Babies born~October 16th-31st 2009 #2

[Kazmar]

thanks kass
yeh the money is worth it, thats the main thing
im working tomorrow. then hopefully just chillin
working monday too.. im finding it hard to get my ***** together and be organised tho LOL
Im actually quite proud of myself!!
Fi, my sweet, i hope your doing ok? i know you work much harder than i do.. i hope your doing well xx

You'll get the hang of it, then fall pg again haha

Fi-How much do you work? Where are you lately?

How is everyone else going? More importantly how are your babies growing?

[Tammie]

Hello girls!

Oh Stevie, sounds like you had a really rough day the other day. Grrr. I hope things are a little better now... just in time for you to go back to work tomorrow by the sounds of things!

Hi there Kass - how is your little munchkin going?

I have a question for you anyone that might be able to help me here.... 2 weeks ago i had a very well behaved little boy... then i took his dummy away and he was a little cranky for a few days but then back to being a good boy. Now, someone has stolen my well behaved baby and left me with one that cries whenever he goes to bed and is sometimes cranky during the day as well. I just don't understand... nothing has changed in his routine, he's not missing any sleeps I just don't understand but it is wearing me out! During the day he will cry to go to sleep and i have to keep settling him but once asleep he's out for the usual amount of time and is still sleeping through at night, but for some reason he is fighting going to sleep but seems to calm really quickly when i am in the room with him.... when i'm not there are tears.

I'm not a fan of controlled crying (although in saying that I think everyone should do what works for them as long as the baby isn't getting distressed because they are crying for so long) but i have been letting him cry for about 2 mins before i go in... it's not a stressed cry that he has it's more of a demanding cry (iykwim).

Please help me... i feel like I am going crazy!

[Stevie]

Kass. your so right.. ill just figure it al out and then ave another one

Tam: the only t ing that i can suggest is maybe solids? Does he need to eat more? i know this sounds weird but my GF has a baby around the age ours is and he was like that, she was onyl feeding him of a nigth now she feeds him twice sometimes 3 times a day and he's nto so bad.
Im so sorry he's been so cranky

[Kazmar]

Tam- Sounds like teething. I have had the same trouble. I wouldn't control cry, do you still swaddle him????

I bought a swaddler and Lucy sleeps MUCH better

Tip: If he's crying with pauses in the cry then let him go for no more then 2 mins If its a waa waa waa constant, dont let him cry. Pat him, cuddle him etc.

I have been reading this book, its a lifesaver!

Mind you Lucy still ends up in bed with us lol

During the day though, since getting the swaddler. I put her down with her mobile on rapped in her swaddler, and thats it she'll be down for 1 1/2 at a time. Night time we're still to get it right BUT I dont mind cuddles in bed

[Stevie]

i just wanted to come in with a brag hope you dont mind..

Miss A is now army crawling her way around everywhere!! Im so proud of her!! She's also sitting up unassisted just beautifully too, but she sometimes topples over. but she'll get there!!!
Just had to share.. im so excited!! Got a stupid grin on my face hehe

[Kazmar]

Yayyyyyyyyyyyy Alissa! Go baby, go!

Lucy is sitting on her own, and moving heaps around the floor but no crawling, thank god, for now

[Tammie]

Congrats to all our bubs then for all the movement and sitting up!

E is sitting up really well and at the longest has managed to sit up for about 45 mins before toppling over. He loves to just sit and play with his toys, and of course put them in his mouth!

As for crawling, we have none of that. But i put him on the floor on his tummy ysterday and he started wriggling backwards.... with a massive trail of drool following him! DH and i made the joke that if we lose him oneday we'll just follow the drool and be sure to find him!

Thanks for your advice girls too... I have been doing some reading and I think we might have a case of separation anxiety coming through (although i do think his gums are a little tender as he bites everything and has a few nice big white lumps). I have found he is fine and settled and will go to sleep in his cot just fine - provided he can see me, but if i am not there then there are tears.

I don't swaddle him anymore, he was managing to get himself out every sleep so i changed him to sleeping bags at about 3 months. I loved swaddling him because he looked so cosy and i think it would be great for winter too, but he is just too much of a squirmer. To give you an idea, when i put him down at night it is not uncommon for him to turn himself so he is either sleeping across the cot or do a full 180 turn so he sleeping up the other end of the cot. Little terror...

As for feeding him more Stevie - he already has 3 solid meals a day plus 2 x 240ml bottles and 2 x 120ml bottles..... if he eats anymore he is going to be an elephant! LOL

Crazy baby - i thought we had a nice little routine going and neither of us was sleep deprived or anything... and now this! Oh well, i will enjoy giving him the extra cuddles and kisses while he is so sookie.....

xx.

