Beach Bump Graduates!

[mummySS]

i figured wez - i remember a few months back our conversation about huge boobs. 36 g doesn't sound too fun

 

[BlueViolet]

Hann, you and Belle are beautiful together! Glad you got a bit more sleep. My husband is going on a business trip next month and I'm not looking forward to it either. I'm sure we'll cope, though

Wez, it's great to hear from you. Jonathan is a cutie!

Simmy, your busty comment cracked me up. I got bustier too, but I have nothing on Wez. I need to get measured, but I'm guessing I'm a 34C.

Clare, Happy Birthday! Your journal posts about the card are funny. Is hubby out of the dog house yet?

Doodle, I'll have to check out your journal too when I get a min I started a Shutterfly website with photos and videos for friends and family. If anyone is interested pm me your e-mail address and I'll send you an invite to it.

I'm feeling a lot better today. My hubby realized I could use a distraction so he took us out to lunch over his lunch break. We went to a local train cart diner where we used to go a lot before she was born. The owner/cook was so thrilled to see Jill. She gave us a discount and a Turkish decoration that's supposed to keep evil away. It was so random as she's Polish and I'm Romanian. I'll have to look up that superstition to see what I brought into our house. I don't believe in that stuff anyhow, but I didn't want to be rude and refuse.

 

[mummySS]

Oh yes forgot to comment on your pics hann - they are adorable! Annabelle is really beautiful. And you look great! I had to 'like' the entire album on facebook!

And on the pillow... I'm not sure. The health visitor warned me about flat head syndrome, she said it was worse for boys as when they get old and lose their hair you can really see the flatness of the head. The website seemed really legit didn't it? Do swedish people have better shaped heads than us?? I'll see how it goes and ask around a little. Let me know if you get one!

 

[BlueViolet]

With the risk of SIDS I wouldn't risk it, but that's just me. I think as long as they get tummy time during the day it's fine.

 

[Starry Night]

Ack! Computer ate my post!!!

Anyways....I am lurking so I am keeping up with what you're all saying and am thinking of everyone and their babies. Hope everyone is doing well and big HUGS to all the hormones and troubles these cute angels give us.

AFM - Daniel is a Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde kind of baby. One day he is quite literally the ideal baby. You couldn't asky for better. Sleeps at 5 or 6 intervals at night and goes down while awake and without a pacifier. Woo hoo! Other days....screams like a wild banshee complete with kicks and punches for mommy. True tantrums and only a month old. Upping his formula intake generally does the trick. This is where FF gets annoying as it's constantly trying to figuring out when to up the amount and by how much. Today I've had to up it to 120mL after only upping it to 100 a few days ago. A few days ago Daniel was able to eat every 3 to 4 hours during the day and sleep 6 hours at night on that. Now he screams after an 1 1/2 hours, sucking his fists and just being outright fussy. He does have some troubles with gas but he's not what I would call collicky. He farts fairly regularily and a fart and/or puke generally calms him down.

And he's the puke king. Nothing projectile or mucousy. Just lots and lots and LOTS of spit-up. Geez. He goes through two bibs a feeding. At least Mr Hyde went to sleep after this morning from hell and Dr Jekyll has returned. The increased feeding seems to have done the trick for now...

 

[Starry Night]

I think the computer ate my post...again....well...I am lurking and thinking of all you fine ladies. Wish I had time to try another post but Daniel needs to be fed again in half an hour and we still need to stop and pick up some groceries as my sister is coming for a visit this weekend.

 

[Starry Night]

I put Daniel on his back at night but sometimes he rolls onto his side. I thought newborns couldn't do this? I really try not to worry about SIDs but I always freak when I can't hear him breathe or I wake up and it's been 6 hours and he's still sleeping. I must admit that I poke him (gently) to make sure he's OK...

Here's the only picture I have of Daniel smiling. they're over so quick I miss them. He's my Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde baby. One day an angel--the ideal baby. seriously. the next....well....I go kooky on those days

 

[gw76]

Doods, glad Naomi's results were good

Hann, the photos of Annabelle are lovely - she is cutie!

