Babies born~May 16th-31st 2010 #1

[YoYo]

Miskilla Yeah I gues Darcie is eating a lot. I really didn't bother introducing one thing at a time like I did with Max. I don't have time to do things the way I did with him....as I have him grumping it a fair bit in the last couple of weeks. Darcie eats at least half a pack of one of those squeezy purees (at a time....3 meals a day), plus yesterday she ate tonns of my risotto for dinner, and loves to munch on bread, cruskits, milk arrorwoot (omg how do you spell that!!). I really should be more careful with those high allergen foods though....but she seems OK at the moment. She too has been doing pellet poos....so I've made sure she has pear, and drinks lots (or as much as I can get into her) water. I usually just feed her till she lets me know she doesn't want any more....it's pretty obvious. That festival sounds like fun...but I've only heard a few of those bands...QOTSA, Pennywise and that's about it! I've been in such a musical bubble in the last few years. Of course I'm going to be when Max will only want to hear the Foo Fighters in the car!

Peta A is going well with her development it seems! Darcie can bear weight on her legs but doesn't get much of an opportunity to stand up against things coz well....we don't have anything for her at the moment! I'm sure she would give her the opportunity...she's a real mover! Especially in comparison to Relaxy Maxy. How scary being first on the scene at an accident. It sure makes you realise doesn't it.

Dooglebug Hopefully I'll see you on saturday. I hope to find some winter stuff! Gotta have something to survive in the snow they've had in Jersey! eeeeek! Logan isn't fat....he's a big boy though! All the more to cuddle I say! Max was the same. Oh and our big boys both sound as though they are cracking it in a major way! Yesterday I wanted to give up as his mother

Spoke to DH yesterday, he is on his way to jersey for a week. Poor guy is so exhausted from all his travel....and I'm exhausted from parenting on my own. Max keeps cracking it coz he misses his daddy....and not to mention he's gone cold turkey by throwing his dummies in the bin. Tough gig! Just can't WAIT to be settled again! BRING IT ON!!

Hope everyone is well Peanutter didn't you have an appointment with your surgeon?

[peanutter]

quick post, will catch up on reading and proper posting in a few ...


I saw the surgeon yesterday, and it was good news, and a big answer to prayer

I've healed quite a lot - there was a bunch of granular tissue and a weird little pocket which he cauterised away, but the surgeon thinks it will heal further.

And in the short term, he said that swimming, all exercise, all foods, and *SEX* are all back on the menu!

I again asked a bunch of questions, and the surgeon answered them all calmly and completely, making sure I understood things.

So yeah, a huge answer to prayer ... thanks for the follow up, ladies

[Doodlebug]

[YoYo]

Woo Hoo Peanutter!!!

Now...quick question....do your babes cry tears? Darcie doesn't....is that weird!? Should the tear ducts kicked in by now?

[peanutter]

yules - thanks for the best wishes ...

and re tears - yes, real tears, but not often. no apparent rhyme or reason to it.

peta - thanks, hun. I've been going out of my head about the whole formula/food/not 6 months yet thing, and I'm not sure it's rational ... maybe it's all just stress from the fistula, the operation, etc, and it's coming out in the whole eating thing at the moment ... DH keeps telling me that six months is just a number and that it's great that we got as far as we have, but I feel like a terrible mother for not getting him to six months. And then I ask myself whether I think other mums who have gone to formula etc (before 6 months) are failures or bad mothers, and the immedate answer is no, of course not. Then I try to analyse why I think I'm any different, and I just end up in tears. I know it's not rational, but I can't help it. Not sure what to do about that...

And then I compare Josh's progress to other babies - he almost never rolls, no teeth up yet, he's not sitting - and I wonder whether his development has been delayed or hampered by my hospital time or me being so upset, or maybe bad milk etc, and I get all upset again ...

And then I think of how he's a very happy little man, and he goes through 5-7 nappies per day, feeds well (5 times per day), sleeps well and is alert ... but then I think that doesn't mean anything, and malnourished kids probably do all that too ... augh!

sorry about the ramble ...

but re assisted standing - Joshie does this too. And he loves standing and leaning against me, and BF that way! he looks up every now and then, proud and punch, grinning from ear to ear, and then latches on for more, and then does it all again ... so cute!

miskilla - we're doing infant led weaning, so we're just giving him bits of our meals ... usually only dinner, but trying to get into the habbit of doing it three meals per day! he doesn't eat much yet. a handful of mashed potato here, two or three faces full of avacado there, and then the most miniscule bit of bread of apple of whatever the next day! but the book says that it can take a couple of weeks for them to learn properly how to swallow, and to get the hang of their gag reflex. so we're just doing normal feeds, plus solids after his feeds.

and re sitting, Joshua just isn't interested! Unless he's in/on your lap, if you sit him up he's straight down and flips his legs from underneath him, to get onto his belly. he seems so close to crawling, it's scary!

