Babies born~July 16th-31st 2009 #1

Linda - WELCOME! I'm glad you have found us. My DS and your bubba also share birthdays :D. I've been through the emerg c/s with DD (although at 31 wks) and it is a very shocking thing to happen - so I can totally understand what you may have gone through. Having bubs in an incubator is a bit daunting isn't it - the mainstream pregnancy books don't really talk much about 'what happens when things don't go to plan' section, do they? ;). However we can both boast we can change a nappy on a baby in an incubator eh?

I too used to be the in control 'I'm running the show around here' kinda girl, and DF and I used to be extremely close. We're still close, but time isn't our friend since DS was born lol. We're still adapting to that so 'watch this space' - we just try to make the most of the limited time we do have (when both babies are asleep!). Even if its leaving a 'love note' around the house for him to find, at least it shows you're still thinking of him!

I used to work full time and also have a second job as a fitness instructor / personal trainer - and I really miss socialising at both work places with adults! I will be going back to work late Feb (unless we win the local home lottery lol) - but even then, I'd probably still have to work in some capacity!

The best advice I could offer re weaning off of formula - is take it one day at a time. Use your supports - I wish I had as many as you, you're very lucky! Its a big change adding a bubs to the family. Allow for you all to adapt to your new lives together! Embrace it - they grow up really quick! ;)

Hi All and welcome Linda!

I finally have a chance to sit down and write a quick note - though writing one handed as DS#2 is trying to settle back to sleep in my arms.

We've had a couple of very unsettled days with DS#2 barely sleeping and feeding constantly so I think he is having a bit of a growth spurt. When he would sleep it would have to be on me or next to me. His day sleeps today were ALL in the hug-a-bub as I was visiting a friend but he slept in his cradle for 30mins tonight and I'll put him back in bed when I finish writing this.

Linda: Congrats on the birtth of your daughter. I too ended up with an emergency c/section with DS#1 and it is a shock when you are expecting things to go a certain way. Adjusting to the constant needs of a newborn is hard for anyone and my first son is a high-need child who even now at 3.5 years old still rarely sleeps through the night so I was very emotional.

I think I am handling things better the 2nd time around but it is still a big change and a huge adjustment. My MIL has been staying with us since 15 July and she just went home at lunchtime yesterday. DH ended up working until 3am so I was completely on my own the entire night. It was had and both boys and myself shed tears before the night was over.

Tears are very normal as your hormones regulate. Also you are dealing with sleep deprivation which plays its part as well. Sleep when you can, eat healthy food and keep your fluids up.

I cried watching All Saints last night - so a month on my emotions are still a bit all over the place.

Okay I'm going to stop rambling and try to put my boy back to bed so I can eat some more. ;)

Thanks Linda for bringing up how it feels to be a first time mum! Yeah, I get teary at random things too. And I'm used to knowing what I'm doing, and if I don't know, being able to look stuff up - but babies don't come with an instruction manual or translation book. It's so distressing when she cries and I can't figure out what's wrong. And even when she sleeps a whole four or five hours it's so hard to drag myself out of bed to feed her! What gets me through is repeating 'this will pass'. And her adorable little face :)

Hi everyone,
Welcome Linda! I'm glad you found BB. It is a great place to chat, get advice and vent when you need to. Don't be embarrassed as we have all been there.

I cried heaps with my first born. I was constantly calling friends and hubby at work because I was so upset. Hormones and sleep deprivation can do awful things to even the most well balanced of women. Hang in there, it does pass and quicker than you can imagine. When you are in the midst of it is seems like they will be little and needy for ever but when you look back time has flown. Just try and get as much rest as you can and forget about things that aren't a necessity. Housework for us goes out the window until I feel good. Make sure that if the blues are getting the better of you that you get help. A gp or chn are great places to start. As far as weaning off formula goes I can't really offer any advice. My milk supply dried up about a week and a half ago so we are fully formula feeding now. This happened with my first too.

Well we are going ok. Ella is very unsettled during the days at the moment. Ethan, hubby and I all have colds and sore throats and I think she does too. We are going to the gp just to check this afternoon. I'm certain that most of her unsettled behaviour is due to reflux but we are seeing the paed in a couple of weeks so she will get medicated then.

alz - sorry to hear your supply is totally gone :( At least we live in an age where formula is available.

