BellyBelly Life Member - Love all your MCN friends
Jun 2004
The Festival State
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for some mums, finding the RIGHT formula or the RIGHT animal milk for their bub sounds like a real minefield! a friend of mine has a 3 month old, and they have been thru SIX different formulas already! the formulas either give the baby diarrohea 15x a day OR make her constipated for many days.
ANother friend wanted to use some formula just for the rare ocassions she went out for the night, her bub reacted badly to all the supermarket ones, but is coping fine with an organic one (brand is called Holle). She has given me some to try on bilby, i will give her some in a cup, to see if i can stop the childcare breastfeeds. i am fine with feeding bilby anywhere but when i pick bilby up at 3pm, first thing she does (after squealing Mummy! and sprinting over) is "booby" and i feel more "tolerated" than "welcomed" to feed her there. She refuses to wait (until i get to the car, or home), so the timing thing seems to be non-negotiable.
i've really gone off track here, but my heart goes out to you Tara, trying every kind of milk you can lay your hands on, trying to find somethign Chino can tolerate, how frustrating for you both. I could just sock that silly paed who told you C has "no allergies", i think empirical evidence is telling you the contrary SO catergorically. Your "research" of observing him 24/7, is much more valuable than what the paed says after an hour or so of observing Chino.
how frustrating, i can't imagine it's easy to get to the appointments with two little ones, and then after all that time waiting for the results, to get such a "nothing" piece of advice.
It is SO frustrating Gigi!! especially since he had basically weaned himself (or infant-led weaning if you will) 2 months ago when i tried the cows milk and now i feel like i have completely missed my window cos he's so dependant on feeds to sleep...which isnt so bad, but it is with all the night wakings. i just cant function.
I was going to try rice milk but was told that it doesnt contain enough protein for babies under 2, this soy that im using is an organic one, has increased fibre and protein. im particularly interested in increased fibre since he does seem to have a prob with constipation.
I dont know how you function Tara. Waking every hour would just make me jump off the nearest bridge.
The twins were sleeping pretty badly too in the first 3 months but we went to Tresillian and they helped get them into a better sleep pattern (with lots of tears) but now they sleep so much better. Its tough with 2 kids Tara. Is that an option for you?
We have teeth! Hana cut her first tooth on Sunday which was a lovely birthday present for me Mae is still working on hers but it wont be long.
Ella is sick AGAIN. Its the 4th time in a month and a half. Its the new daycare i'm sure. Such a pain because she coughs and sneezes all over the place and on her sisters.
She came home the other day singing "I'm a dingle dangle scarecrow". She can now say hello in French, German, Italian, Indian, Chinese and Japanese - thanks to daycare!
Tres bien Ann!! Elle est une etoile!
When he sleeps in our bed he sleeps fine. the only thing is that he's awake any time from 830 and wants to be in our bed. half the problem is that he wants to be bf'd back to sleep, so as soon as he's over this yucky sick patch i'll start weaning and stuff. I really like Pantley's no-cry sleep solution book so i'll see how that goes...
BellyBelly Life Member - Love all your MCN friends
Jun 2004
The Festival State
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happy belated birthday Ann
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congrats little Hana on your FIRST tooth, you clever clogs
hope Ella gets better soon, bilby loves the dingle dangle scarecrow song too, pretending to be asleep, then jumping up for UP JUMPED THE SCARECROW part.
bilby woke EVERY two hours 24/7 until about 20 months old, i didn't have the energy to jump off the nearest bridge Ann, but if i did, i might have! i hate catnaps, if i'm going to sleep, it takes me AGES to GET to sleep, then i want to sleep a decent length of time. So despite KNOWING that the longest gap i would ever get, would be two hours (before she woke again), i couldn't brign myself to go to bed, i just thought "what's the point? as soon as i get to sleep, she'll be awake again". so i slept maybe two hours in 24 for nearly two years. By the time she started sleeping five hour stretches form 20 months, my body clock was so out of whack, took me a very long time to adjust. Even when i COULD sleep, my body wouldn't let me.
tomorrow afternoone, i find out the speech assessment results - can't wait!
Oh i know that feeling so so well. no sleep is a killer. just do what you have to to get sleep. i swore black and blue i would never let my kids sleep in my bed but chi's in there every night now and evies on the floor next to us, if it means i sleep, then who cares? sleep deprivation really is a killer. i cant imagine how you're doing it Ann....you are such a trooper sending you lots and lots of positive, sleepy vibes.
Good luck with those test results Gigi - hoping for the best!! i'll be thinking of you this arvy
Sorry Ive been a bit caught up in life before new baby.....3 weeks today till my c-section if I dont go into labour earlier
Glad to hear everyone is doing ok. We have avoided flus up here and have just had a cold...both Wyatt and Zander have been off colour in the past week or so with temps and snotty noses.
Sleep is eluding me but nothing new there and we have at least another year or so of it....thats my guess anyway.
Still here. Had a hell of a week. But Hana has 2 new teeth now and Mae is almost sitting.
Ella is a pain. We seem to have learnt to cry for anything we want now... had a melt down at the guy in the cafe for clearing the table. She wanted to have all the crumbs on the plate and didnt want him to take it away. She put herself in the corner and then screamed for me!!!
Tara - Gezz i dont remember what we did. Ella just gradually gave it up. I think the girls could happily wean off the middle of the day bf. But I want to keep their weight gain going so I'll keep the boobs on tap.
BellyBelly Life Member - Love all your MCN friends
Jun 2004
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wow Ann, your twins are six months old ALREADY!
i am coming back down to earth (after the speechy result).
We are continuing speech therapy (have been going every fortnight all this year, and part of last year).
We are seeing another speechy this coming Thursday (as well), her speciality is toddlers with eating difficulties as well as speech delay. Speechy #1 wanted to do this, she felt out of her depth about the food part. bilby cannot swallow scrambled eggs, thin egg omlette, really easy things to swallow you'd think. The majority of foods she will not even try. She is particularly anti any food that is red.
Speechy doens't seem keen to teach bilby more signs, in case she uses that as an excuse not to try talking. Speechy told me to let bilby eat ANYTHING she likes for dinner, just to get her to eat. So the "very hard to implement" strategy i've been doing "if you don't eat what we're eating, you go to bed hungry" is no more. back to rafferty's garden tubes etc.
Oh gigi, what a long and frustrating road for you. at least that speechy admitted it was out of her depth so maybe you'll get a bit of direction.
Ann - I wonder if Ella is copying the twins? you know, crying for what she wants...i know evie tends to copy chino's behaviours for attention....its such a battle isnt it? 6 months?!?! thats crazy!!
AJP - yup, am doing the cold turkey deal. had sleep between 11:30-130 and 430-530 last night. walking dead today! i'll think of you as proof that it will work!!
Got an sms from Nicola yesterday - she's had the show and was having cramps but the hospital doesnt want to know about it until she's in actual labour. im waiting for a bit to message her to see how she is today
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Mae is still working on hers but it wont be long. 
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