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Hey All...finally have time to post rather then just lurking. This school holidays business is hard work. AM not used to having 3 at home to entertain all the time!:lol:
Natalya is also managing to have at least one big stretch of sleeping during the night - she seems to sleep from midnight till around 5-6am and then has another big sleep in the morning.It is now 1.40 and she has been sleeping since 10.30 and we have been out and about at an indoor playground with heaps of noise so I am very impressed! BUT the bad side is that she wants to be held and is extremely whingy from around 7pm through till midnight. You cannot put her down, nor will she drop off to sleep in your arms. I thought it might have been my afternoon coffee or coke affecting her but I dropped those and she was still unsettled so who knows what it is...very frustrating tho.:rolleyes:
Jenushka - good to hear the shopping expedition wasnt as bad as imagined. I have been using coles online for most of my shopping since I was heavily pregnant and have loved it.
Brooke - welcome to the group and congrats on Tully. What a sweet name.
Joey - its amazing how much better you feel after a good haircut. I was supposed to go to the hairdressers and the beauticians the day I went into labour so couldnt wait to go when Natalya was 2 weeks old - I felt like a new woman!:)
Ali - hope the thrush clears up soon. DD1 had it as a baby too. Hows all your pelvic pain going too?
Monique- Glad to hear your SIL's birthday dinner went well...it is such a mission taking all 3 isnt it?
DD1 is at a playdate atm and DS fell asleep in the car on the way home from the playgorund so I have a bit of piece and quiet for once which is nice! The eldest 2 are going for a sleepover at my mums tonight (2nd time this week!!) and DH is off to watch a soccer match so I should have a nice quiet night... provided Natalya goes to sleep!!:D
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Joey - Bet your hair looks good! A change is always nice. I'm going to give that Banana Muffin Recipe a go, mind you I've NEVER made anything like that before, so I'm curious to see how it turns out!
Thanks for the invite to the gap - not sure I'd survive the trip there, I get so nervous if I am even slightly out of the Redlands Shire! :rolleyes::lol:
How funny your hubby wanting cuddles before work. Aww!
Hope you had a great trip to Chermside.
Brooke - Welcome & Congrats on the birth of your little girl!
She sounds like she is doing great. Once she hits her first few growth spurts, you'll notice the difference in her eating & sleeping patterns.
Jenushka - Know how you feel! We can only hope all our shopping trips are the same with our kiddies.
Enjoy your lunch tomorrow & the majority of your quiet weekend!
*Ang* - Hi there, good to see you finally have time to chat with us. Know how you feel having 3 for the school holidays, though this is my first time!
How great is Natayla's night time sleep pattern! Fingers crossed it continues that way.
Yeah it's definitely a mission taking all 3 no matter where you go! Today for instance I wanted to go to the corner shop up the road for a couple of things, yet it exhausted me just thinking of it! LOL Needless to say I didn't get there, but that's not cause I was slack or anything but because my eldest has being vomiting on & off all day, my youngest has had a clingy day of feeding 3 hourly & sleeping very little, but surprisingly my DS has being really great all day! So proud of him.
I hope you had a great night! Lucky thing having your Mum help out by taking the eldest 2. I can only dream that would happen for me.
Not much to report from us, had a rather rough day.
Should be in bed taking advantage of being able to sleep, but my head is in a spin.
Tomorrow had better be a better day!
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Hi all, finallly have a moment to write something! Wow isnt motherhood crazy?? Master James has been torturing me slowly with the fine art of sleep deprivation. Unlike so many here, he can't sleep more than 3 hours at a stretch, and thats a rarity! Its actuallly doing my head in a bit, but DH and I are sharing the load as much as possible so that helps.
I had an emergency caeserean which has made the last five weeks much harder than I had hoped. I am still recovering physically from it, and maybe emotionally too. I still dont feel it was medically necessary, but alas it happened and I just need to deal with it. I'm hoping for a VBAC for babe number 2. :)
I live somewhat remotely so have only had a few car trips since J was born, all medical, but wow.... they were a challenge! I've not been anywhere alone yet (alone as in just me.... I dont think I will ever be truly alone again!!) as I've only just been given the all clear by my doctor to drive, so I now have a new found intense respect and admiration for all the singel mums out there. How do you do it???? Respect :)
Anyhoo, just thought I'd better start chatting here or else I'd get left behind! Hope you and your babes are all well .
