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

[Jennie13]

no self settling here takes me a dummy, a small fluffy white bunny and what seems like forever to get DD to sleep

[Party-of-five]

Jennie13-no self settling here either its a wrap, a dummy and about a 15minute rock and a pat to sleep and according to my mum and MIL that means she is spoilt

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

No self settling of a night here either, during the day she is quiet good and is finally back to sleeping more than 30min at a time (or less) BUT going to bed at night she is a right PITA.. most nights she ends up sitting on my knee while i eat tea as she REFUSES to sleep and screams the house down until she is almost sick, then when i am finished tea we feed to sleep and then she is normally up within the next couple of hours for another feed etc.
If she feeds about 11 she normally goes through til say 5ish but other nights she will only go until 2am etc... she's having 3 meals a day, is VERY gassy and seems to have belly aches, i just don't know what else to try
I only JUST got her to bed at 11:30 tonight she was awake from 9....
Hope everyone had a good w/end, we were away in gippsland catching up with family, very long full on w/end sharing a bed with lil miss Ava who thinks she's 8ft tall....

[petalpetal]

Hi everyone,
Sorry to be MIA, but things are chaotic here at the moment.
I've just read through everyone's posts. Wow, are little ones have certainly grown.
Glad to hear that most are still giving lots of joy, and some puzzles/challenges to fix.

For us, well, Darcey is absolute pure joy. She is still teeny tiny (or as we say, an Itsy Bitsy Baby). She only weighs 5.4kg, coming up for 6 months on 12th of July. Still has a couple of jumpers in 0000, and pumpkin patch she is still in 0 to 3 months!!!! I can't believe how excited I was today when we put her in a 000 outfit, only to find it didn't fit in the length. Woohoo, my little girl has put on a little bit of weight.

We're on solids, and have been for almost two weeks, a bit like Daytona. Was at lunch one day, and Darcey wanted to be a part of the family banter, she lunged for my fork to try it. She's always DEMANDING that I put a glass to her mouth. So now, we also have cooled boiled water in both a sipper cup and a glass for her to drink from after solids. I say drink very loosely. She's lucky if she gets 5ml each time, but she wants to do what everyone else does. So cute.


She's not yet rolling, hates, hates, hates being on her tummy. But loves to try and sit up. Crazy.

Still sleeping really well through the night. Clingy though, really clingy. I started back at work today, one day per week, which is added to my half a day per week (so now one and half days per week). Really clingy baby at the moment. Can't bear to have me out of the room. The nurse at mother's group said this shouldn't happen until around 7 to 8 months, but it's happening NOW! She is just beautiful. I'm going to go and put some photos up on my husbands facebook page....if you want a look, search for John Villis.

Going to go and try and post now, take care everyone, and I promise to check back in soon.

Take Care,
Petal

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

How is everyone going, i can't believe that the first bubs of our group are 6mths...

I am so excited DP and i went to the drive in last night and Z slept in the back seat right through the movie, why had i not thought of the drive in before now?
So one of the girls from MG and i are going to go next week, i can see a movie and still be there for Z... woo hoo.

Z has changed HEAPS in the last couple of days, she's a lot happier, she's laughing all the time (especially at Ava dancing) and has been really good at settling during the day.
She's still feeding once or twice a night depending on her last feed but is having 3 meals a day, she's a PIG she loves rice cereal, has fruit or veg for lunch and then veg for tea.
She has tried a milk arrowroot biscuit and gummed it to death.
She is sitting up on her own, for 30sec or longer now and is starting to figure out how to balance herself, we still put a tri-pillow behind her though.

PETAL - Z has seperation anxiety too, has done for a couple of weeks now, if i left a room she SCREAMED and wouldn't even settle for DP, even if she was happy on his knee the minute i was out of site she would go mental.
I have seen your pics and she is so so cute!

Hope everyone else is well, how quickly have the last 6mths gone.

[Laranna]

We still have a little teeny pixie size baby here - 4.85kg at today's weigh-in. Have started to add some high calorie supplements to her breastfeeds and solids to see if that helps.
We've had colds all round and poor DD has a snuffly nose and a tickly cough. She's been coping with her first cold quite well and has only been unsettled tonight really.
Going to enrol her in swimming lessons this week!
Short post for me as I'm typing one handed while DD sleeps in my arms!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

We still have a little teeny pixie size baby here - 4.85kg at today's weigh-in. Have started to add some high calorie supplements to her breastfeeds and solids to see if that helps.
We've had colds all round and poor DD has a snuffly nose and a tickly cough. She's been coping with her first cold quite well and has only been unsettled tonight really.
Going to enrol her in swimming lessons this week!
Short post for me as I'm typing one handed while DD sleeps in my arms!

hun hope your all feeling better soon.... i can't wait to see how much Z is on friday, only because for once i have an averaged sized baby, Ava was so tiny.. Z is about 9wks ahead weight wise and there was only 10g difference in birth weight.
the supplements help a litte... kep up the great work.