Babies born~October 1st-15th 2010 #1

[raffy]

haha Vix you naughty girl, living in sin, hahah i also felt the same that marriage is only a piece of paper, but now we've got coops i would like all 3 of us to have the same last name, not that we are planning the wedding yet. hahah i no it sounds crazy but we are actually planning another baby first. i think im crazy??

thanks Nikki. way to go Ben!! what a lil porker. thats awesome that hes doing to well. i too saw ur pix on FB, Summer and Ben are soooo cute. you've done well.

Pretz dont think about ur mum leaving, just enjoy the time you've got left, the rate the time is passing they'll be back before you know it lol

AFM - Cooper had his needles today. He screamed the poor baby, then i teared up and gave him a huge cuddles and then he gave me a BIG smile and fell asleep. then we got home nd he was in a nice chatty mood, but i think its all just hit him and hes been crying non stop for the last half an hour, thank god DF is on day shift so hes trying to settle him now but having no luck! im spose to be having 'me' time but im struggling coz all i wanna do is make him better..... i think hes stopped now might have a shower then go cook dinner and have an early night.

love ya'll
xx

[Pretz]

hahah i no it sounds crazy but we are actually planning another baby first. i think im crazy??

Raffy - OMG you too??? No, you're not crazy and if you are well then so am I because DH and I dob't want to wait too long until baby #2 either!!! hehehe I just didn't want to say it too soon as I was scared I'd be the only one and you girls would think I'm crazy! lol Poor Coop getting his needles and not settling. Hopefully he settles for you soon. Big 's!!

Vix - Sorry about your BIL being a PITA about coming over wheb he has conjunctivitis and not helping your kids get better! I'd be fuming if it was me!

GTG Noah needs a feed!!! BBL

Love ya all too!!!

xxxxx

[Pretz]

Hope you're all doing well this morning!? Noah slept like a dream last night, got him to bed at 8pm (I went to bed at 8:30pm) and he slept til 2:45am and after his feed slept from 3:30am til 5:30am so I got a total of 8 hours sleep last night!!!

Happy 2 months to my baby Noah today!!! (Where did the last 2 months go???)

Off to the physio later today......can't wait. Back is really annoying and sore today...

Hope everyone has an awesome day!

Love to you all!

[brydz]

morning girls. or should I say afternoon. it just went 12.

Well I have been busy fiddling about pulling weeds out of my garden whilst the ground is nice and soft from several inches of rain. Its taken me bloody ages to do the smallest bit. Luckily my front garden is not so huge. Its the backyard jungle that scares me. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many milk thistles, and they are 6ft tall in some places YUK!

I had jims mowing quote me to do the backyard, mow, snip down the weeds and poison them all off. He gave me a quote for $165. Mum reckons that is too much. I reckon its not bad. I'd pay my brother slightly less than that to do it but he is lazy it will take him forever..

They came round and drilled in my new mailbox finally I bought it months ago after my brother backed into my current one knocking the post out of the ground. It has been leaning against the neighbours fence for a while but falls over in big wind and the mail man is so kind he just puts my mail on the ground

Now it is better
They also re-hinged my fly screen door so now i can leave my front door open without the flies getting in YAY!!

Got soooooo many lil projects I wanna do around the place. Like fix the chimney so it doesn't rain all over my kitchen any more, strip and sand all the hardwood doors/door frames, skirting boards etc, get someone to check out my stumps and see just how many do need replacing (i'm hoping a few, not all), pull up the masonite in the kitchen and inspect the floorboards underneath. Repaint the front doors. Fix the broken glass in the front door...

The list goes on and on and on. Where do I start? LOL. Oh the joys of having a house!!

[Vixstar]

Morning girls. Just popping in whilst Alannah is sleeping in her swing and listening to The Circle! lol Busting too pee and then shower.

Can't beelive my baby is 10 weeks old...she certainly feels like it now - a lump of lead! lol

xxxxx

[raffy]

morning all

haha pretz i too am glad im not the only one planning baby #2 lol. im hopin to have coops fully weaned by april and start 'trying but not trying' in may. with coops we were lucky enough to fall pg first go but now with the pg and BF i understand it might not happen like that again, but id love for them to be about 18 months apart, if all goes well, so thats y i figured we start in may and give ourselves a few months. happy 2 months to Noah for yesterday going soooo fast hey. and i hope the physio helped ur back a bit

brydz - WTG on the gardening!! wanna come do mine?? i recon im gonna have wild animals out there soon. i had to find the washing line on the weekend to hang out the clothes

morning vix - happy 10 weeks to alannah. coopers only 7 weeks and already a solid lil unit, cant imagine what he'll be like at 10 lol

afm - coops slept from 8-430 then 5-830 and i fell asleep at 8.30 as aposed to the usual 11.30-12ish, ahhh got to much sleep and i feel great. DF took the car with the carseat today so its my excuse to stay home and do sweet F A if coops has a sleep i might do a little cleaning but other than that im just gonna watch movies and pig out

[brydz]

howdy all.

