Any March & April 05 mums/moms want to chat?

[Little Bear's Mum]

Thanks girls for all your support. I have to say my day went from bad to worse - kind of....

I got in the car to go to early lunch, heard a funny noise while driving off. Thought I better stop and check and what do I find, but the bottom of the car hanging on the ground! So I turned around and went home. Rang hubby, he wasn't available for 2 hours. I was all dressed up ready for lunch, I couldn't miss out! What to do? So I rang a friend who came and unscrewed the bottom of the car thereby taking it off. It was the part that stops bits getting up into the engine. Good to have, but not essential when there's a lunch to get to! :lol: Off I go to lunch. Drove around for 10 mins to get a park then managed to get one opposite the cafe.

Yay, I made it. Ordered and ate lunch (including an extra large latte) then enjoyed eating while Daniel sat happily in his buggy watching one of the other boys eat solids. I picked him up once I finished to give him cuddles and jumps on me knee and what does he do? He poops! Down his leg and leaves a pool of pooh on my skirt! Can you believe it?!?! :oops:  :oops: I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.  :lol:  :cry: I laughed  :lol:  :lol: Off to the toilets to change him and wipe me down. One of the other girls went to my car to get Daniel a change of clothes.

I had planned to go supermarket shopping after that. NO WAY! NOT WITH MY NEW POOHEY ATTIRE!

Went home, Daniel fell asleep in the car. Getting him out, he's still asleep I thought his leg felt wet. And guess what.... he'd pooped again! I still haven't checked the carseat. Oh dear, hopefully it's okay. I brought him inside, cleaned him up and thankfully he then had a sleep. A short one, I think it was about 50 mins.

So his total naps for the day equal a maximum of 1 1/2 hours if I'm lucky. He woke up screaming, like I've never heard before. Worse than last week. A dose of medicine and a big feed off me and he seemed okay. And lots of cuddles of course. After a bath I put him to bed at 6.30pm. I also decided to wrap him again tonight to see if that helps him sleep longer without waking. I figure he's hopefully tired enough and wrapped to have a long sleep.

So that was my day. All I can do is laugh really, nothing I could have done to change any of it.

I'm going to analyse my sleep/awake logs tonight and work out a plan for what I want Daniel to do. Then I'm going to spend the next few days just focusing on Daniel to try to sort things out. I know consistency is the key, so I'm going to try to make that happen. Even if it means getting up at 6am and waking Daniel.

Just had to share that with you all. Here's hoping for a better day tomorrow.

Traci, I only feed him one side during the night feeds. Thismorning when I fed him at 8am it's cos he hadn't wanted anything when he woke at 7.30am cos he'd fed at 5.45. THen when I put him down at 9am he cried so hard the only thing I could do was feed him. And everytime I put him down he wanted more feeding. He took a huge feed, which I think was both hunger and from all the crying.

My MIL is up for the weekend, so will see if between her and hubby if Daniel is still waking at night they can try to settle without me feeding. If he doesn't see me, maybe he won't need food. That's my thoughts anyway.

Gotta go, hubby's served up dinner. Thanx for listening and your advice lady's I'll read it all again and see if I can get some more insight to what might help.

Talk to you all tomorrow!

[FrasersMum]

Oh Hayley - you poor thing but.... LOL!  We too had the poop from h*ll yesterday while we were out and there's nothing to do but laugh!!  Here's to a better day tomorrow!

Hey Southern Hemisphere mums - earlier today I crashed a US mums chat and it was good fun - is anyone interested in participating in a chat night for us Aussie/NZ mums?  If you are, I've posted on the Lounge about it - we'll see if we can get something arranged.

Also HI to all the new mums - don't lurk, post, we love to share!  I don't have much advice but I love to read everyone's stories.

HUGS to all - sounds like everyone is doing a GREAT JOB!

Cheers!

