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

[Laranna]

illey, glad to hear the trip went well! Sorry to hear about the weaning, are you ok with how it's turned out? At the very least fantastic effort on making it this far!

ZF, poor Ava!! how's she doing? Is she better?

Party of 5 - woohoo on the toothiepeg!!

Teagz, go Jackson! Looks like he's going to be keeping you on your toes in no time!

Jennie, I'm on FB. PM me for details. I didn't think coconut was an allergy risk food.

AFM, Amelia is loving her food. In order to beef her up, we have been on 3 meals a day for the past week or so including meat for the protein and fats. She's been having mainly casseroles, spaghetti bolognese and cottage pie. She's loving her veggies too. Have decided the Rafferty's Garden porridge is making her poos hard. We cut it out for a couple of days and they went back to how they should be, then I gave it to her again yesterday and this morning and they were hard again. So now just have to find something else to give her for breakfast. Might try her on some yoghurt tomorrow morning. She's had bread as well so could do toast. She lunges and tries to grab anything I've got in my hand. Today we were at my nieces birthday party (movies and mcdonalds) and I was eating a chicken wrap and she grabbed at that. She almost got some in her mouth, lucky it was only that pitta bread wrap stuff! She went to her first movie today - the new Shrek one in 3D. She didn't actually watch it, just fed and then slept in my arms or layed on my lap. DS loved it, it was his first 3D movie but he fell asleep in my arms too by the end of it. He was so knackered, he fell asleep on the couch at 6:30 tonight. He's starting to drop his day sleeps so he's dead tired by the end of the day.

Hope everyone is well!

[Jennie13]

Eluned - PM'd you. It sounds like you give your DD quite a variety....im a bit lost on the creativity side of things! you say casserole's, spag bog, and cottage pie (omg like my fav!) im guessing you make it yourself? how do u do it for your DD? does she have they same as you, but just pureed? I have given Freya a heap of different veg, fruit, lite jelly, and tried her on mince the other day which she enjoyed.....but now im lost on how to expand her menu

[Laranna]

Jennie yep just straight out of the same pot as our dinners! I just take a couple of spoonfuls out and mashed those up, not quite purée but just a bit lumpy so it has some texture. It's the easiest way to do it, giving her what we eat. I can't be bothered cooking all different meals lol we did it that way with DS and it worked really well. Off to check my PMs now

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Thanks everyone Ava seems fine, the fall down the stairs didn't seem to bother her, she has a slight bruise on her head but thats all, the little feral was still running round like a freak and climbing the stairs like normal. She's an odd child, she walks up them with her hand on the wall or rail and the same coming down.. i wish she would crawl on them but NO WAY!

Jennie13 - i am on FB PM me if you like, i don't think coconut is on a high reaction list but then i'm not 100% sure. it's great she didn't have a reaction though.

Teagz - Jackson is such a clever little man, can you send him round here to teach Z... she will sit but wont roll.. Ava did the same and refused to roll even though she could and just crawled at 10mths.
So glad he likes the sweet potato

Eluned - so glad Amelia is loving her food, i should be more game and give Z some of the stuff we eat but A had reactions on 2 seperate occasions and although her allergy tests have come back clear i am still cautious with Z... although she eats a lot.. she LOVES milk arrowroot biscuits, ate an entire one the other day.

Poor Z has conjunctivitis, am hoping the drops will clear it by lat today, early tomorrow though as we have her cousins birthday party on sunday!

[jenjams]

Jennie- I'm on FB too if you want to PM me.

Eluned- Interesting that the Rafferty's Garden gave DD hard poos. Which one were you using? We use the purple one. DD1 had rafferty's garden too and I thought the purple one tasted better than the green! You do so well with what you give her for tucker! We are just starting to explore veg in our cereal at night. I am going to be "brave" and try some pears for brekky this morning! It's funny how two kids are so different. We had DD1 on a whole lot more at this age. Well done on the movie too

Zarava- I just finished looking at your latest pics. The girls look like such good mates in the making there. Did you have a better nights sleep last night?

Teagz- Look out! J will be off and roaring in no time! Have you turned his seat around in the car? How did he go if you did?

Illey- I am jealous of your QLD getaway. I could happily live there. In fact Darwin is my place of choice too How is Caroline going? Are you still going to try the breastfeeding or has she completely weaned?

Trace- Hmmmm how many Jovi concerts are you going to here in Oz? I think Maddie has no choice in her music tastes does she? How is she going with her sleeping in her cot?

Hello to everyone else. Bun are you there? Is all ok?

How many sleeps is everyone's bubs having at the moment? I get roughly 3 naps a day out of DD2. Although it depends. She very occassionally has a decent sleep in the middle of the day so that leaves 3 sleeps but she mainly goes down for 1 sleep cycle at a time. I remember DD1 was down to 2 sleeps a day at this age. Oh they are so different!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Jenny - Z is having about 3 sleeps aswell, normally 1 sleep cycle with a bigger one in there somewhere but SHE choose when that is..
The girls do seem quite close, A is very full on and i don't think poor Z gets much of a choice but she thinks her big sister is pretty funny!

Just added some pics of us walking the property to check out the creek after the rains yesterday, it looks cool and i never realised how big our house looks from the border of ours and next doors property!

[illeyena]

I'm on facebook under Kylie Kellalea-Maynard

[helle]

i had actually changed my mind and decided to wait til he hit the middle range of 10 kgs'... but DH, being the doting and excitable father that he is... chnage the seat forward facing while i wasn't around. He hasn't been in it yet... but I shall let you know how it goes.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Teagz - why is it men FINALLY get off their butts and do something right as we decide we don't want it done?

Illeyena - sent you a request on FB.