Linda, I hope things are settling down for you now?

AFM - Bridie had a decent weight gain this week, fingers crossed it continues. She's been chucking more, but the CHN said as long as she's gaining well and doesn't seem upset by the spewing then it's not a problem. But will certainly be keeping an eye on it.

Gorgeous warm spring day in Melbourne today, so Bridie and I are having some skin on skin time. She's snoozing with her face planted into my boob, so cute!

Hi All,

Internet was down all weekend and I'm just getting caught up with online stuff. Looks like I didn't miss much in here though.

It is late and I just got Jeremy settled in bed so I'm headed to bed too but wanted to check on the group.

Anyone planning anything special for Father's Day with the new bubs? Particularly those in the group with first babies? I'm not sure what I'm going to try to do for hubby as funds are low at the moment, but do have some ideas in mind.

Jeremy has good days and bad days! He prefers to sleep ON me, or in my arms, or in bed with me! Tonight is the first night in three nights that I've been able to settle him in the cradle. We shall see how he goes for the rest of the night. I think he is having his 6 week growth spurt as he had a bit of a feeding frenzy last night and wanted boobie almost hourly today!

How are the rest of the bubs doing?

Hi again,

I know no one else has written since I did last night but I had to post again!
DH, DS#1, DS#2 and I were all in our local Westfield tonight so I took Jeremy to the chemist and weighed and measured him.
Fully clothed with a wet and dirty disposable nappy on he weighed 5.92 kgs and was 60 cms long!
He will be 6 weeks old on Saturday!!
Anyone else in the group have a HUGE baby???
He REALLY likes his food!!
He is officially wearing 00 sized clothes as of yesterday as well!

Hi everyone, sorry I have been a bit slack about posting....

Alz, hope Ella is feeling better? It's no fun when they are so little & unwell :(

Jess I love the image of your snoozing bub, very cute indeed! yay for the weight gain.

Lilprecious - Arlea had her last naked weigh last Monday at 4 1/2 weeks & was 5200g. But she was a big baby to start with. Her gains are right about on the 20g/day. Your Jeremy sounds like he is doing really well!

Leesa, Sagres, Linda - how are you doing?

AFM - The private LC was good, had a few different suggestions - but still no major progress towards BFing. I stopped trying for a few days as it was becoming too stressful for us both. At least I have plenty of milk - I am pumpng about 3 times as much as she needs - & I am looking at reducing the number of times I express in a day hopefully. We will keep trying for a couple of weeks longer & just might end up expressing fulltime.

She is sleeping well at night, usually 6 hours, only catch is after 3am she is up & down hourly, and during the day she doesn't sleep well at all. So I don't get much of a chance to catch up. I am hoping DH will be home from work early today & I can go off to bed for a couple of hours!

Oh & she started smiling last week. The kids were absolutely over the moon! So cute.
She is MUCh more alert now, when on the floor she turns her head to look around constantly & you can see her recognising people's faces & voices.

Hope everyone is doing well :grouphug:

Sorry I haven't posted for awhile, I've been reading and keeping an eye on how everyone is going.

Alannah and I are going pretty well. I haven't weighed her recently but DH did a rough weigh in at home last week and she seemed about 4.1kgs - which isn't that much compared to some of your bubbas but she was only just over 3kgs at birth so she is putting on weight like a trooper. During the week I visited a friend who has just had a baby, her little boy is about the same size as Alannah but they are 5 weeks apart!

She is still feeding and sleeping well. Her crying has certainly picked up though, she has 1, 2 or 3 periods throughout the day which we call her crotchety times - where she is just unhappy and not enjoying life. There doesn't appear to be anything in particular wrong, but hey, some babies just do that. But even with her crotchety times I have a pretty easy baby on my hands, she doesn't ever really cry at night (just some noises when her tummy is uncomfortable) and to date she hasn't once woken at night for anything other than a feed.

She has rolled from her front to back twice :o , she is getting much more alert and she started smiling yesterday!