Wez, good to hear from you and to hear that Jonathan is doing well... and his photo is lovely too!

Claire - frapes are not fun at all - I have yet to be the victim, but many of my friends have...hope you got DH back good ;-)

Starry, Daniel is adorable! And I hear ya on the smiling photos - we have yet to get one of Hailey. It's like she knows what I am doing when I pull out the camera - wee bee!

Loved all the busty comments

AFM - Hailey weighed in at 12 lbs 8oz (75th percentile), height 58.5cm (75th percentile) and head circumference 39.5cm (60th percentile) She is doing really well and the doc is pleased...

Those of you whose DHs are going to be away, you'll be fine. My hubby works nights so leaves the house at 10:30pm and works till 7 am (some times 10 am) He sleeps most of the day (rightfully so) and is up about 4 or 5 pm...So, I have both littl'un most of the day and night. I would never say it to my DH, but I some times feel like a single mum... I was so worried about it not being able to cope, but it hasn't been too bad. This is another reason why I am so happy that Hailey is sleeping through the night! It is a lot at time and some times I have to just sit down and take a breath and then get back to "it". If I can do it, anyone can One thing I have learned is that I can't do everything, and that's okay, as long as both kids are fed, clean and relatively happy i think I am doing a good job
I also now know to ask for help if I need it. I wasn't so willing to do this with my first, but now I take almost everyone up on their offer of help

So, in other news I have an infected stye in my eye lid so I can't see out of my rather swollen right eye! Cameron keeps on telling me it's gross - out of the mouths of babes A weeks worth of antibiotics and I should be back to "normal".

Hope you are all well and that you have a great weekend...

 

[Sherri81]

GW, I do tell my husband I feel like a single mom! My husband goes to bed around 10:00PM, and usually gets up around 3AM, and works, sometimes, until 4-6PM. And when he is home, he is usually asleep in his chair, or playing video games, or watching a movied. So yes, I also feel very much like a single mom.

Starry and Hann, love the pics.

I can't even remember much else because i have not slept in I don't know how long at this point.

We had company over last night, and they held Colby the entire time they were here, so he slept the whole time, because that is the only way he wants to sleep lately. As soon as they left, Ian did his feed and then told me to deal with him as he had to get ready for bed. Of course Colby decided to wake up then, so i had to figure out what to do with him since i had to pump still. Finally he started settling around 11:30PM and I pumped and went to bed at 12:30. He woke up at 2:30AM and really hasn't slept since. He will only sleep on me and I can't sleep when he does that. He wouldn't even sleep beside me on the bed, he had to be ON me....

I admit that I was so exhausted and so tired of listening to him crying the instant that I moved him off of me, that I left his bassinet in the master bedroom and I came down to the living room at 8AM, and I cranked some music so loud that I couldn't hear the crying anymore and I made coffee and actually drank 4 sips of it before I went to deal with him again. And I threw a baby bottle across the room. I admit it. I was just so frustrated... He's been doing this clingy thing with me for about 5 days now, but at least I had my nights when he would sleep a bit. And last night, after not being able to put him down at all, I kind of just lost it.

Anyways, I didn't do the surgery yet. I have been on Keflex since my appt with my OB last week. She thinks I have an infection and since the bleeding has tapered off, she wants to hold off on the surgery for now. I still have mucousy, bloody chunks coming out, so we'll see. If it continues once I'm done the meds, then I guess I will have to call her again.

Greg came down with Strep throat the other day. Caught it from playing with the dirty neighbour kid. Pissed me off. The night he played with him, I guess the kid spiked a fever and they never had it investigated, so as far as I know, the neighbour kid still has it.

Anyways, thats about it. I'm on meds, Greg's on meds, and the dog is on meds as well for a UTI and eye infection. We are a bunch of hot messes right now...

 

[Hann12]

GW the sty sounds painful - hope it improves soon! You have to love kids to tell you how it is! Hailey is doing so well - 75 percentile is wonderful! I'm sure you are right that the nights without DH will be fine - you do so well especially having 2!

