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?
try for as much nappy free time as possible (i know it's not easy with a mobile bubba but it will help heaps.
if you have some from when your DS was in cloth, moogoo ROCKS! e has only ever had a few spots of nappy rash and it's gone within horus with a combo of nappy free time and moo goo
HAPPY NEW YEAR lovely ladies!!
DH has just taken DD to bed and is sleeping on the bed. he reckons he lays down while she dozes off, but then he told me how he settles her - he lays down once she's asleep and has a nana nap! lol
Hmm.. sudocream works ok, but not brilliantly. I've tried moogoo once or twice, might give it another whirl. Hopefully it clears up but it's been going on a little while now. Can't shake it. I give her nappy free time when I can. I wish we had tiles or wooden floors.... My poo carpet has been 'dirited' a couple of times and it's so hard to get out! haha
Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. My parents went home last night so I now have a month of rest before the IL's arrive. I do love having visitors because do alot of stuff showing them how great MEL/Oz is but is nice to be back to just the three of us.
Cerys has cut first tooth - I just noticed it this afternoon - hadn't really shown any other signs although maybe her wee has smelt stronger recently. She can also now support her own weight when standing and is starting to push her bum up off the floor when on front and back - still no rolling though - I have given up on that one!
can you put her on a blanket outside? not that it's great weather at the moemnt (poor poppet might get a sunburned tushie!) but even under some shade - then if she makes a mess she makes a mess kwim?
E had the worst dirty nappy earlier - she is still only going every week or 10 days. so as you can imagine, it wasn't small! she started screaming in pain, was sweating and stuff - i had to hold her and comfort her and just do what i could to help her - changed it for her - then it all started again. she's had a decent big sleep since then and is now rolling on the floor having a grand old time! i hate that she is so irregular - is not pleasant seeing her in so much pain and not being able to do anything other than being there!
Poor E - thats a bit sad that she was in so much discomfort!
Nice work CJ with the tooth. Good to hear it came about without too much fuss, nice work and good on you for taking it easy on Mum and Dad CJ. Vic I know what you mean about it being nice to be just the three of you again, visitors are great, but its nice to get back to normal a bit too, my family all live far away (only Mum here in Adelaide) so family visits when they occur tend to be for a few days and very full on and busy which we thoroughly enjoy, but its always relaxing to 'get your house back' etc hehehehe
Nicky - if its really red/bleeding, the other thing I always recommend is the lucas paw paw ointment - I use it for everything and its fabulous I reckon. Love the pic's of Lachie playing at the playground - that playground looks awesome!!
I am going to try a few sleeping tips as Bailey has gotten himself into the annoying habit of waking closer to 5am than 6am. I have decided to move his bedtime to 7pm (its currently 6pm as he is just so tired then), but I am really struggling with the early mornings, and the festive season hasn't helped obviously. So my NY resolution is to work on this sleep issue, I really want to get him in a 7pm - 7am routine. I was reading the 'Save our Sleep' book and although I am not up for the self settling stuff with the crying (although she doesn't call it controlled crying as such its still crying / grizzling in my mind which I cant handle as Bailey's grizzling inverably ends up in un-controlled crying and absolute despair for him - which is heartbreaking for me). I did read something interesting that makes me think his first nap of the day is too early and this just encourages him to wake early, seems to make sense. I am also going to push his dinner time back by giving him an afternoon bottle and faze out the overnight one, he currently has dinner 430ish - way too early, this has all come about as I have just followed him so all these times have been baby led, but now that I am close to going back to work, I want to see him before and after work (selfishly I know), and be there for dinner time, bath, bed etc so things need to be a bit more 'family led' if you like. I dont want to be getting up at the crack of dawn once I am back at work either. (Although Sean will be the SAHM, I cant just 'switch' off once I go back to work, nor do I want to), So its worth plugging away for a few weeks to change his routine a bit - Its really just moving it all forward a few hours. Wish me luck!
Naomi - I have a couple of friends who are following Save our Sleep routines, their bubs were born in March - seems to be working well for them - one of them is on here so if you have any questions on it let me know and can hook you up. I haven't read the book but think you can use it just for timings ideas even if you don't follow all the self-settling stuff.
