Amy - bugger re the food poisoning, hope you are feeling better now. Wow re Phoebes big sleeps, maybe she is doing some serious growing and it tuckered out?
Kat - congrats on the rolling for Ivy, how exciting, My GF bub used to literally roll from one end of their house to the other and she was forever following him in his travels heheehehe. Hope Ivy works through her frustrations soon. Bailey isn't rolling yet but loves to push his bum up with his feet when on the floor, bath, car seat, pram etc - its like he is trying to get his body to sit or move up, and he gets a bit annoyed sometimes too
BG/Bella - I agree; I dont think Bailey gets his nutrients from formula instead of BM, its purely the volume (or lack of) that he is taking thats my concern. He's kinda taken the decision out of my hands to a certain degree as this weekend is just not drinking from the boob for longer than a few seconds so has had bottles pretty much the entire time. (Obviously me using the bottle affects this, its a catch 22) I have noticed a significant difference in how wet his nappys are which indicates to me that he is now drinking an adequate amount. So what I plan to do is go with bottles, but try to express as much as possible to try to keep my supply going and get even a couple of bottles of BM into him, any BM he drinks is better than nothing IMO so hopefully my milk production allows this - thanks guys for the input and advice, its really appreciated and helpful. I guess the whole point of us starting solids was to ensure he was getting enough food to ramp up his growth, so if we then have an issue with milk intake we are back to square one again IYKWIM. So I’m comfortable to bottle feed and express as much BM as possible. I’m gonna keep chucking him on the boob once we get home for sleepy feeds (if he’ll let me). But I’m not prepared to do it if it upsets him, its just not worth it. Why stubbornly breastfeed if its making us both unhappy every 3 hours?
Bella – awesome baby welcoming ceremony, the pics are great! We are combining Baileys first birthday with his naming day next April so I cant wait J I can understand how excited you are to go to your sisters birth, I would love to have the priviledge of witnessing a birth (other than my own deliveries LOL), maybe someday.....
BG – awesome re helping out BR – very generous of you, I am going to send a coles or woollies voucher over, I don’t know her but her story sucks and feel inspired to help in some small way
Krystie – let us know how Kyson goes with the solids, how exciting! I am giving Bailey breakfast, lunch and dinner (very little amounts) but he is still loving it, its going so well. Bugger re AF, she returned for me way too soon (at 7 weeks)
Jacinta – we drove through St Arnoud on our way over Friday night (about 1130pm) but are currently on the road home and are going home via Swan Hill, Ouyen, Pinaroo etc. How cute that Jamie is sitting up assisted, it wont be long until he does it all by himself
Well I am currently listening to Bailey chatter away in the back seat – he never shuts up anymore and its so cute, sounds like he is say “Wow, Wowee, Oooooooh, Wow” LOL, too cute. He started doing this hilarious laugh on the weekend where he must vibrate his tongue a bit (god knows how) as he laughs heartily and then it ends with this little vibrating laugh – I must try to catch a little video to post
Bridg, Nicky – sorry we didn’t get a chance to catch up, we were busy with the family all sat and sun and have left Shepparton about 3am this morning so got a good 3 hours sleep out of the little guy at the start of the journey which was good, we are just taking it easy and will stop and let the little guys stretch and play when needed.
Had a great weekend, got lots of great ideas from my bro and sister in law (they are parents that I highly respect) and they are supportive and LOVE Bailey to bits. My nieces (11yo and 8yo) are in love with him as well and he clearly loves them as they played all weekend and are so gentle. I even let Emily (11yo) give a bottle and she was so delighted and proud to do it.
Better go, I have no connection currently, need to be closer to a town I think, so I will post this asap
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