Hi girls! I posted the other day but it looks like my post has vanished.
I will pop in tomorrow, about to leave for playgroup and then all my exercise and will be at the IL's in between.
VIc - hope you're on the improve soon hun. given the UTI's i've had in the past, i'd get the ab's - but that's just because i get shockers and end up really really ill with them. i'd suffer the thrush (take probiotics at the same time) to get rid of the infection quick smart! hope it clears soon for you
Kat - not sure on what to suggest with Ivy and her sleep - but just wanted to let you know i get you on the day sleeps! E still won't sleep duringthe day unless she is in my arms (no one else cuts it) even if she doesnt' feed. she will scream blue murder at anyone else. even me - if she thinks she doesn't need a sleep, she will scream like a banshee. i have to either wrap her (which i dont want to do now that we're heading into warmer weather) or pin her little arm with mine so she can't fight me. i hate doing it - but if it gets her some desperately needed sleep...
sleep is a hassle here at the moment bubba is sick and day sleeps are so hard to get he just screams while i hug him then falls asleep and now im sick so its so hard to get out of bed and have to hold him all day
I'm gonna try to say hi and tell you all a bit about what has been happening but i have been so continually interupted here that if this gets interupted this time i am just gonna post it as is or I will never get there!
Kat- I am really sorry to here the slepp issues are ramping up there for you! You must be feeling exhausted with it all!! I have been wondering how your DH has been going? Has he seen anyone to help him see about his ? sleep apneoa? I noticed at one of our local chemists the other day they were advertising cpap devices which you can take home with you which will monitor you over night - then you take it back into them in the morning and they give you an interpretation of them... that is the chemist does. Anyway you may have it all in hand but i thought about you when I saw it. Hope it gets better... were having issues lately but i will mention that later if i get there and what i am gonna do about it tonight.
Vic- The only problem with leaving a UTI to see if it settles itself is that it can lead to a kidney infection, but see how you feel, you are the only one who can decide that. I had oral ab's when i got a UTI after the catheter and whilst it did make Jemima's poo a bit nasty, it wasn't all that bad.
Snacks- I feel for you trying to process the whole going back to work hon!! I suppose alot of us are thinking about when where and how..... My DH wants to reduce the amount of work he does next yr to study more, and my maternity pay runs out in Dec...... Not that he doesn't earn enough to support us, but he doesn't want to change our lifestyle to suit our means... Or he would perhaps but it is hard for both of us. He is asking me to think about going back to work maybe Feb... I don't so much mind working, it's more that I mind leaving my baby with someone else iykwim. I don't want to have to feel concerned that if I leave her with my Dad for instance that he might give her coke...... cos he gives his own 18mo tastes of coke and beer at times. Things like that. anyway I am sure it will work out my DH isn't hard to get along with but it is stressing me to try to pull our belts in atm........
Sorry everyone else, if i don't spill my guts now i am gonna explode and i know i am on borrowed time! So for me the last few weeks have gotten progressively worse. Jemima has regressed to waking generally from her 7pm sleep at 11, 1, 3, 5 and then up at 6. She is sometimes having day sleeps but not longer generally, than 45mins and often alot less. She has had her cold and she is now teething. One tooth erupted on tues. On monday, despite the fact that she was miserable with teething I decided to get her immunised cos I figured i didn't want her to get over being miserable with teething and then get miserable with needles. So suffice to say I am knackered.... she is also knackered cos she isn't sleeping and is generally more grumpy, miserable and clingy during the day which is making it hard. I burst into tears this morning on my DH cos
I had an aweful night last night. Jemima woke hrly and was waking up in pain. She would cry which is unlike her. She usually just snuffles around and it is enough to wake me up. Last night it took 3 attempts to put her to bed...... She would fall asleep on the boob and then be put down be asleep and settled, then 5-10mins later awake with a shrill cry as tho she was in pain.... She had panadol, she had neurofen nothing seemed to be working effectivly.... it was breaking my heart! I stopped at my sisters house this morning and she said to me, " I know she's really young, but have you thought of giving her painstop at night time to help her get a good nights sleep so she and you can cope?". I have thought about it and i am gonna give her some tonight. It's panadol with codiene in it. which will have a sedative effect. I am hoping if we both get a good nights sleep we may be able to kick into a better routine. It isn't something that I would do for more than 2 nights in a row, and then only if she was in pain, but I think she needs some help and believe me she has every teether in the book now to try to cool her poor little gums! I find it somewhat funny and somewhat not funny that she is the youngest baby and the first to go thru teething apart from Bailey cos he was born with one.
On another topic, she is rolling like nobody's buisness and sorta commando crawling. She did the bum up head down shuffle last night along our couch and moved 2 meters on her own! Oh dear!!!! I wanted to be spared baby profing the house till after we moved! Ah well
I must go she really wants to feed. Thanks for listening guys!
Kat and Bella - HUGS re the sleep issues, if only I had some great magical advice to give I would but sometimes I think its just luck as all the different things I have tried rarely made a difference, only solids changed things for us, and that we stumbled on due to other issues as you know. Hope your girls embrace sleep soon
Amy - Re returning to work, I understand completely. I am due back at work full time on March 8th while Sean goes on Long Service Leave, and then I hope to go Part Time in July when he returns and it seriously breaks my heart to think of leaving Bailey - even with his Dad. I think that no-one looks after a baby like their Mummy does, but having said that, they are more adaptable than us and will settle into care, or a new primary care giver quicker than we will deal with it. I think it will be the hardest time of my life and have often been reduced to tears when I realise March is getting closer, so HUGS to all our Mummies contemplating it
Jacinta: Sorry you are sick, sweets. And sorry Jamie is sick and unsettled. Phoebe is crook atm too - the sickest she's ever been
Bella: All the best for tonight. I hope the painstop helps and that she settles into a much better routine. Out of interest, when you say she snuffles and that's enough to wake you, is she actually waking up though? If you didn't get her up for a feed, would she settle back down again, or does she then wake up fully and become impossible to settle? I just ask because Phoebe sometimes stirs and makes the monitor click on a few times, but then just goes back to sleep again. I know, they are all different, and Phoebe is quite a settled baby and is generally now a pretty good sleeper... the polar opposite to what her sister was at this age! So it was just a thought.