I think some one asked about cloth nappies a few pages ago? I've got Alannah in some MCNs. At the moment I have mostly Bumgenius' and Rumparooz. They are both pretty good but the channels in the Rumparooz totally rock...nothing escapes out of those suckers!

jasp - wow, sounds like you are a superstar milk producer, I hope something falls into place with BFing soon. I know Alannah is feeding better now purely because her mouth is bigger and we don't need to work quite so hard on the technique/positions/angles etc. perhaps as Arlea's mouth gets a bit bigger she will find it easier?

alz - Is Ella getting any more settled during the day? You said she might have been getting a cold, perhaps that was upsetting the apple cart? Hope you are all feeling better.

jess - ooh, I love sleepy snuggles. Night feeds are much more bearable when it ends with your little one looking so damn adorable snuggled up against you asleep.

lilprecious - sounds like Jeremy is a very snuggly one, he obviously loves being close to his mummy. Not sure what we will be doing for Fathers Day, I would have liked to have a beach picnic but the rain will probably put the brakes on that idea. I've got some presents for DH from Alannah but it seems like some stuff I ordered online won't get here in time :wall:

Leesa - had to laugh at what you said about loud burps - after Alannah gets rid of some wind (from either end) DH often asks who did it because hers are so loud they could easily have come from an adult. Awe, my little lady :redface:

Linda - hope things are continuing to improve. I think it is pretty normal to 'grieve' for the lifestyle we used to have.

Hello all

Jeremy seems to be permanently attached to the boobie!! He is 6 weeks old today so perhaps the growth spurt is starting!! Anyone else have a very hungry baby these days?

I hope everyone enjoys a wonderful father's day tomorrow!!

Hi All,
Posting again even though it has been quiet in here since I posted yesterday because I have a clothing dilemma and thought I would share our interesting Father's Day!

First things first - anyone in the group from the Sydney area? I am debating what to do for Jeremy for pj's! I have been putting him in a Bonds Wondersuit every night for bed. Now that he is in 00 clothing he is in a size 0 Bonds wondersuit and I only have one in that size. My question is this - is it worth going out and buying 2-3 more Bonds Wondersuits in size 0 for him to wear? Or is it likely to get warm enough that he isn't going to be wearing them to bed for much longer? What are other Sydney mums putting on your babies for bed at night?

Father's Day!!
My plan was for us to go to church, then pick up Subway for lunch and head to Centennial park to feed the birds and play the afternoon away. I also wanted to take a really nice photo of hubby with DS#1 so I could finish off my Father's Day gifts for DH. But the day really didn't turn out that way. After church we had to come home as the plumber wasn't able to finish installing our new hot water system yesterday so he returned today to finish.
Well, there was a problem just as he was finishing and water leaked into the attic and down into the light in the lounge room which shut down the entire electrical system in the house.
Needless to say we didn't get to the park and we ate dinner by candlelight and put the boys to bed with the help of two torches. Eventually Sydney Electricity sent out an emergency guy who fixed it up for us so now we can use the lights and such but I'm sorry too because DH and I were going to play Scrabble by candlelight!

Okay, I'm falling asleep trying to type so I guess that means I should go to bed! More tomorrow...

I have been told I have an oversupply & need to wean it down. And here I was thinking I was doing great :doh:

very quiet in here... how is everyone doing?

Hi All

It has been extremely quiet in here - is everyone ok? How was father's day for everyone?

We are doing well though things have been interesting! DH and DS#1 both are on antibiotics for chest infections and both boys had conjunctivitis as well.

Jeremy has slept 5 hours straight a couple of times only to then doing two nights in a row of not sleeping and feeding constantly instead. Tonight seems to be going a bit better as he just woke for the first time and re-settled easily which is a good sign after last night and the night before.

I should seriously think about going to bed soon but I think I'm hungry and I'm not sure what I want (maybe toast and a milo) and I am not 100% sure that Jeremy is going to stay settled in bed as he woke a bit just now when I put him in bed.

Not much else to report! I JUST got the paperwork done for Jeremy's birth certificate (can't believe I left it so long) and next week we have my 6 week check, DS#1 3 year check at the early childhood centre and DS#2 6-8 week check at the same time! My mother-in-law also comes back down (from Brisbane) as my sister-in-law is due to have her first baby on the 28th! MIL will be staying with them eventually but may stay the first night or two with us!

