Babies born~May 1st-15th 2010 #2

Morning All

Marnikat - I forgot I can't do this monday anyway, E has his needles. I'm not sure about Tuesday yet, I will have to wait and see. But it sounds good.

E has been getting into a great routine, going to bed at about 8pm, then waking at 4ish...so thats a good 8 hour sleep. Just wish I could get into bed at 8.30...lol. I'm a bit scared about how he'll go after his needles, because Cooper was awful with needles and teething....altho he was a very demanding baby from conception...I had a pretty hectic/rough pregnancy with him. And it stil hasn't stopped...lol. E is easy and content with most things, and if I could guarantee all my babies from here on in would be like him, I'd have at least 1 more...lol

Anyway, hope you're all coping ok, sorry to hear about all those babies with reflux! My hard child is 3 now, and I know all about slepepless nights and terrible apins and so forth,...E is a dream baby!

Hi all

Well we had the best night we have had in quite awhile May stayed asleep after my last post slept 6 hrs got up fed her and then settled down like a gem and slept another 6 hours and we all slept in so got some much needed sleep i feel good today.
Not much planned here today mum will come this afternoon and stay then tommorrow one of the older children will go for a holiday with her for a few days so that will be good.
other then that a quiet one here.

Sleepy- glad to hear E is sleeping well for you.

better run will BBL takecare and enjoy your weekend.

Hi Ladies!

I've just been trying to catch up on the last 6 pages (its not going well!).
So I'm gonna start anew!

Its been so hectic in my house of late that I just haven't had a chance to sit and post/read!

Boyo has had bronchitis, Kaylee has bronchiolitis, has had shocking issues with her reflux, and is still having issues with her UTI.

I don't have alot of news as such other than I had to make the heartbreaking decision to give up breast feeding....heartbreaking because DH is adamant that we won't be having any more children so this is the last time I was ever going to breast feed.
Kaylee had ended up on daily medication for her reflux (as did Benjamin at the same age), and wasn't feeding overly well.
When I sat and thought about it, it was when we took Benjamin off his reflux meds and put him on formula that his reflux virtually disappeared, and he was a happy bub.
So, I decided to try the same thing with Kaylee...she's now been on formula for 9 days, and has not had her medication for reflux for the last 6 days.
I put a little (less than half what the can says) food thickener in her formula, and she is as good as gold!

In a nutshell we are as follows:
Clothes: Still in newborn size
Nappies: Still in newborn size, but once the harness is off (hopefully monday, though more likely than not, another 6 weeks), we'll be going with the mcn's
Routine: Last feed around 6pm, then sleeps til between 2 and 3, then awake around 8am. She's basically on 10, 2 and 6 feeds, with some slight tweaking throughout each day (and she takes 110ml of formula)

Oh and she's currently on ventolin (with the worlds smallest spacer and mask!) because the bronchiolitis has caused a wheeze.

I will pop back later to check on you all!

Hi all
Just a quickie before turning in.

BW - sorry you've been having such a tough time. Great news that Kaylee seems to be doing better reflux-wise. It must have been tough deciding to stop bfing, but if she's happier now then that's all that matters.

Caplay - hope you had a good day with your mum around.

Sleepy - sounds like E is going great guns re. sleep!

Sorry I haven't caught up on older posts, hi to everyone else. Hope you're having a good weekend.

AFM: E has been doing really well at night. Last night she slept from 8:30-4:45 then fed then went back down till 8am. That's our best night yet. She's still having issues with daytime sleeps in her bed. Today she had 2 sleeps - 45mins each and no amount of resettling was getting her to have more, then she had 2hrs in the hugabub this arvo. I know it's what she naturally wants, I just have to run with it for a bit and keep trying with her bed sleeps. We've all had colds here the last couple of days, but thankfully only mild so fingers crossed we're sniffle free in a couple of days.

Better get some sleep in case tonight isn't one of her best efforts :) Sweet dreams to all.

BW - Sorry to hear that you are having a rough time. Hopefully everything will start to go a bit smoother for you now!

PM - Hope that you had another great night with E and her cold doesn't get any worse!

Cap - Yay on the sleep! You must have felt like a new woman!!!

Sleepy - Good luck with E's needles tomorrow!
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The medication has made a huge difference to Phoebe. She will now sleep and settle much more easily. We even get a couple of hours out of her during the day. She is only happy sleeping on her belly though! At the moment she is still in bed with us at night but I am going to get the angelcare monitor so I can put her in there at night and feel better about her being on her belly. Does anyone have one? Are they good? Well I better go fold some washing while I can!