[ElleJay]

No crawling, except for commando crawling here but no sitting up properly though. It doesn't matter, he'll get there when he's ready. He really trys to sit up in his carseat by pulling himself up by the straps.
BUT! He does give me and DH kisses (in his own way) - It's an open mouth kiss, where he puts an open mouth on our cheek then his tongue hits the cheek, it's just too cute
Hope everyone is doing well

[Tammie]

Liz - he will get there when he's ready... no need to rush these things! They learn so quickly, it was only a week or 2 ago that E started pulling himself up in his carseat too so it prob won't be too long now.....

I agree that the kisses are way too cute. Eli has just started doing the same thing to me. In the morning when he gets out of bed he gives me a kiss by opening his mouth, putting it on my cheek and slobbering... he has also just discovered my jaw bone so tries to teethe on that by gumming me after he has given me a kiss!

[fi1980]

Hi All

sorry its been so long, just so busy! lots going on at the moment, flat out at work had my graduation from uni plus my 30th birthday, mum has been here, I've been away etc so just haven't had time to post. Plus i've been struggling with some PND which has been dragging me down but I think I am finally shaking it now and seem to be having mostly good days

Stevie, sounds like you've had a bit of a rough time - did I read that AF has also returned? (cant remember if that was you or not!) anyway could just be your hormones adjusting. Mine are a bit all over the place too and I've had some shoking days!! Your story about the body spray reminded me so much of me last week - we had virtually no food in the house but we'd had no time to go shopping and I had to work, was flat out at work, but ducked out at lunch to buy some groceries and I was very proud of myself (trying to juggle shopping, eating, expressing etc!) anyway I got home from work and realised I'd left all my groceries at work I was so cranky!!

Also stevie yay for Miss A moving around everywhere!!

In fact yay for all of our babies for growing up so big and strong - what wonderful mummies we are

LJ hope things have settled down for you.

Tammie - i feel for you. Someone has stolen my perfect baby too :sad: Sounds like everyone has given you some wonderful advice so I hope things settle down for you

Rach & Rach hope you are both doing well

DM - I'm here! working 3 days a week. Anymore words from Lucy?

AFM Leila has been a horror!! Poor little thing is teething and she's really struggling. The bottom 2 teeth came through without too much drama but the top ones are giving her a lot of trouble. for the past 2 weeks she's been waking up to 6 times a night screaming and I've been at my witts end with her. This is a baby who for the past 3 months has slept 9-10 hours a night, every night without making a peep. It is heartbreaking to see her so distressed. The last few nights have been better, she has still been waking but only once or twice and is not screaming as much. Feeding has been a nightmare too becasue she has been biting. She did settle down with the biting but then started up again something shoking today so I'm hoping this means that the top teeth are almost through as that's what happened with the bottom ones BUT, aside from all the challenges she is absolutely adorable! She's been sitting up for a few weeks now and has finally figured out how to crawl forwards which is just wonderful to watch. Oh and we have kisses here too which magically make everything better

Time to bath and try and settle my little sweetheart.... praying for a good night!

Hugs to all

Fi

[fi1980]

Wow - it's been super quiet in here!! Where is everyone?

All going ok here now after a shocker of a week last week. We all got some tummy bug and spent a couple of days puking everywhere which was just awful. Poor Leila was almost choking on her vomit as it was coming up with so much force. Then we got her 6 month needles and I wanted to get the swine ful shot as she is just getting everything from day care so I thought it would be wise to get it - but the nurse stuffed up and gave her the regular flu shot - the one that they said a few days earlier was not allowed to be given to under 5's so that was a bit stressful as I was panicing thinking she was going to have a terrible reaction but all ok. She did get high temperatures but nothing serious thank goodness. So really, it was a terrible week!

What is interesting is that I took Leila to the health nurse today and wanted to talk about her behaviour, teething, interrupted sleep etc and how basically my beautiful baby has recently turned nasty Anyway I was thinking that her teeth were just causing her all this grief resulting in all the problems we are having but the nurse said she thinks its more likely behavioural. She thinks that Leila is suffering from a bit of separation anxiety which is why she is so clingly and sooky and waking all night screaming for me. The fact that I have been doing everything I can to sooth and comfort her has just reinforced this behaviour so I need to try and get out of this habit. It will be hard I know but the nurse thinks that by making a few changes things should settle down in a few days, so here's hoping! Oh and she is 7.2kg

So how is everyone?? It's lonely in here!

Fi x

[Kazmar]

Hey Fi! Wow Miss L sounds like she's growing just fine Seperation is sooooo normal!
They go through it at all different ages! And no doubt she will go through it again!

Do I have you on facebook?

