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Brydz - Sorry to hear that J didn't show this week but glad that he at least phoned, although I reckon he could've phoned sooner and not made you wait ALL day! I would also enjoy your days and weekend and if you're busy when he wants to pop over, well then it's his loss. WTG on Vinny's excellent growth stats there! He is growing soooo well and is so gorgeous! You are doing an excellent, excellent job! ;)
Clover - Thanks honey :hug: I think you were right and that Noah went through that 4 month wonderweek. He has been feeding like never before (and in the process obviously has built up my milk supply as this morning my boobs are feeling very FULL) lol. Don't worry about Summer not liking it on her tummy, Noah still moans about it after a few minutes and still only gets about 4-5 mins max on his tummy. He also doesn't roll over everytime, so I'm not pushing it, he will do it at his own pace I guess.
Raffy - Thanks honey. Like I said to Clover, I think Noah was going through a wonderweek of feeding and that he built up my milk supply as my boobs feel more FULL than they have in over a week or so, so I'm guessing there's no problems with my milk. See what the GP said in AFM below... I hope that when AF shows for ya that it's not as painful as the first one was :hug:
Bec - I'm so sorry to hear about your FIL. I :pray: that Madi will do great for you on the flight. Please know that I'm (that we're all) thinking of you and your family and we're all here for you. HUGE :hug:'s!!!
Vix - Thanks for the tip on the baby massage. I have heard of it as well, but also haven't given it a try as I didn't think of it. Perhaps I will try it, if only just to calm/relax him. See about the GP visit in AFM below... Wow on Alannahrama's second tooth coming through. Poor babies teething this early. I'm not sure whether I'm glad Noah is teething so early and now or that it's better to start getting those teeth through sooner rather than later. :hug:
Nikki - Hope Ben is doing what his buddy Noah is doing and giving his Mummy a bit more sleep at night again and during the day. Hopefully these growth spurts will be over soon! lol :hug:
AFM, had a few better nights the past 2 nights. Noah still woke 2 times each night, but at least he only fed and then went straight back to sleep so that was good. His day time naps has also been better as he had 4 naps yesterday and each one was between 30 and 45 minutes! :dance: He didn't go to sleep until 9pm last night though as his arvo nap was at 5:30ish, which I think was a bit late...but he slept til 2:15am this morning before waking for a feed, then woke again at 5am for a feed and is still sleeping now. I slept til 7:30am!! Yay! He had his needles yesterday and did really well. I think it was harder for me to watch then it was for him. He let out a big scream as they injected him, but was fine afterwards and all day yesterday. Asked the GP about the teething and sleepless nights. GP said that he reckons it could definitely be the teething, but that it could be a growth spurt and usually around 4 months their sleep patterns changes and it becomes more like our adult sleep patterns and to just feed him when he is hungry and that he is sure that it'll pass and Noah will sort himself out. He said to give it a couple more weeks and if it's still bad and no one is getting sleep to bring Noah back and we'll have a chat and see whether there's something else or how we can help Noah settle/sleep. I left it at that and have Noah's 4 month checkup with the MCHN on Monday so will ask her as I'm sure that she'll be able to give me some info/help/advice on how to settle him, help him get into a bit more of a routine with his day time sleeps etc. Oh and the GP said that seeing as Noah is nearly 4 months (4 months tomorrow) that I could try to give him a bit of Farex at night to see if that helps him sleep better too. I asked him whether it was ok as it was sometimes suggested that babies not be started on solids until 6 months and he said that it has changed and that some say 4 and some say 6, but that most doctors and pediatricians now say 4 months is ok. So might give it a try...who knows, he might like it, might not...
Well then, I best head off and go have some brekky before Noah wakes as he'll be needing a feed I'm sure! lol DH is working today, but MIL is coming over to help me move some stuff upstairs and then tomorrow one of DH's friends is coming over to help him move our furniture upstairs! lol Yay, we're finally moving upstairs tomorrow!! Woot woot!!!
Have a lovely weekend!
Me xoxo
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:birthday2: happy birthday clover!! :birthday2:
Hope you have the best day ever and get spoilt rotten like you deserve
xx
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Happy Birthday Clover!
And Happy 4 months to precious little Noah!!!
