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Hello gorgeous ladies!
HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone!! Hope you're all having a fantastic New Year's Day! :confetti:
Raffy - Sorry to hear about your fight with DF! Hope you guys sort everything out soon. I can totally understand how you must feel when you're tired and exhausted having to look after a bub and when you're struggling to settle them through the night. I'm exhausted all the time too and actually surprised I'm not moody about it 24/7. I do most of Noah's settling at night too as DH works by driving a truck and I wouldn't want him to fall asleep behind the wheel. He does wake up at night and ask whether he can help and sometimes I let him as I'm about ready to fall over. Just remember that no matter what others might say, you are doing an excellent job as a Mummy to Coop! :hug:
Nikki - Glad to hear that Noah is certainly not the only bub HATING tummy time! How awesome about Ben rolling over! You must be sooooo proud! :dance: Thanks for the Bumbo. I will have a look online and see which stores have them as I might get Noah one. ;) You're right too, Noah also hates when you lay him down, he wants to see what's going on around him. Even when he is in his pram, he always wants to sit up. lol Way to go on Ben's great weight gain, he is growing really, really well and you're doing an awesome job! :clap: Haven't weighed Noah for 2 weeks and he was 6.3kg then, so not sure what he weighs now. He was also 63cm then, so not sure if he is any taller by now! lol Enjoy down South - look forward to seeing some piccies when you get back!
Hello to everyone else!
AFM, just having a quiet day at home today with Noah. DH got a job yesterday and is working today and tomorrow, but it's good money, so he doesn't mind and I'm just doing whatever I can to tidy up around the house a bit when Noah is asleep for the few minutes he sleeps! lol
Well then, better get going before he wakes up again, but will talk to you all again soon.
Love to you all.
xoxox
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:partysmiley: Happy New Year to everyone!!
Hope you are all enjoying celebrating the 1st day of this new year with your loved ones. We had a lovely NYE at our local broadwater, watching the fireworks, well Madi slept thru them, and we had bought her proper ear muff things from the baby shop, so she couldnt hear them anyways...lol she looked like a mini pit crew member with them on.
Nikki & Pretz: Madi got a bumbo for xmas, as seen in ticker pic, she doesnt mind it too much, and like most of the bubby's, she loves looking at the telly :o
Raffy: Congrats on feeding as long as you have, you have done great! :clap: I didnt make it more than a few weeks, but i dont beat myself up, because Madi is happy & healthy, and thats the most important thing!
Hello everyone else :hello:
AFM: well 1st xmas & new year has come and gone, I feel like Madi is growing sooo quickly! We had some issues with feeding, and GP diagnosed silent reflux. She is now on Novalac Reflux & it has made a BIG difference. No more screaming at feeds!!!
Madi is in her own room in her cot now, with a sound & movement monitor for my peace of mind. She is sleeping 12 hours straight at night & has 3 naps per day, for anywhere from 1/2hr to 2 hrs. The 1st time, I woke up at 630am, and had a major panic cause she hadnt woken me at her usual 4am ish. Wow, I ran to her room SO FAST!
On a down side, the formula makes her really constipated which is horrible, but giving infants friend a few times a day seems to be keeping it in check.
Having a quiet day today. Me & DP off to see little fockers in the gold class tonight! my best friend is babysitting madi for the 1st time.
hope you are all well
Bec xo
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HAPPY NEW YEAR - im still recovering. considering i hadnt been drunk since last new years im pretty proud of my effort lol. but nah it was good to relax with friends and act like a 20 year old again, but i couldnt wait to see Coops this morning
thanks everyone for your kind words. DF and i are back on track of course. just me being hormonal coz i got my period today :o i was stoked i made it to the 1st coz that means i didnt have a period at all in 2010 lol
anyway staying at DFs parents house tonight and they are slow cookin a roast on the bbq and gee wizz it smells awesome.
Hope you all enjoyed your first day of 2011
love ya'll
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Beckles - Great to hear that Madi slept through the fireworks. Awesome that Madi got a Bumbo for Chrissy. I looked online today and see that you can buy them at Babies Galore, so might get one there. I was going to ask Nikki, but might be able to ask you too - is it ok to put Noah in it even though he can't fully hold his head up all the time yet? He is getting stronger by the day and can hold his head up pretty well, but after a while he still gets a bit tired. I guess I could always get one and try him in it in a few weeks as I'm sure he'll be able to hold his head up properly then. ;) Hope you enjoy the movie. I would love to see it too.