Oh, that reminds me... HOW COULD I FORGET??? I am officially an auntie by blood for the first time! :dance: My sister gave birth to a baby girl on 10 Sept (16 days early)! She had a 6.5 hour labour from very start to very finish and didn't tear or anything! Her daughter is a tiny 6lbs 7oz (about 2.8 kgs) which is amazing when you compare it to Jeremy's birth weight of 9lbs 5oz (4.2 kgs)!! While he never wore 0000 clothes Ella is sort of swimming in them! I just wish my sister and I lived closer to each other (she is in Calgary) - it would be a hoot to lay the babies on the floor next to each other and take a picture!!

Okay, off to get a snack and then head to bed! I hope everyone is well and just hasn't been in here because they are busy enjoying their babies!!

Sorry for the lack of posts - we've had a busy couple of weeks. I've got sick of sitting at home by myself and have been trying to go out every day. But Bridie's still not settling for the night until one in the morning... tiring. I thought they were supposed to cry less after 6 weeks as well, but no signs of that yet! Still feeding every two hours during the day, unless I take her out walking so she has a good sleep, then I get 3 hours. Hope she grows out of this soon, as the attachment is still not perfect so my BBs are often sore after feeding.
For Father's Day we had lunch with some friends who've just announced they are pregnant and due in January - it will be lovely to have another bub in my friendship group.

Lilprecious, congratulations to your sis! Is she on BellyBelly too?

Jasp - over supply sounds like a great problem to have, from the perspective of someone with a two-hourly feeder whose supply is only just keeping up! I hope you're freezing lots. It's such a pity that milk banks don't exist still, you could have helped lots of premmie babies with your extra milk!

Sagres - I haven't heard of Rumparoos, where do you get them from? Bridie's been in flat nappies so far as we live in Melbourne and don't have a dryer. But now the weather's warming up I'd like to try more MCNs.

Jess :hug: hope your little one settles soon. Some of them take a bit longer I think, take heart, it won't be like this forever!
We do have a milk bank here on the coast, I have been in touch with them & am in the process of paperwork etc ready to donate :)

Lilprecious, congrats on being an Auntie :)

Hi All,

Not sure how much I'll be in here in the next few weeks.
We have major issues going on at home and had a big blue with my FIL and now we have to move.
The tension in the house is incredible so we pretty much stay out all day long and only sleep here.
We looked at a place this evening that looks promising but isn't available for another 3-4 weeks and I'm not sure we can stand to stay here that long.

The boys are really stressed (James more so then Jeremy) and I'm fairly stressed and anxious as well.

I will keep everyone posted and once we have moved and are settled in and more relaxed I'll be able to pop in here more often.

lilprecious - congrats on becoming an auntie! Sorry to hear you are having some family difficulties, hope things get smoother soon.

jasp - that is cool that you may be able to donate your milk. We don't have a milk bank in Adelaide....I would donate if I had an over supply but my supply is covering what Alannah needs and not a bit more. No that's not true, I went to a wedding over the weekend and did some extra expressing to leave some milk with nanna and by the end of the reception I reakon I could have donated a bucketful - ouch!

jess - I got the rumparooz from a friend who runs an online store and did a special order for me. She still has some stock left - her store is called borderline hippy (I don't think I can post a link to it). If you google rumparooz you should get to the US website which tells you all about them.

Alannah and I are going ok, we (DH, Alannah and I) all got colds last week which left us all a bit miserable but we are back on track now. It was affecting Alannahs sleeping - only sleeping for 1/2 hour at a time during the day instead of her normal 2 hours - but she is getting back into the swing of things now.

She has started doing the most adorable things, giving us big goofy smiles and we have cooing conversations where we 'oooh' at each other in turn. She looks so happy when I oooh at her and she does it back, she cracks the most excited looking smile - so lovely!

Lil precious, sorry to hear about the family problems. Hope the move goes smoothly for you.

Sagres, hope you enjoyed the wedding :) lol at the 'bucketful'... it does get painful, doesn't it! Glad to hear you are getting over your colds & enjoying those smiles, they change & grow so quickly at this age.

AFM i have just come home from 3 days at my mums with the 4 kids, my sister is due any day now with her first baby (I was hoping it would happen while we were there!)
We also have colds, it is Arlea's first & my first this year! but nothing too serious, just a bit snuffly. I donated my first lot of milk last Friday, they will come & do a weekly pickup so that is nice.
Hope everyone else is well :)

Hi,
Just getting back to BB after 'puter probs and coming to terms with being a mum! Hope to come up to speed soon with everyone here.

