Gotta be quick as I need to try to start on some work while Miss Iz is napping!
Sangie - so you do 8 hours from home a week and find that works well? I'm really looking forward to starting (this arvo/evening!) and hope I can manage 10 hours around Izzy's sleep. When do you work most of the time? We did book our holiday and we're off to Exmouth then Broome (10 days all up) just after Izzy's birthday. I can't wait! We've booked a villa in Broome with our own plunge pool and alfresco - it's divine!!!
Kelly - poor little Tadhg! He is such a trooper with all the ear problems he's had. I hope things get sorted soon. We *might* be heading to NZ for a conference DH has been invited to (he *thinks* it's in Auckland) so if it happens, we should meet up (if you're keen that is!). I'll keep you posted
AM - totally agree with what Kelly said - great advice. Izzy sometimes has 3 milk feeds a day, sometimes 4. Sometimes she'll have an extra feed in the middle of the night (formula) if I think she needs it (Saturday night was a prime example of that!). I don't honestly bother working out how much she's had each day as I know she will make up for it with food or she'll drink more milk when she's not eating as much. I just go with the flow Izzy drinks a lot of water too so I know she's hydrated enough and between food and milk, she gets enough nutrition. I BF Izzy first thing in the morning but I doubt she's getting much off me any more (she was belting my left boob on Sunday then just gave up and hasn't shown much interest in it since - bye bye Lefty!). In the morning, I make up three bottles. Two x 200ml and one 100ml. She often won't finish a 200ml bottle so I put whatever she hasn't had in the fridge and give it to her later. She usually gets through those three bottles each day though (500ml) so I'm happy with that. I tend to just guage what she's eaten (solids) and how much water she's had an adjust her milk need accordingly, if that makes sense.
I'd be in no hurry to drop a feed yet. Just run with it for now. Sam will probably surprise you and drop one by himself, even if it's just random to begin with.
Thanks for the advice girls and for coming back so quickly.
Like I said was pretty happy to continue and let Sam decide himself what he wants but is good to be able to get a sanity check to make sure I'm not doing the wrong thing. Will just plod along and see what happens.
Had an interesting day today as it looked like Sam decided the sleep that he had between 5am and 8am was his morning sleep so he wouldn't take his morning nap. He did remarkably well being able to stay up until 2.15pm when I eventually got him to go to sleep for a whole 30 mins! Wasn't tired or grizley just awake. Did manage to re-settle him though and he slept for 2 hours then before I woke him. Fingers crossed we won't have a single digit wake up call but I won't be holding my breath!
Had to chuckle at T chucking his dummy luckily we don't have that issue as Sam never had one but he chucks his toys around good oh and has full on conversations with them in the morning. It very cute. Hope the work situation resolves itself - not knowing what is going to happen is the worst I think. At least when you know you can deal with it. Best of luck with the ENT specialist visit. Is it looking like gromits or is that what this visit will determine.
Best of luck with your work Taurean hope the old brain isn't too rusty. I hate to think what mine is like though will need to work out pretty soon what i'm going to do. Very envious of your holiday sounds fab - will look forward to the photos!
Hi to everyone else. Gotta go and help get dinner sorted.
Kelly, the construction cake sounds cute! Ethan's party was threatening to get out of hand so I've decided we are going out to lunch lol! I've also decided to only have close family and friends as I think that will be more enjoyable for him. He tends to freak out a bit when confronted by strangers so I think a huge party with lots of people he doesn't see on a very regualr basis will freak him out. Poor T with his ears, he sounds like a real little trooper though.
AM, Ethan has three bottles of 200ml each and he also has three really good size meals ( I swear his tummy is a bottomless pit!). I'd just go with the flow hun and maybe offer more if he isn't eating well and less if he does? I dropped the 4th feed a few weeks ago because Ethan was only having less than a quarter of it. He hasn't missed it.
Taurean, yay for the holiday! Yes I do around 8 hours a week and it is working out well so far. Some weeks I can manage 10 and other weeks is much less (4 or 5) and they are usually the weeks when DH is away for work. I get the biggest chunk of work done on a sunday evening. DH does the dinner/bath/bed routine with the kids and I work from around 4pm until 11/12pm (or when I can't see the computer screen anymore lol!). Then I can usually manage an hour here and there during the week when the kids are sleeping.
Speaking of work, that is what I came on the computer to do! Ciao for now!
After a week of Miss A thinking that 10-11PM was a good bedtime, I had her in bed at 8pm tonight. Unfortunately it is only 10pm and I have already been in to resettle her twice
I just can't understand why this kid won't sleep! She has had days when she has been up from 7.30am and doesn't want a sleep until 4pm - then drops off for 20 minutes and is up until 11pm! It is driving me mental! She was also resisting being put in the cot so she has now lost her feed/rock to sleep privileges and goes straight into the cot to go to sleep. It was probably well past due anyway - she is nearly one now!
Not much happening on the tricks front. She can walk 15-20 steps across the room, but she would rather sit and grizzle until I hold her hand and walk her. But if there is something she is desperate to get then she will take off on her own. She really needs to be mobile, if she isn't going to crawl then I hope she gets walking properly soon.
Is Sanchez still around? Hope V is sleeping better for her now.
My god it's been quiet in here. Is everyone else struggling with a teething baby??? Art, the countdown is on!! Less than 3 weeks to go for our girls and I'm still in denial. Do we really have one year olds?
So how is everyone going? What's news?
As you've probably guessed (and most of you know thanks to Facebook), we are going through teething hell at the moment. I also have a head cold and suspect Izzy has it too so it's all happy families in our house - NOT! I guess I should look on the bright side and be thankful it's happened now and not on our hols ( the teeth won't play up while we are away!)