Raffy - Sorry to hear that you got the dreaded old AF back, but WTG on not having a period at ALL in 2010!! That's awesome. I was just saying to DH this evening that last year this time I was UTD and tomorrow a year ago I had my m/c (chemical pregnancy). So tomorrow a year ago was my last period (if you can call it that). It's awesome not having have had a period for so long! Hopefully I can go a while longer without it as I truly and utterly HATE my periods thanks to endometriosis and ovarian cysts! :wall: Glad to hear that you had a great NYE and that you and DF are back on track! :dance:
AFM, had a nice dinner with DH and Noah tonight here at home and watched a bit of TV before Noah fell asleep on my boob! lol Just put him to bed about 15mins ago so think it's night night time for me too. Hopefully he will sleep through (which is til about 4am) and I get to have a good nights sleep too. Feeling pretty exhausted today...
Enjoy the rest of your New Years Day!
Love to everyone! :heartbeat:
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Pretz - Hope you managed to get a few things done around the home yesterday while little Noah napped. I re weighed Ben yesterday and measured with the tape measure I got from the hospital. Seems I got it wrong. Hes 7.5kg in the nude, HC still 42cm (thank goodness, I was really worried his head was getting too big), and Length is 65cm. Its so foreign to me having a big baby. Summer was petite and was only this size at 7 months. Ben is 3 months today :lol: SNAP at talking about periods to your DH. I was driving home last night from down south (gastro is going through the family, so I packed up my stuff and got out of their ASAP!!) and I said to DH, wow I havent had my period for a year now. How great is that!!! RE the Bumbo. Sit him in it and just see how his head goes, if it flops a lot perhaps wait another couple of weeks, otherwise just do short stints in it - it will really help his neck muscles. Ben gets cranky after about 5 mins, I think his big head gets a little too heavy haha
raffy - glad to hear you had a great night out and enjoyed yourself like a 20 year old! WTG!! Boo to getting your period back, Im really not looking forward to that.
Beckels - how cute about the little earmuffs! Gorgeous. Poor little Madi with the constipation and reflux. Hope she starts feeling better soon.
AFM - Quiet one at home today. Its about 38 degrees here for the next 4 days so I dont plan on venturing out much. I am really tired so hoping to catch up on some shut eye.
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Nikki - Thanks honey. I got a couple of things done, but Noah's naps just aren't long enough sometimes! :p He is doing heaps better now as far as being clingy although he still has his moments where he just wants to be in your arms all the time! lol Wow, Ben sure has grown! I'm curious to find out how much Noah weighs too now, but not getting him weighed again until end January when I have his 4 month (HOLY COW that sounded scary saying 4 months!! :o) checkup with the CHN. Will probably be over 7kg's too by then!! lol I think that boys are definitely bigger than girls because as I mentioned to Raffy, my goddaughter who is 8 months only weighed 700g more than Noah about 3 weeks ago, so I'm sure by now Noah has well and truly overtaken her in the weight department. Scary when you think there's 5 months difference between them. lol I'm thinking of going to buy a couple of 0 outfits for Noah soon because some of his 00's are starting to look a bit small! lol Happy 3 months to Ben today. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. Feels like just the other day we were all counting down to having our babies and still had 3 months to go - sometimes someone asks me what I have been doing the past week and I for the life of me can't remember! lol Some days/weeks are a blur! lol How is Ben sleeping now at night? Is he sleeping through yet? Noah has only just (I'm talking the past 4 nights) been starting to sleep for longer stretches (7 hours or so a night) but still wakes for at least one feed, which lately has been around 4am, but I'm happy with that. ;)
AFM, just having a quiet day at home too. Went to do some grocery shopping this morning with Noah and he was really good, but as I loaded the shopping in the car he started screaming, think he was overtired as he hadn't slept since he woke at 8:30am. When we got home I fed him and he fell asleep straight away and has been sleeping for about 25mins! Yay! Hopefully he sleeps a while longer so that I can pack away all my shopping. lol
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!