WOW 8 weeks Noah already and 10 weeks Alannah! these bubbas are growing up so fast! Will be talking in months before long

Well no more gardening happening here. And I'm not sure bout Jims mowing, a friend on facebook suggested a different guy in the area who quoted her backyard clean up around $100. Might be a smaller job though. Still no harm in calling and getting a free quote. Would love to find a cheaper person to do it..

Vinny has been good. Last night he fed at 9, topped up with 60mls of formula at 1030 (thats all he would take) and then slept thru til 550am SOooooooo proud of him. It was wonderful. I went to bed around 11 and got 7 hours sleep!

Today he's been reasonably good. Went to ballarat xmas shopping and visiting my friend. He had a photo done with santa

was very cute!

has just gone to sleep after screaming since about 5ish...... yay for silence!! now time for me to eat something!!

[Vixstar]

Brydz - My CHN advised me only to give Alannah a 60ml top up at night so she would not be too full for her next breasfeed. If she was to be still full from her bottle, it means my milk would drop off. Seems like a waste when a tin only lasts for a month (freshness) but betetr than starting breast milk issues!

Raffy - Great to hear you sounding more cheerful and your usual self again. xxxxx

AFM: Have an ultrasound on Alannahs hips tomorrow morning. Just routine. Tonight I was TRYING to feed her her last breastfeed befor her bath (then bottle) and I could smell poo. I held her up and sniffed her (As Mums do!) and took her into get changed. By the time I laid her on the change table, my shirt was covered in it, my jeans copped it too and it was all down one of her legs. NO NAPPY was holding in that explosion! GrOsS!!! I have found once day a week she is grumpy for hours and then hammo - massive explosive nappy! Every other day it is just small pooey nappies. Thank goodness DH was home to help me get my t-shirt off. lmao

Okay, off to beddy byes now.
xxxxx

[~clover~]

Hi guys

haven't been in for a while, but been around & keeping updated.
we're still having feeding issues. think its to do with the shape of summer's mouth. her palate is very high & narrow, so the nipple is getting sucked up instead of back causing the cracks etc. her tongue is also not curling around the breast the way it should. we are having a day stay in hossy next week so the m/w's, lactation consultant & speech therapist can all observe her feeds. try work out exactly what the problem is & if we can fix it.
if not, we just hope it gets better as she gets bigger.

sorry its quick, but i gotta get to bed. hope everyone's chrissy plans are coming along

night girls xx

[raffy]

Thanks vix. I have you ladies to thank for keeping me sane during those first few trying weeks, plus coopers gotten alot better and I don't get anxious when he cries anymore. Plus I have loads to look forward to such as Christmas, going home for a month, having another baby and getting married, its all exciting stuff.

hope alannahs scan goes well and that's yuk about the pooh, coops did that the other week, I was annoyed coz I had just bought new shorts and was excited to be wearing them, then BAM!! Pooh explosion lol lil buggers

[Vixstar]

ThanksRaffy. She was an angel during the ultrasound and fell asleep at the end! Mind you wit the dim lights I could have done so as well!

Clover - hope your stay in hospy sheds some light on what is going on and gives you a plan of attack.

AFM: 11 weeks tomorrow! Holy cow!!! I thought Alannah had conjunctivits but a gf said it was a blocked tear duct which was what I was beginning to think as it comes and goes. Still squirting her in the eye with my milk though! lol

xxxxx

[~clover~]

Vix, Summer has a blocked tear duct too. Its been there since birth though, finally cleared up the last few days. Breast milk is the best thing. DD1 had problems for 4 months & DD2 for 6 months! Jesse was only 2 or 3 weeks, if that & Summer's is finally better now at almost 8 weeks. I didn't know about BM with the older girls & was using salty water. Helped, but it hung around for alot longer.

[Pretz]

Hello girls!

Sorry have been MIA for a bit, but had a busy couple of days...

Brydz - I hear ya on everything that is needed to be done to your house - we're still not finished with our reno's either, were supposed to have it done ages ago, but we're still going, well DH is still renovating when he gets the chance. With money being a bit tight at the moment and only having mostly big things left to do (tiler, floors needing to be polished, kitchen cupboard doors and benches to be ordered) and also my Mum having been here and gone and Noah already being 2 months old, there's no real RUSH anymore to get it done in a hurry, so we're just doing what we can when we can!

Raffy - Yay on starting to try but not to try in May, bet May will be here before we know it!! lol DH and I always said that we'd like to have a 2 year gap between our kids too, so will most likely start trying around the end of next year when Noah is 1 and see what happens. I was luckily to have fallen pregnant first time too last year December although it ended in a chemical preg and then the next month after that, with the first try again fell preg with Noah, so hopefully we're luckily to fall again straight away. Yay for Coops sleeping so well! WTG!

Vix - Glad to hear Alannah was a good girl at her ultrasound and that it went well. Yuck about the poo being all over you! lol Mum and I had it with Noah last week when there was poo up his back, his clothes, the change table, me, Mum and even the floor! lol I too find Noah won't go for a day or two and then be grumpy only for him to have a HUGE EXPLOSION (as you call it) the next day! I think I'm due for one today or very soon as he was a bit grumpy yesterday lol.

