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Hi All
Wow Stevie, Miss A has cut a tooth already! That's so cute about the laughing! Your little girl sounds so adorable.
Rach75 I know what you mean about the routine. I am the same with Leila. We have a routine but it's not something I have forced upon her or something that I stick to like clockwork or anything, it really is just about reading her signs and knowing when she is tired. Unfortunately other people don't get this and love over stimulating her so I've had to learn to be firmer with them otherwise she ends up extremely over-tired and grumpy and of course I am the one that has to deal with her when she is like that.
JB welcome back! So glad little Jasper is doing so well and sleeping through the night :dance: Great news about the natural fertility stuff, I'm all for that. After coming off the pill and TTC for about a year nothing happened! I only had about 3 or 4 periods which were totally random so I went to the doctor had tests done and found out I had PCOS. GP told me I'd never conceive naturally and referred me to a fertility specialist who put me on clomid. It worked but I hated it, felt so unnatural and didn't seem to agree with me. I ended up m/c that baby. After that I really didn't want to do it again so I went to see a naturopath who was amazing. We started off just cleansing my system and getting my body back in balance before targeting my reproductive system. After only a few months of working on my reproductive system my cycle was regular for the first time in my life, I couldn't believe it! Then when I was ready to TTC again BANG, first time lucky :dance: So I am all for natural treatments. Best of luck with it.
Tammie, how is the unwrapping going? I tried the other day to not wrap Leila but it was a disaster! I think it's because of the routine that we are in, she now knows that being wrapped means time for sleep so when I didn't wrap her and put her to bed she didn't get that it was sleep time and just wanted to play! I'm not sure how to overcome this?
AFM I am officially back at work on Monday :cry: I'm not looking forward to it. Otherwise all is good. Leila is just adorable at the moment!! She's always smiling and laughing and talking. She LOVES talking at the moment, just babbles away to anyone who will listen, it's so cute. The only problem we are having is that she's not feeding very well. Everything else seems to be so much more exciting than feeding and I'm starting to worry that she's not drinking enough. Sometimes she just pulls off mid feed and starts laughing her head off at nothing in particular! Its very cute but very frustrating because I just want her to feed. Once she does that she wont go back on, she just wants to look around at anything and everything. I really hope this phase passes soon...
Hi to everyone else,
Fi x
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Fi - good luck with work tomorrow. I'm sure it will be really hard to leave Leila so huge hugs to you.
Just thought i would let you know, with the wrapping (or unwrapping rather) I started slowly and for the first week i wrapped Eli but left one arm out, then the next week i left both arms out but still wrapped the rest of him... then last night i put him in a sleeping bag.
It will prob take E a few more nights to get used to having free legs but then he will be fine (i hope).
Apparently it takes a baby 4 days to learn a new habit and 7 days to break it. This has pretty much held true for Eli as after 3-4 nights i have noticed he adapts to having a new part of him unwrapped each time.
Good luck!
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I can't beleive you girls are still wrapping :lol: I think I wrapped Luke maybe 1/2 dozen times since we got out of hospital on day 5 :lol:
well things are going ok here, TMI but AF was back this week and it kicked my butt big time, headaches etc, I had to stop the fluid tablets as that combined with AF was making me so dizzy so of course I am suffering from sore wrists, hands, legs and ankles can't catch a break I tells ya
well good ole Luke is starting to have a hissy, I know I shouldn't complain I love he sleeps 11hrs overnight but I hate getting up at 6am... and he is now having his big nap about 7.30am so I am not getting a rest as Jack wakes around 8am *yawn* also I need to vent I am tired of being the on,ky one who feeds him comfort hims, I made the decision only Jasenad I would feed him no dramas, but Jase never feeds him unless I am real busy and then he gets frustrated with Luke :( I have no family close by... so even if I wanted some one else to feed him I have no-one :(... I am tired, my back is out, I have a headache all I want to do is sleep and although I am sleeping ok over night I'm still tired physically... and mentally as I said I shoudln't complain he is a fairly easy going baby... but I just feel worn out :cry:
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Rach, my Af arrived a few weeks ago, and was glad it came and gone, but sad too, cause it really makes it sink in that bub is now here (and not just the sleepless nights!)