Love to you all!
xoxox
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howdy ladies.
periods - haven't got mine back yet and it will be a year on the 8th since I last had it. sooooo nice to not worry about it :) Hard to believe a whole year ago this time in 3 weeks (the 23rd) was the night i got spastically drunk and slept with J and created my beautiful baby boy unexpectedly! Best oops I ever did..
raffy -glad you had a bit of fun for new years! I am looking forward to a drink with my friends again one day. but at the moment breast feeding is my priority. once he goes to formula it will be possible to let my hair down every once in a while. but i'm not overly keen on the whole clubbing thing any more.
my first day of 2011 wasn't great. spent the day being bored. and annoyed at my brother. he's playing up again and mum and I are wanting to kick his ass. little brat was meant to meet mum at 1230 friday/saturday night and never did. after she drove into town to get him, when she could have been in bed as she had to get up early for work. this was the first time she had given him her trust back since doing a few stupid things last year. guarantee he will be grounded at home until he turns 18 now. (and thats not until october...). why are teenage boys so awful?
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Hi girls and Happy New Year!
Just taking 5 mins to stop and breathe. We are going away tomorrow and I have only folded blumin' washing since lunchtime. Still have to pack and for three kids that means half the darn house, then my stuff and prolly DH's stuff plus food etc etc etc I have been exhusted for over a week now and seriously wish I had done something about my thyroid when i was first told too when Alannah was 7 weeks old! Paying for it now. I drag myself to bed every night and then have to get up between one to three times a night for one of if not all the kids. Alannah has woken 2 nights this past week but I think coz she has kicked the bottom of her wrap out. Last night I used a sleeping bag.grobag and she slept right through but it was Bailey and Noah last night. I ended up on the lounge from 3am. I am exhausted physically and mentally, gets bouts of light headiness and feel sick atleast once a day. By those symtoms you would think I was utd hey?!
With all this I have also had anxiety with some crap that MIL is going on with. Then on top of that, the past week my milk has been incredibly low in the arvos and the whole feeding several times in a few hours thing started again which kinda got me feeling down so Alannah is now on a 3/4pm ff and then her normal ff at bedtime so about 8/8.30pm.
Well, sorry for the me post. Off to cook dinner now.
xxxxx
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I'll be back later/tomoro to write persies coz I'm on my phone but I couldn't come on and read without giving vix a huge hug!!! Hope you start to feel better soon and you get a chance to relax on ur holiday. Thinking of you xox
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ugh what a start to the year.
Yesterday I was about ready to give my baby away to someone else for a day. He fed every 1.5-2 hours. It wasn't helping my nipples that were starting to get sore. When I gave him a feed last night at 7pm my nipple was hurting (but it had been for a few days) and so I didn't realize til he detached that it was actually bleeding. :( it was gross. I could have cried. BFing is sooooooooo hard. Not to mention I was bloody exhausted. We still have a lot of trouble sleeping overnight.
I put him in the car in a clean onesie to go to the supermarket and buy a tin of S26 gold, and then head to mums. He spewed MY blood all over himself and his clean outfit. Luckily before we left the driveway and not while we were at the shops. So I had to change him again and then head off.
There was a lot of blood it was disgusting. My poor baby, how did he not screw up his face at the taste of it? and he must have swallowed a fair bit cos this morning he has had 2 blackish poops.
I'm so frustrated. I hate how breast feeding is so hard and complicated. I have formula fed him twice last night and then this morning. I am hoping that I can do it for just a day or two or three and give my nipples a break (in the meantime hand expressing and storing it in the freezer). And then go back to breast. But I don't know. If he starts sleeping better at night because of the formula I'll be tempted to stick to it.
And on top of that.
