Art - PMSL about keeping a baby awake. I thought the same thing before becoming a mum and yeah, I've since learnt that is just isn't that simple. Izzy nodded off for her big night sleep at 5.45pm last night and there was no stopping her. She was out to it!
Kelly - who would have thought feeding your baby could be so difficult! Izzy is much better now during the days but she is a shocker on the breast at night - fusses and pulls at my nipples which hurts like hell! I'm not sure why she keeps doing it at night but it's driving me mad and I often wind up giving her a bottle just to save my boobs. Our feeds generally take an hour too, sometimes longer. She is quicker during the day for some reason though. Izzy has wind too but seems to get most of it out on her own - she farts like a trooper! It's hilarious!
Janine - if you can do a bit of BF as well, it will help with your supply. Emily sounds like she's doing great though - well done! Just be aware that both dieting and exercise will have an affect on your supply and I'm not sure the drugs will make any difference in those circumstances.
Sanchez - how are you going hon? Izzy has been quite unsettled since last Wednesday night. I suspected it was a growth spurt and the health nurse agreed today. Do you think V was going through the same thing? There is a pretty major spurt between 6-8 weeks. How is she going now with the brace off? Must have been weird for all of you! Does she fit into smaller clothes now?
Bloominroses - welcome hon! How is little Seth doing???
PB - you are doing so well given your rocky start with the feeding issues! I sometimes wish I had just switched to fulltime formula and saved myself all the stress with my BF issues. Lottie sounds adorable. I hope you're having a fabulous holiday. Can't wait to hear how it went and what you packed/forgot to pack!!
BoB - how's Jackson? Did the sling work well? We've only just started using our Bubba Moe with Izzy and she loves it. Nods off every time! She looks so uncomfy in it though but I guess she can't be if it sends her off to sleep. Slings are a damn good invention
Sangie - how's Ethan going lately? Sounds like he is an awesome sleeper! Very jealous!
Pooley - Frazer is doing brilliantly!! Have you got some pics we can see? What size is he in now?! As for the whooping cough, I had my booster before leaving the hossi (my OB arranged it) and DH needs to get his soon - must get onto that.
Hi everyone else!
AFU - We suspect Izzy has been doing through a growth spurt as she has been quite unsettled since last Wednesday night. She seems a lot better today though so hopefully she's coming out the other side. She has been super clingy and very hard to settle for her day sleeps - lots of crying from both her and I! Mum and I attempted a shopping trip last Thursday which turned out to be a disaster. Izzy ended up screaming blue murder and I wound up in tears so mum took us both back to her place and sent us to bed. It was so good to catch up on some much needed sleep.
Izzy was doing well with her night sleeps but that has changed with the growth spurt too. She's back to 4-5 hours between feeds at night (which is still great, I know!) and still waking at 5am to start her day. That is driving me nuts but the health care nurse said it's quite normal as they tend to tune in with nature. Bloody birds and no day light savings!!! Oh well, I'm sure 'this too will pass'.
On a brighter note, our little girl has grown again!! She had her 6-8 week checkup today and her stats are now:
- weight: 3960 (was 2962 at birth)
- length: 53.8cm (was 49cm at birth)
- HC: 38cm (was 34cm at birth)
It's any wonder she's been a bit out of sorts with all this growing going on! It's nice to know that all our hard work with feeding is paying off. Finally.
We had a bad night last night which was mainly due to the heat and both of us being overtired so we've had a lazy day in bed today. We have literally being lying around since 10am this morning. I managed to get a couple of hours of sleep and a lot of rest and Izzy is clocking up 4 hours and still going! She really needed the extra zzz's too obviously. I hope this is another sign the growth spurt may be over. Will be interesting to see how she sleeps tonight.
We had our newborn photos taken on Saturday and Izzy was brilliant. Was a right show-off for the camera and was awake for the entire session! She managed to wee on both DH and I (separately) too. Classic. We are going through all our photos this weekend (pregnacy and newborn/family) so hopefully I'll have some to show you guys within a week.