[Jayri]

just a quick post girls.
The only reason I do solids 3 times a day is to try and mix it up. Just a personal preferece that's all.
I just wanted to pop on and explain why I did that, so I guesss with solids it is however often you and your child feel comfortable with.
Our routine is up in the air, it seems like dd is going through another spurt, she has her feed upon waking and then she needs another one to settle her properly for sleep. She hasn't been going calmly lately.
Sleeptimes are becoming a nightmare. It is seeming like she can go anywhere from 1.5 to 2.5 hrs of being awake. I think she has a lot going on with her right now so that is probably why it is harder a sleeptimes.
She has found she can roll from back to tummy and back, she has a tooth coming in, she is starting solids more regularly, and to top it all off her night away really threw her a loop and both fri and sat night eneded up being super late.
Oh well, off to enjoy my chaos.
TTFN girls.

[Colesmom]

hi everyone,

my night was a bit better.  Cole down by 6:35, woke at 11:30 to feed, woke at 3:10 but settled himself in 5 minutes woohoo!  He then woke at 5:15 again!  I gave a full feed as the other day I tried just one side and it didn't work.  Back down by 5:45.  He cooed and babbled until 6:10.  I was really hoping he'd go back to sleep but no go.  Up we got, top up feed at 7 when he fell asleep!  Then outside for a good long walk to pass the time until normal nap time at 8.

two things.  I changed him between boobs at the 5:15 feeding.  felt pretty wet but I wonder if i didn't if he would have gone back to sleep?
Lastly, I might try wake to sleep to see if I can get him past this 5:15 thing.  He should be able to go right through to 6:15...that's 7 hours or one feed cycle (still around 3.75 hour EASY)

Traci

[Olivia's Mommy]

Good morning all (for me, anyway!). WE had a pretty good night. Olivia refused her bedtime bottle because she was so tired (she had just had cereal an hour before, but that is the first that's ever happened!) So we just put her down and she slept until DF at 11:00. After DF, she went back to sleep  great, until I WOKE HER UP AT 1:45!! (Not intentionally of course!) Something woke me up, so I went to check on her. She was sleeping contently, but her face was smashed up against the crib bumper and is scared me to death! So I moved her, hoping she would settle back down. Of course she didn't, so an hour later I ended up feeding her and she went right back to sleep and slept until 7:30 this morning!

Haley, hang in there! My LO did the same thing when we started EASY (woke early, then what?) I would try to let her play until next feeding time (as long as she would go). Sometimes she went the whole time, sometimes not, but she eventually got the hang of it and now she's on a really good 4-hour EASY.

We just started cereal last week in the evenings (at dinner time). We do cereal between 5:30-6:00, then bath and bedtime at 7:00 (with a bottle at bedtime). She's doing really well with it. I plan on adding morning cereal starting tomorrow. I started with rice cereal. Does anyone know when you can switch to Oat or Barley?

Have a great day ladies...off to check on DD

[Arwyn's mom]

Apparently you can switch to Oats and Barley after 3 days - 1 week, depending on how long you wish to wait to check for allergies. I am switching on Sunday from rice to one of those... haven't decided which yet.

Have a great day/evening everybody!

[Little Bear's Mum]

Goodmorning ladies - well we had a GREAT night. Daniel slept from 6.30pm until 5.30am without a peep!

Not sure which of the following things helped: 1) I wrapped him, 2) he hadn't had much sleep during the day so possibly exhausted or 3) he'd had some really good feeds so was content and full for the night. Now I just need to replicate the sleep tonight.

I thought I'd make sure he'd had the right amount of big feeds. And hopefully some good quality sleep during the day. But I'll leave him unwrapped, that way if he doesn't sleep and then I wrap him tomorrow night and he does, then I'll know it's the wrapping thing. I hope that's not the reason cos I really want to keep him unwrapped. He didn't used to sleep right through wrapped, so hopefully it's not.

When he woke at 5.30am I gave him one side, which was very full so I think he took the whole feed from that side. Then I put him back in his cot. I listened from my bed as to what he did. Basically he babbled on and off until I got him up at 6.30am. So then I watched his tired signs and put him down at 7.15am. He took 15 mins to settle. So far he's been 40 mins asleep. I'm hoping/thinking in the past when I've put him back to bed he may not have had much sleep then I keep him up and he's been overtired. This results in him not settling down, or sleeping long.

Oh dear, he's just made the 40 min call. I'll see if he keeps sleeping though.

