Babies born~November 1st-15th 2009 #1

[porkbackribs]

lou I think arching the back can be a sign of tiredness as well so it might not be a sore belly...... Anyone else know this for sure??? I'm still pretty new to all this like many of us are!!

Hi Emma,

I'm still pretty new to this stuff also but yes I believe that is right -

• Irritability
• Glassy eyes and looking away
• Finger-splaying or saluting
• Squirming appearing to sit on air
• Back and neck arching
• Frantic jerky movements
• Tongue thrusting
• Grimacing frowning and grunting
• Yawning sneezing hiccups
• Paleness mottling flushing and bluish colour around the mouth
• Changes in vital signs
• Gagging or spitting-up

Full information on baby cues is located at Baby Cues - What Is My Baby Saying? I know that it helped DW and myself.

AFM - Mary still has not adjusted to outside life quite yet, still having awful trouble at night time especially for DW - I seem to have this frustrating ability once I'm asleep to stay asleep no matter what happens which I know utterly annoys (rightly so) DW. We traveled into the city to register DD birth & did the medicare thing last week so she is all organised. Just need to get child care arranged and we are done (should have orangised that before she was born ) .

[emma8108]

PBR you sound like my husband. He can sleep through her crying while I'm feeding/burping her in bed next to him but I closed the window the other night and he was up in no time ready to fight off the robbers Something tells me he's just trying to get out of the night time nappy changes.......

How's everyone else going?? Little miss is much more settled this week and getting better each day. T?hink I'm just learning more and how to deal with her. Now if we could just fix the 2 lots of witching hour from about 8 - 10 in the morning and 6 - 9 at night it would be perfect....... Maybe another couple of weeks.

Hope you're all enjoying lots of cuddles with your babies!!

[~me~]

Well..here I go again Posted a little while ago and it went missing when I went to update! Will copy before I press reply this time round

Hi!

It's going to be busy in here..seems like 1-15th November was a popular time to have a baby. I will try and keep up with all the personals..see how I go. I am sure as the weeks roll on we will hopefully get know each other by first name.

James: You sound like my DH (Bernie). He wakes up in the morning and asks me how my night was

Emma: Wow a 40hr labour, how exhausted you must have been by the end of it! Love a talented pooher..they make life interesting. Tess had a poo in the bath last night..needless to say it was a speedy exit

Bumb4me: Glad we can keep in touch, you only miss the thread through a technicality.

Lou: I'm with Barbara...I vote you in too!

A question for Melthekiwimum: Tess's belly cord bit came off the other night. My DH works with a New Zealander and she said they eat it! Have you heard that before?

Hi to everyone else..I am sure we will get to know each other very well over the next coming weeks, months and for however long we keep posting. It's nice to see familiar names from Babies due thread.

AFM: Well, Tess came shooting down the birth canal at 20.55 Sunday 15th Nomvember. I was induced with my waters being broken at 4:30-5pm and labour started straight away so it was very quick..glad I got the epidural in nice and quick. I am sure the OB and MW thought it was going to be well past midnight before I gave birth but little Miss had other ideas I only had 20mins of pushing and thanks to my OB she came out on her own with no internvention using forceps or suction (first time for me). I ended up with a small 3rd degree tear as there was no time for the episiotomy. It's healing well and I had some physio treatment in hospital on the area. I was grateful of my 5day stay in hospital (I had a private room) as I could keep off my bottom for most of the time
Tess is settling well..doing about 3-4hr stretches and sometimes longer. She appears to have her brother's easy going temperament so far, let's hope it continues. She was born with a sticky eye so I have had her to the GP already, just need to keep it clean and try breast milk in it for a while. Her belly cord bit came off last night thank goodness as it was starting to smell a bit rancid.
My DH goes back to work tomorrow, I still need to try and take it easy as things are still a little tender. I am finding the bleeding comes and goes depending on how much I do..anyone finding this? I am finding the night time feeds ok..I am actually getting more sleep now than when I was pregnant as I sleep soundly inbetween Tess waking up. We are currently putting all our CD's on our Itunes on the PC something that requires no exertion for me!
My two boys are very smitten with Tess as we all are. My youngest Ben has finally managed to start referring to her as Tess instead of sister..he was struggling to remember her name. My DH is amazed at the sea of pink that has come into the house after having two boys!

Well I think I have rambled on enough Be back soon.

Hope everyone is enjoying lots of kisses and cuddles with their new little ones I love hearing the squeaks, grunts and groans a newborn makes.