Rach (rach2281) and fi - I just noticed you two have been RAKed!! Lucky you!
We've been up and down here for the past week or so, so I've barely been on - We're off to Centerlink to hopefully sort out our baby bonus stuff :shakehead:
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oh LJ this is #3 visit from AF
congrats to all you girks who have been RAK'd
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hello ladies, how are we all? im good i guess. did a hpt a while ago and it was neg, made me alittle sad but at the same time relieved iykwim. i still havent gotten AF yet, i think she might be here soon, ive been having all the symptoms for the last week, so we'll see.
fi and tam: i was wrapping Miss A for about 3 -4 weeks just been, it kind of camt out of the blue, all of sudden she wouldnt slep unless wrapped, but about 3 nights ago, i wrapped her like usual and she woke up SCREAMING, i loosened the wrap and she flung her arms up above her head and she went right back to sleep, so have stopped wrapping her now and she's fine :shrug: no idea what goes through their tiny heads.
fi: yeah i couldnt believe she had her first tooth, and now theone next to it is coming through, it hasnt broken the skin but you can see it there.
i will be thinking of you at work today sweetness :( im so sad for you. i know its going to suck going back the more i think about it the more i dont want to :( ive been feeling really lost about what i want to do in my life. i know now is probably a bad time to dwell on that as ive just had a baby and most peoples theory is "its a bit late now" but i dont know. i finally orked out what i want to do, but we just cant afford for me to not work as well as we cant afford to pay for the courses. I want to be a Nail Technicion, and eventually study Beauty Therapy - but nails is what i love doing. when i was 16 my Mum was going topay for me to do the course but we had a falling out and it never happened. im just gonna have to put it on the very very back burner i think
JB: so good to see you back :) Well done on your training, it sounds like its something your really into, and that afterall, is the main thing and its awesome to hear jasper is doing so well xx
Rach75: so sorryt o hear youve had such a rough time with AF and it is good when they sleep all night, but it would be even better if they had a good sleep during the day and not right after they get up. Like MIss A is asleep right now, and she's only been up for a little while, once she wakes up she probably wont sleep for the rest of the day lol.
LJ: Centrelink sucks. they are always such a stuff around i hope you sort all your stuff out soon xx hows lil William doing?
Congrats to all that got RAKed :clap:
afm: well it turns out that we cant get the car. we couldnt get the finances, we coul have gotten a personal loan but we arent silly. the repayments and interest is just far too much. so naturally DH isnt happy. Im bummed too, but thats life, ive gotten over it and im moving on.
Miss A is teething and hasnt been herself, overall she's been really good, but sahe has a 'tanty time' at some point during the day, where she gets realy upset, overally upset, little tears and all :( it breaks my heart, i do cold teething rings, try feeding her to calm her down, then i put teething gel on if nothing else works and as an absolute last resort i give her panadol :(
we have her 4 months needles tomorrow, im a little worried ive heard soo many bad things, that they get really REALLY stropy after this lot and stop sleeping through :( im scared LOL. im getting my WC and swine flu needles too.
Hello to everyone else :)
take it easy xxx
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dont stess over the needles we never had any problems with jack's in fact I dont and wont give panadol unless there is real upset etc....just dont plan anything for the day, give her lots of cuddles etc...and remember she is teething as well
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To Rach75 and LJ - AF sucks. I got mine back 3 weeks after i stopped bleeding from the birth! Not happy (especially since bub was 100% bf) but i think mine was early because i started the mini pill - i'm definitely not ready for another bubby!
Stevie - i think i commented on FB but it is just insane that A has 1 tooth and another on the way... *sigh* they grow up so fast. LOL. I think E's gums are sore too. For the past week or so he has been gumming his toys and dummies and also starts feeding but then pulls away and screams. I was concerned when he started doing that but apparently when theie gums are starting to get sore they can go on feeding strikes because sucking hurts. Always something..... in the meantime if he gets too cranky i give him a cold teething ring and this calms him... but i hope the teeth come soon because ppl say this can go on for months before some babies get any teeth!
