk or if it has something to do with the fact that he's feeding when he's tired so doesn't get enough before he goes to sleep. Or maybe he's just in a terrible habit with the waking up all the time??? I'm so tired!
Last edited by EmmaJane; December 22nd, 2010 at 07:39 AM.
: Had one last little thing to add.
Emma - B went through a stage there where his sleep was really horrible. But I think it might have been partly my fault as well. If he'd wake up I'd get up and check his nappy and feed him then put him back to bed. But one night I was really tired and REALLY didn't want to get up, so I just went over and patted him a bit instead of getting him out, and he fell straight back to sleep. Did it again the next time and same thing. So I did that for a few nights in a row and now he's back to only waking up once at 4:30. Not sure if that would work with T or not.
I still have B in his baby capsule. DH and are are talking about putting in his car seat in the next week or so, but I think we might put that in rear facing for a while. Don't know why, but for some reason I have in my head that he needs to be rear facing till he's 10kg, but I can't for the life of me figure out why I have that figure stuck in my head.
Jessey - So sorry things aren't going so well with your family Please come back in and talk to us if you ever need to. Even if none of it is positive, we can be here to cheer you up some. Everyone needs to have some sort of support.
Delph - WOOHOO to your DH making your brekkie and lunch! I'm lucky if I crawl out of bed in time to even say good bye to DH in the mornigns let alone make him brekkie. If he's really lucky and I'm feeling energetic the night befor eI might get around to making him some lunch. I can be such a slack wife
Had an AWWW moment about the mummy hugs. SO CUTE. That's fantastic that your DH brings gumnut in to visit you sometimes as well.
Salad - WOO E sounds like he's on a growing rolling spurt! I had a good old chuckle about his hair falling out and looking like Bert Newton BAHAHAHA Try not to worry TOO much about E getting chicken pox (I know easy to say hard to do). On the bright side if he does get it he's probabl not old enough to scratch them so won't scar. Plus like Delph said I've heard it's less severe the younger they are when they get it.
AFU - B is making progress on his crawling but he's still not quite figured it out yet. I will have to try to get a video of it and put it up on my photobucket because it's really hard to explain, but cracks me right up!
Gotta run, B's waking up from his nap.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone in case I'm not on again before then!
Jessey - you might not see this but I hope things get better for you, just remember they always do eventually, I will be thinking if you and I hope you come back - merry xmas chicky.
I think our seat recommends they are on the rear facing position until 8months or 8kgs which ever comes first and as long as they have good head control. i cant wait to turn E around or shoud I say bert lol, I hate the rear facing position, I like to see my babies in the mirror, I only use my review mirror to look at my DD and use side mirrors to drive lol.
E was weighed yesterday and now weighs 7.3kg he has put on over a kg in 4 weeks woohooo.
Dr Tal - I would love to see B's attempt at crawling lol
Just uploaded a couple of short videos of B's shuffle crawl. They're not the best, but it's like he knows when I am trying to video him and won't do it then There are a couple pictures of our tree there too
Woohoo! What a great xmas present. T only woke up once on xmas eve and last night. Not sure whether it was giving him veges on those nights or whether it was because the previous two nights we had been patting him back to sleep instead of me feeding him. I thought my DH had been trying to do that all along, but Dr T, when you mentioned that's what you did with B I figured I should give it a go. It worked really quickly the very first time he woke up and DH was like, "Well now I know what the magic secret is..." (!!!)
How was xmas for everyone? My mum is here again this year and so far we haven't had a fight but she's definitely testing my patience. DH is going to go stay with his father tonight to get a break from her. I suggested it because I'm worried he's going to be the one to snap this time!
T's just woken up so I gotta go. Sorry I didn't get a chance to reply to anything in the recent posts.
Keep up the good job of raising two beautiful little girls!
Please come back in and talk to us if you ever need to. Even if none of it is positive, we can be here to cheer you up some. Everyone needs to have some sort of support.
Try not to worry TOO much about E getting chicken pox (I know easy to say hard to do). On the bright side if he does get it he's probabl not old enough to scratch them so won't scar. Plus like Delph said I've heard it's less severe the younger they are when they get it.
Not sure whether it was giving him veges on those nights or whether it was because the previous two nights we had been patting him back to sleep instead of me feeding him. I thought my DH had been trying to do that all along, but Dr T, when you mentioned that's what you did with B I figured I should give it a go. It worked really quickly the very first time he woke up and DH was like, "Well now I know what the magic secret is..." (!!!)
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