Heather
xx

[~me~]

Quiet in here

I hope that means everyone is travelling along well and just too busy enjoying lots of kisses and cuddles with their little ones

All is still going well here. Tess has lost some of the puffiness she had as a brand new born, still has those cheeks though
She is a very easy going baby and so far is treating us all very well. She is starting to smile and really looks at you when you put her close to your face. Her eye is getting better, I actually managed to squeeze some breast milk in today direct from the feed as she stopped and the milk kept going so I took advantage and got a direct hit! Hopefully that will help.
I am really back into the swing of things, we have just put up our Christmas tree with my boys helping to decorate. As of Monday my DH (Bernie) is back into the full work routine so I will be doing school drop off and pick up and all the other things that I would normally do. He will be home very late as he has a work do on so I will be travelling solo for the first time doing dinner, bath and bed for 6yr old, 3yr old and newborn, phew! We have been doing some major re-arranging to make room for Miss Tess's wardrobe! I have a very generous sister inlaw who has given me clothes for Tess for then next 3yrs!! All UK designer stuff (she is Irish and get's most of things from Ireland and the US).

Hope to hear how everyone else is doing soon..

Heather
xx

[Snowy Love]

Hi, I'd better join in. Isaac was born 12th Nov and apart from the 3am scream is going very well. Loves his baths, unlike his brother as a newborn, i jokingly say that's cause he was born into water, but more likely just 'cause he's a different person.

3am he's inconsolable, doesn't want a feed, I change the nappy, try singing, rocking etc then half a hour has passed and he's happy to lie down & have a feed & go back to sleep. Just wants to keep me on my toes. I don't think you could sleep through the screaming. DH is in with DS1 at that time & he wakes, but has to keep/get DS1 asleep so can't help.

[Jen27]

Heather: hi glad to see Tess made it out safely. It must be hard work with 2 children and now a newborn, its hard enough for us with just a newborn!. I also had a 3rd degree tear. Did you get any tears with the boys? (just interested to know as Jasmine is my first, so wondering if I will tear with my next ones .... I guess it depends).

Emma, glad to see Alyssa is more settled

porkbackribs, thanks for posting the link, it was helpful to read about baby cues

HI and welcome to the thread everyone else I hope you are all enjoying your bubs

Our girl is doing well. Shes feeding well, and most of the time sleeps well. BUT she is VERY unsettled in the evening atm. Shes grizzly all evening and when we try to put her down in her bassinet she cries. We try putting her in when shes asleep, and also have tried putting her in awake. The process goes on for hours. Its odd as she always goes down very easily for her day sleeps, and once she is actually down in the evening (well more like 12am lately!), she only wakes through the night to feed. She has a quick feed, nappy change...then straight back to sleep again.

We have the health nurse coming here tomorrow. I am interested to see how much Jasmine weighs now. I think shes around 5kg or more. She was born at 4.1kg and out of newborn nappies in 2 weeks. Shes in 00 wondersuits and 000 in the target clothes. shes a big girl.

Ohh talking about nappies.... we where using the huggies newborn, but they didnt fit her after two weeks old. Now we are onto the infant. Is anyone else using these? how do they fit your baby? They seem really loose on Jasmines legs, so they have leaked a couple of times. But They fit her around the belly.

How is everyone else going?

[GoingtobebiginAsia]

Hi Jen. Your post made me laugh. Poppy put on half a kilo in a week and a half and I can't stop thinking how chubby she looks now. She's all cheeks and fat arms.... at 3.7 kilos! I can't imagine how humungous she's going to look at 5kg.
Heather, I just can't believe it's possible to manage three kids. How do you do it? I'd love to see a pic of Tess and her cheeks now.
Snowylove - I hear you on the 3am screams. Except Poppy doesn't seem to have a set time for her unreasonableness.
B4M, PBR, Mel, Beans, Lou, Nattyfred - hope you are all traveling well. I hope you find some time for some updates soon.
DP and I watched an interesting video at the newborn drop in clinic on Friday. It was an American video called something like "The Happiest Baby on the Block". It was about how the first three months should be considered the fourth trimester and the baby should be considered a fetus. The presenter went through five S's to trigger newborns' calming reflex - shusshing, swaddling, swinging, sucking and I can't remember the fifth one. After watching the video, DP is a big fan of swaddling/wrapping but I really don't think Poppy likes it. Plus its too hot today. She seems to sleep best with her hands above her head and when she's wrapped she really struggles to get her hands free.
We also went out and bought a dummy. We had been using our fingers, letting her suck on our pinky to calm her down while we prepared a bottle but I was getting a bit worried about my dad sticking his dirty fingers in her mouth. I think the dummy is a cleaner option. She seems to really like having a bit of suck. She gets a very determined look on her face and makes some very determined noises. If we offer the bottle she gets cranky and cries so I think we'll use the dummy for not. Although I'm not sure I want to be seen in public with it in her mouth!