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Hi Brooke, welcome and congrats on your new arrival. Your bubba is sleeping just fine for her age. She'll get there.
Jenushka - didn't last long at Chermy, was too tired and just wanted to go home. And the trip there, bus and bus, was a real pain. Can't wait to be able to drive again next Friday!! Found a bag last week and didn't find anything better than that, so it will probably be the one. Will drve there next Friday and buy it then.
Well done on your grocery shop. That's impressive. I always wondered how people do that. I always wondered, what if the older one runs off? You couldn't really run after them. Perhaps only people who have control over their children go out alone!
Hang on ... you're in Brisbane. I can't beleive I just noticed that!! Where are you? You're welcome to our hairday / meetups too if you would like. Perhaps if we can arrange it, yo, Monique and I can meet up one day too!!
Ang - I don't envy you having 3 to look after. I hope you're going ok. Well done on the noisy playground sleep! As for the late afternoon/night winging, my bubba won't be nursed to sleep usually at that time either. I need to put her down and let her cry herself to sleep. I wrap her, let her go 5 mins, then if she is still crying, I pick her up and burp her (cause she sucks in wind when she crys), and then once she is burped and settled, I put her down again. If her crys are just wingy and not screaming, I will let her go longer, she is usually asleep by the second go and eight minutes is usually the max it takes her to nod off. They say that you don't need to let them cry themselves to sleep at this age, but Lily won't be nursed. It's like "put me down, I need to sleep". I hope this helps. After a bit of practice you will know if she is going to go to sleep and if she is in pain or just grumpy, etc. GL I hope it works for you. Also the coffee may take a little bit to get out of your system??? I can't eat chocolate or Lily won't go to sleep.
What's thrush?? I should research it, and probably will, IF I REMEMBER, when I am finished here.
Hope you had a nice night when your kids went for a sleepover.
Monique - Hope tomorrow is a better one for you. My SIL and MIN and FIN live at Ormiston, Capalaba and Cleveland, so are you near them? Maybe we could meet up one day I'm out that way??
BD- It's great that DH is helping with your bubba. Is he working too?
I am in exactly the same boat as you. Emergency CS (#2) and very p!ssed off that I didn't get my VBAC. NEXT TIME for sure!!!
Single mums? I agree. Stuffed if I know how they do it!
AFM - Lily has been having bad wind, especially of a night, that is, she has wind and can't get it up, so I went to the chemist and got some infant's friend yesterday and tried it last night at her 11.30 and 3.30 feeds, then i turned the light on to change her at her 3.30 and she had a rash under her chin and her face was all red, so i freiked and called the 13HEALTH number and went through it all, they said she's fine, take her to the dr within the next 3 days. we have a sound and movement monitor so i was able to sleep knowing that would wake me if anything went wrong. anyway, fed herat 5.30 but didn't give her any and when she woke at 9 i checked to see if it was still there ... i put a new tie died suit on her yesterday and she must have dribbled some milk on it and the colour has leaked onto her chin and her face must have just been red cause she was warm or had been laying on it or something - so no rash after all!!!:clap:
it was a bit of a scare, but mental note - wash the suits a couple of times first!!!
Also...
I'm looking for a home day care place for when I go back to work, next easter. What's it called when you leave them with someone who has childcare in their home and only looks after a few kids? Any ideas how I can fnd someone in my area who does this?? Have tried searching on the net, but I guess my search words are not the right ones.
Have a good weekend all.
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Joey - try "family day care brisbane" in google. I just quickly tried that and it came up with a whole heap. I think that's what you're after... and yep, am in Brisbane in carina (so eastside/southside) :) Thanks for the invite to the meet ups and hair day, and a catch up with yourself and Monique and any other local mums in this thread sounds great too.
