I hope you all had a magical Christmas! We had a wonderful day and I managed to only cry once. It was in the evening and I was just so happy and didn't want the day to end I even managed to make my mum cry when she opened the gift from Kyson. I made a book of 40 digi-scrapbooking pages that I got printed as a photobook (the big 12x12inch ones) and she loved it! I was going to get a little upset if she didn't considering each page took more than a day to do! Lol!
Kyson was such a good boy all day. It must have been pretty overwhelming considering we did Christmas morning at our house where he opened his Santa sack presents, then brunch at the PIL with DH's family, then lunch and the afternoon at my parents house (at which most of my dad's family was also there!), and then home again to open his presents from us. I'm sure he must have been all present-ed out by the end of the day, but he loves all the new toys!
Amy, I hope you're back in bed and fast asleep and that Phoebe has decided to sleep nicely again. Kyson's worst sleep is always his evening sleep from about 7.30-8pm until his 11pm feed. He wakes after most of the sleep cycles and cries out and we need to run in to try to quickly resettle him or else he just wakes himself up more and more. Then he goes back to his lovely 3 hourly feeds after that...
Also, Happy Birthday to Natty and your DH! My youngest DS had his birthday on Christmas Eve (he turned 10) and I think it took him until he was about 8 or 9 before he really grasped the fact that Christmas and his Birthday were actually separate events, rather than just a continuous flow of presents, hehe.
Well, not only is Kyson cruising around the place like a pro, but he's now practicing letting go and balancing. He's so proud of himself when he does it too. When he lets go he makes a sort of panting/concentrating noise and smiles. So far he's managing to balance for about 3-5 seconds before he falls backwards onto his butt, or starts to topple to the side.
Before I head off I just had a question... Lately I've felt that I'm not making as much milk as usual. Kyson still seemed satisfied with how much he gets at feeds, but my breasts never feel as full as they used to. Do you girls think it's something that I should do something about? I was thinking about cluster feeding him for a day or two and also expressing in there somewhere to see if that boosts the supply. I'm sure that it's probably got to do with how much solid food he's eating now, but I can't help but be a little concerned. I don't want to leave it and then be in a situation where my milk dries up and I have to give up breastfeeding.
Oh Krystie, he's going to be walking before you know it! I remember when Natty got to the stage of letting go of the furniture it was only a couple of weeks before she was taking her first tottering steps. (Mind you, she was 14 months old, not 7!)
LOL @ the 'flow of presents'. At least Nat had a day in between, although this year we did spend boxing day doing Christmas with my brother and SIL and their kids... so I suppose it was a 3-day-flow of presents after all. We are going to another birthday party for one of her little mates today, so perhaps that will actually be a good thing - someone else can have a turn today
Re your milk, probably it is to do with the solid food intake. The good thing about your supply is that it automatically regulates to how much he is needing. I know milk is the most important part of their diets, but the reality is that as the year goes on they will be needing less and less. After 12 months, they "should" be having normal family foods, so most bubs I know of over 12 months are only having a couple of feeds a day (some still overnight too of course!). So personally, I wouldn't worry too much, particularly when he's still feeding overnight. It's so true that every baby is different though, so if you feel your supply is getting too low for whatever reason, then I find feeding more often (like whenever you think of it) is the best way to build it up. But Bella posted only a few weeks ago that Blessed Thistle worked for her (I could never find it when I was feeding Natty and she was weaning at 10 months). I tried Fenugreek but I thought it was gross - left a funny taste in my mouth. But I know people who've found that to be helpful.
Anyhoo, sorry for the essay! Hope some of it's helpful anyway. I'm off to get the sprogs ready for a party. Hope all's well for the rest of you! xx
Hey Krystie I have been told by lactation consultants that our breast are much more efficient at making milk by now and they won't ever feel as full anymore. So you may not have anything to worry about however if you think he needs more milk maybe try to always give him a boob before he has his solids and so that way he may eat less soids but you know he is still getting the milk which has so much of the essential nutrients he needs in it. I used blessed thistle and flax seed oil recently and it felt like it increased my supply really well. See how you go honey.
