Babies born~January 1st-15th 2010 #1

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

jenjams - hope all is going well with trying to get Alice down for day sleeps, the trip was nice.. i missed A a lot but it was worth it.

Illeyena - go Caroline, keep up the great work.
our MCHN had to double check Z's aswell, looks like we have good growers..
I just kept going to my original mothers group, one of the other girls is due to have her bubs within the next 2 wks and a couple of other ladies are thinking of trying for #2.
Hope you get involved in one soon, it really is a great support if you get a wonderful group.

~Minny~ - awesome weight gains aswell... keep up the great work!

AFM - Z is going well although has been a bit unsettled the last couple of days, not sure if it was my diet as we were out at the house and drinking LOTS of soft drink and not much water.
This morning she hopped into bed with DD1, DP and I, had a bit of a play and a look around then fell back to sleep next to me, she's still down but was due for a feed about 40min ago.. wont hurt her to go 4hrs instead of 3 though, she might stay awake for a bit then have a longer more settled sleep

Everyone keeps asking clothing sizes for her and i have NO IDEA as with DD1 it was easy she stayed in sizes for MONTHS at a time but Z seems to grow like a weed, some of her 000 suits are almost looking a little too short... WTF?

Well i hope everyone is well, love hearing how all the bubs are going, also if anyone wanted to add me on facebook feel free Leah Geisler i have a pic of Z in the pool as my profile pic... please just let me know your username when you send a friends request.

[~Minny~]

Thanks ladies, im so glad the boob juice is working this time cant believe how much he has grown already! Makes me think about when the next will be hmmm not for awhile yet anyways need to make sure im fully recovered any ready! Anyone else thinking about the next one yet or am i the only crazy one ?

jenjams - wow 8pm - 6! thats awesome hope she keeps it up!

illeyena - havent joined a mums group this time around, did the first time but it sorta fizzled out once everyone went back to work. This time around though i have met some great ladies over the last couple of years since having DD and we tend to me up a few times a month so dont feel like i need to join another one. They are definately worth it though.

zavara - have added you on fb, seb has been a little unsettled as well but i put it down to the weather as its gotten sooo muggy the last couple of days. A bath tends to settle him. Hope she has settled down for you now though. I think close to 12 weeks they have another growth spurt as well yeah?

[illeyena]

Minny - i'd love another one (i think lol) but DH isn't convinced (yet lol). i don't know how I'd go having them close together though!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Minny - i'd love another one (i think lol) but DH isn't convinced (yet lol). i don't know how I'd go having them close together though!

Close together isn't too bad, only 15mths between A & Z... i am not going back for any more... but would love to hear who wants more etc.

[Laranna]

Mine are 19 months 3 weeks apart and I'm finding it better than expected. It can be challenging at times because my oldest is still a baby really. But it's all good and I think they are going to grow up really close friends. I can already see the bond forming between them.

ZF - we are undecided on number 3 but it may be on the cards. If so, I'd like a similar age gap again. I like the idea of having them all close together because all the stages they go through are close together and I think that would be easier to handle. Full on, yes but it's not dragged out forever iykwim.

[jenjams]

Mine are 23 months apart. It is getting easier and A1 loves A2 now but I think 2 kids is plenty for me. DH keeps joking about another one and sometimes I think he is half serious.....

[feeb]

Hi all been ages since I posted in here, hope all are well.

My boy's are 18 months and 4 days apart. No more for us, I would maybe contemplate another but DH doesn't want more.

We had our MCHN check up a few weeks ago all was great (cant remember if I posted then or not) DS2 was 5.4kg. He was fine with immunisations. BF is going well, I am still tandem feeding which gets full on and tiring some days.

Take care
xoxo

[Bun]

We have quite a few in here close in age. DD and DS are almost 2 years apart which was closer than I had planned (oops!) but hasn't been as hard as I was expecting. We definitely want another (and maybe even a 4th - I must be totally mad!) but I think I will aim for closer to a 2 1/2 to 3 year age gap next time. I would like to start working again, part time only, as I never had a chance after having DD. We moved to Vic from Perth just before DD turned 1 and I was busy finding a house and getting settled into the new town, getting DD into daycare etc, and when I was finally about to start looking for work I found out I was preggers again!

Eluned - Where in the West are you from?

Good to hear about the great growth - sounds like all the kids are doing excellently. DS has been a bit unsettled the last couple of days and I have hardly had any sleep. I think he has a bit of a cold or something, and I hope it passes quickly!

[Laranna]

Owwwee DD slept from 9pm to 4:30am which was great but oh my boobies are sore!!

Bun, I'm from Perth (Ballajura area).

feeb, that's awesome you're tandem feeding! Well done

[tracehb]

Hi everyone,

Havent had a chance to post in here for awhile although I have been reading everyones posts. Sounds like everyone is doing really well.