Archer was born on the 29th july - a little early - but all ok. Still struggling to adjust to being a mum and not being at work - and having control over things like feeding and sleeping...but we are getting there...i think!

Hope to get my head around those in here so I can be doing personals soon.
FG

Oh no, lilprecious I hope everything works out for the best. What a bad thing to have to go thru with a newbie in tow! Hugs hunny!

Farmgirl - when was Archer due? He shares the same birthdate as my son :)

Jasp - have you managed to shift the colds yet?

AFM - I am stoked that B slept for 7 hrs striaght last night :dance:. I have a suspicion it was due to just receiving his 2 mth immunisation on Saturday, but I'm not complaining. I woke up at 6am and thought, OMG - its daylight, what the!!
He's giving us cute smiles quite a bit now which is so rewarding IYKWIM. Other than that I should start planning his baptism before he will be too big to fit into the outfit ;).

How is everyone travelling themselves?

I'm trying sooo hard to shift this mummy tummy - I absolutely hate it! Although getting a bit more used to co-exsisting with it :rolleyes:.

Hi All,

Just popping in here to let you all know that we are still alive AND it is a good way to continue to ignore the pile of dirty dishes in the sink!!

We are still looking for a place to live and things are still tense in the house (FIL isn't speaking to us nor us to him)!

DS1 dissolves into tears whenever we talk about the move because he LOVES this house and doesn't want to live anywhere else so I'm glad the process is going a bit slowly so he can adjust to the whole thing.

Without giving a whole huge story, all four of us are sleeping in one room so when we move DS1 will have his own room for the first time in his life. He informed me the other day that DS2 will be sleeping with him in his room because he is HIS baby! If the rooms are right next to each other I think I will allow that. We shall see!

In other news, Jeremy just had his 2 month needles today. He was fairly unsettled all day (appointment was this morning) but went to bed easily at 8pm and I'm hoping he'll get a very good night sleep tonight. I really should think about going to bed early since he MIGHT sleep for a really long time but I have mastitis again and need to take my antibiotics at midnight! SIGH!! I suppose I could take them when Jeremy wakes for a feed but #1 he MIGHT sleep through the night and #2 I try not to take them just before I feed him!

We are getting smiles and coos and conversation from Jeremy now and it is so sweet to see. My sister-in-law had her first baby on the 28th (that was her due date)! A little boy who they named Thomas and he is just adorable. He is tiny - 2.9kgs which just makes Jeremy look HUGE! At nine weeks of age he weighs 6.6kgs and is 61cms long!!

Okay, need to wash the dishes and take a shower, have a snack and head to bed!

I hope everyone is doing well - it certainly is quiet in here!! I thought I would have heaps to read!!

Lilprecious, that's tough :( I hope you find a great new place soon.
Jasp, it's wonderful that you can donate your milk! Good on you! I hope your colds get better soon.

Mother's group topic today was sleep. I was complaining about how Bridie will only sleep during the day on a person/in a sling - and this afternoon I put her in her bassinet and she went to sleep without any rocking or patting, and stayed asleep for 50 minutes! Excellent, I should complain more often :) I really hope that it wasn't just a fluke and she's learning how to sleep by herself :pray:
How is everyone else doing on the sleep front?

We are pretty good on the sleep front, Alannah is definately a good sleeper. She has long stretches of anywhere between 5-7 hours overnight (but some how her 7 hours stretches have started in the early evening so I only get to sleep for half of it :rolleyes:) and her sleeps during the day are around 2 hours long give or take 1/2 an hour. She normally has 2 or 3 sleeps during the day. If she has slept in the morning and afternoon she will stay awake between her feeds in the evening. If she has not slept much in the afternoon sleep she will sleep between the evening feeds.
75% of the time she puts herself to sleep pretty well, we put her in her basket when she is due for a sleep and showing tired signs and she does the rest herself. The other times she is unsettled and we hold/rock/walk her until she calms down and gets to sleep. This is normally in the evening.

How are others finding sleeping?

Hmmmm... sleeping...