[Jen27]

I'm getting another chance at writing on here while DH settles dd

Hi GTBBIA while I was pregnant I bought lots of swaddle wraps for dd knowing I wanted to wrap her, to make her secure. But she has other ideas. Like Poppy, I think dd prefers not to be swaddled, she seems to love sleeping with her arms above her head too, especially in this heat (33 degrees today). swaddling doesn't seem to make a difference to how long she sleeps or wakes anyway. I do still swaddle sometimes, but I find she fights it, until her arms are out, then she relaxes.
Thats great that Poppy put on a kilo and a half, what a great weight gain!
Jasmine came out weighing 4.1 kilos, the first thing the midwife said was 'oh my god, shes chubby, look at her arms and legs with rolls of fat on.'. I kept getting told through pregnancy how 'small' I looked. Even the doctor and midwife where suprised when she came out. I must have hid her well.



I was videoing dd with my digital camera today, to show my mum. (dd was wearing clothes my mum got her, and mum lives in england), and by chance Jasmine smiled! yay good timing. she kept smiling a few times. so cute.
I told my MIL last week that dd was smiling. she laughed it off and said 'its wind'!.... think she thought I was a bit silly,she didnt believe me until she came round that night and held dd and she was smiling.

I think DH has settled dd so probably a good idea for me to get some sleep while I can. Hope everyone has a good sleep tonight.!

[emma8108]

What a morning!!!! Little miss stubborn slept from 9 last night (when the witching hour ends - we scream from about 5 or 6 to 9 every day) to nearly 3 this morning (which was very nice) but then only had another 2 hour naps between then and when I finally got her to sleep at 10:30!! Very tiring for both of us......... But the main thing is we got there!

Jen I feel sorry for you that your witching hour goes to midnight. Don't think I could handle it. I'm getting to like her 5 hour sleep of a night time!

I've been trying to work out for a week if Alyssa's smiling. Everyone keeps telling me it's wind to, but I'm sure at least some of them are smiles. And DH had her this morning and told me she smiled at him (trust her to smile at him first when I feed her, get up of a night time and comfort her through the witching hour every night). Was good she smiled at him though, he was starting to think she hated him because by the time he gets home from work the witching hour has well and truely started

Apart from that everything is going well. I've relaxed quite a bit and she's feeding really well. We even got out to a bbq at a friends on Saturday without too many hassles.

Jen and GTBBIA ALyssa loves having her hands free as well and patting herself on the face, but she does like to be wrapped as well. I've been wrapping her and keeping one hand out just enought to touch her face and she seems to sleep better. Takes her a long time to go to sleep if she has her hands out. I think they're too much of a distraction...

Heather, good luck!! Sounds like a big job. One is definately enough for me at the moment. altough DH said to me the other day that he doesn't want to be doing this again after we're 30 (we're both 28 at the moment). Hopefully he realises that will probably be easier than having 2 under 2!! Plus don't know that I'm ready to see the inside of a delivery room for a while yet!!

Jen, we've gone to infant as well because all of Alyssa's extra weight seems to be accumulating on her legs. They come so far up her body thogh and are stil loose around the legs. Couldn't keep using the newborns though so we'll just have to hope for the best on the explosions

That's about all for now. Time for lunch before someone decides they're hungry.

[Bub4me]

GTBBIA:
Yes, "Happiest Baby on the Block", I think it's by Dr Harvey Karp (here's the website: The Happiest Baby On The Block). There's also "Happiest Toddler on the Block". He has a book, a CD (with just white noise I think) and a DVD. When we lived in the States one of my girlfriends was into all this. We've both since moved back here, and I borrowed the book, but never got around to reading it. She has told me some of the things, and they do seem to work, but I never got into the whole thing. DH and I use the Sushing, but not as 'violently' as he seems to (we say Shh, Shh, Shh) and Ava really responds to it. In the States people swear by it -- it's almost like the Dr Spock following. As I said, his stuff really does seem to work for settling babies, maybe I should look into it more. What did you think of the rest of the video? Have you tried anything else when Poppy has been upset?

