Just a quick question - do you feed before or after the bath? I used to do it before, but now I'm thinking maybe I should express and let DH do it after the bath???
Nat, I do the dream feed between 10 and 11 pm (closer to 11 pm on the weekends so he sleeps for longer) and he goes through to at leat 5 am (sometimes 4 when he is naughty). I find that b/c he is half asleep he takes the bottle very easily and quickly w/o waking up. I think I will try to skip it one day and see how long he'll sleep?????? I'm wondering if the dream feed is really necessary.....
As for the feeding and bath time, I was told to do the feed after the bath as if it's done just before they can chuck in the water. If Cam takes the bottle before I get the chance to bath him, I wait about an hour (provided he doesn't fall asleep) and then give him his bath. Today was a perfect example, he was due for a feed at 7, but wanted to feed at 6, so I waited until 8 to give him his bath (would have done it at 7 but the kids came over for dinner). He is asleep now.
Meercat, hehehehe about Tiah being the big bald one!!!! That's how I'd describe Cam! How cute that she discovered her lungs!! Ouchy ouch for the needles tomorrow I thought Cam took his 4 month needles much better than the 2 month ones, hopefully Tiah will be just fine.
B, thanks for the info on your other mummy group, I will sign up as soon as I get the chance
Con, I will try to drop the dream feed, hopefully we don't need it!! I guess I'm scared of waking up at 2 or 3 am, but I won't know until I try hey?
Teresa, yay for the high chair!! Hamish is such a big boy now
Today, Cam had his first big laugh, it was sooooo cute!! He's been giggling for ages, but today he actually did a full on laugh.
Well last night I posted that I would try feeding Angus after his bath - so I expressed about 130ml of milk before DH got home. He had a little play in his jolly jumper and I tried the photo album under his feet which worked really well. But when it was time for his bath he was so hungry and grumpy. He didn't enjoy the bath at all and DH couldn't give him a massage. Then when DH tried to give him the bottle, he screamed! So I went in but he wouldn't take it from me either. The problem was - I'd expressed all my milk, so I didn't have anything left! In the end I attached him to my breast and then shoved the teat in - to trick him
Beata - I didn't do the dream feed last night and Angus work up and 1:40 and 4:40 - but then slept until 9??? I'll try it again tonight and see what happens.
Teresa - I'd like to get a high chair for Angus too. At the moment we just pull his pram up to the table, but he loves to sit with all the big people and see what is going on.
Well we are off to a new playgroup just down the road today. I found them throught Playgroup Australia and sent an email to the contact person asking about their group. She told me that the babies are aged between 4 - 7 mths and the structure is not very formal - "we just sit around and eat chocolate biscuits while the babies kind of look at each other"
Hey Nat! Just wanted to tell you that if we try to give Cam his bath too close to his next bottle, he doesn't enjoy his bath either and cries sometimes too. I find that if I know I want to feed him around 7 pm (that's his usual bottle) I will give him a bath around the 6 o'clock mark (so we're not rushing through it, I too had to skip a massage once or twice and felt like he missed out on it!). Once or twice i waited till 6.30 and by the time he got out of the water he was pretty unsettled. Kinda took the enjoyment out of the bath for the three of us!! Yay for joining another mother's group! I have our gymbaroo class today. I really hope he enjoys it. He's had a blocked nose for the last couple of days, and they ask you to dress them in footless growsuits/no socks so I hope his nose doesn't get more blocked up!
Thanks Beata I think we'll just stick to feeding him first and then DH can complete the routine. DH had something on last night, so I did the whole bedtime routine and poor Angus was a bit unsettled. In the end I had to let him cry himself to sleep because every time I put him down he would cry. It only took 5 minutes of me being out of the room. I didn't do the dreamfeed last night and he woke at 12 and 4:30, same times as the night before when I did the dreamfeed - so it doesn't make a difference with Angus.
Hope your gymbaroo went well. The lady taking the class got Angus to roll down the foam wedge thing they have and he did it under his play gym today!
no more babies for us (at least not in the foreseeable future). we are moving to wagga wagga in january so have been busy planning for that!
Hamish is doing well. speaking more and more. sometimes he says clear words and other times he doesnt. he knows what we are saying to him and understands us but just doesnt talk back most times. i am not too worried. what is everyone else's little ones doing?
I'm glad to see everyone and their LOs are doing well. It's funny how a dormant thread just comes to life suddenly! lol. We (well I actually) have been going through a bit with Cam, as he is still quite delayed with most things and that is really starting to worry me now. He has just started to walk unaided a week ago. He is still only saying mum and dada and lots of words we don't understand, so lots of sounds but not real words. I had an 18 month check up and asked the nurse to do an assessment on him as I suspect that something else is going on. She did the test and was concerned, so we got referred to a developmental pediatrician (we have to wait till March 2012!) . He doesn't point and sometimes it's like talking to a brick wall, not much response from him, but other days he's quite responsive. I know he can understand a lot but can't communicate yet. He waves bye bye but that's pretty much it. My DF doesn't seem to be worried but I am losing the plot slowly. My gut feeling is that something is not quite right. I take him to a gymbaroo type class called kidz can, and he doesn't seem to be as responsive as the other kids. I had that problem at gymbaroo, when during story time and when they called out his name he hardly ever responded. This class is a bit longer and they have a lot more 'free' play so he enjoys it more. We ended up taking him to his normal pediatrician and he said that he's too young to assess now, and referred us to an assessment person in February. He doesn't seem to think there's anything big to worry about, but has agreed that he sometimes seems to disassociate a bit from things. Cam was actually a lot more responsive during that consultation than with the MCHN!
Anyway, enough from me, I think I have lost 10 years off my life firstly googling things and secondly worrying about what may come.
Big hugs to all.
PS On the TTC thing, I was excited to do another cycle this month but have decided to put it off for a while as I'm just too stressed with things ATM.
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I thought Cam took his 4 month needles much better than the 2 month ones, hopefully Tiah will be just fine.
to everyone out there!!
I think we'll just stick to feeding him first and then DH can complete the routine. DH had something on last night, so I did the whole bedtime routine and poor Angus was a bit unsettled. In the end I had to let him cry himself to sleep because every time I put him down he would cry. It only took 5 minutes of me being out of the room. I didn't do the dreamfeed last night and he woke at 12 and 4:30, same times as the night before when I did the dreamfeed - so it doesn't make a difference with Angus.
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