Well, generally during the day Jeremy takes most of his sleeps in the Hug-a-Bub especially now that I try to only be in this house for dinner and sleeping. But even when we do stay here during the day, I will try to settle him into the cradle, but if he doesn't settle the 2nd time I just put him in the Hug-a-Bub and go about whatever I need to do. I figure he needs the sleep more then I need him to sleep in his cradle right now. The stress and tension is too high in the house at the moment to add any more.

At night he settles into his cradle just fine but I do feed him to sleep. Then he will sleep anywhere from 2-6 hours so no real routine yet. But again, due to the stress and tension of the situation in the house I take what I can get. Once we are moved and the stress reduces for DH and myself the boys will settle down as well and then we'll see what happens.

James is so unpredictable. Tonight we left the bedroom to go find his grandfather to say goodnight to him and all of a sudden he called out for me and was crying hysterically. He couldn't tell us what was wrong even after he calmed down. His nerves are just raw and we really need to get out of this place!

Anyone have babies with goopy eyes? James and Jeremy both had conjunctivitis a few weeks ago and I treated it with antibiotic drops from the chemist but Jeremy has it again and I'm loath to use them as they hurt him so I'm treating it with breast milk for the time being! I'm googled using breast milk on the web but not finding a lot so might post something on here in a separate thread and see what I can learn.

I hope everyone has a nice holiday weekend. We were supposed to go to Bundanoon but that fell through so I think we are just hanging out here and enduring the house of stress and tension! But we really should spend the weekend inspecting places to live anyway!!

B sleeps well thru the night - about 5 -7 hrs in one stretch, so I can't complain either - although he only has short naps thru the day. I'm starting to feel he likes to be held to nod off to sleep - and I'm not getting into that habit too much!! I will hold him until he's settled, but he will just have to learn to to the rest himself. DD got herself off to sleep no worries and still does.
I've heard too many horror stories of babies who only sleep on their parents chests - and then end up co-sleeping (not knocking it if you want to do that), but it really doesn't suit our lifestyle....then before you know it parents are posting about their four yr old kids who refuse to sleep in their own beds / rooms....I ain't going down that line ;). I have a lot on my plate at the moment, and I'm not giving in to the little man just yet, otherwise the habit will form and I'll have myself to blame - consistency is the key...I hope this hasn't offended anyone, remember its just my two cents worth! ;).
At the end of the day I think ppl know their own situations best and what does and doesn't suit them.

Lil - B had a blocked tear duct, which we initially thought was conjunctivitis - we treated it with drops which helped a bit, but it kept on happening (thats when we figured it was the tear duct) so we just wipe it with a clean, damp cloth and it seems to have sorted the problem - I think the duct is no longer blocked.

I hope all are doing well!! Enjoy the long weekend!

There's a long weekend? Not in Melbourne, alas!
Well, after sleeping brilliantly this week, Bridie last night decided to wake up and demand food at three-hour intervals. She has been going to sleep in her bassinet more though, so I guess I should be grateful for that and hope she goes back to having a longer sleep at night tonight.
I've been trying to settle her in the bassinet each time I spot the tired signs, but if she's having trouble getting to sleep I'll put her in the sling and walk around. Now I know that she can do it sometimes I'm not so worried about her learning to sleep by herself - she'll do it more when she can, and in the meantime I'd rather have a sleeping baby in a sling than an overtired screaming baby in a bassinet!
It's frustrating how there's so much different advice on sleeping, and when they are developmentally able to self-settle, and when they need to be given the opportunity to self-settle or they'll lose the ability... and what age they should be sleeping through, or should they still wake for night feeds to make sure they continue growing properly... so confusing. I guess it's because babies are all different?

Wow, it has been very quiet here... hope everyone is doing ok.

Arlea had her hip uSS on Tuesday.. all looks good so that's a relief.
She is doing great, not rolling yet but doing a kind of bum-hump where she pushes up with her legs & plonks her bum down again - she moves all around her rug like this & usually has to be rescued when she runs into the furniture!
She has her fists in her mouth a lot these days, too.