I came to mums to get a break. But she had to go into town and chase after my brother. He still hasn't contacted us since friday night, little *****. He messaged one of MY friends to tell her to tell us he'd be home sunday arvo. and then never came home.
so mum went to his friends mothers place (the feral drug using friend he was last seen with). she hasn't seen them. she doesn't have any kids at home any more (we think they are in foster care) and she doesn't know where her own 16 yo son lives.
so I came here for support and ended up getting stuck alone with V anyway.
luckily she wasn't more than an hour.
she went to the police and reported him missing. they ran the boys (his friend) name thru LEAP or whatever it is called, their criminal database, and the only person with the same surname on the system is his mother. no surprises there...
dad said a week or so ago my brother said he was going to come visit him (he lives in adelaide) and would call him from the bus stop. so we think there's a chance he's going there.
mum conveniently opened him a new bank account the other day, but because of the weekend/public holiday he can't actually access it yet because its not activated. so he is getting around wherever he is with the $30 he had in his wallet. there's only like another $50 in his account anyway. don't know what he is eating and he only has the clothes he was wearing unless someone brought him to mums to get more..
mum is super worried :( she was up most of the night.. i'm not all that worried. i say let him be a little turd and learn the hard way that life in the big wide world is not easy. he's not kidnapped or anything, just hiding or 'runaway' as they call them. he'd be with his mates most likely, smoking, drinking and doing weed (all the things mum asked him not to do).
don't know what her reaction is going to be if the cops end up bringing him home some time soon.. she has already hidden his laptop, ps2 and xbox. if it were me i'd kick him out. she's put up with his crap for 12 months now and doesn't need it. but that is exactly what he is hoping for and mum isn't stupid, she doesn't wanna give him the satisfaction.
and then J and his mum are due back any day now. sooooooooooo not looking forward to dealing with their **** as well. argh.
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Vix - Sorry to hear about everything you're going through. I hope things improve for you soon and that you feel better soon. :hug: I hope that the break away from home will do you all some good and that you get at least some relaxation somehow. Sorry also to hear that you milk supply has been low and that Alannah has been feeding so much. Noah has been the same, feeding almost constantly some days and it's driving me insane as I don't get much done. I have started giving him a bottle of FF every now and again (sometimes around 11am and then just before my bedtime as a top up feed) too, although still mostly BF when I can. Sorry to hear that MIL is causing problems/dramas. I hope it all gets straightened out soon! :hug:
Brydz - Oh I'm so sorry to hear about everything that you're going through too and ouch for the bleeding nipples. I too agree with you that BF is hard and when you're exhausted and your bub is feeding that often it can easily make you want to quit it and start FF. Just remember that it's totally up to you whether you end up FF Vinny or give your boobs a few days to recover and then start on BF again. Either way, as long as Vinny is fed and growing well, then that's all that matters. ;) Sorry to hear about the stuff that you're going through with your brother. I too would agree with you that if he doesn't change his attitude, especially with not phoning your Mum to at least let her know he is safe then she should kick him out, that's what I would do if it were me. Good luck with J and his Mum too when they get back. Hope it all works out! :hug: :hug:
Hello to everyone else! :hello:
AFM, was so impressed as yesterday morning I went to do the grocery shopping and when I came back Noah fell asleep at 1pm and slept for 4 hours until 5pm!! :o He hasn't slept that much during the day since he was 3 weeks old! lol He did however stay up until 9:30pm though before falling back asleep and then woke at 2:30am for a feed as he had wriggled himself out of his wrap and must have been a bit cold. So I put him in bed with me and DH and fed him in bed and he soon fell asleep until 6:00am again this morning. He just went down for another nap, but I'm not better on another 4 hour sleep today (although it would be nice as I did some washing and would LOVE to get it all folded and put away today instead of 3 days from now!) lol :p
Other than that, DH and I are just having a quiet day at home relaxing.
Hope you all have a great day.
Love ya's!
xoxox
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Brydz - HUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGE hugs babe. im so sorry BFing is getting hard for you, when i first tried FF coops i could go a day or two without giving him boob and then there was still plenty when i gave it to him again. you can always give it a go, and the hand expressing will also keep up your supply and stop you from getting engorged :) i hope you find the solution asap coz all that blood sounds horrible, sorry babe. my brother was exactly the same at 16. i hope for your mums sake he pulls his head in and tells her where he is. hopefully by the time hes 18 hes grown up a bit huh?? im sure we all go thru 'phases' at that age, i no i did, and my parents were the enemy :rolleyes:
Pretz - in that case i hope for your sake ur AF stays away a long while longer. im glad Noahs not as clingy anymore, i have to say the last week or so Coops has been good as well when it comes to his clingyness. he would never have floor time for longer than a couple of minutes, but the last few mornings he laids there for a good 20 mins just playing with toys and watching tv, i think the tv may have something to do with it as hes stayed there longer ever since hes discovered it, but im not complaining ;)
Nikki - WTG on Bens weight and growth, he is such a big boy, considering hes only a week or so older than Coops and already a kilo heavier. that must be some amazing milk you have there chicky, sorry to here you have to come back from douth because of gastro, that sucks big time, hope you all escaped it bug free though, is it still hot where you are?? we are about an hour east of Perth and its overcast and muggy today, this is the worst kind of hot. if the weather has to be hot then give me the crisp heat any day
AFM - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH these period pains are worse than pre labour pains and sorry TMI but its dam lucky you cant die from blood loss with AF or i think i would be in trouble. ive never had heavy periods but i have to change me pad every hour if not more often and im having like 3 showers a day :doh: i feel disgusting, sure as hell didnt miss this sh*t!!!!!