Clover - Hope you find some answers at your stay in hossy next week.

Hey Nikki! Hope you're having a great weekend and thanks again so much for your lovely, sweet txt yesterday. Really appreciate it heaps!!!

Group Question - For you girls that feed/planning to feed your bubs in future, what type of formula do you girls use/recommend? I'm going to continue BF exclusively until I can't anymore (when I dry up oneday :rofl) but was just wondering what I should look for, use when the time comes whenever that might be!?

AFM, have been on and off since yesterday morning - Mum and I had our moments during the day yesterday as she packed and it was total water works at the airport when we dropped her off last night. I'm missing her soooooo much already. She really helped me out heaps with Noah, with house work etc and although I'm sure I'll cope fine with Noah on my own, it's her company and having her here with me, close by, having someone to talk to and to ask advice that I'm going to miss the most. I'm trying to stay strong and not get to sad and cry because I think it affected Noah too yesterday as he hardly slept an hour all day and was real cranky by the end of the day. Thankfully today he is better and is catching up on his sleep. I'm trying to remember the great time Mum and I had with Noah these past 10 weeks and looking forward to when we'll see each other again next year (when I'll see my Dad too) whenever that might be.

Well then, I best be off, want to go fold some washing before my little man wakes up for his next feed which is due in 10 mins if he wakes....

Love to you all!

xoxoxo

[~clover~]

Pretz, there's no reason to use formula at all if you don't want to. As long as you feed you will make milk, so its totally up to you.

[raffy]

Vix - WTG Alannah for being a good girl Cooper had a blocked eye duct when he was newborn i used BM and little eyes clensing wipes and it cleared up in a few days

Pretz - HUGE HUGE hun. i hate when my mum leaves and she still lives in the country so i some what know how you feel. the time you see them next year will be here before you know it. and as for the formula question, i agree with Clover but im using S26 as a top up, wouldnt recommend it but, its blockin him up something cronic so i wont be getting it again.

AFM - was gonna write more but somehow, even though its DFs night/morning, ive ended up with a screaming baby while hes off in the shed workin on an enclosure hes building Cooper slept 8.30-5.30 last night better go feed this little man and hopefully he has a nap so i can get some cleaning done.

[brydz]

hello everyone. i've been slack and haven't posted much in a while.

vinny has his moments. some days he is really good and some days he isn't. some nights he sleeps up to 6 or 7 hours. some nights (like last night) its every 2 or 3.

pretz renovations are really not a high priority for me just yet. i just look around my house and see so much potential for things I could do if I ever had the time and money. will try and do little things one by one. i really wanna sand back all the doors and door frames, window frames. and i really wanna get my front garden started. just finding the right time to get anything done (amongst the weather being too hot or too rainy.. and not to mention the baby..) is hard.
bummer about ur mum leaving. that would make me sad. i'm so glad mine is permanently only 10 mins up the road. I'd be lost without her. have spent more time at her place than mine. I think its mostly because I get lonely, and bored.

vix wow Alannah already 11 weeks? geez. that went fast. how does she sleep at that age? is she sleeping a long time at night? as for the formula thing. nobody has said that to me. and so far i've just replaced his last feed with a bottle and he takes anywhere from 60-120ml (i am using the s26 sachets that u mix with 120mls -that way no wasted tin!!)

my lil man is having a lovely sleep on the lounge floor right now. so peaceful. its nice to actually get online for once without him screaming at me haha.

[Nikki87]

Hi all its just a quick one from me today.

Vix - Glad to hear Alannahs ultrasound went well and sorry to hear about all that poop haha

Clover - I hope the stay in hospital can sort things out for you, Ben is still making that awful sucking/clicking noise too, but becuase my nipples arent sore, everyone is just dismissing it as him trying to slow my flow??

PRetz - Big hugs Time will fly and you will be seeing your mum in no time again

Argh, I cant remember anything else, but got to go, my house is a mess after is has been trashed by 7 kiddies aged 4, 4, 4, 3, 2.5, 2, 1 and my ears are sore after having 4 babies here, aged 6 months, 10 weeks, 9 weeks and 7 weeks. Yes, it was Summers birthday party, I havent just collected all these extra children in the last few days hahaha

Oh, dont get me started on the crummy eye situations. Bens has been weeping and pus filled for the last 4 weeks and has to see an eye surgeon to make sure its a blocked duct and nothing else becuase the amount of discharge is phenomenal!!

[~clover~]

If you have no damage Nikki I wouldn't be too worried. We have problems with her gulping air & me cracking all the time. New one appeared today.
She also only feeds through let down & if she takes any after it brings it back up. She's gaining weight, but only averaging 100gm a week. While thats good, it could be better
Her output (poo's & wee's) are good, so they aren't too worried, but just checking its not all related iykwim.
At 8 weeks we've reached 5kgs