I just posted in the bf area cos Jemima is really ramping up with her biting of me and it is starting to really scare me. Today she refused a feed before her nap and I am really worried... been in tears because of it..... Waiting to see what the bf mummas suggest.
i am always telling DH to let me feed DD before solids - he means well, but he puts her in the high chair while we're cooking and just feeds her - i don't want my supply impacted either! i rarely feel full-ish anymore but i know she's getting plenty as some days she refuses solids and still feeds the same and sleeps the same...
Bella - hope you get some answers re biting. E has not started biting (yet) but i'm dreading it. her latest trick is pinching the sensitive skin under my arms EVERY feed. she gets one warning - then she gets taken off the boob and i give it a minute before putting her back on. third time, she gets her arm moved to a position that is less comfy for her!
Amy - sounds like Natty has had constant presents lately - hopefully she will be ok with someone else being the present recipient today!
AFU - i'm exhausted! Christmas ended up being more full on for DH and I than it should of. all the "we'll bring stuff" offers turned into "we'll dump it on you the night before and you organise it". all the stuff that should have been done just wasn't, so we had to do it all that night and next morning. not a happy mummy! it probably turned out better though - cos i did it myself and no one else messed it up on me! just meant we didn't get to bed til after midnight (not unusual for Christmas eve) and were up before 6 - and E's nap in the morning, when we should have been able to relax - we were organising stuff still. ah well, DH has said there is "no way in hell we're wasting our Christmas Eve next year doing things for Christmas when noone helped us out" - and he's said we're not going into town early - we're going to do what my bro did to us - he didn't rock up til 12 - when he said he'd be here early to help us! at least it meant E got to open some of her presents with just us and wasn't overwhelmed too early - when my bro and SIL turned up with their kids, she had everything dumped on her, and the other kids were impatient with her so they took over... sigh
it sounds like i didn't enjoy Christmas day - but honestly, i had a fantastic day! E was perfect and she had a ball - just having a bad morning this morning (didn't sleep well - stupid nightmares!) and am obviously fixating on the minor negatives of the day! hehehe i've vented now - time to move on!
E didn't get overly spoilt - i dug my heels in and told everyone to be sensible - she doesn't NEEEEEEED heaps of crap! we tried to encourage people to get clothes for 6 months from now, rather than a mass of toys that she won't use. she simply can't use too many toys! and what she did get, we tried to make sure it was multi-use so that she can be creative herself with it. Daddy is loving her blocks, so i think we might need to get more! got a big megablocks pack - 120 pieces, so we thought you'd be able to do a bit with it - i sat down last night and found that over a third of the pieces were single bits instead of the multiple pieces you can build on - so really, there is bugger all you can make with it! ah well, at least it gives us something to suggest to people for her birthday!
I hear you on the exhausted part BG - I am rundown and sick as a result I think. Looking back I have not had a day without something happening for almost a month - so I have no one to blame but myself. Our Christmas was good too - I so wish we could have just stayed home with the little guy though, as christmas morning with just him and Sean and I was delightful to say the least. Unfortunately some petty family issues on my side reared their head (not brought up by me, but got dragged into it a bit). DHs family were well behaved for once - the irony! However, Christmas was enjoyable, but exhausting, I dont think I have had the chance to actually sit down and relax until I got sick late sunday night which forced me to relax. We had to go to the IL yesterday and I was seriously so ill I was laying on the floor until finally DH took pity on me and we went home.
Amy - I am with you re the toy explosion, not sure what to do here either. I think once the Christmas tree is packed up I might have to invest in a big toybox, our current 'toy basket' is about to burst! Bailey wasn't too spoilt which was good - except the MIL went overboard (apparantly its ok to spoil babies now (with meaningless plastic cr*p), but not 'spoil' them when they are two weeks old and crying to be picked up to tend to their basic needs!! ) Anyhoo, I need to try to rotate the toys I give him to play with otherwise they are in danger of just sitting in the corner collecting dust. No moving here either (obviously) but we are trying to encourage Bailey to reach out to the side to grab toys etc as the physio recommended this to improve his upper body strength, but as his brace is so bloody wide he currently sits like he is doing the splits and just continuously face plants which his legs either side of him which is very frustrating to him (and me). Since they adjusted him on Dec 23rd he is having trouble sitting now - It seems they went a bit extreme on the adjustment, we had a different orthotist for this appt. I am propping him up with endless pillows but he pushes them out of the way to play with the toys so we really cant leave him otherwise we risk coming back a few seconds later to him face down in a pillow - scary stuff (even leaving him to go to the loo is a challenge atm, as I lay him on his back to play (so he cant face plant) which he now hates and cries most of the time until I sit him up again). Never mind, I want to be with him as much as possible, but you know what its like, sometimes even just 5 minutes is all you want to quickly get something done. We have another appt mid january so will talk about it then.