As for swaddling, Ava still needs it I think. She prefers to sleep with her arms above her head too, and sometimes in the night we can hear little grunts as she tries to work her way free. I have "bargained" with her (and of course she listened and agreed ), and I swaddle her with one arm in and one arm out. That arm goes straight above her head, and she really does seem to settle better. When both arms are out she startles herself easily, and can't always settle herself back to sleep. This way she sleeps more soundly. I have been bringing her bassinette out into the lounge room where it's airconditioned (not always practical, but it's just me or me and DH home, so we don't have to worry about other children/people disturbing her) so I can still swaddle her. She is a hot baby (DH's whole family are hot bodies), so I feel better about her being in the cool (she's kind of tucked behind an internal wall so she's not in the direct line of the flow) and swaddled up.

Hi to everyone else. I'm glad that more and more babies are smiling!! Ava has smiled a bit, but not on command very often. She laughs (sometimes on command) tho', which I love even more than the smiles.

AFM - Am trying to find a new approach to Ava's bed time. She generally still is a good sleeper, for a 6 week old. She'll generally feed ~9-10pm then wake once around 1-2am, then sleep till ~5am, have another feed then sleep till around 8-10am (depending on if she's had a bit of awake time at the 5-6am feed, sometimes she has breakfast with us in her bouncy and we wave goodbye to Daddy before another feed and back to bed around 7). So I'm not too upset about the nights in general. She has had 2 nights (out of 6 weeks - not bad) where she was awake for 2 hours in the middle of the night, but she wasn't upset, she just wasn't asleep. So she lay on the lounge beside me and had some kicking time, watching the reflection of the lights on the cars go by outside till she was ready to go to sleep again. So that's all good. Her day time naps aren't too bad. She could probably sleep more some days (yesterday she was up at 5:30, then slept 9-10, then 11:30-2:00 and that was it!!), but if she's not cranky and unsettle-able, then I don't worry too much. She's generally quite happy during the day and will sleep if she needs to. BUT -- the last couple of nights, bedtime has been terrible. Last night she was awake 2:00 and didn't go to bed till 9:00, the night before she woke at 4:30pm and didn't go to bed till 11:30, and both these nights she has been over tired and just screamed most of the evening. It's exhausting for all of us, and poor DH only gets to see this side of her since he works during the day. She wants to feed but she doesn't, she wants to be held but she doesn't... she doesn't know what she wants. It's different to her witching hour which (touch wood) we haven't really seen in the last week or two. I think DH and I need to work on more of a calming bedtime routine for her -- rather than in between getting dinner then eating in shifts and trying to settle her at the same time. I am reading "The no-cry sleep solution" which I'm not sure I would buy if I was going out to buy a book, but a friend had given me her old baby books when I was pregnant, so I had it here and just picked it up. I do agree with some of the stuff it says so far tho', altho' not sure I really want to put Ava on a sleeping "program" right now. Will make a couple of changes and see how it goes this week. I don't mind if she goes to bed later if she's happy and doesn't seem tired, but she's clearly exhausted, over exhausted, and she's developed a screaming cry in the past 4 nights that I haven't heard from her before, so we have to do something. Maybe "The Happiest Baby on the Block"?

Wish us luck....

[lou123]

hi everyone

I wrote a long post last night and then lost it all...so annoying. Anyway, will start again!

Heather - great to see you here! Tess is absolutely gorgeous, those cheeks are so squeezable. I agree that Baby Love is a great book.

Emma, PBR, Bub4Me, Jen - I can empathise on the unsettled bubs!! I've heard that the first 12 weeks are the hardest, I hope that's true. Barb's recommendation of 'The Happiest Baby on the Block' ideas is working for me. This clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddRkI5wVIqQ shows the 5 S's. Hope it helps

GTBIA - Glad to hear the beautiful Poppy is doing well. Is DH still in Oz at the moment? It must be so nice having an extra hand. I'm also a dummy convert - it's made a big difference for Thomas. I know what you mean about the look of them though. Sometimes Thomas looks like he has a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth, he doesn't actually suck it, just leaves it on the side. Other times he sucks it really vigorously like chewing gum. Yuck. But it does help him settle.

