Leesa good to hear from you! I was wondering how you were doing. Sounds like you are doing an awesome job, I don't know how you do it... the closest gap I had was 2.5 years & that was close enough!
Mizerech welcome your little girl sounds gorgeous I love the image of her laughing herself to sleep!
Jess, love the ticker! WTG on the WG, sounds like she is doing great. I have tried to find a copy of the wonder weeks book at the library..they don't seem to have it Enjoy the read!
Tam that is an awesome WG! glad to hear he is doing so well.
AFM we had a bit of a wonder week here last week, AR hit the 3 month mark & was very unsettled for a few days. Seems to be completely over it now though & feeding & sleeping are back to normal, phew! She is rolling now & laughing, has her fists in her mouth all the time & has finally started drinking a bit more too TG.
Will get her weighed again Friday, hopefully she will have picked up a bit more this time...
Hope everyone is good & getting enough sleep
Jasp: AR sounds like she did have a wonder week I hope she went well with her weigh in yesterday.
Miz : Congrats with Nola-Mae weight all your hard work has paid off! That would have been funny to see her laugh her self to sleep how cute
AFM: Maison is trying to roll now he gets half way trying to roll from his back to his front but he just cant seem to work out how o pull his arm out once he has rolled over 3/4 of the way. He has only rolled once from his tummy to his back so far. Maison also started laughing a few days ago very cute I must say.
I'm not sure if it is because we have had a hot day but Maison doesn't seem to be eating as much as usual and is very fussy when I try to feed him. He usually loves drinking his breast milk but today he only seems to be eating 60ml here and there. If he is no better by tomorrow I think I will have to take him to the drs.
It is hot here too and Bridie's having an awful day - hasn't slept at all. At 3 I tried to feed her and she was so upset she refused boob, which has never happened before! Hubby took her for a bit and calmed her down and now she's happily feeding, phew. Hopefully will sleep after this...
We are through through the 3 month wonder week, fortunately, and back to only waking at 2ish and 5ish. She seems to be starting to get the idea of grabbing things in order to do something (make noise, usually!) We just got her a mobile and she's utterly fascinated by it, and will try to bat the pieces suspended just out of reach.
No sign of rolling back to front here - when she's on her back she seems more interested in trying to lift her legs right over her head! She has also started wiggling up the mat by lifting her bum, pushing with her legs, and sliding on her head & shoulders.
I'm loving watching her work things out. So much learning happening so fast, it's truly amazing!
Hello all,
Just wanted to pop back in and say hello! I've been struggling to get around BB for the past few weeks so have not been posting here, but am now trying to get back into the swing of things!
Archer has been struggling a bit with day sleeps and with pretty bad eczema - I think we kind of have the eczema under control, but not the day sleeping - hence not much 'puter time! He is also a bit on the small size - only 5.3kg and 59.5cm - maybe jockey size!
Anyway, hi everyone and hope I get back in here to keep up with the news!
Don't give me the excuse you're all busy with babies and Christmas coming up .
Wow, Tam and Jasp - bubs are rolling!! I'm jealous. How cute!
Farmgirl - how is the day sleeping going with Archer now? Any improvement?
How is everyones bundles of joy treating them? Are the wonder weeks being kind to you all?
AFM - Blake is an official tester of 'sposies with Choice Magazine. Fourteen days - fourteen different brands, labelling removed from them, but I can tell a few of them by their style .
Blake is weighing in at just under 7kgs now, and those two bottom teeth are so sharp - I'd forgotten how sharp they can be since DD! He looks to be close to rolling, and he is loving our story time - I'm a Mem Fox follower - ten minutes each day of reading aloud. I'd never seen cradle cap until Blake as DD never had it. When I first saw it I freaked out and thought he was turning into a fish - sounds funny but I was serious lol! . He's a self settler (Thankyou God!) and is just a content little spunk, who is forgiving of his big sister and her demands for mummy time! However I try to entice him by holding / grabbing at things and next thing is for him to roll...
Leesa, I was just thinking it's been really quiet in here, I should post!