Better run and check on our sleeping beauty again. Thank god she is sleeping properly again. Woohoo!!
I have been lurking around, but haven't posted in a while.
Taurean - Sounds like you are going through what Ava has just started to go through... Unsettled and clingy. Refuses to go to sleep and then gets grizzly and overtired. I might have to get our sling out if she stays clingy, but I tried it on the weekend with her, and I find it comfy but doing much in front of me is hard... but it might be that I just need some practice.
I put her down after her bottle this morning, and she was quiet for 5 mins, so I thought "great! I can have a shower". As soon as I got in she screamed.. mind you it was fake crying.... so I let her go, and I think she wore herself out. She started up again once I finished and I put the dummy in and she is now happily off in la la land, mouth wide open. Feel bad for making her cry, but I got OB and normal docs to go to today as well as mothers group... And I really feel like taking a page out of your book and having an all day bed day! That sounds really good to me right now!
We are now on full time formula. I gave the last of the EBM over the weekend and Im happy. MHN said that she has gotten all the needed nutrients and antibodies etc over the first month, so has got a good start. We had a weigh in yesterday arvo and Ava is now 4.88 kg (10 pound something) and is 54 cm long! She was 3.2 kg when born, so is a little guts when it comes to food. She is taking anywhere from 120 - 180mls each feed. Sometimes she will guts 180 down for two or so feeds in a row. Im guessing that it is the days when she is having a growth spurt.
We went to Point Lonsdale (Vic coast near geelong) for a long weekend. I have discovered you can't pack light when you got a bubba! Prams, sling, bedding, clothes, nappies.... And the list goes on. But I have to say, for her to be in a strange enviroment, she really coped well, and slept well! I got 9 hrs out of her one night! but I think that was a fluke. The last day we hopped on the Queenscliffe - Sorrento Ferry and went home the long way via a friends place and from their place to home she was fast asleep! So I really can't complain too much about her at all!
Hope you ladies are all doing well. I must get organised to get to the GP, and hopefully it means I can be home for a rest before the OB and mothers group this arvo. I have the CBF's today. Would be happy snoozing on the couch in my PJ's!! But I might just have to reserve another day this week to do that!
Hugs to your bubs! XO
Kosi, I was wondering where you had gotten to. Sounds like Ava is doing really well. It is great that she was settled for you while you were away. We really should go and see the IL's but I soo can't be bothered with all the cr@p you have to take and the unsettledness that goes with travelling.
Taurean, hope Izzy is more settled, does sound like it was a growth spurt. Will keep an eye out for those pics.
Kelly, did you do anything over the long weekend? DS had an upset tummy (read terrible diarrhea) so I stayed at home with him while DH went out fishing with his brother.
Miss A must be the easiest baby ever! She just sails though the day, fits in with whatever we are doing. I honestly thought DS was an easy bub, but by comparsion he was sooo clingy - I always had to be holding him, even DH could barely hold him for the first 3 months. She does have the odd clingy day but the sling cures that. She is starting to get herself into a routine now with naps. Depending on what time she goes to bed we usually have 1-2 wakeups during the night, then she will wake somewhere between 4-6am and I take her into my bed for a bit extra sleep. We have the night time get-ups done and me back in bed in 12 minutes now so it isn't that much of an effort.
DH interupted a burgler in our sleepout the other morning - some jerk was stealing all the meat out of our freezer (of all the random things...) they got away with about 80kg of stuff before DH walked in. They were from a party next door and must have had someone over the fence collecting it as it was passed over. The police caught them but the meat wasn't recovered - not that I would want it back after it had been goodness knows where.
OMG Art - the meat burgler.....is a member of your family a butcher or do you always have that quantity of meat in your house? So random. Miss A sounds like a dream - i have a clingy baby...my back is suffering from it!