Pretz - I was only thinking this morning that im going to start Ben on solids next week. Hes still waking up every 2 hours at night to feed, and my ECHN said its fine to start him at 4 months if I think he is ready. Im not running out of milk - my boobs still leak everywhere, so I think he just needs that little something extra ... hmmm such a big decision.
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Thanks guys :)
Flachengeist (alcohol) party last night & bbq & drinks afterwards for my 21st (;)), then breakfast bbq in the park this morning with the IL's before they went home.
Now I think i need a big chink of mudcake & a lovely nanna nap ;)
Might take the kids to the beach late, late this arvo, but the only other plans I have today are to be lazy!! Gotta get the kids crap organised for school tomorrow or Tuesday. Can't WAIT for that!
Hoping I can convince DH to cook dinner for me tonight, but I doubt it. If he does it'll only be if I clean the kitchen first anyway, so we'll see...
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Clover - happy 16 weeks to summer. Glad you've been having a good few days for your birthday. And I hope dh cooks for you tonight and doesn't make you clean lol.
Vix - happy 19 weeks to miss alannah xo
Nikki - I was talking to my chn as well regarding introducing solids and she said to me due to the hospitals policies she still has to tell me 6 months but she said that if I think he's ready to give it a go so I went and bought some farex and a couple of 4+ months raffertys Gardens just to see if he likes the taste before I go and buy a bunch of fruits and veges coz I do plan on pureeing my own baby food. But I'll give him some of that next week and see what happens. He's such a big boy and does the mouth moving thing when he watches DF and I eat. So GL with it and fingers crossed it helps ben to sleep a but longer for you.
Pretz - happy four months to your beautiful little dude. I hope introducing some farex works for you to and that Noah sleeps longer at night as well. Glad all went well with his needles and he wasn't to bothered by them. I'm booking coops in to get his done at the same time I get a check up regarding my pnd and probably get a papsmear while I'm there to :doh: I just keep putting it off so figure I should just get it out of the way. Having said that AF hasn't made an appearance yet so no doubt she'll show up then lol
Afm - happy 16 weeks coopy. Just had a 1.5 hour nap and geez I needed it. I feel spritely now lol. A friend of DFs came to have a look at my little 2 door car today and said he'll come back to get it next week when his partner gets paid. I'm having mixed emotions, I'm glad we've finally sold her but I'm so sad coz I freaking love that little car, she was so good to me over the years lol oh well time to move on to bigger and better cars lol anyways I need to widdle and the little man is stirring so I better scoot.
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hi girls.
saturday J was going to call in the morning. i waited around til 12 and he hadn't so i went to bendigo for my friends house warming party, had a good day/night we swam in their pool, v loved it. then i had a few drinks, stayed up all night, even DTD with my good friend 'with benefits' i guess you could call him (we have had an ongoing casual no strings thing for 2 years or more). nice to say that it is over and done with first time post baby and that i won't be going back for any any time soon. satisfied my curiousity LOL. i don't care if that makes me sound sl*tty, I had an urge and I dealt with it.. its only human.
yesterday i spent the day at my sisters it was like 40 here :( yuk. then after dinner we went and picked up my friend and went around to J's. i know i've been waiting for him to show and see V but I had to go there while i was in town, its been weeks since he's seen him. he was holding him so closely i felt sad that they had been apart, though I know it wasn't entirely my fault. hoping to see him at our place for a visit later in the week.
now i'm in melbourne, my friend and i drove back to her place after we visited J. its just as hot today as yesterday so we've been inside in the air con. very nice compared to outside. hopefully tomorrow is going to be cooler and we can get out and go to the shops or the beach or something.
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Raffy and Pretz - have you tried solids? any luck?
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Hi Nikki. Tried some yesterday, he pulled a funny face but he ate it lol. How did you go with feeding some to ben?
Brydz - no ones judging you chicky lol its not like just coz you have a kid now your expected to never have sex again. Hope your having loads of fun in Melbourne and the weather isn't to hot for you.
