March 2013 babies - we all have our beautiful babies :)

[sportysgirl]

Sorry to all the ladies struggling hope things improve.

Rose those photos are soo cute! Our babies are 7 weeks today were has that time gone, it will be injection time soon.

Have been for a lovely walk on the beach with a friend and then to a cafe for a coffee. I fed Poppy in public for the first time! Very proud of myself at it was a huge hurdle for me!

 

[skeet9924]

Sharn- Carson lifts his head on our chest and while holding him.. Lol when I put him down he just lays and grunts and gets upset.. He does have good head control he's just picky on where and how he's out down

 

[MrsChezek]

sethsmummy - ethan is such a cutie!!! love his smiley pics your episode with your DH made me laugh and cry at the same time…MEN!!! I just can't understand them sometimes

jenjen - i have a similar sunshade for my carseat and for my stroller once she transfers to it…it's called a SnoozeShade and I love it! I was in your shoes when Hayden was Martha's age…its' so hard!!! But there's light at the end of the tunnel…I'm having a much easier time with Hayden now and it's just a couple of weeks away for you. Hang in there!

Kte - 6 broken pushchairs??? I'm like that with computers DH isn't laughing though…that's so awesome that Sophie goes down to sleep so easy! Hayden is pretty easy now at night but her naps are still a bit of a performance!!! I'm hoping it will get easier soon...

AmyB - I can't get a good pic of Hayden smiling either! She always turns her head when she smiles…she does this little 'I'm shy' move where she scrunches her neck…it's so cute but all the pics come out fuzzy…I'll try to find the clearest one and share How are you and Emily feeling? I too found that as soon as Hayden started to sleep better through the night, her naps went bye bye!!! But now they are back - thank goodness! In fact, I almost feel like she's sleeping too much and that's got me worried Can't win, huh? We still swaddle but I find she sleeps better with it as we don't swaddle during the day and I think she wakes herself up much more...

rose - I would go with whatever Alfie is setting as a routine for now. For example, on her own Hayden started napping between 11 and 2pm and again 3 ad 5pm. It's not set in stone but approximately around that time she'll go down. I don't hold her to it and try to put her down but I plan around a late morning nap and an afternoon nap. I know that she'll need to be in her carseat/stroller moving around or on me in a carrier or at home where she falls asleep on me or DH and we move her to a club chair where she naps. So she's sort of set her own day time routine and I just follow it. Hope that makes sense! I agree with Amy that it's too early to try to mold them into a routine…their needs change so quickly!!!

skeet - oh my gosh! Hayden is exactly like Carson!!! If we miss a nap, the rest of the day goes awry It's stressful! She goes down after being up for 1-2 hours and sleeps for 2 and then up again for 1.5-2 and so on. I have to keep track and make sure that when she's ready to go down, I'm able to provide her with 'conditions' that promote sleep or else she'll just fall apart and be too tired to sleep the rest of the day…it's awful!

amy_t - Hayden's napping changes week to week it seems…she has gone from napping tons to not napping at all to napping only twice for 2 hours and now she is napping 3-4 times during the day!! She seems asleep most of the time…so I think it's normal if they are going through a growth spurt, etc to sleep more.


AFM, things are pretty good. I'm just TIRED and find myself grumpy and impatient with Hayden. The weird thing is that I've had more sleep the last two nights than I've had any other night since she was born!!! So I should be more awake and engaged. But I just feel exhausted…luckily, she's been sleeping a TON the last few days so I don't have to spend too much time soothing her and keeping her entertained. I don't really get to do much as she either naps on me or in the stroller which I have to push around in order for her to stay asleep…or I drive in circles while she sleeps in the car But at least it's sort of quiet time…this evening DH was actually able to take her off of me after she fell asleep and put her on a club chair where she slept for a good 2.5 hours. So I got to go to the grocery store, cook dinner and clean the kitchen up a bit. Felt so nice to do something 'normal'!!!! Hopefully tomorrow I'll wake up with a better attitude…I think I just need one more night of good rest to recuperate. Speaking of which, I think I'm going to hit the hay early today. She's been asleep for about half an hour so if she sleeps through the night again, I should do well. Of course I have to get up to pump still even though she's sleeping!!! But otherwise I should get some decent zzz's…unless of course I just jinxed myself

 

[sharnw]

Mrschezek, I hope you get a whole nights sleep and little Hayden sleeps on her own so you can have yourself a break and catch up x

 

[MrsChezek]

Awww thanks sharn! That's very sweet of you to say

I have come back to share some pictures as I haven't posted any in a while...I found one where she's smiling some but don't have any of her big smiles. I have videos so maybe I'll share one soon

https://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y134/katzeyes/47678E95-6ED1-410F-9C82-62D70352D3AF-5086-000003ADE252FA71_zpsbc4fbfd8.jpg

https://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y134/katzeyes/CD6A85D5-E43D-4D31-8401-0582315F4BC5-5086-000003ADDE70BB5C_zps625b6c34.jpg

I uploaded a bunch more on my journal too. Hope everyone is doing well!