[YoYo]

Hey Girls

Darcies tears started! YAY! She got a cold though and her eyes were all watery and gross...but at least I know she has them! I thought she was broken!

Well we all have colds in this house! Gah! I have a really sore throat, Darcie had the sniffles, and Maxy has a cough. It's the biggest bummer ever!

What is everyone getting for the LO's this Christmas. I can easily think of things to get for Max, but Darcie, I have no idea. Is everyone else getting things? Or not really bothering? Darcie has loads of things of Maxy's to play with, but it's all on it's way to Jersey, but it would be nice to get her her own things too. WDYT? I have got a couple of books, but she just wants to attack them!

Peanutter Josh sounds just like Max....too relaxed for his own good. Didn't teethe till 8 months, sat, but did NOTHING ELSE. I thought I was going to be bringing him beers under his mobile on his 21st birthday....but alas...that did not happen! Instead I'm up at 4:45am with him of a morning and expected to help him build imaginary houses, and ride on his digger with him!. Remember, nothing is by the book...I'm POSITIVE that Josh's development has not been hampered in any way.

C'mon girls...get back in here...we're still on thread #1!

[GiggleMonkey]

Sorry I've been MIA for a while. I get to read where you are all up to and then get called away......

Peanutter: Yay to your good news surgery wise. That is fantastic I wouldn't worry about Josh's development. All kids are different. As long as he is happy he will progress in his own little way. You are doing a fabulous job and are handling all the hurdles that have been thrown your way with tremendous strength.

Yules: Deacon only has tears fall from his darling little eyes when he has a genuine cry when something has frightened him. Makes my heart break Boo to your colds. I hate them!!!! Hope you all get better quickly.

Doodlebug: Go Logan!!!! Wanna send him over here to teach Deacon what to do with food.... All he does is want to smoosh it all over the high chair tray

Peta: That's great that Alyssa is standing. I haven't tried Deacon with standing while holding onto something other than us. He loves to stand while we are holding his hands and he has this little dance he does most days too when there is a catchy song on the radio. So cute. That must've been scary being the first one to an accident.

Miskilla: Geez, I only know a couple of those bands. That's the problem with living in a small country town, the local radio station only plays the top 40 songs and not much variety. I mostly end up putting a cd on or live stream a radio station through our computer. Z's photo was gorgeous.

Gotta go. Deacon's just woken up and is sounding upset. BBL for more persies.

[BrightSparkles]

...sneaks in feeling a little guilty for not posting for AGES....

Hope you are all well.
I'm back at work now so not allot of time to write big long posts and i'm way too tired to get it down at night. working 4 days and being a mummy/wife/housecleaner etc etc is hard! I am in awe of how people do it with more!!

Sheriden is now sitting pretty much on her own. She is a really long bubba and is getting to long for her carset to be in a reverse setting - so will have to look at changing it - her legs are cramped..
She's loving her solids and crys if you take it away from her. I'm still feeding at night (anywhere up to 5 tims a night ) but she is having EBM and formula during the day. She's not a fan of sleeping (as those on my FB will know...) I'm sure I did something really bad in a past life and karma is coming back to bite me....
We are still co sleeping most of the time - which is fine - if she was sleeping...not playing...
I've started both her and Jorja on some brauer sleep stuff because I'm exhausted with Sheriden not sleeping and Jorja not going to bed till late and still waking - i'm trying anything and everything I can. I have spoken to tresillian who told me that i need to make sure i use the same routine, try wrapping/not wrapping her, music in the room - you know all the usual stuff they tell you.

Other than that thats all i have time for. Not much else to report.
I have read through most of the posts and sounds like overall everyone is doing well. I will try and get in here to post more often, but i can't promise it...

Big to everyone and again i'm sorry i haven't been around. xxx

[GiggleMonkey]

False alarm, he must've just been changing sleep cycles.

Sunshine: I hope you are able to get Miss J & Miss S settled into sleeping at night soon. You are a trooper for handling all of that. I don't know what I would do if Deacon didn't sleep well at night. We turned Deacon's car seat around as soon as he hit the 6 month mark. But that was mostly because I was going on a 700km trip with him on my own and I wanted to be able to keep an eye on him properly while I was driving.

Ellie: Glad to hear your PND is getting better. DD2 sounds like she is going really well.

Big hello to Holly, MT, MO8 and anyone I've missed.