We had a great weekend, lunch with our friends was lovely on sat and the kids were both very well behaved. Yesterday had a quiet day - cooked lamb shanks in the slow cooker (so easy) so it was very comforting to have that bubbling away all day and feel like a domestic goddess with minimal effort ;) Looking forward to catching up with a couple of girlfriends through the week - it's nice getting back into it all again.
Hope everyone else is good - had better go and spend some quality time with ds while Lila is asleep. Will try and make it back in later for persies...
xx
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Hi to all,
Sounds like everyone is going well in these first few weeks. I haven't had time to scratch myself let alone post much so I'm finally catching up on some time. Will is 5wks old today and its been a rocky few weeks, mainly on the BF front. Unfortunately I've had to wean him and he's a fully formula fed boy now :-( I'm still having a hard time dealing with it. To cut a long story short, trying to BF has been hell for us - we took him off the boob at day 10 because my nipples were horrifically damaged. He has a high palate which made attachment difficult and he is absolutely ferocious at the boob. So I had been expressing since then to ensure he got breast milk and hopeful that things would heal and I could get him back on.
That all went pear shaped when I got thrush and a bacterial infection on my nipples, discovered that vasospasm was making things worse, and just over the weekend I got another infection flair up - a combination of mastitis and the bacterial infection getting into a wound on the nipple. Very painful. So we've weaned. I've never been in so much pain in all my life - even expressing was painful. Not to mention taking up precious time that I could be spending with my boy. I persevered for as long as I could. I just have to deal with the fact that my boobs weren't meant to feed this little one....maybe next baby :pray:
He has taken to the bottle fine, and he is stretching out his night sleep to about 7 hours now which is brilliant. We feed him around 8pm and 11pm and he'll sleep until about 6:30am the next morning. He's happy and settled and getting more and more alert. And now that I'm not attached to a breast pump for most of my day we can get out and about a bit more and I can have my sanity back.
All this hair-do stuff sounds good - i need a colour desperately. Re-growth is looking hideous. Thankfully my best friend is a hairdresser who works from home. I can go and hang at her place for an afternoon with Will and get hair done too. And my hariy legs look like something from the black swamp - time for a wax! Thank god its winter.
Take care all x will try and come back more often.
Lolly
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Jenushka - Thanks for that. I came across Family Day Care the other day, but it didn't look right. I gave them a call and they are calling me back tomorrow. The next hair day is on 26th August at the Gap. So if you want to come, make sure you keep that day free.
Glad you had a good weekend!
Lolly - So sorry to hear that you are struggling with the fact that you can't BF anymore. It sounds as though you did as much as you could, more than most would, so good on you for that. And 7 hour sleeps!! That's got to be a positive!
AFM - Lily had trouble settling last night. Don't know if I ate too much sugar at the 3 yar oldbirthday party that we went to, or if she was just really over tired as she only napped all day long, normally she will have one big sleep of about 3-4 hours during the day and the rest are just cat naps. Anyway, we had family over for my other DD's birthday so I was stressed out, trying to cook and also settle Lily. I'd just get her off to sleep and she'd wake again 10 mins later. DH ended up getting her off to sleep for good and that was nice that he was the one to achieve that! She went down at about 7 and then woke me at 12.30 and 5.30, so still a good night! I went to bed at 8.30pm (family know not to hang around too late these days!!) and woke at 5.30, so less the hour up in the night, that's 8 hours sleep! I hope she keeps this up. She seems to be making a bit of a habit of it!
DH and I went out on a date on Saturday night. We went out to a Chinese Restaurant. Lily came too, but she slept through the first half, so she was very good. I was really nice and something we needed. I was starting to feel a bit distant, but back to good now. We have decided we are going to make every Saturday night movie night, and get out DVD's and have pizza and make it a couples night.
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Joey - Thrush looks like when they have a little bit of chuck stuck to their tongue or inside the mouth somewhere and it doesnt rub off. In the BB it feels like engorgement, even when the BB is empty.