Bridie's getting lots of nappy-free floor time, which is great for exercise, nappy rash and my attempts at elimination communication She can now roll both ways - front to back and back to front - so sometime she'll figure out she can do them in sequence to move. Then the carpet is doomed!
Currently going through the 4 month growth spurt/wonder week 17, not so fun. I'd got used to having a smiley little angel, but now she's finding it hard to go to sleep, fussing at feed times, needs attention constantly... how's everyone else doing?
How is everyone doing here? Frantically busy in the leadup to holidays?
We are working out all the stuff we need to take for a month staying with my parents. Bridie has more stuff than either of us! (Though I guess if we had to take our own bed and toilet for visits our stuff would take up lots of room too...)
We are through the growth spurt, yay. She's getting better at reaching for and grabbing stuff. When we go to pick her up, she will curl her head and shoulders forward to help. Favourite toy atm the moment is crinkly paper - excellent timing! No interest in solids yet, but I'm watching for the signs. Her vocalisations are getting more varied - she occasionally says 'da' or 'ga' instead of just 'ah', but I'm not sure she knows how to create those sounds on purpose yet. She is just beginning to make noises that sound like laughter - very cute!
Oh dear I'm so bad I was thinking about htis thread the other day & thinking I should post!
How is everyone doing?
Arlea has been a bit unsettled the last couple of weeks, nothing major, but she is usually so happy & cruisy, she is acting a bit more 'normal' now, lol. We have had some sleep issues (still going really), sometimes she will have really good 2-21/2 hour sleeps, other times it's 40 min & then sh'es horrible until the next sleep. She tends to wake up screaming a fair bit too and we had a couple of nights the other week wherer we were up & down, up & down...
I wonder if there are teeth moving around there... can't think of anything else
She still isn't gaining a great deal, I have been weighing her at the chemist & I think I will start taking her every week, but having said that, she looks fine to me.. she is very active, getting up on all fours and moving around a lot so maybe that is why she's not gaining a lot, she's probably using it all up!
I have pics up on FB if anyone wants to have a look it's:
jas . p (at) aapt . net . au - without the spaces
Jess - Yay for getting through the growth spurt
Love the talking & laughing, it is so cute to listen to them. Arlea is making noises atm that sound a bit like a cat - a 'rawr' kind of noise, very cute! Loving paper atm too, lol.
Enjoy the stay at your parents, I can imagine how much you have to take! When are you leaving?
Looking forward to hearing how everyone else is doing!
We are going well. No that is a lie Alannah is going well, me not so much.....grrrr to mastitis. I've been in bed for 2 days feeling like I've been hit by a truck. Oh well I'm a bit better now and hopefully will be back to normal soon.
Reading your posts I read a few things that Alannah is doing exactly the same! I majorly suspect she had teeth bothering her a couple weeks ago like Arlea and she does the body/head curling thing to be picked up like Bridie. Actually she does the pick me up thing when I put her in her car seat and am trying to do the straps up - oh dear! She also has this look on her face like 'how can you be doing this to me' at the same time, poor little chicken.
Wow Arlea is getting up on all fours?? That's pretty cool!
Jasp I will find you on facebook, I have a gazillion photos of Alannah on there!
Jess - I love the talking and laughing or nearly laughing, so sweet. And they look so excited when you 'talk' back - priceless! Alannah has been teasing us for weeks with almost laughter but finally cracked it tonight!
Hope you enjoy your month away - that would take some packing and organising!
Well as I said Alannah is going well. Her latest trick is putting her feet in her mouth - alrighty then! She can roll from back to front and front to back but just doesn't bother trying that often. She is a very happy chatty little thing, lots of big smiles and happy babble. She loves hearing her mummy and daddy sing nursery rhymes and holding their hands as they do the actions. She also likes 'reading' books and helps by turning the pages! Oh gosh that reads like a dating column, "she likes long walks on the beach, quiet nights at home and looking for some one with a sense of humour' LOL.
Sagres - I hope the Masititis goes away really soon hun - how damn painful it can be! Ouch. Woohoo on the rolling - and the foot chewing lol!!
