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!!
Vic: Glad you got the meds sorted and you are on the mend.
Bella:Big hugs, mate. Yeah, I thought that might be the case. I found Phoebe was the same in our room - I'd hear her snuffle about and know that we'd be waking up soon so I'd just get her up. That's actually why we moved her - I found I didn't wake up until she was fully awake. Although lately I have gotten up because she's grizzled or started chatting and I've gone to the loo so I'm ready to feed her... and then find she's gone back to sleep But I get her up anyway and feed her cause I figure it may as well be then rather than a tiny bit later. So yeah, I get it.
I am glad J had a bit more of a sleep. It is exhausting when they are so tired all day. I understand the guilt thing too, but FWIW I would've given it a go too. And it is for her sake as well as yours - she's not as upset and tired as yesterday, I gather.
Nicky: Pi$$er about the dr. We are going this afternoon because I want to make sure P's cold is only a cold and hasn't moved into her ears. There's soooo much snot in her head, poor little bubba. Natty has started coughing now too. So IKWYM about having two sick kids! Fortunately, the last couple of months Natty has become heaps more resilient to colds etc. She's only had that one that she needed the ABs for a couple of months ago, which is pretty damn good considering she goes to CC and last year in winter she was hardly going because she was always so sick.
Cool that Allira is rolling about. P has started rolling too and Natty often gives her a hand, LOL! I have to watch this kid like a hawk these days.
From memory, the not swallowing too much solids thing is very normal. They say that for the first year food is more of an exploration than much else. Milk is still the main source of nutrition. And you would know with a fusspot of an eater that they are VERY efficient at using the food they do consume.
Phoebe has sucked on a piece of avocado, LOL. The other night I had her sitting up to the table with us and she looked quite interested so I thought, what the hell. But she wasn't all that keen... she kind of licked/sucked it like she would one of her toys then lost interest. Ah well, am happy to wait a bit longer.
We ran the dishwasher through last night after having had FIL round for dinner. It's tops! DH even emptied it this morning... but I'm thinking that's just because it's a novelty still, LOL.
I have applied for a couple of jobs now.
hmmm i had my first mothers group meeting this morning it was interesting next meeting is a first aid course and then massage
it was ok a lot of shyness
Jamie had an awesome time meeting new babies
I think we are going to start ending our breastfeeding journey as of tonight. Things aren't going well and honestly, I've been struggling with it for a while now.
I feel a big guilty, but it's the best thing for both Allira and I right now. It's just not worth us both getting so worked up over.
So, I'll probably gradually start weaning... 1 feed a day onto formula slowly until she is weaned. We will make it past the 6 month mark (although not exclusively), but probably not much farther than that.
I think it will release a huge burden from my shoulders, although I'm sure I will feel like I have cheated Allira as I haven't fed her for as long as I did DS.
Ah well... it's for the best.
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
wish E would cut hers - poor poppet is so miserable when they play up - she seems to be in so much pain, HATES the panadol with a passion so i don't think much of that is getting in... sigh
VIC - welcome home hun!
Nicky - i agree - don't feel bad about weaning - you've done amazing to get this far. as much as, in an ideal world, we'd all feed longer, it's not always easy to do - and no matter how much you persevere, sometimes it's in your familys best interests to wean. i have seriously been contemplating it (while laying in bed feeding AGAIN cos the poppet isn't sleeping) - i'm not decided though. we seem to be doing ok=ish for now - physically - don't know how much more i can take of the "am i getting enough into her" thoughts though - she is really unsettled with the teething and it just makes me feel like crap that i don't KNOW she's getting enough kwim?
Amy - hope you're all feeling better soon
AFU - tired grumpy lady here - not coping with this teething racket. would be fine if DH was more helpful with actually doing stuff with the baby without me in the room - but that seems beyond him at the minute. time to go post a boo hoo and vent it out. grrrr
Hi girls
Just popping in quickly before I head back to the couch....
I'm really crook. The kids have had coughs and runny noses since playgroup last week ( a little girl coughed all over Allira ), and they've passed it on to me. I think because I am so worn out from my last 2 weeks being crazy, it's hit me really hard. I had a huge temp last night and was having cold sweats, then boiling hot, then freezing again for about 6 hours. Fun!
Temps gone today, but feeling worse and worse as the day goes on.
LOL Woe is me hey! haha. No exercise for me this week I don't think!!
Anyway, Can't get the kids to the docs because I am too sick to drive, and my GP is still away. Grr. Great timing really.
Ok must head back for the couch. Hope everyone is well and that all the kiddies in the southern states are coing with this heat. I know how much I hate it.
xxoo ( on the cheek.... don't want to pass on my germies!)
We are in the middle of a heat wave - I'd say you Melb girls are getting it a day behind us anyway. Bailey struggled with the warmth of QLD so I am cranking the air con and keeping him comfortable, so far so good, but have found that giving him the bottle is easier in his bouncer as he gets so hot and sweaty if I hold him too long (as do I) hehehehe
We are in the middle of a spring clean, house clean up (crazy in this heat) but want to get a heap done while DH is on holidays. Speaking of which, a holiday isn't really a holiday when you have a baby is it - LOL. I had a great time away but relaxing certainly wasn't a part of it, except for a 90 min spa session while our friends looked after Bailey (bless them). I feel guilty for saying this but I really missed the carefree holiday feel of pre-parenthood! Having said that it also opened up new fun things to do as well, we spent time swimming with the little guy in the pool etc and doing 'family friendly' things and poked fun at all the druken nightclubbers on the Gold Coast strip when we went out for a night time stroll for icecream - LOL, it seems a lifetime ago (it was!!!). We had a fabulous time and I am glad we took our friends too.
I'm looking forward to our meet up. Travelling with Bailey alone on the plane should be interesting as he hates landing - the last 25 mins of both flights were tough as his ears were giving him grief so I will be well prepared this time.
Not much else happening. Bailey has his physio appt tomorrow, I've really noticed a huge change in him since his 6 month wonder week, good sleeping has returned, and he is so much more hilarious than before, VERY cheeky.
Must away, a basket of folding is calling my name......
But I get her up anyway and feed her cause I figure it may as well be then rather than a tiny bit later. So yeah, I get it.
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