Thank you for all your comments on the photos - I think she is gorgeous but then I am hugely biased!! All babies are lovely though

BV - I think you might be right about the pillow, I'm going to do a bit of research though. My NCT friend did buy one though so will see how she gets on and report back.
I hope you are okay when your DH goes away - we can compare notes and keep each other sane!

Starry - Daniel is such a cutie! I don't have any photos of Annabelles 'wind' smile - I really wish I did though. Glad you are doing well!

AFM - DH is home and Annabelle is asleep in her swing - she wouldn't settle in bed (big surprise). She is getting expressed milk before bed from Greg because it has the gaviscon in it so hoping she takes it and at least starts the night feeling better. Last night I didn't put the gaviscon in it and she lasted 2 hours before she wanted feeding again. I'm hoping she managed 3 hours tonight. She much prefers BF but I want to make sure she at least gets one lot of gaviscon per day as she is becoming increasingly refluxy.
Tomorrow we have lunch at a dim sum restaurant with her - not sure how that will go. Its for my NCT friends babys 1 month party - they are chinese and celebrate them at 1 month. Should be nice. No other plans for the weekend though - just family time which will be nice.
Hope everyone is having a good Friday night

 

[Hann12]

Oh Sherri saw your post after I posted mine.
I know how you feel on the clingy baby as Annabelle did that to me 2 nights ago. As soon as I put her down she cried (really loudly) - went on from 1am until the evening. I was slowly gong insane except that I felt so sorry for her - they look so sad don't they? I think its fine to leave them to give yourself a minute. In fact I think its was Linds that said that if they are going to cry anyway it doesn't matter if you are holding them or not but if you get some sanity from a few minutes alone then do it! Its hard when the DH's aren't there. Greg came home and I just handed her to him (still screaming) and of course he managed to calm her down and then she slept - actually very well for her (which is about every 2 hours). Hopefully after your day of devil baby he will sleep really good tonight.

 

[SugarBeth]

Think I mastered nursing in public tonight and it turns out I actually DO need sleep to function! Who knew?

Katie hasn't slept in two nights so I've been exhausted. Tonight DH and I went to walmart for a quick grocery trip. At the end, just as DH put all the cold stuff in the trunk and closed it up, i had the baby crying on me and ended up locking the keys in the car! I had left our extra set at home and neither of us had our phones! So we had to take a crying baby back into walmart (she was flipping out at this point because she was tired and hungry) and I had to call my dad (who lives five minutes away) and ask him to pick my DH up to grab the extra keys. Thank goodness our back window was open at home!! Once DH left I sat outside on a bench and nursed Katie - with a very busy parking lot in front of me! Not fun but DH was gone for over a half hour so I had to.

Hoping Katie will let me sleep tonight! Ive been doing all kinds of really stupid embarrassing stuff the last few days due to lack of sleep!

 

[amand_a]

Sorry everyone some of you are having a rough time trying to sleep, Billy too seems to want a bottle every 2-3hrs at night, last night tho I got one 4 hr stint and it was bliss.

Anyway just a quicky today to share my excitement. As I mentioned earlier I am trying to bet billy back on the boob and this morning I managed to express 50mls and 3 hrs later I got another 30mls. I am so excited as these are our best results so far! I know it probably seems like such a small amount to you guys but a week ago I was lucky to get 5mls. I just hope I can keep it up

 

[Sherri81]

What is with these babies of ours??

Oh wow, my husband got home at 8:30AM as there was no more wood in the bush to bring in. I'd been texting him since 3:30AM which was when he'd left our house, and I was telling him everything that was happening. So he texted me at around 7AM to let me know he was back in town and that he just had to wash his logging truck, then he'd be home in an hour and a half or so. And I was mad, after not having slept pretty much all night. I figured he thought I was blowing things out of proportion, since he rarely sees him go on these crying jags... So anyways, he comes home and is all patronizingly sweet to me. Well guess who is seeing exactly what I mean?? Yeah... he is at his wits end right now. He has been here throughout all of the day and has seen exactly how much he cries, and that nothing I do will stop it. And he is now tired of doing the holding, putting down, crying, picking up cycle over and over again. And right now, its 10:36PM. He's had a bath, he's been fed, he's in his sleep sac which is usually when he realizes its bed time, and we even went for a walk with him in the Baby Bjorn... and he is still wide awake. Hubby is supposed to be sleeping on the couch tonight and keeping Colby in the living room with him, so I can get some sleep, but I don't know if he can handle it.