friends of ours from Newcastle that also have family in Perth (ive talked bout them before) they found out last night that the pipe in their upstairs toilet in Newcastle has burst and flooded their house!! its wet all their room and all upstairs, its warped the door under the stairs, the paint is peeling down the stairs and water was coming thru the fire alarm and light sockets. LUCKILY it missed their very nice lounges and huge tv and also a friend of our who has recently split with his GF was storing his stuff there and he has a 52" 3D tv, ps3, xbox, blu ray and dvd player but thankfully that all got avoided. they r still in Perth for another 2 weeks (that would make me crazy if i was in their situation) but they are gonna talk to DHA (defence housing australia) tomoro, id say the defence force will just give them a new house coz by the sounds of it this one wont be livable. i told them we get back to Newy on Saturday (:crying:) and we'll be there to help if they need us. what a great start to the new year huh?? i said considering the damage they were extremely lucky as the only thing they lost was some shoes in there walk in robe.
anyhooooooo, im gonna go hang with DF while Coops is asleep and then we are off to stay at my parents house tonight, then tomro my mum is babysitting for the night and DF and i are spending a romantic day in fremantle and then staying at the casino for the night :)
love to all xx
ETA - -Pretz - we posted at the same time. wowzers Noah on such an awesome nap. i have my fingers and toes crossed he does the same today so you get ur washing done. enjoy ur day with DH
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Raffy - if you are needing to change your pad more than every hour, maybe you should go get checked out?
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Raffy - I would agree with Clover - if you're having to change your pad every hour, then I would get it checked out by a GP. I always got heavy painful periods (damn endo and cysts :crying:) and having have been through labour now and knowing what labour pains feel, I can say that my period pains felt very, very similar to those I felt during my labour, hence why I REALLY am not looking forward to getting my period back and having that type of pain being curled up in pain with my heatpack for the first day or two again! I have heard from some of my friends that have had babies that sometimes your period can be more painful than before after having a baby, so perhaps it's normal... but whether or not that's the case, I hope that the pain eases for you soon and that bleeding slows down too. Huge big :hug: :hug: :hug:'s to you.
Hi Clover! Hope things are going well on your end! ;)
AFM, just got my little man to sleep, so might head off to bed myself, am feeling extremely tired as I ended up doing heaps today while DH helped out with Noah. :crossfingers: that Noah sleeps through tonight so I can get some decent sleep too.
Hope you all have a great night!
Love to you all! :heartbeat:
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thanks Clover - its back to normal now, changed it every 3/4 hours for hygiene reasons obviously. and the pains are still there but not as intense, thank god.
Pretz - i seriously hope the pains arent any worse for you when AF arrives back. my labour was only 2 hours and that was enough hahaha so i cant imagine going through that for a week. as i said to Clover the pains have settled down in intensity. still more blood than there was before Coops but no where near as much as there was yesterday. Hope Noah is good for you and lets you have a nice long sleep tonight. and what a gem your DH is for helping. dont no what i would do without DF, not looking forward to him going back to work next monday though im sure we'll manage :)
AFM - DF and i were messing around and i hit him in the face with a pillow so he slapped me on my bare thigh, i now have a perfect handprint shaped welt there. OUCH. its sore to sit on. little bugger.
have a good night my loverlies xx
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howdy all.
today has been improved.