I drew up a chart last night to try to analyse Daniel's sleep patterns. I'd kept about 14 days of logs. There's some consistency, but not enough to really be able to say "this is what he needs". So I think I"m going to have to figure it out based on his wake up time still. If that happens to be 5.30am, then it'll be feed, back to bed and get him up at 6.30am, back to his bed at 7.30am etc. If he's awake in his cot for an hour that's fine, but I don't think I want to be up with him then! :lol:

I think he's still awake, but quiet. I'll go and secretly check! Have a good day everyone.

[mickymuscles]

hi all!  Jack and I have been having a few good nights....but of course when he decides to sleep well thru the night then one of the dogs either decides to get sick or to start barking in her sleep!!  We are feeding oat cereal for breakfast then finish off with a bottle.  Solids for lunch and then top off with a bottle again.  Solids again for supper followed by another bottle and then after his catnap...bath and a final bottle.  He is probably eating 26-30 oz. of formula and 12-15 oz of solids(including cereal) a day.  Before we regularly started solids he would wake at least once in the night...usually around 3-5amish.  He's been waking around 6:30am for the last couple of nights but I've either been able to leave him and he'll resettle after talking to himself for 30 min. or I can get him to settle again with a little pu/pd till we get up at 8am (we are trying to get ready for time change!!).  Just after we started solids he was still waking 1-2x over the night but would eat very leisurely....eventually eating a 6 oz. bottle but I decided that he wasn't trully hungry because he wasn't guzzling it like he usually did.  So DH and I toughed it out for 3 nights and did pu/pd  (an hour each time) and eventually Jack realized he wasn't going to be getting fed in the night anymore!!  So I'm hoping (knock on wood) that his night wakings are done!!

[Colesmom]

Hayley, that is GREAT!  Must be such a relief to get a full nights sleep.  I wouldn't worry about the wrapping.  If it helps him sleep better I'd keep it up.

Well, my day was okay.  After two 45 minute naps I thought I'd go nuts so I went to the mall!   He wouldn't feed very well there, he was too distracted by the other people and one poor colicky baby that was screaming her heart out :oops:   Then I put him back in his stroller for catnap.  I've only tried the catnap out of his crib twice before this.  Once he slept for an hour on a walk outside...and another time only 30 minutes at the mall.  Now, the 30 minute one was from 4:45-5:15 and it's almost as if he knew...MOM, I don't go to bed at 8:00-what are you doing anyway :?   And then we had a nightmare ride home-very cranky.
Today he cried for about 8 minutes to go down at his regular A time for that interval!  I peaked in and his eyes were wide open.   :shock:  Quickly replaced the blanket and left it covered!  When i looked 10 minutes later he was sound asleep-YAY.  It lasted 1hr 15 minutes!  His longest nap of the day.  Of course I was a basketcase the whole time hoping he wouldn't wake up.  I made sure to be moving the stroller the whole time-even while i sat for coffee i pushed it back and forth!

Anyway-put him down super early for 6:00 bed and he settled by 6:05.  BIZARRE-no matter how tired he seems to be he settles at the 2:25 mark now.  I'll see how tonight goes.  I'm really hoping he'll go to about midnight...then right through until 6:00 or so.  IF he's up at 5:15 then it's wake to sleep for him tomorrow (well, for me too I guess).

All this talk about solids makes me want to start Cole...but I think I'm just going to wait until 6 months. Talk to my ped. first and see if she has any information for me.  It's just around the corner anyway. Two of my girlfriends waited until 7 months on advice from their doctors.

okay, guess i gotta get dinner ready.  is a mom's work never done :?:  :wink:

have a good evening.

[albertasweetpea]

Hi again all!
It is really  hard to keep up with all these 5-6 month old babies isn't it?? Seems like we are all going through nearly the same things so it is very helpful to get on here and feel like we are not alone.
Andrea, thanks for noticing the avatar, yes we think she's pretty cute too!
I love the new pic of Taylor too - the dress is very cute, I think you mentioned dh picked it out?? Hmmmm a man with style!   :lol:

Just reading all of Carol's posts and getting goosebumps - poor thing to be in that situation after Katrina...I can't even fathom such a thing. She is such a trooper, sounds like she is holding it all together so well. An inspiration to us all that's for sure.

Great sleep vibes being sent out to all LO's tonight!

[Little Bear's Mum]

I just have to tell you all that Daniel has been napping now for 2h 45mins! I actually had to check on him to make sure he was okay, even though the monitor is on!  :lol:

I think it might be a combination of a few things; a good sleep last night, 2 good feeds today before this nap, & maybe the h/pathic remedy taking effect. I'm wondering if I should wake him or not? He's due for his next feed in 15 mins, so will wake him then. Wow, incredible. What will this mean for tonight though?

I've decided to wrap him again tonight. If it works for a few nights of consistent sleep then I unwrap him and he wakes then I know he still needs it at night. Hopefully it will enable us to get our days sorted out better to then help the nights. Then I won't be so consumed with sleeping and I'll be able to think about some other things.

Colesmum, I hope your night went well. Cole hopefully surprised you by sleeping really well. Maybe the earlier bedtime helped. If it didn't you'll have to give the wake to sleep a go. Infact, maybe that's what I'll try next.

Olivia's mommy, it's funny how you mums over the other side of the world talk about going from cereal, to oats or barley etc. Over here, it's baby rice (cereal equiv I think) then onto fruit or veges.

So far D hasn't liked his rice or apple so after about a week of either, I'm planning on trying pumpkin tomorrow. Apparently it's quite popular with a few friends bubs. I kind of feel like he's missing out because he's not on solids yet (5 1/2 months) but he didn't seem to like them. I'll try with the Pumpkin though and keep at it a bit longer than 3 days this time. Apparently it can take about a week I was told to get the hang of it. How long did it take your LO's when they first started until they were opening their mouths wanting the food?

[kate585]

Hey, all! 
The computer is back from the tech doctors.  Virus.   :evil:   
I had to laugh with all the talk about the poop issues.  I am so sorry for you, Hayley!!!  I'm waiting for that to happen to us.  We're going out of town tomorrow...it'll probably happen while I am on the road.   :shock:   Family trip with m/fil and b/sil.  Wish us luck.  Big plans with not much nap time scheduled.  Someone told me Ryan will just have to have one wacky day and get back on schedule on Monday.  Look for a big, whiney post then!   
Real quick:  We do solids 3 x's/day, per our pediatrician.  Cereal/fruit at bkfst, fruit/veg at lunch, cereal/veg at dinner.  I always bf about 30-45 mins. before I feed the solids (as long as we don't have to go anywhere), since that is where most of the nutrition is supposed to come from and Ryan is such a piggie he would each so much solids he wouldn't want any milk afterwards! 
Have a great weekend everyone!!!

[Jayri]

I have to come on here and just whimper.
Tonight i caaled dh at 7pm told him I needed him home and hung up.
The kids are in seperate rooms at the mo, so having them both crying at the same time REALLY SUCKS.
I put Riley down at 6:30, she was fairly calm and figured that the half hour till 7 would be a good wind down time on her own.
Her screaming/crying lasted 2 1/2 hrs :shock:  :shock: , no kidding, tried everything, feeding, changing, baby orajel, playing, hugging, those cold gum toys, laying with her, and finally I thought of tylenol, simply because it seems like she has started ANOTHER growth spurt, she actually feels heavier.
She feel asleep after I gave her this, on her belly laying next to daddy having her back rubbed.
So I have no clue whether she finally gave in or it was the tylenol.
Either way she is better.
I feel totally enfuriated, because nothing I did helped her, and that made me frustrated, and at the same time I feel like crap cuz my little girl is in need of something and I don't know what she is tryong to tell me :cry:  :cry: .
Okay, that feels better, had to unload, thanks for the shoulder girls.

[FrasersMum]

Oh hugs Naomi!

I completely agree it is so hard when they are sick and you don't know what they need.  Sounds like Riley just needed her Mum AND her Dad to make her feel better (and the orajel and the Tylenol etc etc...)  You all got there in the end! 

Hope she is feeling much better soon

Cheers!

[Jayri]

Thank you Jo, seeing her asleep in her crib makes it all worth it!!