Just a quick one from me, follow up tests from Kaylees uti show that she has a bladder infection, so here I sit at the hospital awaiting further news!

Hope she is better soon! Will they admit her for IV antibiotics?

marni - we've got an angelcare monitor and I love it. It made me feel so much more at ease with Annabelle about putting her to sleep on her stomach. We stopped using the sensor pads once she started rolling as she would roll away from them and set it off, but think it's great as a normal monitor too. Heaps of range and rechargable which saves heaps on batteries. We got a cheapie (ha!) for A's room when we had E because she's down the back of the house, and have spent so much in batteries already as it's not rechargable. We've had our angelcare for 2 yrs now and it's still going strong. I love that it has a temp sensor on it too. Would definitely recommend it.

BW - fingers crossed Kaylee is in good health soon!

AFM: another great night, just a shame she is hopeless at napping during the day! Since when was half an hour a sleep cycle!

Hi ladies

BW- I hope everything is ok with bubs.

Marni- Am glad to hear the medication for the reflux is helping with the day naps.

PM-Sorry to hear E isnt sleeping much in the day.

AFM- Well we had another great night last night fed at 9:30pm back down in own bed by 10:00pm and slept till 4:00am took a little bit to settle at this feed but then went back down and i gotta sleep in cause my darling mum got up with all the kids oh how much i love her.
So that is 2 nights in a row we have fed at 9ish and she hasnt really woke up during the feed and just goes straight back down lets hope we repeat this again tonight.
May has cradle cap in her eyebrows all my kids seem to get this and always in the eyebrows never on the head she also has that hormone rash over her face,neck,head.

Anyway i better go feed the kids only got the three at home now as mum took oldest DD home with her

takecare and hope everyone is well

Quick post tonight - DH is having a shower with B atm, so I only have 5 mins or so!

BW - Wow, you guys sure have had a rough trot! It's no wonder we haven't heard from you. I hope that K recovers quickly and that she gets her harness off tomorrow also (it would be one less thing for you to worry about). Sending you lots of good vibes:pray:

Sleepy - Hope the needles go well.

pmccask- B's sleeping pattern sounds almost identical, though we had a good sleep (1.5hrs) yesterday because we were in the car!

I hope everyone's reflux isssues sort themselves out soon. Try reading some of the threads on reflux babies. I found them really helpful and they made me realise B is exremely lucky and doesn't actually have anything like true reflux.

AFM - Am packing it because DH goes back to work tomorrow and I have no idea how I'll cope all day on my own! Our renovations also start tomorrow so we will be hit with a concrete cutter in the morning - yippee, not! Am hoping to time that with a trip to do the groceries so we don't have to listen to it.

Hi all...sorry I havent been posting, my internet keeps dropping out. it seems to be doing awesome tonight so I am quickly getting on.
So happy to hear that Kaylee got her harness off. She must be loving it and it will be awesome for getting her wind up.

Monitors - I dont have one so cannot unfortunately give any advice,
Reflux - I dont think Zen has it...lucky, lucky me
Needles - Zen had his today and has slept most of the day...hope he still sleeps tonight. just in case I napped today.

Will do some personals soon, little man is wanting cuddles...and he is getting as many as he wants today.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

We are Harness free!!!! Kaylee got the all clear today and no longer has to wear her harness!
Now we just need to get the all clear regarding bladder and urinary tract infections tomorrow and I'll be in heaven!

OOH AND I was one of the lucky random winners in the Itti Bitti photo comp on facebook, I won a trial pack! So stoked cause I've been waiting for the harness to come off to switch to the itti's full time! Such good timing to win some!

BW- Thats so great to here she got the harness off and i hope you get positive results regarding the UTI etc and congrats on winning.

Just a quick one from me May has been alot better this week still taking abit to long to settle sometimes but last 2 nights once settled has slept 7-8hrs straight through so cant complain i just hope the needles dont muck things up to much we are off today for them DD 18mths also has to have hers so could be an interesting night.
May is growing so fast i cant beleiev how quick time flies by she will be all grown up before we know it.
We are a little concerned about her eyes as our first DD had turned eyes and we went on with patching from 9 mths and then had surgery at around 2yrs old to straighten them and have still been going on and off with patching etc with them and she is 7yrs old now. I know babies eyes wander when newborns but Mays are alot like first DD's when she was that age proberly worse then what hers were and they never came right till we had them fixed i really think May might of got that gene also but only time will tell but i really dont expect them to come right just by the way they are anyway fingers crossed.