 

[sharnw]

Sethsmummy omg you poor mumma xx

Yes thanks ladies for tummy time replies x
Kaylee supports herself when sitting on my lap same as your lo's

 

[sharnw]

I love these baby photos ladies!
Sooo cute!!

I uninstalled something on my computer and can't access Internet
So I can't share my pics at the moment

 

[anna1986]

sorry I haven't posted in ages. hope everyones doing ok. have read all the posts daily though.

am so excited today am taking William swimming for the 1st time
not much going on here really Williams suffering quite badly with his reflux. his medicine hes on doesn't seem to be helping much now. I think he needs a different medicine aswell but gp is reluctant to prescribe n our hospital apt isn't for another 5 weeks! ridiculous!!

heres some up to date pictures

 

[rose.]

Thanks for the sleep advice everyone. I feel reassured to know that it's ok to go with the flow and not try to impose naps on Alfie! It's so hard now that he doesn't feed for as long as he used to, so doesn't often feed to sleep.

Sportysgirl I know!! It's crazy! Well done for feeding in public -'it's a huge hurdle to get over but once you've done it a few times you just get on with it. I still prefer to feed at home where we can chill out and take our time but at least we are not restricted in when we can go out!

Mrs c, hope you had a good nights sleep! It is nice in the evening to have a bit of time to cook and even wash up!! Alfie didn't nap yesterday evening but he did lay on the sofa next to my husband the whole time we were eating without crying. Which is an improvement on most nights! I think we will just have to give up with sitting at the table and settle with eating on the sofa for a while instead. At least I get to eat my dinner without having to wolf it down because Alfie's screaming! Lovely pictures, Hayden is beautiful

Lovely pics Anna, William is gorgeous! Enjoy his first swim - I can't wait to take Alfie!

 

[baby_maybe]

Hi ladies, sorry I've been really lazy with posting on here lately but like Anna I have been reading every day and keeping up with you all

We seem to have turned a corner with Ruben's overnight sleeping now and the past few nights he's done between 8-10 hours hoping it lasts lol!! He's definitely crying less when he has his awake times now too, although if I don't catch him in time for his naps all hell breaks loose and it takes ages to calm him down enough to get him to go to sleep. We have started bathing him on a night now before his last feed and that seems to settle him nicely and we are able to put him straight upstairs in his crib for the night.

We have the hv coming to weigh him again today, looking forward to seeing how much he is. I'm guessing somewhere around 14lb, he was 12lb12oz two weeks ago! He's already growing out of his 0-3 month clothes, so I need to go shopping again for 3-6 months and he's only 10 weeks old tomorrow!

 

[Kte]

MrsC: Daft when you get sleep but feel worse isn't it! I think it's maybe because you still need to catch up, even though you did sleep. I am very lucky Sophie is a good sleeper but I'm still a wreck, daft as it is, if I sleep with the light on or it's noisy then it's disturbed sleep for me and I feel rubbish! Hopefully the sleeping continues and you can feel more normal soon! Beautiful pictures of Hayden too

Oh and yes, 6 prams. 1) was a Chicco lite, the wheel fell off so OH fixed it, then one day a metal bar just plain fell out the bottom! 2) was the Silvercross 3D, a tiny piece of metal snapped so it wouldn't stay up 3) Hauck, the wheels kept falling off when I went up kerbs, you can imagine how annoying that was! Squeeked a treat too until my Dad got out the WD40 4) was an O'baby and the breaks suddenly went. 5) Mothercare own brand, the fabric tore at the seam just after we bought it so that leaves 6) which was the Mothercare own brand replacement, the strap that Chloe rested her feet on fell off, which meant her feet got caught up in the wheels! We are on pushchair no 7 now.

I think computers is worse though! I also have a thing with watches, they always break on me too, to the point I told OH to stop buying me them for Christmas and birthdays because all I was getting was a new watch for it to break on me Oh and sewing machines but I don't tend to go near them very often!

Anna: Hope William enjoys his first swim

 

[AmyB1978]

Love the pics ladies!

MrsC, i totally relate to you getting more sleep but being exhausted, I am right there with you!

Anna, enjoy Williams first swim! Our housing complex has a pool and a little shallow baby pool but I think the water is probably too cold yet, especially in the big pool! We might check it out today (just opened recently for the season and we went over (its across the street!) to check it out yesterday in our walk but it turns out the pool is closed Tuesdays!) sorry William's reflux is still so bad, 5 more weeks is a long time to wait!

Sportysgirl, I think I forgot to mention it earlier, but well done you for nursing in public! It's a huge step!