AFU - had our pead checkup....all reasonably ok...he can't work out if she is slightly jaundiced or it is her skin tone as DH is part asian. So we are off for a blood test in 2 weeks if he still can't tell! The whites of her eyes are discoloured in the corners thats what he is going off. She has an umbilical hernia...no biggie. Heart is good. Hips are A OK. I forgot to mention about her vomitting a lot still. Has put on just under 2 kgs.
Oh i wanted to ask....with the changing colours of eyes - does it happen gradually or does it happen overnight. V has light brown with grey/blue rings around the outside. I wonder if the blue will take over. She also has a patch on her left eye, if you imagine a clock between 3 and 6oclock is really dark brown - apparently she will always have this - so random.
As for her sleeping - all over the place! Read Baby Bliss the other day and tried to follow it's settling techniques - didn't really happen for me, but i am still trying - the only way i can get her to sleep is on the boob...or maybe i'm too lazy to rock her for an hour! Her catnapping continues........
Taurean- Frazer was in OO's as of 5 weeks old. He has also moved from Newborn to Infant and is now in the crawler nappies! They are a little big but have much better absorbency during his long sleeps. Frazer is going through his growth spurt as well and sometimes isn't lasting more than 2 hrs between feeds. Lucky though that it's mostly through the day and therefore is doing at least 5 hrs overnight. I have posted my facebook link before but here it is again with some professional ones added
Kosi- Nice to know someone else has a clingy baby. Frazer also has been getting quite clingy lately. Will fall asleep in your arms but the minute you put him down he's awake and crying. He tends to be really hard to put to sleep lately without a crying fit. I thought the pram would put him to sleep when I went for a walk this arvo but he screamed 3/4 of the journey and finally konked out about 10 mins from home!! I have been trying to read the tired signs earlier but it doesn't seem to help. Has anyone watched the "Dunsten Baby Language" DVD? The chick that says every cry means something different. I haven't had a chance to sit down with DH and watch it just yet.
AFM- DH and I are on Day 4 of our 10 day Lemon Detox Diet. Hoping to cleanse all the crap outta our bodies before we change to healthy eating and exercise program. Have lost 2.7kgs so far and am hoping to shed a bit more before the end. Most likely will put 1/ 2 kgs back on once I start eating again but weight loss is not the main reason we are doing it so not really fussed about that. Feel fantastic considering I haven't eaten in 4 days!! It's really weird! DH brought one of the Cardio tech treadmills and I will be rejoining the gym very soon. Fingers crossed we can keep on track.
Last edited by Pooley; October 28th, 2009 at 07:37 PM.
Pooley, DS was always way ahead of his size in nappies too. I think it has more to do with their body shape then the actual weight - DS was always quite wide across the waist. He was in the walker nappies from about 8 months old and is still in them now, must have just grown upwards since then.
Sanchez, mum has a few acres and gets a cow killed every year for meat. We only got it a month ago too. With the eye colour, for mine it seems to happen slowly. They were both born with steel grey eyes and DS lightened up to a light grey with a darker grey ring. Looks like A is going to be the same which is expected since DH and I both have grey eyes. That missing girl Maddie McCann had a discoloured spot in her eyes, it is one of the features they have mentioned a lot to help identify her.
Well tired is an understatement with me at the moment.
Indigo is doing well and seems to be in a routine at night she usually goes down for her big sleep around 9pm and sleeps through till 3 or 4am so around 6-7hrs at night. She then has a feed and sleeps till 7 or 8am. So Im pretty happy with her. At her 6wk check she was 4kg, its her 8wk check next week and needles Im expecting her to have put on another 500gm so in 2mnths she would of put on 2kg since birth (2.5kg to 4.5kg)
We are getting lots of smiles and cooing aswell. Her eyes are a clear blue still. Wyatt had dark blue eyes with brown flecks in them when he was a baby and they changed to dark brown...I think if they have colour in them like that there is a strong possibility they will change.
Wyatt is unwell at the moment and has been waking numerous times every night....so he has been the reason Im so tired not Indigo. Most days I dont even get dressed and am really just a ferral housewife at the moment..we have lots of pj days!!!
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