Anyway i better go get organised will take me forever to do so

takecare and hope all mums and bubs are well.

Hi All

I changed E's appointment to Friday. I wasn't feeling great yesterday, and with Cooper at daycare on Friday, it'll make it easier. It's Cooper's birthday today. He is a big 3! So we've got a busy day ahead.

BW - That's fantastic news about K! Hope everything else with the infection is ok too.

Caplay - I hope you have a peaceful night tonight after all injections! It's nice to have good block of sleep :)

As for us, we've just been hanging around, taking it easy. Last week if school holidays, so enjoying the most of the rest that we can. Once school starts again it's back to busy routines. So I'd better go, and get ready. Cooper wants to go to the park.

Cap - Maybe just get May's eyes checked for your own peace of mind. But yay on the sleeping! If she is going that long overnight then you can manage anything during the day.

BW - Wow, what a fantastic day for you!! I'm so happy that you can give Little Lady proper snuggles now! Hopefully there will be no further issues.

Tina - Needles are sad hey? Phoebe's cry just about broke my heart :(

JLeigh - How are you going?

I can't believe that my baby is 10 weeks old on Friday. Sadder still is that she is too long for some 000 bodysuits so I am washing 00 ready. She holds her head up so well though and loves watching Tiana! The Zantac is really helping and once I buy the Angelcare monitor I am going to put her in her bed at night too. I just can't put her on her belly in bed while I am asleep. Hope that everyone is having a good week!

Cap-May - I dont have Zen in with me at nights but I occasionally bring him in after his 5amish feed and place him on my side. i am completely aware he is there, i dont put him in the middle in case DH roles on him though. Fingers crossed May's eyes correct automatically, is it much trouble to have them corrected? I think you wrote about DD also having wandering eyes?

Traylee - I really feel with you on the needles, Zen had his and it makes you feel like an ax murderer, holding their little legs while they get two massive needles jammed in them :( Zen slept all day and didnt feed anywhere near as much either so it sounds all normal.

Sleepy - did the BM work for the conjunctivitis?

Marni - yippee for more settled sleeps! it must make you feel like a new woman.

JLeigh - I braved the Big W toy sale and it was painful. Aisles to narrow and they blocked off the ends of half the aisles for the layby lineup! Zen hardly sleeps through tthe day - he does 20min powernaps but still sleeps well at night and will amuse himself for quite a while during the day.

PMC - WHile Zen doesnt do big sleeps he can be left for periods of time and amuses himself...I'd be at my wits end if I had to hold him etc whenever he was awake

BW - Yippee for Kaylee getting her harness off, now to clear up the uti and life will be sweet. Congrats on winning the comp and getting the trial pack!

Teething - I've had 3ppl ask me if Zen is teething. He has a white spot on the gum, drools constantly and has red spots on his cheeks...I have no idea. If he is he is being really good about it lol.

Brissie Meetup - how about Tuesday 20 July at either Southbank or the cafe in the Library (cnr George and Adelaide Streets) 10am (ish)

Hope everyone has a great day.

Hi to Tiff and anyone else I have left out...yuck...just heard something gooey come out of Zens bottom lol...off to change him

TinaR - Breast milk works a treat for conjunctivitis. I think that's an ok day for a meet up, but I think I have an inspection either that day or the next...I'll have a look.

Morning everyone, I've been MIA since DH is home and we're trying to organise stuff for the house & move. I've been trying to keep up reading though :)

BW - A big YAHOO on K getting her harness off, fingers crossed for an all clear on test results tomorrow. Lucky thing on winning itti comp - what size is K in, I've got two smalls for A (she's a pipsqueak too at 4.7kgs) and they seem to leak everytime she has them on.

Jleigh - How did you survive your first day on your own?

Sleepy - Did the breast milk work for E's eye? A had a yucky eye so I was squirting it in but didn't do anything so we went to doc's who said it was most likely a blocked tear duct but prescribed drops anyway........drops cleared up eye so who knows.

Marni - Great to hear the Zantac is help P and she is a lot more settled for you.

Caplay & PM - Wow sounds like you are getting some great sleep out of your little ones :)

A big hello to everyone else, hope you are all doing great.

Not much to report here, A is still sleeping like a champion right through the night and did her next best effort yet last night - she went down at 9.45pm and I woke her up at 8.15 this morning, had a feed and back down for another couple of hours. Well better get my butt into gear, nearly finished sorting through my boxes of cr*p that I had packed up last time and have been sitting stacked in the old bathroom that is half demolished and off to hair dresser this afternoon :)