AFM: Deacon had his first little swim lesson today and LOVED it!!!!! He is a right little water baby like me. I've enrolled us to start proper swim/water familiarisation classes from Feb next year. He giggled and smiled the whole time (only time he looked a little bewildered was his first dunk under water but was fine after that) and the swim coach said he looks like he will take to swimming quite naturally.

Milestones: He is sitting all on his own and is having a ball banging/playing with his toy workbench. Rolling over lots and is well on his way to crawling. He holds his chest and tummy up or his bum on his knees, but not quite at the same time yet. Yesterday he was able to pull his right knee up under him and lift his right side off the floor momentarily too. Given his progress over the last couple of weeks, I think he may be crawling by the end of the month....... He loves to stand too and will kinda walk on the spot, albeit a little uncoordinated. He is definately going to keep us on our toes once he is mobile!!!

Solids: I'm only trying BLS at the moment and thinking I may have to do mash/puree as well. Fruit is fine as finger food, but steamed vegies are not going so well. Because he is going to be in day care in a months time ( ) I feel I need to try and get him going better on solids. He is definately a boobie boy, which is great by me while I'm not at work. DB what do you use to make up the porridge for Logan?? I'm in two minds about using part of my frozen EBM store to make some up as I want to have a fair bit available in case my supply dries up when I go back to work and have to express through the day.

We got a friend of mine to take some pro photos of Deacon last week and they turned out amazing (their on FB if you want to have a peek at them). He was such a smily happy boy all morning. Very impressed that he didn't start cracking up until after about 1 & 1/2 hours of photo taking!!!! He lasts longer than what I do....

Chrissy presents: We've only bought Deacon 2 toy presents. He is going to get spoilt something shocking by my parents (their first grandchild) and we kinda figure that he is too young to really get into Christmas this year anyway. With how much fun he had tearing apart a Big W catalogue the other day I think he may have just as much fun with the wrapping paper as he would with what's inside anyway.....

Big to you all and hope you and your LO's are all safe and happy.

[YoYo]

GM You can always mix some rice cereal into some pureed vege's. I used water and some veg the other day...just to give some texture. Like you I'm doing BLS but only randomly....I think they get more in with puree....plus Darcie can't reach the tray on her high chair yet to really get into it!!

Saw your FB Pics...they are great - but can I pick at one ....the sheet has come up in the corner of one of the pics and you can see your DVD's in the background! Sorry...I just did a photography course!

Deacon sounds like he's growing up fast...and will be on the move soon! Poor Darcie doesn't have any carpet to roll around on here, so she is in our arms so much unfortunately! I am so looking forward to a house with some carpet!

[Hollybolly]

Hi Girls

Sharon, was it you that asked me about the Grug nappy? I won that one on an auction, but I have bought 3 other customs from her (Bonnibuns) and her nappies are great. We're yet to have leakage, and they're so well made. After we discussed what we wanted (as far as a custom goes) it only took 1-2 weeks to get it
I've tried quite a few different types of MCN's now, and she's my 2nd favourite... the pop ins are my fave, but they're not exciting as far as prints etc

Yules - thanks so much for your lovely wall post about Carmelo today

GM - Deacons photos are lovely I was looking at them today & noticed how well he sits on his own! Carmelo has been sitting by himself for a few weeks... but he's still quite wobbly... and once he sees a toy he wants, he usually ends up face first into the carpet

Big to everyone else!

As for us... Carmelo is doing perfectly
My goodness.... he has found his voice in the last week, so he is all day talking to himself... and not so quietly, lol! I was on the phone to my mum last night and had to walk into the next room because I couldn't hear!
He is such a happy little man, even when he first wakes and is still groggy, he's smiling while he's rubbing his eyes.. he's just so beautiful.

I had him weighed last week and he weighs 7.22kgs... which is fantastic considering we started at 2.8kgs! He's almost on the 50% band now (well for his corrected age!)

As far as solids go, I let him fiddle (BLS) but I give him the puree as well... at the moment he's 2 meals a day. Its not really puree as such, in the morning he has porridge and I mix through either some mashed banana or some fruit from the tins... there's always lumps, though.
He likes sucking on vegemite toast/bread afterwards.
For dinner, I've been making my own for him - steamed mixed vegies (carrot, broccoli, zucchini, pumpkin, potato, beans, mushroom), and then blending it loosely so its still a little chunky. I mix through some grated cheese with it in the mixer.
Last week I pan fried some chicken in olive oil and then blended that up (came out like bread crumbs) and mixed that through the vegies and cheese... Carmelo loved it! I try to make up enough to last 3-4 days so I can keep it in the fridge and then just reheat at dinner time.