Afm - my sister arrived today, poor thing has been awake for like 36 hours so I better take my whingy kid off her so she can sleep. DF should be home soon and then he can take coops so I can sleep. Mum gets here on Friday, can't wait :) bbl xx
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Hello girls,
Just a quicky from me - have been busy, busy, busy, but we've finally moved upstairs and it's GREAT! Sooo much cooler and nicer. I think even Noah is noticing the change as he slept 7 hours straight on Sunday night (our first night up there) before his first feed and then another 4 hours til morning. Last night he woke 2 times, but fell asleep again straight away so happy with that and to my shock and surprise this morning, he had a 3 hour nap from 9am til 12:15pm!! He didn't have any naps this arvo, but crashed tonight after his bath and a bottle at 6:30pm.
Nikki & Raffy - I tried giving Noah some Farex on Sunday night and although he took about 2 spoons full, he started crying, I think it was because he was tired at the time I had given it to him, so might try again tomorrow, didn't try yesterday or today as I figured I wouldn't push it. :crossfingers: that he will enjoy it when I try again and if not, then I'll wait again before trying again. Glad to hear that Coop's liked it Raffy. ;) Did you end up trying to give some to Ben Nikki?
Alrighty lovelies, gotta dash, have to get dinner started as haven't made it yet and it's already after 7pm.
Have another catch up with my Antenatal class Mummies tomorrow so looking forward to that. Will try to get on here tomorrow arvo and catch up on some persies.
Love to you all!
Night night!
xoxox
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Pretz and Raffy - I haven't given Ben any yet, he's got his needles tomorrow so I just want to get him past that tomorrow and give him couple of days and then will see how we go. Dont want to get the grizzles confused with starting solids or immunisations IYKWIM. Itching to start it though. Going to buy a new food processor on Thursday so it will make pureeing and chopping so much easier.
Group Question: Has anyone seen the Avent Steam and Flip Blender? Whats your thoughts?? What applicances have you got/are you going to get to make solids???
Raffy - glad Cooper liked the solids and very happy for you that your mum is almost here!
Pretz - WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO on moving upstairs and WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO for Noah sleeping 7 hours the other night you lucky ducky!!! Ben fed 4 times last night and has stacked on the weight again this week after slowing down for a few weeks.
AFM - Packed away all the 00's today :( I had absolutely nothing in 0's so i had to go out and spend $300 on new everythings for ben, onesies, long rompers, singlets, shirts, shorts, pants, long sleeves, jumpers. FEeeeewwww glad that is over!! Going to catch up with a preggy gf tomorrow so should be fun :) Also going to look at getting a rabbit for Summer. So excited!!
Oh i did the dumbest thing today. Was soaking one of Summers T-shirts in the trough... left the tap on .... .... .... you guessed it - flooded laundry :doh:
Anyhoo gotta go start tea. Catchyas tomorrow!!
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DOH!!!!!! I just cannot keep up on here or with the 'latest trends'. When my siblings were born, they started solids at 4 months. When I had Bailey and NJ it was 6 months but Bailey started at 5.5months and then stopped after a week for a fortnight due to constipation and then started again. NJ started at about the same time with no probs! Alannah does not have a CHN check up until 6 months so will wait till then but she does not really show any signs anyway. She can't even drink 180mls of formula yet anyways! lol
GROUP - What is bubs routine?
Alannahs is
8 - 8.30am - wakes up and bf
1 - 1.5hr play
9.30am - 10am - morning sleep
11am - 11.30am - wakes up for ff
1 - 1.5hr play
12.30 - 1pm - nap
1.30 - 2pm - wakes up for bf
play
4pm - 4.30pm - nap for no more than 30 mins and then ff
play
6pmish - bf
sits at the table in her high chair whilst we eat
7.30pm - bath
8pmish - ff and bed
Bugger, DH just got back. Best wizz around and do the kitchen! Yikes!!!!
Talk soon and will do persies.
xxxxx
p.s. I was going to start putting her to bed at around 7 - 7.30pm but gave up after one night. Just does not work with the family at the moment. lol
and Nikki - re: appliances - a fork is my utensil/appliance and ice cube trays! I just give bubs what ever we are having eg mash spud or mashed carrot, cauliflower etc - cheap, quick, easy and no fuss!
