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

[Nikki87]

Busy busy busy ... but back in the morning for persies.

Sigh 1 year ago today I found out little Ben was a bean growing in my tummy. How time flies ....

[Pretz]

Busy busy busy ... but back in the morning for persies.

Sigh 1 year ago today I found out little Ben was a bean growing in my tummy. How time flies ....

Nikki - Oh how exciting it was to see those 2 lines appear on the stick hey?? Happy day for yesterday! hehehe

Tomorrow 1 year ago is when I got my hehehe

xoxox

[raffy]

happy days Nikki and Pretz

Pretz - im glad Noah is finally enjoying Tummy Time. coops stil hates it, we have to do it like 5-6 times a day coz he will only lay on his tummy for like 2 minutes. Sorry to see that you had another crappy night with Noah last night and got up 5 times. like Vix said try the brauers. they are gold. im using baby panadol, bonjela and an amber teething necklace which is working. im sending some sleeping dust Noahs way, hope it helps

AFM - i seriously feel so privilaged. Coops slept from 7pm-10am and only woke up twice for 15 minutes each and hes had a few little sleeps since (one at 12 and one now at 3.30) cant wait for DF to get home, ive really missed him today for some reason, i think its coz i no that he has tomro off for aussie day so im excited, spending the day bbq-ing at the beach, listening to some music and having a few bevvys with good friends. i cant wait friends of ours have a 4wd so we'll bring blankets and toys and the bouncer and coops can chillax in the back of the car

[~clover~]

I think its funny you guys were all getting your 's... I was still clueless for another 2 weeks!

[brydz]

My wasn't until Feb 10th. This time a year ago I was up at the murray with half a dozen friends getting wasted drunk camping in tents for Australia Day! It was on the 23rd that I conceived, so at this stage I had no idea yet that I was UTD!

Still. Hard to believe it was almost a whole year ago!! And what a year it's been..

pretz bugger that Noah is teething and not sleeping well. Thats one more exciting thing to look forward to.. yeh now u know what i've gone through for the last week and a half, waking 3 times a night. its damn exhausting hey! yeah I am with you on trying to BF still but I'm progressively FF more each time! V started off having a bed time bottle, now he has one in the morning 915 3 days in a row, and one at lunch, and sometimes one in the afternoon. and the other night it was 4am too. Just depends on my mood. Think it will probably not be a month before he ends up on it full time..

raffy -thanks I'd love to get him a jolly jumper to try, i'll see if I can afford to next week. 7pm til 10am! wow!! thats an awesome job! V has been sleeping a lot today, probably won't sleep tonight..

afm great old AF came yesterday dammit. at least I haven't had any pain with it, used to get pretty bad cramps. hopefully this is a permanent development post baby, that they are pain free and easier to deal with!
J was supposed to come and visit V today. So I ran around this morning cleaning my house, finally vacuumed for the first time in weeks, and all that. He didn't come, rang me to say he 'wasn't feeling well' and he said he'll try and come tomorrow. But I honestly don't expect him to follow through..
At least my house is clean!!
Went to go to playgroup today, there was nobody there so I will have to call the lady by next week to find out before next Tues.

[raffy]

Brydz - JJ are on sale at target for $35 that's why I got one hope V sleeps better for you tonight even if he did sleep all day. Also hope that J follows thru and comes to visit tomoro but if not and he does end up getting lawyers involved then he's not doing himself any favours is he? Though it is nice to have a clean house isn't it? Even though mine is messy again already

Just went out and saw the movie burlesque. Its like Moulin rouge on steroids. Highly recommend it but it was a great movie. Anyway best be off DF is getting up to coops in the morning so i plan on having an awesome night sleep and its already 11.15 so we aren't really off to a good start lol

xo

[Pretz]

Happy Australia Day everyone!!!

Raffy - Noah can only stay on his tummy for about 5 mins max before he start getting grumpy and whingy, but mostly he rolls over before the 5 mins is up now and then when I put him back on his tummy he can go another few minutes again. lol I have had about a week and a halfs worth of crappy nights with Noah now and am sooooo ready for it to end, I can't do it anymore, it's really starting to get to me! I got some of the Brauers and tried it yesterday, but not sure whether it made a difference as DH and I was up with him again 3 times last night.....perhaps it's my milk that's going like he doesn't get enough milk at a time and then wakes up sooner cos he is hungry. I might try to express before going to bed and see how much I'm getting, then give him a bottle when he does wake and see whether that makes a difference. My boobies actually feel very empty most of the time now so not sure. How did it feel for you when your milk started going away?? Hope you got a sleep in this morning and enjoy your barbie with your friends! Thanks for the - I'm sending one back for ya!