Jasp - the only thing I can think of is the whole 'wonder week' thing as Blake was acting the same way up until this last weekend . We should be out of the clear now until week 22 / 23 or so .
Jess - go the crinkly paper - just in time for Xmas too! We buy them all these lovely toys and they are more interested in the wrapping paper lol!
AFM - Blake has finally started to roll from back to front, but hasn't worked out how to get back yet (men pffft! ). All the signs of teething - but nothing to show for it yet. He's such a happy and content baby, very easy going considering I also have DD (almost 2) to deal with through out the day. We just finished a two week nappy trial with Choice magazine - not one of them could withstand Blakes 'poo plosions' . But it was interesting to test 14 nappies (5 for each day) for free .
Ok, who is dressing up their little prince / princess' up in Xmas gear this year?? Hands up in this household lol. Blake is going to be an elf lol - care of Baby Target he he!
Hi All!
It has been FOREVER since I have been in here so I thought it was high time for an update and a bit of a catch up!
Jeremy is very unsettled tonight so I'm typing one-handed and holding him until he is sound asleep before I put him back in bed.
I think maybe we have some teething issues going on - just no teeth to show for it yet! Now let me see if I can catch everyone up on our lives...
As if we didn't have enough on our plates, the four of us were in a car accident the last Sunday of October. The accident was bad enough to see our car written off and to see Jeremy and I take a trip to the hospital for a check. I pulled all the muscles in my rib cage so had some x-rays before getting the all clear. I took Jeremy with me to the hospital mainly because he would be due for a feed, but also to get checked out since he couldn't talk. DH and James were both fine!
We FINALLY found a beautiful 3 bedroom house to rent that is in our price range and we moved in on November 14th! We moved the office two weeks later so it was hectic for everyone. We are still unpacking and settling in at home and we are getting new carpet laid and some partioning done in the office so not settled there either.
Despite everything we have had a wonderful, quiet, relaxing Christmas.
We are very much looking forward to what the new year has in store for us as DH has some wonderful work opportunities coming up straight away.
Jeremy is cooing and babbling, smiling and laughing. He is rolling from back to tummy and thus enjoying tummy time much more now. He loves grabbing hold of his feet and he will chew on his toes. He is starting to show great interest in the food we are eating so he'll be ready for solid food when he hits the 6 month mark.
Finally, he continues to be a BIG boy, weighing 9.35kgs at the 5 month mark. He is also 71cm long and wearing size 0 now!
Just out of curiosity... how often are the other babies feeding? Jeremy feeds anywhere from 2-4 hourly which my MIL thinks is far too often!
Off to put Jeremy back in bed and have a snack as I am really hungry again!
Jasp:
Yeah life has been a bit full on lately but what can you do? We're just rolling with the punches!
I'm glad to hear someone with a bub nearly exactly the same age as Jeremy is finding nights very unsettling - I'm thinking teeth or wonder week or both!!
Jeremy wakes repeatedly again after being in a good routine of sleeping 6-9 hours straight at night! SIGH!!
But at least naps in the day are getting sorted and he now takes one nap in the morning and another in the late afternoon!
One of the reasons why I LOVE belly belly is because we can come here and find out what everyone else's babies are doing and not feel like our baby is weird or has some weird disease!
I hope everyone had a wonderful NYE and Happy New Year to all of you!
Jasp - I saw some gorgeous pics of Arlea on FB - you must be sooo proud! Is she still a bit unsettled or has the wonder week passed now?
LilP - Wow, you've been one busy mumma! how do you do it? Still going thru a wonder week too or has that all settled down again?
AFM - Mr B is finally rolling both ways now . He's such a content little dude. Everyone comments on how much he's grown, but seeing him everyday I don't really notice - other than how his clothes fit him . We've started him on small amounts of pureed food - potato, pear, banana - and he's a bit more interested in it now, I'm sure he'll get there in his own time - I'm not stressed.