Bella & Naomi: Yeah, it is such a horrid thought, leaving our bubs. The thing that made me cry for three nights in a row was the thought of having to wean her. I know it's not a given, but it's pretty likely. Hopefully she will do both boob and bottle...
On a lighter note: we have a dishwasher. Bought it cheap from a neighbour who has moved out. It is old, but it was cheap as and now I won't have to wash up every day. Hurrah.
This is my last post from UK, next one will be back in Mel - hooray. With some more inet research and help from Barb found out the antibiotics were actually ok to take, so started on those and I am feeling whole lot better, CJ's poo has gone back to more like what was before so am not sure if she had something too but anyway has cleared up.
Well last night went wellish. We gave her a very reduced dose of the painstop,(if we were to give it based on panadol dose it would have been 4.6mls, so we gave 2mls instead) She slept from 8-1.30 which was good for her. I didn't sleep as well because I was very concious of her. However that is ok cos primarily it was about her sleeping better and so being able to cope better thru the day and not spend 5/8 of it rubbing her eyes. We will see what today holds. I must admit to feeling really guilty last night when I gave it to her..... I don't know why other than just the fear that I wasn't doing it for her sake but for mine. Having said that, she didn't wake crying in pain at all last night. It was just her usual nocturnal snufflings.
Amy- She ussually snuffles about in the cot. Sometimes she will settle if I leave her, but even then she is ussually getting impatient within half an hr, and I have to wake up again. So I have gotten used to just getting up when I first hear her become restless, as I know I often won't get back to sleep anyway till i feed her and squeezing out that extra 30mins isn't worth it. ps Yay for the dishwasher!!
Vic- Hope you have a nice trip and CJ copes well! Looking forward to having you all back on Australian soil.
Vic - glad you are feeling a little better!
Amy - yay for the dishwasher. Jealous!
Bella - I am feeling your pain with the sleeping, or complete lack of.
Hi all you other lovelies!! mwah mwah mwa to you all.
(what a cr@Ppy attmept at personals)
I've been reading but not getting the chance to post. These kids are crazy!!!!
Bugger about the heading back to work thing for some of you. I'm glad I cannot really afford to get a job, because of where we live, I would be much worse off with fuel and childcare etc, so stay at home it is. I don't know how you are feeling. I know I would not be looking forward to it.
These kids are getting sick AGAIN. Coughing all round and runny sniffly noses. It never ends. It's been so much worse since I've had Allira. I think because Lachie will get sick, pass it on to Allira, he gets better and then she gives it back to him. My GP is away until mid November which is an absolute pain, because it's unbelievably hard to get in anywhere else near us. 99% of the GP's will not see new patients and the few who will, won't have any appts for a good month. It's shocking. I will probably head in once my GP gets back. Need to get the kids' eczema checked out now that Allira has it aswell.
Allira's been pretty good lately apart from sleeping. So upsetting that she's gone from fantastic to HORRIBLE in 2 months. I hope that she starts sleeping soon, because I am sick of her coming into our bed and I need more than one hour sleep at a time. I don't know how hubs goes at work each day. I'm stuffed by 1pm.
She's teething and was chewing on my nipples really really badly. I was going to give it until Sunday night and if she hadn't stopped, I was going to wean her. It was the most painful thing I have ever felt... she had me in tears on Monday. Thankfully, yesterday and so far today she seems to have stopped it and It's not hurting anywhere near as much.
She's going well with her solids. She sucked on some apple the other day at playgroup which she loved. It's broccoli time tonight. She doesn't seem to be getting alot down at this stage. She gets a small small amount but she sucks and chews on it mostly without swallowing. That's pretty normal right? I guess I should head over to the solids forum.
We've got lots of rolling going on here. She will occasionally roll from belly to back, but she rolls onto he belly most of the time and after a while she cracks it. Silly bubba.
She's started with the sounds now too. Bub bub bub and mum mum mum. She can just wait before she actually starts using words.LOL. Glad these are just babble.
She's eating her feet and has become really good with her hands. She seems to be very coordinated now.
We went away on the weekend just gone and one the way home popped in to see Bridg! Poor Bridg had to put up with ALL of us. My little man is a nutter and kept wanting to go exploring, and also destroying everything in site. Sorry about that hun. I hope you have all recovered!
Logan and Allira ended up having a bit of a screaming match... more like tag teaming. One would start up and then the other would start up when the first stopped.
Logan is adorable! hehe. Thanks for having us Bridg! We'll pop back over your way again soon!
Ok enough from me. I've got 2 screaming kids again... haha JOY!!
Bella - just a quickie re Jemima's teething, I am heading back into the womans and Childrens on Wednesday for Baileys Physio appt so will grab some more teething gel and pop it in the post for you now that I am back from my holiday (as I never got to it before I left, I only got some sent off for Bridg, apologies. Hopefully that will help )
Will post tomorrow, buggered tonight, we have finished unpacking, the little guy is in his own bed (and fast asleep) and I am looking forward to my own bed
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