Iz has been pretty good about it all really but as she's such a happy, easy going bub, I'm finding it difficult as she's not sleeping well during the day. I'm having to work at night now or stick her in front of the TV (thank you Baby Einstein!) while I try to get some work done. Besides a couple of foul nights in the past week, she's sleeping reasonably well at night. The array of drugs I'm giving her could have something to do with that I check with the pharmacist what I could use (after I begged him to give me Pain Stop but he wouldn't as it's only available on script for those under 2 - boohoo!) and he said Nurofen and Panadol together (already doing that) and yes, I could give her Homeopathic stuff as well. Last night we gave her Nurofen and Panadol plus Hylands Teething Tablets and Brauers Calm. She slept through and thankfully, so did I. We are both still feeling off today but the full night sleep made a bit of difference.
Other than that, not much else is happening. Work is going well (although decent day sleeps would help!) and our holiday to Exmouth and Broome is all booked. Leaving on 8 Sept for 10 nights. Woohoo!
I've got most things organised for Izzy's birthday party. We've opted for a Ladybug theme and I managed to get most of the bits and pieces from Spotlight thanks to my mum! I had found a lot of stuff on the net but it was quite pricey so mum suggested we try Spotlight and right there, as we walked into the party section, was a massive stand of First Birthday goodies all in a Ladybug design! I've got a few things I need to order over the net for the party bags for the babies (ladybug maracas and castanets) but other than that, it's just the food and drinks we need to sort out. DH has been talking to his boss' wife to see if she can make the cake as she does it for a hobby. Fingers crossed she'll produce the most incredible ladybug cake!
I'm the slackest I know! But i think lately this whole baby thing has got the better of me! I found myself admitting to DH the other night that I am overwhelmed.....the cause of this is Hurricane Violet tearing apart my house on a daily basis! And i don't quite know how to deal with it. I try to pick up after her but she just pulls eveything down again. Because she always wants to be with me showers have become a nightmare event as she trys to get in with me, so my shower consists of me holding one leg out trying to keep the door closed and the other furiously scrubbing. Then we move to the WIR where she pulls everything down off the shelves, shes in the drawers. She migrated into the bathroom the other day and i heard banging....she had finally made it into the shower and the door had shut and she was stuck in there, sopping wet in her pj's but looking mighty proud!
Anyway, Im sure you all know what i am talking about I just am not used to feeling completely overwhelmed. And at the end of the day all i want to do is go to bed, not stay up to 11pm cleaning the horrendously dirty wooden floors and doing the neverending pile of ironing.
I am trying to figure this out because how on earth do you manage when you have more than 1 child? I am trying not to let my DH think i am completely incompetent and can't have more!
Taurean - you are having a rough trot with Miss I arent you. Damn those teeth. How long does it take for thier teeth to comethrough? This doesn't continue for years does it? I asked for pain stop and I got knocked back too! I wanted it to knock her out so she would sleep - the ended up giving me just straight Phenergan which worked like a treat. I gave it to her for about 4 nights but i was still having ****ty sleeps cause i was worried it would knock off her breathing all together!
I don't know if V is teething at the moment but she had the strangest day of just wanting me to cuddle her and watch TV together - she hates me cuddling her normally so it was nice! Yeah for the ladybug theme party! Does she have an outfit all ready to go? I bought V's the other day - not the norm a black tutu skirt with a cute white singlet. My sister said she will look like an Emo! Big hugs Renee, just think - it can't last forever!
I really enjoyed everyones posts about what they are doing with feed amounts and times ect...i am still a bit clueless about all that. I am still offering her 4 bottles but she only drinks 100mls at a time, eatings hit and miss.
The big news on our end though.................NO I am not pregnant (bet some of you wondered though!) hahahah no Violet is finally sleeping through the night which has given me a huge sense of relief and I am not dog tired everyday. It is so strange though because i am not sure what happened. I did go to the library and get out the Dr Ferber book which i quite enjoyed and liked his methods of 'control crying'. So one afternoon I tried his method and she did cry for 45 mins, but i was in every so often to check on her. And she finally went to sleep and slept for about 30mins so i was cursing bloody man Dr Ferber fornot knowing a damn thing, and that night i put her to bed and did the Ferber and she cried for about 5mins and low and behold she slept from 7-5. And every night since (about 3.5 weeks ago now) she has done the same. I know! Amazing. But he did make points about having to break the sleep association which for Violet was Sleep = Lots of Boobie! So i could kiss old man Ferber!
Anyway I must go to bed now, sorry for prattling on about nothing but myself! I have read all your posts......wouldn't it be great to actually be able to all get together one day!
Anyway love to all bubs..........i'll have to go back and see what order the bubs came out......whose birthday is first?
Izzy drinks a lot of water too so I know she's hydrated enough and between food and milk, she gets enough nutrition. I BF Izzy first thing in the morning but I doubt she's getting much off me any more (she was belting my left boob on Sunday then just gave up and hasn't shown much interest in it since - bye bye Lefty!). In the morning, I make up three bottles. Two x 200ml and one 100ml. She often won't finish a 200ml bottle so I put whatever she hasn't had in the fridge and give it to her later. She usually gets through those three bottles each day though (500ml) so I'm happy with that. I tend to just guage what she's eaten (solids) and how much water she's had an adjust her milk need accordingly, if that makes sense.
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the teeth won't play up while we are away!)
I check with the pharmacist what I could use (after I begged him to give me Pain Stop but he wouldn't as it's only available on script for those under 2 - boohoo!) and he said Nurofen and Panadol together (already doing that) and yes, I could give her Homeopathic stuff as well. Last night we gave her Nurofen and Panadol plus Hylands Teething Tablets and Brauers Calm. She slept through and thankfully, so did I. We are both still feeling off today but the full night sleep made a bit of difference.
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