Hi all! Halfway through the month at my parents' place and we are doing ok... the portacot has been absolutely useless, she wakes every time she's put in there because it's just too far down. So she's having most of her day sleeps on me or on our bed with me next to her (we were already bed sharing at night so that is still ok). Hate to think what this is doing to her ability to sleep in a cot... she's going into childcare two days a week from the week after we get back, so this could be bad! At least I've managed to get back into more like her normal pattern of sleep times after the craziness of Christmas and the following week. And no-one has soaked my MCN, or fed her anything non-approved by me, or criticised my parenting style/decisions (though Dad thinks I'm a bit overprotective!) so compared to other horror stories I've heard about family visits, it's been great!
A week and a bit ago Bridie decided she wanted some of the banana I was eating, so I gave her a mashed up piece, and she thought it was great. We've since tried apple and pumpkin, both of which went down well, and I plan to try potato tonight. Solids are certainly a lot messier than breastfeeding... and the resulting poo is STINKY! I would have been happy to wait for 6 months but she was clearly wanting it. Haven't bothered pureeing anything, just mashing finely, and that seems to be ok - she doesn't always get the tongue motion right and sometimes the food comes back out instead of going further in, but she swallows it ok. So here we are, starting solids, which I am NOT thinking of as starting weaning - I want to BF her for a long time yet!
LilP - You are BFing, right? We are still feeding every 2-4 hours too, which everything I've read says is fine. My mum was an ABA counsellor and she says that the '4 hourly ideal' for feeding came from some doctor writing down somewhere 'one breast every two hours', which became 'one bottle (=2 breasts worth of milk) every four hours', and there is no actual evidence to say that this is what you should aim for. All the studies of BFing show that feeding on demand is the best way to keep baby healthy and thriving, and keep your supply at the level your baby needs. Maybe you can tell your MIL to read the ABA website? Obviously whatever you're doing is working, 9kg at 5months is huge B is now 7.4kg, but she did have a bit of catching up to do.
Glad to hear that you are all ok from the car crash, and settling into your new place. What a stressful time that must have been!
Hope everyone else is doing well too. B's just woken up so I better pay attention to her
How is everyone doing?
I'm enjoying a quiet evening watching Ladder 49 on TV (not sure I'm emotionally up for it but watching it anyway) and loving that DH is home. He is working nights nights at the moment so the boys and I are on our own Sunday night through Thursday night. We are doing well but it is exhausting since I am ON 24/7 because hubby is either at work, doing paperwork, or sleeping! Thank goodness this is a short contract and will only last for about 8 weeks.
Jeremy was 6 months old on Monday and he is doing so well. He now weighs 9.7kgs and is still 71 cms long. He is mobile as he has figured out a commando style crawling/scooting that works well for him and allows him to go pretty much wherever he wants. He is rolling from tummy to back now but often seems to forget he can do that when he gets tired of being of his tummy and then he just lays there and cries!
We've started solid foods! So far we've done rice cereal (which he loves as long as he isn't too tired when I give it to him) and pumpkin but he HATES that so far. Today was the first try of pumpkin so we'll try again tomorrow (maybe in the morning when he is happiest) and see how it goes.
How is everyone else doing with solids?
As for sleep... Jeremy thinks sleeping during the day is a joke and when he DOES take a nap it will only be for 15-30 minutes. He also takes quite awhile to get to sleep at night which means he isn't settled sometimes until 10pm or a tad later but then he sleeps until sometime between 3am and 4am.
I have put a couple of soft toys in his bed and he will often play with them for awhile when he wakes in the middle of the night and I get woken up to the sounds of him laughing!!
Quick question about solids again... when is everyone planning on introducing wheat or oats as grain instead of just rice?
your little girl sounds gorgeous I love the image of her laughing herself to sleep!
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I hope she went well with her weigh in yesterday.
all your hard work has paid off! That would have been funny to see her laugh her self to sleep how cute
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. He's a self settler (Thankyou God!) and is just a content little spunk, who is forgiving of his big sister and her demands for mummy time! However I try to entice him by holding / grabbing at things and next thing is for him to roll...
She can now roll both ways - front to back and back to front - so sometime she'll figure out she can do them in sequence to move. Then the carpet is doomed!
I was thinking about htis thread the other day & thinking I should post!
. But it was interesting to test 14 nappies (5 for each day) for free 
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