Babies Born~February 16th-30th 2009 #5

Another crap night for us! How they change week to week, last week she was only needing dummy to go to sleep then not use it all night. Now she is waking constant just wanting to suck, I'm feeding her 3hrly day and night plus in between these feeds she is still waking luckily last night she at least went straight back to sleep when I put dummy in. So tired! If she goes back to 4hrly feeds again I won't complain like I was!

AJP- Poor Millie, hope nothing serious, these babies always do something to worry us. Has she had any further? Being brown at least its old blood, usually better sign than fresh blood.

Ali- Yay on Ash having good night.

Nai- Doesn't the tamiflu only help reduce symptoms anyway? I'm unsure bout this whole swine flu thing. I think its so hyped up and scares ppl (like me!), I'd guess just treating it like normal flu- fluids, bedrest, panadol.

Det- lol, they grow so quick, hate wasting the clothes, clothes wise its great I had another girl cause re-using everything!

OP- Oh god that long a wait for just a phone call? I'd hate to see the wait if you need to go in! Hopefully its just a phase and will settle by then. Hoping Emily is just a phase too.

We're off to library story time soon, lets hope Ash behaves this time! And that no one there is sick. I worry now going out.

Hope you have a good time at the library shell, i hope no one is sick either :(

Just thought you should all know.... We have been baby buddies for a year!!!!!!

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Another crap night for us! How they change week to week, last week she was only needing dummy to go to sleep then not use it all night. Now she is waking constant just wanting to suck, .

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shell i could have written the same thing! only happened a few nights but that was enough! last night was better, woke twice at 10.30 and 3.30 for feeds.

i put millie straight into the cot today (bassinette was in the cot) as she gets out to the wrap and hits the sides of the bassinette so figured putting her int he cot may help her stop waking! shes been alseep for 2 hours :o

BBL need to read back a page..

ETA ali well done on the resettling!!!!

nai id be going crazy too :hug:

laura see you saturday night!!

ETA been alseep going on 3 hours :o wish this happened every day :lol:

Evening ladies

We've just had a great bedtime - Isabel was in the cot, fed, bathed and ready for sleeping by about 6.45pm. She spat out her dummy then proceeded to chat to herself for a few mins, grizzle a bit, then chat, the chatting slowed right down to a few random "Gaaah" noises, then stopped and she was asleep.

:dance:

No patting, no rocking, no dummy, NOTHING.

:dance::dance:

Very happy - and wondering how long she will sleep now! Yay!

Had a fun day today, had my hair cut and coloured, woo! I'm so prrreeettty now :D

On a down note, we found out that one of DH's friends was killed on his way to work on his motorbike. Not a close friend but still a friend. His wife will be a mess - they were each other's world, no kids, just the two of them. Such a shock.

AJP, that's why we upgraded to the cot too. Hope Millie isn't chucking up any more strange stuff - fingers crossed you get a normal day tomorrow with no exciting events like fingers in eyes!

RR - have a great time at the meet!!!!

Shell, how was the library? Sucks about your crap night! I think these babies like to mix things up for us, just when you think its all settled it goes crazy again. GL tonight!

Ali, wow, sounds like Ashlyn is really getting the hang of the night time thing and the cot too! And the weight gain, that's great!

Nai - hope you managed to keep the tribe amused today. How long til you are out of quarantine? Isabel seems happy to go 4hrs during the day now that I'm back demand feeding. :dunno: Must be enough for her!

AFM, well last night we did a dream feed at about 11.30pm, then she woke at 2.30am, fed and straight back to sleep. She woke again at 5.00am, I listened to her and she wasn't hungry, so sent DH in to change nappy and resettle. Half an hour later she was awake and hungry :doh:

Fed and back to bed, she woke at 7.30 and into bed with me, slept til about 9am.

So I'm yet to get a long sleep at night but 3-4hrs is better than it was and having DH helping more is great.

Hope everyone has a great night.

OP- How awful, I saw that on the news tonight. I can't imagine what she'll be going thru right now.
Thats great on the settling, we're having issues, maybe I should think bout setting up the cot, might be time.

AJP- Anymore blood in her vomit? Hope its just a one off thing.

Ash misbehaved at the library so took her home screaming while 30 mums looked on! One mum in my mums group said to me "maybe you should take her to the park she has so much energy" she was prolly being funny but I felt bit offended by it. She been naughty all day, getting rough with Emily and shouting in her face. Df looks as exhausted as I do then Ash plays up at bedtime and Emily is unsettled all night so it never ends!

well done op!!! woot!! i hope isabel stays alseep for you!!
i too heard about that accident :cry: very sad :(

shell that must be frustrating at the library :hug: sophie gets rough with millie too.
its sounds like our girls are doing a 12 week wonder week, just that millie is a little late!! millie has woken 3 times since going to bed which is unheard of for her, though she self settled twice by herself.
no more blood in vomit today!! and she slept for 4 hours today :o very shocked!

ETA its going to be a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng night :( shes awake again

AJP- Does Sophie get accidently or deliberately rough? At the start Ash was accidently rough but now she is doing it on ourpose, like Emily will be sucking on her hand and Ash will yank it out and hold it hard with a mean look on her face and keep doing it even after we tell her not to, then she ends up on the naughty step.

Packed most of the 000 clothes away now, very sad cause thats it no more babies, hope someone has a girl so I can pass on, did keep one little bonds wondersuit for memories.

Update - DHS has officially released us from quarantine - we are free!!!

Shell - it is sad packing away the clothes when you know there are going to be no more babies. I am also waiting for friends to have girls so I can pass them on :( DD1 tried to be very gentle with Miss J but sometimes she gets overly enthusiastic and is a bit rough. She doesn't mean it though. I do know of other friends though who have had issues with the older sibling deliberately hurting the baby because "they like to see the baby cry".

OP - I read about that accident. It is very sad.

Jols - I was reading Wonder Weeks and the 19 week phase can start at 15 weeks and go for a few weeks (eek) maybe Millie is entering that phase :dunno:

ETA: is anyone else's baby "scared" of a particular room/part of the house? Miss J always cried when we take her down the hallway - weird!

hi girls

nai- yah on being free from swine flu jail! how is dd feeling?

shell- sounds like you're going through a lot. it's v hard with 2 isn't it?

op-well done on the self-settling. hope it lasts!

rr-have a great time at the meet-up

hello to everyone else.
i've been packing up heaps of clothes too. very sad...last baby and all that. jimmy is mostly in size 0 now. i'm finding it a bit hard as lewis was a size 0 over summer so there's not too many warm clothes. oh well, can't go past the good old wondersuit lol

Hi my lovely girls,

Had a busy couple of days. Caught up with some gfs and their kids today, yesterday had mothers group & have neen shopping for a friends baby shower tomorrow. The sleeping in cot thing is still going well. Ash has done all her day sleeps in it yesterday and today (bar the ones when we were out at the shops). Last night she went down at 6pm didnt wake until 1:30 but then I brought her into bed with me as I was the one that was to lazy to sit up to feed and then settle (oops). It isnt taking long to settle her. I put her in there awake and roll her on to the side and pat her for maybe 2 minutes and then she is normally out to it.

Kaz- hope we get to catch up at the Syd meetup! I bought some books from the post office for $6 for 4 books!! Thanks heaps for that :)
Raver- have a great time this weekend
Nai- So glad you are all okay and out of quarentine. Do you think you will be able to go to the meetup now that you are free from the swine?
OP- that is very sad. Nikes are so dangerous, I cringe when I see DP riding his. He rarely does but it is more the other people on the roads that are the danger. Hope his wife is going to be okay. She must be so traumatised right now.
Shell- My mum kept some of our dresses from when we were babies for us to dress up our teddies and cabbage patch dolls with. Maybe you can do this with the girls.
Rainy- You could keep some for the boys teddy bears.
Jols- how did the rest of your night go last night? Dont you feel like it gets harder as it is getting colder? I am also feeling more tired now than I was in those first 6 weeks.

Ali- I just watched your rolling vid on facebook, she is doing so well. Emily doesn't lift up that high yet, she can hold her head up but still leaves her hands by her side. I'm gonna have to get her to practice now, she's falling behind!

Rainforset- I'm finding 2 3x harder! I have same prob with clothes, all Ash's old 00 clothes most are summery but we're going into winter.