Ang - My pelvis is HEAPS better now. I still have to take it easy but I am able to do more and more each day, which is a huge relief.
Lolly - :hug: DD2 couldn't BF (dietary issues) but I felt guilty about it for ages. You did your best hun, and you made the decision that is best for your WHOLE family.
AFM - DH goes back to work tomorrow, so I am about to be in the deep end of having 3. I can pick up DD2 to get her out of the cot and to put her on the change table now so have some more independance back.
Leah is gaining well, another 250g this week, and she is now slightly heavier than what DD1 was at birth, now weighing 3590g!!! 600g heavier than birth weight. Very proud of my BBs and Leah's emptying of them!! Certainly is helping me to accept everything that happened with DD2.
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Joey - you're right the longer sleeps at night are brilliant. Its helping me catch up on many many lost hours over the past 5 weeks which are much needed due to the problems we had. My general well-being has taken a big dive becuase of the stress and sleep deprivation.
Ali - I think it will take me a while to get over the guilt thing, but I will get there. TIme is too precious to waste on those things, but I know it will linger in the back of my mind for a while yet.
Thrush for me was excruciating. My nipples were very red and had a shiny, raw appearance. The pain was like people sticking pins into my nipples ALL the time, not just when expressing. And the cracks / blisters I had were not healing - it will slow any healing down a lot. Sounds divine doesnt it. :rolleyes: They treated me first with Daktarin Gel, and then with Gentian Violet which is a purple topical paint - its a bit old school, but a very effective antifungal agent. It just stains your nipples bright purple for a few days. Lucky my partner & I could have a good laugh about it!
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ALioops - Thanks for that. Lily always has a white tongue, but it wipes off with a wet washer, so I guess that's not thrush. Glad to hear you are feeling better.
Lolly - Ouch.
AFM - Lily only woke me once last night - 2.30am and then 6.30am this morning, so it seems as though this is going to happen for a while, touch wood. I saw my DD1 off on school camp this morning, so it will be a bit quiet for a week. Lily's awake - gotta go
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joey - hope Lily's sleep was good last night also and that you'e enjoying your slightly quieter week. Very inspiring to hear that you were also able to go out for dinner with your dh too! How did you go with family day care - did they call you back?
lolly - Like the other ladies I think you are amazing for persevering as long as you did and undoubtedly have made the best decision for you, bub and your family. You deserve those wonderful 7 hour sleeps you're getting now (wow!).
ali - great news that your pelvis is much better. And yay for Leah's great weight gain! How are you going with your dh now back at work?
BD - glad to see you back in here, hope you're continuing to recover from James' birth and I'm sorry to hear that it was not how you'd hoped it would be. The sleep deprivation is a killer isn't it? Fingers crossed that soon James will start to stretch the time between feeds out just that little bit more for you...
Hello to Monique, Ang and Brooke and anyone else I may have missed - hope you're all travelling along ok
afu - all going pretty well here, had a good night last night with Lila feeding at 8pm, 2am then 6.15am. I headed to bed at 10pm so it was great to be able to get that bit of extra sleep and I do feel a lot better today for it. Had a friend over for a catch up this morning which was good for the soul. And can't believe Lila is 6 weeks old tomorrow - I reckon its the quickest 6 weeks of my life! I'm going for my follow up glucose tolerance test on sat morning to hopefully make sure the gest diabetes is completely gone, then have the 6 week check-ups for both me and Lila next Tuesday. Delayed mine slightly to make sure my gtt results would be available at my appt... fingers crossed I am given the all clear :crossfingers: And can't wait to find out just how much Lila has grown
Hope everyone else is good and managing to look after themselves as much as those beautiful bubs!
xx
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And forgot to add .... gummy smiles galore from Miss Lila over the last few days. Just beautiful!