I am wondering if it is a good idea keeping her in our room... I have been wanting to move the cot in as she is waaay too big for her bassinette now, but I have noticed twice in the last two nights, she was stirring & instead of going to her as I usually would I let her go (once when I had no choice - I was busy expressing!) and she ended up self-settl;ing back to sleep.
It makes me wonder, I thought being able to get to her before she woke fully was a good thing, but maybe I should be leaving her more?
Problem is, with her right next to me, I hear every little movement & murmer... hmmm :think:

Hope everyone is doing well.

Leesa :hug:

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First to post!

Arlea Rose was born on Friday the 24th at 6:39pm, weighing 4770g (10lb8).
We had a few extra days in hosp in SCN due to her blood sugar being a bit low, apparently is not unusual in larger babies.
We arrived home yesterday & are settling in very nicely :) apart from feeding hiccups, I have severe oedema in my breasts which will hopefully sort itself out in a few days...

looking forward to seeing who else will join me...

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hi jasp how is it all goin? i was with you in the thread with our pregnancys.....hope you remember me, belinda from coomera i had my baby girl on the 15th july.....how you feeling. joined any mothers groups yet??? talk soon x :)

Hi, I am new to this forum. Our Son, Maison was born on the 16th July, 2009 at 12.11pm and a tiny 2.8kgs. I decided to come back onto BB as I am worried about our sons development and was curious what other babies the same age were doing.

Maison had his 3 month check up at the baby clinic and the nurse noticed that his head still lags quite a bit. She said not to worry yet but if it hasn't improved by 4 months then he will need to see a specialist. Maison is cooing, smiling (not laughing yet), he watches me with his eyes and turns his head when I am walking around the room, bats at his toys, kicks his legs, puts his hands in his mouth. But hates tummy time he can only hold his head up for a few seconds at a time before burrowing it into the carpert and starts crying.

I am so worried that he may have a developmental delay.

Hi Tam :)

JMO - I'm no expert - but from what you have said I wouldn't be too worried right now. All babies are different, and an average by definition means that some will do it earlier & some later, kwim?

Sounds to me like he is pretty much where Arlea is...she is 12 weeks today.
She doesn't roll yet but shifts around by humping her butt :lol:
She is smiling but not laughing yet - although it is very close, we had one chuckle last night
She is cooing, chatting, batting at toys & putting her hands in her mouth - she hasn't quite got the idea yet that she can use her hands to grab things, but it is growing I think.
Her head & neck strength is very good but them it has been from birth & she was a big baby.
She doesn't really llike tummy time too much although she is getting better at it.

- I've just re-read your post & noticed how little he was! I think this can have a bit to do with it. All my babies were big & all did things just slightly earlier than 'normal'. Give him time to grow a bit & I'm sure he'll be fine!

I really don't think he's behind where he should be anyhow, he sounds as though he's doing just fine :hug:

Hi Belinda! I had been wondering about you & how you were. how is your baby girl going? What did you name her? Nice to see you in the thread :D

Hi Jasp,

Your little girl Arlea is gorgeous and what a beautiful name. Thank you so much for replying to my post. Maison is doing all the things that you stated that Arlea is doing. He also humps the floor when doing tummy time :lol:. Last night he almost fliped himself over he was lifting his butt up so high it almost when over his head the only thing that stopped it was that he face planted his face into the ground.

The Dr made it sound like such a big deal that he did not have much head control so it totally freaked me out. I am thinking of taking him to a physical therapist to see what they think.

Thank you again:hug:

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Hi Jasp,

Your little girl Arlea is gorgeous and what a beautiful name. Thank you so much for replying to my post. Maison is doing all the things that you stated that Arlea is doing. He also humps the floor when doing tummy time :lol:. Last night he almost fliped himself over he was lifting his butt up so high it almost when over his head the only thing that stopped it was that he face planted his face into the ground.

The Dr made it sound like such a big deal that he did not have much head control so it totally freaked me out. I am thinking of taking him to a physical therapist to see what they think.

Thank you again:hug:

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hi just wondering on getting a pic up of my girl and all the things u put up in the left hand corner, how do u do that?

Hey Belinda, the avatars inthe top left corner you get when you have upgraded your membership - there is a box at the right of the screen, towards the bottom that says 'like our avatars?' - click on that.