I took Maddie to Melbourne and Adelaide last week to catch up with friends and family and it was great to have lots of people around to help me out with her, I really miss that when I am at home as DH leaves for work early and doesnt get home till around 6:30pm which means I have her on my own for about 12 hours a day and even when he does come home I am still the one settling her down to sleep.

Maddie is now 6.3kgs and 62cms. I gave up the breastfeeding a few weeks ago because i was express breast feeding and it was just getting too hard. I put her on S26 to begin with but she got really constipated so I swapped to Karicare and she has been great on it. I felt so bad when she was in so much pain after i put her on the formula so I am so relieved that the Karicare is kinder to her.

I am still struggling to get her down to sleep, even when I do get her down she can sometimes wake up 20mins to half an hour later, its never guaranteed that she will stay asleep. Everyone I speak to tells me she has wind pains and that is what is waking her up. I am using Colic Calm and that seems to help her bring up her wind.

Anyway I better get to bed, Maddie was sleeping from 11pm to 5am ( we even had one night where she went to 6am) but this week she has been waking at 3am again, must be a growth spurt.

Oh one more thing, after Maddie had her vaccinations that night she vomited and when i went in to her in the morning there was some actual yellow chunks in the vomit which i thought was weird, has anyone ever seen this before? could be cause she is formula fed I guess??

Hope everyone is well.

Nightly night. xx

[danita]

hello all
ive been with out internet for far to long and just found this thread
my precious baby girl was born 12.1.2010 Nikkita Lexy All went well was a quick easy labour with only gas for comfort

i also have a beautiful baby boy whos just turned 2 ( he will always be my baby)

All is going well and i seem to be managing ok. glad to hear everyone is going well

[helle]

hey girlies, sorry I've been MIA! I have been lurking and reading posts, just not adding to them because ... well I'm just being lazy really ^^;;

Party-of-five, jackson is a bit of a catnapper during the day too, but sleeps well at night so I'm not complaining here!! He's not so much cranky during the day tho, he's mostly inquisitive... seriously, I wonder if he could open his little eyes any wider some days.

Leah, woo on the feeding. Jacks is demand feed, I've given up counting... but yetserday he seems to go awhile between feeds... I think he went through a bit of a spurt last week because he seemed to be attached to me allllllll day. I was nackered... infact I think I'm still trying to catch up on my energy levels! I've started taking my multivitamins again to compensate (which I know I shouldn't have stopped taking in the first place Glad you're back into a normal routine now... did you get hit with a time difference? (not sure where you live sorry!!) that's the worst I think, trying to get your head around the different times... and I don't think it'd be fun with a bubba either!! Oh, and softdrink gets Jackson too...

Minny, go the boob juice!!

tracehb, i feel your pain! DH leaves for work at 4.30 in the morning and gets home at 6. And now he's started doing a training and assessing course so he's studying when he gets home... so basically I get to see him in bed... snoring ><;; But he works hard I guess, and i can always lob at Mum's for a day if I need some extra help. Thank god for mummy's!! :P

AFM, well on the subject of extra kiddies we've always wanted 2, but DH is a little toey about TTC a second as we could end up with three Twins run in my family on every second generation, and it's my gen's turn! Ha! So, that'll be interesting. I don't think we'll try until jacksons about 3 or so.
As for Jackson in general he's awesome! Growing like a week (as Leah always says about little Z!) and is a pretty happy little kid... you just gotta look at him and he cracks a grin. He's started to giggle now, which is adorable. Although he's only ever giggled at me once, his little cousins get the rest!! Isn't it funny how they can pick up on other little kids?

Well better get back to it! motherhood never ends!!

Mwah! xxx

[petalpetal]

Hi All,

Wow, I really feel out of the loop. Just reading the last few pages, and everyone seems to be going really fine.

Darcey had her immunisations last Tuesday, she ended up with a temperature, hoarse voice, and really out of sorts for around 3 to 4 days. The temperature was starting to worry me, and then it just dropped off completely. She was weighed at the immunisation, and weighed in at 4.4kg!!! Yay, my little girl is nice, healthy weight for her 9 weeks, although on the small side, she's healthy. I'm really excited that she's wearing 000 clothes now.

We've had a horrible week really, from Tuesday onwards. I ended up in emergency on Tuesday, followed up with surgery on Friday. It was an absolute panic station. Not about the surgery, but about BF'ing. BF'ing has been going so well, and then I needed to start to express (first time for everything) and then the panic set in, the milk disappeared . Managed to express around 300ml over 36 hours, which was really hard work. The tears were flowing down my cheeks, kept thinking what a terrible mother I was to go into hospital and leave my baby with no ready supply.

Darcey was also going to 'room in' with me at the hospital, but in the end, I couldn't even hold her *big sobs from me and her* I just felt so inadequate and helpless. My DH looked after her, with some great help from my Mum, who sterilised the bottles, bought some ready made formula etc. First day back at home was horrible, no booby juice to feed her, and my DH didn't buy anymore formula, as he thought I would be producing enough by then. It wis a nightmare.

