Babies of Oct-Dec /04

[Jadynsmom]

Jillybean - Yes, please keep us posted on your hubby.  Definitely say a prayer that's it's not cancerous.

I bet I am the oldest in this group.  I hit my 40 in July.  I feel like a 30yr old though, and dh is 45 but looks & acts very young as well.  My pregnancy was very easy, if you don't count the 3mos of 24hr nausea (I do mean 24hrs of non-stop gagging & heaving).  I was induced due to gestional diabetes and I pushed for about 20mins and boom there she was. 

Today Jadyn was in the middle of her standing and started to grunt.  So I took her to the bathroom & put her on the potty and she finished pooping, and then I heard this trickling.  She peed!!!  I said very excitedly "yeah, you are pottying", and she just looked at me & smiled.  I know it was a fluke but it was cute.  I can usually get her to sit in it for about 3 mins max before she tries to climb down.

On a flip side, her pulling up in the crib and not wanting to go to sleep is driving me insane.  I posted it on Naps forum and hopefully I will get an idea what to do.  She's taking an average of 20-30 mins to go down for naps, as opposed to her 2-5mins!!! Surely she will get bored with this pulling up business.  On top of that, she wants me to rub her back til she falls asleep. :roll:   And yes, she's waking at 6am now.  Ugghh!! I sure miss my 7:15am baby.

Her pooping at night is solved.  I stopped giving her veggies & fruit for dinner.  Just giving her pasta & potato & cheese for dinner and it solved the problem.  Btw, my baby loves my homemade spaghetti!! She was eating it like it was the best thing since my booby. :lol:

Pete's mom - A personal question for you bfing mom, have you gotton your period back?  I think I just got mine back today. :?  I guess I can't complain.  I did have almost a year & a half without it.  I figured if I kept breastfeeding I wouldn't get it??  I think it's affecting my supply already.

Sharon - How are you doing?

Kathy

[Pete's Mom]

Jillybeansmith - Hope everything is okay with your dh.  I will keep him in my prayers and thoughts.

Kathy - I just got my period back 2 months ago.  About 1 1/2 months after Peter started taking solids.  So far I don't think it is affecting my supply, but I was a certianly a bit more tired for those days....

I will turn 33 in September.  My pregnancy was extermely easy, labour and delivery was good too except it was very fast and I ended up with a 3rd degree tear :cry: , post partum terrible....I was just off to get some blood work today as they figure I may have a thyroid issue...

[Mum to Ella Rose]

Wow I don't know what happened but I stopped receiving notifications on this topic... :? Suddenly I have pages to catch up with!

Thanks for your well wishes I am feeling a bit better. 

Jillybean, soooo sorry to hear about dh! Will say a prayer too...

Kathy, check the nap boards out a bit. Me and a bunch of others have been posting a bunch about the same issues.  I think it's just a matter of riding it out and being consistent. One of the mums said this is a prime time for "accidental parenting" and sleep issues. Dd is getting back on track a bit (after 3 weeks!  :shock: ) and I'm trying to go with the flow more and not get stressed when she doesn't sleep. I tend to be rigid and take it all personally!  :lol: Like I'm a bad mum if she doesn't get the required amount of sleep! She has learned to sit down on her own now and that's helped a great deal. Tracy has a good suggestion in one of her books which is to help them learn to sit. Place there hands on the crib rails and slowly slide them down. It worked for us. Now we leave dd if she's yelling or mantra crying and standing. We just say "night night now Ella." and leave with a kiss. We don't go back in unless she is distressed. Not just yelling to get one of us to come back. It's tough but it's really working!

Dd has learned how to wave now. It's the cutest thing ever! If people wave to her when we're out walking she waves back at everyone. Ahhh proud parents hey?  :lol:  I get excited cause she waggles her wee arm around...

I'm an "old" mummy too. (Kathy and I talked of this previously in one of these 55 pages... :lol: ) I turned 37 in Feb. Hubby is only 28  :oops:  :wink:  And dd happened on our honeymoon... It's tough because now we know we don't have a great deal of time if we want to try for one more and yet we'd like to wait a bit... plus dd was so sick and it was sooooo very difficult in the beginning. We're terrified of going through that again!