Thanks PBR for the list of tired signs. My little boy shows all those signs lots of the time, but then doesn't actually go to sleep. It's like he has forgotten how to go from tired to sleep. I rock, swaddle, sway, bounce, remove all stimulation - I've tried everything apart from actually sticking his eyes closed with glue!! Yesterday he stayed awake for 12 hours straight - that is not an exaggeration. The day before he did 10 hours. It sends me crazy, the poor boy gets so overtired and grizzly. I've tried walking with him in the pram, baths...sometimes he gets to sleep but only lasts 20 mins. The nights are okay so I suppose that is some consolation. Today is a new day so I hope he goes back to the sleepy old Thomas from the first 3 weeks!!

Anyway, he is starting to wake up again now so I'd better go. Hope you're all enjoying your bubs and getting lots of lovely cuddles.
Lou xx

[Jen27]

hi

here are some photos of my girl if you would like to see her? Thought I would show her off

Jenny Lynch's Photos - Jasmine Eve, our gorgeous baby girl | Facebook

Emma; good to see you got out to a friends bbq. We went out a couple of times when Jasmine was around 2 weeks old... but might be a bit harder now shes 4 weeks and a bit more unsettled!

Bub4me good idea with the one arm out, I didnt think about that. Maybe I will try it too

Lou grr its annoying losing posts isnt it! I have done it many times. I'd like to watch the clip you posted but it will probably make my computer die. (can only have dial up internet here!). Wow your boy up for 12 hours! he must like to have fun, party boy! hope he sleeps more for you soon

[beansbeans!]

Hello ladies and bubs;

Sorry I have been rather quiet thus far, but I have been reading everyones posts.
Harper will be 4 weeks tomorrow, and my goodness the time has gone by so quickly!! She is very different to Maya, DD1. She is the most amazing sleeper. She sleeps in 6 hr blocks, and rarely cries, instead she wakes me by chatting and she just gets a little louder if I dont get her soon enough. Maya on the otherhand has always been a terrible sleeper. I think Maya had heard about the 3hr space between feeds. Which was fine because that frequency wa expected but, Maya decided that the 3hr countdown began at the start of her feed which lasted an hour, then she would sleep for 2hrs and be back up again for another feed! So this time round its nice to get a break from such frequency!
The stretch of time between feeds doesnt seem to bother Harper too much, she putting on heaps of weight and is so happy and content.
But Maya just loves her little sis so much too! She is so willing to help with everything, and she makes sure that everyone knows about her. She is Harper's best protector!

back soon

Justine

[GoingtobebiginAsia]

Jen, the photos are adorable.
Just logged on for a bit of a whinge. Since 7pm last night Poppy has been crying just about every hour. We feed her, she drifts off to sleep. We put her down, she wakes up and starts to grizzle. I am so sick of holding her. It was so hot yesterday and I'm just so tired now. I have to go to the post office soon to lodge her passport application (so we can return to Vietnam as scheduled). And I'm sure I've stuffed up the application cos I'm just so tired. This is about the third time this has happened.
So... end of rant. Thanks for reading.

[~me~]

Me too! Last night I tried and it wouldn't let me in

Jen: I had an episotomy with both boys and nearly had one with Tess but she came too quickly. So the tear I had was only 5 stitches long. I have a friend who had a tear with her first and not on her 2nd or 3rd so I guess it depends on the labour you have? My OB also was stretching the perineum during the pushing stage to help avoid too much tearing or an episotomy, seems to have helped. There is a Mw theory that a tear heals better and an OB(depends on OB) theory that the epis heals better. I tend to agree with the MW after having experienced both.

Hi Lou

Thanks Bub4me..going to have a look at that happiest baby in the block. Know matter how many kids I have had I can always do with extra help in settling as they are such indvidual little creatures. I have a pretty good routine so far with Tess that seems to work at bed time..I do a bath, breast and bed around 6:30-7pm and it seems to be ok for now. I also use a different swaddle at night, one that is a bit tighter and she can't escape

Tess also likes to suck her fingers or thumb and I am still deciding on wether to let her go for it at night to see if she settles/sleeps for longer. She also sleeps during the day in the surrender position. Although she is doing pretty good stretches at the moment without getting free at night...we had an 11pm to 7am the other night

Be back later with more..little Miss has just woken and is starving!

Heather
xx

[~me~]

I'm back..just a quickish feed and she is alseep again

Bub4me: How is the routine going with Ava? Any improvements.

