Eluned its so horrible how those numbers on a scale can make you feel...but like you said Amelia is going great from the sounds of it but its hard not to worry huh? Milly has her checkup next week so im hanging to find out what she weighs. Sounds like you had a lovely mothers day and I hope you enjoy your night out with the girls
We've all had colds here so have had a horrible few days I hate when my babies get sick
Milly hasnt rolled yet but im in no hurry for her do be doing stuff...as she is my last bub i want her to stay a baby forever
We had our 4 month check yesterday and DS is now 6.5kg and 63cm so going well. He is about 1kg heavier than at his last check up 2 months ago. He seems a little better now that he has been on the reflux meds for a couple of weeks so I am hoping that it is helping. Having said though, we have had a terrible couple of nights with him waking and not going back to sleep again. I am exhausted!!
Good luck to those of you leaving bubs with expressed milk, I hope it goes well. I did that a lot with DD but haven't really this time around, although I have some milk in the freezer. I may get DH to do a night feed so I can have a bit of a break over the weekend. He has been away this week and that is always when the kids decide to play up so I need a break!!
Josh is also still not rolling but I think he is getting very close. He is soooo chatty and smiley these days and I love it! And although he doesn't roll, he does manage to move himself around the floor an awful lot by digging his feet into the ground and moving himself.
Eluned, I am sure DD is fine, it sounds like she is doing really well. I hate how their weight can make you feel like they aren't doing well enough. We are all different and put weight on in different amounts and I am sure she is doing great.
Eluned, i won't lie.... i bawled my eyes out when we left XD But he was fine. I had left 500mls of EBM with mum and he didn't end up having any of it. He fell asleep within an hour of us leaving him. Mum was disapointed I think because out of the 4 hours we left him she only really "babysat" for one XD
But it made DH realise that he doesn't have to always stay with me now, and the next weekend he wanted to take him "visiting" for a couple of hours without me *sniff* But I said no, one night in a week is enough for now haha, I a meany XD He did end up taking him with him to pick up a trailer tho... for all of half an hour haha
GL on your first babyfree night! xx
Selfish, very selfish post coming right up, just really quickly, because I am absolutely exhausted. We had to get the locum doctor out tonight, and we had to wait and wait and wait for him to arrive. I'm sick, sick, sick. Had a virus for over two weeks, but b/c of bf'ing, can't have anything to help, apart from panadeine. Now I have a pretty severe case of sinusitis, plus the locum wants me to have a scan on my head (?????!!!!????) Anyway, waiting for him wasn't tooo bad, as DH and I managed to do all of Darcey's invites, planning etc for her baptism coming up. Is 98 people too many for a baptism?>>
We had our first Mothers Group meeting today. Really great to finally have the group called. I got a little teary though when I saw all the other babies. Darcey is tiny compared to them. Had a good chat to the nurse after the main session, and we weighed her. They don't seem worried, but we're going to do a couple of extra things next week, go over her graphs etc. Today she weighed 5.37kg, and that was with clothes on and a wet nappy (she's still not 100%, so I didn't want her to strip down to nothing b/c it was a little nippy) . She really is a dainty little thing...17 weeks and 3 days old, I can't believe the time is flying.
Anyway, my DH is grumbling at me to come to bed. Apparently, sleep helps with getting better
Eluned and Petal - Caroline is the same and at last two check ups (2 weeks apart) she was only 5.2kgs and 60cm long. I expressed some milk last night for DH to use today so I could go out and not have to rush back and it wasn't enough for a feed so had to squeeze some extra out this morning after her morning feed and even then only just got barely enough. Last week I expressed once and there was easily a full feed for her so I am panicking that my supply might be dropping?? She SEEMs happy enough, doesn't seem to be upset and crying for more because she's hungry and even usually has some extra puke up afterwards coz her tummy is full (my assumption - I could be wrong). I have mum's group tomorrow so will ask the MHCN to weigh her again and see if she's made any gains. I was feeling okay about it until my reduction in milk last night. Oh and she still takes FOREVER to feed. another MHCN that did her immunisations said that by taking so long she is possibly burning up some of the kj's WHILE she is eating... way to freak me out more.
she started what I call 'rolling with intent' yesterday she rolled twice Monday last week and once ages before that but they just seemed like little flukes but yesterday and today she rolled easily when i put her on her tummy and she pushed up real high beforehand too (except when DH was watching so he has missed all of them - woops!). anyways I caught one on the camera and was trying not to laugh the whole way through coz she's FARTING the whole time (only twice it is really audible though). anyways if you're bored or want a chuckle here she is:
Thanks for the reassurance girls. I just felt so deflated when the numbers on the scales didn't reflect what I thought. Those of you who are also worried about the weight, petalpetal, illeyena, it sounds like your bubs are doing great. Amelia is only 4.83kg!!! Now I know she is not going to be a giant but I was expecting her to be around 5.2ish kg. She is 61.5cm long though so that is fine. I've been trying to squeeze in a few more feeds so hopefully she just maybe was feeling a little off and is going to have a growth spurt soon.
I went out for the first time with some mums from mums group last night. I left a 100ml bottle of EBM for Amelia which DH said she drank 80mls of. That's not too bad and was pretty much spot on for my calculation. He said she woke up just after 10ish and he thought she might've wanted another drink so he got out another 50mls for her and by the time he got it all ready she fell asleep again! LOL but he said she then woke and drank only 20mls before falling asleep. I got home just after 11pm and just as I hopped into bed, she woke up so I brought her in with me and she had a nice big feed and we snuggled in bed
So as for her weight, I've got to take her to the GP so will probably do that in the next few days. CHN said there's no hurry so I won't. It will only be 6 more weeks before I plan on starting solids so hopefully if she's still going slowly that will help pick things up too.
illeyena, cute video! (had a giggle at her t-shirt too!)
Party of five, I hope everyone is over the colds now.
feeb, hows the tandem feeding going? You are amazing for doing it, well done
Bun, sounds like Josh is a real little mover. Amelia is the same. I had one lady comment the other day about how she did not believe Amelia is 4.5 months old! She thought she was older. "She's so alert!" is the most frequent comment I get about her. Amelia digs her heels into the floor and moves off her playmat now and turns around in circles. She also bats the toys above her like mad. Her chatting is her making these little gurgling sounds from the back of her throat. The extra movement is why the CHN thinks her weight has dropped off - because she is sooo active.
Eluned - bring on solids to fatten em up! my MHCN said that i could try her on solids at 5 months and see how that goes so that's 2 weeks away. has anyone else started solids?
my mother in law said she had DH on cow's milk at 2 weeks old!! and also put rice cereal in his bottles and just made the hole bigger to let it through. i just about fell off my chair! i have seen on a forum of mostly US women who started putting rice cereal in with bottles of formula at 8 weeks. seems a biy extreme to me ...
Eluned its so horrible how those numbers on a scale can make you feel...but like you said Amelia is going great from the sounds of it
I hate when my babies get sick
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. She really is a dainty little thing...17 weeks and 3 days old, I can't believe the time is flying.
she rolled twice Monday last week and once ages before that but they just seemed like little flukes but yesterday and today she rolled easily when i put her on her tummy and she pushed up real high beforehand too (except when DH was watching so he has missed all of them - woops!). anyways I caught one on the camera and was trying not to laugh the whole way through coz she's FARTING the whole time (only twice it is really audible though). anyways if you're bored or want a chuckle here she is:
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