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Nikki - tried some more solids today, farex mixed with pureed fruits, he loved it. kept opening his mouth for more and i was making a big deal about it and he kept laughing at me. question though - how often should i feed it to him at this age but making sure hes still getting enough FF as well? at the mo hes had it once a day for a few days just to see if he likes it and how he would go with his swallowing reflex, but hes got it all down pat. WOW at Ben being in 0s. coopers fitting into 00 perfectly, i have to go through his drawers and put all the 000s in storage there is no way he would still fit them and then that makes room for the 0s that he will soon fit into at the rate hes growing
Pretz - wooooooooooo freaking hoooooooooooooooooo for finally moving upstairs!! thats so awesome. and WTG Noah on sleeping so long.
AFM - well we are having a slumber party downstairs, coops is fast asleep in the portacot, Sister is sleeping on the couch and DF and I are on a matress on the floor. it its WAY to hot upstairs and there is no A/C up there only downstairs. the heat hits you like a brick wall half way up the stairs, its yukky. anyhoo off to check on my mummas animals (they are staying in temporary accomodation up the road but sister will hang with us coz the house they have is stinking hot as well even with the A/C on) and then im coming back to snuggle with my man and fall asleep hopefully early :crossfingers: night allll xx
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We aren't thinking about solids yet. She's showing slight interest, but I'm waiting til about 6 months to do BLS. We might not end up waiting that long, but I have no interest in starting yet. My big girls started between 4 & 5 months. DS was between 5 & 6 months.
Summer isn't really in a routine yet. Depends on the day. She goes down for the night between 8 & 10, might wake for a feed about 1am, usually sleeps til 4 or 5, then feeds & stays in bed with me. Sleeps til about 8ish. Up for an hour or 2, down for about an hour. More play, another sleep & a bit more play til she has a big arvo sleep from about 4 til 7ish.
Then bath & cuddles with dad & bed again :)
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Coopers routine:
wakes between 6-7
drinks 240mls
plays for 1.5-2 hours
sleeps til 10-11
drinks 180mls
plays/cuddles/drinks some more
falls asleep at 2-3
wakes at 4-5
drinks more (120ml)
has a bath at 5
drinks more (180ml)
has a big cuddle and a cry :rolleyes:
falls asleep at 7 and wakes again at 7.30 :wall:
drinks 60ml
falls asleep again at 8.30-9
and sleeps til 6-7 then we start all over again.
NOTE: this is a day when we stay at home, it usually goes all out of whack if we go out somewhere but generally he'll sleep at around the same time in the pram just not for as long
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Finally! Been waiting for this poo!! Now she'll crash out! :lol:
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Clover - glad Summer got that poo out!! Hope she has a good sleep now!
Raffy - i cant really remember how much solids they are supposed to have at this age, i must go do some reading up on it. Always offer a milk feed first before solids up until the 8 or 9 months (by then i think they should be having 3 meals ... breakfast, lunch and dinner), otherwise they get consitpated really easily. Hope your house cools down for you, there is truly nothing worse huh!
Vix - I dont know why they dont just say ... start solids when your baby is ready and willing??? Save all the troubles of ifs and buts.
AFM - Tried Ben on a little farex last night. He swallowed some of it but pushed most of it back out. Think I will wait another couple of weeks and add some pureed apple in there or something.
He had his needles and is currently sleeping like a good boy.
Had to replace the battery on my car today. Grrrr. How many more things can go wrong with the hunk of junk. Im losing faith in you Kia!
Hope all you people in Queensland are staying safe and away from this terrible cyclone.
PRetz - Hope you are going well and are keeping out of the cyclones way ...
Bens Routine;
7 - 8am Wake up, B/F, poo (without fail!)
9am Sleep
11am B/F, play for 1 hour, poo (without fail!)
12pm Sleep
2.30pm B/F, play for 1 hour
4pm-5pm sleep
5pm B/F, play and grizzle time
6.30pm Shower/Bath
7:00pm B/F Bed
10:00pm B/F
Then normally Feeds at 1.15am (precisely) and 4:00am
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Oh ... Happy 4 months to my big tub of butter!!! :happyforyou:
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Nikki - happy four months to your big little man. Thanks for the info, i have been offering ff before solids so I'm glad i got that right :) I'll have to see what good ol' Google has to say about it :rolleyes: lol.
Clover - WTG summer on the poo. We woke up to a massive one this morning due to not doing one yesterday :doh:
