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

[rose.]

We have had a lovely BBQ today for DHs first Father's Day there were 15 people but it went really well and Alfie was really good :woo:

And I managed to get Alfie to take a teat full of milk from the mam teat tonight! He mostly chewed it or bounced it around his mouth but its a start

Hubby is going away to work tomorrow for the rest of the week! I will miss him but we are off on holiday Sunday so looking forward to that!

 

[kraftykoala]

Hope everyone had a good fathers day! It was also my Eldests birthday today so we've had a fun day, culminating in a mummy made cake! It's not the greatest but it went down well!

Ella is doing well, getting into more of a routine now and touch wood she sleeps around 10-11 hours at night. She has her first jabs on tuesday, a month late because apparently theres a baby boom here and no appointments until then! She's generally smiley and happy and learning to settle herself to sleep with her thumb It's going so fast!

 

[rose.]

Cool cake krafty! Glad Ella is doing well. Good luck for the jabs - I can't believe they're a whole month late as the drs are just too busy! That's crazy

 

[MrsChezek]

Wow quite the cake krafty!!

 

[skeet9924]

That's an amazing cake Krafty!! I guess now that I have a child I'm going to have to become a little more crafty myself!! I've never been artsy or any good at crafts or baking or any of that creative stuff lol

 

[sethsmummy]

krafty that cake is awsome!

sorry iv been MIA ladies, dont get much time to come on the forum just now. Glad everyone is doing so well

cant remember who it was who mentioned weaning.. but im already weaning ethan.. he is a GANNET! he scoffed down half a jar this afternoon!! he doesnt seem to be very fussy at what flavours he eats either but prefers savoury to sweet (fruit). iv been giving him one meal a day for the last week, will up it to 2 meals at 4 months, then 3 meals at 5 months then by 6 months we should be ready for lumps and bumps if not before then
Ethan still hasnt really lifted his head properly during tummy time and hasnt rolled yet. he is teething just now, theres a white mark on the front bottom gum so theres a tooth coming through very slowly. He is a very good baby he goes to bed at 7:30ish waked at 5ish for a feed then back to sleep for another 3 hours.

im having trouble with my health visitor just now.. i want to punch her! lol that sounds so bad, i dont know if i put it on here but 2 weeks ago i took the boys to get weighed. Ethan was 10lb 11oz and following the 9th%ile nicely and seth was 25lb 8oz (i think) and back on the 0.4th%ile (he bounces between that and the 2nd never higher) and i agreed with the h/v to take him back in a month to check hes putting the weight back on he lost while he had the gastroenteritus for 2 weeks. Well i got a phone call from the doctors today asking me to come in for an appointment as the health visitor has expressed concern over Ethans weight!! I said to the woman that called about having him weighed 2 weeks ago and was told he was fine ( i know hes fine as he is getting so chunky) and that it was infact my eldest whod lost weight and we already had a plan in place. so i made the appointment for tomorrow to go get them weighed 2 weeks early. I am so peed off... if there was any concern she should have said it to my face and not behind my back. So once this doctors appointment is over with i will be telling the health visitors i want nothing more to do with them, they can arrange to come to my home and do the development reviews when required for both boys but thats it, i will not be attending their clinic. I am so sick of their crap and sick of them making me feel like a shit mum just because my boys are on the lower %iles!

I hope everyone is doing ok xx

 

[MrsChezek]

Skeet - sorry u have to deal with someone so unprofessional! You're right, she shouldn't be saying things behind your back


H woke up at 4am and kept crying so we gave her boob; even tho I've fed her she's still refusing to go back down This has never happened! Not sure what to do...usually boob puts her back to sleep.
She didn't nap all day until 4:15pm and woke up at 7pm...she went to bed at 9:20pm so maybe going down an hour later than usual is throwing her off? I also had a pretty veggie heavy dinner so maybe her belly is uncomfortable...she's clearly upset. I was finally able to soothe her from crying very hard but then she was wide awake; DH has stuck her into the swing to see if she'll fall asleep now....running out of ideas!

 

[skeet9924]

ms chez- it sounds like she is getting over tired. When carson does he gets really bad...wont sleep at all and is hard to settle at night as well. Then from her sleeping so long in the late afternoon/evening its messing up her night time. Currently the schedule I try my hardest to stick with is wake up at
8- eat , play
9:30 11:00( 11;30 ish)- nap
11- eat play
12:30 -2 (2:30 is)- sleep
2- eat play
3:30- 5 sleep
5 eat play
6:30-7 small cat nap if possible
7 bath and bed time routine
8 bedtime and bottle

the days that carson doesnt follow this he is a bear and cries all day..then sometimes wont settle until midnight

 

[Kte]

Krafty: Lovley ckae Mummy made cakes are the best!

SethsMummy: Sorry to hear your having bother with your HV. It was wrong of her to not say something to your face first about referring Ethan to the doctors.

MrsC: Hope you manage to settle Hayden

Sophie is still al snuffily and Chloe has managed to loose her nose medicine. Well I am indrectly blaing OH. I had put the spray and infacol on the pram, Chloe was playing in it and it kept dropping off. OH was in the room with her and asking her to put it back on the pram or in a bag. Then for some reason it's just gone. OH was mad with her but if he had got off his butt and done it himself rather than getting a 3yr old to do it then it wouldn't of happened. Luckily I have some spare but it's nearly out.

 

[skeet9924]

oh kte that is so frusterating!!

I forgot to mention in my last post..( dont even know how i forgot!) I went to go see the dr about my back todays as ive had tons of issues with it....lugging around a 13lb baby is not good for my scoliosis..anyways.she asked how Carson was doing and I mentioned that he is happy and doing well but still spits up right from one feed all the way to the next...and ends up starved by the next feeding..she thinks he has reflux and is going to prescribe medication for him..I have to take him in to see her tomorrow. I hope this helps my little man..although he is mostly happy I'd love for him to not spit up all day!! Sometimes he makes such an awful face when it happens

 

[anna1986]

So william had a hosp appointment yesterday n they weighed him hes now 16lb6! Hes a big boy. The hospital were happy with him apart from showing concern about how quickly hes gaining weight. Hes gone from the 2nd centile up to the 75th in a short space of time. Theyve suggested cutting his bottles down :s dont really want to starve my boy. He was havin 7ozs every 3hrs. They also suggested "off the record" i start weaning him to slow his weight gain. As a few teaspoons of fruit or veg wont have the calories milk does.
So anyway ive got all the stuff n apple/pear amd sweet potato purees r made. Im just starting slow with a single fruit or veg to check for reactions.
I had to wean my daughter early at 17 weeks due to servere reflux n i was excited that time this time im nervous he might not be ready or it might harm him. Silly i know.

 

[MrsChezek]

Kte - doh! good thing you had extra

Skeet - hope your LO feels better with the meds...that's so cool that you've figured out a schedule for Carson. Hayden won't go down for naps unless she's tired or I stick her in the car and go for a ride. As I'm not always willing to drive around aimlessly, I can't control when she will nap. BUT, I know that if I'm home the odds are higher that she will nap. However, I am not willing to just be home all day every day...I'd go crazy. So some days she has to compromise and nap wherever I am and on other days I compromise and stay home. She's just never gone bonkers like last night after not napping...she didn't go back to sleep until 8am! But I stayed home most of the day and made sure to get her back to napping twice today, which she did and she still fussed a bit when it was time to go down but eventually boob put her to sleep. We'll see how she sleeps through the night...

Good luck with the weaning Anna! I look forward to introducing Hayden to all the yummy foods...but I'm going to try to wait until 6 months.

 

[skeet9924]

Ms chez- that sounds so tough and frustrating.. I usually make sure Carson has atleast 1 good nap at home but I'm like u and go bonkers stuck at home. I hope you get thing figured out.. Carson has started waking up around 2 am again the past few nights I'm missing the sleeping through.. He's also been a bit harder to settle

 

[Kte]

Skeet: Hope it works for him

Anna: Is he on hungry baby as well? I hate it when they starte interferring when it comes to weight and eating. He looks fine on all your pictures, I guess its just because he jumped.

Sophie has worried me a bit today, she had a bottle at 10 and then nothing until around 5, I tried to feed her but she wasn't having it. She hasn't had anything else since. I'm going to wake her again before bed to feed her again. She has been awake and aleart at times but slept others. Hoping it's just this cold she is trying to sleep off.

Edit as soon as i woke that she woke dor a feed!

 

[AmyB1978]

Kte, I hope Sophie is back to herself and feeling better soon. Is she having enough wet diapers so you at least know she's not getting dehydrated?

Anna, sorry they are concerned about his weight, I am sure he is just fine! Have you tried him with any of the purées yet?

MrsC, sorry you have been having a tough time of it with sleep and naps, I hope Hayden settled better for you last night/today.

My DH's birthday is next Wednesday and Emily and I have our flight to visit my family next Thursday. I asked DH's aunt and cousin if they could watch Emily so we could go out to dinner... I was kind of hoping they couldn't as it is still really hard for me to leave her, even with DH. They are able to watch her so will be coming over that evening a little before 6, we are only going to dinner so shouldn't be much later then 8 or so... I'm so nervous about leaving her and really hope it doesn't screw up her night making her already miserable for the flight the next day! I hope DH realizes what a huge gift us going out is for me to give him! I wouldn't even have tried, especially with us leaving the next day but I know he has a been feeling left out and out of sorts cause little miss takes up all my time and energy.

 

[anna1986]

yes so far hes tried banana, apple and sweet potato

 

[rose.]

Skeet and kte, it could be a developmental stage. As Alfie has been weird with sleep and food for the last week or so since his jabs. He's been waking up at 2 (which has been painful!!) and 5.30-6am. He has also been taking less in each feed -
Or I think he is as he's not feeding for as long. He seems perfectly happy though plenty of wet and dirty nappies so I'm hoping its just a phase. He hasn't been weighed since last week and we are going away on Sunday so he won't be weighed for another few weeks. He doesn't seem out of character though apart from being a little more grizzly

 

[rose.]

Amy, I am sure the meal out will be easier than you think. I hope your DH appreciates it! will be nice for you to have some couple time. Alfie is still rejecting bottles - we've tried tommee tippee, avent and mam. So there won't be any couple time for us any time soon!!

 

[sethsmummy]

skeet - fingers crossed the meds help! Im glad your doctor is doing something to help, i see so many posts on here where gps just ignore the parent and it gets left untreated.

kte - ah that sucks im glad you had spare.. i bought teething gel the other week and lost it as soon as i got home lol still no idea where it went! woops haha.

AmyB - dont worry hun we all panic when we leave them, i still do with ds1 haha and hes 3! I hope your DH enjoys the meal and appreciates just how much of a gift you are giving him by leaving lo.

anna - i cant believe they are worrying you about weight already! Im glad weaning is going well though.

AFU- I took the boys to the gp as asked.. she didnt know why the heck the h.v brought up concerns with ethans weight! She refused to weigh him as she could tell from looking at him hes fine! She did weigh Seth though and hes gone from 11.6kg to 12.2kg in 2 weeks yey so thats him almost back onto the 2nd%ile. woop woop

xxx

 

[AmyB1978]

Yay Seth for gaining and yay GP for realizing the HV is an idiot!