Does anyone else question their husband's ability to take care of the baby? I never worried about him with Greg, but Greg was very mature and easy going as a baby, and hardly ever cried. But he seems so detached from Colby. He gets frustrated more easily, and he doesn't want to do much with him at all. So even though I'm supposed to be handing the reigns to him tonight, I don't know if I can trust him to get up on time to feed him, or hear him when he starts fussing. And I don't know what he would do in the heat of frustration as well... And I don't like him falling asleep with Colby on him as he tends to sleep deeper than me, so I'm afraid he might smother him on the couch...

I don't know if I am just over thinking everything or what...

 

[freckles09]

Morning everyone,

Hann I hope Annabelle managed to take her bottle with the gaviscon in last night - hope her reflux improves soon.

Lovely pic of Daniel Starry! What a cutie.

GW I hope your stye gets better soon - they are so uncomfortable!

Amanda well done for expressing!

SB what a nightmare shutting your keys in the car! Glad it got sorted fairly quickly and well done for nursing in public. I hope Katie starts sleeping better at night soon - you must be shattered.

AFM our family photoshoot went well and Elliot was really good bless him. Here's a couple of pics for those of you that aren't on FB...

https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/bec_murphy1984/3dc8f9f9.jpg
https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f102/bec_murphy1984/60e765fe.jpg

 

[Jenni4]

hi everyone....okay...so was at my wits end last night and wrote his really long post and hit the advert button instead of the reply button! Argh!! Hate that! Didn't have hhe energy to retype it all....but looking forward to hearing more positive updates about Kinley...sounds like she is on the right track!!

Lovely family freckles!! Sherri I have no idea what to say about Ian, but it sure sounds like you could use a break!!

Congratulations to all those whose babies are good sleepers....and for the rest of you with not so good sleepers I feel your pain...I am one of you!!!

I have read everything else...but seeing as I'm the walking dead cannot remember anything else....sorry....

AFM...this growth spurt is lasting way too long....it has been 4 days of constant feeding and no sleeping....last night I just sat and cried....even my ass hurt from sitting on the couch too much feeding....would love to take him outside for a walk...maybe that would help but it's still way too hot. I am also feeing very guilty for my daughter as she is really missing one on one time with mommy...I feel bad that i always have a baby on my boob! And my hubby is still gone...last night I just wanted someone else to hold him for a few minutes...my hearts go out to all the single mothers....especially those with multiple children.

Poor Max got his circumcision today...it took a bit longer than a regular procedure as we only wanted an imcomplete circumcision....I could hear him screaming from the hall and was bawling my eyes out....so mad that I had to bring him instead of my hubby...I was texting him the whole time....it was killing me....but he seems to be okay now...once i got to hold him again he grabbed onto me like he was never going to let me go....I felt so guilty!! But it was nice to able to provide him comfort after such traumatic event. The dr said it is the restraining them that makes them cry the most....as they use topical anesthetic and then local after that....still it sucks hearing your baby scream like that and unable to do anything. Okay enough from me...hope you all have a lovely day!

 

[caz_hills]

Jenni - sounds horrid hearing little Max cry. I hope he is ok now?

Freckles - what a gorgeous family you are! I love the photos.

Amanda - glad you got some sleep and grear news on the expressing.

Sherri - hope you managed to get some sleep hun.

Beth - sounds like a nightmare at the shops! Hope you rested last night.

Hann - hope you have a fabulous lunch today and that Annabelle was good for you last night.

GW - hope you eye infection clears up. I have also accepted that asking and taking help is ok. I sometimes feel I have TOO much help and that I'm not a proper Mum as my Mum and MIL help me every day while DH is at work but I figure that turning down willing help would be madness!