Clover - If I could have contained myself and not tested, it would've probably been a bit longer before I would have known too! I think I POAS like 3 times a day for the 3 days before I had my blood test and confirmed my pregnancy! I was a POAS-aholic! lol

Brydz - I've also been up with Noah 3 times or more through the night for the last week and a half and you're right, it's damn exhausting!! I really want to keep BF and am really going to continue with it for as long as I can, but I don't think I'm going to last much longer either because my boobies feel really empty all the time like I said to Raffy...and I have noticed that when I do give Noah a bottle of formula he seems much more settled... Sorry to hear that you got dreaded old AF back, but glad that it hasn't been painful for ya! I still haven't gotten mine back and really hope that she continues to stay gone for me for a while longer as I hate her with a PASSION!!! I hope that J shows today and that if he does that you have a nice time with Vinny.

Hello to everyone else!

AFM, feeling very down and low today.....just being silly and trying to think positive but I just don't know what to do anymore to help / get Noah to sleep better at night. It's making me feel sad that he isn't sleeping well and getting overtired from it making things worse and it's making me feel a bit like a failure as I don't know what to do to help him sleep. I've got the GP appointment on Friday when Noah gets his needles so hopefully the GP will be able to give me some advice/tips/info...

Hope you all have a great day!

Me xoxo

[Nikki87]

Have a great AUSSIE Day everyone!

Im so tired I can hardly see ...

Pretz - Seems our boys like to do most things together. Bens sleeping the last few nights has been absolutely S**thouse to say the least. Just keep persisting love. Its probably just a stage ... at least thats what i keep telling myself

[Pretz]

Nikki - Thanks honey. Huge 's to you too! I reckon that Ben and Noah are sending each other vibes somehow about doing things together and by not sleeping well through the night as they need food often and just won't give their Mumma's a nice decent sleep. lol I must say that I'm thrilled because Noah had a 2 hour sleep this arvo and I had an hour of sleep with him so that helps make me feel a bit better! I'm just hoping and for both our sakes (as well as everyone else who's bubs aren't sleeping well) that they give us a good night sleep tonight, I am longing for just 5 or 6 hours straight, although longer would do too!! lol

Hope everyone is enjoying their Aussie day!

GTG, it's Noah's feeding time....again...lol

Love to you all and your beautiful bubba's!

xoxox

[brydz]

howdy everyone.

well no show. not even a call. that was no surprise really. I wasn't holding out for him to turn up. think though that unless he has a legit excuse, like is really unwell and in hosp or something and can't contact me, that he should at least have called to say he can't come.

typical.

oh well i'm not going to be answering any calls, emails or texts from them in any great hurry. he can't be bothered to follow through on his word I don't want him around any more.

if he's ever serious about being a daddy he'll show up.

[~clover~]

Morning everyone

Geez I'm over these bloody holidays!! Counting the days til the girls go back to school. Even talked to Jesse last night about daycare. He sounds more ready than I am

Brydz - I would be unimpressed too. J's got alot of growing up to do
Sux about AF. She held off for 9 months after Jesse was born, so hopefully I'll get that long again at least!

Pretz - Noah might be going through a wonder week? They usually do at about 4 months. They'll be fussy with sleeping & eating for a bit, because something is usually happening developementally around the same time. I don't know how to explain it properly, lol.
He'll be over it soon though Its not easy when you're not getting much sleep.


Summer doesn't happily lay on her belly for long. I was thinking maybe she should by now, but my other kids started rolling at about 4 months & none of them were too keen on it either. I'd have to roll them back over after a few minutes.

She's rolling side to side & sometimes half attempts to roll over (from back to belly), but hasn't followed through yet.
She's getting so good with her hands. I put her under her play gym & she gets hold of the toys & moves them around. Had a rattle type one yesterday & loved moving it to make the noise
She's been doing the same with her feet for a while. Kicking the noisy toys around.

I hate being up this early. I can't do much, coz I don't wanna wake the kids, but it'd be alot easier if I did it all before it gets too hot. And its too early. Been up since 4.30 when DH left. I'm gonna start to crash about 10 & need a nanna nap. With 3 other kids in the house!! Yeah right!!

[brydz]

well J ended up calling me at about 8 last night.

bit late, but at least he called. if he didn't call yesterday I was not going to answer if he tried today, so he was lucky.

apparently he's still sick, has a chest infection or something and doesn't wanna share his germs. so he said he'd ring me on the weekend if he's feeling better then cos he really wants to come over.

hopefully he's not lying to me, although its not nice that he's unwell. i was nice enough to tell him to get better soon.

[raffy]

Pretz - firstly a hugggggge I'm sure you must be exhausted and at the end of your teather. I think its completely normal for your boobs to feel empty and if Noah is constantly feeding then they wouldn't really have the chance to feel engorged kwim? The only reason I knew was coz I finally got the balls to talk to an LC and she sqeezed my bb and nothing came out, bone dry. Maybe when you go to the gp just talk to him/her about it and the troubles your having and I they have the answer. Thinking of ya sweety xox

Brydz - sorry to hear AF showed up. How rude of her. Glad there is no pain associated with it but you lucky thing. My first one was horrendous. And I'm due again tomoro I'm glad you finally heard from J and he actually had an excuse and wasn't just being a sh*thead. I hope he follows through on his word though and calls on the weekend.