Krystie - Kyson is sooo clever, what a little champ!! Re your milk, Like Bella I agree re your body only making what Kyson needs, I know its been a few months since I have BF, but I did have a wonderful midwife who explained to me that over time your breasts only make just enough to meet your babies supply (smart boobies!!) and Kyson's solids intake would no doubt be changing his needs thus your supply for sure. But if you are worried, maybe ring the ABA
As of yesterday I have only 10 weeks of maternity leave left - VERY scary and upsetting!! I am going to sit down tomorrow and work out exactly what will happen financially and what proposals that then allows me that I can put to my boss next week when I go back in to negotiate the conditions of my return. Hoping for the first 6 weeks of my return I can work maybe 4 days, then back to 5 days while Sean in on long service leave as he is taking only half pay, then when he goes back to work in July hoping to work 3 or 4 days, I need to work out the finances to see what is viable so I can stop stressing about it and accept it. I am definately buying a lotto ticket this saturday (I never buy them LOL).
Anyway, am feeling a bit better this arvo, have drugged myself up LOL
Naomi
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Hi everyone!!! I hope you all had a wonderfu Christmas and New years! I can't believe it's 2010!!
All well here. Allira is doing too much now and it's depressing knowing that I won't have anymore babies of my own again. Ah well.
She's getting really bad nappy rash. It's horrid... to the point sometimes where just wiping her bum will cause her skin to bleed. She's not worried about it at all, and some days it's really good, like today for example. I can't think of any foods that would be causing it, but it's def something to do with #2's. I wonder if it's her formula? I'm thinking of pulling some of Lachie's old cloth nappies out and seeing if that makes things any better.She won't have any trouble fitting... she's bigger than he was at 12 months now.
Do any of you girls have an fantastic nappy creams that you could recommend?
We took the kids to a public pool a couple of days ago and they loved it. Lachie's just fantastic in the water now, and after the inital cold water freak out, Allira had a ball aswell. She starts swimming lessons at the end of Jan.
Not much else happening.. same old boring me here really.
Just glad to be bored and at home. haha.
Nicky - we swear by sudocream here, it always clears any hint of nappy rash up straight away so Bailey has never really gotten very bad nappy rash. I have noticed though in the hot weather he has had a few more patches than normal - might be a bit of sweating perhaps?
I even managed to make my mum cry when she opened the gift from Kyson. I made a book of 40 digi-scrapbooking pages that I got printed as a photobook (the big 12x12inch ones) and she loved it! I was going to get a little upset if she didn't considering each page took more than a day to do! Lol!
(apparantly its ok to spoil babies now (with meaningless plastic cr*p), but not 'spoil' them when they are two weeks old and crying to be picked up to tend to their basic needs!! 
) Anyhoo, I need to try to rotate the toys I give him to play with otherwise they are in danger of just sitting in the corner collecting dust. No moving here either (obviously) but we are trying to encourage Bailey to reach out to the side to grab toys etc as the physio recommended this to improve his upper body strength, but as his brace is so bloody wide he currently sits like he is doing the splits and just continuously face plants which his legs either side of him which is very frustrating to him (and me). Since they adjusted him on Dec 23rd he is having trouble sitting now - It seems they went a bit extreme on the adjustment, we had a different orthotist for this appt. I am propping him up with endless pillows but he pushes them out of the way to play with the toys so we really cant leave him otherwise we risk coming back a few seconds later to him face down in a pillow - scary stuff (even leaving him to go to the loo is a challenge atm, as I lay him on his back to play (so he cant face plant) which he now hates and cries most of the time until I sit him up again). Never mind, I want to be with him as much as possible, but you know what its like, sometimes even just 5 minutes is all you want to quickly get something done. We have another appt mid january so will talk about it then.
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