Wll Lucy's christening is this Sunday! So Im super busy with that Im not looking forward to the fact Dp hasn't told any of his family yet! Ill get all the blame

Come on ladies come back!

[Stevie]

Hello my lovelies,
my, it is quiet in here isnt it, im sure we are all just super busy tho.
Fi, i am so sorry Leila is being so grumpy ive heard some stuff about seperation anxiety, i really REALLy am not loooking forward to it, tho im pretty sure we had a bit of it a few months ago.
i read your thread about her getting the wrong shot i couldnt believe it when i read it, will you be doing anything about it? contacting someone about the stuff up? i think i would.. what if it had been something really bad they mixed it up with? .. i wont go on it makes me sound so negative
She;s growing beautifully Im going to take Alissa in to get weighed after work tomorrow, its been a few weeks.. my little girl is so tiny, and one of the smallest in my mothers group lol. i dont realise how little she is til i see with all the other bubbas,
Kass: good luck with your christening on sunday, i hope your ILs dont get mad at you about the invites its not ur fault.
LJ: those kisses sound soo cute!! Alissa doesnt give me kisses but whenever i say "Mum, mum, mum" to her she breaks out in a HUGE grin hehe

afm: well im working, being amum, working, being a wife, working.. its never ending and its starting to catch up im doing ok, but some days are a little harder than others.
I feel like the worst mum in the world, im working tomorrow (wednesday) and thursday, so she'll be with the ILs til late on thursday while i leave right from work to get jon, then saturday sunday will be my first night away from her (we're going to jons work to do a tour of the mine) and then im working monday i really feel like a horrible mum.. im trying not to think about it to much..
Alissa's 5th tooth is coming through (its the top front 2, she got the sides top ones first).. and today she was grinding her little bottom teeth on the top one thats had'nt broken the skin, but after grinding away some of her gum and bleeding, her front tooth is now through my poor baby was bleeding .. i just feel terrible
ill come back a bit later when im in a better frame of mind to not just sit here and be so negative.. listen to me, i sound so shocking

Much love ladies, im so sorry xx

[fi1980]

Happy Mothers Day everyone!

Hope you all had a great day

Will be back later with more but just wanted to jump on to let you know I'm thinking of all you wonderful mummies today

Fi x

[Rach75]

beautiful ladies hope you all had a lovely mothers day!!! we did nothing but rest and recover got home Sat arvie...we had planned to unpack and stuff but were too tired...Jase surprised me while on holidays with a new camera nothing flash a fuji S1600 but nice for shots where I need to zoom or for scenery ones my little point and shoot is great for inside with the kids but not good for large shots so that was nice...and my mothers day gift

so I got to meet Amber (boomba) and Chantelle (shades) from this group and Rachel (CQ or combat queen) as well was a lovley morning have some pictures of the 3 boys together which I will get on FB this week...

we had a great holiday...time in brisbane 4 days in Dubbo, a day in Bathurst 5 days in batemans bay, then we went to port stephens for the night, 1 night in coffs harbour 2 in Ballina then the homeward trip began...boys did good, Luke took to waking at night which when in a small space is painful...

as for Luke he is full on crawling now, and gets into a semi seated position by himself its so cute...but very full on we used to have barricades up when Jack was little but can't really put them up this time as it will impend Jacks movements

Jack got a bit sick last week with a viral sore throat and it is getting worse moved to his chest so time for some anti bis I think and poor Luke is now sick so we are off to drs today..thankfully they could get us in

anyway will be posting pics on FB some time this week so keep a eye out

[Kazmar]

Hello ladies!

Lucy's christening went amazing! Im posting pics on fb so be sure to keep an eye out She wore my sisters christening dress and shoes(my sister is 25) so its a 'vintage' dress! Then what made the outfit was what Rach made Lucy. An AMAZINGLY beautiful head piece! Soooooooo greatful

All went really well Everyone we loved was their, besides my dad. It all went to plan

Rach- Sounds like an awesome holiday! Bet its nice to be home though

Stevie- Have you been changing your username? My gosh Alissa has a lot of teeth! They can put the poor bubbas through hell

So how did everyones motthers day go?! For many it was your 1st!

[ElleJay]

Well, no crawling, no sitting up and pulling himself up here - kinda feeling really c**p about it too

[Kazmar]

Well, no crawling, no sitting up and pulling himself up here - kinda feeling really c**p about it too

Dont be silly! They all do things at different times! Seriously one minute Lucy was sitting saying words and had a tooth, since then, tooth went back down, hasn't progressed from sitting and has stuck to the same two words haha

One min they do heaps.....then nothinhg! I mean William has TWO teeth, Lucy, non!