AJP - way to go with the netball
Meg - love those moments
Pinny - love those long sleeps!!
Nai - sounds exhausting!
Mhami - My SIL just went thru the open inspection thing and survived...
Hi and to everyone I've missed.
AFM - went to see harry potter movie - went from 9.30 to 12.18!! long movie, plus itdidn't make much sense unless u read the book.. Alex is trying to type and getting stoppy
Sorry for my absence again. Since our attempted dummy free day on Monday, we have been out and about every day since then and Isabel's sleeps have been pretty pooey during the day.
Tuesday I took her to the MCHN for weigh in - she's dropped back to the 80th percentile for weight, has anyone else noticed a drop in weight since starting solids??
Then we went to the GP to get her skin sorted - she has a few spots of eczema so we're onto some cortisone cream and dropped back to baths every other day and no soap. We're off to Cairs on Sunday (WOOOOO) so I'm hoping the warm weather helps clear it up.
Then we had MG, she had two catnaps there (she is "the baby that sleeps" at MG), all the other mums feel like they don't really know her as she is really quiet and reserved, possibly because she's the youngest! Levi loves her though, LOL. He watches her with great interest... she ignores him most the time
Wed had to go shopping for bridesmaid shoes and she was an absolute grump all day. I think because she was working out a poo and also I forgot to pack Farex and she was hungry, so I was b/feeding every two hours!
Today she was much better - more shopping with my mum and she was an angel all day. She even did a big 1.5hr sleep in the morning at home before I left.
I think my new plan is to give her the dummy during the day, she seems to sleep ok with it. At night we have been settling with dummy at 7pm bedtime, then she drops it and we settle without at the 11pm feed, she has been sleeping for 3-4hrs without dummy and without waking til her next feed at 3am, then going back to sleep and sleeping without waking and without dummy til some time between 6am and 8am.
So that is much much better than hourly or two-hourly wakeups.
Feels like we are getting somewhere.
Hugs to all, I have caught up on posts but think this is long enough without adding personals... will come back in a bit and try and catch up, before we go away anyway!
OP- Yeah you gotta do what works for you, sounds like you're onto it if she is sleeping better, we haven't started solids yet so can't answer there but their weight will always go up and down a bit depending on growth spurts.
Meg- Those moments are great and we need them to remind ourselves when they are having bad moments.
mhami- good luck with it all, what a pita having to keep it neat and tidy our place stays tidy for all of 5 minutes.
Nai- how is she today? Any more teeth?
Emily's day sleeps seem to be getting less and less each day. Not sure whats up but she isn't having a good week, won't sleep longer than 30mins and not wanting to settle.
OP - solids already!? wow.. I'll have to try Alex on them.. when I get myself organised enough.. I used to be really uber organised.. now I'm lucky if I get Alex bathed - how tragic is that!!
Shell - how is Emily's night time sleeping going?
Nai - I can't believe bubs has teeth already! I talk to Alex about it, and tell him that Miss J has teeth, and she's so close in birthdays, but nothing happens - me thinking it is because he's a boy and just being awkward
op their weight starts to plateau around this age, weight increases get smaller (except my boofa this month) i wouldnt worry as long as she has milk before solids!!
have fun in cairns!! im jealous!!
shell millie has had a few days of 30 mins sleeps, drove me bonkers!
tarkine i love the gummy smiles! its the only time in their lives that its cute!
sorry i've been MIA lately!
jimmy has been sooo sick- i ended up down at the emergency dept at the hospital (angliss) with him all day on tuesday. he has bronchiolitis and is basically not sleeping at all. i was awake all night tues/wed night. i feel sooo crap!!!!!
what a great hospital btw- they were so thorough and the dr even rang me thenext day to check up on him. kinda made me wish i'd had my babies there! lol- i know you did jols, how did you find it?
i had jimmy weighed the other day- he's 7.6kg. i'm not sure if that's average or what? about how much does everyone else weigh?
megie- that moment you described was gorgeous, i love having little moments like that with my babies. gorgeous!
nai-how many teeth does miss J have? wow, i guess it's kinda good to get them out of the way early! lol
hello to everyone else, hope you have a great day!
rainy i hope jimmy gets better soon nothing worse than a sick bubba and a tired mumma, i hope you all got some sleep last night, i have been thinking of you.
i loved the angliss, they were fantastic for the birth and after care, seriously couldnt fault them, had some absolutly awesome midwives!! iv been to emergency too with millie and they were great too!!
pinny can also vouch for me!!
millie weighed 6.97kg the other day
meg i had one of your 'moments' last night too! millie fell asleep on the boob, something she hasnt done sice really really little! was so nice, i didnt want to put her back to bed!!
Jols - how did you go at netball? Can you walk today?
Mhami - good luck with the house & book! I hate open for inspections - it must be even harder with a baby to manage as well.
Tarkine - LONG movie!! I probably would have had a nap and missed most of it
OP - Good to hear from you! Have a great time in Cairns - I am sooo jealous! We haven't started solids yet but I do know of people who have had babies drop down the percentiles after starting solids. DD1 didn't but she was always in the 10th-20th percentiles for weight the whole way through and she is still a skinny thing (like her Daddy obviously)
Rainy - How scary! I hope he is on the mend now. Miss J was 5.8kg at 4m so I am guessing she is now about 6.2 - 6.5kg but she is quite little (not as little as DD1 though). Miss J has 2 teeth now - her 2 bottom ones. I can't see any more coming yet but I will be keeping an eye out for them!
Megie - Those moments are just precious. I love looking at Miss J feeding and have her look up at me and smile.
AFM - Miss J started at Childcare yesterday Of course as she isn't taking the bottle I had to keep popping in to BF her every few hours Fortunately CC is a 2 min walk from home. I will be starting to do some swimming teaching soon so she will be going in for a few hours a week while I do that. I am heading off to the beach with 2 girlfriends and their babies this weekend so I won't be around. I am leaving DD1 at home with DP. They said I could bring her but I said no as that would mean I wouldn't get any rest at all and DP would have a lovely holiday which is not the purpose of the weekend at all!!!
nai i can walk!! im sore, not as sore as i thought id be, though DH says its worse on day 2, so no doubt i will be worse tomorrow!! im not in the team, playing the later games!
have fun on the weekend away!! will J have EBM out of a cup? or sippy cup?
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to everyone I've missed.
Of course as she isn't taking the bottle I had to keep popping in to BF her every few hours
Fortunately CC is a 2 min walk from home. I will be starting to do some swimming teaching soon so she will be going in for a few hours a week while I do that. I am heading off to the beach with 2 girlfriends and their babies this weekend so I won't be around. I am leaving DD1 at home with DP. They said I could bring her but I said no as that would mean I wouldn't get any rest at all and DP would have a lovely holiday which is not the purpose of the weekend at all!!!
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