BG - Poor E, I hated it when CJ went through a phase of pooing only every 10 days or so - although now sometimes when she does her third explosion of the day when we are out I find myself wishing she was a bit less frequent again. CJ didn't seem to be in pain, but did make straining noises and go extremely red in the face.
Nicky - No other suggestions from me on the nappy rash. CJ only has had an issue once and that wasn't a rash was chafing from a fold in a cloth nappy and doing a poo overnight. I used Calmoseptine (sp??) and put her in disposables as couldn't use that ointment with cloth. I do put MooGoo on her occasionally but her skin seems pretty resilient .
How is everyone going with solids? CJ is really gumming on stuff now, much improved over the past week (always eats better when we are eating out strangely) but still not really swallowing anything? She is still bf about every 3.5 hours so am not worried about her intake but just wondered how they learn to swallow?
E has had a bit of a solids regression the last few days - think her gums are hurting plus the belly ache. we're just letting her go with it. DH asked tonight if i wanted to give her more yogurt as she seems to scoff it - but i want to have at least a few days without that sort of food. it seems she's just getting lazy with eating cos she knows we'll give her soft food later and i don't want her relying on mush - so i said no, gave her another feed and she went off to bed. i'd rather she fills up on milk than mushy food (does that even make sense?_
Thanks Vic, So far - NOT the greatest start to our new routine - Bailey woke at 4am!!! LMFAO so much for trying to get him to sleep longer!! I tried EVERYTHING to get him back to sleep WITHOUT a bottle but by 530am I gave in and gave him one, I cant expect a baby to go completely cold turkey. I went back to sleep as DH got up with him and when I awoke at 8am they were both still awake - so by the time I got him down for a sleep, Bailey had gone 4.5 hours between waking and his morning sleep - eeeeeek, I may pay for that later in the day!! Bailey eats a massive amount of food now, he really doesn't NEED a bottle at night (although he still WANTS one 50% of the time). On the flip side I did keep him up until almost 7pm last night.
Honestly, I think her routines are too rigid, so only using them as a guide to compliment what I am already doing, I've always had a flexible routine with Bailey anyway eg to accomodate our swimming lessons etc and so I am not housebound, but if I can just move it all forward a few hours............... will keep plugging away ......... I do like her idea of pushing the morning sleep a bit later Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I wouldn't be able to follow her philosophies exactly as some parts of it are completely at odds which how I want to parent, but I'm not against stealing a bit of everyones ideas and mould it to suit us. Am going out shopping later so will have a look for NCSS and the Pinky McKay book and have a flick through before I decide to buy (I borrowed the SOS from a GF as I am a cheapskate LOL)
SOLIDS - we aren't doing the BLS, I am just following the traditional puree, then lumps, then finger food transition kinda deal - we are currently JUST starting the finger food part - rusks and fingers of toast etc, Bailey seems to be doing really well, other than that he is on lumpy food and he absolutely scoffs it down and doesn't waste a thing (Just like his mother ). Hilariously he gets very excited at solids meal times, I should video it, pure comedy gold!
we done a similar thing naomi now he gets annoyed when i try to feed him with a spoon so im running out of options for food lol he loves carrot and doesnt like much else but he like kiwi fruit but it takes him a while to eat it coz of how sour it is lol his face is so funny when he eats it
definitely solids issues here - but she's not keen on booby either unless we're laying in bed - think my girl is getting more grief from her teeth or some tummy issues or or or - hell, i dunno! she has no fever - is still happy - she's just having really quick feeds and turning down everything solids related - yogurt included! maybe it's a wonder week - a few weeks early - loss of appetite and clingyness are signs... i dunno. bit worried about her to be honest... will see what is happening by monday and may call mchn just for some advice
Quick post from me too just to tell BG that I love her new avi too! My fave bits are the stars for the beautiful symbolism (mine always includes something for my little angel too) and the candles because they are just so you!
Naomi- We don't really have a set-in-stone routine here either, so Im not much help sorry. It's good that Bailey loves his food. We are starting to move on to the lumpy stuff.
BG- Logan seems a little off his food too, so maybe it is a wonder week.
AFU, Logan is now dragging himself everywhere. He is trying to get up on all fours, but instead of propping himself on his knees, he's pushing off with his feet. He's now saying 'mum' and 'nan'. His eyesight is improving a little bit, it's just the lighting we have to work on. We got back to his specialist on the 1st Feb, so will no more then.
(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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