Fi - how was your first day back at work? I hope everything went smoothly for you. : )
Hi to all the ladies i have missed, gtg since Eli is sitting in another room chatting away..i love chatting with him! :D
x Tam.
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i just have a quick question, (im also gonna start a thread)
but i think Miss A has Conjunctivitis :( her right eye had a bit more sleep than usual in it this moring (she never really has any at all) but as the days gone on i have to keep cleanin it away from her right eye, its also looking a little watery and red and she keep rubbing at it. then just then when i got her out of the car there was all this gunk around her eye lashes and in the corner of her eye :cry:
i have a Drs app tomorrow for her needles, can i wait til then or should i take her to the drs now? and also is there something that i can do now?
thanks ladies :)
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warm salty water and clean it from inside to outer area :) hth!!! but do get dr to check tomorrow
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thanks sweet, and i def will get him to check it tomorrow.
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so luke is officially on the knidy list for :lol: 2014
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good luck today Stevie and Alissa :) be brave both of you :hug:
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Good luck with needles today Stevie and Miss A! Also, with the eye, that does sound like an infection. Eli has a blocked tear duct (which means it weeps anytime he gets a bit teary) and when i spoke to the pharmacist she said to take him to the dr if the eye got red or he started rubbing it etc as these were signs of infection. If it helps, i have found the best thing to clean it with is Fess Little Eyes wipes - they are sterilised individually wrapped saline wipes and since using these for the past 2 weeks i have noticed a huge improvement over just using warm water etc.
Rach - I hear you on the education front! I am currently comparing a couple of schools for bub so i can enrol him ASAP. I think i will skip a formal kindy program and stick with a day care/early learning centre and then go into prep at whichever school we end up picking. It is all so confusing trying to work out where to send bub and what's going to be best going forward as well as convenient for us to get to every day for drop offs and pick ups....... and he's only 3 months old!
No new news for me really.... i have a question though.... Eli slept through night from the very beginning but over past 3 weeks approx he has been waking up once during the night (around 2am) almost every night. He's had a few other signs which indicate his gums getting sore, is this another side effect or have i broken my sleeping baby!?!
At first i put it down to a growth spurt but this has gone on for too long now for it to be growth spurt. Not sure what's happened.
BTW - i hope you survived your first day Fi and are doing ok on day 2.
x Tam.
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Thanks Rach :)
Tam: thanks heaps hun;, im sure well be ok. i just hate seeing her eye all gunky and she's just so little and sweet to be like that.
with Eli waking, Miss A actually did the EXACT thing for about 2 weeks before i noticed a tooth, and now she's back to sleeping through. i really think teething has something to do with waking up (she woke up at 2am too, i know its propbably a coinnkidink lol)
anyway gotta go feed the lizards, then get ready for my parenting class.
Have a good one guys xx
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Tammie I beleive it can ... affect sleep which is why the hylands tablets have help with restless sleep during teething :hmm: Luke woke last night well this morning at 3.25am *yawn* I am buggered... been so long since I had a 3am wake up :lol: I truly think he is getting readu to teeth... we are lucky in respect of school only one choice out here but kindy is very competitive only 44 students a year... and this last few years the influx of kids is phenominal...so best book him in I said he is #5 on list...
as I said Luke woke at 3.25am *yawn* had been woken by jack at 3am as his sheet had come loose, so was half awake so fed him and changed him he was all smiles and coos, he wnet back down at 4.15am and then was up at 6.25am *yawn* I am stuffed and its only 8am he has goen back down again but no point me going as jack will wake soon, I feel off like I am comign down with something I just dont know .. its been lingering for a week now *sigh*
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Hi girls,
Just a quick question.... a few people have mentioned to me how great the Baby Einstein box set of DVD's are for bubs now and as they are growing.... have any of you used/heard things about them?
I am really torn about whether to buy them because on one hand i don't want him watching TV too much but on the other they are an educational DVD.....
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Tammie I believe the baby eistien DVDs are no better than wtahcing normal TV...I read a study abut it saying they dont make your kid smarter? I thinkn its on the blog peacefull parenting :) But they will be ok if you are justing wanting to keep him amused :)
will bbl am trying to type while feeding and its super hard lol xxxx
