Babies born~January 1st-15th 2010 #2

[illeyena]

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 ...

[helle]

illeyena, back in the day mum was telling me her mum (so my nana) was told to feed my mum solids at the age of 6 weeks - apparently it was standard practice back then. Lamb brains to be exact! Pretty amazing how things have changed!!
Love the vid too! Don't you just love how they seem completely unfazed by how they can roll? Jackson cracks me up. I stand behind him so He can't see me, so to see me he has to roll... while I'm calling his name you can see his big chubby cheeks in a huge grin - 9 times out of ten he just pivots till he can see me, lazy bubba!. It makes me melt. He does the most revolting farts as well... puts his father to shame!

[Bun]

Teagz - I hear you on the revolting farts - DS has started doing them too, yuck!!

eluned - I reckon the CHN is probably right, they move so much these days that it is no wonder they are burning through their milk and not gaining as much weight. I have found that Josh wants a lot more feeds right now but his weight gain has slowed right down. I am not sure if I mentioned it before, but Amelia was one of the names we were going to use for DD, and of course DS is Josh, so we must have pretty similar taste! The only reason DD became a Catherine is because she is a very strong willed little girl and we could tell that as soon as she was born and we thought she needed a tougher name to suit her personality!

petal - I hope you are feeling better now hun. Sounds like you have had a rough few days

illey - love the video, that is sooo cute! I had a chuckle at her top too!

We are still getting too little sleep here but things have been a little better the last couple of nights. Josh used to go until 3am before his first feed, but then it was 1am, then midnight, then 11pm and last night 10.30pm. He then wants feeds 2-3 hourly from then, and from 5am I find it very hard to get him back down again so he comes into bed with me where he sleeps pretty well until DD bellows that she is awake. She literally says 'Mummy, I awake, I awake, where are you??' and if I am not quick enough she starts knocking from the inside of her bedroom door!! She has recently figured out how to turn on light switches so I am sure it is only a matter of time before she learns how to turn the door handle... Anyway, I am wishing for more sleep but surviving. How many night feed are the other bubs having now? I am starting to think that my kids are just bad sleepers, even though DS started out ok.

[Party-of-five]

Bun=Milly is waking atleast twice a night for a bottle and countless times to be resettled

illeyena=your video was cute...thanks for sharing

Teagz=lamb brains gross!!

isnt it amazing how things have changed since our parents had us

Milly has her needles tomorrow I have to take lucy with me, Im a bit worried Lucy is protective of her baby sister she might kick the doctor!! im hoping for a bit of a weight gain she has gotten so long im sure she must have put on something!!

Well i best be off to bed im sure Milly will be awake soon

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Hey ladies have been reading but end up running off to one of the kids.

P05 - i wasn't sure how A would take the whole needles thing now Z is a bit older and she's more protective but TBO is was great, she patted Z when she cried and tried to distract her with a toy.. not bad for 19mths old.. the lady was very impressed and blew bubbles for the 'best big sister she's ever seen'

Bun - hope the sleeping settles down again for you... we have the prob when DD1 comes into our bed she talks or giggles and wakes Z..

Teagz - i love all your pics, he is so so gorgeous... and the farts, whats with that Z does them too... she's going to be like her big sister.. a tomboy

Well it's late i better get going, sorry to anyone i have missed.. hope all the bubs are well.

I am starting the packing tomorrow so have offloaded Ava and just have Zara for the day, we MOVE ON SUNDAY... , have to go see a specialist friday about my knee and get fluid taken out with a needle soo not looking forward to it.

Girls are well, Z rolls from belly to back and up on her side from back but not quite all the way over, she's very much like A and just wants to be upright, she loves sitting up against a pillow or the couch.
Talking to herself heaps, last night it was for 30min at 4:30 in the morn, though stuff it give her a feed and back to bed.. didn't work another 20min talking to herself b4 she fell asleep... she will be in her own room in the cot as of next week and A will be in a bed my girls are growing up...

[feeb]

Eluned Thanks for asking its going well! Some days DS1 is more demanding and cracks sads if told to wait but otherwise s going well. DS2 is obvioulsluy getting plenty given his weight gain he is over 1kg more than DS1 at same age!!!

I hope Amelia's weight gain picks up for you, keep up the good work.

[Party-of-five]

Woohoo...Milly had a gain...of nearly a kilo!!! she is just under 6kgs now thats with the doctors accurate measurement...gets me to stand on scales with her and without to work out her weight hopefully its not me putting on the weight she deff feels heavyier
he has suggested we start solids!! i started Lucy at around 5 months so i think ill wait a few more weeks yet