Well i am a little sad today, have realised that my last baby is no longer a baby and there will be now more. Z is sitting up on her own, drinking water from a sippy cup, playing with the bigger kids at the play centre yesterday and enjoyed the jumping castle
I love that she is doing a lot of things but she's not little anymore! i guess in a sense i am lucky she is such a clingy baby or i think i would be out of the picture very early!

How is everyone else going?

[illeyena]

Caroline had her check up on Friday and weighs 7.2kgs and is 65cm long so weaning from me has helped her chub up that's for sure!! she had her immunisation needles today ... man I hate those things. thankfully now she's clear for six months before having to have any more!!

She's been waking once a night hungry ... one health nurse says don't feed her or she'll make it a habit to wake up for food and another says it's the six month growth spurt which is pretty big. so who knows. I just feed her at the moment. she often wakes around 5am though and just CHATS REALLY LOUDLY to herself for about 30 - 40 minutes and then goes back to sleep!! however after listening to her for that long I am lying there awake wishing desperately for sleep! day sleeps are going great (touch wood) with an hour and a half in the morning (she wakes after 45minutes but puts herself back to sleep) and the same again in the afternoon - 2 hours if i'm lucky. here's hoping that's a new habit and not a regular fluke!

[helle]

ZF... he ended up putting it back in backwards facing because he couldn't work it out haha! even then it took him two hours and we ended up having to call his sister over to help us! He was ready to chuck the seat out and said it was a peice of crap... it's a top of the line SnS!
He put it in our other car tho, a comodore - hate it and the seats are alot more sloped so it wasn't working right and he ended up having to put a rolled up towel under it to jack it up a bit. the windscreen in my car has a massive crack in it and apparently it's 30% of the roofs strength gone or something so I'm not allowed to drive it til it's fixed. Funny thing is I have no idea how I'm meant to get it fixed when I don't have a car seat in it to take it in to get fixed?
So... I can't wait to get it fixed. I love my big truck!

sorry abou the b*tch fest XD

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Hehe teagz you make me laugh.... could you get someone to come out and fix it, don't most window places come to you? Your FB makes me laugh too... lol not replying atm though as DP might see i've been on the comp WAY too much today... lol

[helle]

Bah!! Don't you hate it when you make a post and forget to back it up and you LOSE IT!

Ok...

I have a situation. Last monday Jacks started solids and he was LOVING it. He was even lunging for the bowl inbetween mouth fulls, and now, for the last 4 or so days he HATES it. He won't open his mouth for anything, if I do manage to sneak a little bit of something in there he does this cough thing like you do when you taste something horrible, or he gags on it. This morning he even pushed the spoon away from himself with his hands. I have given him sweet potatoe (we started with this), pear, pumkin, rice cereal and rice cereal wih banana in it. I have tired it all mixed with breastmilk, water, at room temp, cold, warm, runny like gravy or like apple puree... nothing! I just can't get him back into it & I don't know why and it's driving me nuts.
Healthwise he is his normal happy little self, he has gotten his two bottom teeth in the last week but they haven't seemed to cause anything eventful. We've only had 2 bad nights in the last 2 weeks and occassionally he just needs a little panadol at night time before bed.
So, WWYD? Should I keep offering him different things until he finds something he likes, keep offering him the same stuff? Maybe only half a BF then offer slids then BF? Or just leave it for a few days and start all over again? I make all this pureed food and I'm literally just throwing it all straight back out again and it's driving me bonkers. I have a little boobaholic on my hands!!
Sorry for the rant..
...again!

[feeb]

Hi all we are good! DS2 went to MCHN for immunisations and wg on friday was 7950 grams so up 1070 grams in 8 weeks!!!

Not excited by solids at all gags and spits back of vomits!!\

Teagz DS1 was just like yours, he started on solids loved it for a week to 10 days then started refusing and pushing away, I kept offering for a week but still refused, MCHN suggested I dont offer anything for 2 weeks (remember food is fun until they are 1). When I re introduced he loved it and took to it like a machine!!!!
Both my boys are boobaholics!

Good luck

[helle]

oh thankyou feeb I'm glad I'm not the only one!

[illeyena]

Teagz - possibly a stupid question but how come you give him panadol before bed? I only ask because the last mabye 5 nights Caroline has woken more during the night usually just makes lots of 'chatting' noises for as long as 30 - 40 minutes sometimes and goes back to sleep (i usually only get up once to feed her when the chats become more err requests as such). I just wasn't sure if she was just being particularly chatty or if I'm a dummy and she's maybe trying to tell me something else and should be trying panadol also before bed?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Teagz - i agree maybe leave it for a week or two then try again.
Ava started solids just after 5mths, went well for a couple of weeks then refused food again until 8mths old.. i was beside myself worrying but when she did start again she never stopped.

[helle]

Teagz - possibly a stupid question but how come you give him panadol before bed? I only ask because the last mabye 5 nights Caroline has woken more during the night usually just makes lots of 'chatting' noises for as long as 30 - 40 minutes sometimes and goes back to sleep (i usually only get up once to feed her when the chats become more err requests as such). I just wasn't sure if she was just being particularly chatty or if I'm a dummy and she's maybe trying to tell me something else and should be trying panadol also before bed?

my god.. I'm not drugging him up to sleep don't worry haha!! I find during the evening/night his teeth give him a bit of a hard time. He bites me and everything else and is a bit upset so I give him some to help with the pain. And he must need it because generally without fail he'll drop off 20 minutes afterwards, and I'm sure panadol doesn't make them drowsy, does it? I think if she needed anything she'd probably scream at you rather than have a talk. They don't generally ask for things nicely, mine doesn't anyway!