Afm - had a really good day yesterday. Went to the beach and had a swim and a sunbake with a few drinks then coops got restless in the heat so we went home and stuck him in a cool bath and then had a BBQ lunch then we went back to my house and walked to the marina to have a look around and got some ice cream then headed home and passed out. I was exhausted. Coops was a bit out of whack coz we weren't really home all day but he finally fell asleep at about 9pm and slept through til 8 (I woke up at 5 and didn't get much sleep after that coz I was worried bout him) and he's asleep on the couch again now. Its insane. I have actually achieved things this morning though. I've settled coops, washed and sterilized bottles, emptied the kitty litter and taken the bin out and put on a load of washing (which is now finished so I better go) I'll no doubt be back later and hopefully my laptop turns on soon coz persies on my phone take agesssss. Thinking of you all xoxo ps sorry if some of this doesn't make sense like I said I'm on my phone and it likes to correct my aweful spelling even if I don't want it to

[~clover~]

Pretz - I'm sure your milk is fine. If bubba is feeding all the time, they won't have the chance to get very full, & by now they should have settled into making exactly what he needs, so they don't over fill anymore.
& if he's having a growth spurt, he'd be having more to up your supply
Its a normal stage all round, you just have to fight your way through it

[JaCaMaDy]

Hi Ladies,

Sorry for such a quick me post: DP's dad over in the UK is end stage teminally ill and we were advised to go over ASAP. So, we are leaving tomorrow night. Oh gosh, on a 24hr flight with a 4 month old, can't even begin to tell u how nervous I am, especially with all the feeding probs we are having cause of the reflux. But, no choice, we have to go, otherwise Madi will never meet her grandpa Am currently madly trying to organise things - they don't do her formula over there, or her medication
Anyway fingers crossed she travels ok and i'll catch up with u all when i get back. Take care

Bec xo

[raffy]

beckles. I'm sorry to hear you have to rush over to the UK under these circumstances. I madi flies ok and you arrive safe and sound.

Afm- coops slept til 5.30 this morning and usually sleeps most of the morning to but of course on the morning I'm super tired he's decided not to sleep have young parents group soon so better get moving. Then going out for ice cream with friends afterwards bbl love to all. Hope those babies slept well last night xx

[brydz]

raffy enjoy the young parent gropu and seeing your friends after

beckels sorry to hear your DPs dad is going through this. I hope Madi flies well for you and that you have a good trip regardless of the horrible circumstances. fingers crossed you get there in time xo

hi to everyone else. its quiet in here atm..

afm went to mums group yesterday, was the last one and again I was the only person there. S couldn't come because her eldest son J was at the drs (same reason she couldn't come last week, him being unwell) and A couldn't come because she herself was unwell. None of the others have been since before xmas.
anyway I got to speak with the nurse one on one and get V weighed and all that.
He's now 6.68kg (+480g) and 64.5cm (+1.5cm) since last weighed and measured 2 weeks ago. Still growing at around the same rate.

Atm he is asleep, has been down since about 9ish. Little bugger wouldnt' go back to sleep from 7 on ward when I really REALLY wanted to sleep myself. By the time he finally settled I was wide awake and couldn't be bothered trying to sleep. I'm not a day sleeper. So by the end of the day I'll probably be buggered.

Its COLD here today. Can't believe it, supposed to be summer but I'm quite cold. stupid weather!!

we have nothing planned today. going to see what happens with J, hopefully he will call and arrange to come out tomorrow because Sunday I'm going to Melbourne to see my bestie for a couple of days and he will just have to wait til we get back.

[Vixstar]

Bec - Am very sorry to hear if your FIL being this bad and I hope you have a good flight over and back with Madi. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

Brydz - I am the same here. Dead on my feet today and would love a sleep but Missy has other plans. Atleast she is still in her cot so fingers crossed she might crash anyways. Bummer about people not turning up at your group today, that would be a tad annoying but WTG Master Vinnie on doing so well.

Raffy - Hope you had a great morning out and that Cooper was a good little man for you. Icecream - yummy!

Pretz - How did you go this morning with Noah and his needles? Did you get any answers to his sleepless nights? Have you thought of baby massage for him during his evening bed time routine? I have never done it but have heard babies really give in to it! Just a thought.....

Clover - How are you going? Hope you are okay.

Bonham - and you????

AFM: Tooth number two had decided to make another appearance this morning. I heard her cry out a few times through the night and am guessing it was her tooth annoying her. I was too tired to bother getting up and as it was a single cry out every few hrs figured she would be fine till morning. Lazy huh?! Looks pretty close to bustingthrough and she has been chewing like crazy on her taggy most of today.

I have also been setting an alarm to get her up 8 - 8.30am each morning as sometimes she would sleep as long as till 10am which would then lead to a massive feeding frenzy in the late arvo. This way she is up for no more than 2 hrs before having a morning sleep. I can also fit in a second sleep like now and yesterday she even slept in my arms at the inlaws for about 40 mins during dinner time.

Going back to the GP tomorrow for bt results.

Okay, off to pull out my lettuce as it has gone to seed! Blerk!

xxxxx