The milk has come back in now , but emotionally, I'm not really doing so well. DH is back at work today, and my Mum is coming around after lunch today. I'm so sore, feel so drained, blood pressure is all over the place, and I'm feeling very weepy. I hope this isn't PND settling in. It's just so frustrating, to get over the c-section (10 weeks ago today my beautiful girl was born), only to have this happen.

I'm going to make a cup of tea before Darcey wakes up, and take 5 minutes to think how damn lucky I am to be here, and to have such a beautiful daughter.

Take Care, sorry for the selfish post (woe is me)
Petal

[tracehb]

Petal so sorry to hear about your surgery, that would be so hard with a little one....makes me feel bad for complaining about a few bad days. Big hugs and i hope you feel better soon.

Well Maddie was an absolute angel today, she slept for 3 hours solid while i was out from 11 - 2 and one of those hours i was doing post natal yoga while she slept in her pram so i got to have a nice relaxing stretch without having to worry about her. She also went down at 7pm but then woke up 30mins later, this happens a lot. I went in to try and settle her but her legs where coming up to her tummy so i picked her up and she let out a massive burp, still took us another hour to get her down bec then she was hungry again after getting rid of the wind. I cant wait till she outgrows the wind stage, fingers crossed for around 3-4mths max.

[tracehb]

Hi Shantelle, glad you and Nikkita are doing well.

[Bun]

Hi all.

petal - so sorry to hear about the surgery and the trouble with your milk, that must have been terrible. Try to rest up sweetie, sounds like you have had a lot to deal with and you need to take care of yourself. Keep talking to us if you feel like PND may be coming on, it helps to get it all out and we are here for you

Teagz - I can understand your DH being a little worried about twins - that would be such a handful!! I know someone who got twins when going for their third and last baby and they ended up with 4 under 4, eek!!

shantelle - congrats!!

trace - sounds like Maddie was an angel on your trip.Glad to hear you had a good time. It is great to be around family so you can get some help. I am really missing that this time around as we moved interstate a year ago so there is not so much support here. Sorry I am not sure about the vomiting but I would say it is probably just a reaction to the vaccinations.

Eluned - wow what an amazing sleep!! I am from Perth too, we used to live in Atwell. How did you go in the storms? Sounds like they were pretty wild.

We are still going well, DS is growing like a weed as well and his sleep is not too bad now after a couple of unsettled nights. Generally he has two night feeds and the only trouble can be getting him back down when he has wind. I was up with him for ages last night trying to get the wind out but other nights have been fantastic. I am soooo in love with him and his smiles just make me melt. He has really started chatting to us too and coos away for ages when he is in the right mood. He is such a good little boy and I am really enjoying being his mum. Of course I adore my DD just as much but she was a very challenging baby so I am really enjoying being a new mum this time

[illeyena]

Petal - what trauma you've just been through. I am so excited for you that your milk came back though! did you have to do anything for it to come back or it just did?

we are going well here. some nights Caroline sleeps from 8pm to 5 or 6am and other nights she'll wake anywhere between 1 and 4am for a feed then back to bed. I can handle getting up once a night so no complaints here!!

I uploaded a video to you tube just to see if i could lol if anyone's bored and wants to check it out it is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_private...iT4SLqNLORre9w

Teagz - I have twins in my family also, my mum is a twin, my cousin had twins and my dad had twins with his second wife. ALL are fraternal so that's the hereditary kind! so far I've been lucky to have two singletons but yeh you hear all the time that just when you try for 'one more' that's when the two eggs slip out lol so yeah - i'm trying to convince him to have just one more lol so it would only serve me right!!! maybe I should quit while i'm ahead!

[Laranna]

Welcome shantelle!! We were in the same belly buddies I think, seems so long ago now!

trace, how is the sleep going? I hope it's getting better for you

petal, I'm so happy for you that your milk came back in and that you're recovering from surgery. I hope things continue to get better

Bun, I have a few friends in the Atwell area. We survived the storms ok thankfully! There was a lot of damage over Perth as I'm sure you probably saw on the news. We didn't even get hail at my house! Seemed to hit in certain pockets over Perth. Now we are back up to low 30 degree temps and very high humidity yuk!

illeyena, tried to have a look at your video but you tube said it was private.

We have twins in our family too! My grandmother had fraternal twins, so I guess it's my generations turn as well! I would love to have twins, but now that I already have 2 kidlets, I'm not sure about turning that into 4 of them! LOL...

I weighed DD yesterday and she's 4.66kg. Still a little one, but still growing nicely. She has been such a treasure and I think we are slowly starting to get into some routine, well in the mornings anyway. In the afternoons we are still a bit hit and miss.

Well, she is waking for her feed so gotta run. Hope everyone is well!