i am back at my house, just took down my xmas tree. jims mowing came and did some more weed killing/cleaning up/hedge trimming for me :) and YAYYYYYYYYY my hug a bub arrived in the mail :)
my brother -he text mum from a free text site last night and asked to be picked up at my place in 30 minutes. I came to get him and he was sunburnt badly, hungover and feeling sorry for himself. I told him to get over it. He did just what I thought and spent 3 whole days drinking and doing god knows what else with his mates. Did I mention the bruises and black eye? mum reckons he got beaten up, but he told me him and his mates were boxing. which wouldn't surprise me they are idiots. He seemed pleased with himself for getting drunk to the point of spewing in kfc, and not being able to walk at one stage. He kept looking for sympathy. Little bastard. I told him I was disappointed and that I wouldn't lecture him because that is mums job. But I suggested he might start off well by apologizing.
He got home and CONTINUED searching for sympathy and proceeded to rave on about the things he drank etc. Mum was just plain ignoring him but I can tell it wasn't doing him any more favours to be bragging..
He is annoyed at her for taking away his xbox, laptop etc. But I told him it was his own fault and to get over it. He knows he will be banned from going anywhere til he turns 18 now. But apparently he had an awesome new years and it was worth it.
He just doesn't seem to care how he upset mum. I'm still so mad at him :(
feeds bottle fed Vinny for most of yesterday and then as of the evening back onto the boob. my nipples welcomed a break but I don't know how long they will be okay for. He feeds often. He had the boob before bed and slept 5 hours (9-2) and I was a bit annoyed that he still isn't sleeping longer. so I gave him formula at 2 but he was up wanting to be fed again at 5am :( and then 730. (after gooing and babbling for 2 hours driving me mad!). I've come to the conclusion that he is just a little piggy and needs to feed all the damn time. He's still growing like a mushroom so its not as though my milk isn't good enough...
sorry no personals. i'm running out of time before he wakes from his nap and still have to get the dishes done.
and my internet is going slow today :( might get back on for some more later.
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Brydz, it all sounds normal hun. :hug: I know how hard it is.
DS fed every 2 hours til he was 8 months old. I expect Summer to do the same.
It will pass :hug:
Things are good here. Summer has started waking for more feeds through the night again, which is absolutely exhausting me, but I think I'm run down from christmas still. We went to a friends house NYE & didn't get to bed til 2am. Thats when miss started waking & when this exhaustion kicked in.
Hoping it buggers off soon. I've been way more productive on way less sleep before!
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Raffy - Glad to hear that AF has eased up a little for you in intensity. Hopefully she doesn't hang around for too long for ya! ;) Hope you are enjoying your time at the Hotel.
Clover - Hope you are able to somehow catch up on some rest and that your exhaustion goes away soon too. Must be the week for our babies to feed more often and wake up more often through the night. I have been having the same problem with Noah feeding constantly through the day and waking more often through the night. :hug:
Brydz - Glad to hear that your brother finally txt your Mum and showed up. My brothers were both giving my poor Mum a hard time too, they actually still are and are 26 and 21! I just pray that our boys don't give us such a bad time when they get to their teens! I'm going to ground Noah until he is 18 too if he acts up! lol :p Clover is right, don't get too discouraged that Vinny isn't sleeping through yet. He will sort himself out eventually honey. If it makes you feel better and helps to know - Noah is still not sleeping through either and he is already 3 months old. He has had a few night sleeping longer stretches, but the past 2 days and nights has been hellish as he hasn't been sleeping through the day at all (30 mins at the most ALL DAY) and then going to sleep around 8:30-9:00pm and then waking at 2:00am, then again at 4:00am and then he would be awake. He has also been feeding every 1.5-2 hours throughout the day which can make you crazy but I'm guessing it's either a growth spurt or the heat and thats why he is unsettled. Just hang in there, you're doing a wonderful job and like you said yourself, he is growing well, and that's the main thing! :hug:
Hello to everyone else!
AFM, nothing much to report on my end, except that I'm EXHAUSTED today. Have probably only slept about 8 hours the past 2 days and it's catching up with me. Have a throbbing headache and just feel like crying... sleep deprivation SUCKS! :crying:
Well then, might head off to bed for a bit if I can seeing as Noah is sleeping now....
Love to you all!
xoxox