He's still not a brilliant sleeper... but doing much better!!!
His last feed is at 10pm, and then he'll either go down for the night until about 7am, or if he wakes, its only once at about 4.30am... and then will sleep through til about 9am.
Most nights he's waking for that 4.30am feed.... but last week he slept through 4 nights in a row (my stupid body woke up still at 4.30am... augh!).

Hoping everyone is doing wonderfully xoxoxo

[Doodlebug]

Hi girls!

Holly - yup, it was me who asked about the nappy, I've seen a few of hers and wondered what they're like, they look awesome! Might have to see if I can sneak another one into my stash!!!

GM - Those photos are gorgeous! They're going to look fantastic framed and up on a wall, I absolutely LOVE the montage one with all the different pics, I reckon I'd put that up as it is! Such a gorgeous mixture of photos! Helps that the subject is super cute too!

Sunshine - hang in there hun, I have no advice for you that you haven't already heard, but we're all here to listen if you want to have a whinge about it all, and bloody hell girl, you deserve it!!!!

Peanutter - your post could have been mine re: Josh's milestones a week ago! In one week Logan has decided he can roll all over the place, bear weight on his legs and sit up! Not sitting up for long periods of time but a good few minutes here and there without toppling over. Josh will do it in his own time, my ds1 didn't crawl until 11.5mts, he didn't sit up unassisted until 9mts. He manages to walk and talk just fine! Although I would love some peace and quiet sometimes!

Ellie - Hi hun! How's it all going? Glad to hear the PND is under control and there's light at the end of the tunnel for you!

Christmas - I've found it super hard this year, we still have most of the big things from James so no need to buy them for Logan. But I've had soooo much fun finding 'differen't things for Logan! He's getting a sock monkey from Bubbamia (I think that's where it's from), a Rainstick Tower and some Blocks from The Natural Newborn, A wooden car from EcoToys and a Fisher Price letter box thingy. I had a ball buying different bits and pieces that I didn't buy for James coz I did't know they were out there! James however is another story, 2 mts ago when it was his birthday all he wanted was Ninja Turtle everything, so we bought him some stuff, didn't want to overdo it so we put some away for Christmas...... now that it's Christmas, apparently TMNT is so last season, it's all about Scooby-Doo now!!!! Bugger!! Santa didn't get that memo and is still bringing TMNT stuff!!! hahahaha!!!!

Hope you girls are all surviving the crazy season! We've had 3 Chrissy bbq's so far, have 2 kindy concerts this week, 1 class end of term party, plus a birthday party on Saturday. And because my dh works in retail he's pretty much never around this time of year so I get to drag 2 kids around to it all on my own! Poo!!!!

Anyway, better go, I have about 15mins left of peace and quiet to go have a cup of tea before the day starts!

[YoYo]

OMG Holly NOT a brilliant sleeper.....hmmmmm....sounds pretty brilliant to me! I had Darcie next to me last night and from about 2 to 4:30 she was rolling around....saying 'mum, mum, mum' and pinching my arms and my face! She's such a live wire!

[Doodlebug]

On another note... how do I add a photo to my ticker???

[YoYo]

Reduce the size of a pic you like first...then when you're in Lilypie there is a spot where you can add an image

[Peta]

Hi Chatterbugs!!
It seems everytime I disappear for a day or two the conversation takes off.....what are you telling me?!
Christmas - Alyssa is getting a few things, so far I have a teddy (got it free with a mag subscription), a little backpack & a Say Please teaset. I'm sure she is going to be spoilt by her grandparents & Aunty so am not too worried about what to get her. Mostly i have tried to get things that she will be able to use.
Not much else happening here really. Been home all week so very boring. Speak soon.

[Hollybolly]

OMG Holly NOT a brilliant sleeper.....hmmmmm....sounds pretty brilliant to me! I had Darcie next to me last night and from about 2 to 4:30 she was rolling around....saying 'mum, mum, mum' and pinching my arms and my face! She's such a live wire!

I read it back and realised how great it sounds, lol! He's only started that pattern in the last 2 weeks... but after I did that post, he's been back to waking 2-3 times a night

I'm really noticing how much he is growing up the last week... I don't want it to go too quickly!!!

[YoYo]

I know I can't beleive how quickly it's going too....SLOW DOWN babies! Although I think Max can't wait till he can play with Darcie properly! Neither can I! Hopefully they'll entertain eachother nicely so I don't have to play cars, lawnmowers, etc from the crack of dawn till 7 every day!

DH gets back from Singas on Sunday....WOO HOO! Feels like it's been AGES! (well it has!) Max is so excited! The house in Singa got packed up yesterday and was finished today....so it's all officially on its way to Jersey now! EEEEK! Just got Visas to go now!