Alfie and MrsC, glad you had better evenings, Emily tends to still just want me, to nurse and snuggle with Mama, for about an hour to two before bedtime.

Emily still is congested but is fever free (well slightly elevated from time to time but under what her Dr said to be worried about) and she got me sick so now neither one of us feels great! I think I might need to end up going to the doctor if it continues in me as I am prone to sinus infections and bronchitis! DH and I keep going back and forth if we need to take Emily back to the Dr, or even for a 2nd opinion (we got the name of our neighbors pediatrician incase we need it) or just let her be... She's been sick 3 weeks now! I think, honestly, a part of it might be allergies but there was/is definitely a virus/cold going on too.

On a brighter note, she took one of her naps yesterday in her crib (she usually sleeps in a bassinet by our bed with the occasional nap in her crib) and she not only successfully slept for the first time, for about an hour, without being swaddled but she also put herself to sleep for the first time, ad with fairly minimal crying!!! She also just slept through the night, for 9 hours last night!!! She's nursing now, off and on, and seems to be going back to,sleep, it's funny, I am half excited and half worried she slept so much! Being a Mom!

 

[skeet9924]

Ms chez- maybe since Carson. And haydon and Carson are a like you could get her to nap the way I get Carson to. I used to have a really hard time getting to sleep cause he hates the swing and bouncy chair.. He used to only sleep in my arms or car as well. Now when he's tired for the first couple naps I do a bed time routine. I take him up to my bedroom swaddle him and we have a small 2 oz ( top up bottle) . I then put him in his bassinet. I do this for the first 2 naps of the day then after that if we are out he falls asleep wherever. It took a couple days of being persistant but now his nap times are so nice.. I either go back to sleep to for a bit or have me time

 

[AmyB1978]

Kte, that is a lot of prams, I hope we don't get your luck! (Or your's, mrsC, with computers!)

Babymaybe, yay! for Ruben STTN and for 8-10 hour stretches! Have fun clothes shopping! Make sure you update us with his weight today! Emily still fits in her 0-3 month stuff (she is 15 weeks today, 9 adjusted) and was 11lb 11oz at the Dr last week. She can wear some of her 3-6 month stuff but its still baggy/big on her so I mostly only have her in the 0-3 still, I think the weight "cut off" is 12 pounds but all the brands fit so,differently that is clearly a very general guideline! She is set for clothes, between hand me downs, new outfits, and things my Mom has bought her 2nd hand, through 2t and even has some 3t already! She may need the random thing here or there but it's nice to not have to worry about it (other then pajamas she will need in most sizes as I told people,to hold off on getting her any more just yet as I don't know what weight/warmth she will need during the different seasons once she is unswaddled and in her room. ( it is upstairs and ours is downstairs and there is quite a temp difference unfortunately.)

 

[baby_maybe]

Thanks Amy, I think Emily has a great weight for being 9 weeks adjusted

Ruben is 13lb15oz as of today!! Not having him weighed for another 4 weeks now, so goodness knows how much he'll be then! Unfortutnately we don't get many hand me downs for him, my girls have loads of clothes between the three of them though! When I was pg we decided to only get newborn and 0-3 because of the changing seasons and not knowing how big he would be, think we will go and have a good look round on Saturday and get him some cute little summer outfits

 

[AmyB1978]

Baby maybe, she does have a great weight! It is funny because she is on the smaller size for her actual age and on the bigger size for her adjusted age! She was a big girl for being a 34 weeker but DH and I were both bigger babies so I wasn't really surprised.

 

[kraftykoala]

6 week growth spurt anyone?? Someone took my lovely chilled baby and replaced her with one that shrieks all day. Eating has gone all erratic and the nice 8 hour sleep stretch is a thing of the past! Formula feeding on demand is a total PITA too!

 

[sethsmummy]

6 week growth spurt anyone?? Someone took my lovely chilled baby and replaced her with one that shrieks all day. Eating has gone all erratic and the nice 8 hour sleep stretch is a thing of the past! Formula feeding on demand is a total PITA too!

SNAP! Ethans been like that for the last few days! STTN aint happening just now :yawn: and hes mostly just going just over 2 hours between feeds in the day. he best have put a tonne of weight on on Friday!
He had loads of tummy time today to try get rid of this flat side of his head! xx

 

[Cherrybump]

Hey ladies, im still kicking around lol. paige has just been mega unsettle lately and seems like she's got a touch of a cold the person we seen today said. as she seem nasal and congested ryan says she snores lol.. and she has been crying on off for few hours each even so bit of colic to. ive got loads to mention to the health vistor on monday lol.

I wanted to keep up with being on the site aswell but its a bit tough just now. Once things have calmed down a little i should be back proper lol

 

[Kte]

Uh-oh does that mean I need the big bottles already in prep for next week?!