My labour was tough... my water broke with a BANG and went straight to hospital (strep b) A day later and contractions one on top of the other I finally got an epidural and  laboured for a whole other day. When I started closing back up so to speak (only dilated to 4cm then went back to 2) they realized dd's head was stuck and it was causing me to swell so I had a c-section after two days... the funny thing is I want to "feel" it all again... am I crazy or what?!  :lol:

Must run.... I've babbled enough... oh but one more thing... dd is 21lbs and drinks three 8oz bottles/day. Her paed. said this was plenty. (24oz)

Take care everyone,

Sharon

[jillybeansmith]

Hey..thanks for your thoughts and prayers, and I will keep you posted...we should know next week what the heck it is, but more importantly, we want to get the problem fixed so that the pain will go away...it's not very nice. Typical men, though, I made 3 appointments for him, and he broke all three, stating that he was under no circumstances NOT getting THAT looked at, then his parents got involved, and he finally went the last time...his dad took him...

Connor is almost done with tooth number 7...geez, he looks funny with a big mouth full of teeth...

It's interesting finding out how old everybody is...you start to feel like you know everybody when you read the message boards every day...

Lots of cesareans out there too, eh? (ooopppps...that's the Canadian coming out in me...)  It's funny, it wasn't even a consideration, I thought I was going to do it naturally..NOPE...I also thought I would breastfeed, but I didn't make a drop of milk...I tried for a week exclusively, then supplemented for a month, only getting an ounce or two out a day, my poor little guy was losing weight dramatically, so we had to switch to formula, and he exploded in size on it, as you can see........

Anyways, talk to you all later.......Jill

[jillybeansmith]

SIZE:   By the way, Connor has his 9 month visit next week...I'll let you know, but I think he's going to come in at 25 lbs and 30 1/2 inches...last time he was 23 lbs and 30 inches...I know he's still putting on weight.  I guess he's the pork-chop of the bunch here...

MOVING:  He's enjoying being mobile, rolling everywhere, crawling backwards.

CHOKING:    Talk about babyproofing, and choking!!... last night we were sitting on the couch, and Con was rolling all over the room, he pulled a peice of plastic off of something, and was very quiet..I asked dh what he was doing, and he said he was laying there sucking on his thumb and fingers..which he was doing, but he was also putting the plastic in his mouth..he started gagging, and I thought he had his fingers in too far, sure enough, he threw-up and in the middle of the mess was this piece of plastic...

This message board has had a few little choking incidents, hasn't it...they just want to stuff everything in their mouths.

[zayandme]

I can totally picture connor chewing on plastic. Isaiah has done the same thing. We have an armchair that has this fuzzy stuff underneath and Isaiah's favorite thing to do is crawl under it and pick the fuzz off of it. Then of course he tries to eat it- when he comes out from under the chair, he looks like a wild beast that's caught its prey- mounds of fuzz puffed out of his mouth. Needless to say we're trying to avoid the armchair entirely.

I just turned 23, my Husband is 32.
I had a miserable pregnancy (thyroid) and a miserable postpartum period (thyroid), but my labor went quite smoothly. Checked into the hospital at 10, had the baby at 4:58- we joked that we did that so the doctor could have a normal work day.

Whoever said they're getting bloodwork done for their thyroid, please send me a personal message. I'd like to find out how youre doing and what your Dr. says. Thanks.

I stopped breastfeeding when ds was 7 months, and I got my period about 8 weeks later. But I've heard that getting your period while bfing will cause a drop in your supply only for  a few days, then your body will hopefully go back to normal. Let us know.

ALSO- can someone private message me with a link or instructions on how to add a picture of my lo? I dont know how.
Thanks!

[lil'monkey]

Finally, something to show for after all that pain and nightwakings!


zayandme - check this out for instructions.  http://www.babywhisperer.com/forum/instructions-for-uploading-an-attachment-windows-only-vt10604.html

[zayandme]

mimi- are those really teeth?!?

the problem is I am not on a PC, I'm on a Mac. Anyone know of a link to help with mac's and Iphoto for avatars?

[NKmommy]

Hi Kathy - We went through that pulling up in the crib stage.  It lasted about 2 weeks for us, but was SO difficult.  Ds would pull up in his crib, play for a while, cry, I would lay him back down, and he did this over and over.  Argggg.  I think the novelty of being able to pull up wore off, because he only does this every now and then.  When they learn to sit back down easily, I think things get better.  Hang in there!

I am 26, DH will be 27 next week.  This pregnancy was pretty hard  - I was sick as a dog for the first trimester, and during my whole pregnancy, I cramped.  It felt just like a period cramp.  I constantly thought I was miscarrying.  SO glad that it is over and ds is here safe and sound.  My labor was fast and furious.  Started having contractions at 10 pm, and went to the hospital.  I was only dilated to a 1, so they almost sent me home.  Good thing they didn't because by 7 am I was fully dilated, 10 minutes of pushing, and out popped Nathan.  Episiotomy was the WORST (sorry if this is TMI).  Next pregnancy I am going to refuse an episiotomy, and pitocin (they gave it to me even though I was already fully dilated - they just hadn't checked in a while.  It was TOTALLY unnecessary).  Funny how you can be more confident the second time around.