Starry - lovely photo of Daniel!!!

AFM - DH let me sleep through last night (he said we will do it once every weekend) so am refreshed now. We have my SIL over today and then an engagement party tomorrow so should be lovely.

Sorry for short post but typing with 1 hand as Ajay wants to sleep on me!!!!

xxx

 

[Hann12]

Amanda that is great about the expressing - I don't get that much either. It sounds like its increasing for you though!

Bec - love the photos - you must be so happy with them! I'm looking forward to seeing ours but we don't get to see them until September! You have a very handsome baby (it sounds funny saying handsome but you can't really say pretty for a boy!). Good looking maybe?!

Jenni - I hate it when I hit the advert button, really annoying! Sounds like a very tough 4 days for you. I only had that for one day and it was enough - and Greg was home that night to help. You are super mum and I'm sure your daughter understands. Hopefully when your DH is back you can have some girlie time with her. Poor Max and the circumcision - though it was probably tougher on you to hear him cry than on him. And its better its done now. What is an incomplete circumcision??

Caz - lucky you having a sleep through. Gosh I am jealous!!! Hope you have a nice time with SIL and at the engagement party - you are back to your social whirl which is great!

I had Greg doing the nappy changes last night but I had to do the feeding and get her back to sleep. In fairness she was a good baby and slept for 4 hours at the start of the night which is unheard of. So I probably got more sleep than normal. I've now got up and done the washing, cleaned the kitchen, had a shower, sorted clean washing out etc.
DH and Annabelle are asleep on the bed. I also got annoyed with him as he decided to call the FIL and MIL while I was in the shower which means that MIL would claim she hadn't spoke to me so I would still owe her a phone call so would then have to waste an hour next week speaking to her. Anyway told him how annoyed I was and he has put the call off for a few hours (clearly while he sleeps!) and now I get the joy of skype with the inlaws soon. Believe me I am not looking forward to it but at least I'll be done for the week rather than having to do a call on my own later on. I don't know why MIL has to speak to me as well as Greg to get 'updates' on Annabelle but apparently she does!

I know a lot of you have parenting journals now - I haven't got one but I am tracking Annabelles progress on a website - https://www.totsites.com/tot/minimalone
Its got some photos and other information on it in case anyone is interested.
There is also a photo of MIL - she is Nanny Helen (my mum is Nanny) for anyone interested in seeing what the mad woman looks like!

 

[fifi-folle]

I am so glad in a way that other babies will only sleep on their Mummy! I am starting to worry about it as Cameron will not sleep in his moses basket at all. He naps in the pram downstairs but only if you put him down once asleep. I had never planned to co-sleep but it's the only way I get any sleep. Any tips from the experienced mummies?
Sherri I hope your DH looks after Colby so you can get some sleep, everything is 100 times harder when you're sleep deprived.
Gorgeous pics freckles
Jenni when does your dh get home? I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to hear Max being circumcised.
Caz it must have been great to have a full night's sleep!

I swear I am going to slap my DH if he moans about lack of sleep, he's been in the spare room this week as he was back at work so has had WAY more sleep than me! He's off now for 2 weeks hols (but we're getting a new boiler fitted on Tuesday and I'm getting a tooth out on Friday (root keeps getting infected and filling has fallen out twice now). I'm getting a bridge done but I guess that will be once the gum has healed? Really dreading it, more than I was labour!!!!

 

[Jenni4]

Hi Hann.... He is still a bit traumatized...i think he is a bit of pain still...I think he'll pull through though....an incomplete or partial circumcision is different than the traditional full circumcision. In an incomplete they only remove 50% of the foreskin as opposed to the entire foreskin. It is more for hygenic purposes than esthetic as they more closely resemble an uncircumcised but with less occurrence of infection. These are starting to become more frequent than the traditional full circumcision.....before people jump on me for having my son circumcised, my OH had to have a partial circumcision when he was 13 due to infection and was very traumatized by that as an adolescent....so we made the decision based on our experience....please don't judge or hate...besides...it's already done.