Nai- Yay freedom! Thats good news. Yeah I have 3 friends ttc so hoping can pass onto them, would like clothes to go to someone I know then a stranger. That funny she scared of the hall way, does it make a different noise maybe?

Well I have come to the conclusion that Emily has been unsettled day and night and constantly feeding cause she is hungry. after 2 feeds this arvo/ evening I offered 60mls formula after a feed and she gulped it down and then was alot happier. Cause lately she been whingy in her awake time, grizzling alot of the day. So tomor I'll offer top up after her feeds and hopefully I'll see marked improvement. Even tonight she has settled better than she has for ages. But I also stopped wrapping her and put her in sleeping bag hoping that'll help also.

shell sophie can be deliberatly rough with millies, she knows its wrong too :rolleyes:

nai to hear your free!!! didnt read the 19 week wonder week, may go to bed and do that..! see you tomorrow night???

ali boy you did have a busy day!! social butterfly you!!

clothes were mainly in 00, some 000 and some 0 just for variety!!
ive kept some clothes for both girls for the memories

millie had a good night last night even though i was worried, she fed at 10.30pm she hasnt fed that early since she was less than 3 weeks old then 3.30 then 7. she hasnt had much sleep today as we were out but has gone doen tonight withput a peep. she ended up sleeping for 4 hours yesteday from 11am-3pm :o.

I have to keep this quick. James has croup, and is quite unwell. Has been for the past 4 days. It is times like this that I like being married to a paramedic, as he has had trouble breathing. Now E has a cold, so I thin she is getting sick too.
Everyone who is meeting up tonight Have fun!

oh no megie- hope the kids get better soon.

ajp- so is this your last baby too?

shellbell- glad i'm not the only one finding 2 v hard work! what is the age gap b/w your 2?

ali-that's a good idea keeping clothes for teddies. do you get along well with your mothers group?

very quiet long wknd around here. we're just lazing around the house. am trying to convince dh to light me a fire in our coonara so me and the boys can snuggle in front ofit tonight.

Rainforest- Oh, I really need a rocking chair, that would be so much easier!
Ali- Well done on getting DD to sleep in the cot!! And without getting her asleep first then putting her in! That is so good!! I can never get DD to sleep while she's in the basinette. Have to rock her to sleep first. Wow!! What a weight gain!
Shell- DD is getting really heavy too. I have to make sure I spread the straps of the HAB out heaps and then it doesn't hurt my back. Once I put DD down for the night she's out, can't wake her! pmsl. So different to any other time.
OP- Great that things seem to be settling down!! Grace is still feeding 2.5-3hrly here!! I didn't do the dreamfeed. I fell asleep and then DH didn't want to wake me so I still haven't tried it!! :( That's so sad about your friend!
laura- Grace is still in 000 too. Although 00 in the bonds wondersuits. Have fun at the meetup!
det- omg size 1, he is a big boy!
AJP- sounds like millie is in the wars!! poor little chook! Man, what a good sleep yesterday!! Wish DD would do that.
Nai- Yay for being free!!

AFM- Well I bought my first MCNs to try!! They are so cute!! I got a bumgenius pocket, a green kids, and a BBH magicall. She tried out the BumG today as it was the first to dry and pooed all over it, lol. So sad, it was all pretty and new and now it's covered in poop!! No leaks or anything though. But it did leave some red marks around her legs and back so I'm not sure if it's comfy for her?? Or maybe it was just coz she was wearing it when she was sleeping and squashed into the HAB.

oh no meg :( hope james gets better soon!

rainy probably our last!! we always said two kids, part of me wants another, the other part says no!!!

millie is been a model child today, up for an hour down for 2 up for an hour down for 2~! im sure the bubble will burst!!
going to the BB meet up tonight!! cant wait!

Oh I somehow missed that post Meg I hope he gets better quickly!!

heaven- i highly recommend getting yourself a rocking chair. we got mine off ebay when i was pg with ds1 and couldn't live without it. dh is actually asleep in it in front of the footy on tv right now! Grace is actually my maiden name so v special to me.

ajp- it's hard to accept it's your last isn't it? does everyone keep asking if you want to 'try for a boy'? we get the 'do you want a girl?' question a lot.