[Gigismom]

jill-we'll be thinking of your family and hoping for good news!!

mimi- love the picture.

i am 27.  my pregnancy was a nightmare from the beginning.  before i knew i was pg, i developed a strange heart condition that had my heart beating 200 bpm while i was just lying down!  i was in the hospital for 2 weeks during which time i requested 2 pg tests, although we hadn't been trying.  both came back negative (too early).  so the drs went ahead with the procedure to correct my heart...it included MASSIVE amounts of radiation.  radiation + pg = bad mix!!  once we found out i truly was pg, the drs urged us to have an abortion telling us the radiation had "severely damaged" the baby.  this was not an option we thought about once.  we decided if the baby lived, no matter what was wrong, we would just love it and take care of it.  so for the first 5 months of pg, (before the extensive ultrasound), we were thinking something was wrong.  but during the ultrasound, everything looked great.  and she came out (via c-section) just perfect and even a little bit cute!  however, due to her exposure to radiation in utero, she has an increased risk of childhood cancer.  something i can't even think about now.   
this weird heart thing may come back with another pg, so that is why i want to get pg now.  we will be living near our families for the next year and they could help tremendously with gianna until after i had the baby and could get the procedure done again.  (during the pg, i could take meds that are safe for the baby and would keep my heart rate down).  but dh is freaking out at the thought of another one right now.  so i guess i am losing.  oh well!!

[lil'monkey]

She was eating rice puffs and I couldn't resist taking a picture.  Instead of smiling for the camera, she would do all these funny faces.  I hope that she'll outgrow it soon as we are planning to have a family portrait in October.

Last night was sooo bad!  Two hrs of crying and screaming from 3 am to 5 am, nothing works.  On top of that she only slept for 45 min after that.  I think that the top 2 teeth are cutting through as I can feel them.   So how many teeth do babies have?

Anybody thinks that their babies are being replace by a yepping puppy?  For the last week, dd would yep, yep, yep.  It was funny at first but now it is really annoying.

[jillybeansmith]

Wow, Gianna sounds like a miracle baby!!...I think that tops the pregnancy nightmares!!!

Mimi....Connor makes a lot of goofy faces too...My husband hopes he outgrows this before getting around other kids, instead of smiling, sometimes he does the 'rat face', he wrinkles up his nose and sticks his teeth out...we don't know where he got it!!...I tell my husband to ignore it instead of laughing, and it will  eventually go away....

[Mum to Ella Rose]

God Lindsey that is terrifying! Seems we have a few "miracle babies" in this thread. (thinking of you Kathy)

We seem to be getting back on track here... (knock on wood) Dd's gone back to sleeping between 10 and 11 hours overnight and though naps are somewhat erratic today is a good day. She slept from 8 to 7 overnight, napped 30 min. this am and just woke up from her second nap after 2 hrs. and 15 min.  :shock:  Lord if she goes down tonight okay it will be our first "good" 24 hour cycle in months! Though I have to confess I've taken to walking her in her stroller for the first nap now... :oops:

Mimi, that picture absolutely cracked me up! Thanks for that!  :lol:

Talk to you all soon,

Sharon

(haven't tried the potty training yet... scared to add something new into the mix with all the chaos recently!)

[Mum to Ella Rose]

Oh and Sarah I just export a pic from iphoto (small enough size) to my desktop and then attach it in my profile. Make sense? Let me know...

Sharon

[MomtoRee]

it is so exciting to read all the news.  I also have the thyroid problems that were mentioned.  I actually have not been able to get mine regulated since I had Reegan over 9 months ago.  No wonder I am so tired.  I am 26 and can't imagine having another one now.  I want to soon but need a little more time to get the thyroid taken care of first.  I will be excited to have another one and be able to spend some time with him or her in the beginning.  I had Reegan during the last semester of law school and went back to school 5 days after I had her.  Good thing that I had an easy labor and delivery.  She went to school with me and sat in a study room with my mom while I did class.  Boy, that was fun!  Plus then I got to take the bar. 

Sorry to hear that people are still ahving problems with naps.  That is one thing that is good here.  My dm has been up watching Reegan this week since the nanny has off and she has been taking a good 2 hour nap plus another 1 1/2 one.  Problems come up at night.  Guess since she is working on her 6th tooth!  She is waking up several times but I usually only have to go in twice with feeding her once.  I never know what to do with her because she only wants to eat when I go in there. 

Anybody else done with the babyfood.  Reegan will not take any from a spoon or on a cracker or anything.  It is all finger food here.  She does great wtih it but I just worry about her getting enough.