The picture is a part of the ticker, there are different sites you can do it from but mine is from Lillypie. If you go there & create a ticker it will tell you the rest :)

Welcome to the thread, Tam and Belinda!
Most of the babies at my mothers group haven't got good head control yet and hate tummy time. The oldest is 15 weeks, so I wouldn't stress yet! Bridie started getting great neck control/strength a little after we started carrying her lots in the Baby Bjorn. Being upright most of the time helps her reflux, and it might also have helped develop her neck muscles.
It's fascinating hearing what all the babies are up to. Bridie loves eating her fist, and when she's waving her arms and a fist catches her eye she stares at it with great interest. She hasn't figured out how to move round yet - when she is on her tummy she pushes up with her arms really well, but also lifts both her legs off the ground so she makes almost a U shape balanced on her tummy! Sometimes she'll push up more with one arm than the other and roll onto her back; she always seems quite surprised (and sometimes unhappy) to find herself looking at the ceiling...
My favourite development though is the cooing. She looks at me really intently and says 'aaah', and then moves her mouth around for a while and finally gets to say 'oooh'. I can see her little brain is working furiously to figure out how it all works - so cute! :D

Hi mummies and babies,
Well sounds like a lot of our babies are very similar in their development, Alannah is doing all the same things that you have listed - well without the bum humping!. About the only other thing is in the last couple days she has started getting more active with her legs. When she has nappy free time her little legs go crazy and she waves them around so much she shuffles her bottom around and she ends up to far away from the toys she is trying to kick. And this morning she started holding onto and exploring her feet with her hands.

Tummy time for some reason has gone backwards. She used to love tummy time and used to lift her head up really high - high enough that it would change her centre of balance and she'd roll right over. But now she gets sick of tummy time very quickly and the only tummy time we really have is with her on my tummy. I'm not to concerned because her neck is still pretty strong.

There have been a few other developments, she has started sleeping from 10:30pm - 6:30am fairly consistently so that is making our household happy. But not so happy is she has been diagnosed with a heart defect (PDA). This is not entirely uncommon and is fixed with some surgery. That probably won't happen until she gets a bit bigger (around 10-12kgs) so in the mean time we will have regular appointments with her paed and cardiologist to make sure she is travelling ok.

Hope you are all going well and enjoying these little being who are changing and developing every day!

:hug: Sagres, sorry to hear that.
A friend of mine had a little girl with a heart defect, she had surgery just a couple of months ago & is doing brilliantly, it didn't slow her down for a minute! It's amazing how resilient kids are.
Sounds like Alannah is doing great :D

Sages sorry to hear that about Alannah:hug: I will keep her in my :pray: Like Jasp said babies are so resilient and the heal really quickly,. It sounds like she is a smart little cookie if she is rolling already. About the tummy time they say when babies are learning something new they may forget something else the have learnt but once they have mastered the new skill they will remember how to do what they have forgotten.

I'm glad that Maison is learning at the same pace I have been really worried about it and finding it hard to sleep beacause I am always thinking about it.

JessThanx for the welcome and replying to my post. Wow Bride is rolling already thats really good. Maison loves making his baby noises when I am reading to him and he has had enough he starts cooing over the top of my voice so I stop reading and listen to him then he will give me a big smile.

Belinda Welcome! I think Jasp answered your question.

Sagres, hope Alannah keeps going ok. It doesn't sound like the heart defect is slowing her down, so that's great :)

Tam, so cute that Maison coos at you while reading! I will have to try that with Bridie - I haven't read to her much yet as it seemed a bit silly to do so for such a little baby. But I guess it's never to early to start, right?

Jasp, I tried making a ticker at Lilypie and couldn't figure out where to copy the HTML so it shows up on all my posts. Help?

Today: lots of spew, we've been through 3 bibs, but she got weighed and has put on 290g this week! So obviously she is keeping enough down... I also showed off her cute new cloth nappies to the other mums at mothers group, and they seemed quite impressed. Hopefully they too will become MCN addicts :lol:

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Jasp, I tried making a ticker at Lilypie and couldn't figure out where to copy the HTML so it shows up on all my posts. Help?

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You create a signature & add it there...umm now I gotta think how to do this without looking :lol:

ok - go to teh User control panel (click on User Profile), then on the left there is an option to Edit Signature it's in the third group down.
You can put more stuff in or just paste the ticker code.
I'll check that & edit this post if I'm wrong ;)

HTH

ETA - just checked it - yep that's it :D