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jenushka - lily woke me twice last night! how rude. I have read her the riot act and she promises to make it once a night only from now on :lol:
yeah family day care called back. i also enquired about becoming a carer myself, just as an option, but probably won't happen, and so they're coming out next wednesday to look at the house. they said they'd give me details about putting lily in care when they come out. seems they're more keen for me to become a carer than a customer. sounds like they don't have many carers.
lily has been a bit unsettled today, but went down half an hour ago and i think this will be it for her until about 5.30 - which means either i miss my walk or i get her up and put her in the pram and hope she stays asleep. i have been eating like a hippo the last two days, so really need the exercise. i have my 6 week check up on monday. looking forward to hearing when i can get back into the exercise properly.
nope - there's lily ... wait .... it was just a grizzle ... nope there she is again. see ya ... wait ... nothing ... will go and check anyway :)
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Joey- the thought of excercising atm completely horrifies me!:lol: Have never been a big one for excercise and am really currently unmotivated - there are too many other things I want to do first!
Jenuska - Yay for the smiles. Natalya is starting to give me some as well which I love.
Lollybaby - am sitting here having a laugh at the thought of your purple nipples!:D
Ali - glad that your pelvis is much better and that the b/f is going well.
Natalya has had some great sleeps the past couple of nights - from midnight through till 7am!!!:dance:But we are still having that unsettled/colicky period before that. Have tried the Braurs natural colic relief but that doesnt seem to have really helped.
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It's so great when the wind smiles turn into the genuine ones :)
Sounds like we all have smiley happy bubs!
Our Little Miss has being giving us a heap of gorgeous smiles over the last 1.5weeks BUT tonight, I soooo wish I could have caught tonight's bunch of smiles just after dinner. They were so totally adorable & so infectious. It seems Charlette loves Daddy blowing raspberries on her belly!
Joey - I live near Cleveland ;)
Sorry not much time on my hands for personals!
School has gone back for us this week, so my life has just taken a whole new turn with the school run twice a day. So far we have only being late Tuesday, whereas today (Wednesday) we were on time.
Hope you are all keeping well & your bubs too! :)
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ang - yay for the big sleeps :dance:
monique - do you want to meet up for brunch one day next week? I'm free Thursday and Friday. I can come out that way if you like and then I can visit my SIL or MIL afterwards. What about the coffee club in cleveland?
Janushka - you want to join us??
Anyone else in this thread from Brisbane?
AFM - Lily woke at 1am and 5.45am, so that was better than the night before. Now, if we can just stretch out that morning feed to 6.30 or 7am!! :pray:
She's not sleeping much during the day yesterday or today, but have discovered that she is quite happy to lay out on the back varandah where it is nice and warm. So far today she had had 2 x 20 min naps (one in the pram while we were walking) and a 10 min nap when she fell asleep feeding so I put her down with my fingers crossed. :wall:
Oh well, so long as she lets me sleep at night, and if she's happy to lay out the back for bits at a time, that's good too.
Take care all
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Well helloooooo! I didn't know this thread existed til now...
Hi to all the gals from my BB Group, and hi to everyone else that's on here too :)
Well Lachlan will be 6weeks old on Monday, so we are headed off to get his injections - I'm sooooooo not looking forward to it coz I'm having my whooping cough booster too - so we can both cry together :cry:
It's been interesting reading about everyone's littlies sleeping patterns.. I was thinking Lachie's sleeping was good, but 6-7 hrs? That would be awesome! At the moment he goes down at 9pm and sleeps til 2:30am, goes back down again at 3:15am and wakes up at 5:30-6:00am. Then he snoozes til bout 7:30am, has a feed and goes back down until 10am. He then has a couple of 2-3hr naps in the afternoon.. I guess I can't complain - his 'play time' is between 6-9pm and this is when he gets to spend good quality time with Daddy..
Anyway Id better go get the washing off the line - b4 it starts to get damp again!
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CB - Welcome!! Glad you found us. what injections is Lachlan getting? I thought they didn't have any now till 2 months :redface: I hope I'm not missing anything!
I'm going on Wednesday for our 6 week check up, even though Lily was 6 weeks on Friday.
Hope you all have a good weekend. My DH is working today - I spend all week counting down to the weekend so we can spend time together and his b@stard work tells him he has to go in. :wall: I hope it's not ALL day.