Jen: Gorgeous Pics..love the giggling one! We are still on the NB nappies and about to go and check out Costco here for the infant ones. Otherwise I would have been switching to the Aldi newborn nappies as they are too big for a newborn but big enough for the age our babies are now. I remember the leaking and was curious to know if when you put the nappy on do you stretch out the inner leak guard to make sure it is up when you put it on?? Something I remember from when Ben was a newborn as he was leaking out of the NB's and I then remembered that it needed to be pulled out and up a bit

Barb: Oooh, sounds like you are having a tough few days with Poppy. Hope she settles soon. I am sure once you get back to Vietnam with your own routine and your things around she will settle. Did you get her passport sorted out?

Justine: I love the name Harper....Harper Lee? wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. Glad Harper is a good sleeper and feeder..makes life much easier.

Emma: The 3yr gap between makes life very easy. Oscar can do heaps to help and also very willing and Ben is independant enough to be left to his own devices if need be for a little while. Mummy's Little Minder (TV) comes in handy too with Ben when I need to to feed Tess and he is a bit grumpy. I believe Tess is smiling..I don't think she knows she is doing it but I have watched her asleep quite often and she smiles in her sleep and after a feed..she has that drunk look about her with a very cute satisfied smile. She will also smile a little if I get close to her face and smile at her...so I think little one's can smile at an early age..it is a learned thing so we seem a pretty happy bunch in here and that's where our babies are getting the early smiles

Wow Lou 12hrs awake..I can barely last that long during the day myself Is he doing really long stretches at night..like 7pm-6am? Ben did that from around 7weeks and was a terrible sleeper through the day as he was getting most of what he needed at night..try popping Thomas under a play gym during the day to amuse him or tummy time or bouncer to see if that tires him out? Ben used to fall asleep under the play gym

James: How is Mary going..settling down for you? Hope the relatives have eased off a bit for you.

Hi to everyone else and welcome snowy love..!!

Tess had her MHN 2week appt today. She is doing very well and almost back to birth weight, she is currently 3805gms so looks good and getting enough at feeds. She loves getting her clothes off and always relaxes and smiles when I do that..know matter how much I shove and push her into and out of her things! The MHN asked if I had started Tummy Time yet..which I hadn't, so need to get onto that.
I find when she wakes and really starving my breasts know and I can feel a tingly sensation with the let down happening before I even get to her..anyone feeling this?

Well..that's about all for now. Wow that was a long post!!

Kisses and cuddles to all the lovely babies

Just one other thing..is anyone getting asked by the BB site to log back in after posting? I seem to be having a few hiccups with the site at the moment.

Heather
xx

[nattyfred]

Hi Ladies!

Will definately try to get to doing a big post tomorrow. As i was reading the posts (not caught up though) I was thinking "me too" and how I relate to it all too well.

swaddling, V likes to be swaddled but with her hands up so she can still loosen it and touch her face

night times are getting better with the last 2 nights crying free yay! That is both of us lol..

Wow your babies all sound big and healthy! I was worried V wasnt getting enough food but put on 240g last week which made me so happy! She is now 3kg! Newborn nappies are way too small and Im pretty sure shell be in them for a while lol.

We have been busy trying to establish bf and some kind of groove together and i think its working but tbh I was thinking it was all a bit hard there for a while.

Sorry Ill try and do some reading tomoz and do some persies,

GTBBIA I hope you are feeling a bit better I read a couple of threads of yours earlier and your birth story...You are made of tough stuf

xx natty

[~me~]

Just popping in to see how everyone is doing and give an update on Tess

Tess is doing great. She is so easy going. She is being trapsed around with school and creche pick ups and drop offs and manages to just go with the flow. We have her in our room at night in her bassinette to make things easier. I find I hardly wake up for the feeds at night and neither does she I think I need to do a big express into a bottle as she is not draining each side enough I think?? I have a dinner to go to in a couple of weeks so will need to make sure I have some ready for our babysitter anyway.
She is going to bed around 7ish most nights and then wakes up between 11-midnight for a feed..so hopefully she will be still in that routine when I go out. Tess also likes to sleep in in the mornings....let's hope that continues through toddler stage!!
We are going into the City this Saturday to visit Santa and check out the Myer windows...I love the first Santa Pic and she will have a family one with her brothers. Looking forward to it
I have ordered her Santa Sack and also the same one for the boys..so Christmas is all organised for Tess and the boys. Finished my Christmas shopping today..how is everyone else going?

Hope everyone is going well with their little ones and enjoying lot's of cuddles..

x Heather